And yes Ben is still raking in the money and can continue making bs videos for the rest of his life. He could just retire today and be not even rid of the money he has when he dies.
Actually negative gearing still aplies to underwater property making it a very hard market to break into. (But those gears are really rusty from all the water)
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“I hate to sound like I’m beating a dead hor- uh, dog here” cut to uncontrollable sobbing. Most layered joke on your channel. I look forward to it every time
Wasn't Crowder involved with that TPUSA stunt where they all dressed like babies and put themselves in a play pen to try and trigger the libs own the libs?
@@hollandscottthomas Oh I know Charlie Kirk was the founder of TPUSA and therefore involved with the event, but I keep thinking Crowder was involved as well. It would make sense considering that's about the level of his "humor".
Can't get over Crowder's videos essentially just having him wearing a shirt saying "socialism" because the rest of the text is cropped out. Really sends an interesting message...
The shirt actually saying "socialism is for f*gs" made me want a shirt with that on it T.T with like. A lil image comp of historically influencial queer socialists on it
@@roanshaffer2986 Seeing the full tshirt spelled out, I feel I need to qualify that my original comment was talking about slandering socialism by the association with Crowder, not with LGBTQ folks.
literally am here again because I was talking to someone about some lettubers since they wanted to get into some more video essays and stuff, I mentioned my favorite youtube video (philosophy tubes video on mental health) and they said lol I'm so much more shallow and sent the vocoded version of it. I was immediately like "oh hey! here's the original video" because I had already mentioned hbomberguy (they didn't know him) and now I'm just rewatching for some reason
Shapiro being smug about out-debating college students is like college students being smug about out-debating high schoolers, and high schoolers being smug about out-debating middle schoolers. I once destroyed a 12 year old in a debate and that's how we know my argument was true.
The sad thing is, Shaprio doesn't out-debate them, he just spits "FACTS" and never addresses anything, just glosses over most of it and moves onto other "FACTS".
I made a Quora answer about how Ben Shapiro listens to classical music over rap and it got over 7k likes. So a 16 year old can destroy good ol BS too apparently. I'm not bragging, it's not hard Edit- Nevermind apparently that's not considered debating, which I say unironically, that's actually completely fair
@@WiloPolis03 You can accrue people who agree with you but have to tried debating a group of adults who think like this? In real life or even on a conservative forum. Do that and come back and tell me how easy it is after they call you a brainwashed socialist lib cuck and ban you. It's the group thinking that is hardest to stop.
Winston Smith this comment doesn’t make sense as a reply to any of the other comments. I’m calling your caretaker, Winston. This has gone on long enough
This video was the first ever step into my withdrawal from conservatism which I was raised in. After watching, I remember thinking, "If conservatives are stupid fucking wrong about climate change, what else could they be incorrect on?"
Shapiro and Crowder are the definition of low-hanging fruit for Harris to target here. Shapiro is a pure grifter, and Crowder is low IQ entertainment for low IQ people, not the paragons of logic that they are portrayed as. They might say so, but literally no one who has any sense at all takes them even a tiny bit seriously.
Great job on having the strength to keep an open mind and go looking for knowledge. I mean this genuinely. Reworking how you think about the world is incredibly difficult.
The reasonablanist bear character is so close to actual skeptic RU-vidrs I thought he was playing real footage of a response to a previous video that didn’t exist
"He's good at winning debates with teenagers who haven't finished university and don't have the media training he has." I mean thank you for saying it.
Whenever Shapiro debates intellectuals, he's the one getting DESTROYED by FACTS and LOGIC. Sam Harris is probably the best example of Shapiro being schooled like a toddler.
I have a small sample size of Shapiro’s “debates” with people, but they’re more like him jumping on whenever he thinks “hmm, yes, here’s is a good point to rudely interject and basically devalue my ‘opponent’ to make me look good and ‘not waste our time’”.
@@firewolf950tfwgaming7 Does Ben prevent social "science" professors from interrogating him? The purpose of debate is to make ideas appear either good and wholesome or noxious and unhealthy as the case may be. If making good arguments tend to make their authors "look good" then I'll suffer the consequences. As for Shapiro, he needs cosmetic surgery to lengthen his vocal cords along with a mechanical speed governor fitted to his jawbone. Otherwise it's fun to watch him in action.
@Miasma Look, if confession makes you feel better, don't let me stop you. Real Science isn't really as difficult as you might believe it to be, even if you are a confessed hack who doesn't know shit about science as you have honestly volunteered. Here is the first pragmatic rule of all science as stated by a real Nobel physicist: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says ‘science teaches such and such’, he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach it; experience teaches it” Once you fully comprehend what is being said here, I can help you overcome more of your misapprehensions concerning the principles of scientific inquiry of the type that does not require being bracketed in quotation marks.
big fan of how crowder's super smart "socialism is for [slur]s" shirt gets cut off in his own videos so it just looks like he's wearing a big old SOCIALISM shirt
Quick correction, the word "f*gs" on the shirt of the famous socialist leader doing a stereotypical "gay pose" isn't actually a homophobic slur. It's actually "Socialism is for figs", referencing the fact that Che Guevara was captured in La Higuera, which is Spanish for "the fig tree". If you immediately thing about bigotry when looking at the shirt, doesn't that say a lot more about you than the shirt?! (Yes, that is the actual explanation. Yes, it's pretty fucking disgusting.)
@@stug6974 Uh actually, it says ‘fogs’ because the people who believe in Socialism have brain fog. The fact that your mind went to ‘figs’ is disgusting.
@@howeyyadoing9070 Actually He gave an historical and tangible meaning for the shirt, and you just made up some bullshit just to p'wn socialism... go sit in the corner.
It's fascinating that people think that scientists, who are apparently lying about climate change being bad, would slip up and "accidentally" publish entire articles which they think disproves climate change
It’s fascinating how you guys say this like they haven’t been saying we’re doomed unless we do somethin aboot it, SINCE THE 70’S and I’ve yet to have any reason to really panic. Here in Nebraska it’s hot as shit all Summer and Cold as ass all Winter. I ain’t sayin shits not gonna go south. Tis life my good LLLLOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzeeeeeeeeRRRRRRRRRRR. I’m just asking when should I worry about these “Consequences” In months? Years? Decades? THE NEXT MILLENNIUM?! And don’t you dare respond with some absolute garbage like, “Your clearly a climate denying loser who needs to get laid and or read an article” cause than you’ll be racist. Don’t ask why that’ll just make you more so.
@@Prespanda Mother fucker my post is less long than some of the other shit I’ve seen before, so either read it or tell me the truth being, “DuH I Can’t read!?”
@@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090 It's not about the length of your message. It's about making no god damned sense, that's what's lacking in it. Do you stop smoking cigarettes only after you feel the cancer lump ? Do you know you see and feel no negative effects while smoking, and you'll feel the effects in 30-60 years? You gotta be smarter than that. Understand how one thing leads to another, because with the mindset of "it's not affecting me yet", when it affects you, you might be too damn late to do anything about it. And our biggest problems that we have as a global civilization right not are of this delayed type. Slowly accumulating consequences , that become something big you can't stop if you wait till you feel it . When you start feeling it, you are already too late. Feeling things out works fine if you are an animal in the wild. When things happen fast on a small scale and are short term. But we are a bit smarter and we can figure shit out way in advance by investigating scientifically which part of reality affects which other part and how. Make use of that human capacity to do that by educating yourself on the subject, and don't act like such a simpleton.
Saying that people on the coast can just "sell their homes" has the same energy as Marie Antionette saying "let them eat cake". It's just woefully out of touch.
27:17 "The Earth isn't actually on fire" Ah, weird reminder that this video is 4 years old, from before the Earth started to actually catch fire every summer.
That's why we have fire seasons, nimrod ---- Smokey the Bear goes back 100 years. And the earth is not catching fire ---- where do you get this crap?? You have no sense of history.
@@jennifersmith4864I lived through the Australian Black Summer bush fires. I had to evacuate my home because of the onset of fire. Watching the ferocity of that fire, to say that it was unaffected by climate change is frankly delusional. Yeah, we’ve had fires in the past. But they’re increasing in scale, ferocity and frequency.
@@jennifersmith4864lemme guess, because they arent christian? they didn't vote for trump, from australia? because Australia is a sphere earth hoax created by nasa?... my expectation of you is really low , but by all means, surprise me!
Cthul-who --- I've figured out why Ben Shapiro doesn't understand why you can't sell underwater housing. Everything within a mile of him becomes bone dry. Wayne Patterson --- Real estate promoters have been selling underwater real estate in Florida for the last two centuries, so you demonstrating your ignorance. Furthermore, anyone with a decent education already knows that Florida was naturally destined to disappear beneath the ocean waves as the sea levels returned to their normal and higher sea levels of the past.
The Aquaman line is a good zinger, but it hinges on the idea that sea levels will rise so much that land will become flooded and unusable. How many places has that been predicted and it's still never come true? Is Aquaman living in California? New Orleans? Venice? It's almost as if, like Ben said, our preventative technology keeps pace with changes in environment. But hey, why listen to his actual point when you can cover it over it with a witty little joke?
as a previous climate change denier and who spent time around others, the main 'rebuttal' I heard often was "ugh they were saying this stuff in the 70s, and the world is still here, why should I believe them now?" like bruh, because the Earth has changed, you are just privileged enough to not have it impact you directly.
No one ever stops to ask why acid rain and the ozone hole didnt end us. ITS BECAUSE WE SOLVED IT. We came together as a cause, and solved the causes of why it happens, to prevent it from happening again. But conservatives act as if it disappeared for no reason. Bah.
@@jennifersmith4864 "it's all BS", even though it's proven that human activity is the major cause for all climate change in the last 400 or so years? Yeah no it isn't BS, this is our fault, and only we can fix it. There's no savior mother nature here. We can only depend on ourselves.
@@BarioIDL it's certainly better now, at least in the acid rain department. Ozone hole still exists but the rate of depletion has decreased a lot. The more pressing issue now is global warming.
The bit about horses was a bit disappointing, honestly. In the spirit of doing bad research to support the ideas we already believe, he would have looked at a list of the number of horses by continent, saw there are no horses in Antarctica and concluded there must therefore be no horses in the entire world
@@lunarlegion5518 based on this new information regarding antartica, as well as previously known information stating australia isnt real either. I beleive we can easily say that countries starting with A never existed and were drawn on maps to be in an inside joke between governments.
@@pianopuncheras an Austrian, I can confirm! all our "citizens" are actually paid actors from Germany, we all just pretend to be offended when someone assumes we're German! Anyway, let me go back to enjoying my payment from the leftist world governments and sailing my yacht around in the sea that Austria's non-existent landmass supposedly fills out :D (p.s. my fellow austrians i do not actually think we are german please don't kill me PLEASE I WAS JOKING I WAS JOKI
34:03 this clip right here is eerily similar to what happened in 1920 to the Radium Girls in the US. How the American Radium company told girls as young as 11 working in their factories that the radium in ‘Undark Paint’ that made it glow wasn’t toxic but was actually completely harmless and was actually *good* for you. And told the girls put the brushes in their mouths to sharpen the point in order to better paint the small numbers on the dials of watches. They encouraged them to paint their nails, teeth and cheeks with the paint as a ‘job perk’ because wealthy women would pay a lot of radium lotions and toothpaste to make their teeth and skin glow. Predictably all of these poor girls and young women died horrible, painful deaths from radiation poisoning and cancer apart from one who lived to 107 because she was fired a week into the job because she refused to put the paint brush in her mouth. The American Radium company kept delaying their court hearing hoping the girls would die before the court date came up. Which is so sad because all the families of these women and girls wanted was for the company to pay for their medical and funeral bills. In the end after 8 appeals the company lost and paid out thousands of dollars in damages to the girls affected for the rest of their short lives. The men at the factory who were their bosses would wear lead lined aprons, handle the paint with gloves on and used tongs. They would have janitors throw radioactive waste out back instead of disposing of it properly and those janitors got sick with cancer as well. These men all knew fine well that radium is extremely dangerous and will kill you if exposed to it. They even tried to get rid of the glowing bones of the girls who had died and bribe those who performed autopsies on them. They kept saying in court that the paint was completely harmless and the girls were dying from siphyllis by being ‘promiscuous’ to try and defame them. It’s abhorrent how shit like this still happens to this very day. I wish one of the men in charge of killing those girls had been challenged to drink the undark paint by a journalist and made to flounder and trip on their own dicks and make a complete arse of themselves. Lying cunts.
@@arthurpietrogarcia1057 because women were 2nd class citizens and why pay for protective gear when you can just have a high turnover of staff & bribe your way into defaming all of your victims & suggesting they're all just whores. Same thing for HIV/AIDS and even recently with Monkeypox. If companies can scapegoat a minority to cover up their shitty business practices & cost-cutting measures, they'll fuc king take it every time.
@@sciencemanguy Yup! And there were exceedingly few protections (eg laws and regulations) for workers. It's not even just that there weren't 'hazard suits' - it's also that girls as young as 11(!) were working in these places. You know, 11. 6th graders. Working in hazardous factories.
I defended Ben Shapiro from the Aquamam joke for way too long because I thought of a rebuke to that quote. I watched these kind of videos 2019 and finally admitted that my beliefs were destroyed as a conservative. But now that I’ve watched this video in 2024 I now know that the aqua man joke fucking slaps
@@Catthepunk I don’t think so, I was not in the realm of climate denial, more of the “yeah sure gay people can exist but don’t do pride”, “the church teaches total morality”, “taxes are socialism” type, but this video and the others like it on the channel do a good job of showing how the figureheads of movements like this are lying to their followers for their benefit. I’m sure if you catch someone early on with this video you can stop them but the facts alone in this video would make climate deniers have to make some wild arguments
"weed killer is so safe, you could drink it!" "alright then mate, go on mate, do it" "I'd be happy to" "then do it" "no I'm not stupid" "so it's dangerous?" "no I could drink it" "then do it" "no I'm not stupid" Oh yeah this is big brain time
@@prathameshpatil6888 I mean I would say in that context shampoo is dangerous because ingesting it is dangerous. The context here would be drinking the weed killer, which you said isn't dangerous. You dumb? This is how conversations and context work. I made a joke and you got so mad lmao.
@@prathameshpatil6888 wait what kind of shampoo you use that's "isn't going to kill you if you drink it" ? accidental ingestion in tiny amount isn't going to have immediate affect but if you intentionally drink it I promise you you'll have to go to the doctor for poison treatment. Which means it IS dangerous to human.
@@thevomit5851 wow, you proved the mainstream media wrong by using mainstream media. You really think that one part of an ice sheet growing means that the rest of the planet isn't warming very quickly, as planetary warming trends go.
I'm sorry but as a biochemist I have to say that there are so many things wrong with the part about glyphosate... First the study's on glyphosate being responsible for cancer are either completely discredited or are invalid because of bad testing methods used Second the response of the person in the video wasn't stupid the reaction of the interviewer suggesting that he should drink a glass of it was... Glyphosate can be toxic in high amounts (like many other things fe. Natriumchloride) the LD50 amount (deadly amount) of glyphosate is around 5g per kilogramme for mice, so if we assume it would be similar for humans a deadly amount would be at around 350g which isn't much more than a glass of it. He was completely right in his reaction by saying it isn't toxic normally used but also refusing to drink it... And before someone tells me I'm bought by monsanto I work at a renowned German university For more information on this topic I suggest the channel of the chemist Myles power
The denialist’s prayer: This isn’t real. And if it is, it’s not that bad. And if it is, it’s not our fault. And if it is, there’s nothing we can do. And if there is, it will be too hard. And if it isn’t, I don’t care.
@@NaumRusomarov How are you going to prevent it, and how do you know that it will work? Are you going to declare war on China/India if diplomatic avenues fail to decrease their emissions? It still seems like the cure is worse than the disease.
You’re the perfect buyer for all of those homes in Florida that are going to be underwater!! Ben Shapiro was right, as usual. He should have elaborated and said ‘they will sell their homes to world renowned film critics/closeted homosexuals’ just for clarification.
It's the conservative "solution" to every problem: hand it off to someone else and forget about it. Those people who are now stuck with a flooded house? Fuck them, I guess.
This has nothing to do with the argument at all, all he had to do was pick out one bad argument from ben shapiro to point at the people who has a different view on climate change as stupid, obviously wrong, right wing, conservative, deniers or whatever names they call
@@ussliberty109 Checkmate climatists, wet places exist. * Please don't look at the wet places, they're fine. They definitely aren't being severely impacted by becoming too wet, we all know there are no problems associated with being too wet so you don't even have to check.
Our species is so fucked. I just hope that the next apex species doesn’t fuck up as badly as we have. Maybe they’ll learn from our mistakes and it’ll be a beautiful Ghibli movie where they’ve learned to live with nature
California is currently in a dry season thats being exponentially amplified by the local governments poor caretaking of the redwood forests. The trees there literally depend upon forest fires in order to plant their seeds; because excess brush isn’t being taken care of, forest fires are more likely to grow out of control.
I am ashamed to admit I used to side with people like Crowder, I was an edgy counter SJW idiot who only had the veil lifted due to the fact I formerly worked in the medical field and their takes on masks were the dumbest shit imaginable. Also I never sided with climate change denial as I am scientifically minded. but I used to side with all this until I just learned to stop caring about SJW stuff, I realized, it's not a big deal, and as soon as I started going down that path I realized that for the people it does effect, it does matter. and since then I have gone from an uneducated right winger to a full blown leftist.....
@@LyritZian oh of course, I'm not ashamed of growth, I'm ashamed I fell for it haha. it was only broken for me when it came to them outright lying and using disingenuous examples about something that I directly have knowledge of having been a trainer for advanced trauma life support and stuff, that I realized, oh they just make shit up and say it's fact.
@@tonyduncan9852 wrong verb cause (something) to happen; bring about. "nature always effected a cure" the verb use for affect you are thinking doesnt apply here, affect is personally directed and part of it's definition is " to have an effect on something" the statement I made it in the for of the definition used to decribe affect meaning my sentence is correct..... but if that's all you take away from my comment, you probably aren't worth breaking things down for XD
@@FleatoBut “…people it does effect/affect” is literally directed towards people - that’s why you used ‘people’. Unless you mean that ‘it’ is effecting, but only specifically for the people (but for no one else is ‘it’ effecting an unspecified third party)
Actually a good question. I'm curious if we could remove all producers of CO2, what life would survive? Maybe some microbial life on the seafloor. Does chemosnthesis produce CO2? Fun video idea for Kurzgesagt to explore.
@Nahinalau Removing natural producers of CO² would mean removing most non-plant life, including all animals. Aside from that, there are probably some geological processes that produce CO².
@@tyttuut As in what would survive long-term I should say, without CO2 in the life cycle? Probably very, very little if anything at all. Carbon-based life and all...
@@tyttuut When plants die they decompose and produce CO2, rotting produce CO2. Last 800 000 years, CO2 fluctuated from 180ppm to max 300ppm without humans. And we increased it in just 200 years from 280ppm to 416ppm today, this is 50% up.
I got real estate on the moon I could sell you, no climate. Also, if you happen to know any gravity deniers, there is little gravity activity in this area compared to Earth. If you do encounter gravity activity, we sell anti-gravity lasers that you can conceal carry - for safety.
The graph shows the main issue with a lot of conspiracies in general, as soon as you zoom out and...do your own research...the conspiracy falls apart. Too many conspiracy theorists take the info at face value then have the audacity to call everyone else "sheep".
Forget AI, he literally sounds like a stock text-to-speech. The man speaks like there are a limited number of pre-recorded sounds that can come out of his mouth.
"His wikipedia says hes a comedian which I'm glad they pointed out bc i wouldn't have noticed" That burn raised the earths temperature by at least 5 degrees
See there we go.. it's not actually about right or wrong it's just people wanting to one up people.. the fact you have to use issues like this to get to eachother goes to show that none of you give a fuck about the planet or anyone on it except for yourselves..
When Ben Shapiro mentioned "If your house is gonna flood, why don't you just sell it and move somewhere else?" It reminded me of the video where the girl said "If you're homeless, why not just buy a house?"
@@SorowFame I'll go a step further and say it's truer than you think. As climate conditions change and certain areas become less useful for stable housing, be it due to flooding, wildfires, extreme heat, etc., existing housing stock in those areas will become devalued and thus more available to people with marginal finances - you know, poor - who might otherwise become homeless. I.e. people with fewer resources almost inevitably get forced into marginal living conditions that people with resources avoid.
I think the most deppressing thing is that, even if actual scientists fix the climate and get it back to a heathly state, all the climate deniers will just say that they didn’t do anything and that the scientists just lied.
"Shapiro is a conservative commentator who's very popular with people who already agree with him. And he's REALLY good at winning debates with teenagers who haven't finished university and don't have all the media training he has."
Look up his interview held by Andrew Neil, a conservative figure in the UK. Shapiro leaves the interview after being asked too many tough questions, all the while calling a conservative a liberal just because of not agreeing with him. It's only 16 minutes long.
@@vasile-vladivanovici9430 The thing that cracks me up about that is that he later posted some tweets admitting that he "lost the debate"... it wasn't a debate you pinceone, it was an interview. These people are so used to their fans just eating their shit without doubt that someone asking them questions makes them feel under attack. How these charlatans still hold any credibility is beyond reason.
@@robertmusilbronson3118 /EnlightenedCentrism Not really. Just because one party does it doesn't mean it happens in the same proportion in both of them. A.k.a. it's mostly a right wing thing.
Fun fact: Even this Thunderfoot seems to have a video about Crowder litterally called "Dumbest Climate change denier EVER!!!" Everybody knows Steven is a pathetic idiot lol
@@googleeatsdicks Is he? All I remember of the two intersection is thunderfoot doing a few videos rightfully criticising hyperloop for being very unfeasible engineering-wise.
yea but the difference is how one side wants to believe that everything is fine while the other side essentially wants those illusions to be shattered so they can actually move forward
@@DIGITALGH05T both side wants the "illusion" shattered. Obviously I believe in climate change, but not enough people think or do the research for themselves and just listen to their 1 news resource that shares their biases
@@カリユガ-u6fnatural disasters increase significantly (because of climate change). You: honestly I don't Have a funny quip to write here you are just stupid and Will doom us all
Yes, Earth has natural disasters. We all know this. Main driving factor, proven with science (see: Suspicious0bservers) is the sun. The SUN. 1 bad CME and we won't exist. 2nd factor - but mainly a 'conspiracy theory', the HAARP device. 3rd factor - but mainly a 'conspiracy theory', the DEW devices. 4th factor - but even Hbomber doesn't mention it in this video, Mick West discussing the effect of jets. 5th factor - NEW because everyone ignores this - EVs on fire. EV graveyards on fire. 6th factor - ICE cars. 7th factor - The production of cement (see Jerry Kroth for more). ..Just my 'guesses'.
honest to god, this IS a measured response, if i had to hear someone say "oh, if your house gets flooded due to the ocean levels rising... sell it!" i would actually flip out
Not having started the video but reading the comments it seems to me this is going to be just emotional bashing of the other side using big production values.
@Winston Smith Yeah because thats not a more complex subject more centered around decentralising energy production and general failures of some companies in a quasi-oligopole to keep the reactors safe. Also safely storing nuclear waste in Europes ever shifting enviroment for tens of thousands of years is, you know, kind of impossible. Hard to guarantee if your state isnt even 80 years old. Most companies fail to do so after three fucking decades, one of the scandals that led to this descision. Thats why reactors where phased out after the Fukushima catastrophe since public investigations had revealed the failures of security of german nuclear energy production while the companies were artificially increasing prices... So that had nothing to do with climate change. Also having giant machines capable of contaminating huge areas of tightly settled land to produce energy for the same area is kind of wastefull given the need for a potentially contaminated water source. Renewables are a better source for rural areas anyway, smaller communities can reliably produce for their own needs. Remember that they are still connected to an EU wide energy network so peak demand gets cancelled out over the network over different modes of production. Cities might rely on reactors, but your claim that Germany was getting rid of nuclear reactors for renewable energy for what I assume you mean Soalr and wind power is utter horsehit. Coal and Gas are getting phased out to reduce Co2 emissions and decentralise the energy network, reactors were shut down because they were checked and considered unsafe either in their construction, the way they were maintained or the lack of doing so, and the lack of general security around them, as well as the issue of nuclear waste.
@Winston Smith Its never clever to assume you know more about another person because you read an Wikipedia article. Granted, I am not an engineer, but you are speaking to someone who studies studies enviromental and construction law. Still no degree in nuclear or civil engineering, but enough to know there is more about deciding wether to build a reactor in a community than "there is this cool safe new reactor type that doesnt have any problems, I swear!". Its a far more complicated subject than you make it out to be, centered around managing risks and ressources for the community. You didnt even engage my main argument. I didnt mention theoretically safe new reactor types- thats besides the whole discussion. This is not only an engineering problem about radiation and energy outputs alone. After the Fukushima incident, most german reactors and storage vaults were put under inspection, the results showing seriously aged infrastructure, mounting security problems around reactors, from cracks in the shielding to non-existant defense against terrorist incursions, careless storage of nuclear waste with residues of the same found in ground water, and you dont want that in a tightly settled nation like Germany. The existing reactor infrastructure in Germany was failing any safety standard out there. Thats why a lot of them had to be shut down, the energy companies had anytime the goverment had implemented new standards pushed this as extra costs on the consumer while in reality letting this slide. Just today it came out that a scientific test reactor in Munich- one of Germanys densely populated areas, mistakenly released C-14 into the atmosphere, with the company, Siemens, declaring it a "minor safety incident of little concern". City officials are of course pissed. Meanwhile, local renewables just became cheaper and safer for small communities- decentralising the energy network allows those to keep a lid on the energy prices as well as an eye on wether the company employed sticks to its part of the contract when it comes to the agreed safety standards. Thats why nuclear energy isnt really supported as an alternative here, its a nice solution for population centres- but going beyond existing infrastructure if the energy companies have shown unable to maintain what they have now would be irresponsible, and for rural areas who want to achieve some autonomy on energy production building nuclear reactors is out of the question anyway. This is no zero-sum game. Of course there will always be some nuclear reactors for dense population centres, a lot of them still running, and scientific reactors like München II are necessary to expand our knowledge in this field. But simply building molten salt reactors is not the easy solution to this situation you seem to make them out to be, and I havent even begun to talk about maintenance costs, the question of storage of waste, or the construction time measured in decades, when there are often cheaper alternatives that better serve the communities they are in while having less impact on their surrounding area. Its just illogical from a legal and civil engineering standpoint. See, a nice solution on paper doesnt always apply to the real world where cost and gain have to be weighed, and more localised renewables that have made leaps in efficiency over the last decade are certainly the more elegant solution than just hammering down centralised reactors if we measure costs for the specific community for maintaining said infrastructure against their specific energy needs. The unnecessarily complicated solution is not always the better one of it puts the community at risk- either by unnecessary drain on its ground water, levels of which are already critical after the droughts over the last years, and the ecological impact this has which again leads to economical damage or the even miniscule possibility of industrial accidents... The immissions, the emissions... (Yes, even nuclear reactors have those). The ecological footprint of nuclear reactors just doesnt add up to the communities needs, thats why they are often left out for more ecological solutions. The way you phrase your standpoint in the last sentence btw makes it look as if you arent interested in a reasonably weighed concept based around all surrounding factors, but a shiny technical solution, not the best argumentative angle to take if you want to claim the "scientific highground here". As the saying goes, facts dont care about your feelings. Reality is complicated, especially if ressouces like money, space, acceptable immission and emission levels and groundwater are as scarce as they are.
ben's "why dont they just sell their houses" is literally the equivalent of that "if you are poor, just buy a house" meme quote hey guys, if youre on an island and a volcano erupts and is about to engulf everything into lava, just go on a boat and leave lol its not that hard
No, he's saying that they are buying up more ocean front properties, and they are. Look at Obama's properties. The sad thing is that even the far-left Commie politicians don't believe any of the AGW horseshit that comes out of their mouths. They know it's bullshit. But they have useful idiots and Chicken Littles like yourself to help them spread their "The world will be Tatooine" conspiracy theory. The really pathetic thing is that it makes them richer, but it makes you poorer. Talk about punching yourself in the nuts!
@jbaz77777 there are fires every year. These ones are worse because the land is drier and there's been less conditions for fuel burning. It's that simple. You're one to talk about people being sheep when you're currently broadcasting whatever benefits oil, coal industry and austerity mindset.
@jbaz77777 whose starting the fires? i don't think it's the citizens and especially not aboriginal australians. i think it's just that... wildfires are a natural part of certain ecosystems? like dry tundras and prairies? but they are not like this. these fires r way out of control due to climate change. on a much much smaller scale, texas is dealing with the same problem in our blackland prairies. they are burning too much and into the forests, when they used to extinguish just over the meadow.
@@ExhaustedWombat sadly that's because the ones who can make the biggest change (the rich corporation owners), don't care. those who care are the ones getting hurt the worst, the workers and the indigenous people and the young. and the top just won't listen to the people they are supposed to care for
I hate how people thin climate change is like a political issue. It’s not. We’re all living on the same planet, right or left we still eat food, breathe and drink water. Climate change doesn’t care about politics.
It's totally political ------- simply the old left wing tactic --- never let a crisis go to waste, even if you have to make it up. It's really a non=problem with no scientific solution ----- wake up.
@duncanmacleod7287 You are free to publish your findings in peer-reviewed journals (and so are all the people you mentioned). Contribute to the discussion and you may even get a Nobel prize in the process. That would be better than shouting nonsense from the sidelines.
@duncanmacleod7287every new buzzword the right comes up with is more pathetic than the last, I swear to God. Do you actually know what "15 minute cities" are?
I love that you all bullied him into retracting his statement. These people should be ashamed of their views, they’re not out for the longevity of the human race, they just want to feel safe in a pot on the stove that’s about to boil. Anyone who keeps denying climate change should just live in the woods, they’re not welcome in society.
@@jamlife919 If you honestly aren't racist or a climate denier, then wtf do you have left as a conservative? Anti-abortion? Bigger military? Capitalism? Are there any babies at all in that bathwater?
@@jamlife919 It would be great if conservatives could, you know, denounce the half formed neo nazis inside their party. That would help a lot in making people think not all of you are half formed neo nazis or just nazi sympathizers, which in practice are the same thing. Watching conservatives march calmly alongside nazis and the KKK doesn't help either.
@@goose4919 It's from the Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulhu'. It means '“In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”. It's just a joke for the Lovecraft fans who got the Innsmouth and tentacled overlords references.
When I first found this, I had never seen an Hbomberguy video before. I was not ready for him slathering peanut butter on a plastic dog and I watched something else. I’m ready now, Harris.
@@benniferthepotato8499 Its hard to not look down on such people. This Planet is f-ed. This Planet is literally divided about 10000 Things, including but not limited to Homosexuality being Natural or not, Clima-Change being real or not, Pokemon Gen 8 being Trash or not, and so much more. This Planet's done. I LEAVE. Who wants to have the Keys to my House?! I aint need it no more!!
@@mikakestudios5891 bruh that's so fucked up. Even across the world in Mumbai - monsoon came super late and when it did, it rained unreasonably hard. Thousands of acres of agricultural crop get ruined every year because of these shifting climate patterns, which have shifted significantly even in 1 lifetime. While these conservative ghouls make money lying to people online, farmers are killing themselves in my country because of the devastation they've seen climate change bring.
"it's not dangerous, but I won't drink it because I'm not stupid" is the funniest thing I've ever heard. I love when people claim something is safe but then won't do it themselves and can't come up with a reason why they can't do it
"people have tried to commit suicide and failed"... imidiately looks up the toxidrome profile of glyphosphate poisioning .... well looks like they had good drs because >300ml is potentially fatal due to upper airway burns, GI burns and refractory shock. I mean im glad he didnt attempt this on air but jesus christ imagine if a single person drank the cool aid in a manner of speaking.
It's such an unforced error because there is such an easy response. "I was being metaphorical. Obviously, just like laundry detergent, it is safe when used as directed, but you should not drink it."
-Furry Avatar -Sunglasses -Wearing a suit -Arms crossed -"Rational" -One eye brow raised My god this is like a hodge podge of every "skeptic" furry youtubers, it's not even funny.
Gotta say, a gaming youtuber making a series of mockumentaries to address real-world problems and naming it "A Measured Response" is one of the most British things imaginable. Love it
@@Jeebles-mccreeblesit's definitely a mockumentary, this video doesn't represent all arguments against climate change, personally I think that the climate has been hotter in the past as can be seen in ice core evidence, it's not a linear progression, that point wasn't addressed in this video. I'm not denying that humans have an impact, I'm questioning the extent of our impact, it's obvious that we are damaging the planet, but it's not like the planet has maintained a steady temperature for millions of years and the only thing that's ever changed it is human behaviour... This video only addresses the taking points of Steven crowder and Ben Shapiro which is laughable. It hasn't touched on anything I believe atleast. Also the smug attitude of everyone in the comments isn't really helping bring people together too come too more of an agreement it's just mocking certain people and using Thier ideas too dumb down an opposing view and then argue against that dumbed down view. If anyone can prove that without humans affecting things the earth wouldn't already be in a state of warming I'd be interested too listen but people do the same thing that the guy in this video said the 'climate change deniers' are doing.. finding a video that supports your views that you want too believe them using it too feel good about what you already believed. Thing is we know the planet warms and cools without humans intervention, this is why we have ice ages, ice sheets have been shrinking for thousands of years, around 10000+ years ago most of Northern Europe was covered in ice sheets and humans weren't at the level of technological advancement too affect the climate, so how did it warm? Also there where periods before that where the planet cooled too from these ice sheets. The UK wasn't even an island back then, the sea levels have risen dramatically since 10000-15000 years ago. We are even discouraged from using the phrase 'global warming' and instead now use 'climate change' which I even think is some acknowledgement of the fact the planet goes through cycles of cooling and warming. From the get go this video had a mocking attitude, this is why I believe the guy was only ever looking too prove his preexisting belief. Even though he makes attempts too portray himself as making fair and rational attempts too consider both sides of the coin, which he doesn't in my opinion. Sorry for bad grammar and punctuation it's late please reply in a respectful way no mocking if you have something too say that might change my mind then please explain as I will read it and consider it.
Well, that's arguably less to do with the CO2\Greenhouse effect and more to do with another nebulous human activity - moving way too many people into an area and then killing most of the natural vegetation that protects against soil erosion and holds in moisture, drawing all the water out of the ground, and then letting feckless boomers spray it onto their lawns and wasting it to wash our fecal matter and urine away.
As this video went up the forests on the British Columbia/Alberta border are _literally_ on fire, sending smoke down south into Edmonton, Calgary and beyond; likely started by some idiot not doing due diligence, admittedly, but quite easily exacerbated by global warming, especially given the fact that this is the 3rd summer (stretching the meaning of the word "summer" but oh well) in a row that this has happened. but yeah, the climate's just fine according to the right, somehow
@Anthony Centralizing the population in cities is exactly what has been happening for ~10,000 years, and look where it has got us. "Rural communities" (by no means a homogeneous entity by the way, but lets assume you mean rural communities in "developed" countries) as they exist under our present way of life are just extensions of cities, functions of cities ie; their purpose is to produce resources for the cities, through agriculture, mining, industry etc. A major feature of cities is that they draw resources in from a far greater landbase than that which they sit on. In the "developing" world, "development" has meant forcing self-sufficient agrarian communities off the land to live in poverty in massive, sprawling cities, in order to fuel industrial development and its hard to argue that that has produced less pollution. Look at India, China etc. for examples of this. "Development" has meant massive population boom, massive increase in pollution\CO2 production, urbanisation. Urbanisation by definition radically alters the rural landscape too, which is why you can make an argument such as the one you made. Industrial agriculture is a hugely destructive and environmentally damaging process, whose purpose is to feed cities. An extreme example of this is now seen where by products from every corner of the globe are funneled into cities at an enormous cost.
I'm pretty sure All Star legitimately does have environmental themes. He literally mentions the "hole in the satellite picture" referring to the hole in the ozone layer
"It's a cool place, and they say it gets colder. You're bundled up now; wait till you get older. But the meteor men beg to differ, judging by the hole in the satellite picture. The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. The water's getting warm so you might as well swim. My world's on fire, how 'bout yours? That's the way I like it and I'll never get bored." Saying it out loud, I have no alternative for what this is supposed to be about. This isn't even subtext.
There was a joke my dad used to tell me when I was a child. "Rule 1. Dad is always right. Rule 2. When Dad is wrong, rule 1 still applies." This joke accurately summarises the entirety of conservative RU-vid.
Bruce T. - it’s a two way street. The joke completely summarizes the “left” wing you tube as well. Unfortunately, the left wing side is the fast lane and civilization is becoming the brown stain in robert dinero’s shorts.
Hello internet! I loved this video so much that I actually got the ok to use this video as a source in a paper for my associates degree a few years back. The paper was on denialism and centered around its psychology and this video was genuinely helpful (as well as other sources both used within and other sources outside the video). Huge thank you to Hbomb, way over due, but a serious thank you nonetheless. I used an allegory throughout the paper likening global warming to a meteor that would strike earth without any serious intervention. Then a few years later Don’t Look Up came out. Now I’m not saying Hbomberguy is responsible for that movie’s publication, but it is a conspiracy that hasn’t at all started yet.
It wasn’t anything all that serious. At best, an English paper describing the problem of denialism. I just always thought that Kevin Bacon-esk connection was fun
I've been in the right wing side of you tube for awhile after retreating from the left when I started feeling I didn't fit in anymore. When you're there, you end up accepting more than you actually believe. I just wanna say this video hit me hard, especially the end monologue, I've recently realized I hold a lot of uninformed/manipulated opinions because I absorb so much unsubstantiated shit on you tube. It's like I have a second personality full of opinions that aren't mine which I have unconsciously let defend me from uncomfortable ideas for ages and now i'm coming into conflict with it. I had the insight to see some of this ignorance as it slipped out in the real world; which contrasted harshly to my comfy echo chambery internet/home life. The world is so grey and confusing, things I thought I had a good grasp on are just wrong or unhelpful. I thought I had a pretty objective view point but my current thought process is too susceptible. I need to turn my brain back on and develop a more critical mind, I feel so stupid upon reflection. Thank you for your videos, I've been watching them for the last few hours and it is really opening my eyes to how flippant I can be about accepting someones credibility and supposed 'facts' just because they speak with confidence to an injured or bias part of myself.
In that case I have two channels for you that are very good: "Shaun" and "Three arrows" Both analyse videos of those "right wing/borderline nazi youtubers", by using actual facts, reading sources entirely and not picking just the good parts out, and so on.
Pretty much all of my friends me included, would always laugh at that "let's say hypothetically for the sake of argument" line. Because you can use it for everything, like this one meme I found where he says. "Let's say hypothetically for the sake of argument, I was a quirked up white boy"
I love how Crowder's terrible merch is supposed to say "socialism (che guevara icon here) is for (slur)" but he didn't think the design through and now all you see is him wearing a Che Guevara Shirt that says "Socialism" with the horrible part being cut off by the camera, making him look like an ally. Absolute Genius.
Hell I saw comments saying the shirt is based if you are a communist queer person. The only problem is we know that's not the message Crowder was going for
Someone online recently told me that he'd 'done the math' after seeing some dodgy video and reading some dodgy website, and it is impossible for climate change to be a thing because of the day and night cycle, and so of course any extra warming would be undone by the night time, making it impossible for any warming done each day to amount to anything. I really hope someone reads this comment so that you too can enjoy the weird zen like feeling of trying to wrap your head around that. But really, some guy did say that and he seemed to believe it. He's probably out there now haunting the internet with that claim even to this day.
It takes less energy to spread misinformation with confidence than it does to actually read up on the subject matter. Plus, you can always excuse your lack of research on "all the research is controlled by liberals!! Random anons on /pol/ and xxClimateChangeDenierxx on youtube dot com are the only people I trust; he doesn't even source his claims!"
" enjoy the weird zen like feeling of trying to wrap your head around that" Thats not a zen thing. Thats my brain slowly shutting down on itself as a self defence mechanism.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 same here, but I’m currently in self destruct mode bc that made my brain glitch out so much it has decided existing isn’t worth it anymore
@@spongeintheshoe OOOOOH I have an amazing idea, why don't we use the money the government would have spent on buying out peoples flooded houses and instead use that to stop the houses from flooding in the first place by stopping climate change.
Rewatching this after hearing my aunt say climate change isn’t real because “europe is getting colder, and there was snow in mendoza as late as november (we’re from the southern hemisphere) so the temperatures can’t possibly be rising” and “besides, even if they were, it’s natural for the climate to change and the temperatures to rise and fall with the years, remember the ice ages?” And if that isn’t enough, “how can you tell the overall temperatures are warmer than they were one or two thousand years ago? No one was recording them back then.” So yeah, a very serene christmas eve over here. (This is a cry for help)
You ain’t getting any tree hugger, take your bollocks elsewhere. No F that, I hope your right just so I can lick em tears. Hold on let me get my camera!
Literally only England and a bit of Scandinavia have gotten colder, and even then Northern Europe is still generally warmer. Hell, even England’s heat waves have gotten hotter and longer. Precipitation has also been wildly fluctuating. Dunno how someone justifies that as Europe being colder.
It took me way too long to understand the metaphor of Mortemer being fed peanut butter directly and then having Nutella put in front of him and eating all of it. It's a clever metaphor for healthy doubt and how hand feeding people healthy skepticism and then putting pure denialism in front of them can cause them to indulge in the latter to an unhealthy degree.
“You’re wrong Hbomber-lie” isn’t even that funny of a line, but the deadpan, semi-monotone delivery that Shaun gives just makes me fucking lose it for some reason. Also, not enough people are appreciating Reasonableist Bear’s bulge.
So fun fact about Antartica! Its not only the coldest place in the world, but also the DRYest! The only reason there is so much ice is just that it has built up over millions of years and just never melted. So if someone is claiming that Antarticas ice sheet is suddenly growing, what they are actually saying is that Antartica is getting wetter, which could also be a sign of climate change.
One of the fuckier things I had to remember while I was doing a module on ice core science was that for antarctica higher accumulation rates mean warmer (unlike greenland which iirc is the more expected way round)
That was the first thing I saw of this. Someone clipped that and I saw it on tumblr. I had to seek this out and see the whole thing. It was a very good decision.
18:06 If you wear the “SOCIALISM IS FOR F***” shirt with high waisted jeans, it just says SOCIALISM with a picture of Che, absolutely brilliant design.
@@loturzelrestaurant You could've just said "I don't believe in the things said in this video, and I never will" and you wouldn't have given me a stroke with your writing.
@@loturzelrestaurant my man, you like to troll people on the comments, we get it. However, those minutes spent on each coma inductive sentences could be used on something productive or meaningful, perhaps? Yesterday I learnt how to swim, what about you?
@@loturzelrestaurant upon re-reading your original comment, it seems you’re proposing we flag right-wing videos that perpetuate climate change denialism and hate speech. I think this is a great idea insofar that there is something in those videos which violates RU-vid’s community guidelines. Unfortunately even actively harmful beliefs like climate change denialism are allowed on the platform. Probably the better course of action would be to hold social media platforms accountable for giving voice to harmful pseudoscience, and ban climate change denialism from RU-vid. Freedom of speech is fine as long as it doesn’t harm anyone, and we are all being collectively harmed in the long run as a result of climate change denialism.
@@loturzelrestaurant Oh well, I don't wanna sound rude, but I think your prior tactic of convulsive style of writing was funnier. Please don't block me, I like you
People say that college is way less fun than high school have obviously never cited an hbomberguy video for a final paper on climate change denial before
So let's say, hypothetically, that I enjoyed this video. And if I did, in theory, the logic that follows points towards me being inclined to press the like button
I though 'word about' was some British idiom for a book or a tape recorder or something when I scrolled through the comments before I finished the video. Or a spelling bee.
I sense a conspiracy. It seems H.Boogerman kidnapped Shaun, and Jack Saint is trying to keep us from noticing he's gone. The only thing I can't figure out is why.
Honestly the best thing my chemistry degree ever taught me was to react to every piece of information that I liked or didn't like (ie that agreed/disagreed with my worldview) by asking myself why it was that I liked/disliked it, and working backwards to find out if it was purely my own bias or if I had good reason for my initial reaction . I apply that thinking to everything these days and it's stopped me from falling down more than one misleading rabbit hole
I try to do the inverse, as well: any time I see a piece of information that confirms something I already believe (or want to believe), I try to immediately doubt it and verify how true it is. The more convenient a piece of information is to me, the more I doubt it as being either outright made up or not the full story.
James Neave Nah, you just gotta be tolerant like a stone wall. Harmless, but steadfast and unmoving. The tolerant wall of the left raises truth up. We hold these truths to be self-evident, after all. It is true because it is the truth.
It's amazing how in this day and age, with access to so much knowledge, there are still so many people out there who believe horses actually exist. It's disheartening, really.
@@alisaurus4224 Thats why I like rockstar games they made a game that takes place in the mid west Where you just walk to your destination and follow people on foot