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Leftism is when you’re on the left hand side of the French Parliament.
Didn’t this guy have a fake wife or something?
Apparently they’ve been involved in stupid twitter drama since 2011 https://www.gawker.com/5785593/the-greatest-fake-girlfriend-story-ever-told
Be warned it’s a gawker link but I think they’re out of business so it’s not too bad to patronize the site?
The idea of Peter Coffin, logged in to two twitter accounts, exchanging racially charged insults with himself in order to convince the internet that they have a sexy Japanese girlfriend is legitimately breaking my brain. I thought I was doing some cringey shit back in 2011 but I feel a lot better now.
their telling of it is that they were catfished by someone pretending to be a sexy asian gf and i’m inclined to believe them only because that version of events still makes them seem like a naive virgin idiot with weird racial hangups and I’m a sucker for convincing performances of vulnerability. For a time they had a real wife named Ashleigh that KiwiFarms et al. claimed was a literal blowup doll, probably because she’s unbelievably hot. For most of the “leftist youtuber” phase of their career Ash would show up in the occasional video and there was undeniably something weird about her screen presence (like, she wasn’t there against her will exactly, but she wasn’t comfortable on camera either), but they apparently had kids together so IDK I’m gonna draw the line at reading that far into the ecelebs’ relationship. Now all the videos that feature her prominently are removed (at her request?) and she’s been unceremoniously replaced with another hot chick.
Alright I’ll be the resident Liker Of Bad Things. Peter’s point is about how the left-right terminology comes from the French Revolution and was about support of or opposition to monarchism. They’re rejecting the left-right dichotomy as something that isn’t inherently about communism in any way. Personally, I think it’s hard to argue that the communists wouldn’t fall on the far left of the spectrum, but I could also place where my favorite Toy Story character would be on a political compass. Doesn’t mean I should. My read is that Peter is rejecting the political spectrum similar to how we reject r/PCM. Hakim has a good video on why abstract political philosophy models are not materialist and do not describe communist politics well. I’m reading this as similar.
TLDR this is Peter getting frustrated with anarchists and libs larping as leftists on Twitter. In case it wasn’t obvious, they would not draw a distinction between those two groups. Their points tend to be less coherent on Twitter because their communication style is to say counterintuitive things and then clarify until they make sense.
He’s wrong because the left right dichotomy isn’t about and never was about monarchism, that’s just how it manifested in those specific conditions.
The left right dichotomy is about class, with the furthest left point representing the supreme victory of the working class over the ruling class and the furthest right point representing the supreme victory of the ruling class over the working class.
This dichotomy manifests itself differently based on the current conditions of the era. Under late feudalist conditions it was anti-monarchy, and now it is not, but it is the same thing it has always represented – class struggle.
Thank you…I can at least understand his viewpoint now. The modern era has liberals calling themselves conservatives, fascists calling themselves libertarians, social democrats calling themselves democratic socialists, et Al.
I’m not saying we should be happy about it but it’s not really any one individual actors responsibility for the fact that words don’t mean what they mean anymore.
Their points tend to be less coherent on Twitter because their communication style is to say counterintuitive things
and then clarify until they make sense.
You mean say contrarian bullshit and then ramble on a bit?
umm actually leftism is opposition to monarchism
anarchists opposing all rulers is larping as leftists
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Yeah it’s hard to be coherent when the words “leftist”, “communist”, and “anarchist” are all mutually exclusive. Peter doesn’t like anarchists is my point. It’s bullshit but whatever
I think this is a bit… 🔩
