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Dec 6, 2021 17:54
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I refuse to listen to Hinge Points, but do they discuss the impact of the Russian revolution and it's early decades with regards to China or Turkey? Is there any mention of its impact on decolonial struggles?
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Dec 6, 2021 18:05
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AnimeIsTrash posted:They seem to think that if the USSR didn't exist that the idiots who go communism has killed 10000 billion people wouldn't exist. exactly, which I'm not sure is a credible assumption given that we are 30+ years out from the fall of the USSR and our current capitalist hegemony seems more than happy to cast china in the exact same light.
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Dec 6, 2021 18:15
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Is Hinge Points basically just Marvel's What If? for real world history
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Dec 6, 2021 18:19
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And if so why don't they present it in character as Uatu the Watcher.
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Dec 6, 2021 18:20
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Hinge Point: What if Cromwell picked the son who wasn't a dipshit to be his successor as Lord Protector.
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Dec 6, 2021 18:30
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AnimeIsTrash posted:They seem to think that if the USSR didn't exist that the idiots who go communism has killed 10000 billion people wouldn't exist. idk i think their thesis was a little different — iirc their arg was that the soviet rev was predicated on it kicking off revolutions across europe and when that didn't happen, the bolsheviks had to industrialize the country, which the capitalist stage of development is "supposed" to do per marxist theory, which tainted the communist project within the ussr and abroad. but yeah i'm not sure why a different successful communist revolution would have been treated "better" by the capitalist bloc
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Dec 6, 2021 18:31
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Pablo Nergigante posted:And if so why don't they present it in character as Uatu the Watcher. Christman the Grillpilled drawn in the Kirby style
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Dec 6, 2021 18:33
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hinge points is incredibly american in its perspective in a really quite provincial way, and must be read as such. they know some things but have no real engagement with the historical texture of the events they're discussing outside of the US (the USian stuff i can't really criticise since i don't know that history especially well), which makes their discussions sterile at best. it also becomes extremely clear that they're not from any kind of left-wing popular tradition, which really isn't their fault. they perceive the left's history as sort of inconvenient and wish they didn't have it instead of trying to take strength from it. it's all rather utopian "no soviet revolution would've been better for the left broadly" is completely bone-headed. the US-western left is dead, but the soviet revolution was a huge factor in decolonisation and basically made third-worldism and social-democracy possible. there is no reason to assume that mono-polar bourgeois liberalism would've been any *less* ruthless than it was with a genuine threat; look what happened after the soviets fell
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Dec 6, 2021 18:35
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hingepoint: what if i had never entered the covid thread
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Dec 6, 2021 18:35
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christman's a smart enough guy to make it sort of productively annoying instead of just annoying, at least. finding his mistakes is fruitful without being too difficult. it's better than most american attempts at cosmopolitan intellectualism, which are simply infuriating
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Dec 6, 2021 18:36
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Homeless Friend posted:callin alex based.... he is NOT based. this is just another step by alex to co-opt our MOVEMENT brothers and sisters... he dares to call himself cool when he, in fact, is not cool, my comrades
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Dec 6, 2021 18:39
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hinge points is dry toast for bookworms and I hope Matt really, really enjoys making them because they are not at all fun to consume
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Dec 6, 2021 18:44
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hinge points is okay imo, a decent fun listen, but my main note is danny says "underline" too much
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Dec 6, 2021 18:48
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Bust Rodd posted:hinge points is dry toast for bookworms and I hope Matt really, really enjoys making them because they are not at all fun to consume anyways bring back the vlogs matt
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Dec 6, 2021 18:51
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Honest Thief posted:hingepoint: what if i had never entered the covid thread ur brain would be better imo
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Dec 6, 2021 18:55
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Cringe Points.
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Dec 6, 2021 18:57
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Hinge points is mediocre, but its theme song is loving terrible.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:09
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Xaris posted:anyways bring back the vlogs matt
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Dec 6, 2021 19:11
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Himge Points: What if Susan Sarandon had supported Hilary in 2016
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Dec 6, 2021 19:27
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Is Hinge Points basically just Marvel's What If? for real world history It's called alternate history
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Dec 6, 2021 19:28
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is Chapo still doing a Buffalo show this week https://twitter.com/RustBeltGeo/status/1467843075976405002?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheBuffaloNews/status/1467585335953666057?s=20
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Dec 6, 2021 19:32
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hinge points is the final nail in the coffin of my misconception that christman occasionally had something insightful to say.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:36
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AnimeIsTrash posted:ur brain would be better imo the dreaded long covid
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Dec 6, 2021 19:44
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It's never too late to stop exposing yourself to covid threads and just post about a game you like instead
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Dec 6, 2021 19:46
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botw does suck
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Dec 6, 2021 19:49
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crepeface posted:wait is the hinge points position that if communism didn't happen in Russia then the US left would be more likely to become radical because of nationalism and therefore the Russian revolution was bad?? seems like a stretch The most plausible part of their argument seems to be that the USSR not existing might have prevented a Cold War, but they also argue in the same series (or maybe just in Hell of Presidents, forget) that the Cold War may have been averted by Truman not becoming President, so it doesn't seem that the USSR not existing would have been necessary for that.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:56
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Ytlaya posted:The most plausible part of their argument seems to be that the USSR not existing might have prevented a Cold War, but they also argue in the same series (or maybe just in Hell of Presidents, forget) that the Cold War may have been averted by Truman not becoming President, so it doesn't seem that the USSR not existing would have been necessary for that.
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Dec 6, 2021 20:00
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Beard Dandruff posted:Hinge points is mediocre, but its theme song is loving terrible. Old timey gold rush prospectors will never die
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Dec 6, 2021 20:14
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Fleetwood posted:Himge Points: What if Susan Sarandon had supported Hilary in 2016 This would be a good bit, you just explain the 2016 election exactly as it happened
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Dec 6, 2021 20:17
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V. Illych L. posted:christman's a smart enough guy to make it sort of productively annoying instead of just annoying, at least. finding his mistakes is fruitful without being too difficult. it's better than most american attempts at cosmopolitan intellectualism, which are simply infuriating I've noticed that Matt seems to very rarely directly disagree with cohosts, even when they seem to have different worldviews. Definitely possible I'm projecting here, but the way he acts sometimes reminds me of the way I'll occasionally just paper over verbal disagreements. Like Chris will express some opinion in Hell of Presidents that I doubt Matt would express on his own and Matt will just be like "yeah" and sort of move on to different or tangential subject.
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Dec 6, 2021 20:21
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i watched the hunt for red october last night for no reason for the 99th time and it owned as usual
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Dec 6, 2021 20:29
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Hinge point: what if Obama was gay
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Dec 6, 2021 20:32
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tokin opposition posted:Hinge point: what if Obama was gay some plague rats posted:This would be a good bit, you just explain the 2008 election exactly as it happened
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Dec 6, 2021 20:33
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wait a second is Hinge Points alt-history? are things just being made up now
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Dec 6, 2021 20:33
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multijoe posted:It's never too late to stop exposing yourself to covid threads and just post about a game you like instead I came in 18th out of 30 or so at the Magic the Gathering store championships at my local store on Saturday. Not great
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Dec 6, 2021 20:40
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Smythe posted:i watched the hunt for red october last night for no reason for the 99th time and it owned as usual i think a bunch of historians were watching it sometime this weekend and live tweeting it
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Dec 6, 2021 20:41
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Smythe posted:i watched the hunt for red october last night for no reason for the 99th time and it owned as usual i got a submarine movie kick and watched a bunch of them recently. i had always got red october and crimson tide mixed up, but after watching them again as an adult, man crimson tide is doodoo. red october is good, das boot is GOAT, Down Periscope is still funny. run silent, run deep was also good, and i usually get bored with those old war movies.
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Dec 6, 2021 20:41
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I came in 18th out of 30 or so at the Magic the Gathering store championships at my local store on Saturday. Not great sounds like you need to get good bitch
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Dec 6, 2021 20:42
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Atrocious Joe posted:Hinge Point: What if Cromwell picked the son who wasn't a dipshit to be his successor as Lord Protector. A world without catholics 
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