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What other left or left-adjacent people will turn out to be grifters? Who will not? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since unsurprisingly the Redscare people are going fash, it would be good to know who's a grifter and who's not. What's your predictions?

My predictions:

Grifters:

Zizek
AOC
1-2 from Cumtown (it's anyone's guess)

Not Grifters

The Deprogram Boys (ok I'm still in honeymoon)
Jezza (obviously)
Richard Wolfe & Harriet Fraad
Viki1999

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Since unsurprisingly the Redscare people are going fash

Are you posting from a year ago? They've been full weirdo trad people for about that long. They started going fash maybe in like 2020. Hell, a lot of people did around the same time (failure of the Bernie campaign) or some weird red-brown hybrid. I think it's a safe bet that whoever is more or less aligned with their pre-2020 views at this point is just showing their true politics. Not saying they're definitely not grifters, but sort of the key point where every clout chaser on earth decided to pivot and triangulate happened like 2 years ago.