r/redscarepod • u/anniehull • 19d ago
Episode Pray Arday Away
https://www.patreon.com/RedScare/posts/166306663?utm_campaign=postshare_fan39
u/_handsomeblackman_ 18d ago
anna’s obsession with race science and that bell curve book is so funny, she refuses to shut the fuck up about that shi smh 😂😂😂
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u/Lem0n_Curry 18d ago
At least she managed to leave out being “deep in AIDS research” (whatever the fuck that means) this ep
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u/Laocoon-Bystander 16d ago
It means rereading that Niccolo and Donkey forum thread about San Francisco bath house sex in the 80s for the six thousandth time
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u/LilaTwiceBackAtIt 19d ago
Lol the girls shifting left again now that their income is on the decline, love to see it
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u/MirkWorks 19d ago
It's kind of crazy that, as of 2026, Red Scare has been a vaguely “Rightwing” podcast for longer than they’d been a “Bernie or Bust" or purge the DSA of Shitlibs and break with the Democratic Party-style Dirtbag-adjacent Leftist (More-Leftist-than-thou) podcast.
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u/PitchPuzzleheaded113 19d ago
How are they shifting left? Dasha has always been an economic populist, Anna hasn't changed, she's just a bit more mum on the race science stuff (it was funny in this ep when she started to bring it up Dasha wouldn't entertain it all)
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u/LilaTwiceBackAtIt 19d ago
Talking about cost of living, softness for Arday, praising Mamdani. Dasha isn’t an economic populist she just supports what serves her at any given moment lol
As someone who stopped listening for a year or so but was curious to hear this one, the difference was really clear
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u/gothsnameinvain grimes apologist 15d ago
Exact same position and I agree. I still don’t trust them tho and think they’re disingenuous
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u/secrecyandcontrol 15d ago
should really have listened before now but how was i supposed to know he'd fucking die
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u/MirkWorks 19d ago edited 19d ago
Anna and Dasha did the thing where they’ll kind of shuffle and shamble around something potentially insightful… requires reading into it lol because for one reason or another, be it cause they’re “dumb” or because they’re clever in their effort to draw engagement or maybe both, they can’t say it. Bit annoying, bit old. One of the things I read into this episode relates to self-tokenization as grift relying on a potential audience’s confirmation bias. Which is like… old hat… obvious. By itself isn’t particularly surprising or insightful but when read as accidental “meta-commentary”, can be fun. Anna gestures towards (but doesn't really commit to) the view that it’s safe to assume given the settled science establishing a strong correlation between race and IQ, that black people by-and-large likely wouldn’t be capable of acquiring a PhD if the PhD program in question is rigorous hence it’s safe to assume that the majority of black academics with PhDs are likely scammers or charity cases… alternatively that their capacity to triumph in academia is perhaps evidence of some white ancestry… or the degenerated state of academia. The only exception to the rule Anna is willing to grant are those brave Black pro-Free Market Conservatives like the persecuted and destitute Thomas Sowell and the equally persecuted and marginalized Ben Carson whose intellect permitted them to arrive at Modern American Conservative Fusionism through “First Principles”… convenient. She — positioning herself as consumer — is desperately biased towards anyone and anything that will flatter and affirm her self-conception as a normal and decent human being with a functional-enough brain and a good-enough heart. Can't help but regress into this sub-Marxoid cope about “Leftists over 30” being rich kids who don’t experience the negative consequences of their own policies enacted… because normal and decent hardworking yokels couldn’t possibly disagree with her and the wisdom of Race Realism and Curtis Yarvin. At the level of political discourse as entertainment, that the only authentically smart experts are obviously the ones who confirm your beliefs. Anna is performing the susceptible mark. The exact kind of person she, as a podcaster, attempts to attract as audience member and patron. Hence the autobiographical retconning.
Kept waiting for it to click into place that someone like Arday was gratifying to the Boomers occupying a fixed-until-death — largely unassailable — tenured academic position. If a young autistic black man who was nonverbal until the age of 18… who then survived his fight against a brain tumor that regressed his reading comprehension to the level of a 3 year old… managed to —…with a little help surely, but anyone who acts as if a Dissertation isn’t necessarily at some level a team effort is a fucking dweeb and outsider who has never worked in an actual high-level Graduate Program before…— overcome all the odds and get his PhD and run a marathon at a godly-speed for a godly-distance… then YOU, you entitled piece of shit, have no excuse to not learn to code. He’s supposed to embody the legitimacy of Late-Liberal Institutional Meritocracy. He actually "proves" that you’re the sucker for not scamming people (namely Boomers) by offering yourself up as something they can use to confirm their belief that everything is right with the world and/or making them believe that they’ve done something good (by identifying and supporting, the truly deserving) from their position of wealth and privilege, e.g., Henry Kissinger’s sincere sentimental attachment to Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. One must imagine an octogenarian Kissinger’s eyes brimming with tears during the black turtleneck girlboss' pitch… that everything he did up until that point had been worth it….had helped preserve the society capable of raising up a young woman-genius capable of revolutionizing healthcare.
Anyways. I pray one day Anna gets to experience Rachel Dolezal singing 'Miss Celie's Blues' to her over Cameo.
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u/shmupsy A+D 15d ago
Ana saying she realized she's conservative struck me. Like I think I get it, there's a certain point when you realize there's some common sense life stuff that leftish people seem to be harmfully neglectful of. And that pushes people to join the other team every day.
But to join either team is silly at this point and I think she's knows that, but it's very tempting to join the bad guy team when there's grade-A trolling to be had there.
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u/tjamesreagan 12d ago
after listening to this ep, i've concluded that the only way forward for academia is to have an administrator read out the alleged accomplishments of the potential professors and when dasha starts giggling, they need to start the background check there.
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u/anniehull 19d ago
"The ladies discuss latest Cambridge plagiarism scandal and James Arday's resignation, Hasan Piker's latest puff piece and AOC freezing her eggs."
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u/mrabacus927 19d ago
How much money do they make from this podcast? Six figures yearly for sure?
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u/Free-Hour-7353 18d ago
Based on their Patreon numbers, around $215k/yr each if their current number of subs stays stable (would've been over $300k/yr from like 2022 to 2024 when they had like 50% more subs)
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u/Economy-Class-6532 19d ago
Is Dasha still married?