My mom is an MSNBC liberal (😭), but is surprisingly receptive sometimes. She values my opinion.
She told me she wanted an app to listen to podcasts. I did send her the page for Citations Needed. I feel like this could be a good transition away from MSNBC.
Any other recommendations? Even if it’s just an episode?
Side note, I sent her a Parenti quote and she said she liked it 😏
I have only listened to one ep of Citations Needed (so far) and I started with ep 5 “Purging Socialists of Color from History”. I really liked how well they went over the facts that always get left out. I went with my SRA chapter to the International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC. And even when there were pictures with information about individual figures their anti-capitalist beliefs/stances or memberships to socialist/communist parties were left out entirely. The liberals that constantly invoke these brave folks’ names and actions make damn sure to stop short of truly depicting actual history. If the fact that they were leftists somehow makes people turn away, then there isn’t a point in pretending to “honor” those that fought for equality.
It isn’t one specific episode, but the mini-podcast series done by Behind the Bastards called “Behind the Insurrections” is 6 eps long. The final ep is about how the rich in the US were very very close to kicking off a fascist coup. So even though the host of the show is pretty openly not a fan of MLM communism. He is more fair about admitting when communists of this type were doing much much more than the US or other western nations in the efforts to fight fascism and the disproportional amount of losses of life in said fight were from the USSR.
Blowback season two is also not super long and is super good for seeing how Cuba has been grossly oppressed by the US. It is very eyeopening and gives a good example as to why they have at times been aggressive with clamping down on dissent. It isn’t paranoia if someone is out to get you. The false flag coup attempts and assassination attempts mean that their guard must stay up. And that the US is literally the reason that they seem “poor”. We have constantly kept massive embargoes on them and go out of our way to stop other nations from truly trading with them (if they want to keep trading with us).
Robert Evans does have some decent stuff and has his place on the lefty pipeline, but I can’t listen to him anymore with his strong anticommunism (of real socialist countries) and his terrible takes on Syria and Libya.
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Probably Cancelled Podcast. Main host is a lady, have only listened to a couple but the topics seem varied and very in-depth (listened to their episodes on the porn industry and Malthusianism, wanted to listen to a CIA one next), with a focus on women’s issues / sex issues. It’s certified Marxist-Leninist 😎 still I’d check it out personally first, can’t attest to total quality after only 2 episodes
I’ve listened to a couple and liked it. I’d have to screen some of those though, my mom definitely wouldn’t want to listen to anything about porn.
