Contrapoints on Cuba
(midwest.social)
thelastaxolotl [he/him]
Slop.https://x.com/ContraPoints/status/2045587069716582646
Contrapoints on Hasan
https://x.com/ContraPoints/status/2045565995863916683
::: spoiler spoiler new rule:
Contrapoints belongs in pop culture if anywhere at all.
Discuss here: https://hexbear.net/post/8289977 ::: I didn't realize gossip got merged and thought it was pop culture.
I thought i was enforcing something, not changing it.
I'm sorry
Has she ever had a good take? I've never seen one
As long as you don't look at her tweeting history some of the videos are alright I suppose.
Kinda like
Using the words "oppression clout" is all I needed to know to deeply dislike this person.
Ok, about that first tweet, I actually really love that the kids (I say, in my 20s) are coming up with funky, seemingly contradictory, descriptors.
Something I've always hated about Millennial queerness, on places like Tumblr back in the day, was that everything had yo be this static, sterile term that described everything about your personal experience, in one word. And that's so boring (and also petty bourgeois ngl)!
If anything, calling yourself an "Asexual slut" or whatever reminds me of the ways queer people used to describe themselves:
These are all from My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein, and like... These fucking rule!!! It's not a "stupid young people thing", it's rather that queerness, like everything in the universe, is complex, contradictory, and resists the strict categorization of liberal metaphysics.... Also it's fun?!
I liked when she used to dunk on transphobes. That stuff was genuinely good.
Then she made a bajillion dollars from other queer people on Patreon, giving their hard earned money to her every month, while she makes one video every two years. And now she's a petty bourgeois lib who libs it up on twitter all day.
That's fair. Seems like she stumbled into that for personal reasons rather than for the right reasons, but I can at least agree wholeheartedly with all anti transphobe takes.
Spritual israeli ghoul with more stupid takes. The sooner these bread tube has-beens expire the better.
Oh wow she really gave it her all huh
We gotta cut this one loose. She's been shitty for a lot longer than she was cool at this point. Like most of a decade. She isnt our guy and she isnt relevant unless we post her.
She's never been cool, sorry, she's always held her lib beliefs
She isn’t relevant unless we post her
I mean, she has more Patreon paypigs than this site has users. I don’t think Hexbear is boosting her platform.
I am fully convinced she has backers and Patreon is being used for their money laundering. Ignoring her dogshit takes, she barely does anything! I can't imagine why anyone would be paying for someone that generates so little content.
I mean, she has more Patreon paypigs than this site has users
I wanna know how. Is it people who subscribed and just forgot? Are they all sycophants, projecting their own desires for money by showering a trans woman with it?
Why can't people give me money like that? I'm a trans girl! I post too much online!
You gotta make videos with bisexual lighting and a one-step-removed schizotypal disorder where you fracture your inner psyche to talk to it in the world's saddest socratic questioning. Oh and draggy costumes and glitter
You gotta make two YouTube videos
You know personally, you would never see me agreeing with something a Republican slop account is posting. But I guess that makes me a tankie
Also, where the hell does her smugness even come from?
Also, where the hell does her smugness even come from?
Liberals think they know everything because liberalism is "the end of history, and no one could possibly want to change the political and economic system, because that would be George Owell 1984 Venezuela totalitarianism, read Harry Potter for God's sake!"
Matt lieb continues to be amazing
obliterated
I'm so sick of hearing about COINTELpoints' latest dogshit takes
She seems like she's very bitter and fucked up tbh. All of the shit she posts lately reminds me of the way JK Rowling posts, absolutely seething about a single issue that is burning her up inside.
if you look at her vids her "voting" vid is the worst performant by far. i think it must really bother her that her libbest takes really aren't shared by her audience.
Maybe I'm built different but i would simply not have dogshit takes
I do have dogshit takes but ik that I'm a silly little shitposter who wants drag race USSR so
She seems to really hate Hasan who has never said anything about her but since he is the face of the US left she is now attacking him and calling him a misogynist
I've heard him refer to her as kkkontrapoints a few times
Whatever is going on with her she seems singularly focused on attacking the left and everything she says is just dripping with seethe.
I think the problem is that she's a zionist and she blames the left for how much everyone hates zionists now.
The thing is that she never had to make that statement where she both sides everything and made it clear she was one, she could have just stayed fucking quiet. The damage she took was entirely self inflicted.
You can see the exact same behaviour spiral from Ethan Klein and to a lesser extent Destiny. All three of them share the same politics with different presentation styles.
You're dead on, everything you've said is right
He criticized her when she made her non-statement about Palestine and he’s been speaking about her recent twitter meltdowns. But he really tries to hedge what he’s saying, calling her intelligent, pointing out that he’s hung out with her, and saying he was surprised about the statements she’s been making
Its kinda crazy how random people go from normal to lifelong crashout over Hasan.
Hasan Derangement Syndrome. Many such cases.
Hasana Syndrome
We need boots on the ground to check her place for black mold
Proud of her, it used to take her 10 dresses and so on and so forth.
edit: Anyway, I know I can just ignore these posts, so it's no big deal, but could we maybe consider having a rule about streamers/YouTubers/influencers only being posted on specific days?
edit the 2nd: Seems like activity all across hexbear is going down, so I don't want to do something that makes it worse, but maybe this would function to give us more diverse slop?
our activity tends to nadir between us election seasons, but idk i feel like the slop channel is already a containment community, so making a containment rule within the containment community is a bit silly.
our activity tends to nadir between us election seasons
I knew everyone on Hexbear (except for me) was a lib!!!
posting on twitter is actually the strongest form of praxis i say as i melt into a puddle of pure ethanol alone in my room
She's such a fucking dumbass lmao
People still listen to her/value her opinion???
still hits the mid millions on her video essays and doesn't seem to have had any dropoff according to my very cursory check.
The liberal gentry that became her best patrons.
white liberals
Yea look at all libs in the comments agreeing with her and blaming leftists for Trump
Does she seriously think it was dedicated online for leftists that are totally plugged into The Discourse who who rejected Harris/Biden and not normies, who are mostly neither left nor right but have a contradictory mishmash of beliefs spanning the political spectrum, looking at the two candidates saying different versions of the same shit and deciding that it made no difference who they voted for because took Harris at her fucking word?
She knows. But it's not about that, it's about scoring points by owning the leftists and courting controversy to keep up engagement. It's not at all unlike the typical MO of the explicitly rightwing grifters. It works. She is at this point essentially nothing more than the radlib version of the rightwing grifter and it's not a new phenomenon to her either. As Awoo mentioned:
You can see the exact same behaviour spiral from Ethan Klein and to a lesser extent Destiny. All three of them share the same politics with different presentation styles.
I might also add to the list although a bit more crass, (va*sh) who I thankfully never even hear about anymore, but who generated a similar response on this website, as seen in this very thread, with calls to limit posting about them because it feeds the grift.
Wait, was Biden and Harris going to normalize relations with Cuba and not be hostile to them? They assured me that they would continue maximal pressure because they needed to win over moderate Conservatives and fight "authoritarianism". Like, at least for these "lesser evil" libs, they should keep to only issues that they actually differ from Republicans.
Upbearing and commenting so this cognitohazard hits the whole site, if I had to suffer seeing this, you all do too
I like sending these to my friends randomly so thanks I guess
Thank you for your service
no problem, actively making this site worse is my job
Jokes on you, I love being in pain
Mental, physical, spiritual
Beansual
we love our suffering comrades in samsara
Me, on the constantly turning wheel of Samsara:
Wheeee! Yippee! :3
Dem leaders never harm foreign countries! Right? RIGHT?!
Nothing bad ever happened under the watchful gaze of the Democrats!
Look they may be 99% hitler, but republicans are worst
Can someone do the thing where they check what political donations she made in 2024?
If she is such a stronger supporter of Cuba than Hassan why didn't they invite her over to help? Boring chauvanism.
Fucking incredible take given everything we know now. I’ll miss her and her nuclear hazard ass takes
You're not far-right enough on Cuba, Donny boy
She advocated for the president that would slowly starve Cuba to death, a true progressive.
I don't remember Kamala Harris saying anything about improving things for Cuba on her campaign. And not like Biden did anything to undo what Trump did until the very last moment Biden was in office even though it was a big accomplishment under Obama
Which party was the last president who invaded Cuba
I'm sure her principled support for Cuba is why she advocated for Biden only after silently waiting for noted war hawk and Cuba hater Bernie Sanders to drop out.
I wish her a hasty liver failure
source tells me leftist influencers got out in time
I read this as though she was disappointed
Well yeah, she thinks anyone more left than her is bad
Can we have a moratorium on KKKontra posting?
Block the comm
Isn't that the whole point of the slop or pop culture comms, though?
No, i like to post Kkkontra slop
Yeah, she's cringe in the boringest way possible. Fascist infighting is at least funny.
yeah rule please
let's lathe her into being even less relevant
Seconded, it's really low hanging fruit, and I don't mind a bit but we're getting KKKontra in the feed a couple times a day now.
t's really low hanging fruit,
Yeah I come to hexbear.net/c/slop for high effort essays about history and economics, what the hell is this low hanging fruit doing here?
That often?
I hate her so much that my contempt has swung back round to sadness.
Ok you know what, the title had me expecting worse. This is still really bad, but no condemnation of Cuba Mashallah
