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I wrapped up the interview this morning and it's been fuel for my foreign policy induced psychotic break. Hearing people talk about the situation without ending every single sentence with "yeah but RUSSIA" is an irl  situation.
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Desiderata posted:Only just actually listened to Radio War Nerd, specifically the episodes on the Ukraine / Gas Pipelines. it's extremely good. my friends think I'm a world politics genius for understanding that other countries and regions have internal concerns
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Desiderata posted:Only just actually listened to Radio War Nerd, specifically the episodes on the Ukraine / Gas Pipelines. In one John Dolan medical emergency you'd learn more about the world than reading most D&D threads for months on end.
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Feb 16, 2022 17:14
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crepeface posted:it's extremely good. Yeah it's kind of weird that I get so much information from a podcast. I often wonder what my opinions and concerns would be if I hadn't basically just lucked out and started listening.
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Feb 16, 2022 18:49
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Also this guy Ben Aris sounds like Molloy the Springfield Cat Burglar.
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Desiderata posted:Only just actually listened to Radio War Nerd, specifically the episodes on the Ukraine / Gas Pipelines. D&D is for posting and flaming, not reading other people's posts.
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D&D is a nest of birds chewing up and spitting out the same worms into each others' mouths in one big circle.
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Greg Legg posted:Also this guy Ben Aris sounds like Molloy the Springfield Cat Burglar. Now I’m going to relisten!
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I think the latest episode is required listening for understanding why the US and Ukraine are so hellbent on using this “invasion” as as an excuse to stop NordStream 2. I didn’t realize the existing pipeline went through Ukraine, from which tariffs form a huge part of the Ukrainian economy. Makes the idea that Russia would invade right now, for some reason, even more absurd
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I think the latest episode is required listening for understanding why the US and Ukraine are so hellbent on using this “invasion” as as an excuse to stop NordStream 2. I didn’t realize the existing pipeline went through Ukraine, from which tariffs form a huge part of the Ukrainian economy. Have you considered that Russia don't operate rationally because they are the baddies?
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Feb 18, 2022 10:44
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Feb 18, 2022 10:46
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I've listened to maybe 20 random episodes and it feels like I've heard John tell the "what's the difference between a language and a dialect? a dialect doesn't have a navy" joke like five or six different times lol
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Feb 19, 2022 23:49
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The gas update episode was really illuminating and interesting.
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Tankbuster posted:The gas update episode was really illuminating and interesting. For sure, I'm don't know how anyone can have even a slightly informed opinion on all this poo poo without a basic understanding of the pipeline situation.
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XMNN posted:I've listened to maybe 20 random episodes and it feels like I've heard John tell the "what's the difference between a language and a dialect? a dialect doesn't have a navy" joke like five or six different times lol I mean, that's one of the biggest appeals of the show to me. both john and mark have great "cool uncle" energy, as opposed to basically every other leftist podcast which is "failson" energy. I dunno if that makes sense to anyone. it's also so weird to listen to it as someone who actually read the exiled growing up. so happy these guys that were righteous but living pretty crappy lives finally got to enjoy themselves with relatively good lives. other than john constantly injuring himself horrifically.
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if you told me that out of all of them Ames was going to be the normal suburban dad i wouldn't have believed you
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Dreylad posted:if you told me that out of all of them Ames was going to be the normal suburban dad i wouldn't have believed you seriously ask me that in 2004 and i would have laughed in your face edit frankly ask 2004 me and you'd find that taibbi was destined for congress as the vanguard of a new wave of [whatever political positions i had at the time] so smh
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The recent episode on coups in Africa was informative and I couldn't stop laughing at Mark saying "freelance jihadis", just an incredible mental image from that.
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still kinda pissed about the biafra episode a couple years ago where they just swallowed the affluent expat line
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i say swears online posted:still kinda pissed about the biafra episode a couple years ago where they just swallowed the affluent expat line So that's one out of how many times?
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:So that's one out of how many times? i just have personal experience so it hits harder, but also west african duopoly politics are not exactly their wheelhouse. i'm sure i'm less aware of other instances and political events elsewhere in the world have more recognizable good/bad guys for western audiences
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They really do need a solid guest with strong expertise in at least one region of Africa.
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it's a blindspot and i'm increasingly frustrated that they do not. north, west, east, central, south, pick a region, contact a professor, set up an interview. again their last biafran expert had a british accent. i want someone to scoff at john as oyinbo
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i'd like to make it very, very clear there are a couple hundred thousand university professors on the african contient and nobody ever hears from them on any issue whatsoever, related to africa or not
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Mirello posted:I mean, that's one of the biggest appeals of the show to me. both john and mark have great "cool uncle" energy, as opposed to basically every other leftist podcast which is "failson" energy. I dunno if that makes sense to anyone. oh yeah, it's pretty charming, like when he drops a Simpsons reference I just thought it was funny because the last one I listened he tells it to Carl zha for I think the second time also listening to random episodes it's amazing all the different places John ends up being in each week
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Greg Legg posted:Yeah it's kind of weird that I get so much information from a podcast. I often wonder what my opinions and concerns would be if I hadn't basically just lucked out and started listening.
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i say swears online posted:it's a blindspot and i'm increasingly frustrated that they do not. north, west, east, central, south, pick a region, contact a professor, set up an interview. again their last biafran expert had a british accent. i want someone to scoff at john as oyinbo Ask them? They do not seem to be afraid to say when they don't understand all the issues(with the pipeline stuff as well). At least they seem open to changing their minds on subjects.
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i say swears online posted:it's a blindspot and i'm increasingly frustrated that they do not. north, west, east, central, south, pick a region, contact a professor, set up an interview. again their last biafran expert had a british accent. i want someone to scoff at john as oyinbo I thought the one on the ANC was excellent, however, I only had a passing knowledge of it beforehand so who am I to say if it's good. lol, thats the problem right? There definitely are some hits and misses though, like the decline of the spanish empire one which started out by saying that its traditionally thought of that it was due to spanish society not encouraging the investment of the colonial gains back into improving means of production, the Spanish state not being able to create a shared national identity, and the kings focusing too much on wars within europe. Actually lol, now that I wrote all that out, I guess the episode was pretty good. I was hoping for some more dissension than just the standard line, but maybe that's why it's the standard line, because it's correct.
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Dreylad posted:if you told me that out of all of them Ames was going to be the normal suburban dad i wouldn't have believed you I wouldn’t have believed that when Taibbi was making fun of Tom Friedman that he would someday have worse politics than the moustache.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i think it comes from just having some drat empathy and trying to look at things from the other side. it probably helped that ames lived in russia in the 90s when things were at their absolute nadir and being surrounded by bone-crushing poverty that your typical journalist in the U.S. has never experienced which is why they never "get it" Tons of Western journalists witnessed the same kind of bone crushing poverty inflicted by western-driven shock therapy, and they still think Russia's problem is a lack of "rule of law."
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hadji murad posted:I wouldn’t have believed that when Taibbi was making fun of Tom Friedman that he would someday have worse politics than the moustache. taibbi's a shithead now, but let's not say things we can't take back.
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Dreylad posted:if you told me that out of all of them Ames was going to be the normal suburban dad i wouldn't have believed you And Taibbi turning into a right-wing crank
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Nothus posted:And Taibbi turning into a right-wing crank which is funny because his writing in the mid 2000s was really key to moving me from right wing crank to dumbass liberal
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i think it comes from just having some drat empathy and trying to look at things from the other side. it probably helped that ames lived in russia in the 90s when things were at their absolute nadir and being surrounded by bone-crushing poverty that your typical journalist in the U.S. has never experienced which is why they never "get it" I think what makes Mark's perspective unique is that he absolutely could have a vendetta against Putin, considering what went down when he had to flee Russia. But he's actually really impartial and this gives him his legitimacy when compared to every other Western journalist sniveling about Putin the Machiavellian puppet master.
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Centrist Committee posted:which is funny because his writing in the mid 2000s was really key to moving me from right wing crank to dumbass liberal 
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nikosoft posted:I think what makes Mark's perspective unique is that he absolutely could have a vendetta against Putin, considering what went down when he had to flee Russia. But he's actually really impartial and this gives him his legitimacy when compared to every other Western journalist sniveling about Putin the Machiavellian puppet master. It's probably easier for him to be objective because it wasn't really Putin who ran Mark out of Russia, but one of his overzealous flunkies.
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hadji murad posted:I wouldn’t have believed that when Taibbi was making fun of Tom Friedman that he would someday have worse politics than the moustache. If (when) Taibbi backs NFTs, this will indeed be true.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's probably easier for him to be objective because it wasn't really Putin who ran Mark out of Russia, but one of his overzealous flunkies. What happened there? I never made it through the exile book because I have a pretty low tolerance for expat brain
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E Depois do Adeus posted:What happened there? I never made it through the exile book because I have a pretty low tolerance for expat brain I'm a little vague on the details now, because I'm not sure if the police raiding their offices came before or after this - but the eXile ran a joke insinuating that Putin was gay. There was a story in Russian press about Putin's wife telling the Russian version of Liberace to "stay away from him," so they published the gay joke. One of the more powerful goons in United Russia took that as his cue to try and impress the big man and went on a radio show, where he dropped all sorts of innuendo that sounded like exactly what's said about every other journalist in Russia who ended up being assassinated. So Mark didn't take any chances and fled back to America.
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