So, my partner of 15 years has always considered himself a "centrist". He grew up in New England, and his father is one of those rich New England Conservative (tm) types. So, anything more liberal than his father was extreme as far as he was concerned. I eventually got him to realize that his ideals were much closer to mine than to "centrism", but he is still on the fence.
I managed to get him off his NPR spree by getting him hooked on Citations Needed. I need other things to give him. He likes their "brutal honesty" and "brutality" in general, but he is also on the autistic spectrum so things with bizarre humor (like Seriously Wrong) would not fit for him. Also, not sure about anything that is specifically "Marxist" or "Anarchist" quite yet. I was thinking about Blowback and ALAB to start. Anyone have any other ideas for me?
He drives for a currently fucked delivery company right now, so he has plenty of time to listen to things. However, things that require you to listen to the back catalog to understand them (like Working Class History) might be annoying to get him attached to until I can get him to switch to a better podcasting app. I think he is still using Spotify :cringe:
Democracy Now for daily news, it's a decent enough leftward stepping stone from NPR
5-4 is about shitty SCOTUS rulings and explicitly traces their effects to the modern day. They're definitely Bernie-tier or further but I don't remember them being loud commies or anything.
If the humor lands, The Dollop is basically crypto-leftist American History class
Knowledge Fight is two dudes debunking and dunking on Alex Jones. This one I'm least certain of because the humor leans so heavily on the inherent absurdity of far-right propaganda, but there's also thorough dismantling of rightwing talking points, showing how chuds and fash take stats or phrasing in bad faith and launder their ideas into the mainstream. Dan can be a huge lib sometimes but he really does his research on these dipshits.