:mao-aggro-shining:
Comparatively Oliver is actually not that bad on domestic issues compared to most in US corporate media (the separation of economy and politics in the last couple decades have shifted things so far right that actual social democratic positions are a major outlier),its just that he’s your regular chauvinist and imperialist when it comes to any country resisting western domination… like a true social democrat! Ha, broadly speaking bourgeois ideology hasn’t changed for the last century.
Yeah LWT was definitely instrumental in my journey leftward. Some of it is obviously bad like the Vuvuzela episode but this one was thankfully devoid of :vote: bullshit (though also devoid of any sort of call to action at all), but also quite informative (not much new here for us but worth sending to your lib friends).
People should stop the “he is usualy pretty good so lets gonna ignore his fed posting and continue on and also promote and push his domestic issue vids to left leaning people or as radicalization” .
The people like Oliver or some socdem talking heads are all the more dangerous because they gain from western (baby) leftists a huge benifit of the doupt by doing good content for pretty uncontroversial among anyone left of socdem domestic issues and so their anti-communist and shitty foreign policy positions get accepted and digested by that left-lib audience all the more easily. People get to trust them and consider them legit info and not like other msm so their mental and critical defenses are way down when consuming their content. And as such they are the perfect and most efficient “agents” in spreading and reinforcing the western left’s shinophobia and toothless foreign policy positions and outlook of the world (and subsequent inability and incoherency on mastering any united position against those things). Consiously promoting such figures as parts of a left radicalization only makes the imperialist tendencies and shitty analysis of the emerging baby left all the more entranced and difficult to shake
I guess this is a bit of a gripe, but John Oliver is also pretty smarmy and annoying. So like once you start disagreeing with him everything he says starts being nails on a chalkboard. Kinda carries over to his target demographic and makes them frustrating. Or maybe they were already like that and the show just mirrors the petite-bougie but downwardly mobile / uncertain worldview? My bit about it IRL is that it’s a “well if I was in charge…” from people who are honestly not that far away from being in charge.
“Progressive” “allies” like Oliver are much more difficult to organize against wrt lib brains than blue dog types or Republicans. They promote and entrench the false consciousness of social democracy (that they’ll never fight for anyways) where we could otherwise agitate, defanging our actions and movements. It’s propaganda like Oliver’s show that mean BLM and Defund get appropriated and shut down. Rinse and repeat for every social movement we create, help with, piggyback on.
This kind of lib :brainworms: is basically 2/3 of :reddit-logo:. At best, you can point someone to it while explaining what’s wrong with it. But it will not radicalize, it will only set someone up for radicalization when they realize that it’s false through other means, including lived experience and stumbling across socialists and socialist theory.
Didn’t watch but I’m sure Mr Oliver concluded the segment by saying we should vote a little harder and write a heartfelt letter to our local landlord, right? Maybe send them a little extra cash as a sign of goodwill?
A reasonable assumption. Surprisingly enough it doesn’t so much end on a call to action to :vote: but rather appeals to the concept of housing as a human right.
Refreshingly materialist.
In fact it ends on a note of “landlords are disgusting and viciously bloodthirsty parasites”
It ends in that note plus “and there’s nothing you rich hbo-subscribing piggies can or will do about it, now go back to work with less guilt you system-upholding smart white collar liberals before you lose your treat trough privileges and end up like the peasants i talk about on my show”
Man, I haven’t watched this show in years. Haven’t missed the forced jokes.
Decent episode, though obviously it can’t spend any time dwelling on what “housing as a human right” would mean, practically. Because, surely, it would have to mean the abolition of landlordism. Which would radically alter the real estate market. It would be a massive change, unimaginable under the current system, either political or economic. But this show can’t address that, and instead has to pretend that there’s some other solution, that someday folks will get their heads on right and just vote sensibly and then the good politicians will build a better world.
one of you who looks like this muppet and own a suit and a green screen you should re-make these videos shot for shot but insert better jokes and actually advocate for communism in the conclusion.
That would mean I’d have to cut my hair and look “presentable” fuck that
Also that’s basically just Some More News
