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10 Sep 2017, 4:48 pm

sly279 wrote:
They seemed super supportive of her during the election.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irj8JvfRkIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izl0e4xvgGA

There's a whole bunch more related to that scandal, which TYT broke before any mainstream, right-wing or left-wing media mentioned it.

You might also watch to pay attention to Jimmy Dore, who's regularly as critical (or more) on the establishment/corporocratic Dems as he is on the right.

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I don't know anything about them but my (Nazi) dad said they really broke down when Hillary lost, and he was laughing at them.

I'm staying away from the alt-right and the alt-left, personally. When something becomes so extreme that it defeats the purpose of its own existence, it's time to look elsewhere.


There is no "alt-left". It's a term created by the far-right in an attempt to create equivalency between the self-proclaimed alt-right (named after the white supremacist website Alternative Right) and their opponents. It's not objective to call things even when they're not.


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14 Sep 2017, 8:55 pm

The Young Turks are capitalists. They know next to nothing about left wing political philosophy.

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Surely there is more sophisticated better produced source for that than TYT.

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14 Sep 2017, 10:23 pm

RushKing wrote:
The Young Turks are capitalists. They know next to nothing about left wing political philosophy.


Yes, they do support capitalism to a certain degree.

Here's the thing. They are usually right. Nobody is always right.

Plus, I've never seen them lash out at the far-left. Clearly, they don't mind us.

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Surely there is more sophisticated better produced source for that than TYT.

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Yes, those are better. This doesn't mean that TYT is bad.


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15 Sep 2017, 10:34 pm

Another good reason why TYT are important; if you're looking for a way to pin Venezuela's descent into chaos on Maduro - Chenk's got ya covered (although I'm glad to hear they are blasting Chavez a little).


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