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Comrade Brennan
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Brennan Lenin Mulliganin
Idk why I get bad vibes from him. Is it the theatre kid vibe? Improv guy vibe? Or that I’ve been burned by everyone in entertainment presenting themselves as left but not explicitly communist (and some of them, too)?
No one on this website has ever seen a single westerner that they couldn't find some way to be dubious of the politics of, so it's not surprising you feel this way.
We've been burned a lot
I'd say that if you got Brennan in a room he would be some flavor of Anarcho-Communist. The issue is that he will never make that public because he is far too savvy an operator to do that. He has somehow (honestly through lots of luck, perseverance, and massive amounts of talent) gotten himself onto the gravy train, with a wife and kid, and he isn't going to knock himself off of it until he is good and ready to.
I think he's pretty open about being some kind of anarchist. He has characters he puts in to basically give his politics and he explicitly calls them anarchists (I believe that he's speaking in-character here as one of those)
Know-it-all improv guy vibes I think. But out of all the comedy drop-out people, he's the one that never misses an opportunity to make a anti-cop, anti-capitalism or communist reference, whether in scene or out of it, or really whether anybody wants to hear it.
And that does strike me as a very communist thing to do.
He's giving regular run-of-the-mill vocal US leftist. He still hates on Stalin, the USSR, China and so on, but his politics are otherwise decent.
I don't have the clip on me, but he was doing that on some podcast about a year ago.
Unlike most of those types he doesn't spend a bunch of time whining about those projects though, so he's better than most, but he's still there
Wow this is long but the title intrigues me. Is it a short story, or an autobiographical piece of writing from him?
It's worth a read
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I get the vibe that most leftists are "theater kids" in some form, as in artsy types. They're sure as hell not jocks, and tho we like to flatter ourselves I doubt most would fit in at a punk show either.
What? Punk and leftist politics are deeply intertwined. I don't really know how it is in the USA I guess. Maybe it's more divorced from politics there. I suppose most leftists aren't punks but wherever I've lived most punks are sure as fuck leftists.
OG 
Punk was reactionary, though not in the political sense. It was a retvrn to the simplistic structures and unpolished sounds of Rock & Roll from the 50s and early 60s, launched in reaction to the overproduced Psychedelic/Progressive/Hard Rock that emerged towards the start of the 70s. However, they mostly steered clear of any sort of politics. Much of the discourse from those early days was about whether or not Punk should even have a political stance. It eventually coalesced around vague anti-war and anti-corporate ideas. Sometimes with a bit of feminism and pro-lgbt+ when a scene supported women and queer folx, but not every scene did. Punk didn't really get political until it crossed The Pond, and that's because it caught on with art school students in 
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A lot of punk is left or connected to leftism, but lots of leftists would struggle to be further from punk (I am one of the latter).
I played hockey 
When you're playing with the puck, you're playing with
C O M M U N I S M
Last pig destroyer show i was at had a lot of acab type patches around. Not punk but i think some of us are still cool
erm, I played varsity for years and years back in the day. I am not artsy. get wreked
Actually, I'm more of a rivethead
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I think he's fine. He's an anarchist but that's better than most of his fellows in popular-ish media, and his heart is surely in the right place.
He's my problematic fav 
Y'all wanna make some bacon?
7/10 of this website is ill prepared. The other 3 are likely feds.
It's a quote from the clip. The character he's playing is a mild mannered older man, until he finishes his speech and gets a molotov cocktail from his bag to throw at cops.
It's such a good bit
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I distinctly remember him saying some anti-Stalin shit somewhere, but overall he's got pretty good politics. He's an incredibly funny and creative guy.
He's a pretty standard western radlib "socialist". Saying "capitalism bad" doesn't mean much at this point if you don't also say "anti-imperialist states good".
I watched his Wired tech support video about D&D and he managed to sneak in some agitprop and was like "I don't know if you'll leave that in."
Also, I watched a Wired video of a "China expert" think-tank ghoul and it was the most inane, tired old propaganda about Taiwan and tankman and it didn't seem like anyone was buying it in the comments.
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"socio-economic ethnic group" kind of makes sense as a concept to combine the systems of capitalist and white supremacist (or otherwise ethnic/racial) oppression but it is unclear and he should've just said "ruling class" here.
socio-economic ethnic group
It's a standard phrase in Britain, used by government reports. He's not really intending much by it other than using a phrase everyone in the UK hears all the time. Example:
Ah crap, that's my bad. Thanks.
I get the same with phrases that are uniquely american and not used over here at all, like houseless. There's a whole range of culturally unique phrases for social problems that aren't standardised across english speaking countries.
The euphemism treadmills are on overdrive and they've started to diverge across space.
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(not relevant to your overall point but) I don't think houseless is a commonly used phrase, in the U. S.; it's anecdotal but I've never heard it used.
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Well he was saying it in character as a halfling...
What's this from? The only thing I've watched if his so far was the three part Cataclysm special for Critical Role.
I believe its from the first season of Fantasy High. I'm certain about the Fantasy High part, less sure about the season.
This is correct
It's from Dimension 20: Fantasy High
what about the people's laws
Only possible with a DotP
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