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Has anyone watched the new episode from First Thought/JT?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I started going down the leftist pipeline a few months before they launched the podcast. When I heard about it, it seemed perfect for me - something to deprogram liberals and get into more complex topics as time goes on. Learned a lot at first, but after about 6 months or so I started viewing it as entertainment. And I'm not an avid theory reader or anything. They still discuss some interesting topics, but it's really not radical at all and it has gotten to a point where it keeps baby leftists stuck at the start of the pipeline, instead of pushing them further

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and it has gotten to a point where it keeps baby leftists stuck at the start of the pipeline, instead of pushing them further

Yeah, it was always more focused on entertainment rather than education, but it's also kept a lot of people from going further, would be nice if they had a proper "further reading" section at the end of their videos and actually discussed theory every now and then. I'm always advocating for injecting humour into socialist education, but the education does still need to be there for it to work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, right now theory is like once every 20 episodes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just download the good episodes and put them on my Jellyfin media server, so that the people I'm trying to radicalize will only have access to the juicy stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How does that work, is it a public server? Do you have any resources on Ukraine there by anu chance? I'm interested to read more about it and have some links on hand to show to friends/family, but so far most of my knowledge comes from this instance and some media like Geopolitical Economy Report, not exactly lib-friendly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Well, I would not say it's public, rather it is "publicly accessible". I give out user accounts to people I'm trying to sway, or to people who ask. Yes, there are plenty of resources on Ukraine - some YT downloads (a hodgepodge of sources, a lot of that from Ben Norton/GER), some documentaries, etc.