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Popelmon posted:Stop teasing and just release the next part Dan! Cut this out. Whenever Dan starts a big series, he basically isn't allowed to participate in discussion or media at all because everyone howls non-stop that he needs to get back to work.
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He says straight up that if you aren't getting mad at him, then he isn't doing his job on Common Sense. It's weird that everybody calls him lefty now ever since the Snowden leaks, although not really, I guess. He has always said state secrecy is his #1 issue, and he was considered a crazy libertarian nut job that believed that the NSA is listening to all of our phone calls. Well, once that turned out to be true, it wasn't a defining characteristic of his politics anymore. 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 hate libertarian ideology but I love Dan Carlin and Common Sense. But I'm the type of nut job who'll listen to people i disagree with completely, as long as they are smart and have a clearly thought out view. I don't see how you couldn't be, if you are a leftist, anyways. The Left is searching for a good political model, and we don't have one right now, IMO, since Communism failed and now european socialism is taking a beating. edit- He's getting a ton of attention on CS right now because he's playing the Hitchens gadfly role in the Russian troubles right now. Hence all the whining here. I love it. 40 OZ fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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