Name: The Gods of Podcasting 27 - Extraordinary Alien (ft. Raina Douris) [Patreon Preview] by E1
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Description: Raina talks about the time she powerplayed Barbra Streisand and reveals whether or not she has intentions to commit espionage or sabotage in the United States. Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103291869

Charles takes it upon himself to record a Christmas special this year, despite his tepid interest in the holiday. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

313 - Charles Austin’s Reluctant Christmas Special

"Join Wall Street. Save the world," The Washington Post urged in 2013. "How to Know Your Donations Are Doing the Most Good," The New York Times proclaimed in 2015. "I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too," Vox advised last November.

Each of these headlines tops a piece that extols the virtues of Effective Altruism, a philanthropic philosophy, for lack of a better term, ostensibly dedicated to the pursuit of the best ways to address large-scale, global ills like pandemics and factory farming, informed by “evidence and reason.” The school of thought, popularized by figures like the academic and author Peter Singer and disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been widely embraced – or at least uncritically boosted – in mainline media for years.

Superficially, this makes sense. Effective Altruism seems unimpeachably virtuous: It’s great if people want to solve the world’s problems, and so much the better if they’ve done their research. But beneath this surface lies a deeply reactionary movement, predicated on an age-old desire to characterize the wealthy as the solution to, rather than the cause of, the very problems they purport to want to solve.

On this episode, we parse the rise, motives, and influence of Effective Altruism. We look at how the doctrine gamifies wealth distribution, falsely portrays the rich as uniquely qualified to make decisions about public welfare, often provides cover for eugenics and racism, and masquerades as a groundbreaking ethos of data-driven compassion while it merely regurgitates a 100-year-old rich person ideology of supposedly benevolent control over the masses.

Our guest is Dr. Linsey McGoey.

Ep 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media's Softball Treatment of 'Effective Altruism'

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We play some of the many, many, many messages we’ve received this past week. Gossip, conspiracy, blind items, and Ghislaine Maxwell’s idea for a breast-shaped mouse

The hotline is permanently open at ‪(646) 801-1129‬.

Episode 355: Tip Line [trailer]

Hello seekers! Today we're all back and taking your calls. We hear from people with BPD, people who have girlfriends with BPD, help a guy who wants to have sex with another guy in front of his girlfriend, and decide if it's healthy to be turned on by your own reflection. 
Leave a voicemail for us at (332) 203 - 8247
and find tickets to SHOW PIG here: https://www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/show-pig-a-live-comedy-podcast-spectacular-with-seeking-derangements/

SD 297 - BPD (Best Person Disorder)

Cara stops by to celebrate our 300th episode! We talk about East Coast vs Tennessee vs Louisiana, best and worst fast foods, astrology, and much more. Find weekly bonus episodes on our Patreon

SD 300 - We Did It Yall w Cara Cunningham

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We finally visit CHAOS author Tom O’Neill at his place in LA to talk about the CIA, Charles Manson, the 1960s, and two decades of trying to put it all together. Part 2 of 2.

Check out Tom O'Neill's book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the 1960s here: amazon.com/Chaos-Charles-Manson-History-Sixties/dp/0316477559

Episode 371: Cease to Exist (Part 2) [trailer]

Dickheads Daniel “Dave” Lewis (Branson), Travis Seltzer (Andrew), and Bobby Halo (Charles) discuss their business ideas and their favorite bars as they pregame for Jobbie Nooner. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

331 - Dickheads

Raina talks about the time she powerplayed Barbra Streisand and reveals whether or not she has intentions to commit espionage or sabotage in the United States. Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103291869

The Gods of Podcasting 27 - Extraordinary Alien (ft. Raina Douris) [Patreon Preview]

We’re joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insider’s perspective of the current state of college administration, and a discussion of just why colleges and universities around the country are reacting with such extreme opposition and often violence to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. Topics include increasingly corporate university structure, internal bias against certain perspectives and student organizing, and the foreign influence over university operations.

Chapo Trap House

Bonus: Inside Higher Ed

A discussion of the corporatization of media, his departure from The Intercept, how stories get "killed" and how conspiracy theorists and MAGA supporters' claims about the media get their oxygen — with Ken Klippenstein, investigative journalist.

Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to podcast mini-series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA

Ken Klippenstein: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/

Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (http://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)

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QAA was formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

A Farewell To Bad News feat Ken Klippenstein (E278)

“Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard,” explained Harold Pollack in Vox in 2016. “The benefits of climate action…are diffuse and hard to pin down,” shrugged a Foreign Affairs article in 2020. “A nuanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” presented Aliza Pilichowski in The Jerusalem Post in 2023.

Each of the above is an example of something that can be called "Nuance Trolling": The insistence that some major beneficial development like single-payer healthcare, ending wars and bombing campaigns, or the mitigation, even cessation, of climate change is impossible because the situation is too nuanced, the plan too lacking in detail, the goal too hard to achieve, the public isn’t behind it or some other bad faith “concern” that makes bold action an impossibility. Nuance Trolls present power-serving defeatism as savvy pragmatism, claiming over and over that no good, meaningful change can happen because no version of it will ever work.

Nuance and complexity, of course, are real, legitimate things. Political, social, environmental, and economic dynamics often are complicated. But Nuance Trolls abuse this self-evident truism, using it as a mode of analysis designed to weaken  and water down movements for change that seek actual, material solutions to political problems, and instead promoting inaction to ensure the continuation of the already oppressive status quo. 

On this episode, we examine the rise of the Nuance Troll and analyze the media’s selective invocation of “nuance” in order to stifle urgent movements for social justice, reducing poverty, curbing climate chaos and ending occupation and war. 

Our guest is Natasha Lennard.

Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling

Each episode is the first—and only—episode of a failed podcast.

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The Gods of Podcasting 27 - Extraordinary Alien (ft. Raina Douris) [Patreon Preview]

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