Seriously? He has more influence than most podcasters or Tweeters you listen to probably. Especially among blue-collar/older/Independent people who're never going to read Marx or learn what a pronoun is.
At the very least, he's a bellwether. People who looked up to him in his prime, people still in his subculture will think similarly. And that's good.
Seriously? He has more influence than most podcasters or Tweeters you listen to probably. Especially among blue-collar/older/Independent people who're never going to read Marx or learn what a pronoun is.
At the very least, he's a bellwether. People who looked up to him in his prime, people still in his subculture will think similarly. And that's good.
If i ever claim that podcasters i listen to has cultural relevance, shoot me in the head because i've probably gone insane
I'm sure those blue-collar people listen to RT regularly
Jesse Ventura is still a former governor and there are a lot of people that know about him. He does have some cultural relevance.
Also, many blue collar people aren't that opposed to Russia.
It has nothing to do with that, i don't have the exact data but i don't think RT has a non-negligable audience in those demographics
Sure, I agree most people won't here about it from RT. The internet is a thing, though.
The ones in Russia probably do.