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Bridging the divide between personal and social change. Punk rock, anti-authoritarian, leftist self-help, political, and social issues perspectives, with heavy inspiration from pro wrestling. Showing people and communities how to...
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Bridging the divide between personal and social change. Punk rock, anti-authoritarian, leftist self-help, political, and social issues perspectives, with heavy inspiration from pro wrestling. Showing people and communities how to create their own solutions in their own lives that work with their reality instead of denying it. This in turn can impact society by empowering leaders in mutual aid and building dual power. As a former political organization leader, Greyson brings the wisdom of “fixers” who work for the powerful to the masses along with ideas from creative cultures and sports to build a better person and society for the common person. Follow Greyson Peltier @GreysonNation on Twitter and @Fixerpunk on TikTok
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11 DEC 2023 · How do we #RestoreTheFeeling in AEW? I’m discussing the state and direction of AEW as a culture and a movement, and what I believe to be a unifying theme of what’s going on right now, as it has sometimes felt like The Spirit of the Elite and the Being The Elite mode of storytelling have faded away a bit. But in reality, it still carries on, my wayward sons. This time can be viewed as a test of the resilience of the alternative AEW culture even in the absence of its primary creators, the Young Bucks, from AEW TV and I discuss how many on the AEW roster have come together to pass the test and Be Elite.
I also touch on ideas around establishing order, institutions, and talent development within AEW, and doing so in a culturally competent manner rather than repeating the ways and mistakes of wrestling’s past.
Let’s keep a “Live. Love. Superkick.” attitude and enjoy good wrestling of all kinds.
Note: this episode was recorded prior to the AEW Collision episode on December 9, 2023.
Continue the conversation by joining my Keeping It Elite wrestling Discord: https://discord.gg/Us3Kdgq7
My article on “Stand Tall, Don’t Back Down, Be Elite” in the Keeping It Elite series: https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/keeping-it-elite-stand-tall-don-t-back-down-be-elite
My AEWeekly piece on Hangman’s promo: https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/aew-is-swerve-s-house-aeweekly-review-94
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27 NOV 2023 · What happens when the economic powers that be decide that there can be no more investment in new ideas, no more bones to throw at marginalized people, and that we all have to make money as quickly as possible? Can increased interest rates and tighter monetary conditions create changes in culture and behavior? If you have been feeling like the world has been getting more “boring” in terms of culture and hope for new social movements and social change, and less innovative and consumer-friendly on the business side, this may be why. I explore more in this episode, discussing a variety of examples in politics, movements, and popular culture, not to criticize or blame the individuals or organizations themselves, but to explore the pervasive, systemic influences of capitalism in preventing progress in favor of wealth accumulation.
References:
Recession Vibes: Predicting the Pop Culture Trends That An Economic Downturn Could Bring: https://zeefeed.com.au/recession-pop-culture-trends/
The book I mentioned on gendered narratives around recessions, but had not read yet: Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1131fr9
My article in Pro Wrestling Musings: https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/keeping-it-elite-stand-tall-don-t-back-down-be-elite
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18 SEP 2023 · I discuss the issues workers who are not able to fit into the normal 9-5 workplace environment, such as those with disabilities, stay-at-home parents, and caregivers, have long faced and the myriad of ways capitalism has taken advantage of them, from MLM scams and at-home business scams that have existed for many years, to YouTube gurus, to gig work platforms that pay severely below minimum wage, to chaotic, risky investment methods like those popularized by Wall Street Bets. Labor organizing and progressive policy change can create change for these most vulnerable workers, who are also often performing some of the most important work of our society uncompensated as caregivers or in raising children. Remote and gig workers workers absolutely should be folded into the union resurgence we have seen recently. This “invisible” population of exploited workers deserves visibility. I also explain the issues with local governments pushing for return to office to “save downtowns” and how good Federal leadership is needed to show the larger policy benefits to vulnerable populations and the environment of maintaining remote work.
This episode was recorded as part of a livestream on TikTok. Follow the TikTok and turn on notifications to be part of our live community of people seeking personal and social change: http://www.tiktok.com/@fixerpunk
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11 SEP 2023 · Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. This is also the first episode of the podcast ever livestreamed on TikTok! Follow and turn on notifications: https://tiktok.com/@fixerpunk
The title of this installment comes from a quote said by pro wrestler Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan) but originally from Paulo Coelho: “fight for your dreams and your dreams will fight for you.” I broaden the scope of this from the personal to the collective, and realized that if we fight for the world we dream of, the world will fight for us and for our dreams. Creating the collective environment where people can flourish is one of the most powerful ways we can improve our lives and achieve our goals. This is demonstrated by the fact that those in power relentlessly seek systemic political change to benefit them, and try to prevent us from acting collectively, such as by blocking union organizing.
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Episode Notes:
(Always rough, may contain errors)
Trying to achieve everything now in a rush
Approaching family and personal life conflicts with goals, especially when every day life is harder with autism
Did you fight hard enough to change things? Only for yourself or also for others?
Bryan Danielson/Paulo Coelho quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHP_PGMm57A
The world is fighting for those in power, capitalists, and what they want. That is why they always get what they want.
Collective action problem with unionizing software engineers
Economic conditions should not dictate basic humanity
Individual solutions don't work on their own. That is why the powerful always influence politics and want you not to act collectively,
Universal basic income for the labor that isn't done for capitalists
How to approach taking a break from work for personal development, mental health, or to grow a business:
• You must be extremely intentional or else things will get out-of-control.
• Don't undervalue your time
• Don't keep spending time or money on things that aren't helping you and YOUR specific situation
• Find a way to keep going
• Get the right things going sooner
• Speak up if something isn't working!
• Don't be afraid to try something better.
Going to normal insurance based therapists for autism, ADHD, or other neurodivergence can be like taking “a McLaren to Jiffy Lube” (referencing an unrelated quote in an article about the Angels baseball team - https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/08/former-all-star-pitcher-details-lazy-organization-stories.html)
Self optimization protocol experimentation - very little impact from mental optimization techniques, perhaps due to autism or ADHD
Bad eating habits coming back with return to office
Free time isn't really free time. There's a difference between having time and having time totally set aside for something.
Bulking season is better financially because higher calorie foods are ironically cheaper.
New fitness accountability Instagram coming soon
Progressive Self Help Discord coming soon
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4 SEP 2023 · What do health and productivity optimization experts like Dr. Andrew Huberman, "dopamine addiction" experts like Dr. Anna Lembke, strict, clean-eating diets, personal finance experts, and welfare reform all have in common? Unreasonably high standards, rigidity, and traditionalism are common themes, but the narrative around them, and the way they are influencing us to view systemic problems affecting others is perhaps their most problematic aspect.
Terms like “instant gratification” and “dopamine addiction” that came from health and productivity optimization theories, have popped up in spaces ranging from fitness to finance to homelessness in order to blame the victims of late-stage capitalism for their own distress. Among the most spurious claims was made by Jordan Peterson, who says that people suffer with issues like depression because they are not “optimally deprived.” Productivity optimization ideas are creating self-doubt on levels similar to conservative religious ideologies, with people even questioning themselves over decisions as minor and banal as whether or not they are allowed to listen to music or watch TV at all. This is because people are afraid that imperfect practice of protocols, whether it be not completely depriving themselves of all spending in the finance realm, or not doing only productive things in the productivity space, will result in economic demise, just as the religious ideas will make people afraid of spiritual demise. This leads to people not only blaming themselves for their own economic hardship, but in turn blaming the supposed “bad habits” of others for their failures, which impedes solidarity. As I have explained in prior episodes, the newest means of enforcement of late stage capitalism is us enforcing its ideals on others and that is precisely how these overly strict self-help ideas are being used. Overall, these ideas are serving to promote right-wing ideologies, obfuscate systemic problems, and distract the public from seeking social change.
Self-help ideas can be a positive influence and some of these practices and protocols can substantially help people, but they need to be implemented in a way that is non-judgmental, inclusive, and understands systemic problems. Here, I start to discuss a path forward for a progressive and inclusive approach to self-help.
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Episode Notes:
(Always rough, may contain errors.)
They don't want you to be able to trust yourself when you know there is something wrong.
They blame you for everything, you cannot do anything right, so why listen to what you think? Then you only listen to what they think.
Health optimization/dopamine addiction narratives:
People constantly questioning themselves about normal things like listening to music and watching TV, just like I’ve seen in strict religious environments.
Dopamine addiction is now being tied to almost everything
Because of the influence of these ideas in the San Francisco tech community, their terminology is even leaking into the way they discuss homelessness.
Is instant gratification really the reason why people suffer? NO!
It Is Not Dopamine Addiction, It Is Futility Aversion.
Based on their experience of working hard and never seeing the fruit of their labor, people rightly do not believe that working harder and harder will yield any different or better results.
Jess’ video on religious asceticism and dopamine narratives: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT82FkkNt/
Jess’ website is sluggish.substack.com
All far-right ideologies keep you in a loop that keeps you from seeing the true systemic problems.
People who are in bad situations already feel ashamed enough!
People in bad situations are a lot smarter than the ivory tower gives them credit for.
Even now fitness is moving away from more inclusive models like IIFYM to strict diets to fix so-called "dopamine addiction.”
The term “processed food” is super ambiguous
Personal finance - Dave Ramsey and Caleb Hammer:
Hammer commenters calling people immature, associating immaturity with people in hardship wanting better conditions and to be treated better
Telling people to only work and sleep, but also meal prep everything
The ironic importance of processed food for productivity (even as health optimization people say it’s terrible for productivity) and how we subsidize food impacts what food is available - Frenchy's video on this: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT82FNecC/
Irony of strict budgeting to survive in capitalism is that the capitalist system depends on you to spend. Look at the RTO narrative.
Making you spend more and keeping you less financially healthy to "save downtowns."
They don't want you using your power, withholding your labor, they want you subservient
The common threat is that they don't want you to know your own power
Finance experts will claim that you only need to severely deprive yourself and work extremely long hours for a few years to pay off your debt, that it’s only temporary, but claiming the suffering is temporary is totally false for most people.
Always feeling like you need to do more can ironically be a source of so-called distraction.
Avoiding "instant gratification" aka poor people don't deserve to be happy
Trying to do everything to become a so-called better person and climb out of poverty through optimization and frugality will lead to severe burnout.
No one understands cognitive burden/load and workload capacity, and that there is substantial individual variation. You cannot work every moment you are awake. A free hour is not a free hour to do any specific thing there are certain times for someone can be awake, but incapable of doing work.
Yes, there may be some "super" people who can do all of those things at the same time, but that's not most people.
Welfare reform is based around treating poor people as undeserving, forcing them into bad low wage jobs, even when they are qualified for better, and motivational rhetoric, blaming them for their own hardship.
Uncertain Hour podcast from NPR on welfare reform: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/season-6-the-welfare-to-work-industrial-complex/
They want us to enforce these norms on each other so we blame each other, and those more marginalized among us for their problems. May not be a coincidence this stuff is regaining popularity with a recession coming.
The Economic Police State episode explains this tactic of capitalism getting us to do the bidding of the wealthy against each other in further depth and is very helpful in understanding this concept: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/07/01/the-economic-police-state-is-coming-for-the-working-class-in-little-and-big-ways/
The solution is not to dismiss these ideas of improvement, but to get these concepts into conversation with the ideas of marginalized communities and systemic change
These ideas in Health, Fitness, Finance, and Productivity can be very helpful to many people if we can find ways to adapt them and use them in an inclusive way.
The 5 Keys to creating a more Progressive or Leftist Form of Self-Help: Positive, Inclusive, Empowering, Systemic, Supported
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1 SEP 2023 · I wanted to very briefly share my unique perspective on the controversy around Oliver Anthony and Rich Men North of Richmond, a country song that has gained much popularity among conservatives and was referenced during the GOP presidential debate. Many seem baffled by Anthony’s attempts to distance himself from Republican politicians and the seemingly contradictory blend of working class pro-labor sentiments and conservative welfare-shaming (I cover the fat-shaming aspects more at the end of the last episode) in the song. But based on my experience in conservative movements, his reflect a long-standing subset of right-libertarian ideology that has always operated in a populistic, anti-political manner, seemingly calling out the injustices caused by late stage capitalism, but pointing the blame at vaguely defined enemies, while ultimately serving conservative policy objectives. This is largely the result of the proliferation of conservative media, and hence political confusion amongst rural Americans. I believe that further left ideas that are not in the mainstream of the Democratic Party may likewise be able to engage this population who are facing issues progressive policies can solve but are unlikely to identify with either political party, yet are still largely influenced by conservative ideas.
Programming note: A new full length episode will likely be posted in a couple days.
More on this at the end of last episode:
https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/08/26/the-boss-who-requires-workers-to-have-six-pack-abs-and-the-kayfabe-of-success-bros/
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26 AUG 2023 · Car sales training company boss Andy Elliott says he will fire anyone without a six pack, as reported by the New York Post, and he was rightfully called out for his ridiculous standard. But this shows a larger trend of a specific type of very lean physique, being associated with wealth and success, especially among men, and is a part of a larger trend that seeks to blame individuals for their lack of economic success. We have seen this dynamic before: with villains in professional wrestling, and specifically those who I have previously termed Heel Populists. My Heel Populism article about MJF: https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/unmasking-today-s-mjf-an-introduction-to-heel-populism
These strong men with superior-looking physiques blame and shame those on the bottom who don’t look like them as being undisciplined or morally defective, with their overweight or subpar physique being evidence of the lack of discipline that they posit has caused their woes. This to deflect from the true causes of their marks’ distress, the very system of economic oppression the villain represents. Fitness can be a powerful tool to build confidence and help you become who you are supposed to be, but do not let a narrow idea of fitness and an air of superiority get in the way of solidarity and solutions.
RIP Terry Funk and Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt. “And in a world surrounded in hate, greed and violence, a world where closure may never come. We all know a place that has hot and cold hope on tap. For better or for worse.” - Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt - Source: https://twitter.com/windham6/status/1556394433825935363?s=46&t=x3E-r-OT2KgX3LK5oJokcA
(Sorry if my voice cracked a bit while reading the quote. I got a bit emotional.)
Episode Notes:
(Always rough, may contain errors.)
New York Post article “I’m a boss who fires anyone without six-pack abs — I have high standards” https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/boss-who-fires-workers-without-six-pack-abs-ripped-online/amp/
A specific type of very lean physique (specifically in men) is being tied to success and personal discipline
Getting a six pack isn't an necessarily the best indicator of athleticism
MMA fighters, other athletes without six packs
But the enormous sacrifice that is often needed to get very lean perhaps shows a “blind obedience” to this leader
Elliott’s team has a unified look that looks like a wrestling faction
People who are willing to do anything to work for this guy who will fulfill their dreams
Getting really lean can cause a lot of stress, and physical and mental health impacts
Cannot reasonably stay that lean year round
Certain very lean bodies have become a sort of standard of wealth and success, not necessarily the big bodybuilder look. This type of physique is generally achieved by more complex and expensive methods and is promoted in ads for high-end fitness services.
Kayfabe of strong men who look a certain way and act a certain way, and spaces of economic opportunity are only for them
Social determinants of physique - it's just another form of gatekeeping
Fitness/lean physique and financial success is correlation not causation, confounding variables
Expensive fitness programs founded by finance people sold to "busy professionals" rather than fitness experts
You can influence fitness quite a bit on effort rather than based on money, but this specific look tends to be harder to get without specialized help
Aggressive gatekeeping - application only, expensive programs
Some of these ideas around fitness are somewhat getting out of the IIFYM paradigm, which is more inclusive and flexible, and pushing clean eating order to be more judgmental to those who don’t totally deprive themselves
I do really like the idea of using fitness as a tool to improve your overall level of success and confidence.
The need to be very lean is not totally true in wrestling, nor in real life
I love warrior stuff, creating your own training arc, making yourself a champion in your own kayfabe
But you can train for a very long time, do amazing work with your workouts and nutrition, and not get to that specific model-type look. They want to make you feel like you're not good enough.
The Heel Populist wants you to believe that conforming to what they want is the only way to win
Having a lean core actually is pretty awesome though
I believe in using kayfabe and a storyline of strength with fitness to improve your confidence, performance, and your life overall, but I also believe that should be up to you to choose who you become
Finance bro fitness expert veers into politics on his Instagram, but states it is sarcasm: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqED3u3uw1H/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Fat shaming in Rich Men North of Richmond song. The constant attempts to tie “lack of discipline” and other personal factors to economic hardships rather than systemic inequality.
Rich Men North of Richmond article: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/rich-men-north-of-richmond-lyrics-controversy-b2397249.html
Adam Page sets a great example for progressives (and is a far superior cowboy).
More on his Progressive Cowboy Stuff here: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/07/28/can-a-millennial-cowboy-wrestlers-ways-save-our-social-and-political-discourse/
https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/12/05/348
Anxious Millennial Cowboy playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7yuPbbkhxvBKEZMzKJeOI5?si=XgCK2shzTASYRgSNM_PtuQ
Progressives should not discourage the achievement of elite levels of fitness
Pursue an excellent physique at the top of your potential, whatever that looks like for you
Have a great AEW All In weekend!
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14 AUG 2023 · Mental performance and productivity optimizing techniques, like those popularized by Dr. Andrew Huberman, and the concepts of dopamine fasting, dopamine detoxing, and dopamine "addiction," partially popularized by Dr. Anna Lembke, have taken social media by storm, but do they really work and can they be causing harm to marginalized communities by creating false ideas about serious political and social problems? Could the obsession with dopamine be tied to strict religious ideas or even eugenics? Alternative methods can be a breakthrough for mental health that can help people improve their lives and change their circumstances, but we have to know that they work, respect people’s unique life and cultural experiences, and get systemic change to work in conversation with them so the working class can benefit, and not create blame and shame.
Episode Notes:
(Always rough, may contain errors.)
I do a few mental performance protocols on a regular basis: sun exposure, breathing, workouts, etc.
One of the treatments that has worked best for me is neurofeedback
The danger of ignoring systemic problems, and how systemic changes will improve productivity way more than any “hack’ or “habit”
Dopamine myths vs. facts
Some of these "low dopamine morning" methods can work for building new habits but are cloaked in falsehoods
Bender: CBT doesn’t say to restrict pleasurable activities; instead, it’s centered around replacing harmful compulsions with healthy habits. The key words here are healthy habits. It’s about replacing what isn’t working for you and finding something that does.
Standard person “optimization protocols” are based on: single white young man with plenty of disposable income, living on their own in a city, no family, no major obligations, no major health conditions. They don’t have family they are caring for, older parents, etc.
What do all these traits have in common? Agency! These are for people with a ton of agency.
This is a problem because it does not account for marginalized communities who have less agency and that need different protocols and to have their native knowledge incorporated.
Also there’s confounding variables: people who can afford in terms of time, money, and circumstance certain habits, and have the physical and mental fortitude for them, are more likely to be successful anyways.
Protocols are not “cost-free”: When you’re broke, the time you’d be spending on sun exposure, meditating, breathing, cooking special food is spent doing things to scrape by.
People lose their ability to do hard things after doing too many hard things.
Problems with super restrictive diets for performance. Why I prefer IIFYM and Layne Norton’s approach to diet.
These protocols often have little evidence backing them.
Jess says dopamine/optimization is based in Protestant work ethic, eugenics, covers Stanford’s origins in eugenics
Not sold on this all being 100% religious asceticism but it is a very powerful metaphor and something to think about
Jess talks about dissociating from a bad life as the reasons we seek dopamine: Dissociate from unpleasant social realities
Ties the book Dopamine Nation to moral panics around sex
Lembke calling for stricter churches, talking to pastors
Constantly looking around for sins in my own life as a result of churches preaching this kind of stuff was a very negative influence
Lembke seems very judgmental towards disabled people based on what Jess states.
I've written articles on the value of pain and fighting through it, but through a much different lens.
People get addicted to make up for something they're lacking, not because of a lack of pain or judgment
Once you have something worth fighting for then you will fight for it. Even better if you have people encouraging you on that journey. But pain alone just causes despair.
We need high performance protocols but we need flexibility and the resources to perform as well. Don't give up on improving performance or becoming better. This isn't a hard dichotomy.
Progressives must show that our ideas are not about giving up on yourself, but allowing you to have the resources to become the person you want to be.
Becoming a better version of yourself can help you become a better activist.
Activism is hard and requires high performance at times
There’s a lot more to this topic than I can get to in one episode…so be sure to subscribe to the podcast and sign up for emails on the website.
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Episode references:
Jess videos on Dopamine Mythos:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8NUSCp4/
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8NUBMne/
Jess article on Dopamine Nation and Dr Lembke:
https://sluggish.substack.com/p/the-myth-making-of-dopamine-nation
Therapist Samantha Bender article on the myths of “low dopamine mornings”:
https://blog.findoctave.com/blog/the-low-dopamine-morning
Dopamine Detox scientific debunk video:
https://youtu.be/28qTGTYMSOQ
America Bracho’s TED Talk on “non-compliant patients” and health equity:
https://youtu.be/jxCG6d4LiGQ
My article on redemptive combat narratives in wrestling:
https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/entering-jon-moxley-s-narrative-of-redemptive-combat
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6 AUG 2023 · Recent polls have shown Democrats’ support has significantly declined among young men, specifically 12th grade high schoolers, lower income, less educated, and even Black and Latino voters. This should come as no surprise, given how Democrats have failed in all areas of long-term cultural engagement, focus on issues that do not resonate with these groups, currently lack a positive vision, as opposed to simply defending against threats from the right, and especially have not engaged adequately in narratives of positive masculinity to counter the right’s claims to vulnerable men. I explain how the Democrats’ current focus on 3 main points: Republicans/Trump are a threat to democracy, Republicans/Trump are a threat to minority identity groups, and “everything is fine now, keep it that way,” have helped in the short-term with more educated voters but ignore or even repel these key groups.
Somewhat paradoxically to conventional political wisdom, I feel that further left and more progressive ideas and groups can achieve far better success in these demographic groups that typical liberal/Democratic politics have left behind. These ideas can address the long-standing issues with material conditions that conservatives and the far-right have pushed false narratives about the cause of and fake solutions in a way liberals simply cannot. And they can create long-term engagement and narratives that combine strength with inclusion to help those who feel abandoned create community and seek true solutions to the systemic causes of their tribulation. There are very real issues that they face which Democrats exclude for short-term political reasons, but need to be addressed by someone. Right now that someone is the right, but it doesn’t have to be. Even if Democrats cannot address them, left-wing groups outside the mainstream of Democratic politics can act in a similar fashion to conservative groups, such as the Tea Party and Trump’s early supporters. that were not initially embraced by the GOP but later became a major part of its support and changed its policy direction.
My videos on the high school boys poll:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Lx9hEF/
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8LxkqC1/
The Hill article on the high school boys poll:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/high-school-boys-trending-conservative-093000721.html
New York Times poll article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/upshot/biden-trump-poll-2024.html
Nate Cohn’s graph of the NYT poll results regarding demographic groups:
https://twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/1686336922061303808?s=46&t=x3E-r-OT2KgX3LK5oJokcA
Some of my work on pro wrestling as an example for positively engaging with masculinity:
https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/01/12/adam-page-for-president/
https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/01/14/fighting-toxic-masculinity-with-pro-wrestling-adam-page-for-president/
The MJF and Adam Cole segment I mentioned:
https://youtu.be/USUx4Z31WAc
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30 JUL 2023 · Both the finances of organizations and the finances of the people in our community, especially those who are involved in activism, individually matter to the success of progressive and leftist movements. Better financial security serves the goal of helping uplift the working class, and also makes for more effective activism.
The Economic Police State episode that is frequently referenced in this episode: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/07/01/the-economic-police-state-is-coming-for-the-working-class-in-little-and-big-ways/
Show notes (always rough, may contain errors):
Discussion on the drought in political donations on both sides of the aisle, and layoffs in Progressive organizations specifically
Politico article: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/21/candidates-grassroots-money-00107510
It is important to have wealth so you can use it to create change
Conservative media stays alive because random business people buy ads and people buy from advertisers on the shows and donate year round.
Toxic victim-blaming attitude pervades finance
Get a job, get another job, get a better job. The real cause of most financial problems is bad jobs, worse bosses, and rampant financial exploitation. Not personal responsibility.
Some criticism of Dave Ramsey, the biggest offender, but also Caleb Hammer is growing in popularity and also sometimes falls into this trap of pushing people into bad jobs.
You do need personal responsibility but I think most people do fairly well with this.
People even do it to each other - DoorDash subreddit is the latest.
Meme/Tweet - You want a hamburger but you don't want the person who makes it to have a place to live.
Personal finance experts and people who blame victims are pushing people to the crappy job market rather than fighting for better conditions with flexible work for those who need it.
A progressive/leftist (sort of) approach to personal finance - Steps to improving your finances:
Analyze the way they do
The Caleb Hammer style “financial audit” approach of nit-picking/shaming random things isn’t necessary.
Look at big things like Assets, Cash Flow, Income as main metrics
Credit score is important - borrowing money in the right way is how most businesses make investments
Being able to become a homeowner, financed by a loan, is essential to wealth building
Almost no successful companies are living by the Dave Ramsey method
No need to necessarily pay down all your debt immediately, if it is not a large impediment to cash flow and you have enough savings. The guilt-trip about paying off debt feeds into the low-wage trap.
Things like bankruptcy and debt settlement are good if you need them. Don't try to pay off debts in full that are long overdue and your credit is already ruined without considering other options. This episode does not cover this issue. It’s very complex and requires professional advice.
Don't overstress yourself with little things
Be flexible as long as you are getting to your goals
Who cares if you bought some fast food?
Who cares if you bought the proverbial gas station taquitos?
Keep away from major debt that ties you down to a job though. Have a plan and be able to leave a bad situation. What happens if you need to quit or strike?
Think about the big things first - housing, cars, large purchases, student loans, etc.
Eliminate the ways they take from you
Bank fees, insurance costs, subscriptions, overcharged on cable or phone bill, excessive interest (refinance and use 0% cards)
Choose local banks and credit unions for banking. See Claim Your Change with Kyle Theirmann
Get free money
Sign up bonuses, high interest savings, cash back on credit cards, class action checks, online surveys
Class actions on ClassAction.org
Keep money separated
Extra money from those things (cash back, bonuses, class actions) goes somewhere else other than the same bank. You keep your regular checking account in.
Automate your savings and finances
Pay your credit cards often, as soon as you buy something if you can, so it works like cash. Pay yourself like you would a bill - automatically You deserve to live a good life.
Consider collective action
Know the major factor in this is the system and how it eats away at your income, think and take action accordingly.
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Bridging the divide between personal and social change. Punk rock, anti-authoritarian, leftist self-help, political, and social issues perspectives, with heavy inspiration from pro wrestling. Showing people and communities how to create their own solutions in their own lives that work with their reality instead of denying it. This in turn can impact society by empowering leaders in mutual aid and building dual power. As a former political organization leader, Greyson brings the wisdom of “fixers” who work for the powerful to the masses along with ideas from creative cultures and sports to build a better person and society for the common person. Follow Greyson Peltier @GreysonNation on Twitter and @Fixerpunk on TikTok
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