Merry Polycrisis w/Jamie Merchant

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Writer Jamie Merchant joins us for a barn burner on the Christmas eve Adam Tooze substack everyone's talking about. We dig into Tooze's anti-Marxism, his theory of "polycrisis", post-Keynesianism, Bidenomics and more. But first, a riveting thread from Vivek Ramaswamy. The piece in question: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-341-on-thinking-in-medias?r=lnle&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true Check out Jamie's book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame Paid Protest 1/3 in NYC: bit.ly/PAIDPROTESTJAN Subscribe to our bonus feed: Patreon.com/Poddamnamerica

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, bills bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law,
0:16.0	and then wants us to sing God bless America.
0:19.0	No, no, no, not God bless America
0:21.5	God damn America
0:23.5	That's in the Bible for killing innocent people
0:26.9	God damn America
0:28.6	For treating her citizens as less than human
0:31.7	As long as she tries to act
0:36.2	Like she is God and she is supreme.
0:39.6	Okay, what's up?
0:40.4	Hello, what's up?
0:41.1	It's the last public episode of the year.
0:44.1	I think we're going to do New Year's Eve on the bonus here coming up.
0:47.5	But hello, Anders, fucking 2024.
0:52.5	Wow, how you feel about it?
0:54.5	It was great. It was a great experience of feel about it? It was great.
0:55.9	It was a great thing of life, right?
0:57.3	It was really cool.
0:59.8	Yeah, Anderson here, it was fine.
1:03.4	It's till the very end.
1:04.7	Like the past two months have been very bad for me and the world at the same time.
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