• Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Maybe a hot take, I always got the vibe they were on some Chinese gusano bs and pretty much tuned them out whenever they’d start getting in their anti-China bag; esp bc they use it to shill VPNs like every other video. Always felt like a mildly-more-PC enby Uncle Roger to me, and that kinda makes my skin crawl a lil

    • LesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      No they clearly are, you have to be almost wilfully ignorant to try and pretend that history hasn’t challenged Robespierre as a historical icon; when I used to watch them I remember them making Robespierre cosplay videos basically doing a critique of capitalism but never actually addressing capitalism.