For the record: Any podcast that claims to be "left-wing" in their politics and identity but actively has pirate feeds of their bonus content taken down are not actually leftist. Like, I totally get having a Patreon and making money to live off of/fund a podcast, that's fine by me (no ethical consumption under capitalism... etc) but if you're actively trying to restrict pirated access to said special content, rather than just letting it slide, then you're kinda shitty. Like, is it really so bad if a small subset of fans who don't/can't afford to pay for your content get access to the special, exclusive content? Are you not making enough money as is?

This isn't directed at any one podcast, and obviously we don't know who/what led to the takedown of the rss feeds, but I just thought this was a valid point worth sharing.