Shaun makes very very VERY good, extremely well researched videos…for a socdem/demsoc. I wouldn’t trust him for example with modern geopolitics or AES, but for example is video on the Hiroshima nukes was excellent and only made me wince mildly once or twice regarding Stalin. He’s not a rabid “anti tankie” though I’m sure he would call Stalin an “authoritarian dictator” or something.
I never cared much for Hasan’s content or style, not for me, but he fills a good niche (ditzy himbo casual streamer) and honestly he (intentionally or not) overlaps with MLs a lot more than we, he, his audience or the anti-communists give him credit for. I would much rather some Zoomer/Alpha be watching him than any other big name political streamer, that’s for sure. He is indeed a little uneducated, like I said “casual,” but that’s kind of part of his niche, I’m fine with him as an entry into radicalization. He softened up a few people to recieve my ML takes and things of deeper substance.
Other than those people, of the people I recognize: Contra is a dead end socdem but (was, as a newbie to politics) mildly entertaining, ditto for Hbomb and Philosophy Tube, especially when they aren’t talking about things that are important. Three Arrows is like Shaun but very painfully anticommunist. I recognize the white guy with black curly hair in the middle and the black girl on the bottom left but can’t remember much beyond the former made several things about movies and the latter self identified as a liberal who was “trying to learn” (assumedly about anarchism or anticommunist socialism). And of course we all know about Glorious Child Enjoyer Vaush.
Yeah, I used to watch a lot of Breadtube from about 2016-2018 in lieu of TV or movies. I’d queue up one of their bloated video essays with lunch and feel like I was getting more educated. I guess for where I was at the time, I was. I’m just happy I outgrew them and didn’t get sucked into dead-end anticommunist leftism.
Curly hair guy is Big Joel. The channel is mostly about examining the ideologies (of the creators) expressed by different things from poems to movies to PragerU. I haven’t seen all of his videos, but I don’t think he’s expressed anti-comm views, nor has he dive into economics much. It’s mostly a philosophy/literature channel.
My opinion:
Noah was cringey to me but it depends on taste.
Shaun makes very very VERY good, extremely well researched videos…for a socdem/demsoc. I wouldn’t trust him for example with modern geopolitics or AES, but for example is video on the Hiroshima nukes was excellent and only made me wince mildly once or twice regarding Stalin. He’s not a rabid “anti tankie” though I’m sure he would call Stalin an “authoritarian dictator” or something.
I never cared much for Hasan’s content or style, not for me, but he fills a good niche (ditzy himbo casual streamer) and honestly he (intentionally or not) overlaps with MLs a lot more than we, he, his audience or the anti-communists give him credit for. I would much rather some Zoomer/Alpha be watching him than any other big name political streamer, that’s for sure. He is indeed a little uneducated, like I said “casual,” but that’s kind of part of his niche, I’m fine with him as an entry into radicalization. He softened up a few people to recieve my ML takes and things of deeper substance.
Other than those people, of the people I recognize: Contra is a dead end socdem but (was, as a newbie to politics) mildly entertaining, ditto for Hbomb and Philosophy Tube, especially when they aren’t talking about things that are important. Three Arrows is like Shaun but very painfully anticommunist. I recognize the white guy with black curly hair in the middle and the black girl on the bottom left but can’t remember much beyond the former made several things about movies and the latter self identified as a liberal who was “trying to learn” (assumedly about anarchism or anticommunist socialism). And of course we all know about Glorious Child Enjoyer Vaush.
Yeah, I used to watch a lot of Breadtube from about 2016-2018 in lieu of TV or movies. I’d queue up one of their bloated video essays with lunch and feel like I was getting more educated. I guess for where I was at the time, I was. I’m just happy I outgrew them and didn’t get sucked into dead-end anticommunist leftism.
Curly hair guy is Big Joel. The channel is mostly about examining the ideologies (of the creators) expressed by different things from poems to movies to PragerU. I haven’t seen all of his videos, but I don’t think he’s expressed anti-comm views, nor has he dive into economics much. It’s mostly a philosophy/literature channel.