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Rathbone recently went on InfoWars and then him and his partner started a gross mud-slinging campaign against a few other content creators that rightfully called him out for it. Him, his partner (comradebaddie), and any creator friends still in his circle (buddyhead) are not comrades and we should not be making space for them.

Also, the fact that this went down so suddenly (although I didn't follow him much, so I idk if there were more signs) is a good lesson in why we should be much more critical of content creators, especially when they are not explicitly and demonstrably principled Marxist/dialectical materialists and are growing to a size where they are strongly financially incentivized to pivot to reactionary politics.

Literally why would it be a good idea to invite some closet MAGA communist child groomer onto tankie tube

Rathbone goes live on Twitch, I'd assume he'd be on the chopping block there too. TankieTanuki is rightly gonna hate me for saying this but PeerTube instances have capacity for doing lives. I figure they are ridiculously resource intensive though. Other streamers like Socialism For All that stream on Twitch are going to be facing this same situation.

Here's one of those ideas that would never happen but it would be an absolute coup if it did: TankieTube reaches an agreement with Hasan and agrees to fund all the costs associated with TankieTube. He gets to keep his donos. Other creators like Rathbone and Socialism For All come on board because of what TankieTube can offer them (Rathbone) or because they consider TankieTube the least-worst option and they hold their nose and realise that ideological purity matters less when it's a choice between supporting Jeff Bezos or not (Socialism For All).