Isn't it kind of weird that Badempanada has no allies? He has no political party. He never collaborates with other people. I'd have a hard time believing he has any friends.

Look at the Cuba trip he did last month. He went to Cuba because he was jealous of the Neustra America Convoy. He brought no aid to Cuba and then he payed random people with paper money to be in his video. He talked shit about the Neustra America Convoy which delivered 20 tons of aid: food, medicine, and solar panels to Cuba. Then he went to Cuba and brought nothing with him except paper money. The Neustra America Convoy met with Cuban Government officials. The Neustra America Convoy had 600 people delivering aid to Cuba. Bad Empanada proudly declared that he went completely alone.

There seems to be like a misconception that in order to be a real leftist, you have to be a social pariah because in western-aligned countries socialism was the big bad. The implication becomes that if someone calls themselves socialist but is popular, liked, attractive, etc; then they must be fake socialist. Bad Empanada uses this as the sole metric for his political ideology. He's not in any organization. He doesn't do any activism. He doesn't participate in labor action. He's not even particularly principled in his beliefs. He often has controversial takes that misalign from any existing socialist political theory. His only political conviction is being a nuisance. Bad Empanada and his fans believe that he's a leftist because he's completely intolerable to be around.

well if we're not getting into the facts of who's making a principled point (i'm not going to look at any of this source content myself, i don't have a dog in this fight, it's slop) and we're sticking to the behavior of online video essayists, i'm still inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the well-meaning black unc who gets a little lib sometimes over an australian expat ultra living under milei who spends his time being a transphobic ultra on english-language nazi twitter (which is to say, twitter). which is to say, i don't think you gotta hand it to bad empanada ever, even when unc is embarrassing himself a bit.

He's right about BE just being some attack dog that exploits how the internet left works to make a living right now. You'll notice how careful BE is to not reveal much about himself and his actual politics because he likely doesn't really have any. He doesn't seem to be a part of any party and outside of his Cuba trip he doesn't seem to have done much. He says as much too in his streams. BE can make some good points sometimes but he's not anyone to be respected. F. D. Libifier is just an annoying radlib though, basically doing the same thing as BE but in a non-negative way. Literally could not care what idpol-soaked opinions he has on a 3-year-old anime more than BE's opinions on China, COVID, marxist economics, etc.

the only thing i can muster up here is "cool story, nerds"

don't care too much about FD, but communicating at all with BE at this point when he's now fully consumed with "I am the best leftist alive and all of you are fake leftists who deserve to die, also fuck trans people" as content is basically pointless.

call me lib if you want, but I haven't seen any actual analysis out of him recently and I no longer care to check. if he moves away from just being a dramaslopper, let me know

man and to think the frase "dont feed the trolls" used to be popular like 2 decades ago, now people think they must respond to every comment and video that criticise them

I like FD's media analysis but this is yet another in a long list of examples of his politics being dogshit libbery coated in black panther language. I stg Kamala hadn't even finished saying "congratulations to my opponent" when dude had done a 180° turn on his analysis and was already blaming her loss on racism first and foremost.

Not that BE ain't the most insufferable mf on that side of YouTube, mind you, but the messenger being an idiot doesn't make the message wrong in and of itself.

I see almost nothing wrong with FDS comments here. Is it defensive? Sure. I have zero context for what inspired his response but everything except the bit about vaush being charismatic (which is subjective) is correct about BE.

Online arguments are a goddamn joke.

Two people falling all over themselves to tell the other how they are somehow more correct. It doesn't matter who is right and who isnt, and it probably never has mattered.

Nuh-uh, I'm right.
No, you're wrong and I'm right.

"I know your hope is engagement, but it's not happening." —The person currently engaging.

Hilarious stuff

I need people I like to stop posting like this. You can simply not respond

I used to be a subscriber to F.D. Signifier for his hip hop commentary videos. (I'm not American so i don't know much about hip hop culture aside from the 80's and 90's) But i unsubscribed a couple of years ago because he started repeating that breadtube mantra to his chat of "why are all of you so hung up on Israel and Palestine?"

This tendency of dying on the hill of zionism got so wide spread among the old breadtube guard It makes me wonder if these guys got coopted by some israel propaganda money or something.

I also remember him saying something along the lines of "If you like china so much go live there!" that one aged well!

Yea I saw that BE video about FD. BA is the definition of "youre not wrong, youre just an asshole." In this case, he took a part of a stream on an clip channel and blew it out of proportion, acting like this antisemitism analysis in a kid's movie was some major sleight and offense. I watched the original clip from FD, he came across like he was half joking and just having fun analyzing a movie more deeply than it needs to be. I mean is BE right that there are more important things to talk about visa vie jeaduism/israel/palestine than possible antisemetic undertones in a kids movie? Yea sure, but also like who cares man.

That being said, FD responding to this at all is super cringe. Cmon man dont feed the troll.

:i-aint-gonna-read-all-that:

This is so pointless

I think they should settle their differences with a duel

BE loves to beef. He just had a beef with Boots Riley for working for Annapurna.

Ya I don't like Signifier anymore, he's libbed up.

I only read up to him saying vaush is charismatic and better looking. Don't need to read anything further

Sometimes I wonder if these people ever consider talking to eachother before making exposé videos

"your racism isn't good enough" the guys been training in the Balkans or something

I drunk post a lot, and I gotta say, I feel it have a better 'does this oist make me look childish?' Filter when I have to check my history the next day than people who are online for a living. It's always better to not post, you can never post your way through a problem and come out better on the other side

I don't really like either of them that much