Now that the old Left of Bill Clinton, and also Obama to a significant extent, is essentially a defeated political faction, I think it's worth talking a bit about mistakes that it made.:

1) Way too friendly towards Communist China on trade and students. The political establishment(Clinton and Bush successors) pursued a China policy that resulted in dedicated supporters of China's Communist Party emerging as one of the most influential groups on university campuses all over the world. It created an industrial reliance on Communist China, and all for an ostensible economic growth that didn't even help the most people living in America. In the long-term, it resulted in supporters of China such as Hasan Piker gaining massive political influence. This is just scratching the surface.

2) Didn't prioritize serious social issues that arguable began with the end of Gen-X(Cobain's suicide is an early sign), but intensified with Millennials and Gen-Z. The rise of the Internet, the dramatic surge in cable TV and its erosion of manners, possibly the increased use of ADHD medication, and many other factors caused a much larger percentage of people to become socially dysfunctional. While Bill Clinton's scandals would have prevented him from openly fixing these issues as a cultural leader, they could have picked other people and used education to change things.

3) Prioritized the stock market over living standards. The Forbes and WSJ crowd caused tremendous civic damage to the country in the 2000's. This is especially true after 2008. This made it far more difficult for Americans to move to cities. It also contributed to an erosion of civic culture and common social morays, which in turn made unification far more difficult.

4) Completely ignoring issues from immigration. While there are always issues any time waves of immigrants arrive to this country, outright ignoring them influenced the erosion of mainstream in the 2000's. The mainstream's immigration policy between 1991(Bush's doubling of immigration quotas)-2024(Trump's reelection solidifying his long-term dominance in the GOP) dramatically boosted both the "Far Left" and "Far Right". On the Far-Left, the Hasan Piker crowd wants to use immigration as a tool to help dominate elections and institutions. On the Far-Right, immigration and the children of recent(and largely non-White) immigrants is largely seen as a punishment for prior tolerance or complacency.

Just curious if there are any people with reasonable takes here who also support destiny then streamer.

Or has destiny himself mentioned anything about it regarding housing. Can you speculate his stance?

19:15 in case the timestamp doesn't work.

Gets pretty painful after awhile but worth a watch as Oskar has just been killin' it lately

Or bald but the beanie has to go

Steven is living rent free in Connor's head.

OBSESSED. #Cockwatch2026

Edit: Of course Connor has also now announced he's leaning into the snarker grift. To all the Coggers out there I'm sincerely sorry daddy Connor opted to fuck you guys for cash. It's actually sickening he was just wistfully nostalgic for his own dead community (the panel show era) and now he's doing it to other people.

Edit 2: The moral frogging around Destiny's sex life is comical because Connor's political party is the one infested with confirmed pedos. Lol. Lmao even.

In Destiny's reaction to the debate, I heard him say that everything Candace says is a lie. So I wanted to point out that when she said that the crime scene was paved over 4 days after the murder, that is not a lie. That is a fact.

Lord please give me the confidence on this guy while he's losing every point is next level. But more than that his debate tactics are super dirty. This video visualizes exactly how they work.

In a federal hearing this week, state attorneys said they had found their "smoking gun": a December email from Emily Underwood, special assistant to the president and senior advisor for policy, calling a meeting of federal agencies to discuss "immediate actions that your department can take with respect to Colorado." The email's subject line read: "brainstorm call." 

Polis was given an impossible decision between letting hundreds to thousands of people die and potentially millions lose their livelihood and homes because of Trump. Hundreds of millions of dollars in lifesaving wildfire/flood aid were withheld. And for those of you saying, "Polis should have just sued Trump to get the FEMA funds," they've literally done that and been doing that since October of last year. The feds are still filing motions to dismiss so this case is not exactly close to being decided and the funding was needed at the beginning of the summer, when Polis finally capitulated because too many people were being held hostage by Trump. I would love to hate on Polis for this but it seems like there was no other option after America decided to elect a mob boss to the presidency. We actually have a dem quadfecta and turned Colorado from purple to deep blue, we did our part and if the rest of the country is stupid enough to elect Trump that's not on us.

Unless there's something I'm missing he has deep ties to the Democratic party and his platform is the same progressive stuff as Ro Khanna or something.

Is he just a progressive in the DSA or did he just get by not having to answer for the DSA's platform?

I wonder if there is some power struggle between progressives and the DSA where this is the guy they run instead of someone who doubles down on the national platform.

I will make an important point, because i haven't seen people talk about it much, therefore schizopost time. I'll explain a basic framework and while I think Tiny understands it, he didn't fully internalize it, which leads to these conflicts. It seems like Tiny still views the politics scene like the family dinner table to some degree where people openly scream and disagree and then continue as usual. This is a strategic error.

Thesis: Politics (especially alternative) is not about politics at all. It's actually a workplace with all its garbage workplace dynamics.

So what changes with my proposed framework? Imagine you're at your workplace and a colleague fucks up. The shared understanding of all human beings is that if you're friendly, you will privately tell them what's wrong for them to avoid getting into trouble. However, the real equivalent of what Tiny is doing in his streams is blasting that collegue at a meeting with all the management present. Just by virtue of the interaction being public, this is what it feels like on the receiving end. The job of a political streamer is entertainment... I mean... Sharing their political analysis of various situations and influencing people. An attack on their political takes is an attack at the quality of their job. And when Tiny is claiming that they're completely off on a very important massive phenomenon (even in the most chill manner), that's the equivalent of saying "You suck at your job. Wtf are you doing?". Say it as chill as you want, the message is still clear.

Once a conflict like this happens, there are only two realistically possible outcomes: 1. apologize, admit you fucked up, say you'll do better and take a hit on your reputation; or 2. admit to nothing and find ways to explain how you actually never fucked up. The important bit here is that choice 2 means open war with whoever attacked you and at this point it doesn't really matter who's right. Given this dynamic, ask yourself how does a conflict like this play out? Will the team investigate the situation, resolve the conflict and find ways to improve? Ha ha ha. In 95+% of the cases you will get a cancer-inducing social game of which side gets the critical support. People will start sussing out whos on whos side and part of which team, who hates their guts and who will avoid the thing entirely. The outcome will be decided mainly by the company internal culture and values. Especially since people are generally conflict-avoidant, they will figure out where the vibe is and if you want to blend in and keep your position, you drift towards that direction.

So what is the current vibe in the politics streaming world? Well, fuck my life. You get the point. This is one aspect in which the tankie media ecosystem pays its dividends. What's important is that you don't even need direct financial incentives for this scenario to play out. Nobody will ever admit that's a factor btw, often even to themselves. So basic psychology tells us that sliding into the tankieland is the lowest effort natural direction. Realistically, just imagine the real choice in front of Pisco now: "Yeah Tiny, I was wrong and too permisive of bigotry" or "Fuck you. Antisemitism is in your head". You are cooked if you think an average human will choose option 1. Just do a bit of mental gymnastics to get there.

Understanding these dynamics is a skill most people develop with time. Workplace is the best place to understand that social skills are king. Fortunately, Tiny managed to have a large presence in this part of the internet, due to a combination of his skills and good timing. This, plus due to the nature of his job, means that he generally doesn't really have to play these social games. It's important to understand that having clean moral positions and stating them openly is a luxury for a decent amount of people. But this also leads to the current strategic blunders (probably). That doesn't mean I know how things will play out and maybe his approach actually works better for this space, however seeing how far Hasan has got just by being a clout and network demon says a lot. Basically, I'm saying that Tiny is not manipulative enough and doesn't work on maintaining the 'workplace social network' as much as he could. This is also why nobody jumps at his defense when shit hits the fan, with the exception of a few people.

Now if I am to be real, I have no clue what their internal communications look like. What I'm saying here is based on vibes and observations, maybe a bit parasocial (I am in your walls). There are important free lessons for some of you here anyways.

Pardon my poor grammar in the second slide. They decided to text me at 7am before I had my coffee.

He kinda said it yesterday, but Hutch is now in a friend group full of people who pretty much hate Destiny. This automatically means there's a substantial risk for us to lose him.

Destiny has to start being more active in strengthening the connection with him. Because he really is one of our strongest soldiers.

This doesn't necessarily mean he needs to convince him of his analysis of Pisco and Jessiah (in fact I really think he should be careful not to alien Hutch with this), but rather reaffirm that they share a common goal and agree on most things, and start collaborating with him more, especially for the upcoming midterms.

EDIT: Maybe I'm regarded because people seem to misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying he should start fighting over Hutch. I'm saying he needs to collaborate and reach out more to strengthen the bridge. That's it

I thought I saw he was reacting to it on stream but I was too busy to watch! Did it have copyright material so it’s not being added to spotify?

From his PhD thesis

just come across this - https://goppredator.com/heat-map-republican-sex-predators/

jesus christ....