Great pod, and I agree with you about avoiding ads. Subscription model is the way to go.
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@mashagessen presents clear signs of desagreableness#Big5 -
That is exactly what came to mind for me! Love Masha’s brutal honesty- if Sam’s 9.5 on the disagreeable scale according to
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True! It’s the first person I heard saying to
@SamHarrisOrg , Sam, you are not getting what I am saying
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I really enjoyed this, my respect for you is off the charts at the minute. Great guest with an interesting and different view point. Hard to not worry for the world though.
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This guest (Masha Gessen) was a fail. Combination of zealotry and claims, one more unbelievable than next (about Russian church, Russians lacking their own opinions, Christians and gays) just fed on each other. Good job by Sam from averting a total Hindenburg of a podcast...
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Agreed. He could've pulled the pin and blew that podcast up. She had some interesting perspectives anyway, IMHO.
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I love real russians in conversation. No holds barred. Masha: "there is no public opinion" Sam - perplexed, but wait... Masha: you misunderstand me Sam, there is no public opinion.
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The part about Russians holding no opinion had me perplexed. I understand that possibly in public her scenario might be plausible but she made it sound like that the majority is brainwashed. Even in a totalitarian state there are dissidents.
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I'm pretty sure she said 86% of Russians were shown, by survey, to just regurgitate whatever State News had just said. So I suppose there are some freethinkers left in the other 14%, but still pretty depressing...
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Did Gessen change her mind about pulling out of the NYC conference? Otherwise how can she talk about presuming good faith in conversation, and how could they not have addressed it?
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I was thinking the same thing! Like what the hell
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Must have been recorded before she pulled out. I wanna buy a ticket but I have some of the same issues that she does. Dave Rubin moderating really does guarantee that there’ll be many with TNS attending. (Trump Normalizaion Syndrome).
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She has a very annoying characteristic.. On the other hand, Sam, you were awesome as usual.
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Masha seemed to be predisposed to be contrarian and not a little bit deflective about entrenched and current radical intolerance in Islam.
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Yeah I get that. There are a lot of left leaning people that have the idea that they HAVE to say that Christianity is just as scary, if not more, than Islam. Christian society -> maybe gays can't marry? Muslim society -> maybe gays are thrown from rooftops. Not the same.
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She was pretty explicit about the treatment of gays in (Christian) Russia- marriage equality is clearly not their most pressing concern
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Yes, but like Sam, I feel the left has this tolerance "blind spot" for the fact that not all world views/religions are the same. Some of them are just plain anti-enlightenment/liberal ... and we should be able to talk about it.
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