• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    21 天前

    Thanks for this, I’ve had a long day and no energy to do this kind o of write up. North Star Radio does some good content but is also a little invested in the steamer Hasan v Ethan conflict that’s been going on for about a year+ now. To be fair though I believe Ethan Klein is trying to or did try to ruin this dudes life for being a “terrorist supporter”.

    • no prob. i don’t know the channel at all (NSR) and was annoyed at the clickbaity video title, but when i saw it was only 18 minutes i figured i’d give it a few minutes of my time rather than spend that few minutes of my time complaining.

      since it was immediately obvious as decently made and had good insight (without making me super angry), i watched it all. i get why they make titles like this, but i still don’t like it.

      the time the video spends on recent events was worth it alone, because i mostly have been catching stray headlines with the legacy media’s shit takes since videos of these extrajudicial executions and the kidnappings going on in our streets only serve to make me impulsively angry. i’m grateful this wasn’t that, and instead just laid a timeline of events out while providing visuals for deeper insight and critical engagement. that library raid of 50 agents rounding up 2 guys was very instructive. and the overhead footage of the general strike was some real shit. that’s the kind of shit that doesn’t make national reporting, or when it is, it’s mischaracterized.

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        I didn’t know there were schools going full remote. That gave me flash backs to covid because I do IT work in schools, but now I have a kid there in PreK. Just fucking unreal to think about. I would be in helping deploy Chromebooks and iPads while dodging fucking ICE to do so… Giving remote support to staff… Just heartbreaking. Utterly heartbreaking to think about.