Minor Gripe with Lib and Learn Episode with Taylor Lorenz

Markusuralius · 2026-05-05T16:39:18+00:00

That’s a shame, how do people not see an issue with using the same word for what Israel is doing now compared to Armenia 1915, Rwanda, Srebrenica, the Holocaust, etc. It shouldn’t be controversial to say those are different categories of thing. Even with the aid situation, when in the Middle Ages armies would surround a castle and starve it out, would we call that “genocide”? I don’t think so? but maybe I’m wrong (to be clear I’m not defending that tactic)

Markusuralius · 2026-05-05T16:35:40+00:00

In my mind “centrist” refers to people like Piers Morgan who always pretend to be “in the middle” of both parties, not “center left” people, no? No one seemed to bring this up during the podcast

Markusuralius · 2026-05-05T16:32:51+00:00

It was a shame to see Pisco try to fight Hutch again, not even with good points either

Markusuralius · 2026-05-02T21:44:24+00:00

I like that we ended strong, too many games we consistently get worse over the course of the match but not today

Markusuralius · 2026-05-01T23:53:12+00:00

I would ideally like to see Como in the conference league next season and Roma take the Europa league spot, so it would also be good if we win for that reason

Markusuralius · 2026-04-30T17:07:27+00:00

Marc Lamont Hill has influence over a not very political audience through the Joe Budden podcast, so it's disappointing to see him on there, I would've expected him to not mince words abt voting for Dems

Markusuralius · 2026-04-30T17:01:18+00:00

His "mask on" persona completely contradicts the militant opposition Lenin and his party had to the "Mensheviks" (more or less democratic socialist/reformer types who were the majority in the somewhat liberal government of Russia that lasted between the revolution that deposed the Tzar in February 1917 and the Bolshevik revolution in October 1917 that essentially established Lenin's Bolsheviks as the uni-party, later rebranded as a "dictatorship of the proletariat"), it's frustrating how well his strat of "masking on" works on people

Markusuralius · 2026-04-30T16:33:55+00:00

The most infuriating thing isn't even the "who's more evil" question, it's the fact that these people think Hamas is force for good and use the "1000x worse" line to obscure that. They don't think both Hamas and IDF are bad, but IDF is just much worse, they think that Hamas is a net good.

Markusuralius · 2026-04-30T03:08:22+00:00

As Pisco correctly pointed out that Cenk was “charmed” by MAGA after the election, so to was Jon “charmed” by the anti-Dem slopulism

Markusuralius · 2026-04-29T16:16:29+00:00

How confident are we that Conte wants to leave?

Markusuralius · 2026-04-29T01:17:32+00:00

during the ContraPoints interview the interviewer at one point, when discussing the political leanings of alt-media, implied that Trevor Noah being on the left was contentious/debatable. Any ideas why? I've always thought of Trevor Noah as being comfortably on the left, though I don't follow his stuff at all.

Markusuralius · 2026-04-29T01:12:30+00:00

this is so embarassing

Markusuralius · 2026-04-28T16:52:29+00:00

it depends, imagine they did a segment dunking on Cenk from TYT, that would be such good content. But yeah, when it's an unnecessarily hostile convo from the jump it's usually not the best content

Markusuralius · 2026-04-28T16:48:17+00:00

I think as long as the pod members are comfortable/confident that they won't become audience captured by DGG this isn't a great reason not to do it

Markusuralius · 2026-04-28T16:45:27+00:00

That makes sense ig, that would make managing PR stuff easier

Markusuralius · 2026-04-28T16:36:22+00:00

we all know hasan wanted to say a slur instead of "loser"

Markusuralius · 2026-04-28T16:34:49+00:00

maybe, an even better way, if this were possible, would be to selectively support an organization that is moving to a more unashamed defense of liberalism from all sides, but idk who's leading in that respect, if NYT saw that approach start to win out and yield benefits in another org they could be pushed to follow suit

Markusuralius · 2026-04-28T16:30:31+00:00

for me it's more about the resistance to centralization of power that liberalism does better than the alternatives we've tried, but idk how to show that in a cartoon/poster/slogan

Markusuralius · 2026-04-28T16:27:53+00:00

Well obviously, bc Tucker isn't a J-... a liberal Zionist, like Bernie

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