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[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Russell Brand, Zizek, Vaush, Orwell, Nathan J Robinson, the list goes eternally of almost-left cringelord creeps

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Notice more how they're western leftists...

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's so hard to find the Parentis in the rough

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

I mean, no shit, Sherlock.

If you're born and bred in a Western liberal country, which benefits from historical colonialism and current trade exploitation ('unequal exchange'), you will act according to the hegemony's rules, and benefit from its spoils...

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Specifically Anglo-Western. It wouldn't be hard to find German or Swedish libs that would gladly join in too.

[–] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Zizek is Slovenian.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What did Nathan J Robinson do? I remember him having some of the best write-ups debunking Peterson.

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if i remember correctly he fired every that worked for him when they tried to unionize and I think had a bunch of other issues. He's also a total radlib on foreign policy

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It wasn't that they tried to unionize, it was that they wanted to convert Current Affairs to a worker owned co-op. I'll still maintain that his writing was generally good, and the people he employed were excellent, but he was a rich kid who couldn't give up control of what he saw as "his" project. It's not even about money since I'm pretty sure the magazine lost money the entire time it was in print.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Homie spent a lot of money on clothes too