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Reconstruction Junction: Endgame

## Reconstruction Junction: Endgame

### Producer

Chris Wade

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Reconstruction Junction: Endgame transcript

## Topics

### Topics

Eric Foner's Reconstruction Book Club Part 7

## See also

Eric Foner's Reconstruction Book Club

Book Recommendations

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Weimar? I barely know her!

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## Transcript

Main article: Weimar? I barely know her! 5.19.21 transcript
[Sings ‘Hell’ by Squirrel Nut Zippers]

Does anyone remember that song? Is anyone a geriatric millennial and can name that song, or is that before your time? I’m gonna see if I get anything from you people.

Squirrel Nut Zippers, that's correct. ‘Hell.’ People think of Squirrel Nut Zippers as part of the swing revival, but they really were kind of doing a different thing than your Cherry Poppin’ Daddies or your Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. I will confess that I, in fact, had that album. I had the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies album that had ‘Zoot Suit Riot’ in it, which, terrible. The classic example of why I didn't buy records when I was a kid, because it always seemed like a bad deal. You're taking a bet that any of the other songs on the album are going to be as good as the song you heard, and yeah, nothing on that fucking album’s anywhere near as good or as catchy as ‘Zoot Suit Riot’ was. But I also owned the Squirrel Nut Zippers album, which is really good. ‘Hell’, I believe it's called. Is it ‘Hell’ or…? There's a lot of solid songs on there. I will defend them and that's one of them.

Okay, so today we're gonna talk about the Kolb book which, I gotta say, not exactly what I wanted it to be. I really did want something that was gonna be more grounded, the way that Foner is. I wanted basically Foner's approach in terms of, you know, doing the whole systemic and grassroots simultaneous, you know.... like, the densest narrative rope. And I’m sure there is one like that but I'm not as well-read on that historical era to know what it is, and it was not Kolb, I must say. It's a little too removed from the action, as it were. So I don't think we're gonna read the rest of it. And besides, I’m feeling like I want to move forward anyway. I mean, I've been looking backward out of despair and I've realized, well, what is this? This is an expression of despair. And I realize that a lot of what I talk about is trying to articulate despair, and what it means to be politically self-aware in a time of despair.

## See also

The Weimar Republic by Eberhard Kolb Book Club

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Gluten-Free Officers Movement

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## Books mentioned

Matt expressed interest in starting an informal book club on the history of the Reconstruction, in service of his larger goal of writing a counterfactual alternative history of the era. These were the books he mentioned during that discussion:

*Black Reconstruction*, W. E. B. Du Bois (1935)

*Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877*, Eric Foner (1988)

*The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics*, James Oakes (2007)

* Matt mentioned wanting to read a book by Oakes — not 100% sure he was referring to this one, but it seems to be his best-known and most relevant

*The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896*, Richard White (2017)

## See also

Book Club: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

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CozyCore: Omega Squadron

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Reconstruction Junction VI: Revenge of the Libs

## Reconstruction Junction VI: Revenge of the Libs

### Producer

Chris Wade

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Reconstruction Junction VI: Revenge of the Libs transcript

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### Topics

Eric Foner's Reconstruction Book Club Part 6

## See also

Eric Foner's Reconstruction Book Club

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Lacuna (Philosophy)

**Lacuna** (singular lacuni) refers to a non-perceivable gap of philosophical perception filled in by surrounding understanding built on faith. It is likened most closely to the gap in mammalian visual systems known as the scotoma, or blind spot, which is filled in artificially and seamlessly by the brain organ. This notion has been put forward by the twenty-first century online philosopher Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House to describe the leap to faith required to close the gap in human perception of complex metaphysical phenomena. A leap to faith springs from the observation that such a perception is only artificially apparent and not truly perceived.

At a physio-biological level, believing the full perception of a perceivers visual quale requires an act of faith given the physical understanding that the eye receives no light information at the Scotoma.

"Believing your eyes requires an act of faith." -Matt Christman
Ice Station Libra

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## Topics

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Ron Johnson, AOC v Dore, Turkey: The America of the Middle East, Flags, Church of Satan, Cabals within the ruling class and masonic societies, Game of Thrones: The Winds Of Winter and the prequels, good and evil presidents, Josh Hawley, Prestige TV President

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Plant-Based Streaming Content

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Biden admin, Posadism, Robert Owens, Being at sea, climate apocalypse, Late Victorian Holocausts, 2008 recession and the end of movies, Crypto disaster

## Transcript

Main article: Plant-Based Streaming Content 4.28.21 transcript

> Hey folks. So tonight, Biden is doing a joint address to Congress. As many nerds will point out, it is not a State of the Union in the first year. That’s not a State of the Union, that is a joint address to Congress. A State of the Union doesn’t come until the second year, I guess. Because you’re giving a report, and there hasn’t really been enough stuff to give a report on. I have a feeling, though, he’ll say the State of the Union is strong, even though it’s not a State of the Union address.
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Phenomenology of the Diet Sprite

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## Timestamps

* 00:00 Intro
* 03:45 Preamble
* 04:32 Emotional fear of death

## Transcript

Main article: Phenomenology of the Diet Sprite 5.6.21 transcript

All right, so today I'm gonna get a little out there. This is going to be one of the weird ones. This is going to be one of the more speculative, phenomenological (as you can see in the name) ones we've done in a while. And this is because I'm kinda feeling like I'm getting towards something that once again is only me trying to make sense of the world to myself, and then throwing it out there to see if anybody is getting what I'm saying enough for me to feel like I’m on the right track. As opposed to, you know, descending into psychosis, which is always a concern [laughter]. It should be anyway, for anyone living in this fucking society.

So I'm just going to throw this out there. It's very, very mushy and it's just a story I'm trying to tell myself. It’s going to attempt to be biological, but in a way that is way beyond my understanding of actual biology, so I'll just be pulling shit directly out of my ass. So I have to fucking stipulate that in the beginning, that this is all based on speculation about human biology and consciousness that I don't have a background for. I mean, I don't have a background for anything I'm talking about. But just underlining it here so you don't get too alienated by this if it does feel like I'm disappearing from legibility.

Okay. So I was trying to think about myself and what feels to be the sort of crisis at my center, the thing that prevents me from living in the moment with the knowledge that I have about the fundamental and unbreakable unity of existence, and therefore the impossibility and irrationality of the very concept of death. And I know that intellectually. But I find myself unable, in the moment of my life, to inhabit a space where I *feel* that it's true. Like, I still have a pit of anxiety in my stomach. It’s not always there and it changes depending on the moment, and sometimes it's almost completely gone, but because I'm living a fallen life and I'm not an ascended being… I have not had a full conversion experience to a coherent world with a supernatural charge to the perception of existence, as opposed to the perception, the intellectual self-conception of existence.

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Artillery Operator

The Artillery Operator is an enemy in Otherworld Legends that can be found in all the scenes of the Imperium biome. It has the appearance of a fat man dressed in black, holding a cannon over his shoulder.

To attack, the Artillery Operator will at first ensure that it is at a fair distance from the player. After that, it will set the cannon onto the ground and sit beside it, and will enter firing mode, in which he will repeatedly load the cannon and shoot a bomb out of it onto the player's horizontal position. The process of loading and firing takes quite a long time, so its fire rate is limited. The bomb flies in an arc and will deal considerable damage when it hits the ground over a small area. A reticle indicates where the bomb will fall after it is fired. If the player is nearby, or if they move behind them and hence cannot be aimed at anymore, it will pick up its cannon again and try to move away. If they're even closer, it can attack by swinging its cannon downwards to hit them, for some sizeable amounts of damage as well, although it will avoid using the move if necessary, and it isn't particularly fast.

This enemy can deal the player large amounts of damage, and can hit them over large distances. However, the fact that the bomb flies in an arc means the only position where it can deal damage is the final target area, and it's unlikely the player will stay still for so long. Another problem is the fact that it can only aim horizontally, meaning avoiding it is often trivial. Although its melee attack is not to be underestimated, their low health means they generally won't survive a combo anyway.
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Christman mentions doing a mini book club for the book The Republic for Which It Stands by Ricard White where Christman talks about it every Wednesday for about 10 minutes.

## Transcript

Main article: SOLVING THE LAMENT CONFIGURATION ON STREAM LETS GOOOOOOO! 12.09.20 transcript

> I did, I bought the book, I bought it. Oh, right the book is The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White. I first heard about Richard Wite honestly, at least this book I mean he's written some other good ones. I first read this book when he was interviewed on Patrick Wyman's podcast, Tides of History which is very good and I trust Patrick a lot. He sounded really good in the interview so we're gonna start there. It's a very solid book, literally I could probably kill someone with it.
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## See also

Book Club: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

Gluten-Free Officers Movement

CozyCore: Omega Squadron

Book Recommendations

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The Andy Capp Putsch

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## See also

Flossing Towards Bethlehem

Return of the Snacc

CozyCore: Omega Squadron

Book Club: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

Book Recommendations

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"The Andy Capp Putsch" on Youtube

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The Rant Zone

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## Topics

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Pocky ASMR, US Balkanisation, Guns are Pacifiers, Open Letter in 'The Nation', Paddy Chayevski on Impotence, Upton Sinclair, Unwillingness to wield state power within Neo-liberalism

## Transcript

Main article: The Rant Zone 4.16.20 transcript

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O Captain, My Captain

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Matt Christman talks about the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, the 2020 American Presidential Election, third party presidential candidates, the American left in 2020, and, Matt Yglesias.

## Timestamps

00:00:01: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Election and The American Left.

00:51:06: Matt Yglesias.

## Transcript

Main article: O Captain, My Captain - 8 April, 2020

> R-I-P to a real one. I think I could say that with full earnestness. R-I-P to maybe the realest one we’ve ever seen. So, obviously Bernie dropped out today. We’re back where we started. Eternal recurrence is a real bitch, fucking annoying, but Nietzsche nailed that so well, asshole, fucking syphilitic, misogynist weirdo but he totally nailed it. There's no question that we live in eternal recurrence, that is our faith, that is our doom.
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Go-Chu-Jang Sauce

When not enjoying Heinz Ketchup, Matt's preferred sauce is the gochujang sauce. Strictly speaking the real stuff is thick and strongly fermented. It can be harsh on an American palate.

Matt recommends a "CJ's Korean Squeeze Tube Gochujang bimbimbop" sauce that he has subscribed to on Amazon (for which murder is no longer a moral crime against him).

It is highly suspected that he is referring to CJ Bibigo Go-Chu-Jang Hot & Sweet Sauce which comes in a squeeze bottle. The bottle is available in two designs but is the same. It is the consistency of ketchup, less strongly fermented, sweet and spicy, and confirmed delicious by Matt fanboy Jackson Jacker.
Hail to the Chimp II: Still Chimpin’

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## See also

Impeach My Bush

The Andy Capp Putsch

Flossing Towards Bethlehem

Return of the Snacc

CozyCore: Omega Squadron

Gluten-Free Officers Movement

Book Club: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

Book Recommendations

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Chapo Trap House 238 - The Mueller's Tale

Transcribed by @Vorpality

“There is no a la carte approach to this. It’s a totalized system of exploitation that needs to be overthrown. You can’t get people who are being fucked over by an economic order to go along with it without a whole lot of cultural grievances and resentment-based politics and fear to sort of distract them from it. So there’s no honorable Republican Party, because stripped of all that shit- they were on that path before Trump! They were looking into the face of electoral irrelevance. They wrote the paper after 2012. Because Romney WAS the unadorned Republican agenda of tax cuts, corporations are people, business friendly. And he lost. People were like, this guy doesn’t care about me. If he saw me he would toss me his keys because he thought I was the fuckin’ valet. And they were panicked about that. And then, against their own desire, by the sheer yearning of the lumpen American reactionaries for someone like Trump, he just gifted them the fucking solution to their problem. Saying, I can sell this dog, as long as I can give it the pageantry, the spectacle, and the racial button-pushing that it needs to be appealing to people who would otherwise find it clearly exploitative and not to their benefit.”

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https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-238-the-muellers-tale-82018
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Matt Christman on the history of fascism & the liberal hot takes that enable Trump

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### Transcript

Matt Christman on the history of fascism & the liberal hot takes that enable Trump transcript

## See also

Episode 245: Inebriated Past: The Monster Fash

Fascism II: The Legend of Adolf's Gold

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You don't suck the future, the future sucks you.

## You don't suck the future, the future sucks you.

### Producer

Chris Wade

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You don't suck the future, the future sucks you. transcript

## Topics

### Topics

Discussion of Kim Stanley Robinsons's The Ministry for the Future, Part 1

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Chapo Trap House 194 - F*ck 12

Transcribed by @Vorpality

“Marx got driven out of the academy 30 fucking years ago! You can’t get a Marxist interpretation of anything. But the reason this is even surface-level plausible to people is because the neoliberal turn happened simultaneously with the liberation of minorities and women in the West. And those two things, one of them kinda cloaked the other one. So people can point to The Problem and say, “well, look what happened once we got rid of these hierarchies”, as opposed to, “look what happened when Western capitalism went into prolonged crisis and it was restructured in a way that radically destroyed labor power and atomized communities and de-industrialized and scattered everybody to the f\*\*\*ing four winds and turned them into eternally precarious subjects who had no real economic security, no ability to pass on long-term security to their children.” That is masked by the fact that “well yeah, but now there’s more women in movies and more black people on TV.”

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https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-194-fck-12-feat-shuja-haider-and-elon-musk-31818
Disco Demolition Night

## Disco Demolition Night

### Producer

Chris Wade

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## Topics

### Topics

The 70s, Disco Demolition Night, Loco Focos, the Slow Collapse

## Books mentioned

* ***The Weimar Republic***, Eberhard Kolb (1980)
* ***The Ministry for the Future***, Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

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ESPN story about Disco Demolition, 1979 on Youtube
Reconstruction Junction

## Reconstruction Junction

### Producer

Chris Wade

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## Topics

### Topics

Eric Foner's Reconstruction Book Club Part 1

## See also

Reconstruction Junction II: Legend of Abe’s Gold

Eric Foner's Reconstruction Book Club

Book Recommendations

Book Clubs

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No-Growth Zone

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## Transcript

Main article: No-Growth Zone 1.12.21 transcript

> Honk, honk everybody. It’s Honk-pill time again. Uh, are we still doing sea-shanties on TikTok. This is cultural appropriation honestly from coastal salt-dogs. I will not stand for it. I’m triggering people by drinking a White Claw. I’m embodying Becky-hood. I have become Becky, destroyer of worlds. That’s me. So apparently people are starting to post out of context clips from the streams to try to cancel me but my takes are just too strong and correct to be cancelled so once again I can not be defeated, sorry. You’re not gonna get me because every word and sentence and expression is a perfectly crafted conceptual item and none of it is going to be—you can do nothing but try to squint at it to try to find out—to try to make up something. So sorry folks for the discerning online denizens there is just no way for it to hold water so boom.
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## See also

The Vulgar Boatmen

Coup Let the Dogs Out?

The Andy Capp Putsch

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Mind Realm: Zortex Protocol

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## Books mentioned

*Mindfulness in Plain English*, Henepola Gunaratana (1991)

"...[*Mindfulness in Plain English*] is a very good entryway to the practice of meditation and, essentially, trying in any way to shut your fucking mind off, which is the hardest thing in the world."

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CozyCore: Omega Squadron

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## Topics

### Topics

Prestige TV President, Richard White's "The Republic for Which It Stands" chapters 1-3

## Timestamps

26:54 - Book Club: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age chapters 1-3

## Transcript

Main article: CushVlog\_12.16.20\_Transcript

> Oh there we are, oh my god I'm on. I love it when it works. Oh I do not want to turn on notifications, good lord that sounds terrible. Why is it now saying I'm not on there any more? I was on there, now I'm not on there, what the fuck? What? Why? What? Oh there I am, there I am. Hey folks, I'm indoors because the great storm has come, the storm is coming. Q is right, oh my god the storm is here it's storming out. This is the storm that they spoke of and now we're having it. Storming it up, Ol' Stormy Daniels. Ah! Yeah, I'm honestly shocked I kind of thought that New York's Days of accumulating snow before March were over. Got to walk through it as it started really gave me um, old, old homesick vibes of Wisconsin freezing my ass off walking home from school, nice.
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## See also

Return of the Snacc

Flossing Towards Bethlehem

Gluten-Free Officers Movement

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Book Club: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

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Johnny Memenonic

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## Transcript

Main article: Johnny Memenonic 5.7.21 transcript
I love how many songs have been written that are basically about how show business is fake. A lot of people become stars and they are like, ‘You know what, I think a lot of these show folk out here in Hollyweird, they actually don't say what they mean all the time! Sometimes they tell you what you want to hear so they can pick your pocket! I mean, wha-what's going on?’ They all turn into Jimmy Stewart as soon they get to Hollywood. ‘Wha-what's going on around here? I sign a record contract and they're trying to screw me!’ So yeah. Sorry, Huckleberry. What did you think this was? And then they just *have* to write a song about it, to let everybody know. And then, what do you know, everybody just keeps trying to go into the dream factory and nobody is dissuaded, no matter how many of these songs get written or however many of these movies get made.

Because what else is there to seek? You wanna know why all the kids wanna be YouTubers, they wanna be content creators? And why everybody always wants to be an athlete or a rapper? It's because in the absence of any project, in the absence of any belief in a social order, any belief that your efforts put towards are going to be appreciated or utilized to any greater benefit to anyone, if the world is just cynical transactions, then what the fuck should you try to do with your life other than be the center of attention? To reify that identity, that singular consciousness that is the entirety of the universe?

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Chapo Trap House 389 - Game It Out

Transcribed by @Vorpality

“In my darker moments I reflect on the fact that caring about politics is a mental illness, kind of—what it is is essentially a mad and desperate search for a sense of control. It’s to feel like you have some sort of say over what’s going to happen, even though deep down in your darkest heart you know it’s not true. You know that you are totally at the whims of history and fate, the machinations of man and beast, and that you have very little say about where you end up. Politics is a way to feel like, “maybe I can influence it.” For the most part that’s what it is, a big displacement of one’s sense of helplessness. And that goes beyond caring about politics, it goes to voting, to being involved and everything, because it really is an illusion—politics really is beyond us for the most part. Huge forces like capitalism shape things beyond a scale that we could ever even comprehend because we’re so small. But—and I’ve been trying to fight against this for a year now because I don’t want to lose my way, I don’t want to get stars in my eyes—but I cannot get over this feeling, even when I’m feeling at my darkest and most pessimistic, that this is a moment that is the beginning of a chance to actually get closer to putting your hand somewhere close to the levers of destiny. Not with this election, not with this primary, not even with Bernie getting in—that’s just the opening of the door. You have to step through and you have to walk. But I really feel like that if we have an ability as a species to come together in a common recognition of humanity, that this is maybe our last chance to do it. But we might actually be able to.”

Timestamp 50:07

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Shack Chuds 2: The Legend of Mungo Fuck

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## Topics

### Topics

Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture, Escape from Rome, Dialectical materialism, Dialectical reasoning, Communication

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Tuesday Takes

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## Topics

### Topics

Neoliberal UBI, US: global consumer of last resort, future prospects of the United States, JFK Assassination

## Books mentioned

* ***JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters***, James W. Douglass (2010)
* ***The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government***, David Talbot (2016)

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Impeach My Bush

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## See also

The Andy Capp Putsch

Flossing Towards Bethlehem

Return of the Snacc

CozyCore: Omega Squadron

Book Club: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

Book Recommendations

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The Flesh Screams for Those Who Hear It

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## Transcript

Main article: The Flesh Screams for Those Who Hear It transcript
Hi guys. Sorry, I’m just trying to make sure that I properly credit someone for the inspiration for the episode title today. I did a tweet this morning, I think, actually about the debate and how the only message being sent there was the bodies of the two people on stage, and that the message was ‘we’re dying.’ And someone replied with ‘the flesh screams for those who hear it.’ And that stuck in my head, and I want to give a shout out to ApNubbs for replying to me with that. Because it's now the only thing I can think of when I think of that night, which I’m gonna be thinking about a lot, because for me it delivered on everything I was hoping it would be.

So I know everyone—and I know I was—saying beforehand, there's no way this thing's going to live up to what we want it to be or what I imagine, I guess, what I wanted it to be. And sure enough, of course, it couldn't. Because what are we waiting for? We're waiting for some sort of fracture moment, which will never happen because the system it’s embedded in will always normalize it. Which is why as the thing was happening, as these two demented fossils had exactly what everybody said would happen if they ever debated: a confused, random ejaculation of stutters and ‘um’s and placeholders and circular wording around nothing, because their heads are empty, because they're not there. They're at the point of most people's lives where the doctors, they just give you prescriptions for anything because, ‘Hey, let them have fun with it. Who cares, it doesn't matter if they get addicted or whatever. They're not going to run out into traffic.’ They're at that stage, they're at the ‘let's have fun’ stage of drug use for elderly people, and they're supposed to be in charge—arguing about the presidency.

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"Cytryna 2"

**"Cytryna 2"** – łódź podwodna Fandorina, była drugą wersją "Cytryny" i stąd wziął się jej numer.

## Wygląd

"Cytryna 2" kształtem przypominała podłużną cytrynę z cylindryczną naroślą w postaci nadbudówki. Miała podwójny kadłub z niezwykle mocnego, ale lekkiego aluminium, dzięki czemu wyporność nie przekraczała pięciu ton. Była wyposażona w dwa silniki: Diesla i elektryczny oraz trzy kauczukowe koła zamontowane od spodu przez Pete'a Bulla. Od spodu znajdował się również właz komory dekompresyjnej. Łódź potrafiła rozwinąć wyjątkowo dużą prędkość pod wodą - do ośmiu węzłów, a maksymalna głębokość zanurzenia wynosiła do sześćdziesięciu metrów.

## Historia

Łódź podwodna została zbudowana przez Erasta Pietrowicza Fandorina i Petera Bulla na początku XX wieku. Miała zastąpić przestarzałą "Cytrynę 1" i służyć Fandorinowi do eksploracji dna morskiego w okolicach Aruby.

Podczas zanurzenia woda wypierała powietrze ze zbiorników balastowych do wnętrza łodzi, wskutek czego wzrastało ciśnienie, a w środku robiło się gorąco i duszno. Dlatego Pete Bull opracował gumowe węże, którymi niepotrzebne powietrze było wyprowadzane za burtę. Dodatkowo dzięki kołom zamontowanym przez Bulla łódź mogła miękko osiadać na dnie, a nawet toczyć się po równym terenie. W 90% "Cytryna 2" była dziełem Bulla, a tylko w 10% Fandorina. Wkład Masy ograniczał się do tego, że wymyślił herb i namalował go wodoodporną farbą na stalowej płycie. Herb przedstawiał ostrą strzałę (symbolizującą Fandorina zmierzającego do wybranego Celu) i naciągnięty łuk (symbolizujący wasala pomagającego panu na jego Drodze - łuk był tak samo krótki i pękaty jak Masa, więc to jego alegorią miał być łuk). Dodatkowym ukrytym znaczeniem był brak Bulla, bo Masa uważał, że nie ma dla niego miejsca w ich towarzystwie. Następnie Masa przymocował flagsztok ze swoim dziełem na rufie łodzi.

Nazwę łodzi nadano ze względu na kształt, a numer ze względu na to, że była udoskonaloną przez Bulla wersją "Cytryny". Zdaniem Fandorina była to najlepsza łódź podwodna na świecie.

We wrześniu 1903 roku na potrzeby misji na Wyspach Kanaryjskich Bull zmienił konstrukcję nadbudówki i zamontował peryskop.

W nocy z 24 na 25 października 1903 roku "Cytryna 2" została zniszczona u brzegów wyspy Saint Constantin obok podwodnego wejścia do Atlantis. Wroga łódź podwodna należąca do Zakonu Amfibia wystrzeliła w jej kierunku torpedę wypełnioną krankitem. Dzięki systemowi naprowadzania akustycznego pocisk trafił w silnik "Cytryny 2". Łódź eksplodowała, ale Fandorinowi i Masie udało się przeżyć.
Andriejew

**Andriejew** – moskiewski privatdozent.

Nosił okulary.

Miał psa Hektora, czarnego z lewą krzywą łapą i białą łatą na piersi. Mieszkał w domu hrabiny Tołstoj przy Wielkiej Ordynce.

28 stycznia 1886 roku Andriejewowi zaginął jego pies. W numerze "Wiedomosti Moskowskoj Gorodskoj Policyi" z 11 lutego 1886 roku zamieścił ogłoszenie, że znalazca psa otrzyma 50 rubli nagrody. Anisij znalazł to ogłoszenie, szukając czegoś związanego z Waletem Pikowym i uznał, że 50 rubli to bardzo duża nagroda jak za znalezienie psa. Postanowił odwiedzić Andriejewa, aby to zbadać. Lecz privatdozent opowiedział mu tylko swoją historię, zakończywszy tłumionym męskim szlochem.
One Hundred Years of Vlogitude

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## Transcript

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> The appeal is transcendent of race, and the way you experience race can very much be put on a scale with a bunch of other identities and can be found to be by you to be less persuasive to direct you towards something, which is why the standpoint epistemology that undergirds so much identity politics and like, theories of both understanding political reality & formulating praxis is hollow and insane. Because, there is no totalized racial experience that overgirds every other part of a person’s identity and decision making matrix. And so you cannot use that to determine the rightness or wrongness of someone’s fuckin political beliefs.
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Boxing Club Charming Witch

## General Considerations

Fight with Charming Witch (one of Iblis' minions) in Boxing Club is unlocked after getting a gold frame for its card in Bestiary. The requirement is to defeat 500 enemies of this type.

When the fight begins, one enemy spawns at the top right corner of the ring. This enemy has a set amount of items and health, individual to each character.

## Item Setups for Each Character

* Quan Huying:  **+**  **+**
* Ginzo: **+**  **+**  **+**  **+**
* Katherine:  **+**  **+**  **+**
* Akaisha:  **+**  **+**  **+**
* Gérard Quentin:  **+**  **+**
* Peddler: **+**  **+**  **+**  **+**
* Oli:  **+**  **+**  **+**  **+**
* Hannah:  **+**  **+**  **+**
* Hillding: **+**  **+**  **+**
* Penhaligon:  **+**  **+**  **+**  **+**
* Hayfa: **+**  **+**  **+**

## Statue Poses and Prices

* Spawn Animation: 500 Soul Stones
* Stun Animation 1: 200 Soul Stones.
* Stun Animation 2: 200 Soul Stones.
* Stun Animation 3: 200 Soul Stones.
* Death Animation: 650 Soul Stones.
* Teleporting Animation: 1,500 Soul Stones.
* Magic Ball Shooting Animation: 1,000 Soul Stones.
* Heart Projectile Shooting Animation: 1,000 Soul Stones.
* Heart Dance Animation: 1,500 Soul Stones.

**Total Amount: 6,750 Soul Stones.**
"Sancy"

**"Sancy"** – jeden z największych diamentów świata.

W XV wieku "Sancy" trafił w ręce burgundzkiego księcia Karol Śmiałego. Władca głęboko wierzył, że kamień ma magiczną moc i zapewni mu zwycięstwo w bitwach. Karol zabrał diament ze sobą, jadąc na bitwę ze Szwajcarami, ale nie uratowało go to. Książę zginął, a kamień został zabrany przez żołnierza, który nie był świadomy jego prawdziwej wartości.

W swojej historii "Sancy" wielokrotnie zmieniał właściciela. Należał m.in. do władców Portugalii, Anglii, Francji, książąt rosyjskich i indyjskich. Wstatecznie w 1978 roku został sprzedany muzeum w Luwrze za cenę miliona dolarów.
Boomer Mindset

> And now Millenials, it's all just a different deformation of Boomer. It's all that self-conscious, like, the idea of a generation that sees itself as a generation right there you have Boomer Mindset. So every generation that thinks that way has Boomer Mindset. So we are all Boomers. One hundred percent Boomer. Even the terrifying Zoomers, even the children are basically Boomers. I mean they're Zoomers it rhymes. It's Boomers all the way down. So I will say it, at least I will admit it. I have burrowed through the levels of mystifying ideology that makes me think, oh no I am this generation, these things means something other than just a culture talking itself to death while it slowly sinks into oblivion unable to muster any opposition to a Neoliberal dissolving of all social and ecological foundations.
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-Cushbomb, Dracula Time
Too Many Karens!

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## Books mentioned

*The Culture of Make Believe*, Derrick Jensen (2002)

* Matt called it the most subversive book he has ever read: "...It was such a shock reading [*The Culture of Make Believe*], and it was such a challenge, that I ended up having to break down and reconfigure a number of things that I had held as assumptions. And even though I don't think that he's right in any kind of removed, objective sense, I feel like — for me, anyways — his contribution to my intellectual development was very useful."

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"Anglia"

**"Anglia"** – moskiewski hotel.

Znajdował się na rogu ulic Stolesznikowej i Pietrowki, pięć minut piechotą od hotelu "Dussault". Hotel był urządzony podobnie jak "Dussault". Był obficie złocony na sufitach i było w nim dużo marmurowych ozdób. Przy wejściu było światło elektryczne. Na trzy najwyższe piętra dało się wjechać windą, a w westybulu znajdował się telefon. W recepcji była tablica z wypisanymi nazwiskami gości. Wśród gości byli najrozmaitsi zagraniczni handlowcy, maklerzy giełdowi, aktorzy renomowanych teatrów.

W skrzydle z osobnym wejściem mieszkanie wynajęła Wanda – była to przybudówka, gdzie śpiewaczka zajęła cały parter. Nad wysokimi oknami zwisał balkon pierwszego piętra spoczywający na barkach stadka kariatyd. Nadmiar zdobień na fasadzie sugerował, że budynek powstał w latach sześćdziesiątych.

W nocy z 24 na 25 czerwca 1882 roku w sypialni Wandy w hotelu "Anglia" zmarł generał Sobolew.

## Ciekawostki

* "Anglia" był autentycznym moskiewskim hotelem. W II połowie XIX wieku pokoje wynajmowały tu głównie kobiety na potajemne schadzki. 25 czerwca 1882 roku w jednym z pokojów w "Anglii" zmarł generał Skobielew, historyczny pierwowzór książkowego generała Sobolewa. W noc swojej śmierci generał spotykał się z damą do towarzystwa Charlotte Altenroz. Hotel "Anglia" został wyburzony na początku XX wieku.
Game Theory: Reckoning

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### Topics

The 2020 corporate giveaway, neoliberal UBI, the misguided focus of the left on Biden vs Trump, grillpill, Buddhism, social and workplace alienation, a US military coup, US military incompetence, the alternative to neoliberal international institutions, whether to boycott the 2020 election

## Transcript

Main article: Game Theory: Reckoning 4.19.20 transcript

> I have seen the new Biden ad, and holy mackerel. Holy shit. It's pretty funny. I mean yeah, it's racist, and that is bad, but, man. The thing it really indicates is that they're going to campaign by taking all of Trump's principles and saying-- they're gonna take all of Trump's, like, basic campaigning talking points and frames and saying "Nuh-uh!" Because they can't offer alternatives. They can't offer alternatives. Right now we're seeing this fucking recovery, this, this, this crisis economy being a giveaway, exactly like it was in 2008, a giveaway to the richest people in the country. We've got a fucking small business slush fund, basically, that's being raided by any corporate-- big corporation with a fucking, half way competent attorney or accounting firm. People are gonna be completely left out, SOL. No unemployment, no rent jubilee, no debt jubilee. You still owe everything. What, you can get maybe some COBRA. Some COBRA, and the thing about the COBRA is that you don't get it any cheaper, they just get paid more. And what is the alternative? The alternative is "Trump said that he did a good job with the Chinese, but actually no, he did a bad job with the Chinese!" Oh shit, really? Okay, so one way or another we are all in agreement that is about how much it is China's fault, and who's gonna do a better job of confronting them over it. That's it? That's the solution? Not anything that could allow people to fucking survive this, or have any hope of coming out of it with anything other than absolute [???], you fucking leeches and scumbags?
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Absalom

**Absalom** – członek wspólnoty mormonów "Niebiańscy Bracia".

Jozjasz i Absalom byli jeszcze chłopcami. Policzki i podbródek jednego porastał śmieszny długi puch, podobny do gęsiego pierza. Drugi miał włoski twardsze i jeszcze dłuższe, ale było ich bardzo niewiele.

W nocy z 26 na 27 sierpnia 1894 roku Jozjasz i Absalom zobaczyli Fandorina i wzięli go za Jeźdźca bez Głowy. Schwytali go na lasso, ale detektyw ich ogłuszył i odwiózł związanych do osady. Mormoni byli wdzięczni Fandorinowi i zapowiedzieli, że młodzieńców czeka kara.

Przed świtem 27 sierpnia 1894 roku wszyscy mormoni poszli nad urwisko, gdzie trzynaście lat wcześniej powieszono Rozłupanego Kamienia. Gdy Moroniusz zaczął nieść głowę indiańskiego wodza w stronę urwiska, z mgły wyjechał Ted Rattler przebrany za upiora. Przerażeni Celestianie uciekli do osady, a ich przywódca w ciemności i mgle spadł z urwiska. Następnie Celestianie uciekli z doliny. Ich dalsze losy są nieznane.
Chapo Trap House 133 - Antifap

Transcribed by @Vorpality

“Fascism arises because of the collapse of institutional legitimacy of liberal institutions. That's how we got fucking Trump, and that's how we are going to get what's coming next after him that's going to be even worse. Because, if you think there's not going to be more economic and ecological catastrophe in the future, that liberalism is wholly unsuited to fucking deal with, and that failure is not going to lead to fascism filling that fucking hole, you've got another thing coming. And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville. These are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism we are living in, which is that we are coming at a point where there is going to be ecological catastrophe, and it's going to either require mass redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, if that's the choice, I choose genocide. And they are getting everybody else ready intellectually and emotionally for why that's going to be okay when it happens. Why they’re not really people. When we’re putting all this money into more fucking walls, and drones, and bombs, and guns to keep em away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's going to be because we have been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, you have people who are saying in full fucking voice, 'NO! We have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a fucking decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want.' And THAT is the fucking real difference between these two. You can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they are actually two sides to the same coin.”

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