https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/TheDeprogram/comments/11s7x4u/badempanada_uyhgers_video/
Found in the Deprogram subās discussion ofnit which is quite good. Radio War Nerd also does this beating around the bush with Zenzās beliefs. To say nothing of Deprogram & RWN Russia takes,
What is it with new accounts and posting about BadEmpanada? This is like the third BE post from a new account Iāve seen since the update. I donāt give a fuck about ādefending streamermanā or streamer drama, but itās always the new accounts bringing up BE and he was rarely posted to this site beforehand
Oh thereās a guy in the chapo discord vc who loves him so I replied to BE about this and he was annoying to me, Iām doing reply guy shit. Maybe donāt spread disinformation? Itās annoying the few mildly palatable youtubers still suck and are intractable and vague and annoying.
They seem like they know which side their bread is buttered on.
What makes you think this kind of parasocial observation is valuable or interesting anyways? āOh didnāt you notice other people posted about it recently?ā Uh no apart from again the other thread I posted the best response so far to? Because youāre parasocial for the posts not me. You are the owned lib.
You post for likes. I post what the fuck I LIKE.
You clearly do get it. After all youāre being a hall monitor scolding me for posting about something you allegedly donāt care about. Buzz off, nosy little They.
Parasocial? I am speaking directly to badempanada and this guy. I am engaging with posts that were made online in public as an announcement and finding criticism of them and replying to threads here with other people. I am not monitoring other peopleās conversations and relationships.
Iām sure Empanada would like me to watch his videos about his parasocial feuds, rather than post a good takedown of him repurposing State Dept talking points about China to make Youtube videos for āleftistsā.
I like this thread, Iāve seen it before but I donāt really understand the disdain tbh, the thread is making fun of him for trying to find a nuanced position? thatās what we all do, you can say itās bad analysis but calling him a radlib seems weird. He has plenty of other things to criticize about him as far as his online behavior goes
Saying āactually both sidesā or āthe truth is somewhere in the middleā doesnāt automatically mean thereās nuance
Between āitās genocideā and ānothing morally objectionable is happeningā the truth is somewhere in the middle, I understand Chinaās policy in Xinjiang but I would prefer it were different
Itās a program that impacts millions of people, there is going to be variance no matter what, and there would be āvery concernedā people who just want ānuanceā no matter what, because that variance that exists in reality will always produce at least some poor outcomes to handwring about and say you āprefer it were differentā, since nothing goes wrong in the ideal version they imagine in their head.
The bottom line is that Chinaās program is worth supporting both for the people of Xinjiang who were being terrorized and for the stability of China as a whole, and the handwringing is functionally only thinly distinguished from concern trolling when one merely speaks in vagueries about āmorally objectionable things happeningā.
If you have specific objections, name them. Otherwise, just move on instead of engaging in that absurd song and dance against imaginary dogmatists.
How is it nuanced? He doesnāt even explore terrorism in the region. He skirts around the topic he wants to get engagement off as a third rail issue.
Saying states have never treated minorities right is very reductive. Iām doubtful thatās someone whoās ever taken a nuanced look at the history of, say the USSR.
Nuanced position between the Victims of Communism Foundation & strawman who supports everything the govt could hypothetically do seems like a cynical deliberate choice to me
Iām not saying it was a great take, Iām disagreeing with the framing of the beginning of the thread. I agree with the rest of the thread, not sure where that got mixed up. I think itās possible to try and be nuanced and miss really badly, I know Iāve had my fair share of bad takes
I think we should all be way more judgmental about how people try to make us spend an hour after work.
I just wanna say that he appeared in the second season of Love is Blind Brasil
I literally never even heard of this guy before that āwhatās your take on this guyā thread a day or two ago and now here we are
Radio War Nerd turned out to be really wussy-ish when it comes to upsetting liberal orthodoxy on Ukraine and other US geopolitical hot-topics.
