Just tons of liberal types being mad at them for their takes on Ukraine, this is probably the most people have cared about the show in ages

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They have had good takes in Ukraine, far better than any other famous codpasters

    • Prolefarian [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah they bug me sometimes but as far as the online left goes they still have some of the best takes. The recent one where they talked about Ukraine was good.

    • wifom [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Just gave the new episode a listen. Jesus christ the latest article they read about the left's "half-baked answers on Ukraine" is so fucking unhinged. How you can be so thoroughly aware of the history surrounding that region and still find time to finger wag at the DSA of all things is beyond me. Solid takes from the pod

      Also their breakdown of Texan architecture gave me a hearty chuckle - Dallas's split between Anor Londo and the undead settlement with Houston's being created by a sentient barrel of petroleum

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I haven't watched WTYP in a while and I'm scared to hear their takes on it.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Trashfuture takes on Ukraine were absolute garbage. Don't know what Liam has to say.

        • Sotalsta [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          After a bunch of people in the tf thread recommended beep beep lettuce as 'less serious', I checked it out thinking they would avoid the issue entirely, but they have an entire ukraine episode, and the takes there are pretty good. Even the ones I disagree with are so much better after the bar I had come to expect with trash future. It's amazing what having "war is awful and I hate what it does to civilians' lives" as a starting point does for quality of takes.

      • americandeathdrive [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I have listen to it more recently and yeah iv noticed the hosts have tryed to talk less badly about "tankies" i think they got pretty bad blow back as suprize suprize a lot of there audience is tankies, personly I think the pod would be better with out Liam as roz pretty much just geting talked over saying interesting stuff with pointless conjecture from the other two hosts. I'm sorry if this comes off as cynical.

        • D3FNC [any]
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          3 years ago

          I can't listen to WTYP anymore now that I know they're just a bunch of libs LARPing.

            • D3FNC [any]
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              3 years ago

              It was like a year ago for me, I was an avid listener but on one episode they were just so fucking smug about mocking people to their left I turned it off and never bothered listening again.

              I miss listening to Roz.

              • prolepylene [he/him, comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                I did the exact same thing, I've started to tune in occasionally again, but Liam still consistently has toxicly bad takes that he tries to frame as anarchism and the others just let him roll with it.

              • americandeathdrive [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                I think I know exactly what episode your talking about, I should see if the urbanism c would take down all there banners I just can't stomach it.

              • Vncredleader
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                3 years ago

                Same. I enjoyed the backlog, but then as I went through recent stuff they just get worse and worse politically. To the point that you can expect 30 min of smug radlib takes usually.

          • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            They aren't larping. They are engineers. Their minds have been forced to mold to the left as reality has a leftist bias. They would be dsa memebers if they didn't have that foring materialism into them

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I learned about them through hexbear, started listening pretty heavily to their back catalogue, really enjoyed it, then an episode I listened to started with like 10 minutes of Alice doing an anti-Communism while Roz and Liam just ignored it, which I assume means they agreed with it, and then they had that episode shortly after where they brought in that Hungarian fascist who was recently explaining why a full scale nuclear war wasn't such a bad thing and I just fell off completely.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Political takes aside, a lot of that podcast is Roz carrying the whole thing while Liam and Alice try to be funny.

        • groundling20XX [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Support Liam’s dad who scolded him for regurgitation of state department propaganda on all episodes where they need to talk about state department propaganda.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          I think the pod would be better with out Liam

          Liam's a cantankerous fuck, but nine times out of ten he's fine. And he handles a bunch of the social media bullshit for Roz, which is half the reason he's a host to begin with.

          Past that, the worst take I've seen from the lot has been Alice. Its basically just - you can't blame people for wanting to repel a foreign invasion. Putin's breathed as much life into EU fascism as any American State Department official with this invasion. But past that, both the WTYP and TrashFuture gangs basically agree with the Chapos that this is - first and foremost - an unforced humanitarian disaster on a continental scale and it needs to end asap.

          If that's enough to get you cancelled...

          • americandeathdrive [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Honestly I think I'm just grumpy from work I still listen to the pod cast Liam is fine, the one major plus of this pod cast is that they all seem to have fun and most other leftist pod casts I listen too always just sounds so demoralizlsm and like they don't get to have brief moments of fun. I really like listening to people making jokes as it makes being alone at work more tolerable.

          • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            on a recent bonus ep alice landed on the take that "yes ukraine is full of nazis, yes the sheer volume of weapons is going to have horrendous consequences for the ukrainian people, no we shouldnt stop sending weapons"

        • lil_pee_pee [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          You should just assume anyone who uses "tankie" for any reason is a wrecker.