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Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the global political calculus almost overnight. While catastrophic and horrific in nature, this shift has provided unforeseen opportunities that were unthinkable just a few months ago. The question is how best to mobilize in this darkness to affect positive change moving forward. We examine the work of Thomas Piketty and Erica Chenoweth to help wrap our minds around what’s possible, no matter how audacious.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:07
Chapter One: 00:03:13
Chapter Two: 00:13:32
Chapter Three: 00:20:21
Closing Thoughts: 00:28:13
Post-Show Musings: 00:31:30
Outro: 00:46:17
Resources
IRS: The Estate Tax: Ninety Years and Counting
IPCC: Climate Change 2022
Al Jazeera: Could energy independence from Russia spur a shift to renewables?
New York Times: Can Germany Break Up With Russian Gas?
Jacobin: Nationalize All the Oil Companies
Adam Tooze: China under pressure
Book Love
Thomas Piketty: Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
UNFTR Episode Resources
White on White Crime in Eastern Europe.
Building the Climate Industrial Complex.
The Beatification of Ronald Reagan.
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| 0:00.0 | Unfucking the Republic is brought to you by unfucking insane level members, Sam C, Cringy, Cindy S, and Corius. |
| 0:08.7 | History is the sum of squandered opportunities. The wrong leaders in a time of crisis. |
| 0:15.3 | George Bush doesn't care about black people. Backward policies in a time of forward progress. |
| 0:21.6 | I believe that these task forces will allow us to mount an intensive and coordinated campaign |
| 0:26.6 | against international and domestic drug trafficking and other organized criminal enterprises. |
| 0:32.6 | Lessons forgotten or never learned. |
| 0:35.6 | And at the very center of that plan is a giant, beautiful, massive, the biggest ever in our country, |
| 0:46.3 | tax cut. |
| 0:48.3 | Bad policies, lousy leaders, stupid mistakes, self-inflicted political wounds happen all the time, and |
| 0:55.1 | can set nations on a disastrous course. |
| 0:57.8 | But nothing alters political calculus more than war. |
| 1:02.3 | Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shaken the world order and assumptions in a significant |
| 1:06.1 | way. |
| 1:07.1 | So I want to take this moment to pause and reflect on some major themes that we've covered, |
| 1:10.6 | because certain ideas are now more in reach than previously thought, and others seem much |
| 1:15.3 | further away. As usual, there are competing narratives at play, and many are predictably false |
| 1:20.4 | and misleading. So we'll be doubling down on certain concepts in an attempt to continue |
| 1:24.5 | elevating our conversation and offering insight on the periphery |
| 1:28.3 | of the noise machine operating at full tilt right now. |
| 1:31.3 | In terms of the war in Ukraine, I'm once again offering the caveat that I have nothing |
| 1:36.3 | useful to add with respect to how the war is being litigated, the future of the Ukrainian people, |
| 1:41.3 | or whether or not past Western actions may or may not have played a role |
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