- Emily (she/her) ( @EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 26•1 year ago
At least John Oliver has done some nice pieces about trans people I guess?
- Franzia ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 47•1 year ago
John oliver did a segment about blackmailing a few republican senators. His show is deeply anti-corruption and the writers are as terminally online as I am.
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 18•1 year ago
Yes, he has quite some good videos that critic the current system but he is by no means on the revolutionary left
- FaeDrifter ( @FaeDrifter@midwest.social ) English21•1 year ago
John Oliver is doing a hell of a lot more to help than internet self-styled “revolutionary leftists” are.
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 8•1 year ago
I don’t disagree on that. He has quite an audience and therefore influence and budget to do stuff and he does great stuff. Many Social Democrats can learn from him. I don’t criticize him but at the end of the day he’s a Left Liberal which is my favorite kind of liberal. But he won’t fundamentally change the system.
I have a different perspective on him since I live in Europe. Many things he wants are no brainers for me (like universal healthcare, how is that not normal in a rich country). Still I live in a liberal, capitalist democracy just like the US, just degrees better.
- randomname01 ( @randomname01@feddit.nl ) 12•1 year ago
He doesn’t seem like a total shitlib, unlike the other three. He seems like the perfect guy to make libs think a bit farther than they otherwise would, and I can’t exactly fault him for that.
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 5•1 year ago
True. He is (or can be) part of the pipeline to the left
- Jediotty ( @Jediotty@beehaw.org ) 13•1 year ago
IIRC he said Universal health care is like the only option. I could be wrong but from what I remember
- Franzia ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 18•1 year ago
I will not rest until this country fully accepts Lockheed Socialism
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 13•1 year ago
Not the revolution we need but the revolution we get
It was coming right for us!
- duxbellorum ( @duxbellorum@lemm.ee ) 10•1 year ago
“Is this a whole personality?”
- atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 7•1 year ago
No, it’s something you carry inside you. You know, values.
- Hipstershy ( @Hipstershy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•1 year ago
The West Wing deserves better than this tbh