Mark & Carrie: The Past is a Safe Space

[@ericafuller7133]

Thank you Brown University - I love Mark & Carrie's take on our economic issues! Y'all rock!

[@EricMilewski]

Thanks for one of my favorite podcasts on KZbin, keep em coming ;)

[@sbfcapnj]

"The longer I've been on this planet, the more fantastic our relationship to the real world has become." "One reading of the Marvel stuff is we are primed for fascism because you have no faith in your own ability to solve any problems and what you need is somebody with superpowers to come and save your ass." Blyth might be the realest dude alive right now.

[@valdomero738]

Nature is the ultimate fascist. It's completely natural.

[@alloomis1635]

the cure for fascism is democracy: empower the people to be actual citizens. but you can't get there without revolution, and usa hasn't got many citizen quality members, not raised to it.

[@valdomero738]

@@alloomis1635 fascism is the destiny that awaits us.

[@rossawilson01]

Love your podcast guys, a true hidden gem, have a great holiday!

[@dongately2817]

Nice shout out to Trae Crowder and company. I’d love to hear a conversation between Trae and Mark - just for the intermingling of accents.

[@jeon0169]

Best podcast for politics in my opinion. When Carrie was talking about how we can't come up with any new ideas it reminded me of Mark Fisher's magnum opus, Capitalist Realism. That book essential describes what she was and Mark were talking about towards the end.

[@clumsydad7158]

Yes ... and Dr. Timothy Snyder's work highly relevant last 5 years, unfortunately.

[@tarmon768]

We weren't waiting for vaccines, we were waiting in order to not overwhelm hospitals. Did we expand hospital infrastructure or streamline treatment?

[@stuckp1stuckp122]

As always an excellent show in its wide ranging scope and analysis

[@kornaktanker7633]

We come back cos this is our sane space, it confirms that we are not the only ones who see all the crazy , also festive cheer to one and all.

[@marthabakry7353]

I think we’ve all ‘rolled the dice’ at some point during this pandemic. This summer I visited two PACKED amusement parks in PA in two days, and-you guessed it-not a mask in sight. To be fair it was right after the vaccines were opened up to everyone, but whether everyone in these places were vaccinated is anyone’s guess. I came away unscathed, but probably won’t repeat the stunt anytime soon.

[@webfreakz]

I agree, best wishes and let's keep going in 2022! Don't eat and drink too much :D

[@jameswilliam9176]

It is a lockdown in the Netherlands. Only essential stores are open and you can only get take out from a restaurant or cafe. All bars, gyms, barbers, etc are closed.

[@janstaes2172]

true most of the dutch come to belgium now, its not that far if they want to do some shopping etc

[@MrOliverwoods]

And here in Buffalo, the low under-the-table hourly wage for simple labor has gone from around $15 in’19to about $21, now. If you can find them.

[@MorningtonCrescent]

Self-indulgent I know, but I do like the personal observations about fluff at the end. There's a time for political economy and there's a time for 'what I did last summer'. This is also known as 'why I would like a pint with Mark Blyth'.

[@surrealistidealist]

1:01 It's important to remember that *"milder" cases* still include *Long-COVID.*

[@Vanderearden]

Surrealist Idealist: That's not been quantified or verified by any legitimate scientific or medical study. Until now, there has never been any clear definition of what "Mild" is. And 2 years is NOT quantifiable as "Long Term". So, it's important to remember, that despite what has been reported by the MSM, there has been virtually no testing on the vaccines and only moderate testing of the virus. The general public IS the test group for both the vaccines and the virus.

[@davidbarry6900]

@@Vanderearden 2 years (for those affected) is enough to lose your job and make a serious dent in your long-term career earnings. Agree that there isn't ANY real data yet about Long Covid rates from omicron though. Let's hope that it's much less than that from the original version of Covid, and milder/shorter for those who are affected.

[@Vanderearden]

@@davidbarry6900: Yes, two years is a long time for a person effected, either directly or indirectly, by the virus. But in the science and medical community, 2 years is by no means a baseline to determine any data of "Long Term" effects.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Good point, but do they really. Is there any documentation on that. I've not heard it before, but it sounds plausible.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@Vanderearden No testing on the vaccines? Please, hundred of millions of people have taken the vaccines - they are working spectacularly - better than they even hoped for. The test group had no side-effects and mostly what people are seeing are extraneous or coincidental problems, or psychosomatic issues. You seem to be pumping up the anti-vax BS in a new way. No one needs that BS - at least without some proof, and you've got none.

[@steevesdd]

Bad management creates the environment for unions.

[@Madaboutmada]

I've got to push back on the WV coal industry argument by way of another huge industry that radically changed without all the noise of this one. The shift from land lines to cell phones happened very quickly and nobody was lamenting the loss of jobs in all the industries affected by this.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Like who?

[@AZWings]

Putin doesn't want NATO on its border. Ukraine can't enter NATO if part of its territory is in dispute. Pretty simple, in my opinion.

[@annoloki]

No. Kiev passed a new law to allow fast conscription and calling up reservists. Russia has been surprise invaded from Europe many many times, like... I think three times last century, which, while that seems like ancient history to us, when tens of millions of people are killed, it kinda stays in your psyche for some time. Western population of Ukraine are rather ethnically different to eastern population, they probably shouldn't be a single country (or at least, should be federated, so neither population feels ruled over by people who hate them). The EU triggered all this in 2014 with their proposal for "closer ties", which was basically an attempted land grab to fuel the global asset grabbing frenzy that's going on. Ukraine has lots of land, one of the biggest grain exporters, and European wealth hoarders want it, but Ukrainian oligarchs don't want to sell, and plutocrats HATE being told "no" by people with hundreds of times less money (but, their own country, which has its advantages). This caused the split in Ukraine, as "closer ties to Europe" meant Russian population being cut off from Russia, hurting their existing trade and way of life etc. Also, Ukraine keeps stealing gas from the pipeline running through their county that is meant to transport to Europe, so a new pipeline has been built between Russia and Germany, so Russia can just stop using the Ukraine pipeline when the gas stops being delivered. Plus, there's a whole thing with Hillary Clinton making promises to Putin, while secretly working with Sarkozy to have a fake Arab Spring in Libya, supporting a rebel group who basically promised to give Russia's oil concessions to France and the US in return for help overthrowing Gadafi, that's a whole 'nother can o' worms right there, but she was behind a lot of the anti-Russia sentiment as fallout from that following her 2016 election failure. So, not quite that simple.

[@JoeNorte]

One cargo ship crossing an ocean puts out more pollution than all the vehicles in the US for a year.

[@justgivemethetruth]

5:30 - if you want to skip the smalltalk.

[@jamesbarels469]

I have to wonder how much the increase in Union activism comes from a similar place as to how the perception of their being a greater wealth disparity often correlates into an increase in crime. That there is some instinct as to when things are too out of whack for even life being unfair can't justify the disparity (just like we all know what soup is but it is not easy to pinpoint).

[@hazelwray4184]

'Coal Miners want Manchin to reverse his opposition to 'build back better' - today's headline.

[@justgivemethetruth]

What paper ... that's important news?

[@wayneshilcock3027]

Most of the US is still in the Delta wave and Omicron has virtually removed Delta as the dominant strain in South Africa, with so far very minimal hospitalizations and deaths. This panic is orchestrated to introduce even more controls, but will ultimately fail because Omicron will be the established endemic standard.

[@scarysota63]

If you don’t approve of lockdowns, how do you keep hospitals from getting overwhelmed? There aren’t enough hospital beds sometimes because COVID patients overwhelm the system.

[@andrejmucic5003]

I'm a travel COVID Nurse in the American south. Do you want to hear what I have to say? I'm white, I'm male. Maybe-gay?

[@johnnycto7576]

Re: Thor. If you've got a hammer everything looks like a nail...

[@TheTalkWatcher]

In the 1990's did either of you "political scientists" follow the cached RU nuclear weapons stories, the Col Lunev revelations?

[@roc7880]

we are not primed for fascism nor liberalism. we are more likely to be attracted to fascism, which is based on fear and rigid group idenitity, than to socialism. which is based on hope and cooperation with others. but this is not fate

[@davef6997]

I think the point is that we are being primed for fascism through relentless media stories about rugged individualism, from news to movies, it's always collectivism encumbering our plucky hero preventing them from "doing the right thing", and hamfisted attempts to bring back McCarthy era communist boogie men from the most unlikely places, i.e. red dawn 2. And that's not to mention the plain sight fascist conspiracies from cointelpro to the Powell memo blurring the lines between industry and government. It's not that fascism is easier, it's that its counterpoint has been fastidiously scrubbed away from the American mind. Its incredible to see this latest push for unionization in the face of overwhelming attacks, and I think that underscores the reality of just how squeezed people truly are.

[@roc7880]

@@davef6997 you make sense. what is weird is the fusion of the individualism with collectivism, free marketeers with authoritarianists, the man against the system with the system itself

[@steevesdd]

The US investment in the military will also solve climate change. At some point a nuclear exchange will happen and that will create a nuclear winter that will solve climate change and over population. A two four.

[@webfreakz]

How convenient!

[@DavidJones-mo9sj]

Thought Keir was a Scottish name and maybe parents were thinking of Keir Hardie founder of labour party or maybe not

[@MrOliverwoods]

Unions are filled with guys in suits not organizers

[@yeoldmetalhead6592]

Whatever you say Moscow Mitch, I think you've seen Hoffa too many times

[@BjorckBengt]

Joe "Mary you have transformed the entire industry to electric!" Chevy "Look, we have built the most powerful gasoline engine ever to put in your car" Elon Musk " The most ironic outcome is the most likely"

[@reedolson8371]

Omicron is named after Omicron Persei 8, a planet in Futurama.

[@personzorz]

No.

[@hrmIwonder]

Yeah, I don't understand how it could have happened. The first matrix was awesome but I couldn't even get through the 2nd one it was so bad. I didn't even know there was a 3rd one.

[@jlvandat69]

Opps, clicked out at 7:00 when the discussion turned towards keeping jobs associated with the coal industry. The administration is doing all it can to address Climate Change, and coal represents one of the greatest contributors to greenhouse gases. You're either on the Climate Change bus or you're not, and it sounds like these 2 haven't decided that bus is important. Best wishes.

[@landontesar3070]

The United States is 330 million freely moving people, and we want to see the tiny event of marginalization on Jan 6th as a coup de etat? Jan 6th was not the civil war.

[@roc7880]

it Is not Ukraine Putin is after but Belarus. if Luka falls from power and Belarus becomes the next Ukraine, Russia is losing its only ally. but if Russia invades Belarus, they can put troops on the border with Poland.

[@danhirtle9279]

GM is trying to sell an ICE engine that "might" be as quick as a Tesla in a drag race. Current 700HP versions failed so back to the drawing board. Meanwhile the globe melts...awesome guys

[@samuelglover7685]

It's a niche product. Blyth happened to become aware of its existence. As he often seems to do, Blyth conflates his own new awareness with something broader. He's getting to be like the Joe Rogan of the Ivy League that way.

[@WithoutRemorse12]

David Bowie Omicron

[@webfreakz]

Moronic?

[@Venomous9]

@@webfreakz no, David Bowie was in fact in a game called Omikron

[@webfreakz]

@@Venomous9 ah ok, i was just creating an anagram for the word Omikron :P

[@hazelwray4184]

Omikron: The Nomad Soul

[@BodyByBenSLC]

Omicron named after death metal band.

[@roc7880]

50 50 you have no room for error. so of course every senator matters.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Keir Starmer is named after the Scottish socialist and Labour MP, Keir Hardie. That's pure embarrassing for Mark.

[@Venomous9]

what's even more embarrassing is that his name is Kieth

[@MrKansaitim]

why no new film ideas? The studios play it safe and are run by unimaginative bean counters $$$$$. Hollywood sucks.

[@Afterthoughtbtw]

I think it's more that they think a 'new idea' is the same thing as slapping a new coat of paint (or changing something irrelevant like the sex of people involved or the location) on an old film and puking it up into the world with enough bought and paid for 'expert' reviews claiming it is good.

[@eottoe2001]

Omicron Watches.

[@kangaroo1888]

Stolen is so good 😊

[@luperamos7307]

Why does anyone still listen to Mark Blyth? He said there won't be inflation and that you have to be a complete idiot to create inflation. Not only do we have inflation, but he said that when we already had insane inflation in certain sectors that had little to do with supply chains.

[@samuelglover7685]

Dunno about the inflation prediction, but it's embarrassing to watch him crow about predicting that Manchin would behave like Manchin. Look up Manchin's daughter's "career" -- does it prove that West Virginia is part of the epinephrine belt? Maybe, by Blyth's logic. Or it could be just plain old dynastic corruption, oozing into any economic sector available. There are lots of local dynasties in America. One of these days Blyth is going to notice that, and then bang on about it like it's his own unique and counterintuitive insight. His remarks about the 1000 hp crate engine are simply lazy and inane. It's a niche product, for racing. Does Blyth think we're going to be seeing them in every Buick coming off the line? What's he going to opine on next, neurosurgical techniques?

[@torclay]

Be more anti-DNC please. You can be either anti-DNC or anti-USA.

[@marvintpandroid2213]

" Think like me or you are anti American " * slaps forehead *

[@julianshepherd2038]

You are anti-democratic which is anti-American

[@Venomous9]

what's wrong with being both

[@yeoldmetalhead6592]

@@julianshepherd2038 how is America democratic? last I checked, we have an electoral college.

[@nathanfielure4305]

@@julianshepherd2038 And super delegates.