Ministry For The Damned w/ Kim Stanley Robinson

Pod Damn America

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4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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We interview legendary leftist science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson on his new book Ministry For The Future, the shape of a modern revolution, and the popular American sitcom Family Guy. Read Robinson on the value of utopia here: https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/ Get his new book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-for-the-future

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, builds 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.
0:22.0	God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
0:27.3	God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human.
0:32.1	God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.
0:43.4	Oh, take it away, Alex.
0:45.8	What's an Alex app?
0:47.8	Hello, everybody.
0:51.3	Welcome back to Poddem America, the goth socialist podcast for the stupid children.
1:00.9	It's a science episode today.
1:03.5	Hello, I'm your host, Alex Patak.
1:05.9	I'm here with my merry band of men, Jake Flores.
1:09.0	Yeah, yo-ho-ho.
1:10.6	I'm sea shanty-pilled now.
1:12.9	And Anders Lee.
1:15.2	Anders Lee, the science guy here.
1:17.4	Ooh.
1:18.6	It's an exciting new direction for you.
1:20.4	Yeah, this is a...
1:21.4	Science rules.
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