We explore how disaffected young men anonymously posting memes online led to real-life violence including multiple mass murders, the forming of what came to be known as the alt-right movement, a seismic shift in the Republican party, and the January 6th, 2021 storming of the capitol. Joining us for this very special episode is Elle Reeve, correspondent for CNN and author of the new book Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society and Capture American Politics.

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Black Pill: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-Pill/Elle-Reeve/9781982198886


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"How Railroaders Are Killed; Train Crews Grow Careless," read a 1906 syndicated article. "There is a kind of personality who is accident-prone," reported the Kansas City Star in 1944. Amazon's safety programs are "designed to keep its nearly one million warehouse workers worldwide fit and limber," The Seattle Times claimed in 2021. 

For well over a century, it’s been standard practice for corporations, and the media more generally– echoing these "information campaigns" – to skirt, defy, or prevent regulations by shifting the burdens of protection and wellness onto relatively powerless workers. Just as corporations have historically shifted blame onto "consumers," as we discussed last week, so too have they shifted blame, and punishment, onto their own workers, at great social cost and much private profit.

Of course, workers anywhere must bear some level of personal responsibility in matters of health and safety. But, as regulations have threatened their bottom lines, industries from railroads to retail, bolstered by US media, have seized upon this notion in order to render their workers the ones who bear ultimate responsibility for whether they’re healthy or sick, safe or injured, and in the most extreme cases, whether they live or die.

This is the second episode in a two-part series on what we're calling "The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift." Part I discussed how this burden shift harms consumers. On this episode, Part II, we examine this anti-regulatory PR strategy, looking at the past and present of corporate deflection of responsibility, how media enable this subtle – but effective – practice, and discuss how media campaigns and media coverage have let us internalize the pro-corporate effort to off-load responsibility for workplace health and safety from the bosses on to the workers. 

This episode was produced in collaboration with Workday Magazine.

Our guest is the National Employment Law Project's Anastaia Christman.

The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers

It’s only July, and our already terrifying election season has somehow gotten far worse than even the QAA hosts could imagine.  Join Jake, Travis, Liv, and Julian for an emergency recording following the attempted assassination of the former President and the murder of one of his supporters at a Trump rally in Butler, PA.  Naturally, conspiracy theories are spreading like wildfires in the wake of such unsettling events, and the hosts must turn to their beloved Travis to separate reality from fiction.  

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Trump Shot (E286)

In this public News Brief we discuss the phony pearl-clutching over "heated" anti-Trump messaging and Team Biden's attempt to run out the clock before the DNC.

Media Baselessly Pins Trump Shooting on Vague 'Heated Rhetoric,' Precious Dems Stop Campaigning

Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to erase negative thoughts, win every argument, and close every sale? Travis and Brad take you through the sordid tale of a self-help movement that’s equal parts psychotherapy, entrepreneurial success tool, and mind-control technique. A movement that inspired the likes of Tony Robbins, NXIVM, the Landmark corporate cult, and even pick-up artistry. A modality used by IBM and McDonald’s, the U.S. Army and the CIA. A quasi-religion that was poised to be as big as Scientology, if it hadn’t been for a series of self-inflicted wounds. Your brain is a computer, and we’re about to install the story of Neuro-linguistic Programming.


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Rachael: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/ 


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We’re joined by Left in the Bay once again to talk Tribal Thumb — federal infiltration, murder, crime, and communiques. 

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Episode 394: Lawyers, Guns, and Tummies: Tribal Thumb Pt. 3 (preview)

In this live show from July 16 2024, we are joined by Citations Needed Senior Olympics Correspondent Jules Boykoff of The Nation to discuss unrest in France over the upcoming Olympic games, increased athlete activism and unionization and the fewer and fewer marks willing to buy the IOC's bill of goods.

Live Show 7/16/24: Paris, Power and Olympic Class War with Jules Boykoff

Barber Sloppy (Branson) and his son Danny (Andrew) cut hair for their customers (Charles). E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

344 - Sloppy’s Shape-Up

Biden out, Harris in. Conspiracy theories metastasize as the democratic candidate (and current President) calls it quits and coronates his Vice President. The right spreads conspiracy theories about Joe Biden being dead and replaced by a body double or some form of AI. BlueAnon chimes in with some new theories now that "their guy" is out. And we explore what's next for election season with analyst & politics writer Josh (Ettingermentum).

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We’re joined again by Left in the Bay as Tribal Thumb takes down the People’s Food System with a deadly shootout. We sift through the bloody aftermath of its final permutation.

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Episode 396: Lawyers, Guns, and Tummies: Tribal Thumb Pt. 4

Did JD Vance write about exploring his sexuality with the assistance of a rubber globe and a couch? No, he did not. Despite that, does JD Vance possess some essential quality of a couch fucker? We discuss the origin of this false internet rumor and what it can tell us about the nature of truth on social media. 

Plus  we go over newly revealed details about Trump’s failed assassin and some of the conspiracy theories and speculation about the event itself.

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REFERENCES

Snopes: No, 1st Edition of JD Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy' Doesn't Mention Couch Cushion 'Eroticism'
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-first-edition-couch-erotica/

Business Insider: The author of the viral joke post about JD Vance having sex with a couch breaks his silence
https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-couch-sex-joke-author-speaks-2024-

Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/trump-shooting-bullet-shrapnel-motive-conspiracy-theories/

Trump has given no official info about his medical care for days since an assassination attempt
https://apnews.com/article/trump-shooting-transparency-db2f4437237ad03d3b04b0b5f1573977

Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/politics/trump-shooter-bullet-trajectory-ear.html

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Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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