Sorry if this starts a struggle session. But I’m here to complain about stressing over Venezuela’s “fraudulent” election and corruption. I feel like the pod has had a few lib takes.
No offense but they are radlibs aka “anarchists”. They never had good takes. And if one thought they had, that’s because you once had “bad takes” but now have evolved beyond their stunted half-socialist worldview. That was the same case with breadtubers like early Contrapoints as well, my own rising political consciousness quickly overtook her own, and she meandered back into liberal chauvinism.
I really enjoyed their early episodes but they got podcast disease (lazy prep, laughing at their own lame jokes way too much) remarkably quickly imo. Also, Alice has had some incredibly bad takes over the years. I saw her storm out of a group chat over some very lukewarm pro-China takes one time.
EDIT: there’s a lot of legit criticism to be made of Maduro however!
There’s just this fucking entitled arrogance to a lot of the ‘shitpost left’ podcasts — as if they’re doing us plebs a massive favor gracing us with their privately educated waffle. At least with TrueAnon you get the sense that they’ve done the reading!
I used to love the trillbillies, but then they lost tanya and at this point it’s just 2-3 guys bullshitting and trying a little too hard to make points they think sound deep
and acting strangely hostile about some kind of t-shirt sales problems where their only job is being neglected or something, I dunno I don’t buy merch
Her reasoning was incredibly grim iirc, and she only backed off when it became clear that the podcast money was at risk lol.
I think my favorite Alice moment though was when, during one of the periodic Podcaster Earnings Struggle Sessions (precipitated, as always, by Alice going “I’m poor, please buy me things for my mental health”), one of her ultras got out the receipts, proving that Alice ‘only’ makes £80K p.a. from podcasts lol. And she was totally oblivious to how this looked to everyone else, natch
i think it’s perfectly reasonable to criticise a govt that’s continually going after the Communist Party which previously supported Chavez, tbh. they should rightfully be criticised for breaking the unity of the anti-imperialist camp in Venezuela by punching left. i don’t listen to that podcast so maybe they’re doing so in a lib, pro-imperialist way, though.
Maduro did go after the PCV, he helped split it between pro and anti maduro factions. The anti-maduro faction called for his overthrow and gave an interview to a right-wing portuguese media outlet to criticize the portuguese communist party for not supporting foreign interference in venezuela.
Your critiques are probably right, but you’re coming from the left. They occasionally critique Stalinism, and immediately did a pro Ukraine thing after the invasion (without any nuance).
Obviously one shouldn’t expect much from YouTubers. I’m just venting.
If you arent Venezuelan and if its not done in a closed communist circle. What is being critical of x or y country good for? Other than doing free labor for the empire.
I was gonna chime in and say that it was before the Russian invasion, before Adam went mask off NAFO. BUT I just looked a bit at the episode and they all did a lot of anti-communism and chauvinism. Ya, disappointing.
Sorry if this starts a struggle session. But I’m here to complain about
stressing over Venezuela’s “fraudulent” election and corruption. I feel like the pod has had a few lib takes.
No offense but they are radlibs aka “anarchists”. They never had good takes. And if one thought they had, that’s because you once had “bad takes” but now have evolved beyond their stunted half-socialist worldview. That was the same case with breadtubers like early Contrapoints as well, my own rising political consciousness quickly overtook her own, and she meandered back into liberal chauvinism.
I really enjoyed their early episodes but they got podcast disease (lazy prep, laughing at their own lame jokes way too much) remarkably quickly imo. Also, Alice has had some incredibly bad takes over the years. I saw her storm out of a group chat over some very lukewarm pro-China takes one time.
EDIT: there’s a lot of legit criticism to be made of Maduro however!
There’s been one or two episodes where Liam was straight up watching a baseball game during the recording.
There’s just this fucking entitled arrogance to a lot of the ‘shitpost left’ podcasts — as if they’re doing us plebs a massive favor gracing us with their privately educated waffle. At least with TrueAnon you get the sense that they’ve done the reading!
I used to love the trillbillies, but then they lost tanya and at this point it’s just 2-3 guys bullshitting and trying a little too hard to make points they think sound deep
and acting strangely hostile about some kind of t-shirt sales problems where their only job is being neglected or something, I dunno I don’t buy merch
November is actively enrolled in a collegiate program and seeking a career in fake pig science. Seriously she’s doing criminology lol.
but of course she didn’t really mean it when she posted about how she wanted to become a cop and be one of the “good” ones
Her reasoning was incredibly grim iirc, and she only backed off when it became clear that the podcast money was at risk lol.
I think my favorite Alice moment though was when, during one of the periodic Podcaster Earnings Struggle Sessions (precipitated, as always, by Alice going “I’m poor, please buy me things for my mental health”), one of her ultras got out the receipts, proving that Alice ‘only’ makes £80K p.a. from podcasts lol. And she was totally oblivious to how this looked to everyone else, natch
no sympathy for the PMC (podcasting mediocrity class)
i think it’s perfectly reasonable to criticise a govt that’s continually going after the Communist Party which previously supported Chavez, tbh. they should rightfully be criticised for breaking the unity of the anti-imperialist camp in Venezuela by punching left. i don’t listen to that podcast so maybe they’re doing so in a lib, pro-imperialist way, though.
Maduro did go after the PCV, he helped split it between pro and anti maduro factions. The anti-maduro faction called for his overthrow and gave an interview to a right-wing portuguese media outlet to criticize the portuguese communist party for not supporting foreign interference in venezuela.
So I’m gonna go ahead and say, fuck THAT pcv
I’m interested to know more if you have any links. I don’t know dick about Venezuela.
I remember reading this way back
Your critiques are probably right, but you’re coming from the left. They occasionally critique Stalinism, and immediately did a pro Ukraine thing after the invasion (without any nuance).
Obviously one shouldn’t expect much from YouTubers. I’m just venting.
oh yeah that sounds lib then
If you arent Venezuelan and if its not done in a closed communist circle. What is being critical of x or y country good for? Other than doing free labor for the empire.
They’ve had a neo Nazi on as a guest years ago, they’re libs at best
Lol who was this?
Adam Something, he’s a NAFO guy and “former” fascist IIRC
I was gonna chime in and say that it was before the Russian invasion, before Adam went mask off NAFO. BUT I just looked a bit at the episode and they all did a lot of anti-communism and chauvinism. Ya, disappointing.