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I used to donate to the deprogram podcast for quite a while until I realized they have some really fucking bad takes once in a while and they just don't give a shit about it whatsoever.
One of their biggest errors is their position on the Ukraine war. Like so many western leftists, they have an unfortunate tendency to allow their (legitimate) criticism of modern Russia to cloud their judgement on the nature of the conflict. It certainly did not help that the only Russian they invited to talk to them about the SMO was from a fringe ultra-left group more concerned with opposing the Russian government than with what is actually happening in Ukraine.
For once i want western leftist commentators to invite someone from the KPRF, or someone from the DPR/LPR (there are even some locals from the region who make YouTube videos), or just a journalist who has been to that region on the Russian side during the SMO or the 8 year Donbass war.
I'm not in media like they are but even i could name at least three English speaking journalists off the top of my head who have visited the front line and spoken to people in the region and could educate them on what the people there really think, if they bothered to try and get into contact with them. It is really inexcusable that they haven't tried to really educate their audience (and more importantly themselves) deeper on the conflict.
And they spend way too much time making cringy, infantile jokes. I get that it's a podcast and you want to keep it somewhat entertaining, but come on, have some professionalism. At the very least they could add a woman as a regular co-host, because some of the jokes feel really inappropriate sometimes.
Sounds like the problem of becoming more "left" in belief but not interrogating what you grew up in and how it impacts you. I believe it's very possible to be entertaining and even humorous without going for shock jock level of humor (which is what it sounds like the ballpark of by how you describe it). But you can't assume that whatever joke comes to mind is fine just because. Sense of humor is informed by the culture like anything else. Figuring out how to be funny in a way that adheres to more newly adopted ideological principles takes more effort compared to the reflexes of the old, but it's possible to figure out. The way I look at it, a good starting point is to assume that a joke is going to have an ideological bias and go from there, i.e. be conscious about the ideology it espouses. Don't go into it with the belief that jokes can escape ideological influences, that they are "just a joke." Jokes can have powerful rhetorical influence.