They not only talked about the protests plenty -- at least some of them talked about how they went out and joined them.
A big chunk of people who say the podcast blows don't listen to it. They get their impressions of it by essentially playing telephone, which produces bad takes like the above and other mischaracterizations. As long as someone's even close to on our side, we should be accurate about what they're saying before we start shitting on them for it.
For example, Matt talked on his twitch stream multiple times about having just come from one protest or another. This line of critique of the show has never been a good one.
The podcast does have some bad takes, or more correctly it has some good initial analysis and follows it up with shitty praxis recommendations. Like the latest episode where they're like "the Senate stuff doesn't mean anything anymore, ignore it". Yeah, it's pointless, which is exactly why we should be throwing rocks at it.
That said, most of what people here think about the pod is just Amber rolling a 1 on her random leftist take table.
They have some bad takes, as do we all (except me obviously). It's fine to criticize them over that, but let's criticize what they actually say or don't say. We really shouldn't be inventing reasons to be mad at each other.
I think it's coming from the same place as "why aren't they using their platform to organize"? They're just a comedy podcast. I think part of why Virgil left is because he was the only one who wanted to own up to that responsibility.
I remember multiple episodes about the protest what are you talking about?
They not only talked about the protests plenty -- at least some of them talked about how they went out and joined them.
A big chunk of people who say the podcast blows don't listen to it. They get their impressions of it by essentially playing telephone, which produces bad takes like the above and other mischaracterizations. As long as someone's even close to on our side, we should be accurate about what they're saying before we start shitting on them for it.
For example, Matt talked on his twitch stream multiple times about having just come from one protest or another. This line of critique of the show has never been a good one.
I think Matt got kettled on a bridge but that's second-hand.
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i swear 99% of the people who shit on the podcast know basically nothing about them lol except that they don't conform to their exact kind of leftism
The podcast does have some bad takes, or more correctly it has some good initial analysis and follows it up with shitty praxis recommendations. Like the latest episode where they're like "the Senate stuff doesn't mean anything anymore, ignore it". Yeah, it's pointless, which is exactly why we should be throwing rocks at it.
That said, most of what people here think about the pod is just Amber rolling a 1 on her random leftist take table.
They have some bad takes, as do we all (except me obviously). It's fine to criticize them over that, but let's criticize what they actually say or don't say. We really shouldn't be inventing reasons to be mad at each other.
Half of the early episodes are them laughing at people who accused them of being fash lol
It's been going on for years.
I think it's coming from the same place as "why aren't they using their platform to organize"? They're just a comedy podcast. I think part of why Virgil left is because he was the only one who wanted to own up to that responsibility.
They did a ton of organizing for Bernie. But yeah it's a podcast about dunking on libs, it's not some vanguard of the American left.
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