I've been saying this for a while - even made a video about 'woke fascism' - but fascism in the 21st century doesn't look like the 20th century. Donald Trump isn't flip flopping all over the political spectrum like Mussolini before deciding on Far-Right politics Trump isn't a 20th century style fascist because he simply doesn't really care about political ideology. He has reactionary politics and is happy to let others drive his policy and platform. Because what's happening in the 21st century is the Overton window is getting shifted to

I went to Belfast last year and did a tour with a former IRA insurgent. He said when he was 14, British soldiers shot up his apartment bloc killing someone he knew. He joined the IRA's youth wing after that, then joined the IRA when he was 18. He was vague but said He participated in combat against the British forces. Was captured and put in prison for 13 years, where he was on hunger strike for a good portion of them with Bobby Sands. Later he was released, and joined Sinn Féin and helped the peace movement. Now he runs a community group

'I haven't heard you condemn Hamas' - a comment I keep getting on YouTube. Bro I don't give a shit - a bunch of 20 year olds who have grown up in an open air prison in brutal conditions running around in Adidas tracksuits shooting RPGs aren't my main concern It's basically the real life equivalent of a Palestinian kid throwing a rock at an Israeli tank. The power imbalance between Hamas and the IDF is that big. Yes Hamas as a political organisation are 'bad' in relative moral terms and I don't support them.

Ah so the reason Russell Brand became a right-wing grifter was not him just him being a massive narcissist but also because he might be accused of being rapist and needs an audience who will support him no matter what imo an innocent man doesn't just start spamming all his socials denying he's done anything wrong before the story has even been revealed - also his agency dropped him - you'd think he'd be up to sue the press that will reveal the allegations? doesn't seem like he is

I think it's amazing people don't even want to understand criticisms of Mr Beast. Yes in a complete vacuum Mr Beast helps a lot of people, those people are probably grateful for it (thread) Years ago I thought most people agreed giving money to homeless people and filming it was in poor taste right? like you're exploiting their situation to make yourself look better to help yourself - otherwise why film it? Most of us don't film ourselves doing good deeds

I honestly think this tweet puts to bed the notion that Mr Beast does 'good' because he's a nice guy - when in reality it's always about growing his brand and being liked Think about yourself in Mr Beast's position - if you genuinely did good things just to be a good person why would you care what a minority of people on twitter think? most people still love him, he's literally the world's biggest YouTuber, like why would you care?

People saying Tyre Nichols being killed by black cops means it had nothing to do with racism just show how poorly we generally understand racism and white supremacy My Rhodesia video always attracts these types - 'How can Rhodesia be racist, it had black Africans in their army!' - Yes black Africans who protected apartheid for either money or tribal/ethnic hatred - and killed other black Africans who resisted fascist apartheid

Just stumbled across this while researching Japanese fascism - Pewdiepie’s talks about his favourite author the traditionalist fascist Mishima but seems to be pretty positive about the guy which is really weird Basically the dude is kinda like Japanese Evola - but a better writer. The second book that is referenced by Pewds in the description is pretty good outline of his ideology of wanting to restore feudal Japan. Mishima has been a influence on Japanese and Western fascism

Don’t think this is helpful at all. We are brainwashed to be racist. Every white person in the West is raised in white supremacy. Most people don’t realise it - helps more if we help our family members learn that rather than never speak to them again.

https://twitter.com/hegemommy/status/1544871467535327232

I confront my parents if they say something racially insensitive. Hopefully it has an impact. They aren’t racist zealots just people who never question that BS they were indoctrinated in. Am I just mean to never speak to them because I can’t convert them to anti-racism quickly?

The worst part about doing YouTube is when it’s going bad it’s feel like it will never get better 😮‍💨 favour me again mighty algorithm 😩 The thing that’s suck about when it’s going bad - because of capitalism - you have to focus more on a combination of stuff you want to make and stuff that will do well - rather than doing what you want (which you can more when things are going okay)

This is a totally basic bitch recommendation but because some people are treating war like a game or a movie - Tim O’Brien’s work on his own experience in Vietnam is such a good read for anyone who wants a personal insight to the horror and psychological trauma of war The part that sticks out the most is Tim describing how scared he was to step on a land mine or IED and just how traumatising it was to have that on your mind all the time while walking in the countryside - while seeing others having their legs blown off or dying

Honestly the reaction to my Ukraine streams and videos is making me reassess my content abit and the audience I’ve fostered on YouTube. I think I need to be more upfront with my politics because people getting outraged at some of what I said is concerning Think I lost like 50 subs in an hour tonight for saying on stream that I want Ukraine to win and support their defence but don’t like the nationalism and war is horrific, a European defence force should replace NATO because Europe just get used for US imperialism

The whole Ukraine situation is radicalising as hell. We’ve spent over ten years watching North African/Middle Eastern refugees being killed by xenophobic anti-refugee policies. Children washing up dead on beaches, refugees being gassed and beaten by European border police > whole families drowning - Being told again and again that there is ‘no room’. But like we’ve always known there is room! Europeans are removing all red tape to let thousands of Ukrainians in (which is great) but why the hell did we have to watch so many other refugees die!!!!

So I like Elden Ring but the way people are praising this game is insane. Saying it redefines open world games and will be as influential as Breath of the Wild and it’s like the best thing ever made. It’s basically just Dark Souls in an open world inspired by BOTW - that’s it It’s pretty simple. It’s like me saying Assassins Creed Origins was a massive leap for the medium just because it took AC into a big constant open world inspired by Witcher 3. Elden Ring is for sure a good game but it’s not pushing forward the open world genre in any way imo

He’s a brave dude for sure, nice to see a politician actually be with the people he sends to war. But wouldn’t say he comes close - Vietnamese communist leaders fought multiple wars continuously for 25 years against better equipped enemies and winning If we are talking purely as a ‘war hero’ - Mao (the guerrilla general not the political leader) was an absolute mad man against Chiang Kai-sheck. Another guy who led his troops through an insanely brutal campaign that lasted nearly 20 years and still won

Probably something that would be good to study in future but the amount of people I’m arguing with on YouTube comments who are saying they personally want to fight in Ukraine or the US should fight Russia on the ground is interesting I mean I guarantee they wouldn’t/didnt want to go fight to go fight in Gaza against Israel the next time they invade - or go fight the Turks for the Kurds - or wanted to go fight for Armenia against Azerbaijan