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I agree overall with the authors point, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out some solid media from the left side of things.
Some More News/Cody’s Showdy has been consistently great at firing back at alt-right figures like Peterson and Shapiro And related is the content put out by Robert Evans and Cool Zone Media. Behind the Bastards, The Woman’s War, It Could Happen Here are great. And they also did the collaboration in 2020 for Worst Year Ever which I really hope makes a return for 2024
Really most of the Cracked alum are great in this regard but those are the two sources I’ve got I’ve gotten the most enjoyment from
There's another new one that is really good called if books could kill. It isnt cracked ppl tho. Actually I remember that site before it got REALLY bad (I mean not sucked) and I remember a lot of commenters before they disabled comments complaining that the articles are too liberal lmao. Lots of "I come here for jokes not politics!!!"
I actually wrote a really long reply to the rest of your post on why it isn't really possible for the left to have the same impact as the alt right media.
But then I accidentally lost it. I'm taking it as a sign that I would have bored everyone into a coma and not to try to recreate it lol
I feel like I’ve heard of that one and I’ll happily check it out so thanks for the rec. I love the cracked alum but I definitely want to diversify.
And I definitely remember the comments on old cracked articles being like that. But I do still hold a lot of the writers from that time in high regard.
Swaims video game podcast is good btw, I’d love Soren to start a show too
Please do! And I think it's one of those podcasts where you can jump in anywhere that interests you, they don't do any friendly rambling chat before either the whole runtime is dedicated just to discussing that book.
I've loved those cracked authors for so long, used to read daily for years and a big credit why I feel like I know so much random shit. I wish the site itself wasn't now annoyingly unusable I'd like to browse and read some of the OG articles.
Hey! Just popping in to tell you that Soren and Daniel have a podcast together called Quick Question, and it's really quite great.
Well that is certainly welcome news! Thank you!
Smn did an extremely short and succinct piece on Peterson. A really quick watch.
Yeah it’s not very long, super easy, you can knock it out on a lunch break
I just finished listening to the behind the bastards piece about Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert.
I was not expecting that
I love SMN!
To add to this, I just ran across Hasanabi on YouTube. He's the nephew of the founder of TYT, and is very left politically. He runs a running critique of current politics and engages users on twitch or discord, I believe.
Do you know why they stopped producing Worst Year Ever? Never seen a notice...
They all got too busy and it never really became what they intended because of Covid