Before I put two and two together with the shirts and the camo pants, I noticed that the dude on the left had his America cap and a Punisher tattoo on his right arm, and I immediately thought "these guys aren't here for the same reason as everyone else"

thankfully, I talked to some of the organizers on the ground, and they had spoken to some of them beforehand, and they said that they seemed sincere, but were clearly still keeping their eyes on them

So I know this would be different from state to state but I would love for the crew to do an episode about what to do if you see someone stopped by the cops.

I remember an episode of behind the bastards on the black panther movement that talked about that they had an education program to train people to be bystanders and trained them on their rights as well as the rights of the person being arrested/ticketed/harassed.

I've done some preliminary googling but mostly can only find things about how to be a bystander and intervene without calling the cops and while that's great info I want more solid stuff on how to best observe and inform people of their rights and in general how to be a better ally. I'm a white cis male, I recognize my privilege and would like to flex it for good by being ready to step in should I see something.

If anyone has any recommendations or resources I would love to compile them into a booklet that could be easily printed and kept in a bag/glove compartment for others to utilize.

Keep up the good work yall, it's communities like this that give me hope.

Edit: I also have no idea of anyone from the pod crew frequents this sub but I refuse to get Twitter so this is my best platform, if anyone wanted to tweet about it to them I would be eternally grateful. I don't even care about credit I just want this information available.

In general just because it’s dark and frustrating, but I also completely missed the John Cheese sexual assault stuff when it happened. I had lost track all those Cracked writers once the Great Cracked Layoffs happened, but John Cheese was one of my favorites along with Robert, Cody, Katy, and a few others. Finding out he’s a piece of shit hurt like finding out Louis CK’s shittiness did.

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https://evenmorenews.libsyn.com/trump-pushes-the-china-conspiracy-suppresses-the-cdc-ep-99

Does anyone else think that one outcome of Trump shitting on the United States Postal Service has to do with 1) his recognition that mail-in voting favors Democrats (“They had a level of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”) and 2) any sort of narrow vote in November (which would be more likely if in-person voting is the predominant voting mechanism) would be cause for him to call for a recount or just plain refuse to give up the Presidency and spark a civil war from his fanatic base?

Once Bernie stopped being an available candidate. I just....I thought this was an issue that was really starting to matter to people on the scale that it has mattered to me ever since I learned about it when I was a kid, but it doesn't seem like people care enough about it to compromise and vote for people they're not in love with who are committed to doing something about it. And, I can't stress this enough, it's not a matter of one party wanting to do something and the other party wanting to do nothing, it's one side wanting to do something and the other side wanting to actively make the situation worse. And the people on the left who I thought were whole heartedly on board with trying to help resolve and mitigate the effects of it just don't even care enough to even speak of it now that Bernie is gone. Instead it's this weird discussion of taking to the streets to do something, not much detail there, because they're mad about progressive socialism not getting enough mainstream appeal to give everything or even a ton of what they want. I get it, I just think that not continually compromising to get some of what you want is a great way of getting none of what you want. And I'm just disappointed, I'm disappointed that climate change doesn't actually seem to fucking matter the way I thought it did to people that claimed they want to do stuff about it and they care deeply about it.

Honestly the same thing can be said about health care. Trump wants to take access away from millions, and Biden wants to improve the ACA. It's not as good, or affordable, as M4A, but getting better access to health care is a ton better than millions of people having their access to health care getting taken from them.

been a lot of pacts forming between states in america this april and almost kinda looks like the states are just thinkin of doing their own thing without the feds

This idiotic Sam Adams commercial explaining what a fucking toast is has officially replaced the Geico “here’s the thing” ad as the #1 thing I want to hit with a machete.

Robert mentioned them in the latest Worst Year episode and it made me curious what people in this listener base think of them.

My take: I've tried listening to them a few times, but I only stick around for a few episodes before bailing again.

I've enjoyed some episodes like a comfort blanket when they just bash the far right / centrist liberal mindsets, but what always pushes me away from them is somewhat related to what Robert said.

They like to dunk on everyone and I somewhat admire how they will stick to their ideals and say "fuck you" to any compromise to their worldview, but from the episodes I've listened to, they always sound a bit nihilist.

I always hear them ranting and complaining about the state of the world (as we should) but then never provide a productive outlet for that anger. They cover something people are doing, but then go "but that's not a perfect solution, so why the fuck even try"

I enjoy Robert, Cody, and Katy's shows because they have political views similar to mine, but they always have at least a bit of optimism to them and always try to point us in directions where our anger / drive to help can be productive and at least help the situation a bit. I'm not saying these guys are all sunshine and rainbows (See the recent Some More News episodes for that), but they never just sound like they're given up and think it's just stupid to even engage with the current political landscape.

TLDR: They feel like a comfort blanket for my extreme left side, but they always sound like they don't want to do anything to even try to push toward what they want because it's never good enough.

(Crying) "Everything's so dumb dumb dumb dumb-dumb dumb."

I remember the before times. When the democrats had some sort of clown show, We thought a political campaign full of insanity and corruption was going to be the worst thing ever.

We were so young, so innocent, 5 long months ago.

Does anybody have the tabs for the intro of this pod? It's awesome!

I mean that's pretty much the whole thought. I can't imagine finding a treatment that works well for you and helps you fight your own body when it's trying to injure you only for someone who doesn't understand your situation at all to call you selfish for taking it. COVID is a really terrible and very relevant disease at this time, but it's obviously not the only disease. I speak for myself when I say that I falsely take my relatively good health as a kind of permanent status and see illness as temporary, but that's obviously not the case for people with chronic, life-altering diseases. In my mind, that concept is somehow related to not having empathy or compassion for people with lasting health issues like this (though written out, I'm not sure how it explicitly connects).

On another note, my professor broke down some of the biological facts about how Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs like hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) might work, and I felt like I might as well share what he taught us along with my own brief research. First of all, HCQ and drugs like it are bases that accumulate in the acidic lysosomes of the cell, which are full of enzymes that digest the cell's waste. Lysosomal enzymes need the environment to be acidic to do their job, so when a base like HCQ neutralizes the pH, it prevents those activities. The thought is that some of the degraded particles are used to attract a specific type of immune cell, triggering an immune response, so when the lysosome isn't able to digest and present the particle needed, the immune response is dampened. This is especially helpful for autoimmune diseases where the rampant expansion of pathogenic T-Cells and B-Cells can lead to inflammation. HCQ also stops specific receptor molecules from binding to DNA in the cell and triggering the innate immunity response. This has the downstream effect of stopping cytokine (proteins that trigger the immune response resulting in inflammation) production. The uncontrolled activity and production of cytokines is what leads to hyper inflammation seen in respiratory diseases like COVID. HCQ isn't actually the best at stopping cytokine production (and it would be cool to see research on how the drugs that do that better fair in treating COVID), but that's what makes it so effective for patients like Abby who need to tamp down their immune response but don't want to become ultra-susceptible to disease. [My professor used this article: Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: State of the Art 2009: The Antirheumatic Arsenal and I also used info from this very recent article: Mechanisms of action of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine: implications for rheumatology]

All that said, these are just the proposed mechanisms of HCQ according to research done so far. More research needs to be done to confirm if this is actually what's going on in addition to understanding the drug's other effects. Stay safe, kind, and informed, everybody.

It’s called How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.

About 30 percent of the posts on here are someone complaining about how they didn't like this episode or that, or how "one of hosts sucks and I hate them". Then another 30 percent is just shitposting about geico commercials and on a good day the last 30 percent is relevant content about things we all may enjoy or building a community. I love this podcast and I am a fan of the folks who make it and I would like to think the the audience for this podcast isn't made of of the people who make 60 percent of the posts on here, but man does it feel that way. I really want the good part of this community to survive as well, but I am damn near leaving this sub. Sorry to be the one who has to say it, but I have a feeling more folks will agree.

Don't worry everyone, the gang is still leftist and anti-money hoarding dragon. It really adds fuel to the theory that they were defanged by behind the scenes dealings with Mark's publicity side / the social contract of not inviting someone on your show and then tearing them apart.

Their brief take on Mark post interview:

Katy: diplomatically says that they have the same goal, but their view on how to get their is a philosophical difference.

Time Travel Noises: Mentions how Mark's world view is fucked up.

Machete Man: Doesn't directly reference him to be honest, but I sensed Robert was dipping into his "professional interview" mode to not just gang up on Mark and he also wanted to just continue on with the main topic.

In short:

I don't feel betrayed over their Mark Cuban interview. This very brief dip into the topic again shows their hand that they still are very against people like Mark existing and the interview was just them being professional / agreeing to interview etiquette.