This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comIf you missed it this morning, here is a recording of our first book club livestream/chat about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep — about how Philip K. Dick is a philosopher-prophet of our technological age who just so happened to have worked in the pulp sci-fi format and how the novel is a metaphor for the central struggle happening in our world: the fight between the empaths and the sociopaths…between the humans and the androids. —YashaPS: You can still hop on the chat to continue discussing this with each other and us. PPS: We’ll be selecting another book soon for next month’s discussion.
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DON'T BOMB IRAN
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe do some pillow talk about Iran — discussing the year Evgenia spent going native in Tehran, her education as an “Iranist,” and about her experiences and her thoughts on a society that America and Israel now want to obliterate. Most people in the west know next to nothing about Iran and picture it is some kind of barbaric repressive society full of terrorists. Iran is obviously not that. But this ignorance makes it easy to sell people a war.—YashaCome to the next NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE! NYC. June 22. Get your tickets today!We recorded this on the night of Monday June 16.
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With the vampires
We lie in bed, do pillow talk about our attempt to put a pie in Curtis Yarvin’s face and the cowardice of today’s media personalities — and how all fights are purely online now, no one does anything in real life. We also discuss the degeneration of the Red Scare women — who went from being genuinely popular and open to how they are now: keeping the details of shows secret and only inviting tiny groups of adoring fans to their events. I guess this is what happens when you join the vampires; you skulk like the vampires do.We also get into the recent New Yorker profile of Yarvin — about how liberals have no real answer to the reactionary maximalism that he promote and so all they can do is mock him for being awkward and a nerd, which makes them come off worse than they think. And I riff a bit on the corruption implicit in celebrity profiles like this — with a liberal journalist essentially doing PR for her reactionary subject while supposedly covering him critically and doing a “hit piece.”Then we talk about schools and suburbs and how America is segregated by race…before getting too sleepy to continue.—Yasha*** Come to our live event in NYC later this month on the DEATH OF JOURNALISM. June 22. Get your tickets today! *** This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nefariousrussians.com/subscribe
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American Identity Crisis w/John Ganz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe talk to John Ganz about how the USA began to unravel in the 1990s, when it no longer had the USSR to keep things in check. This 90s identity crisis has gained momentum and is playing out today with the rise of Donald Trump, the crisis of liberalism, and the push to go back to a pre-New Deal America. Some of the things we discuss include: The USA and USSR being a single meta political entity, with one influencing the other and both now lurching back to 19th century… Israel as a colonial policeman for America and zionist delusions about Israel’s sovereignty... American liberals and progressives having their own Soviet nostalgia moment… Libertarianism, the conservative movement, Cold War liberalism, and the question of what is the real America… all that and more.Buy John’s book When the Clock Broke and check out his Unpopular Front newsletter.*** Get tix to our live event in NYC! JOURNALISM IS DEAD. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF THE SELF-MADE MEDIA W***E. Sunday, June 22. ***
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The Industrial Revolution Killed Democracy w/Joe Costello
Joe Costello returns to the show (and joins us in our attic) to talk about how the industrial revolution killed American democracy. Among topics we discuss are: the politics of technology, Trump as pure distilled America, the civilizational similarities between the USA and USSR, how technology changes society and induces amnesia, why the internet didn’t lead to democratization, how the USSR was a good place for dissident culture, the outdated US Constitution, which was created before the rise of the industrial corporation when economic power was very local, and…much, much more.—YashaGet tix to our live event in NYC! JOURNALISM IS DEAD. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF THE SELF-MADE MEDIA W***E. Sunday, June 22.PS: Subscribe to Joe Costello’s newsletter, you won’t regret it. Life in the 21st Century. And check out Joe’s previous appearances on NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS. Save yourself, save the world. Subscribe to NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nefariousrussians.com/subscribe
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