Name: ContraPoints: How Online Politics Became Real Life | Doomscroll @doomscrollpodcast
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ContraPoints: How Online Politics Became Real Life | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2026-09-19 | ContraPoints: How Online Politics Became Real Life | Doomscroll

Taylor Lorenz: Memes, Masks and Dark Money | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-10-06 | My guest is @TaylorLorenz, a journalist and content creator. She is the author of "Extremely Online".

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ii-140578664

We discuss social media influencers, the Democratic party and dark money. How does today's memetic landscape help to shape real world politics? Can we preserve freedom of speech in an increasingly authoritarian environment?

Our crew is wearing N95s off camera. There is ventilation running in the room. Prior to recording this video, Josh took a PCR test.

0:00 Intro
X:xx Dark Money vs dark woke
10:41 Charlie Kirk & Luigi Mangione
16:27 Masks & vaccines
25:25 Gen Z vs journalism
33:41 Legacy vs alt-media
38:20 Free speech & civil liberties
47:07 Democrats & conspiracy
54:39 Left media vs establishment

Emily Jashinsky: New Right Materialism | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-09-30 | My guest is Emily Jashinsky, a political commentator and a co-host of @breakingpoints. You may also recognize her from the live-stream series @AfterPartyEmily.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-emily-140064803

We discuss the shifting factions of the America right; Fusionism, Populism, Monarchy, Trad, MAHA, Catholicism, Crypto-anarchy and more. Many viewers will be familiar with the infamous “Bernie to Trump” pipeline but less will be aware of the Trotskyite origins of certain canonized thinkers on the New Right.

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0:00 Intro
0:49 Woke hegemony & gen Z
9:59 New Right vs managerialism
13:40 Fusionism vs populism
17:31 Based & superstructure
22:32 Liberal elites vs podcasts
28:41 DEI & post-capitalism
36:45 Trad vs modernity
50:23 Pron & casino-fication
1:00:00 Utopian 1999

Kyle Kulinski: Capitalism & the Brosphere | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-09-16 | My guest is Kyle Kulinski @SecularTalk, a political commentator and YouTuber. He is the host of The Kyle Kulinkski Show.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-kyle-138785303

What might the online left learn from the success of right-wing shitposters? We explore the breakdown of liberal norms and the shattering of the Overton window. American politics has become increasingly radical in the last eight years. What new formation of the DNC might soon follow?

Last week’s horrific events have sent a shock wave through our politics, media and culture. We want to acknowledge the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk. He is mentioned briefly in this episode that was recorded at an earlier date.

0:00 Intro
0:50 Brosphere vs legacy media
6:15 Right vs left media tactics
9:46 Counteculture vs corporate democrats
18:00 Justice democrats & online influence
24:27 Center establishment vs fringe media
30:34 Hyper-polarization
34:08 America First & monarchy
44:32 Young men
51:41 2028 elections

Krystal Ball: Unabashed Left Populism | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-09-02 | My guest is Krystal Ball, a political commentator and a co-host of @breakingpoints.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ball-137972230

We discuss the seismic shift of American politics and our hard breaks to the right and left. We explore Zohran Mamdani's historic win in NYC and the ways in which the internet become real life. How do online audiences correlate to real world political coalitions?

This episode marks the first year of the show. You can help to support this program and get access to the full archive of episodes: patreon.com/cw/joshuacitarella

0:00 Intro
1:02 Left vs right populism
6:27 Online vs offline politics
12:49 Centrism vs political fragmentation
19:24 Counter-culture & individualism
23:14 Post-neoliberalism?
28:12 MAHA vs seed oils
33:36 Political journey
38:21 Gen Z conservatism
40:44 Democratic vs Republican base
46:35 GOP & the working class
50:08 Progressivism vs young men
58:56 Legacy vs alt-media

Ana Kasparian: Independent and Unaligned | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-08-12 | My guest is Ana Kasparian, a host and executive producer of @TheYoungTurks.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ana-136323054

We discuss her political journey from progressive to "independent and unaligned". Last year, Kasparian’s commentary took an editorial turn away from left echo-chambers and towards a generalized populism. We pay respect to the political genius and lasting influence of Michael Brooks.

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0:00 Intro
0:42 Michael Brooks
6:05 Radical liberalism vs right populism
16:01 FDR economics & the left
23:54 Background & values
32:07 Media polarization
42:12 Cancel culture & realignment
49:56 Labor vs nationalism
55:39 Class & political economy
1:02:25 Kindness & ruthless

Yancey Strickler: Dark Forest Theory of the Internet | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-07-29 | My guest is Yancey Strickler, an author and former music critic. He is a co-founder of Metalabel and a co-founder of Kickstarter.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ii-134928955

We discuss the new shape of online culture: "Dark Forest" spaces are gated digital communities, often curated around a specific niche or field of expertise. They represent a retreat from open social media and a shift into private spaces, where users may have complex and context-rich conversations.

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Tim Heidecker: Irony, Comedy and the Internet | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-07-15 | My guest is @TimHeidecker, a comedian, musician and actor. He is a host of Office Hours. You can find him performing live music as 'Tim Heidecker and The Very Good Band'.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-tim-134124408

His video work pioneered the style, affect, and genre of new media alt-comedy. We discuss how online irony became today's real world politics. We explore the shift from legacy TV to streaming platforms. How did our media ecosystem shape the politics and culture of today?

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0:00 Intro
1:15 Tim & Eric
6:36 TV vs platforms
13:00 Comedy vs politics
19:48 Politics & counter-culture
26:10 Irony & the internet
35:12 The art vs the artist
40:06 Trump & jokes
46:16 Progressive masculinity
57:35 Alt vs legacy media
1:02:13 Media vs gatekeepers

Aella: Sex and Ideology in the 21st Century | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-07-01 | My guest is Aella, a writer, blogger and sex worker. She writes the highly popular blog Knowingless. She is a member of the online community LessWrong.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-aella-133005102

We discuss the emergence of AI, the sex industry (online and offline), robot gfs and libertarian transhumanism. Aella describes her evangelical religious upbringing and how she learned to navigate the secular world. We explore the overlap of niche online politics and fetishes, the Woke Wars, debate culture and free speech.

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0:00 Intro
0:47 Sex & trauma
5:29 Niche & fetish
10:53 Rationalism & IRL
17:56 Calvinism & upbringing
23:38 Prediction vs trendcasting
27:18 Polyamory, genes & transhumanism
34:44 Artificial intelligence & robot GFs
44:35 Factory work & background
49:56 Religion vs evolution
54:41 Children & education
57:59 Trad vs sex industry
1:05:16 AI god & singularity
1:07:59 Race & IQ
1:14:22 Freedom

Francis Fukuyama: History and Democracy | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-06-18 | My guest is Francis Fukuyama @ffukuyam, a scholar and political scientist. He is the author of many books. He is most well known for his 1992 work, "The End of History & the Last Man".

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ii-131685098

Drawing on Hegel and Marx, Fukuyama explores the concept of teleology — the idea that history is a linear process where human societies progress through sequential socioeconomic forms. As Marx famously wrote, Feudalism was replaced by Capitalism and would ultimately be replaced by Socialism. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama argued that western liberal democracy was the final form of human government. His thesis has been updated and revised many times since and remains a frequent subject of debate today.

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0:00 Intro
1:57 Trump & the Overton window
5:26 History & social democracy
12:48 Social media vs politics
18:24 Memes & the new right
23:06 Free trade vs workers
27:49 DEI liberalism
31:43 Post liberalism & oligarchy
39:39 Identity politics & inner self
46:51 Abundance in 2028
52:27 China vs California

Hasan Piker: Online Politics and the Left | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-06-05 | My guest is Hasan Piker @HasanAbi, a live streamer and political commentator. We discuss the state of the online left and the massive rightward shift of young men toward Donald Trump and the Republican party.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-hasan-130792787

I sat down with Hasan during his suspension from Twitch. He reads a misleading headline published in the New York Post. Later, we discuss the strategic possibilities of a two party system and explore the paths to socialism in the 21st century.

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0:00 Intro
0:48 Twitch 24 hour ban
5:30 Young men & right-wing podcasts
10:00 Media & the online left
19:29 Edgelords & counter-culture
29:11 Lifting weights & fascism
35:19 Socialism in the 21st century
44:25 Insurgents vs institutions
50:58 Multipolarity & reindustrialization
58:39 Bernie & AOC
1:02:15 War

Catherine Liu: the Psychology of Liberalism | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-05-27 | My returning guest is Catherine Liu @CLiuAnon a professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of "Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class".

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-liu-2-129805258

We explore the psychological significance of “trauma” and “care” within the liberal discourse today. Liu describes a moral panic among elites where the language of personal therapy attempts to right social and historical wrongs. These topics will be part of her forthcoming book "Traumatized!", to be published by Verso Books early next year.

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0:00 Intro
1:02 Virtue & care
5:14 Maturity vs vibes
10:09 Affect theory & cultural studies
19:46 New age vs reason
28:27 Liberalism vs democracy
38:40 Doctrinal purity
48:04 Executive power
54:02 Anarchy & horizontalism
59:22 Professional managerial class
1:13:51 Brahmin left
1:18:14 Catherine’s work

Jennifer C. Pan: Selling Social Justice | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-05-13 | My guest is Jen Pan, formerly a host of The Jacobin Show @JacobinMag and a staff writer at the New Republic. She is the author of Selling Social Justice — out now from Verso Books @VersoBooks.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-jen-128861243

We discuss the DEI industry, the New Deal, American inequality and why the rich love anti-racism. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, Dissent, and Damage Magazine.

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0:00 Intro
1:02 The Great Compression 1940-1970
8:23 History of DEI
14:15 Dealignment
22:59 Cultural Marxism
28:30 Structural racism & wealth gap
34:22 Race-targeting & means-testing
48:10 Enlightenment values vs 1968
57:00 Peak woke

Anthony Fantano: Music, Art and Radical Politics | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-04-29 | My guest is @fantano Anthony Fantano, a music critic and the voice behind @theneedledrop. We discuss the role of politics in art and music, his origins in the anti-war punk scene and the strange state of American counter-culture today.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ii-127684492

Music scenes used to serve as a gateway to anti-establishment politics. It was once common to find DIY anarchist zines at the local punk show. Now these political subcultures exist almost entirely online and have dissolved into the newsfeed.

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0:00 Intro
0:52 Social media & fragmentation
8:34 Growing up & political background
15:44 Alt-media is not the underdog
19:55 Kanye & culture wars
27:34 Shock & transgressive art
38:47 Right-wing counter-culture
45:43 Radicall messages in art
54:27 Aesthetics vs politics

Vivek Chibber: How the Left Got Lost | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-04-16 | My guest is Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the author of Confronting Capitalism, The Class Matrix and Postcolonial Theory & the Specter of Capital. Chibber is the editor of Catalyst Journal and the host of the Confronting Capitalism podcast.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-vivek-126633363

We discuss the cultural turn, the rise of identity politics and the crisis of academia. Chibber is deeply committed to a material analysis and is unflinching in his critique of class tourism on the political left. He describes the early theoretical foundations for socialism as it relates to liberal philosophical ideals.

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0:00 Intro
1:21 The woke left
7:15 Academia & the professional class
16:15 The cultural turn & 1968
31:15 Late stage capitalism & class tourism
38:05 Moralism & the Democratic party
44:42 Liberalism & enlightenment values
51:44 Maoism & radical youth
59:03 Labor vs degrowth
1:03:48 Thinking clearly

Andrew Callaghan: Andrew’s Theory of Radicalization | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-04-02 | My guest is Andrew Callaghan, a documentary filmmaker and the host of Channel 5 @Channel5YouTube. He is the director of This Place Rules (2022) and Dear Kelly (2025), an in-depth portrait of a man he met at a ‘White Lives Matter' rally.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ii-125687406

We discuss the breakdown of consensus reality and how deplatforming can often lead to greater political extremism. Andrew describes his early origins in the anarchist movement and his participation in a group called Seattle Solidarity. His work explores the decline of the American dream along with the rise of political radicalism online and IRL.

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0:00 Intro
1:11 Dear Kelly & radicalization
10:06 Elon Musk & 4chan
14:22 Anarchism
18:58 Alt-media & trust
31:31 Cancellation & background
35:59 Elections vs disinfo
43:21 Deplatforming & right-wing counterculture
54:28 Political fracturing
1:06:16 Film release

Ezra Klein: Abundance Politics | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-03-18 | My guest is Ezra Klein, host of The @EzraKleinShow and an opinion columnist at the New York Times. He is a co-author, along with Derek Thompson, of a new book titled 'Abundance'.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-ezra-124628281

We discuss his promethean, energy-rich vision for the future, polarization in the attention economy and the end of the neoliberal consensus. The authors propose a policy platform for environmental sustainability in the 21st century. We explore our new political era and the rise of superpower competition between the US and China.

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0:00 Intro
2:44 Abundance vs techno-optimism
11:42 Green vs gray environmentalism
14:31 New Deal vs neoliberalism
25:33 Political orders
30:15 Early politics & media theory
39:33 Attention dynamics
44:05 Elon Musk & the new right
51:51 New models

Adam Friedland: Behind the Adam Friedland Show | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-03-04 | My guest is Adam Friedland, a stand up comedian and podcaster. He is the host of @TheAdamFriedlandShow.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-adam-123620466

We discuss the influence of alt-media, a farewell to C•mtown (RIP), the ideas & inspiration behind The Adam Friedland Show and his many social media controversies. How did comedians become recast as public intellectuals for the digital age?

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0:00 Intro
1:19 Cosplay in Australia
4:14 C•mtown & The Adam Friedland Show
11:21 Comedy & truth
20:26 War
29:42 Swifties, Chelsea Clinton, Twitter
41:58 Growing up online
47:57 Free speech
53:54 Behind the show

Briahna Joy Gray: Democrats Can’t Do Anything | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-02-18 | My guest is Briahna Joy Gray @BadFaithPodcast, a lawyer, journalist and political commentator. She is the host of the Bad Faith podcast.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-joy-122574952

We discuss the crisis of the Democratic party, online fact checkers vs. freedom of speech on social media, the mixed politics of populism and third parties in the USA.

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0:00 Intro
0:57 Democratic party vs third parties
10:02 Green party & DSA
15:21 Force the vote
23:00 Realignment
34:00 Alt-media
38:40 Getting into politics
56:09 Rising, The Hill & deplatforming
1:06:55 Free speech vs fact checkers
1:20:10 TikTok & the Overton window
1:24:35 Keeping the faith

Quinn Slobodian: What is Neoliberalism? | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-02-05 | My guest is Quinn Slobodian, a professor of international history at Boston University. He is the author of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism".

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-quinn-121413020

Neoliberalism is the most misused word in today's political discourse. In this episode we discuss the origins of the ideological movement. What is neoliberalism? When did it begin? How did it transform global politics?

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0:00 Intro
1:34 Neoliberalism
6:59 Imperium vs Dominium
14:00 New International Economic Order
18:57 Peter Thiel
23:04 Libertarian exit & LARP
37:53 Prospera vs Honduras
46:50 Patchwork vs globalization
53:59 Monarchy & anarcho-capitalism
1:03:56 Elon Musk
1:09:22 Post-neoliberalism?

Will Menaker: The End of the Left + Liberal Alliance | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-01-22 | My guest is Will Menaker, a host of the @ChapoTrapHouse podcast.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-will-120559506

We discuss the failures of working within the Democratic Party, the role of alternative media and a certain state in a certain part of the world. Can humor help us find truth within the online landscape?

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0:00 Intro
0:42 AOC
1:46 Why Trump won
7:39 The realignment
12:25 Alt-media & humor
20:24 The Democratic party
24:45 Legitimacy
30:25 The end of history
34:57 Woke
41:25 War
44:56 What are you fighting for?

Dasha Nekrasova: Post-politics, Woke and Trump 2.0 | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2025-01-08 | My guest is Dasha Nekrasova, an actor, director and host of the Red Scare podcast.

Part 2: patreon.com/posts/doomscroll-dasha-119590417

We discuss Trump’s historic win, Luigi Mangione and Dasha's political journey from a Bernie Sander’s supporter in 2016 to a Trump voter in 2024. What happens to political consensus when all narratives have now become alternative?

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0:00 Intro
0:46 Trump’s popular victory
2:30 Dasha’s political journey
10:10 Luigi Mangione vs health care
19:10 Conservative realignment
23:16 Culture & counter-elites
28:39 Hollywood & elite media
33:52 2025 Trumpian shift
43:00 Israel & Ukraine wars
44:54 Legacy vs alt-media

Daniel Keller: Politics in the 21st Century | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-11-19 | My guest is Daniel Keller, an artist whose work and research has inspired me for over a decade. We discuss tech monopolies and their cozy relationship to state power, the artificial intelligence race, the chips war, network states and geopolitical competition between the US and China. These are the defining conflicts of the 21st century.

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0:00 Intro
0:54 Shitposting
1:23 Tech monopolies & the state
11:06 US vs China vs networks
21:01 Capital & accelerationism
33:32 Freedom club
38:49 Changing worldviews

Jack Wagner: Questioning Beliefs and Doing Your Own Research | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-11-12 | My guest is Jack Wagner, a writer & director, host of the Otherworld podcast and one of my all time favorite posters.

We discuss his experience of creative life on the internet and explore the many esoteric belief systems that have grown out of social media. We see a trend of increasing irrationality in a complex world. At the end we pay homage to one of the greatest memes ever made.

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0:00 Intro
0:35 Starting the pod & online culture
7:45 Creative paths
19:13 Statebook
23:20 Questioning beliefs & UFOs
37:21 The Chart of Truth

Faraday Speaks: Pipelines and Rabbit Holes | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-11-05 | My guest is Caleb Cain or Faraday Speaks as he is known online. In 2019, Caleb Cain posted a video on YouTube called “My Descent into the Alt-Right Pipeline”. In the video, he described his first person experience of online radicalization. It quickly went viral. Soon after, Cain was profiled in The New York Times in a piece titled “The Making of a YouTube Radical”. In 2020, he was featured again by the New York Times in the popular Rabbit Hole podcast. Today, he joins us to tell his side of the story.

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0:00 Intro
1:05 Alt-right pipelines
19:22 Journalists & techno-feudalism
29:20 Peer pressure & ideology
38:51 January 6th
46:01 Social breakdown
1:01:12 Free speech
1:07:30 Caleb’s story
1:33:00 Some advice

Amber A’Lee Frost: Vulgarity and the Dirtbag Left | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-10-29 | My guest is Amber A'Lee Frost, a writer, organizer, co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast@ChapoTrapHouse and the author of Dirtbag (2023).

We discuss today's dysfunctional left, elite overproduction, online political subcultures and the emergence of “youth” as a counter-cultural and consumer demographic. Is the New Right support for labor real? What does it mean for American workers?

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0:00 Intro
0:39 Young men
8:48 The power of subculture
13:38 Political perverts
25:57 Labor vs the new right
38:18 Getting into politics & DSA
46:42 Social media & the end of history
56:20 Priorities = socialism
1:03:40 Mental health
1:07:14 Marketplace of (bad) ideas
1:13:20 Life after socialism

Matty Healy: Pop Culture in the 21st Century | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-10-22 | My guest is musician Matty Healy of The 1975 @the1975. He joins me to discuss internet culture and the strange aesthetics of our time.

We explore the inspirations behind his work, including the writing of cultural theorist Mark Fisher. Matty describes the "slow cancellation of the future" by comparing distinct styles of pop music across various decades. Fisher links these cultural moments to larger economic shifts that are often felt but rarely seen.

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0:00 Intro
0:39 Don’t get red pilled
13:49 Context collapse
20:38 Hauntology
32:53 Ice-cream-ification
39:56 Slow cancellation of the future
57:32 Atomization & counterculture
1:06:46 Content vs. art
1:13:03 Old left vs. new left
1:21:18 Social media dynamics
1:35:33 Wealth vs. taste
1:41:31 Finding inspiration
1:49:32 Irony vs. sincerity
1:56:33 Media, culture and technology
2:00:39 Crisis of institutions
2:09:57 A theatrical performance of an intimate moment
2:21:34 The new album

Yung Chomsky: Weight Lifting and Aesthetics | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-10-15 | Yung Chomsky is the producer of the TrueAnon podcast @TrueAnonPod, creator of the mobile app Phomo, and a natural athlete with 16 years of experience.

We discuss his personal journey of learning to lift online while exploring exercise subcultures via forums and message boards. We sort the facts from fictions and discuss the tenuous connections between weight lifting and far right politics. This is the lifting episode. We’re all gonna make it.

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0:00 Intro
0:43 Leaning to lift online
10:36 Stepping into the gym
18:43 Message board culture
25:15 Lifetime PRs
32:28 IRL community & politics
40:36 Steroids vs. genetics
48:57 Hypertrophy, bulking & cutting
59:17 The value of hard work?
1:07:26 Fake exercises on social media
1:15:34 Birthday squats
1:19:48 Does lifting make you right-wing?

Peter James Fowler: I was an 11 Year Old Right-wing Troll | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-10-08 | My guest is comedian Peter James Fowler @peterjamesfowler1659

He joins me to discuss his political meme account that he ran at age 11. I’ve spent the last few years interviewing young people who make radical posts online. Peter shares his journey from growing up in evangelical Christianity, to new atheism, and from Trump to Bernie.

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0:00 Intro
0:45 Running a political meme page at age 11
11:50 Growing up evangelical
17:56 Changing world views
26:50 Losing faith, finding new atheism & drugs
31:31 My political journey
39:41 From Trump to Bernie
43:58 Black lives matter
46:41 Gateway tapes
1:01:41 Morality

Trevor Paglen: Mind Hacking and Psyops Capitalism | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-10-01 | My guest is artist and geographer Trevor Paglen. His groundbreaking work links new technological developments to larger political issues that are often secret or unseen.

We discuss the emerging paradigm of "psyops capitalism", the history of the CIA's MK Ultra psychological operations and how magic shapes our perception of reality. These technologies culminate to form a new economic order of private surveillance, manipulation and financial extraction.

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0:00 Intro
1:01 MK Ultra
5:55 CIA, magic & UFOs
16:06 “you’ve just been f**cked by psyops”
20:27 Richard Doty & disinformation
30:33 Consensus reality vs. political imaginary
36:31 Psyops capitalism
41:39 UFOs & AI
49:31 Chaos
56:49 Hyperstition & irrationality

JJ McCullough: Are Millennial Leftists Aging into Right-wingers? | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-09-24 | My guest is @JJMcCullough a YouTuber who was previously a TV political commentator and columnist at the Washington Post.

We discuss generational shifts from the political left to right, explore the state of alternative media and debate the origins of right-wing populism. While we disagree on some core issues, we always grant each other the space to fully argue an idea. My analysis and understanding is strengthened through our on-going dialogues.

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0:00 Intro
0:30 Real world politics
2:11 Leftists moving right
11:35 Television vs. alt media
20:13 Radical ideologies
32:20 Truth & political fragmentation
42:50 Right wing populism & the middle class
53:18 Labor unions
58:04 Gender & higher education
1:08:16 Class vs ideology
1:14:50 Tech & economic growth
1:21:01 How did you get into politics?
1:29:36 Economic decline & culture war
1:44:06 Optimism

Jreg: Post-Ironic Hyper-Political Extremism | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-09-17 | My guest is @JREG or Greg Guevara as he is known offline. Jreg is a popular YouTube creator who explores online radical politics.

Greg joins me to discuss our shared fascination with incredibly niche ideologies that only exist online. We explore social atomization as a political project and agree that taking the friend pill is the best advice you can find.

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0:00 Intro
0:37 New patch update for politics
5:40 Jamaal Bowman campaign
8:35 Post-irony
15:15 Subculture & sub-categories
25:08 Exploring online politics
34:44 Trust in the mainstream media?
39:31 Political realignment
48:25 Real community
59:09 Social atomization
1:04:52 Al vs Primitivism
1:12:45 The life of an artist

Catherine Liu: Trauma, Virtue and Liberal Elites | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-09-11 | My guest is Catherine Liu @CLiuAnon, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of 'Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class'.

We discuss the origin of trauma studies, self branding on social media and the ideology of the professional class. Liu has an unwavering commitment to historical materialism and a fierce critique of elitist academies. She explores the intense moralism of our times as it relates to the Freudian super-ego.

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0:00 Intro
0:44 Trauma studies
9:30 Self branding & self help
14:45 Professional managerial class
23:15 Virtue hoarders
35:05 Rebellion & super-ego
42:26 Liberal elites
48:15 The new right
59:40 Economic decline
1:09:55 Progressive neoliberalism
1:15:15 Big donor leftism
1:23:41 Techno-feudalism

Brace Belden: LARP and Destroying the US Government | Doomscroll

Joshua Citarella 2024-09-03 | My guest is Brace Belden, an organizer, an infamous shitposter and co-host of the TrueAnon podcast @TrueAnonPod

I’ve spent the last few years interviewing young people who make radical posts online and later find their way into real world politics. Irony and humor play a huge role in this process. For the first episode, I wanted to talk to one of my favorite posters who has also lived his politics in the real world.

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0:00 Intro
1:13 Edgy teens
7:16 LARP politics
17:00 Humor & maturity
23:38 Overton window
31:37 Pro union GOP vs China
43:27 Socialism vs anarchism
48:41 Social media vs organization
1:01:40 Reform vs revolution
1:14:28 Being in the real world

Extremely Online Politics: Joshua Citarella

Joshua Citarella 2023-12-26 | Lecture by Joshua Citarella at FWBfest 2023 in Idyllwild, CA exploring extremely online politics.

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Joshua Citarella 2023-11-07 | Do you know which side you’re really on?
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The Slow Red Pill

Joshua Citarella 2022-02-16 | There's a new tactic for exposing you to radical content.
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DKP is Market Socialism

Joshua Citarella 2022-01-28 | A breakdown of the guild and its political economy.
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Every Capitalist Realism Meme

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