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I thought their answer to whether people should have kids was, dare I say it, pretty bourgeois. They seemed to confuse the inevitably of people having kids in all sorts of circumstances (the vast majority of which, historically, involved absolutely no say in the matter on the woman's part) with the issue of whether, as an individual, one might have very reasonable qualms about bringing a person into being during a particular set of circumstances. Also talking about "historical perspective"--the whole point of global warming is that there is no perspective, and no context. It appears to be unlike anything in human history, which at the end of the day shouldn't be that unlikely or surprising given how short human history really is.
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I mean the body double theory, if we're honestly entertaining that as a possibility, has some pretty tortured logic--he has a kill switch (which presumably goes off via a confederate if he's killed so that person has to also be informed Epstein isn't actually dead) so they extract him and then keep him in a black site forever? Why wouldn't he still set off the kill switch at that point? They give him plastic surgery and he gets to live in Paraguay?
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Aug 15, 2019 19:57
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I don't understand how someone listens to Chapo and likes Warren. Like--are you not paying attention to the show or...? Also, Warren's clearly not ready to think seriously about climate change (how could she be?) which is going to kill almost everyone soon so how can there even be a choice at this late moment in human history?
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Sep 26, 2019 07:47
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Gonzo McFee posted:I dunno, I found myself agreeing with a lot of their analysis and disagreeing with a lot of other parts. Amber deciding that the working towns of Britain that voted for Brexit were worried about leaving the EU and all the jobs that would cost before switching to saying that Labour needed to have supported Brexit was confusing to the point where I'm not sure I even heard it right, her refusal to take the venom of the British media seriously (Even the lightest of light entertainers in Britain were screeching cynically about antisemitism while taking selfies with Boris Johnson, a man who fought to keep Taki Theodoracopulos the Neo Nazi and friend of David Duke on his writing staff at The Spectator) and none of them even mentioning The Brexit Party standing down in Tory held seats was pretty weak. Especially the Brexit party standing down. It's the moment we went from a hung parliament with several top tories losing their seat to the Tories winning a majority. This is all probably true, but at the same the Democrats have been kind of running on getting rid of Trump for the past three years. I think it’s going to be really hard to turn the base’s head around on that if it’s Bernie or bust. They have to stop him before it gets to that point. Or just obstruct his presidency to death.
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Dec 21, 2019 21:32
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Forceholy posted:drat, Amber is really trying to be the Leftist version of Mike Rowe isn't she. Mike Rowe is a catspaw for various reactionary interests. Are you saying Amber Frost is a paid shill for... Big Leftism?
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Dec 22, 2019 19:59
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Bryter posted:I would guess that the intended meaning there is that Klobuchar will have a hard time getting talented people to stick around if she treats them like poo poo That seems right, but you'd think the takeaway from someone being an abusive boss would be "maybe we shouldn't give this person even more power" and not "how will this affect their ability to govern?"
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Jan 20, 2020 20:58
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The real worst case scenario is: Biden winning a lot. And then beating Trump. Those are the events most likely to produce True Fascism and Climate Apocalypse, at least as far as this election goes. Bernie getting the nom and then getting beaten by Trump would also be pretty bad.
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Feb 1, 2020 21:18
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You’d think, out of all the billions and billions of people on this planet, the one, the one particular person out of all of them who lost an election to Donald Fuckin Trump, would not get a major platform to voice their opinion on politics. You’d think, you’d hope.
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Feb 7, 2020 17:46
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My greatest legacy.
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Mar 27, 2020 21:37
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I hold that the first 25% or so of Steven Universe is a cute, funny children's cartoon with a nice color palette and some interesting concepts. And it just gets slowly worse and worse.
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Mar 28, 2020 20:06
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BBJoey posted:https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1256250092689846272 Even if you accept every premise at face value, the victory is: slightly reducing the income of a fash-adjacent comedy podcast. Imagine being this cucked.
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May 2, 2020 10:48
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I think the ways in which fantasy schlock is super racist and reflective of broader reactionary trends in nerd/videogame culture is very interesting but I don't think the Chapo boys have the expertise or interest to really get into it.
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May 3, 2020 10:07
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I feel like our future is something like Indonesia where we massacre a bunch of political undesirables and some immigrants and then mostly never talk about it or think it was pretty cool.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:10
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I mean, it's reasonable to think voting for Biden is a good idea, but it's pretty telling that she doesn't mention at all what she thought of the 2020 primary. The only rational (optimistic) view of the Biden presidency is that it will slightly delay the destruction of humanity vs a Trump presidency, but that Americans really, really deserve a better candidate. Biden v Trump has to be understood as part of the larger ecosystem that will spiral this country and maybe the world into dust. Instead it will Democrats vs. Satan forever; you don't want Satan to win do you?
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Sep 22, 2020 08:52
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I didn't think the COVID sympathy take was that out there (I really don't think it's true but I've had friends articulate a similar line), but what was that she said about COVID not spreading through the air?!
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Oct 6, 2020 05:24
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Jippa posted:I listened to the episode where matt and virgil discussed trump taking the election to the supreme court. Can someone just very briefly say what conditions (if any) need to be met for him to declare it "contested". I think the general idea is something similar to 2000--a very close race requiring recounting and where discounting ballots for not meeting various criteria could affect the outcome.
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Oct 7, 2020 09:18
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Seams posted:https://twitter.com/kayaoakes/status/1315786150565474304 24K a month is chump change to the Chapos.
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Oct 13, 2020 02:51
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I liked that clip that made the rounds the other day that was some Fox bobblehead pointing out that Kamala had flipped and flopped all over the place on Medicare For All, and Pete's big rhetorical coup was...pointing out that Trump is also a hypocrite. Wow, inspiring stuff.
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Oct 14, 2020 02:05
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Oct 15, 2020 20:16
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sexpig by night posted:yea Biden's gonna win by losing seats in the house and not flipping the senate, one of the most pathetic, pre-cucked, victories I think a president has had in the modern era. I'd be really curious to see how often a new prez gets congress post WWII. Is it almost always?
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Nov 4, 2020 20:03
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Clibanarius posted:https://twitter.com/_gh0stn/status/1324801623781122048 This would be legit good if instead of Connery it was Epstein at the end.
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Nov 7, 2020 04:08
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NienNunb posted:Was Colbert Report ever good or was I just a dumb lib teen? Because that video is dire. He made fun of Bush/Fox during the 00s pretty good. Don't know what it was like during the Obama era. I feel like Trump broke him.
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Nov 25, 2020 23:48
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I think the issue with Avatar isn't that it makes of fun US Marines, it's that the solution it offers is stupid hippie one-with-nature lib BS. It's got one up on Dances With Wolves in that it doesn't caricature an actual culture to do that, at least.
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Dec 8, 2020 23:50
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Do squirrels carry rabies. Edit: Or The Plague.
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Dec 17, 2020 02:26
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Pooping.
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Dec 24, 2020 02:44
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I like Taika but I thought Thor: Ragnarok was trash. Not even funny.
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Dec 29, 2020 23:28
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miniscule12 posted:The answer to "what would happen if one of the rioters got to a politician" is nothing. No one should be punished for murdering a politician. They would have killed Ilhan...
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Jan 10, 2021 02:10
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Groovelord Neato posted:The lathe has claimed a life. I'd honestly be curious about how well that business was doing--the NYTimes article said she'd gone to court over a usurious loan it took out. It is pretty interesting it got a substantial chunk of PPP change. I wonder how much that cuts against Matt's point that these are people who have been left out to dry.
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Jan 10, 2021 02:41
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Groovelord Neato posted:Most of the people able to travel to DC in the middle of the week are going to be the dinar crowd. I mean Matt talked about on Friday's episode that the mob was composed of both small business tyrants (who aren't doing as well by and large) and working class. The idea being that even relatively well to do types are starting to feel the squeeze. I feel like if people like the woman who got gatted are receiving substantial financial assistance and their businesses are doing okay (or as well as they ever have at least) there's additional analysis needed--maybe the Internet just breaks people's brains in more stochastic ways. Or maybe the broader sense that things are falling apart (including the lockdowns) is enough, even if they're doing okay in all the relative senses. a_gelatinous_cube posted:People at my decent paying union job who are doing absolutely fine and are actually doing better than they were years ago went to DC. They were just Republicans who got brain poisoned by alt-right media bubbles and echo chambers over the last few years, and I'm convinced deteriorating material conditions for these individuals had nothing to do with it. Seeing multiple people I've known for 20 years giving themselves mental illness to the point of real life actions is why I can never agree with Matt about the effect of online spaces. Yeah I feel like there may be a tendency on the Left to go too quickly to material explanations--I feel the temptation to do that too, but man I don't know.
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Jan 10, 2021 03:27
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Bust Rodd posted:Most people don’t use subs, it’s an extremely vocal minority Dubs are classless.
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Jan 13, 2021 08:04
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To be fair, gaming while doing the one hour a week podcast that makes you ~$100k a year is incredibly degenerate. It owns, don't get me wrong. But.
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Jan 29, 2021 02:53
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OctoberCountry posted:Felix is really embarrassed that he liked Joker "It's really very average," he repeated over and over as his member hardened to the consistency of concrete.
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Jan 30, 2021 03:51
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It's already been noted, but (and I say this as a player of games), lol that the thing that reduces the thread to an angry ball of hornets is criticizing video games.
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Feb 4, 2021 20:40
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Shape of Water is soy because it presents the insanely evil government lab as mostly anodyne until the Evil Trump Voter Who Has Violent Sex With His Wife shows up. It's really weird.
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Feb 6, 2021 02:46
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PostNouveau posted:Whenever people talk about physics as a way to understand the nature of the universe, like they do here talking about the Uncertainty Principle, I always think it's just talking out of your rear end. Like we've got a very dumbed down version of its conclusions from the physicists who figured it out, but the actual physics of it is like: You can't and shouldn't. The only conclusion a lay person should draw from quantum physics is that the laws that govern the physical world are very strange and that our own experience of reality is created by a set of hacked together ad hoc systems. shrike82 posted:disaffected progressives trying to come up with an alternate mysticism or spiritualism never seem to get the big thing about religion is the communal aspect. I do think Matt Christman talks about this a lot, to be fair.
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Mar 14, 2021 03:05
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miniscule12 posted:Glenn is right about vaccines. i've been having a lot of fun telling libs I have no interest in getting the vaccine and seeing them freak out, lol. I'm a Communist and you should get the vaccine, dumb idiot.
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Mar 21, 2021 03:23
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Ideal finale for Chapo: Felix marries Amber Will marries Virgil Matt marries Producer Chris
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Apr 3, 2021 05:23
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Matt moving to California has intense Don Draper at Esalen vibes.
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Apr 4, 2021 19:30
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Game of Thrones was never good.
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Mr Hootington posted:It isnt a bit. The boys are stuck in the cultural moments of 1999 to 2012. You couldn’t have picked a more heterogenous time frame lol
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