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They just ignore it

The avi is Vergil as he appears in DMC V, a character action game, where he's the secret main antagonist.

Look Jack, if you don't like it, you can vote for the other rapist

(I actually said he did do a lot of good for China)

No you didn't, you left the matter ambiguous

and would not consider some US lib YouTuber a centrist for thinking that

Contra is a centrist because she supports Joe fucking Biden, and I never insinuated it was the Mao thing, though I think the chauvinism is a related issue.

But your criteria for "strongman" appears entirely based on the politician's personal affects

Yeah, that's because strongman is in large part a rhetorical affectation, just like "populist" is. Speaking to that side, a strongman is someone who builds their image on machismo, occasionally in a very literal sense, and frames their political actions/policy as embodying that machismo. It does not mean the same thing as "dictator," which we have a dozen different words for, though the two terms are associated with each other. Mussolini was a strongman, I would argue Hitler was not (megalomaniac though he was). Putin is (and especially was) another good example of a strongman, just for reference.

If Contra called one of history's most radical democrats a dictator (and I think she also said that, but I wouldn't rewatch that stupid fucking video short of getting paid to do so), I would merely say she was an ignorant chauvinist. Calling him a "strongman" is beyond that.

which for Mao was literally asking every household have a picture of him in it to thank

[citation needed] Towards the end, those pictures certainly were there, and there were backwards officials who surely made it policy on a municipal level in some cases, but Mao didn't even want his face on the currency like it now unfortunately is. To act like he was out there going "Please clap" and telling people to use the Little Red Book like some kind of Daoist charm is, I believe, severely misunderstanding the social circumstances of the PRC's establishment.

and rooting out and jailing dissidents

I wish he was better at it, since we wound up with a liberal-infested hive anyway. I care much less about civil rights for fascists and capitalist roaders than I do that the children are fed.

Give me a break, I know a professor who was caught in the whole "reform by labor" business and they would side with me that "strongman" is a completely ridiculous thing to call Mao, even if you wrongly think that he didn't do a lot of good for China. "Strongman" doesn't mean "leader whose policies I dislike," though I'd argue Brandon does some strongman politics with his bullshit about pushups and challenging random civilians to fights when they disagree with him.

How long until we get to the point of depravity of Koch money producing an anti-woke anime with traditional values sakuga?

She's a centrist encouraging people to be centrist, that doesn't seem like "getting libs to think a little more leftward" by any reasonable metric. I don't seek to contest nor do I really care about your sentimental/parasocial affection for her, but the facts are the facts.

Here's the video, by the way. The first thing I always remember about it, though it's in a tangent, is that she calls Mao a "strongman," which aside from being wrong and reeking of chauvinism, is just so fucking stupid that it's beneath even a College Republican.

I fully accept being seen as a dick: This was obvious and imagining she was being bamboozled is childish. Cutting together videos is her fucking career and we're supposed to pretend that she's so braindead that she thinks Hillary would give her a platform to say anything other than what Hillary finds acceptable? No, she wants the fucking clout and the money by being appealing to VoteBlues

and still making content that gets libs to think a little more leftward

Did you not see her Vote Blue video? She spits on the left and advocating for liberal cognitive dissonance does not actually help people become communists. That's just some combination of tailism and cope.

idk she had a lot more radical pretenses before, though it's partly also a Destiny thing where you can attract leftists by focusing on having cogent criticisms of rightwingers and hiding that you yourself are just a different flavor of neoliberal ghoul. Even government-funded PhiTube gives stronger endorsements of radical politics, which is part of why she plainly does not get the same hate even though she's also a trans "breadtube" lady.

I think the main thing though, and the name was always a giveaway, is that "breadtube" was a fucking mistake and anyone able to build a platform on it would immediately become some self-absorbed new media labor aristocrat. Yes, that includes Shawn and Hbomb, but they are clever enough to avoid talking about who they support, unlike Contra.

I respect MarxistArbiter down there in the posting trenches