Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Man Charged Over AOC Threat; Don't Let Boogaloo Fool You" video.

  1. Yeah, David might. He's in the same sphere as Dore. He has a better grasp of how Dore fits into this media ecosystem, what a daily show like that requires, how particular stories are covered, and what Dore is likely to cover on a given day. And frankly, Dore is an incendiary, egotistical idiot. He can't inform his audience because he doesn't know anything himself and routinely makes false or misleading statements. He serves as a way for his audience to vicariously vent aimless frustration—but that's it, and a political identity built on that is toxic. It's nice that he's able to get people like Wolff on—people who actually know what they're talking about. But the problem with Jimmy is that because he lacks both a rigorous way of analyzing the world and many of the basic facts one would need to begin to make such an analysis—in other words, because he really is a populist who sees things narrowly in terms of bad guy elites v. the masses instead of in terms of systems like capitalism, institutional racism, nationalism, imperialism, etc. with their own forces and dynamics, he blunders into these situations where he is more than happy (perhaps unwittingly) to celebrate and encourage right wing coups, revanchism, and movements. To give just a few examples, consider the absurdity of day after day screaming Fuck You to a progressive representative like AOC* while spending years holding up Tulsi Gabbard as some progressive icon, or blathering about how the left needs to partner with grifters like Mike Cernovich. Or recall that Jimmy greeted the right wing, corporatist Lava Jato operation in Brazil with enthusiasm, wondering aloud if he could get a commemorative t-shirt, all because they claimed to be fighting "corruption," and of course Jimmy is very "anti-corruption," whatever that means when you don't understand the context of the situation. And recently Jimmy wondered wistfully about the good the self-proclaimed white nationalist putscher in Pelosi's chair would do if he were Speaker. He's a gullible moron. *I'm convinced a major factor in his political opinions—ie, who gets yelled at and called fuckin sellout vs who gets praise—reduces to whether they'll come on his show. Tulsi goes on his show: she's great, a real champion. AOC won't go on: she's persona non grata.
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