among the takes served here were:

• China’s only doing Zero Covid because their vaccine doesn’t work (what?)

• Wanting Ukraine to surrender is moral cowardice and like saying Vichy France wasn’t so bad

• Giving guns to Ukraine (“and help them defend their homes”, yeah, some defense you’re fucking helping there) is the right thing to do on balance

• strawmanning the anti-NATO position as “you think literally everything that’s ever happened in the world is the fault of NATO”

• weirdly enough, they acknowledge that NATO was following a strategy of confrontation… and then completely reject any possibility that this affected Putin’s actions? “Putin has his own game” and “you can’t nice him out of it”, unlike Iran which has been willing to negotiate and it’s been the West which has fucked it up (and this isn’t the case with Russia? just, what?)

I remember people shitting on the Chapos for doing lots of movie episodes, but I dunno, I wish more “leftist” podcasters would have the humility to admit they’re fucking morons and just do fun article reads.

Anyway, I really need to stop listening to podcasts apparently. I just wanted something to have in the background while gaming :sadness:. Citations Needed and Rev Left Radio are too dry and attention-demanding for that, I need dumb bits and gags.