He is not and was never a communist by any means but he is vaguely left, he has videos defending trans people and such
Slightly progressive social policy =/= "left" (as someone who is trans myself). Someone who stands for imperialist slander and sides against the global south, against the actual anti-imperialists fighting the most horrific contradictions known to humanity, the most extreme crimes up to and including genocide- is not left, I certainly will never consider them "left."
They're just patsocs at best, hell, the whole lot is no different than say, Nazbols or just plain outright neoliberal, slobbering imperialists. They certainly play the useful lackeys for them, intentional or not. They can't claim to be "left" and then actively sabotage actual anti-imperialists. They can't claim to be "left" and then act as a mouthpiece for US state propaganda.