ugh i guess i have to watch the contrapoints video now

i made it exactly 30 seconds in before my left eye started rapidly twitching

"voting biden is the single most important thing any american can do right now"

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I DIDNT THINK IT WOULD BE THIS FUCKING BAD

not to bring it back to my filmographic criticisms of natalie but she shot herself in the foot by choosing to move away from socratic dialogues because now she's just insufferably preachy and for what. liberalism?

you know. i liked you a lot better when you DID do socratic dialogues instead of strawmanning your opponents

please tell me the russian bots thing was a joke

dear god please tell me shes opening with the weak arguments

its absolutely sending me that she thinks "voting" is somehow less representative of your interests than "liking and subscribing"

so are we forgetting how bill clinton did literally downplay the aids epidemic (although he was an improvement over regan) and you know. literally fired the surgeon general for advocating comprehensive sex ed

"there's more difference between the democrats and republicans than liberal civility!"

procedes to list of things that are 90% liberal civility

"voting doesn't take that long"

maam i would literally have to drive across three state lines and then stand in line for eight hours if i wanted to vote

"at most it takes one day"

again see the "i would have to drive across state lines bit" but more importantly DOES THIS WOMAN NOT UNDERSTAND HOW LONG A DAY IS

I'M A FUCKING PETITE BOURGEOISE ART STUDENT AND IF I JUST THREW AWAY AN ENTIRE DAY THAT COULD FUCK ME UP FOR WEEKS

ok finally some reasonable arguments

"i'm a degenerate class traitor" you litcherally are not

does she like. does she not realize this is not going to win over a single working class person. does she not realize that her appeal before was making fun of HERSELF and that when she condescends to other people, it turns them away?

she's right about the posturing but dear god you're doing that about voting

"i think the military will force trump to leave"

even assuming that is true THATS NOT A RISK WE WANT TO FUCKING TAKE

i feel like i cant even criticize her anymore shes so much of a liberal it's painful

i'm going to snap she's literally using twitter demographics as an argument

the problem is that she seems to somehow fundementally misunderstand what communists want AND conflates fucking anarchists, mls, and leftcoms into a single strawman category

she. she has literally done more grassroots activism for obama than socialism of any kind

"talking to voters" funny how that doesn't include people with a felon conviction now does it natalie

"most people want security for themselves and their families" YES THATS WHY MUTUAL AID IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT AS A MEANS OF POLITICAL OUTREACH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

you know what this has literally enraged me to the point where were it not 2 am i would call my local psl branch and finally get those papers transferred over and when i wake up i think i finally will because i cant take this shit i just want to do praxis for gods sake

i'm going to slap her i'm convinced she's never talked to a single non-armchair marxist in her life

gee natalie i wonder why all the right wingers have weapons and militias and ex military. i wonder why that is natalie i wonder if maybe there was a leftist equivalent maybe lets say in the 60s and 70s gee natalie i wonder what happened to them GOLLY WHAT A MYSTERY

i am genuinely convinced she's never met a communist off twitter

this. this frame literally just gave me heart palpitations im not kidding this is not an exaggeration i dont feel good

literally nothing but "decriminalize marijuana" is a concrete policy position that would have any material effect

HEY NATALIE I WONDER WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE 60S THAT FORCED KENNEDY'S HAND

NOT LIKE THERE WERE HARDLINE COMMUNISTS ORGANIZING FOR REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS AND UNIONIZING AND DISTRIBUTING MUTAL AID OR ANYTHING

"he was moved by the protests"

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she's giving kennedy all the credit for the civil rights act and literally zero credit to the black people who fucking organized, armed themselves, and took to the streets in numbers im hhhhhhhhhhhhlskdfjalskdfjlhgjhhghgfdhxm

im drinking. this is it i'm cracking open the whiskey bottle

god that was the worst fuckin shit