S1 E13: Atlantean Antifa vs. Quantum Fascists From Lemuria

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S1 E13: Atlantean Antifa vs. Quantum Fascists From Lemuria

 
 
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In this long-awaited episode (by which I mean I took an especially long time making it), Ryan and I chat about the meaning of fascism and run though Umberto Eco’s list of fascism warning signs. Plus: how a quantum cult we investigated reveals the hidden secret behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Sources

Opening News

  • On our current rate of emissions, we are on track for a 6-degree hotter planet — a planet on which human beings can not survive [Global Health Institute – UW–Madison]
  • Climate awareness is spreading [Vox]
  • CO2 levels in the ocean could be nearing a tipping point that could result in an extinction event on par with the Permian–Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago [Common Dreams News]
  • With our current rate of soil degradation, we may only have 60 years of farming left anyway Only [Scientific American]

Matt Shea Stuff

Quotes

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.

Elie Wiesel, activist, writer, and Holocaust survivor [Newsweek]

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter, writer, and Holocaust survivor [Newsweek]

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Abigail Smith Adams

I’m a man who loves you all and this spinning ball so much that I’m going to fulfill my childhood promise to myself to be noble.
Here it is, in these corporatefor profitconcentration camps.
Here it is, in Brown and non-conforming folks afraid to show their faces for fear of the police/migra/Proud Boys/the boss/beckies…
Here it is, a planet almost used up by the market’s greed.
I’m a black and white thinker.
Detention camps are an abomination.
I’m not standing by.
I really shouldn’t have to say any more than this.

From the final statement of WIllem Van Spronsen

He Said / She Said

  • Noam Chomsky said Antifa was a “major gift to the right” etc. [Washington Examiner]
  • Chomsky and Robert Paxton say Trump is not a fascist [Vox]
  • Ilhan Omar called Trump a fascist [The Guardian]
  • George Orwell on the meaning of “fascism” [“What is Fascism?,” Tribune]
  • Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” [The New York Review of Books]
  • “Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed” [Vanity Fair] (My bad. I thought it was Mein Kampf.)

Music

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