After a long hiatus, Hani and Shawn return to confront the empty critiques and political nihilism surrounding the recent wave of Palestine solidarity protests. The duo discusses a flurry of subjects like gaming, the US Presidential Candidates as the primary season kicks off (5:45), and Kanye West (9:30) before turning their focus to the model minority diaspora—especially the Houston Shia Muslim community (15:16)—whose silence, cynicism, or shallow takes reveal deeper patterns of depoliticization, complacency, and assimilation in the face of ongoing colonial violence in the Middle East.

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