Elia Ayoub reads his Hauntologies essay "Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation" (00:00 to 09:50) and reflects on it (09:50-36:49).
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Check out Politically Depressed's latest video "What Are Tankies Really?" since it's so clearly related to what I'm talking about here.
The Hezbollah essay I mentioned
My conversation with Hong Kongers
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Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode art), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics)