not voting for trump but low key hope biden doesnt win so the material conditions of a failing America will be on full display
Michael Moore, Glenn Greenwald, and Noam Chomsky (while imperfect) are actually really, really, really good.
Also, Cornell West and Russell Brand are in the 99.999%-tile of language fluency.
Question about Michael Moore: Having watched Capitalism: A Love Story recently, I noticed quite a few things in there that appeared to be leftist dog whistles, especially at the end. Is there a chance that Moore might be at least somewhat of a closet comrade, or am I just hearing what I want to hear?
He’s a Democratic Socialist, no bones about it. His blood runs red, but he still naively believes in electoralism.
I think his primary role is that of a propagandist, and I mean that in a good way, of course. His job is to highlight the hypocrisy and inherent unfairness of the system to ordinary people, and he’s been relatively successful at that. I don’t disagree that he’s genuinely democratic socialist, but if his message did suddenly become more radical and “outside the mainstream”, would he be able to reach as many people as he has been able to reach so far?
Folks may not like it, but Michael Moore has been right about pretty much everything.
When someone’s right often enough, you don’t disown them for one bad take here or there. A bad action? OK, that’s different. But a few shitty opinions in a sea of good ones should be critiqued and discarded; you shouldn’t write off the whole person.
Everything in this comment applies to left unity, too.
“He tweeted Michelle Obama should run for President, which I consider an actionable offense.” - some dog-eared misanthrope
Moore holds the surreal, distinguished honor of being loathed by the triumvirate of libs, conservatives, and tankies alike.
