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Letter from Birmingham Jail
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Malcolm X speech (contains section on liberals)
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Harris Poll on MLK
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Musings on liberalism and fascism
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The Pitfalls of Liberalism
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Blackshirts and Reds, Michael Parenti
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Senate Dems vote
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Howdy, friends! I started working on this video two weeks ago and so much has happened since - Biden spouting right-wing talking points about "illegals," liberals patting themselves on the back for sending a handful of expired meals to Palestine (while continuing to support their ethnic cleansing campaign), Biden announcing the US will officially be occupying the region in order to build a "port" in Gaza (which will surely not be used for military purposes), it's almost too much to keep up with. Time to tell it like it is. Our liberal friends need a wakeup call.
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how to get access to it if you're russian? I'd like to chat with western leftists.
Bernie didn’t vote to send the bombs lol
But one vote out of 535 is sad
@SecondThought are you seriously saying AOC and Bernie Sanders are the same as Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. Why have electoralism or democracy at all? You do realize Bernie Sanders is a true Progressive unlike Nancy Pelosi and is committed to Civil Rights even when it hurts him politically same with AOC. There are differences between Progressives and Liberals and you need to premise that those true Progressives in power are are marginalized by the Liberals who demand negative peace over positive one.
From the title and splash screen, I thought this was a pro-trump video 😂
Said it before, I'll say it again: I never thought I'd live in a time when protecting innocent children was unpopular.
But you aren't, children in the foster care system are victimized every single day. Instead of saving those children you are harrassing kids online for wanting to wear boy or girl clothes and take a wiz in a bathroom without being harrassed
Unfortunately, Liberals who Anti-Communist or Anti-Socialist will ignored the tragedies commit by Capitalist, but I must answer the crimes from Communist even slandered as Genocidal because of Cuba purges, but apparently what is happening here or happened to Guatemala is not. Liberals are the worst allies for us, but the best allies for Fascist.
Of course my comment gets deleted.
Edit: Agree with OP here. What I have said about liberals can surprising be found in this Convo ironically. Just wish my comment wasn't deleted. Either way I should have edit this comment earlier as I probably made myself look bad even though my reply down there would say otherwise what the comment was about.
Not just unpopular, but controversial to even bring it up. Did you see that girl protestor that went to Biden rally and everyone put their fingers in their ears once she questioned him?
@@hectorvega621what could you say against children to have your comment deleted ?
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." - Aaron Bushnell
What disgusts me is how people seem to disgrace Bushnell, even when he has more balls than the rest of us
Why does youtube censor me for the g word or s word but not you 🤷♀️
@user-bm6xz6pq5z some creators put filters in their comment sections so you can not make accurate responses.
A fucking legend
For me. Sitting here, boycotting what I can and getting increasingly sick with disgust at my own county/ rage at myself for my physical and mental and economic ability to do anything else. Sooo still treading water trying to make it to the next day?
"I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil." - Malcolm X
Isnt that true of both conservatives and liberals?
@jherc12990 In the greater context of this statement, he was referring to the American government in general because they preached integration but practiced segregation. He knew very well that both sides were working together against black people, even if they claimed to be our allies.
@@hueypautonoman Yes but many who use that quote do it disingenuously to paint liberals as such
@jherc12990 It does apply to liberals though. It just doesn't exclusively apply to them. We have to get out of this mindstate of thinking these political parties or ideologies really define people. Instead, we need to focus on the systems that oppress us and the elite few who benefit from them.
@@hueypautonoman yeah, i meant to say exclusively to liberals as disingenuous.
"Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when living" -James Connolly
the greatest Irishman who ever was
Cute one
the far left is the establishment today, they are the ones who are currently idolized. Your quote is 100% dead on, but you refuse to admit that you now control every major western institution and insist that you are victims, because that's so core to your narrative. you aren't.
Forget about democracy. There isn't one. We are all betrayed by the same viper. 💀
@@JackyMan22it came in so slick, the 🐑 will never noticed, until they're dead
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were absolutely correct.
But most importantly, White America subscribe to a belief that they do not share equally..... to treat others the way they wish to be treated. And that is why White America refuses equality and diversity, because White America is afraid of how they will be treated after 400 years of brutality
Yep, they warned us. I regret not listening and finding out for myself sooner.
Malcolm was a huge fan of Chairman Mao. I wish they had met.
Dude weren’t you at like 2.2 million subscribers?
So who do you vote for the pro union democratic party or the anti union republican party. 🤔 seems like an easy choice.
MLK Jr wasn't murdered directly because of wanting to end segregation and racism, but shortly after he started speaking truth to power and tied the struggle of black Americans to the struggle of the working poor. Once he realized that racism went hand in hand with wealth disparity he was assassinated, because those with the most would sooner make him a martyr and co-op his message than ever allow fair wealth distribution to become a reality in this country. The struggle has always been a struggle of class, it's just those at the bottom rungs of society tend to be minorities that get ground to dust the fastest.
Correct
White people have always been the ruling class and the system is setup to benefit them. Race and capitalism are intertwined.
"You know they went after King
When he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot" - Rage Against the Machine
Also came not long after he said "a riot is the language of the unheard". The moment he was no longer useful in mollifying an aggrieved populace, he was made to serve their purpose in a new way: as disembodied, cherry-picked quotes in a textbook.
Which I’ll never understand why poor whites went so hard on blacks historically. Not only did many die and lower the economic activity of their communities but they contributed to issues in the current lower economic black communities.
I don’t disagree with the point it just reveals the grift of it all and sad situation. But we’ve come a long long way and man I hope we unit and come together because these elite Neo liberals are pure evil
That's what really alienated King with the ruling class. He started talking not about Black or White but about class and economic justice.
Being comfortable with oppression, regardless the side you stand on, is the true enemy to progression.
^ This.
Captain Picard once said, “villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot, those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged”.
That quote is from picard off of the star trek next generation drumhead episode
amost all villains in world claim to be fighting for right thing.mustche tweirling villains exist close to only in usa movoies and nationalsit ideilogies in whcih thpose who opposes us are evbil for sake of beign evil and hate us.
THE DEMON OF BABYLON DISGUISES HIMSELF WITH THE COAT OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Exactly the two political parties we have today:
GOP is obvious villain
DEM is insidious hypocrite
Gorby was liberal democrat.... who worked for Mossad... USSR didn't survive his rule..
In France, we have a name for this kind of people, "l'extrême centre".
Us Italians have a similar name "l'estremo centro"
In Argentina we use Central Korea.
@@shroomy7131what's the story behind the anti blackness In Italy
@@San_Vito so do we in Chile 😂
@@San_VitoThat's funny
I remember being at a dinner with a liberal Californian who couldn't understand why my country was so ok with high taxes (even if it meant free education and healthcare). During the same dinner he gave a car to a friend because he couldn't fit all 8 cars into his two garages.
Thank you, I'll take the free education and healthcare for all of us, no violence in the streets, and bike to my job.
Id prefer no government that will ever enforce the tyrannical views of the masses or the few just no government will be awesome
Cars aren’t the reason we have no free education and healthcare.
@@tommyliu7020 nothing is free you just don't pay for it
@@novaimperator I am fine with paying for it collectively. It is much more efficient than the other way.
@@tommyliu7020 do you really want your healthcare to be dictated by people in Washington DC or your state's capital? We already have Medicaid and we spend more on that than we do on the military and not even everybody gets Medicaid. I don't know which side of the political aisle you lean and it doesn't really matter because the other side will take power, do you really trust the other side with your healthcare? The government can't run the post office properly hence you have FedEx and UPS. We are 34 trillion dollars in debt as a nation with that increasing a trillion dollars every 100 days do we have the money to provide national healthcare to everybody. Will it cover all forms of operations such as abortions sex changes quadruple bypass is for people who refuse to stop eating as much and unhealthily. If so it would be an infringement of religion for people who would think that abortion is murder and so on and so forth.
As a wise man once said: "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now."
That is utter and complete bullshit. Why don't you try actually.TALKING to one instead of spewing quotes and platitudes?
don libs support reperations, lgbt whatever people etc...if you count that as civil rightys...
as for war you gotity right.few oppposed war even iraq one whhcih was obiuous bs.but libs arent only one doing that.billion+ chinise communists supported invasion of vietnam after usa left casue leadership said so.and this dont just go for chinese.
so while libs are hipocricitacl sorry excuse of people you guys shoud also look into mirror.
Even Malcom x said yall white libs are racist 😂
Who was this wise man?
@@michaelmarchanda It is often attributed to Phil Ochs, I recommend listening to his song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal"
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
That quote can be used to go to war. And probably has been used.
Quite possibly true, but someone's bad interpretation of it doesn't make it wrong. I think what we even count as "justice" is at the heart of this. Liberals want the appearance of justice because they want to feel just. Radicals want justice because what's just is right.@@OutsideLookingInSports
@@OutsideLookingInSportsWhat do you mean probably? That's the whole image the US gubmint wants to give off, despite the fact the we either create the conditions for injustice or directly cause it so often.
in theory yes.in reality host times no.
There is no such thing as injustice, only will to force
Saying unironically "Why don't they just protest peacefully?" is either one of two things: very privileged or very ignorant
Or both
In most cases, both.
It's both
Both and not willing to learn
GOP is obvious villains.
DEM is insidious hypocrites.
I have been watching channel for a while, but it is this video that had me become a Second Thought patreon and join the Discord. This video was unsettling in that 'this is challenging my preconceptions' way. I am scared, but reading the Discord and links from it and, I hope, learning.
It can be so scary to realise you've been conditioned into accepting a horrible, exploitative society. It cam start out sad and isolating.
But from experience and with reading more leftwing material, to understand liberalisms drive, it does get better and their are solutions for a better world.
I saw the title and thumbnail and thought “ooh this video is gonna be good.” Then I watched it and it was phenomenal. One of the best videos on this entire channel, probably top 3
Wow, thanks so much!
@@SecondThoughtThank you for all the great content you provide. Tell Hakim and Yugopnik I said hi, and tell Yugopnik I’m sorry that everyone is thirsting over his feet
the best yet because its harsh critism @@SecondThought
People ask what was back then before war on terror :
Chuck Norris invasion usa movie
There is terrorists :
Soviet soldiers
And Cuban
Something that really struck me in a recent conversation when I asked someone, "Can you not imagine a better world than this? Not a utopia. Just a world that's better than the one we have now." and I was so shocked to hear them just say that they couldn't, and that doing so was useless. The commitment to order is just astounding.
That's my parents' view of the world. They think I'm a nihilist for thinking our current system is garbage, but they are shocked and confused if I suggest better alternatives. They don't believe change is possible.
Such disgusting behavior and people
Capitalism has every one in a psychological bind, the system has everyone by the balls
People are so indoctrinated and brainwashed... and so few seem to be capable of independent thinking. Most just follow the line... marching straight off a cliff.
@@theaconite1400 Maybe real life experience has made them wise to the naive zeal of youth. You may have what you imagine are great ideas and solutions, and perhaps they do look great in paper, but implementing them in reality is another thing entirely. If there's one thing I've learned from history it is this: the pursuit of well-intentioned but unrealistic goals often ends up doing more harm than good.
"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now." Phillip Gourevitch really nailed it.
I am a liberal and this statement is not true for me -
@@user-xu6bv7yh2jMaybe you're not a liberal then?
@@user-xu6bv7yh2jYou are probably not a liberal then
of course I am - i am pro choice - I am pro union - I am pro gender equality - I am pro LGBTQ rights - i amI am pro science - I am for the seperation between church and state - I am against citizens United@@KickinRadTopHat
@user-xu6bv7yh2j there are other political alliances that also support those things. Like socialists.
I strongly recommend Domenico Losurdo's "Liberalism: A Counter History" on the crime-filled, bloodstained history of liberalism and capitalism.
great book btw
Communist propaganda
@@leonardodtc4847 . If you propagate for the truth. You will find it Red.
Also, as a Jew myself, the idea that protesting Israel is antisemitic would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. For one, tons of us do not and have never supported it. For another, people seem to forget that Arab Palestinians are, in fact, also Semitic people. (But then, these are the same people who insist on calling white people "Caucasian." Since when does the actual meaning of words matter?)
Anyway, there are multiple reasons for a Jew not to support Israel. For one, many of the Jews who have historically supported it have been secular Jews who don't care about our faith or traditions whatsoever. For two, it's outright sinful to take back the Holy Land ourselves or rebuild our own Temple. Only the Messiah can do that. For three, and perhaps most importantly, especially now, we've been the victims of pogroms and genocides for hundreds and thousands of years; there's nothing more sad or disturbing than Jews doing to others what has been done to us. We've always been on the side of the oppressed standing against tyranny. This is not us, and anyone who thinks it is is someone I don't wish to be associated with.
I find it very interesting reading about the origins of Zionism, it seems to me it was initially created and supported by only a handful of the ultra-wealthy, whereas most Jews found the idea to be absurd, with some even believing it to be a Goyish conspiracy to get rid of them... Obviously it seemed a LOT more appealing after WW2 however
Thank you for your words. I, too, thought that Jewish People are committing Genocide, now. I've always wondered why the Jews have occupied and brutalized the Palestinian people for over 50 YEARS. And now committing THE GENOCIDE of the Palestinian People, committing WAR CRIMES, in full view of the World. It doesn't make sense.
And those who think they are protecting Jews here caused irreparable harm to Jews around the world! The Zionist are our governments actions are SO dangerous for Jews as they have thrown all Jews into their same sh*t bucket.
For most of the world, the word "liberal" doens't mean leftist but capitalist.
I'm a french socialist and have always hated "les libéraux", especially néo-libs.
That's what's so telling about US society. Liberals are considered "leftists" by conservatives.
There are leftists here, but we're unrepresented, except for prople like Rashida Tlaib, Ilan Omar, and a few others. Sadly Bernie has had issues relative to Israel.
I see the protests, and hope that we can get some more representation and humane foriegn policy.
@@erinmac4750 On the political spectrum, Bernie is a centrist barely scratching left ideologies. Everyone in the Dem party is right of center.
The sc*mb that privatize everything that made rich guy a messiah.
Same in Brazil. Though I miss the time when libs were the problem, not straight up fascists. But then again, the libs paved the way to their rise.
Liberal and capitalist mean the same thing in America if you have a college education. Over the last 15 to 25 years far-right, conservative and Republican media outlets like Fox (not) News has made people believe that anyone that doesn't support the political Right are liberals. Conservative media will also tell you that the Democrats are also socialist and communist which is both laughable and scary.
If I was a leftist in America and my only option is Joe Biden, I would be crying now. In my country, Biden would be a common right wing candidate. There's no real American left.
America has always been built off of slave labor and colonialism. This is as American as it can get.
The Amerikan left is here and there in the masses (myself a leftist (ML)). Unfortunately once left politics hits the state government it gets appropriated or forced to fail/drop out.
There are leftists here, but we are fighting the uphill battle of being considered liberals, partially because we generally have to caucus with them to get anything progressive done.
I have to tell myself that at some point we can or will make a difference. Even if it is a Sisyphian task, we need to keep speaking Truth to Power.
He's better than the alternative, but yeah we're crying
@@yessumify Is he? In domestic means, Trump is a far worse candidate, but in foreign means, Biden has done some of the worst choices a president has made in decades. Third-party is the only way we will ever effectively just slow down the rise of American fascism
Bro, thank you for continuing to make content about this. I know it's horrendous to try not to think about what's happening, but i feel so powerless to stop it, so insignificant. I can't even take care of myself right now
Infinitely correct. The state of the world is utterly catastrophic due to liberalism. We literally burned our planet due to this system, and we cannot even provide decent lives to everybody in the richest countries in the world, even considering that we've been looting the global south for 200 years...
This system is abysmal, the lowest point of humanity, ever.
I honestly respect that energy in being upset about the status quo, but there have definitely been far more morally depraved eras in the past; and just like then, we'll eventually overcome today's challenges too. On a long enough timeline, things do get better and society does improve. Have a little faith in people, even if just a little is all you have left. :)
I used to be a liberal. 100% can confirm that I thought exactly like this.
Congratulations on being cured from liberalism. A most virulent disease to be sure.
What political identity do you have now?
Liberals are the most dangerous things to right wing fascists 😂
I didn't even fully understand what liberal meant when I called myself a liberal. Now, if you called me a liberal I would be insulted. The simplest title I can give myself would be Progressive. And that has become the new Boogeyman word that liberal used to be. I remember telling a conservative that I'm not a liberal, I'm a progressive. And their response was, that's so much worse. Good. I'm glad. I don't want to be associated with you or your fascist doctrine.
@@WestoberFM He's a full on butt capitilast.
When the BLM protests started, a Facebook friend of mine complained that the protestors were keeping him from going out to a restaurant. My view has been evolving over the decades. In better times, my liberal friends talk about peace and justice. When bad things start happening, they suddenly "change". I know they haven't really changed. The Gaza war has made it so much more obvious. All the people I grew up with talked about what they would have done in Nazi Germany to fight for justice. Now that we're seeing something eerily similar, most people are talking like the Palestinians deserve what they get. The people you think are on your side may not really be.
I'm a gay man and the summer before last when there were so many anti-LGBT terror attacks by right-wing paramilitary groups in the US, I felt like I was having a panic attack for weeks straight. All I kept thinking every time I passed someone on the street was, "When the fascist goons come, that person won't lift a finger to help." The liberals are not our allies.
It's always funny for me that people always talk about Nazi Germany but not Weimar Republic, the west right now is literally on Weimar Republic period and even worse we have cold war 2.0
What would you fight for? There was justice.
@@user-bv4id1qg4bYou need to improve your reading skills. The left is not talking about hierarchies and how they are central to prosperity in a society. The left is analysing existing hierarchies (such as that which exists between workers and the owner classes) and opposing them, seeking to transform a society from what it is into a less oppressive societal organisation. The only class that would be disenfranchised in a socialist regime is the owner class, which produces and reproduces injustice and inequality. You cannot possibly claim to understand any of it if you equate this to fascist rhetoric, which uses similar arguments but places the blame on immigrants, black people, lgbt people or the palestinian arabs, to use a poignant contemporary example.
Lot of western liberals were ok and even praised nazi germany back in the day...
As someone with a psych degree, you're right on your last point. No matter how factual and logical people think they are, most people are only swayed by emotional spin. Especially right wingers, who ironically act like they're the 'facts don't care about your feelings' crowd.
Expected to be angry by the title as I've never heard of this channel before. But instead I'm left a bit humbled and in self reflection. Very interesting thought provoking ideas presented here.
@synergy021 tbf, I've never seen a video by this guy that didn't give, at least, a little bit food for thought. Really, one of the good youtubers.
Join the red side brother 🚩
Lets not forget that Liberalism grew up in the era of colonialism, it was always there to justify colonialism in the Capitalist era.
But ethno-imperialism is the better answer? Not trying to make a straw man argument but the framing that all negative modern outcome are from liberalism and not capitalism is dumb imo.
And capitalism more broadly.
Also fun fact: most liberals only supported abolishing slavery, because they didn't view it as economically effective enough. It was never because of morality at all. Tells you a lot about this species...
@@dilloncarver4348Uh, why do you think another violent imperialist system has to take the current ones place? Also, wait until you learn about what neoliberalism and the untold amount of damage it’s caused. You somehow seem to forget liberals are perfectly subservient capitalists.
@@dilloncarver4348
Libralism itself was meant to protect the privileges of capitalists .
A white guy reminding me of my heritage and doing the final push back into my leftist Black identity. The irony. After the George Floyd trauma I've went into a state of liberal delusion, by seeing so many liberals standing up, but this was the final wake up call bringing me back left. Thank you! Greetings from Berlin, Germany.
cringe
@@Nxck2440which part?
Welcome to the movement!! You'll probably see a lot of shit that'll make your guts churn but at least you'll know you're on the right side of history.
@@coyoteblue4027no part, that account is a troll
@das_it_mane probably yeah, but its always good to invite people to air out and subsequently *try to* defend their shitty opinions.
The late great folk singer Phil Ochs wrote "Love me, I'm a Liberal." Here's the last verse Sure, once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
Ah, but I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
❤️
I know it from Jello Biafra's version.
Wonderful, timeless song and man, do I love Phil Ochs. We lost him too young.
That song was practically playing in my head the entire time while watching this video. Dude was spot on.
People's struggle for their rights and freedom is real, expressing that, disrupting status quo, making others aware, hoping things will change, that people listen to their higher selfs. Unbelievable that not a single Dem voted against the genocide in Gaza 😢
"Why don't they try non violence protesting" means "I've never read anything on the subject except articles on the NY Times" 🥴
Until you’re the target of these protests 😒
@@leonardodtc4847The only people that would target the left are fascists, who the police already protects.
Meanwhile, once we embrace violence we can destroy individuals and institutions causing real harm domestically and abroad.
Liberals = the shield of the empire
Fascists = the sword of the empire
I'm a cruise missile.
All the politically uneducated people have to do in order to catch up on the American doctrine, is to take a deep dive and study the term "controlled opposition".
Hold on. Aren't all militaristic countries like that? Even the lefty ones?
the absurdity of thinking the United States is fascist
@@prometheus5405most countries have militaries.
However, most countries dont invade other countries to maintain their neoliberal policies
My country just elected 48 fascists into parliament. 1,1 million people voted for them. the right has 135 canditates, we only got 13 leftist candidates, the rest are centrist liberals that pretend to be "socialist". Which reinforces the socialist stereotypes that are actually just how capitalism works...as a trans woman, I'm really scared.
Some people claim there'll be a reelection, but I feel like they're being delusional under the assumption that the conservative right won't ally itself with the fascist right. They really think that the conservative right can be trusted. The same right allied with a monarchic party.
I was surprised to see a statue of Salazar still in a little shady park about 10 years ago. Is that your country?
@@pynn1000 what the - probably...
"I was smiling the day that I met you, I'll be smiling when I turn you in. Love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal."
Phil Ochs
I love that song!
Huge fan of his music!
As always, liberals are..."Ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally."
Words that still ring true today.
"The Western liberal position on Palestine should be the final nail in the coffin of liberal legitimacy." 👍👍👍
Unfortunately more will go towards the reactionary funnel than those who demand actual change and progress. And the bourgeoisie will help the latter, desperate to keep the system and their positions ongoing.
im confused though... what I see and hear is that the liberals are the ones screaming for pro Palestine... its the republicans that are pro Israeli
Most Liberals are against Biden's support of Israel, a nation that never should have came into existence. The problem is that our Democracy is rigged & all we can do is vote for the better of 2 options which suck. The only reason anyone actually supports Israel is because of religion & from what I understand Millennials & Gen Z generally aren't ruled by that.
People don’t wanna change the system, they just wanna change their position within the system. They just wanna be on top.
What has happened to humanity????? I broke down in tears at the image of the little boy crying for his mother because I am the father of 4 young children and I can't fathom how we can see this and stay insensitive. The image of my young daughter flashed in my head, her crying like that and desperate and alone. What has happened to us?
Idiot, “what has happened”. 70 years ago we had our most brutal global conflict in the existence of out species which resulted in the deaths of 75 million people and indirectly killing hundreds of millions. I don’t think there was a ever a point where humanity unanimously got along and shared compassion for eachother, especially “the other side”. As long as they’re on “the other side” they’re guilty by association and it’s not a problem what happens to them because they’re not “us”.
Nothing has happened to us, this is who we are and have been for thousands of years. If anything we probably restrain ourselves now since everyone can see what we do.
My view of humanity is that we are actually like a parasite. And earth is our host. Higher intelligence MY ASS!
@@zjedinite this is an inherently flawed take, humanity is not the issue, imperialism is, did u watch the video? to call humanity a parasite yes is to call apathetic liberals parasites, and politicians, and iof troops, israeli government, but also the protesters building encampments fighting off police parasites, the supporters worldwide like the op commenter parasites, his kids, the children being bombed parasites. it is not the people or humanity as a whole that are the problem, remain ambivalent about humanity, it contains multitudes, but the systems of power, who they draw in, the history of imperial colonialism is absolutely a problem
I put it this way.. complacency is an important part of facism..
“Habituation” might be another way of thinking about it. People default to protecting the status quo even when it’s abhorrent as long as it doesn’t change too rapidly.
complacency goes well with hosto of sistems.not just fascims.
@@NikolaMilicevic-gp6dbtrue, western liberalism relies on the Unequal trade agreements from African puppet govs to western big business - impoverishing the poor even further.
The previous French President even said, "Without Francophone Africa, France would be a third world country."
Colonised people and oppressed people are just a passing thought in the minds of liberals..
10:04 If protests are violent.. They are intimidation, but when its non violent.. They're annoying
According to the UK government AND opposition, non-violent protests are intimidations too now.
93% of BLM protests were peaceful.
@@blede8649Seems like they want us to shut up. What happened to Freedom of Speech? Surely, the right won't be tolerated either? Right? Right? We know what will happen in history.
There's no such thing as "violent protest", that is rioting and it's criminal behaviour
You people call for violent protest until its you thats surrounded by a mob.
This is insanely well made.
I hardly agree with you about many things, but I am very happy I get to enjoy your hard work.
My liberal parents have just kicked me out of the house for being communist. This video is extremely well timed
Wow liberas with some common sense
@@votetheodore2048 Liberal and common sense shouldn't be in the same sentence.
True but I would still prefer a liberal over a socialist or communist
@@votetheodore2048have some tact.
@@SylumSolosEverything thanks
But wait! A newspaper 'leaked' that Biden is secretly very very mad at Netanyahu! 😮
„Were I Jew I'd be Zionist”
Genocide Joe on CNN clip
"oh yes, netanyahoo is a bad bad dude, hes a doodoohead"
u think that's good enough? they'll vote for me now? okay im going back to natanyaho, he said he needs some head now
Yeah as if that doesnt make him look even weaker for not actually doing shit..
@@Unleashed_Beasts but... he is a zionist... (edit: Ah in the same clip he says how he learned that he did not need to be a jew to a be a zionist, "for I am".. That first part of clip is just a quote of him at a time when he didn't what zionism was)
These liberals are literally the types of people who are like "we're okay with the far right extremism anywhere but here (where we live)."
"Those" places obviously prefer despots to representation. Americans nevet have to try very hard to put them in place.
Liberals are the most dangerous things to right wing fascists, because liberals call out their evil without fear. That's why they hate liberals 😂
And they'll even sided with the far-right should the left try to fight against the far-right by any means other than voting in a system that's clearly rigged against them.
Exactly. They outsource the killings and genocide to the far right, usually in some foreign country.
Something like this is what I was trying to understand: why the "democratic" (Obama) US government supported far-right extremists in Ukraine (Azov, etc.) until 2022. It's just two sides of the same coin.
This reminds me of one of my best friends. A very open-minded guy, very empathetic. Happens to be American, but the minute there was some violence around the BLM protests. He turned his back, claiming that the methods weren’t correct, but yet, he also doesn’t believe that the Democratic process will change anything either, And he doesn’t believe in strikes. So it’s very frustrating to know what to say to a person like that. You don’t believe that the Democratic process will change anything, which I can understand at this point. You don’t believe that strikes are appropriate because it disrupts peoples day, and you think that a protest or March is illegitimate immediately, because some violence happens, when it is all filtered to you by the same media who wants to shut it all down. Basically you end up being a person who doesn’t like the way the world is and has closed up all options of doing anything about it as inappropriate
Solid video jt, I enjoyed watching it, as I do most of your videos. However this video especially impressed me in how you not only stood up for yourself and the flack you have been receiving more so as of late it seems, yet also clearly explaining how those very types of ppl trying to hate on your thoughts/videos etc. are actively hurting that forward progress that we all need to be embarking upon together. So yeah, legit AF and I admire the regard with which you seem to hold your own integrity, similar to how important I hold mine as well to my life and how I carry myself, as well as share info and thoughts with those I’m engaging with at a given time…. Oh and your curls game is still sofa king on point, I gotta give you continued props on that front, ha. Cheers man, keep the intriguing and salient content coming.
*oh and concerning Gaza the most maddening thing ive heard recently is the friggin pier the us govt is planning to build to get supplies to Gaza, when a far better and simpler solution would be to just stop selling Israel weapons and then letting the trucks drive the supplies in…
The thing that pisses me off so much about the Toronto Mt Sinai Hospital thing is that the hospital is along a major street called University Avenue where pretty much EVERY major protest walks along, and someone always climbs up on that scaffolding along the street, no matter what the protest is. Mount Sinai wasn't targeted for being owned by a Jewish organization, it's just on a busy street.
It was a very convenient excuse to chastise the protesters for being "anti-semitic". They were clearly on a path and weren't stationed at the hospital. I'm glad we don't have a 2-party system in Canada. NDP all the way for me.
They very well know it, they're deliberately misconstruing the obvious truth because they know they only need to alter the narrative just a bit before liberal prejudice kicks in, depriving them of all logic reasoning
The guy is known to go on top of any scaffold or high places, it is no different from when sports fan celebrate and climb tall things but media pick and choose what narrative they want to put out and people want to justify their outrage towards people who choose to speak out.
@@rhi4288 It's stupid because it's incredibly easy to debunk the claims of "anti-Semitism". Just on its face it makes absolutely no sense to accuse the protesters of targeting a Jewish hospital when it was just a place on the protest route. If they passed a Chinese restaurant would they claim the protesters were sinophobic? It's ridiculous.
@@Unanything81 they weaponize the historical discrimination of Jewish folks to avoid responsibility and criticism of an apartheid state. all while ignoring that the wider Jewish diaspora support these protests and fight on the behalf of Palestine, even hardcore orthodox Rabbis are speaking out against the active gen0cide as Zi0nism goes against the Torah. they know what theyre doing theyd rather scapegoat than do any critical thinking.
Just for the record. There was no protest at Mt Sinai hospital. The protest marched from the US embassy to the Israeli embassy, and the hospital just so happened to be on the route.
As a college student I personally feel safer with the Palestine rallies on my campus. It lets me know other people care and are trying to work for change. It is an image of unity and strength in the face of oppression.
I'm glad that after all these years, you finally realized it.
And not, they are NOT our friends. They never were.
Sometimes it takes a while to breakthrough the brainwashing, because it can be very isolating and scary.
@@velasericousland2443 I know... Because it happened to me, and as JT, it was hope that kept me believing they could change until i realized those people are not naive. Just straight evil.
As a communist , I can't stand being called a liberal by people who don't know the difference..😢
In the USA at least “liberal” and “conservative” are just monikers for competing variations of Right-wing political parties…both of which would aggressively be anti-communist. One is more democratic capitalist the other more authoritarian capitalist.
“Olentangy” eh? Ohio?
You are either a liberal or a tankie
It’s so ridiculous but at least it’s indicative of the level of political intelligence the person has and thus it’s a great way to educate
And just try and get em to use a dictionary 🙄
well they donty know bette .espcially in usa where only meter whcih is measured by left and right if it can be called that is social liberalism
“Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!”
@JohbBrown010 Based picture and username. Were is the quote from?
@@ClassicalTraining John Brown talking to a neighbor of his
Hello, thank you for this. I kind of felt alone in thinking this way. I always tried to see the other side, however the other side never even tried to see my side. Even though we seeimingly want the same thing, I also hear this "you can't do it like this". I got so fed up with this, that I cut my contacts to these people which sometimes makes me feel very lonely. Thank you so much for this video. I can't support you right now on Patreon, but as soon as my financial situation improves a little, I will do so!
If someone call me a liberal, I take that as a derogatory term of abuse.
The biggest city in my country just passed legislation that protests that did not get permission before have to pay the fees of the police and any possible property damage. It's crazy how they are finding ways to prohibit protests.
Please state place, we must be precise in sharing info.
Are you living in switzerland? Since I know Canton Zürich just voted on this topic.
Move the action to the digital arena
Australia keeps introducing more and more restrictions to the right to protest. Most often these restrictions come from the same politicians who beat their chests about supporting "free speech".
That’s crazy
Was thinking of Martin Luther king jr’s speech against the liberal earlier. I remember his frustration with those who told him “I agree but now is not the right time.”
Yeah I think we should dismantle the government, but I don't think we should allow a majority of Americans voting for trump to decide that we actually don't get Any rights and then rule controlled by fear
@@hhlptfI think voting might not actually do anything considering they are both bought by the same people and orgs
@@SinbathSparrow not the point I was trying to make but regardless doing nothing is just laziness, you are choosing to not let your voice be heard because you perceive it to be pointless. Even if it is wouldnt you rather die having been heard? Even if your voice fell on deaf ears
@@hhlptfSo, you’re against voting as long as you disagree with it? And you call the conservatives fascist…
@@hhlptfThe only people saying the alternative to voting is "doing nothing" is you and other liberals, which says more about you than the people you're trying to critique.
saying "war is bad" was never so controversial. hollywood keeps making movies about past wars and genocides while completely ignoring the wars and genocide of TODAY.
You ignore war and genocide every day. Likely because the people you listen to and support don’t care to shine light on it.
Jesus. This is the only channel that doesn't make me feel crazy for being so in shock by all the atrocities that are happening right now to people in Palestine.
Like people are actually walking around trying to justify innocent civilians being murdered. I just... I just don't understand.
Little discussed fact about the Mount Sinai protest. They weren’t protesting the hospital. It was all manufactured by the media.
The protesters started at the Israeli embassy and marched to the American embassy. Mount Sinai hospital is just down the street from the Israeli embassy and is directly between the two embassies. They literally had to walk past the hospital to reach the American embassy, but that is the only part of the protest that the media focused on, because it made the protesters look bad.
I remember years ago after 911 genesis was running some video about pairs to in as cheering on 911 ,Years later the whole footage came out and the cameraman was bribing the kids with a bunch if candy and they were "cheering" and that was sickly used to frame them to westerners just like the million other lies our media and political class have made up .
The media just doing what it does best, misinforming people.
_One of the core flaws of liberals is lacking any theory of power, which leads to ignorance of actual oppressive structures in favor of distracting and unproductive frameworks_
The quote above is one of the most succinct and concise commentaries on liberalism I came across online ever
I've spoken to quite a lot of liberals over the years and this really is such an important observation about them. They absolutely hate to think about power, how it's used, and what it's used for/who it is currently being used to protect. It makes them intensely uncomfortable to imagine political power taking the form of anything other than a vote.
As a result their theory is marvel movie .few who hold power don't use it for good why would they?it idealism . it's idiotic
I can't donate rn, but I CAN keep watching, liking, and commenting on all your videos! Thank you for all your hard work, I've learned so much and gained so many clear and concise arguments from your videos 🙌
*THIS IS THE BEST ONE YOU'VE DONE YET*
ruthless critism is the key .it is the only way to come to correct analysis
The destiny v Shapiro debate solidified this for me. Liberals are moderate fascists.
The two agreed on everything
Shapiro is just a fame seeking bully pushing Americans to hate other Americans.
Who told him he gets to decide the life choices for anyone else but his HATEFUL maga self?
*Zionists
Destiny licked his ass clean, it was certainly a sight to behold.
Why didn't they went in to sensitive topics? Exactly. Destiny always go against sensitive topics when he used to debate actual leftists. Mostly because the leftist brings those topics both because they care and because they are confident of what they believe. Destiny is a loose end, he diverts within f a s c I s m and liberalism when it comes to mainland and foreign policies. Tdlr, he has no principles to get into sensitive topics. @@tristenatorplaysgames6833
100%
I saw this firsthand with a Christian Liberal who would talk about needing to understand the plight of the marginalized. And I believed him and wanted to hear more. But he would always stop short of action, walking right up to the “therefore” then withdrawing into platitudes about needing to understand the abusers too. It took awhile before I realized that it was me being abused by this whiplash.
This is SUCH an amazing video...I love your content. You make points where I can simply link people one video to explain.
I'm not really politically on your side of the debate, but I listen to you regularly because of things like this that make me think and see things differently. Keep us the good content!
Without communism being overtly present in the world the capital class no longer had to throw bread crumbs down. The only reason the 50s and 60s were so good for some is that the capital class felt "threatened" by communism.
Since the fall of the soviet union we've been having "unpresidented" financial crashes every five years that transfer huge amount of wealth away from the working class.
The capital class was just loaning us their wealth until they'd finished off communism. Now they're making a withdrawal.
Based!
This is the dumbest post in the comments. Capital Class lol
blud you have never read a book that wasn't "Spot Sees the Bus" head ass boy@@ryansteve2893
@@ryansteve2893no one is gonna pay you to meat ride capitalism lil bro especially when you do it for free
They preach 'Cut taxes & regulation on the rich & their Wealth will Flow Down' when we (The Masses) know that money is the only thing that defies gravity & flows up, NOT DOWN
Being a South African it confuses me how the American people cannot see that Isreal is an Apartheid state. All the people committing these atrocities will pay for all the pain they cause for decades to come, as I have to pay for the crimes committed by my ancestors.
How are you having to pay for the crimes of your ancestors?
Actually the majority of us see it clearly. It's that our government is trying to gasoline us. Over 60% of all US people want a ceasefire and Israel to be punished for genocide. About 80% of Democrats want the same. Everybody around me and myself are calling out representatives non-stop but it doesn't seem like they care to listen to us. I'm in Michigan where we did the uncommitted protest and that's not even getting through to them as much as it should. It sickens me that my government is participating in a genocide with my tax dollars.
Part of me wants to peace out and move to a different country and another part of me knows I need to stay and fight for change. But they keep criminalizing their protests and it's beginning to feel very hopeless.
It was like that for South Africa in the olden days too. It's like the wars and civil rights movements, liberals oppose every apartheid regime except those existing right now.
No one should pay for the crimes of their ancestors.
Are you saying it’s a good thing if future generations take up the guilt of their forbearers or are you saying that they will have to suffer a bad reputation because of what past generations did?
the more i watch your videos the more i love you
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As always, great video! So glad i was able to find JT's channel..
I remember when I was in kindergarten, our teacher read us a picture book about Dr. King and Civil Rights. As a small child who had no idea what racism was, I remember thinking, " Well, I'm glad this racism thing is over."
Me too.
Same here. This illusion was shattered when my family moved to Central Alabama and some idiots at the high school I was forced to attend shoved a nazi flag in the face of some African American students, called them racist terms, and demanded they go back to Africa. They got their asses kicked by the same students they were terrorizing, which was necessary, but the fact that all this happened woke me up.
@@thetruthinwonderland And then everybody claaped.
@@herpderp3131 you are 90 years old
@luminator911 I can't speak for him, but I'm 36. I grew up in a "Blue State" that is / considered pretty left leaning. As far as one can call a state left leaning in this capitalist hellscape. Also, I had moved here from New York City. So, not only did I live in a bubble here in my new state. But I came from a place where there was every type of person, and that was my baseline normal. Eventually, what really opened my eyes to what was going on was when George Bush Jr. was able to steal the election and get away with it. I was not able to vote in that election, in-fact I wouldn't be able to vote until after High-School because I graduated when I was 17. I was introduced to radical politics because of the school I attended. I went to a special school that only accepts in coming juniors and seniors from anywhere in my state. You have to take an entrance exam and write a couple of essays, and then they let you know if you are in. They do this for two reasons, they can only take so many students, and they want to take kids that are there for the right reasons. Those reasons are a care and passion about the environment. There were some right-wing kids there, but only a couple that I know of. We would have open discussions about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they struggled to get anyone to play devils advocate for the state, let alone support them. Anyway, by the time I left school I was a radical environmentalis and on my way to where I am today, politics wise. I wanted to tell you this story because my experience is a lot different from the original poster you were commenting on, where he talks about open racism and Nazi flags in his school.
You want to radicalize? Read history, You want to understand the root of the problem? Understand history
History was my most favorite subject in school. Probably why I hold such radical views...
That’s exactly what radicalized me . Although be careful who u get ur history from.
@@hansfrankfurter2903 An important point
Just remember that what you consider history has VERY little to do with what actually happened most of the time. Scratch a historian and you find a story teller just underneath and most of them won`t let facts get in the way of their little stories.
@@poiujnbvcxdswq So You are saying that You know history and facts? Or that You Will choose yo believe the ones that You like the most?
Je suis français, et je suis totalement d’accord avec vous. Nous avons le même problème en France. Et les libéraux démocrate de France s’appellent le Parti socialiste 😂😂😂
Our enemy is people whose souls have been corrupted by money.
JT Chapman, I just sent this video to my lifelong conservative dad who, only a year ago, managed to tell me "I'm not sure about capitalism", and just the other day, on his very own accord, was able to call what is happening in Gaza exactly as it is: A genocide.
Here's hoping it goes well. He is a highly intelligent and empathetic man. I believe he might actually change his mind.
tell us what he thinks if/when he tells you his thoughts!
I'm jealous. Me and my father got along well until October. I tried to talk to him about Gaza because he thinks they can leave any time they want and the conflict is religious going back to biblical times. He refuses to speak about Gaza and called me antisemitic for saying Israel is an apartheid state. After that conversation he became distant and when my financial situation changed for the worse he said all all kinds of harsh things that served no purpose other than to knock me down further. I stopped talking to him and blocked his number.
I hope you’re proud that you’ve radicalized your father into being a brainrotted leftist
@@Icarus_Ridexx You are not alone in this. Keep your head up. You're on the right side of history, as they say.
As an argentinan I've always struggled to understand the difference between conservatives and liberals in the US, they looked the same from afar. Now I see why... thanks!
Che loco aguante Milei, este socialista de acá medio lo veo por diversión, no esperaba encontrar a un argentino xd. Al margen de nuestras visiones políticas, 2 tips. Liberales en usa y liberales en el mundo hispano tienen significados distintos; en el primero se refiere más a lo cultural así como derechos civiles y también a veces a la geopolítica (los yankees medio que se creen los salvadores del mundo, al menos más así los demócratas), mientras que acá es un sistema filosófico, político y económico. La otra, ten cuidado con los gringos porque son medio racis... y hasta sexis...Eso se puede ver en el vídeo de acá y en general en la cultura anglosajona. Con dichos como white women por ejemplo o white people (y también puede ir en la otra dirección), y en general el uso de los colores y de los géneros de una manera más habitual de lo usual. Medio que no le das atención pero te puede contagiar un poco. Para nosotros en lo poco que lo usamos puede ser humor oscuro, pero para ellos forma parte de su lenguaje cotidiano. Nada más máquina, un saludo! Y ya sabes, con las calles inundadas mejor aprender a nadar.
Anyone that can't tell the actual difference between American liberals and conservatives is either brain dead or willfully ignorant. One side is incompetent and ignorant but well-meaning. The other side wants death camps for trans people. Not hard to spot the difference.
This is an outside perspective that was very eye opening for me.
@@Jf72_ Realmente che, este man es otro socialista yanquee con aires de salvador encima pretencioso que se cree del lado correcto de la historia; como si fuera algo lineal, previsible y sin ramificaciones inesperadas. Pretende conocer el camino geopolítico en un conflicto milenario como lo es el publo Israelí contra el Palestino.
Any one from the global south see them as the same
Better not make anyone uncomfortable by pointing out the consequences of their own actions! That's even WORSE than funding the murdering of innocents! /s It doesn't need to be this way, we could all be fed and have a roof over our heads and proper medical care for all... It's incredibly depressing...
JT, I just want to say thanks. My journey towards opening my eyes is due in large part to your content. I never thought of myself as a liberal, but for the longest time, I couldn't figure out why. If someone asked me why, I really couldn't elaborate on the particulars. Something just felt off to me. It wasn't until my journey towards becoming a communist that I realized what the problem was. I will not be holding my nose and voting for the Democrats anymore. Not after this genocide; I can't in good conscience. I will vote socialist/communist or abstain in protest where those options are not available. Thank you for the good work you do. I hope you know you're making the world a better place by doing it.
"Hospitals are places for treatment and care"
Tell that to Israel then, they seem to think they're legitimate targets
If a hospital is used for military purposes, it automatically becomes military target, as written in Geneva conventions. You cannot be that ignorant after being shown mountains of evidence how Hamas used them.
@@TheJackal917 There was no evidence they were being used for military purposes. None. They were warned multiple times and they hit them anyway. Israel is in the wrong. They're fucking monsters. Keep coping you disgusting excuse for a human being.
@@TheJackal917The mountains of evidence of a single laptop? Sure. How is massacering patiens and staaf after infiltrating a hospital not a warcrime? Targeting medicial facilities, including explicitly military ones, is always a war crime.
@@TheJackal917no, by any definition you have to show proof that Hamas use hospitals as human shields, Israel have shown neither, as they have for the rape cases and proof that all the deaths on Oct 7th were carried out by Hamas (Hanibal directive) you see most on the right will defend Israel right or wrong (esp Trump supporters) because their is a deep distrust of Muslims, call it latent racism, the killings in Palestine is not really about the US caring about Israel, most Republicans hate Jews, it's about a form of quasi end of days religious nonsense that is mostly overlooked on this debate.
@@TheJackal917 so called mountains: a post from one of the warring side
I always try to explain who the liberals are by telling what they used to do during times of slavery. They would advocate for better fool, better treatment, better lodging, etc, but they would never advocate for the single more important thing to an enslaved person, their freedom. Why? Because the privilege and wealth they enjoy depends on those people being slaves.
I appreciate that you took this topic seriously. Don't have sponsored adds to water it down. That's why I watch this channel.
Love your videos. Keep up the great work.
JT you DO have power. Anecdotally you have shifted my views by sharing your thoughts the last few years. I am 63 years old. I was a so called moderate liberal. Yes changes in my life moved the needle but you have helped give my views focus. Keep up the good fight, You are needed.
You're correct here.
Btw I advise reading chapter 19 of the Quran.
@@17-MASYScrew islam
@@17-MASYTo hell with that
I've said it for a long time now, there are two parties in the US, the right wing and the far right.
Actual leftists are called "radicals" and there are really only a handful of them and they get stifled.
Our Libs here in Canada are not as extreme, but not far off. They are centrists at best and waffle on issues.
At least they can be bullied into shape? I'm terrified of what would happen if the Cons took over again. As a Trans enby. I don't want to risk being forced to live as a woman again.
@@chickadeestevenson5440 As bad as the liberals are, of course the conservative would be worse, in the US and Canada. That is a given.
@@chickadeestevenson5440 The bullying seems to go the other way within the party the so called progressives get marginalized.
These votes of uncommitted in the primaries seemed to have gotten their attention.
“waffle”?
@@annaturquoise7114 fence-sitting
What a true warrior you have been these days! Fighting for justice, speaking up against your fellow majorities in power and shedding light on hypocrisy! Thanks JT!!!!
This is a really eye-opening video thank you. Could you recommend some books that could further expand on your major points as I’d like to further educate myself
This is why I don’t identify as liberal. Neither conservatives or liberals have the people’s best interests in mind.
Never forget liberals supported slavery and Jim crow South. Classical liberalism was the ideology of capitalism and was used for Terral Null and Manifest Destiny. Countless massacres and genocides from numerous liberal countries
So who do you vote for if you are in the west, in America? Biden who this video claims is AN enemy or Trump who will give Russia everything they dream of and take Ukraine for their own while Trump would give it to them regarding of how much they have fought to protect their sovereignty? I would take Biden over Trump because it's not just Gaza vs Ukraine, that's not fair to either of them, a world war won't help either of them, a destroyed republic is not helping either of them, conservatives will still help Israel, they had no problem voting that bill, but they will gladly give Ukraine to Russia. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, north Korea and China have all been enemies of the west through their actions, called for our destruction. I don't support war except when it is for defense, when you backed into a corner, I support Israel's right to exist in this world and I support Palestine's right to exist. I don't have an answer about where either of them should go or if they should move, I wish I had the answer but no different than it's not helpful for the US to break up into racists and wokes, it's not fair to remove either of them from their lands. It's not black and white but Trump will do more damage than Biden, so who will you vote for when you have one vote?
I was just thinking about myself. Always been registered independent. Have voted for politicians on both sides of the aisle as well as independents. I consider myself a proud American because although our country is far from perfect, I still think it's great.
Indeed. The two party system is a problem. The less right wing ones end up passing for decent people.
The Middle Way (majjhimāpaṭipadā)
In this sutta, the Buddha describes the Noble Eightfold Path as the Middle Way which steers clear of the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification.
Extreme left or right paths are never good...a middle path is always best.
I'm nearly 80 have been saying this for approx 60 years, thank god I don't have to say it anymore, now I can refer everyone to this video.
It’s a very troubling thing to be caught between liberals with no compass and conservatives openly courting kleptocrats.
Anyone who is black or brown already knows this.
Or trans, the whole Hogwarts Legacy really put things into perspective.
@elisehalflight the difference being, if you're a person of color, it's from birth and cannot be concealed, a white trans person, although suffers persecution in society as well, will have spaces to hide it, this is usually why class consciousness must be taught to people considered to be white, people of color are born into it.
@@elisehalflightQuite often we can include Neurodivergent and Disabled pplf there too.
or from a 3rd world country lol
most americans are crazy xenophobic
@@elisehalflightyea hogwarts legacy is on the same pedestal as the civil rights movements...
I don't know if you're also aware of Michael de Freitas (Michael X) who somewhat modelled himself on Malcolm X, but his criticisms of polite liberal British society were similar and on point. He took it one step further and saw that the children of polite white liberals growing up in the 60s and 70s would go on to adopt the language of civil rights, but instead of actually give up power, simply manage the situation with a smile and a concerned voice. That is literally the society I grew up in in the 90s, white people who pretended to care but never did anything beyond buy a wristband or share a post on Facebook.
This is why I identify as a progressive. I want to see progress. Personally through peaceful means, but I am never surprised if it gets violent. When violent protests erupted during BLM. Many of my conservative friends wanted to use the violence for me to condemn the movement. I did not condemn it. Treat people Iike animals and you will be at risk of being bitten. Those in power have the moral obligation of doing the right thing. If not, then there will be no peace without justice.
You know, no matter how paradoxical it may sound. But the stronger the crisis unfolds, the faster progressive changes will occur; the capitalist crisis will give an incredible impetus for progress. True, progressive changes will be very painful.
Fear not your enemy who will meet you on the battle field, fear those who pay you false compliments to your.
Just this week, a man threatened pro-Palestinian protestors with a nail gun outside a real estate event in Thornhill (just outside Toronto) to buy property in the West Bank. It was crickets from everyone who had "condemned" the one guy who waved a Palestinian flag in front of Mt Sinai hospital
Palestinans and protestors for Palestinans have faced serious attacks in multiple western countries, and yet they keep crying wolf about antisemtistim (most, if not all vague, one notable case was faked). A Palestinian child was killed, and his mother assaulted, 3 Palestinans shot, in the UK a protester for Palestine had his teeth literally knocked out, in Australia a Palestinian man had his shop burnt down, back to US the chemical sprayed on protesters for Palestine by former IDF exchange students on campus. Pro Palestine protesters have been expelled, fired, arrested, and smeared by top politicians.
3 Palestinian /Arab dudes were shot in Vermont a couple months ago too , And that little Arab boy in Chicago who's landlord kill*ed him .
Why are you leftist such cowards and never say the man was Jewish?
MLK and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz tell it like it is because you get the truth from an oppressed and abused man.
Never tell a man, "I know how you feel", unless you experienced the same as he did.
You can only empathize with his emotions but never feel the same as he feels.
Most people who say that are trying to create a fake bond, and it's a form of self-praise, like charity.
I don’t know why it took this video to make it all so clear now for me. It’s like, communism/socialism makes perfect sense now
Malcolm X was right about so many things. Free Free Palestine.
Its the same thing in india. Liberals act all jolly when speaking against someone like modi, but the second someone brings up caste issues, they literally turn fash
Does India still have cast? I thought it was just discrimination based on legacy cast
There's a great video by rohan davis on the topic@@user-lz2oh9zz4y
@@user-lz2oh9zz4y Oh you sweet summer child
@@user-lz2oh9zz4yDe jure it's "abolished". De facto it still exists as a social and systemic issue. Dalits and other undercastes are still fighting for their rights in a brahminic supremacist society.
@@user-lz2oh9zz4y i wrote a comment recommending a video. I don't see it anymore, is it deleted?