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big Joel more like big LOSER (lemmygrad.ml)
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[-] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago

Letting war criminals into your big tent dilutes any good you're doing. They're war criminals, Joel, not just people who "don't see eye to eye" with you.

Not surprising to see this though, Joel always approaches every political issue as a philosophical exercise to figure out using the correct rhetorical strategy, a neat little game to solve. So of course he doesn't see the historical atrocities that Cheney and co are responsible for as real, there's a bigger bad on the horizon so it's all just a trolley problem.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago

I know Joel wasn't a communist, but I'm surprised to see him make a take this bad

[-] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I didnt get the vibe that Joel was far left in any capacity (might have missed something though). So this seems sadly totally on brand for lets say a "progressive" lib.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

He made some decent critiques of reactionaries. But you're right, that doesn't mean anything more than a progressive lib.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

Turns out a lot of the video essayists were liberals all along

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I think the cowboy hat emoji signifies sarcasm

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I thought so too. But reading the twitter thread, the guy defends his pro Kamala position pretty hard.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago

youtubers are coming out with bad electoralism takes this season huh

[-] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago

Who would've thought that breadtubers are just liberals? Who could have possibly seen this coming? Stop paying attention to cOnTeNt CReAtoRs please

[-] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

spongebob-i-fucking-love I FUCKING LOVE REALPOLITIK! I WANT TO OPTIMIZE THE VOTE!

[-] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago

we cannot disavow Adolf Hitler (R-OH)'s endorsement we need the coalition to be as broad as possible to defeat bad man boowomp

[-] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

J.K. Rowling view of politics where good people have negative qualities (humanizing flaws) and bad people have the same negative qualities (character condemnation).

John Bolton is a warmonger (hitlerian), Dick Cheney is a warmonger (troubled past). It's quasi-religious, these people are redeemed and wash their hand of sin by disavowing Trump even though they may be directly responsible for more death and destruction than the entire trump administration collectively. It's quite literally the shit people clown on Naruto and (kinda) Steven Universe for, every horrific thing someone does can be redeemed if someone more horrific shows up and they say "oh no I was being bad but this is really bad I'm against this" that's not how redemption works! Clownish view of rehabilitation! Spiral to the bottom!

[-] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago

"Centrist republican types"

[-] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

The dumbest part is these aren’t big Republicans. If they were, they would’ve just identified them by name.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

hesitation-2

[-] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

40 years ago somebody wished: i want reagan republicans to see the light and vote dem

democrats are now to the right of reagan

[-] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

Must be nice to have this view. The world would be so simple

[-] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

another liberal moron hurtling towards climate destruction

[-] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

I am so unbelievably tired of these “progressive” type crackers smugly lecturing the uppity POC about why they NEED to support Kdolf Hitler

[-] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

Don't forget that he now lives in France

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Nothing good has ever come from that cursed nation, except maybe Godard and Alice Chappelle.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

their greatest invention: gui-better

[-] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

more like Big Hole

[-] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Make it stop hurting.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

I got a report that this breaks rule 1. OK fair enough, there's no links and the identifying info wasn't removed. I can search easily enough and find the link. I also don't feel bad that a YouTuber got shamed.

Lemme know if you guys disagree. I don't want to be a shitty mod.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Mods, no vowels for OP's posts for 5 days.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@[email protected] For your crimes, the community has sentenced you to to 69 days of no using "o"s and "s"s

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Isn't the rule that you're not supposed to remove identifying info?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Oliver North, welcome to the #resistance

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Painful to see a guy who I usually think has some insight make a post this rancid, hopefully Shaun isn't next (don't worry I am keeping my ass away from the lathe)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Shaun has specifically called out this kind of thing before I think, so he should be okay.

Please don't be shit Shaun you're one of the best british people

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Sometimes people miss

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

idk that this is reducible to a "bad take" tbh. seems to me it's revealing a worldview that is rotten to the core. this isn't the kind of thing you think when you have real values, it's just regular blue team red team bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

If he tweets like he posts to his little Joel channel they sometimes have like negative amounts of forethought to them, is the context I was viewing it in, but yeah he's no principled communist

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