They supported Bernie and attended BLM protests until it wasn’t profitable, then pivoted hard right to grift, which backfired. They’ve lost a third of their paying members in the past 24 months.
The answer is that they had some Bernie talking points when that was ‘cool’ and Dasha was dating Adam from Cumtown. That said, unlike Cumtown there wasn’t actually any irony to their racism and transphobia, though it was hard to tell with their vocal fry, and they only got away with with it as long as they did because of their minor association with Amber from Chapo Trap House. At best they were more reminiscent of old style communist hard-liners with their anti-gay and trans rhetoric, but they never really understood any other part of what like ‘ML’ theory was because there was ‘nerd shit’.
Otherwise they were just mean ‘hot girls’. That was their brand, and their podcast was exclusively about niche NY art scene squabbles and Twitter beef. When money dried up for the ‘mean democratic socialist’ angle, they immediately pivoted to ‘mean right-wing hot art girls’, which was basically what they were all along, just now officially taking money from Peter Thiel and not gaslighting us about where their political feelings actually were.
Overall, they just think that their audience is fucking stupid, ugly and desperate for female attention, so they have zero respect for them, but also have zero respect for anything or anyone else. They will always go with the movement that they think will hold them the least accountable for their words and actions.
You described pretty well what I was starting to gather about them. Opportunistic “pick me” types with no really belief system outside of making money.
I’m so confused by this podcasts and its hosts.
Were they leftists as some point? Or were they always operating in bad faith?
If anyone was so inclined to provide a synopsis without me having to crawl through 5 year old reddit posts, that would be much appreciated.
They supported Bernie and attended BLM protests until it wasn’t profitable, then pivoted hard right to grift, which backfired. They’ve lost a third of their paying members in the past 24 months.
Increasingly irrelevant, spiritually vacant.
Yikes okay, yeah I remember their being a big hubbub about them because they started having questionable guests.
The answer is that they had some Bernie talking points when that was ‘cool’ and Dasha was dating Adam from Cumtown. That said, unlike Cumtown there wasn’t actually any irony to their racism and transphobia, though it was hard to tell with their vocal fry, and they only got away with with it as long as they did because of their minor association with Amber from Chapo Trap House. At best they were more reminiscent of old style communist hard-liners with their anti-gay and trans rhetoric, but they never really understood any other part of what like ‘ML’ theory was because there was ‘nerd shit’.
Otherwise they were just mean ‘hot girls’. That was their brand, and their podcast was exclusively about niche NY art scene squabbles and Twitter beef. When money dried up for the ‘mean democratic socialist’ angle, they immediately pivoted to ‘mean right-wing hot art girls’, which was basically what they were all along, just now officially taking money from Peter Thiel and not gaslighting us about where their political feelings actually were.
Overall, they just think that their audience is fucking stupid, ugly and desperate for female attention, so they have zero respect for them, but also have zero respect for anything or anyone else. They will always go with the movement that they think will hold them the least accountable for their words and actions.
Amber.
You described pretty well what I was starting to gather about them. Opportunistic “pick me” types with no really belief system outside of making money.
fuck no lol
They were “dirtbag left” adjacent in kind of the same social orbit as Chapo and Cumtown.
I never listened too them but I always got the impression they were more “dirtbag” than “left”
The 2014-2018 Park Slope/Bedford-Stuy/Bushwick scene was more “dirtbag illiberal.” Leftist are illiberal but not all illiberal people are leftists.
Yeah that’s how I remember hearing about them, but never had more than a surface level understanding of what they were about.
One of them even did a guest spot on a really early episode of QAnon and went off on a rant about the bourgeoisie that hit a lot of the right notes.
If you look at the user history of an /r/stupidpol user there’s a good chance they were also /r/redscarepod users.
I don’t really frequent Reddit anymore, but anything politics related on Reddit I assume is just a facade for some fashy shit.
All Ive heard is that one of their members apparently is a flat earther, which is all I needed to know to not care about them.
I think the biggest issue I’m hearing about them is their use of irony posting as cover for their honestly bad takes. Super disingenuous…