We take a look at the new sickos corrupting your children and teaching them cunnilingus wrong

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GAME BOYS:
https://caveat.nyc/event/hard-drive-presents-game-boys-9-16-2022/

Sicko Of The Week

After briefly and respectfully exploring the Israel twitter AMA, Anders interviews Mikey from the Oahu Water Protectors about the struggle to close the Red Hill underground fuel facility in Hawaii.

VENMO @ shutdownredhillmutualaid
HELP OUT: https://airtable.com/shr5bqWak8yxviD35
WEBSITE: oahuwaterprotectors.org

GAME BOYS
https://caveat.nyc/event/hard-drive-presents-game-boys-9-16-2022/

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Red Hill Madness w/ Mikey

Originally published to Patreon on 9/11/2021. 

In this third edition of Shano's Brainos (really, that's still what we're calling it) on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Shane talks through the disastrous and ongoing war on terror, how imperial ideologies get formed, and considers what it means to live through history.

Unlocked: Shano's Brainos - 9/11

"Education... is a great equalizer of conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery," stated school reformer Horace Mann in 1848. "Math is the great equalizer," preached Jaime Escalante, Edward James Olmos’ character, in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. "The best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education," announced Barack Obama during his 2010 State of the Union address.

This message is everywhere, pervading political speeches, Oscar-bait films, think-tank papers, and everything in between. The key to economic upward mobility—we’re endlessly told, is education—a societal building block that is, or at least should be, accessible to every child, no matter their race, gender, or income level. It's a seductive, seemingly unassailable conceit, suggesting that we live in a meritocracy where second chances and generational wealth-building are possible, even probable, with a few simple tools.

But is there any truth to this idea? There’s a growing body of evidence showing that education level does not, in fact, necessarily translate to higher wages. Which raises the questions: Why has the idea that education is the ultimate anti-poverty tool persisted? Whose interests are served in its continuation? And who, in turn, pays the price?

On this episode, the Season Six premiere of Citations Needed, we detail and debunk the widespread conventional wisdom that education is the rising tide that lifts all boats, looking at the ways it reinforces themes of individualism and personal responsibility; obscures systemic issues like racism and worker exploitation in the labor market; and ultimately keeps people entrenched in, rather than liberating them from, poverty and low-wage work.

Our guest is Lake Forest professor Cristina Viviana Groeger.

Episode 166: The Convenient Conventional Wisdom of "Education as Great Equalizer" Appeals

Anders talks to labor writer Jonah Furman about the ongoing rail strike. But first, some good vibes.

JONAH FURMAN
@labornotes
jonah@labornotes.org
https://www.labornotes.org/author/5777/content

BOTANICAL COMEDY
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Yeeeeaaaaahhh w/ Jonah Furman

"Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?," inquires The New York Times. "Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?," The Atlantic wonders. "Gerontocracy Is Hurting Democracy," insists New York Magazine’s Intelligencer. "Too old to run again? Biden faces questions about his age as crises mount," The Guardian reports.

Though these headlines are framed as exploratory questions, news media seem to have their minds made up: the problem with Washington is that it’s chock full of geezers. In recent years, we’ve often heard that U.S. policymaking, helmed at the federal level by seventy- and eighty-somethings like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi, and at the state level by the similarly aged Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley and Pat Leahy, is simply growing too old and out of touch with the electorate.

There’s some credence to this, of course. It’s certainly true that those occupying the most powerful positions in U.S. government, on the whole, don’t legislate to the needs of the public – whether on healthcare, policing, education – the list goes on and on. But is that really because of legislators' age? Why does age have to be the focus in this analysis, rather than policy positions and, relatedly, class interests, which exist independent of age? Who does it serve to reduce the causes of U.S. austerity politics and violence to pat, Pepsi marketing-style "generation gap" discourse?

On this episode show, we detail how "generations" analysis is ineffectual and, more often than not, misses the mark. We'll discuss how fears of a "gerontocracy" can – if not in intent, in effect – malign old age itself, stigmatize the elderly and, above all, distract from what could be a substantive critical analysis of real, more profound vectors of oppression such as class, racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ currents.

Our guest in Winslow Erik Wright.

Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse

Podcaster from Death Panel and co-author of the new book Health Communism, Beatrice Adler-Bolton joins us to discuss capitalism's role in HEALTH, disability activism, the healthcare industry and MORE. Also we talk about Biden and trains.

BEATRICE ADLER-BOLTON
@realLandsEnd
@DeathPanel
https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
https://www.beatriceadlerbolton.com/

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Health Communism w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Part 4 of First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship book club, lots of love

Grill Stream

226 - Shipping Up to Costin' 09.16.22

This week: Elon Musk's car is a boat, Florida is destroyed, Jair Bolsonaro may or may not have done a funny dance

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COME TO GAME BOYS
https://caveat.nyc/events/hard-drive-presents-game-boys-10-22-2022

CHECK OUT WHY YOU MAD
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CHECK OUT QUORATORS
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ANDERS' SUBSTACK
https://anderslee.substack.com/p/from-world-war-to-class-war-pt-1

Bathroom Radicalism

A special pardon for no one from President Biden, some loose Mario discussion, and a visit from Kentucky congressional candidate Conor Halbleib

CHECK OUT CONOR
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GAME BOYS
https://caveat.nyc/events/hard-drive-presents-game-boys-10-22-2022

WHY YOU MAD
https://www.patreon.com/whyyoumad

ANDERS SUBSTACK
https://anderslee.substack.com/

Bong Of The Unknown Soldier w/ Conor Halbleib

We went to the NYPD's Nu-Metal ass Haunted House.

ANDREW HILARY
@AndrewHilaryUS
@WorstWeekYet
worstweekyet.com

BRAD PEARSON
@BradicalPearson
selfworst.com

MERCH
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PATREON + DISCORD
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House of 1000 Porkers w/ Andrew Hilary & Brad Pearson

Gothic socialist comedy podcast by three idiot comedians: Jake Flores, Alex Ptak and Anders Lee. @poddamnamerica 
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Health Communism w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton

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