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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Once again vindicated for not watching "BreadTube" slop.

One time someone on here tried to argue to me that reading theory was too hard and it's the same to just consume someone else's summary. Sounds great until your only knowledge of socialism is a convicted sex trafficker/pedophile YouTuber explaining to you how Lenin would have voted for Kamala

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Put it that way you're not wrong but:

I maintain that if a socialist movement actually requires a majority of its membership to have actually read every volume of capital cover to cover and be able to write a college level paper on the subject: we all might as well just take the black pill right here and now because comrade that just simply ain't gonna happen.

Reading theory should always be encouraged but like it or not: any organized mass movement is going to depend on people who are operating purely on the cliff notes.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Precisely why everyone should be encouraged to read theory, even if not everyone actually ends up doing it. The more people who have actually read theory, the more people can get away with having read the summary

As an English teacher, trust me when I say that no one is less under the illusion that everyone will do the assigned reading than me

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I maintain that if a socialist movement actually requires a majority of its membership to have actually read every volume of capital cover to cover and be able to write a college level paper on the subject: we all might as well just take the black pill right here and now because comrade that just simply ain't gonna happen.

No one is demanding that from anybody. They’re just demanding that people stop jerking off and throwing away their life and money to e-celebs who talk to a camera for a living and maybe read a book. Any book.

any organized mass movement is going to depend on people who are operating purely on the cliff notes.

Ok? Then tell the ecelebs to actually make good cliff notes

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

breadtube sucks, tell a friend.

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unless the USA is just routinely this kind to traffickers (wouldn't be shocked) he is most certainly compromised and is a danger to any project he works with.

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They don't just give back seized property without some kind of legal action on the part of the convict, and if BE is right then there was no attempt by Beau's legal team to do so. Also the club fed switch-up around the same time doesn't really make sense unless he agreed to be an informant and got some compensation for it.

Also just coincidentally this guy is a typical american "anarchist" whose foreign policy beliefs line up 98% with the US's foreign policy, and any time elections come around his channel might as well be sponsored by the DNC because it's all vote shit. He's also close pals with a bunch of right wing libertarians who rant about "collectivism" being the enemy. Even if he's not owned by the feds he sucks from a to z.

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

He believed the Islamic Jihad bombed the hospital and has called resistence fighters "terrorists." This "anarchist" is to the right of fucking vaush.

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I could swear I heard about this a few years ago, I think 2021.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I swear I keep hearing about this like every few months by people rediscovering it happened. Can't really blame folks for that, but it's kind of beating the proverbial dead horse.

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's almost like we need some sort of mass party line to get everyone on the same page or whatever.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

well if its any consolation, no serious party really gives a shit about the guy anyways because it's all internet nonsense meaning there's no need for any sort of party line

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm leaving PSL to start a party focused on developing a correct line on every youtuber

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry but this actually made my brain hurt from reading it.

10/10 comment

[–] IMF_DOOM@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

It would be cool if liberals didn’t believe that immigration solves everything and celebrate child sweatshops in their financial newspapers