GTAA Wednesday Movie Livestream: Starship Troopers w/Daniel Bessner, Micah Uetricht and Ryan Lake
Jacobin Deputy Editor Micah Uetricht, philosophy professor Ryan Lake, and left-wing historian and foreign policy guru Daniel Bessner join Ben, Producer Forrest and GTAA's in-house Graphic Designer J. Andrew World for a deep dive into Paul Verhoeven's 1987 satirical military science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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No episode tonight--sorry about that--but Ben Burgis is going to be taking Q&A questions from the chat for about an hour and other people will be making appearances! Should be a good time.
Order Ben's new book! For much of the last couple weeks it's been the #1 New Release in Atheism (and #3 in History and Theory of Politics) on Amazon, which was nice to see, but instead of there order it from worker-owned Red Emmas bookstore:
https://redemmas.org/titles/36536-christopher-hitchens--what-he-got-right--how-he-went-wrong--and-why-he-still-matters
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Tucker Carlson tries to get Christian Smalls to take the bait with AOC. The crew analyzes Christian's deft parries and Bernie-like precision.
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Ben Burgis talks to anti-capitalist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek about one of the strangest ‘scandals’ of recent months. AOC and her boyfriend were vacationing in Florida and right-wing idiot Steve Cortes posted a picture them on Twitter. As well as speculating about their alleged COVID hypocrisy, Cortes took a shot at her boyfriend’s “gross pale feet.” AOC tweeted that right-wingers like Cortes are just mad they can’t date her so they’re transferring their sexual frustrations to her boyfriend’s feet. Zizek speculates that something else is going on here.
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Ana traces the history of how the right wing turned the evangelicals on to culture war, and continues to use it as a wedge issue.
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Ben Burgis is joined by his co-authors from the book "Myth and Mayhem, a Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson." They check in on what the recently frisky Peterson has been up to, notably his odd appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. The gang is befuddled and bemused by a smug rant in which Peterson tries to claim that the climate is "everything," and that "everything" can't be modeled.
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#ShahidVsPelosi #RBG #AmyConeyBarrett
Shahid Buttar (https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange) (https://shahidforchange.us/) is a Constitutional lawyer and Progressive activist challenging Nancy Pelosi in Congressional district CA-12, joins Ben Burgis and discusses Nancy Pelosi’s complicity in the many, many failures, abuses of power, and illegal actions of the CIA, ICE, DHS, NSA, and other intelligence agencies by leading the Democratic Party’s decades-long funding of agencies and programs that betray the Left’s most basic values.
Buttar also elaborates on the composition of the current U.S. Supreme Court and the Court’s enabling of these harrowing policies and events. He explains his thoughts on the ways that Supreme Court Justice appointments could be systematically resolved more equitably than resorting to court packing when the country is faced with a highly manipulated court composition like the one we’re facing today.
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Ben Burgis welcomes Libertian candidate for Governor of New York and 2016 Libertarian candidate for Vice President Larry Sharpe on to Give Them An Argument for a debate of democratic socialism versus libertarianism. Ben and Larry debate healthcare solutions for non-wealthy people in the U.S.
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Ben Burgis and the crew observe some of the wackier ways Americans have been responding to the war in Ukraine. Predictably, many are making it about themselves and their habits as consumers. Finally, Ben gets serious for a second to condemn one particular corporation's war-time measure that seems unnecessarily cruel.
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Jeff Cohen (http://jeffcohen.org/) is a former media critic, columnist, and campus lecturer who founded FAIR (https://fair.org/) (https://twitter.com/FAIRmediawatch), a national media watch group. He also cofounded the online activist group Roots Action (https://rootsaction.org/). He’s also directed several documentary films.
Jeff is a retired director of and an associate professor at the Department of Journalism at Ithaca College. He is currently the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) Director and Endowed Chair in Independent Media at Ithaca College.
Jeff is currently leading the charge for another movement he's formed: Vote Trump Out (https://votetrumpout.org/).
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