Are they fetishizing the Rust Cohle "humans need to walk hand in hand into extinction" line? Lol. Anyway, Marx helped settle this issue against Malthus and lazy Malthusians by showing how the material level of production sustains whatever the population is at

lol. just punishing the player

nice this sounds like a potential trilogy

hahaha. Who would play a good turbo lib?

you're hired!

I think it's established that Marx used vampires, werewolves, blood, zombies, sorcerers, and the undead etc. as metaphors for the monstrous nature of capital. He also threw in comments about commodities coming to life on their own and a reference to "table turning," which is a seance/spiritualist gimmick.

wow, wouldn't have guessed a billionaire to favor neoliberal state formation!

I still want to know what the conversation was like in the Clinton household when Epstein was arrested in summer 2019 and then when Maxwell was a couple years later. Did no elites ever panic? Did they always know the fix was in and that they'd be protected?

this guy should learn about class exploitation if he's really interested in injustice

right before the 2020 election, Chomsky predictably got liberal press attention by saying trump is worse than hitler... for climate change denial. Uhhhh ok

I love our cat comrades

do any mainstream turbo-libs ever show critical introspection about the Democratic Establishment? The one time I can think of was right after Bernie won Nevada and for about five minutes MSNBC commentators were like, "Damn, I guess people really are struggling and fed up with how the country has been run." Thankfully (for the libs), they didn't have to sit with that for long though.

seconding the Communion suggestion. The book is well written and terrifying. It encourages you to revisit some of your own strange memories where "missing time" might have happened. Additionally, this isn't scary, but it makes you wonder. Leslie Kean's book on UFOs features a chapter on an Iranian air force pilot who tailed a UFO over Tehran in 1976. Later on during a debrief he tells his supervisors he shot at the UFO. Apparently, there was a US intelligence guy present who told him "You're lucky you didn't hit it."

so fucked that he includes "Marx" and "Nazi party member" in the same sentence. That's not deliberate at all.....

this reminds me of the conservative David Mamet movie "The Edge" where the hero is a billionaire genius/badass who outwits a kodiak bear and survives the wilderness lol

it's an op-ed written by a hamster: "Me and this Squeaky Wheel are Pulling an All-Nighter"

Yup, plus I recall two previous PDA episodes that hinge on a story involving a bike. One where Jake's bike was stolen on New Years Day, and I think the other involved cops ruining his bike during the George Floyd protests.

Thanks for doing that and giving a great answer :fidel-salute:

George Bush made religion central to his identity and had a redemption arc (finding god after a wayward life), which translates well with evangelicals. But: Was there one thing that made Trump so popular with born-again Christians? Like the non Q-brained ones.

I remember back during the Bush jr era when the equivalent was a chorus of annoying lib commentators who would say: "I don't agree with Bush, but I want him to succeed." Early iteration of the "they go low, we go high" line.