Right Wing Grifters

The line you can't cheat an honest man springs to mind.

We can all agree on right-wing grifters: Hopkins, Yiannopoulos, Rubin, Peterson, Crowder, Owens etc.

But it's quite amazing how many who describe themselves as Left can quite easily see the grift of the right, but can't see left-wing grifters under their nose.

To give an example: Owen Jones.

Owen Jones talks up the left-wing tradition etc., but he couldn't be more of a greedy capitalist if he tried. Multiple best-selling books. Guardian columnist. YouTube Channel to rake in the cash. Patreon account. The list goes on. The same tactics you find with Candace Owens and others, Owen Jones deploys himself. Rather than have a link to his website in his Twitter profile to 1 million people, he has his Patreon account - begging for even more cash.

He currently has 1,700+ patrons (with his subscriptions up to 12 euros per month). His memberships are politically left, too: Grassroots - Comrade - Solidarity; it's all pure marketing for more cash. (edit: small mistake, he has 6 subscriptions; the highest is worth 118 euros a month).

Owens is raking in 20,400 euros a month from Patreon alone at the 12 euros a month rate.

What happens is consistent between grifters of the Left and the Right. They start out probably genuinely believing what they say. Then they realize how much money can be made and turn it into a permanent business. They'll only vocalize ideas that the target population want to hear. Candace Owens does it, and Owen Jones does it too.

I'd make the same case against George Galloway.

Noam Chomsky describes himself as an anarchist, he's that far-left. Yet, he cannot stop raking in the cash. His estimated wealth stands at $5 million.

Bernie Sanders is also worth millions of dollars. What happened to him despising the 1% again?

So whilst this thread is absolutely right to condemn right-wing grifters, let's at least acknowledge that this problem exists on the Left, too.

It doesn't cost 20,000 - 50,000 euros a month to publish some videos with a pre-done template from your living room.

It's a scam.

Doesn't that prove the point?

If you're a right-wing grifter, you're just a grifter.

If you're a left-wing grifter, it's because you can't work for free.

As always, a glaring inconsistency. No wonder Jones is raking in the cash.

"Owen Jones doesn't deliberately make things up or exaggerate things for money"

Haha, that's very funny

Not at all.

Those who support Candace speak in exactly the same way about her when she's accused of grifting.

The problem is that each side cannot see grifters within their own political orbit, but they can see it very clearly indeed from the other side.

There are different shades of grifting.

It's wrong to compare Candace with Owens directly.

But they are both grifting in their own, different ways.