• @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    Yeah, I like have a soft spot for her because she helped show me that there was actually a left beyond voting for labour every now and again, and like she was the only trans rep young me really had, but like her politics are cringe af - abby-exasperation is way cooler imo

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      281 year ago

      contra’s godawful takes on NB people / gender in general + her tendency to triple down when criticized really soured me on her content. it took all the fun out of the theater for me.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        Yeah, I think I could stand her if she would just admit that she was wrong for once, about any of it

      • kate
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        31 year ago

        what did she say about nonbinary people? :(

        • Cattypat
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          81 year ago

          Nothing to my knowledge, she has a few videos defending nonbinary identities and rejecting people insisting it’s one or the other. I have no idea where the takes in this comment section are even coming from

    • radiofreeval [she/her]
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      141 year ago

      PT makes good videos, but she is closer to contra than can be coincidental. I mean, what are the odds of two trans women making leftist (at least at one point) political video essays in an overly theatrical style with old english letters as pen names.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 year ago

        Yeah they’re friends and they used to help each other with the video production, I’m just saying that Abbie has wayyyy better politics than contra does (and her videos are better to - also she’s a fellow trans person enduring the hellscape that is TERF island with me so that endears me to her)

        • radiofreeval [she/her]
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          151 year ago

          They used to be freinds. They had some sort of falling out though. Although her politics are better than contra’s

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        In other words - PT is Contrapoints, but it’s good instead of whiny liberal asslicking.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        This is just pitting trans people against each other for no reason. PT were less theatrical before they came out, but acting like a theater kid in your video editing choices isn’t exclusive to any one YouTuber.

        • @[email protected]
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          141 year ago

          I was just comparing them since they’re decently close friends, they’re in the same niche and go for basically the same audience, and do things in the same style, it seemed like a pretty natural comparison to me

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            I understand, your comparison was fine. The person responding to you makes it sound like PT is ripping off Contrapoints though. Comparing their ideas, their production value and choices is fine, they do exist in a similar space, but there’s nothing wrong with PT existing in a similar space. Straight white men are allowed to coexist with identical videos on YouTube. But someone in a marginalized group? Their channels are constantly pitted against each other.

            Vaush/Xanderhal, Asmongold/Penguinz0 are all allowed to be successful even though they pretty much make the same videos and stream clips on the same topics. But for some reason creators from marginalized groups can’t have similar tastes and ideas.

            • @[email protected]
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              71 year ago

              I’m pretty sure the person you were responding to is also trans like me and presumably you

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          131 year ago

          Could you please correct the misgendering in your post? PT uses she/her pronouns exclusively.

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          81 year ago

          I think it’s a joke - it’s an absurd comparison so I don’t think it’s meant to be taken seriously

      • JackbyDev
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        11 year ago

        If I had a nickel for every time it happened I’ve have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.