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Channel Update! PHASE 3

🕑 Added 2019-01-10 01:07:45 +0000 UTC

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Friendlyjordies

The reason I think it's silly to label yourself as anything is for the pure fact that it's lazy. I can guarantee you you'd find things that "feminist" writers write that you disagree with and I can guarantee you you'll find things with "conservative" writers you agree with. On top of that it's just something people like to hide behind to wave a banner. So for example if you're talking about "feminists" it includes everyone whose as intellectually sharp and honest as Amy Goodman and Camile Paglia allllll the way down to corporate opportunist hacks like Lisa Wilkinson and Clemintine Ford. If you say you're a conservative that includes everyone from intellects like William F Buckley all the way down to cheap propagandists like Hannity. In essence these labels are designed for lazy thinkers. Its for people who don't read specifics and just want to get happy claps from a certain crowd but in reality these labels are redundant. For instance Fox News considders itself "right wing" yet it supports tarrifs on companies that leave the US and the cyber security act and the bail outs (under Bush anyway) so is it really right wing? No, it's a news outlet that is propaganda for the republican party. It's the same with all these "political tags" in the real world they are meaningless and contradict themselves constantly. They are there so people don't look into policy and make up their own minds on specific issues.

I like this, thought you were being a bit too productive for my bank accounts liking. But like the true political advocate that I am, couldn’t be fucked to do anything about it.

Miriam Aberdeen

Hey Jordies and co., I recently watched one of your vids (right wing memes) and wanted to clarify a point you made. Just before I launch in to my wall of text, sorry to be such a demanding patron, lol. I understand if there isn't time to give this a fleshed out response. Okay, so, in the new vid you make a point around 4:00 that it's not specific enough to proclaim yourself to be a conservative or feminist. In regards to feminist, I've been doing some entry level reading on feminism recently and I don't see an issue with self-labeling as a feminist (or someone with feminist beliefs). I know there's different strands within feminist thought, which I think you'd be familiar with, but for the sake of clarity: radical, Marxist, socialist, liberal etc. I realise there is a lot of differences between those schools of thought, but they do still fit under the feminist banner of promoting women's rights, gender equality etc. What particularly do you (or your team) see as vague about labeling yourself as feminist? I don't know much about conservatism, but I do find it useful label. It helps me to under what the Liberals' values are, i.e. a mixture of conservative/liberal (even if they contradict themselves). It might be an oversimplification, but for my understanding it has helped me to grasp what they are about. If that's totally wrong, then how is it wrong? I don't get it :( please help Sorry for the long post! I am very keen to understand this better.

Fuckin keen Jordies! I plan on heading across to Sydney this year, and Lithgow happens to be on the route I'm taking! My gear's coming with!

Dirk Kelly

This is awesome, you are all awesome, thank you so much. Here's to the horror of another election cycle :D

Friendlyjordies

totally understandable Angela! Thanks so much for your support (you've already gone above and beyond!) - and as Olly says below, we'll never charge for more than one video per week :) Hope you have a good time overseas!