Wait you guys believe the 9/11 commision report?

Thank you guys for covering the insane Oregon militia checkpoints that are out here stopping people looking for "antifa"... it's getting completely out of hand

ah yes, because in order to believe in q you have to believe all of it, because the world is entirely black and white

oh right, antifa is an imaginary group that doesn't exist. please ignore the flags with their own name they constantly wave, the groups they organize and the violence they commit at protests.

haha yes because it's entirely your fault if you believe human beings aren't all stupid and irrational. cynicism is totally rad.

you mean news media covered the qanon rally in a neutral and objective manner instead of denouncing them as pure evil? I guess the media being biased and skewed is fine if it's politically convenient for you

@noraddk: lmao imagine thinking some cokehead's ramblings are philosophically sound

Moral panic as herpes, what a brilliant comparison

Listen up partner, today you'll be meeting the forest troll who can reverse your mandated vasectomy 

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 255: Polydore Cowboys

Many people threatened to move to Canada when George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004, but the dramedy BLUE STATE (2007) imagines a character who actually did it. Many references to 2004-era liberal ephemera ensue, and the hosts of the Michael & Us podcast are sharply divided on this milquetoast indie starring Breckin Meyer and Anna Paquin.

Michael and Us

#349 - The Donkey Revolution

Charles and Alex dig into The Wiggles' discography and wonder why Pitchfork's revised Best Albums of the '90s list doesn't include any music for babies. Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/73016421

135 - Dippy Do Dinosaur Dance [Patreon Preview]

European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen warned China and Russia are a “global challenge” to Western hegemony. She called for weakening their influence in the Global South, cutting their access to raw materials, opposing Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, and expanding the EU.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fW4Sc6JAJEs

Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/13/von-der-leyen-eu-china-russia-threats

Our past report "NATO’s 2022 plan declares second cold war on Russia and China": https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/08/nato-2022-strategic-concept-russia-china

EU calls China and Russia ‘threats’ in ‘war for the future of the entire world’

This is our new series where we just talk. Most of these will be on Patreon only. https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

The Gods of Podcasting 01 - When It Comes to Gruel, Do You Prefer Millet or Barley?

Branson and Patrick Doran (@lunch_enjoyer) discuss the 2015 Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda film Minions. Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78315452

Pop That Corn 12 - Minions (ft. Patrick Doran) [Patreon Preview]

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Christian satanism, end of history, banana discourse, Bernie 2020, military dictatorship, Obama's 4th term, gulf war trading cards

Grill Stream

257 - Polypocalypse 07.21.23

The moon is hollow. Or so Roland Emmerich would like you to believe. We explore his 2022 megaflop "Moonfall".

Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

http://qanonanonymous.com

Premium Episode 221: Moonfall (2022) Movie Night (Sample)

"Hitler was a product of his time," historian Kent Gardner told us in 1975, just thirty years after the end of World War II. "Was Frank Rizzo racist, or just a product of his time?" The Philadelphia Inquirer pondered in 2017 about the city's notoriously racist former police commissioner and mayor just 26 years after his death. "Christopher Columbus, no saint, was product of his time," explained a 2013 commentary in the Staten Island Advance.

We often hear this sentiment in reference to historical atrocities. Slaveowners, colonizers, genocidal tyrants, and right-wing bigots from decades or centuries past didn't know any better. They were simply responding to the time and place in which they lived — a different time, marked by different social mores, moral standards, and laws.

While it's perhaps fair to cite this cliche to explain, rather than justify, awkward song lyrics or offensive language and stereotypes used in movies from decades ago. But it's an entirely different issue with respect to how we venerate and remember the past. Especially since, in the most popular cases, famous people’s bad actions were roundly criticized, at the time.

Long popular as a catch-all to hand-wave away the misdeeds of slaveowners, colonizers and war mongers, Increasingly educational movements on the American right––from Ron DeSantis trying to remake history education to conservative propaganda targeting kids like PragerU — this "product of its time" cliché and its close cousin "don't judge the past by the standards of today" is making a bit of comeback, if it ever went away at all.

The defensive, superficially appealing cliche is a popular go-to for those who think we shouldn't criticize the supposedly sacrosanct secular deities of our past — from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. But the whole concept operates under a glaring double standard: how can we take pride in and venerate the supposedly good things Americans in history did but ignore and dismiss the bad things? How can we pick and choose our moral inheritance at will? How does the need for us to downplay slavery, colonization, and Jim Crow continue to be such a strong political force? And whose interests does this down-playing serve in 2023?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the reactionary forces of history have just been "products of their time." We'll explore the ways in which this and related concepts are not only inaccurate, but also convenient instruments of right-wing historical revisionism, and how the need to make people feel good about our civic mythology makes for bad history, and even worse politics.

Our guest is historian and museum educator Erin Bartram.

Ep 189: PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense & the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex

"Realities have forced us to remain on diplomatic terms with several dictators," the Pampa Daily News stated in 1958. "U.S. ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power has been forced to look the other way as Saudi Arabia does as it pleases in Yemen," Politico told us in 2016. Biden is being forced to accept the flaws of America's friends," claimed The New York Times  earlier this year, 2023.

For decades, we've heard the same excuse regarding US foreign policy: 'Our leaders might not agree with the world’s dictatorial, reactionary governments, but they’re forced –– by some unknown geopolitical dark matter of realpolitik –– to support them for some broader, more noble goal.'

Strengthening ties with the governments of Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt, Israel, The Philippines, and other countries under right-wing, human-rights-abusing governance might be a bit unpleasant, but it’s the pragmatic thing to do and, therefore, the morally acceptable thing to do.

But countries that are not the United States or its allies are never said to be "forced" into carrying out human rights abuses or supporting those that do. They back bombings, ethnic cleansings, the oppression of women for the sport, because they are existentially evil. No outside mysterious entity ever "forces" them to have to make compromises on the altar of "reality."

But there is nothing, of course, "forcing" these decisions on our own Western leaders, and in nearly every case, they're simply extensions of preexisting geopolitical relationships, imperialist policies, and arbitrary might-makes-right governance.

On this episode, we discuss the media narrative that the U.S. is "forced" to maintain long-beneficial alliances with right-wing regimes, looking at how this suggestion falsely presents the U.S. as an unwilling, but ultimately helpless, participant in repression of human rights around the world.

Our guest is author and NYU professor James Peck.

Ep 190: Why Media Insists the US is "Forced" to Commit Human Rights Abuses

The 1980's Satanic Panic has many similarities to the 2020 "Save the children" QAnon movement — which is broadening its reach to members of the GOP (and Tulsi Gabbard). We explore how these religious freakouts and conspiracy theories harm actual efforts to combat human and child trafficking with Michael Hobbes, who writes for the Huffington Post & co-hosts the 'You're Wrong About' podcast.

↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓
https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

Follow Michael Hobbes: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark
Listen to You're Wrong About: https://twitter.com/yourewrongabout

Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com

Episode music by Doom Chakra Tapes (https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com/) and Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com)

Episode 109: QAnon Makes Human Trafficking Worse feat Michael Hobbes

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Episode 109: QAnon Makes Human Trafficking Worse feat Michael Hobbes

QAA Podcast

Recent comments

Sierra

TheUnnamedStranger

TheUnnamedStranger

TheUnnamedStranger

Related tracks