#700 Batteries just blown up by itself. Try not to drive them to reduce risks. Simple. w/Aaron Thorpe (preview)

Minion Death Cult

Alexander Edward

Dsa, Leftwing, Comedy, Democraticsocialism, Rightwing, News, Communism, Politics, Cringe, Socialism

4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

TODAY: Aaron Thorpe of the Trillbillies joins us to talk sci-fi art, alleged acts of anti-Tesla terrorism, and Minion Death Cult being cancelled for liberalism (supporting unions)

We start off with a brief review of Mickey 17 and our mutual childhood love of art and how our nostalgia is Good vs the fascistic nostalgia going around right now

THEN: We explore the curious nature of a failing, overpriced car brand with thousands of unsold vehicles with manufacturing defects being suddenly "attacked" by anti-Elon protestors and whether anyone might stand to benefit from these liabilities being written-off as insurance claims.

FINALLY: We address the accusations of "liberal bullshit ideology" directed at us via an anti-capitalist facebook page after an old MDC post about organizing your workplace goes viral.

We also take a look at the afro-pessimism espoused by the page, whether not knowing how to organize in America is "mayo," and how the fetishization of historic black radicalism can lead to modern apathy and inaction.

Bonus episodes at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult

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0:00.0	I know exactly what you're talking about, man.
0:01.9	I don't want to run in too long because I could talk about the shit all day, but I'm Wayne Barlow, actually.
0:06.4	He's known for doing these extraterrestrial, I guess it's called speculative evolution, you know.
0:13.1	How, you know, animals and sporganisms would look like, you know, into the far future on Earth or how alien species would look.
0:20.2	And I just remember as a kid, and he also did a lot of dinosaur illustrations in the 90s.
0:24.2	I have, Anni got me his guide to extraterrestrials.
0:27.3	Yes, that's the one I'm talking about. shaft of a sunbeam on this carpeted floor in the library, you know, and just flipping through
0:38.0	it until my dad came and picked me up instead of doing homework. And I don't know, that's what I'm,
0:42.1	that's, you know, I mean, nostalgia can be, can be very whitewashed and insidious. But I don't know,
0:47.2	I like art, man, you know, so. Art's good. Yeah. Art is good. Arts good. Most of like the nostalgic fascism, I think, comes from like commercial advertisements.
0:57.2	So I don't think that, you know, I think we're safe like looking at actual art.
1:01.2	You know, I think we're fine.
1:02.3	Exactly.
1:03.6	Yeah.
1:04.2	So I don't know.
1:04.7	Just I want to, yeah, start off this episode.
1:08.0	As we know, supposed acts of terrorism and vandalism and just, you know,
1:13.8	scary acts of violence against Tesla's, Tesla dealerships, people are leaving mean notes on
1:20.7	Tesla driver's cars. I just saw Larry Elder post about a note. His friend got on his car.
1:26.2	There was like a pre-printed testless like
1:28.9	anti-testless uh fake ticket that was like you are guilty of increased racism you are a
1:36.9	Nazi like just like kea swastika into like their car door or something like that drive driving
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