• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    It would be better if he ever acknowledged his shit takes

    Vaush constantly goes over his shit takes. Literally I’ve watched him break this clip down live on stream more than 5 times. And all of the other clips, too. After explaining what he meant, he often does double down. He aims to become more rhetorically effective, without ever compromising his moral consistency.

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        2 years ago

        No, the source is a fucking livestream. His VODs are on youtube, and you can search like “vaush reviews clip from 2015” “vaush reviews thoughtslime clip” and probably find some of his explanations. But no Im not here to make you a vaush viewer, Im talking in this thread so that vaush’s bullshit doesnt reflect too poorly on his community members that make this instance home.

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            Yeah I think this probably the best one. He actually recently re-reviewed this segment but I don’t think much was learned from it. Btw, I was there when he said the N word. He used it on a far right stream, and basically they wouldn’t say it, and then admitted to using it at home in private all the time. It made them look like complete pussies in front of their ravenously racist audience. I was in that far right audience, and that was the turning point for me getting off the alt-right pipeline.

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              Thanks friend, I’ll listen to that tonight. Obv Idk yet if I still hate him or his community, but I’m sorry if I’ve said shitty things to you based on stuff that didn’t turn out to be true. I’ve never heard of him reviewing old clips before even after getting involved in multiple posts like this, all I’d seen is him doubling down on or trying to recontextualize shitty takes

              So that’s the tactical slurs everyone’s talking about x3 Idk if there’s ever a good reason for a white person to say the n word besides explaining it to a child or something, but I’m glad he made them look like cowards and that the tactical slur meme isn’t just 100% him wanting an excuse to say slurs

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                2 years ago

                Well i appreciate you apologizing, I did feel shitty about the whole post and conversation and all, but I accept your sincerity and its okay now. Vaush isn’t perfect, he tries, but at some point it’s just… he accepts that he is abrasive and polarizing. He admits he has burnt bridges where maybe he could have done better. Maybe not gone thermonuclear on other creators or annoying twitter users. Vaush is not the “big tent” leftist, and as a fan, I follow the rule that when I am in a big tent space I just don’t bring him up, rofl. I watch him because he’s funny, and that keeps me in the game. The laughter keeps me from being burnt out on being actively leftist.