Orwellian Conservatism
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Isaac Asimov also said, "When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
So don’t be stupid. Be intelligent. Don’t just repeat what you’re seeing in the news. Think for yourself who are the politicians that promote freedom? Who treats people with fairness? Who respects society and lets it prosper?
@@Letmedoubt You miss the point of what Mr. Asimov was saying. I'll do my best to clarify. He was saying that in times where the stupidest among us are heralded as the most patriotic, those who are intelligent might find themselves at risk (so they should probably conceal their intelligence).
@@JosephSmith-ex7du and that's exactly what we're seeing with the attack on education and the uprising of Christian Nationalism.
@@JosephSmith-ex7du Such as during Pol Pot's regime.
Where wearing glasses could get you killed, because the idiot thought it meant you were an intellectual.
Ok I get it. Still you should be intelligent enough to discern stupid from patriotic. Not every patriot is stupid. Here though I feel like there’s a widespread misunderstanding of that. Do you think people arguing for fairness of elections are stupid?
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, January 21, 1980
They’re ignorant and proud of it.
Isaac was a sex offender.
It’s depressing how little has changed. Or should I say, how things has gotten worse.
@@pansepot1490 Are things really getting worse, though? (Even confining ourselves to America) The younger generations aren't buying fundamentalist religion anymore; more and more are turning away from religion and Christianity in particular. Many of the churches around here are starting to shut down (I've seen six in the past couple of years), and when I drive by the churches around here on a Sunday morning, I see that most of their attendees are Boomers who will be gone in another decade or so.
What I DO see is that the fundies have gotten very loud of late, largely thanks to MAGA. They definitely pose an existential threat, so, I guess that's one argument FOR things getting worse. But they are on the way out, hence their kicking and screaming LOUDLY as they shuffle off to the grave. A LOT rides on this November's election. Things WILL be arguably worse if Trump/MAGA scores a win; OTOH, if they get rejected, things should start to head in a better direction.
We shall see.
Fifty or sixty years ago, the smart kids at school were hated. Nothing has changed.
"Say it's your faith. Don't try to claim it's based in science. You won't get away with it".
Christopher Hitchens
Yup. I find it odd (to not say pathetic and dishonest) that some people of "faith" are so allergic to acknowledging that they believe some things by faith.
Well, they got away with it for millennia.
They aren't claiming it's based on science. They rig the Supreme Court with ideologues and use that power to entrench corruption and take away rights. Religion tried to go scientific when putting creationism in schools, they made all sorts of false scientific claims. But that fight is over. They don't make arguments, they take power. That's why I see this counter-apologetics style of atheism as passed its prime. I prefer atheists like the Friendly atheist. He brings us the tales of abuse, corruption and hypocrisy that is religion. The number one reason people leave religion is due to perceived "moral corruption". There's plenty of moral corruption in religion to report on.
@@marshallore6869 Yes, because it's much harder to keep faith in power when the internet exists.
Like how Project 2025 says it wants policies that “maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family”
I can make shit up too 😂
Glad to see Aron is still trying to reason with the insane. Love ya bro
A debate is not to usually to change the debaters mind but to get the audience to think critically about the argument
Just thought the same. He's got a boat load of stamina and patience.
@@Michael-sb8jf glad that Aron sees it that way. I so wish people could just step to the side and take into consideration everything presented in relation to their own thoughts. I get it, emotions can be so blinding. .
I'm am atheist that's disgusted with the GOP's affiliation with fundamentalist religion and Christian Nationalism. However I'm equally disgusted with the economic/social agenda of the Democrat party.
I honestly feel there's no hope of any political party that actually represents my interests and values being allowed into power in America. So I'm not sure what the solution is. I don't disagree with Aron's main points, but he should consider there's lots of people out there like me who don't feel either party is home for them as they're not being represented.
@@Reclaimer77 Where there is no candidate who deserves a vote there is always the option to abstain. If you scribble on your ballot paper and make sure neither box can be ticked it'll at least send a message no matter who wins
Religion begins where understanding ends.
My greatest frustrations in life are manifest in trying to reason with people who:
1. incessantly lie, making excuses for refusing to entertain facts, realities, and ethical ideals they don’t like.
2. care nothing about the pain, suffering, and hardships they impose on others.
3. cannot distinguish between reality and imagination, confidently pretending to know a reality they cannot possibly know.
4. vilify, hate, ostracize, harm, and shun others who are different only because they are different.
5. insist they are divinely entitled to forcibly micromanage the lives of others.
Yip, leftoids are insane!
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Frank Wilhoit.
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I must write it down for reference. That’s the best description I ever read: succinct, clear and yet extremely accurate.
@@pansepot1490 I screen shoted it.
Times have changed. Now that is the leftist's tactic, to have privileged in-groups specially protected by laws and others excluded on grounds of race, gender and orientation.
I highly, HIGHLY, suggest looking up the whole article it comes from btw. It's easy to find and a very short read, but incredibly succinct.
I remember the haughty arrogance with which I read Orwell, Huxley and Bradbury as a kid. So serene in my knowledge that we had left the need for fear of authoritarian tyrrany behind in 1776.
Thanks, Aron.
This will be the tenth time I vote for a US president. It's the first time I've felt the terror of the possibilities if the Chump wins.
Lol if you still support Joey at this. Point you are just as cognitively aware as Joey is
@@wesleyglass885hahaha 😂 says the guy that can't string a coherent single sentence together!🤣
Is English your second language mate? I really hope so... For your sake 🤤
@@wesleyglass885 I am an ESL teacher. Perhaps I can help you... a lot.
@@wesleyglass885 Trump wants to be a dictator. Yeah Biden kinda sucks but at least he's not a fucking dictator. 4 years and he's gone. Trump wins and he will stay in for life and after he dies some other MAGA dickhead will take his place continuing his dictatorship.
It's my first, and I'm disappointed that I have to waste it in this way
How do you balance being a speaker of truth with the anxiety of constantly being dismissed or ignored by the people your message needs to reach the most? Thank you for what you do, and I hope with everything in me some of those who need to hear this message take it to heart.
“Some or them are such lying, disgusting people”…. Three things (although they shouldn’t) surprise me about that statement from DJT…
1. That the person with THOUSANDS of documented lies during his administration, AND COUNTLESS MORE outside his administration, finds lying to be a disgusting act.
2. That DJT referred to others who commit these vulgarities as “people”, while simultaneously demonstrating his consideration of “them” as less than human.
3. That there is a large swath of Americans that cannot see through his Con, and believe him.
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yeh the problem here is called TDS
@@kevinmessiah872how about you address a single thing they said?
@@commandergs1390 Qultists are not allowed to question the Mango Messiah. That would be sacrilege.
As I like to point out, not once has a supernatural explanation ever turned out to be the truth. Never.
Not once. I challange every theist in the world to prove it in high court and win Nobel Prizes for proving it. And if they can't, they each have to give me $20 x 2.4 billion Christians 😃
Supernatural things can't exist, then they would be natural.
I actually saw the video were people blamed Obama for 9/11. They are very delulu.
Tbh, that is kind of dishonest to spread as right wing propaganda. Plenty of people blamed it on Clinton (tried to), because they basically he used the Intel left over from his admin. But Bush pulled the trigger.
There is no blaming anyone else. If u can't stand by ur decision, then u have to live that.
But anyway, that was portrayed in a false way. But, it is easy to do when talking passionately about politics. I get it.
Then you have crackpots like Noam Chomsky who try to blame 911 on America
thank you for being one of the true skeptics who didn't veer into a right-wing grift. ♥
Right-wing Atheists in the current american discourse?
Please, give me one or two names. I've heard that a few times now, but I always don't know who it's supposed to mean.
@@ThisCosmic I agree. I also don't know who they mean.
@@ThisCosmic yep I've heard this too and also wondered who they mean.
@@ThisCosmic sargon of akad
@@Windchanter420 If Sargon is a 'right wing' atheist, what is 'wrong' with that? Full disclosure, I'm an atheist who detests leftists, whose leftism is like a religion in itself, with all the same problems.
The part about being compassionate and empathetic being considered a bad thing struck me. I had a conversation with a conservative over immigration one day, laying out the facts of the reality of the situation plainly. When I started talking about how bad they actually had it, I was called a "bleeding heart". I knew then that there was no point in going any further.
I too remember when I was a little boy, speaking out for anyone ELSE'S rights got me labeled as a "bleeding heart". Where did this callous inhumanity come from?
@@AronRai just wish conservatives could be rational for once. i always see them going to grifters and propagandists like Candace Owens for their information on climate change and science rather than tried and true multi-decade-experienced scientists who actually know what they’re saying and who don’t fear monger and spread hateful ideas.
this world has gone to shit, dude
Ok that’s interesting I didn’t know that bleeding heart was a negative connotation I’m not to liberalism myself but I don’t exceed my emotions to a longer length when it comes to these policies I’ve very restrained and moderate conservative about these things.
Compassion is irrational. Also most people aren't compassionate. They just repeat talking points of their tribe. If you want to help, do it yourself!
I had a guy tell me that the Bible talks about DNA and the Younger Dryas period. That told me all I needed to know. There's just no way you're ever going to pull somebody like that back from the brink.
I had one talk about The Younger Dry Ass and while I've forgotten the context and his point, I'll still be giggling about that in a hundred years
@@BaronVonQuiply It's the Old, wet ass that we should be worried about.
Just ask them for the citation in scripture. Of course, they consider such a request to be bad manners.
As a queer person in America i am terrified
As you should be with good reason!
@Emily.545 sorry to hear that, then get all your friends family neighbours and your family dog not to vote for trump, it is up to everyone to pull their weight
You don't have to be "queer" to be terrified, I don't even live there 😟
Yeah. Just like the last time he was in office. 🙄 Your brains are broken.
Good.
Aron, you are one of my anchors of sanity in an increasingly mad society.
I am in the UK, but Project 2025 scares the hell out of me!
it should, though the UK is plenty scary as well.
@@presidentbutterpudding4025 Sadly it is. The Tories have been contaminated, and Farage's reform is riding higher than expected.
We have state laws that won't let state workers use preferred pronouns but also mandate the ten commandments be posted in classrooms and with no instructions on how to explain the one that says daddy shouldn't be fucking the babysitter while mommy is still at work.
@@YukonBloamie just so you know, the UK is currently pushing to bring back mandatory military service. we both have it bad out here.
@presidentbutterpudding4025 National service won't happen if Labour wins the general election next week, which is inevitable now. But I dont have much faith in Labour policies either. I will be voting Greens instead
The saying “the pot calling the kettle black” has zero to do with racism; both are black with soot because they were used over an open fire in olden days.
And there's versions where the kettle isn't due to being better maintained since at least the 1870s. Either way, it's about actual pots and kettles. Or pans, or other cooking implements used over open flame. Anybody likening this to racism is very clearly actively searching for things to turn into issues.
Everything is racist to the left.
It is probably coming from the fact that people tend to see anything black as bad, inferior or evil. I do not think it is racist but I'm sure this is the reason a person might consider it such
@@ewuraamaetruwaasam7084 I think the connection between black and evil comes from the idea that a dangerous predator (animal or another human) could be lurking in the shadows. Something we all still have in us.
Think of children being afraid of a monster under the bed.
It's because both were traditionally made of Cast Iron, which is black
I've just realised how refreshing it is to hear someone talk about Orwell who's not only read him but actually understood what they've read.
In the spirit of Thomas Paine, thank you for dispensing common sense.
The median income in 1970 was $8,370. In today's dollars that is $69,840 (about). With things costing 10x as much, the median income is $60,000 in Massachusetts, and it's lower everywhere else. Wages have not kept up with rising costs.
and 8k is nearly 3.5x the most amount of money i've ever been allowed to make here, for work that made millions in net profits for the company..
God of the gaps, special pleading, and begging the question are some are theists' favorite logical fallacies
Unfalsifiable Claim is STILL #1 Fallacy to Theism.
All logical fallacies are the only thing they don’t discriminate against
Im not a conservative nor a liberal. I have ideas that cross both boundaries. I like to think we should be able to take each issue on its own instead of an overall platform which lacks nuance. If we logically examine each issue we wont necessarily all come to the same conclusion about everything but at least we won’t be so easily manipulated by a group think mentality on how we should feel about anything. This is why I’m a huge fan of yours Aron because you seem to apply that principle of logical examination to everything. What passes for conservatives in America today is more a cult than anything else. If there’s nothing that will make someone stop supporting a politician then they are a brain washed sycophant. Love you man. You are a national treasure.
Usa is not con vs lib. Wrong land.
Ok bot
Aron has TDS!
@@konradkanuckle5920 and you have STD but a shot of penicillin will clear that right up
@@konradkanuckle5920So you prefer the candidate who visited Little Saint James SEVEN TIMES 🤯
I'm glad you're wading into politics. It's not radical to be on the side of evidence-based decision making. That shouldn't even be a "side." Choose people's well-being over everything else.
Scary shit. I don't live in America but I think we've seen this before somewhere in Europe in the 1930s. Not exactly the same, but it rhymes.
Yeah, the rise of socialism in the 30's _was_ scary.
Yes. The Nazis were national socialists, leftists, and we see leftist cults like Antifa behaving as Nazis now.
Are you talking about an Austrian man with a mustache that was in charge of Germany?
@@bibigamer502 Not specifically the man, but the culture at the time which he exploited. He could not have done so without that widespread sentiment, just as Trump would not have even been seen as a half viable candidate in a sane part of the world.
Sadly, I see 1930s "rhymes" all around. As a German I feel very slightly happy that this time we are playing third fiddle in this at most. Does help much though.
From what I understand "the pot calling the kettle black" isn't racist and just refers to how cookware used over an open fire tends to darken in color. After a quick search, I couldn't really find any sources claiming a racist origin
it just sounds racist in the current context. I def don't say that phrase around black people lol
I’m surprised anyone thinks this is racial. Old cookware was often blackened by soot from the cooking process. Good to know other folks wouldn’t use this phrase in front of black people, I wouldn’t have thought twice about it assuming it’s so obviously not a racial remark.
Anymore, everything is either “racist” or “offensive”
Even as a non-american watching this video, it really pains me to think how easily so many human rights could be systematically trampled in the US if this agenda comes to pass.
Thank you for spreading awareness on this topic to us outside, but especially to those whose vote can prevent this from coming to pass.
I also very much enjoy the educational content on evolution, as someone who grew up in a strictly creationist family, it has really been mind opening and all the more interesting to learn about the things that were on the beach, now that my head is out of the sand.
Keep up the good work! ❤
I'm non-American and I'm appalled enough by the human rights that are currently being trampled over there - women's rights to abortions, LGBTQIA+ rights, ongoing mistreatment of anyone not considered "white"... if this goes ahead it's going to get way worse. Rather tragic that those constantly going on about the "Gay/Trans Agenda" actually have *_written agenda_* outlining their plans for taking control.
Lot of snowflakes in the replies that obviously didn't even watch. Thanks for this video Aron!
I recently moved to North Carolina and the conservatives out here have all kinds of weird, made up stories about how "woke" Texas supposedly is. I hate hearing them use the word "woke" anyway, because the first I remember hearing that word making fun of something, it was people making fun of people like Alex Jones and other acid hippies who think that knowledge is gained by just dropping lsd, sitting in a dark room and reflecting on personal anecdotes. I was originally born in Fort Worth and my family is from a small town in North Carolina so I've been surrounded by conservative evangelicals for as long as I've been in existence and I'm getting sick of hearing them say the same shit over and over again
I heard a texan complaining that republican governor Abbot had fully opened the border. These people have no idea what they are talking about.
I remember the billboard signs in NC along I-95. As i remember it, there are 3 categories: pray to Jesus, save the babies, buy guns.
i am not a USA citizen but i am rooting for the dems on this one. i really don't want to see your democracy fall.
usa is not a democracy ... never has been
we have never had a democracy.
@@ADBLOCKER4TH-camWe have a representative republic that functions as a democracy. Learn to do reaearch.
@@dennisduncan7561 We have a kakistocracy . A plutocracy. An oligarchy. But go ahead, 🤡, keep trying to lecture me.
Trying to state religious folks are the Pinnacle of morality is the height of absurdity! All morality is do you actions or intentions that either harmful or helpful!
In the old V television series, the invading aliens created an anti-scientist mentality, as part of their bid to control the Earth. I thought it was ridiculous at the time. Now... it almost seems to be happening.
Texass tried to outlaw critical thinking
Come on… both “sides” are looney.
One side denies science by believing in a sky fairy who hates them… and the other think men can be women and visa-versa.
Everyone is a looney toon.
Right wing, left wing, all the same bird. Poli-TRICKS.
It's DEFINITELY happening.
And when you show them all the evidence that they are wrong and they just don't want to live in reality, they will just try to end the argument by saying basically magic.
cognitive dissonance, the lifeblood of eurocentric culture and the reason why so many still tolerate/emulate monarchs.
Yeah, I empathise with your issues. We (in France) are voting next Sunday for, hmm, our sort of House of Representatives equivalent I guess, and our SS-founded far-right disgusting traditionalist and anti-progress political party has a good chance of winning. This is very scary.
All over in Europe. Germany here. If Trump wins, theofascism will kill humanity.
Very scary.
The far right seem to be on the rise every where.
Our General Election in the UK is only a week away. The Reform Party is probably going to gain a few seats from the Conservatives, who themselves have been pushed further to the right, and our Labour Party is a clone of the Conservatives now.
These are very worrying times.
All the best and hoping reason wins the day for all of us.
Mass deportations are in order in Britain @@pencilpauli9442
In The Netherlands the fascists have been voted into the government. There has been talk about getting rid of foreigners (in veiled terms of course). Their leader is 1/4 Asian and his wife is Hungarian - let them go first, I say.
I fear for the state and continuation of our laicity. There seems to be an exclusive Focus on Islam in their ideology but a perverse embrace of what they believe to be "Christian heritage". Every frenchmen or frenchwomen who wishes to preserve our culture needs to Start By defending laicity.
If trump is voted in, bye bye America as you know it
That already happened under Biden. I'm no Trump fan, but democrats are just as scummy as repubs.
@@Khepramancer What makes you say that?
@redmerf5622 Project 2025?
@@lidbass need I say more
@@rebmerf5622Trump could be a good president if right media hadn't cooked his brain.
One of the best rants I've heard on this stew of shit. Nice job, dude. 👍
Long time fan here. We need Your voice now more than ever. Thank you
Thank you for your voice. Much needed nowadays.
Had a relative say God HAS to exist for you to not believe in him.
I said by your logic so does the boogeyman, tooth fairy, Santa, etc.....
But Santa IS real.. Who puts the presents under the Christmas Tree???
@@memesarekeem Exactly. And NORAD has been tracking Santa's journey every year since 1955, i.e. since before they were even called NORAD. I'd like to think they know the difference between real and false data. Checkmate, unbelievers.
the difference between God and Santa is that Santa is actively tracked by NORAD and his every flight
Had a JW say something like that to me - God can do anything, even make it seem like he doesn't exist!
@@memesarekeem He just doesn't want nice things. That's why he denies the existence of Santa. He knows Santa is real. Like every human does.
There's nothing racist about "the pot calling the kettle black" - it simply dates from a time when both pots and kettles were made of metal and heated over flames, blackening them. Amusingly, one of the earliest documented English versions (in a 1639 book of proverbs) is "the pot calls the pan burnt-arse" :) As a Brit I'm 100% in favour of returning to that one if the word "black" makes folk uncomfortable?
It blows my mind that people think it's racist because the word black is in there. It's like we're getting dumber and dumber.
Blatherskite - great British username too!
It’s like Victorian times when legs were referred to as nether regions and underwear was called unmentionables.
True, but Aronra is afraid of being canceled.
A bit disappointed in granpa Aron on this one. Murikans need to stop seeing raycism everywhere.
What are you going to do? Make colours illegal?
I remember in 7th grade when I was homeschooled and reading “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist” was required by my authoritarian guardians. I remember first grabbing the book from my aunt and being totally confused by the title, being a Christian at the time, I knew faith was needed for my side and absent for the other. I too had to watch a debate between Turek and Hitchens and write a rebuttal of Hitchens point I wish I saved it so I could go back and read what was going through my mind to convince my aunt I was still a Christian.
Excellent exposure of the State of the American right.👍
The original meaning of the word left is 'sinister'. like it's always been common knowledge that there's something inherently and fundamentally wrong with the left.
Google Project 2025. It's fu6k1ng scary what this plan is!
It's the new "1000 jährige Reich".
4th Reich.
THIS!!!
THIS!!!
@@Trumpulator A nickname for republicans is "reichwingers" for a reason.
I'm 77, a veteran and I'm a right leaning centrists. You sir speak the truth as I see it. Thanks.
What do you mean right-leaning centrist?
@@Wh40kFinatic I second this question.
@@Wh40kFinatic He probably means "Centre-Right" if I had to guess. Weird wording for sure.
Hell, I'm a right-leaning Centrist as well. Aron get far, far more right than he does wrong, but when ever he gets political, his ratio gets worse.
It's hard for me as a European (British) to know exactly what you mean by right leaning centrist (assuming you are American)
To me, Joe Biden is a right leaning centrist. To current Republican thinking, Biden is a raging pinko commie, though it's hard to know if that is merely an ad hominin to scare centrists into voting for a fascist, or merely a lack of political intelligence, and they really believe that. The two are not, of course, mutually exclusive.
This was one of the best presentations you gave I have always felt that the book 1984 was coming true. But you did a very well job on presented the data that explains how we got in the state we are heading in. Thanks for this video it explains how much we need to wake the fuck up and vote for someone besides Trump. And yes I agree with you Regan started this decline in finances in America and these presidents have kinda had had there own agenda and have put the U.S. in a tale spin since the data shows crime is down and to think before the 2020 election his followers as I call them even invaded the Capital building. You are 100% correct. thank you again Aron.
I'm not American. I have never lived in America. However, I am heavily invested in the future well-being of the United States, as whatever happens in the U.S. impacts significantly the rest of the world.
For the last year, despite the Orange terrors fanatics, I was inclined to think it wouldn't win. More recently, I am more uncertain. I am extremely concerned about about what will happen if the Orange Fascist wins or loses.
@@TheNanoNinja Orange terror fanatics... do you mean the "Golden" Calf Worshippers?
Dear AronRa: you need to re frame the way you’re fighting this battle.
You aren’t arguing truth vs believers.
You’re arguing the truth against the ego and sense of belonging of millions of people.
"Yeah, but Biden old. So ill vote for the party that literally wants to end democracy" - centrist
Claudia 2024 man
I've actually heard this from people about bidens age and I'm just thinking to my self 'and?' even if he dies in office how will that hurt you exactly?
"Centrists" and "moderates" are the real threats to freedom because they enable fascism.
"I'll never vote Trump but I'll vote for his policies through Liz Cheney because she stood up to him once." - Republicans
@@shaarangvaze8623 May be morbid but actually amongst the only reason he’d get my vote-Kamala over Trump
Thank, you, Aron, for another great video.
As an outsider watching US politics (and pinching myself regularly to make sure I'm not having a bad dream), I'll say this:
What's frightening isn't that so many people in your country are supporting a liar. It's that so many know he's lying, and they don't care. They celebrate the lies.
What's even more frightening is that among those who are appalled by the above, some are still willing to let the US sink into a theocracy in order to show their disapproval of Biden.
You dont have to keep pinching yourself, we are the ones experiencing this protracted nightmare and can testify to its painful reality. Weve tried everything imaginable to wake up from it -- and so far weve totally failed.
I'm a Sun-worshipper, and I can PROVE my god is real. Go outside. Look up.
Whatever the disagreement I may have with Aron, it's insignificant compared to how far the rest of this country is from a minimally reasonable position, Project 2025 and the current conservative movement is so abhorrent and emptied of logic that I just wish I could understand how is so prevalent. Thanks and keep the fight Aron!
lol And the left saying boys can be girls and mutilating children is so logical. 🙄
Both parties advocate reducing freedom. Both persecute journalists, both increase the government. Trump at least made an effort to reduce it and cut some taxes.
Our climate crisis is coming on hard and fast. Who will have power as life and death decisions become daily?
This is the first time Ive heard your show. Outstanding analysis.
Standing Rock looked like 1963 Birmingham Alabama. Dogs, hoses, drones, and armored vehicles. It was kind of a dark foreshadowing of counter protests to come.
Faith demands ignorant obedience! Science requires intelligent understanding! They will never be the same no matter how much religion tells itself or the world
Not so much in the USA but in other Western countries. Curiously we’re seeing in surveys that most people who are against abortion, same sex marriage and trans rights also identify as ‘non-religious’. But I hear you say there is no secular arguments for such positions. This is the rise of cultural conservatism. The people who argue “for freedom” and are against “woke ideology”. Secular arguments for when scripture passages are out of fashion.
Get mad! ...and keep up the good fight please. Cathulu 2024, why vote for the lesser evil 🤣
What troubles me the most is the gullible people that need to see this are probably not watching your channel? I am behind everything you are positing..could not have said it better. Hopefully you are getting through to the gullible among us? Also Vote Blue No Matter Who.. I and many others appreciate what you are doing. Keep it up..
Incredible summary. Thank you for this.
These people want a theocracy and theocracies fail all the time
Can't defy reality indefinitely.
Why is a theocracy any worse than a democracy? It's all just people trying to force their preferences on each other.
@@shlockofgod that is one stupid pfp. Can you define communism?
@@shlockofgod Theocracies are awful and abusive, not only because they oppress humans but because they also blaspheme God Those who claim earthly rule now by divine appointment are, according to Jesus and his apostles, frauds
all systems fail eventually.
Wise words, Aron. I'm not even an American, but I hope that Biden gets enough votes to beat that horrible person know as Donald Trump.
You are a great speaker and what you say is correct.
Anyone remember those guys standing behind the schoolyard bully, cheering him on out of at best fear of being the next victim, at worst genuine joy at seeing someone getting bullied? Yeah, looks like they found a home in the republican party...
So glad you talked about project 2025. People need to know about this.
"For Dennett, an éminence grise of American philosophy who is nonetheless perhaps best known as one of the 'four horsemen' of modern atheism alongside Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, there are no metaphysical mysteries at the heart of human existence, no magic nor God that makes us who we are." -- New York Times, Aug 27, 2023
"There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion." -- Daniel Dennett (RIP 2024 April 19)
I do not live in the USA, but your country has a huge impact on the rest of the world, so I care a lot about what's going on there. Thank you so much for spreading these facts, prompting people to vote and for tirelessly working for the betterment of society.
Jon Oliver actually made a great video about Project 2025...
Well met. Don't forget to leave a like.
Well met?
@@brandonsanchez9043 Indeed.
@@RexfelisLXIX indeed?
@@brandonsanchez9043 Quite.
@@RexfelisLXIX Quite?
Thanks! For a beer!
Preaching to the choir. How does one preach to the blissfully ignorant ? - that's the antidote.
We love you Aron!! . In uk we are about to leave 14 years of conservative Buffoons. In america could be the beginning of the Rep Buffoonery again ! Stay strong and fight! Greets from London, UK .
These are frightening times for America and I sincerely hope people WAKE THE F@£K UP!!
Vote blue 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
they won't...the trump cult will vote for this monster no matter what he does
This but vote red ♥️
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Have always loved AronRa.
I love the political arc.
I understand Aron has always flirted with politics within his content. I really dig the topic being political in nature with a side of counter apologetics rather than the reverse.
I always saw him, and others, as political activists. Religion is nothing else but politics. Anti-democratic politics.
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
― Thomas Jefferson
i’ve started to try to spread the word about P25 to some of my friends. it’s depressing how little some of them knew about it, yet i convinced them(even some of my right wing friends) that it’s a dystopian nightmare. aron, thanks for giving your takes on this, and Darwin bless America.
Great video sir. You’ve got a real knack for speaking on the thoughts in my head far better than I ever could. Thank you and keep doing what you do.
Mark Twain was right; never argue with an idiot he will drag you down to his level and win with experience. That seems to fit the modern Republican member where logic is missing.
My favorite line from Mr. Clemmens was about lies. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics." How true. How very, very true.
The liberals are ruining my country.
@@user-qg5zc1kf4fLOL. You crybaby conservative republican fascists must all have humiliation kinks. You can't stop making folks out of yourself.
Mark Twain was a Republican. Cope.
After being raised Catholic, I’ve realized anytime someone touts how they’re a man or woman “of God”….that they’re someone to be wary of.
It's the same as saying "I'm an adult!" or anything of the sort. If you have to say it, there's little chance for it to be true. Except they add the ambiguity of what kind of "god" they're talking about...
Actions speak louder than words.
When they say that, it typically means “I’m a control freak”
I see them as gullible, pathological liars that will hurt and betray you if they think there's something in it for them.
Hypocrites in the extreme using the buy-bull as cover.
I'm learning that if someone says they're an atheist that usually indicates that they are intelligent and thoughtful, but if they are a leftist atheist,then the leftism forms a functional substitute for religion for them, complete with all it's own dogmas based on identity politics, minority issue worship and other such delusions. Leftist atheists are just like fundamentalist evangelical christian groups like the Born-Again Christians, which is massively ironic, betraying all the same in-group dynamics christian cults use.
Good talk today as usual. One thing, I’m missing the Ozzy picture to your right. Love that album.
Pots and kettles are black from soot and being over wood and coal-burning stoves. It has nothing to do with human skin pigmentation.
Thank you Aaron, as always, for the wonderful, linguistically well put together talk. Very palatable thought!
the phrase about the pot calling the kettle black has nothing to do with race, it comes from a particular English language translation of don Quixote. please stop it with the bigotry of low expectations.
Project 2025 will end us as a democracy. If I weren’t taking care of my elderly dad with dementia I would have an exit strategy in the event trump wins. Thanks for speaking out about politics Aron Ra. I hope we Americans as a collective whole do not allow the trump 2nd presidency to happen. Vote everyone. Vote.💙💙💙I long for the days when voting for the best candidate mattered….someone educated, competent, compassionate and fair.
Pity that Aron can be so clear headed on religion, but so delusional on politics.
What's he wrong about?
@@Percavius That the conservative candidate intends to become a dictator for one, he sounds like a creationist or flat earther with that absurd nonsense.
@@KillerNetDogReading is fundamental. Project 2025 is readily available.
@@KillerNetDog He was angry that he didn't get military parades in his honour, he insults practically every minority, wants to abolish the freedom of press and has long chanted things like "Lock her up" regarding his political opponents.
He also seems to be under the impression that the president has absolute, unchecked power. And got angry when people told him no.
@@KillerNetDog Trump has repeatedly and explicitly said on video that he wants to be a dictator, and that he wants his subjects to fear him the way they do other dictators.
As an atheist, I state the atheist position this way: The most unlikely answer of all to the great questions of existence is one whose central concept ("god/gods") has no understood or agreed meaning among the untold billions throughout history who have claimed god beliefs; whose untold thousands of iterations are so improbable, so wildly contradictory, and so equally without evidence, that none can be believed; and one that offers no consistency or predictability whatsoever in answer to ANYTHING.
As a straight, white, non-Christian, male, American, I can truthfully say that I am proud to be woke.
Thank you. I live listening to you.
Joe Biden. Joe is too old period. I will vote democratic in November regardless who is running. I can’t see how half the country can’t see how horrible trump is. I saw an interview with the president of the heritage foundation on cnn. They are serious about project 2025. That scares me
You can’t reason with the uneducated
Praying for you ....Aronra 🙏 i care about you.
Thank you
Thank you kindly.
Data jack be coming through huh . @@AronRa
Did you catch the Dr. Kill Jesus schmuck vs . Ammon hillman bebate , I told kipp before hand , that's not Jesus in the new testament . Preach to me only of christ crucified . So I point out to dumbass that adelphoi in strongs concordance and anti christ are exactly the same definition pretty much , point out Paul said that's not Jesus running around in the streets naked at 4 am . Yashua , who's listed as a eunuch in Isaiah, one of Jacob's four Eunuchs, it actually lists yasharel ,yahudah, Yisrael and yashua as eunuchs . Explain to him itsays yashua worshipped helios the devil in garsanthamum , while his adelphoi disciples to him molesting another boy , Eunuchs that wanna turn you into a Eunuch. Jesus smashed a rock over en'ch ( hilarious hillman on his Enoch presentation is saying en'ch thae whole time , who's en' ch that who Jesus smashed a rock over er his head, Cain the antichrist is most of the new testament . And kipp can't put it together , that's en'ch the antichrist who Jesus brought back from the dead because Mary told him to. That renamed yashua. His adelphoi disciples knew this . Hence why you got Paul saying I have never met Jesus. Son of man is station of moloch . That's why there were 18 people at that time calling themselves son of man . Then I admitted yes I do have 2 daughters named sas and Molly. Two drugs . I thought Ammon won the debate . I think I actually won the debate against kipp . Kipps such a snob , what was it kipps like brahhaha are you seriously citing strongs concordance . Yes. You know as well as I do they don't want people to know about the adelphoi , they got careers on mocking Jesus and that's not even Jesus. It is at the cruxifiction . Then why didnt the two thieves recognize jesus , because he hadnt been there in 20 years, look Mary its your son . I can back up everything I'm saying . Preach to me only of christ crucified . Hence the term . The Roman's even told you a foreigner was crucified with2 local thieves who didn't recognize him . Yeshua was/is married to mary magdalene . That's why Peter called him Rabbi.
Its bad is enough if a person is resistant to reason but it is even worse when a person is immune to reason.
Fairly sure the red coats would have called the founders “woke”. “Sir, what do you mean by ‘all men are born equal’? There is no such thing, Sir! Would it be that Sir is woke?”
I think that this video essay is so important, I'm gonna watch it for a third time.
Actually, the highest crime rates, with the most violence was the 1920's during prohibition. Same with the war on drugs.
Go figure; you make a pre-existing condition a crime and the rate goes up.
Thank you, Aron, it gives me hope when I hear people like you. I wish you could reach more people, though.
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Amen! Malice a forethought.
Pot and kettle - the soot from the stove, not every reference to black is racist. AronRa, once again, a wonderfully concise defence of non-belief. Thank you.
Thanks for everything, Aron. Please, please, please look up June 25, 2024 "rally" speaker from Teen Missions International. Speaker starts around one hour three minutes. Paul Veit, "dino pastor".... Happy to do a deep dive into Teen Missions with you
Got a link? Because what I found didn't match what you're saying.
Brilliantly spoken.
Faith is the most dangerous concept ever invented by humans.
Education
Critical thinking
Empathy
"You can define your God into being" ❤😂😂
Had to pause😂😂😂😂my side hurts😂😂😂😂
I so needed that! 🤗 🇺🇸