What other left or left-adjacent people will turn out to be grifters? Who will not?
What other left or left-adjacent people will turn out to be grifters? Who will not?
Since unsurprisingly the Redscare people are going fash, it would be good to know who's a grifter and who's not. What's your predictions?
My predictions:
Grifters:
- Zizek
- AOC
- 1-2 from Cumtown (it's anyone's guess)
Not Grifters
- The Deprogram Boys (ok I'm still in honeymoon)
- Jezza (obviously)
- Richard Wolfe & Harriet Fraad
- Viki1999
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I think she might already be there but Briahna Joy Gray (probably spelled that wrong). i stopped listening pretty close to the start but it kinda seemed like maybe Virgil was keeping their awful podcast leftish and as soon as he dipped out she started veering more to the right. I used to check the patreon comments because I'm a sick freak, and I'd see people begging her to have "gender critical" people and other reactionary shitheads on. idk if she's still even doing that dog shit podcast now that she's on that rising show but it's kinda wild to see her go from working on Bernie's campaign to doing her whole Greenwald-esque shit now and allying with Jimmy Dore and those weirdos
Post-Bernie it seems like things are split between the "left edge of the Democratic party" types like Sam Seder and the "contrarian left" like BJG and Krystal Ball, who can veer too close to Jimmy Dore territory. It takes many levels of irony and detachment to avoid falling into these categories, which is a problem in its own right. Very little principled leftism out there
Principled leftists don't have podcasts, they're working to grow labor unions and running mutual aid orgs.
Spreading left wing propaganda is still important. There's a reason right wing assholes are given a megaphone to drown everyone else out in the media.