AMA Episode

Are you familiar with Zotero, the open source reference management software?

I know you spend a lot of time following along with organizations and ideas and thinkers who are really dangerously BAD, could you share organizations, ideas, and thinkers you think are doing really salient and GOOD work (outside of just confronting fascism and white supremacy)? (this question is more for Daniel and less for Jack, to me it feels like Jack does a bit more sharing of this kind of stuff already through his twitter and writing).

What are some of your favorite TV shows that you think have relevance today and aren't often talked about?

It might be a little out of your field but would you do an episode on Roma-hatred? Together with transphobia it is probably the part of the Nazi Party program that is still most common. From the Johnson regime criminalising Travelers to ongoing pogroms in Romania...

I've got a couple. Firstly, how much of a threat do you think is posed by various strands of the far right in terms of society-level change? And also, what are your thoughts generally on rightwing "appropriations" of left theorists? (e.g. sometimes I'll see them referencing concepts from Foucault or Deleuze) and also I'm curious about the details of how this intersects with Covid-denialism (putting "bio-" on the beginning of words and talk about "the medical-therapeutic state", etc.)

Finally, a one-word answer one - what was the name of that Markdown-based notes and documents app you mentioned re organising show notes?

Meta-methodological - although it's not necessary to do the empirical research and general intel, have you ever looked into the various attempts (whether academic - e.g. Paxton, Griffin, etc; or militant - e.g 3-Way Fight writers like Hamerquist, Sakai, Lyons, etc) to theorise the whole "what is fascism, anyway?", boundaries between nazis, fascists, far rightists, right-populists, etc?

Topic-wise - interested if you've looked into the Order of the 9 Angles - David Myatt, Richard Moult, the whole nazi-satanist take on "Traditionalism". With influences on UK's National Action, Atomwaffen, and the general accelerationist milieu.

How did your and Jack's experiences growing up lead you to the point where you wanted to do something like IDSG? I am always interested in origin stories!

Ever consider doing an episode on the Silver Legion/Silvershirts? Despite how strange they were and how insignificant they seemed, their ideas would actually influence a number of future anti-government, far right groups, possibly even the Posse Commitatus (though I could be wrong about that).

Would you consider doing a segment on some of the general methods you use to handle the logistics of the work that you do. Ie very generalized tips about how you find the relevant extremist content, how you process that much material, how you handle the data storage and tech logistics, etc. My area (central California) has a large and growing problem with Proud Boys and associated extreme right-wing violence (particularly toward the LGBTQ community here). It would be interesting to apply some level of scrutiny to their communications, but the scale of such a task seems daunting.

We know quite a few of the people you follow actively hate each other, but who do you think secretly get along (in so far as that is possible, among that sphere)?

Do you have any book recommendations? Personal favorites or ones that are relevant to the pod!

IMHO it would be cool if you two did the occasional video episode and/or crossover with other creators in the same space. (Sorry this is not a question.)

What do you think 10 years from now looks like?

Does the efforts to make far right politics appear populist i.e. the national justice party make the nominally left wing i.e. red scare pod more dangerous? Or do you you see left wing reactionaries a threat on their own?

Do you have any hobbies that aren't listening to and reporting on lunatics?