after what I’ve heard my local circles say about jacobin (and unfortunately I don’t remember many details — I should see if anybody’s got an article I can share) I’m no longer shocked when I find out they’re platforming and redwashing shitty capitalist mouthpieces
Okay but I feel like they’re more on the Sixpence None the Richer side of Christian rock (the “hey, that song’s a catchy bop!” kind where you’re surprised when you find out their Christian) and not the really obvious waste-of-guitars kind, like a hair metal band called something like “Ĥe Gëŧz Ǘ§” that only performs drum heavy anthems about communion.
after what I’ve heard my local circles say about jacobin (and unfortunately I don’t remember many details — I should see if anybody’s got an article I can share) I’m no longer shocked when I find out they’re platforming and redwashing shitty capitalist mouthpieces
i have long considered Jacobin the Christian rock of socialism
Okay but I feel like they’re more on the Sixpence None the Richer side of Christian rock (the “hey, that song’s a catchy bop!” kind where you’re surprised when you find out their Christian) and not the really obvious waste-of-guitars kind, like a hair metal band called something like “Ĥe Gëŧz Ǘ§” that only performs drum heavy anthems about communion.
This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.
I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably “The German Question” a couple of weeks ago.
I get this is a damning with faint praise but sometimes when you’re looking around in the American leftist press and you find
the people who got Reality Winner sent to prison and who were GG’s home for years, and just had layoffs,
and Nathan J Robinson’s vanity zine,
and you just desperately are willing to settle for anything, anyone at all.
@gnomicutterance @sneerclub Are you familiar with An=my Goodman’s “Democracy Now!”?
forget the article, this does the job in so many fewer words