Slop.

I...think I kind of understand what they're getting at? But I think they have maybe a halfway-decent point mixed with some outright bad assumptions and they're phrasing it in a really derogatory way. Like, I think the main assumption is that gay furries are furries because it's a mentally "safe" way to explore their own homosexuality, and they should be helped to accept their sexuality without the need of that medium, and, like, maybe that's true for SOME gay furries but probably not most of them.

and the "be normal" mantra, the pod gives me definite social conservative vibes.

"Be normal" is actually very good advice for a lot of leftists. Social conservatives and conservatives in general are NOT normal at all- they are in fact extremely weird.

Anti-furry shit is always bigotry

The actual podcast isn't social conservative lol.

The subreddit can get some occasional overlap with stupidpol or redscare posters though. Kind of an issue. They are called out not infrequently, but stuff can filter through into the general vibe.

starting to feel like if a left space isn't predominantly ML with at least a large plurality of queer+trans users it will just inevitably backslide this way

The first paragraph seems to be suggesting this is coming from gay furries not being able to “get over it,” and the second seems to say it’s an effect of homophobia so it’s like they’re trying to eat their cake and have it too. Also the use of “sexual deviance” is giving serious vibes.

I don't generally throw around the word dialectic but "be normal" seems like one, and this same thing comes up again and again in mass-based politics. The end goal is to build a world that is - among a lot of other things - inclusive of people with all sorts of non-hegemonic sexual & gender identities. The people who most desire that world are specifically those people who are shut out of the current one. However, getting to the better world requires getting normies on board (questionable premise?). And many normies will be put off by things too far from their worldview. This is changeable (here's where the democrats lose the plot, they don't believe this)! But the process of change can only be started by meeting normies where they are & presenting yourself as near where they are, hence "be normal". But being normal requires a movement to be outwardly less inclusive of the people that are its most dedicated supporters. So it's a contradiction, but as we know here contradictions don't just make things disappear in a puff of logic. Things lurch forward unevenly in a way that is propelled by the contradiction. Running too far ahead or trailing too far behind the people, etc. People take you more seriously if you are conventionally attractive, successful, competent, articulate, calm, well-liked by others, and so on. Achieving these requires conforming to hegemonic norms while ultimately desiring to replace them. So it goes when you Live in a Society.

I feel like anti-furry stuff specifically in this post is pretty passe. Like maybe don't show up in your fursuit to the rally (or do? idk I'm not the ultimate authority) but it isn't the mid-2010s anymore, furry stuff is moderately mainstream at least in large coastal cities.

I don't listen to Trueanon often but Brace has never struck me as someone with particularly well thought out principles. This leads him to contradictions, and leads his show to attracting an audience with a lot of internal contradictions, like this user with this really unnecessary pathologization of furries, and that whole post with its openly reactionary bullshit (being anti-furry is ALWAYS a precursor to being anti-lgbt), but also the fact that the subreddit downvoted it into oblivion.

the subreddit dedicated to the podcast that focuses on weird conspiracy theories is full of redscare fans???

This isn't shocking at all. TrueAnon has always just been Leftist Themed Joe Rogan. Of course their podcast encourages shit like this.

It’s absolutely a thing both on the show and amplified in the subreddit. The hosts don’t really get into detailed discussions of sexuality but are clearly uncomfortable talking around their opinions whenever stuff like poly relationships come up which is pretty often given their coverage of the FTX scene. The subreddit feels like its full of people that have pretty okay opinions on paper but would get awkward if they went to a hang out and someone there had oddly colored hair.

The legacy of the 2015-era socialist podcasters will be the Roganization leftist media. Hope it was worth it just to dunk on Johnathan Chait with the r-slur or give the deeply materialist, dialectic commentary of Trump being gay. Still wondering where these noble normies that amassed around our normal podcasters are. Seems like after a decade of normalizing the left for normal sensibilities there should be something to show for it besides the personal wealth of the hosts. Maybe subscriber count is its own victory. Hey I went to a party of lefists and they knew what a podcast was, I guess we won in the end.

Ok but like lets be real, furry stuff is genuinely offputting and how comfortable most online furries are with talking about their kinks with no filter is disconcerting to most somewhat normie people.

Once accidentally gatecrashed a furry convention with irls and all the fully suited up people were chill af though, so maybe this is just an online-offline division

Yeah I wonder why

huge fucking /s

Is this the one with the "I'm gay and have a small dick" gag, or was the the deprogram? Always thought that meme was dumb