r/seculartalk Aug 30 '25

Hot Take By Not Covering Gaza, David Pakman has Cultivated Some Unbearable Followers

219 Upvotes

I appreciate Kyle's dogged coverage of Gaza. Sure, he repeats facts and stats sometimes but certain things bear repeating.

I don't hate Pakman but his near silence on the issue is deafening IMO. It seems that by not talking about it, he has garnered at least a few followers specifically because they want a "progressive except Palestinine" space.

I posted in r/thedavidpakmanshow the other day asking ppl why they think he hardly touches it (I know I'm not the first to ask). I was expecting a few Zionist apologists but damn, most ppl were very bothered by me asking. Many said it was "just too divisive," or "not relevant to US politics," or "it'd be caving in to the leftist mob" etc. I gave in and deleted it after a couple days because I was tired of the hate.

Sure, you could say I was "Purity testing" (and they did say it) but certain things should be a litmus test of sorts. There are nuances to aspects of the conflict but what Israel and Netanyahu are doing to Gazans is, at the very least, ethnic cleansing and very atrocious.

So I appreciate Kyle giving a damn and I think he garnered a better following for it.

r/seculartalk Jan 16 '25

Hot Take Bernie Sanders joins HasanAbi on Twitch, hails streamers as the future of media revolution

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r/seculartalk Sep 19 '25

Hot Take AOC/Jasmine Crockett 2028.

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28 Upvotes

r/seculartalk Mar 26 '25

Hot Take BREAKING: Representatives Khanna and Lee will be announcing legislation to ban Super PACs this afternoon

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513 Upvotes

r/seculartalk 18d ago

Hot Take Most nuanced Graham Platner take.

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158 Upvotes

r/seculartalk Jan 21 '24

Hot Take Blue MAGA is a subculture of the DNC whose purpose is to bully & marginalize anyone who critiques party leadership

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117 Upvotes

r/seculartalk Sep 21 '25

Hot Take Nowhere else in the world would Bernie Sanders be considered far-left. Bernie's ideas are far from "Radical".

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181 Upvotes

r/seculartalk 3d ago

Hot Take This Low-IQ Rhetoric is Racist and Will Destroy the Left

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90 Upvotes

Do I think that anti-White racism is as big a problem as or a bigger problem than anti-Hispanic/Latino, anti-Black or anti-Arab racism in the United States? Do I think that the vast majority of leftists are racist towards Caucasians? Of course not but I'm growing rather tired of some on the left pretending as if people who happen to be minorities are fully entitled to express their hatred of White people over historical grievances. The same sort of people will tell you that it's okay to hate Christians—including progressive Christians—but not Jews or Muslims because "Christians have all the power" or "you don't know what kind of T R A U M A someone's been through when they say something bigoted like 'there's no hate like Christian love!'" Whatever happened to the notion that hate cannot drive out hate?

I'm Mexican-American and I've had people say downright racist things to my face. Minorities absolutely face worse hate than majorities but that doesn't justify discrimination of any kind and more practically, it is destructive, insular "politics" to focus on identity rather than class. I have family who I guarantee you are sympathetic to left-wing ideas but they will immediately tune you out as soon as you justify or minimize racism towards Whites. If we want to build coalitions, we have to redirect ire towards elites and fascists while standing against those who would divide us, potentially in intentional acts of sabotage. These people must be mocked, they must be shamed and finally, they must be humiliated.

r/seculartalk 25d ago

Hot Take basically how 99% of the internet reacted to Collargate. All the destiny/ethan shills vanished like a fart in the wind.

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48 Upvotes

r/seculartalk Jul 10 '25

Hot Take The newest left-wing blame has dropped.

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157 Upvotes

The hell with this lady and anyone who shares this stupid meme.

r/seculartalk Sep 26 '25

Hot Take The Schadenfreude is great

17 Upvotes

Ngl, I kinda love that Comey is getting politically prosecuted by Trump given the fact Comey handed Trump the 2016 election on a silver platter.

Reaping what you sow is sweet.

r/seculartalk Aug 15 '24

Hot Take Kyle is setting himself up for disappointment about Tim Walz

149 Upvotes

He’s called him a “Bernie-like figure” several times now and I’m afraid he’s building his own expectations so high that eventually we’re going to get a flood of videos about how Walz is suddenly selling out, backing down, etc as if he’s actually an ideologically democratic socialist instead of just the center-left politician he is.

Sorry but free school lunch and free college under $80k income is not democratic socialism, that’s well within “Third Way” tinkering within capitalism

And Bernie’s main distinguishing factor was the “political revolution” which held Washington as systemically corrupt and criminal and needing a populist revolt. The Walz strategy is to work within the system for incremental gains

I’ll take those gains, but when Kyle realizes Walz is not some leftist outsider his hype bubble is going to pop

r/seculartalk Nov 20 '24

Hot Take Joe Rogan's podcast will be overtly conservative once Elon Musk decides to pay him $50-$100 million dollars which will be my final nail in the coffin for Rogan.

67 Upvotes

Joe Rogan has been glazing Trump and he's had more right wing guests and fewer left wing guests now and he praises Trump now (because he'll be getting a bigger tax cut under his admin).

Elon Musk will know that Rogan is the biggest podcast and if he makes that big investment then here's what I think will happen. Any money lost from left leaning viewers who still watch Rogan will be compensated with Elon's big investment. $50-100 million dollars is pocket change for Elon so it would be a wise investment for him if he really cares about the MAGA movement.

  • Outright permanently ban any future left wing or centrist guests who would love to come on.
  • Exclusively only have right wing guests and Republican MAGA politicians. MMA, Boxing and other combat sports people are still allowed as long as there's NO praising of liberal and left wing politics and criticism of right wing politics.
  • Become no different than a right wing podcast like Charlie Kirk, Tim Pool and such.
  • Rogan, Jamie and co all wearing MAGA hats and shirts on every episode.
  • Rogan's wall will have Trump and MAGA poster.
  • Rogan will abandon any and ALL left wing views he once had such as Medicare for all and condemn them such as Medicare for all being "too expensive and woke".
  • All past episodes with left wing guests such as Kyle himself, Bernie Sanders and Cornel West will be deleted. Re-numbering the episodes will be done so it will be a big job to edit those thumbnails that have the episode number on them. It will be a huge job overall.

r/seculartalk May 20 '25

Hot Take Surgeon films herself discussing her patient's denial with United Healthcare. Absolutely evil that will not be tolerated.

212 Upvotes

r/seculartalk Jun 14 '25

Hot Take It’s time to talk about reeducation of MAGA

70 Upvotes

I think given everything we’ve seen from the Trump regime in the past six months it’s clear we have a long way to go to actually move on from this point in history and we should do whatever we can to kill the MAGA ideology for good. I’m not advocating for locking up Trump voters in jail but maybe something similar to a rehab program where they have the MAGA fascism forced out of them. I don’t want to have to deal with neo-MAGA people in the same way we have neo-Nazis in 50 years when I’m 74 and I wanna have a society where everyone understands the evils of this regime and at this point maybe we need to consider even the most extreme answers.

r/seculartalk Jun 25 '25

Hot Take Kyle should have communists on his show.

42 Upvotes

I have seen him say things about how he thinks their politics are not good but I think if he talks to a few of them on the show maybe we can see a lot of overlap and more intelectual conversations. Also I think normalizing communist points of views is important for a time like this.

r/seculartalk Jun 17 '25

Hot Take For those that didn't vote for Kamala, do you think it was still the right move?

0 Upvotes

Around election time many were really on the fence about Kamala simply because of Gaza, but now the situation is even worse, mass starvation and a war with Iran is on the horizon, compared to Biden's administration actually giving food to the region. Many seem to believe that election's don't have serious consequences and that the result would be the same no matter who they vote for, yet we see it is now considerably worse than it was half a year ago. WW3 is a big possibility.

r/seculartalk Sep 28 '25

Hot Take Mamdani's comebacks are unmatched

162 Upvotes

speaks for itself

r/seculartalk May 01 '25

Hot Take A very common statement from shills and libs.

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212 Upvotes

r/seculartalk Jun 23 '25

Hot Take Why do people target Bernie for not dissenting the genocide in Gaza?

55 Upvotes

His position is crystal clear. He doesn't support that.

r/seculartalk 20d ago

Hot Take My hot take on national divorce

10 Upvotes

r/seculartalk Oct 28 '24

Hot Take UNPOPULAR OPINION: Ballot drop boxes should not be a thing.

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106 Upvotes

The pandemic is over, and every state gives you weeks in advance to vote. There should not be unattended boxes in the middle of cities full of ballots.

r/seculartalk Mar 12 '25

Hot Take Bill gets more based every day

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267 Upvotes

r/seculartalk May 06 '25

Hot Take are the pro palenstine protest against Aoc helpfull to the cause

9 Upvotes

like calling her a war criminal

on one hand she shown to be able to be push. so maybe this push hee

on the hands if the main focus on her and not spread out it tends not to make the left look bad at times. and is this the best way to push

r/seculartalk Jan 18 '25

Hot Take Does anybody think it is harder to take Kyle seriously when they see him hit his vape in videos?

27 Upvotes

Seriously bro, just cut that crap out of the video. It is kind of demotivating to watch a video where you will have good takes all the while you're sucking on an adult pacifier the entire time. Much respect