Loved the Tenet chat in this episode. It's dumb as hell, but I do hoot and holler whenever the guy shoots the gun backwards

Colonized by who lmao, the Umayyads?

Guy who doesn't think terrorism is structural

Or to be more concrete, I think any serious left wing project in the US is going to have to use coercive state power against its political opponents, which will often take the form of prison. Ex: people like Stephen Miller and other senior reactionaries, or ICE agents

I suppose I'm skeptical such an institution could ever exist, unless/until society were so radically different that we're already in the Leninist "state withering away" part of the process. In which case I think it's useful as a hypothetical discussion, but not as an immediate policy proposal

I genuinely don't follow your argument in this thread. You believe in mass revolutionary violence but think imprisoning people is a step too far? Surely if you believe in violent struggle you can imagine scenarios where the revolutionary state should have the power to detain people

> the scale will be much smaller and conditions much better

That's just prison reform! A society with less, better treated prisoners still has prisons!

A page from Sandra Boynton's Blue Hat Green Hat. All the animals are demonstrating how to put on pants except the turkey, who has them on his head

Little kid's developing humor is so funny. My nephew had a phase where he was totally pre-verbal but would laugh at the punchlines of Blue Hat Green Hat. Like he was a little baby, just able to sit up, but he clearly understood what was funny about a turkey putting clothes on wrong. Fascinating

Mussolini labeled "average small business fan" and Lenin labeled "average big capital enjoyer"

Real

Not sure if this is woke per se, but Im skeptical that "community" anything will solve large scale problems, ex community gardens, community childrearing, community justice. Socialism will require a vast and faceless (but democratically accountable) bureaucracy.

I don't necessarily agree with this but props for having an actually very woke opinion. This whole thread is folks going on about free housing, boooring, stretch those philosophical legs a little

There's a streak of Jeffersonian thought that runs through every American, even leftists (see the romantization of the self sufficient agrarian commune). This must be abolished. Under communism you will live in an apartment next to a subway station.

Ooh are we doing prison abolition discourse again?

Wait this is making me insane. Has anyone tracked down what event this might have been? Surely Trump can't have been at Epstein's literal house *while president*?

"Any war" ends with "both sides losing" is a crazy thing for a leftist to believe. Where on earth in the history and theory of antifascism did you pick up that idea?

I don't get your framing that the left can do anything to help them besides beating them so thoroughly they're forced to moderate or be pushed out entirely. Like the "we need a strong GOP" line was in the context of Pelosi, Biden etc believing the "fever would break" long after that was realistic

I don't get his framing that the left can do anything to help them besides beating them so thoroughly they're forced to moderate or be pushed out entirely. Like the "we need a strong GOP" line was in the context of Pelosi, Biden etc believing the "fever would break" long after that was realistic

Right, like look at the fire breathing behemoth on the right (burned out three gearboxes getting to the front) vs the cuddly lil guy on the left (durable, ergonomic, easy to repair)

He always does this stupid "gosh it's so complicated, I just can't figure it out, and well of course they should be entirely banned " dance. Huh since you're the governor maybe you could consult the legions of experts who could help you not sound like the "crime, boy I dunno" guy from The West Wing

Adopting this into my worldview but as a good thing

Rawhide Kobayashi moment

Under Woke 2 we will allow this sort of court jester conservatism to persist, that they may entertain the people, and also make sure we don't get too galaxy brain about stuff

Skerples a friend bought me a copy of your monster manual for Christmas and I've been using it ever since. Your d100 Barbarians are the backbone of my current campaign. Big ups bro

South Korea has the right idea with putting half of their presidents in jail

Dude yes, by the third time there's a shot of a jeep driving into the compound with a huge sweeping helicopter shot and the soundtrack going a million miles an hour I was thinking Nolan what the hell are you doing here, this is a movie about scientists talking in rooms

That's right

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It's not like there's even a shortage of conservatives taught in higher education! If you study music you'll learn Wagner, if you study literature you'll read Borges, if you study art you'll see Dali. The modern conservatives don't mean them of course, they like podcasters

Ah, I see downthread his name is Geoffrey Miller. He sounds like a real doofus!

Who the fuck is this? I need to send this to an anthropologist I know, they'll get a kick out of it