Picking a fight with Hasan Piker while midterms are gearing up is the dumbest fucking idea. The consultant class really is a problem when it comes to meaningful change. (TikTok screencap)

  • Goodeye8@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Just out of curiosity, who do you think are the big leftist political pundits? Who does you group regularly bring up?

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      4 days ago

      It’s a fair critique. I suppose i personally dont really know many pundits that aren’t of this type of another. I wouldn’t say TV ones or YouTube or podcasts any other place would be a better (though my suspicion is YouTube has the greatest reach but I wouldn’t assume any particular subculture from it was world changing or universally known or whatever, the culture is too deeply fragmented)

      As for the groups discussions, I suppose I don’t think “pundits” as a concept is really that important to us. It’s like asking what literary critics a writers group talks about a lot, we’re more interested in the politics than talking about the people talking about the people talking about the…

      Kinda the whole point is that we want to think about the interesting problems ourselves and what we can do about it rather than having other people do that for us