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rich “leftist” e-celeb is actually a liberal

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we have this thread every day comrade.

yes she’s a liberal. she never pretended to not be a liberal. people assumed she was an epic based leftist because something something the bread book something something antifascism

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I will always have an appreciation for her since her channel helped me get over some lingering transphobia but this just seems really unnecessary.

Why would you want to associate yourself with someone whose most notable accomplishments in recent years are warcrimes and losing the presidential race to the dumbest man alive?

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She’s going to become a host of something on CNN/NBC, I can feel it.

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she figured out her gender and a bunch of us hoped the anarchist catgirl character would kinda stop being a character but instead we got doubling down on liberalism and being shitty to nonbinary comrades

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Basically this. Tabby was well-crafted enough to work as an unironic leftist dogwhistle. We held out hope for the briefest moment that the choice to use a catgirl as a dogwhistle was intentional, a form of dialectics in action. But alas, the caricature was just a caricature.

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wait, when was contra terrible to nonbinary people?

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I dont even really think she did, she was always that way.

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everyone does this with almost everyone. Its like when people figure out AOC, a socdem who ran on socdem ideas and talks a socdem game is actually… a socdem. People just assume if they like a person they must be a based ultra leftist comrade and they have to hide their power level but sometimes a shoe is just a shoe.

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The only person who has ever pulled off hiding their power level was Fidel Castro. The number of people who sold out, betrayed the cause, or otherwise watered down their politics is orders of magnitudes more.

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The big majority of the old sub let alone the general anglo online left thought she was an epic power level hiding socialist for years and it took months a months of her shitting the bed in various struggle sessions for the opinion to change somewhat against her even in “radical” spaces .Lets not pretend the “we all knew she was a liberal so this is expected” thing is true. No people didnt and no this wasnt

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I didn’t say we all knew, I’m saying it was wishful thinking that had more to do with the unmet emotional and social needs of internet leftists than anything she did or said, and that the sense of betrayal some feel is totally unwarranted.

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the “i think its important because not everybody responds to a logical argument” line just dripping with fucking contempt for contra and her audience there lmao

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It also feels very ideologically Hillary Clinton. If everyone were logical, they would come around to my enlightened third way. Thankfully we have Natalie with her silly dress up for the rest of you idiots.

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With her fabulous clothes everywhere

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Is this the full interview or the clip from the episode? I haven’t watched it but the Chapos say in their episode about the Hillary show that it was obvious they cut Contra off right before she started explaining how the status quo wasn’t fixing the problem they were talking about, which seems like exactly what they would do.

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Which is why going and performing (because that is all it is in the end) on their platform will never allow you to speak any truths.

All she accomplished was tying herself to one of the most radioactive political figures of the decade.

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smdh platforming Hillary Clinton like this

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Holy shit the cringe is real

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