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Dan Collen@dancollen.bsky.social |
Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Uggghhhh
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Laura Ruby
@thatlauraruby.bsky.social
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Yeesh.
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DW
@dustyworm.bsky.social
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Here is a saying I just made up "Power corrupts". Nobody is ever satisfied with just a little attention.
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@uruzrune.bsky.social
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None of these people are on the next, with the exception of Klippenstein who is left-of-center. What's wrong with him?
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Rita, antifascist🏴
@oldsquida.bsky.social
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we live in stupid times
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Cathryn Townsend
@cattownsend.bsky.social
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The problem with celebrities is that they are often (not always) people who thrive on attention and can’t be without it.
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Waffle House, M.D.
@ruleo.bsky.social
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all these people have sucked shit forever, they're just more obvious now
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Staid Winnow
@staidwinnow.bsky.social
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Or...how one decides what "the left" is.
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Chris Miller
@iamcurious.bsky.social
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Just going to leave this here.
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Great Boo’s Up 🇵🇸 ✊🏽
@frankie-gomez.bsky.social
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That’s the thing—people love to accuse the socialist left of “purity testing” when we warn people about these assholes. And they get all upset about our bar being “too high.” And that’s how they make Russel Brand their hero and learn nothing from the experience.
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Todd
@toddcudd.bsky.social
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Yes, yes. Now is definitely the time to find internet-famous examples of The Radical Left. Please - go on.
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I'm a different bird
@imadifferentbird.bsky.social
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Literally none of those are people I chose. Well, I like Bernie, but I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut about his spokespeople.
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Danni Jo 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@arcaneartisan.bsky.social
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Is the left really choosing celebrities, or is celebrity a thing that people build for themselves? Because I suspect the issue might be more that people who seek out celebrity often have some pretty major character flaws that have a tendency to get made worse by the attention economy.
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Franklin D. Roosefella
@roosefella.bsky.social
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imma gonna go with "celebrities" on most of those
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Jamie
@jamiestl.bsky.social
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Young Turks and Brianna Wu lost their left audiences long ago, lately it has been center right who likes them, aka neolibs.
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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Brianna Wu ain’t ours
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SimplyPsyke🏳️⚧️
@simplypsyke.bsky.social
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I'm still pissed that people made me feel like I was delusional for thinking ill of Kyle Kulinski
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King Squirtus
@droojayyy.bsky.social
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I don’t think anyone ever chose Wu. Just, in general.
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Twenty Thousand Thorns
@20000thorns.bsky.social
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Maybe now is the time to stop assuming that bernie bros are broadly representative of the left.
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Travis Carpenter
@tczell.bsky.social
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They're a fair amount of grifters who spend their entire life learning to manipulate and take advantage. We can't know some of them are grifters until they do something that reveals their hypocrisy.
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RexFeral
@rexferal.bsky.social
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this dude is one glenn greenwald away from being a virgil texas
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Ty🦋
@tylercheek.com
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TYT and Brianna Wu aren't leftists anymore as far as I can tell. idk about Ken, I don't follow him.
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
@djdynamicnc.bsky.social
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Of the roughly 500 Bernie ex-staffers in our FB group, almost all of us are just doing useful organizing work with no celebrity at all, so while your point is a good one, I don't want to let the crappiest leftists define us either
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Liza Mazel
@lizamazel.bsky.social
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ugh, Cenk.
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chbarts
@chbarts.bsky.social
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It always comes back to the chans:
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Landlocked Tuna
@landlockedtuna.bsky.social
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Who the fuck is George Galloway
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Mach
@machminotaur.bsky.social
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you're the left celebrity? well I didn't vote for you!
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Rocco
@rocco42.bsky.social
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It makes you wonder why there's no American left when these garbage people are the ones getting the attention
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Bender Rodríguez
@plungerman.bsky.social
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what's wrong with ken streaming with george galloway?
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Michael Paulauski
@mike10010100.bsky.social
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Brie Joy Gray, Bernie's National Press Secretary, went on Candace Owens' show. The entire left leaning media sphere is rotten to the core.
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Nash
@radiodeadair.com
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I can assure you I was not given a choice in these options.
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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It's cool. I never liked any of them.
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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A handful of brain dead posters isn’t the left. You should probably look at the people who are actually out organizing.
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costrike
@costrike.bsky.social
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Celebrities are the problem.
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Andrew Horn is not an owl
@bbofun.bsky.social
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Yeah, but we'll slowly drop them. They won't go away completely, but they'll fade into background noise. Conservatives, on the other hand, seem to be unable to ever let go, no matter what their celebs do. Unless the new flavor of the month declares them "woke" or somesuch.
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FPSCarol
@fpscarol.bsky.social
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Internet lefties need to understand that a person isn't good just because they're "on your side" or because they were victimized by reactionaries.
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JC
@maxjes.bsky.social
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I remember Destiny from when he was a slightly chaotic StarCraft II Wings of Liberty player that popularized Infestor use. Waking up a decade and a half later and finding out he’s now a Twitch Polemic for vaguely brocalist causes is proof there’s no requirements for being a leftie thought leader.
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JBerg
@noodlestormmachine.bsky.social
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What’s wrong with Galloway? Honest question
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Rick does Math and Stuff
@mathandstuff.bsky.social
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Cool to overgeneralize. Good work there. If we played this game with centrists, it would take a very long time.
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Sid Oozeley
@oozeley.bsky.social
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the young turks have had ties with rfk jr for a long fuckin time too
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Crowpotkin
@crowpotkin.bsky.social
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If you think we have the right ideas, and I think we do, then there has to be some reason that after over a hundred years we haven't broken through and the best answer I have is there are fundamental flaws in how we organize ourselves that make it impossible for us to sustain a movement. We suck.
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jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com
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I never chose any of those people as celebrities for any of my sociopolitical causes. Also: today I discovered the insane & toxic part of Bluesky. Got dogpiled by “left” extremists, nutcases, and/or propagandist chaos trolls. No idea which and it doesn’t really matter. It felt like bizarro twitter.
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Gluten-free Seitan
@davidjorgonson.bsky.social
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Celebrity leadership is the problem. Lack of democratic accountability to any membership
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Mr Cant
@cant.solar
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ohh i withheld my oofs when Ken RTed Glenn Greenwald congratulating him for quitting the intercept but OOF what is it with GGs?
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i guess that explains why ken wasn’t interested in joining the Substackers Against Nazis campaign
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weblackey
@weblackey.bsky.social
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WTAF?
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Bob Booten
@bobooten.bsky.social
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"Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us." Walt Kelly
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Judge Muck
@judgemuck.bsky.social
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People who talk the most are seen as leaders. Explains so much. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Matcha⁶⁹🇵🇸
@matchateauwu.bsky.social
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how about don't fucking choose celebrities for an ideology that wishes to abolish class
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@relaxedninja.bsky.social
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I've read some of Ken's work at The Intercept. He's a recurring guest on The Majority Report, which is my main political podcast. Which means I have to fight all of you with a knife right now. But I have zero use for TYT or Ana "birthing person" Kasparian in particular.
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Demblu
@phranklindb.bsky.social
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The DSA faux-progressive SQuad. They are sabotours within the left, as the Tea Party sabotouged from within the Right.
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foxfarm
@scarfface.bsky.social
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in this economy?
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Maya Media
@mayamedia.bsky.social
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Those people are all self-chosen. This ain’t on us.
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yazikus
@yazikus.bsky.social
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Can someone give me the quick & dirty on George - I'm blissfully unfamiliar
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Richard
@renuvian.bsky.social
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Be suspicious of any leftist willing to show their face on camera
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Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX
@themilfmag.net
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its not like we chose them lol the bernie movement generated a leftwing media bubble which predictably burst after the movement came to a screeching halt and unsurprisingly some of these "celebrities" are selling out because they know they cant survive in this scarcer leftwing media ecosystem
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Amy
@awillo.bsky.social
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I remember one Bernie supporter saying he was voting for Tulsi Gabbard in the DNC primary. And if she didn't win, he was voting for Trump. Why was he supporting Bernie in the first place?
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c______z
@boshyboo.bsky.social
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Posters Madness 😔
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DSL fish
@guarder.bsky.social
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Brianna Wu was left celebrity?
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Noamar Garciachomsky
@kduffchicago.bsky.social
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Ken isn't on the level of the other ones.
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Elizabeth Tamny
@etamny.bsky.social
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Fetterman!
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B. Coul
@briancoulombe.bsky.social
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What? No Bill Maher?
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Sinboy
@sinboy.bsky.social
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When your schtick is "I'm a leftist who hates Democrats and wants to destroy them," you soon find that the people who want to fund you destroying them are conservatives.
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grungler, tod und teufel
@swimming-blerd.bsky.social
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lmao
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Jennifer Van Goethem
@jennvg.bsky.social
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Contrarianism isn’t cool.
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bangaroo
@bangaroo.io
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tbf this is a list of people who have seemed like sketchy shit lords basically forever. especially the young turks. did anyone ever tolerate them? there’s not a single person I can recall in my life who’s ever said a positive thing about them.
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👯♀️ lydelle buster 👯♀️
@babyshoes4cash.com
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yah this is part of the uselessness of "leftism" as a word,
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OPW
@0xkefka.bsky.social
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IMO All of those people are grifters with zero actual principles But the real issue is the far right wing billionaires & oligarchs who fund the right wing media ecosystem with infinity $ which makes these “why I abandoned the left” testimonials happen so often More $$$ in pushing MAGAt propaganda
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Unbreakable Peter
@loki1001.bsky.social
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Inevitably grifters go to the right because the right has more money.
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Zig Zag Wanderer
@zigzagwanderer.bsky.social
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Very fine grifters on both sides
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