I was sleeping on this podcast till now because I’m lazy. But yesterday I decided to go through the episodes/clips on YouTube and wow they are good! I’ve no idea how they manage to get so many awesome guests - Richard Wolff, Zizek, Chomsky, then you’ve got Nina Turner and Cornel West, there’s Boots Riley, it’s just incredible. And all of them are so honest and upfront and open when talking. I’ve never seen Wolff this animated and lively when talking to someone else or even on his own show! It’s incredible.
EDIT - What the fuck happened in the comments?
It seems impossible to me that she isn’t hiding her power level for the sake of the show and her credibility as a Blue Check Mark. She gets soooo close and ask such leading questions to her guest
If she’s afraid to go there because of a blue check on Twitter, then is it really want different than simply not being a socialist?
Seems to me her strategy is to platform people to her left/build a leftist pipeline. If she can pretend (or actually be, doesn’t really matter) to be a lib and also signal boost something like The Gravel Institute or Struggle Session, seems worth trying.
I could be convinced that building a leftist pipeline by pretending to a lib is a fool’s errand, and that bullying is the only effective method, but I haven’t been yet.
I agree that she’s going to be a good entry for libs, but imagining her as a secret communist isn’t healthy.
She isn’t hiding her power level. There’s no 6D chess. Grow up man. People are what they are and you’re just projecting.
If she’s a communist why would she keep wasting time on bourgeois state bullshit. Have you ever met a communist who doesn’t profess his beliefs proudly.
What credibility? Everyone in the establishment already hates her
