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Least favourite person in the world
Imagine going on youtube looking like a fucking terrorist and calling yourself a communist because of such petit-bourgeois fear of "muh corporate job!"
The amount of damage this guy did is phenomenal. Every single person that agreed with him was already an ML and everyone else, if they didn't already, now associated communism with fucking terrorists
What planet do you live on? Virtually everyone who is not a communist already associates us with terrorists. Until we begin to consistently meet people's material needs, that is not going to change.
The dude was protecting his identity, and I applaud him for his virtually entirely positive contributions to our movement.
Literally not true. I learned this the very first day I was out leafletting and chatting to people and an old lady approvingly said "it's good to see communists out again".
Why even do youtube videos though. He's a lawyer. He's an intelligent person. He knew he'd get doxxed eventually anyway. There's programs that can reverse engineer his darthvader voice thing he was using in seconds (obtaining his real voice). He must've known this. If he really wanted to hide his identity why even come out on camera?
The answer is: ego.
He got doxxed eventually and it was all the more funny that he was a lawyer evicting families and businesses from their homes
Yes the positive contributions being telling proles that "markets actually are the proles friends", that China has perfected Marxism and that actually being a communist is dressing like a terrorist because building a revolutionary movement isn't painstaking community work but setting up a protracted peoples war on an American highway.
He suppressed communist parties on the subs he mods who don't toll the IdPol line as well as other communists like Maupin and InfraRed.
And whilst those 2 are dengoids also: at least they're far more intelligent than he was, look like respectable normal people instead of terrorists and those 2 don't go around wrecking communist parties and deplatforming communists doing actual decent work.