As a leftist, I can relate. Thought Slime annoys me sometimes.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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Thought slime has some mixed-quality takes, but is, above all else a wokescold crybully, making them incredibly toxic and counter-productive.
What the hell does "wokescold crybully" even mean?
It's how you call someone an "SJW" if you're self aware enough to know that the optics of calling people SJWs is bad.
Thanks for this recommendation, will be checking out Thought slime
I never bothered with the collabs (because they are loooooong) snd not seen in a couple of years anyway, but their mainstay videos I thought really intelligently debunked/called out rightwing grift and the like
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I only watch their youtube videos and don't really get that vibe from them. Am I missing some drama context or could you elaborate what makes them so bad?
I haven't watched their content in a couple of years now, but there was a series of bad takes on Twitter, a hell of a lot of cringe, toxicity, self-centeredness, and performative self-victimisation, The main drama I saw was with Xanderhall and Vaush. On the other side of it, they've done a string of collaborations with varying levels of success.
Their videos were generally OK, if a little basic with some flawed analysis. They chose some interesting subjects, but their content took a meaningful dip not long after they came out as NB (I hope I don't have that wrong?). Hopefully the dip was just a short-term product of some of the stress and distraction, but their content wasn't strong enough to get me through it and I checked out.
If you like the content, you like it, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's not horrible, I just thought it stopped being worth watching (though hope that's changed).
I guess I'm a bit lenient on them (yes, they're NB) since I like their jokes and theirpop-culture content and I admit: Their videos got me to consciously discover anarchism, which has become a cornerstone of my ideology. So I guess their flawed analysis was a good starting point before I got into the more meaty stuff.
I'm glad to hear that!
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“Yeah, that’s a good idea, but is it completely unassailable logic that is beyond all criticism? Because that’s definitely the best standard to use against the rough draft of an idea.”
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Less infighting among the green left would be very helpful.
The decades long fight against nuclear that just made sure coal is used for longer... Pain...
The perfect is the enemy of the good
I can't speak for everywhere, but this line is frequently levied at the Greens party here in Australia, but it just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
In all of the noteworthy cases where they've voted against the "good", they have negotiated and later ended up voting in favour of the "better". In no case did they hold up hoping for "perfect".
But they're still blamed for voting down climate policy way back in 2009, despite the fact that independent Treasury modelling said the 2009 bill's climate policy wouldn't have had any reduction in emissions until 2035. That wasn't even "good". So they voted it down and negotiated with the Prime Minister who replaced the megalomaniac that refused to negotiate the first time, and passed world-leading policy in 2010, seeing immediate reduction in emissions.
Don't believe that. It's just an excuse to avoid saying the real reasons, the ones they know are not cool.
At a Christmas gathering, my sister-in-law decided that I'm a misogynist ... for no reason other than that I said I don't care for Taylor Swift's music. I genuinely thought she was joking, but nope she was dead serious. This meme hits home.
Yup I'm a leftie, and there are some positions on the left that annoy me. But that's fine, it wouldn't be good to be one gelatonous mass.
There are some positions I completely reject but they are extremely fringe left.
I don't like them and they creep me out but Thought Slime was right about this one
Hell, Thought Slime is a perfect example of this! They annoy the SHIT out of me and I still refuse to join the right wing.
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The narcissism of small differences is extremely real.
Crabs in a bucket, the tweet
ThoughtSlime would know, they're annoying as fuck ♥
Liberalism is a spectrum, conservativism is a monolith.
Liberalism isn't leftism, though. This is more poking at MLs fighting with DemSocs fighting with Anarchists fighting with Syndicalists fighting with Market Socialists, etc.
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Damn leftists, they ruined the left.
The fact that's on twitter is the cherry on the top.
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