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Today on The Nersey Guide to Ethical Hating, we’ve got Luke O’Neil, the legendary proprietor of the Welcome to Hell World newsletter, on the pod. We recorded this a few months ago, and we’ve been waiting for the exact right time to drop it. A lot of the episode deals with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has only become more dire on the ground — and contentious in America — in the time since we had Luke on. But Luke is one of the most passionate and astute observers of politics around, and he helps us navigate the situation with the appropriate amount of righteous rage — directed at both the fact that such atrocities are happening to innocent people, as well as at the complete and utter intellectual dishonesty of the politicians who enable this to happen. Listen to this episode and then go protest somewhere.

FYI, this episode is mostly serious (probably not surprising given the subject matter), but we also discuss sports haterdom, a big pile of snow in Boston that was definitely a hater, and also Luke’s most recent book, A Creature Wanting Form, which you can buy from OR Books.

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