• Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    I really enjoyed their early episodes but they got podcast disease (lazy prep, laughing at their own lame jokes way too much) remarkably quickly imo. Also, Alice has had some incredibly bad takes over the years. I saw her storm out of a group chat over some very lukewarm pro-China takes one time.

    EDIT: there’s a lot of legit criticism to be made of Maduro however!

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          Her reasoning was incredibly grim iirc, and she only backed off when it became clear that the podcast money was at risk lol.

          I think my favorite Alice moment though was when, during one of the periodic Podcaster Earnings Struggle Sessions (precipitated, as always, by Alice going “I’m poor, please buy me things for my mental health”), one of her ultras got out the receipts, proving that Alice ‘only’ makes £80K p.a. from podcasts lol. And she was totally oblivious to how this looked to everyone else, natch

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        There’s just this fucking entitled arrogance to a lot of the ‘shitpost left’ podcasts — as if they’re doing us plebs a massive favor gracing us with their privately educated waffle. At least with TrueAnon you get the sense that they’ve done the reading!

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          I used to love the trillbillies, but then they lost tanya and at this point it’s just 2-3 guys bullshitting and trying a little too hard to make points they think sound deep

          and acting strangely hostile about some kind of t-shirt sales problems where their only job is being neglected or something, I dunno I don’t buy merch