Sorry if this starts a struggle session. But I’m here to complain about stressing over Venezuela’s “fraudulent” election and corruption. I feel like the pod has had a few lib takes.
No offense but they are radlibs aka “anarchists”. They never had good takes. And if one thought they had, that’s because you once had “bad takes” but now have evolved beyond their stunted half-socialist worldview. That was the same case with breadtubers like early Contrapoints as well, my own rising political consciousness quickly overtook her own, and she meandered back into liberal chauvinism.
i think it’s perfectly reasonable to criticise a govt that’s continually going after the Communist Party which previously supported Chavez, tbh. they should rightfully be criticised for breaking the unity of the anti-imperialist camp in Venezuela by punching left. i don’t listen to that podcast so maybe they’re doing so in a lib, pro-imperialist way, though.
Your critiques are probably right, but you’re coming from the left. They occasionally critique Stalinism, and immediately did a pro Ukraine thing after the invasion (without any nuance).
Obviously one shouldn’t expect much from YouTubers. I’m just venting.
I really enjoyed their early episodes but they got podcast disease (lazy prep, laughing at their own lame jokes way too much) remarkably quickly imo. Also, Alice has had some incredibly bad takes over the years. I saw her storm out of a group chat over some very lukewarm pro-China takes one time.
EDIT: there’s a lot of legit criticism to be made of Maduro however!
Her reasoning was incredibly grim iirc, and she only backed off when it became clear that the podcast money was at risk lol.
I think my favorite Alice moment though was when, during one of the periodic Podcaster Earnings Struggle Sessions (precipitated, as always, by Alice going “I’m poor, please buy me things for my mental health”), one of her ultras got out the receipts, proving that Alice ‘only’ makes £80K p.a. from podcasts lol. And she was totally oblivious to how this looked to everyone else, natch
There’s just this fucking entitled arrogance to a lot of the ‘shitpost left’ podcasts — as if they’re doing us plebs a massive favor gracing us with their privately educated waffle. At least with TrueAnon you get the sense that they’ve done the reading!
Sorry if this starts a struggle session. But I’m here to complain about
stressing over Venezuela’s “fraudulent” election and corruption. I feel like the pod has had a few lib takes.
They’ve had a neo Nazi on as a guest years ago, they’re libs at best
Lol who was this?
Adam Something, he’s a NAFO guy and “former” fascist IIRC
No offense but they are radlibs aka “anarchists”. They never had good takes. And if one thought they had, that’s because you once had “bad takes” but now have evolved beyond their stunted half-socialist worldview. That was the same case with breadtubers like early Contrapoints as well, my own rising political consciousness quickly overtook her own, and she meandered back into liberal chauvinism.
i think it’s perfectly reasonable to criticise a govt that’s continually going after the Communist Party which previously supported Chavez, tbh. they should rightfully be criticised for breaking the unity of the anti-imperialist camp in Venezuela by punching left. i don’t listen to that podcast so maybe they’re doing so in a lib, pro-imperialist way, though.
Your critiques are probably right, but you’re coming from the left. They occasionally critique Stalinism, and immediately did a pro Ukraine thing after the invasion (without any nuance).
Obviously one shouldn’t expect much from YouTubers. I’m just venting.
oh yeah that sounds lib then
I really enjoyed their early episodes but they got podcast disease (lazy prep, laughing at their own lame jokes way too much) remarkably quickly imo. Also, Alice has had some incredibly bad takes over the years. I saw her storm out of a group chat over some very lukewarm pro-China takes one time.
EDIT: there’s a lot of legit criticism to be made of Maduro however!
November is actively enrolled in a collegiate program and seeking a career in fake pig science. Seriously she’s doing criminology lol.
but of course she didn’t really mean it when she posted about how she wanted to become a cop and be one of the “good” ones
Her reasoning was incredibly grim iirc, and she only backed off when it became clear that the podcast money was at risk lol.
I think my favorite Alice moment though was when, during one of the periodic Podcaster Earnings Struggle Sessions (precipitated, as always, by Alice going “I’m poor, please buy me things for my mental health”), one of her ultras got out the receipts, proving that Alice ‘only’ makes £80K p.a. from podcasts lol. And she was totally oblivious to how this looked to everyone else, natch
no sympathy for the PMC (podcasting mediocrity class)
There’s been one or two episodes where Liam was straight up watching a baseball game during the recording.
There’s just this fucking entitled arrogance to a lot of the ‘shitpost left’ podcasts — as if they’re doing us plebs a massive favor gracing us with their privately educated waffle. At least with TrueAnon you get the sense that they’ve done the reading!