The falseness of it has been well theorized by Antonio Gramsci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

The Fascism of Common Sense

#!/bin/sh

# Get the original RSS feed URL from an Apple Podcast show URL.

podcast="$1"
id=$(echo "$podcast" | awk '{sub(/^.*\/id/, ""); print}')
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=%24id" | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'

There seems to be a bug in Lemmy that messes up the script’s rendering a little, but you’ll figure it out.

Interesting! You extract the ID from the link (e.g. the 1258545975 from https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975) and then:

$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1258545975' | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/rss
$

I’m not sure those links will render RSS feeds. I just pulled them from my Apple Podcasts app. None of them are exclusive to Apple, though, so if you’re not in the Apple ecosystem you can still find them.

• Citations Needed
• Behind the News with Doug Henwood
• Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
• Macro N Cheese
• Geopolitical Economy Report
• The Deprogram
• Actually Existing Socialism
• Revolutionary Left Radio
• Guerrilla History
• Tech Won’t Save Us
• Bad Faith
• The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
• QAnon Anonymous
• TrueAnon

Do people really think the US state and its monopoly on violence is going to collapse in the foreseeable future?

The US has been run by oligarchs since its formation as a bourgeois state after its bourgeois revolution (previously). That this is more nakedly obvious this week than last doesn’t really change that fact.