he’s not even correctly understanding what he’s trying to talk about even a little: OCD about being a pedo is a disordered worry about becoming one, not actually being one. he literally only knows how to talk about people that are dead or in the process of dying; the living are worthy of ridicule for not currently being dug into a trench fighting the us government “maoistly” or whatever
He is the living embodiment of the I live in an overturned T34 copypasta, and also the leader of the cult from the trapped in a maoist cult copypasta.
2 years out from a “why I left the left” video.
His brain is so rotted by arguing about internet drama that now all people who claim to be disadvantaged in any way are just attention seekers to him.
He kinda reminds me of Cenk Uygur in that way. I’m sure they’re both kind of unpleasant and argumentative people IRL as well, but the difference is that people IRL won’t just willingly engage with your bullshit constantly, and so there’s a natural cutoff. But on the internet, there are infinite idiots to argue with endlessly until your brain is fried.
Every day, my deliberate choice to not know who any YouTubers are looks better and better.
He also recently released the video with the clickbait thumbnail “don’t join a union”
While I can imagine he makes some good points about the shittiness of Western and especially American unions, you should still join a union even if it is shitty.
My union experience was shitty in many ways and my union fucking sucked. We won marginal gains in a 6 week strike, with union leadership lying (at best misleading) about the tentative agreement. Then those in leadership roles got to flex that they won such a successful huge strike.
But it was also a huge radicalizing experience and started me into a path of left wing politics. This was when i first learned about and felt class solidarity.
It also made me fucking hate Democrats, because at the same time as we were striking was when Biden ratfucked the railroad unions. And our shitty TA was mediated by the establishment Democrat mayor of San Diego.
I think BadEmpanada is very smart and right about most things. He has made some great video essays. I just don’t think he has good tactics for growing a left wing movement, and is blinded by doing what gets the most views. Or, he legitimately holds these strange ultra left ideas and just wants us all to wait out the death of American empire.
I think BadEmpanada is very smart and right about most things.
spoilers: he is not
