panopticon

6.9 get to smash a car that belongs to some capitalist

There’s a third person who explicitly advocated patriotic socialism in an extremely thin “debunking” of Danny Haiphong.

that's probably the one I'm thinking of. Pretty whack. If they're still Cornel Westing at this point, ranting about "woke," and talking about how the American revolution was a rebellion against colonialism then... Well, I just think it's disappointing because Eddie is (imo) a likeable personality as a host and if they had gone a different route they could have been good at helping to popularize/educate about Marxism instead of vulgarizing it.

They've also had Danny Haiphong and Gerald Horne on, both of whom are mentioned in this thread, and those were excellent interviews. They've also had Norm Finkelstein and Carl Zha, and other good ones. Also, JT Chapman (Second Thought) went on Midwestern Marx and I wouldn't say Second Thought is contraindicated.

Haz is cringe, Midwestern Marx has one dude in particular who sucks and I think drags them down. But I wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea and skip over RBN because they've had problematic guests on. Their analysis of the news in light of US material conditions and foreign policy is spot on.

To be fair,

Lots of good recommendations so far but I'm surprised no one has mentioned Revolutionary Blackout (RBN) yet. They're fun to listen to and well informed on current events, they post often, are full Marxist/"tankie" and they have no pretensions about decorum. I especially enjoy Rome's epic rants, but all of the hosts are good in their own way and they get excellent guests on like Ajamu Baraka. Sabby Sabs has her own channel and she posts new videos daily.

They put an emphasis on media literacy and debunking corporate media narratives. They've been good on the genocide on Palestine and the US funding Nazis in Ukraine. They might have whack views on COVID, not sure TBH because it doesn't come up that often. They're also good at contextualizing current events in terms of domestic black and brown issues, which is important because the online leftist video creator space is white af.

Just a couple paragraphs about these dudes because I'm not sure if Hexbear knows about them, generally.

EDIT: oops, fixed the link gore. Also, I forgot to mention that RBN emphasizes mutual aid and community organizing / building dual systems of power, and their revolutionary theory is based (on the Black Panthers)

Beetlejoe

Wait wait wait! That sounds to me like a whataboutism!!!!!!!

Wait, that's the same dancer who does the NPC videos, lol, amazing

Lmao that's exactly what I thought it would be

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