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Honest Thief posted:a few months back someone dug out my old parents filtered coffee maker and it was surprisingly decent to good, while my ikea french press remains a decor piece What happened to your old parents. You couldn’t get a coffee maker from your new ones?
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This whole thing falls apart even when you look at nations with internally open borders. US workers are harmed far more by industries relocating to the southeast and people still live in places like Mississippi and South Carolina, including some really gifted people who could easily make it in California or NY
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Gripweed posted:How can you vote "indirectly" for someone? Is Trump running under another name too? Idk it involves Russians I think. I find it quite curious you’re questioning whether you should vote for Biden at 8:30 am Moscow time.
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Jul 12, 2020 02:07
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In his brief lucid moments Joe desperately warns you against his candidacy, begging you to vote for the other guy, or the other Biden, or admits that his rape of Tara Reade renders him unacceptable to hold office. But then the brain worms, developed by Dr. Jill herself using arcane rituals and perverted science, recapture control of the host.
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Jul 12, 2020 02:35
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Gio posted:he predicted a seven seat pickup in the senate lmao. On a flip of South Carolina no less.
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Sep 23, 2020 04:04
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I finally took the dive on ALAB after seeing the praise and I really enjoyed the two parter on Dersh. making GBS threads on Dersh is just good times. I wonder how much folk in here know about the situation in Ethiopia? I'll admit I have only very superficial knowledge but I was generally under the impression that the Oromo were on the bad side of state violence and government oppression. Anyway, I've long listened to BtB despite Robert Evans rubbing me the wrong way in a lot of ways, just because I find the stories generally interesting. He's definitely a violent little poo poo and strikes me as a very inauthentic conflict tourist, and obviously I'm aware of the people who sign his paycheck, but regardless. Anyway, his most recent episode about Facebook he really positioned the Oromo as the belligerents in recent violence, which maybe is true, but I'm curious without having to wade through the fairly scant and skewed western media I can find on Ethiopia if anyone has a high level of this conflict. No worries if not, just asking questions.
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Sep 23, 2020 21:08
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:i was aware of Finklestein in a general sense before listening to that series, but I’d never heard the story about Kagan or the crocodile tears speech, which were both hilariously Dersh really knows how to go for the throat though. That Capo thing I can't imagine a better little rumor to create to just burrow under Finklestein's skin. Masterstroke of pure assholery.
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Sep 23, 2020 21:31
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and completely unexpected. if he’d been born like 15 years later he’d be the most powerful Poster in existence.
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Trabisnikof posted:watch out, cspam mods are probing for saying Evans worked for the CIA now lol They're doing this despite the fact that he works for the CIA?
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Sep 25, 2020 17:17
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Goast posted:b-b-b-but that's the cool protest streamer guy so anyone criticizing them must be some secret nazi conspiracy nut Yeah, obviously it's impossible to know whether Evans himself is CIA or on the take or whatever, but he clearly takes money from people who are so there's that. Plus as I've mentioned before, the one real underlying theme I've detected in Evans listening to his various works is that he's above all else a conflict tourist. I've never really felt like he has much commitment to his stated underlying values other than the fact that he likes when conflicts happen and if they happen he likes to be present so that he can watch them happen. Probably a common trait of many people drawn to the type of journalism he tries to do if we're being fair.
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Sep 25, 2020 18:08
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Retromancer posted:The right did this with Scalia all the time as well. Writing a SC decision means you have the eye of history and legal precedent on you so you have to write in a very boring, formal way. A dissent doesn't really matter historically and you're free to just be a catty bitch. Wait, are you suggesting that Scalia wasn't in fact deeply worried the EPA might try to regulate frisbees?
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Sep 30, 2020 22:22
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Victory Position posted:I was going to start picking out podcasts at random off of IHeartRadio, but ehhhhh I just recently learned iheartradio is clear channel which was some fun Bush era nostalgia
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Oct 11, 2020 18:21
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i say swears online posted:2004-era clearchannel was quaint compared to the nationwide tv news cookie-cutter editorials that started about a year ago Oh yeah the Sinclair stuff is way weirder/scarier for sure, but I hadn’t thought of clear channel in quite a while and it kind of made me smile remembering when the concern was what the media consolidation might lead to instead of actually watching those concerns come true just as expected.
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Oct 11, 2020 18:56
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a Loving Dog posted:paying for podcasts is the real joke Paying for podcasts is the contemporary equivalent of leaving money in your will to publicly held corporations you did business with.
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Oct 13, 2020 15:35
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Hooplah posted:and the two-parter where they talk about liz warren and the dnc, that pair of eps ruled I remember finding the one on 5g and the smart city really good, especially Liz's little spiel on 5g conspiracy theorists. Episode 65. I've said it before and I'll say it again about NJR, if nothing else the dude seems like he's having a lot of fun, and it's hard not to laugh at him but also hard not to kind of want to pat him on the head and hand him a nickle to go buy a lollypop.
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Oct 16, 2020 00:22
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Honest Thief posted:oh drat, maradona died maradona es mas muerto que pele I'm sure it's broken grammar I'm not a spanish speaker so I appologize if it sounds like caveman speak 
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Nov 25, 2020 18:32
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Goast posted:did someone say breathing covid down peoples throats was okay when i wasnt looking You have to cough it down so that it has enough force to carry your antibodies into their lungs
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Nov 30, 2020 04:29
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THS posted:its ok to hate your manager, and if you are in management, recognize its ok for people to hate you. if you are a class traitor when it comes down to it, good for you, but most managers arent. When I first became a manager at my work I noticed everyone liked me a little more, they laughed a little more quickly at my jokes, they seemed nicer and friendlier in the break room and the smoking area. I quickly realized that this is because my virtue and merit that got me promoted was shining through, and not at all due to the fact that I now had additional institutional authority which was perhaps unconsciously making my former peers behave inauthentically around me. For real though a little authority is easy to let go to your head, especially if it's rewarded with a little more compensation and a little more flexibility in day to day activities. I see it all the time how quickly people think they've fixed their personality flaws just because a few people now have incentive to treat them with artificial respect Wrex Ruckus posted:isn't PMC just another way of saying petit bourgeoisie Nah. Petit Bourgeoisie are small business owners and the like. They own their poo poo. PMC are still laborers
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Dec 16, 2020 16:44
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THS posted:do you think censorship generally starts with stuff that’s well regarded or does it start with stuff that is distasteful which people hesitate to defend and then become a tool abused to greater and greater degrees One of the only things Twitter/Facebook have been good for is spreading far and wide videos of police brutality and other aggressively racist or otherwise terrible acts by entitled shitheads. I personally am waiting for the doxxing policies that shut this poo poo down Xaris posted:trueanon talks about this a lot, in particular like assange and election episode and stuff. it's good and correct and i will 100% bet we will see blm protesting/tweeters/etc being banned from twitter under biden as twitters policy will be "we dont want to start a riot" Yep
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Jan 9, 2021 23:31
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gh0stpinballa posted:shots fired real heads know what I'm talking about It never fails to crack me up that iHeartRadio is just a rebranded clear channel, which if you’re old like me you’ll remember used to be what everyone pointed to as the coming dark ages of media consolidation (obviously Sinclair and such have leap frogged them in danger these days, but it still makes me crack a smile that a simple name change made everyone forget that this company was supposed to be evil). Populon posted:Funny to hear Brianna use the word chud on the latest bad faith I think the word has kind of jumped into the mainstream. Even six months ago I only ever saw/heard it here or on chapo or Reddit/Twitter. But recently I’m hearing folks I’m pretty sure aren’t terminally online call people chuds. It’s interesting
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Jan 15, 2021 19:43
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Xaris posted:did clearchannel buy pod johns or something? They're distributed by iHeartRadio. iHeartRadio is just the name clear channel used when it launched its podcast brand because clear channel was a toxic brand back in the late '00s. At some point the corporate parent also changed their name to iHeartMedia and everyone forgot that they hated them. The circle of capitalism
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Jan 15, 2021 20:22
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TheSlutPit posted:chapo the pod is fine but the weird cult of personality that’s been built up around them is...not ideal Robert Evans, however, beyond being a conflict tourist and a voice for sanitizing US interventionism, is also kind of a weirdo
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Jan 16, 2021 02:29
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1350570759152934916?s=19 My (BlueMAGA extremely lib brained) mom called me a couple months ago to tell me I had to watch this Netflix documentary called the social dilemma. I did for whatever reason and the whole time I was just very amused that this major media company was lecturing me about how nobody trusts established media sources anymore. Also lots of interesting stuff about algorithms I guess but the part about shared truth was what stood out to me. Anyway, I realized there is growing frustration that people don’t get their news from curated sources anymore. The NYT and CNN and etc have all blown their credibility by lying and misleading and parroting the official government line and on and on. I don’t need to catalog here. And then I started thinking. What if they could basically white list the internet. Lock it down so it’s difficult to reach websites that aren’t preapproved? These are all private media companies so the whole “it’s not censorship because it’s not the government” will probably convince plenty of people in the same way that Amazon normalized security cameras everywhere when people would have flipped if it’d been local pds putting surveillance on their front door. I don’t know. In a few years you have a path to what I’ve been told the Chinese internet is like (I’ve never actually been there so I don’t know what it’s actually like but y’all get my point). Podcasts certainly are a big part of this. Get google/apple to limit offerings to stuff that’s been curated by iHeart for liability reasons...
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Jan 17, 2021 16:18
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gh0stpinballa posted:saw this. i put a Q in myself when i saw he posts in that thread because more people i follow are boosting his work and saying what a great commentator he is but i just don't understand his politics at all. pretty sure i will get called a tankie and yada yada but it's worth a shot. What thread is this and what is his user name? I’ve been trying to figure him out too because yeah he’s gotten pretty (relatively speaking) big and people seem to hang off his words in a way that raises eyebrows
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Jan 17, 2021 19:28
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MonsieurChoc posted:Here's the thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3904083 Lmao they just go straight for tankie Giant lmao quote:Robert expresses pro-intervention foreign policy ideas from time to time and some people view that as imperialist. HARD CHOICES
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Jan 17, 2021 21:33
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Clark Nova posted:Was the take that Jefferson would be at a BLM protest because he is a great thinker and heroic figure who is always 100% correct about everything, or that he'd be there trying to get laid? Probably to watch the militia put down the insurrection
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Jan 18, 2021 03:51
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gradenko_2000 posted:come on lady just say the ep is gonna be late you don't have to make it about the fate of the loving Republic You expect me to show up for work at 9am when the freakin' republic is hanging in the balance??!?!
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Jan 19, 2021 17:20
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:their recent one on the gerontocracy of our judicial system is excellent and a good recommend to people unfamiliar to it I had read the propublica piece on the Nelson Cruz case before listening so I knew what was coming but Jesus Christ it wasn’t any less infuriating, and then the courts just decided justice was too complicated (ie would be too much work) so they decided yeah all of her orders are fine It’s just typical of the judicial system in general, constant covering the rear end of incompetence and bad law and injustice and on and on because the alternative is reopening thousands of settled cases. Rather justice be done wrong than have to be redone
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Jan 25, 2021 00:34
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Rexicon1 posted:the only good legal podcast is alab because it claims all lawyers are nut jobs because they are The three week late discussion on the capitol riots was really fun. The callback to the Michigan governor kidnappers and posting the specific elements of the offense and insisting that "yes, I did in fact explicitly take these actions" on social media just 
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Jan 26, 2021 19:11
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Ytlaya posted:The TrueAnon episode about the Gamestop stuff was very good. Liz is very knowledgeable about this stuff for a layperson. She reads here briefings from the agency very closely
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Feb 8, 2021 04:28
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Xaris posted:I mean what kind of genre? Anything? history-pol? I only have the free feed and enough podcasts in rotation to not need more content, but I feel like recently the best E1s have been the scripted ones (air dad and princess diana) which is kind of unfortunate because the basic premise is great I'm going to second Hootington bringing up ALAB. This thread got me onto that and it's just a joy to listen to every time. They really wait til they have something to say before they start recording
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Feb 12, 2021 15:05
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Gripweed posted:Every time I've tried to listen to F Plus it's just some assholes laughing very hard at their own bad jokes. ALAB is very funny. If you're unsure listen to episode 4 and 5 "Weeb wars" about the anime voice actor's #metoo lawsuit ALAB is less "here's why the world sucks and you can't do anything about it" and more like "the world is loving absurd and we're just going to sit here and revel in the absurdity"
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Feb 12, 2021 15:41
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thotsky posted:isn't the host like a CIA informer or some poo poo tho? Oh really? That's news to me but I guess I wouldn't be terribly surprised. You got details?
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Feb 12, 2021 16:24
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Mr Hootington posted:I've been thinking about relistening to certain behind the bastards to see if he does leave put the US involvement in every bastard he covers. I listen to them when the topic looks interesting. The Mussolini one (I think) had this pretty funny moment where his guest started ranting about horseshoe theory being right and he gave some tepid pushback and then launched into a tankies rant about the Grayzone's funding without any indication he'd thought too hard about Bellingcat
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Feb 12, 2021 17:14
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AnimeIsTrash posted:lmfao yeah it was pretty funny. Basically implied Max and Ben were like Mussolini taking money from foreign powers to destabilize their country
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Feb 12, 2021 17:46
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KomradeX posted:My favorite part of the Jakarta Method was where here couldn't say Che was 100% right, but it's obvious that he was Maybe. I think less of a couldn’t than that he doesn’t necessarily believe that. I thought the strength of it was the clear sympathy and respect Bevins had for his sources, but he isn’t a revolutionary I don’t think. Idk, maybe there’s a bunch about the guy I don’t know and I’m just speaking out of my rear end, and if so please correct me, but on one of the interviews he did on the promotional tour for it (I want to say the TrueAnon one but there were several podcasts I listen to that had him on) he expressed having had initial support for the Bolivian coup. I could have misheard but I went back and relistened to the statement a few times because it caught me off guard so if I did mishear it then it I was being daft as gently caress. Good book, though i say swears online posted:is it one of those theses like "i can describe all the problems but too scared to endorse revolutionary socialism as a solution" The book seemed more interested in telling the story and amplifying the voices of the victims and explaining the current state of things than it did in trying to solve anything
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Feb 17, 2021 02:53
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Yossarian-22 posted:53% of brexiters support the death penalty and 40% corporal punishment? unthinkable..... We also have near universal support for decimal currency!
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Feb 17, 2021 02:56
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Larry Parrish posted:i really dont think spanking is the same thing as corporal punishment but alright You don’t think using physical violence to enforce behavior is corporeal punishment? I mean argue degrees or nuances or whatever all you want I can’t stop you if you want to be wrong but it’s pretty clearly corporeal punishment lmao
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Feb 17, 2021 04:00
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AnEdgelord posted:I think its like regular currency but you don't put the "." in the number No way stupider. It’s just “change is scary” poo poo (I say as an American who still uses imperial measurements) quote:Before Decimal Day in 1971, there were 240 pence (the plural of penny) in one pound sterling. There were four farthings in a penny, twelve pence in a shilling, and twenty shillings in a pound; so 960 farthings in a pound.
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Feb 17, 2021 04:08
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Gripweed posted:That's from a Terry Pratchett novel. No I don’t think it is https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/money/2021/feb/15/d-day-uk-marks-50-years-since-decimalisation https://www.npr.org/2021/02/15/968146708/u-k-and-ireland-celebrate-50-years-since-decimal-day
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KomradeX posted:In the end Utah he seems to be your typical soft left leaning American "leftist" so maybe he doesn't support revolutionary action. But its a book where you have the armed revolutionary groups or supporters telling the unarmed Socialists to arm up, them refusing to do that and preceding to get murdered in mass like I don't understand the thinking of someone that could come away from that book not thinking oh Che and Zhou Enlai were 100٪ correct Yeah. I agree with you. But I didn’t get the sense that the writer thought that’s where he was ending up. I think he was sympathetic to people who armed up and that he understood why they would, but saw it more as logical but deleterious result of the right wing purges
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