• Tervell [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    One of the Kill James Bond episodes had them proclaiming their support for Cuba (and maybe Venezuela, I don't remember), but maybe that's just the Abby-Alice-Devon combo in particular being cool. It's why I was surprised by Alice dropping this, I'd have expected it more from Liam or the guest.

    • Satanic_Mills [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Cuba and Venezuela are non-threatening.

      It's like the leftists who proclaim support for Vietnam and denounce China despite Vietnam being arguably more revisionist.

      • Tervell [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, fair enough. This also reminds me of Zizek, he was on a Chapo episode a while back shilling his new book, and simultaneously praising Luis Arce and shitting on China and Venezuela, two countries which Bolivia under MAS is pretty friendly with.

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Same thing with loudly supporting East Germany; yeah it sounds edgy and cool bc of all the narratives about it being a Stasi police state, but it doesn't hit the same as, say, upholding the DPRK or China which are being similarly propagandized, but in the modern day

        • Satanic_Mills [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Not listened to KJB, but good on Devon.

          Was mostly thinking of TF where any mention of China automatically gets 'state capitalism' slotted in afterwards and was explicitly called reactionary in a recent episode.

            • Satanic_Mills [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              TF is still a. very funny and b. very good at analysing (for someone finance illiterate like me) the nature of the economy in the west and why and how it produces the morbidities we are seeing.

              They're just still western leftists.