“Those shady orientals can’t do Marxism properly, like me, a free and independent thinker who would never fall for bourgeois propaganda.”

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This. I actually like WTYP. Trashfuture was a little confusing for me as an outsider to UK goings ons. I've listened to a few episodes of Lions Led by Donkeys and while there were critiques of the US military I remember feeling a lot of them were coming from a place of "these people are actually trying their best but either they're fuckups or the system isn't set up to allow them to succeed" and not "the US is an inherently evil country and it's military is deeply corrupt and incompetent." And then any mention of the USSR or China seemed to take an extremely bad faith position. But I can't remember now which episodes I listened to, maybe they aren't all that bad.

    Regardless of whether I like a particular show or not, it's impossible to listen and not just think that the hosts are all such libs.

      • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I personally really like Trueanon but I do think it has its flaws. For one thing, it’s first and foremost a conspiracy podcast, so you have to be conspiracy minded to really get into it. And I’m not convinced they vet their sources. The hosts are communists, I think, so they’ll often have good analyses of capitalism and also American culture. But they’re not investigators or journalists. Liz worked in media, I think, and Brace is an undercover CIA agent pretending to be a recovering addict turned YPG soldier turned manual laborer turned union organizer turned podcaster. But that’s the nature of any conspiracy stuff, but I always take things like the Spider Network or some of the crazier details around, say, JFK or 9/11 with a big helping of salt.

        Also sometimes they’ll talk about stuff I just don’t give a shit about. Like celebrity gossip. Or an episode about a rapper/dealer from SF who went to Kansas City and got shot. I listen anyway because eventually they’ll include in their discussion critiques of capital and culture, but it can be a lot of minutia until they get there.