Is this just an anti-intellectualism podcast now?
I decided to listen to the latest MW episode on demographics because it's a topic I'm interested in and know a reasonable amount about. I can't go five minutes without pausing at some of the utterly stupid things these people are saying.
At 13:39
Simone: "We live in a socialist Utopia"
Chris: "How so?"
Simone: "You have to pay for school in China."
She goes on to claim that China doesn't provide food assistance, child care assistance or fully fund healthcare for children. None of this is true. While China doesn't have a free healthcare system like we do with the NHS, it provides almost universal healthcare insurance but relies on people still footing the bill - which is similar to the US, her 'Socialist Utopia'. China provides child care assistance in the form of tax deductions, and does have welfare policies for the poor, a 'minimum livelihood guarantee' which iinvolve direct cash transfers, a very socialist policy indeed. China also has the largest state-run education system on Earth.
Not a single person challenges her on this at all. This is basic stuff, it takes nothing more than a Google search to discover what she is saying is outright false. So why is she there? She fits neatly into the stereotypical, tradwife manosphere adjacent advocate shaking her fists at the indignities of feminism.