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LWT is good to bring up in the context of “ok, so you agree with this - let’s make these ideas even better and take them one step further…”

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at least he makes the solutions very open ended

so he just points out something and is like :shrug-outta-hecks:

too bad his foreign policy ideas are horrendously evil. typical for a brit

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He and his writers aren’t materialist and they’re not Marxist. This episode could’ve talked about property rights and capitalism even in general terms, how police protect this property, renters’ subordinate position to both landlords and their property, the exploitation of renters by landlords for what amounts to fucking zero work, etc.

This show is decent on bringing up serious issues but stops short of ever calling into the question the system itself.

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8 points

yeah, agree

which is a bit funny considering how much material theyve covered over the years. and we dont have a systemic cause to everything? :thinking-about-it:

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“Describing an issue and when asked what the cause is gesturing to a blank space that’s clearly had ‘CAPITALISM’ cut out” with John Oliver

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At this point the most British thing about him is his accent, dude’s lived in the US basically his entire adult life. Point stands tho lol

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