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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. “That Raytheon decided they don’t hate gays or trans people - frankly, I don’t really give a shit what their take on that is..."
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[@bgmac1219]

the possibility of nuclear war has always been in the top two of Chomsky's things we should all actually be worried about, he's been saying it for at least 160 of those last 178 years...

[@woodyhorton8537]

Someone should let Kyle know there's no such thing as sanctions that don't hurt the average civilian in some way. The poor always suffer first and the most

[@calimerohnir3311]

Never ask a man about his salary

[@antonioreid534]

Chomsky has always been principled on this issue. Chomsky says “we are responsible for what we do.” Of course, his view on Iraq is going to be qualitatively different than what the US ought to do in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two wars aren’t comparable in terms of what US responsibilities are in regards of ending hostilities. I think this should be fairly obvious.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Nothing is ever actually off any negotiating table. Calling something off the negotiating table is a negotiation tactic.

[@ksolo614]

Kyle this war started in 2014.

[@adamrothgarn3236]

Comparing Iraq and Ukraine is apples to wrenches so of course his commentary wouldn’t be the same on both issues. Chomsky understood this conflict was coming and why quite a long time ago.

[@crobinson2624]

Well this is the problem the world has when it comes to superpower countries that are acting aggressive. How do you handle them? I think the conversation about denuclearization of the world needs to come back into the conversation.

[@Boznaniac]

I like Chomsky but he did make a comment about the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia. He refuses to acknowledge the Srebrenca massacre as genocide even tough it was proven to be a genocide. I am from Srebrenica and my brother and I were the only ones who were able to escape from my family.

[@MelkorPT]

Imperialism is bad, except when it's Russian imperialism, then

[@Kevo6492]

A lot of people in the comments are completely negating Ukraine and her people's agency in this.

[@50043211]

Chomsky defended the Serbians and now he is doing the same with Putin. Others think that this kind of consistency deserves respect but not from me.

[@antoniettols]

3:48

[@KeinenGott]

There are no such targeted sanctions that will not hurt "normal" Russians. In order to sanction the military, for example, to limit their production of new weapons, you need to stop allowing their components to be exported. That will 100% cost thousands of Russians their jobs who are working in the defense sector. Your idea of sanctions won't do anything because with most of the economy untouched, the oligarchs would have limitless options to avoid those that are targeted against them.

[@VladVexler]

- nothing meaningful to negotiate on now; Putin is not ready to negotiate.

[@wartem]

You can't settle something with someone whose determined to remove you and everything connected to you from the face of the earth.

[@higglyjuff]

For a 93 year old, Noam Chomsky still seems incredibly intelligent. You can tell he still reads and uses that mind on a regular basis. He reminds me of a stereotypical wizard.

[@the23rdhour]

I'm not trying to be too argumentative, but I think it's fair to ask the question: What's an example of an economic sanction which targets Putin and the Russian ruling class? Stuff primarily consumed by rich people, I suppose? In a way, devaluing their currency might accomplish that (as the west is actively trying to do), but I think that still targets the average Russian working person as well.

[@kyledowning6775]

We've seen a developing situation over the last few decades where every major state has become a rogue state. It's an unwinnable situation if ever there was one.

[@beerblues762]

The problem is that the same companies who made a killing in Afghanistan, have no interest in seeing an end to this war. And let’s not forget no American soldiers are involved in this war, so it’s not an unpopular war.