#bread tube

[mcpurplemuphin]

since in the false dichotomy, we are called progressives; people who want change, but the change is that ancient poisoning social patterns die out, like men being taught to see race and so on might as well we call ourselves standarts or stansartists and everyone right of Mandami we call regressives.

They can’t argue with it. It is the death of euphemism, the people who want to go back.

[soymilkman]

QUEERS: KEEP YOUR PASSPORT UPDATED

We can already see a rise in anti-Semitic attacks in places like NYC with the mask off nature of this new rhetoric. You are not safe from this rhetoric just because you live in a city. Berlin was a beacon of progressive values before the Nazi's took over. We don't know what's going to happen in 2 years time, but I will NOT satisfy these fascists with my death. And I advise the same for my queer family. Keep your passports up to date, pay attention to what's happening around you, arm yourselves and your community, and be willing and able to flee when it comes down to it. Stick together and find community. There's power in numbers. And most importantly, don't fucking die.

I love you all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

[technoregression]

just watched a movie analysis / video essay but instead of analysing the movie they just explained exactly what happened, in the order that it happened.

"the facial expression indicates a mix of sorry, depression, anxiety. And with expressive music to boot". ....

please I'm begging y'all - say SOMETHING when you say something.

[braaaaain]

Things YouTubers need to stop doing with captions:

Using auto caption

Using viewer submitted captions without vetting them

Plugging in the script instead of a transcript (especially if you went off script during the recording)

Putting jokes in the captions that aren't in the audio

Not captioning inserted clips

Putting on screen text where the captions are

There are a flabbergasting amount of leftist or educational channels that do most or all of the things up there, including Crash Course, Philosophy Tube, Legal Eagle, Renegade Cut, H Bomber Guy, Sarah Z, Leeja Miller, CJ the X, Folding Ideas, and so many creators I otherwise respect and love who should absolutely know better. It's frustrating, especially considering the fact that creators like Rikki Poynter have been begging their colleagues for over a decade to change it.

[mrsblackruby]

This is everything my blog & future internet activities will stand for I’m raging against Who the mainstream villainizes.

[mywitchcultblr]

Babe wake up it's time for your monthly deep dive analysis video

[sadhoglet]

Why does someone whose friend group looks like this:

think that they have ANY right to say things like this?

especially right now, when racist sentiment against Asian people is at an all-time high?

Let us have our shit ffs. 

And she didn’t even apologize, she deleted her twitter instead.

[mrx-bees-for-eyes]

On leftist disunity

The blowout of Contrapoints and Lindsay Ellis is less the result of a lack of unity in leftist spaces, and more the aggravation of our already established disunity.

Leftists have rarely been unified in our own spaces throughout history. In fact, once a goal has been achieved, it's not uncommon for infighting to spring up between different leftist spheres because, in reality, there is a huge difference between marxist/lennonists, maoists, anarchist, and social democrats. We will butt heads, bicker, argue, and vote against each other. That's incredibly healthy for a functioning and progressing society as, the end result, older more outdated and ineffective ideas will eventually be removed and newer, more useful and progressive ideas take their place. What we have now in leftist spheres... is incredibly unhealthy and I think that's on purpose. There's an awesome video essay done by Thought Slime called "Why is Twitter so Toxic?" that dissects the dialectics of political discussion and twitter, (I'd also recommend "Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos - Video Essay" by CJ The X) but in short, everything about the function of modern social media is designed to keep us clicking, yadda yadda, I won't cover what's already in the videos. The situation is dire, and growing worse by the day. Wealth inequality, the rights of minorities being stripped away, political representation plummeting more and more conservative despite a growing number of leftist/progressive populations, climate change... Stakes are so incredibly high between all demographics and the only ones who don't suffer from the effects are actively making it worse. (from this point on, I use "us" and "we" in regards to outrage culture. While I don't participate in mobbing or cancel culture, I think it's very important to claim that incredibly toxic side of our leftist spaces. We can't change it if we won't even take responsibility for it.) In the grand scale of political media, absolutely no popular news outlet, social media platform, etc, are on our sides (with the exception of a few, very small groups). Fox news may be your enemy, but CNN certainly isn't your friend, catch my drift? They're right of liberal at best. This is reflected everywhere in political online spaces and it's being utilized to make us fight and depressed. If you're afraid on main, you are a product and they're selling you your own fear. These private entities have way too much power on how we communicate with each other and it's pushing out outrage faster than we can even comprehend. We consume so much bad news without any advice on how to fix it, it's insane and it's driving us to take power where we can. Outrage. But don't get me wrong, we have no power over outrage. It's been packaged, shipped, and sold to us with a fancy little twitter logo on the box. It's been effective at removing some random celebrity out of a tv show we like, but it's shit at actual political change which is why outrage culture is encouraged and curated in the very algorithms of the online spaces we inhabit because it keeps people coming back. Brand name outrage culture is most controversial reply being the first reply you see every time you open a tweet. It's 90% of the "trending" page being bad and disheartening news. It's the controversial section. It's all of it. We are sold our fear the same way grocery stores manipulate you by putting oreos by the checkout. I think the eradication of leftists in online spaces is an inevitability. Whether it's by our own teeth, or by censorship altogether it will happen. And I don't have an ultimate solution to fix it. Boycotting social media only means that social media will primarily be consumed by those who utilize it for harm. Even if we were to coordinate, enmasse, away from social media we will lose connection to everyone and everything we hold dear. It would put us at a serious disadvantage and isolate us from each other and I can't think of any positives to that... we can't go back now. The world is too complicated and dependant on the internet to "cut out cyborg in us," so to speak. To tie this back to my point... social media can't be the only place you exercise political activism. In fact, I don't think

anyone should practice activism on popular social media sites, but that might be too extreme too soon (and a lot coming from someone writing an essay on a dying website, but I digress). At the very least. I recommend, as leftists like myself who can make a small difference we should turn our attention inward and out to our immediate community. Learn what you can do in the world around you, in your neighborhood, on your street, to make it a safe space for you and those who are marginalized. Vote progressively AND LOCALLY as well as federally (I don't mean to raise my voice, but most people don't even know who the mayor of their county is, but expects their state to magically turn blue if you're in the US). Campaign for change. Vote for the expansion of benefits and safety nets for marginalized families and progressive businesses. Vote to tax large corporations in your town, so they'll be forced to leave making space for more progressive economic structures. What we need, more than anything, especially right now, is a community ready to care for each other at our own doorstep. We may not be able to take the world by storm, but perhaps we can take it one neighborhood at a time.