Being sober is a choice, being right wing is an unintended consequence.

You can choose to be sober, but you can't control the extent to which you'll be perceived as right wing (or, worse, conservative) as a consequence: rejecting the excuses the left wing offers for drugs, alcohol and degeneracy results in the left wing rejecting you. Even if #spoilers you're a vegan activist who owns and occasionally wears a Bernie Sanders hat.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4avnWGzgOaSstIZ6GlfDmb

(AR+IO) All the Links to All the Podcasts: Active Research and Informed Opinion.

Now including the links to all their RSS feeds.

Doomed Republic:
a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America.

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Konh0NlHcOYMpcmTmUMGa
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/fe12bef8/podcast/rss

à-bas-le-ciel:
vegan politics and the politics of veganism

On Spotify, with video: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ad0b0wJ0hURkuNJBjlxN8
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/fe137a78/podcast/rss

Nihilism Now:
Politics After Atheism

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6YfFpQ1nhKa520N2opFVzE
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/fe131b8c/podcast/rss

Brand New Ancient Buddhism:
no subtitle necessary.  ;-)

On Spotify, with video: https://open.spotify.com/show/7l7ECH5lf8KIadpBUiaop0
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/fe158458/podcast/rss

The History of Comedy Podcast:
from Apuleius to Zelensky

On Spotify, with video: https://open.spotify.com/show/533d7BBnHnAFMgc1RZCKIf
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/fe5accac/podcast/rss

Everyone Hates Eisel Mazard:
Comedy Makes Enemies, Politics Makes Friends.

On Spotify, with video: https://open.spotify.com/show/1xFgYiqqJYtA31jsVqzUbg
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ff8cd14c/podcast/rss

Comedy Makes Enemies, Politics Makes Friends.

This… this is why Everyone Hates Eisel Mazard. Did you think it would take less than an hour?

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6bMCP8nZ1xJNDtxkKI46uY?si=SkGklFMXS6qJ0cS6Z7LVpg

RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ff8cd14c/podcast/rss

Footnote: this contains a significant appearance from Oscar Jenkins ("hero to some, hapless victim to others") just a shockingly short time before he'd end up as a Ukrainian soldier and a Russian prisoner of war!  I'm sure he'd be disappointed to know that the comedy videos he contributed to (on à-bas-le-ciel) were wiped out, leaving hardly a trace of his period as a highly motivated (and highly eccentric) vegan comedian.

Unnatural Vegan: Why Everyone Hates Eisel Mazard.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6y6W4KtT2PqpN6el3xkAhp?si=lGBm54SOSwetoCIc5D9h0g

LINK: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/a-bas-le-ciel/episodes/Unnatural-Vegan-Why-Everyone-Hates-Eisel-Mazard-e2t0dn6

You don't choose to be loved or hated: you choose to be known or unknown.  And if it is inevitable, in choosing to make yourself known, that you also make yourself hated, then you must decide if you will be hated for reasons shallow or profound —if you will dispute things that are trivial or of great significance —with honesty or deception —with or without wearing a mask.  The conflict between myself and "Swayze" (Unnatural Vegan) does in large part explain how I became such a notorious figure in the vegan movement, and it is linked to several different political, philosophical and ethical controversies that have never been resolved.