Just thought I would share the latest philosophy tube video, great stuff and quite powerful too.
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All good points. Boosting smaller channels, funding each other, focusing on minority content creators, increasing access to education and research.
I'm pretty sure Peter has teamed up with fellow YouTuber Angie Speaks to enact something very similar to this.
Hmm, I guess if others are leaving Left Tube or getting tired of it, I can use that to plot my domination! Now, to just get motivated...
My biggest roadblock is the fact that I'm so far behind on many of my ongoing videos I'm doing... Mainly the fact that I have 9 (10 even depending on how you count) unfinished LPs so I worry that I wouldn't be able to drive myself to make a consistent output of leftist videos. Even if I did, it would probably at least be related to video games, as I think that could be an interesting avenue. Analyse video games from a leftist perspective, or maybe the community/culture of the gaming industry.
This is one thing I just dont get. Yeah, sure, no powerful hierarchy, that is a reasonable thing to want to avoid, but it seems to turn into people not wanting any sort of leadership at all which just strikes me as stupid.
I'm opposed to the idea of leaders.
When folks on the left becomes public figures it usually just leads everyone to take their words for us all which is not the point. We are all the face of the Left. Use their work as a guide if you are struggling with a topic like intersectionalism for example, those are good resources they can provide but it for sure shouldn't be a reason to idolize them. They all have talents and they also limits and weaknesses like the non-creators or small, less known creators. They just have more money through luck or networking.
When folks on the left becomes public figures it usually just leads everyone to take their words for us all which is not the point. We are all the face of the Left. Use their work as a guide if you are struggling with a topic like intersectionalism for example, those are good resources they can provide but it for sure shouldn't be a reason to idolize them. They all have talents and they also limits and weaknesses like the non-creators or small, less known creators. They just have more money through luck or networking.
... Did they have a falling out?
They sent joking tweets at each other like a couple of days ago.
Okay, so it may be in jest. But I'm still worried about Lefttube/Breadtube splitting.
So, what exactly is going on with Angry Joe? He used to be considered one of the better gaming Youtubers out there and he's one of the few I've followed throughout the years who didn't turn out to be a massive shithead and I was genuinely surprised when he slapped down some of the Gamegate garbage in his videos and on Twitter. I've admittedly missed a lot of his content lately and I've been hearing more and more that he has become way more of a fence sitter thanks to his shitty gamer audience that he's afraid to lose and that lately he's even begun ironically calling things SJW in his videos. Is he another one for the pile or am I getting things wrong? Someday I'd like to catch up on his videos, but if he's trending in a right leaning direction to court the usual Youtube audience then I'd rather not bother.
I've known he was a fence sitter for years now. He's riled up the gators before, but not from a position of leftist/social justice principles. He makes it clear that he has no principle that might cost him viewer counts.
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I have not watched it yet (and can't really today) so not sure if it's any good, but YT suggested me this, which features Donoteat as a guest in the episode. From the description it looks like something similar, a lefty channel about urban development/architecture, so people who can't get enough of him might want to take a look.
I'm tired of Breadtube with their constant reminding that "Cancel Culture Bad"..
And quite weird tbh that the whole "Cancel Culuture Bad" rhetoric started becoming prominent among breadtubers around the time A Breadtuber defended a Rapist (that's not even mentioning the whole "I created a fake asian girlfriend as a way to act racist online mess).
At least Hbomberguy apologized when he fucked up with the defending the friend who had rape accusations mess.
And quite weird tbh that the whole "Cancel Culuture Bad" rhetoric started becoming prominent among breadtubers around the time A Breadtuber defended a Rapist (that's not even mentioning the whole "I created a fake asian girlfriend as a way to act racist online mess).
At least Hbomberguy apologized when he fucked up with the defending the friend who had rape accusations mess.
I don't fully agree with Peter on cancel culture. I get that he prioritizes systemic critiques over individual ones, but I think individuals when they wield enough power, can be important targets. Especially when the means to make systemic changes are out of our reach. I think both things are important in proper context. The problem is that the way most people are conditioned to think is to just focus on individual tear downs and put systemic stuff out of mind. I do like peter's output though. His opinions are well thought out and are engaging to reflect on.
I don't really follow what's going on in the twitter sphere. So I can't form an opinion there.
I don't really follow what's going on in the twitter sphere. So I can't form an opinion there.
Vaush changed his tune a little a day or two after the recent drama stream where he had Jack Saint and Box Full Of Bats talk to him about him being insensitive (they were right, but there was no way that those two strangers could make him see the error of his ways at that point). That seems to be what it comes down to, that he can be inconsiderate of the feelings of the allies he says he wants to help out and be in a community with.
It's not a matter of being smart. Or, rather, smartness itself isn't something that you have or don't have. Education, hard work, open-mindedness and passion will make you smart.
Smartness isn't even specific enough anyway. You can be super smart in certain areas and dumb/ignorant in others. See guys like Neil de Grasse Tyson, who might be a smart astronomer (and astronomy is generally thought of as a "smart-people thing"), but is a huge ass who clearly lacks emotional intelligence, as illustrated by his recent Tweets for instance.
By the way, ThoughtSlime recently made a great video on how to get into YouTube:
A key takeaway is to just try. Do your thing, even if it sucks at first. Your first work will almost always be your worst work anyway. Practice makes perfect.
QAnon Anonymous is a really good in-between but they mostly just cover instances of conspiratorial thinking so if you're not into that, it might not be the best for you
Already got that, great podcast! Thanks anyway.
Sounds interesting I'll check it out, thanks.
Great return to form and I didn't know anything about the first Reconstruction period so it was informative!
So I sometimes see people talk about Sam Harris as an intelligent/reasonable dude - he certainly presents better than other personalities on the surface -, but he doesn't get talked about nearly as much by leftist youtube as other darlings of the internet right-wing/"center" it seems. Does anyone have a good primer/takedown of the dude? Just so I know his basic positions and how far gone anyone who likes him is lol.
The Antifada and The Michael Brooks Show. Both hosted by members of The Majority Report.
Other than that, The Intercepted. Can't wait until the summer break is over and Jeremy Scahill is back.
Sesame Street partnered with an Anti-Vax organization?
The story is in several publications. So yeah, I guess it's exactly what it looks like.
The story is in several publications. So yeah, I guess it's exactly what it looks like.
Sam Harris is a useful moron for the right these days, supports right wing ideas of immigration and is plainly pretty scared of Muslims to the point he advocated nuking the Middle East. As of late some of his podcast havers have also been those that champion race based science and bell curve nonsense so yeah, not really a great guy
Well, apparently Michael Brooks is going to cover him in his upcoming book. He mentions this in his latest Harris rebuttal.
You could also search Majority Report/Michael Brooks for more deep takedowns that are simultaneously entertaining.
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Welp, that's an unsubscribe from me Lol
I feel bad for giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Sam Harris on Muslim terrorism: you have to take them at their word!
Sam Harris on the recent domestic white terrorism: we can't really believe them when they tell us why they commit mass murder.
I'm about to jump in on Luna (NonCompete) dunking on Shitstiny:
This is going to be great lol.
Edit: we knew he was trash but to say that Vietnam just rolled over to the US?! Oof. OOF.
This is going to be great lol.
Edit: we knew he was trash but to say that Vietnam just rolled over to the US?! Oof. OOF.
Yeah, I have watched the full debate between Destiny and NonCompete. While both of them acted badly during the debate (regularly interrupting the other side, etc), and I would even say that Destiny had to argue against not only NonCompete, but against Luna's occasional jumpins, at the end of the day, the video was as revealing of Destiny's positions as his now infamous debate of JonTron was revealing of JonTron's. Now, Destiny is not a racist, that much is clear, but he clearly has no interest in levelling the playing field if that means weakening the free reigns of late-stage capitalism.
So Luna has one more subscriber now, and Destiny has one less. Not that it means much, but I had to do it.
Just wanted to thank Anton , she_esh, UnpopularBlargh and Turin for helping me understand Harris's deal. Yeah, the segment of the Michael Brooks video where he outlines Harris's massive double standards when it comes to interpreting texts is pretty enlightening. He takes two lines of the Quran originally written in a language you don't understand and use them to generalize about the motivations of Muslim extremists, yet when he gets multiple manifestoes written entirely in English by White nationalists who self-identifies as such, suddenly you shouldn't take their words at face value? That's so transparent lol.
Anyway, ThoughtSlime released a good video on Chelsea Manning earlier today:
As a non-American, I was largely unaware of the situation. It's so fucked up. I wanted to donate to her fund (ThoughtSlime gives a link to it), but unfortunately the website won't accept my card for whatever reason :(.
Anyway, ThoughtSlime released a good video on Chelsea Manning earlier today:
As a non-American, I was largely unaware of the situation. It's so fucked up. I wanted to donate to her fund (ThoughtSlime gives a link to it), but unfortunately the website won't accept my card for whatever reason :(.
So I already knew Abby Martin from her appearances on Joe Rogan and a couple other places but I never followed her channel Empire Files until now and... shit, some of her videos and interviews are really really good and super interesting.
I don't really see her videos being shared all that much around so I wonder what your opinion on her content is.
The hidden American empire
Mass shootings and white nationalism
The hidden war on trans rights
I don't really see her videos being shared all that much around so I wonder what your opinion on her content is.
The hidden American empire
Mass shootings and white nationalism
The hidden war on trans rights
Saw some debates online where people claimed that leftist sjw parents were forcing their children to be trans and Timbah.On.Toast made a video going through the one example they have of this happening:
Spoiler alert: it isn't happening.
Spoiler alert: it isn't happening.