hello all! special content for my patrons; this is an edited vod from my previous livestream, of a segment i decided to paywall because i sense it'd be a bit controversial (i go over some leftist content creator beef, for one) and i wanted to keep it among folks i could trust to conduct the convo with respect. what are your thoughts? when can anti-american sentiment become reactionary? what aspects of colonialism go unnoticed in 2025, especially by well-meaning white folks?
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2025-12-08 16:52:58 +0000 UTC
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i am just getting started working on a video essay about bad bunny, working title "bad bunny and the puerto rican struggle." it started as a project about colonialism in puerto rico and that is ultimately what the video will focus on, as well as other discourses about latin american identity, history, politics and society. it'll also be a chance for me to do music journalism again and go over bad bunny's discography, with his records mapping onto particular issues (x100PRE and the rise of mus...
2025-11-19 01:14:09 +0000 UTC
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had an amazing and lengthy conversation about intersections between indian and american politics with rohan davis, whose channel you should definitely check out: https://www.youtube.com/@rohanxdavis
2025-11-12 14:03:40 +0000 UTC
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check out these super dope thumbnails danae o. made for the latest video essay. we had to experiment for an algorithm boost!
2025-10-15 15:33:10 +0000 UTC
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free of adsense, for my patrons. enjoy! :)
00:00 introduction
03:13 having a cow
19:15 influencers
31:44 the elites
42:40 the real American diet
Selected Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-1KD9xx7ejk3_j1k_7QPBSryWYPFNXb96TNlIyGaPVA/edit?usp=sharing
2025-09-26 16:00:24 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! here is a preview, just for patrons and channel members, of my upcoming video essay, "Eating Like a Fascist," edited by the great Danae O. release date should be some time this week, as soon as 2 days from now. enjoy and let me know your thoughts :)
2025-09-22 18:01:39 +0000 UTC
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so glad to share with you my conversation with Daniel José Gaztambide, 'visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research and practicing psychologist.' he has written two fascinating books, including A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology. we discussed how important the psychic is to the political and vice versa, the important and progressive findings of freud's work, the necessity of acknowledging and deve...
2025-09-19 14:58:11 +0000 UTC
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so excited to finally be doing this--my good friend and collaborator, danae o., who edits most of my videos on both channels, hopped on zoom with me to talk about how we first got started working together, her favorite video of mine to edit, life in santiago, chile, and more! we even spoke some spanish together. (if anyone wants the translations feel free to leave a comment!)
2025-09-09 11:28:38 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! just wanted to make a quick post updating you all; essentially, i caught COVID around the 12th of this month, and i was experiencing sickness symptoms for about a week. i am doing better now! brain fog and dizziness are slowly but surely improving. between this and setting up a move in september, it's been hard to get extra time. but rest assured, patreon content will be on its way! i hope to have at least one conversation for patreon up within a week.
additionally, i a...
2025-08-26 23:14:12 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! i see that we've got an influx of new patrons after my recent update video discussing the lack of incoming sponsorships (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0pIC9GwMGM ) and so as a way to kick things off, please comment with any questions you have about me, my work, my opinions etc.
thanks to each and every one of you, your donations help so so much!
(as a gift, here is a very old pic...
2025-07-30 02:11:19 +0000 UTC
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hello! this was today's livestream conversation with thinkpiece tribe! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVGHs86ZELhWPeO2wFhym7A ) we talked about contrapoints, white people, leftism, zohran mamdani, organizing and more. thanks to all of you! more soon!
2025-07-15 17:27:56 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone,
spent the last two weeks or so on the east coast to help support my family while we mourned the loss of my grandmother. we are all doing okay, and for those of you who have sent well wishes, i greatly appreciate your kindness and concern. i am also going to be posting on this second channel more often with shorter videos--the one previous to this video, about Sabrina Carpenter, would be an example of the kind of content to expect. this does not at all mean i am abandonin...
2025-06-24 13:38:17 +0000 UTC
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i spoke to the wonderful essayist, director and documentarian andrew rakich of atun-shei films about the truth behind the american revolution, the difficulties of communicating to mass audiences on youtube, the utter relevance of veganism, the current state of the US left and more!
check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@AtunSheiFilms
2025-06-11 15:46:28 +0000 UTC
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in this episode i talk to the great musician, IG reels poster and up-and-coming youtuber squared cymbals about chappell roan, doechii, hypervisibility, the rise of terrible concert etiquette, democrats paying influencers to push psy-op social media discourse, and of course, capitalism.
check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@squarecymbals
and their super poppin insta: 2025-06-01 14:31:31 +0000 UTC
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finally, after promising it so long ago, here is the second part of my interview with the great ajay singh chaudhary, author of The Exhausted of the Earth! in this quick ending segment, we discuss europe, china, and the geopolitical realities that surround the rise of out-and-out american fascism. complete with corrections provided by ajay about specific facts he got wrong, read out by danae the greatest editor of all time
2025-05-29 16:32:40 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! my next video, out before the end of april, is about the hiding of greta thunberg--specifically, the way media went from perpetuating her as a savior figure (with gen z as a savior generation) and then became awfully quiet as her activism became more and more anti-capitalist and savvy of the rhetoric used by the UN and other international organizations to co-opt youth climate movements. we will be talking about the disasters of widely praised obama-era climate 'safeguards,' th...
2025-04-28 14:41:54 +0000 UTC
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i am so happy to show you my recent conversation with the great filmmaker, musician and humorist ro ramdin, who happens to be a good friend of mine! we talked about critical consumption of art and media, the importance of study, and at times our opinions on shows like severance or films like midsommar
support ro via patreon! https://www.patreon.com/roramdin
2025-04-25 13:46:39 +0000 UTC
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here's (most of) a discussion i had with the author of one of my favorite books i've ever read, the exhausted of the earth: politics in a burning world! we talked about violence, care work, and what one does to act politically in a time when political repression is a front-page news item. how do your make your community garden political, and not just a garden? what does it mean to work in "extralegal" ways?
a second part of this interview will be uploaded at a later date, stay tune...
2025-04-12 00:41:15 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! here is a section i wrote and took out of the "cool japan: how to get away with war crimes" script about the controversial rising sun flag and its ties to japanese war crimes. give it a watch! :)
edited by Danae O.
2025-04-05 11:40:31 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! here is the full length version of the cool japan video, featuring less censorship. will be dropping extra stuff for the video on here within the next few days!
2025-04-02 04:10:47 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! with the cool japan video set to drop either tomorrow or sunday, i thought i'd give my patrons a sneak peek at what's to come. here's the start of a segment in the late middle/end third of the video in which i talk about junichiro koizumi, an interesting character. don't mind my hair lol
2025-03-28 11:43:26 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone! my editor danae and i have been hard at work on my biggest project yet: a 2 1/2 hour video essay about imperial japan and its legacy, and whether or not anime and kawaii have covered up this past and its conservative society through an extensive soft power machine. here are some screenshots! video previews will be available soon!
2025-03-25 15:30:38 +0000 UTC
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had an awesome conversation with french video essayist alice cappelle about europe, the US, cultural differences, rethinking politics, the content landscape and the importance of intellectualism
check out her channel here! https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle
2025-03-06 18:22:03 +0000 UTC
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had an amazing conversation with lucretia mcevil about anarchism, the necessity of radical optimism, the privilege of giving up, and fostering stray cats!
check out lucretia's growing youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@lucretia_macevil
2025-02-23 23:34:05 +0000 UTC
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i had the wonderful tara mooknee on to discuss the economic state of being a youtuber in 2025, healing yourself, dealing with your own ego, and more!
check out tara's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraMooknee
2025-02-10 15:07:22 +0000 UTC
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you know him and you love him! a conversation about fiction, radical optimism and life with foreign man in a foreign land (http://youtube.com/foreignmaninaforeignland )
2025-01-18 19:34:12 +0000 UTC
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swolesome (https://www.youtube.com/@FinntasticMrFox), an awesome content creator from canada, joins me today on this holiday episode of yapping with elliot to talk about vulnerability, masculinity, balance, and what it means to be a human
2024-12-23 15:47:01 +0000 UTC
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i had an awesome conversation with professor gil morejon, currently teaching at loyola university (i incorrectly say depaul at the start), who is also one of the four hosts of the amazing what's left of philosophy podcast.
attached is a color-coded outline gil made some years back of the most crucial parts of capital, volume 1 that people should read. it's really helpful and i'm glad he shared it with us.
listen to what's left of philosophy on spotify or any streaming service, as...
2024-12-04 01:04:55 +0000 UTC
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here's another preview from our upcoming video essay on joe biden, set for publication later this week
2024-11-26 14:09:16 +0000 UTC
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here's your first preview of our upcoming massive video essay, "Biden.mp4," about joe biden
2024-11-21 02:23:04 +0000 UTC
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