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Anybody thinking about checking out the Radio War Nerd podcast should listen to the Sci-Fi & Fascism episode with David Forbes. https://www.patreon.com/posts/rwn-ep-64-repost-12256665 I may go through their backlog and make a running list of all their free episodes sometime.
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Scent of Worf posted:This thread is long overdue tbh. thanks OP If you think that's cool, wait until rising ocean levels wipe out all the job centers.
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Now I really want a communist morning zoo crew.
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Ron Jeremy posted:next up: mia Khalifa reading Capital while riding the Sybian. IN FINANCIAL NEWS TODAY THE MARKETS ARE TAKING A DOWNTURN *flushing toilet soundclip* FOLKS ONCE AGAIN THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM PERPETUATES ITSELF WITH AN ENDLESS CYCLE OF CRISIS *booing audience soundclip* ONLY SOCIALISM CAN LEAD US OUT OF THE OPPRESSION OF OUR BOURGEOIS OVERLORDS AND END THE PROCESS OF EXPLOITATION *awooga soundclip**"ohhhh yeah" soundclip**boioioioioing soundclip*
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Rhukatah posted:Discourse Collective is unlistenable garbage and their theory really bad. As someone who took French in college, there's an R in bourgeoise and also there will still be managers and even a professional and managerial class under socialism. Modern society is too complex to do without that kind of specialization. *flushing toilet soundclip*
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A lot of Discourse Collective's theory stuff is about Marxism and Communism in particular, and afaik they don't presume that any actually existing socialist system wouldn't have "managers" or directors that would be organizing labor. It's important to keep in mind that DC is a big tent Leftist podcast, and they will have anarchists and REVISIONISTS!  on.
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God I wish I could afford the Street Fight zine. https://twitter.com/MurderBryan/status/923738056049545216
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gradenko_2000 posted:I tried an episode and I had no idea what they were talking about. What is "left communism"? I looked it up on wikipedia and got even more confused. Can someone dumb it down for me? Left Communists are all the communists who split with the Leninists at the second Communist International congress in 1920, and it could mean a lot of things. It's basically everything to the "left" of Marxist-Leninism. As a meme, Leftcom specifically means following after the theory of Italian communist Amadeo Bordiga, who thought participating in democracy was pointless since it would dilute the communist program by compromising with social democrats. Bordiga thought that what communists should do is maintain the program and propaganda until the tide of politics turned back their way from reaction. As a meme this translates to leftcoms reading theory in their armchairs, and waiting for capitalism to destroy itself instead of engaging in political activism.
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Dreddout posted:Ironically enough, Bordiga self described as a leninist Oh yeah, did I forget to mention Bordiga was never a left communist? lmao
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Nothus posted:Twitter is a disease, no doubt, but Matt is mistaken if he thinks caving to this stuff is going to make it go away. Sad that such a talented, important voice can be easily silenced. Ames's response was way better. Plant your feet, deny, and never apologize.
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Harris wanted to be a respectable mass shooter.
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Taintrunner posted:The latest Citations Needed goes into all of the poo poo around the "Iran Deal" and it's pretty fascinating in just how utterly hosed it is: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-14-the-iran-deal-protection-racket https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd/posts Take down the TARFU Report and put Radio War Nerd into the OP, my dude.
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Taintrunner posted:Done and done.  I'll post a list of all their free episodes here in a bit.
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Things Patreon is good at: being an online funding platform to support artists Things Patreon is bad at: archiving posts These are all the full episodes reposted for free by Radio War Nerd, not including the half-hour episode previews which are also for free. The episodes are divided into segments, usually showcasing a historical war, featuring an interview with experts on history or current events, or an overview of current war news. 1/3 to a half of these episodes will seem out of date, because current events in the world of wars have long passed them by. Going through the backlog, I'm noticing that not many of the actual war-centered episodes are reposted for free. Episode 20: Tim Shorrock talks about the legacy of the Korean War, and the ways in which the United States agitates the conflict in a way that's counterproductive to anyone interested in reconciliation. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-4395383 Episode 31: Interview with Russian investigative reporter Andrei Soldatov on the 2006 Lebanon War, and the development of Russia's deep state. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-5435362 Episode 32: Mark & John go over the weird forgotten history of 1970s Left Wing Terrorism, and how all the white radicals got let off the hook while black radicals are often still in prison. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-5524951 Episode 36: Interview with Kelly Vlahos of the American Conservative, on the way the MIC has brought a new gilded age to the suburbs around Washington DC. They also do an overview of the year 1979, which was the major turning point in late 20th century geopolitics. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-6-5734184 Episode 38: Interview with Icelandic investigative journalist Gunnar Hrafn Jonsson about his experience posing as an Islamic radical to infiltrate ISIS message boards online. They also review the events surrounding the Orlando Massacre. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-5840125 Episode 41: Full 1-hour interview with Alistair Davidson on the Scottish Referendum & Brexit. The world of wars roundup was cut out for subscribers only. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-6151127 Episode 44: Interview with nuclear physicist Dr. Sunil Sanais on the history of nuclear proliferation and the near future of nuclear weapons development. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-6499706 Episode 47: Interview with author David Forbes on the forgotten history of North Carolina's Civil War, during THE American Civil War between the Confederate government and Union loyalist rebels. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-6970798 Episode 51: John & Mark do an overview of the 80s Cold War thriller novel The Spike, and the way it helped to agitate a general paranoia at the time about Soviet disinformatsiya, which was recently given new life by liberals. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7630047 Episode 54: Interview with Max Blumenthal on the 51 Day Gaza War, and the propaganda mill surrounding Syria's White Helmets. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7022564 Episode 57: Interview with Andrew Cockburn on the development of the Yemeni Civil War. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7212237 Episode 58: The Post-Election Episode. Kelly Vlahos comes back to speculate on Trump's foreign policy agenda, and a general discussion on what a loving disaster the 2016 election was. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7283779 Episode 61: Interview with veteran/writer Jack Murphy on his experience as a veteran, and with Think Tank Chickenhawks. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7584672 Episode 63: Interview with historian William Hogeland about the true history of the Whiskey Rebellion, and why Alexander Hamilton was an rear end in a top hat. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7864421  Episode 64 : David Forbes returns to talk with John about the insidious history of fascism in science fiction literature, and an overview of the speculative classic The Iron Dream, a novel in which Hitler became a pulp scifi author in the United States instead of der Fuhrer, writing critically acclaimed action adventure stories about heroic ubermensch genociding mutant subhumans. THIS EPISODE IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST-LISTEN https://www.patreon.com/posts/rwn-ep-64-repost-12256665 Episode 69: (nice): Interview with journalist Rania Khalek about conditions in Aleppo, the state of Syria's Druze community which her family is a part of, and how Michael Weiss & Charles Lister tried to get her and other journalists killed for reporting with the Syrian state's permission. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-8280857 Episode 76: Interview with Robert Parry, one of the journalists who broke Iran-Contra, on the decline of investigative reporting in America. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-8732460 Episode 85: William Hogeland returns to talk about his new book on the forgotten history of the Northwest Indian War, a war that depopulated the Northwest Territories of enemy natives for settlement. But not until after the Northwest Indian Confederation destroyed the first official standing army of the United States. https://www.patreon.com/posts/rwn-ep-85-repost-11653095 Episode 92: Interview with Amaal Saad, one of the few true Hezbollah scholars, on the 2006 Lebanon War. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-13429180 Episode 98: Interview with reporter Jason Wilson on the development of America's right wing reactionary subculture, and the Oregon Militia Standoff particularly. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-14111688 It's been a couple months since they've reposted an episode for free, but this should be more than enough to wet anyone's whistle at about 39 hours of free content. Again, Episode 64 the Sci Fi & Fascism episode is the best one they've done yet, and I'd recommend it even to people who don't care anything about war stuff because it goes a long way towards explaining the history of reactionary thought on the margins of America's right wing and its ties to today's "Alt-Right."
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:On the latest bodega boys, Desus went on a rant about capitalism and why we need socialism. I know they're not a nominal leftist podcast, and they're becoming celebrities and getting money (and celebrities aren't our comrades), but they're bringing socialism to the Bronx. The Bodega Boys have starring roles in Neo Yokio, which is a vicious takedown of bourgeois culture that anime fans were too apolitical to get was satire.
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Neo Yokio is a hard sit if you don't get that it's supposed to be a joke, I guess. My favorite joke is when the subtext becomes explicit text after the Helenists say that Helena is the main character, because her transformation into an anticapitalist radical is the point when she becomes the true protagonist while Jaden Smith's character is passively reacting to events.
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KomradeX posted:It really was, I didn't watch it at first because everyone said it was cringe worthy bad, but a friend of mine told me to watch it for how absurd it was. And I really liked it, beyond some really absurdist humor as it went on it really showed how hosed up that capitalist society was. I couldn't understand why everyone thought it was trash. (though to be fair Jayden Smith is not the best voice actor) Jaden Smith has the perfect whiny put-upon cadence for playing Kaz Khan, and the fact that he's also basically a member of an aristocracy who has a life he doesn't want thrust upon him from birth makes it  casting.
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Nov 5, 2017 08:59
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You're supposed to identify with the demons anyway.
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One of his guests has a voice that sounds almost exactly like Benjamin Dixon and it drives me nuts.
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Nov 7, 2017 15:40
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Soundcloud's algorithms correctly judged that I'd want to listen to an old hour long radio interview with J. Sakai, author of Settlers. https://soundcloud.com/decolo/j-sakai
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If you say "Discourse Collective" into the mirror 5 times, Markus will appear and steal your wife.
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Nov 11, 2017 05:47
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discourse collective has exiled Markus from The Dictatorship of the Teen. I expect him to start posting about how Celery is as bad as the Nazis.
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I'm definitely picking it up for Christmas
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The craziest thing is Markus was openly talking about the wife email in the DC discord a couple months ago, and of course made no secret about who he was here on SA. I mean, how moronic do you have to be to assume nobody's ever going to connect the dots across platforms?
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Nov 15, 2017 20:26
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Mecha Gojira posted:Actually, their newest episode is about how editorial boards at the major "liberal" newspapers basically exist to perpetuate the status quo, which includes our favorite Forever War. The white guy yelling at hipsters because he "settled the neighborhood for them" in New York loving City is incredibly bizarre and disturbing.
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Serf posted:my favorite part of an economic update episode is when wolff finds a way to turn the entire discussion to worker co-ops. it unironically owns I do like Richard Wolff and making it easier for workers to own their own enterprises is a positive and realistic goal for the American left, but co-ops still have to operate according to capitalist rules and logic.
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Annual Prophet posted:is the issue here merely the presence of the market? imagine an economy comprising only individual proprietors who own their productive assets (looms, lathes, etc.), and are subject to a 100% estate tax; there is by definition no exploitation, because there is no expropriation of surplus value from any participant, but instead each consumes a level of use values determined by that participant, and correspondingly each may elect to produce more goods for exchange or fewer ones. would that still be a flawed model? just trying to flesh out the objection here. I think in that case what you're describing is Distributism, and exploitation isn't eliminated because you can still exploit peoples' ignorance through pricing on your goods to extract profit. The objection to viewing co-ops as a panacea is that because they're in a market they also have to compete with all other firms in order to extract profit and perpetuate their business. The Mondragon Corporation in Basque, for instance, is one of the most successful cooperatives in the world. Yet they guarantee profitability by using temporary contract labor which doesn't have a stake in the corporation. It's impossible to escape the necessity of exploitation under capitalism, and overcoming the problem will take a revolutionary change in economy. Co-operatives are a proof of concept that worker ownership and workplace democracy are viable alternatives to traditional top-down corporate models in capitalist firms, but if they still have to compete with capitalist firms then the issue of exploitation hasn't been resolved.
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Taintrunner posted:the new struggle session is fun if you’re sick of the Disney Star Wars hell yeah, I want to throw stones at porgs
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They ignored how the Star Wars Extended Universe was filled with a ton of stupid poo poo, and Disney had a reasonable cause to try and exercise quality control. But then they made Force Awakens exactly like a badly written EU story anyway, so they cut out the biggest draw that maintained their franchise's fanbase for nothing. It's good to hear somebody else say that KOTOR 2 is the best Star Wars though.
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Dreddout posted:Lmao if you care about the expanded universe of anything. The loose exercise of control that Lucasarts put on the Expanded Universe meant there was a lot of interesting stuff that could be done by authors, even if most of it is trash. Setting canon aside, Disney is shutting the door completely to anyone other than strictly vetted and approved authors from participating in the Star Wars universe.
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wizard on a water slide posted:if the stories exist in the world and have value to you, why do you need the validation of a canon Canon is important because it's something that a greater mythology can be built upon. If you declare something to be non-canon, then it can never be alluded to ever again, regardless of how much people like it. The issue isn't that Disney can somehow wipe out all those existing stories or the enjoyment of them, the issue is that they're smothering what used to be a living franchise. It's what the Struggle Session guys mean when they say that the Star Wars universe used to feel huge, but now feels tiny. A literal entire galaxy of possibilities have been cut out because the people who own the franchise - not its creators - think they're exercising quality control. Yet they're not even delivering quality storytelling. They're exploiting what they think people loved about Star Wars, and it's not going to last forever.
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it took a month or two for me to really resent force awakens. my initial reaction was, well at least it didn't suck. it was ok. the thought that anyone could genuinely think it was good though is insane.
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Nothus posted:The first half-hour is fun. I don't even mind the space My Lai stuff because a storm trooper having second thoughts is an interesting story arc. The rest of it turns into a loving slog though. loving The point I realized something was seriously wrong with Force Awakens is when they get to Maz Kanata's bar. I mean, Maz Kanata is just the worst character in the entire movie, but also Rey rejecting her calling as a Jedi to the Force is just weird and off-putting.
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Annual Prophet posted:with the original, the refusal of the call was an effective evocation of the monomyth; in tfa it’s just a mediocre reskin Plus in the original Luke had a decent life on Uncle Owen's moisture farm. It wasn't great, but he had a family that cared about him and he was living free. The Empire massacring his aunt and uncle are what pushes him into answering the call. Both of his motivations are relatable. On the other hand, Rey lives as a scavenger exposed to the elements with no loved ones for as long as she can remember. She initially answers the call because she's being attacked by the First Order, but rejects it later for personal reasons that aren't explained at all by the movie because they're cynically concealing her backstory for sequel bait. It loving blows.
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I subscribed to Struggle Session on Patreon, and episode 21 with Blair Erickson is excruciating to listen to. The guy's a self-described libertarian socialist who thinks that bitcoin is somehow going to take down capitalism.
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rudatron posted:well, I mean, it technically is going to take down capitalism, because when the speculative bubble pops its most likely going to start a market crash A market crash in bitcoin isn't going to affect the wider economy much in the same way the original dotcom bubble burst didn't. Finance capital just isn't that invested into it. It's a purely speculative gamble for morons, child pornographers, and drug dealers. BENGHAZI 2 posted:I mean You can tell the guy's never read Marx or even watched a youtube video explaining what capitalism means, because he does the thing right wing libertarians do where they conflate money and value with capital. He seems to think that everybody switching to bitcoin will somehow devalue the wealth of capitalists, but if that was the case then all of their capital assets will just be revalued in bitcoins instead of dollars. None of the hosts give any pushback on this, and I don't expect Hollywood and video game nerds to know everything about bitcoin or Marxism but come on. It gets much better when they start talking about how sleazy and rapey Hollywood is.
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I'm not saying that any of the hosts for sure don't know anything, but that they don't push back at all on their guest who thinks bitcoin is capitalism's silver bullet. Leslie Lee does say that Banshee Chapter is his new favorite horror movie though, which makes all of his other opinions suspect. I watched it because of that episode, and it's a very competently done found footage horror movie - but the ending is bullshit because it doesn't make sense for reasons I'd have to spoil the plot to explain.
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Maybe one of the Trillbilly folks could be a guest on Mic Dicta, but 1 month is a holiday break, 2 months is a hiatus.
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