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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[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 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.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (4 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) (3 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?

[–] 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 2 days ago

i went and had a further look at the book:

reads ad-copy

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