Hey everybody, welcome to episode 11 of Against Everyone with Connor Abebe.

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All right, episode 11, I'm talking about the very cheery topic of mass shootings and how

they relate to political revolutions and our political cultural climate right now.

Here we go. Hey everybody, welcome to against everyone with Connor Habib. Today's episode is called

Shoot to Live, or mass shootings and the politics of present. In this episode, called Shoot to Live or Mass shootings and the Politics of Present.

In this episode, I want to talk about mass shootings and how they relate and connect to the political movements of our time,

how they're related to this sort of cultural milieu and what marks our political climate right now.

To do that, I'm going to talk about the nature of a few revolutionary political movements,

and then I'm going to talk about the sense and nonsense of meaning that we're experiencing in our

moment as evidenced by mess shootings,

like the Pulse Nightclub shooting, which was a really intense moment for anybody in the LGBT

community and the recent Las Vegas shooting and so on.

And no, I'm not going to talk about false flags, which I think are mostly dumb and mostly boring.

I think there are some notable exceptions, but I'm not going to talk about those.

There are a million pizza gaity shows and websites you can go to to look at that

kind of stuff if that's what you're interested in. It's not something I'm particularly

interested in. So let's start with political movements. And a quote to frame this all by

the literary critic and philosopher Walter Benyamin. Walter Ben-U-Mean said,

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