Charlie Kirk vs. Ben Burgis on Hegel, Karl Marx and John Locke
Ben Burgis tells Charlie Kirk why he likes Marx. Charlie claims that Marx and Hegel are basically the same. Ben points out the double standard--Marx is judged by dictators who were born after he died while John Locke gets a pass for actually supporting slavery and colonialism in his own lifetime. Good stuff.
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In case you missed it, Ben did an online book launch for his new book "Cancelling Comedians While The World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left" and had a long list of guests including Ana Kasparian, David Griscom, Matt Lech, Jason Myles, Daniel Bessner, Matt McManus, Cale Brooks, and show regular Ryan Lake come on to toast his new book. Ben also had Nando Vila toast the book and that's included in this clip.
To get the book from Red Emma's: https://redemmas.org/titles/34877-canceling-comedians-while-the-world-burns--a-critique-of-the-contemporary-left
https://www.amazon.com/Canceling-Comedians-While-World-Burns
These are some of the highlights from the Online Book launch including a few minutes of Ben reading from Chapter 2.
To watch the full book launch: https://youtu.be/bgHwwWySfro
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Ben Burgis, Rob Larson, and Matthew Vernon Whalan watch a clip of Norm Finkelstein and Eli Lake arguing about Hamas. Ben explains why he disagrees with one important part of his friend Norm's position, Matthew pushes back, and Rob splits the difference. They go on to talk about Eli Lake's horrifying denialism and Israel's ethnic cleansing.
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Ana Kasparian, executive producer and host of The Young Turks, joins Ben Burgis and discusses the very rapid-cycling takedown-to-secret-plan-reveal story of Alex Morse (https://twitter.com/AlexBMorse). Morse, 31, is the mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and has been since he was 22 years old. He was an adjunct professor at UMass Amherst, and he is a Democratic candidate for MA-1 (https://secure.actblue.com/donate).
Allegations of sexual impropriety were made by the College Democrats of Massachusetts against Alex Morse, although the actual contents of the allegations were vague and the time period was unknown.
Ryan Grim (https://twitter.com/ryangrim) of The Intercept did a series of investigative pieces that led to the unraveling of the allegations against Morse, and, to the contrary, showed that the College Democrats had been colluding with the Massachusetts Democratic Party (https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/alex-morse-massachusetts-college-democrats-destroy-records/) to bring Morse down with this alleged “scandal.”
Ana and Ben also discuss the loss of privacy due to our increasing reliance on everything digital.
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In this clip, Ben, Producer Forrest, and Julianna Forlano watch a series of clips on Israel and Palestine. After the initial air raids in Gaza killed children, State Department spokesman Ned Price refused to condemn Israel's actions. He was pressed by several journalists. On MSNBC, Ali Velshi said that the situation in Palestine is clearly apartheid and that the Israeli government is an apartheid government. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib gave a speech on the House Floor where she defended Palestinian rights. We argue that this looks to be the beginning of a shift in public and media opinion towards Israel and Palestine.
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Last week, Ben Burgis debated YouTube personality Tjump. Ben, of course argued for socialism as the economic system of choice versus Tjump’s argument for capitalism. Modern Day Debate hosted the debate, and here, we highlight the opening arguments of each side of the debate.
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Krystal Ball breaks down how people like Sam Bankman-Fried cynically deploy philosophies like "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" to justify their behavior.
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David Griscom joins the show for his regular segment called "Outlaws & Revolutionaries." This week he spotlights Merle Haggard—a man who grew up in a boxcar in California following the Great Depression and used his experiences with poverty and the prison system to create the poetry that made his music great.
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Prager U enlists everyone's favorite cartoon time travelers Leo & Layla to visit famous dissident and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and possibly the ghost of Stalin. The children are in need some of lessons about free speech after their red-blooded Americans father is brutally censored at school board meeting.
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We just started a GTAA TikTok channel, and we're reposting them on here as YouTube #Shorts including with this one from Ben Burgis's debate with Charlie Kirk where Ben and Charlie argue about Norway's nationalized oil industry, the Prime Minister of Denmark saying socialism doesn't get the credit for his country's welfare state, and how people who care about keeping wages up should feel about immigration.
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