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    Cuck Philosophy frequently misses when when talking about historical subjects like Stalin.

    Quoting Contra is funny considering she is so pathetic now that she doesn’t even really “critique” power and instead spends all her time railing against the left even thinking of gaining ground when she’s not navel-gazing about her personal problems ad nauseam. It’s like quoting pre-opportunist Kautsky, kind of jarring.

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        Tabby seemed like the fading image of whatever vestige leftism was left in the Contrapoints franchise over time as the wine glass clinking and brunches went on. kbity-how

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          At first Tabby was portrayed in a semi-sympathic ironic way, wrong “respectable optics” but right in “ideology”, as Contrapoints became financially more stable and more “passable” meaning more palatable to the hegemony, Tabby fell into a weird strawmen freakdom a “loonie” who due to childish pursuits “does not get it” and “ruins it for everyone” and her refusal to make herself representable to heteronormative values made her “dead weight”.

          Really fantastic insight into the radlib to imperalist mindset.

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          I like the whole black block anarchist cat with a bat thing, but I also don’t like ContraPoints misappropriating my name for what might be a parody. I’ve been doing the whole feral hissing catgirl thing nearly a decade before ContraPoints made videos (I had more scifi vibes than anarchist vibes tho), but I’ve actually had someone accuse me of referencing ContraPoints maddened

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      There is a direct correlation between how intricate a “breadtubers” set is, and how much substance the video has. The more involved and theatrical Philosphy Tube got, the more shit the videos became.

      Or I guess there’s a sweetspot because the Jordan Peterson one was pretty good as far as I remember it.

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        Jordan Peterson is really easy to critique though, like babies first philosophy 101 class easy to critique. The fact that he became popular and was taken seriously is a whole indictment of the state of popular philosophy. Like, for god’s sake, popular philosophy was in a better state when the existentials were at the helm, which is saying something since the existentialists were pretty shit most of the time.

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          He isn’t even a philospher, right? isn’t he a psychologist? and a jungian one at that lol, uhhh yeah my shadow self is why I’m depressed, gotta go read the hero with a thousand faces to figure out why my childhood wasn’t good.

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            Yeah he was at the forefront of popular philosophy going from edgelord existentialist nerds to edgelord hacks completely devoid of meaningful philosophical consistency. Ironically, JBP is the embodiment of postmodernism

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            He was a psychologist, but his books are much less about psychology and more about philosophy of society, the mind, and the nature of evil. There are elements of psychology to it, but it has more in common (from a literature perspective) with Marcus Aurelius than a Jung.

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          Yeah I stopped watching before she came out as bi (wayyy before she came out as trans too lol). Suddenly I saw philosophy tube was hosted by a lady and I was like “what has happened?” and I went back thru the catalogue

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          Yeah, I don’t mind the theatricality, but I don’t watch videos explaining philosophy for the costumes, I watch it for the philosophy and these people seem to think it’s otherwise. And then they don’t put any effort into the actual content and then I stop watching even though they got a kickass poseidon costume.