He seems to be one of the most hated figures on the online left. From my view, he does have a lot of questionable takes, but also does bring up some good points when it comes to fighting imperialism from a leftist perspective, so I’d like to know what people in this community think about him.
he’s pretty much just a reactionary social Democrat from the looks of it. also he believes the CIA funds breadtube and vaush which I find hilarious
Out of all of Maupin’s views to contest, such as the absurd idea that waving an American flag will bring about socialism, why do you take issue with the idea that Vaush might be CIA backed? It’s not that ridiculous given CIA’s history as well as history of other US intelligence agencies (for example, the FBI seems to like supporting anarchism and Maoism), and Vaush supports US imperialism 100% of the time.
I don’t take issue with it I just find it funny. I admit I don’t know if vaush is cia backed
Fair enough. Granted, given the nature of the CIA operating covertly and all that, it can be difficult to prove any connections beyond a shadow of doubt, but it’s definitely something I wouldn’t dismiss out of hand due to the many instances in which we do know about the CIA supporting pro-imperialist media sources, including many that pose as being on the “left”.
unfortunately there is nothing hilarious about it, although we are more talking about the NED in fact and its many subsidiaries who run 10.000s influencer campaigns all over the world, many of which are normal influencers who get co-opted over time. and later down the line “help with scripting & editing” which, knowing the grind is more than half the work - amping your quality, and all of it perfectly anonymized behind the plausible deniability of patreon and youtube donations, beating the algorythm too quick or outright just teenagers on the drip… many of them don’t even know they are part of it because they have so internalized an image of how the media landscape is supposed to work and look that they wouldn’t even dare to think there is something fishy behind all the helping hands, the donations, the visibility, the community coherence e.t.c.
I mean just look how they testran this #stochasticterrorism bullshit with Pewdiepie by coopting him through this audience (of who i can guess a whole bunch of active members to be NED(and other) influencers and contributors and their troll armies & botfarms trying to hack the statistical algorythm that is pewdiepies personal information and perception echo chamber. He was one of their best vehicles of spreading awareness about rightwing influencers TO KIDS. same with Joe Rogan (of which it should be clear, that his funding comes form mafiose rightwing extremist and old condor assets (fertitas, sheldon adelson, irish mob, brasilian mobsters&fascists))
So why is it so hilarious to think they woulnd’t co-opt your favorite Breadtuber through their times of need?
he is on the money on this one
Caleb is a fasc cringelord, but from looking at a lot of the very specific things he’s being slammed for by people in here, it looks like unfortunately even on this website there are a lot of users who glow in the dark :/
The narrative managers always wanna kill the story where it evolves. as such they will send their agents of bioluminescence to clog the well where it starts to develop a current. Certain mechanisms prevail. Same with music platforms, either they allow themselves to be coopted or they can have a war with industry lawyers over copyright trolling. it’s just a question of time until the hard core is separated from the weeds and usually structures don’t hold against institutional power
still: lets have fun with it as long as we can.