Yes, it's a Vaush post. Yeah, go post the funny copypasta.

I still think it's incredibly worrying that there's a voice on the "left" that's growing ever popular that seems to find Western Imperialism funny.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Above all else V*ush is a western chauvinist who has zero clue what leftism is and like a typical lib or chud confuses his liberalism with leftist thought. V*ush sounds about white. Thinking about it, fucking Jason Unruhe is more of a leftist than he is, and that is really saying something.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    This isn't even libshit, it's neocon shit. Imagine being happy that your country successfully stopped a liberation movement by murdering 1 in 5 people from that country.

    • kimilsungist [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      KIM IL SUNG AT THAT POINT GENOCIDED 100000000 KOREANS EVEN BEFORE HE GOT TO PPOWER H

  • borisjohnson [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Sincere question, is it worth caring about this guy at all? Maybe it’s because I’m in the UK but this site is literally the only place I’ve seen him mentioned. Does he have influence in the US or something?

    • KasDapital [any]
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      4 years ago

      As far as I'm aware it's that he's one of the only left or selling as left people on Twitch. So there's some online influence, but it is also seemingly limited to people who are online too much. So looking at this site it's similar in being perennially online, but with shittier takes

      • borisjohnson [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Damn. The amount of posts about him really reflects badly on this site.

    • THRILLHOU [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Remember everyone lost their shit about Sargon? This is the new Sargon.

      He can't affect anything outside of a corner of the Web. If he ever sticks his head out into the real world he'll be swatted down by the mountain of incrimination he has built for himself.

      He's trapped on that chair until people stop watching.

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

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  • Hotspur21 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I would have no idea who this is and would never see him if it wasn’t for this place lol

    • THRILLHOU [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The best part is when you don't take him seriously and they get mad at you for not being as hysterical as them.

  • Contrarian [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    If you got them all in a room it would be a good size crowd, obviously, but the stream only 15k views? Yeah in the world of the online "left" he gets decent numbers but no one knows who he is, his ideas don't shape anyone in a meaningful way or like, affect policy or possible revolution.

    I still think it’s incredibly worrying that there’s a voice on the “left” that’s growing ever popular that seems to find Western Imperialism funny

    Why. Honestly why? 5 minutes of CNN pretending to be the voice of the "progressive left" does more damage than this guy can ever do in his lifetime. Laugh at him if you're going to watch him, he's a horsefly hanging out in the company of lions

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The video got 150k views on YouTube.

      And CNN doesn't pretend to be left-wing. They don't quote Marx when justifying voting for Biden. They bring up his "smart policies" and ability to "bring people together". It's the co-opting of language that disturbs me.

      I'm not saying he's the worst thing ever but using actual left-wing terminology while justifying imperialism, and calling LGBT people who disagree with you "subhuman" and "mentally ill" is going to play out badly in the long run.

      • Contrarian [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I'm just gonna have to hit you with hammer, sorry

        :funny-clown-hammer::funny-clown-hammer::funny-clown-hammer:

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        And CNN doesn’t pretend to be left-wing.

        They do though. They just don't talk about Marx. They're still doing the "liberals are leftists" thing.

      • RowPin [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        The video got 150k views on YouTube.

        I'm not saying this is directly comparable, but for a sense of scale (for all internet things): I write an incredibly obscure LGBT+ webnovel and it has 500k views.

        Now, granted, Vaush got those views faster (but looking at his older videos, none really go above 100k), but mobile Youtube autoplays recommended videos, many of those views are just the same people beteeen videos, how many of those people even know what he said about LGBT people (which even I can't recall), etc... The internet is really, really decentralized in terms of interests.

  • THRILLHOU [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Lol everyone clutching pearls about what this means about his politics.

    This isn't politics, this is him winning a debate by acting the cunt.

    He's not a political figure, he's an acting the cunt figure.

    Up the RA

  • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Tankies are anti imperialist, tankies are bad, anti imperialism is bad.

    I watched this discussion where Hakim talked to him and it couldn't watch it his little reactions when Hakim said he agreed on points. The guy is so fucking smarmy.

  • StLangoustine [any]
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    4 years ago

    I still think it’s incredibly worrying that there’s a voice on the “left” that’s growing ever popular that seems to find Western Imperialism funny.

    Is it surprising though? It's easier to become popular if you go along with people's ingrained chauvinism. Like the video of Russia's most prominent communist YouTube channel that got the most views was the one that was attempting to prove that that forced deportation of Crimean Tatars was good, actually.

    • TrumanShow_IRL [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      attempting to prove that that forced deportation of Crimean Tatars was good, actually.

      people’s ingrained chauvinism

      Why would the middle class redditors at Hexbear consider nazi collaborators to be comrades and not Stalin? 🤔

      • StLangoustine [any]
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        4 years ago

        I'm talking about a Russian language video. It was popular with Russian middle class redditors on ВКонтакте.

  • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    This is my first time actually seeing what he looks like and I’m mad that I know this now.

  • Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    Why the fuck do people value this guy's opinion again? Everything I've seen/heard him say has been straight trash.