Meh. Dumb voters will just flock to the next trigger topic.
Listen. It’s not just dumb voters. It’s a conservative propaganda vessel that funds any right-leaning talking points. It’s madness being poured into any willing ear, all it takes is a little fear to let them in. I want to believe that individual volition trumps this by-the-numbers propaganda, but the proof is in the pudding. Make people scared and isolated and you can make them believe whatever shit you want (at least, on a macro scale)
Totally. I know plenty of people who would be considered smart by any standard, but when you’re mainlining propaganda every hour, of every day, for multiple decades… it’ll twist a person.
And it’s everywhere!
Don’t trust the mainstream media they say, but these days Facebook, YouTube, instagram, etc have billions of users worldwide. Those are mainstream media.
So in a way they’re right, but they seem to think Facebook and YouTube are some hot new thing and they can be trusted because they’re not part of “the establishment” or whatever. Those of us who were around since the beginning saw the decline from cat-video-sharing-platform to propaganda outlet. Hopefully more people start realizing it.
100%.
When I think about it for a while, my thoughts always come back to “What is truth? What is a fact? Why do I think my news consumption is more factual than this person’s news consumption?”
I’m not a philosopher, and I think it’s a tricky question to answer. I’ve found myself on the Stanford Philosophy Wiki. There’s a ton of good stuff in there.
Of course, on a practical level, you’re rarely going to be debating “what is a fact?” when you’re arguing with your MAGA relations. My “normal” answer is that I try to get my news from sources that have reputations for fact-checking / rigor (AP / Reuters etc etc).
However, if you’ve spent all your time consuming Fox / Newsmax / AM Radio in the late 90s / aughts, your mental model of AP / Reuters is not my mental model. Anything outside of your right-wing bubble is to be shinned. To you, AP and Reuters do not have a reputation for rigor. They’re part of a liberal conspiracy funded by the government and George Soros to demonize conservatives / brainwash the libs.
It’s a tricky problem. I feel like we’re in an era where the Dawn of the Internet / Social media is analogous to the advent of the printing press. We just don’t know how to handle the firehose of information.
There’s a huge part of me that thinks that recommendation algorithms need to be regulated.
Honestly, where it really breaks down for me is how they constantly portray other people as villains and tell you what their beliefs are.
There is no problem with gay rapists, immigrant murderers, trans baby-eaters, etc etc. No more than any other segment of society anyway.
I was taught not to always believe what others say about… others. If you want to know where someone stands, talk to them, don’t take a 3rd party’s word for it.
Although that doesn’t apply to people who confirmed super-liars.
You make a really excellent point.
Something similar is playing out with DOGE finding “waste” and “fraud.” Very little in the say if of evidence, much in the way of waving around papers at a press conference / shitposting on Twitter and screeching “Woke DEI spending has been slashed.”
Tbh, I get it. I understand why it works. Most people aren’t political junkies. Most people don’t really follow the news. They’re busy just trying to get through their day.
That said, I read a good comment once- “You might not care about politics, but politics cares about you.” I only wish more people understood that. Unfortunately, our economic system works against it.
Random aside, I wish we had strong labor unions in the US. They’d be very beneficial at this time.
It’s not only true for the right. The left has its own problems with propaganda, dogmatism, and fake news. Some of it resulting directly from trying to counter the effectiveness of the right wing. Extreme polarization is the outcome and discourse becomes impossible.
Change conservative to liberal, right leaning to Democrat and you’ve just described MeidasTouch. They’re nothing but mouthpieces for the DNC. The way that people like Rogan were mouthpieces for the RNC.
You’re not wrong but any cultural shift like this is enough to cling to optimism. If/when the fast food catches up to Trump and he croaks JD Vance will be the one trying to defend these trash policies. Him (or anybody else) are not going to be as effective bullshit artists…
LOOK HOW DESPERATE I AM FOR GOOD NEWS. LET ME HAVE THIS!!!
The Republicans aren’t looking for leadership or ideas, they’re looking for a strong man who beats his chest at “Soy boy rivals”
Vance… aint that guy
womp womp, isnt that what the right wingers say… Only they originally said it about a story about seperating an “illegal imigrant” 10 year old girl with downs syndrome from her parents and keeping her in a cage, if I recall correctly. And then they refused to apologize for it.
Not only that, but they very much acted like they were the ones who were owed an apology
So they replaced one form of garbage with another?
I hate to have to inform you of this, but if you don’t like leftists, and moderate leftists, you’re in the wrong social media platform.
We are sooner going to unite against class traitorism than we will tankies. Just an FYI we defederated from the tankies.
This comment here is why Lemmy will never get even a percent of reddit user numbers. Who gives a shit about that nonsense.
Good
The ability of Lemmy to alienate even center left liberals never ceases to amaze me. The only way to stop Trump is a broad alliance from center right to left, not some communist revolution fantasy.
Users of a platform complaining about the platform they are actively using never ceases to amaze me.
If you are trying to imply Democrats are leftists you are fucking delusional. Liberals don’t understand class unity and do everything they can to prevent it from happening.
Where in the fuck did I say anything like that? Stop projecting your own shit on to me. The Democrats are a corporatist right wing party that I only am willing to vote for because the opposition is literally fascist. Just because I am stuck in a broken system doesn’t mean that I support it in any way other than harm reduction. Try and look at my name again before you assume shit about me.
The people you are voting for are literal fascists. Your name is irrelevant, if you are supporting enablers of fascism like Democrats that makes you a democrat
TIL The Baha’i Faith doesn’t exist. You are being tankie-ish with this gatekeeping. We have exactly two options. No more, no less. Until we can get rid of our first genuinely honest mistake, FPTP will consistently make the vote a decision between literal evil, and harm reduction. I vote for harm reduction, despite calling them and telling them how to be better once a week. I don’t have a better option, because sitting out allows fascism to take over.
Please tell me, a former USN Captain, an entrepreneur, and a finally retired food Safety manager, IT manager, and QA manager, as well as a literal Jack of All Trades, a master of a few, and a literal Nuclear Power Program Electronics Technician Instructor, what the ever loving fuck I can do? I am not allowed to be part of a political party, I’m only allowed to vote, protest, and take up arms against threats to my community.
The first two I’m already doing.
YOU have 2 options, you can’t get rid of a system you’re actively participating in. This mentality is like that of the abused spouse, ‘he beats me but I love him so much’ so the beating either gets worse, and/or the spouse is eventually killed from it.
The rest of us will refuse to participate in a system of exploitation and death. You as an individual person can’t do shit to create change, millions of us collectively can.
Unsurprising .ml
I was wondering why my dad texted me today to tell me George Soros was planning to fund anti Trump podcasts
crazy to me that he’s thinking the guy who might be funding anti Trump podcasts is a threat and not the richest man in the world who has agents infiltrating and collecting data on every government agency. Like, is dudes tin foil hat on right?
It is amazing how fast their propaganda machines work. They will anticipate breaking stories and provide bullshit lines of reasoning to discredit them before they are even widely shared.
I don’t think it’s that amazing when you consider there’s multiple groups staffed by PhD professors with decades of expertise being paid to sit around all day and anticipate this stuff. Hell Trisha Paytas does this on her own .
The thing that kids me is why we’re all so terrible at finding counters to this stuff.
They’ve had decades to finely tune the propaganda machine — utilizing surveillance capitalism, big data, and analytics — A/B testing their PsyOps campaigns in real-time.
The whole Cambridge Analytica debacle occurred almost a decade ago, and every criminal involved went on to bigger and better criminal enterprises. Major political parties across western “democracies” were directly involved in treasonous disinformation campaigns against their own citizens — a multinational corporate oligarchy were directly involved — that’s why there were zero consequences…
We’ve already been living in corporate dictatorships for a long time. We just didn’t know it yet.
Everything you say is true. You can also trace this form of psychological warfare back to WWII. Propaganda got a real bad rap because of how it was used to manipulate people around the world. It was repackaged and renamed as public relations.
This should have been the tipping point of governments rejecting propaganda and protecting their citizens from its effects. Instead they decided to use the best of psychology and sociology to continue to manipulate people. This is a basic violation of human rights so egregious that any government that allows it has betrayed its own people.
We’ve already been living in corporate dictatorships for a long time. We just didn’t know it yet.
Can’t really overstate that.
Why don’t they list MeidasTouch in the headline?
Better title: “Pro-America podcast MeidasTouch dethrones shitty pro-donvict podcast in the charts”
Eeeeh. I can’t be the only one who won’t touch something described as “pro-America” with a ten foot pole.
I think it’s a mistake to let the right winger take claim to everything related to patriotism and national symbols.
I will say, before the election, i was watching them pretty hard. I dropped it for my own mental health after the election though. I wasn’t a huge fan of Ben Meiselas because he became more and more sensational but I really liked Michael Popoks legal commentary. I felt like Ben started shading into the tone and repetition patterns of the far right podcasters but either way, they both always had their facts straight and everything they said and predicted was backed by evidence and legal experience. Popok is a smart fuckin dude though.
Also, I’d say they’re “pro democracy” as that’s the line they always pushed unless it changed after the election.
If you want to ease into it just check out Popoks stuff as it’s way more objective. I learned so much about the legal/judicial system from him and it was all validated by other sources.
Agree popok is the juice on that channel. Agnifilo used to be there a lot too
Aww, did she leave? She didn’t have popoks stage presence but she was still sharp as fuck
i think she might be busy? nah don’t ring a bell?
I’m still subscribed but otherwise I share your thoughts exactly. Is also how I heard of the gal defending Luigi, I really enjoyed her stuff with Popok. I still feel like I can’t get back into any of it anymore though. Like what does it matter if everything they say is factually accurate if at the end of the day the law doesn’t matter and facts don’t seem to matter.
newsweek.com, a known right wing source, thats why.
I prefer the Crooked Media shows, especially Pod Save America. But I usually check out the most recent MeidasTouch when I’m all cought up with my podcasts.
I’ve been listening to pod on an off for years. Quality is always there and they’re upfront about their positions so I feel like I’m listening to actual discussion, not someone trying to convince me. I need to check out MeidasTouch I guess
I used to listen to pod save America but got turned off in 2015. I’ve always felt they were too much of the pearl clutching DNC type. I like medias more than something like chapo trap house. I generally don’t like things that talk about current events though. The ones I like are just preaching to the choir and don’t really accomplish things for me.
Hmm, one success speaks more to that one podcast’s popularity than a political shift.
Meidas is #35 on Spotify. Not sure how that’s “dethroning” Rogan. 😂
Apple and YouTube are way more dominant in the podcast market than Spotify is, though neither of them show Meidas above Rogan either, so I don’t know where these numbers are coming from.
Exactly! I’m showing these people that these are made up numbers, and I give one example, Spotify, and THATS what they’re hung up on. Not that the article is lying to them. Like…you can’t fake this level of stupidity.
Industry publications regularly have access to metrics that storefronts don’t display, though. I’m willing to believe that they have data supporting this, but it’s weird that it’s not being shown anywhere.
You’re calling me stupid because I respectfully informed you that your source didn’t apply to all podcasts and then went a step further and recommended a better (and free) platform to enjoy podcasts from? Not cool.
I don’t really care if this podcast is #1 or not. I care that Spotify is bad at podcasts and I like to share that there are better ways because I myself didn’t know any better until somebody told me.
Because Spotify is just one source…
Every site I’ve looked up has Meidas at 20+. Not sure what you’re getting at.
Spotify is not the home of all podcasts, and it’s actually a really shitty way to get your podcasts imo. Other people pointed me toward AntennaPod (which is free and open source) and it’s just straight up better. There are several advantages, but the only one I needed to hear about was not needing to connect to a server to be able to listen to a podcast I had already downloaded to my phone. If I didn’t listen to a podcast for a couple seconds from my home wifi before getting in the car, I’d just be driving for a few minutes in silence until Spotify could verify that I was a paying customer before they’d let me listen to free content already downloaded to my device. Ridiculous.
Not shitting on you, btw. Just shitting on Spotify and hopefully introducing some people to a thing that’s made my life better.
Pocket Casts is my favorite, but AP is a great option that I used for quite a while.
I second Pocket Casts, but I was grandfathered in, so I’m not getting the new user experience, though I only take advantage of the desktop app.
Mm, fair point. I was also grandfathered in. But if I recall correctly, the free stuff is still pretty great.
I wish they’d make a podcast app with a playback feature that’s not just a single seekbar. If for some reason you need to scroll through something, having a small bar represent an hour or two doesn’t give much granularity. I’ve been using audiopo, where your entire screen becomes the playback bar, but it’s not really a podcast app so it doesn’t have a good way to organize your files.
We don’t really have a good UI solution to that anywhere, though.
The closest I’ve seen is with longform video apps, where scrubbing along the progress bar pops up a little video preview, but it’s not consistently available, it’s a half-baked idea, and if I had a dollar for every time the preview didn’t match up to what you actually got when you hit play, I’d probably have enough to hire someone to fix it.
In podcasts, I think chapters is the best idea going, but it’s not well-implemented either.
I think scrubbing along the progress bar is just a bad visual metaphor. I don’t know what’s better, but I just don’t think it’s great.
Oh wow. I’ve never heard of Pocket Casts.
Of their top 100 podcasts - Meidas Touch is not even listen. Thank you for this.
I’m not entirely sure that counts. Last I heard, their “top x” lists were just aggregates of other storefronts’ “top x” lists.
Antenna Pod is great! Lately I’ve been using Podcast Republic and I can’t remember why I tried it specifically, but importantly it has very in-depth retention and download rules so I can exclude previews of the paid feed that are only 20 minutes long, sort podcasts by date or by title (handy if you pull in LibriVox books by RSS feed), create a podcast from a folder of files, and various other handy features.
Spotify is where less than a quarter of people listen to podcasts
Joe is only on Spotify
Edit: okay apparently in the past week or two he became non exclusive. Funny timing.
He’s seeing other podcast providers now?
Seemingly so, such a shame, they seemed so happy together
Suck it, Daniel Ek
I think this is the chart they are talking about, if anyone’s curious.
Less than a month into the new administration, the rise of the left-leaning MeidasTouch to become the country’s most popular podcast indicates a potential shift in tone currently resonating with Americans.
Is it actually Leftist or is it liberal? I’d welcome a number one Leftist show, but I don’t think most USA citizens are politically literate enough to know the difference. We’ve been brainwashed by decades of propaganda to think liberalism is synonymous with Leftist.
If “leftists” oppose the definition of liberalism then they’re not leftists.
Wow, I didn’t think I’d have need to copy / paste a post from thirty seconds ago!
I don’t think you’re as familiar with the meaning of terms as you think. Some people call the NYT left-leaning. They absolutely are not. They are a liberal publication and that has a different meaning.
This is what I meant when I said USA citizens have been corrupted by decades of propaganda. Conservative idiots genuinely believe socialism is about making people eat bugs as opposed to helping people out and doing things for their betterment. And liberals genuinely believe that they are Leftists.
Ooooh those propogandists promoting sinister ideologies such as…
civil rights and protections against discrimination on basis of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, etc…
Plus fair working conditions and collective bargaining. Spooky stuff.
Wooosh
You think liberalism is about those topics but it’s actually about those topics plus corporate greed. I want the last part to go in the trash. So, Woosh bud. You know less than you think you do about political parties.
Can you explain what you mean by this? I don’t see how recognizing the ideological difference between leftism & liberalism makes someone not a leftist… they differ pretty strongly on their central economic thesis, which is sort of a big deal given how influential the economy is in… like literally every area of our society & political systems…
The definition of liberalism is that a person believes in the enshrinement of basic human rights, equality, and equity such that a state or government body cannot infringe upon those rights unless its inaction would be a detriment to the rights of others.
People who oppose liberalism generally conflate liberalism with capitalism and capitalism with western nations. Basically, if you oppose liberals you’re just a piece of shit.
I mean, this is just factually wrong. Usually these days when people refer to liberalism it’s shorthand for neoliberalism & understood as such. The only way you can make the reply you just made in good faith is if you are somehow blissfully unaware of the main tenants of the modern liberal movement for at least the past 30-40 years… and even then it’s not like classical liberalism was anything other than favourable to free market capitalists.
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They self identify as progressive and it seems that they are, so definitely not liberals. I stopped clicking Brian Tyler Cohen videos though because he does clickbait bullshit like “trump gets NIGHTMARE legal news” or “trump campaign SUNK” and it ends up being some legal bullshit they have to re-file because they messed it up the first time, or something stupid like that. Seriously just scroll through his shorts. It’s awful.
I stopped watching him when he did his show from that expensive looking booth at the DNC.
Gotta play the YouTube algorithm sadly
Soft clickbait I don’t mind, but BTC’s titles are “the sky is falling” levels of bullshit. I didn’t even block his videos, I just stopped clicking and they completely fell out of my feed.
It’s a shame because it’s not bad content, I’m just sick of clicking a video expecting some big news involving actual consequences for terrible people, only to be told they will get away with a finger wag at worst.
We need to start calling ourselves something else. Liberal and Leftist isn’t doing us any favors and is keeping people alienated from messages that may otherwise reach them. Maybe Centrists?? The labels are keeping us divided, but Centrist is like saying you are a rational human, and I think many people consider themselves to be that. Need to have a more unifying “label”.
Centrist conveys not having any clear ideology. I am for helping people.
This will only lead to the workers’ cause being diluted. Leftism is socialism. It is anti capitalism. It is named in opposition to the right wing deliberately. The dichotomy exists for a reason. Our enemies are capitalists. They are the ruling class. Diluting our cause achieves nothing but losing revolutionary momentum.
We need louder leftist voices. We need the messaging to get as far and wide as possible. The far right has been winning at this. They own the tech companies, the social media giants, they run the algorithms. We need to push people further and further off of those platforms and amplify leftist voices as loud as we can. We need more propaganda. We need more organization.
They specifically said “left-leaning” to stop people like you from asking stupid questions like that. Stop gatekeeping anti-fascism.
I don’t think you’re as familiar with the meaning of terms as you think. Some people call the NYT left-leaning. They absolutely are not. They are a liberal publication and that has a different meaning.
This is what I meant when I said USA citizens have been corrupted by decades of propaganda. Conservative idiots genuinely believe socialism is about making people eat bugs as opposed to helping people out and doing things for their betterment. And liberals genuinely believe that they are Leftists. But go ahead and call my question stupid.
I wanna see TrueAnon up there…
My friend. May Brace bless you and keep you.
Next up, QAA Podcast.
This guy’s close. Tried watching it and it was hard. But then again I never tried Rogan as he seems like a turd. Maybe people just want loud obnoxious content that doesn’t teach you much… Guess it feels better then it being on the right wing nazi sphere…
How are you sure that you haven’t bee brain washed?
The left-right spectrum is a construct. It doesn’t line up at all with reality. In reality, tribalism is 90% of politics. Most people vote the way their parents do. Some rebellious types don’t, and instead just conform to whatever their peer group thinks on political matters. Ideology is a post-facto rationalization for all of this.
Currently the “leftist” tribe is becoming more and more into alignment with the fascist tribe. You both show a common disdain for those in the opposition “liberal” tribe after all. And that’s what really matters in all of this mess. Leftists have joined fascist movements in the past, they just come up with rationalizations (which they have a lot of practice with) for why that’s the ideologically correct thing to do.
“We’re all just cavemen throwing spears at the other village” is not a tremendously helpful or thought-provoking insight, no matter how much truth there is to it.
Government policy is definitely not some illusory construct no matter how poorly the public comprehends or interacts with it.
When someone is throwing a spear at you how much time do you devote to trying to categorize what ideology they’re in?
When fascism enters the picture there’s only three groups of people. Those that support it, those that oppose it, and those that do nothing. Which of these three groups are you in?
So you just watched that spear get thrown at you and then you took time deciding to categorise it as fascism. Now you’re taking a bunch of time explaining that your definition of fascism is a weirdly all-encompassing version of it that fits both left and right and ignores historians and scholars. You have new definitions for other things too that most other people are too brainwashed to understand.
Don’t really practice what you preach, do you?
And yet again.
I don’t think you’re as familiar with the meaning of terms as you think. Some people call the NYT left-leaning. They absolutely are not. They are a liberal publication and that has a different meaning.
This is what I meant when I said USA citizens have been corrupted by decades of propaganda. Conservative idiots genuinely believe socialism is about making people eat bugs as opposed to helping people out and doing things for their betterment. And liberals genuinely believe that they are Leftists.
And yet again, you’re obsessed with meaningless categorization that has no basis in reality. You’ve been conditioned into doing this as a way to show loyalty to your particular tribe. It’s just a vain effort to prove you’re tribe is smarter and therefore superior to the other tribes.
The real smart thing to do is to recognize the threat to everyone else one particular tribe has become. And work with everyone else to oppose it. But your caveman brain has become to accustomed towards throwing rocks at a particular tribe you’ll just go on doing it when after they’ve been beaten down to the ground while the real threat gets ready to take you down.
This obsessive need to categorize politics to know who is in your tribe so you know whether to agree with them isn’t actually all that smart.
Tribe, tribe, tribe. Oh look, tribalism. I’m not engaging with you. This is drivel.
I’m 14 and this is deep vibes. Do they respect human rights or not
Fascism is very specifically a right wing ideology. You’re thinking of authoritarianism, which can go both ways. There is no such thing as lefty fascism.
Yeah there’s some of the rationalization I’m talking about. There’s not a lot of daylight between the politics of the US and China right now. Both have authoritarian leaders that push a narrative about the need for a strongman to run the economy and protect their respective countries from the evil foreigners. Both want to expand their territory. Putin is the same, of course.
Fascism is just a scam to make people accept having an authoritarian leadership. There’s common tropes they use in their propaganda to emotionally manipulate people into supporting it. Glorious past, evil foreigners took things from us, we need a strong man (and it has to be a man because misogyny is a big part of it) to make things right. It’s all bullshit no matter where you put it on your precious spectrum. But it’s bullshit that works. And when it does work all that matters is what you do to oppose it. How you categorize it means jack shit.
Red fascism has been an accusation that’s been leveled by real socialists at authoritarian socialists for a century. The only problem with the term is that liberals don’t actually know what it means or how important the red part is and start harping on about horseshoes (all while ignoring all the fascism and genocide they themselves support out of convienence)
US liberals are generally center-right. They mean progressives.
Only if by “generally center-right” you mean solely in comparison to European concepts of right/left. Most of the world is still vaguely authoritarian and right leaning.
I mean in comparison to the global definition. Those trapped in countries right of center (like the US) are still fighting for progressivism against oligarchy
That is an incredibly euro-centric POV. Your notion of where the center lies is relative.
Nope. South America begs to differ.
Right now there’s only fascists and those that oppose them. Kicking those opposed to fascism just after they were kicked to the ground by the electorate puts you on which side of things?
If the ones kicked to the ground are the ones that did everything in their hands to give fascists the government, yes, they deserve to be kicked some more.
Hillary vs Bernie? DNC chose Hillary. Joe vs Bernie? DNC chose Joe. 7 months for the election and Biden steps down? DNC chooses Harris “with the power of my finger”. For fuck’s sake! France had 6 weeks to prepare an election and they even had time to arrange coalitions between different parties! And to dig deeper, AOC does everything she can to help Harris and they thank her by trying to kick her out and change her by a guy with cancer.
Were you kicking at them when it was Trump vs. Hilary, Trump vs. Joe, and Trump vs. Kamala?
You’re just rationalizing why you’re constantly attacking anyone that opposes fascist Trump. A lot of wards against the opposition to Trump and zero words against Trump. You’re just Trump’s proxy minion.
I was against Hillary and against Joe because they are too right wing. And the DNC chose the rightmost candidate in the primaries.
And Trump, if it was for me, would have had the same destiny Biff Tannen. After all Biff was based on him.
Oh God, not this hexbear twisted logic. Back to Shillville.
Leftists would care what you think about it if liberals hadn’t just spent a century killing and persecuting them.
Being a leftist is not the same thing as being on your national left, cope.
Liberalism isn’t Leftism. It’s corporate.
Can you imagine if every time someone pointed out the difference between Democrats & Republicans, we had to sit through endless comments of people speaking up to say things like “don’t gatekeep fascism, mom!!” or “not this moneybear twisted logic!!”?
Liberalism and Leftism broadly disagree on their respective core economic tenants. They’re ideologically further apart than Democrats and Republicans. And yet, you struggle to comprehend them as distinct entities without getting upset and triggered… if you seriously consider it divisive to understand that diversity of opinion on the left is good and a sign of a healthy democracy, I don’t know what to tell you.
You need to take a good long hard look at what you’re promoting here. Not everybody needs to think the same or adhere to exactly the same ideology in order to be deserving of respect and work together with others for common causes. We don’t need everyone to be grouped under one label for collective action and agreeable democratic reforms to take place. In fact, it’s important that we aren’t grouped that way… it’s detrimental to us all regardless of whether you’re liberal or left.
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Of course. Anybody who disagrees with your personal narrow sliver of opinion must just be a Russian bot. /s
Thank you for proving to every person reading that you’re only commenting in bad faith.
Center right liberal
Its shitlib echo chamber stuff
Oh, so like Pod Save America. Ok, I’ll avoid the shit out of it. Thanks!
Pod save America isnt what surpassed Rogan, it was Mediastouch, they are garbage
leftist, almost always comes from right wing sources. in the usa there isnt a true political left.
There is… but it’s not the Democrats.
Is that his wife smiling menacingly to the right of the thumbnail?
She tripping balls or something prob.
Just listened a bit. These guys deep dive quite a bit, but I hope that this bump is from people who are previous Trump voters that now realize how fucked they are by Trump and get angry.
Unlikely. Trump is a cult. He can do no wrong.
Not with that attitude. But go off! keep perpetuating it
What else could he do that he hasn’t already done?
Apologize and show humilty and remorse for his actions and those he’s insipred and enabled?
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Shit, I think we’ve all been asking ourselves that on a regular basis for years now and here we are still regularly surprised.
And would it harm him? Probably not.
“Heil Satan!”
Might lose 3% of his cultists. The rest will be “I’ve always been cool with Satan, just like Russia!”
Leave Satan out of this.
It’s been 9 years and an unfathomable amount of indictable behaviors in broad daylight recorderded in 4K… I’m done holding out hope for these people, they are sick.
He’s created that in large part because of the media environment around him. Many republicans were upset and outraged on Jan 6th until they heard the fox news, rogan, etc line
Change the media consumption and a lot will follow from there. Changes to which media are more dominate are going to matter more than people think
Trump is a conman and excellent salesman.
In a cult he could say whatever and they’d believe him. This did not work out well when he tried to get MAGA vaccinated with the vaccines “he” produced.
Instead he floats everything under the rainbow and runs with whatever gets the most cheers.
https://youtu.be/klYjLMJ4z3E?t=646 Timestamp 10:47 for a cult expert explaining it.
Do they actually do interviews with experts? Or is it just two dudes pretending to be experts and presenting (mis)information
Yes they do. They also interview a lot of the Democratic congress critters. The lawyer that represents Luigi has been a regular contributor to the Meidas Touch for the last year or so.
Jon Stewart’s podcast is also good if you want interviews with experts. He also gets far more nerdy and into the weeds in his podcast than he ever was allowed to on TV or streaming
Bias fucking bullshit. Why is Joe Rogan named and not the podcast that usurped him? Media fucking blows
They name it in the first sentence, and at least for me, given it’s longevity and word of mouth I know what Joe Rogan implies, but if you said “MeidasTouch” in the headline, I’d have no idea the implication of that shift, since I haven’t listened to either of the two.
You can do both in a title.
If they just put the name I would have no idea who they are. Writing the full name plus “,an anti-Trump podcast” would be a really long title with extra info they get in the first sentence.
Wanting to stop at the headline is a bad habit. Just click the article and complain if the name isn’t right there.
Be that as it may, we know that the majority of readers wouldn’t read past the title. Knowing this, NewsWeek still decided to not include the name of the anti-trump podcast which dethroned Joe Rogan’s podcast. I think this is the bias that they are referring to.
“Anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch dethrones Rogan in charts”
That’s two fewer words than the original headline. 🤷♂️
You can, but clickbait rags want you to click to find out what they intentionally left out of the title.
Wdym? It literally says the podcast name is “The MeidasTouch Podcast” in the first sentence.
Per the other comment, headlines. Internet dwellers read the headline to decide whether or not to read something. You can think of a headline as involuntary information injection.
So Newsweek wants everyone to see Joe Rogan’s name but not MeidasTouch.
Headlines are important
Surprised hoe has anytime to podcast while he is dick riding musk and his billionaire pals
Surprised hoe!
