the final discourse

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  • edited 2015-11-16 07:51:24
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Like I said earlier, I suspect at least part of that comes from being British and so not really understanding how U.S. politics works, in addition to his rather obvious privilege.
  • IT'S THE FINAL DISCOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURSE
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ^^ It's more than that, but that is a small part of it.
  • I'm not inclined to be remotely charitable to a petulant little shit like Sargon of Akkad, but Anthony Fantano's conservative streak is something I find rather disappointing.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Jane said:

    IT'S THE FINAL DISCOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURSE

    yeah i'm basically hearing the same thing every time i see this thread title
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    also i forget, is anthony fantano the one who wrote that thing about the beatles being terrible
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    that was scaruffi
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    dang eye talians
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Scaruffi is super dumb on philosophy, so I don't think he is worth talkign about.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    Scaruffi is super dumb on everything, TBH.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Kexruct said:

    I'm not inclined to be remotely charitable to a petulant little shit like Sargon of Akkad, but Anthony Fantano's conservative streak is something I find rather disappointing.


    It's not exactly a conservative streak, though. The views of his that rub me the wrong way are pretty much neutral territory. This is a contrast to the pundit we have been discussing, whose bad views are bad in a very specific way.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    Fantano seems more like a vaguely libertarian type who's willing to go in whatever direction his friends go in more than anything.

    He's not really super-toxic.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    These people eventually turn cancerous and morph into inhuman insight wankers.
  • edited 2015-11-16 22:12:20
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Fantano doesn’t seem like he’s going to do that, though.

    If he starts talking about politics in his videos beyond these podcast setups, then you should worry.
  • edited 2015-11-16 22:19:53
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Ehhhh.

    He's pretty progressive, but non-judgemental and a bit contrarian. I've been following his work for a while, and it becomes pretty apparent if you look at what sorts of themes he finds compelling and what he says outside of that context.

    ^ He has a vlogging side channel where he occasionally discusses politics but more often it's jokey videos or short reviews of singles, so.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    I admit I respect Fantano more than actually like him, so I don't really watch his videos.

    That's good to know if that's the case. I can actually strongly relate to that strain of thought, TBH.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    One of his recent vlogs was an eighteen-minute editorial about how complaining about Kendrick Lamar being "insufficiently controversial" ignores the fact that an issue can be important and need to be explored regardless of whether or not it actually ruffles feathers.

    That was only part of it, but yeah, I can't see him going full librotarian.
  • I can't either, but I still don't agree with those tendencies. And I'm pretty wary of anyone who'd give Sargon the time of day. I've been following this GamerGate shit since day 1 and I'm so damn tired of all of it.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    and I thought I was overly cynical
  • Man, I *like* Anthony Fantano. That's why this is bugging me.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    I'm watching the Kendrick video that JHM mentioned now:

    I just have to say:

    Most of the time, when people complain about things not being controversial enough, they forget that most of the nation doesn’t think like they do.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Kexruct said:

    Man, I *like* Anthony Fantano. That's why this is bugging me.


    You can be friends with a person on mostly non-political grounds and think they're kind of ignorant or misguided. But yeah, it bugged me for a long time, too. I'm only mildly bugged now.

    Also, if you're even semi-aware of the shit that some people have given him over liking records with "controversial" lyrics (Death Grips, etc.)... I get why he's wary of the militant Tumblr crowd. Fuck, I'm wary of those people and I've never been a target, let alone over shit that trivial. Doesn't mean that I would hang with some of the people he hangs with in a million years, though.
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