120: Caleb Maupin and the Conspiracy Left, with Sophie from Mars
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
A real treat this time, as Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest Sophie from Mars to talk about Caleb Maupin and the wider 'Conspiracy Left', i.e. those left-wingers (or pseudo left-wingers) who style themselves anti-imperialists (etc) and who embrace every bad cause from Putin/Assad-apologia to transphobia to conspiracist antisemitism.
Sophie knows and understands this subject backwards and forwards. Her YouTube documentary video Conspiracy on the Left was an instant classic when it was released earlier this year, and she has lots of other videos in which (with others) she goes over Maupin's cultic conferences, his reactionary politics, his paranoid grudges, and his weird and patronising fascist screeds disguised as despatches from the new Lenin.
A great chat about an important issue for the left to deal with. And there is also, you will be unsurprised to learn, some laughing at the cringe of it all.
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Episode Notes:
Sophie from Mars on YouTube Sophie from Mars - YouTube
Sophie from Mars on Twitter Sophie 💅 From 💅 Mars (@sophie_frm_mars) / Twitter
Conspiracy on the Left https://youtu.be/aZyIjBxxpTY
Reading Caleb Maupin's Breadtube Serves Imperialism ft. That Jess & ThoughtSlime - YouTube
Caleb Maupin exposed for abuses and cult manipulation tactcs - YouTube
Pinko & Mildred watch Caleb Maupin addressing the allegations - YouTube
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is I Don't Speak German. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Jack Graham, he, him. |
| 0:17.0 | And in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, |
| 0:20.0 | also he, him, |
| 0:21.0 | who spent years tracking the far right in their safe spaces. |
| 0:25.0 | In this show we talk about them |
| 0:27.0 | and about the wider reactionary forces feeding them and feeding off them. |
| 0:31.0 | Be warned, this is difficult subject matter. |
| 0:34.0 | Content warnings always apply. |
| 0:36.0 | And welcome to episode 120 of I Don't Speak German. |
| 0:57.0 | We're back with a very special guest this time, |
| 1:00.0 | but firstly I do need to apologize for Daniel |
| 1:02.0 | because he's going to be incredibly annoying. |
| 1:04.0 | He is here, but he's going to be incredibly annoying all the way through the episode |
| 1:07.0 | because he's got, he's had a horrible bug, you know, a horrible nasty bug. |
| 1:12.0 | And it's, you know, I have no sympathy for him whatsoever, |
| 1:14.0 | because he's now got this horrible low growling scratchy voice. |
| 1:18.0 | And it's, it's making me uneasy. |
| 1:20.0 | And I blame him. |
| 1:22.0 | So Daniel, apologize for yourself. |
| 1:24.0 | I deeply apologize for sounding like this. |
| 1:27.0 | This is not, this is not a bit. |
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