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Yeah, like I said "I don't know much about him."
I don't fucking watch streamers, and I'm not about to start. All I know about him is from what I've read, and I acknowledge that not everything I've read is guaranteed to be true. Hence why I phrased it as a question.
You could have chosen to clarify without acting like it was a gotcha.
I've read a couple lemmy threads about him. Some people say he's the leftist version of Nick Fuentes. Some people say that's a good thing because we need a counterbalance. Some people say it's a bad thing because leftism doesn't need to degrade itself by being guided by influencers/streamers. That's about all I know.
I never said no one can be critical about Harris or the Democrats. I can be critical of Harris and the Democrats, and I voted for her. Because I don't let perfectionism get in the way of my voting choices.
Critique:
I think she courted the center-right too much on her campaign, but I think that was a strategic (albeit erroneous) choice rather than a change in policy/platform. She must have thought there was actually a large number of reasonable moderate conservatives who could be swayed, and she probably thought she safely held the liberal and leftist votes, which became a blind spot to her and she failed to address their concerns.So I wasn't totally happy with the campaign she ran, but I still voted for her.
I prefer to take a pragmatist approach to elections. I can't choose who the nominee is. I can't choose who wins. All I can do is cast one vote, and in a two-party FPTP system, unfortunately, often that means voting for the least bad option.
I've been critiquing the system since I've been an adult, even as my personal political persuasion has evolved over time. I don't expect a fundamentally broken system to give us a perfect candidate. But I believe in incremental progress whenever possible, and harm reduction whenever necessary.
Contrast: streamers and threadiverse
But I only contribute to the public discourse by talking in online forums. I have no desire to become a streamer or a social media influencer. I have no desire to get millions of followers or million-dollar sponsorships. I have no desire to be in a position where a say "jump" and millions of people jump. I prefer anonymity and relative obscurity.I might not be able to shift the discourse much, but if I can put a few ideas out there, examine things from a slightly different perspective, elaborate some nuance, or combat disinformation, maybe I can change a few people's minds, or at least get them to see from a new angle, expand their perspective a bit, or just arm them with new info or details or arguments or points of view. It's not much, but when those people go on to participate in the discourse, they can change other people's minds too and it can have a snowball effect.
It's faceless, it's decentralized, and it's democratizing. I'm no leader; nobody blindly accepts everything I say. But I'm participating in discussions that have the potential to reach millions. And alongside those millions of people, I'm helping to shape the discourse and the development of ideas. A drop in the bucket, yes, but that bucket would be empty without any drops in it.
And in the age of bot farms, LLMs, disinformation, trolls, political influence campaigns, agent-provocateurs, hybrid warfare, and bad-faith actors, any honest lemmings out there doing an honest day's work to steer an honest discussion in an honest direction is a net positive in my book. I'm not being dishonest with myself about my position in the world; I acknowledge my limitations. I'm simply choosing to be a part of the solution to some of the problems that I see.
Maybe I will. If most of what I've heard about him has been wrong, might as well hear what he has to say for myself before judging him.
I'm really not interested in following any streamers, but I might at least listen to the speech you mentioned because I do like hearing ideas
I listened to his Yale speech, and a lot of what he said was true, but he kinda harms his own credibility when he glosses over the USSR and DPRK.
He just kinda says "US intervention bad" and implies that there was nothing wrong with those nations to begin with and that everything would be fine if it weren't for US meddling. A Korean student literally asked him if he wanted to revise that position and he basically says "I don't care how other nations govern themselves." Like, dude.
He even insinuated that the current situation in Russia is the US's fault for defeating the Soviet Union. And he acts like the fall of the USSR was this tragic thing, when people throughout former Soviet states literally celebrated when it happened. He said it resulted in mass deaths, but never mentioned the mass deaths the Soviet Union itself caused.
Most of what he said was okay though. One of the guys who asked a question said he agreed with 90% of it. I'm more like 85% I think, but that other 15% are pretty important. For one thing, he kinda skirted around any mention of Ukraine, even when someone asked about it.
Overall, he seems like he's done a lot of research, but outside of an academic context and without any serious rigor or pedagogy. Like, he belongs on internet forums where he can debate people and share his knowledge and ideas, but speaking at universities should be for people with higher degrees.
I don't like when the right-wing sends influencers/streamers to colleges to speak, and since I value logical consistency, I don't think the left should be doing it either.