Progressive Organizations Self-Implode while Roe is Overturned – with Ryan Grim

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Become a Useful Idiot for extended episodes and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com The Intercept’s Ryan Grim shares his new article Elephant in the Zoom, which explains how internal struggles have progressive advocacy groups at a standstill during a critical political moment. He argues that workplace problems, while important to deal with, are distracting these groups from the issues they were created to fight for. And while progressives are doing internal evaluations, do you think Republican groups are analyzing their micro-aggressions or are they busy seizing power? Plus, Grim ‘calls out’ the left’s call-out vs call-in problem, explains why the left is ditching their anti-war stance to escalate the proxy war in Ukraine, and why journalists are fine with the recent extradition of Julian Assange, which is, of course, an attack on a free press. Subscribe and watch the full interview to get it all. Oh yeah, and Aaron’s now a top conspiracy theorist, according to the great journalists at The Guardian. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-are-progressive?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Aaron’s article on Matt Duss: https://mate.substack.com/p/on-ukraine-progressive-proxy-warriors?r=nrwh&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Elephant in the Zoom: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/ Restorative Injustice by Ryan Grim: https://theintercept.com/2022/05/08/maryland-campaign-brandy-brooks-progressive-accountability/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to useful idiots. I'm Katie Halper. And I'm Mary Matti. How are you Katie?
0:10.4	I'm good you. Fine. I'm well. You're famous. You're more famous this week than you were last week.
0:15.9	I am. Well you're a prolific conspiracy theorist. Oh yeah right. Yes that's right. The Guardian
0:23.0	has come out and declared me to be the most prolific
0:26.3	spreader of this information when it comes to Syria and their source is a study that was put out by
0:32.9	a think tank called the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. But the Guardian didn't
0:37.4	mention to its audience is that this think tank is funded by the US and various other belligerents
0:42.7	in the Syria Guerti War. And this think tank the ISD did this study in collaboration with
0:49.5	something called the Syria campaign which is funded by a oil tycoon who happens to be also a
0:55.6	major funder of a major Syrian opposition coalition. So basically a report that is heavily
1:03.9	biased doesn't like the work I'm putting out on Syria and wants to have it essentially
1:08.1	silence. That's the that's the message of the reporters. They want social media to crack down
1:13.2	and voices like mine. And what's so funny is they even go so far as to say that because of the
1:18.6	work that I do on Syria we are impacting government policy that we are muddling policy decisions.
1:24.3	That'll be great. So the same people who are funding who are working for governments
1:30.8	that are involved in the dirty war in Syria and have been involved in the dirty war in Syria
1:34.8	are now also accusing us of muddling their own funders decisions. So you know the power we have.
1:40.4	Wow that's awesome. Yeah. So Aaron what was it like when the Guardian journalist who wrote this
1:44.9	piece contacted you for a comment which is standard practice when you're writing a piece about
1:49.1	someone right? Yes well what's his name? I think it's Mark Townsend. Yeah he did not contact me.
1:53.3	He didn't contact you. Wow. Well what were some of the most
1:56.7	standing examples that they gave of you spreading conspiracy theories? The tribe obviously
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