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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers - loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on KZbin. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news - the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on KZbin, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do - even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks - who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago - the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king - the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best - the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all - class issues,” he said on a recent episode.
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[@kingbeef66]

Elon Musk saying he’s for absolute free speech is like the Joker saying he’s not a killer.

[@BeneficenceTV]

Ironically, Elon is a joker. A straight up clown.

[@vylbird8014]

Joker would say that. And mean it. He's not a killer today. Yesterday he was, today he isn't. Tomorrow, well, we'll see.

[@GhostSal]

Are we talking about the same “journalísts” that said the Russían pipelíne íncident was done by Russía itself? That said the lab leak was a crazý racíst myth? That said the laptøp story was a Russían høax? That played down the significance of the Twítter fíles? That faíled to expøse Faucí emaiłs showing gaín of functíon research was in fact goíng on? Let’s be honest, these aren’t really “journalísts”, they are nothing more than an arm of the gøvernment and only push approves narratíves.

[@kingbeef66]

@@GhostSal I wasn’t talking about those at all. You are bringing up red herrings.

[@GhostSal]

@@kingbeef66 It’s not a red herring simply to ask why they were banned in the first place.

[@AndrewPagel9628]

Boy I sure do love that Free Speech app everyone talks about. $44B was so worth it.

[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

It's a lot more balanced than it once was honestly.

[@Asrahn]

@@Sh0tgunJust1ce lol, lmao, etc

[@hellious7670]

Fascists are going to do fascist things. Elon's mask is just coming off.

[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

@@Asrahn Never seen such an amazing refutation of a point before. You, sir, are a genius.

[@joseph-vw1wm]

@@Sh0tgunJust1ce No refutation neceesary. Your first comment is delusional

[@UberHeroMystic]

This dude is one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet. He only bought Twitter because he was butthurt his far right hate speech was being silenced. I hope he loses all his advertisers.

[@waltergrace565]

Hilarious.

[@fernygamer6985]

Agreed

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Leftism is a virus.

[@proudbrogressive315]

Imagine spending 44B to essentially have an echo chamber. It'd have been cheaper to buy 4chan.

[@applecatnyango]

He was butthurt, but didn't actually want to buy the site. He offered a deal fully expecting the other side was going to refuse it (they legally couldn't). He had tried everything he could to back out of buying Twitter, then later attempted to sue Twitter's lawyers for securing the deal. Yet, the Apartheid Clyde has the nerve to claim that it was all planned in order to "save free speech" that he clearly doesn't believe in. Dude is such an unfunny joke.

[@craigbrowning9448]

It's like freedom of speech is fine as long as it has a conservative bias.

[@dalekrenegade2596]

Conservatives only support Me Speech.

[@GhostSal]

Are we talking about the same “journalísts” that said the Russían pipelíne íncident was done by Russía itself? That said the lab leak was a crazý racíst myth? That said the laptøp story was a Russían høax? That played down the significance of the Twítter fíles? That faíled to expøse Faucí emaiłs showing gaín of functíon research was in fact goíng on? Let’s be honest, these aren’t really “journalísts”, they are nothing more than an arm of the gøvernment and only push approves narratíves.

[@rorypritchard]

But Joe Rogan keeps saying that Elon is a free speech absolutist.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"Mmm.. adult baby." "Why does it lie?" "Generally speaking, Chinese people look Chinese." Joe Rogan - former comedian, current lolcow. The people the right listen to are a who's who of embarrassing

[@emigrator08]

Joe Rogan is a fascist meathead.

[@AndreB23]

Boy, Melon Husk really is living up to his self-proclaimed title of, "Free-speech advocate".

[@sawtooth808]

“Free speech for me…but not for thee” - Elon Musk

[@das_it_mane]

Ah yes, I paid $44b for free speech. Why don't you believe me??

[@2TrillSenna]

Enough failed businesses and a few bankruptcies and he will make a great Republican presidential nominee.

[@adanactnomew7085]

Isn't he barred from being president because he was born abroad and his parents arent citizens

[@waltergrace565]

And you're totally not in a cult.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

How many investments have you successfully gained a return from?

[@waltergrace565]

@@adanactnomew7085 Yes.

[@organicwest]

He is being groomed by Bannon and Trump

[@VoodooV1]

People need to put their money where their mouth is and quit X for real. too many people criticize X/Elon but don't actually quit.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Agree. Everyone should just quit

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Leftists will never do that, your entire life revolves around pretending to be more important than you are.

[@ren17x50]

I never started.

[@johnalexharper]

I want to quit but it’s still the best app for real time news. I’ve deleted the app, then something happens in the world, I google it, and all the latest updates are just tweets. X needs to go but someone needs to replace it with something better to make that happen.

[@BlanBonco]

And miss the corn feed and OF promotions? I need to know who is doing who

[@thatonepianoguy_]

“Elon Musk purge session” was a mental image I could live without LOL

[@collardcow4183]

Musk runs twitter like a toddler driving a car

[@user-em3vl6li5w]

He is a narcissist, can’t bear any criticism, he’s just not very bright.

[@ATTITUDEELMORedGuyAttitude]

If he tried his own Tesla & winds up having a malfunction because he doesn't take driving seriously like the Twitter situation. Boy is gonna keep crashing.

[@Pace18692]

So Elon's trip to izrl and visiting bb was very effective and made him a good puppy dog for zioz

[@fernygamer6985]

Exactly 👹👹

[@dustinsindledecker154]

Yep now he has been bought off by them

[@gabrielhersey5546]

Nothing says freedom of speech like banning everything

[@waltergrace565]

Where you guys been?

[@CaptainBollocks....]

Have you heard what they're trying to ban in Florida now?

[@GhostSal]

Are we talking about the same “journalísts” that said the Russían pipelíne íncident was done by Russía itself? That said the lab leak was a crazý racíst myth? That said the laptøp story was a Russían høax? That played down the significance of the Twítter fíles? That faíled to expøse Faucí emaiłs showing gaín of functíon research was in fact goíng on? Let’s be honest, these aren’t really “journalísts”, they are nothing more than an arm of the gøvernment and only push apprøved narratíves.

[@waltergrace565]

@@GhostSal This is a corporate dem cult channel, my man. Good luck with all that reality nonsense here.

[@GhostSal]

@@waltergrace565It’s sad really, there shouldn’t be a left or right view about facts. Something is true or it isn’t.

[@AdmiralBison]

The problem is NOT Billionaires and 1% shareholders controlling free speech. The problem is that Billionaires and 1% shareholders OWN the social media platforms and political discourse that by extension allows them to OWN free speech.

[@dr1flush]

Freedom of speech means the government can’t hinder your free speech rights.

[@arnoldstrong3548]

@@dr1flush until business own the government then it does not matter

[@StinkCabbage]

You nailed it

[@stratecaster547]

​@@dr1flush yes but in principle freedom of speech is not truly possible in a capitalistic society, as those with more money can buy a bigger megaphone and essentially drown out the speech of everyone else. This is why social media should be regulated and operated like public utilities. The United States has normalized some nonsensical, dangerous, repressive and factually harmful ideas strictly because a few ultra-wealthy people wanted to implement them.

[@dr1flush]

@@stratecaster547 what did people do before the internet? Was there no free speech before the internet existed ? Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to a business that’s like saying at your job you should be allowed complete free speech without consequences. Freedom of speech only applies to the government hindering our 1st amendment rights. A business doesn’t need to grant you free speech. It’s not accurate to say that because twitter banned you your freedom of speech is under attack. It shows how completely out of touch you are with what it means to have your free speech taken away.

[@bobbysmith9298]

When you're used to privilege then equality feels like oppression.

[@frostnova8300]

So much for Free Speech

[@Birthnote]

Greenwald's been very anti left lately and he gets rewarded by being banned. Sucks to suck, huh Glen?

[@applecatnyango]

I guess that's why he's not clamoring about "Twitter files" behind this particular purging process.

[@dustinsindledecker154]

Well he goes after Israel and Elon doesn't like anyone going after his new friends

[@sarahnicoleanastasia]

Greenwood showed his true colors when he salivated over working with tucker 🤮

[@sawtooth808]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, Glenn Grift…uhh I mean Greenwald will be back, Tuckums will put in a good word for him (yeah right 🤣)

[@iss6044]

When was Greenwald banned?

[@whatslife7512]

Literally just argued with a coworker about Elon being pro free speech tonight.

[@talyahr3302]

I was also banned from Twitter a while ago. At first I was upset about it but as time went on I realize its been good for me in multiple ways. I used to be addicted to Twitter, now I wouldnt join even if I was allowed.

[@cl8804]

nt, jewbani

[@GhostSal]

I feel that way about Facebook.

[@ZuLuuuuuu]

The problem is that only the most popular journalist accounts are reactivated. But we don't know how many other real accounts got purged with this wave. So if you were a smaller account who got suspended, you will probably stay suspended. Every single account that got suspended with this latest wave should be reversed because whatever algorithm they wrote clearly was not able to differentiate between spam accounts and real accounts.

[@menotyou8369]

Accept it wasn't an algorithm, it was Muskrat himself.

[@irmaramirez5873]

Shame on elon

[@dustinsindledecker154]

It shows that criticizing anyone who is jewish is soon gonna be criminalized

[@SelfTaughtArtist1]

The whole reason Billionaires buy newspapers. We’re we confused about this historical fact?

[@snakems6936]

Truly a beacon of free speech 😂

[@sawtooth808]

In the same way North Korea is a democratic republic 🤣🤣

[@bobspruce1196]

More viewers really need to smash that like button.

[@wadew3623]

Gotta love how nobody wants to call it "X," because no one would know what the fuck anyone was talking about if we were always referring just to a letter of the alphabet.

[@ATTITUDEELMORedGuyAttitude]

Imagine Elon Musk if he ran for president & approved to change the law where naturalized citizens can get opportunity at running for president. They'd do that for a guy like Elon very easily & all hell would break loose.

[@ASDeckard]

That would take a Constitutional Amendment, not just 'a law.' Check again what that would require across the nation, and ask yourself if you think the Republicans could do it alone or not.

[@MegaLoucon]

He can do more damage behind the scenes by buying politicians which he already does, this way he still has anonymity.

[@nellomaxim]

I left twitter....every one leave

[@captain_context9991]

Dont you love it when corporate America shows its true face. And instead of the billionaire genius saviour, it just turns out to be corporate America.

[@Meanm1l33n4]

Masterful gambit, sir!

[@student99bg]

Pfhahahahahha I love the reference

[@1anastudent]

If I wrote a book about Musk, the title would be "The Stench of Musk"

[@peterstafford4426]

Are you surprised? After all, Saggar loves the guy.

[@whydoineedahandle406]

Part of his contrarian brand

[@peterstafford4426]

@@whydoineedahandle406 You sociopath brand. Being a sociopath is good for business.

[@dontsayitisntbecauseitis3845]

I’ve had to block Musk, every self-styled ‘conservative,’ right-wing headbanger, conspiracy freak, and grifter. Now I’m mainly batting bots away and bemoaning the degraded user experience. The fact that this has been achieved alongside the commercial suicide of the site is mind-blowing.

[@vylbird8014]

Time to give up. If you must have something like Xitter, move to another platform.

[@bruceleeroy8302]

Elon just made a post saying the term "cis-gender" is heterophobic, and he reposts the Tweets from @EndWokeness, a far-right, W/S account. He's become such a trashy grifter and everytime I go on X/Twitter, my timeline is nothing but Trumpers and far-right wingers bitching about something.

[@jm5390]

I love when right-wingers talk about “Freedom of Speech” then are silent or OK with stuff like this. These people aren’t serious.

[@GhostSal]

Are we talking about the same “journalísts” that said the Russían pipelíne íncident was done by Russía itself? That said the lab leak was a crazý racíst myth? That said the laptøp story was a Russían høax? That played down the significance of the Twítter fíles? That faíled to expøse Faucí emaiłs showing gaín of functíon research was in fact goíng on? Let’s be honest, these aren’t really “journalísts”, they are nothing more than an arm of the gøvernment and only push apprøved narratíves.

[@yuriy5376]

​@@GhostSalhow many times will you copy-paste this? 😂

[@GhostSal]

@@yuriy5376 It’s about starting conversations on different posts and opening eyes. I was left myself for decades, until I started researching with objectivity in mind.

[@mattcoelho]

“PURGES” or briefly suspended and restored?

[@BiggusDiggusable]

McLeod isn't Mac-lee-odd. It's Mac-loud.

[@TheDarwinProject1]

Just correction, Dr. Gaye never plagiarized, just didn't have a citation that didnt follow her employer's policies for proper citations. This might be due to the University she wrote the paper in having different standards &/or change of standards over time. The person she was missing a citation for was interviewed & even said she doesn't think its a big deal & "officially forgave" the oversight. I don't remember if they knew each other, but the interview I thought was very informative... I just dont remember what the info was 😅

[@vivisimonvi]

Elon with a straight face would say, "Well if you owned a social media platform and people were critical to you, wouldn't you ban them too?"

[@randomdisplayname]

Kyle gotta go see his boy Joe in Texas and say all this stuff.

[@cameronmachado1774]

Ackman might try to buy X from Elon after the 70+% value decrease. Dude's a vulture circling his prey

[@user-ym1nq4fe4t]

Jack Dorsey must be laughing himself to sleep every night on a bed of cash.

[@brankobelfranin8815]

Yes he is

[@alfredotto7525]

Elon is and always has been a right winger. Never thought he was a real free speech advocate.

[@joseph-vw1wm]

So many people are addicted to Twitter and hate Elon. Like Honestly is it that hard to quit?? I did as soon as this hostile takeover started.

[@mattcoelho]

“It depends on the context” of calling for genocide..

[@dereklambert5145]

Stop being such a woke snowflake who's scared of free speech

[@solexxx8588]

Greenwald is far left? I don't think we want him.

[@jenniferferris44]

Calling FOR violence should also be illegal. All this stocastic calls being target at the minority I am a part of is causing me severe paranoia

[@wryandwatchful]

This feels coordinated in an election year.

[@BearsDenOneinVain]

This is why I don't ever use Twitter/X... If everyone had a little accountability, there wouldn't be "X".

[@wcagee101]

He's literally trying to make a right wing platform where large amounts of people can remain in a right wing bubble.

[@erikchristensen8415]

Free speech and the constitution is completely different than the student code of conduct at a university. If you say some crazy shit while attending a university, they can take action if they see fit.

[@timhopper8449]

Turn about it fair play!

[@edchez4253]

The Tesla station still uses coal to charge my Tesla.

[@D_skeptic]

This is why I quit "X" (aka Twitter) months ago

[@zonimi]

When "Free Speech" means that those who agree with you are free to speak.

[@fernygamer6985]

Elon the best friend of Natanyahu 🐀🐀

[@AdastraRecordings]

Drugs make you weird Elon...

[@JFromAcc]

Glenn greenwald = far left??? That is a very strange take

[@asdfasdf4924]

I'm not a journalist so I don't know-- since journalists no longer use twitter, what platform are they using now?

[@FancyNancy12345]

Enjoy listening to u.

[@CaptainBollocks....]

Does Elon not know how easy it would be to google exactly where he lives?

[@jp2586]

Where you at Matt Taibbi? Hmm

[@Dancewelll]

He criticized the Chews for the massacre the Falestinians... That was the beginning of his downfall

[@fernygamer6985]

Boycott his brands !!

[@wyvern723]

The cesspool grows more stagnant.

[@loanthiphuongnguyen]

How come ?!

[@rayneweber5904]

McLeod is pronounced like McCloud, Kyle

[@TheLivewire18]

Every time I see Elon Musk’s name I still hear Donald Trump yelling “ELON!… ELON!…”

[@1ronin907]

Private company.

[@tristanm4332]

Hypocrisy.

[@ConradNeill]

A private company that has lost over half its value, and is hemorrhaging advertisers, since Elon bought it.

[@uhohhotdog]

And then he wonders why traffic on his site declines…

[@friedala4702]

Afther he went to Netanyahu his IQ dropt its like vodo

[@My-Say]

Musk essentially blew 40 billion so he can throw his weight around, playing tough jackass, so I guess he bought that right. I never liked Twitter from the start because the layout is just really bad and the features are severely lacking.

[@stoneneils]

My sense is the Men in Black pay the mainstream media and social networking companies and literally tell them their life depends on playing ball.

[@GhostSal]

Are we talking about the same “journalísts” that said the Russían pipelíne íncident was done by Russía itself? That said the lab leak was a crazý racíst myth? That said the laptøp story was a Russían høax? That played down the significance of the Twítter fíles? That faíled to expøse Faucí emaiłs showing gaín of functíon research was in fact goíng on? Let’s be honest, these aren’t really “journalísts”, they are nothing more than an arm of the gøvernment and only push apprøved narratíves.

[@WinginWolf]

Squirrel!

[@Michigntiger08]

It's not a "free speech crackdown" (colloquially in the US this refers to 1st amendment rights 99% of the time) when a private company limits the speech of customers. Now, Elon has made this same mistake and claimed private companies violate free speech/1st amendment. So this is hypocritical but not a "free speech crackdown".

[@BeneficenceTV]

And this is exactly why I didn't invest my time on Twitter with Beneficence TV. I knew this ship would sink eventually with Elon at the helm.

[@euanreid6682]

How much is twitter worth now?😂😂😂

[@jimscott1246]

Keep it one sided, so you never have to defend your stance on factual evidence.

[@choglatemilg]

damn how the hell did they just ban klip like that

[@seculair2996]

Remember Kyle said: You are objectively wrong if you like fall and you should be ashamed of yourself....

[@satevo462]

Your Shure microphone is upside-down..

[@DanT10]

X needs to go away. Stop using it.

[@Tilten]

I left Twitter the day Musk walked through the door.

[@GhostSal]

Why?

[@Tilten]

@@GhostSal Did you see him enter the building? It was obvious Twitter was going to sink fast. 😁

[@johncane4507]

So much for freedom of speech

[@xMoac]

They aren’t journalists even but people should be allowed to post their bias.

[@aaronhumphrey3514]

I really don't get how an "X" alternative hasn't taken off by now...

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Saying something racist is s free speech, saying something negative but true about Muskrat is AGAINST TOS!

[@satevo462]

The election year begins.... 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@sedgyd]

Did anyone really think Elon bought Twitter, I mean Xed to ……allow free speech 🤣🤣🤣

[@waltergrace565]

Nah, he was just brought in as a rebrand after Twitter got exposed.

[@Hatz127]

Yes idiots did

[@ConradNeill]

@@waltergrace565 Exposed in what way? He wasn't brought in, his offer was too high and when he tried to back out he realized he'd be taken to court. Would have been cheaper for him, and better for everyone else, if he had just paid whatever it would have cost to back out of the deal.

[@waltergrace565]

@@ConradNeill Huh? As if Twitter isn't a state department/intelligence apparatus. They pretty much admitted as much by bragging about the Arab spring. Do you really think Musk bought Twitter with his savings account? C'mon, I know this is redundant, but at any point do you guys get real?

[@terrydizzydude4087]

Ironic those that advocated censorship not long ago are now complaining about censorship.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Conservatives are Big lovers of censorship. Trying to get books banned.

[@typeviic1]

X also banned Alan MacLeod of MintPress News.

[@nintendogamingchannel1007]

SecularTalk US MSM has no Journalists (Opinion)

[@Joe-ij6of]

6:52 "Night of the Elong Knives" That kind of stuff is the only saving grace of social media

[@brankobelfranin8815]

He has been doing it all along.

[@XcuzeTheMessDeer]

This is Dave Chapelle's friend right ?

[@keister1169]

Free speech for me and not for thee

[@X2LR8]

Just be done with this already. Re-classify all of these social media platforms as public utiltiies instead of private enterprise and don't allow such censorship. Anything you can say while standing on a sidewalk, you can say on the platform.

[@waltergrace565]

We already tried this. The cult here screamed private business, remember?

[@ASDeckard]

It's a global network that's not even primarily based in America anymore. Good luck. How did that TikTok ban go again?

[@burniejarvis9298]

Is anyone really surprised at this point.

[@gameofender4463]

Ngl, there is a lot of propaganda and misinformation by people claiming to be on the left on X. Who just take anyone against Israel’s word as if it’s a proven fact.

[@Cobbido]

Nobody was censored....