Gee, I wonder if anyone around here has been consistently cautioning people about Ryan Grim & other compatible left figures.

[2026-06-11] @ZaidJilani@twitter.com: If he had said this while we worked together at The Intercept, HR would've pushed him into lava.

...which would have kept him a more efficient asset, more palatable. You see how this works? Westoids are more keen to brush off bigotry against foreigners, like his comments on Palestinian armed resistance perpetuating the October 7th rape hoax. Open racism like this can put people off.

He will stick around though as he gets promoted -> people assume promoted figures have organic popularity -> eventual replacement with younger, hipper, more social media-savvy models using the same networks

https://lemmy.ml/search?q=ryan+grim&type=All&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false

At some point we have gotta talk about the sucker problem around here!

Grim showed me his whole ass three years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdxUph85NlA

It's funny how BJG is too radical for the other glowing talk show people and gets into these kinds of things. Have you been following the current Kshama Sawant DSA drama? I happened across it by accident

No. Last I heard Sawant was a Trot who believes China is imperialist, so I don’t keep tabs on her.

To nutshell it, the DSA people following Sawant's campaign around for some reason are being asked to take it down a notch so I guess even they are too radical for her. It feels like the entire US compatible left is this huge tangled mess with far fewer key figures than it seems at first glance.