Truly the greatest center-left podcast of all time.
A lot of the comments had to do with arguing about whether or not Finklestein was pro-Russia invasion by having Will read Putin's Wikipedia and comparing Putin having family members die in WWII to Holocaust survivor trauma.
I thought it was obvious Finklestein wasn't being an apologist but most felt otherwise.
I don't get why that strain of shitlib is even still listening to Chapo. It's not like it's rare for Chapo to denounce imperialism and buck the fed-backed foreign policy stuff.
the chapo boys seem to strategically avoid directly discussing leftist third rail issues, like you can kind of tell they probably vibe with the general hexbear perspective of the Ukraine conflict but I've never heard them directly address the geopolitical issues and why Russia winning is good for everyone outside the West
I feel like you have to be kinda pro Russia in this situation. Like obviously war is bad. Amd obviously Russia is bad. But the US is worse so in the end it is neoliberal infighting we can hope weakens the empire
I think it did the most dangerous thing to the west - acknowledge that there may be other perspectives based on history.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackWolfFeed/comments/1255q9u/718_the_view_feat_norman_finkelstein_32823/
so you want me to make an Emmett Till joke right now?
[yeah basically]
my mother... she was a real battle axe. And uh... she lynched me and then she sold my body parts for money. And I was telling my thera-
(laughing) first of all that's not funny
[...]
asking me to do a joke about a lynching... why don't you say a nice thing about Alan Dershowitz huh?
Finkelstein asks him to come up with a joke about Emett Till :michael-laugh: Norman unleashed
WOAH he says the hard R
Here's the legit link. It's on r/theadamfriedlandshow every week
How tf did Adam fucking Friedland control the interview better than Will lol that was actually decent to watch
Nick Mullen sweating profusely at this question and trying his god damn hardest not to answer "shared ancestry"
Is this worth listening to? I've never listened to Cumtown/TAFS because any summary of it sounded stupid as fuck
But I liked my introduction to Finklestein on Chapo last week and listening to his TrueAnon eps as well yesterday at work.
I'll listen to this today so I'll come back to this, but know this isn't a political podcast. You won't learn anything. It's an esoteric ironic comedy podcast
Finkelstein is so serious and humorless thats he loops around to become hilarious
I think stavie baby is the only good cum boy. I doubt this is any good.
I tried cumtown but eventually too many bits made me feel bad compared to how many laughs i got
