- cross-posted to:
- podcasts@hexbear.net
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- podcasts@hexbear.net
We actually never went anywhere, we just continue to be a couple of working shmucks with very little orgone left at the end of the day to promote a damn podcast. Can you imagine a more humiliating activity? “Hey everyone listen to my podcast!” Disgusting behavior.
In all seriousness my dear friend and super producer has been putting his whole ass into producing this little mini-series of ours about Florida.
The whole idea is to apply a lil of the ol Dialectical Materialism to the hot house horror story that is the history of Florida. It’s a very personal story for me and something I have struggled to understand my entire life.
We are most certainly going to get things wrong because; 1. We are fallable (and I, personally, am kinda lazy) and 2. Florida history is very contentious and there is a lot that is still hidden/lost/unknown.
I invite all of you to check it out and please subscribe if you can. We are also seeking out interviews with Floridians and particularly anyone with an indigenous background. So if that sounds like you and you wanna sound off about what these mayo-ass white boys are missing, we would love to have you!
Hope you enjoy the show and shouts out to @comradesharkfucker, who had us in regular rotation last i checked. Comrade shark fucker approved podcast here. Check it out!
Also check me out on Bluesky @butlersghost.bsky.social Super producer himself: @Brokenwindvane.bsky.social And the show @brokenwindpod.bsky.social
We are not on X the everything app
My angle is “listen to me and some of my friends scream into the void together as a cathartic escape from the roles we are coerced by capitalism to have to play for the majority of our waking lives” so yeah it’s your classic grifting to the left. A famously lucrative and risk-free undertaking!
The episode I posted is free and there’s a ton of other free episodes on there.
Why even make this comment? Are you putting yourself out there in any way? Would you make this snide remark to a person you actually know IRL? I sincerely doubt it.
You are a coward and a dork and until you swallow your cynicism and actually accept that you have to TRY to be SINCERE about what you believe you will always be emotionally stunted and ineffective in everything you attempt.
The worst part about cynics is they always think they’re the first person to look at everything cynically.
See you at the table of success, hater!
This diatribe is unnecessary and speaks more about your own insecurities lol
Very insightful observation!
It literally says in the post that I find it humiliating to be promoting my podcast. you people are a bunch of cynical 12 year olds
Your comment was fine until that point. Sarcasm and personal attacks are just as unproductive, in fact even more so because it encourages a degeneration into infighting.
You’re the one promoting your stuff. If you feel humiliated by it for whatever reason that is your burden to process. Don’t take it out on other people, sheesh.
Friend you are too smart by half here and both you and the poster I responded too are way too cynical for your own good.
I look forward to critiquing the way YOU defend your friends hard work from the cynical barbs of haters. I’m sure you will be much more measured and will do a great job preventing infighting!
I thought your post was fine but this behavior in your comments literally makes me not want to listen to it. I have plenty of slop to consume already. You should probably do some self reflection on this. If you had simply said, “Hey it’s free, so are most (or half or whatever) of our episodes” and let it go you would not have garnered the following critical responses. And speaking to your first response that was fine, until you began calling people cowards and dorks, I am being 100% sincere here and speaking from experience.
Hey I don’t disagree, I shouldn’t have lost my cool. I just get so fed up with cynics.
I can relate to that more than you know. It’s cost me more than it’s earned me though. I’ll probably give it a listen still and I see you’ve been here 5 years so what I presume is from the start. Just giving an outsiders’ perspective on the whole exchange. Their comment was pretty shitty but you don’t gotta escalate like that. Especially not in a place like this where I find the cynicism to be far more tempered than most of the internet.
Yeah you’re right honestly and I really appreciate you talking me down like this. I’m not neurotypical and I’ve never felt like I fully understood how to interact online.
I just feel like everyone is assuming some kind of malintent or grift or something I don’t even fully understand because I have a patreon with my friends that truly only exists as a means to hopefully give my producer an out from his bullshit job.
I’ve explained in previous posts about the show that the vision is to be successful enough that we can spring him loose from the trap of wage labor to be able to seek out and empower marginalized voices and whatever else we find interesting to publish and preserve those stories. All of the hosts have agreed to this framework and the main show is just the flagship fundraising vehicle that we all contribute too. We’ve been kicking around the idea of interviewing older queer couples about the stories of their relationships for years. Obviously we would like to pay them for those stories. We’re not out here trying to be the new podcast millionaires and yet it feels like we’re on the recieving end of the latent parasocial grievance these people have about podcasters.
But again, even if I feel they are in the wrong, I am more than willing to admit I have mishandled this whole exchange. I would never claim to be a good or competent podcaster or poster. We’re all just doing our best.
Next time get your co-host to do promo buddy.
Then why do?
Because me and my friends put what little free energy and time we have into this and long term the goal is to be successful enough that this becomes a way to spring our producer from the trap of wage labor so he can be a full time media producer. From there we want seek out and enable people from marginalized communities or whoever else we find interesting to help them tell and preserve their stories. Either by producing and editing or by just paying them to tell their story on mic. All the hosts have agreed to this framework and we all understand the only one of us who really stands to gain anything financially would be our producer. I think all this info is in my post history about the show.
More than anything else the goal for the show is just to have a space for me and my friends to be who we are honestly and not the people we have to pretend to be to be employable.
I have definitely handled this whole exchange poorly but the show is very personal to me so it felt like a personal attack.
This is a silly deflection
I was going to offer counsel on this, but you actually supplied a great summation of what’s wrong with this:
But of course, that’s assuming that you had common sense in that situation that you have chosen not to show here, and since I won’t pretend that I know you – a dignity you didn’t afford to the other user – I will acknowledge the full possibility that you may behave in such a maladjusted way in real life, too. I simply don’t know, I’m just hoping that that’s not the case so perhaps it can be used as a point of contrast to how inappropriate your behavior here is.
It’s bad for the space and everyone in it to make these ridiculous, highly presumptuous denouncements of “haters” who just don’t like receiving unsolicited advertising even on their shitty little communist forum. You don’t know about his life and it’s really shitty behavior to pretend that you do to make a half-assed attempt at humiliating him.
You summarized my repulsion better than I could. Maladjusted is the right word. Going 0 - 100 in response when somebody makes a single negative comment is bad vibes.
Does he know anything about my or my cohosts lives that gives him the right to assume malintent? Excuse me for taking the personal attack against me and my friends personally.
Excuse me for polluting your feed with my sincere little podcast me and my friends do so that we have more in our wretched lives than just pretending to be who we have to pretend to be at our jobs to be able to survive.
It didn’t even seem like they bothered to click the link and see that the episode was posted outside the paywall.
I know you’re withholding your counsel and that REALLY means something to me. But what would be the good and proper communist way to respond exactly?
You’re post is barely even comprehensible. Maybe learn to articulate a coherent thought before leaning on a bunch of five dollar words to assert some kind of intellectual authority.
You are too smart by half and also 12.
Deflection
You sure aren’t presenting sincerely now with your constant sarcasm, but even if you were, behaving in a way that is “sincerely” toxic isn’t all that much better, since the main issue imo has nothing to do with sincerity and everything to do with erupting in bile at a banal criticism.
Talk like a person instead of going on a presumptuous tirade, trying to present some epic “take down” of your “hater.” If you’re a communist, then surely you see value in trying to solve problems in a collaborative and constructive manner, right? That’s literally it, and if you retain one thing from all of your interactions with me, I hope it’s that.
juniper seemed to understand me just fine. If you’re having trouble understanding something, then instead of instantly jumping to making it oppositional and talking about how that’s my fault, you are welcome to ask and I’d be happy to help explain anything I said. It’s just rather difficult to explain things if you don’t explain what has confused you to begin with.
Did I assert intellectual authority? I feel like there’s a lot of stuff that you brought here and decided to just kind of put on me that don’t have very much to do with me. To model not being presumptuous, I won’t try to tell you what’s going on with you that produces this behavior, but I don’t think it’s constructive, regardless of its origin.
You really like saying this, don’t you? It kind of loses its power when I can see you directing it at others too, though. At that point, it just kind of comes off as something you like to tell people. “Zingers” like this are also a good example of not being constructive, because you aren’t really saying anything with it that goes beyond “fuck you”. Doubly so with the “12” bit, of course.
he called your post lame, I think I’ve been more severely “personally attacked” by hexbear users with compliments
Lol fuck off.
see you at the table of success?
It’s only gonna cost me 12.88 a month for you to sit there I guess?
touch grass.