I linked to the timestamp, it's a long ass video. The front part of the video is great, total normal TC content. Post video though, he gets into his personal politics somewhat, and here I'm thinking "oh, secret Marxist reveal?", but then he gets into partisan politics and it's a full-blown crash out about defiling the constitution and how Dems are always trying to make things better, but republicans show up to undo it all. He reads from the declaration of independence, waxes on about the constitution, the whole nine-yards.

It's really great. Lots of respect. He puts it all out there. If he's interested, I think Cowbee has a reading list he might be interested in.

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 83 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I thought it was a great video, very well researched and presented. I appreciate his anger towards the end, good on him for showing it, but I just had to laugh when he was advocating for people to vote for Dems, immediately after laying out all the ways they've betrayed and disappointed you. like, come on man, you're a very intelligent guy. you've gotta put the pieces together at some point shrug-outta-hecks

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I think he will figure it out at some point. We've all been there.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 71 points 3 weeks ago

Gonna copy paste from what i said in slop chat

Its nice he is calling out to abolish ICE and tell people to organize

But he still cant picture a USA under anyone other than democrats

Like he correctly points out how dems do nothing to fix the issues republicans did

But still think voting in the dems will some how be able to reverse all the things republicans have done

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 57 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Haha. I couldn't get through the crashout section, it sounded like he was getting it and then he started in on how great America is and I just...

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 34 points 4 weeks ago

I remember being in that place, the "let's try taking The New Colossus seriously" phase.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You have to power through, it's very good.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, I get enough lib perversion elsewhere.

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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He so close to being very cool it made me wonder if he was tempering his rhetoric to be accessible to people with basically no political education, but I'm just being wishful.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 51 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Nah, he apparently goes all in on the pro-democrat rhetoric which is totally incompatible with being politically cool. He simply doesn't have a good or consistent understanding of politics, which is a shame. He gets so close with the "everything is political" stuff but doesn't actually understand what that means or appreciate that politics can extend beyond Republicans versus democrats.

The YouTuber I have noticed having some cool political ideas is, of all people, miniminuteman, whose channel is mostly debunking pseudo archaeology and being the world's most obnoxious zoomer - a definite guilty pleasure of mine. I've noticed he'll occasionally let slip some cool stuff about class etc. I'm sure he's a baby radlib and not a full-blown socialist but he seems to at least be on the right track.

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Ooooo okay I watch him and TC and was thinking similar things.

MMM imo has clearly been getting more constructively radicalized over the year I've watched him and has gone more from "trump bad" to "I am actually putting the entire system on trial" lately so that's cool.

TC knows some of the right terms and basically just opened the flood gates.

I feel like both of them are one Kyle Kulinski "never mind, I understand why they built gulags" moment away from accepting the spectre into their hearts specter

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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

like i said, wishful. it would be nice if he could realize how weirdly contradicting the partisanship is with the rest of the rhetoric. a lot of forgiving democrats tepid climate policies. but then a lot of anger that is begging for real political education too. miniminuteman i also agree on, he's a deboonker that seems like he could really thrive in an org.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think he just is a person with basically no political education.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

max lib political "education" with a dash of that breaking a bit. the vote was noticeably dissonant with the tenor of the rest of his crash out.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He said all that stuff about caring about the labor that people have put into things, and I was so ready for Technology Connections Guy to suddenly reveal himself to actually be cool, and then BAM, we all just need to Vote Harder, baby!

I hope you make it over the hump, Tech Connections Guy, you'd make a cool communist.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He's such a comforting personality sometimes, and I love watching him crash out over LED Christmas lights every year. Because I can be just as obsessive about stuff I care about, and watching someone be like that about bits of technology most people never think about is neat.

That voice and general attitude to tech from a known comrade would be so awesome. I hate when otherwise neat people are lame ass liberals instead of cool commies.

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 42 points 3 weeks ago

The cool thing is that these kinds of well-meaning, radicalized liberals are the easiest to take to theory and become great comrades.

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

didn't even mention venezuela when it could've easily fit with all the oil talk. i love him but the crowd has spoken LIB

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

also forgot to mention he's a bluesky lib you can check his account. link

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago

Image is a screenshot of a bluesky notification that reads: "1 label has been placed on this content. ⓘ Rude. Labeled by @moderation.bsky.app."

[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

cw: Thomas Jefferson, SA

Reminder that the Declaration of Independence was written by a guy who not only was a slave owner, but was confirmed to have regularly SA’d his child slave. Make sure you remind libs about this whenever they start drifting towards “This isn’t America!” nonsense.

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[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 35 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

I could tell he is a lib because he acts salty whenever he uses metric.

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 34 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

love his vids but yeah always got turbolib vibes

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

turbo? idk about that, he says some cool and good things about labor just before this part of the video. I think he's in that phase of political awakening where it feels like you're the only sane person in the room, and the people you supported suddenly look and sound like transparent criminals. He says at one point, "Apparently, NO ONE is going to hold ANYONE accountable anymore!". I think he's simply a well-meaning progressive liberal who has hit the wall on trying to understand why things are happening. He probably doesn't have any other frame of reference, any other liberatory or revolutionary language to draw on than those of the founding fathers. Which, is simply how liberal society functions. At some point, though, he will realize that even that liberatory and revolutionary language fails to meet the moment.

I think Marx says it best:

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. [...] The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped off all superstition in regard to the past. Earlier revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to drug themselves concerning their own content. In order to arrive at its own content, the revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead."

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why I've worked really hard to pull back from calling out blue MAGA when they treat any of the most minor criticisms of a democrat politician like you just insulted 7 generations of their ancestors.

I mean this with sincerity - I think that the people who react like that are one of the most powerful forces for radicalizing progressives over the hump into the radical left. It's only when you consider yourself a democratic voter through and through but you have a genuine criticism, like why Biden increased funding to ICE and outdid Trump 1.0 in deportations and incarcerations in the border prison camps and continued building the wall, only to get treated as if you're Trump's biggest fan, public enemy number 1, and that you're personally to blame for Kamala losing etc. Just one of these moments is all it takes.

Then someone who is self-aware enough like TC is gonna look around the metaphorical room and see all these people who are snarling at him, who don't give a damn about principles or ethics or that fucking awful constitution or human rights, and they are gonna realize that they no longer recognize the community they exist within, that these people they thought were allies and who shared the same values are just as bad, just as willing to comprise on any values in order to win. And that's when a person like this has a permanent and irreparable break from liberalism. Just one or two of them telling him "I hope ICE comes knocking at your door and drags you and your loved ones off to CECOT. How dare you make a valid criticism of a democratic candidate like that!? You are dead to me." and he's gonna have his road to Damascus moment.

This is why in the lead up to the most recent US presidential election I was riling up blue MAGA on social media in the comments. I legitimately wanted to put them through their own little strategy of (ideological) tension. I wanted them to be in such a siege mentality, in such a terrified political tailspin that they were lashing out at anyone and everyone. I wanted them barking at shadows and treating everyone like an opponent or a clandestine enemy. Because I know that they were turning on their own with that energy too; I can't agitate within their circles very much but I can foster a mentality in them where they do that work for me and they will be far more effective at it than I could hope to be.

This is why I personally try to cultivate a comradely approach as best I can and why I opt for call-in culture over call out culture. One is corrosive and it harms any sort of movement or efforts to organize. The other builds. If we allow ourselves to be at one another's throats then we are doing COINTELPRO's work for it. Some things need to be called out and some things absolutely should not be permitted, of course, but if everyone is constantly on edge, if we extend no grace towards our comrades, then we will bring a sort of belligerence to our work and we will never make progress.

In saying all this, there's a particular radical comm that exists in the lemmyverse that this brings to mind. You know the one. The head admin of it constantly lashes out and goes on witch hunts. The culture they set is incredibly toxic and corrosive to their politics. If propaganda of the deed is a thing then anti-propaganda of the deed is too. If it's not clear enough yet, you can find a comment of mine where I mention the phrase petty tyrant for more info. (I don't actually intend to rile up that particular character btw, although they are on a hair trigger so it just happens. I know very well how I could stoke an ideological strategy of tension with them if I wanted to - I know them better than they think. But that's not my intention and I have far better things to do. And one of those things is picking quarrels and provoking trouble with progressive libs because I'm getting the backwards to self-isolate while bringing up the intermediate and bringing over the advanced.)

Idk where I'm going with this.

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[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I like some of his videos but I knew to stay away from this one as soon as I saw the title on YouTube. I just know it's full of liberal climate denialism. (Well, beyond the fact that centering on personal EVs is in itself climate denialism)

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

i don't think it's full of that. he's car-brained but it's going to take time to build out infrastructure, especially with how incompetent the US is about it, so electric cars are a fine enough stop gap that i don't think it helps us to be pissy about them.

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

so electric cars are a fine enough stop gap

They aren't a stop gap at all. They contribute to climate change more than the obvious, scientifically-supported real solutions. And the actual minuscule difference they make means that presenting it as a meaningful contribution to fighting climate change is actively harmful. It distracts from the harder things that must be done, which is why it's pushed so hard by Democrats, for example. Denying that we are past a point of no return and that the goal is to minimize devastation is climate denialism. There is no "good enough".

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They are pushed hard because every person buying two tons of metal which sits inertly 5/6th of the time presents bigger opportunity to exploit workers on the way from the mines than dozen ton bus carrying 20 people half the time. It’s doesn’t structurally matter whether they are ev or not, crisis of overproduction comes for all

The real porky solution to overproduction is nuking bavaria, frankfurt and guandong or inducing demand in africa and india, you can see where american and chinese porkies are leaning

(Not that they understand why they are leaning that way, they are thinking of car loans and 50000 minihitlers car salesman, and oil lobby and ethanol lobby and whatever else, but those represent in aggregate that simple fact)

(Now that i think about it, selling 5t apc to consumers also works for that, call it the hummer option)

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

You should explain what liberal climate denialism is compared to right wing climate denialism.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Huh? Its like, super pro-renewable and completely anti-fossil fuel. It comes at it from a "hey making shit that produces energy for years just makes so much more sense than spending all this effort for something we're gonna burn" angle though.

It's a bit carbrained I'll give you that.

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[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago

I just can’t get mad at our soft spoken boy.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Kinda neat honestly. I like technology connections and I think its cool he's using his platform to try to make a difference even if I disagree with his liberalism

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 28 points 4 weeks ago

When I say I respect it, I mean that with all heart. It's a rare case of someone drawing a line in the sand. He's going to get shit for it, even from fellow liberals. Hopefully he can take the thoughts he has about labor (in the section just before this rant) and link them together into a broader analysis in the near future. I think we could be witnessing a communist awakining, maybe.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly that's better than I expected from a middle class burgerreich suburbanite.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For someone is as strong in the reddit brainworms as him this is a surprisingly good stance.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 39 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He's genuinely a good lib. You can see he cares and that he has good principles in there, he just lacks basically any history or political development.

You'd be able to talk him around over the course of maybe one or two dinners and drinks if you were a friend of his.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, like he is a stemlord, he had to be deeply submerged in hitlerite particles. To come out as clean as he did is quite the anomaly

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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's friends with Hank Green and his cohort of smug condescending libs. Maybe if he spent more time with Brennan Lee mulligan he'd be less of one.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh god, Hank Green is insufferable and his politics even more so.

Fuck him for his knitting video especially though. Sciencebros just love to shit on "women's" work, ignorant to the marvel of technological development that requires all sorts of innovation and scientific progress (not least of all maths) to do some silly little lady's crafting - just like scrapbooking! Certainly nothing that has to do with big, important, science-y man's work (/s obviously)

Guess which type of work has not only been central to all of human existence, even prior to the advent of civilization, but also was absolutely fundamental to the early age of computers and space exploration? Textile work.

Nobody ever breathe a word denigrating textile work around me, least of all a sciencebro "public educator", because the first goddamned computer was a loom, the US used bra manufacturers to hand make space suits, and those magnetic core memory modules had to be hand woven by skilled women labourers. If you think that textile work is just some cute little hobby for ladies then go home and throw out every last thing that required fabric or computers at any point in its production, not to mention all your clothes and bedding and anything computerized.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeeeesss, Hank Green is an insidious liberal. I have no hope for him. You have a link to his knitting video?

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They pulled it from YouTube. I can't find an archived version from a cursory search but you might have more luck than me. Here's the original URL to the removed video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTLvD6-X8WQ

There's a really good in-depth autopsy of that disaster of a video here that does the art justice and you'll be able to piece together what Hank Green said in the original but it's a (deservedly) long response.

Hank Green issued some half-assed apology afterwards and shifted blame without actually addressing much. I watched a bit of it when the scandal hit but I don't recall watching the whole thing through, it just seemed like PR damage control slop and I find the Green brothers to be insufferably smug so I probably got 30 seconds in before I couldn't bare listening to the bullshit anymore.

Edit: I probably should have said fiber work and not textile work in the above comment but the skills and techniques and developments, especially in the earlier part of technological development, were the same and eventually they diverged. You get what I'm saying though.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Lol, I started watching that vid and just didn't have the time for it. But I was wondering how political he'd get about it all given how he started off.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He directly says Abolish ICE

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, that part was cool and good! Much respect. [no sarcasm]

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

He does a false ending, so people can avoid this part of the video. The actual video ends with almost 45 minutes left on the clock. Then he starts talking about how much he believes in labor. He said some pretty cool shit about how much he respects roughnecks for the work they're doing, but would rather they never have to do it because it's some Sisyphean Task where the byproduct of their labor is literally burned and destroyed at the end of the process, building effectively nothing, leaving them to endlessly toil away on these oil drilling platforms. I'm like, cool cool cool here's where he comes out and says something about how Karl Marx knew where all this was heading in the 1800s or something and then BAM, he throws into a full blow rant about how our great constitution is dead, and the Republicans are always destroying the good things the Democrats do. Mixed in there are some thoughts about how captured Democrats are by corporate interests.

It's a real mix of anger, denial, and bargaining. Maybe instead of Technology Connections, he'll start making some Dialectical Connections after the midterms, and enter into the acceptance phase.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 21 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

he seems so close to getting it

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