It’s different! That means it’s bad! I have to move my eyes slightly to see the number of upvotes on a comment now! 😡

You can see this when another nation, like Iran, has national heroes that are actual living, breathing people. Westerners get all freaked out by it and call it a “cult of personality” or whatever, because they legitimately cannot imagine having reverence and respect for the accomplishments of a human being, only fictional characters.

Ew, drippy burghers are gross, way too much sauce, and probably not a good idea if they want to dress in nice clothes, it’ll stain them.

Hey, these anti-Russian warriors are on a road to peace, ok?

Yeah, that still reinforces what I said though. They do these useless inane things to pretend they are a “brave hero” from comfort of their couch.

and it has gotten to a point where it keeps baby leftists stuck at the start of the pipeline, instead of pushing them further

Yeah, it was always more focused on entertainment rather than education, but it’s also kept a lot of people from going further, would be nice if they had a proper “further reading” section at the end of their videos and actually discussed theory every now and then. I’m always advocating for injecting humour into socialist education, but the education does still need to be there for it to work.

Yeah, the insufferable libs will all be saying “Of course Putin was never going to invade Poland, that was a Trumpist/Russian/Chinese/Tankie lie to ruin Biden’s chances in the election!”

This really reads like the person who made it is just mad that people hate nazis. Not sure if that was their real intent behind this, but I have a funny feeling that they are much more comfortable with the first flag than the second one.

Yeah, probably why they switched to having a guest on every week instead of talking about things on their own. Just ran out of things to say without turning into a more theory focused podcast. I think they chose to keep the same basic tone the whole time and a lot of us were expecting them to go a bit more “serious” eventually, and start actively covering more advanced ideas and theory, but they might never have even intended that in the first place. I think a lot of people (myself included) were hoping when First Thought was announced that it would be exactly that, only to find it is just as basic as JT’s other stuff, making it feel redundant.

It’s been a shame watching the deprogram boys go from something special and kind of unique to another generic sort of “breadtube” group that no longer say anything too radical. It’s been a slow descent though, but I think a lot of people have tried to pretend it isn’t happening, because it sucks, so it hits harder once it’s no longer deniable.

It’s like a delusion of grandeur. In fact, I think that’s exactly what it is now that I think about it.

That’s why they fight so hard against reality whenever they find “tankies.” They are terrified that their empty posturing and do-nothing actions aren’t the brave heroics they wish to imagine they are, and that to be a good person, you actually have to go out and do good things, and those take effort.

Yeah, it’s hard to insist what China is doing is a “genocide” when we can see what a real genocide looks like in Palestine. Though once western libs forget about Gaza, they’ll likely drum up the Xinjiang narrative again and it’ll be front page news for a month before the US attacks China.

People can still be upset about someone they admired selling out and making videos devoid of all meaning. If someone cultivates an audience of baby leftists in need of guidance and then tells those same baby leftists “the western narrative is the correct one, don’t worry.” they aren’t going to improve, or learn, they’ll sit in that comfortable defanged western leftist space where they smugly dismiss the struggles of people in the rest of the world for failing to meet their perfect standards. It sucks to see someone be a worse person than you thought they were, that isn’t reactionary.

This thing just started going nuts all of a sudden!

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Why do all American politicians speak like a toddler trying to tell you a story they’re making up as they go along?

Huh. Surprised they cracked down on them, I would’ve thought this is chump change to the feds and they would just let it slide.

I can at least tolerate these ones that look they were done by a teenager on deviantart circa 2014 or so. The AI thumbnails are far worse.

Standard anti-com bullshit. “Nuance for me, but not for thee.” If a socialist country isn’t 100% perfect and flawless always and at all times, they are a complete failure and proof communism doesn’t work. If a capitalist country does anything bad, it’s just “complicated” and the system is the best of all possible systems and shouldn’t ever be questioned.

It might be better to have a larger “writing” community instead of a fanfiction only one. Maybe just sort posts by whether they are original work or discussions or fanfiction.