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You report this for being a Cumtown reference.
I report this for being a Democrats reference.
We are not the same.
But in the wake of an election that podcasters helped swing in Donald Trump’s favor, he’s fielding interview offers from politicians desperate to connect with disaffected young voters any way they can—even if it means getting trolled on camera by the former co-host of a podcast called “Cum Town"
Yeah Democrats are never going to embrace someone like him. Their job is to move their party right not become a genuine populist vehicle and especially not to get anywhere near even an "irony-poisoned socialist". Well at least at the moment. If some sort of independent and truly popular and thus dangerous left movement sprouts up in this country it's possible the Dems could be called upon to embrace and extinguish it but that would just be using someone like him to sheep-herd people back into the party and then either draw him right or nuke him from orbit.
Still can't help but wonder if this whole scene, Chapo, these people, Belden, isn't some sort of deep-cover CIA operation meant to contain and guide the inevitable re-emergence of a left in this country. I mean Menaker's father being a double-agent, Belden going to Syria to fight with left flavored but CIA sponsored and approved militia, their connections to people like Dasha. It's all just a little suspicious. In a believable kind of way but also in a they people were all put together in an incubator kind of way. They wouldn't even have to be witting assets either if the CIA was trying to merely guide development in a certain direction. I don't know. It's weird here in the imperial core.
How is Adam Friedland leftist? Jesus crhist
Still can't help but wonder if this whole scene, Chapo, these people, Belden, isn't some sort of deep-cover CIA operation meant to contain and guide the inevitable re-emergence of a left in this country. I mean Menaker's father being a double-agent, Belden going to Syria to fight with left flavored but CIA sponsored and approved militia, their connections to people like Dasha. It's all just a little suspicious. In a believable kind of way but also in a they people were all put together in an incubator kind of way. They wouldn't even have to be witting assets either if the CIA was trying to merely guide development in a certain direction. I don't know. It's weird here in the imperial core.
I’m here with you and i think it’s fun to consider but a few points that i think we would have to consider to either make or break this:
-the inevitable reemergence of the left movement requires enough people being in dire circumstances where joining a dissident organization makes sense.
-the US govt doesn’t need an elaborate internet media scheme to keep people pacified. They can still manipulate the standard media offering and shoot IRL revolutionaries like they do and have already done
-For people that are extremely self motivated genuinely don’t want to work for companies that support genocide, the war machine, pick any ugly aspect of clapistan, an indie media career is compelling
I don’t have much to say about the CIA connection stuff. You can’t choose your parents and since TA is the only podcast i listen to regularly i know for a fact Belden isn’t exactly rosy while describing his past self
your name is darkmode and the top level comment is darkcalling but that really threw me off for a second
that’s half the reason i even bothered to comment lol
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if he doesnt want to be, it only proves it more. jon is notoriously self-deprecating and refuses to get actively involved in politics.
refuses to get actively involved in politics.
He had a political comedy show for like a decade. He interviewed dozens (hundreds?) of sitting US politicians. He held a centrist rally in DC in an election year. He has consistently provided political commentary for decades. He doesn't do endorsements and doesn't seem to ever want to run for office, but he has always been actively involved in politics
I've only heard him on TrueAnon, and I can say with 100% certainty that it's not gonna happen
Also, Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders are from different generations but it's fair to say that they're both famous because of millennials. Jon Stewart is the millennial Jon Stewart. Adam Friedland would be the Jon Stewart for gen z or alpha or whatev
Millennial? Isn’t he like 50?
Millennials are 50 now, feel old yet?
I feel older every day
God I hope not. It's bad enough that we made Jon Stewart. We do not need an even more insufferable millennial one.