Looking for a succinct primer for those politically disengaged folks who are tuning out because "both sides have gotten so mean". Obviously the contradictions are heightening but how do you ease in a materialist perspective when someone is already so exhausted by "bias"

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-112-how-polarization-discourse-flattens-power-dynamics-and-says-nothing

    • blackjohnsonfeed [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Transcript: https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-112-how-polarization-discourse-flattens-power-dynamics-and-says-nothing-e5e8f9cba023

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        thanks, I should have linked that instead since it has a link to the episode

        • blackjohnsonfeed [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I still prefer Libsyn for listening/downloading. For whatever reason, unless you're logged in or listening from an embed, SoundCloud doesn't let you go back/forwards or jump to a timestamp, it only lets you play/pause.

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            yea they made that change in the last year or two to try to force users to register

          • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            For whatever reason, unless you’re logged in or listening from an embed, SoundCloud doesn’t let you go back/forwards or jump to a timestamp, it only lets you play/pause.

            I fucking hate that shit. Completely turned me off that platform.

    • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      :this:

      Honestly antipolitics is such a powerful term. Once you’re thinking through that lens you see it everywhere