I generally regard Douglas Lain as consistently having incorrect analyses, but I would otherwise regard him as being some variety of communist, and not a comedian at all. What is he doing on cumtown?
CW: Slurs if you choose to listen to the episode
One of the best moments of my internet career was posting a video of his on genzedong to talk shit about his weird idealist takes and seeing him pop up in the comments to then get completely dunked on by the sub lol
He's so terminally online, he even takes time in this episode to shit on Cuck Philosophy, which is an incredibly small dick move
He literally claims that Cuck Philosophy steals his (or Zero Books' more broadly) material
I suspect that he has to be rich, also? He's a publisher, so he must be, right?
Zero books is a subsidiary of a larger publisher, I doubt there's that much money in it.
Well, technically it's an imprint. John hunt publishing overall is also a pretty small publisher.
Oh also I don't think he's rich. Lain has primarily been a moderately (as in he made a living off it) successful fiction writer for the last couple decades and is the publishing manager for zero. I've heard his stuff on the fiction end is pretty decent actually but haven't read any of it.
Cumtown the podcast is bad but the cumtown "community" is infinitely worse
He was on the Antifada like three days ago joking about going on Cumtown, guess it wasn't a joke lmao
Douglas lain seems like a dude who is out of his element on the dirt bag left. I'm also not sure what to think of him in general since his videos kinda go over my head usually.
he's an old guy that really wants to be a hip young guy. i find him charmingly sincere, even if he sometimes loses the plot a bit.