5 Star Tossers

Wow, an embarrassment of riches here. Pervs R' Us reigns supreme over all the other stars. Pyramid schemes, viral brainwashing tech, the drive unleashed. 
We read Keith Raniere, the leader of the NXIVM cult, now behind bars, as a figure of the Lacanian pervert. We look at the essay "Kant avec Sade," we read from the Marquis de Sade's Philosophy of the Boudoir, and Andy connects the wild psychoanalysis of Raniere's brainwashing pyramid sex ring scheme to some of the unhinged practices found in Relational psychoanalysis. 
Now go lick that puddle! What?!?!? Are you afraid?

We set out to discuss the new Predictive Markets and gambling sites like Kalshi, that allow people to bet on practically anything. Like, you can gamble on when the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened. 
We ended up thinking about how these markets reveal the paucity of our attention in this world, as well as a Protestant interiorization of predestination.
Perhaps our must titillating toss in this episode, we wonder if sex work is a form of gambling with one's predestined "hotness." And we end with a little story about Las Vegas, Stripclubs, and Commodity Futures daytrading.

The Tossers try to atone for the grave sin of dialecticizing the poles of gender without definitively dunking on men. Well, should we atone? Who are the men that suck? Is this all gender's fault? Is there something redeemable in men? What about trans and non-binary transvaluations of gender, will they repeat these same violences, will they save us, will they create new violences?
We did determine without a doubt that the men who suck are the men who are stuck. Men S(T)uck.

At what point do you deserve to die for taking advantage of someone else's hospitality? 
At what point do you deserve to die for not giving enough hospitality?
Are you, the needy guest, complicit in your own execution?
Are you, the host, the founder of all this violence?
What is the relation of woman to the birth of the home? Does she represent an excess, a khora, comfort itself?
In Bugonia and Dogville, the kidnapped woman destroys her captors by the end. 
In Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham poses the question: how many innocents must exist to preserve a people who have abused the rights of hospitality?
Hostipatility: hostile, hostel, hotel, hostage, host.
Let's gooooooooooo!!!!!!

We discuss the uproar and confusion that ensued when John Davidson, who suffers from Coprolalia (the form of Tourettes that induces vulgar language and gestures), said the N-word at the Baftas. 
Why did the BBC not bleep the N-word when they had already bleeped "Free Palestine" and other slurs?
Who is the more righteous, those who find racism in John Davidson's heart, or those who attack the accusation of racism as ableist?
We discuss Lacan and the signifier, we discuss the compulsion to apologize and virtue signal, and the spectacle of it all.