They’re really trying to recapture the popularity of that AOC stream. Only problem is that nobody gives a shit about these three and it will struggle to get halfway to 100k
The AOC stream had Hasan, Pokimane, Corpse Husband, and a few others that were at their peak during that time. I know people in my country who have heard of and are fans of Pokimane, Corpse Husband, and Hasan. I’ve never met anyone who’s heard of Destiny, Vaush, or Keffals outside of this site and other leftist spaces on the internet.
Corpse Husband
I’m sorry who?
He was big with zoomers a few years ago. Known for having a deep voice that young women considered sexy. My sister and a few of her friends used to gush about him.
Va*sh, Keffals, and Destiny: 3 reactionary neoliberals on a single stream
Also aren’t all three huge assholes outside of politics and the internet as well? I know very little about any of them, and anything I hear just makes them sound like straight up bad people.
Yes, they’re all objectively horrible people, and I’m pretty sure that even the vast majority of libs who hold the exact same political positions as them would agree if they were actually exposed to the antics these three shitheads get up to.
The only way to make sense of this is that this Khanna guy has some massively online zoomer radlib dweeb on his team who went “Hey you should do a thing with these people, my fellow kids would love that” and he just rolled with it lmao.
I am continually baffled by those kiddie diddling cryptofascist fucks being generally accepted as “the left” for purposes of public perception. I know it’s working as intended, but I’m still baffled that it works. They’re the Andy Warhols of our time.
I feel kinda bad for andy warhol. Like, he was trying to make art and he did, with some interesting messages. If there was just someone to reel him in he would have probably lived longer. It’s not entirely his fault the CIA made his art a weapon. It does also suck how obsessed with fame he was.
Andy Warhols
Please tell me about that don’t know much about him.
He was one of a number of artists and writers that were selected by federal programs intended to derail socialist messaging in art and literature, usually under the banner of “postmodernism” but not exclusive to it. Basically, Soviet art and literature at the time had rather clear and direct messaging that frightened the ruling class of the western world, so the idea was to subsidize and promote and artificially boost the presence of countermessages that amounted to “interpretation is so open ended for this much cooler piece that it could mean anything. Nothing matters btw. It’s very smart to stop caring about sociopolitical issues and just consume art product.”
“Hi, we’re anarchists, and we’re here today with the government to tell you why you should support the government.”
Also Ro Khanna is one of the worst people in government. Crazy that all he had to do was call himself a ‘Bernie progressive’ and everyone accepted it with no receipts. Fuck Bernie too, of course.
What’s necessarily wrong with Bernie? I realize he is more of a reformist and chooses to dumb down a lot of his talking points for the average person but other than that I don’t know much.
He’s an imperialist and has historically supported the US’s imperial meddling in places such as Yugoslavia (and I think in Afghanistan?)
Damn fr? Didn’t know that
Bernie and Parenti used to be friends. And then America invaded yugoslavia and Bernie showed where his loyalties lied.
