GTAA Livestream: C Derick Varn on Karl Marx, Tough-Mindedness and the Left
Zero Books luminary C Derick Varn comes on the livestream to chat about Marxist philosophy and related issues.
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Ben Burgis wrote a book about Christopher Hitchens. He and the GTAA crew watch Hitchens applying his characteristic rhetorical “Hitchslap” to the followers of Ayn Rand. Ben announces the cover and publication date for his new book, “Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters."
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Ben and the crew watch a clip of Ana Kasparian's debate with Dennis Prager. They analyze Prager's refusal to debate some prominent Leftist Youtubers.
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Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew look at some insane tweets and review a mini-debate that Ben and Ryan Lake had with a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist during Ben's Callin show. Benjamin Teitelbaum, author of "War for Eternity," is the main guest. Ben Burgis tends to think Steven Bannon is just a regular Reaganite Republican (which is bad and dangerous enough!) withe edgy prince-of-darkness branding, while Teitelbaum thinks Bannon is something different and qualitatively more dangerous. We'll see if either Ben can convince the other. Meanwhile, they'll watch some Bannon clips and have some fun. In the philosophy segment at the end of the , Ben (Burgis) and his wife Dr. Jennifer Burgis will watch a clip of a third Ben, Ben Shapiro. Finally, in the postgame for GTAA patrons, Plastic Pills co-host Victor Bruzzone and YouTuber "Mouthy Infidel" (whose channel has more recently been renamed "Electrons in Love" and whose parents named him Ethan) are going to be rejoining Ben to watch the Q&A from the debate the three of them broke down last Thursday.
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Watch the debate breakdown last Thursday: "Is Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Justified? (Jackson Hinkle & Infrared vs. Destiny & Dylan Burns)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaLWmdiokMo
(We always skip the Q&A when we do debate breakdowns but we've been assured from many sources that in this particular case the Q&A is worth watching at least a spectacle. Sparks were already flying during the debate itself but apparently they get spark-ier and fly-ier during the Q&A.)
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Beloved David Feldman Extended Universe character Ethan Herschenfeld and friend of the show Conan Neutron join Ben Burgis & the GTAA crew breaks down theologist William Lane Craig's odd need to provide an intellectual and moral defense of God commanding the Israelites to commit genocide. You see, technically, I mean, can it really be genocide if you warned them first? Let's just say no!
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Ben Burgis (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis) is joined by Djene Bajalan (https://twitter.com/djenebajalan), an assistant professor of Middle East history at Missouri State University and a writer for “Jacobin.”
Djene and Ben discuss a 2017 article that Djene cowrote with Michael Brooks titled “The American AKP.” (https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/erdogan-washington-kurdish-protesters-trump-republican-party)
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We recently 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 James O'Keefe, Tulsi Gabbard & Tim Pool where Ben contrasts Jacobin with Project Veritas.
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Matt Lech of Left Reckoning and the Majority Report joins Ben Burgis for a discussion about what is or is not fascism, and who gets to decide.
THIS IS A PREVIEW FROM PATRON-ONLY SEASON 2 EPISODE 24.
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Ben and crew watch and respond to a video about Rashida Tlaib being censured in Congress made by a weird right wing guy named Steve Turley.
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Nathan J. Robinson (https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson), editor of “Current Affairs” (https://twitter.com/CurAffairs) (https://www.currentaffairs.org/subscribe) and columnist for “The Guardian,” (https://twitter.com/guardian) (https://support.theguardian.com/us/support) joins Ben Burgis (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis) to discuss why Glenn Beck’s book is so ridiculous and terrible yet effective and “good” from a right-wing viewpoint.
A central part of this discussion is how important it is to know how to debunk Glenn Beck’s ridiculous arguments.
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