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finding most of the chapo eps either really boring/depressing (i cba to listen to some dude promote his book about "refounding the American Republic", fuck off) or just not that funny these days. need something to listen to that will make me laugh about the awful shit going on. any recs? is trueanon good?

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

cba to listen to some dude promote his book about "refounding the American Republic", fuck off

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lmao was that David Sirota? he's also a liberal zionist

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

OP is representing the issue misleadingly, whether intentional or not. The guest was arguing for democratic socialism, as far as I could tell.

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

nah it's the most recent ep with Osita Nwanevu, who is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a columnist at The Guardian according to his website. book's tagline is "Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding" which sounds like some dull constitution-worshipping shit. having Sirota on was completely awful too. i listened to Chapo for slop not for book promotional interviews.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every now and then Chapo kinda seems to forget that it's not a 'journalism and newspaper' podcast.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

will-fancy

back in the golden age when Matt's sword of verbal fire was unbroken, you could tell the episodes with bad guests because Matt would either not show up or only say one or two sentences the whole episode

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you not actually look at the book at all? He's arguing for radically amending the constitution.

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

i reiterate

contributing editor at The New Republic and a columnist at The Guardian

why should anyone want to amend the American constitution at all, can we fix israel by "radically amending the basic law" too?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Democratic socialists are a benefit to socialism generally if they are arguing from a standpoint of material empowering working people, which this guy is. Either they succeed in making their reforms, and people are empowered, or they fail and radicalize people, as we saw happen with Bernie -- who was critical in the political awakenings of a whole generation of people who now rightly view him as too conservative.

Communists seriously should run for elected office, on campaigns of making radical changes that are allowed by existing legal frameworks -- and the US Constitution especially formally allows for really any change. They cannot "fix" America, but they can benefit us nonetheless. Read Marx, he says the same thing.

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i went and had a further look at the book:

“Nearly two hundred fifty years ago, the men who founded America made a fundamental break not just from their old country but from the past—casting off an order that had subjugated them with worn and weak ideas for the promise of true self-governance and greater prosperity in a new republic,” Nwanevu writes. “With exactly their sense of purpose and even higher, more righteous ambitions for America than they themselves had, we should do the same now⁠—work as hard as we can in the decades ahead to ‘institute new Government’ for the benefit of all and not just the few.”

lmao praising the slaveowning founding fathers and their "righteous ambitions for america" is not it

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

i went and had a further look at the book:

reads ad-copy

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

i listened to Chapo for slop not for book promotional interviews.

Okay but have you heard their readings of Ben Shapiro's novels?

[–] Ecoleo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

That ep was putting me to sleep today. Regardless of the politics, I had to turn it off eventually.