We discuss another patron request, this time it's a two part essay by Robert Brenner, written as the Soviet Union was beginning to unravel: "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - The Roots of The Crisis."

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2490-the-soviet-union-and-eastern-europe-the-roots-of-the-crisis

#138 - "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe"

We are joined by comedian John Merrifield to discuss his recent run-in with the cops and mayor/president(?) in Lafayette, who are displaying unprecedented levels of COPE after falling for some satire he put out. Then we talk to Caryma Sa'd, a lawyer who triggered a rising star of the Canadian alt-right with her political cartoons. 

JOHN MERRIFIELD
@JBMerrifield
https://ocarlslaw.com/2021/07/27/john-merrifield-and-public-safety-putting-satire-on-trial/?fbclid=IwAR3KOekVhPmwynDyMy2HoRCkyPBAoHgT8idNfrhB_RNrVUjXlxB3TmQVbvM
http://dsaswla.com/

CARYMA SA'D
@CarymaRules
https://nowtoronto.com/news/meet-the-woman-on-the-trail-of-torontos-anti-mask-protests
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/chris-saccoccia-1.5752441

NINA TURNER CAMPAIGN RESCOURCES
https://www.mobilize.us/ninaturner/?event_type=2

MERCH
poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com

PATREON
patreon.com/PodDamnAmerica

Antifahaha w/ John Merrifield & Caryma Sa'd

Sebijan Fejzula on her essay "The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation" for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/roma-protest-political-agenda/

Toward Roma liberation / Sebijan Fejzula

We’re joined by Taylor Lorenz – business reporter at the New York Times, twitter.com/TaylorLorenz – for an excellent discussion about the evolution and rapid growth of the creator economy, the working conditions of content creators across social media platforms, the predatory system of management, marketing, and investment, and the venture capitalists who only saw this labor as valid once they could exploit it.

Some of Taylor’s work we reference:
• Hello, Content Creators. Silicon Valley’s Investors Want to Meet You. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/technology/content-creators-venture-capital.html 
• Young Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/style/creator-burnout-social-media.html 
• The App With the Unprintable Name That Wants to Give Power to Creators https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/technology/fypm-creators-app-pay.html 

Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills  

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

94. Stripping the Content Mines (ft. Taylor Lorenz)

We're unlocking this bonus episode from a few months ago because I (Jake) think it's relevant to the recent news about OnlyFans kicking sex workers off its platform, since it appears that was the work of some of the evangelical organizations that I read about and discussed in this episode. I also think it's a good ep and would like y'all to hear it. Here are the original show notes:
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In response to the media silence on the evangelical anti-sex aspect of the Atlanta spa shootings, I did a little research into what Christian dark money organizations are up to these days and found out some pretty weird shit. In the process I found a Netflix documentary that one of these groups secretly produced and we watched it. If you'd like to watch and play along it's called Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution and it's pretty weird. Also spoiler alert if you haven't seen Spring Breakers we talk about its ending.
SOURCES:
https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war-pornhub
https://hopequestgroup.org/about-us/what-we-treat/sex-addiction/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/revealed-christian-group-netflix-spring-break-sex/
https://sharedhope.org
https://polarisproject.org/corporate-partnerships/
https://ourrescue.org/
https://www.ihopkc.org/
https://exoduscry.com/

UNLOCKED: Kingdom Hearts: Sexodus Cry

Chuck Collins on the IPS report "Silver spoon oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality."

https://ips-dc.org/report-americas-wealth-dynasties-2021/

On dynastic wealth in America / Chuck Collins

Neil Vallelly on his book "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" from MIT Press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/futilitarianism

The futilitarian condition / Neil Vallelly

Director of the Tricontinental Institute For Social Research, author of Washington Bullets, and trained mime Vijay Prashad joins the boys to talk mass movements in India and how to find hope in your politics. We also listen to that Madison Cawthorn abortion speech everyone was so mad about.

MERCH
poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com

PATREON
patreon.com/poddamnamerica

COME TO PAID PROTEST ON 12/10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paid-protest-comedy-show-dsa-fundraiser-tickets-214770322817

Clown Politics w/ Vijay Prashad

Max Liboiron on their article "Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion" for Nature Geoscience.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00861-7

On science and colonialism / Max Liboiron

Writer David Dayen on his article "The Great Escape" for The American Prospect, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen picks egg over chicken.

https://prospect.org/labor/great-escape-why-workers-quitting-pandemic-trauma/

Why workers quit working / David Dayen

Jim Jatras returns to discuss how things are changing at an accelerating pace and his expectation that there will be an event or series of events of world historic proportions further on up the road. The Great Reset is something elites have been wanting to do for decades (e.g. turn the majority of the world into serfs). He doesn't see the dam breaking anytime soon (e.g. protests are irrelevant) as governments continue escalating their draconian policies. He doesn't see any political solution because, even if Republicans win, they'll just carry water for their real constituents, the corporations. We discuss civil war, Rainbow Fascism, crowd psychology, and the move from soft to hard totalitarianism. He touches on NATO-Russia tensions, how Moscow's ultimatum sounds like a pretext for war and how D.C. pushing Ukraine to act would lead to a definitive break in Russian relations with the West, leaving the EU under American control. We ponder whether we could be living through what John the Revelator on Patmos once wrote about. He's worried the American republic may in fact go gentle into the woke quiet night.

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Show Notes
It’s Later than You Think (TEXT) https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/09/no_author/its-later-than-you-think
It's Later Than You Think (VIDEO) https://youtu.be/QkJX2ffZaI0

Website
Twitter https://twitter.com/JimJatras

About Jim Jatras
Jim Jatras is a Washington, DC-based attorney, political analyst, and media & government affairs specialist. He formerly served as a senior foreign policy adviser to the US Senate Republican leadership, and before that served as a diplomat in Mexico, the Office of Soviet Union affairs, and the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

On dynastic wealth in America / Chuck Collins

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