This guy’s dad is the former VP of a multibillion dollar Turkish conglomerate, as well as the secretary of a government department. Mom and Dad were able to fly to their other home in NJ to give birth so he’d get US citizenship. His uncle is the founder and owner of TYT Media and gave him his media career. He went to Rutgers. He lives in a multimillion dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills. This is by definition not the kind of person who can be a voice of the People. Saying “I recognize my privilege” over and over, while living his lifestyle, doesn’t negate his privilege and complete lack of real-life experience outside of the curated garden of the wealthy. He gets paid obscene amounts of cash to sit in his bedroom and word-vomit for 9 hours a day. Why are his unending opinions taken so seriously? He gives me strong controlled opposition vibes.

Edit: Thank you all for this discussion. I learned a lot.

  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    He sometimes tells his audience to log off and join an org, we get a handful of new recruits occasionally due to the guy.

    So he actually is successfully moving people from being socialist sympathizers to actual socialists (you need to be part of an org to be a socialist)

    That’s all I really know about him, besides some people being thirsty about him.

      • AnneVolin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Marx was part of the Young Hegelians. Marx and Engles were part of the Communist League, and Marx and Engels were also the founders of the German Workers’ Society.

        The idea that Marx was a recluse internet style poster with no attachment to real society is a 21st century invention to make vaguely left people feel better about their alienation and a strawman for the right to attack.

      • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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        15 days ago

        Telling me that I’m not a Socialist because I’m not a registered member of a Socialist organization doesn’t encourage me to join any organization. It encourages me to dump you and find an actual mutual ally.

        “Saying I’m only sympathetic to abolition if I’m not doing abolitionist work doesn’t make me want to do abolitionist work”

        Okay what will then, do you want a headpat or a handjob or what?

        The dumped metaphor is great because in this metaphor you weren’t dating to begin with. You were just admiring.

        But seriously if someone questioning your commitment when you aren’t committed makes you react with fleeing somewhere else that is on you.

        Stop saying stupid exclusionary things about your left-wing allies if you want to actually have a movement capable of change.

        If you’re not in the movement you are not a socialist. The movement is a real, organized thing, not just vibes.