You and I have two different standards for self respect and tolerance for elitist classist nonsense.

Yeah I don’t like this kind of navel gazing. I find this to be offensive, particularly because I listen to their podcast a lot (and others).

Podcasts have largely replaced music for me because of the very things he cynically criticizes in this piece.

First of all I don’t think podcasts are ‘anti-intellectual’. Sure there are downsides to the medium, but more importantly I’ve learned ALOT more than I would have had I been listening to the TOOL album for the 100th time. Podcasts bring up a topic, give a brief sometimes humorous overview, then I take that and go learn more about it through other methods (reading ect.). I know a lot more now than I did before listening to podcasts for daily news/politics/sports.

Second I’m sure there are some loonies that do legitimately believe Brace is their best pal. Most people I argue do not. If I met Brace on the street I wouldn’t approach, let alone pretend to be his ‘best pal’. Brace is an entertainer that I happen to find funny and agree with on. That’s it. He’s no different from people’s fandoms for any other medium. No Brace, being a podcaster doesn’t make you special in this regard. Please get over yourself. The other thing is as a Marxist you should understand the societal structure that leads to this modern isolation problem. People aren’t becoming anti-social because of podcasts, some people turn to podcasts due to the isolated structure we live under. I work a very isolated job, it’s very lonely, but it’s what I need to do. Just listening to podcasts helps me stay sane. I would never pick a podcast over real socializing.

Third I think this whole piece is very demeaning and misses the whole point just so Brace can self flagellate ‘man this job I work is stupid and anyone listening to me is stupid. No I won’t come to your birthday party and go get a life. By the way sign up for the $20/month Patreon so I can continue to jerk myself off and give y’all the middle finger for your support.’ as far as mutual resentment goes I think it’s a one way street. I think he’s just using this as justification for being resentful for the people that make his cushy privileged job possible. The only way I feel that way towards him, or other podcasters, is when they are openly hostile to their fans or flaunting their wealthy privileged lifestyle. I don’t say anything to them though, I’m sure he’s cherry picking critical comments and painting the whole fandom as that.

Like idk what Brace is looking for here. If being a podcaster sucks so bad and you’re oh so resentful for the people that fund your lifestyle then just quit. Boo fucking hoo go apply to a dead end crushing retail job like 80% of the country. Join the very vermin you despise so much or STFU.

Sounds like you are burned out. An indefinite hiatus might be necessary. Music, like any art, requires your soul to be in it to truly create something great. If your hearts not in it you can’t force it to be. Just lay it all on the table and have a heart to heart with these people by expressing the feelings you mentioned in the post. If they care for your well being then they will come to accept it.

Sorry for your situation Corgi its never easy losing passion for something you love.

The goal of socialism isn’t to “make things better” in an abstract way, it’s to forcibly expropriate property owners - yes, your mother’s house and land, your aunt’s business, the bear caves, gopher holes, birds nests, your Xbox, your toothbrush - and trying to pretend otherwise isn’t pragmatism, it’s opportunism

If they ever cracked down on streaming sports would die

The Green Brigade is an unapologetic leftist ultra group who have been doing good work including years of Palestinian support/activism.

Celtic FC’s board see them as pests and blights to the club. In the last year they’ve been trying to undermine them in various ways, including helping the police ambush them on their way to the stadium.

Due to a recent incident where some GB supporters got in a shoving match with the cops, the clubs board have taken this opportunity to declare open war on the Green Brigade. Banning them from the stadium, no knock raids, and pinning all the problems of the shit-show of a season on them.

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Enjoying Your Inner Child is Healthy; Living in It is Not.

There’s a significant difference between maintaining a healthy connection to the media you loved as a kid and allowing it to completely define your adult worldview.

The Balanced Approach: Keeping “kids’ stuff” like video games, animated films, or comics as a hobby is not only acceptable but can be a wonderful source of joy and nostalgia. It’s a part of your life, not your entire identity.

The Unbalanced Approach: The issue arises when this becomes a core part of your identity to the exclusion of all else. An adult who only engages with children’s media, and filters complex, real-world issues through a simplistic, fictional lens, risks remaining in a state of arrested development.

I place myself firmly in the first category. I still enjoy playing Super Smash Bros. with friends. However, I know several people in their mid-twenties who exemplify the second. While I care for them, it’s challenging to have a serious conversation. Their entire world revolves around Marvel and Disney; it’s all they watch, discuss, and breathe. Consequently, they often view the world through a distorted, childish lens, leading them to unrealistic and simplistic conclusions about how life and society work.

I know praising “FreePooThrowing” is as popular as ever. On the sanitation Reddit, someone shows up every second Saturday to say FreePooThrowing is the best thing that ever happened to waste disposal.

I’ve actually contributed to FreePooThrowing myself as a demonstrator and blogger. I stopped because of their ideological stance – that’s a different story. I’m not pretending FreePooThrowing hasn’t done a lot of good. In fact, my own project, PooThrowing+, wouldn’t have progressed so fast without FreePooThrowing existing.

Still, if you put the benefits aside for a moment, there’s something fundamentally wrong with the FreePooThrowing model: it destroys the poop-throwing market.

Providing so much high-velocity, premium-grade feces for free makes it very hard for any poop-throwing business to charge for its services. If businesses can’t charge, they can’t pay professional throwers properly. If professionals can’t earn enough, they’re pushed to throw in poorly-ventilated, substandard arenas. Conditions don’t improve for professionals, and that eventually leads to a less splattered, less satisfying experience for casual fans, too. That’s the vicious cycle.

Nothing is truly free. Someone always pays — with money, dignity, or the glorious, complex throws that never get built because it stopped making economic sense to try.

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Hard times create strong cocktails

Strong cocktails create hard men

• Joe Brogan

I slam my face into the keyboard until the pain goes away

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Great video!

His passiveness is what cost him last fight. Pereira needs to come out as the aggressor, and set the pace.