• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      26·
      11 months ago

      John oliver did a segment about blackmailing a few republican senators. His show is deeply anti-corruption and the writers are as terminally online as I am.

    • Jediotty@beehaw.org
      8·
      11 months ago

      IIRC he said Universal health care is like the only option. I could be wrong but from what I remember

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      11 months ago

      Yes, he has quite some good videos that critic the current system but he is by no means on the revolutionary left

      • randomname01@feddit.nl
        3·
        11 months ago

        He doesn’t seem like a total shitlib, unlike the other three. He seems like the perfect guy to make libs think a bit farther than they otherwise would, and I can’t exactly fault him for that.

      • FaeDrifter@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        John Oliver is doing a hell of a lot more to help than internet self-styled “revolutionary leftists” are.

        • lugal@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          11 months ago

          I don’t disagree on that. He has quite an audience and therefore influence and budget to do stuff and he does great stuff. Many Social Democrats can learn from him. I don’t criticize him but at the end of the day he’s a Left Liberal which is my favorite kind of liberal. But he won’t fundamentally change the system.

          I have a different perspective on him since I live in Europe. Many things he wants are no brainers for me (like universal healthcare, how is that not normal in a rich country). Still I live in a liberal, capitalist democracy just like the US, just degrees better.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      Vaush, a leftist streamer. He’s very direct and sometimes abrasive, so he’s often in the centre of leftist online drama.

      • LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        11 months ago

        He uses slurs, does harassment campaigns against leftist people of color and is overall a giant chump that is far more of a reactionary than any leftist. He’s the “leftist” YouTuber for people who never had their Ben Shapiro/Sargon phase and don’t understand what’s wrong with that style of content.

        • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          11 months ago

          Ben Shapiro amd Vaush are actually best friends. They havr been photographed together. Vaush also oddly gets along suspiciously well with Tim Pool. I mean really, really well. You wouldn’t want a guy like that running your bolshevik revolution.

          • LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            3·
            11 months ago

            Can’t tell if this is a bit or not because Vaush’s constant need to “own the right” makes him consistently look stupid just like them

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
          1·
          11 months ago

          does harassment campaigns against leftist people of color

          Is this about him calling out Dr. Flowers for not being willing to denounce ethnic cleansing and getting back-up from actual land back activists for that.

          Wait a second… this should be it.

          • LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            11 months ago

            F.d. signifier

            Using some other poc as an example of why he he isn’t a piece of shit implies that you are okay with tokenism.

            • barsoap@lemm.ee
              2·
              11 months ago

              What. It’s merely one of the bigger drama I’m aware of, if you don’t want people to guess then don’t talk in riddles are we in kindergarten here.

              I don’t think Vaush has particular beef with F.D. short of F.D. uncritically backing Flowers. Point-wise disagreement but I do see Vaush mentioning F.D. in a neutral to positive light quite regularly.

              Also speaking about F.D., his “debate bro critical takedown” video was puerile, churlish, and definitely one-sided.

              • LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                1·
                11 months ago

                “Don’t talk in riddles”

                “Churlish”

                God you’re so far up your own ass defending some reactionary streamer that is literally just Sargon of Akkad for libs. Manage to type 3 sentences that say nothing. Vaush has a toxic ass fanbase that he sicks on people. When Chapo fans do that shit, we defederate their instance. But when a racist white sex pest lib does it, we have people defending him. What a joke. Those are two links btw

                • FaeDrifter@midwest.socialEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  I mean, if there was a vaush lemmy instance sicking on people in the fediverse I’m sure that would get defederated very quickly too.