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Don't forget: Indian tech entrepreneur Rajat Khare is scrubbing the internet of any mention of his name or even anything critical about him, like how he runs a hack for hire business that works for the worst of them, eg Qatar spying on FIFA when they were bidding for the World Cup.
Behind the Bastards tried to do a two part episode on it, but it's pretty hard to find now.
Fuck me, they weren’t joking on that one… I listened to those episodes when they first came out, but they were gone soon after it seems.
There are working download links on the subreddit though, if anyone else wants to find them.
I swear I had them downloaded, then my app deleted them. Either that or they just never downloaded.
Gonna have another hunt, I want me an mp3.
Well as mentioned, there’s links on the BTB subreddit, so you should be able to download them. And I wouldn’t be surprised if someone uploaded it to say, YouTube…
They're seriously gone? I also listened to them when they came out. Looks like the Clear Channel/iHeartRadio overlords stepped in.
I listened to them on Google Podcasts… gone. You can see there’s a gap between the episode on February 1st (Part 2 of Tech bros built a cult) and February 13th, the first part of Robert E. Lee.
Also gone from the main site and other apps that I use. Unless you heard it when it was up, you’d never know it existed.
You can see the missing eps listed on Podscripts, feb. 6 & 8.
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/behind-the-bastards/
Scary, right? If a shitty tech dude can be this effective at scrubbing things, imagine what the REALLY scary people and governments hide from us…
Looks like they're also gone from Spotify, where I originally listened to them.
What does this have to do with the poem?
It's yet another example of awful people with power making the world worse, which is a major theme of the poem.
I'm sorry but "there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop" sounds like a great band name
Maybe a song title
Or a poem title
A bit verbose, perhaps? Laundry Genocide?
Someone wasn't around for the fall out boy / panic at the disco era...
I mean, it's still more than twice as long as either of those
Laundrocide
Never seen my exact inner monologue as a poem before. Besides the Ativan. I could use some Ativan.
This is the exact reason I stopped watching last week tonight. Every week John points out another obvious flaw in our system.
We have some broken shit guys and all we ever hear from the owners of this country is, "Don't touch that! I have it just the way I like it."
My response, "who the fuck asked you?"
Their response to my response:
Hill billies with pitchforks
And listen here you fucking hill billies. I dont give a shit if you're angry about this or that I KNOW what you really want.
You want to be left alone to your hill and be able to pretend the world works exactly how some hill billie preacher tells you it does.
Fine, HAVE it. Just stay the fuck away from me and let me have my 'hill' without your stupidity encroaching on it. I'll even fund your housing, meals, roads, school, healthcare, fire department, police force, and whatever else makes life decent.
Edit: for clarity
Does Last Week Tonight do this? I watch it regularly, but I’m not making the connection.
I think he's more so saying that last week tonight feels frustrating because it points out clear issues that the average American should be frustrated about but then juxtaposes it with average Americans actively siding with the system or being complacent in it.
Okay, thanks for the explanation. I’m neurodivergent and sometimes things aren’t as straightforward to me :)
No problem at all. Have a great rest of your day/week/life!
It's alright, the point wasn't that straightforward and is somewhat dubious without further clarification anyway
Yeah and I somewhat agree. Conservatives seem to “rile up their base” with outrage, scapegoating, and a very loose grasp of reality. On the more liberal, thinking side, Jon Stewart is great and introduces some levity but points out issues that should be so blindingly obvious that it’s stressful that we can’t seem to do anything about it
No, what I wrote is confusing. The user @oneortheotherdontaskme got it right.
Sticking your head in the sand is a great alternative /s
Fascists from the left? The left can't get anyone more extreme than mayonnaise, what Democrat fascists are winning primaries?
Fascists from the left?
Wouldn't be the first time I've heard someone say "National SOCIALISM!" But I think this is more referring to the Kristen Sinemas and Robert Menendezes who spend more time finding ways to strangle Cuba to death and sell F-35s to Turkish dictators than to curb carbon emissions or mitigate the damage inflicted by COVID.
If you know of a better way to describe what kind of ideologue sips $1000 btl wine in a cave full of corporate arms dealers while negotiating the finer points of our next proxy war in Latin America, I'd love to hear it.
Or, you know.
The people also enabling a genocide. Two, even!
Because everyone forgot to be mad about the Uyghurs somehow.
Because everyone forgot to be mad about the Uyghurs somehow.
If the Uyghurs had been on the other side of the China/Afghanistan border, we'd be gasoline bombing them while half the nation clapped.
On the off chance that China does a Capitalist Revolution and all those western business interests discover they've got an opportunity to strip mine Hongshan Mountain for precious metals, its going to be Iraq War Redux over there inside a hot minute.
Even now, folks from the NBA to Hollyweird have decided actually China is very cool and good, so long as they can keep selling jerseys and toys to middle-income kids and box seat tickets to traveling executives. All this shit is forever about the money. You can stack the corpses to the moon and it'll still be about the money.
And about the Armenians.
It doesn’t say “from the left”. It says “from both parties”. Biden is the fascist from the other party.
Democrats are in no way, shape, or form part of “the left”.
At bare minimum someone on the left would be completely opposed to capitalism. They might be a mutualist, communalist, anarcho-syndicalist, anarcho-communist, etc.
Democrats are Neo-liberals and support the status quo. Maybe not outright fascists like the Republicans, but they have more in common with Republicans than they do with anyone on the left and when push comes to shove they’re not going to oppose fascism, they’re just going to go along with it. “Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.”
Biden is the fascist from the other party.
Biden is in no way, shape, or form a fascist. Particularly in the context of a Trump ascendancy.
Yeah. I absolutely cannot square that circle either. This is a very, very thick supra-orbital brow take.
Adam Schiff vehemently opposes a permanent cease fire in Israel.
California also just passed a plan to involuntarily institutionalize it's homeless people.
That's just the news from today. There will be more hellscape tomorrow.
“A rat done bite my sister Nell, and whiteys on the moon”
https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=TXOfZoq3IEuIGZ5p
Nothing changes.
I'm sure your "both sides bad" take was the real solution all along. /s
I hate shit like this. I honestly do.
Yeah my man, congratulations. Biden is better than Trump. Hear ye, hear ye, from the top of the terraces and down to your piss-infested alleys, you should know that today the Democratic party has found us someone you can vote for that is better than Trump. You're welcome, mortals. Now hurry down to the booths and do what we want you to do. No questions please, there is no time for your theatrics. Just know that he's better than the worst president you've ever had.
You know what, how about fuck you? How about we let the country burn? I mean, it'll burn for me anyway. Whether it's that alt-right fucko, or your shitty party's "moderate" alternative. But maybe with the other guy, it burns for you as well. Maybe when stocks go down because the orange clown shat out another retarded idea you'll remember that you offered moderation when people asked for a serious leftist choice. Maybe when the Supreme Court continues to remove rights from women, minorities and oppressed groups they'll get organized into a party that actually represents them and pushes for social change, instead of just being a shade less dark than their opposition. Maybe when the MAGA retards burn the fucking world down, some rich Democrat fuck's house just happens to get caught in the fire as well, and they can live to regret pulling the wrong strings for so many years. Because there's no fucking way the regular people get through any of this shit unscathed, might as well pull a few of the 'immortals' down with us and remind them that they too can bleed.
So fuck right off with your shitty choices. You made the retarded decision to have Hillary as the opposition to Trump, you saw how well that went for you. You made the same mistake now, offering people another impossible choice. For once in your fucking life, accept responsibility - the Democrats have chosen who should represent them, and they have chosen wrong. If they lose, that's not on the voters - that's on the people who made the choice.
That's an excellent call to action. Do your laundry and stop genocide. Look after your house and your global family.
All I can say: a serious drug addiction condenses your problems and anxieties down to one. I recommend heroin. Not that pill shit, no, the good Taliban powder from mother nature.
no more speedlimits on highways? I don't get this part
I read that part as being a mashup of two disparate things similar to the rest of the piece. The CD seems to be announcing things more frequently, and there are places where the highways have no speed limits, both of which are more straws on the camel of anxiety.
Maybe implying that the CDC is compromised by outside interests?
Sounds like a twenty one pilots song