August 29, 2023

Shooting and Cry-Laughing feat. Josef Burton

It's the free one!

This week, the gang speaks with author and former U.S. Department of State consular officer Josef Burton about the tendency for liberal institutions to find themselves ordered to carry out illiberal practices—whether it’s Trump’s Muslim ban, the UK’s barge housing, or any other recent story in which we simply cannot believe that we’re obligated to do an immoral thing, for the state. We also talk about a recent news story regarding Russian air traffic safety, and a startup that shifts into dark mode when it can commercialise its ‘harmless’ product.

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Hadyn H. Gay Abbeysme · September 14, 2023

Currently working a vintage in Burgundy for a couple of absolute specimens, class-blind shitlib expats with abusive labour practices, don’t buy Le Grappin !

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Login · September 3, 2023

its really not a far walk from "thank god *you're* there" to "thank god you're there"

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Mark Hardgrove · August 31, 2023

So is London going to provide an acceptable car to those that don't meet their ridiculous standard? Truly a deeply diseased little island.

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etienne · August 31, 2023

there's a cash buyout program yeah

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Rxk Lenderman · August 30, 2023

Hussein will spend five episodes barely saying a word (or not being present at all) and then will pick one episode to just go off on the cultural analysis

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John Leavitt · August 30, 2023

Just coming in to agree that the solution to all of this is for the hosts of Trashfuture to become Providence from the Hitman games

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etienne · August 30, 2023

1:04 I think that's a pretty flawed argument because 1) you're just piggybacking on the fact that congress is gridlock to accomplish your goal of keeping a status quo in place, that's just using an implicit veto, how are you gonna ensure that the things you actually want changed are not vetoed back etc etc 2) the democratic body once had power over declarations of war and it took just one bad enough event that it yielded everything back to the executive via the AUMF

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etienne · August 30, 2023

"we need a Climate Stalin" [5 seconds later] "we regret to announce you that Climate Stalin's most lukewarm possible policy has encountered a group of US-backed anti-climate rebels"

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etienne · August 30, 2023

[apparachik voice] Climate Stalin might have overplayed his climate hand

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Dean · August 30, 2023

I do find it hard to sympathise with people struggling with ULEZ when my old car, a 2005 Subaru Legacy with a 3 litre petrol that I paid £900 for was ULEZ exempt. Just never buy a diesel, it was always a scam that they were better.

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Kalmuk · August 30, 2023

Haunted by the image of cyberpunk Baz

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Oliver Cant · August 30, 2023

You'd think for group of who to go on about how "England's the greatest/shit test fackin' country in the world!" They'd actually be delighted to never leave Bexley 😆 Become an Essex Hikkokimori if you love it so much.

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Ric · August 29, 2023

Adriana is 51 now.

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bravosixniner · August 29, 2023

As a 5 year old Chinese immigrant in the early 90s, I had to sit through an immigration interview by myself as a toddler and answer questions in English which I didn’t speak. I learned from age 5 that the U.S. State Department was beholden to its insane rules. That you would make a 5 year old Chinese kid sit alone with a strange adult from a race they have never seen before except in the movies. I had to summon all my courage as a kid not to freak out because at that age you don’t hang out with strange adults let alone ones of another race that don’t speak your language. And my parents were explicitly not allowed to be in the room. And the US embassy did not allow translators to be present during visa interviews. The US Embassy basically had no protocol for dealing with children in regards to visas in the early 90s, they treated me as if I was an adult and presumed we spoke English. The embassy officer gave up after asking 3 questions and I just kept shrugging my head and trying not to cry.

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re rahrich · August 29, 2023

That's awful. I'm really sorry you went through that.

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Andrew Davis · August 29, 2023

I have a private joke with my partner about Vauxhall being called Blade Runner, so I'm choosing to believe these fellows in the Mail are very passionate about Vauxhall remaining a high emission zone. Or their Corsas spewing cartoon levels of smoke when they pick up teenagers from school, I suppose.