Like but dislike the messages in it but still movie/show/game
Historical arms & armor Youtubers such as Skallagrim, Metatron, etc.
Tons of information regarding historical weapons & armor (with the occasional spotlight for more obscure types of stuff) but generally attracts a pretty reactionary community. (My guess as to why this kind of stuff attract reactionaries is probably because most of them tend to fetishize traditions & ye olde days rather than critically analyze them out of genuine interest. For instance, the Middle Ages are particularly interesting to me (especially the combat related stuff) but I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in those times.)
If you understand Russian, I would suggest listening to Klim Zhukov (yes, apparently related to that Zhukov). He is an actual professional historian and a communist. His videos aren’t flashy and are mostly just him talking a lot, but they are always factual, based on real research (not just pop history) and he occasionally branches out to note the diamat approach when analysing historical events
Youtube history mappers such as historigraph, the operations room, eastory.
History youtubers: world war two, tik, kings and generals, the cold war.
They put out good content and I learn new stuff, but damn, they sometimes have that thick antisoviet - prowestern lense and is annoying sometimes.
YouTube links were detected in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
Link 1:
Link 2:
Link 3:
I used to like The Last Podcast on the Left. Its a really funny podcast, but I stopped listening right around the Russian SMO began because I could tell I wouldn’t like the hosts’ views on it.
I admittedly have a soft spot and guilty pleasure for superhero related stuff, whether its comic, video games, movies or animated series. But only if the liberalism doesn’t get too much in the way of the story and action or character development.
And I know its almost purely copaganda bullshit, but I enjoy watching Law and Order: SVU or the First 48 from time to time.
I also watch some cop propaganda called ncis I watch it with my dad and sis it’s about the cops of the navy
Oh man, NCIS. It’s a combo package: USA imperialist propaganda, copaganda, Israel propaganda, anti-russian racism and anti-com propaganda.
but I stopped listening right around the Russian SMO began because I could tell I wouldn’t like the hosts’ views on it.
I know that feeling too well. I’d rather just stop watching and not get angry than risk getting upset at stupid liberal opinions
I listened to ‘Last podcast on the left’s Crowley episodes, and they were funny, but it was weird when they left out his intelligence ties.
2 old shows , the Shield, and Rome. Both have reactionary overall themes (one’s a cop show and the other is what Parenti would call a “gentlemen’s history” of Rome), but they have so many other redeeming qualities that I keep coming back to them for a rewatch every few years.
Oh another one: the scarlet pimpernel, especially the 1982 tv version. It’s about spycraft during the french revolution, and is british monarchist propaganda. Batman apparently in based on the book, thats how right wing it is. But it’s extremely entertaining and fun. I’ll go to gulag now.
Rome is so good. I get the gentleman’s history thing about it, but I think it redeems itself in the way it portrays Vorenus and Pullo, especially when they get back to city life. It’s a good one to reference when someone’s struggling to understand how the patriarchy harms men, too. Both of them just trying to exist in a society that slowly crushes them, and doing what’s necessary to survive the system so often means perpetuating it.
Hell yeah, I love Vorenus and Pullo’s story line, even though they are imperialist shock troops, and vorenus is a lesser noble slave-owner. It does do a good job of highlighting a lot of the harms of patriarchy to the women in their lives. Vorenus basically tries to own his wife and daughters, and it fucks up his whole life. And pullo kills the fiancee of that one enslaved woman he has a crush on. They also do get repeatedly used as pawns by caesar and antony, then cast aside along with the other veterans. at Vorenus saves himself of that fate by deciding to play corrupt politician. So there def is some decent social commentary there.
Yeah: the laws and culture of Rome, the militarism, the absolute power of the paterfamilias, the religious superstitions that support all of it… Vorenus especially has so much faith in it and looks to it for the solutions to the difficulties in his life and he can’t even see that the system is the cause of all the difficulties in his life. They can’t see it because it’s the reality they were born with and everyone agrees it’s the best way. They don’t see it until it’s taken everything from them and they become cynical participants who are trapped in it instead.
The audience can see it because it’s so foreign to us, but at the same time so familiar. And I think it makes people think about their own social and cultural norms.
I definitely love Metro 2033, they have a bad view of communists and essentially write them as red fash, turn gameplay is cool and so is the environment of the entire game. Democracy Now! is SocDem media which has great content and spectacular interviews/convos with important journalists and scholars, but some real gremlins slip through every now and then. I also like watching Modern Family which is one of the most lib shows I can think of. When I was younger it was one of the only positive/normal portrayals of a gay couple(admittedly they portray upper middle class as normal, which isn’t normal at all these days, but still I think they can get a break)and as a young straight kid, most of the American media that I digested was always mocking gay people (not that I sought it out or anything, it was pervasive throughout American culture) and using their sexuality as a punchline or something, pretty dehumanizing shit on the regular, which I never thought about how it affects my view of gay people until that show. Obviously there are valid criticisms of the show, ones that I recognized even on my first viewing of the show w my parents, and more over time as I become more politically aware, but I will credit that show with doing more good than harm.
deleted by creator
In the first book there’s a group comprised of Trotskyists who are portrayed positively
Team Fortress 2
How is it lib without spoilers
Read the comics
There are a lot of shows that are decent, but I do get somewhat annoyed when “upper-middle-class” is suggested to be the average. I like the Simpsons, Andor Is good, but mostly because the libs that made it accidentally made it anti-cop and anti-imperialist, I watched ‘Atypical’ recently and it was good (of course no diamat, but I’m not expecting that), and one lib podcast that I like is ‘Knowledge Fight’ because i basically just get to laugh at reactionaries (though the anti-Russian, and pro-sex work positions are often cringe, at least they had a good China take recently)
I really liked Arrowverse right from the beginning. Sure there’s plenty to critique but for me the shows were always a feel-good medium budget superhero romp. It helps that it has about 95% less MIC imperialist bs than the MCU.
I have also gotten way into GT3 car racing in the last year and I’ve followed F1 for over a decade. It’s not so much entertainment with a narrative, but car racing is about as bougie as it gets in sports.
car racing is about as bougie as it gets in sports.
USSR used to be big into racing. Car racing, motorcycle racing.
Yeah I can see it. There’s also a community racing format in Finland where each car is only worth something like €1000. Any competitor can buy another competitors car for €1000. That way nobody invests a crazy amount into their car and way more people can participate.
They have this in Sweden with illegal cars called Epa Traktor and if you win, you trade cars with the person who came in last. But you still want to win because glory of victory trumps keeping property. That’s fun.
Baroque and classical music. I love its rhythm and dynamics, the rich sound of the orchestra, the vast variety of melodies and harmonies, the smooth and soothing quality its sound has to the ear, and the lore behind the different keys and instruments, but unfortunately most of it is about god or some monarch and basically the first great classical composer who would dare to no longer compose for the church or the nobility, gain financial independence, and express political opinions denouncing the feudal system would be Beethoven
I’ve been wanting to get into some. Could you give like 3-5 recommendations?
Baroque music still tends to have many heavy overarching tendencies in common such as terrace dynamics, the doctrine of affections, and a whole jungle of commonly accepted symbols and allusions. Its composers, after all, tended to see music as an - albeit very complex - craft, rather than an art. Nonetheless, the great composers of this era, such as J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and G.F. Händel, still managed to develop their personal styles: Bach’s music tends to sound austere and elegant, Vivaldi is wild and energetic, and Händel sounds brilliant and festive.
Then of course, you have to know the Big Three of the Vienna period; Joseph Haydn, W.A. Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Haydn basically invented the symphony as we know it today, Mozart brought it to fame, and Beethoven mastered it. They represent a progression from complete dependence towards rejection of the feudal Ancién Regime: Haydn spent almost his whole life entertaining a dynasty of Austro-Hungarian noblemen by establishing a more exploratory style, Mozart travelled internationally and collected different musical styles to eliminate the preconceptions other Europeans used to have of “uncivilised” nations, and finally Beethoven’s music always has the subtext of bourgeois democracy struggling to be born in Southern and Western Germany.
If you want to busy yourself for a week or so, I can recommend some of their most famous and well-known works:
From Bach, the Orchestral Suites 1-4 where some of his most famous tunes appear, and the Musical Offering which he improvised and provides a good look into his techniques.
From Vivaldi, obviously the Four Seasons concertos which concentrate his programmatic, expressive style. An interesting find is La Follia (the madness) which at some points approximates metal music.
From Händel, you may enjoy the three Water Music suites and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, which I think represent the different facets of his style very well.
As for Haydn, all of his London symphonies are great, but my personal favourites are Surprise (No. 94), The Clock (No. 101), and Drumroll (No. 103).
From Mozart, I recommend you listen to the Magic Flute which is an opera laden with symbols of his ideals and different styles of music; as well as his last symphony "Jupiter" (No. 42). You might also enjoy his mischievous side, shown in “A Musical Joke” where he parodies bad composers, conductors, players, and low-quality instruments.
Of course, everyone of Beethoven’s symphonies is a masterpiece, but if you are short on time, I recommend No. 3 (Eroica), 5 (Fate), 7, and 9 (Ode to Joy). He is also very well-known for his piano sonatas Pathétique, Appassionata, and Moonlight.
Actually? There are liberal media news, columns, and commentary that I like (outside of just entertainment).
Like, for example, when they’re not talking about international news, the news is genuinely better (maybe often inadequate, to be sure, and not going far enough, and not always doing the problem justice, but it’s better).
Also, the commentary can sometimes be enlightening (I’m talking about outside the “opinion articles,” which are genuinely war propaganda or even horrible domestic policy-pushing masked as “just an opinion bro lol.”
For example, a lot of the literary reviews here and there are good, the opinion articles on cultural phenomena in the West and in particular America are somewhat enlightening and bring up good points that I didn’t think about before, and you’ll occasionally find that “one good article” on a topic (doesn’t have to be political) that is… honestly better-written than most “alt media” articles out there; if not, maybe even all of them.
However: I have an RSS feed for my news (which I recommend every person get as it makes it easier to keep up with recently published articles in their favorite political outlets) and so it’s easier to keep track of which news or blog is posting what and whether it’s good or not (since you can kinda compare).
In fact: I honestly think that entertainment media (not the actual movies/shows/games themselves, but place like IGN, for example) are genuinely bad as they’re incredibly bare-bones, imho, and just rehash the same tropes over and over and over again.
Can you give me a good article about movie tv or games from a liberal media outlet
Atlanta is great
There’s that.
Alright, hold on…
I follow my state broadcasting news network. For internal matters I don’t mind following them even if it’s a little libby. But I don’t trust them at all when it comes to foreign affairs
Call of Duty
I don’t care much nowadays but the first two decades of my life I loved the Harry Potter books. I read them each like a dozen times (not exaggerating). It meant a lot to me as a kid.
As a huge fan of rap/hip hop I have to casually accept a lot of the nihlist capitalist realism that has been force fed onto the culture and the many spaces related to it.
