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I hadn’t logged into Twitter for a long time. I remember Abrams being critical of Ukraine and was surprised to see how pro Israel he was.
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I hadn’t signed into Twitter for a long time and saw he was full Zionist. a quick moment of surprise than an unfollow.
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I went back and listened to the episode (it is more a yglesias voice mixed with jordan peterson’s, not great). I like listening to old shows, I should do it more. The episode ends on the then-fresh news that SA killed Khashoggi in the Turkish embassy. Mark Abrahm's thesis about what "works" for rebels trying to control territory was pretty RWN friendly (they muse at the end how similar it is to things they have said about rebel group strategy) and he has an analytical / data approach. His bond with the show is that natsec twitter had dogpiled him in that crude way they do when you're right and they have to come back with Assadist! or try to dredge up some dirt from the past. But he's also plugging the hell out of his book (rules for rebels rules for rebels rules for rebels), knows the show he's on, and generally seems kind of ideology-free, which of course nobody actually is so those recent tweets seem more uh indicative of that. They only bigger thing John disagrees with is the IRA, which Abrahms had scored a "failure" and sort of hides behind other "scholars" on that take but whatever. He does say at the end "this book makes people mad as hell so your audience should love it", maybe tipping his hand a little about what he thinks of it but also I mean he's not wrong lol. Plus it's been almost 5 years so who knows. pangstrom has issued a correction as of 15:37 on May 3, 2024 |
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really appreciated the primer on the political economy of academia. wondering if anyone is writing about it or if it’s all just oral history
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Mandel Brotset posted:really appreciated the primer on the political economy of academia. wondering if anyone is writing about it or if it’s all just oral history a fair amount of ink has been spilled but because this is academia it's all wrapped in impenetrable jargon and also highly decontextualised and thus inaccessable for the vulgate. so it must be, because 1) everybody who matters thinks that dogmatic faith in academia is the last front before general societal collapse, 2) academics are all crazy people who cannot handle nuance or decent prose and 3) most venues where a text which was accessible to the general public would get published is unprestigious and thus poorly regarded
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it was in the previous episode, but I love whenever Mark mentions Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. it’s awesome how funny he thinks it is.
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hadji murad posted:it was in the previous episode, but I love whenever Mark mentions Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. it’s awesome how funny he thinks it is. gen xers love that poo poo. they eat it up.
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also i found this old, old interview with the war nerd himself. some pretty good lines here. https://www.lindsayrabbitt.com/john-dolan-listener-december-10-2006/quote:His three books of poetry, People with Real Lives Don’t Need Landscapes (2003), Stuck Up (1995) and Slave (1988), are soon to be published as a single volume entitled My Treaty with Dusk by Capricorn Publishing, the same small American outfit that published his autobiographical novel, Pleasant Hell, earlier this year. The dark comic story of self-loathing and loserdom, which I can imagine adapted into a Coen brothers-type movie, was reviewed favourably, but New Zealand publishers shied away from distributing it. “And I understand why,” Dolan says. “It’s a pretty gross book. I think it’s gross in the way that’s funny, and it only does harm to people who need to be harmed.” quote:But Dolan’s reviews don’t respect borders. “If my writing could take revenge I would be very happy. If I’ve ever taken effectual revenge it’s by the book reviews that I do for The eXile. I know this because some of the targets write to me or put me on their websites to defend themselves against me, which implies there’s a palpable hit.” quote:“Speed makes writing fun. On speed, writing is glorious, even if the results are not always happy ones. You might spend 10 hours working on one paragraph, and you read it the next day, and you’re appalled. And after having spent all the neuro-transmitters that you’d need for the next six months, it doesn’t make that comedown much easier. But sometimes the results are great. So I just want to thank the chemist who invented amphetamines. Someone should be grateful.” quote:In the novel, the young John Dolan is a sullen, socially inept nerd with an aversion to bathing. “It’s important to talk about how gross life really is,” Dolan says. “In movies nerds are relatively slim and decent looking. I’m a nerd pedant. I wanted to talk about a nerd who is much grosser … thats probably enough. really fun reading and i really can hear these quotes in his voice lol.
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lobster shirt posted:also i found this old, old interview with the war nerd himself. some pretty good lines here. https://www.lindsayrabbitt.com/john-dolan-listener-december-10-2006/ the dog photo one is 
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That is the most flattering photo I’ve ever seen of him.
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Remulak posted:That is the most flattering photo I’ve ever seen of him. that’s a cow
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they really dont make crazy rear end white boys like john brown anymore
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i like warriors for christ who don't get caught
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lol wtf i didnt realize it was this guy they had on https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jeff-stein/
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i say swears online posted:
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never forget https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/10/24/16503462/dsa-women-cumtown-chapo
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it should have been matt christman get well soon dude
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Spime Wrangler posted:it should have been matt christman he was so bad, i genuinely wish they got a lefitst guy to talk about him even one of the trillbilly's would have been leagues better
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at one point he talks about the pottawatomie massacre and says that it wasnt certain that a mob of pro slavery guys would have killed john brown and his kids he also talks about how he downplays browns christainity in his podcast. imagine saying that about a dude who thought god chose him to enact his wrath
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Modern liberal subject unable to conceive giving ones self over to a cause greater than the individual. Many such cases.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:he also talks about how he downplays browns christainity in his podcast. imagine saying that about a dude who thought god chose him to enact his wrath i feel that mr brown, if he lived today, would go to a unitarian church and listen to wait wait don't tell me...just like me!!
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AnimeIsTrash posted:at one point he talks about the pottawatomie massacre and says that it wasnt certain that a mob of pro slavery guys would have killed john brown and his kids 
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Guy who went on a literal crusade : really not all that Christian after all
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eh as the guy said some of brown's companions were outright atheists. the case seems to be that the moral objective was couched in christian terms and a christian framework for brown, but that it was the moral abhorrence of slavery which really drove him. what makes brown special is that he really takes the consequence of something a lot of people were seeing at the time - that slavery and the sectional issue was a fundamental blight on his country which had to be extirpated and that no sacrifice was too great to accomplish that. if we assume that brown had to be christian to have this realisation, then his challenge to us today is much less compelling: we can simply say that we don't have that level of moral obligation or commitment and can go comfortably on with our lives. if it is true regardless of his christianity, we have to reckon with our own moral culpability in not throwing our own bodies into the machines of destruction active today. it also poses some to the mainstream very awkward questions about non-state political violence and when that is permissible or even laudable - it's telling that the guy starts wringing his hands the moment brown doesn't act like, basically, a saint. the john brown story today is more useful if we don't see the religiosity as essential to the whole project. of course it was important to brown himself, but the questions posed by john brown don't change their fundamental character in a secular moral framework imo
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Good old fashion Roman(eastern) military history hell yea
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Popy posted:Good old fashion Roman(eastern) military history hell yea hell yeah, love eastern roman military campaigning successfully and getting absolutely wrecked in a perfect cycle for hundreds of years
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I live in Dunedin and it always feels so strange an American popular podcaster used to live here and mentions it every so often.
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I live in Victoria, BC and it’s been funny to hear anecdotes about how it left a bad taste in his mouth and how two faced the people are.
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from the RWN facebook group, don't know how to embed facebook videos https://fb.watch/stQDT9vNUD/
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V. Illych L. posted:lif we assume that brown had to be christian to have this realisation, then his challenge to us today is much less compelling: we can simply say that we don't have that level of moral obligation or commitment and can go comfortably on with our lives. if it is true regardless of his christianity, we have to reckon with our own moral culpability in not throwing our own bodies into the machines of destruction active today.
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