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Phone posted:what an absolute ball buster lmao yeah that was great, just keeping him on the phone was worth an award.
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Feb 13, 2023 07:52
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Phone posted:what an absolute ball buster lmao It really is! Goddamn Hersh is hard as gently caress.
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Feb 13, 2023 15:25
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shoulda pushed him harder, he got balls of iron, lotta juice unpressed
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Feb 13, 2023 16:50
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thoroughly entertained by Hersh talking to whoever was at his house during the interview, wanna know more about the other Mark
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Feb 13, 2023 17:24
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hope hersh isn't to hard on ames when his doc drops lol very much looking forward to watching it
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Feb 13, 2023 20:32
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good interview but i imagine hersh is a bit of a grump and not really bothered about internet drama in his old age
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Feb 13, 2023 20:49
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Spime Wrangler posted:hope hersh isn't to hard on ames when his doc drops lol a muckraking exposé shedding light on coward "journalist" ames' ukraine predictions. it's thirty seconds long and ends with "now get the gently caress out of my office"
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Feb 13, 2023 20:54
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dude's earned his right to be a little cranky many times over i was just going through some of his osama + syria interviews and found his first response to chris cuomo here hilarious ("thanks for coming on" hersh: "okay") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzNgN5Jssc
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Feb 13, 2023 20:58
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:dude's earned his right to be a little cranky many times over lmfao pro-click
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Feb 13, 2023 21:01
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lol at Hersh ripping on John for not being retired. "I need the money"
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Feb 13, 2023 21:22
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So was John never on the tenure track anywhere? I'm a bit baffled by the Wandering Contract Professor thing.
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Feb 13, 2023 22:09
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Frosted Flake posted:So was John never on the tenure track anywhere? I'm a bit baffled by the Wandering Contract Professor thing. What ever gave you the idea that he was tenure track?
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Feb 13, 2023 22:24
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His longest academic stint was in New Zealand, so that's probably where he realized he wasn't going to get to the top of the mountain.
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Feb 13, 2023 22:25
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genericnick posted:What ever gave you the idea that he was tenure track? I dunno, I thought he taught at uVic and that's a school that, where Canada goes, is pretty secure. I see now he was fired from there.
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Feb 13, 2023 22:42
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Honest Thief posted:good ep with ben aris but kinda laughing at his callousness of sanctions that if they had cut russia's gas and oil revenue there would be tumults, government would collapse, total chaos then they would make a deal I'm not sure I understood this, because he implied that what would happen is Europe would keep the money, but gasprom would keep pumping the gas because 'laws'. Seems to me they would just stop pumping gas and gently caress Europe up?
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Feb 13, 2023 22:49
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:dude's earned his right to be a little cranky many times over this is amazing, lmao
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Feb 13, 2023 22:49
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hersh is great, no bullshit, just shrugging and going "what do you think, man?" what was hersh's relationship with mark, mark got his start with him or smth? he also mentioned a debt when logging off fatelvis posted:I'm not sure I understood this, because he implied that what would happen is Europe would keep the money, but gasprom would keep pumping the gas because 'laws'. what i understood is cutting russia from their main external capital it would lead to basically societal breakdown Honest Thief has issued a correction as of 23:04 on Feb 13, 2023 |
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Feb 13, 2023 22:59
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Honest Thief posted:hersh is great, no bullshit, just shrugging and going "what do you think, man?" Yeah, but were they not saying earlier that cutting off gas to Europe would be a disaster for Europe. I get that cutting off Russia's money could have the desired effect of their government collapsing. I just don't understand why he would think they would keep pumping the gas? Does anyone really think that Russia would give a poo poo about "look, we technically paid you, but the money is held in escrow and you can't have it because sanctions". Maybe I misunderstood what he was getting at.
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fatelvis posted:Yeah, but were they not saying earlier that cutting off gas to Europe would be a disaster for Europe. I guess that's what they ended up doing because the working notion, before the pipeline got bombed, was that they would eventually resume pumping gas, but yeah I dont see how that would hold in a scenario where they would hold all revenues hostage
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Feb 13, 2023 23:09
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fatelvis posted:I'm not sure I understood this, because he implied that what would happen is Europe would keep the money, but gasprom would keep pumping the gas because 'laws'. nah europe would've gotten hosed, the point is that it might've eliminated the russians' ability to fund the war and ended it before too much damage was done, which was ostensibly the objective of the economic war. we weren't willing to bite that particular bullet (for honestly pretty good reasons), but it meant that the economic war measures - even as harsh as they were on everyone involved - were just about manageable for everyone involved. so now we're in this weird long-term quasi-divestment posture wrt russia because they're too big to ignore and too connected to properly isolate without breaking globalisation.
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Feb 13, 2023 23:11
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Frosted Flake posted:I dunno, I thought he taught at uVic and that's a school that, where Canada goes, is pretty secure. I see now he was fired from there. I have been listening to RWN for a while now and did not realize John was 67 years old. Or that he'd been fired for truth like 5 times now. It speaks to him being a pretty decent guy that at that age and those circumstances he hasn't turned into a reactionary crank. I've heard him talk about being in Victoria / being poor around that time on the pod, but not the whining you'd expect from certain other losers if they'd been fired like that
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Feb 13, 2023 23:59
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Frosted Flake posted:I dunno, I thought he taught at uVic and that's a school that, where Canada goes, is pretty secure. I see now he was fired from there. John getting fired from uVic is one of the funniest war nerd adventures, he ends up spending all of their savings on a boat because his and his wifes rent is too expensive and they also have a dog somehow and they end up wintering on this unheated boat in the harbor with some local sea creatures and it nearly drives them insane. Wish I could find the articles but search engines are useless
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Feb 14, 2023 00:25
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the bitcoin of weed posted:John getting fired from uVic is one of the funniest war nerd adventures, he ends up spending all of their savings on a boat because his and his wifes rent is too expensive and they also have a dog somehow and they end up wintering on this unheated boat in the harbor with some local sea creatures and it nearly drives them insane. Wish I could find the articles but search engines are useless It used to be on Pando, but that all seems to be gone now. Only place left is here. https://www.amazon.com/Canada-Was-Cakewalk-John-Dolan-ebook/dp/B00CL0KE94/ref=kwrp_li_stb_nodl?nodl_android=1
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Feb 14, 2023 00:42
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John is a font of humility and self introspection and I think this innoculates him from becoming a crank. Mark, on the other hand, I thought he was going to end up with holes in his brain and spouting nonsense, instead Taibbi went down that path
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Feb 14, 2023 01:08
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It doesn't hurt that I think they both said their right-wing reactionary phase happened coming out of living in California suburbs. Leaving there shook them out of it. I think Mark's mellowed out a lot and still does decent journalism. If you fault them for anything it's believing that journalists can do better.
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Feb 14, 2023 01:33
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Getting fired from a university in Iraq to getting fired from a university in Kuwait to freezing nearly to death on a houseboat in Canada and then getting fired to getting run out of East Timor was quite the run of luck
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Feb 14, 2023 02:43
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fatelvis posted:Yeah, but were they not saying earlier that cutting off gas to Europe would be a disaster for Europe. yeah i stopped listening at this point. i really enjoyed ben's previous appearances when i knew nothing but now i'm re-examining his insight when he thinks that russia would just keep pumping gas without getting paid because CONTRACT LAW. russia was supposed to be paid in western currencies but since their foreign reserves were seized they demanded the europeans pay into an account in their banks that would convert to rubles (which is how they kept the currency value up). they were trolling the germans for months by not accepting repaired turbines for nordstream 1 because they'd be breaking sanctions.  why do these dumbass lib euro journalists think russia would accept terms dictated by america's little bitches. does the interview get better? otherwise i'm skipping it for the hersh interview
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Feb 14, 2023 03:20
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the Hersh interview was a great payoff to almost a year of Ames and Dolan being too shook to be critical about NATO propaganda
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Feb 14, 2023 04:22
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Haven't heard the interview yet, but I remember Ames being taken aback when Hersh made a small but complimentary remark about him in his memoir, so for me thats an additional payoff.
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Feb 14, 2023 10:05
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I didn’t realize that Dolan was fired from one of Canada’s Top Business schools. Did he say if it was for any reason or what?
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Feb 14, 2023 10:25
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Phone posted:what an absolute ball buster lmao lmao, even with hearing about how it was, i wasn't prepared for the Hersh
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Feb 14, 2023 11:00
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the bitcoin of weed posted:John getting fired from uVic is one of the funniest war nerd adventures, he ends up spending all of their savings on a boat because his and his wifes rent is too expensive and they also have a dog somehow and they end up wintering on this unheated boat in the harbor with some local sea creatures and it nearly drives them insane. Wish I could find the articles but search engines are useless https://exiledonline.com/living-with-cons-and-paupers-in-canadas-arctic-waters/ quote:Editor’s Note: Dr. Dolan would like to thank the English Department of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, “…for getting rid of me because I dared to teach first-year comp students to disagree with the sanctimonious Monbiot articles they were assigned to paraphrase, thus allowing me to experience the sensual extravaganza of extreme poverty.”
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Gorn Myson posted:Haven't heard the interview yet, but I remember Ames being taken aback when Hersh made a small but complimentary remark about him in his memoir, so for me thats an additional payoff. that's how mark scored the interview as told in the ep
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Feb 14, 2023 14:35
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it's wild that dolan didn't really get financially secure until he was sixty goddamned years old and somehow anticipated a new media explosion
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Feb 14, 2023 16:01
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I'm not sure they really anticipated it so much as they kind of lucked into it that a guy who was just given a bunch of cash by the Zappos shoes CEO happened to like The Exile and hired them to write for his tech blog. And then the same guy had a weird idea of doing a call in radio show from his Vegas hotel room to raise more cash and had Mark and John on for segments.
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Feb 14, 2023 18:37
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i wonder if Paul Carr even realizes that the War Nerd podcast is still going also I didn't realize Thiel was a Pando investor. quote:The company is being funded by a $2.5 million investment from some of the most well known investors in Silicon Valley and some of the top seed funds. Investors in PandoDaily are — Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hseih (Zappos), Zach Nelson (NetSuite), Andrew Anker, Chris Dixon (FounderCollective), Saul Klein (IndexVentures), Josh Kopelman (First Round Capital) , Jeff Jordan (ex-CEO, Open Table) and Matt Cohler (ex-Facebook & Benchmark Capital) – who are all investing as individuals. The seed funds investing in the company include the CrunchFund, Greylock Discovery Fund, Accel’s Seed Fund, Menlo Ventures Talent Fund, Lerer Ventures, SV Angels and Ooga Labs.
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Feb 14, 2023 18:47
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If you don't know Monbiot he's one of the Guardian columnists who was anti Corbyn and is now like "why does everything suck and young people hate politics"?
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Feb 14, 2023 18:53
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RWN's interview of Hersh is filtering out to the right-wing, anti-Ukraine war internet. This is from Larry Johson's blog. He's former CIA and has right-wing culture war brainworms, but he does provide an interesting insider view on current natsec fiascos. He's also friends with Hersh (and implied that he's been a source) and quotes Hersh's autobiography where he mentions Mark: quote:Let me start with the good news and then I will turn to the darker stuff. Sy decided to give an interview to the War Nerd podcast. War Nerd is Mark Ames. He is mentioned in Sy’s recent memoir. Sy did a terrific but unwelcome investigation on Gulf and Western. Sy writes, “I’ll let another voice discuss the outcome of our Gulf and Western work. Mark Ames, a freelance journalist who did much admirable work in Moscow, analyzed the G&W series and its impact in 2015 for an online journal. His finding was brutal, but pretty much on the mark. Pedant's note: The War Nerd is John, lol https://sonar21.com/sy-hersh-speaks-and-nato-warns-of-escalation-in-the-war-in-ukraine/
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