New Video: What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1)

Benedict Marko

P.S.: There was a nice recent article in the Jacobin magazine that was basically a more detailed version of your discussion on the topic of "Revolution!!!": <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/the-new-communists/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/the-new-communists/</a>

Benedict Marko

Heyhey, Nat ^^ I'm late on this one. Watched immediately after upload (what a great way to end the year) and loved it. Everything said about earlier videos could be restated - that you're making quick progress, that you have a great eye, that your content is relevant and you are doing a great job preparing it in ways that make seemingly dreary topics intriguing to watch - but you already know. Just let me point out how much Tabby made me laugh in this one. The "unsubscribed" at the end was so perfectly timed :) Also, I don't know how much you're aware of this, but the structure of your videos has from the earliest days on replicated Agitprop theatre and Brechtian epic theatre with the alternating political content, skits, Verfremdungseffekte and songs (I guess you really ARE a tankie confirmed). Actually, it's probably more an example of parallel evolution. I again loved Claudia Brown's little cameo. Great that you are doing these cross-promotions, because they really help the smaller content producers. At this opportunity, I'd like to mention another small YouTuber whom you might not know yet: Malmrose Projects. She's also a trans woman, a sociology student, and a frequent target of hate mail. Her content is a bit bar bones, though she has made great progress there, but content-wise she is VERY good. Problem is, she's not really connected to anyone yet. A couple of smaller ones like Skutch and Guinevere are following her, and even Shaun, but none of the "natural fits" – no Kristi Winters, no Riley Dennis, no Lindsay Ellis, no Zinnia Jones. Which makes it easier for bigots to dogpile her. So in case you can do something to integrate her into the community, I think she'd really appreciate that. (No relation on my side apart from supporting her on Patreon, too, and having talked to her on Twitter.) Link to one of her videos in case you want to take a peek: <a href="https://youtu.be/0cgrXmIbEck" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/0cgrXmIbEck</a> You can be proud of what you're achieving with your videos. If I had lived through a number of shitstorms and fallen into depression, I wouldn't have had a new video ready within a couple of weeks :) I wouldn't have come out from under my bed for a year. So you might not feel like you're doing great, but trust your audience on this. You're doing great.

You keep sucker-punching me in the heart with Tabby and the long shots of her face somehow. I don't know how you do that. That made me smile.