The podcast is pretty good RN. The jokes and punchlines are good. The hosts, Amber aside, are properly drugged and fired up.

Yet it feels passé. It feels outdated. The whole podcast rode on the imagination of liberal collapse and a socdem ticket with Bernie. But Bernie lost like a bitch and the libs have coalesced incredibly. The podcast feels like it’s coasting now without the photosynthesis of the Bernie promise propelling their focus.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    something about the latest episode brought me back to ‘01-‘02 with arguing against the expansion of what a “terrorist” was, and it just shows how much ground the left lost in the last 20 years

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I am really glad they spent so much time talking about censorship on Twitter and Facebook because they have been making massive strides lately in terms of doing that kind of shit.

      • Grownbravy [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        the best example i can think of is to look at what kind of punishment was given to environmentalist and the like around that time, and how charges of terrorism could be levied against them as an excuse to go after them with the full weight of institutions. they brought up Mueller who made his name on those cases, compare with a lot of the politically motivated violence happening in the 90s like prolife activists bombing clinics and cities.