Just One More Front ft. Seamus Malekafzali

Sadly ringing the "we were right" bell

While at a certain malevolent university in Silicon Valley in the early ‘00s, I took a mediation class where some of the very serious students suggested that the solution to the Palestine issue was to replace the Palestinian leadership so that an agreement could be reached with the new leaders. The instructor (professional mediator) and the rest of us thought that this was not how it worked, but the proponents of the plan were not swayed.

Starmer sees everyone outside of his immediate circle as NPC's. They're background detail. That's how little of a shit he gives.

I wonder what our old friend RFK Jr. would be doing about Gaza if he were President. I mean he’d probably try to eliminate US funding for Israeli space lasers or some such nonsense, but other than that…?

They really should call it RICO modernist

over simplified take but I think part of the ultra-wealthy obsession with Ugly Design(TM) is a result of them trying to separate themselves from the rest of the “normal world” who can all appreciate more classical opulence through medium of museums, old houses and otherwise preserved architecture already available. super rich people are running out of ways to make themselves look super rich to everyone else so they’re coming up with ugly shit

"A sentence of exclamation points" is the perfect description

What is this? Left of Read?

Welp, I've listened to this and now to calm down I'm going to go listen to a clip of my cat purring on repeat for about the next hour.

I love that the world's mega-rich are building themselves a combination of the Backrooms and MAG 150: Cul-De-Sac. We need to invent a sort of dimensional-space warper, not to solve things like housing or space needs, but to make it even easier for them to die in extradimensional liminal Hells of their own making.

Reminded of an old Tim Kreider cartoon “these dastardly Iraqis tricked us into losing by using the cowardly cheat of ‘not giving up’.”

Oh no, the TF civil war will be around bloodied incompotent GILF, Killary. 😢

Amenities meant to foster human connection in Saudi Arabia; just bone saw me...

personally offended that seamus’s emotional delivery was compared to jordan peterson bc he has undoubtedly my favorite voice of certainly any tf guest, barely paralleled by any podcasters i can think of. just such a nice sound. smart guy, good vibes, perfect voice. 😤

Hearing you talk with Seamus about Palestine keeps me (somewhat) sane, so thanks 🙏

Lisa would be down with NEOM whatever, if she could ride her human connected polo pony from the yacht into the fortress Simpsons home. But maybe that was just a pony phase, we'll have to consult Riley from 4 years ago.

I did my driving test in Poundbury (nearly failed cus i got v nervous about the weird cobbled stuff on the way back to the test centre) and it's broadly fine but it is completely a toy town a huge number of the houses remain unoccupied it still feels like the most expensive film set ever built

I like the idea of a new podcast with Mattie, Nish and Seamus called The TF Support Group.

Ooh!. Now Dev can add Seamus' "She's a loser!" drop to his Riley's "He's a loser!" button.

I do wonder if the embrace of open genocidal mania by isreal is down to the fact that so much of the American empires support from them hinges on Biden and Biden alone. Sure Trump might also give them the green light but he can't keep the blob and the Europeans in line. All those decent memos and restless CIA Dems that want to play battleship with the PLA-N, rather than keeping brittle Middle East clients safe from the Arab masses.

Not really germane to the serious part of the episode so feel free to ignore, but during the NEOM segment I was envisioning a Trash Future 19XX edition where Not Riley and Not Alice were decrying glass boxes, begging for a return to anything, even Tudor Revival.

Based trad walkable Poundland

Having your two Neom correspondents being Seamus and Tom Walker is a pretty apt metaphor all considered.

We love a min-maxing queen.