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US gov is already 100% fascists'. Mussolini (origin of the word fascisms) gave that definition = "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State. (Italian: Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato)" EXACTLY what we have in the states right now, ALL corporation working for the STATE, and the STATE working for the corporations whit revolving doors in beetween. = EVERYTHING IS THE STATE, even courts system, all Fortunes 500, all news, even DOJ. And yes, even FOX (just faking not being part of it)
@@starc. You mean the Western world, Asia, Russia, Africa resisted very well. (except Japan) Here in Canada, we applauded a SS Nzi Gladio regiment member in PARLIAMENT last year, invited by Prime Minister and Christina Freeland. EVERYONE applauded.
Is everything going alright for video production? It seems like bits of the second quarter of this video was pulled almost directly from one of your older videos. I have nothing against that, but are things okay?
Thank you once again for your contribution towards a More balanced view.... So many people from the Left and The right fall prey to the temptation to use various fallacies and low integrity tricks during their presentation of information... It works to ingratiate themselves to their "choir", but does little to capture the necessary audience. Ponder for a moment if this is a true statement. Everyone comes from their own particular place of wrongness... True? It must be. These issues are so layered and nuanced and challenging to grapple with... And people want easy answers as they look for validation... We all must be wrong in some way.... But you keep those parlour tricks to a minimum... I applaud you for your truthful narratives. This is a Gordian knot of overwhelming proportions, but your approach is more likely to capture the mind of someone across the aisle... If they are indeed seeking to work towards greater truth. If they are indeed seeking to chip away at Their own personal wrongness. Have Patience with the others, and I hope that your work reaches their minds and hearts
You're not wrong, some of them are. All that posturing, all that bravado, when they're in large groups allways wearing their weapons, attempting to be the macho men remind me of The Village People!!
Problem that I see, lots of US citizens genuinely believe they’ll be rich one day and so fight against their interests in the moment to protect their imagined future.
I'm 68 years old (born in 1956). When I was a kid growing up in the suburbs of Boston back in the 60s, you never heard a good word about either fascism or socialism. But that's because the average worker had no reason to dislike capitalism. In those now-mythic days, any ordinary worker could support himself and his whole family on one salary. Why would they want to change a system like that?? One thing I've learned, not only from my own experience but from 50 years of studying history, is this: Happy People Don't Want Revolution. No revolution has ever succeeded in a country where most of the people were happy with the lives they already had. That's why the US today is a perfect Petri dish for social unrest in every possible variety.
I was born just a few years later than you, (59), most of the guys getting into positions of power by that time were ex WW2/Korean war veterans who had actual frontline experience of war. They , (generally) rarely spoke too much about their roles in the war, but just got on with making the world a better place for those they loved, they disliked any form of totalitarianism having fought against it. Most of these "proud boy" types are wannabe, weekend warriors who melt away when confronted with a real threat. Not saying there isn't a hard core of dangerous people though.
the nouveau nobelesse is in arrears of their oblige, I'm ready to take it outta their hides bc i don't got much left to lose these days but they never ever were going for stasis in the first place, capitalism creates some redundant pathologies in your thinking that make you feel there's no such thing as enough, satiety & comfort can't exist in a system that relies on steady growth as an indicator of wellness capitalism relies on mass delusion, but the delusion isn't powerful enough to feed a nation, so we may be in trouble soon
I appreciate you understanding the situation and how things have changed for young people. Too many people in your generation don't understand and just characterize it as young people being stupid and entitled
@@piccalillipit9211 well, did you know those who VOTED are the ones who wanted gangsters to dictate how they gonna live and die like well-trained law obeying slaves?? 💯💯😂😂😂
I think "liberal fascism" is a little redundant. Liberalism (neoliberalism, at least) naturally mutates into full-blown fascism when the primacy of capital is threatened. When I hear "liberal fascism" I think of the Fox News pundits who try to paint the democrats as fascists, as part of their "conservatives good, liberals bad" act. Both parties serve the same neoliberal ideology, which is fertile soil for fascism.
@@SecondThought Some people say that fascism has to be racist. Liberal fascism is a variant that isn't racist. Though now I'm not so sure. The Gaza operation seems mighty racist to me. Fascism has no definition. George Orwell wrote that it in actual use it means "any authoritarian regime that I don't like."
@@SecondThought Mussolini (origin of the word fascisms) gave that definition = "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State. (Italian: Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato)" EXACTLY what we have in the states right now, ALL corporation wroking for the state, and the STATE working for the corporation. = EVERYTHING IS THE STATE, even courts system, even DOJ.
@@methane1027 On second thought I would have written "It's a machine that secures wealth via bribery and military intimidation." A foreign government can be bribed to oppress its own citizens. But brevity has its advantages.
Smedley Butler isn’t talked about enough. Never heard about him in schools but every single Marine knows his name because they drill into your head that he earned two medals of honor during his service. They never tell you why he earned them, or that he was famously anti-war, and that’s by design.
I like Smedley Butler, you know why? There are a variety of reasons, but the best one is because he did support the Bonus Brigades (veterans who didn't get their bonuses) Also, I do play the Second Continental Army in Pax Britannica, and basically, Butler leads it and he is ideologically a Jacobin in the game.
@@jumboMIDGETmight want to stick to alcohol for brain poison, I'm immune to their rhetoric but I'm not going to trigger my PTSD to prove a political point
Like the answer is so bloody obvious, how in the actual F**** did the mainstream media get it so wrong?! Then again, corporate media is not your friend; it never was and it never will be. It's basically a mouthpiece of the government; not much different from state-run media they accuse other nations of.
You mean the literal one calling death to Israel, death to Jews, “from the river to the sea” which is a literal genocide term traced back to exterminating Jews “from the river to the sea”. You mean that one????? I supported the protest until I saw THAT
Was the reaction to the Jan 6 protestors destroying property and trespassing also fascism? The irony of this video is entirely lost on you guys, it applies equally well to anarchist and communist larpers lmao
Shoot, Joe Biden's reaction alone has been fascistic. Dude keeps banging the Zionist and fascist drum every time he gets asked about it and if he'll change course.
They certainly love to indulge in the sinful pleasure of unmerited wrath though. Calvinists are all self loathing and project their self hatred onto others by way of religious consternation.
"Capitalists don't want revolutionary change, they want violent maintenance of the status quo" reminds me of a Hitler quote - "If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the revolution". Congrats! You took one of Hitler's many non sensical world salads and made it incredibly succinct!
They're transnationalist socialists/globalist socio-fascist Hegelian cultists/woke cultists and this channel is literally a fascist propaganda channel.
to quote that one the onion article: myth: the alt-right movement is secrently a neo-nazi movement. fact: the alt right movement is openly a neo-nazi movement.
then how the HELL do you explain the Blacks & Latinos who Hate the Left? Jesus Christ! NOT everyone who waves the Flag is a "Nazi" IF you Love America you are labeled a "Nazi" that's suck Fukin BULL SHIT
To repeat something I wrote on a video from last year: It always bothers me when people use the terms "Communist," "Fascist," "Marxist," & "Socialist" interchanably as if they all mean the same thing when they don't.
@@Scrap_Lootaz idk, aren't liberals the ones that hold up the communist and socialist rallies? facists are horrible, marxists are like early socialists, and socialists are like early communists, basically its from moderate to extreme. facism isn't on this list, it relies on war and "we need to extinguish ____ and life is gonna be good"
As someone who has had to study philosophy and economics, it also drives me mad, but sadly words take a different meaning in political arguments ( thanks red scare for making communism different from socialism and equivalent to fascism, makes our lives easier(sarcasm) hopefully eventually they'll return to the original meaning when people discover that communism is an economical policy, marxism a philosophical viewpoint, and fascism a political form of authoritarian government.
The 1933 Wall Street Plot succeeded after a five-decade hiatus, when Reagan's neoliberalism became the reigning US political ideology. Neoliberalism went bipartisan when Clinton began to enact Reagan agenda in the 1990s.
When I was in 8th grade during Covid my history teacher disappeared mid school year. And the the principal had to talk my class and told us he wouldn’t return without telling us why. Then it was later revealed he was at the storming of the capitol and was arrested then fired. I wasn’t shocked because we would have debates on the zoom call and he would get extremely stand offish when someone criticized trump in anyway
@@DaveWraptastic They take an oath to protect the constitution... they *keep said oath* in the face of tyranny and oppression and this makes them terrorists... somehow?
@@DaveWraptastic Yeah because keeping the oath that you took is definitely that lol. You're not supposed to be a cop or soldier AT ALL without keeping your oath! What is wrong with you
@@codyvandal2860 what part of the oath says you have to kill people you disagree with? What part says you should overthrow your own government? You have issues dude
The US is an oligarchy, both parties serve the same masters and I don't forsee us getting out of that since they are so good at dividing the lower economic classes. Always punch up and aim your ire at those with real power
The reality is scarier than you think, there are no masters and no grand plan. Even those with the most money and power you can't imagine only get so much access. It's just peoples and interest groups fighting on a thousand different fronts at any given moment and no one is really in control.
I love how the business plot only failed because the picked the single worst guy to be their leader, but it's also grim that if they picked pretty much any other general their plot would have likely gone into motion.
That story doesn't get talked about enough. The bad guys in that story remained in high positions of power. Everyone just looked the other way and they are still doing their thing.
@@RebeccaOre mmmkay, based on your...data points? Your feelings matter. In fact, your feelings seem to matter than someone elses, correct? Theocracies are based on any groups identification with said "god"...a childs invisible friend promises you the answers you will accept...interesting. Tell your "god" santa Hi for me. Send some "thoughts and prayers".
If there was fascism, porn would be illegal, the United States would have morals, the United states would not be in a downward spiral. Fascists live rent free lol
I have long felt the worst part about American fascism is how close they are to the mark, and how impossible it seems to be to get them to understand . There is a group of people ruining your life, there is a group of people taking money that you worked for, there is a group of people making sure that you can't buy a home and putting your kids in danger at school, it's just not the group you think it is...
🎯🎯🎯🎯FTR, I’m a black man, and many years ago I had a surprisingly polite conversation with a self proclaimed white supremacist. At one point I said to him, “Let’s say that you succeed in deporting, enslaved or exterminating everyone you don’t like. You’re still going to be getting messed over economically. Who will you blame?” That ended the conversation.
When people say "I fought/defended this country". When? No one has "defended" anything, except invading other countries, supporting the killing of native populations? When did anyone in the past 50 years can honestly say they actually defended the U.S.? They send soldiers to fight and expire on the other side of the world to protect their interest. But you can't tell that to a grieving mother or wife or children. They have to call it "fighting for their country" call it patriotism and then their grief is dismissed. This country is heading to a place where most of us won't feel safe, more now than ever.
This is why conservatives take advantage of the idea of serving in the military and that equating to the ultimate patriotism. They’ll “always be on the right side” if they align themselves with what they call “American values”.
The truth is a bit more complicated then you'd think. As the US military has done a good job of keeping the fighting abroad, out of sight and relatively out of mind. Since the death of the Ottomon empire, their have been few islamic nation states with the ability to reach out and influence non islamic nations. Sadam did it when he invaded Kuwait. Threatening to disrupt the global economy. Iran has been working on the ability to shake the world, through strategic alliances with China and Russia. Through developing their nuclear program. Pouring millions into it while their country buckles under sanctions. But most angry disenfranchised young muslims don't have that sort of military force behind them. So some of them leaned back on jihadist terrorist networks to try and effect the world. And back when the U.S. was seen as the main cultural exporter of things those disgruntled young men didn't like. They targeted the U.S. at home and abroad. However, the U.S. was able to massively decrease the number of terrorist attacks on american soil by moving the battle ground to the middle east. Through systematically targeting and degrading terrorist networks. So they are only capable of limited regional attacks. Don't get me wrong. People are still dying. But now they are dying over the sea, instead of dying in your neighborhood. Ask yourself, do you honestly care that isis suicide bombed an iranian funeral for an IRGC commander? Do you cry for the civilians killed by Jihadist millitants in the Sahel region of Africa? How often do you protest and scream for the rights of Somali's who are fighting against islamic fighters in their region? Exactly, its far away. So you don't care. U.S. military actions free you from the fear of having death on your door step. There's still blood shed. There's still suffering. But bullet by bullet. Missile by missile. Its kept far enough away for you to not care about.
Colonization and war crimes create revolutions and "t3rror1sm". They make the sandwich and complain about it. Their only true enemy are the organized anti fascist groups. Nothing else. They are usually classified as well as "t3rror1st" organizations bc they show mo mercy to fasc1sts
They are correct. Your worldview of enabling mass immigration and supporting unending government spending while also kneecapping energy is all a cause of massive inflation.
The reason why I wrote this is cus racism in India (ik off-topic but listen) is wayyy more advanced and way more unnoticed in the rest of the world, the Easter egg example you just gave is equivalent to purifying water wells with cow urine by Brahmins just cuz a dalit drank water from it 😂😂💀
*Definitely* super believable that those eggs were spread around for the kids, what's next? Halloween candy with hidden razors dipped in magical makes-you-a-fascist serum? Get real, it's a plant for the damn video.
@@WhywouldIputmynamehere well I thinking nuking a couple civilian targets is prime demonstration of it not being new or not here yet. Like George Carlin said Germany list ww2 but fascism won. Think he also said ww2 we were both fascist and just taking out the competition.
"They can't do this to us! *We're good people* !" - A woman who had been pepper sprayed on January 6th encountering what it's like when the cops decide you're a valid target. There's so much to unpack in that statement.
I never trust people who call themselves "good people" to be actually good people to be fair. But I would not be surprised if she got tricked like many others by federal agents to go to the Capital (the ruling elites HATE the working class, including these dimwits who seem to believe everything the ruling elites tell them because otherwise they would know Trump and Biden play on the same team).
"This is not a threat. I'm not a criminal, I've never been a criminal", proceeds to make a long a violent threat, doubling down twice to make sure everyone knows how big and serious he is.
"to change the raciaI mix of the country, that's the reason, to reduce the poIiticaI power of people whose ancestors lived here" The irony of this coming from a man who's very much the type to deny the atrocities committed against the NA people, the _actual_ people whose ancestors lived here, is killing me.
Exactly, and the irony is Americans are acting like we’re native in this country. We are not so hearing someone talking about immigration in America is stupid because we are immigrants ourselves.
@@passion27x Its not, the distinct character of the country was built by a distinct group of people, which are no longer the majority, which is why its failing now.
It really depends on your definition of fascism. If you go by the metrics of political scientists and historians, then yes. But if you go by the intuitive, layman's definition of fascism that's essentially "rule by force," then also yes.
And if you go by the definition of dialectical and historical materialists like George Jackson and Michael Parenti, which is more useful than either the academic's or the layman's definition, then also yes.
Is very important to understand that you can’t really reason with them the way you reason with other people. If they’re THAT indoctrinated, they’re dangerous.
Mock and confront. Bad ideas will only change when pressured to do so. My experience is in anti theism and not anti fascism, but I would think the principles are the same with exception to the extra step of "make appearing publicly seem frightening" for fascists.
I still have friends in denial trying to "both sides" the situation, thinking they can meet a fascist halfway. They don't understand there is no meeting a fascist halfway. The fash are willing to die and take all the "normies" with them to get their way.
It’s part indoctrination and part the fact that fascists seem fundamentally incapable of operating in good faith. They know it’s a societal form that can only be sustained by constant death and violence and they do everything they can to talk around that fact when they aren’t addressing other fascists.
I'm a dangerous man with some money in my pocket So many pretty girls around me and they wakin' up the rocket Why you mad? Fix your face, ain't my fault they all be jockin.
No oppression is oppression. Whats your thoughts on transnationalism sociaism/globliast socio-fascism and its reslts including Hegelian cult/woke cult?
Equality is a fantasy… no civilization in history has treated, judged, and punished its people equally… either by the government or by its society… we separate individuals into groups, and treat those groups differently… equality is a myth, it’s against human nature…
“You want to make sure the boot stays on your neck because you like the lies the boot spouts while it’s stepping on you.” Solid line man, I’m using that one 😂
If the disgusting reaction to peaceful protests right now have taught me anything, it's that we're practically already there. Edit: Is RU-vid or Second Thought deleting replies? I've tried to reply to two different replies under this comment and have a screenshot of someone else's reply and they've been deleted rather quickly. Like within a few minutes.
@@TomMrazek-x7c Even some major news networks (which way overblow the ferocity of the protestors) have acknowledged that these are some of the most peaceful mass protests in universities ever. The cops showing up tends to make things less peaceful though. Wonder why. If you think you would've supported the protestors during the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, Apartheid, or any other major event in recent history that caused students to protest in the US, then you're wrong.
If you're referring to the pro Palestine protests on the college campuses, then you seriously misunderstand why there's a negative reaction to them. Nobody is opposed to peaceful protests. What they are opposed to, and why the police were called, is because they were BREAKING THE LAW. Nowhere in your first amendment right to protest says that you can break the law in protest. They were ILLEGALLY occupying the campus grounds. Even though they were students of the college, and the college is a public place, the college still has the right to tell ANYONE to leave. If they don't leave after they are told to leave, that is what's known as TRESPASSING. It's not Fascism for a college to want to conduct it's campus without disruption from loud obnoxious students who are trespassing and preventing other students from attending their classes. They have every right to call the police if the "protesters" will not leave when asked. To call this fascism is to seriously misrepresent the police's and college's intentions. To call the response by police fascist, is like calling a doctor a molester because he's performing a physical. It's insane.
As Pastor Martin Niemoller said, “First they came for the Socialist, then the Trade Unionist, then the Jew, then they came for me”. Words to live by. You have to speak out.
I don’t care who you are or what you have to say. I support your right to say it without retaliation or persecution. Socialists, Capitalist, democrat, republican it makes no difference. Can you honestly say you support free speech? Good.
"Socialist" was not in the original quote. The original quote was: "First they came for the *communists*." The "they" was the Freikorps, and the communists were Rosa, Karl, and the KPD. Like most of history that's uncomfortable for the empire, it's been whitewashed and bastardized.
Speaking as someone who _knows_ that George Orwell was a "Democratic Socialist", but vehemently opposed to Totalitarianism (which includes Fascism and Stalinist Communism). (Yes: the guy who wrote Animal Farm and 1984 (real name Eric Blair)): IMO, if the US changes its traditional political nature, it will be due to extreme political polarization. It could fail in either direction (yes - the US Left is as likely as the US Right to do this). The path to a lasting negative transformation is through extremists. History shows that _any_ "side" can do it (including systems that don't categorize well as "Left" or "Right"). Personally, I'm never "for" extremists on any side. Which means I'm often against _both_ sides, especially when both have a "with us or against us" policy /lol. Think about it. The path to a more nearly ideal USA is through discussion and compromise. Political polarizations disrupts everything. An outsider like me looks at the suppression of free speech as negatively as the weird beliefs displayed in those "Easter eggs". Each side is making the other worse as an inevitable side-effect of their steady progression towards ever more extreme positions. A reflection for most commenters: George Orwell would have been _horrified_ by the tone here. @Greg-yu4ij I completely agree with your post of course. And as an action plan it's more practical than anything in mine :) The US should return to its political roots, starting with the right to hold and share different opinions (both are under extreme pressure at the moment). The US was so close too: it looked like everything was lined up around 2010, but it just slipped away /sigh.
@@smallxplosion9546 it's like a mixture of metal gear solid and metal gear , if it was 2034 definitely metal gear solid 2 and snake's revenge combined 😂
As a person from romania,I feel you.People think that ultra nationalism and discriminating against every group that arent like them will bring economic prosperity with salaries similar to the west,better infrastructure and a strong culture
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404I think for this particular type of guys whatever age ia always the 20s, they are always kids who don't know any better and should not be held responsible.
Very insightful video, my friend. I learnt a lot. I'm a Korean living in Australia and I was forced to watch the worst kind of fascism taking over the government in S.Korea two years ago. There was something I couldn't quite figure out about the growing trend of political radicalisation in my home country but the final piece of puzzle just dropped after watching your video. Well done and thank you for posting.
Brazil also had a coup attempt around their last presidential election. I liked how they handled it. They went after the military and government officials involved and supporting it. Here in the US a lot of politicians that refused to certify the last election are still in office. Plus we have Clarence Thomas and his pro insurrection wife.
@@Robotdoge01it isn't, it's pretty similar, it's pretty much a worldwide trend towards fascism and we are only worse because we are in the USA backyard and we tend to import every brain rotted idea they have like the stupid culture war, not to talk about all their meddling.
1:50 regardless of whether the proud boys themselves are white supremacists, this thing about a "continuously shifting definition" is true. As an Italian-American, white nationalists will tell me I'm not white, but they'll also give credit to the white race for ancient Roman inventions.
@@xenogen ive seen plenty of people make this claim. It used to be common belief in the U.S. and much of the west. Several people online have told me personally that I’m not white.
I have 2 older boys and I'm mixed race so that would be devastating. But we had a situation at there school where some boys were drawing swastika and doing fascist salutes. We had to take it up with the school but not much happened. When they studied WW2 I kept telling my boys that it's the socialists that fought against the fascists first in the streets and in the UK we defeated Mosley.
@@ashardalondragnipurakeHiltlers subordinates persuaded him to stick the "soc¡alism" in the party name...as a marketing gimmick. Soc¡alism was popular in Weimar Germany. ...In practice, the soc¡alists and commun¡sts were put in concentration camps first, before the Jws. I mean... ...Is the People's Democratic Republic Of North Korea _actually_ a democracy? Not so much. I believe Shaun or Three Arrows have debunked this idea, if you need further sources.
The capitol riot proportions remind me of how bladeless fans, or blowing cold air from your mouth works. You send a small amount of air and it creates a current that pulls around stagnant air nearby, amplifying the effect of what would have been a small bit of air.
Unfortunately, here in Europe it is also on the rise, especially in countries like France, Italy, Germany and Poland. As a socialist I’m quite anxious about the future…
As you should lmao. I've been a militant LeftCom for some 10 years. Not anymore, ship sailed. The proletarian revolution is not gonna happen. Also there's a clear natural reaction going on from millions of people (specially young men) against all the accomodation that leftists/feminists have found in this establishment, and their ideology, and how they're never gonna do fuck all about anything that is happening right now. Imho, can't blame them.
It's frightening to see this happening in a lot of "western" country, especially when I see it in my country France where even the "anti far-right centrist" presidential party validate even the most outragious viewpoint, like the great replacement.
the left is deeply rooted in revolitionary movement, its confrontment on the core. there should be barely any space to accept things as is based on fear while ppl are dying from hunger, poor infraestrcture and healthcare, war, exploitation, alienated work etc. So its really not surprising a "anti far-right centrist" government to not fight against, but endorse any fascist movement since any centrist movement is simply a stage for degenerating all of the left's propositions in order to ease any revolutionary sentiment and build a big stalemate so ppl can go on and be happy about being exploited.
@@joshsmith6028That's true, I think it was democratic before the 1900s maybe, but I'm not sure I think the slaves were still treated badly so yeah major problem
Let me quote a funny meme man from a 2013 Japanese video game: Nationalism, unilateralism, materialism. Welcome maxims for those with no faiths, without guiding principles. Give yourself up to the whole, no need to better yourself. You're American! You're number one!
It is funny though isn't it. That the ones that claim to believe in individualism in the US often advocate for the worst aspects of both individualism and collectivism.
I took a break from the channel to take care of my own mental well-being while engaging with the way things are lately. I'm back to say, wow, look at how far your editing has come! I'm falling in love with your content in an entirely new way. Congrats on your channel growth!
🎯🎯🎯🎯An ancestry search conducted by my uncle found a grandmother on a North Carolina slave plantation census from 1830. She was born around 1790, which means that my American Descendants of Slavery ancestors have been on this land longer than virtually all of these “true blue American Christian patriots” who think I should “go back to Africa.” It’s some crazy shiznit…
@@tonyjones1560 That's what's up. I tell people that all of the time. My earliest ancestor of African descent was born in the 1700s as well. Most of us descend from people who have been here longer than most of them.
I live in a pretty quiet suburb in DFW Texas and last halloween, my daughter came home with candy bars that had political and anti queer stickers rubber banded around them. It was absolutely infuriating. A lot of tough talk, but when it comes to trying to spread their shit message, the only praxis they have the spine for is dropping stuff in to candy bags, in the dark, to be found later by kids parents. I hate it here.
I spent a chunk of my childhood in Wichita Falls (back in the 1960s) and still have very fond memories of the place. Up until a few years ago, we were seriously considering returning to Texas on retirement. But now? I’m *seriously* considering leaving the country…
@@Digger-Nick calm down and look up the meaning if you don't know? I don't know what to tell you. Is there some acceptable threshold of halloween-candy-as-political-content that you'd find acceptable? grow up.
@@tonyjones1560 yeah its definitely not ideal. We're kinda here for the long haul, at least for the time being. The reality of the world doesn't disappear just because we move ; so I'd much rather become politically active, locally; and try to stand up for the right thing, and be allies to those that need it HERE... than to leave the state. In my twisted mind, that's the example I'd rather set for my kiddo.
@@Digger-Nick So, I guess we're not operating from the mutual understanding that using halloween candy to spread a political message is gross? Call me crazy, but I don't care if it were trump, biden, stalin, or fucking jesus christ himself. There's a time and a place to evangelize and prop up one's chosen political clown; and a kid's halloween candy bucket isn't one of those places. Super controversial. 🙄
One of the smartest things the 'Elites' of England (the Lords that owned the land) did was free their serfs (the people that worked on their Lord's land) by changing them from slaves to workers. By doing so the Lords freed themselves from having to provide food, housing & healthcare to ensure their workers lived & moved those responsibilities onto the workers. This cost the Lords but it was more than compensated for by the workers now having to compete with themselves for a better life than trying to demand it from their Lords as they had been starting to do in greater numbers. It also reduced labour costs as only the one asking the least got the job & increased the quality of the work they did if they wanted to keep that job
Usa has been a corporate state for many years. Corporate democracy is fascism, as practised by mussolini, franco, and salazar. Some say fascism came in through the back door, after ww2. But its been in the usa since before ww2. Very interesting analysis of fascism in usa. ❤ From ireland.
Centrist politics (Capitalism and liberal democracy) is collpasing all around the world now. What's the point of democracy if my life still miserable. Many people think like that and seek for alternative politics, either to the Left or to the Right. This situation is similar with the situation in the beginning of 20th century when both fascist and socialist are gaining their momentum. This is both an opportunity and danger. We can make a better world if we can move toward socialism, or this will become a barbaric world with fascist roaming everywhere. Our old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
There is unfortunately an enormous difference with the past: the entire "western" (for what it means) world is in demographic decline. I don't see old people grown in an individualistic and previously prosperous society sign up for the socialism team, it's young people that do this, but they are an isolated minority by now...
@@carmineingaldi47 And also young people are going closer to the "fascist" camp. They see how their streets used to look like and think to themselves. How about our countries serve our interests again and not foreigners that displace us.
@@constantinethecataphract5949 I don't see too many younger people joining the fascist team, but some are unfortunately, but those young ones are also brainwashed by mass propaganda much like many of the older generations. Propaganda is always meant to "get them when they are young so that you got them the rest of their life".
It's possible to have capitalism with some protections and incentives for workers. It's not mutually exclusive. Quick, extreme profits would be a lot less likely, though.
@@lastnamefirstname2390I've been a member for about a year. I think it can be good, but it can be hard to get plugged in if there isn't already a working group for whatever your specific interests are. I'm also far more radical than most DSA members, but they're accepting of that, and willing to hear me out as well as challenge me.
Smedley Butler is a very interesting person for anybody who has never heard him. One of the extremely rare people to receive 2x Medal of Honor's the highest medal in the military. Guy became very anti-war later on in life and many of these pro-war masochists like Jocko Willink dismiss any points the guy tried to make in books like "War is a Racket" as crazy.
It's very much worth listening to the "Behind the Bastards" podcast where they talk about the Business Plot of 1933, Smedley Butler, and the Volunteer Army. Butler was one of the best soldiers the U.S. produced (in terms of discipline, competence, and zeal) and learned the awful truth about capitalism by fighting on behalf of corporations in South America. He was made of sterner stuff than any conservative pundit or militia LARPer out there right now talking a big game about "making the hard choices."
Isn't "War is a Racket" more like a poem, article, essay or a short story? Or did he actually write a whole book? (Then I certainly have missed something important).
@@elvenkind6072 its a short book where he talks about his experiences as a soldier going into several south american countries to defend freedom and protect the American people. He was good at it and rose in rank and responsibilities. He slowly realized the military was being used by powerful business interests. His job was actually oppressing and killing foreigners so businessmen in the US could make more money, extract rubber/sugar/bananas etc. He was horrified to realize that his hard work did less than nothing to benefit the American people. He called it a racket, which in his day meant a grift or a scam. He saw it happening all over history. When Butler sees injustice, he gets on a soap box and tells everyone. I think he's a badass.
@@drphosferrous Yes, all of what you say is something I know about, but I thought it was no more then a page or maximum two, so I've probably just read a summary of it then and many years ago. Thanks for answering. Looking forward to read the book, there's few classics like that I've missed. Have a nice weekend. 🙂
This is a really good episode. It's very frightening to see fascist talking points in "mainstream" politics. In the UK the former home secretary Suella Braverman quoted the "great replacement" theory in her policy to target immigrants. Most of which are fleeing from the mess caused by British and American imperialism.
When I was younger I tried to join the oath keepers. In fact from those I talked to back then a opportunity to do jan 6 successfully was a dream of theirs. This was 13 years ago keep in mind. They wanted to defend the constitution and the American way from all threats foreign and domestic. The idea of overthrowing the government and restarting was something many wanted. I have no idea why they decided to support trump. Yes they were mostly conservative but they were smart enough to see his flaws or so I thought. Maybe they just saw an opportunity to do what they wanted and took it. Or maybe they drunk his Kool aid. Idk. My association stopped after a few years to focus on my own life. I never officially joined them so take all this with a grain of salt. But to anyone who believes they wanted a peaceful protest outside the capital. Your wrong. Anyone who believes they didn't intend for an insurrection or even insurgency your wrong. I know better than most.
Just because they wear flags and camo, carry guns, and talk about patriotism, they are not a militia. They're a gang. The only legally recognized militia is the national guard. Sorry but even the soft sell was jingoism at best.
Why would they need to "overthrow" the US if they already got it on lockdown though? Makes zero sense. We already have fascism, why overthrow it for the same thing?
Hey JT, thanks for these videos. It's heartening to know there are people willing and able to put these topics into easily digestible videos with further reading. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🐺♥
As I state at the end of every video, the only thing that will make a difference is getting organized. Join a socialist organization and work towards a brighter future.
@SecondThought I live in Denmark, so I'm afraid I can't help much. Though what I really recommend to you is a podcast named "designing the revolution" by Roger Hallam, a man with a background in sociology and follows Ghanaian methods of resistance and co-founded Extinction rebelion and Just Stop Oil. He briefly mentions its also about stopping facism for reason that will be more clear if you listen to the podcast. I wish you good luck, because I feel bad for you guys having such a Conservative position be so mainstream.
I agree. And we all know just voting will not stop these people if they don't like the results. Plus if Trump actually wins, we'd be in the same situation. So we need to prepare to stop that too. Because we didn't get here willingly. This false "choice" was presented to us as if choosing between democracy and fascism is normal and healthy. It's not. And it should've never got this far.
By offering a better working alternative. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We have dropped the ball. The fascists have picked it up and run with it. We have to double our efforts, reconnect with each other and engage peacefully with our adversaries to win them over by example. A problem exists. While well meaning people care for their neighbour's this papers over the fractures in economic systems. Neighborhood discussion groups and action groups are a start. Even starting with book groups to promote workable ideas.
My favourite conception of fascism by the late Scottish-born Canadian socialist Tommy Douglas - 'the Godfather of Medicare' - is: 'Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt.' FYI, Douglas was the maternal grandfather of Emmy-winning actor Kiefer Sutherland (through Shirley Douglas - Tommy's daughter).
@@kokorochacarero8003 “Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
Mine is when the state and corporation merge and then use coercive violence to manage the population and access to resources. Communism is the state replacing corporations and then using coercive violence .... Monarchism is the state being subsumed to a single individual and then using coercive violence........ Military version is a dictatorship that then uses coercive....... Interestingly fascism can also be viewed as not just a right wing ideology but also able to be a form of centrist authoritarianism if it incorporates some socialist policies around support for families, environment, etc as the Nazis experimented with. It is a chameleon ideology that is both a death cult and yet can have broad appeal especially in cultures primed by organized religion to bend the knee
This is probably dumb, but thank you for saying "Christian comrades". I am so used to people believing that Christians can't/won't be Marxists. Also, your content is great, keep informing people!
Most religions have central tenets of looking after each other and the good of the whole community. If religion is actually to be eradicated at some point, I think it will only happen through being made obsolete rather than any kind of enforcement
Hey! Idk if you've heard about Theology of Liberation. It's a philosophical and political current born in Latin America heavily influenced by different Christian traditions and it gained lots of traction during the XXth century. It's basically a breed between socialism and christianism. I've even seen it represented with a cross and a sickle. Thought you may be interested :)
Priceless how Tucker Carlson just picks whatever he deems "true" from genocide Joe's incoherent rambles and completely disregards the rest whenever it doesn't suit his needs...
Worker owned companies and Ⓐctive unions are what democracy🗳️💙looks like. The American workplace should be (owned and) controlled by the American people☭.🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌸
@@akeniryThis comment is either sarcastic or the second stupidest shit I’ve seen today. Not everybody has the money to "just start a business", not everybody has the time or willingness to do it. "You want slavery abolished? Get slaves and see how it’s hard to manage them! You just want to reap the rewards of other people’s hard work.".
