I just saw that Jamie from The Antifada is doing a new podcast called "Everybody Loves Communism". I have a lot in my podcatcher queue already, so I was wondering if anyone else had tried it, before I take the time to listen to it.
I stopped listening to The Antifada a while back when she was still on it, after the leftcom stuff started to be too much for me, which is why I even ask lol.
No, I didn't know it existed but I'll give it a go. I always liked Jamie when I listened to the Antifada and was extremely soured on the Majority Report based on how those libs (except :michael-laugh:) treated her.
Fuck Sam Seder in particular. The level of sexism he'd throw at her any time she dared disagree with him (on the same side!) was absolutely disgusting. He treats libertarians arguing about consent laws with more respect.
The tells were there with Michael too; Sam would start seething and Michael had to power through it with good humor until Sam remembered Michael was his friend. It seemed like a cute dynamic, but with time and context it feels pretty toxic.
It took me a while to notice as I was never a regular listener/viewer, but had gotten a few normie lib people to use it and Democracy Now as slightly better alternative to their diets of NPR or BBC News radio (on each side of the Atlantic respectively) so dipped in and out. But yeah, by the time I could identify who was talking without looking I was finding it pretty gross.
Yeah I liked her as well, I only just even learned that she wasn't on Antifada anymore, which is also where I saw this new podcast. I just wasn't too interested if it was more leftcom stuff lol. I never listened to the Majority Report, but some of that treatment definitely came through in episodes of Antifada where she talked about it.
Please report back your impression though!
Yeah, the deep leftcom stuff often had me skipping through or just taking a break for a while. There was definitely periods where I was basically tuning in to listen to Jamie talk about organising vaguely lefty goth parties more than for the politics. It was very much a 'background while I'm working' sort of pod for me and I stopped before she even left I think.
Same here pretty much. Once I got down to only listening to a few episodes here and there, I just unsubscribed. At the point I stopped, I think it was after they had switched to alternating episodes, but I may be misremembering that
That rings a bell for me too actually.