Episode Details

Malcolm and Simone Collins dive into a no-holds-barred rant on fascism, modern progressivism, and why the left’s definitions often collapse under scrutiny. We analyze a viral progressive figure (Note Brigade / Nope Brigade) who fled the US for Canada fearing “fascism” — only to complain about Canada’s cost of living, housing crisis, and more. Is fascism just repackaged socialism? Why do rebirth myths, populism, and nationalism scare the left so much? We break down historical myths about the 1950s, black communities, Tulsa, cultural autonomy, and why MAGA isn’t “white Christian nationalism.” Plus: gun rights, trans violence stats, urban monoculture vs. cultural diversity on the right, and why America’s narrative of unity is winning minorities over.

If you would like to explore the Tiktok account referenced in this episode, you can find it here.

Episode Transcript

Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to do a deep dive into a few topics. One is to try to understand how progressives see fascism as something other than just progressivism. You can go find our band a video where we talk about that. That nearly got us YouTube because I really wanted to understand that what, what is their perspective on this?

And in that, I ended up doing a deep dive on a figure called Note Brigade who runs a popular. Twitter account and right now is going viral on right wing circles because she fled the United States as a refugee, went to Canada and then immediately realized everything is worse in Canada.

Speaker: My partner, our cat, and our dog fled the United States. We headed north and in Canada, I think it’s actually the, the cost of living crisis is worse here,

Malcolm Collins: she, it’s actually very interesting watching her ‘cause I wanted to understand why did she [00:01:00] think she was in danger, right?

This is somebody who lived in. LA She is a white woman. Okay. Well, she identifies as non-binary or something, but basically a, a white woman who lives in la, she, presumably because of like anti-trans stuff or something, she decided that she needed to flee the United States without a super big plan.

And she then goes and, and I’ll note here because I’ve watched a lot of her videos to try to understand her world perspective.

What’s interesting to me is if you could just break through the wall, she’s actually very Republican in a lot of her views and not even that unreasonable in most of her political views.

I’ll give you an example. She has one video where she says, you leftists cannot tell the difference between what makes you uncomfortable and what makes you safe.

Speaker 4: I’m sorry, but you’re not, and you wanna know why? It’s because you cannot tell the difference between what makes you uncomfortable and what makes you [00:02:00] unsafe. And you are so committed to your own comfort and your own emotional safety. You’re willing to pass up opportunities to build coalition. You literally cannot recognize allies even when they drop into your lap.

Malcolm Collins: That’s a view that I think many right wingers would have about leftist communities, right? Specifically she was complaining about a leftist community she was in, refused to work with a church.

And she’s like, look, this church had colonizers flags everywhere. Progress pride flags as she would’ve called them. You know, they were the wokes of the woke. And many people that lives a group just would not work with them.

Speaker 2: You can’t tell that churches aren’t all the same and you don’t know your own history. You can’t tolerate any nuance . Where do you think the civil rights movement happened?

It’d be so convenient if we could just blanket dismiss whole groups of peopl