• EndlessApollo@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I see a lot of your posts on my feed sometimes and you seem pretty left, what the heck is this about? You sound like a qultist here, what’s going on?

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        5 months ago

        I just skimmed Jimmy Dore’s wikipedia… he seems politically relatively progressive, but personally selfish and slightly too open. Maybe I missed something, but supporting Bernie, thinking the democrat party is a shitshow, and saying that comedians’ jobs are easier under republican presidents doesn’t seem super far from “lefty,” though the Overton window is further right in the US.

        Is it a different Jimmy dore or is there something else?

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          5 months ago

          Jimmy Dore is an ideologically bereft grifter. He’ll ape some progressive talking points and pretend to support Bernie, but in reality he’s just a dishonest contrarian entertainer pretending to care about the politics because it’s lucrative.

          He’s sorta like an Alex Jones type, only his marks are mostly naive leftist people and people as ideologically incoherent as himself.

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      5 months ago

      A bit of push back against the “I’m not going to let you continue” type of people, where they use it as a legit excuse instead of backing up their disagreement.

      I get reminded of White Knight Syndrome for those that use it.

      They are both apologetics for the duopoly in this segment at the end of the day.