Is it though?

“The Cigarette—which sounds really, really good, and has a frankly incredible cover—is out in October.”

Yeah, there’s a degree of distance nowadays which, again, I think is probably healthy given what they’re actually doing with their show vs. actual organizing, but they’ve done a lot of work hihglighting things like teacher’s strikes, SESTA/FOSTA opposition. You could argue that “raising awareness” is probably not that…

Chapo is fine but Cumtown and Red Scare are very very bad. Within Chapo, I am sorry to report, the guys are fine but Amber is always a disaster.

Chapo were a little closer with DSA not too long ago and they work with candidates, donate to/highlight causes, but they’re pretty adamant that people not view listening to their podcast as “doing politics” so they aren’t necessarily out at the meetings themselves, which is probably healthy.

Do you have examples of them demonstrating being misinformed? I’ll agree with most people here, Amber sucks and she seems to be going out of her way to alienate herself (although her written work is 180-degrees from her awful in-person takes), but the group is pretty well educated. Listen to any of Matt’s “inebriated…

Every person I met doing envelope stuffing at DSA immeditately after Trump’s election said they were there because of Chapo, and every person I know who actually works directly for unions doing labor organizing likes Chapo, but ymmv.

My bad, I don’t intend to slander all MLs. Just, you know, anybody who’s out here calling Kim Jong Un a vanguard of the revolution or whatever. Which is a thing I’ve seen on Facebook!

Hah, it came about as a pejorative used mostly by Trotskyists to refer to MLs who supported Soviet efforts to suppress the Hungarian counterrevolution, but now seemingly (in my experience) gets lobbed at any communist who opposes US imperialism and supports national self-determination. That said, I was confused by the…

hold on, who’s being the lazy provocateur here? the Red Scare aren’t fucking leftists, they don’t advocate for anything, their politics are incoherent and only vaguely defined, they hate the DSA and they don’t even vote. It’s literally just two girls in Brooklyn doing edgy commentary who’ve built a niche following by…

Maybe I’M misunderstanding. I’ve always seen “tankie” used to refer to authcoms who go out of their way to defend human rights violations because they’re committed by nominally communist states, and/or advocate for the same today.

I mean, you don’t have to be a tankie to acknowledge that enlisting in the US army is at best making you complicit in incredible acts of murder and terror.

Cum Town is absolutely not a leftist podcast nor does it pretend to be, and implying that one of the hosts of Red Scare should have to answer for her fiancé is the sort of thing you’d scold someone for. I guess it’s not surprising you made this mistake since you admitted that you’ve never listened to it..

Chapo started because Felix and I think Will were on Street Fight to talk about Sons of Anarchy.  Been listening to street fight for like 6 or 7 years, heard Chapo from the beginning. Author lumping them in with Red Scare in regard is bad writing and journalism but hey its Jezebel 

The Chapo guys 100% believe that white supremacy is a thing.

I second this opinion Street Fight rules. Brett and Bryan are the best

1. many of your colleagues have actually been on Chapo, because it’s a fairly good and informative show that’s not at all in the same category as Red Scare and Cum Town

I dunno about Red Scare cause I’m not dumb enough to listen to it, but I can tell you for certain that Chapo has done a lot of episodes looking directly at white supremacy.

the idea that Cum Town is political is hilarious and rather telling 

You identify the problem, “Government spend can artificially manipulate the market and they get taken advantage of by private companies” yet you seem to want to hand things over to said private companies who are more interested in grifting than serving society.