Your optimism is touching.

Yeah no, trying to fix climate change by doing stuff like gas taxes or punishing people for individual actions is stupid. It doesn’t do much, and it causes animosity.

Oh no doubt we do.

I mean, it’s not the worst.

Excuse you sir.

This is true, but we also have to build solutions that don’t place the heaviest burdens on them.

Yeah Korine just has a weird ability to capture certain moments and moods in an era in ways that aren’t objectively good, but are frighteningly realistic in tone.

No I think his actions are proof he’s governing an increasingly unstable government, and doing so poorly. The Venezuelan version of socialism proved flawed and was largely held together by high oil prices and Chavez’s popular appeal. With both gone, cracks widened.

Who said it was supposed to be sarcastic?

I mean hey, I have to respect a man who laughs at massive human rights abuses.

I think Chapo started that theory.

False and this certificate proves it

*amazingly great and indicative of a fatigue with American imperialism.

Augusto Pinochet.

Yeah.

He’s doing the whole “all the socialists live in Brooklyn and are hipsters,” thing

Oh no of course he has motives (probably not oil though. Russia already has a lot of that in their own right and can barely sell what they have).

They’re good, even if Red Scare (a podcast I honestly tried to like but just can’t) did correctly identify its hosts as MASSIVE nerds.

Yeah, I’d say there is a subset that just should be considered the “stand alones,” considering they’re largely disconnected from the overall narrative. So basically:

Putin’s bad, we all know this. He’s a right wing oligarch.