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What's your beef with communists?

The Lou Perez Podcast with Prax Ben

“What’s your beef with communists?”

So begins my conversation with “Prax” Ben Williams, (figurative) slayer of TikTok commies, socialists, and statists. We discuss:

—How if housing is a human right, you don’t get to control where you live. (Did you know that even Soviets had to pay rent?)

—How to pronounce the Holodomor… Or is it Holodomor?

—How given enough time on social media, communists will eventually tweet their evil intentions. (see below)

Here’s Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin.

I give a big shoutout to my friend Gene Epstein of the Soho Forum debate series. Gene has destroyed more socialists than Stalin.

And here’s a throwback to my great conversation with Gene. My favorite part was hearing about Gene’s “Mommy the Commie.”

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