Film Sessions: Oligarchs Will Let the World Burn with Thought Slime

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Editor’s note: after struggling against online censorship and some epic procrastinating, I’m just about finished reorganizing my website. As part of that process, I’m posting links to older content that readers will never find again otherwise.

Thankfully, I’m pretty sure this is the last post I have to transfer at this time. Thanks for all your patience and support over the past couple months while I completed this annoying, but necessary project.

The Class War Creates Mass Casualties

Originally published just after my Christmas day suspension from Twitter, this Media Madness blog introduces us to leftist YouTube creator Thought Slime, and offers up their origin story as an anarchist. I won’t lie, I was in a pretty frustrating place when I picked out this video to highlight in a Film Sessions post and a big part of what appealed to me here is that Thought Slime seemed to be sharing some of my frustrations. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to explain the very real fact that rich people mean to kill us all for profit and I think I just took solace in knowing that there was someone else out there willing to articulate the same horrifying truths; even if neither of us seem to be getting anywhere with them.

As for the whole anarchists vs Marxists bit in the video? Well, I think there are probably other things more worthy of your concern going on in the world right now, but as always your mileage may vary.

“Much to my delight however, it turns out this was only the beginning of the discussion and the focus of the video is actually an issue I write about constantly, even though it seems to alienate many of the folks around me – the fact that rich people are absolutely fine with killing every last one of us for pennies on the dollar, while trying to enact out unhinged Lex Luthor-esque fantasies about running to Mars, rather than surrender one single iota of power, influence or ability to exploit their fellow man for profit. On this issue, Thought Slime and I could not be more in agreement (which perhaps makes sense, since we’re both apparently anarchists) and it is refreshing to find someone, anyone else, willing to say this out loud; I am absolutely chuffed about the mere existence of this video.”

To read more over on Media Madness, click on the quotation block above, or the header below:

Oligarchs Will Let the World Burn

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