Don’t worry lol it’s an audio format and you pretty much read their politics right. I think I listened to it for a year before realizing Hussein and Riley were even different people lmao
Lmao, I don’t hate them and I’d recommend it to anyone who wants a laugh and has a good enough understand of ML to recognise their garbage takes when they happen but I won’t pretend to be a regular listener.
That said the whole intro sketch about debating in the market place of ideas and the quinoa kymer rouge made me howl.
I find them very entertaining. I think they’re generally good and they haven’t jumped on the Ukraine band wagon as far as I know. Or at the very least they tend to avoid the topic. Milo is hilarious but has piss poor takes on current and historical socialist countries and similarly Alice occasionally has channy/memey quips about the USSR. Riley generally seems to steer away from this and acts reserved so I suspect either he thinks this memey USSR stuff is based on poor surface-lever analysis or he may be some type of communist but not want to directly contradict them. Or I wouldn’t be surprised if he is just trying balance an audience that ranges from radlib to communist since most often these topics are avoided, and it seems quite intentional.
Another podcast with a similar dynamic is QAnon Anonymous, though they are a bit more lib. Similarly, they seem to avoid, to a certain extent, topics that would pit communists and radlibs. Travis is a dyed in the wool lib, though he seems well meaning and has some vaguely anticapitalist sympathies; Jake plays the dumb funny guy; and I suspect Julian may secretly be a communist (or adjacent), possibly even keeping under the radar of the other hosts. I think they recently had on the two guys that do The Dollop and Dave Anthony similarly seems com/com-adjacent (though I don’t like the format of his show that much). Together they really brought out the anti-capitalist elements of some of the hosts.
Trashfuture is good at looking at some news and economic things, but some of their AES takes aren’t great. Anyone else have an opinion about them?
I’ve listened to trash future and this is my take as well.
It’s a load of white British (and one canadian) socialists so I expected what I got from it.
Good jokes, questionable takes outside of the imperial core.
I think one of them is a different ethnicity, I think his name’s Hussein. Also Alice is muslim but I think she converted so I have no idea.
But yeah they’re not as based as the deprogram or anything.
Oh 💀 now I feel like trash.
It’s the sort or “oh we are smart westerners who while socialist, must engage with capitalism” and its like errrrrgggghhhhhh.
I was meant to go see one on their comedy tour but never did as had flu 😭
Don’t worry lol it’s an audio format and you pretty much read their politics right. I think I listened to it for a year before realizing Hussein and Riley were even different people lmao
Lmao, I don’t hate them and I’d recommend it to anyone who wants a laugh and has a good enough understand of ML to recognise their garbage takes when they happen but I won’t pretend to be a regular listener.
That said the whole intro sketch about debating in the market place of ideas and the quinoa kymer rouge made me howl.
I find them very entertaining. I think they’re generally good and they haven’t jumped on the Ukraine band wagon as far as I know. Or at the very least they tend to avoid the topic. Milo is hilarious but has piss poor takes on current and historical socialist countries and similarly Alice occasionally has channy/memey quips about the USSR. Riley generally seems to steer away from this and acts reserved so I suspect either he thinks this memey USSR stuff is based on poor surface-lever analysis or he may be some type of communist but not want to directly contradict them. Or I wouldn’t be surprised if he is just trying balance an audience that ranges from radlib to communist since most often these topics are avoided, and it seems quite intentional.
Another podcast with a similar dynamic is QAnon Anonymous, though they are a bit more lib. Similarly, they seem to avoid, to a certain extent, topics that would pit communists and radlibs. Travis is a dyed in the wool lib, though he seems well meaning and has some vaguely anticapitalist sympathies; Jake plays the dumb funny guy; and I suspect Julian may secretly be a communist (or adjacent), possibly even keeping under the radar of the other hosts. I think they recently had on the two guys that do The Dollop and Dave Anthony similarly seems com/com-adjacent (though I don’t like the format of his show that much). Together they really brought out the anti-capitalist elements of some of the hosts.
On QAA I think one of them mentioned something about being a commie, though I don’t know the strain.