• heggs_bayer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I listened to parts 0, 1, and a bit of 2. You weren’t kidding about the digressions. They made it hard for me to pay attention. Kind of annoying how the host keeps shitting on AES and “Stalinism” the whole way through.

    • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      I wish he made some sort of condensed outline for this stuff. I’d imagine he’d have experience with that sort of teaching, given that he teaches high school.

      I think he tries to be fair about the Chinese, he’s given some legitimate criticisms of some of the deficiencies they’ve had in domestic policy over the years and how the current leadership trying to rectify that. He’s doesn’t speak of it as something revolutionary though, describing Xi’s rural investment policies as the Great Society coming to China.

      He’s speaks positively about the Cubans as well.

      I also think it’s good that he reminds us to not be so pie in the sky about the developing multipolar geopolitical situation. Anything could come of it, depending on what we make of it. I appreciate his commentary on that.