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Failing YouTuber courts controversy in desperate bid to stay relevant
🕑 Added 2023-08-18 14:47:08 +0000 UTCHello my beautiful babies, this video is what I consider the next evolution in "why I left the left" content. Until now, everyone making that type of content has moved to the right, while I argue that instead we should go even letter than left, finding some sort of new cardinal direction in the process. We can call it "North 2: The hip new direction for teens."
I digress.
Imagine this if you will: a thought slime video telling class reductionist to fuck off in the year of our Lord 2023? It's more likely than you think.
If you're wondering why everyone on twitter is mad at me a week from now, this video is why. I didn't like making it, but hopefully you like watching it. It has some funny drawings.
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dennis deems
This is such a good video. You're at the top of your game and it's marvelous to see.
Steven Cook
I was just thinking about this video and other similar articles and arguments I've seen. I just realized I'm not entirely sure I've seen as much effort put into describing what coalitions *are* useful as I've seen in ones that aren't. (Just to get this out of the way, I agree with every point made in this video. Really wanna avoid this comment looking like a contrarian hiding in a too-long comment. ) I feel like the examples I always see of positive coalitions represent fairly obvious (to me at least) groups that share near identical immediate goals and broadly similar medium-term goals. While a potentially fraught exercise, I think it would be helpful to highlight concrete examples of edge-cases. I'm no historian and only have *just* seriously undertaken reading my first bit of theory. So I could use the help in at least knowing where to look for this kinda granularity. Are there any good modern-ish examples of successful and/or positive coalitions that had controversial differences in ideology or goals?
Christopher E Musgrave
Honestly forgot anyone thought of TYT as left anymore, or hell, forgot they exist at all. It's such an intensely stupid point they're making about transpeople in sports as opposed to housing, employment, etc. The sports questions have been deliberately politicized, and more effectively so by the right. Which, you know, you'd think if you were Cenk, and your job was to make people aware of political issues and encourage a certain perspective to be taken on those issues, you would understand that.
Alice
Great analysis! Sad to see what TYT have become.
Chloë Salzenberg
Thank you. “If the program is in conflict with the goals then it is a dead program” was a lightning bolt.
Martin Tepper
Nice! You are great at putting into concise, funny, if slimy, words concepts that are floating around discomcombulatedly in my dummy brain.
Mark C
Thanks for fixing the typos
Jillian
I'm so glad that the content warnings were superfluous and this is actually just classic thought slime. What's the thought slime equivalent of red meat -- green and purple tofu?
Slazenger Kincaid
This video was great. Your early videos really helped me see past my very shallow concept of what "the left" was. While I'm definitely happy that you have developed your channel as a broader outlet for what you want to talk about than strictly this kind of stuff, this was a much needed "booster shot" if you will.
Thought Slime
It is fully my intention to be their problem.
fohfuu
Really looking forward to the insightful commentary of people who use extreme ableist language that would be unacceptable in any in-person public fora to make this face a lot 🤨 and say "see this is the problem"
