Hardcore History with Dan Carlin is not leftist and is specifically military history, but I've poured over hours of the stuff and I don't see him saying much objectionable or reactionary shit. He just doesn't hate America in my estimation.
I love Dan Carlin. He has a show, Common Sense where he talks about current events (though, in typical Carlin fashion, he only does an episode every year or so). I haven't listened to it since like 2017 (frankly, I thought he discontinued the show after Trump was elected), which is before I was really a leftist in any meaningful sense, but based on my memory of that Dan Carlin has absolutely bizarre politics with no ideology that just so happen to roughly align with the lib consensus on some stuff, but he seems like a decent guy.
You're totally right, he has no guiding ideology and because of his bourgeois upbringing, he's too in the club to take his conclusions to their natural end point. He did a pro M4A episode that was pretty on the ball for a liberal Warren stan (because he jerked her off for an ep) but then there's another episode where he goes off about how everyone in the country should be given a stipend to donate money to political campaigns instead of eliminating those campaigns' ability to collect money, or eliminating money. And then whenever he covers anything relating to the AES/USSR, it's dogshit except for when he can gush about specific elements of their military because for some reason that I guess he never bothered to interrogate even though both of these world powers were apparently historic monstrosities, it's ok to praise Zhukov and not Rommel (not that the later has anything to praise).
Dan Carlin's pitch is that he's a "political outsider" but in reality his political worldview is as nonsensical, broadly left leaning yet singed by propaganda as most Americans that don't define their identity by their relationship to one of the two major political parties. He's just more articulate than most.
His podcast episode American Peril was a big step in my radicalization. Everyone here should listen to it. It's basically the origin story for America's international imperialism. Good background for understanding Cuban history as well.
(Dan's not a leftist but he's pretty solidly anti-imperialist).
Hardcore History with Dan Carlin is not leftist and is specifically military history, but I've poured over hours of the stuff and I don't see him saying much objectionable or reactionary shit. He just doesn't hate America in my estimation.
I love Dan Carlin. He has a show, Common Sense where he talks about current events (though, in typical Carlin fashion, he only does an episode every year or so). I haven't listened to it since like 2017 (frankly, I thought he discontinued the show after Trump was elected), which is before I was really a leftist in any meaningful sense, but based on my memory of that Dan Carlin has absolutely bizarre politics with no ideology that just so happen to roughly align with the lib consensus on some stuff, but he seems like a decent guy.
You're totally right, he has no guiding ideology and because of his bourgeois upbringing, he's too in the club to take his conclusions to their natural end point. He did a pro M4A episode that was pretty on the ball for a
liberalWarren stan (because he jerked her off for an ep) but then there's another episode where he goes off about how everyone in the country should be given a stipend to donate money to political campaigns instead of eliminating those campaigns' ability to collect money, or eliminating money. And then whenever he covers anything relating to the AES/USSR, it's dogshit except for when he can gush about specific elements of their military because for some reason that I guess he never bothered to interrogate even though both of these world powers were apparently historic monstrosities, it's ok to praise Zhukov and not Rommel (not that the later has anything to praise).Dan Carlin's pitch is that he's a "political outsider" but in reality his political worldview is as nonsensical, broadly left leaning yet singed by propaganda as most Americans that don't define their identity by their relationship to one of the two major political parties. He's just more articulate than most.
His podcast episode American Peril was a big step in my radicalization. Everyone here should listen to it. It's basically the origin story for America's international imperialism. Good background for understanding Cuban history as well.
(Dan's not a leftist but he's pretty solidly anti-imperialist).