Thylacine [any]

I had already basically stopped listening to Rev Left by that point but seeing him just double down and be shitty to people pointing out how they were awful people to have on his podcast really made me never want to listen to him again. Like this was already after he had Black Hammer on and then they were shown to be a fuckin antisemitic cult, maybe you don’t need to platform any random asshole who claims to be a leftist? I feel like there was even a third time he did an episode with someone shitty but I don’t remember now.

I read a blog post about a leftist cis woman media figure who spent a day walking around topless because her location either legally allowed it or didn’t not allow it. I think the blog was written by someone that was with her that day, and what I mostly remember from reading it is her just hanging out and doing normal things and angry cops saying things like “I know it’s legal so I can’t arrest you, but there’s kids around so maybe put on a shirt or get out of here”.

and I do kinda think about that a lot

I was going to ask how this was a dunk until I started reading it and saw that the author calls out Piker for saying he’s not an academic while having a bachelor’s degree lmao. I know multiple people with bachelor degrees who aren’t academics and don’t ever claim to be one, and I know people with bachelor degrees who claim they’re academics when they’re straight up not lol. fuck, I have a bachelor’s degree and I’m just like a pretend academic when no one else is around. Then the whole Peter Singer thing and the fucking Maslow hierarchy of needs , what the fuck. I’m sorry but it’s just “I’m a 19 year old college student and I understand how the world really is” vibes lmao. I used to be that college kid.

I do think Hasan probably wouldn’t be as famous as he is if he wasn’t pretty handsome and the nephew of the Young Turks guy, so yeah I guess nepotism, but I can’t take this seriously. It absolutely fucking sucks that people can buy multimillion dollar houses in LA just making money as a streamer while people working actually necessary jobs are struggling to pay rent, and there’s undoubtedly things you can criticize him for from the left. I don’t get twitch and it does weird me out that (likely young) people think he’s some sort of revolutionary just for streaming himself talking or reacting to other videos or whatever. But has he ever claimed to be a Marxist? Or a communist, or anything like that? You can just say you think he sucks without trying to shoehorn your undergrad ethics and sociology terms into it lol.

even the Brits are unhinged like that. one of the many things people yelled at Corbin about was him saying that he would never do a nuclear first strike

I think she might already be there but Briahna Joy Gray (probably spelled that wrong). i stopped listening pretty close to the start but it kinda seemed like maybe Virgil was keeping their awful podcast leftish and as soon as he dipped out she started veering more to the right. I used to check the patreon comments because I’m a sick freak, and I’d see people begging her to have “gender critical” people and other reactionary shitheads on. idk if she’s still even doing that dog shit podcast now that she’s on that rising show but it’s kinda wild to see her go from working on Bernie’s campaign to doing her whole Greenwald-esque shit now and allying with Jimmy Dore and those weirdos

Zebu forever 👽♥️