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Podcast Overload: How I kicked the “Red Scare” habit

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    I’m pretty familiar with redscare. I know they’re very anti-woke. I never personally listened. But I know one of the host, Dasha, started off working for InfoWars (Alex Jones’s joint). She’s now...

    I’m pretty familiar with redscare. I know they’re very anti-woke. I never personally listened. But I know one of the host, Dasha, started off working for InfoWars (Alex Jones’s joint). She’s now trying to break Hollywood and has a small role in Succession (which I think she’s pretty bad in actually).

    In terms of these leftist “dirtbag” podcasts. The only one I ever listened to was ChapoTrapHouse. And that was only really from 2019 to early 2020. They’re basically normal social democrats, even if some of them pretend to be more than they are. They get lumped in with redscare but they are much more pc compared to those girls.

    All of these podcasts though just feel like remnants from that 2016-2020 time period. From Trump’s presidential campaign to the end of his term. 2016 is when both of these podcasts hit it big after all.

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      Lol, Dasha has never worked for infowars. An interview she did with one of their reporters about why she supported Bernie Sanders while she was just randomly walking went viral because she made...

      Lol, Dasha has never worked for infowars. An interview she did with one of their reporters about why she supported Bernie Sanders while she was just randomly walking went viral because she made the reporter look like a fool.

      Chapo is associated with Red Scare and Cumtown solely because their creators are friends/have close connections to one another. Red scare really isn't a political podcast. It's two women living in New York being extremely snarky and having red hot contrarian takes for the sake of them being red hot contrarian takes. Some people enjoy that sort of content, but it's definitely not some sort of political guidestone. Chapo is the only somewhat serious podcast out of the three. I think the only real theme that ties the three together is that the hosts all have a distain for identity politics. That's not exactly rare among leftist circles though.

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    2. NoblePath
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      I didn’t read the article, and I didn’t listen to trapo chap house back in the day, but i do listen to them now, and think they’re pretty good at what they do: straight entertainment, helping me...

      I didn’t read the article, and I didn’t listen to trapo chap house back in the day, but i do listen to them now, and think they’re pretty good at what they do: straight entertainment, helping me laugh when I otherwise might sob, and helping me feel less alienated in my views, which tend to be dismissed in the geographic community where I reside.

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