Hell yeah love me some boat music.
Doubledee
joined 3 years ago
I don't even understand what the stakes are from his perspective, he's already banned like a dozen political parties and nobody cares, what do you have to fear holding an election when you're allowed to ban people who oppose you? It's a free rubber stamp basically, you get democracy points and to renew your mandate by being the only legal option, it's a win win.
Pressure to do what?
As someone who lives in a country that's been in more or less continuous conflict since I was born I would be pretty upset if the leadership here decided elections couldn't happen during wartime.
"In their defense westerners love to share a meme about an Asian man being yellow. Maybe it's not racist. "
He sees the same polls we do. Better start hedging your bets.
We need a new Pete Seeger.
Is that the one about Ceaucesku? I've heard that one brought up multiple times but knew nothing about him besides their take. What do they get wrong? I'd genuinely appreciate being deprogrammed.
I think it got a lot of goodwill by being derived from Rocz's solo YouTube stuff which was actually pretty good, class conscious urban development and planning stuff. His dry delivery kinda gave him the air of a based lefty Plinkett. Genuinely sad that the YouTube stuff has been left to die in service of the podcast.
I enjoy the engineering stuff, and the general consensus that most of these problems are solvable but caused by the incentive structures of global capitalism.
But their foreign policy analysis is often atrocious, and it's a bit hard when they're my introduction to a foreign historical event or figure to know how seriously to take them.
The recent "news" alleges armor is crossing, but that could just be spin. I'll check it out, thanks!