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Anyone have any communist podcast recs for someone is vaguely liberal but not politically keyed in? (hexbear.net)

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My wife was asking for podcast recs. She's an exvangelical lesbian who tends to pick up liberal takes through osmosis from her workmates.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Also recommend Blowback. However, I think one potential problem with it is that it's gonna push a lib left very fast if they take it seriously, but it also reveals a ton of horrifying stuff that's almost blackpilling, for lack of a better word, so you still need to make sure they understand that a better world is possible.

[–] graymess@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It certainly lead to the conclusion I reached that a better world is possible only when the American empire is destroyed.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

100-com issue is, because of cultural hegemony, most Americans think American empire is the world, so they think the end of empire is the end of the world. It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I guess if you don't have some foundation that maybe a better system is possible you can just decided everything is screwed and choose some kind of nihilistic ideological bent

[–] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, the fall of the USSR has produced nearly insurmountable sums of nihilism

[–] graymess@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

That's definitely the direction I've watched my dad go through. The past decade has turned him from a centrist to a nihilist and I feel like I fucked that up a little.