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Red Hot Take: Combatting Liberalism on Russia, The US, & Cuba
🕑 Added 2022-10-26 21:27:36 +0000 UTCIn this episode, Breht plays clips of, and responds to, a recent podcast put out by Sam Harris and Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on the Russia-Ukraine war in which they advance several liberal, pro-american criticisms against dissident thinkers on the topic. He also responds to an absurd Horseshoe Theory ass claim made by Sam Harris regarding anti-Semitism. Then Breht plays a clip from a NYT podcast about Cuba and launches into a classic Red Hot Take style rant on the topic.
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Revolutionary Left Radio
couldnt agree more, in fact i thought of Applebaum so much when i heard this interview with Snyder - same liberal bullshit. But theres LOTS of money in providing an intellectual sheen to the imperial ambitions of the US empire, and so they get rewarded fantastically for their efforts
Jordan Scheibel
I have really come to dislike Timothy Snyder. Him and Anne Applebaum (who is definitely worse, sits on board of National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front) are crazy opportunists when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. They have both weaponized the history of the Ukrainian famine and Stalin’s purges to seamlessly connect modern Russia to Soviet Russia, which is what most Americans do reflexively anyway. When the invasion kicked off my dad called Putin a communist and when I corrected him he said “you know what I mean”.
Revolutionary Left Radio
Exactly right.
Quinn
insane to me that Harris, a guy who came to prominence by dehumanizing arabs and muslims in the wake of our wars in the middle east, has the gall to lose his mind over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He will never be anything more than a cheerleader for empire, as long as its ours.
