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So you admit we haven’t had capitalism. Good start.

@@handyman1016 this is exactly what capitalism is, kid

@@cybernessful taking out risk and loss isn’t capitalism. “Socialize loses”. Isn’t capitalism. It’s socialism :)

Only for big corporations though

@@cybernessful read the Powell Memorandum.

MEANWHILE, Bill Maher ignores this issue, *IGNORES the issue of these CORRUPT congressmen ( D & R) practicing INSIDER TRADING on the stock market,* and instead focuses on the stupidity of "wokeness". YES, wokeness is stupid, but then why is it used by the corrupt Democrat politicians to distract voters away from real issues? Bill does the same thing as his corrupt Democrat elitist friends (except that Bill is on the negative side, while his friends are on the + side of it, but it's the same principle).

Imagine Ford motor company, receiving BILLION$ in tax-payer subsidies (not just in 2009, but EVEN to this day!!), and STILL producing the world's crappiest cars!!!! Clearly, America is a banana republic, every 4 years, two corrupt political parties trade position, while those D & R career politicians write "election law" to keep new parties away from power (and away from being on the voting ballot).

@@terryadams2652 Check out the subsidies and incentives to get an electric car and who gets so subsidies… It is pretty unfair ..to me it looks like a Toyota gets the the subsidies..Fords not even in there in the running..I’m not quite sure why why they pick and choose different car dealers… Just another unfairness.. Poor people,like me ,want to get a hybrid of some type to save gas and to help our environment but I can only afford a used car and I can’t get no tax incentives..

​@@terryadams2652 That's not true. Bill Maher highlights the economic failures a lot. One of his staples is how Democrats in California, where he lives, barely do anything for the working class.

EXACTLY! I'm tired of hearing that old saw about how the losers want to take the rich's hard-earned cash (think FOX) when all the "losers" - or the "essential workers" - only want back what's been robbed from them and their productivity.

Kinda scary that they are not afraid to post it. It's like they were confident nothing will change

@@peterpaul176 steve jobs was a cunt and they're fine with it

Honestly, in my experience companies like apple do the least of all these shenanigans. It's the companies between family owned businesses and FAANG that do all the shady stuff to get to the top.

​​@@tackytaco8133hat handout to Apple was so they reduce their outsourcing abroad. If the change that happened is those tax break taken away, they just go back to their sweatshop in Asia. These big companies has the whole world by the balls.

Apple can take a joke. Cause there are a lot more terrible bailouts and subsidies than apple HQ.

If your company can't be profitable then look to the corporate leader(s) and you will inevitably find the problem. In a true capitalist society, your company would either succeed or fail. Competition, and giving the consumer value and a quality product or service at a great price = a truly capitalist society. Once upon a time in America this was how things worked more often than not. Now Americans work their butts off to bail out the already wealthy. and end up with nothing to show for their labors.

First Question: BECAUSE THIS IS THE US!! Hey Americans our socialized SUPERIOR workbenefits and Healthcare. Our “socialized" work benefits (long list) + €140/month healthcare. 4 General rules; - Get sick => 2 years payed leave (first day immediately) - Payed maternity leave (for both parents) - Payed yearly 20 days of holidays, - Free other days (Easter, Ascension, Christmas) €140 / month healthcare - Free MRI / CT scans - Free diabetic shots - Free operations - Free ER - Free pregnancy care - Free Ambulance (even a helicopter)

I dont think the home grown capital has any allegiance to the homegrown labor force. What you describe is a nation that sees those expenditures as an investment in its citizenry, for the overall good of the society. It doesn't seem to work like that here in the US, at least not in terms of healthcare. This place really wants one to go out and work, invent, fend for oneself, as a method of encouraging self reliance, though at a corporate level it does seem hypocritical to give them tax payer money in order keep them afloat. Sometimes the nation does this to preserve it's homegrown companies. It's a bit complex...

ikr? happens in Brasil too.

That's the difference between a country that values its working class citizens and the US lawmakers who only value their campaign donors.

@@salvador_ii9771 like we don't do that in Europe.....

@@rocketfingers-JSR Objection: hyperbole. I say this kindly: stop for a second and listen to yourself. You may be jaded and that's fine, but do you really believe that only "US lawmakers" are motivated only by "their campaign donors" and that everywhere else they have pure intent? The grass isn't always greener, amigo.

Yup, all will be fixed now...you know just as it was when he was on 5 days a week.

He definitely won't fix things but having someone sane to watch is nice

25.5 years and one can't figure out how to make more than 9 an hour? This person has failed at life.

@@MisterAlighieri Not everybody's able-bodied. Trying to manage any kind of career with PTSD's a bitch

John Cougarcamp Stewart coming out of retirement and swinging for the fences again.. When the world most needed him, he appeared.

Just imagine😊😊

Or... and here me out... you go to your local hospital in a normal country, like Canada, and get the same treatment... FOR ZERO DOLLARS OUT OF POCKET

The va Healthcare system is not a form of socialism. It is a earned benefit and doesn't control the means of production.

​@@coastaku1954Americans discussing American internal politics must always be reminded that this place or that is better when like. Buddy. I ASSURE you. We know. At a certain point, you're just saying something to feel superior. I, too, can say wildly unnecessary things. What of Alberta, full of deranged lunatics? Well, they're not, but you'd say the same about Texas. What about all those dead kids buried under your boarding schools? We actually have those too! We learned about them in school! I'm frustrated and mostly saying nothing but. My point here is that it seems like you look at America the same way America looks at basically any other country, where everyone is insane and things are like this because the people willed it and definitely not because of anything like a, like a... class struggle, or anything like that! Nope! But yeah you're right American healthcare fucking sucks

​@coastaku1954 right but again that's socialized Healthcare. Hos point stands

While I understand the point you are trying to make here, by exampling *YOUR* VA experience, I'm not sure you want to ride the VA pony into this war. The number of Veterans out there having shitty experiences with the VA are staggering- enough so that there have been congressional hearings about it, and even drew out Jon Stewart to go to bat for Veterans. I'm happy that you seem to have a good clinic staffed with quality people. But what you have is what thousands of Vets- such as myself- are still asking for. As to my experience, I'm considering locating a voodoo witch doctor for the simple reason that they can't possibly provide worse service and care.

Will Rogers said that he never met a man he didn't like. He never met a politician.

Good God, that's a quote of a century

ask Uighurs how great socialism is. the endless us vs them, system vs system, will be blamed and used for anything our rulers want to consolidate powers (money) at the top. the people united will never be defeated!

@@TheCBC1984 do they support American Socialism?

@@TheCBC1984 us vs them? you mean like with conservatives and immigrants? or conservatives and POC? or conservatives and poor people? and consolidating money and power at the top? hm that reminds me of something... say... who are the richest people in the world? and how much of the countries wealth do they hold? which country was it again where the top 10% hold 70% of the wealth? hmm and how much power was consolidated in the presidents office? remind me how many consequences the last president faced for an unprecedented number of crimes and corruption in office (including attempting to manipulate election results) system vs system? now where are politicians constantly screaming about how bad the other system is and that it has to be avoided at all costs? if that is what you consider socialism... then the US must be one of, if not THE most socialist countries in the world

I use to enjoy those days when Jon was drilling to the core of bullshit mountain. After all these years - I still believe the same things. Unfortunately Jon is now building up - or standing on the top of bullshit mountain.

There is endless material. It’s not a very serious discussion but it is funny

@@Aleksamson yes do tell us how Jon Stewart is building up and standing on top of bs mountain?

#handlotionforworkers

But he doesn't address how he is going to pay for these, he just tries to ridicule the people who don't agree with his simplistic take. You can pretty well guarantee that he has used every legal means to pay as little in taxes as he can. Celebrities are flying around in their private jets, having homes all over the world but don't put up their own money.

That's probably not on purpose. RU-vid picks what ads to slap on which videos. Google doesn't want advertisers anywhere near this kind of video.

@@thebighurt2495 It's also cause they don't need the ad revenue from RU-vid since both of them are from paid services: HBO/HBOMAX and Apple TV+

​@@thebighurt2495 Nonsense. John Oliver confirmed himself that they dont run ads on their stuff on purpose.

At this point, it's not "your" government anymore, that ship has sailed. Probably to the Bahamas.

American billionaires got 2.1 trillion because their stocks got propped up by the Federal Reserve. We went through the biggest pandemic in 100 years, a complete stop to half of the economy, and yet in the midst of all of that the stock market reached record highs.

Also, the wealthy paid virtually no, or extremely little in taxes. We've got to move on from this Neo "gilded age." In the 50's & 60's Corporations and the extremely wealthy paid over 70 percent in taxes. Our economy and our infrastructure really got a boost. Trickle down Economics only works in a vacuum; not in reality. Take care!

@@high_surv Excuse me, but think of all the jobs they created!

Then dive deeper to who chooses the governments.

Yep people keep voting for Republicans, Conservatives, and centrist Dems. Voters are fucking idiots and those in power know this.

I used to think the same way when i was young and fresh out of college and thought everyone that disagrees with me was stupid. Hopefully you too will someday figure out that solving problems isn’t so simple. Imagine the disaster if all of America was run by aoc or like the most progressive cities. Maybe if progressives would come up with more reasonable and realistic policies and consider the unintended consequences of said policies, they would pick up more votes. Current progressivism seems to be gaining in authoritarian tendencies , tribalism and intolerance, and embracing of moral hazard/zero belief in personal responsibility. I tend to agree with progressives’ diagnoses of the problems, but not their solutions.

@@JSilb Typical neoliberal sympathizer. Are you referring to college education you paid for in full while working a part-time job? Gee, that’s interesting. When the world is on the brink of environmental, economic, and social collapse, you’ll blame the progressives for not taking control and preventing the tragedy. Personal responsibility, my ass. 40 years of laissez faire, deregulation, the destruction of public goods and their privatization, and endless wars over resources, and you have the temerity to blame progressives for not coming up with a better counter? What an entitled group of old ghouls who are scared of the democratization of politics. Was this piss-poor rationalization all you can muster?

@@DrCrabnuts "When the world is on the brink of environmental, economic, and social collapse, you’ll blame the progressives for not taking control and preventing the tragedy" compare any blue district in america to any red district in america. "Personal responsibility, my ass", yeah that doesn't surprise me. "40 years of laissez faire, deregulation, the destruction of public goods and their privatization, and endless wars over resources" i'm 30 years old. have we ever had laissez faire capitalism in my lifetime? where was i for all that? and deregulation? you're kidding. the destruction of public goods and their privatization? you mean college? yeah that became a ponzie scheme before i was ever born when the gov decided to guarantee student loans. and endless wars over resources? we just went 4 years without any new wars and now literally every leftist is beating the drum for ukraine (a fight that we don't even have any real interests in. now that's some warmongering shit). so... to sum it all up, take a few deep breaths. put down the mein kampf or das kapital or whatever germanic nonsense you're on, and start a journey to adulthood by reading some adam smith.

@@TfuckyoutubeC Your lack of education and awareness isn’t my fault. You living in fantasy world where red districts don’t take more federal dollars than blue ones is just a symptom. The federal government subsidized and continues to subsidize rural and suburban infrastructure to the detriment of local/state economies. Red states are takers, blue states are providers. Good look it up. I should read Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, hmm? You blithering conservative muppet. Not only did he express his belief in free markets, he expressed belief in regulation and the curtailment of the excesses of capitalism (high taxes on the rich, using actual competition to destroy inequality, and didn’t accept inequality as a necessity). He didn’t just support the “invisible hand” without regulations, you dolt. Seems like you need to do some reading yourself. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Just pathetically repeating talking points without any historical context. Begone, you pathetic neoliberal shill.

Makes us definitely want 2 look up my childhood family and visit her in Australia

Quit bragging, I used to live in Canada and have all that. Now I live in the US. The US is a shit hole. Best country in the world for the rich. Third world for everyone else.

America hates the common good, goes back to its foundation on Lockean individualism. While the rest of the west was drafting constitutions that provided a relative equality of outcome, we over in America were sitting with our thumbs up our asses not evolving with the rest of the world… all the way back in the 1800s.

In America people get to feel good about themselves, because they're "Heroes". Too bad pride won't pay for their mortgage.

"how about we call you 'hero' for compensation instead?"

Just another word to misuse. If everyone is a hero, no one is. The line for your participation trophy is over there behind the dumpsters.

It’s as if “hero” means you’re willing to keep giving and giving; all the while knowing that you’ll get f’ed in the end (but in a bad way).

Just like artists can't pay rent with "exposure."

The u.s. has some of the most economic mobility in the world and the middle class tierd up and out of the middle class.

Thanks to regulations and debt vaccumes the entry ladder into the economy is so high for mom and pop shops who are forced to pay minimum wage and their employees healthcare, who are forced to have and buy healthcare...

well the playing field is level if you ignore all of the systemic problems that exist with every single aspect of American life and pretend that being born to a rich family means you earned the right to be wealthy through your own hard work. Which is page 1 of the Conservative Handbook after all.

there was a time that the working class actually rose which was between the 1940's and the 1970's. Not coincidentally this was when government programs were at their height, social programs were strong and corporate taxes were high. It didn't lead to laziness or anything, it let to a class of hard working people. Because while many don't like to hear it, the promise of social and economic mobility is far more effective an incentive than the threat of poverty. if people don't believe they can improve their social standing then they are not going to try and will do the absolute bare minimum. It's the classic saying that you can keep a slave busy but you can't make him work.

I knew when the first episode run by Trevor Noah came out. It went from gold to garbage overnight.

Really? I've been missing him since tge moment he left

@@CatGamer-wc2ij ... Trevor Noah might be THE quintessential... single best argument against "affirmative action" hires in the modern era. I am sure someone could find other examples that are more "impactful" to society in any number of situations... we are just talking about a TV show after all... that said... The absurd level of collapse that the Daily Show has gone through since the change is mind boggling. Don't get me wrong... Jon Stewart is a deceitful little piece of shit propagandist... but he is an A+ propagandist... and his Daily Show was exceptionally well crafted on a nightly basis.

You should check Jimmy Dore,Russell brand, GrayZone and Veritas to expand the learning..

Fuck yeah!!!

Me too!😃

Same, he’s too important to stay out of the game now

For now. Lol watch the ending?

@@steveunderhill5935 I did.

especially since Trevor Noah is one of the most unfunniest person and ruined the daily show

People will only revolt when they are literally starving. it's pathetic.

Everyone in America thinks one day they'll be the rich. If only they weren't being thwarted gummint and socialism. And quite frankly, of people haven't shot the foresight to pick rich parents, that's their fault.

because those at the top convinced those at the bottom that you'll be just as rich as they are......if you suffer. "like they did" hahahahahahahhaaaa Sure there are a handful of rich people that did come from nothing, but they are the exception, not the rule. that majority of rich people got their wealth from their parents. The bottom line though is that we don't want to be wealthy. we just want not to be fucked with and not be in perpetual debt/slavery. Every major life milestone usually involves major amounts of debt. buy a car - debt. go to college - debt. buy a house - debt. get married - debt. have kids - debt. all designed to keep you working

In France, Germany and Scandinavia we have everything the US progressives want for decades and we are doing pretty good. Unfortunately in the US, 40% of the population is voting against their own interest. Fox "News" did a terrific job with the brainwashing.

That's the problem with socialism. People are naive to believe it's for anything but those in power. You need government to keep control of things. Socialism means you give more power to government.

Sweden doesn't have a minimum wage.

@@chbrules Yeah, they have strong unions instead.

@@Copperhell144 The US doesn't?

@@chbrules Noooo, not at all? From what I see on the internet.

@@chbrules no, Mr asleep person, the US doesn't

No truer words have been said.

Yeah right on, I was worried they changed the format and cut out the best part, which is him doing this, but I am very pleased by this development. A few more instances of seeing Jon knocking it out of the park and I just might have to get apple tv +...

@@codingkriggsofficial yeah it’s a pretty fun show lol they don’t really limit him at all,they even let him “call out apple” with that proposal bill thing as seen here lmao.it’s pretty worth it if not just try to get a free trial there’s a bunch offers out there

no his replacement became an establishement,corporate pusher progressive basher

I just thought that.

And yet the welfare the poor receive is too much and corporate welfare is too little.

It's already been done. The rich receive far more welfare.

The problem is that GM employs workers and the people who get checks for doing nothing don’t. Corporate welfare does line the pockets of the top tier, but it keeps people working. I wonder if it’s fair that John Stewart makes the money he makes doing this show, and the guy behind the camera makes 1/1000 of that? The hypocrisy works both ways. Easy for him to do this kinda stuff, when he is guilty of the same greed. It has always amazed me that the Democratic Party has been fighting for the working man for so many years and the situation hasn’t changed much. I’m making some assumptions about the salary Stewart receives, but I’d bet I’m not far off. 35 years a carpenter. Could have taken food stamps when I had two young ones and wife couldn’t work because we would not put our children in day care. Wouldn’t have been able to look in the mirror if I had. Too many weak people In this country. Too many dependent people in this country. If Hitler invaded Poland tomorrow, we would be speaking German and drinking warm beer inside a year.

@@thedieselpig4448 I'm looking for some confirmation on this so here goes: If you don't work because you can't due to a medical condition, should you die? If you don't work because you can't due to a criminal record, should you die? If you don't work because you need to take care of your kids, should you die? If you don't work because you're just lazy, should you die? I would appreciate an answer formatted to the questions, but any would be appreciated.

And yet with this knowledge the poor and uneducated still elect for more welfare. Continuing the cycle...

You're about 300 years too late.

@@steveo1413 why did you watch this video again?

@@steveo1413 People totally never thought of that. You’re so smart. I wonder if there are reasons why everyone who works at McDonalds, Walmart, Amazon, Target, etc, don’t just quite their jobs rn and get better ones? Nah, there couldn’t be.

@@steveo1413 And now McDonald's has a labor shortage.

@@steveo1413 Then don't call me a lazy fuck when McDonalds is closed then dumbass

@UCJVVBd76MjrWZmxoWeWKQTg ya know something steve, fuck you.

You know, I know he is a Jew, but I bet you all-stars in heaven. Jesus would hug the sh...t out of him full of thanks that at least he is kicking those hypocrite republicans in the ass! WELL DONE JON!

@@yanokie Jesus was a Black African Jewish man, the hair of wool, skin of copper.

Metricondria DNA already provided the answer; ALL HUMAN BEINGS COME FROM AFRICA!

@@mikemann1960 and according to scholars he was a rugged buddy, not caring about his image that much. That I find personally offensive. But I forgive those researchers. After all, it's true. At those times we didn't hair products ;-)

@@mikemann1960 of course. You didn't know that?

Comedians are the only ones who can tell the truth and not be censored....kinda like the jester in the kings court

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nCGGWeD_EJk.html The two together if you have not seen it.

People seem to embrace facts more readily when told in joke format these days. If it ain’t funny, it’s probably not relevant.

Agreed. Joe Rogan is a prime example.

@@glennjohn3824 are you being ironically funny or just bad faith? I mean Rogan may have some comical moments that I've just missed but nothing about him is pushing for democracy.

It's called just-world fallacy.

And it's the myth of meritocracy.

That's their religion. Remember, their idol is Jesus, whose biggest virtues are poverty and suffering for other people. Of course they would "love" the people who go through that today on their behalf.

Im sure in country's where human slavery is still prevalent. The slaves probably have callus on their hands also.

I mean you just have to look at the Weimar Republic, Bolshevik Russia, and every other instance that a certain group of people integrate into a country, then take it over to see we are going through the same motions again and again.

@@TheNefastor Gee they idolize a Jew. I wonder why Republicans and Democrats defend that group of people so much.

@Josh El CONgress. wish america could get some PROgress in regards of helping out the majority of Americans. They like to talk about jobs and how the bailouts save them and shit. Its practiclly slave labor for the majority of americans, surely isnt a living wage for the majority. Need more Co-Op style buisness models where everything is equally split between everyone in the company. Hell we could use that in alot of policys. If they actually evenly split the money that the fed res prints for the rich, nobody would have any problems. But thats not the fraud that benefits the rich the most. Government is worthless frauds.

And often American curriculums try to indoctrinate kids into supporting a system that will keep that teacher asking for food

Because people took the New Deal prosperity for granted and fell asleep in the late 70s. This is when the attack on the working and middle classes started and this is the result.

Because the worse your education system is, the dumber your population. Dumber people are more susceptible to propaganda. Teachers aren't even part of the equation.

well, are you a socialist? ...*would* you bail yourself out with all those nickels? that's the real question... i mean, someone's handing you "free nickels" for six years, so it doesn't look good.

@@TfuckyoutubeC I would bet that this person was called a Socialist less than a thousand times over the last 6 years. If that's the case, then they would have made less than $50 bucks. One couldn't bail themselves out of a cardboard box with that kinda mula.

I always like to think they're like this guy lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wtki2vZspWg.html

If "corporations are people too" (Mitt Romney) then how come so many corporations are never allowed to fail? Where and when is the much vaunted "personal responsibility" applied when it comes to corporations? Also, when a corporate "person" sells off some of its assets or divisions, or is purchased by another corporation, isn't that slavery? If a corporation is attacked by vulture capitalists and cannibalized, does that constitute murder? /s And finally, if a corporation "lives" longer than is possible for any flesh and blood human, can it truly be considered legally "alive"? Shouldn't a corporate person have an expiration date just like an actual person?

Yeah Marsha Blackburns should be railing against corporate "socialism" but her donors won't allow it

I wonder how obese I'd have to become in order to be too big to fail...

Capitalism is designed for the working class to fail. Stop licking boots.

They haven't for 20+ years sadly. I think one of the most appealing things about the daily show back in the day was the amount of actual news sprinkled into the comedy.

The media does comedy under the guise of journalism and it would be funny if it didn't affect public opinion, elections, etc.

Brilliant observation, Watson!

have you just met Jon?

I think Carlos made a very important, and underrated comment. Have you just met this man? Before Trevor, (arguably) ruined The Daily Show, Stewart did journalism under the guise of comedy for many years. And taught millions of people how corrupt the whole system was, in a very entertaining way without getting himself clapped. He sparked political interest in hundreds of thousands of people; probably most millennials got their news from this man, not Legacy Media. He's a national treasure. Bless this man.

Yeah! You can't use communist or socialist as a threat against something that you think is that without knowing what those words actually mean!

It sounds like you’re assuming voters have voting options that have not been captured by corporate interests. Both parties have their token issues that they dangle like carrots in front of voters every election, but never seem to be able to do anything about once they are in power.

But all the derision of blue collar voters among the comments here reminds me of why liberals are so off putting and out of touch.

@@JSilb So who are the blue collar voters? And what did you read in reference to them? Edit: I'm going to assume you mean the opening post in the thread. I don't believe 'struggling working class' is the sole claim of 'blue collar workers' anymore. The majority of Americans with a degree are also struggling working class. Think about how that happened. As to voting in those opposed to their interests - you said it yourself, both parties are beholden to corporate America. How's Biden delivering on those progressive platforms? The DNC does not want to see progressives win, the last two elections should make that loud and clear. Meanwhile the new face of RNC is the likes of Marjorie Greene. 🤷 And this is the country with the biggest military on our planet. Sooo reassuring.

@@JSilb If anyone thinks that there's a difference between liberals and conservatives that is anything more meaningful than a label, they're insane. If you think red or blue, you have no clue. None of those people believes in ANYTHING except cold, hard cash. All those talking heads you worship, who keep jeering at those out of touch liberals? Paid propagandists who are ALSO out of touch. It's time people woke up and realized it's not red versus blue. It's the elites versus everyone being crushed under the heels of the elites--that is all. We can hash out the rest of the issues if we EVER get our country back from these corrupt corporate sociopaths, which is highly unlikely.

I bet he could even tackle a whole mountain of it

@timothy ritter imagine thinking Jon Stewart speaks anything but gospel, you absolute placement

No one can tear down bull-shit mountain like Jon!

@@albertotr1 oh fuck all the way off you ignorant little MAGAt troll 🤣

@timothy ritter go back to fox where they cater to such ignorance.

How many times in history has "paradise for all" backfired...and I'm not saying it wouldn't work this time.

You are referring to extremes that corrupt psychopaths ruled. Socialism is alive and well in Europe and it works.

Looks like time for tales and talking has passed in America. It's pitchfork time... and it's long, long overdue.

@@maxbedo9645 You mean like Scandinavia and northern Europe?

Nope, all over the world

Exactly

Well said Jack!

Lobbying is basically legal bribery. It should be illegal.

Centrists are corporate stooges!

In scandinavia the unions fill this role. Not the bribing backroom type of lobyism, but a plattform for the workers to get a say in political decisionmaking.

On the campaign trail. Keep it simple and make the other guys and gals seem like total idiots for what they are saying.

​@Savior Money I'm just curious, do you seriously not notice the massive foundation of pure ideology *_*sniff_** (sniff is joke for people that will get it, don't worry about it) making such a claim is contingent on? As if "historically failed" has any inherent normative value claim other than the banal surface-level 'post hoc ergo propter hoc', a fallacy on its face, shocker. Like, I got news for ya buddy, with a broader consideration of time, an existential Heideggerian "dasein" if you will, literally all this bullshit will be swept into that "historically failed" dustbin of history as well like the glorious statue of Ozymandias gradually fades into specs of sand, my god climate change alone. "Externalities" to put on the neoclassical econ/neoliberal ideological blindfold that you seem to dogmatically embrace without any self-reflection, likely to post-hoc rationalize an arbitrary circumstantial individual position of material comfort though admittedly that's speculation (that just happens to always be correct, but still), since any consideration of this shit for more than 0 seconds will reveal to you what an empty cold and callous ideological farce these hollow talking points construct. Simply ask _why_ and never stop and you'll propel yourself into an escape velocity out of that bullshit. Hell, I was a "libertarian" dipshit for most of my life and only out of pure hubris, thinking I would "destroy" him with "facts" and "logic", did I read Marx in particular, which I mention to point out that instead of achieving my naive goal, I actually came out the other side realizing he had crystalized many of the issues with society at large that I had intuited but failed to connect together/articulate in any larger framework of understanding. Thing is you have to like, _actually read_ the dude, rather than accepting the brazen mischaracterizations that uncoincidentally pervade hegemonic culture to maintain this blatantly unjust social order inevitably dragging us all into the "common ruin of the contending classes", imagine that eh? I'm bored actually so fuck it, lemme provide some context that a more liberal (aka _not_ leftist, your first conflation it seems fyi) reader of comments may be circumstantially unaware of, particularly in 1918 Germany and the creation of Weimar as this is a key pivotal loss for the working class in my opinion. Ebert's SPD suppressing (to put it extremely nicely) the socialist/communist parties with the freikorps paramilitary (later becoming the SS, shocker), revolts that could have gone in a socialist direction, the very socialist moment Marx was predicting and the bolsheviks were entirely and explicitly counting on to form the industrial base (see: historical materialism), without such and in a geopolitical context of competing nation states forced to impose state capitalism to reach industrialization and not be immediately swept into the dustbin of history as evidenced by western support for the white army during the russian revolution. Or look at Italy and the march on Rome with Mussolini's blackshirts, a paramilitary group of street brawlers similar to the freikorps situation specifically to gesture toward capital to solve their social cohesion problem (with force) by specifically beating the shit out of labor leaders/socialists/communists, as this is situation of working class immiseration is inevitable under capitalism as it inherently contradicts even the 2nd law of thermodynamics by presuming unlimited growth on a finite planet and has to find those profits somewhere, Adam Smith himself pointed this out, ch.6 of Wealth of Nations if I recall, the tendency of rate of profit to fall an inherent systemic force central to Marx's crisis theory. Lenin synthesizes this, again descriptively not normatively, in Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, which whatddya know predicted the macro tidal material forces and their outcomes that leads us exactly to the historical clusterfuck (to use a technical term) we find ourselves in now of class domination. Which is all to say these forces are reactionary in their emergence, and were cultivated by material power (aka capital; hell IBM and Ford funded the nazi party, my god also see the "business plot", "fun" stuff) precisely because the alternative was to dismantle that power. _“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”_ _"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."_ - some guy So yeah things like that _might_ be relevant to understanding _why_ X -> Y, if one were to, you know, give a shit about anything that is. Furthermore, see the insanely aggressive imperialism by the US that is usually completely glossed over as it implicitly pierces the historiographical narrative necessary to justify the military action taken globally at behest of supranational finance/corporate capital, effectively taking the baton of empire from the British after WWII by leveraging our circumstantial position of being the only nation-state not bombed to shit, most ideologically obfuscated being the establishment of Bretton-Woods international financial system which cemented the dollar as the global reserve currency and created the IMF/World Bank which we use as a tool of financial coercion along with unilateral sanctions which we have on 1/3rd of the world. To hopefully avoid writing a book-length comment here, I'll just briefly (again, with any luck lol) note some reference points, the throughline being that in a lot of ways the nazis didn't really lose WWII, and y'know if this shit is genuinely cared about it'll hopefully catalyze actually checking this shit out for yourself: US "regime change" operations, the entire operational history of the CIA, NATO and color revolutions, Operation Gladio, Operation Cyclone, Operation Condor, Iran installing the Shah in '53, Guatemala in '54, Sukarno in Indonesia, Lumumba in the Congo, the first 9/11 in 1973 in Chile ousting democratically elected Allende to install Pinochet's military dictatorship (using a literal nazi we protected in the ratlines to south america Paul Schafer, also a huge pedophile because of course he was), Operation Mongoose/Northwoods (false flag to manufacture consent, similar to PNAC's "pearl harbor type event") and the absurd/criminal embargo of Cuba, again though this is the tip of the imperial iceberg, far too many insanely grotesque operations to list, some even domestic like MKULTRA, Operation Midnight Climax, and the extremely-relevant-to-this-discussion Operation Mockingbird (though everyone is usually at least somewhat aware of these at least, despite any attempt at a real reconciliation with this unaccountable natsec apparatus, including the FBI and COINTELPRO), to which I'll quote William Casey CIA director under Reagan aka absolute demon regarding its efficacy, _"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."_ Surely he's giving two big thumbs up in hell, which at this point is probably hard to distinguish from the world he helped create for us. Anyway, apologies for this screed, but hopefully this was useful in some way to someone, most likely not yourself but ya know, anything is possible lol... _"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently."_ - the late great David Graeber

It’s shameful

Wages increased 40-50%?? Where's that at I barely got cost of living adjustments once a year for 3% shitttttt more like 25% at Best

Yes. That is my story exactly. Not a fancy house, but I feel so lucky.

Sadly now the rich are going to demand you pay more taxes for the value of your home. Fortunately for the wealthy it's called capital and they don't have to pay a penny.

@@benrent6625 3%, once per year, 15 years = 45 (not compounded).

Watched Jon Stewart on The Daily Show since 1998.

Yes plz....

Too bad it's on Apple TV and it doesn't post full video on free services like the John Oliver show.

@@meganesenpai that would be great but I’m actually getting Apple TV just to watch this show. Probably going to cancel it right after.

Im just happy Jon's back. As messed up as everything is, he's a candle in the dark. He also has a great moral compass. Check out his address to congress about 9-11 1st responders. Also his take down of Tucker Carlson that cost the Tuck his previous show. Now he's fighting to help soldiers sickened by toxic burn piles from the Iraq war. He cares more about the common man than any right wing talking head could even imagine.

Its the same old same old. I agree with his point, but this has been done to death.

I have been telling from beginning, this scam pandemic has been played to cover for the debt bubble. And unlike 2008 09 govt needed a crisis narrative to print fiat currency to bail out their friends companies and that too pushing working class into homelessness and poverty. That's how govt picks winners and losers. The tech companies just shifted the revenue model to be promoted as medical experts, suggested lockdown and control of movement drowning all mom and pop shops into debts and many had to shut shops unable to keep feeding the government and pay exorbitant rent. Guys please see the scam promoted to favor the pharma as they played along to keep the pandemic active to keep printing money and create a fake economy favoring few, and how they fudged covid positive numbers to create panic and fear among people. These booster shot drama wont stop till we start letting them know, it has to stop now.

Oooooo! You said it! Master! Whew!

Ain't nothing like the real thing.

Yeah i dont get it either man. Part of me blames the 70s and 80s, cause thats when our economy went in the gutter and everyone assumed that reagons neoliberal policies are what helped bring us back. In reality, all it did was increase the top 1% income by 1000% compared to like 12% for the average worker. Also, watergate killed this country's trust in big government. What couldve been man.....fucking vietnam and nixon.......this has been a continuous track for like 50 years now.

@@S1LVAW0LF when did the medical field become how it is in the US today? When did who come up with the idea of making hospitals into businesses? Honest question, I don't know enough about what happened when regarding how the US society became what it is today :)

@@jensasbjrnbgen4038 according to my research, health expense as a part of gdp has also been exacerbated since the 80s. In 1970, cost was comparable to other developed western nations.

@@S1LVAW0LF so during the Reagan administration then? But honestly, I still don't get it... I mean, in Denmark we had an outcry when a politician aired the idea of introducing a fee when seeing your doctor - and the fee would be 15 USD in his idea... but the basic principal of having to pay just the slightest to get your health checked made the Danes go absolutely nuts :P

@@jensasbjrnbgen4038 people in america are very much used to their private health care, similar to how the danes have had plenty of time to get used to their system. The same logic the danes have against any chnage to the system is the same for certain populations in the us that can afford their private healthcare. One of the most common arguements ive heard against medicare for all have been "why should my tax dollars go towards someone elses insurance?" As well as "i dont want to give up my private insurance, i love it." That mentality plus any disinformation campaigns sponsored by our politicians along with lobbying $$$$ from big insurance, pharma etc prevent this idea from growing organically here. Its also blissful ignorance cause they really dont know what they are missing out on in terms of co pay for drugs, hospital bills etc.

See, where I struggle with this is that this trend of capitalistic excess is *not* new. This is history rhyming with itself (because history doesn't repeat, it rhymes) - do people not know about the Gilded Age? The age where Carnegie, Gould, and Rockefeller made their money off the poor labor standards and lack of government oversight of the era - the age where it took people being poisoned en masse (See the 1937 response to the mass diethylene glycol poisoning caused by improperly tested Sulfanilimide drug solutions) by companies marketing quack medicines and/or using dubiously compounded formulations? Honestly this was the time where Capitalism ran truly rampant - I'm 25 and this was taught to me as someone who grew up in the South. We are not there, but the internet and digital media have made this backslide into a New Gilded age easier.

there arent too many people - there simply is no incentive in capitalism to care about feeding, housing or in the least bit care about the people at the bottom to accumulate capital on that scale, you have to extract wealth from labour... and if nothing stops that - well you end up with labour being completely drained as a simple analogy: for one person to win millions in the lottery... millions of people have to lose their stake - capitalism is telling everyone to play the lottery as much as possible under the pretense that eventually everyone will be a millionaire... but for every millionaire winning out millions are losing... and eventually... people run out of money to play that lottery... and thats where the US is at - wealth has been extracted from the population for so long, that the majority cant afford to be healthy, housed and fed reliably

The argument from the right is a workers total compensation is reflective of how much they contribute to society/how much value they produce and by supplementing an individual's total compensation with additional state benefits you are in fact giving people healthcare. On the other side though you could reasonably argue that employers have far too much bargaining power driving down total compensation lower than what an individual is actually owed. Robert Reich is very persuasive on this. I think the answer is to tell corporations they cannot engage in share buybacks or dividends and their stock is taken off the stock exchange if they don't meet certain criteria such as 1) executives make no more than a 15X multiple of the median worker 2) workers got a wage increase this year 3) at least 15% of the reported profits were paid in taxes 4) the corporation expanded operations in America/engaged in research and development. 5) a percentage of the board of directors is made up of workers I think this addresses the power differential and we let the total compensation piece play itself out. Healthcare is a legitimate political choice citizens can make but they should recognize that the social spending in Europe drove their economy down from 40% of global GDP to around 20 and still shrinking. These countries have around 40%+ tax rates on the middle class, and virtually no innovation in their economies. It's a choice people can make but at least be honest about the trade offs.

More like tragic hero akin to Casandra. I am sure that they will spend billions to his millions just to quash his message. Meh God will sort it out and soon I am guessing.

Wait so we still need the voice of "ever" as long as it's after Jon?

Filtered through a mask.

No we do not

The first part is an essential piece of the message he is trying to communicate with you. Fearmongering against socialism is how the crony capitalists keep the average person in this country down. Socialism, by definition, is the thing that the working class are desperate for but unfortunately they are constantly lied to and tricked into thinking it is inherently evil by the GOP.

@@choppypony Go read the Gulag Archipelago. You’ll understand why socialism is evil. It’s not just the GOP that understands it’s evil.

@@choppypony I mean the first part isn't even socialism it's social programs. I mean its not like they don't exist to some degree already in the fire departments, law enforcement, road maintenance, etc. asking the government to do more to ease peoples burdens and give them a better shot does not equal socialism.

@@Levelity I am well read on the subject but thanks. Socialism is not evil.

@@Warcodered01 Socialist programs are the tangible aspects of socialism. There is nothing wrong with that. If a country has both socialist programs and capitalist programs then that country is effectively both socialist and capitalist. Duality is part of human nature.

Ditto, @TheCat’sBackyard.

steak* (sorry, I'm ocd.)

Shouldn’t have taken out the student loans, then.

@@seaofgreens college education on livestock production and can’t spell steak. The system is so flawed

@@funbigly And I'm an enforcer of the Illuminati. We're going to need to talk to you tomorrow.

@@Denji2006 We dont have enforcers

"Whenever the government provides opportunities in privileges for white people and rich people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for Negro and poor people they call it “welfare.” The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem."

I couldn't have said it better myself.

This phrase always bugs me. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor is literally just how capitalism works.

@@madprole5361 it truly is, but I've always seen it more as a baby step toward educating people. You have to start from the point most people are at, which, sadly, hasn't changed much in over 50 years: "capitalism = good, socialism = bad". Make them realize that the government will never be "neutral", and it clearly isn't right now. It either answers to capital / the rich, or to the people. It's a baby step to cut through the propaganda, which is unfortunately needed as propaganda is evidently still working depressingly well.

Thought about this quote while watching this - it's so clearly illustrated by the bailouts for corporations and the lack of the most BASIC care for the workers.

You can have an academic education, that is VERY different from having a financial education (NOT accounting or financial education from a college but know how to handle finances)... know the difference or be victim to the outcome you choose. No ones elses fault if you make poor choices but your own

@@slowery43 so it's possible to pay for $120,000 degree making $7.25? Not including books or transportation? Get real.

Ask a teacher...! Or a baseball player?

@@slowery43 Ah yes, my Engineering degree is so Academic that people without financial education like you probably push to abolish the minimum wage.

I was yelling too!!!

Indeed, as with all "conservative" ideological cohesion throughout time, it is dependent on naturalizing the way society is organized and appealing to this implicit natural authority, despite the fallacy on its face, be that god in a feudal epoch with a "divine right of kings" or its contemporary secular equivalent in money and "the market" with a "divine right of the entrepreneur", if only that dang government would get out of the way, as if the state isn't entirely captured by these business forces causing this class domination/conflict of interests to begin with. Its hegemonic power is twofold in that it provides that facade of justification and as a bonus it restricts any ideological imagining of any other possibility and narrows the bounds of consciousness to only outcomes that reify the current social order. As a reaction to the counter-cultural/civil rights movements of the 60s for example, one can note the corporate reaction in things like the Powell memo, outlining and then implementing the strategic cultivation of a sort of "business ontology" via think-tanks like the federalist society, heritage foundation, CATO institute, etc. and implicit material power through corporate ownership structure, which clearly took hold of that generation in its seamless integration with a fervent anti-communism in the red scare, which itself had its own material implementation of Taft-Hartley which effectively legalized union busting. Same story of course with like the late Roman empire and the dominion of the optimates (literally meaning "good men", uncoincidentally also shameless self-serving liars lol), suppressing the populares movement by the Gracchi bros and later Caesar, famously of course by straight up murdering them in the senate for the supposed "authoritarian" threat they posed (to their financial oligarchy is the unsaid part) when they attempted to cross the _actual_ rubicon of breaking these material/ideological mechanisms of social bondage via debt cancellation and land redistribution policy. _“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”_ - some guy _"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently."_ - the late great David Graeber

Back up there's (insert name here) Matt and allow us to rollout those fantastic socialist baked beans demands... WAY overdue what exactly has dementia Joe Biden subterfuge administration passed? No student loan forgiveness No Medicare-for-all nor public option No national use of marijuana No defund the law enforcement No Fico Bank regulations ex. Wells Fargo No Voting right protection No UBI ( thru epidemic) No true federal mortgage, rent support No $15 minimum wage No Union protection No real climate change solutions No cut off taxes for Wall Street No rollback, Trump immigration policies No more SMS privacy on your mobile No right to freedom - censor internet posts No dismantle of the Parliament No challenge to supersede underlying ruling No veto to HR-1 W/hidden poison pills 💊 No IRS, Federal access to our accounts Like Joe Biden already had mentioned nothing will fundamentally change. As of now, Joe Biden is bombing in Somalia Africa, yes nomad land of Africa! 😬

@@AwesomeBlackDude not sure if you’re serious or just trolling so I’ll just go with……yeah, Bubblicious is fucking delicious!!!!

"We may admire what he does, but we despise what he is."

Except I don't think they admire what you do. They might appreciate the fact that you are a useful little cog in the capitalist machine, or realize that publicly extolling the virtues of being a useful little cog might make you a somewhat more compliant little cog, but admiration? yeah, I don't think so.

Good statement from a Bosnian genocide denier.

@@the_toeknee Who are you referring to? Genuinely curious.

Chomsky was projecting

I think Jon agrees. Thus that jab at the end. It's a bit like what Dave is going through. They're their own boss.

Same but at least it's not Disney...but then again that's like biting into a sandwich and finding a roach and thinking "at least it's not a worm."

@@tmo2798 Yeah the jab at the end was funny I guess, if he was able, I mean allowed to show it then I'd give him full credit lol

Seriously.. Apple makes me ill. Though Meta is about to ruin us further.

Because he's limousine. Money must be important to him, not to just do a youtube show

And he's equal opportunity on calling BS. He criticizes both sides for their hypocrisy. That's where most talk shows fall short these days. They're so slanted one way or another.

@Paul Revere jon has talked about that too…

It got me to subscribe. I've ALWAYS love Jon's ability to remain unbiased and call out bullshit whenever it comes from.

@Paul Revere let me guess - YOU supported T=Rump but have the nerve to criticize others. Let me remind you how psychotic and full of BS EVERYTHING that came out of the Apricot Atrocity's mouth was and still is.

@Paul Revere the entire conservative strategy is to play to their supporter’s fears, so don’t even go there with your “propagandized fear bubble” crap. Everything is about fear with the party of Trump. Being afraid of the “other” side, and what they’re gonna do to so-called “Real Americans” (TM) if they “have their way”. It’s all they do is stir up fear.