If you feel any sympathy for a child dying of hunger or being exploded by predator drones then you are obviously a bleeding heart liberal and your opinion is invalid
Don’t forget that you’re an anti-semite
Edit to add an /s, just in case
Ooh love me some Lindsay, glad to see a new video dropped.
I’m so glad she’s back. good fucking channel
she’s just been posting on nebula for a while - so all the vids have been “paywalled”
Meanwhile, contrapoints with the most stupid takes imaginable.
You can’t just blurt things out like that and not provide examples.
She made a enlightened centrist post amd talked about how pro Palestine sentiment made Kamela lose.
https://bsky.app/profile/bigjoel.bsky.social/post/3ltlmfnzors26
meh it’s pretty clear right at the top she is talking about the harmful rhetoric and tactics from tankies/accelerationists, not pro-palestinian sentiment itself.
my trans, poc, and migrant, AND palestinian neighbors in my town are afraid for their lives and families daily, and it really hurt to see tankies tweet “bombala harris” back before november when we KNEW what a trump presidency would mean.
for my part, i have remained staunchly pro-palestine without ever going down the tankie path. and i too wish that better rhetorical and tactical choices were made by some on the left in the interests of the palestinian plight.
in another section of this post (this is just a clipping) she defines these rhetorics and tactics and it has to do with creating learned helplessness with no communicated outlet.
tldr, equating “rhetoric” with “sentiment” as you do in this comment is pretty bad faith and natalie’s post doesn’t read as problematic at all to me.
Is there a tankie subculture in the USA? Where do they congregate IRL? Somehow I thought the online presence was from other countries
unfortunately yeah that subculture definitely exists and really gets around
What a weird effort to shoehorn leftist purity testing into everything.
i don’t see a single conflict between either’s words on international politics? but your comment would be more valuable with examples
without examples seems like ur just comparing two rly talented female creators for like some reason
Haven’t watched contrapoints in a long time, but I used to like the channel for the most part. What are the stupid takes you speak of?
She made a big long post about Palestine a week or so ago
Seems pretty well reasoned out to me. Much more realpolitik than idealism
ooh new words to describe these topics thanks i will be looking into this!
As much as I understand where her concerns come from, she’s also an idiot with a powerful habit of overly long and intellectualized responses that only make things worse for herself. The entire way she frames things is “I support everything you want me to, but…” which is a losing way to structure a response to people being frustrated with her. She can’t help herself and simply say “I donated to a and b, here’s a shout-out, this is horrible, but I also make .75 videos a year max and have something else I’m focusing on.”
I think she likes making trouble and is a prickly person in general. She recognizes that antisemite muslims can potentially abuse leftist anger at Israel, but expects her defeatist attitude to be an effective way to convince people. She just wants to be able to say “I told you so” when some anti Israeli conservatives who hung out with the left do something bad, not get leftists on her side right now.
A week? It more than a month ago.
Lol yeah you’re right, the time part of my brain is so broken with the speed of everything these days
Am I missing something? The last Contrapoints video came out over 5 months ago
What does Contrapoints have to do with the topic at hand? It seems very random to bring her up without any context or example.
Contrapoints and Lindsay are friends and tend to reference each other in videos.
She really was just nuanced about American leftist responses. But I guess nuance is hard for leftists who voted for Trump out of spite.
