Bias fucking bullshit. Why is Joe Rogan named and not the podcast that usurped him? Media fucking blows
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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.
You can do both in a title.
You can, but clickbait rags want you to click to find out what they intentionally left out of the title.
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Wdym? It literally says the podcast name is "The MeidasTouch Podcast" in the first sentence.
Headlines are important
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Wish this podcast got attention before the election.
Why don't they list MeidasTouch in the headline?
Better title: "Pro-America podcast MeidasTouch dethrones shitty pro-donvict podcast in the charts"
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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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.
Unlikely. Trump is a cult. He can do no wrong.
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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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.
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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According to Podscribe.
Which collects data from more than the single-source Spotify.
Ugh Ben Shapiro is that high?
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I was wondering why my dad texted me today to tell me George Soros was planning to fund anti Trump podcasts
crazy to me that he's thinking the guy who might be funding anti Trump podcasts is a threat and not the richest man in the world who has agents infiltrating and collecting data on every government agency. Like, is dudes tin foil hat on right?
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.
I don't think it's that amazing when you consider there's multiple groups staffed by PhD professors with decades of expertise being paid to sit around all day and anticipate this stuff. Hell Trisha Paytas does this on her own .
The thing that kids me is why we're all so terrible at finding counters to this stuff.
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.
We’ve already been living in corporate dictatorships for a long time. We just didn’t know it yet.
Can't really overstate that.
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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.
TYT telling the trans woman on staff that "Ana knows better than she does about how to help the trans community" was the final straw for me. You don't get to silence a minority group by saying you're doing it for their benefit.
The subsequent doubling down of "actually we're the victims here!" was just confirmation.
I don't know these people but even just reading that already made me so tired. I'm so ready for everybody to forget we exist again.
2020-2030 is really making 2000-2010 seem like paradise out here, which is something I never thought I'd say, as a trans woman who barely survived 2000-2010. 🙃
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If only they would bother to vote.
That's where you come in my friend. It's going to take boots in the ground and hard work to get people to vote. I'm going to do my part, I hope you will to. 💙
Let’s see if there’ll be another chance.
Meh. Dumb voters will just flock to the next trigger topic.
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)
Totally. I know plenty of people who would be considered smart by any standard, but when you're mainlining propaganda every hour, of every day, for multiple decades... it'll twist a person.
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You're not wrong but any cultural shift like this is enough to cling to optimism. If/when the fast food catches up to Trump and he croaks JD Vance will be the one trying to defend these trash policies. Him (or anybody else) are not going to be as effective bullshit artists....
LOOK HOW DESPERATE I AM FOR GOOD NEWS. LET ME HAVE THIS!!!
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