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Me trying to explain leftism to an American: ok so imagine slop

You could try a couple movies like Sorry to Bother You, Battle of Algiers, or something like RRR. They're fun and show a different way to do politics that isn't the ballot. Show her Blowback if she likes history (season 3 + watching Parasite and try to incept her into realizing Parasite is about the Korean war and it supports the communists?). I'm a Virgo is a pretty good show that blasts communist propaganda in the viewer's face in a very easily digestible way, it spells out some basic points that can get you started to introduce big ideas, kinda like a treat version of reading Lenin.

why are you recommending people to Philosophy Tube and streamers - awful way to introduce people to leftism in my opinion.

Citations Needed I guess if you're gonna recommend a podcast.

If they like going to protests - why not just take them to an org meeting like DSA or something. While lib-adjacent, they'll at least get exposure to more things than 'we've gotta vote our way out of this'

I think Alex and Alexa on Boy Boy are making some of the best leftist propaganda out there. They're very clear and direct, they don't shy away from pointing out the absolute worst of capitalism that liberals like to pretend doesn't happen. Their serious documentaries are amazing, like the ones on Pine Gap, the Amazon rainforest, the recent one on CIA blacksites and so on. The North Korea video should be required viewing for everyone over the age of 12, it's unapologetically pro-North Korea, but libs won't realize that until the end of the video, and it's very hard to argue with.

They also put out a lot of slop, but that's clearly just to keep playing the YouTube game and getting their videos in the algorithm, so I can respect that. They often sit in front of a computer and laugh at some fascist propaganda, but for me only about 50% of their jokes land. Still, whatever it takes to keep up their real journalism

If she's an NPR lib, maybe