Most of his work is shitting on confederates, that’s pretty palatable to liberals.

Much better said, cheers

The whinging about “meeting people where they’re at” is so obnoxious. That can be useful on a tactical level. It’s not something you’re owed. If you want to say “you might be more successful if you drop the insults”, fine. But it’s not a right you have to be handled with kid gloves, if you’re insulted by being told the truth you’re still the problem.

I don’t know what your criticism of identity politics looks like so I really can’t say. But I’m of the opinion that the problem with liberal idpol is the liberalism, not the idpol. Most often, in my experience, people who complain about idpol while talking about how the bourgeoisie use it to divide the proletariat are actually just part of that division. For example, it’s not BLM that divides the working class, it’s the racism that BLM is a response to. The kind of dickhead who complains that BLM is dividing the working class is just propagating that division, because BLM is in fact a response to real, material inequalities that are used to split the proletariat. If someone signals that they think BLM is in some way a waste of time, they are making it clear that black comrades aren’t safe around them, and therefore they are an impediment to class solidarity.

I’m a white dude in my 40s and not terrifically well read so anyone who spots a problem with my position please by all means weigh in.

"the disease of hatred has spread to the right" uh huh, hatred of who

the dead kennedys have a song about these arseholes

Punk, and other genres, are not purely about the technical aspects of the music. They are also about other things, including for example a fashion, and punk particularly has an accompanying ethos. You can buck that, push the boundaries of what’s considered punk, and if you keep the aesthetic you likely will be considered a heterodox punk… But punk is 100% political. It’s a subculture. It’s not just a purely musical category. Yeah the higher incidence of Nazi metal bands isn’t about the chord structure, that’s an argument AGAINST your point. There are more Nazi metal bands than Nazi smooth jazz bands because the metal subculture (well, certain parts of it) are more amenable to Nazi ideas. If musical genres were purely about the music itself you wouldn’t expect to see that phenomenon, it happens specifically because genres are bigger than that.

He’s SO fucking good. Like he’s also a massive piece of shit but when he’s just being catty to his sycophants it’s hysterical.

It’s so infuriating to see groups willing to publicly identify as ML while just having the worst, most idealist and reactionary ideas possible. Stop making the rest of us look bad>:(

“identity politics and class politics” stands out, too. Dude the working class have identities that matter to us. The people from minority groups whose safety and material interests you deride as “identity politics” are overwhelmingly working class. You know why African Americans scabbed at various times in the American labour movement? Yeah.

Also that’s a 10 year old list, I wonder how many of the top 5 are Chinese now?

AI designed cargo submarines

Oh my god American century of humiliation goes hard

JFC that’s gross. Turning an entire nation into literal comic book villains.

… I don’t even read the comics but it’s pretty clear that the reason the joker can beat him up with a crowbar is because the joker is “on another level” and the other villains they fight cannot, in fact, beat him up with a crowbar. It’s a superhero comic, they’re unrealistic and goofy. That’s why I don’t read them.

The first instinct would be to think trump just bought them shoes in his own size. But he does have tiny hands which I would suspect correlates with tiny feet, suggesting the much funnier option that this is a power move.

uhhh something about 69?

I mean… Yeah, that’s why imo we’re getting barbarism and environmental collapse.

Definitely. I wouldn’t be shocked if they play a role in the failure of liberal academia.

I think a missing piece of the puzzle is that Russia did in fact invade Ukraine. Iran is very clearly defending itself, but from a naive perspective it looks like Russia is just making a territorial grab.

Honestly less vulgar than what actually happened