HashtagGirlboss posted:

Curious what it says but lmao at trying to dig through a 2k page pdf on my phone. Is it quotable?

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Curious what it says but lmao at trying to dig through a 2k page pdf on my phone. Is it quotable?

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oh don’t know where Virgil is don’t care he
submitted something for us to show put on the show and we didn’t do it because it’s
like he’s not talking to us so why would we do it so sorry I’m not gonna bother with
him

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Virgil is a little as real as
he is in your hearts Virgil belittle exists if you believe in him if you believe in Virgil
clap your hands you believe in virtual clap your hands

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I don’t
know perhaps perhaps Virgil’s doing okay I talked to him about Rick and Morty I
tweeted I texted to him he gave me he’s apparently a big fan of the new episode so
he’s doing all right he can still appreciate good comedy he still has the reckless it
IQ to appreciate Rick and Morty and all of its intricacies

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Virgil and I have become a
says we need a bandage after it’s version of the internet I talked about that Yes he’s
okay in fact we’re worth worth hot But this I just had to just reminded me of a very
good idea that we had together and it was People can’t handle the internet come
to the conclusion

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yes virgil’s back virgil’s back on the show so no more asking me about it ever again

Breadallelogram posted:

Matt mentioned it in an early grill stream I believe

Xaris posted:

reddit made a book of cushbomb that has all the transcripts and looks like its the april 20th, 2020 o captain my captain show.

pdf link: https://www.cushbomb.com/TBOB.pdf

Breadallelogram posted:

you can ctrl-F in the pdf (well, maybe not on your phone), and it's just text of lovely automated captions

Smythe posted:

the giant pdf thing is crazy

Wizard Master posted:

Breadallelogram posted:

and it's just text of lovely automated captions

Victory Position posted:

drat, action figures

Wizard Master posted:

Greg Legg posted:

I miss the frequent cush vlogs. Those were a pandemic staple for me.

crepeface posted:

lol these machine generated transcripts read like schizophrenia ramblings

Xaris posted:

same

and stavvy solves your problems (rip again?)

crepeface posted:

ep2 of hingepoints: spontaneous anarchist worker uprisings get crushed by the state over and over. if only they had some kind of organization... perhaps with a hierarchy...

edit: organized small penises are more effective than average penises hardening willy-nilly.

mila kunis posted:

i think they were wrong on a few points, espescially the doomer stuff about "the revolutions springing forth across europe that were crushed in 1918-20 were the last shot we had". like what. did they miss the part 30 years later where half of europe and large parts of the globe were communist. a more intelligent materialist take wouldn't be "we missed our shot in 1918" but that we had our shot later, took it and still lost.

i was inclined to be less charitable and inferred that they completely dismissed the later socialist states as inauthentic / bad / etc coming from the some leftcom embrace of spontaneity and workers councils, as opposed to by the deliberate actions of a fully functioning and organized socialist state that had years to develop a red army, monetary funding from its economic apparatus' surplus, intelligence services, massive manpower and other fully organized tools with which to successfully win. looking at what happened to the germans, whose revolution failed because of a lack of coordinated organization and the ability and the real power to fight back against reaction with sufficiently backed militarized formations, i would assume the lesson to draw is that the latter would be preferable. but a lot of lovely western marxists 'ate 'authoritarianism', love losing, simple as

i could be wrong maybe that's not their view and they're not those types of people

coathat posted:

They seem to be bad at actually thinking of alternative history at a base level.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

In the episodes i've heard so far anytime Matt is asked about alt history he completely dismissed the concept. Which makes you wonder why he choose to do a podcast who's premise is supposed to be alt history.

mila kunis posted:

i think thats the joke. "heres what could have happened, but due to actual material factors on the ground, didn't"

Shipon posted:

what if it was bingepoints and matt just got as drunk as he did on the 2018 midterm stream and ranted

mila kunis posted:

i think they were wrong on a few points, espescially the doomer stuff about "the revolutions springing forth across europe that were crushed in 1918-20 were the last shot we had". like what. did they miss the part 30 years later where half of europe and large parts of the globe were communist. a more intelligent materialist take wouldn't be "we missed our shot in 1918" but that we had our shot later, took it and still lost.

i was inclined to be less charitable and inferred that they completely dismissed the later socialist states as inauthentic / bad / etc coming from the some leftcom embrace of spontaneity and workers councils, as opposed to by the deliberate actions of a fully functioning and organized socialist state that had years to develop a red army, monetary funding from its economic apparatus' surplus, intelligence services, massive manpower and other fully organized tools with which to successfully win. looking at what happened to the germans, whose revolution failed because of a lack of coordinated organization and the ability and the real power to fight back against reaction with sufficiently backed militarized formations, i would assume the lesson to draw is that the latter would be preferable. but a lot of lovely western marxists 'ate 'authoritarianism', love losing, simple as

i could be wrong maybe that's not their view and they're not those types of people

Ytlaya posted:

I think their point is that future attempts were basically national in nature and doomed to fail as a result of that (which can be debated, but is at least internally consistent), and that ~1918-1919 was the last chance of an international movement spreading across the countries that would later form the post-war capitalist international order. Said international capitalist order was firmly entrenched and dominant militarily as a result of WW2, so any local attempts at socialism were essentially doomed by that point (or at least held no potential for spreading beyond their borders).

Xaris posted:

reddit made a book of cushbomb that has all the transcripts and looks like its the april 20th, 2020 o captain my captain show.

pdf link: https://www.cushbomb.com/TBOB.pdf

FPyat posted:

the 'premier Gonzo Economics podcast on the left.'

Greg Legg posted:

I miss the frequent cush vlogs. Those were a pandemic staple for me.

Dmitri-9 posted:

What will happen to his book now that the publisher was bought out?

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As you may have heard, John Hunt Publishing has recently been bought by Watkins Media. A new interim team is currently being assembled to manage Zer0 Books, which will include members of the original team that founded the imprint in 2007. No one has been ‘fired’, but Douglas Lain has announced inaccurately that he was let go. We have currently suspended submissions and commissions for Zer0 Books whilst we look at how the list will fit in with Repeater Books. All contracts will be honored, all titles currently in production will be published, and any forthcoming titles will be marketed by an active and dedicated team.

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whilst