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Description: This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.

Matt went onto the Solidarity Policy Center's podcast to debate Oren Cass on the question of providing cash child benefits to all kids (including the very poor!). I'm cross-posting the whole thing here in case you are a big enough sicko to do 103 minutes of this.

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Matt Debates Oren Cass About Child Benefits

This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.

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A tipster leads us to some explosive findings that puts the Maxwell family right at the heart of the US State Department

Episode 21: Djerassi High

The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the globe, leaving immeasurable human suffering in its wake. Who is left behind, struggling to survive on the frontlines of precarity, is – as with all things – determined primarily by wealth, privilege, and access to resources and political capital.

This fact has been starkly on display in recent days, as Congressional Democrats began debating their response to the crisis: corporations, wealthy investors and industry were prioritized, formal wage workers were given crumbs, and the undocumented and informal economy workers – such as domestic caregivers; undocumented workers; sex workers; and freelance, contract, and off-the-books workers – were ignored completely. 

On this week's episode, we analyze a 48-hour time period of coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post when the discussion of who was going to be prioritized and aided – and who wasn't – cemented in popular discourse with little logic or meaningful debate.

We are joined by Fahd Ahmed, Executive Director of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM).

Episode 105: Pandemic, Pelosi, and the People We Consider Human

“Free markets drive innovation!” It’s a narrative imparted to us ad nauseam. The ultimate catalyst of creation and progress — we’re told by policymakers, business executives, think tanks, and the media outlets that bolster them — in which great strides in healthcare, electronics, media, and other areas are the domain of private enterprise motivated by competition and profit, and unencumbered by state intervention. 

As the prospect of socialism — or at least the word “socialism” — regains currency in the West, these claims have resurged. Capitalism’s supporters insist that a profit-first system is the reason the world is always improving, lifting people out of poverty while equipping them with iPhones, WiFi, and central air conditioning. Socialism, they contend, hinders innovation because public ownership of the means of production removes the competition and profit that ostensibly incentivize creativity. 

But why are we expected to believe that concentrating ownership of the means of production in the hands of a few is the key to progress and prosperity for all? How is it that the most important metrics of “innovation” are consumer goods available to some, rather than socialized, need-based programs available to all? And above all, who does this narrative that “innovation” is driven by Anglo-American style Randian capitalism really serve? 

On this episode, we delve into these questions, looking at how the United States — the world’s foremost champion of capitalism — packages propaganda about its alleged innovation; the reasons capitalism not only fails to drive innovation, but also actively destroys it; and the U.S.’s brutal actions to thwart socialist efforts toward a more equitably and sustainable version of “innovation” at home and aboard. 

Our guest is Current Affairs associate editor Vanessa A. Bee.

Episode 110: The Shiny-Object Psychology of American Capitalist “Innovation”

The gang is back. The ep starts with some talk of our wedding anniversary and then we move on to riffing on various internet insanities, including an incredible update in the WaPo blackface saga.

Our 6th Wedding Anniversary; Riffing on Internet Insanities

Nate Ruess (@nateruessmusic) joins Alex, Charles, and Dan to clarify that interviews suck, share his experience working with Brian Wilson, and scheme up a way to profit from his son's nephew/uncle duo with Mark Ronson.

49 - Nephew Uncle Excellence (ft. Nate Ruess)

Full episode on Patreon!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/42826427

Patreon Teaser Episode 197: Trevor Milton's training that helped build Nikola

Matt goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse

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101 - The Great Shart Hunt 10.29.20

Hey, it was the 90's! Anders takes us on a ride through every millennial's favorite decade and the white supremacists, polygamists, racists, terrorists, nazis, sovereign citizens, and proto facebook guys that it produced. We talk about the various sects involved in Ruby Ridge, Waco, and The Oklahoma City bombing in an attempt to understand the round men that occupy our present fringe. 

FULL EPISODE AT
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(PREVIEW)Remember the 90's? A Retrospective On White Supremacists

The Punisher. Who is he? Can he be trusted? Do the police know he is cool? We discuss

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TEASER -- Punisher Episode

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