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I enjoy Knowledge Fight. Focuses on analysis and crit of the right wing grifter sphere, particularly Alex Jones.
I like knowledge fight but Dan is, to be far too charitable, far too charitable.
I've never seen somebody spend so much time observing without drawing the obvious conclusions.
He's spent 10s of thousands of hours listening to the far right and still wildly understates their danger.
I rember on a recent one where Jones was talking about how we should be executing Trans people and Jordan said something along the lines of "he doesn't care if these people actually get killed he'd be happy to see it happen maybe he doesn't wanna personally pull the lever but he'd fully support the person who did" and Dan's response was basically "aww shucks I don't think he's that extreme I think it's a character"
100% agree, Knowledge Fight is honestly my favorite podcast because it keeps me in touch with the latest right wing Mindrot but Dan is too charitable. Jordan's heart is honestly in the right place for the most part.
I also like Q-Anon Anonymous for similar reasons, though Julian is actually an MLM.
Yea I hate how there's the running idea that Dan's the reasonable one that walks Jordan back when he's getting out of line. Dan does great research but he basically the white moderate when it comes to tamping down any time Jordan does any actual material analysis.