TMR was helpful for me back during the Brooks era for repeatedly and thoroughly explaining to me the seemingly infinite (and intentional) failings of the US government in basically every way (governmental design, legislative process, its courts, the role of Republicans, the infinite inaction/excuses of non-action from democrats), but I can't imagine there are viewers who watch every day, understand that these systems they constantly report on are irreparably and intentionally broken to the degree that the system itself demands harm-reduction support as its best-case response to state sanctioned and funded genocide, and then somehow continually comes to the conclusion that no- somehow there is an electoral strategy to get out of this.
So thanks TMR for helping bludgeon past me in to realizing working-in-the-existing-system solutions is the plight of insanity and forcing me to seek out alternative structures and methods for analysis (climate change was my primary radicalizing driver at that time and what ultimately led to me being here now), but it's sad that the show itself can't seem to also take that step.
I disagree with them a not insignificant amount nowadays, especially on the points you raised. But they have some amazing interviews with people nearly every day. It’s usually related to history or systems or politics and delves deep - like an academic or a journalist talking about a book or a discovery etc. And their fun half shitting on people is quite amusing.
So, it’s still worth listening in the sense that they provide something that I don’t see anyone else providing. You just have to be able to ignore the times they delve into their liberalism. I, personally, am able to just roll my eyes at that and wait for it to be over but I can understand if you can’t.
TMR was helpful for me back during the Brooks era for repeatedly and thoroughly explaining to me the seemingly infinite (and intentional) failings of the US government in basically every way (governmental design, legislative process, its courts, the role of Republicans, the infinite inaction/excuses of non-action from democrats), but I can't imagine there are viewers who watch every day, understand that these systems they constantly report on are irreparably and intentionally broken to the degree that the system itself demands harm-reduction support as its best-case response to state sanctioned and funded genocide, and then somehow continually comes to the conclusion that no- somehow there is an electoral strategy to get out of this.
So thanks TMR for helping bludgeon past me in to realizing working-in-the-existing-system solutions is the plight of insanity and forcing me to seek out alternative structures and methods for analysis (climate change was my primary radicalizing driver at that time and what ultimately led to me being here now), but it's sad that the show itself can't seem to also take that step.
I disagree with them a not insignificant amount nowadays, especially on the points you raised. But they have some amazing interviews with people nearly every day. It’s usually related to history or systems or politics and delves deep - like an academic or a journalist talking about a book or a discovery etc. And their fun half shitting on people is quite amusing.
So, it’s still worth listening in the sense that they provide something that I don’t see anyone else providing. You just have to be able to ignore the times they delve into their liberalism. I, personally, am able to just roll my eyes at that and wait for it to be over but I can understand if you can’t.