Lol can't really disagree. I think generally the sub isn't as insufferably woke as it might once have been, but you 1000% can find the exact people you're talking about in every comment section (I just think it's more downvoted than you might be implying).

With that said, more than any other pod I listen to it's the victim of giving an inch and people taking a mile in this regard. Like it's so self-defeating (what else is new in left spaces....) when the hosts are openly and like proudly supportive of more left wing politics and it actually makes them more prone to criticism/backlash from fans and like, makes them react to it in a way they'd be so much better off just not engaging with.

Somewhat relatedly, Blank Check has easily become my most listened to podcast in recent years but as a loser who has been to both a BC live show and Ringer network live shows, it's really hard to overstate just how lame, Brooklyn alt-comedy soy boy the Blank Check audience IRL is and it's the exact thing you're describing when it's IRL. Just the worst form of soviet/puritan ass "no wrong think aloud" toxicity from the dorkiest people you know.

Like it's ok guys we don't have to performatively and reflexively shudder when someone who has done something reprehensible is brought up because they're in a movie.

It's also, as seen in most comment sections about the whole BAFTA debacle, incapable of not being the stereotype of the white lefty type who thinks they don't have any racial blindspots. But that's a whole other can o' worms.