I only listened to the afghanistan episode on 2x but I can deduce from that that theyre buffoons

You’re talking out your ass man lol. They’re incredibly detailed and all their work is well sourced. If you disagree with certain conclusions of theirs please share them but hand waving them away as buffoons is intellectually dishonest

whatever you say dawg. I promise you communism doesnt need halfassed youtubers and podcasters.

What are some things you disagree with them on?

And yes reading is better, I read constantly, but that doesn’t make podcasts useless lol it’s very presumptuous to assume these guys have absolutely nothing to learn from. You’re acting like they’re Cumtown or some s*** lol

If they published transcripts of their episodes as books would you have the same flippant attitude towards them?

member since 2024 is the official spokesperson of "what communism needs". cant make this s*** up, get tf over yourself

books scary ooga booga

Neither of us has once said anything bad about reading lol ive read five books this year already. Podcasts can be useful to learn about things you may not normally take the time to read about fully and can be good supplements to your research

Yuh

Capital podcast > the book tbh

Book aren’t some paragonal medium

The podcast is just a medium

And the blowback podcast is actually really well informed

ive yet to listen to a podcast that didnt waste my time. again I dont care how you waste your time personally, but the dude asked for additional resources on Afghanistan so I gave him actual reading material. you should be encouraging people to engage with these texts.

the study of history should be taken seriously.

I agree people need to read more and the western left is woefully anti intellectual. All I’ll say however is that if you’re going to be this pompous I hope you’re doing a lot of irl organizing.

YouTubers , streamers should be beheaded .

Oh f*** I’m gonna obserrrrvvvveeee

this the same user that said aaron bushnell should've went on a mass shooting rather than self-immolating, definitely a chronically online LARPing weirdo

podcasts aren’t for everyone

RevLeft is very informative and they take themselves more serious than other leftist podcasts

But regardless it’s only supplementary to actual theory or any text and dissecting it for yourselves and with other Marxists

bro I am Palestinian. my family lost their land during the Nakba and were forced to move to the US. I am disconnected from my people and just finished beating a case I caught at a protest which kept me off the streets for months. what I said was he could've additionally damaged military hardware or fragged his C.O. a la what GIs did in Vietnam. if you see that as "chronically online larping" or encouraging a "mass shooting" then youre truly just projecting.

didnt see your OG post so just referencing another user

the argument that only traditional literature counts as a valid source of knowledge is counterproductive and doesn't accomplish anything other than making you feel superior though, especially since no one itt is "anti-books"

you also listened to ONE EPISODE on 2x speed so idk how you're trying to universalize that experience to all podcasts

who’s hating on farmers

💀

If ur not hating on farmers what are you doing

I feel you bro and I understand your frustration as someone coming from that type of deeply oppressive background, but weaponzing your identity as a way to jettison any criticism of your opinions is extended liberal behavior and the exact type of thing that you’re trying to criticize podcasters for

Again, you haven’t provided any concrete criticisms of Blowback. If you have them, I welcome them and would love to hear them. For example,I am likewise skeptical of their of their claim that Amin was a CIA asset but that doesn’t change the wealth of historical information they provide

Imagine one day some nigga shows up at apartment talking bout shave your head here's an AK we're going to Ukraine. 2 years of MRE slop for breakfast lunch and dinner later and you're still in the same muddy smelly trench in Shbleepbloop-oblast population of 1500. After a month without action, on the brink of insanity, your commanding officer finally calls you up like "good news! You get to take these two goobers on a tour!"