I don't like to be all preachy about peoples treats, I get annoyed when people try to tell me that my slop is bad or somehow dangerous, as if there aren't about 1000 worse ways to burn holes in my brain than putting a podcast on in the background while doing dishes or driving or whatever. I'm a grown ass adult and I read a good amount and have lots of political discussions and organize in my spare time, its not like I'm some teenager being introduced to these ideas for the first, or even the 50th time.
But my dealings with people in their communities,and I've also heard this from other comrades, have been difficult. I don't blame the hosts, but I'm suspicious of these platforms, the way they manipulate creators and consumers of content, it always seems to go badly. Idk maybe I'm just an old fuck
The Antifada heads stay winning. It's really The Only Good Leftist Podcast. They have a fraction of the audience of other leftist podcasts and they are using it to organize. They made an org and have irl meetings.
Chapo has 50 000 paypigs and many more non-paying listeners. They are using that platform to complain about the posts that they saw on twitter that day (while playing CS:GO at the same time). We are living in the end times, any leftist platform that has more than 10k followers and isn't using it to do the bare minimum of organizing is shit
God forbid ... It's not like they're advocating for NATO invading China. Having criticism/doubts of AES does not undermine them, they're not that fragile.
Y'all, does nobody here even have a subscription that they can just post for everyone else? I swear to fucking god, everyone wants to be a pirate but ain't nobody wants to be a pirate. Being mad about a podcast on organizing and yet showing zero initiative.
Why would anyone spend money on this even if it’s to share lmao. I listen to the boys sometimes for fun but buying hidden item games and cracking them is a better investment than doing so with comedy podcasts because you’ll be learning actual skills.
Someone posted this link to a Patreon pirate archive the other day. I saved it but haven't checked it out yet. So use adblock and use at your own risk etc.
It’s three dudes riffing about organizing who aren’t doing it lol. No hate, I’m certainly busy to dedicate any meaningful time to organizing, but 9/10 times my suggestions aren’t meant to be serious
Was it ever worthwhile at all? I remember listening to a few episodes early on but it felt empty, just parasocial shit pretending it's some theory-heavy deep talk.
That said, I never really liked Yugopnik or Second Thought - first felt a bit try-hard (and I was over the dirtbag style when I found him), the other, ironically, too "clean", kind of making himself algortithm friendly in my opinion. Hakim was alright though.
Or maybe I'm just not really into this particular kind of slop.
Second Thought's whole thing is to bring new people into the movement, and hopefully, act as a stepping stone to further radicalization. His stuff isn't really for people who are already communists.
I like them all individually but they're just not great at podcasting. It meanders too much and too much of it is "banter" that I don't care about when I read the episode title. It made me appreciate Will Menaker as a host a lot more, he does a great job keeping the Chapo episodes on track while also being funny himself.
I don't think that they see themselves as promoting any kind of anti-capitalist organizing (in fact, they have stated a couple of times that they are afraid that they might be doing the complete opposite by providing their entertainment and discussion as a replacement for real organizing), but do believe that they may be doing some good by potentially motivating some very few people of their audience to actually join their local organizations and do something who would otherwise not have done so. As @Juice@hexbear.net said on here, the podcast is mostly only entertainment, and the real organizing happens within the party and on the streets and I think the trio agrees with that notion.
Anyway, JT is on hexbear, so maybe he sees this and says what he actually thinks, rather than my probably inaccurate paraphrasing of the views they expressed on episodes I only vaguely remember.