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Jan 14
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 131 - Spare...

Jeremy Schumacher
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This week Jeremy looks at how evangelical, Dobson-style parenting normalizes obedience, fear, and punishment which leads into pro-cop, pro-ICE “law and order” politics. What looks like a contradiction between “don’t tread on me” freedom rhetoric and support for violent state power is actually a coherent system where freedom is reserved for the obedient and f ... Show More
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 129 - Comedians Manufacturing Consent for the Culture War
This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language ... Show More
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