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Dreylad posted:Also there almost seemed to be a bit of a reconciliation between the two when Ames basically said that he wrote all the offensive parts of the eXile book, since he doesn't really have a career to lose. it was a hilarious lie too since the offensive parts were a blatant copy of Fear and Loathing which has always been Taibbis thing.
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Dreylad posted:Tony Robins or Hitler never forget Mao or Jewel was my jam.
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On the latest Chapo they interview Admiral Joe Sestak and he basically confirms everything John has said about a naval war with Iran.
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Shakenbaker posted:That it would be a super terrible idea, or that we're absolutely stupid enough to do it anyway? That it would be a super terrible idea and cited the stuff about the mines and patrol boats.
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The Spanish Civil War comes up in their books about war episode, but they both seem to have a low opinion about Orwell, mostly Mark being unable to get past him naming names, so the discussion doesn't really go anywhere.
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Finally got around to listening to the PR episode and I love how committed the show is to making it hard to understand what the guest is saying. Even when they get a native English speaker, the phone line is terrible or there's a storm in the background, or the connection keeps cutting. It's magical.
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Helsing posted:The first 30 or 40 episodes were all like that even when it was just Mark and John. I forget exactly which episode it was but in one case I remember John was literally sitting in the public lobby of a hotel with audible music and voices in the background for the duration of the interview. Yeah that was when John was in Thailand IIRC and it was after NSFWCORP closed, but they were still calling into Paul Carr's soundboard, which had been relocated to the closet of his SF apartment.
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Great episode but Mark taking his toddler to a chiropractor........... 
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Phone posted:I think this episode is going to make me finally sit down and learn how to play EU4 For a long time the "survive as Byzantium" strategy was to ally Venice and trap the Ottoman army on Corfu.
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Honestly, someone needs to make a John Dolan travel show. Just him stuck in hotel rooms around the world being a sad sack while paying too much for food delivery and having the locals try to sell him on timeshares. Every season finale he has to get to the airport before the local police find out that he made fun of their ancestors dying in a pike charge a thousand years ago in an article from 1998.
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It started out awkward because as genericnick said, the guy was reading from notes and had a plan of what he wanted to say that was different than John's, but once he got into the event details it wasn't much different than any other war nerd guest, if a little too romantic about the samurai, kind of like Dan Carlin is with Greek hoplites.
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Something funny I noticed is that Glenn Greenwald tweeted a few times in February about how much he was liking the TrueAnon podcast. Since then, they had Yasha on the show and announced a live show with Mark and John and Glenn deleted all his tweets mentioning the show.
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Doctor Jeep posted:why is glenn feuding with the war nerd(s)? Back when Mark and Yasha were working for NSFWCORP/Pando they published a bunch of stories about Pierre Omidyar's horrible microlending programs and work with USAID in Ukraine. They also took an editorial line that Greenwald and Omidyar had "privatized" the Snowden leaks and were hiding information. Mark's also criticized Greenwald's libtertarian tendencies for a long time. All of this was fair criticism and also pretty clearly related to Taibbi working for First Look at the time.
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Goast posted:lmao what it's because he sold a few pieces to Taki's when Spencer was an editor there https://www.takimag.com/contributor/garybrecher/81/ spencer is extremely stupid so he probably didn't understand that the war nerd is an ironic character making fun of the people who would read his trash Joementum has issued a correction as of 15:40 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Add that meme to the OP. Perfect encapsulation of the show.
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Nothus posted:We need more of Mark narrating conversations between Kissinger and Nixon. Easy way to find out if it's still possible for Mark to be "cancelled".
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brugroffil posted:Is John doing paid ad placement for duolingo the owl demanded it and john was powerless to resist its wrath
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Reminded that semi-frequent RWN antagonist Anne Applebaum and her husbard Radosław Sikorski signed the "Polanski innocent" letter.
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my favorite Zumwalt thing is that there were a few engineers worried that it would capsize if there were waves, but they launched it anyway, then those guys leaked that the ship might sink in waves, so they did a bunch of simulated tests trying to prove it wouldn't then it got stuck in the Panama Canal one year and frozen in at Montreal the next
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AnimeIsTrash posted:It owns that someone made what I assume is millions of dollars selling star trek uniforms to the space force. Just a plain, simple tailor, no doubt....
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Aside from satellites, the Air Force has been putting classified payloads on the "civilian" NASA shuttles since the 80s and operating its own shuttle secretly since the 90s and openly for over a decade now, though the claim is that it's an unmanned shuttle.
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pangstrom posted:Yeah, my civil war / reconstruction education was awful in high school in AP history. Like yeah it's high school so no complaints about detail stuff but it was VERY both-sides-y, and this wasn't even in the south it was in Denver. In VT our civil war stuff was heavy on the evils of slavery, the underground railroad, economics of cotton, Lincoln as a person, etc. but very little on the "war" stuff so they could both sides the CSA and not make the kids at the nearby school that had a literal confederate soldier mascot uncomfortable and the reconstruction lessons were pure dunning school nonsense
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glad that Mark has good opinions  really hope they get Eileen on for the Dune episode https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1455595283811819521
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I liked it, but I agree with Mark and Eileen that movies were more enjoyable when they took themselves less seriously. We need to bring back some of the goofiness that sci-fi had in the 80s.
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L(Mao) indeed  https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1463312547411423232
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shirts and skins posted:What's the thread title from? I can hear it in John's voice but don't know the reference. He's trying to learn Italian with the duolingo app, which has a cartoon owl that is happy or sad depending on how well you're doing.
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1490174326078943232?s=20&t=IQbUBS-TCvf4xC0L4E91XQ you have to feel sorry for the wolf having to chew around all the metal rods and pins in each of his limbs
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By the way, Mark is on the latest TrueAnon doing a park 1 (of 2) series on Ukraine
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Montreal would be significantly better than Toronto. I think there's a direct train even.
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i say swears online posted:he comments that he's afraid of ice in the forecast true that he could littorally get stuck there https://globalnews.ca/news/3978262/newly-commissioned-u-s-combat-ship-stuck-in-montreal-due-to-icy-conditions/
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Nothus posted:I think I remember him talking about Paul Carr having to help get them out of East Timor before they were arrested or something like that. And that was just after almost starving to death in Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20181020152127/https://pando.com/2015/05/03/the-war-nerd-escape-from-east-timor-part-one/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170704035828/https://pando.com/2015/05/13/the-war-nerd-escape-from-east-timor-part-two/ too bad about pando. i don't think their business model would have ever worked, but it definitely didn't after sarah reported critically on uber and got stalked, harassed, and threatened by their executive team, which caused her to have to hire security to get her kids to school. then their whole staff was blacklisted by everyone in SV for threatening uber's profits. worked out great for mark and john, though, since they actually make money from patreon
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