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dayman posted:Apologies, I listen to the eps on stitcher so I was unaware of this. Thanks for the heads up. 10:1 that the goon is Joe. All three hosts are fine. I can't think of a single episode where Joe of all people was the irritating one - Kevin can be aggressively, painfully ignorant but that's kind of his role.
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I don't think I get the Common Sense hatred. Dan's had a few episodes where he's slipped lately between Snowden and Crimea but the Crimean situation seems to have focused him again. You guys do realize that he's not actually a crazy conspiracy type of person, right? If Dan's talking about something that is considered a conspiracy sort of thing he's usually quite right about it being worth serious discussion, as with the NSA revelations - most of SA probably knew from Drake or Binney or whatever that this stuff was certainly going on but the mainstream news would have called you a nut for seriously discussing it. Dan spent years sounding like "a crazy conspiracy theorist" on the issue and was unequivocally correct about these programs long ahead of the Snowden leaks. If you've never listened to Common Sense give it a whirl but you might want to start with the shows of about 5 years ago as there's a pretty long run of great CS shows during the first few years of the Obama administration. 40 OZ posted:He's still libertarian (i guess they are most known for isolationism) in foreign policy, and other issues, like hard drugs. For example, he isn't against drug war just because of racism and the prison industry, but because he thinks he should have a right to get high as gently caress on recreational drugs. Elsewhere he has been getting more left since the last economic crisis. I guess he's quasi-libertarian on some things? He always says he's a little sympathetic to libertarianism but I frankly do not see all that much of it in his stances. He is definitely not isolationist in his foreign policy except in comparison to the MIC - advocating fewer foreign adventures and more cautious diplomacy doesn't correspond to the "close all military bases on foreign soil"  libertarian isolationism. The only policy position of his that has ever made me thrown my hands up in exasperation is his poor understanding of the flat tax's consequences.I think Dan would probably be pretty far left if he hadn't grown up during the Cold War. His age has firmly rooted him in capitalism but his other views defy classification IMO.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:I've only listened to 3 episodes of Common Sense (it's pretty 'current events' so going back much further didn't seem to make sense) but it's definitely a different, intellectually honest point of view he argues from, which is what makes it entertaining. I agree with a lot of what he says too. Definitely a good podcast in my opinion. A late reply, but many Common Sense shows are not so current events focused as the recent ones. He has devoted the majority of his effort to Hardcore History for several years now and CS tends to be on the backburner during multi-part HH shows, so there's been a lot of news analysis recently. There are many older shows that are well worth the listen if you can bear to relive the Obama administration politics in the process, as they are more like societal analysis. Episodes about corruption, Islam, surveillance, and the media tend to have a much longer shelf-life than the news analysis type. Zorak posted:Is it just me, or is Revolutions getting a bit more bogged down in the military action in the American War of Independence versus the English Civil War? It sort of felt like he devoted more time towards the political side of things / the political situation of what was going on during the English Civil War episodes than he has during the American Revolution eps, which always seemed to me to be the more important side of the overall narrative. I'm in it for the politics as well and I'm disappointed that Revolutions dropped the political side of the story as soon as the battles began just as typical school history does, even if the level of detail is significantly higher. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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