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Episode 369: The Return Policy

"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

What if “The Law of Attraction” was only for Aryans? Just in time for the holidays, Brad is back to let you know that Nazi-occult societies are alive and flourishing. Namely, a group claiming to be the direct genetic descendants of the “historical” Vril Society, the supposed Nazi-era metaphysical group that counted Hitler among its ranks. This episode has esoteric racism, templar LARPing, goddess rituals, hollow earth super Aryans, hairstyle discourse, a Ford Mustang obsession, and even starseeds. It’s a true QAA Xmas miracle.

We’ll attempt to answer: How much of the WWII occult history is real? What’s the real history of the Sonnenrad symbol? Are these contemporary groups just conspiratorial LARPers with too much time and money (and a serious hair fetish), or something much more sinister? And finally, did we really need to hear that bit of high school-era Brad lore?

Stick around for Professor Julian Strube of the University of Göttingen - a man who has spent the best years of his life researching these groups - as he helps us untangle this dense web of Nazi occult history, and how we’ve gotten to this current hell. 

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The Völk Mind Virus (Premium E272) Sample

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. 

Episode 1 - THA SAGA BEGINS (3/12/16)

Tim's back. We talk about the classic New York slice, read more from John Kasich's drifter diaries, and listen to more random excerpts of Gorilla Brain Mind. 

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Episode 125 -  Fast And Furious: Toledo Drifter feat. Tim Heidecker (7/15/17)

Sorry for the delay, we were busy preparing our Halloween costume as the NAtional Debt. We talk about today's dud Russia news and a genuinely good piece in the Atlantic about Third Way weirdos. We also ask, what if Obama was the Joker...

By the way please buy Felix's sister's book: http://www.vineleavespress.com/the-walmart-book-of-the-dead-by-lucy-biederman.html

Episode 154 - Listening Tour (10/30/17)

Standing at the base of a waterfall and looking up - gorgeous. Laying at the base of a waterfall and sleeping - rather wet. Enjoy this sound of a waterfall and allow its ambiance to carry you off to sleep.

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Waterfall (75 Minutes)

In the first part of this double shot of recent Midwest live shows, we're joined by Street Fight's Brett and Bryan at The Columbus Athenaeum for a dive into Charlie Kirk's extremely shitty new book "Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters"

Then, from Chicago's House of Blues we introduce an unforgettable new character into the Chapo pantheon of Op-ed shitheads.

Tickets still available for Madison and Minneapolis!!!!

http://chapotraphouse.com/tour/

Chapo Trap House

Episode 254 - Best of the Midwest: Columbus & Chicago feat. Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby (10/15/18)

What has happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 1:9 

Welcome to 2019!

Episode 278 - Vision 2020 (1/6/19)

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