Diving into the Wreckage: One Crisis after Another w/ C. Derick Varn
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Sean and Varn are back to talk current events, discuss theory and gripe about everyone and everything. On the tumbrils this week: artificial intelligence, the DSA, sovereign debt, multipolarity and how not to debate with Colin Drumm online. In the second half we talk about 'The Mamdani Moment', Varn's recent ascension to Chief Fly-in-the-Ointment in the DSA, the pre-political theories of the ILC and how the ruling class are dragging us all into the hellfire.
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Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to dive into the wreckage for the year of our dystopia 2025. |
| 0:14.0 | It's me and Sean here. |
| 0:18.0 | And we're talking about everything from Mondani to Russia, Ukraine, to how Colin |
| 0:24.9 | Drum ended up trending on the internet. It's very weird when that happens to people I've known |
| 0:31.4 | for like 15 years on the internet used to be associated with. Yeah, I know I i know of him we're not going to spend like an |
| 0:40.6 | undue amount of time talking about anybody or any internet drama but it's funny too like i don't know |
| 0:46.4 | the guy you you had him on your show several times but i know his little tricks and i saw all |
| 0:51.1 | these people stumbling into his traps i was like like, oh, God, guys, no, |
| 0:54.9 | but it's not my place to, you know, save people before they hang themselves. It's not my |
| 0:59.8 | partard. It's their petards they're hanging themselves from. When it's my partard, you know, |
| 1:04.5 | I'm going to hang myself from it. Other people's petards, that's their business. Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:08.6 | we have a problem with, uh the culture of what you |
| 1:13.6 | might call parissocial politics um on twitter less on facebook because facebook is just a i slop now |
| 1:21.5 | and like the i there's all people who yeah really no shit i i is another thing I wanted to talk about today in light of, let's call it uneven development or if you want to be reactionary about our geopolitics. I did want to talk about AI. But I'm not on Facebook or Instagram. So I'm not even aware of how and Sloppified it's gotten. It's about 60% |
| 1:46.5 | slop now. And your friend's feed is like very little of your friends. It's mostly ads |
| 1:52.7 | and I saw not even the stuff you're following. It's just just stuff the algorithm throws at you. |
| 1:58.0 | Wow. Um, I think that's why Access had staying power, honestly, for political discourse, |
| 2:04.8 | because it has not, it is full of reactionaries and ads and bots, |
| 2:12.8 | but AI slop has been less penetrative there because of the, uh, the nature of text versus video. |
| 2:23.3 | Um, and it's not to say that there's not still like, there's still the old political |
| 2:30.7 | groups on Facebook if you know how to find them and dig for them. But in general, all this stuff is dead. |
| 2:39.2 | But I've known Colin since probably 2013, 2014, somewhere in there. |
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