#citations needed

[the-voldsoy]

It's that time again!

Which podcast should I listen to next?

Spirit Box Radio

Tales From the Fringes of Reality

The Amelia Project

The Attic Monologues

Midst

The Cellar Letters

Stellar Firma

The Storage Papers

Citations Needed

Friends at the Table

Clockwork Bird

Other (put it in the notes)

Voting ended onJan 19, 2025

Pods I have listened to (now in alphabetical order!):

+I have Mabel in progress, and will listen to The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality after that :)

[just-made-to-comment]

Why do so many people in their discussions of Arthurian legend not tag by source? I need to know where you got it because I wanna read that specific text.

[opinionated-faggot]

Taking in consideration that seeing people like us represented in fiction and social media helps shape our sense of self, I'd like to criticize "dead dove" and dark romances based on how queer people and women interacting with such stories are, whether they like it or nor, internalizing the way people like them are being treated there. The fact that in proship circles people are interacting with this kind of story from an early age is concerning.

This is how propaganda works, btw, by slowly and gradually exposing you to concepts until they are so normalized in the media said propaganda is spreading from, that it's real world counterpart seems like a natural and immutable part of the world. Many proshippers seem to believe they are immune to propaganda by saying they are not internalizing themes present in something they obsessively interact with, but nobody is immune to propaganda.

Exposing yourself to themes of your trauma repeatedly, obsessively, and outside of a controlled and monitored environment where a mental health professional would be there to help, is not a form of healing, but form of self harm, as well as a maladaptive coping mechanism that retraumatizes and makes one escape the impact and shock of their trauma by being able to naturalize it as something positive while they are immersed in said stories, or project it onto a character and get a sense of relief that "it happened to them, not me".

This causes damage to the healing process. It would be comparable to having a chronic pain, but instead of going to the doctor and following an organized and well structured treatment, you start taking opioids on your own and at will, and telling people it's not an addiction because it makes the pain go away. The pain does go away, but only momentarily, and as time passes, not only will you need more opioids, but the pain will become worse because it's underlying cause is being ignored.

Other links:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/propaganda-graphic-novels#bibliography

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388715756_How_Reading_Fiction_Affects_Us

[mommymarx]

[alanshemper]

[maaarine]

Adam Johnson:

“They say that they only care about the economy [and not “identity politics”]. But in many ways “identity-based” issues are economic issues.

If you’re discriminated against when you apply for a job because you’re trans, it’s an economic issue. 

If the police are harassing and arresting you, and you have to fill out a box in every application for the rest of your life that says that you’ve spent time in jail or prison, that’s an economic issue. 

These things are all economic issues. What they mean is that it’s not an economic issue for people who look like them.”

Nima Shirazi:

“Because the economy is simultaneously literally everything and totally nothing.”

Adam Johnson:

“I think that there’s a version of identity issues which can be superficial. But discrimination is a major driver of poverty for black people, trans people, etc. 

People being kicked out of their homes when they’re 15/16 years old because they’re gay, queer, trans, that’s an economic issue.

This idea that we can somehow bifurcate the economy from these “identity-based” issues is obviously meant to appeal to people for whom those issues are not important by definition.”

Source: Citations Needed: Episode 150: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part I)

[queen-mabs-revenge]

"You can’t solve a problem starting with the wrong diagnosis. If I can’t buy a Porsche for $1.98, that doesn’t mean there’s an automobile shortage. If I can’t get a fine dining meal for a buck, that doesn’t mean there’s a food shortage. And if appropriately skilled humans don’t want to work for me under the conditions I’ve set, that doesn’t mean there’s a human shortage."

- Peter Greene, 'We Need To Stop Talking About The Teacher Shortage', Forbes, Sep 5 2019. [quoted by Citations Needed, Episode 135: 'The "Labor Shortage" Ruse: How Capital Invents Staffing Crises to Bust Unions and Depress Wages', Apr 28 2021.]

We don't have a labor shortage, we have a wage and good working conditions shortage.

[justsomeantifas]

The growing media consensus that "China is quickly becoming the most important (enemy) country in the world" - from Obama's 'Pivot to Asia' through trumps tariff's to Elizabeth Warren's intimidation pledge - should be understood as such: if the US were do an oopsie and expand our Afghanistan occupation into China, or Accidentally™ step a lil too much in the South China Sea, that would be irreparably disastrous to the US economy. The US ruling class recognizes this, and although they are willing participants in an anti-satanic suicide cult, they're not at that stage of reckless abandon (yet). They want to relocate production away from China (mainly to other south/east Asian countries, only rly to the US when it's profitable), thus loosening the tie for when the Always Stumbling US Empire inevitably "aw shucks :/"'s it's way into hot war.

This must be opposed. Regardless of if you wanna call Xi Jinping a dictatorial Winnie the Pooh or not. Even the "cautious, rational" proposed actions of Warren would undo more & more binds, so that even if she doesn't trigger it, she's given the next president permission to not have to give a shit about her attempted carefulness.

The only way out is to do whatever we can to break down the artificial isolation making us in the US see Chinese workers as our competition, instead of our fellow captives. Find people's stories, learn Mandarin, read Chuang, go on chinese-targeted social media apps (or try & make friends w workers @ Chinese/east asian businesses in your area) & talk to everyday ppl, instead of the specific milieus who have learned english/have a good VPN. Build bonds of international solidarity, bc that's the only way out of this hellhole.