Premium 220: Again With The Name Calling

sometimes i hear the line about democrats shaping their base vs republicans fearing/catering to their base and i really think its the wrong way around. GOP has a rabid and engaged base but everything they want serves the GOP politicians fully. they have masterfully cultivated a social movement ferociously advocates for the exact things the federal government wants to be doing. Dems on the other hand are constantly fighting the nature of their party, having always to cater to left-liberals tendencies they frankly do not like. we might see them all as conservatives but they are mired in the liberal schlock see the stratifications where sometimes we do not. its why dems feel so fake, because they really dont like doing anything that isnt serving businesses or war

Harper

@Terrence I'd be curious what you would think about Haruki Murakami's books!! He's the author that really got me into fiction. I recommend 1Q84 the most, even tho it's huge.

reverie

Red Menace just released an episode on MagaCommunism if people are interested in a more in depth dive into them.

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MikeHawk

Where she at fellas 😩

MikeHawk

That’s a fair point. I think I was trying to encapsulate a few things using the word ‘bougie’ (or bourgie or however it’s spelled) but mainly what I was reacting to was that the conversation was something from a leisure-class salon. I enjoy a high-minded analysis on everyday life or current events. Not so much high-minded takes on academic topics. There’s just so many other places for that. Just not what I come here for really. Have they ever said what happened to Tanya? I looked, but found out very little through Twitter and searches.

Don't disagree, but I would definitely wouldn't use "bougie" as a synonym for academic or intellectual

Andrew Dunn

I did like the tradeoff where they would teach her about obscure political theory, and she would teach them about pleasuring women.

Andrew Dunn

...Even if magacommunism was a coherent idea, its proponents are people who reward themselves with ice-cream after finally mustering up the courage to return a "hi" when passing a neighbor that one time.

Jesper Ohlsson

Dude, just relax, it's a podcast - you can adjust the playback speed, pause, etc but also not listen to an episode. It's all cope anyways so you're never going to miss out on much

William

Glad it’s okay. Don’t know how I’d go on if I thought some random stranger in a patreon comments thread was judging me.

To me any art can no longer speak to social ills or offer any sort of radical politics because of the production and consumption process. It doesn't matter if the art is great or not, the way art is produced and sold as a either a commodity or as a financial asset ultimately makes all art irrelevant, alienated, and impotent.

Ryan Hagerman

It's okay to be wrong, which you are, in this case.

Ryan Hagerman

The maga communism bs reminds me of just how detatched from reality some white folks can be, even those who call themselves leftists. Like, actual leftist white folks have their issues, but this is on another level. I have to laugh, because otherwise I'd have to grapple with just how expendable they see marginalized ppl.

Dogmoth

Wow, I haven’t even got through a third of this episode. Just a big bourgie mfa circle jerk. Episodes like this is where I really miss Tanya. Whenever you guys dove into pretentious or obscure bullshit, throwing around acronyms like we’re all supposed to know wtf you’re on about, that’s when she would step in and ask what you were talking about. No shame that she didn’t know— which made me as an audience member feel like I wasn’t too dumb, or lame, or old to participate. I can follow trapo with their machine gun paced references to transient Twitter topics de jour than I can you guys some days, and that shouldn’t be. Throw us old, clueless, not-your-demographic listeners a goddamn bone once in a while.

Not sure I’ve ever related to anything more than Aaron writing one thing every November 😭