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40 points

At least John Oliver has done some nice pieces about trans people I guess?

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70 points

John oliver did a segment about blackmailing a few republican senators. His show is deeply anti-corruption and the writers are as terminally online as I am.

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13 points

IIRC he said Universal health care is like the only option. I could be wrong but from what I remember

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26 points

Yes, he has quite some good videos that critic the current system but he is by no means on the revolutionary left

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1 point

And Hillary is? I thought the whole thing was satire

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5 points

No, none of these are. Yes, it’s satire. It’s just that John Oliver is the one person in the image I have something positive to say about

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18 points

He doesn’t seem like a total shitlib, unlike the other three. He seems like the perfect guy to make libs think a bit farther than they otherwise would, and I can’t exactly fault him for that.

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6 points

True. He is (or can be) part of the pipeline to the left

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28 points

John Oliver is doing a hell of a lot more to help than internet self-styled “revolutionary leftists” are.

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10 points

I don’t disagree on that. He has quite an audience and therefore influence and budget to do stuff and he does great stuff. Many Social Democrats can learn from him. I don’t criticize him but at the end of the day he’s a Left Liberal which is my favorite kind of liberal. But he won’t fundamentally change the system.

I have a different perspective on him since I live in Europe. Many things he wants are no brainers for me (like universal healthcare, how is that not normal in a rich country). Still I live in a liberal, capitalist democracy just like the US, just degrees better.

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