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kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
this is the funniest thing to happen to lefty podcasts in 2020, year is getting off to a bang

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
There's definitely a fun story to be told of a bunch of lanyards slowly watching every single pillar of their ideology collapse underneath them

Retarded Goatee
Feb 6, 2010
I spent :10bux: so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.

A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

Jan 27 - Feb 8

Discussion amongst Alekx, Ethan, Savanah, William, and Taylor happens concerning the unacceptable nature of Justin’s actions and non-apology. Savanah had planned a meeting to discuss clarifying group tasks and holding a tutorial so that Ethan would not continue to be the only one able to fill merch orders. Alekx let us know that they wanted to address Justin before the RPG recording on the 8th with an excerpt of Mao’s “Combat Liberalism”. This was given full support from William, Taylor, Ethan, and Savanah.

Feb 8 Struggle Session and Game Table episode recording

A discussion is held before the Game Table recording. Justin, Jeremy, Ethan, Savanah, William, and Alekx are present. Alekx presents a statement pointing out why Justin's behavior was undemocratic, unprincipled, and inappropriate. Alekx plays a recording of "Combat Liberalism" and gives copies of it to each person to read because it is theoretically applicable to the situation at large. Justin won't acknowledge his behavior until several people speak up to add how the take-home message is that we need to communicate better as a group. Justin gives a half-hearted apology saying, "I'm sorry I blew up." He did not self-crit about any of the specific behaviors. Alekx asks if there is anything else to be said, and Justin doesn't add anything to the discussion. We record the game as if things are semi-resolved.


Insanely funny

imagine forming a full-on larp cult around a loving podcast

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Gripweed posted:

doing "struggle sessions" where you demand people "self crit" is literally cult behavior.

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Halloween Jack posted:

Good signs that a particular communist or group of communists is not worth taking seriously are a) they think North Korea was ever socialist and take Juche Thought seriously and b) they absolutely cannot just talk or write like a normal person.

ppl with a phd who deliberately write like theyve been translated from chinese ftw. treating your group of five friends as a political party ftw

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Inviting your fans to live with you

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Retarded Goatee posted:

imagine forming a full-on larp cult around a loving podcast

Maybe the sex was really great. Or maybe they had drugs. :shrug:

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Retarded Goatee posted:

imagine forming a full-on larp cult around a loving podcast

You remember Final Fantasy 7 House? Just wait til you see Chapo Trap... uh....

Serf
May 5, 2011


A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

Inviting your fans to live with you

literally a bit from an episode of cum town like 3 weeks ago

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016

Gripweed posted:

doing "struggle sessions" where you demand people "self crit" is literally cult behavior.

Its also how the Larouchites (who are a cult) transitioned from Trotskyite cell to Reagan allies who openly allied with far right neonazis and the kkk

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

maoist cadres do take on a lot of the trappings of religious movement, including the struggle sessions which have several functions - not least giving space to vent and to have honest discussion in otherwise extremely dogmatic settings. leaving the self-flagellation to discrete ritualised sessions is very important because it means that people can go through most of their daily lives without being constantly called out for all sorts of transgressions - the sort of culture you see in some left spaces on twitter etc.

it takes on its major cult-like qualities in cases where the cadre has stagnated and its members confronted with the futility of the sacrifice demanded from them.

how a political movement handles dissent is a really interesting phenomenon - be too open and you'll be subverted at the first sign of success, but be too closed and you'll quickly degenerate into sectarianism

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Gripweed posted:

A discussion is held before the Game Table recording. Justin, Jeremy, Ethan, Savanah, William, and Alekx are present. Alekx presents a statement pointing out why Justin's behavior was undemocratic, unprincipled, and inappropriate. Alekx plays a recording of "Combat Liberalism" and gives copies of it to each person to read because it is theoretically applicable to the situation at large.

my personal quest to destroy Platypus continues...

Limerick
Oct 23, 2009

:parrot:
Chapo animated: https://twitter.com/commtoonist/status/1227382445592498176

This is so good...

Retarded Goatee
Feb 6, 2010
I spent :10bux: so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.
wanna be the intern at the stalinist brewery corporation

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
8hop how could you do this to eilex

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Retarded Goatee posted:

imagine forming a full-on larp cult around a loving podcast

so i'm getting this is a bad time to float my netflix original series idea, then

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Was "rat mode" originally a thing from a video game or did Felix just make it up out of whole cloth?

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

the proles of the round table podcast imploded due to interpersonal psychodrama

https://www.prolespod.com

never listened to it but saw a PSL guy wearing that on a t-shirt at a demonstration once:



a big part of the reason i stopped engaging with many leftists irl is because their social groups are full of silly insufferable assholes like this.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


I had never heard of Proles of the Round Table but now celebrate it as probably the only leftist pod worthy of the name.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

projecthalaxy posted:

I had never heard of Proles of the Round Table but now celebrate it as probably the only leftist pod worthy of the name.

It's like how you're not a real punk band until you've broken up over creative differences (which were probably just fighting over a girl)

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Halloween Jack posted:

Was "rat mode" originally a thing from a video game or did Felix just make it up out of whole cloth?



knowing felix, it was from the cauldron of imagination that he's has been throwing the most eclectic pop culture possible into, but i hope beast wars played a part

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

love it

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

the proles of the round table podcast imploded due to interpersonal psychodrama

https://www.prolespod.com

never listened to it but saw a PSL guy wearing that on a t-shirt at a demonstration once:



proud wampapost slowly being cast in shadow as this skyscraper goes up

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
the proles people are wreckers who tried to destroy actual organizing IRL, I won't go into details cuz I don't wanna doxx any of them or myself but they're all huge narcissistic dickheads lol, also they called the FBI on another organizer they didn't like irl so at least one is probably an op

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
starting up a unique brewery experience where im also streaming there 24/7 please donate to my patreon

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Ace of Baes posted:

the proles people are wreckers who tried to destroy actual organizing IRL, I won't go into details cuz I don't wanna doxx any of them or myself but they're all huge narcissistic dickheads lol, also they called the FBI on another organizer they didn't like irl so at least one is probably an op

Can you go into some details using only the first names they go by in all their various businesses

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

the proles of the round table podcast imploded due to interpersonal psychodrama

https://www.prolespod.com

never listened to it but saw a PSL guy wearing that on a t-shirt at a demonstration once:



i've never heard of anyone here and im glad of it, but lmao my eyes just started glazing over and my brain turned into pea soup and slipped out my eyesockets onto my keyboard and oh god damnit now i need a new keyboard

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Ace of Baes posted:

I don't wanna doxx any of them or myself but they're all huge narcissistic dickheads lol

looks like you already doxxed yourself there

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
lol

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

Can you go into some details using only the first names they go by in all their various businesses

I mean just imagine a bunch of juche larp style maoists who use the language of academic idpol while simultaneously seeing themselves as the chosen vanguard of the revolution despite being almost all white cis dudes and spending all their time denouncing all other organizers around them as being insufficiently revolutionary or being careerist opportunists for actually spending time organizing, and that's just within the org they were organizing in

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Ace of Baes posted:

I mean just imagine a bunch of juche larp style maoists who use the language of academic idpol while simultaneously seeing themselves as the chosen vanguard of the revolution despite being almost all white cis dudes and spending all their time denouncing all other organizers around them as being insufficiently revolutionary or being careerist opportunists for actually spending time organizing, and that's just within the org they were organizing in

wow i can't believe you doxxed all of cspam

this is absolute madness, delete this post NOW

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm imagining it and LOLing at their vast network of podcasts

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
j/k. cspam would never use academic idpol

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
so was this a leftwing D&D podcast?

honestly, I get that I'm old and it's not for me but every D&D podcast I've glanced at is poo poo and the people who run that crap come off as a bunch of narcissistic idiots who think that people really want to listen to them do lovely improv for 2 hours+ a week.

the thing is that I realize I'm wrong and people do want to listen to that poo poo, but I guess that's my problem.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Ace of Baes posted:

academic idpol
Que?

Edit: So is "radlib" actually a thing or is it the new "Leftists who aren't me are Strasserists"

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
You're telling me that a group who writes a 6500-word gently caress-you to a member they've expelled, signs it "Solidarity forever", and posts it publicly... is full of narcissists? Wreckers even?

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

bodies and spaces, centering, etc

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Ace of Baes posted:

bodies and spaces, centering, etc

ah, how Liminially Transgressive

Big Mad Drongo
Nov 10, 2006

Dreylad posted:

so was this a leftwing D&D podcast?

honestly, I get that I'm old and it's not for me but every D&D podcast I've glanced at is poo poo and the people who run that crap come off as a bunch of narcissistic idiots who think that people really want to listen to them do lovely improv for 2 hours+ a week.

the thing is that I realize I'm wrong and people do want to listen to that poo poo, but I guess that's my problem.

I listened to one episode a few months back and it was a boring, dry discussion of socialism's history in Canada, so I'm going to assume no.

Even bad improv would have been more interesting.

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Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Xaris posted:

j/k. cspam would never use academic idpol

intersectionality is materialist so its halal, its the morons who water it down that are the lol

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