My guest is actor, director and podcaster, Dasha Nekrasova. You may recognize her from her role on HBO’s hit series Succession or her directorial debut The Scary of Sixty-First. She is a host of the Red Scare podcast.
man i really don’t understand why people keep giving this person a platform or pretending to take her seriously. just the absolute zenith of k’d out vapid edgelord blabber
honestly shocked Joshua did this. she's a straight reactionary fascist, a bad faith interpreter of everything from "scenes" to the left, and her audience in redscare is pretty vile to boot. hard pass, and probably an unsubscribe from this newsletter too.
It's useful to listen to people you disagree with, especially when they talk about how their view shifted over time.
You can unsubscribe, but your world will either stay the same or get smaller. We all need to embrace wide-boundary thinking if we're going to weather then next few decades.
its not useful to listen to a cynical reactionary whose vapid politics leads to photoshoots with alex jones, no. there's a mistaken thread that we must "know them" to fight them. hope that helps.
I completely agree @ donny. I've teeter tottered on this topic in the past re: giving a platform to those on the right, but over the years, given the social media impact/ algorithmic clickbaity-ness of the web, I realize there really is no middle ground, and no point in trying to "share similar views" or "see the other side", like, at all, because it doesn't lead anywhere beneficial. It's just noise, with bad intention on the right i.e. Dasha as a fascist that she is. Her actions (and Anna, who is much worse in my opinion) are astoundingly disingenuous, for example, openly saying on her podcast "I am a Zionist" and then laughing about it like a sadist, wanting hate from people just for attention, and then posting pictures of herself shooting mannequins that are wearing a kuffiyeh, like really? Why would anyone on the left take her serious? Joshua's shtick for getting people on the opposite side of the spectrum on his show is honestly a waste of time.
Dasha seems very laconic and dazed, I'd never seen her interviewed. I knew she had a podcast, gunned down a dummy in a keffiah with her man, and that CharliXCX wrote a song about her (not an unambiguously nice one either), I sort of expected her to be full of piss & vinegar. Instead it's these understated, fragmented points that aren't really well-realized and eventuate mostly in neutral "I dunno" statements. It's sort of like that LibsofTiktok girl, not much to say but a boatload of infamy. I also just saw a clip of her on Twitter saying Trump is "more of a gay icon than Kamala Harris is pretending to be".....like, huh? I can't even get mad or fuss over being confused, there's a whole lot of nothing here despite your best efforts.
I’ve been learning A LOT listening to all these Doomscroll “ethnographic interviews.” Love em. I’m confused, confounded. Just like a good anthropology and talking to strangers oughtta make you.
This child though… what in the heeeeeel with that nasally “I’m so tired I’m sorta boring myself” tone? Makes my skin itch. Seems like she’s performing “ditsy flirtatious bitch.” Never heard of her or her podcast before this interview. But the giggling hand covering her mouth every time she catches herself talking like a socialist… She’s a specimen for sure.
It’s actually crazy how unique online political New Yorkers think Red Scare is. Don’t care about it either way and I certainly don’t believe in deplatforming, but what is it even about?
Red Scare is about being skinny, courting the attention of rich right-wing dorks, monetizing 2021 media takes in perpetuity, and trying to offend Twitter liberals as you hit the ice patch and skid towards 40.
You have a great interview style, Josh. Sadly, it was wasted on this guest.
My mom always asked me, "Are you asking me or telling me?" when I would end a declarative sentence with the rising intonation of a question. Dasha seems to use that vocal technique as a defensive screen from being expected to actually put some effort into her responses
Dasha is just plain good-looking, which to me is pretty cool because I have a half-Baltic 10yo who has that look. Granted he's already almost as big as she is... He's going to be quite the man!
I'm going to have to walk around with a shotgun to keep the bad girls away.
The shift you might see in the "Red Scare" podcast—from the Bernie phase to the whatever-the-hell-it-is-now phase—illustrates a broader tendency where environments marinated in artistic or academic specialization expand, explode, and rot, changing into platforms for Reikian rebirthed political expressions. You might call it a "fine-arts-degree-to-alt-right pipeline." And it's heartwarming to me because it reminds me how the talk and people I grew up idolizing (Zappa, Robert Anton Wilson, for a couple examples) all would be conservative by today's standards. Wilson in mind, the shift rhymes with Robert Anton Wilson's skeptical view of academic institutions—suggestive of a disillusionment akin to Shaw’s adage, "those who cannot do, teach", and we might add, "those who cannot teach, invoke a social-suffering contest." But, let's not pretend that back of all this isn't an enormous (or at-least mid-sized) dark money psy-op. "We didn't take any money from Peter Thiel." Him, no. Maybe his bag man?
I liked this interview. Yeah obviously she has bad politics and doesn't feel the need to answer a direct question or explain herself. It's not about being right, it's about the brand and the back catalog. This interview strips down that shtick - she didnt come off well - but you can see how it would be compelling to a certain audience on her own terms
man i really don’t understand why people keep giving this person a platform or pretending to take her seriously. just the absolute zenith of k’d out vapid edgelord blabber
honestly shocked Joshua did this. she's a straight reactionary fascist, a bad faith interpreter of everything from "scenes" to the left, and her audience in redscare is pretty vile to boot. hard pass, and probably an unsubscribe from this newsletter too.
It's useful to listen to people you disagree with, especially when they talk about how their view shifted over time.
You can unsubscribe, but your world will either stay the same or get smaller. We all need to embrace wide-boundary thinking if we're going to weather then next few decades.
its not useful to listen to a cynical reactionary whose vapid politics leads to photoshoots with alex jones, no. there's a mistaken thread that we must "know them" to fight them. hope that helps.
I completely agree @ donny. I've teeter tottered on this topic in the past re: giving a platform to those on the right, but over the years, given the social media impact/ algorithmic clickbaity-ness of the web, I realize there really is no middle ground, and no point in trying to "share similar views" or "see the other side", like, at all, because it doesn't lead anywhere beneficial. It's just noise, with bad intention on the right i.e. Dasha as a fascist that she is. Her actions (and Anna, who is much worse in my opinion) are astoundingly disingenuous, for example, openly saying on her podcast "I am a Zionist" and then laughing about it like a sadist, wanting hate from people just for attention, and then posting pictures of herself shooting mannequins that are wearing a kuffiyeh, like really? Why would anyone on the left take her serious? Joshua's shtick for getting people on the opposite side of the spectrum on his show is honestly a waste of time.
Dasha seems very laconic and dazed, I'd never seen her interviewed. I knew she had a podcast, gunned down a dummy in a keffiah with her man, and that CharliXCX wrote a song about her (not an unambiguously nice one either), I sort of expected her to be full of piss & vinegar. Instead it's these understated, fragmented points that aren't really well-realized and eventuate mostly in neutral "I dunno" statements. It's sort of like that LibsofTiktok girl, not much to say but a boatload of infamy. I also just saw a clip of her on Twitter saying Trump is "more of a gay icon than Kamala Harris is pretending to be".....like, huh? I can't even get mad or fuss over being confused, there's a whole lot of nothing here despite your best efforts.
I do think Joshua likes to expose these archetype lazy, right-wing heads for what they are. Grifters.
I can take their snotty black pill content. Or even their incel audience ruining their love live.
But platforming eugenesis like Jerry saylor or baby eaters like Alex Jones. They made their lousy bed. Let them sleep in it with their bedfellows.
Good lord, what a putrid and worthless barnacle.
no<3
I’ve been learning A LOT listening to all these Doomscroll “ethnographic interviews.” Love em. I’m confused, confounded. Just like a good anthropology and talking to strangers oughtta make you.
This child though… what in the heeeeeel with that nasally “I’m so tired I’m sorta boring myself” tone? Makes my skin itch. Seems like she’s performing “ditsy flirtatious bitch.” Never heard of her or her podcast before this interview. But the giggling hand covering her mouth every time she catches herself talking like a socialist… She’s a specimen for sure.
Ditzy flirtatious bitch. That's the description I was looking for
It’s actually crazy how unique online political New Yorkers think Red Scare is. Don’t care about it either way and I certainly don’t believe in deplatforming, but what is it even about?
Red Scare is about being skinny, courting the attention of rich right-wing dorks, monetizing 2021 media takes in perpetuity, and trying to offend Twitter liberals as you hit the ice patch and skid towards 40.
Super valuable
You have a great interview style, Josh. Sadly, it was wasted on this guest.
My mom always asked me, "Are you asking me or telling me?" when I would end a declarative sentence with the rising intonation of a question. Dasha seems to use that vocal technique as a defensive screen from being expected to actually put some effort into her responses
fuck this
Dasha is just plain good-looking, which to me is pretty cool because I have a half-Baltic 10yo who has that look. Granted he's already almost as big as she is... He's going to be quite the man!
I'm going to have to walk around with a shotgun to keep the bad girls away.
Bill what the fuck
Dasha is great here 🫶
The shift you might see in the "Red Scare" podcast—from the Bernie phase to the whatever-the-hell-it-is-now phase—illustrates a broader tendency where environments marinated in artistic or academic specialization expand, explode, and rot, changing into platforms for Reikian rebirthed political expressions. You might call it a "fine-arts-degree-to-alt-right pipeline." And it's heartwarming to me because it reminds me how the talk and people I grew up idolizing (Zappa, Robert Anton Wilson, for a couple examples) all would be conservative by today's standards. Wilson in mind, the shift rhymes with Robert Anton Wilson's skeptical view of academic institutions—suggestive of a disillusionment akin to Shaw’s adage, "those who cannot do, teach", and we might add, "those who cannot teach, invoke a social-suffering contest." But, let's not pretend that back of all this isn't an enormous (or at-least mid-sized) dark money psy-op. "We didn't take any money from Peter Thiel." Him, no. Maybe his bag man?
No
I liked this interview. Yeah obviously she has bad politics and doesn't feel the need to answer a direct question or explain herself. It's not about being right, it's about the brand and the back catalog. This interview strips down that shtick - she didnt come off well - but you can see how it would be compelling to a certain audience on her own terms
loveeeee her xoxo
Dasha is illichpilled