This is the communist festival right? That one is very high on my list of things to do before I die.

All my Frogs and Toads, gone…

Interaction with other social/economic classes.

I like everything you said about travel but want to hone in on this one. I think it’s suuuuper important. I grew up in a middle class environment and it took a long time for me to truly “get” that there’s so many people who have less than that, just because it’s not something I grew up around (and media heavily reinforces this).

Likewise, if not for Hexbear I would living in a bubble of people roughly my own age and completely cut off from younger people, who (especially but exclusively comrades here) are very cool and good. I despise when older people hate “the youth” and have promised myself I will never become like that.

I’m thinking more like little kids (mine are little). When their older yeah, let them listen to their music during their time and your pods on your time (or however you split up what plays when kids are older, idk)

I strongly suspect that if Pete’s dad was like every other college professor I’ve known, there’s a good chance he was violating #1. Most professors I know put the job first and their families a distant second.

Ooooh dang, that’s pretty good.

I am a big fan of PBS Kids, not exactly “subversive” but on the whole teaches kids a lot of good stuff.

I think there’s plenty of “serious” podcasts. To name a few: Already Existing Socialism, Cosmopod, The Measures Taken, Rev Left, Varn Vlog. But I do lots of others than are not explicitly commie, like Means Morning News, Electronic Intifada (my kid asks really good questions about Gaza), Red Nation, Citations Needed, Macro & Cheese, and others.

But like Frank said, I’m not too worried about the crass factor too much. I don’t listen to TrueAnon or Chapo. Deprogram I think is more or less fine. I’ve already played Trillbillies for them and my kid loves them honestly. I think my kid picks up on the fact they are friends and that they have a nice conversational style to them.

Earlier today, I was reading an abstract of a paper that showed there was a relationship between being an overly fearful child and eventually becoming a conservative adult.