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There was never a "Hitler-Stalin" Pact
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Oh no the Finns have entered the chat in this one.
I’m not going to listen to the guys with a backwards swastika on their airforce
holy shit i tought you were joking but
Holy shit that hair loss ad in the middle of the video is so inappropriate and awkward.
I feel closer every day to being driven insane by how infuriating and yet ubiquitous corporate advertising is, and how so few people view it as a problem that needs to be resolved.
Yes! Instead of being a video I want to share with people who I'd like to inform about the topic, I feel like just giving up on even trying to watch the rest of it myself. (Memeification of the word aside) I actually cringed when it got to the ad. And like you said, no one seems to care because it's so ubiquitous and normalized. To me, it's all the more violating when it's done by someone who really should know better, someone who I would think would have, I don't know, higher standards? Not to mention having more respect for their audience.
Must admit that I would have loved to share this to a few of the still brainwormed people in my life, but the ad in the middle is so out of place and somehow destroyes credibility that I won't be doing that.
I agree it's cringe, but I would hope that viewers of a communist channel would know at least enough about the world to understand that Hakim is only promoting this product because he is being paid a shit ton of money for it, rather than because of a genuine passion for the product. And the amount of money involved here is definitely worth more than the sanctity of what is really just some small pop history Youtube channel.
First of all, not everyone who views a communist channel is a communist. In fact, I would say that ideally (even if not realistically) there would be more non-communists seeing this stuff, the people who would learn something from it rather than just the choir who already knows. And that's a big part of the problem: neither I or NoLeftWhereILive wants to send this to other people as a result of that ad.
Also, I would certainly hope he doesn't have a "passion for the product," genuine or otherwise. If that were the case, he should be the one watching more communist-101 kind of vids lol. But it's not about the "sanctity" of his channel... it's about, like I said, having standards and respect for your audience. It's not like he's a starving artist. JT, with whom Hakim also shares a podcast, has said outright that the Patreon money he gets is enough to support him and his family (including the massive US Healthcare bills he had to pay after the birth of his daughter) and Hakim is a doctor on top of that. It's not that I begrudge him making as much money as he wants, but I think it's apparent that he is doing so at the cost of his integrity among his viewers, be they communists or not.
not everyone who views a communist channel is a communist. In fact, I would say that ideally (even if not realistically) there would be more non-communists seeing this stuff
I'm sorry but you're like totally wrong about this
If that's a joke, I don't get it. Because no, not every single person who has ever watched a Hakim video is a communist. The confused, nonsensical, and sometimes downright sad comments you can often find beneath his videos is proof enough of this.
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The ad he's talking about is in the video itself, so you need the Sponsorblock addon to skip that automatically.
Doesn't block in-video sponsors. I have a sponsor block extension for that, but some of them - like this one - slip by.
I hate ads but I can never fault content creators for getting their bag. Would that we lived in a better world but instead we live in a world with rent.
Stalin may have been an insane murderous bastard, but we can all admit he had great hair, no male pattern baldness there.
Hitler had shit hair, fuck that guy.
This message bought to you by keeps
insane murderous bastard
No he wasn’t.
He sure was instrumental in murdering
A bunch of nazis 
Holy shit, this guy speaks so fucking fast.
This is my first time listening to Hakim. Is this normal? I have to keep rewinding.
You get used it to haha
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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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