How would someone critique the messenger without critiquing the messenger? And to be clear this is not ad hominem. I’m not attacking the message. I’m attacking the messenger because of the messenger. I stated elsewhere that I likely agree with the message. But as I and others have pointed out. This is one of the worst possible messengers. There’s a reason you don’t normally see the copy ”Worst person you know might accidentally have an point".

A critique of Prager U, coming from a group at best nominally left, and ostensibly, spiritually the Prager U of "the left” in many ways. Carries no weight. And that people who actually claim to be leftist would choose such a group to represent them intellectually, is especially baffling. 24 hours a day. 8 days a week. I would recommend coverage of the same topic by someone like SMN. Before I would even give second thought a second thought. Sure, I would still have to explain to people who don’t know. That the coverage is very absurd and highly satirical. While at the same time being heavily factual generally. But it’s much easier than having to try to flow diagram out when second thought can be considered and honest and reliable narrator. Simply because of ideological inconsistency and purposeful blindness.

However, I’m getting the feeling this isn’t a community for the left. Or those like myself. Maybe at 50 years old. I’m just becoming one of those crotchety old elder persons. Shouting at the kids to stop shitting on the people’s lawn. But when you choose a messenger who seriously hand waived away mass murder and oppression. Seriously claiming ”we re-educated and emperor once”, but pay no attention to the millions disappeared. They went on an all expenses decades long state funded vacation. And just haven’t written back to their relatives yet. Rhetorically collapsing back on Engles “on authority”. An argument that can be reasonably boiled down to ”they’d do it to us”. Therefore any atrocities we deem necessary are justified. I cringed so hard. It gave me whiplash, swept me off my feet and body checked me through a wall.

It’s not the ideological infighting of the left that makes us weak. That’s our strength. It’s the perceived necessity to rely on heavily discredited ideologies and their acolytes as our representatives that hurts us.

Anyhow, I’m out. Good luck with whatever it is you’re trying to do here.