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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago

You are not missing much if you skip the interview. The highlight of the interview is Ross Douhat having the audacity to say not poisoning kids is a leftist take (Michael Clayton, written and directed by Tony Gilroy). Which gets them into a yelling match, and Tony Gilroy basically concerned for his mental well-being, cause he goes, I don't know how not poisoning people is a left or right take. I don't know how these people manage to fail upwards into goddamn nytimes podcasts, columns, and newsletters. Jabouie is the only decent columnist in the nytimes right but he hides his power level (if he has one).

Tony Gilroy has basically read a lot of history books and knows enough to craft a good story. The end.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

The chapo episode about Ross douthat where his friend gets laid while he pretends to sleep is absolute nightmare fuel. I didn't know third hand cringe can be so uncomfortable

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

SciFi with Damien Walters take or whatever is almost as bad, smuglord whether you think Gilroy is hiding his power to skate under Disney's radar or not, the tweet is bullshit liberal grandstanding with zero use or deeper understanding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

He just sounds mostly like a well-read lib and at the very list good enough when understanding "radical thinking".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

I have never been less impressed by NonZeroNewsletter than when he interviewed Douthat about the existence of god. Dude just regurgitated every non-falsifiable argument I ever read while in high school, and thought I was the smartest motherfucker ever

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I listened to the episode and it was terrible lmao

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 hours ago

Ross Douthat talking to a Star Wars man, that's this week's Chapo sorted

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

The andor sub was horrible about this.

Some people correctly identified that this dude works for Disney and probably can't just say "yeah it's a communist show" but the rest of the comments were like

"It's anti-imperialist, not leftist. Maidan/Hungarians/etc are right wing and anti-Imperialist. The empire is authoritarian"

Just shoot me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's anti-imperialist, not leftist. Maidan/Hungarians/etc are right wing and anti-Imperialist. The empire is authoritarian

Baby's first watching of anything with politics deeper than Marvel

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you, so many people crying about how this is just like maidan and totally ignoring how the CIA has done the snipers into a peaceful protest at least a dozen times

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The Ghorman massacre IS just like Maidan in that a sniper attack perpetrated by the empire is used to spark the fighting off. The origin of the shooting that occurred during the maidan protests is disputed and I personally believe the fascists carried it out, not the police. The protests up to that moment were not revolutionary, they were a typical liberal protest. The masses and number of people were being kept there for days using free food and concerts/music stages. It was clear that things weren't going to escalate so they carried out the shooting to turn the tone of things.

Liberals fail to recognise this was part of a planned coup perpetrated by the US and that the protesters were a cover for carrying out their plans, much like every colour revolution isn't really a "revolution" but simply a liberal protest event used as cover for a coup occurring in the background, which then forms the basis of the narrative story told about what happened in media after the event.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Correct, my issue is with the understanding of snipers directed by Putin to kill Ukrainians, rather than the other way around

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

Yeah that shit makes absolutely no sense. There are two possible scenarios, cops doing it without orders to protestors they're sympathetic to, or the fascists did it to escalate. The most likely scenario is that the fascists did it. They benefited most from it.

There was no unrest until this event, just a bunch of people libbing in the square and refusing to leave. There was no reason for the state to shoot anyone.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Hungarians? Lol, they're as bootlicking towards US empire as any other Euro lib. They're worse actually.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Its a tankie thing, "ooh the call for help is just like the revolutionaries against eevil ruzzians"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They meant 1956 doomjak

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Oh lmao. Libs love defending fascists

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago

Maidan/Hungarians/etc

Blegh gross

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I study Hannah Arendt, and a lot of her existential philosophy is actually interesting.

Her creation of "totalitarianism" though -- truly CIA-level shit. Authoritarianism as the new watered down version is just.... ughhhhhhHHHHHHHHH

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, the moment someone talks about authoritarianism I don't care about their political opinions.

Oh, the USSR used violence to enforce its societal rules and norms, like literally every human society in history, and that makes it uniquely evil and comparable to the Third Reich?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I saw a guy saying he didn't see how it was political because we didn't know the empire's opinions on "social issues" i.e. gay people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

meanwhile there is a community called women stuff that was asking the other day about red flags of anti-lgbtq people and in the post said "no politics please"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

White women the sub

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

100% lmao

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That comm gives me a weird vibe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

same

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago

reddit delenda est

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago

Amazing

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

People watching a series about oppressive governments made in the current political climate and going "this is about the USSR" would be funny if it weren't so sad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

He is doing a press tour for the show

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

wait lmao why the fuck would you do an interview with Ross Douthat??!?!?

He thought the was doing an interview with the Phantom of the Opera, only to find out at the last moment it was Ross

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Americans are incapable of comprehending criticism of the US that doesn't also say "but it's still better than communism"

EDIT: also happy to be able to do this for once

I don't know who Ross Douthat is and I'm grateful for that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know who Ross Douthat is and I'm grateful for that

Ross Douthat is the inverse of the principle that real heroes don't wear capes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fake Villains Do Wear Capes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

think-about-it

Maybe not "fake" villains, but certainly wannabe villains

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

I'm still confused and I like it that way.