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But this Night In The Woods video essay about capitalism and collectivism by Jacob Geller is pretty great.
May I add For Harriet (who often has a lot of good thoughts on a wide area of subjects, but can be a bit rambly) and Shonalika, who is a bit less experienced but offers some good content as well.
Yes he's released it early for Patreon and will release it this December to everyone.
I don't know if this is really the greatest place to ask, but can someone explain to me exactly how The Majority Report works as a show? I just started watching some YouTube clips last week and have been really enjoying them, but subscribing to the podcast it seems like it's nothing like the clips I've seen, and mostly just Sam interviewing people. Do you need to be a member to get access to the type of stuff I see posted as clips on YT?
From what I understand there's:
- the live show, which is streamed on YouTube and Twitch everyday for free, but I think the "fun half", as they call it, is then hidden behind a paywall. Could be wrong.
- the YouTube clips, taken directly from the live show
- the Ring of Fire podcast, which is hosted by Sam Seder and is not found on YouTube; that must be what you're referring to
- AM Quickie, which is a short podcast that goes through the main headlines for the day. Also not on YouTube, but free on their website.
[EDIT] Also, note that they were off last week, which is why the 'live' show was just interviews with Sam Seder. They should be back today if I'm not mistaken.
I watched the Hbomb Xmas video and it was alright, nothing too revelatory. Basically 50 minutes of "The 'War on Xmas' people are factually wrong, but they know that, it's all a grift."
Everytime I read 'War on Christmas', I feel compelled to post this Sam Seder:
Actual clip starts at 2:35. There's a full version of the interview on YouTube as well.
Yes, the lighter news segment where Sam and the crew dunk on people is part of "The fun half". You have to subscribe to get full recordings of all episodes that are older than about a day. It is paywalled, but it's not a rigid paywall. If you legitimately cannot afford it, you can email them explaining your situation, and they can offer you some other options.
However, every new episode is streamed in full everyday on YT, and even after the show has ended - the recording remains fully available for free for most of the day.
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Shaun, Contra and T1J fantastic. Shaun's "The Bell Curve" video was outstanding and is probably among the most interesting videos I've seen in a while. The Pakman Show and Destiny are fantastic as well if you lean social democratic (by which I mean capitalist). Three Arrows and CuckPhilosophy are good too but they lack uh... stage presence a little bit.
Thought Slime, Renegade Cut, Korviday, Majority Report, Three Arrows. Most of the rest, that I know, have either given me reason to side eye them or just aren't for me.
He's the one who got caught out for having using the N-word and then tried to explain how it was okay even though when talking about and to others on camera before he had made it clear that he knew that it wasn't a cool thing to do right?
Yes. Destiny ran a podcast with Trihex who is black and got in a debacle over Destiny saying the n-word in private. He lost a friend and a podcast over his ability to say the n-word. Keep in mind he's half Cuban and a supposed progressive voice.
I remembered hearing about that and being gobsmacked that the guy still has fans. Like that should absolutely be the sort of shit that sinks a dude trying to portray himself as a progressive
Stanning for Contrapoints and Destiny here after all that's happened is...something 🤷🏾♂️
I mean as much as I wish it wasn't the case, neither are the most prominent of breadtube. But yeah, dude is definitely no leftist and is an ass
David Pakman has some pretty bad takes when it comes to international politics. Infamously, he refuses to acknowledge that the military coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia was, in fact, a military coup. At best, he's a small fry version of the people he gravitates around and tries to imitate, like Sam Seder and Michael Brooks - who are actually good.
If you're talking about literally the three or four most prominent breadtubers - i.e. Contrapoints, Lindsay Ellis, PhilosophyTube and maybe Hbomberguy -, you're probably right. It should be noted that they're also the ones who are reluctant to outright talk about politics aside from tackling basic social justice stuff (e.g. gender, race...), the alt-right and antifa. They shy away from claiming any specific political allegiance, or talking about politicians. At best, they'll dunk on goons like Ben Shapiro, the IDW and Sargon of Akkad. They still see themselves as mostly entertainers who want to have fairly broad appeal without falling into pure clickbait, pandering, or alt-right grifts.
If you think of them as the 'top tier' (in terms of popularity and name recognition), I find it interesting that the 'tier' right below them seems to be mostly comprised of pretty obviously very left-leaning people: Renegade Cut, Shaun, Three Arrows, ThoughtSlime, NonCompete, Peter Coffin (as much as he annoys the fuck out of me), Jack Saint... Same with relative newcomers like BadEmpanada and Gutian.
Some of them have literally expressed on Twitter and/or their videos that they're to the left of Bernie Sanders or even Jeremy Corbin. I'm pretty sure most of them are based on their content. Some of them are outright anarcho-communists.
So yeah, the main figureheads of leftist YouTube are, ironically enough, not lefists. They are/used to be good gateways to leftism. They certainly were for me. I would never have known about Shaun or ThoughtSlime before theme. But I'm kinda meh on them now, especially Contra who keeps putting her foot in her mouth.
In fact I get a sense that these particular tubers are actually social democrats.
Destiny is flat out a neoliberal.
Wait, hold up... paying rent at homeless shelters. God damn it, Bloomberg, you piece of shit!
Oh, I wasn't even talking about Destiny. Destiny doesn't even register on the left-wing spectrum. He's a self-described capitalist, and has a typical case of, as ThoughtSlime would put, the "liberal mind prison". He just happens to be edgy and less stupid/ignorant than the alt-right grifters, which, in that very specific context, makes him a 'good' debater. But he's a shithead.
Does anyone else here know much about PigPuncher who is now going by the name Xanderhal? Found him through the Youtube recommendations and from the few videos I've watched from him so far, he seems fairly okay. His one major flaw seems to be that he has a habit of defending several questionable figures and it's left me feeling a little iffy about him.
I watched his video about falling into and climbing out of the alt-right trap, and I found the same thing. He seems to be a decent person with the right ideas, but I was surprised at how he adamantly defended people like ChrisRayGun - who, last I heard, was a classic right-wing shitstain - claiming that they were essentially just caught up in anti-SJW meme culture and no longer do that kind of stuff. Is that at all true?
He's still a shit stain. He just occasionally (by which I mean very few times) now criticizes Trump. Only when it'll negatively effect him.
Have literally only ever seen bad things said about him from the people I follow on twitter, especially those who are LGBT.
What do they say about him exactly? It seems like he's all in for LGBT folk. From what I've seen, he's very supportive of trans people in particular and lays the smack down on TERFs in several of his videos. Admittedly though, that does lead into one of the things that does leave me feeling pretty iffy, that he defends Contrapoints by trying to make it seem like all of the criticism toward her is just in bad faith or trolling.
He's from the Rubin school of "classic liberal" nonsense.
Chris Ray Gun
Christopher Ray Maldonado (December 4, 1993–), more famously known by the moniker Chris Ray Gun, is a Puerto Rican YouTube personality, known for his semi-frequent discussion of political topics. As of December 2020, his YouTube channel has over 643,000 subscribers and 107 million views.[1] He...
It's mostly the same sorts of complaints Vaush gets, and apparently he namesearchs himself and picks fights with people who criticise him sometimes
I think wires are being crossed, talking about Xanderhal. Chris Ray Gun is openly anti-SJW and anti-LGBT.He's from the Rubin school of "classic liberal" nonsense.
Chris Ray Gun
Christopher Ray Maldonado (December 4, 1993–), more famously known by the moniker Chris Ray Gun, is a Puerto Rican YouTube personality, known for his semi-frequent discussion of political topics. As of December 2020, his YouTube channel has over 643,000 subscribers and 107 million views.[1] He...rationalwiki.org
!I think wires are being crossed, talking about Xanderhal. Chris Ray Gun is openly anti-SJW and anti-LGBT.
My bad 🙏
I revisited the Contrapoints channel recently and I noticed that her older videos are gone. Curious.
Most likely it's because they're a massive trigger to her. She can't rewatch stuff she made early in her transition, let alone before.