Noted LolLawBro Preet’s most recent podcast is actually quite informative. It’s with another old lawyer who had served in the OLC under Bush; they discuss legal precedents and how they apply to modern executive branch decision-making (and how Congress is complicit). It’s a frustrating listen because they don’t quite get the implications of what they’re discussing and how dangerous it is conceptually, but there is a small amount of self-awareness. Regardless, it’s eye-opening because the guest is able to cite off the top of his head several exact historical precedents that have built up to what, in his view, was a legal assassination targeted killing of QS.
I’ll spoil the upshot of their conversation: basically anything the president wants to do is legal according to US law.
I don’t remember learning about Auschwitz in school. Maybe it’s me being in my bubble, but it seems like knowing what Auschwitz was just requires paying a tiny bit of attention. (I’m sure like 99% of Americans over 10 years old have actually heard it at some point)
We watched the BBC’s The World At War documentary as part of our History curriculum in school. Auschwitz is the most notorious, so I think everyone learned about it. I guess only swots would’ve know about Belsen and only moody poseurs into certain bands would have known about eg Majdanek etc.
Man I’d actually like to see World at War again, that’s a cool nostalgia kick thinking of those vids. My 10th grade World History teacher was a really cool guy. He was born in the US but his father was a Brit who served in the war in the RAF. He always had cool stories and brought in memorabilia his dad had given him. Still my favorite teacher.
Edit once at an arcade the change machine spit out a coin from French Indochina and I took it to school to show him, he gave us a whole lecture on the subject which wasn’t even part of the curriculum
I liked my US History teacher in high school. He was a Vietnam War vet and told some war stories as a part of teaching the class which was good because my textbook really skimped on the details of it. You could tell that he was editing himself to make sure he wasn’t too graphic and probably didn’t tell the worst that he saw. I also remember him being pissed off about the war in Iraq. Said it was Vietnam all over again.
Like I said with the 99% part, she almost had to have heard about it from TV or a movie at some point, but I guess the Holocaust wasn’t very compelling.
The latest episode of You’re Wrong About is fascinating. It’s the first of a 3-part series on the DC Sniper. I was in school near DC at the time and remember the craziness, and it turns out there’s way more to the story than I ever realized.
I need more info before I make an investment into the sniper podcast. Every time I consume objectively good content about a depressing subject, I wish I hadn’t.
I followed the DC sniper situation because my parents live in suburban DC. Just a completely fucked-up situation all-around, esp the way that dude manipulated the kid. I’ll probably give it a listen.
Im the same way. I generally like Maher, but his insistence, especially in the last couple years, on making every rant he goes on be about the snowflake left or the millennials is grating at this point.
We get it man, you don’t like when people are a bit extreme in their quest for equality. Boo fucking hoo. Guess what? They aren’t the enemy, and they certainly aren’t the majority, and every time you rail on them with nonsense, you hurt our cause as a whole. “Uppity millenials are why the republicans are winning” is a bullshit talking point that he has swallowed hook, line, and sinker. He RARELY talks about how the republicans fucking cheat their balls off at every single turn, and maybe THAT’S why republicans are winning, and not because .00000000002% of the population wants you take a fucking second and learn that there is a pronoun called Zir.
For those of yall who are trying to ENGAGE IN THE DISCOURSE with troglodyte, yall should go subscribe to the YOU ARE NOT SO SMART podcast and listen to episode 170. It’s not on the website yet for some reason so I can’t directly link it, but anyway, it’s an interview with infamous flat earther Mark Sargent. The interview itself isn’t that great honestly, but McRaney’s pre-interview explanation of how to engage with dipshits like this is really insightful. Bad faith maga trolls are essentially the same species as flat earthers.
David Epstein (no relation obv) on Recode Decode recently was hyper excellent as well.
The Anthropocene Reviewed (rating aspects of the human planet on a five star scale) is all around great and only once a month. Don’t start with the most recent episode (Auld Lang Syne reviewed), even though it’s the best episode he’s done. Try a few out before and grok the aesthetic or the genius of the Auld Lang Syne review will be lost on you.
