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Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 183 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Why don't they list MeidasTouch in the headline?

Better title: "Pro-America podcast MeidasTouch dethrones shitty pro-donvict podcast in the charts"

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Eeeeh. I can't be the only one who won't touch something described as "pro-America" with a ten foot pole.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I will say, before the election, i was watching them pretty hard. I dropped it for my own mental health after the election though. I wasn't a huge fan of Ben Meiselas because he became more and more sensational but I really liked Michael Popoks legal commentary. I felt like Ben started shading into the tone and repetition patterns of the far right podcasters but either way, they both always had their facts straight and everything they said and predicted was backed by evidence and legal experience. Popok is a smart fuckin dude though.

    Also, I'd say they're "pro democracy" as that's the line they always pushed unless it changed after the election.

    If you want to ease into it just check out Popoks stuff as it's way more objective. I learned so much about the legal/judicial system from him and it was all validated by other sources.

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    [–] 132 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Just listened a bit. These guys deep dive quite a bit, but I hope that this bump is from people who are previous Trump voters that now realize how fucked they are by Trump and get angry.

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  • [–] 92 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Unlikely. Trump is a cult. He can do no wrong.

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  • [–] [S] 42 points 2 years ago

    He's created that in large part because of the media environment around him. Many republicans were upset and outraged on Jan 6th until they heard the fox news, rogan, etc line

    Change the media consumption and a lot will follow from there. Changes to which media are more dominate are going to matter more than people think

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    [–] 93 points 2 years ago (60 children)

    Less than a month into the new administration, the rise of the left-leaning MeidasTouch to become the country's most popular podcast indicates a potential shift in tone currently resonating with Americans.

    Is it actually Leftist or is it liberal? I'd welcome a number one Leftist show, but I don't think most USA citizens are politically literate enough to know the difference. We've been brainwashed by decades of propaganda to think liberalism is synonymous with Leftist.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They self identify as progressive and it seems that they are, so definitely not liberals. I stopped clicking Brian Tyler Cohen videos though because he does clickbait bullshit like "trump gets NIGHTMARE legal news" or "trump campaign SUNK" and it ends up being some legal bullshit they have to re-file because they messed it up the first time, or something stupid like that. Seriously just scroll through his shorts. It's awful.

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    [–] 86 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    According to Podscribe.
    Which collects data from more than the single-source Spotify.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Ugh Ben Shapiro is that high?

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Candace Owens is higher....

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How the fuck did Klandace get such a boost?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    By having a black female, the right can point to a single source when accused of being either racist or misogynist. No longer do they need to remember two separate podcasts to affirm they are neither racist nor misogynistic. That leaves them much more time to beat off to JRE and his clones and lesser offspring.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Podcasts are thinking for people who can't read.

    I'm making a rather cruel joke, but I do find some friends who struggle (lazy / busy, I'm not sure why) to read a news article I might share with them and, who will share with me some 20 sec Instagram clip with the words flashing up with Peterson or Rogan "slamming", "owning", "destroying" the libs. A quick Google usually dispels the quote or shows that the subject is not so simple.

    I should also add I do listen to podcasts and radio and there's nothing wrong with both.

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    [–] 85 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Bias fucking bullshit. Why is Joe Rogan named and not the podcast that usurped him? Media fucking blows

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    They name it in the first sentence, and at least for me, given it's longevity and word of mouth I know what Joe Rogan implies, but if you said "MeidasTouch" in the headline, I'd have no idea the implication of that shift, since I haven't listened to either of the two.

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    • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I was wondering why my dad texted me today to tell me George Soros was planning to fund anti Trump podcasts

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It is amazing how fast their propaganda machines work. They will anticipate breaking stories and provide bullshit lines of reasoning to discredit them before they are even widely shared.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    They've had decades to finely tune the propaganda machine — utilizing surveillance capitalism, big data, and analytics — A/B testing their PsyOps campaigns in real-time.

    The whole Cambridge Analytica debacle occurred almost a decade ago, and every criminal involved went on to bigger and better criminal enterprises. Major political parties across western "democracies" were directly involved in treasonous disinformation campaigns against their own citizens — a multinational corporate oligarchy were directly involved — that's why there were zero consequences...

    We've already been living in corporate dictatorships for a long time. We just didn't know it yet.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Meh. Dumb voters will just flock to the next trigger topic.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Listen. It's not just dumb voters. It's a conservative propaganda vessel that funds any right-leaning talking points. It's madness being poured into any willing ear, all it takes is a little fear to let them in. I want to believe that individual volition trumps this by-the-numbers propaganda, but the proof is in the pudding. Make people scared and isolated and you can make them believe whatever shit you want (at least, on a macro scale)

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    • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

    Sad to say, but it's likely some of this bump they're getting is TYT listeners/viewers leaving after Cenk and Anna's latest spar with literally everyone near their orbit (and even losing some contributors). Many -oh so many- disaffected MSNBC viewers turned to non-traditional media after 2016, I cannot imagine how many might be leaving for more actually progressive sources after the recent election... but TYT has fumbled the bag here by both attacking other progressives AND doing shit like Charlie Kirk "debates" and interviews with Tucker Carlson.

    I really hope they turn the ship around, because going after MAGA die hards isn't the answer. At any rate, Majority Report seems to be doing just fine so there's that.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Any nothing of value was created or destroyed.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Hmm, one success speaks more to that one podcast's popularity than a political shift.

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