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Once upon a time, a man became a wandering warrior, testing himself against the best in the land and beat the hell out of them with a combination of hyper violence and trolling.

Sources:

Miyamoto Musashi. The Book of the Five Rings

O’Brien Brown. Miyamoto Mushashi: Samurai Legend

William Scott Wilson. The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi

Episode 332 - Miyamoto Musashi, The Troll Samurai

Pinball Sports personality Tony Ropes (Andrew) interviews country superstar Bryden Brantley (Charles) and his mother (Branson) about his contentious breakup with podcaster Kelly Shoestring (Alana). E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

363 - Hogtied with Tony Ropes

"The Bad Guys Are Winning," wrote Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic in 2021. "The War on History Is a War on Democracy," warned Timothy Snyder in The New York Times, also in 2021. "The GOP has found a Putin-lite to fawn over. That's bad news for democracy," argued Ruth Ben-Ghiat on MSNBC the following year, 2022.

Within the last 10 years or so, and especially since the 2016 election of Trump, these authors — Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in addition to several others — have become liberal-friendly experts on authoritarianism. On a regular basis, they make appearances on cable news and in the pages of legacy newspapers and magazines–in some cases, as staff members–in order to warn of how individual, one-off “strongmen” like Trump, Putin, Orban, and Xi, made up a vague “authoritarian” axis hellbent on destroying Democracy for its own sake.

But what good does this framing do and who does it absolve? Instead of meaningfully contending with US's sprawling imperial power and internal systems of oppression — namely being the largest carceral state in the world — these MSNBC historians reheat decades-old Axis of Evil or cold War good vs evil rhetoric, pinning the horrors of centuries of political violence on individual "mad men." Meanwhile, they selectively invoke the "authoritarian" label, fretting about the need to save some abstract notion of democracy from geopolitical Bad Guys while remaining silent as the US funds, arms and backs the most authoritarian process imaginable — the immiseration and destruction of an entire people — specifically in Gaza. 

On this episode, we look at the advent and influence of MSNBC-approved historians, dissecting their selective anti-authoritarian posture and discussing how their work does little more than polish their careers and provide cover for US and US-allied militarism.

Our guest is historian and author Greg Grandin.

Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians

This week we catch up on news at the global scale, as well as try to answer why exactly so many people cheered on the public execution of a health insurance CEO. Finally we take a quick look at Trump's (current) nominee(s) for Secretary of Defense. 

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Episode 370: Who Checks The Balances

Max Read (https://maxread.substack.com/) is back to talk through Silicon Valley’s Trump victory leap, the hard tech revolution in Southern California, the future of AI in Trump’s hands and whether or not we can produce drugs in space. 

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Episode 423: Down in the Gundo

We catch up briefly on news around the arrest of the alleged UHC CEO assassin. Then, journalist and musician Jael Holzman returns to the show to discuss a new piece she has for Rolling Stone on the potential threats to trans people in the coming Trump administration. We look at the rather grim potential of massively undermining of trans medical care, the equally grim state of Democratic opposition, and the general fecklessness with which Democrats have handled what Joe Biden once called the “civil rights issue of our time” in both policy and rhetoric.

Read Jael’s piece here: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-trans-health-care-republicans-democrats-1235198473/

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892 - Talking Points Memo feat. Jael Holzman (12/10/24)

In a new series by Felix, Josh (@ettingermentum), and Spencer, we ask: how did the Republican Party, once the dominant force in American culture for almost a generation, become a group of bowtied cosplayers and rapist streamers yelling about Litterboxes? We trace this development back to the empires built by two men—Paul Weyrich and James Dobson—as well as the failures of one Pat Buchanan.

This episode draws from Dan Gilgoff’s The Jesus Machine and David Grann’s “Robespierre Of The Right.” For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking

Seeking A Fren for the End of the World

Seeking a Fren for the End of the World: Episode 1 - This is Really Just the Beginning

This week we're joined by Harry and Maya from Writers Against the War on Gaza (W.A.W.O.G.) to discuss the myriad crimes of the New York Times, as well as the newspaper's role and function in both empire-building and political economy. 

W.A.W.O.G. also publish an alternative newspaper called the New York War Crimes, which can be found here: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/

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Episode 372: Stealing The Voice Of Authority (feat. Writers Against the War on Gaza)

We share the best films of 2024 and are 100% correct, because we've seen everything, and are never, ever, wrong. Nope. No blind spots. Smooth sailing. Unimpeachable. 

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#411 - The Best Films of 2024

Vous avez des questions, nous avons des réponses. Pas forcément à ces questions, mais bon.

Avec Anouck.

2'58 : une intégrale Dhanush ?
5'29 : quid de la mode des films catastrophe français des dix dernières années ?
8'11 : des émissions avec les collègues de Mad Movies ?
9'26 : nos pires expériences en salle
13'22 : un avis sur Peter Jackson ?
15'06 : Paolo Sorrentino ? Koji Wakamatsu ?
16'10 : est-ce que Discordia ne manque pas de discorde
17'25 : du coup, Discordia, qu'est-ce que c'est
21'56 : slip, boxer ou caleçon
22'45 : Shah Rukh, président du monde ?
23'49 : une émission sur les sorties indiennes ?
26'58 : Tinnu Anand ou Johnny Lever ?
29'10 : les castes dans le cinéma indien 
33'33 : les suggestions d'Amandine pour découvrir l'histoire indienne*
34'22 : une intégrale Salman Khan ?
35'16 : les cinématographies à suivre
42'49 : un mea culpa sur Ajay Devgn ?
43'48 : nos attentes ciné / musique de l'année
46'28 : nos doublages cultes
51'07 : peut-encore rêver avec le cinéma ?
53'46 : accompagner son enfant vers le cinéma**
57'04 : d'autres points sur l'horreur hors série ?
57'54 : une nouvelle expression proscrite
58'11 : pourquoi tant de haine envers Aaron Sorkin ?
1'04'09 : pourquoi le procès des années 1990 ?
1'05'20 : n'est-ce pas donner des armes à ceux qui vilipendent les goûts de la jeunesse ?
1'10'06 : parmi les intégrales traitées, des avis ont-ils infléchi ?
1'11'53 : un nouvel épisode de la série Pas mal, non ?
1'13'22 : combien de temps prend un épisode de Discordia ?***

*  Christophe Jaffrelot, L'Inde contemporaine de 1950 à nos jours
Michel Boivin "Histoire de l'Inde"  
Anne Viguier, "Une brève histoire de l'Inde"
France Culture : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/concordance-des-temps/en-inde-l-hindouisme-histoire-et-pouvoir-7376782 Radio France : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-des-indes-a-l-inde-les-avatars-du-nationalisme https://bnu.hypotheses.org/5380 Les vidéos du forum France-Inde https://sites.google.com/view/lesforumsfranceinde/webinaires?pli=1  

** la reco d'Anouck : https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/pizza-night-movie-logbooks
https://austinkleon.com/2023/12/07/pizza-night-blockbusters-2021-2023/

*** court-métrage bonus 

https://www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com/

https://liberapay.com/Dis-cor-dia

Discordia épisode 96 : FAQ 2025, 1ère partie

In the inaugural episode of the Chapo Trap House Podcast, Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic), Matt Christman (@Cushbomb), and Will Menaker (@willmenaker) discuss logical fallacies and take a sideways glance at a wacky week in US politics that saw Bernie win Michigan, Hillary support the Contras and Reagan's AIDS policies, and Trump getting kicked out of Chicago. We also game out the possible post politics career of Marco Rubio and pledge our support to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. All this plus much, much more. 