Episode 154 - Listener Mailbag #2
Added 2024-10-25 15:33:29 +0000 UTCWe answer your very... creative questions... creatively.
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I generally agree with Hakim, on many many things, but his stance on religion just doesn't make sense whatsoever. It doesn't matter that religion has always existed since time immemorial. That doesn't make it any less reactionary. And even if you put that aside, faith in a divine being implicitly requires a suspension of critical thinking. That is not something that should be encouraged. I understand the NEED for religion, especially under Capitalism. And I also agree that socialist states should not go out of their way to suppress religion. However, as Marx and others have written, it essentially serves as a way for people to deal with such oppressive material conditions. My hope is that as people's lives improve, that the need for faith slowly decreases. In fact, this is something already seen in the Global North
Firemaker280
2025-04-02 13:09:44 +0000 UTCLove all you comrades!
Rosanna Fields
2024-11-21 01:00:31 +0000 UTCLove you boys so much! Great episode, we love learning about yall individually with theory still peppered in. 💪🏾🧡
Comrade Izzy
2024-10-31 08:56:59 +0000 UTCOn the topic of nick cage movies: watch Mandy!
Hunter Ramirez
2024-10-28 21:00:34 +0000 UTCI just had a discussion with a well meaning and well read comrade where he said that Sakai is a fed and that Fanon doesn't apply to USA because the settler population is much higher. So many of my fellow white comrades do not want to reckon with settler colonialism
ecosocialist
2024-10-28 18:00:12 +0000 UTCI’ve been listening to the podcast since it came out and it along with all your YouTube channels are a big reason I’m a communist now, and now I’m talking to the CPUSA about trying to start a new club where I’m at
Kolibri
2024-10-26 22:27:35 +0000 UTCJT I just saw your tweet asking for sci-fi book recs. I don't tweet so I'm responding here. Check out the book Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg. It's relatively short, but jam packed with cool themes on settler colonialism, (white) chauvanism, tourism to "exotic" destinations, etc. No spoilers plot is ~100 years in the future, a guy who used to work as basically a slave driver on a planet colonized by a corporation goes back after decolonization to atone for his sins with the indigenous population. I've been talking this book up for years and think it should be way more popular. It's from the 1970s, and I believe someone else wrote an unofficial sequel comic book though I haven't read that.
Derek B Local Man
2024-10-26 20:39:54 +0000 UTCMacedonia (Македонија) episode when, Yugo? I know you're serb but it would still be funny.
Martin Aasterud
2024-10-26 18:27:14 +0000 UTCThe spanish flag is quite ugly. The republican flag was not much better though, it needs a redesign. It's a pity the Burgundy cross has been coopted by our far right. Or old Hapsburg flag was much more aesthetically pleasing
Alberto García
2024-10-26 14:11:19 +0000 UTCApparently it is possible to connect patreon and the discord but I'm not exactly sure how it is done
Alberto García
2024-10-26 13:50:52 +0000 UTCAny vexillologist will tell you that the American flag scores very poorly on flag design. One of the key points of a flag should be that the youngest citizens should be able to replicate it easily. No kindergartener in the US can count to 50 let alone draw 50 stars and 13 stripes
Julian Weber
2024-10-26 13:50:05 +0000 UTCwhen it ends just before your question 💔
Felix P
2024-10-26 13:37:53 +0000 UTCSport's team question: bringing it back to wisconsin, actually wouldn't the Packers (wisconsin nfl american football team) be a successful model in the states for a more socialized team? They are owned by the fans as the only non-profit team in the nfl. I feel like the fact that the poster child of corporate sports in america still has a team in middle america that prides itself on their ability to play in subzero temps and is also a community owned corporation structure says something about the popularity of that structure. And it's not like their a bad team either, they have had 4 superbowl wins which puts them in the top 6 teams ever (they haven't won for a while) . Also because their community owned structure cheeseheads are some of the most loyal fans that exist.
Katie Schlasner
2024-10-26 12:37:10 +0000 UTCThat stupid fucking thin blue line sticker.... I call it dry dick- bootlicker identification
Beatrice VonPage
2024-10-26 11:21:43 +0000 UTCOnly in Texas drawl
Alex Isaac
2024-10-26 09:58:53 +0000 UTCneed someone to talk about my vulva like it’s a car
alex
2024-10-26 04:51:27 +0000 UTCvolvo in casual conversation really sounds like vulva
alex
2024-10-26 04:50:06 +0000 UTCHakim has concepts of a plan for a cookbook
Anatolia V.
2024-10-26 03:42:04 +0000 UTCtheres gotta be a cop uniform for all the different colors of the rainbow
Boxzoid
2024-10-26 03:37:52 +0000 UTCLove the fan letters but, especially as a black American, do NOT bring on Umar. Besides him potentially giving everyone an aneurism, he’s one of those reactionaries that gets made into a meme and is getting a bit too popular for comfort
Alex
2024-10-26 00:57:48 +0000 UTCDr Umar is part of the HOTEP community that mends black nationalism and conservatism at least from what i can scrounge up on the internet.
Hunter Story
2024-10-26 00:07:22 +0000 UTCHow do I join the official discord? I can't figure it out on patreon
Eli Smith
2024-10-25 23:45:27 +0000 UTCLol, did I inspire this? Edit: OMG I did. I feel so seen 😂
Alberto García
2024-10-25 20:40:56 +0000 UTCThis is where i get my political education dawg im cooked
Kalashnikova
2024-10-25 19:48:02 +0000 UTCI work in a factory in Minnesota and some of my undocumented coworkers do this for the same reason.
Zach Patnoe
2024-10-25 18:54:48 +0000 UTCThis seems like a great idea. I would be eager to hear the results.
Dungenesss
2024-10-25 18:39:59 +0000 UTCI’m willing to make a compromise on the Vtuber bit instead of a red Lenin bust for hakim it can just be some Lenin shaft. So much infact that you can’t even see the entire thing just the top of the scrotum and the bottom of the head
Milkmonk
2024-10-25 18:32:37 +0000 UTCanother listener mailbag.
Shaharyar Nadeem
2024-10-25 17:53:44 +0000 UTCWasn’t expecting a Dr Umar mention
StalinSouljah45
2024-10-25 17:42:53 +0000 UTCI feel bad for asking a serious question now 😭😭😭 (buuut i listened to your recommendation and im now a member of the iWW)
basil
2024-10-25 17:21:36 +0000 UTCMy friend found me a commemorative plate from the 1980 games. It’s my most prized possession
RedPine🌲
2024-10-25 17:19:08 +0000 UTCI'm a Black Texan and debating putting a Thin Blue Line sticker on my car so I don't get pulled over anymore.
Lee Thuggin'
2024-10-25 16:13:49 +0000 UTCLigma
The Gospel Of Weeb
2024-10-25 15:37:36 +0000 UTCTF2 sex update when?
no special person
2024-10-25 15:37:14 +0000 UTC
