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[–] 163 points 9 months ago (28 children)

There is no other response to anything she says, across her entire lifetime, than linking a picture of her and the Clintons.

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  • [+] 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (23 children)
  • [–] 76 points 9 months ago (21 children)

    I'll never watch a video essayist who pays more attention to aesthetics than content. It's the red flag that has consistently remained true since 2015. If you're showing me some silly little skit, you aren't showing me an argument. If you're spending time on costuming that's time you didn't spend on research or sourcing footage that could replace the look-at-cartoon-me bullshit. If a serious person wants to wear a costume during their video essay, it stays consistent from start to finish without ever being mentioned.

    It's never steered me wrong. The channels I was immediately wary of because of that have all turned out to be weird social fascists.

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  • [–] 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Type 56: white guy dressed in a rotating series of Chinese military uniforms. He never mentions them. The 30+ minute videos are Chinese history with translated Chinese from primary sources, maps with primary research, and historical footage. Solidly communist across all of it, no more doubt about his background than I have for any generic hexbear poster.

    Beau of the 5th Column: white guy dressed as a whiter guy. Can't get through a ten minute video without saying "kitty-cri-texas y'all i reckon i'd ding dang dun fuck mah banjo iffin it was my cousin" as hay falls out of his mouth. Social fascist who turned out to be a human trafficking mercenary.

    Scientifically proven.

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  • [–] 116 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    The online left thinks its bad when the US kills people, and I'm going to explain why they're wrong

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    Her explanation will be "saying it's bad when the US kills people is anti democracy and you should just vote more if you want to stop it"

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  • [–] 59 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I was feeling like her explanation would be more along the lines of "saying its bad is unpopular, and will lead to electoral losses therefore more bad things." The weight of infinite possible future bad things keeps people from stopping the ones right in front of them all the time

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Effective Altruism meets Effective Electorialism. You have to support the future Dem utopia or you will be punished for not helping it gain power.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago

    Criticizing Trump now for doing something bad only opens up the possibility of the future Dem getting criticized for continuing to do the bad thing despite chastising Trump for it, ergo not criticizing Trump helps the future Dem get re-elected

    centrist

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  • [–] 95 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Russiagate is quite possibly the liberal establishment's greatest propaganda coup of my lifetime.

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  • [–] 89 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    i think we've all collectively just gotta stop giving these dumb Breadtube fucks the attention they crave. My quality of life is vastly improved anytime I haven't recently thought about any dumbass cracker Breadtuber. This goes for 99% of them and I'll even lump in streamers (Hasan), social media personalities (pick your favorite 'leftist' on twitter or tiktok), and every substack author in with them.

    Goes against the spirit of the comm but I prefer my slop to at least be novel and not attention seeking. Place your bets now on when she will inevitably either deactivate her account again within a week or otherwise just double down on whatever dumbass reactionary bullshit she's trying to peddle.

    23,958 Paid members on Patreon by the way. Assuming all 24,000 of those paid members is only shelling out $2.00/month for the cheapest membership tier Natalie offers, that's $47,916/month, which is like 8k more than I make a year after taxes. $574k/year. If we assume half of those 24,000 pay $5/month for Contrapoint's 'outtakes' and 'behind the scenes' videos, that's $59,485/month or $718k/year. If you assume the other half of those 24,000 are still cheap bastards paying $2/month, that's still $23,985/month or $287k/year - which means, if we're being realistic - Natalie Wynn probably pulls close to a million dollars a year before taxes for....posting shit takes on twitter occasionally.

    She's on my Cask of Amontillado list.

    "For the love of God, ABC! Think of the video essay aesthetic that will be lost! Have you seen my video on Voting??"

    wall-talk "Yes, for the love of God."

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    [–] 83 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Proud of her. It used to take her 17 costumes, 4 stage changes and 1.5 hours not to get a point across

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    [–] 73 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "Everything is Putin,"

    Essential theory for the modern neoliberal, by A. Dumbass Analyst

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  • [–] 63 points 9 months ago

    She's always been like that, there is no "compromising" going on, that would imply she ever stood for anything in the first place, this is just the natural progression of what happens when a liberal can't break their posting addiction shrug-outta-hecks

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    [–] 66 points 9 months ago

    "God I hate how everything my opponents say is some sort of wild conspiracy theory. Anyhow, they must all be some elaborate network of Russian operatives deployed to deceive me."

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  • [–] 63 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I envy Russian efficiency, they seem to be everywhere causing everything. Where do I learn this power?

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    [–] 59 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

    Everything I don't like is because Russia.

    Man the US would be such a good country if Russia didn't send our manufacturing base to China and Putin didn't financialise every single social relation. Wanna know why the US really invaded Iraq? Yup, Russia.

    Edit: this is an unironic meme I saw a few days ago

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    [–] 58 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    lmao fuckin Qtecks agrees with you, pack it up

    who is Gootecks?he's an old fighting game streamer who you probably recognize as the original face of the PogChamp emote. COVID drove him crazy and he became a Qanon freak, and twitch changed the emote after he expressed support for January 6

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    [–] 56 points 9 months ago

    FedPoints has sent another silly letter that is not worth the time it took to read

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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    she is truly a figure that comes to mind when I think about the society of the spectacle.

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  • [–] 53 points 9 months ago

    petite-bourgeois yankee settler acts in accordance with her class interests

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  • [+] 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)
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    [–] 47 points 9 months ago

    Remember when she was like, "I help explain the toxic narratives of the right" and now she is just another toxic narrator

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  • [–] 45 points 9 months ago

    Hasbarapoints at it again it seems

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago

    She shouldn't be surprised the online (western) left is stupid as shit when half of them are brainwashed with her own NATO liberalism

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  • [–] 43 points 9 months ago

    Oh look it's the bougie liberal again, ready to wax poetic and add nothing of fucking value, remember when people rightuflly bullied her off Twitter? Good times, good times...

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Wow. You dont really believe that, do you? You do? Wow. That's...certainly an opinion. How interesting. That just says everything we need to know about you, doesn't it?

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    [–] 39 points 9 months ago

    It's quite a trade to make enough money and develop a fan base that will make sure you never have to do actual work again in your life, but you have to completely nuke your brain with twitter microwaves so you are incapable of enjoying your completely easy life

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago

    I despise this insufferable bourgie radlib so much.

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago

    stfu crakkker

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Even if Contrapoints is right that Maduro is the most evil man in the world. I'm tired of paying for infinite wars and my country destabilizing areas and making unfair trade deals. If the US just fucked off most places would be better off just through sheer material circumstance.

    Im also tired of Gusano Venezuelans making it Americans problems to feel bad for Venezuela. It shouldnt be our fucking problem in the first place. We are not the world police.

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    [–] 36 points 9 months ago

    Eternal 2016

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    ...what? Is she saying that we have to be stupid to oppose the US violating the sovereignty of another country to murder hundreds of people (I'm including the boat murders in this) and kidnap its leader?

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    [–] 36 points 9 months ago

    Does she even have a specific complaint? Is there a tweet before this one that explains it?

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