I wish there were more communist video essayists who didn’t primarily talk about politics but instead discussed stuff like history, writing, gaming, guns, etc. Literally anything that isn’t politics, really.

There’s nothing worse than when I’m enjoying a good critique of some trashy media and then the person in the video libs out and compares the villain to Stalin or makes that stupid “haha commie no food” joke or starts complaining about how evil, sinister China is planning evil, sinister things because the company that made the media is Chinese or something to that effect. It takes me out of what was otherwise a good, informative video and whacks me with severe mental exhaustion.

There’s all these video essayists out here promoting their liberal or fascist ideologies while simultaneously focusing on topics that aren’t explicitly about political theory, political science, current events, geopolitics, etc. and I’d like to see communists doing the same thing like a Marxist explaining the rationale behind why Soviet firearms developed the way they did, or picking apart how cyberpunk settings don’t work even if they look cool as settings, or just discussing the history of ancient civilizations like the Achaemenids from a dialectical materialist perspective or stuff like that.

Like, I enjoy what Hakim does and all. It’s very important work of course. I just feel like it might be easier to expose people to Marxist ideals through discussion of pop culture and the like and then use this as a jumping point to funnel people down the rabbit hole of actual political theory. Also it’d just be nice to sit down and watch a video about how to write villains and not have one of the examples used be fucking Stalin of all people - I actually did click on a video discussing this exact topic and deadass the video opened with the essayist talking about how “some people don’t get punished for all the harm they’ve done” (paraphrased) while showing video of Stalin and I had never clicked off a video so quickly in my life. I audibly groaned.

I’m just tired, boss. I’m just tired of libs and fash dominating every discussion about everything. I want to be able to consume the thoughts and feelings of other people discussing things I’m interested in without them having shitty political takes about how Obama is a “cool guy” and a complete misunderstanding of historical socialism up to the point of treating the Holodomor as a serious narrative and not a complete invention of Nazi propaganda.

I don’t not want politics in my videos that aren’t about political subjects; I just want the politics to be GOOD.