Lex Fridman Podcast

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Dec 15, 2022

03:47:31

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Twitter’s Transparency and Media Coverage Targeting Elon Musk

02:31

The Vicious Cycle of Oppression

01:11

The Troublemaker's Guide to North Korea

01:30

Marxist Underpants Gnomes

01:27

Introduction

4min

Inside Tracker - The Next Big Thing in Business Management

2min

Simply Safe Is the Best for Your Home Security System

2min

Are You a Good or a Bad Boy, Michael?

5min

The End Was Always Stateless

2min

What's the Role of Violence in All of This?

2min

Anarchism in Art and Politics

3min

I Need It Like You, Okay. Okay. I Don't Know.

2min

Is There Anything 'Obvious' in Politics?

4min

10.

The Steelman Argument for Socialism

3min

11.

The Stateless Version of Anarchism?

3min

12.

Are You a Red Herring?

2min

13.

The Great Depression, I Think, Was Not Predictable

2min

14.

Is There Power in the Santa Claus Outfit?

3min

15.

You Write in the Book, Cynics Like to Lies and Call Themselves Realists

5min

16.

You Don't Have to Be Jerry Seinfeld, Right?

2min

17.

I Don't Think It's Just a Russian Thing.

2min

18.

I'm a Weirdo, I've Been Told to Be Less Weird, and It's Also a Source of Enormous Tension

3min

19.

You're an Asshole

3min

20.

Is Fight Club a Good Movie?

3min

21.

Do You Have a Strategy?

2min

22.

I Don't Think Most People Suck

3min

23.

The October Revolution and Lenin

2min

24.

Pragmatism - Is That Where Things Go Wrong?

2min

25.

Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin - Who Are These People?

2min

26.

Trotsky and the White Pill

2min

27.

The Problem With Communism Is That You Run Out of Possible Sscapegoats

2min

28.

Are You Losing Yourself in the Crowd?

2min

29.

You Can Say Anything in a Santa Outfit

2min

30.

How Did Stalin Come to Power?

3min

31.

What Was the Relationship Between Communism and Jews in the Soviet Union?

3min

32.

The Escape Goat in the New Right

5min

33.

What Are Your Thoughts About Iran?

2min

34.

Is Iran Really a Foreunderstanding in America?

3min

35.

I'm Not Going Down That Road With You. I Wear the Ring Like Frodo

2min

36.

The Suppression of Speech

3min

37.

The Problem of Totalitarianism

2min

38.

The Ideological Superstructure and the Propaganda

2min

39.

Is There a Cost to Lissenko?

2min

40.

The White Pill and Free Speech

4min

41.

The Asymmetry of Truth and Conspiracy Theory

2min

42.

Is There Money to Be Made in Calling Out Something as a Lies?

2min

43.

Are You a Vax Denier?

4min

44.

Lathario. A Man Who Behaves Selfishly in a Sexual Relationship With Women

2min

45.

What Do You Think of the Leak of the Twitter Files?

2min

46.

The New Right Is Not Going to Be Left Behind, Is It?

4min

47.

The Pros and Cons of Self Publishing

2min

48.

How to Get a Book on Amazon?

4min

49.

The White Pill - It's All on You

3min

50.

The White Pill

2min

51.

Only Fans - I'm Not Going to Break Me.

2min

52.

I Don't Know What's Real or Not Now

2min

53.

The Story of Stalin's Idea of Collectivization

3min

54.

The Koolocks Are Hoarding the Grain

4min

55.

How to Stop Cannibalism in the Ukraine

3min

56.

The Christmas Miracle

2min

57.

Why So Few Western Journalists Did What He Did

5min

58.

Is That Enough to Suffocate the Integrity of a Journalist?

2min

59.

Is It? Is It?

2min

60.

Stalin's Starvation Was Not Simply a Consequence

2min

61.

The Complexity of Intermixing of a People's

2min

62.

Will You Ever Forgive the Russians?

2min

63.

Do You Think It's the Same?

2min

64.

Putin's War in Ukraine

2min

65.

The News Is in the Business of Selling Narratives

3min

66.

How Long Have You Been Writing This Book?

2min

67.

Haldimor - What Moments Stand Out to You?

3min

68.

The Great Terrorism

5min

69.

Are You an Enemy?

3min

70.

Stalin Was the Head of the Gulag

2min

71.

Is It Tough to Stop Evil?

2min

72.

The Tale of Stalin

2min

73.

Is Stalin Evil? Or Are You Deluded?

3min

74.

Stalin's Hit, I Don't Know What It Was, Right?

3min

75.

I Don't Know if There's a Russian Thing

2min

76.

Higher Trust

2min

77.

The Iron Curtain and the Warsaw Pact

4min

78.

Revolution 1989 by Victor Sebastian

3min

79.

What's So Surprising About 1989?

2min

80.

Gorbachev and Michael Mallis

2min

81.

The Grocery Store

2min

82.

Is There a Difference Between Socialism and Communism?

4min

83.

Why Did Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman Have So Much Trouble?

3min

84.

What Is the Hardest Part About Writing Scramamus?

4min

85.

Is There a Battle for Progress?

3min

86.

The Cold War and America's Not Going Anywhere

2min

87.

What Does Hope Look Like in American Politics?

4min

88.

What Do You Look Forward to in 2023?

2min

Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Michael’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelmalice
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Michael’s Website: http://michaelmalice.com/about
Your Welcome podcast: https://bit.ly/30q8oz1
Books:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:43) – Santa and the White Pill
(10:30) – Marxism and Anarchism
(25:48) – The case for socialism
(29:59) – Human nature and ideology
(38:20) – Cynicism
(54:05) – Twitter
(58:46) – October Revolution
(1:01:56) – Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin
(1:06:22) – Communism
(1:30:08) – Suppression of speech
(1:52:04) – Twitter Files
(1:59:08) – Self-publishing
(2:12:27) – Kulaks and starvation
(2:49:42) – The Great Terror
(2:58:00) – Lavrentiy Beria
(3:04:25) – Joseph Stalin
(3:13:00) – Iron Curtain
(3:25:29) – Ideologies vs leaders
(3:29:21) – Emma Goldman
(3:33:41) – White pill moments
(3:45:04) – Hope for the future

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Twitter’s Transparency and Media Coverage Targeting Elon Musk

The Vicious Cycle of Oppression

The Troublemaker's Guide to North Korea

Marxist Underpants Gnomes

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