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Caiaphas Cain were the best 40k books avd deserves to be adapted into like a animated series or something. They've had me interested in reading the Harry Flashman books
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May 13, 2020 03:54
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Any idea when in June the Chapo adjacent Iraq War podcast go public? I wasnt going to jump on Stitcher premium. Also Felix has lones the most basic bitch taste in videogames.
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May 16, 2020 01:00
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Often Abbreviated posted:Sorry Adam, It's hilarious how Felix just said buy everyone an SA account. But didn't wasnt to send people to give LowTax money
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May 31, 2020 05:34
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So I just picked up Libra and American Tabloid thanks to the Chapo JFK episode. Which one should I read first?
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Jun 20, 2020 02:20
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Halloween Jack posted:CTH is constantly accused of using "irony" to mask genuine bigotry, when their stock in trade is just extremely obvious sarcasm. That this outs missed by people with things like "fluent in snark" on their Twitter bios makes it funnier
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Jun 20, 2020 17:28
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Gripweed posted:He's gotta promote his new movie. It's not doing great You could tell it was going to be garbage
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Jun 23, 2020 18:08
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Blowback was a tough listen, just hoping between being rage inducing to depressing. I tried getting Stitcher premium cause I washed too listen to the two exclusive bonus episodes, but it tripped my cards fraud alert 3 times in a row trying to do it before I said gently caress it. And Blackwoolf doesn't seem to have the bonus episodes
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Jul 4, 2020 15:03
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Deified Data posted:This was legit a crazy racist episode lol So they do pushback on his bullshit at the very end? Except for Amber I guess. It's our even nnn worth listening to in the morning? Cause Chapo talks Bout how racist an institution cops are and how racist American cops are I can't believe they wouldn't burst out laughing at the assertion they're not
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Jul 10, 2020 07:40
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MizPiz posted:Which of the Chapos is going to be the first to use the reaction to newest episode as proof that cancel culture is real? Amber
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Jul 10, 2020 17:42
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So I'm not even 20 mintues in and this is a mess. Like yes the only reason liberals care right now about the systemic racism in America is Trump and the second he's gone they'll go back to not caring. Nut Taibbi just doesn't seem to like the idea that the concept of America was white supremacist from the get go. Come the gently caress on, if it wasn't you would think they'd be a hell of a lot more natives still around
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Jul 10, 2020 17:45
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Hooplah posted:it is. I listened to that right when it came out so I didn't really think about it much when listening to taibbi talk, but i think if you go back and listen after this chapo it'll inform the discussion nicely, and go a long way to illustrating how a lot of what taibbi is saying is either in bad faith or is primarily concerned with his own public persona I think this is entirely about his own public persona. I can't help but think if Chapo Matt was here he might have gotten sombe pushback on the absurd notion that America wasn't racist from the beginning
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Jul 10, 2020 19:31
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BitcoinRockefeller posted:That and he seems to be very firmly for getting out and doing something, don't try to form perfect politics online and end up with paralysis through analysis. Yeah the one thing that's been good for quarantine Matt came around to realizing you need theory and practice and that Twitter is just that button that stimulates the pleasure center of a mouse's brain until they starve to death. Where as Taibbi as American media personality builds his entire "brand" on Twitter. So he's rotted his brain away. Like I remember ît was I think in the Failing New York Times thread awhile back someone had a tweet calling into question if someone was s journalist because they had an under utilized Twitter. It's madness. Amber I think just does start from a older of thinking of let's Judy do the USSR again and tweak it till works. Which I think there might have broadly been good points made during the discussion, but the second you zoomed in a little ît falls apart. Like Taibbi saying he was uncomfortable with the idea that America has always been racist, or Amber ignoring the whole thing about systemic racism being is no matter how many POC you fill into it they still enact a racist system. Will I don't know what the gently caress he was doing this episode like he contradicted himself from just about every episode they've done since the protests started (which I don't know how you don't laugh in Taibbi's face when he says the media is to scared to report the truth about violence they're committing). I think he's to hung up on the statues, which yes is partly performative, but I think continuing to show contempt for the symbols of our ruling order is probably a good thing. Like I carb get being mad about some of them, I've got a soft spot for Grant, guy was a total failson and a drinker if Goons can't relate to that I don't know what's what. But I also get why they pulled down that one statue. But I think debates about state pulling get on the way that the demand is still end of systemic racism
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Jul 11, 2020 00:42
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Victory Position posted:note: when I was going to J-school, it was more or less hammered into our heads to "get on social media and make a splash!" Jesus loving Christ
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Jul 11, 2020 08:40
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Omnicarus posted:His latest series on the Pacific Theatre starts out OK but in the latest episode he really stumbles and gets caught up in US marine corp bravado. He also clearly doesn't have anyone on the staff that can speak Japanese or is even familiar with Japanese historians because he consistently uses Japanese accounts that have been discredited for 40 years now, either because they were written when the US military still heavily censored Japanese accounts or were written by Japanese officers trying to paint themselves in the best light(Fuchida in particular was an outright liar and yet he uses him extensively). Dan Carlin sucks, he's a good story teller but a terrible historian, and he's bragged about how historians don't like him. I was really into the world war one series till her cited Naill Ferguson and I stopped listening
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Jul 12, 2020 04:13
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The Muppets On PCP posted:i'd pin that more on the first iraq war and even the shift in warhawk rhetoric in the us toward narcoterrorism in the 80s to justify our loving around in latin america Much like everything Republicans do, they tested the waters on humanitarian war, and Democrats adopted it and codified it.
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Jul 12, 2020 17:59
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Omnicarus posted:Interesting! I've never heard him brag about that but he certainly hits the "I'm not a historian" line about 60x per an episode. I didn't get that far into the WWI series either for about the same reasons, and IMO A World Undone is a much better succinct WWI summary with a fantastic narrator. The first half of the first episode sounded like he had just skimmed that book and Guns of August and added some impromptu Hitler quotes here and there. Yeah I dived into The Guns of August shortly after, he should have just done the audio book version of it
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Jul 13, 2020 01:10
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OctoberCountry posted:Matt peaked when he got alcohol poisoning on the mid-term election stream That was amazing. The final Blowback bonus episode dropped today that was really good, an interview with Naomi Kline. The movie episode with Matt was really good as well. I didn't realize Green Zone was the movie version of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, (god I remember I got that book because I saw the author do an interview on the Daily Show) really needs to be made a movie by Iannucci
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Jul 13, 2020 23:39
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Chapo I think had a better take on cancel culture this week than that garbage with Taibbi
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Jul 17, 2020 15:40
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Retromancer posted:Matt literally just did a podcast dunking on the Hurt Locker like a week ago. Which podcast was this? Or are yui referring to the Blowback movie bonus episode? Cause if there's more Matt dunking in it I'd like to listen cause I really loving hated that movie
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Aug 3, 2020 14:34
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Some thoughts about today's episode. It's foolish to think that the Bolivia's Coup government ever had a job to make new "fair" elections And two I think Felix has a good point about 2007/8 being the end of "Old America" but I'm not sure how much of that is his own nostalgia to be in his teens to early 20s again l
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Aug 4, 2020 15:19
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Phone posted:it was just taking the usurpers at their word: they said that they only did the coup to have another election, and they can't even do that. it's just tracing the facade and pointing out that the internal logic isn't even being met. Yeah but when has a South American coup ever lived up to the logic given for the coup and wasnt a blatant grab by reactionaries, though I don't get why the constant delays for the election when they could just rig the vote
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Aug 4, 2020 17:24
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Doc Hawkins posted:lots of sad low-energy folks trying to hitch onto the rising stars of podcasting You know outside of people thinking a celebrity who died yesrs ago died again I really don't see the point im harping about how old an article is
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Aug 4, 2020 17:29
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JustaDamnFool posted:It can be worthwhile to reiterate on this stuff to remind less jaded people. True, I did not consider that
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Aug 4, 2020 17:30
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Halloween Jack posted:If the 2008 election was the end of Old America, there was a years-long process of reality unwinding into fever dream logic that we called the Bush administration. I'd agree with that as well
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Aug 4, 2020 22:58
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Atrocious Joe posted:Not a fan of Amber's weird take about how the Israelis brutalize the Palestinians because the Palestinians are weak, not because the Palestinians are an existential threat. I don't know her point made sense to me I that if they could reliably be stopped they wouldn't treat them the way they, it's why they spent the Cold War doing everything they can to make resistence impossible, with three crushing of the Second infantata I thunk you could see they assume the West Bank is secured and weakened enough to be cowed by Israeli oppression. In the sane way we think we can bomb an Iranian general because we think they vanity really touch us. But I could be wrong in setting it that way. Killer federal Agents wouldn't disappear activists on the street if they knew they'd be fought back against seriously. The idea, as I view it is the security services are bullies and like all bullies they go after people they feel can't fight back. Ahh that makes more sense about Davison at least cause I thought that was pretty naive for him to say
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Aug 4, 2020 23:09
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God I can't imagine how bad Abe Lincoln's Tophat is, especially if the members of its Facebook group is any indication
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Aug 10, 2020 20:06
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Ben Kissel ran for Congress on a platform of reducing government waste lol He loving loved stressing his Poli-Sci degree which just proves hope loving useless those are
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Aug 10, 2020 20:48
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I have friends who are of were NYC artists and writers and they're well meaning, but always politically the dumbest loving people. I literally don't care about them are millions of working people in this city. I hate treating it like it's a city of only the wealthy, dilettantes, artists and podcasters.
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Sep 16, 2020 15:43
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Omnicarus posted:Ahahaha, that episode of CS starts off strong but by the end Dan really outdoes himself and compares BLM to the Nazis. What?
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Sep 21, 2020 19:47
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Have any of Matt or Virgil's election predictions come true?
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Sep 22, 2020 14:34
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Oh yeah Virgil got that right
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Sep 22, 2020 15:08
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Judakel posted:He has gotten astoundingly bad at predicting the future when he divorces his predictions from nihilism. I don't know, Biden winning because of affluent suburbs seems pretty nihilistic to me. None of this election makes sense from Bidens poll numbers to the campaign events in states he doesn't even have a ground operation in
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Sep 23, 2020 02:15
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Honest Thief posted:im no politics pro but i dont get how neither side of the coin is pushing hard for UBI in any form, it seems a good cheat like healthcare Because the point is to finally get people to accept that no one is going to help them and to stop expecting things that make donors mad, just vote
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Oct 12, 2020 15:59
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I think Knives Out is more about a working class person beating out a bunch of rich assholes by not playing the game they want and not that racism will be defeated by making POC rich
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Oct 23, 2020 14:21
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Has The Loser's been the only comic book movie that has the CIA being the bad guy (even if it's portrayed as him going off the reservation, Dark Knight Rises doesn't count cause it's the villian that owns the CIA)?
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Oct 23, 2020 21:58
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I hate Beltway Garage episodes of Chapo
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Oct 28, 2020 15:10
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People being confused about a Marxist reading of horror seems like people being confused at a feminist reading of horror movies. People critique media, all types of media from tons of different political lenses
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Oct 29, 2020 17:35
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Im glad to say I went into the booth and didn't vote for a single Dem, feels good even if my write votes count for nothing
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I think the point again it's the culture of college education that PMCs have adopted versus those of us that went to state schools and now toil away in minimum wage jobs.
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