I mean I’ll take your word for it but yeah I just perused some of their episode descriptions and I really don’t know (or care lol) that much about UK politics so not sure how that’ll affect my enjoyability. Definitely will give them a shot though

might not be exactly what you’re looking for

I’m guessing because the hosts aren’t leftists? Or is there a different reason

there’s a reason it became the ad-hoc rallying point for the online left

That’s a good point, I’ll try to find the episodes you mentioned

Vijay Prashad might interest you

Here’s a talk he gave on china, he seems like a well rounded and funny guy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8w3ONjv6Y

There’s also Richard Wolff and David Harvey.

This depresses me for some reason.

About 1 in 3 men ages 18 to 24 years reported no sexual activity in the past year, according to a new studyTrusted Source published in JAMA Network Open. (Note: this is pre covid)

I could be totally wrong, but I’m going to guess you’re someone for whom sex is easy to come by, and so you’ll never really be able to understand the perspective of someone for whom having sex or other relationships is difficult. I don’t necessarily disagree with what you’re saying (I’m not the person you’re responding to) but it’s amazing and insulting just how out of touch you come off as. To have sex requires a lot of personal effort on part of the person who wants sex, and that’s true, but it is absolutely no where near as easy as you make it seem, especially in the modern western world where we are all atomized and alienated from each other.

Like you mentioned earlier “just use dating apps or hookup subreddits” which is just so detached from (heterosexual) men’s experiences on these platforms that it’s almost hilarious. I could go into more detail but you seem very set in your own perspective so I don’t think there’s a point.

Don’t worry, I get what you’re saying. The person you’re responding to doesn’t and probably will never understand. I’d be mad as fuck if I wrote that paragraph and someone’s only response was “get therapy lolz” so good work on keeping your cool lmao.

I’m not sure what this guy is talking about, but I’m just going to drop this here since I see a mention of Malcolm X:

In his speeches at the Militant Labor Forum, which was sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party, Malcolm X criticized capitalism.[172] After one such speech, when he was asked what political and economic system he wanted, he said he did not know, but that it was no coincidence the newly independent countries in the Third World were turning toward socialism.[275] When a reporter asked him what he thought about socialism, Malcolm X asked whether it was good for black people. When the reporter told him it seemed to be, Malcolm X told him: “Then I’m for it.”[275][276]

The Young Karl Marx