All this person did was post a basic criticism of Oliver and now everyone is undeservedly dunking on them for it.
When you’re a communist and people find out that you use money
So calling out Oliver for not talking about capitalism is being media illiterate? lol
“Media illiteracy” is quickly becoming one of the three or so rotating concepts twitter uses to explain every phenomenon until it loses all meaning
It’s annoying how this keeps happening to ideas. It’d be cool if someone could trace the lineage of: new, accurate critique of the world -> critique’s general proliferation and linguistic adoption because of its truth -> low-tier orbiters using critique incorrectly as an insta-win argument online, losing its original meaning.
This is so fucking stupid lmao. Criticizing America’s politics without saying capitalism bad is exactly what the state wants. To the people living in America, neoliberalism is an invisible ideology. Not pointing it out is flailing in the dark, not pointing it out on purpose makes you their tool.
Read theory!
“No, Imma just watch late night hosts”
Also John Oliver’s jokes are mostly unfunny crass yelling at the audience/screen and just relies on the irony poisoning of living in a capitalist society. Every hexbear on this site is funnier than John Oliver, even our beanis comrades.
John Oliver is the only late night host who criticizes the Democratic Party from a left wing viewpoint and does criticize capitalism, he just does it without saying ‘capitalism bad’ upfront all the time. you are just media illiterate
This is literally the point of the meme lol. How do you call someone else illiterate and then regurgitate their exact point except make it more annoying and long winded as if it’s a gotcha
that John Oliver image has been floating around for a few years at least, why get mad about it now?
paying for twatter
They got a solid point there to dunk on them
Ah, it’s the issue with the Greens and Western leftists.
I order a nature conservation related magazine that just ran an editorial in the last issue listing all the problems of capitalism without mentioning capitalism even once. Wanted to burn the damn paper.
Not naming the problem is exactly the issue. And it’s literally all leftism is now in countries like mine. Our leftest (lib) party proudly calls this “the modern left” and it’s essentially just being a bourge with social justice related characteristics and imperalism.
