Lotus Eaters gets the benefit of knowing their nation is a sinking ship and they're more intelligent generally so their perspective and situation allows them to be more entertaining and light hearted as the ship sinks into the sea resulting in a better product produced.
Also, despite his Applebee's & Sargon past, Carl has started a family & settled down in a way that Tim has not.
Harassing him for years on end and he finally swings once and they beat him to death like a pack of unwashed shit covered chimps.
The parents are scum too "He wouldn't want this to be about race."
If my family ever pulls that card and something happened to me. I'd hope they'd burn in hell for it.
Foxford Comics made a piece upon this phenomenon:
Tim had Aaron Mate, a reporter for
The Grayzone, on as the guest. Aaron says on this episode that he is a Jew, & appears to be of the Max Blumenthal school of Judaism, & works at the same publication.
Ian & Libby were the co-hosts.
*Aaron & Tim joust over how to address homelessness, & improve education. Aaron argues that more funding would address these issues. Tim retorts that enforcing vagrancy laws, preventing easy food access, & repealing the Department of Education is the correct path forward: 1:32:26-1:48:06
Clip Collection:
-While Tim was busy teeing up
Tenet, Aaron confronted a U.S. Senator over Israel's behaviour in Gaza & Ian was doing
an interview on Atlantis:
Here is the clip of Aaron asking U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) questions:
-Ian has serious doubts about the security of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election:
-Aaron argues that "From the river, to the sea, Palestine will be free" is a call for equality. This sentiment reminds me of the average liberal arguing that "Black lives matter" is a call for equality, while BLM activists intend its meaning as "Black lives matter
MORE than others":
-Tim qualifies his stance on free speech from "Defending it for everyone" to "Hold you to your own standard":
-Ian calls out Ben Shapiro's fulsome call for war & lack of questioning the slow response from the IDF on 7 October, Tim rushes to "clarify":
-Aaron argues that Israel has no right to defend itself from those it is occupying, to perpetuate the occupation. Tim goes for the "I am America, I do not know & do not care"
shtick. Ian says we send money to Israel, because it is a colony of the United States:
-Ian argues that the Balfour Declaration, betraying the promise of Arab ownership of the Middle East, &promising the Jews the right to a homeland in the British Mandate of Palestine is what caused Germans to hate Jews, before the Nazi rise to power. I defend Ian's "special & unique" takes, but this one...:
-Aaron argues that "we" acknowledge that "we" are living on stolen land in the United States, which Israel refuses to do. Tim challenges this, & Libby asks whether Jews are indigenous to the Middle East. Aaron says "Do I look like I come from the Middle East?":
Considering his swarthy complexion, black hair, & brown eyes? Kind of. Compare Mate's "X" profile picture to this Adobe stock photo of an Arabic man:
-Ian redeemed himself, by asking Aaron that if he considers all humans equal, as with Israel-Palestine, what is his proposal to resolve "this excess of humanity that lives off of the tit" in places like San Francisco. Calling the homeless & mentally ill "this excess of humanity that lives off the tit" has to be my favourite phrase of 2023, now:
-Libby joked that the Palestinians could be moved onto the North Pacific Garbage Gyre, if they poured cement upon it. Tim takes this a bit too seriously, & starts explaining why that would not work:
