Sargon of Akkad | Big Joel

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  • A fun lil Sargon!! Anita Sarkeesian but mostly Sargon!
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  • @BigJoel
    @BigJoel  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4470

    *Footnote 1*
    It’s important to note here that even if you’re not a utilitarian, almost all ethical paradigms hold that actions can be moral that are not violent, including natural rights ethics. It seems Carl is conflating the question “Is this act immoral” with the question “should this act be coerced against by the state?” But we can all come up with actions that people are free to do that are morally better or worse than other actions (even if you only believe in subjective morality). Consider giving to a charity for sick kids versus buying something that will help no one. Certainly, both actions should be legal in a capitalist nation, but the first action is pretty clearly the morally superior one.
    *Footnote 2*
    I thought I’d speak a bit about how why I think it’s reasonable to make the claim “science can’t disprove that art affects people.” It seems that Carl and many of the people who like Carl are under the impression that science, what we might define as the formalized process of experimentation in order to discover facts about the world, has a monopoly on the way we come into real knowledge. This, however, is clearly not the case. Imagine that a scientific study came out that said “People do not see the color blue.” Well, we might read the article and it might have some interesting findings about how the color blue functions, but no matter what, the article could never disprove that people see blue. It is objectively true that we have the experience of seeing that color. This claim is similar to a hypothetical scientific article claiming that media does not affect people-- there is simply an insurmountable amount of evidence against that being possible. Not only do I have memories of media affecting me both emotionally and intellectually, but also, every single person I have ever met would say the same. Moreover, the existence of advertising, the existence of religious texts exist that inform people’s faith, the fact that my video had a clear causal relationship to Carl making his, these are all objective facts that cannot, and could not, be disproved via experimentation.
    *Footnote 3*
    So, I felt a bit of conflict here, saying that he uses the argument here as evidence for his conclusion that, “no moral critique of art can be grounded,” since he never explicitly says that. But frankly, it’s something we have to assume. Since he doesn’t think that we can make grounded moral claims about the messages of media, and since he uses the argument in this section to disagree with me about my position that Lubenshluben provides evidence of our ability to make such claims, we have to think that, at the very least, he thinks his argument here is pushing toward his conclusion.
    *One Additional (and maybe important) Note*
    In my video at one point, I say "In Sargon's mind, Anita Sarkeesian is trying to exert her will and he's trying to exert his," and this has led a few of you to point out that yes, Sarkeesian clearly does want to influence the video game industry. I could have spoken a bit more carefully here. What I meant is not that Sarekeesian does not want to influence things, but that, for her, interpretation is not *exclusively* a matter of influence. The observations she makes of Double Dragon here are reasonably well grounded, they are not true or false, good or bad, by virtue of Anita's desire to exert power and she never implies otherwise. Where Sargon constitutes the entire thrust of his argument with his preference for certain interpretations over others, Sarkeesian does not.
    *I thought I'd also take a moment to talk about some of the more minor, incorrect claims that Carl makes over the course of his video.*
    At one point, he says that art cannot be inherently meaningful, that art is just objects and that objects do not have any inherent meaning. I think Carl has forgotten here one of the most important preconditions of art: That it was made, most likely by a person. This fact makes it literally impossible for any work of art to be meaningless--it will always have, at one point, been meaningful to the person who made it.
    Toward the end of his video, Carl says that Lubenshluben cannot be evil because films are objects, not moral agents. It seems obviously untrue that only moral agents are the only things that can be evil, since actions can also be evil. For example, a murderer might be evil, but the act of murdering is also frequently described as an evil one. And make no mistake, Lubenshluben *is* an action. It was brought into existence by people who wanted to bring it into existence. As such, Lubenshluben is the sort of thing that can be evil.This was a very silly and pedantic point.
    Finally, Carl returns in his video to the untrue idea that it is impossible for video games to be causing violent action *while* the murder rate goes down. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's evidence that video games cause violence, but it's important to note that society is filled with confounding variables. It is not impossible for various social changes to cause less crime overall, while video games, a relatively minor aspect of most people's lives, causes them to go up.
    *Oh, and Sargon, if you're reading this,*
    My offer is still open to have a text conversation that we can make public at any time. I don’t think some live discussion would be nearly as productive. I understand that you like live conversations and the like, but I just prefer to work more meticulously.
    Feel free to ask any questions about my video! Thanks for reading my novel.

    • @juliusbeutler7090
      @juliusbeutler7090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I know this isn’t a question concerning the video, but what was up with that livestream you started and then just left?

    • @8DX
      @8DX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Posting a wall-of-text comment under your own video, hah! (Actually an interesting read as well

    • @DrIvoRobotnick
      @DrIvoRobotnick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      I think it would probably be best not to talk to him. Every debate is just a fundraiser for his perceived war.

    • @SJNaka101
      @SJNaka101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      I'm of the complete opposite opinion on moral agents compared to Carl. I am not particularly convinced that a human being who makes moral choices should ever be considered good, evil, right, wrong. I don't think that a human being can inherently contain these properties.
      Rather, when I think about it, I can only possibly attribute properties like right and wrong, good and bad, harmful or beneficial - to ideas, objects, actions, systems. I cannot possibly know nor prove whether Hitler was an evil *person*. I wouldn't know how to ever prove that Hitler's *body and brain*, that his very person, was evil. Rather, I can only describe Hitler as having been evil by pointing towards his actions, towards the systems he put in place, towards his ideas and words. I could only ever suggest that the Person named Adolf Hitler was an Evil Person in a roundabout way by pointing towards all of these things that were NOT his person.
      So yeah, I think that sargon's claim that the film must be an acting moral agent is literally attributing morality to something that cannot contain inherent morality. Human beings are just flesh and blood with meat computers in our skulls.

    • @aboxintheblack9530
      @aboxintheblack9530 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Big Joel My problem with Anita is her impact on the stories of games like Anthem and COD WW2. She isn’t only a critic. She holds some of the “means of production” if you want to call them that.
      I’m not claiming your a Communist. I was just being tongue and cheek.

  • @Mindcreat0r
    @Mindcreat0r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2030

    “You have your own biases, like thinking nazis are bad, and I have my own biases, like thinking feminism is bad” is QUITE the argument

    • @hoghan9675
      @hoghan9675 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Yuh

    • @Sm0k3turt
      @Sm0k3turt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

      That’s a holy shit moment

    • @siohunndai
      @siohunndai 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sm0k3turtliteral mask off moment

    • @MrKarateHandlesYou
      @MrKarateHandlesYou 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Don't we have biases tho?

    • @he1ar1
      @he1ar1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I disagree that nazi's are bad. They are evil. They are worse than people who, due to their human weakness, occasionally act immorally. And due to their collective actions their aggregate evilness is multiplied and many correctly considered them a great evil. I disagree that Feminism is bad purely because feminism is an ideology. It does not have free will, it has no agency and can't make moral decisions.
      CB is a philosopher for toddlers.

  • @ETB3341
    @ETB3341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2426

    I thought at first, this was an interesting historical biography on a famous Akkadian king, but instead it's about some dinghead named Carl.

    • @kata1261
      @kata1261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      For the video you were looking for, Quinton Reviews did it over on his channel in between segments of an increasingly unhinged dissertation on Raid: Shadow Legends ^^

    • @UncleBenji
      @UncleBenji ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😂😂😂

    • @paulybeefs8588
      @paulybeefs8588 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Right there with ya bud, thought I was in for some history when I saw the title. Technically speaking, I guess I got some.

    • @taiyoqun
      @taiyoqun ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Et tu, Et tu, Vi? Sorry, had to make a joke with your name, but yeah, me too. I was expecting a video about some Mesopotamian and got a video about someone who's views would probably fit in ancient Mesopotamia. Who am I kidding, from the little I know about that dude he's probably even too retrograde for Mesopotamia.
      And you know what? Forget about he, I'm gonna refer to them as they, since that would probably piss them off.

    • @Jide-bq9yf
      @Jide-bq9yf ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂😂

  • @opalpersonal
    @opalpersonal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1036

    Sargon: "I don't care," he says, caringly, as he cares deeply

    • @GeorgeLocke
      @GeorgeLocke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      "I don't care," he said as slowly shrank into a Care Bear.

    • @sugarbugx3564
      @sugarbugx3564 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      "I don't care" seems to be his tagline

    • @thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463
      @thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      “Harry did you put your name in the goblet of fire?” Dumbledore asked calmly.

  • @alexhobbs2352
    @alexhobbs2352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2989

    Sargon is the ultimate status quo warrior. He doesn't care about the substance of people's critiques, he cares that they have critiques at all. He's so aggressively anti intellectual it's actually fascinating.

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Know 'Genetically Modified Sceptic'?

    • @justoneguyisright
      @justoneguyisright 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Based take

    • @rocker1296
      @rocker1296 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I think part of that is that looking at the substance of people's critiques would take him more than 5 minutes.

    • @xwing2417
      @xwing2417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      which is fascinating, because he somehow presents himself as an intellectual.

    • @delicheese6774
      @delicheese6774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@rocker1296 Which we all know is an exorbitant amount of time to expect someone to devote to such a thing.

  • @aidansullivan551
    @aidansullivan551 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7344

    Big Joel DESTROYS sargon of akkad with CARE and ATTENTION

    • @KookiesNolly
      @KookiesNolly 5 ปีที่แล้ว +250

      I really loved this video but it created a massive problem! I left the Anti-esjayuu vortex almost 2 years ago and the TH-cam algorithm had adapted to my new, healthier way of life by purging those assholes from my recommended but because of this video, my recommended is full of Sargon's shit. I wanna die!!!!

    • @sasha8345
      @sasha8345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Eli N.S you can erase your history

    • @soldoiwakebo6649
      @soldoiwakebo6649 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Good idea, dude!
      "DESTROYED WITH CARE AND ATTENTION" or something along that line needs to be out there.
      It would raise the cringe level of "DESTROYED BY FACTS AND LOGIC" even more.

    • @magpielark
      @magpielark 5 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      Wish someone would destroy me with care and attention :(

    • @lloydgush
      @lloydgush 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      More precisely Joel repaints religious fundamentalist arguments so hard that Kent rovind is suing him for plagiarism.

  • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
    @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2285

    Sargon of Akkhad is like that one kid in your AP English class who NEVER does the reading, but complains whenever he gets a grade lower than a 95.

    • @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON
      @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      I knew this feeling was familiar

    • @NabeelFarrukh
      @NabeelFarrukh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You're my new favorite person.

    • @chrishudson9667
      @chrishudson9667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Let’s be serious Sargon was the kid that didn’t go into A.P. classes but he claimed to be taking actual college course or because the teacher was a Marxist.

    • @Mechadude32
      @Mechadude32 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I knew this felt familiar.

    • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
      @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      King Peppy I’m confused.

  • @ivys1991
    @ivys1991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    It's like D'Angelo said, "You have the freedom to say the n word, but I have the freedom to call you a racist."

    • @Orson2u
      @Orson2u 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah. Another Circle Dancer who needs to circle jerk!

    • @DkKombo
      @DkKombo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Except that black people use it all the time so are they racist?

    • @bigoofsushi6979
      @bigoofsushi6979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@DkKombo They meant if you were white or something

    • @eliasalbarracin5549
      @eliasalbarracin5549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@DkKombo Depends on the context.
      Some in the black community think the word is disgusting and invokes memories of an oppressive history that is still being challenged today. Others think that black people should reclaim the word as a form of rebellion against that same history; a demonstration of their power to reclaim that history for themselves.
      I personally don't say it, but many of my friends (black, brown, and white) do use it a lot. For them, it is just a part of their vernacular; a sort-of fungible term that can be used both as an insult and as a statement of who you are.
      I would say it's always best to just not say it unless you're in good company with folks who are willing to use it as well. Though, it's always best to ask what their opinion of it is first.

    • @DkKombo
      @DkKombo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bigoofsushi6979 oh okay yeah surrree that makes it so much better.

  • @fergochan
    @fergochan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1961

    "Why are we still talking about her?"
    -Sargon "I named myself after a 4000 year old Akkadian ruler" of Akkad

    • @thebrutusmars
      @thebrutusmars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      Sargon of Akkad, the historical figure, is so badass, too. Sad.

    • @Potatotenkopf
      @Potatotenkopf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      @@thebrutusmars I thought this was a video about him, but I guess not, oh well. :(

    • @thebrutusmars
      @thebrutusmars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Meep Meep
      I’m so sorry dude that’s got to be mega disappointing

    • @DissedRedEngie
      @DissedRedEngie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Funny when you factor in the fact that, in Carl's own words, "made the channel as a response to Anita Sarkeesian"

    • @petriew2018
      @petriew2018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      it gets even more ironic when you realize he named himself after the ruler of a culture known to celebrate sadism towards it's political enemies. Sargon was the dude who praised himself, in stone, for making defeated enemies live the rest of their lives literally chained up in dog cages just because, well, he was stronger than them.

  • @MLPGamer44
    @MLPGamer44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2024

    Just replace “I don’t care” with “I can’t be bothered to learn” and suddenly his videos make more sense.

    • @Maschinengoth
      @Maschinengoth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Bold of you to assume he could

    • @beastghostt
      @beastghostt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      I read this and immediately imagined Carl as a grandpa getting pissed off at an iPad. What a fucking boomer lol

    • @Gooong
      @Gooong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      It's more like he DOES care and he doesn't want to learn. Someone who doesn't care would not make the video constantly saying how he doesn't care.

    • @beastghostt
      @beastghostt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@Gooong He cares that what he likes and believes is being challenged. His argument against progressive ideas is all too often "there is no problem because it has always been this way, and I'VE never noticed an issue." He says it without a hint of irony, like it's completely sound logic.

    • @Scoring57
      @Scoring57 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      AHxIntrovert44
      Or with "I care A LOT". Too much in fact 😄

  • @alfiewillis4893
    @alfiewillis4893 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1513

    I like how Anita's point was that storytelling is shaped by patriarchal attitudes and the perceptions of men dominating most forms of storytelling, and then Carl accidentally agrees with her while thinking that he's taking a position that refutes her point.
    He's so damn dumb, folks.

    • @SaiScribbles
      @SaiScribbles 5 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      That's just mansplaining. He repeated what she said in an inferior way and pretended he taught her something.

    • @poposterous236
      @poposterous236 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Yeah well you're just pointing out the fact that men have always been assholes and...
      wait, I'm doing the same thing.

    • @AdrianBourneArt
      @AdrianBourneArt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sai ...and what did you just do?

    • @brotlowskyrgseg1018
      @brotlowskyrgseg1018 5 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Reminds me of that Jordan Peterson talk of him "debunking" marxism by repeating Marx's own argument against egalitarianism almost verbatim. Right-wingers are really into the "I don't have to read this shit" school of political philosophy.

    • @GeneralTaco155555a
      @GeneralTaco155555a 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm pretty sure he just said if it is true, who cares?

  • @Vooblebooble
    @Vooblebooble 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1568

    Joel: "Nazi ideology is bad and harmful."
    Carl: "That's just, like, your opinion man!"

    • @thomasharris7881
      @thomasharris7881 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Say what you will about the tenants of national socialism man, but at least it’s an ethos… fucking nihilists.

    • @shroomer8294
      @shroomer8294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@thomasharris7881 Nazi ideology is bad and harmful.

    • @maxlambie7788
      @maxlambie7788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@thomasharris7881 would take a nihilist over a nazi

    • @cousinted
      @cousinted 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@shroomer8294 That was just a The Big Lebowski quote.

    • @shroomer8294
      @shroomer8294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@cousinted So…? Nazi ideology is bad and harmful.

  • @friedrice4015
    @friedrice4015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3488

    "The narratives that *men* have told *one another* since the dawn of time."
    Getting close to something there, Sargon. Keep working at it.

    • @waltercronkite1387
      @waltercronkite1387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +310

      he was SO close to getting the point

    • @juniperrodley9843
      @juniperrodley9843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      What a model self-aware wolf

    • @AdumbDriver
      @AdumbDriver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      He would find a clit, before he found the point. So I personally, will not be holding my breath.

    • @aazhie
      @aazhie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@AdumbDriver XDDDDDD omfg I'm deceased

    • @kokko9507
      @kokko9507 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha do women really think they will ever get an upper hand? That's delusional. Sargon is a talking strawman. And that is all feminism is able to beat.

  • @ryanw8509
    @ryanw8509 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5592

    "B-baka, it's not like I care about Anita-chan a-a-anyways...."
    - Sargon

    • @sassycassgames3158
      @sassycassgames3158 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Please don't do this djhfbr

    • @magickgeminid2944
      @magickgeminid2944 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      Tsundere sargon. This is so appropriate....so appropriate

    • @bazkart
      @bazkart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      This shit broke me! lmao

    • @kaikingsland
      @kaikingsland 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      I would love to see this as top comment in sargon's vids. (although i guess i'd never no since i wouldnt watch them anyway.)

    • @VOMITQUEEN
      @VOMITQUEEN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I almost died laughing at this comment x'D

  • @atena1844
    @atena1844 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3914

    Joel has the ideal male body, sargon may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

    • @manidavis4126
      @manidavis4126 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Why does THAT matter?

    • @peterprime2140
      @peterprime2140 5 ปีที่แล้ว +338

      @@manidavis4126 You should ask Sargon that.

    • @menilakataraseefluppenimia6970
      @menilakataraseefluppenimia6970 5 ปีที่แล้ว +306

      cute guy who make video lectures and will probably give you head pats vs grimy obnoxious turd that think he need to exert dominance over others.

    • @hexum7
      @hexum7 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Seriously, a guy who comes off as a prissy character actor playing an effete waiter who gets flustered by Lucy Ricardo should not be talking about others unfortunate masculinity service- whatever the fuck that is

    • @ramigilneas9274
      @ramigilneas9274 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      atenahena Looks more like too much soy.

  • @LJStability
    @LJStability 3 ปีที่แล้ว +620

    The moment when Sargon tries to asset his masculinity on a man he views as weak and then gets completely bent over by an honest man's discussion is probably the best part of this video.

    • @omnistpagan3282
      @omnistpagan3282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Lol ‘you don’t look masculine bro’ has to be the most hilarious argument I’ve ever heard.

    • @sandrols7
      @sandrols7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@omnistpagan3282 Especially coming from Carl Benjamin, who himself doesn't exactly seem to be favoured by Masculinity

    • @omnistpagan3282
      @omnistpagan3282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@sandrols7 I guess he thinks because he is big and has a beard that makes him some manly man lol. I’m not sure.

    • @gaiusjuliuspleaser
      @gaiusjuliuspleaser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@sandrols7 Peak manliness is when you wear a fedora and sunglasses while sipping cheap scotch and smoking a cigar you got at the local news stand

    • @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
      @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@gaiusjuliuspleaser As a man, I can confirm that this is true.

  • @domhuckle
    @domhuckle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3318

    Your slow, methodical, careful dismantling of his arguments is so alpha male

    • @yeezet4592
      @yeezet4592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      What a Chad

    • @gezi5927
      @gezi5927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      What an absolute king

    • @orlandocasillas9806
      @orlandocasillas9806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      @@jebalitabb8228
      "emotional whiny manbaby".
      Sounds more like you're describing Sargon instead, if you ask me **shrug**

    • @ezekielrogers3215
      @ezekielrogers3215 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@jebalitabb8228 i don’t understand. what do you mean? what about his politics has anything to do with his masculinity?

    • @epicgamer-ur1wg
      @epicgamer-ur1wg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@jebalitabb8228 keep malding, you’ll never be as hot as big joel

  • @milkteamachine
    @milkteamachine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1575

    "To be honest, history is sexist but it, like, totally doesn't matter now and fiction exists in a vacuum" - Sargon of Akkad, probably

    • @hybridh9702
      @hybridh9702 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nobody thinks fiction exists in a vaccuum :S that's an extremists twist on normal liberal rhetoric... why would you do that? i'm assuming you're liberal?

    • @skele3310
      @skele3310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      @@hybridh9702 you've obviously never seen loli defenders in action, that's the most prominent example that comes to mind at the moment.

    • @hybridh9702
      @hybridh9702 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@skele3310murdering loli fans which is what a lot of people call is yes. still a form of extremism. what the fuck is your point?

    • @sorryifoldcomment8596
      @sorryifoldcomment8596 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@hybridh9702 and nobody said that anybody *consciously* thinks and claims fiction exists in a vacuum... Why would you assume that? The point is that in order for the arguments to work, fiction needs to exist in a vacuum.
      This isn't about reading anyone's mind, this is about analyzing their words. I don't know what Sargon actually thinks, I only know what he says and what he claims.
      (And pretty much every fan is going to be a liberal.)

    • @hybridh9702
      @hybridh9702 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      over simplifying complex history so you can stand on a moral pedastool... the act of chivalry was from a oppressive culture so it in itself must be oppressive... yeah 'cos things work like that and culture is that simple. fucking extremist

  • @robinsonnox9980
    @robinsonnox9980 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3033

    [kicks the door open and enters the room]
    I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW I EXTREMELY DON'T CARE

    • @Diorden119
      @Diorden119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Sargon irl
      th-cam.com/video/_QWnCDYeYH0/w-d-xo.html

    • @amolinya
      @amolinya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @Robinson Nox is that a loveless profile picture? if so your comment just got way better

    • @robinsonnox9980
      @robinsonnox9980 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@amolinya Yeah, it's Loveless, from the band My Bloody Valentine

    • @mr.richardfiddler6328
      @mr.richardfiddler6328 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@robinsonnox9980 souvlaki is better but loveless is cool too

    • @commanderv4114
      @commanderv4114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I really really don't care for shoegaze, just so you know

  • @Tai112336
    @Tai112336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    Joel calling Sargon of Akkad "Carl" has the same energy as Dumbledore calling Voldemort "Tom"

  • @Pman8362
    @Pman8362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    Sargon shows his true self when he basically says “if you can criticize Nazi’s I can criticize feminism”.

  • @Moerp100
    @Moerp100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4121

    Sargon trying to attack Joel's masculinity is the most pathetic thing I will observe today

    • @loopholesloopy
      @loopholesloopy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +379

      Right? Joel ain't a big boy but he's definitely a man. Funny how warped people's idea of masculinity is these days but I suppose it's cause a lot of proponents for masculinity these days think being left is inherently feminine lol

    • @Lrripper
      @Lrripper 5 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      Joel is so cute he reminds me of a guy I slept with tho. But with self confidence.

    • @Fin0fLenster
      @Fin0fLenster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +213

      I nearly spit out my drink when I heard Sargon say that. It's so hilariously infantile.

    • @thatsterroristsbro7855
      @thatsterroristsbro7855 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just today lol

    • @kaitlynbrady3017
      @kaitlynbrady3017 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Masculinity: Over 3.5 billion poorly served

  • @leowilliamson1573
    @leowilliamson1573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +529

    Sargon makes a lot more sense if you know he's a college dropout and his sister has a master's degree in gender studies.

    • @basambinsohailraja1801
      @basambinsohailraja1801 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      NANI?!

    • @leowilliamson1573
      @leowilliamson1573 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@basambinsohailraja1801 Here's the stream where he said it. I spent an hour looking for it again, but holy fuck, I gave up. He brought on the most long-winded people. There's a commenter confirming he said it at some point in the stream, though. He said "academic feminist" and I presumed gender studies.
      th-cam.com/video/KP-QCOuSGxg/w-d-xo.html

    • @EntertheFray1
      @EntertheFray1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Plenty of successful and intelligent people either drop out of college or don't go there. Educated also doesn't mean intelligent. Additionally, there are plenty of people with degrees from college serving coffee while Sargon managed to be successful on TH-cam. Your implication falls apart under basic scrutiny and reeks of smug elitism. Just a passing by comment.

    • @el_equidistante
      @el_equidistante 5 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      @@EntertheFray1 who mentioned "success" anywhere in OP comment? Also, success also doesn't mean intelligence, however education it is strongly correlated with intelligence. What's your point? quoting some passing by commentor: "Your implication falls apart under basic scrutiny and reeks of smug elitism"

    • @ingridstormborn8623
      @ingridstormborn8623 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@EntertheFray1 Except good education is strongly correlated with intelligence. I've went from a guy who never studies, to a guy who studies a lot, and it has significantly improved my brain. Whatever though, HURRRR MY DAD THE FARMER IS SMARTER THAN THE PHYSICIST AT BERKELEY.

  • @RobTheDoodler
    @RobTheDoodler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    There’s something immensely hilarious about the statement “Carl, look what my video has done to you.”

  • @QuikVidGuy
    @QuikVidGuy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1210

    2016: Carl joins UK fascist party
    2017: Carl continues hanging out with the nazis from his gg days and invites in people who have recently turned nazi-friendly
    2018: Carl says there's nothing wrong with nazi propaganda

    • @Headbanger142
      @Headbanger142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      2019: Carl destroys his political party

    • @Orson2u
      @Orson2u 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You don’t know what these words mean; or you don’t care what they men, only the sentences aura of the asswipe.

    • @sorryifoldcomment8596
      @sorryifoldcomment8596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      @@Orson2usigh, I'll bite: Then, I don't know if you've seen the evidence.
      So, why leave this comment? With no details?
      Examples of being specific:
      Like, how many Sargon videos have you seen?
      Have you seen clips from streams when he says things and interacts with people? He's online 24/7 (right now under a fake Twitter as usual) and interacting with other people online constantly.
      Have you seen his interviews with British TV that he unfortunately had to do, as he actually became a politician? A UKIP member - do you know what that means?
      There. Edit: at least we got to watch Carl crash and burn as a politician.
      I wouldn't care about him if he wasn't like, fucking insane, and messaging people online 24/7. Like, holy shit, the amount of space Caarl has filled with his trash comments and messages, has forced everyone to stop caring about him. It's actually pretty crazy in hindsight.
      He is on Twitter and tweeting nonstop like on a bender, and it's honestly concerning. (date, 12/1/20)
      Hope he gets off the internet at some point and takes a break.

    • @TasTheWatcher
      @TasTheWatcher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      > Spreads the Cultural Bolshevism conspiracy theory
      > Has off-handedly defended Frankfurt School conspiracy theories
      > Believes in the Great Replacement, and said white women have an obligation to produce more offspring
      > Heavily nationalist and traditionalist etc.

    • @matthewwhiting255
      @matthewwhiting255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Jontron goes on his podcast at some point

  • @josephkeable197
    @josephkeable197 5 ปีที่แล้ว +440

    "the contract we sign as we enter shark tale discourse..."

    • @ayior
      @ayior 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      "...is a contract drafted by the devil."

    • @gelatinocyte6270
      @gelatinocyte6270 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bring them back to King Dice!

    • @sarabellum7938
      @sarabellum7938 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      We can see now why he has to be a writer.

  • @MegamaXX500
    @MegamaXX500 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3151

    Sargon trying to attack your masculinity because he's intimidated by *big* joel
    Edit: in retrospect sargon gives away the game completely when he tries to refute Anita by comparing games to potentially harmful substances like cigarettes. The conversation isn't on safely enjoying games, it's about the politics and potentially problematic, sexist attitudes depicted in some games, critiquing the media. Petty basic, but Sargon refuses to recognize this because he's completely in support of any and all forms of sexism and patriarchy and that's why he can't face a discussion on it.

    • @ihsahnakerfeldt9280
      @ihsahnakerfeldt9280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Or ....because Joel is not very masculine. Ever thought about that? No that can't be it right? Sargon must be intimidated...

    • @mariamatedei
      @mariamatedei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +312

      @@ihsahnakerfeldt9280 do you know what joke means

    • @ravenn2631
      @ravenn2631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Stop that! I’m happy people are offering constructive criticism, but don’t ever mock someone like that! Making someone guilty by their actions is fine, and it’s fine. Even humiliation and self defense is fine when it’s justified. But don’t shame someone! It’s different. You don’t criticize just their actions, but their worth as a human being. As an individual! And to say that is to act as if they’re not human. As if they don’t have emotions. Really, he’s done several wrong things, but it doesn’t make you any better to mock someone like this. Shaming like that is what leads people to bigotry in the first place - to make people into silent faceless numbers in their mind with no hobbies, likes, dislikes, hopes, dreams and fears! What is it with people always pointing fingers at each other when expressing cruelty?! Both sides can be both equally cruel if you ask me.
      Really, admit it, you don’t see him as a human anymore.

    • @hamluk_
      @hamluk_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +211

      @@ihsahnakerfeldt9280 "joel is not very masculine" if joel isn't masculine, how is he an objectively hot troubadour? the concepts are conjoined at the neck.

    • @cman4740
      @cman4740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      @@hamluk_ Joel is far more masculine. He dealt with a buffoon like a champ and didn't have to use aggression.

  • @harrisonfackrell
    @harrisonfackrell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +727

    >nobody's chasing after you with an anita sarkeesian hot take
    I am. I will never stop chasing Sargon of Akkad with an Anita Sarkeesian hot take.

    • @ziggy0277
      @ziggy0277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      It ain't much, but it's honest work.

    • @notinsane4165
      @notinsane4165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@ziggy0277 I nearly inhaled my cup of tea, cheers for the laugh.

    • @ondank
      @ondank 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Such nobility is rare in our age of disaster capitalism.
      Songs will be sung of this effort at the fifth international, may it come soon.

    • @Debilitator47
      @Debilitator47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Do you have a gofundme? Can we discuss your program and how it may be enhanced?

    • @majmage
      @majmage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      1 year later and reports are coming in of _Harrison Fackrell_ still chasing Sargon with a Sarkeesian hot take.

  • @dackattac
    @dackattac 2 ปีที่แล้ว +488

    The insistence he doesn't care is just fascinating to me, because he and thousands like him spent six years "dEsTrOyInG hEr WiTh FaCtS aNd LoGic" in ways that just didn't ultimately matter. She made her points, the backlash was ugly, *but* she was heard and the gaming sphere changed. A strong uptick in games with girl protags, far fewer companies comfortable catering specifically to the nerdbro crowd, and edgelordian sexism/homophobia ceased to be the dominant flavor of the culture. (And don't get me wrong, it's far, far, far from perfect. But no matter how you slice it, it was *so* much worse in 2013.) Hell, after that ado about Double Dragon, the next game in the franchise was (the fucking delightful) River City Girls. I don't think that would have happened without Anita.
    She made her points, the backlash was ugly, and the gaming sphere changed. And a good deal of that change probably had a lot to do with how ugly the backlash was. So the inceptive conceit of Sargon's channel-being Big Mad About Anita-probably only ultimately rendered her more successful and influential. No wonder he's trying to insist he's indifferent now.

    • @omnistpagan3282
      @omnistpagan3282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I also think the gamer gate probably led to the exposing of nice guy mentality, incels and other misogynist rhetoric. I think it did start with the early feminist movements online so now most of these guys are mocked now instead of upheld. I agree we have a long way to go but it still feels amazing looking back.

    • @katyungodly
      @katyungodly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yeah, I never heard of Anita before all these anti-sjws "destroyed" her, so they were basically just signal-boosting her😂

    • @blackirish6868
      @blackirish6868 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well videogames have changed for the worse. Tomb Raider has been absolutely destroyed. They've ruined Lara.

    • @MB-yk1qk
      @MB-yk1qk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@katyungodly What confuses me is why even here? In retrospect it looks like they anti-swj took a niche-youtuber and turned here into this evil godes of feminism that whants to destroy all fun and rules Belgium.

    • @50733Blabla1337
      @50733Blabla1337 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackirish6868 complete bullshit

  • @bootscrombled
    @bootscrombled 5 ปีที่แล้ว +719

    Every anti-SJW: "I honestly don't care about this stuff"
    *Proceeds to make a 40 minute rant video on "SJW crap" that no one cares about*

    • @bluishwolf
      @bluishwolf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don't care about your reasons for thinking a work of fiction is offensive. I do care about the chilling effect your complaints on artists' ability to express interesting and provocative stories because they are scared it might hurt your feelings.
      I also don't see why this content creator suddenly thinks fiction needs to have a positive message. When he did his video on My Neighbor Totoro, I didn't hear him complain for hours that kidnapping children is wrong and how could Totoro do that and now the movie is bad because it sends the bad message that kidnapping is OK. So why does he keep saying that the video game is bad and sends a bad message?

    • @reapthewhirlwind2114
      @reapthewhirlwind2114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      It's the ultimate in tsundere

    • @InfiniteDeckhand
      @InfiniteDeckhand 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@peterr6988 Seriously? How old are you, 12?

    • @srfrancium9728
      @srfrancium9728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@peterr6988 Not without lube

    • @dvillines26
      @dvillines26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@peterr6988 then why are there so many guys pretending to be woke feminists to get laid? This is a real thing that happens! A lot! It may surprise you to learn many women would prefer relationships with men that share their worldview.

  • @joefission7179
    @joefission7179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1168

    Joel, don’t lie. The only reason you made the original video was to hear Sargon say “Lubenshluben”.

    • @DrIvoRobotnick
      @DrIvoRobotnick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      I bet carl looked it up and is sad it isn't real.

    • @raf74hawk12
      @raf74hawk12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It's a pretty good reason though.

    • @cryptid-king
      @cryptid-king 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You have to admit it's really funny

  • @saintleibowitz8401
    @saintleibowitz8401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    the idea of sargon considering he is "well served" by masculinity is very very funny to me for some reason

    • @Lunar_Atronach
      @Lunar_Atronach 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      It's a very wierd way to put it, especially by a guy who hides behind an ancient Akkadian figure rather than show his face

  • @qwerty0532
    @qwerty0532 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    man its deeply funny rewatching this video with the added context that sargon isn't just an "anti sjw", hes an actual nazi

    • @TheSm1thers
      @TheSm1thers 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's not a nazi anymore than Joel is a commie lol

    • @strawberryqueen0382
      @strawberryqueen0382 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Really!!! You wouldn’t say? Was the mascot being an old historical figure in roughly the greek era that gave it away? (Sarcasm)

    • @andrewalpern2178
      @andrewalpern2178 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      In my experience being put through the alt right pipeline during gamergate “anti sjw” is just another word for nazi or is at the VERY least nazi adjacent.

    • @TheSm1thers
      @TheSm1thers 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@andrewalpern2178 How tf is gamergate part of an alt right pipeline? Was just a consumer movement demanding better journalism. Also anti sjw just means you're against crazies. The vast majority of people are anti sjw.

    • @andrewalpern2178
      @andrewalpern2178 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheSm1thers Gamergate is directly related to anti-SJW content and alt-right adjacent people like Sargon and the other “intellectuals” in his circle. The pipeline would go from watching SJW gets triggered compilations or whatever and then you end up watching people like Sargon and before you know it you’re watching Milo Yiannopoulos and other outspoken Nazis.. I doubt most people would label themselves as anti-SJW even if they don’t agree with the politics presented by SJWs. Being proudly anti-SJW is a bit of a dog whistle.

  • @Wolf_Nanaki
    @Wolf_Nanaki 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1383

    As one great Sobek worshiper once said: "Carl doesn't know, he doesn't care, and he wants to know and care less."

    • @PVDCC
      @PVDCC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      All hail Sobek. We need to find him that mummified crocodile...

    • @Lightwolf234
      @Lightwolf234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sobek bless that man

    • @SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14
      @SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Blasting sperm like Zeus from the top of Mount Olympus

    • @luska5522
      @luska5522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      May our sperm be plenty and our harvest bountifull

    • @TheJohnstimpson
      @TheJohnstimpson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hail Sobek!

  • @NBNightingale
    @NBNightingale 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1829

    Big Joel is giving me all that Objectively Hot Troubadour energy.

    • @myerklamb8529
      @myerklamb8529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      BTE - Big Troubadour Energy

    • @hexum7
      @hexum7 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wuh?

    • @Sam-hh3ry
      @Sam-hh3ry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      you down with OHT? yeah you know me

    • @lloydgush
      @lloydgush 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's called being sleezy and dishonest.
      Can be quite hot for some people and it's strongly associated with the troubador trope.

    • @lloydgush
      @lloydgush 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@macmcskullface1004 Who did you call a hot troubadour?

  • @sadpee7710
    @sadpee7710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    sargon: you can only criticize something if it has violent consequences
    sargon: "i honestly don't think feminist frequency is causing people to do bad things either"
    also sargon: *spends a lot of time criticizing feminst frequency*
    it makes no sense at all but at least he admits at the end that it's fully arbitray and not about facts and logic at all. just his ability to believe something out of sheer will.

  • @Paralellex
    @Paralellex 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    "Part 1: Where is Sargon coming from?"
    I'd imagine he's coming from his own basement, with a picture of Anita Sarkeesian in front of him.

  • @cheybat5390
    @cheybat5390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    Preview of sargons response:
    "I'm not owned! I'm not owned!" As he shrinks into a corn cob

    • @plasmaballin
      @plasmaballin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I hope his grave says "rest in peace" so that he isn't drafted into the skeleton war.

    • @cheybat5390
      @cheybat5390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@plasmaballin at first I was like "calm down" and then I laughed

    • @somethingfunny2199
      @somethingfunny2199 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cheybat Shrinking into a cob of corn sounds a bit too sophisticated for Sargon. He’ll probably just chuckle smuggy then livestream himself calling this Joel fellow a groomer.

    • @matti.8465
      @matti.8465 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's so weird seeing Dril quotes and "skeleton war" outside of Tumblr.

  • @taylor21136
    @taylor21136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2106

    Sargon: Anita Sarkeesian shouldn't criticize video games because they aren't harmful, and you shouldn't criticize things that aren't harmful.
    Also Sargon: It's okay for me to criticize Anita's videos, even though I don't think they're harmful.
    Uh, what?

    • @justabitofamug6989
      @justabitofamug6989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Well he does think that feminism is cancer so maybe he actually deluded himself into thinking that she is harmful

    • @bernardomarkuskampffdemelo4323
      @bernardomarkuskampffdemelo4323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@justabitofamug6989 He literally says Feminist Frequency's videos didn't cause any harm...

    • @davidegaruti2582
      @davidegaruti2582 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@justabitofamug6989 well if he thinks that he should motivate his hown opinion on facts :
      What makes feminism like cancer ?
      Else he is just terrorised of somenthing for no reasons , he is feministphobic ...
      That would be like me making videos covering how dogs are evil just because i am afraid of dogs , it's in my rights of free speech but ... Should i ??? Also that gives wind to the pepole pepole that are calling me a pussy ...
      Because dogs/feminist aren't harmful to society ...

    • @davidmurray3542
      @davidmurray3542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Yeah, his argument about Luben-shluben basically dismisses his own work?

    • @davidegaruti2582
      @davidegaruti2582 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Feli Aslan yeah , i mean that theory could work :
      There is this video from innuendo studios that talks about how rightwingers percive the world ,
      And they basically see it as hierarchies , in this case as men above women ,
      And they would percive feminism as flipping that hierarchy , it would men at the bottom women at the top ,
      And therefore whenever he debates feminism , which by the better understood version of the term means seeking equality for both genders ,
      There is this weird dissociation between what we say and what he responds with ...
      Besides as someone who recovered from being alt-right i think that feminism needs a model for masculinity made by men for men which maybe women can veto if it's too sexist ...
      But yeah this is just my opinion ...

  • @nielsvanhemert7972
    @nielsvanhemert7972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    "Why did you come to my birthday party if you don't like me and don't like lasertag?"
    I think you just summarized the motivations of a significant conservative demographic (hell, a significant non-conservative demographic is also like this). They don't talk about politics because they have any particular goals or beliefs. They get involved with things they hate because their own existence is empty and friendless. Nobody will come to their birthday party if they hosted one (or they believe nobody would come). So they'd rather go to someone else and complain that they're not being catered to.

    • @pong9000
      @pong9000 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's hard to spot antisocial behaviour at first, because it does engage. It plans to attend your D&D party. Then it refuses to play, and works the room to do anything less lame.

  • @sethwooten5678
    @sethwooten5678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    Ever notice how people like Sargon defend these tropes, yet when the roles are reversed they cry that politics are being injected into pop culture?

    • @SirPhysics
      @SirPhysics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Well yeah, everything they agree with is common sense and everything they don't agree with is "politics."

    • @doctorwholover1012
      @doctorwholover1012 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      As we all know, there are 2 genders, male and "political", along with two races, white and "political" - two sexualities (straight and "political"), two body types (able-bodied and "political").
      There is no room in his worldview for the vast spectrum of the human experience or the wonders of reality, only the ongoing echo chamber of people who look Just Like Him

    • @snozzlehead92
      @snozzlehead92 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@doctorwholover1012 You just did the meme of jamming the stick in your own bike tire. Yes, yes. Agree with the current thing. Agree with everything the government, corporations, and wealthy globalist fascists tell you is true. Believe that you are an avant-garde free-thinker by amplifying regime messaging like an obedient serf, and saying safe things that you can never get in trouble for because every government and corporation supports your stance. Never step out of line like Sargon and those other rascals who dare question things. As we all know, the current state of world affairs it perfect and leftist governments around the globe have reached peak perfection and they cannot be criticized anymore. History definitely does not repeat, nor do leftist authoritarian dictators have a history of throwing their own useful idiot supporters into gulags - if they don't execute them on the spot first.
      "There is no room in his worldview for the vast spectrum of the human experience or the wonders of reality,"
      What the fuck does this even mean? Cut back on the word salad and use specific examples and quotes.

    • @skyjuiceification
      @skyjuiceification ปีที่แล้ว

      That part.

    • @FuckTheYoutubeUsernameChange
      @FuckTheYoutubeUsernameChange ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@doctorwholover1012 this is such a good way of expressing that

  • @secondengineer9814
    @secondengineer9814 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1889

    Could you reupload this as a podcast? I'm too distracted by the objectively hot troubadour to listen critically.

    • @ZeketheZealot
      @ZeketheZealot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      I recommend laying your phone face-down while listening - you’ll still have a raging erection, but enough blood will remain in your brain to take in the information

    • @meursault7030
      @meursault7030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Dude's eyes are legit enchanting, bro.

    • @raiorai2
      @raiorai2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      I'm not into men
      but

    • @alexandranicholas6310
      @alexandranicholas6310 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      He is quite charming ☺️

    • @brettc6132
      @brettc6132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      I second this, my girlfriend caught me watching this and now not only is she subbed to big Joel herself but she can’t stop talking about how cute he is and trying to get me to buy Joel sweaters so I look more like him. While I didn’t really think about it much before, I now strongly object to this kind of reckless posting of such overtly sexual video content on TH-cam!
      Edit: spellcheck keeps forcefully correcting me because it doesn’t understand that it’s a big dumb dumb and I’m a big smart smart. I know what I’m doing, spellcheck! Stop trying to stifle me!

  • @novelyst
    @novelyst 5 ปีที่แล้ว +873

    I think Sargon accidentally lead everyone to call you attractive.

    • @nat-fs3ms
      @nat-fs3ms 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      late to the party but joel is attractive and not even because his contents good and his opinions are good, but bc hes physically attractive like hmu daddy

    • @joselocalau123
      @joselocalau123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      He is incredibly cute

    • @zoedegenerate6703
      @zoedegenerate6703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      as a lesbian yeah he's p cute

    • @RennietheRobit
      @RennietheRobit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      As an official human pansexual, can affirm that he is cute

    • @hamluk_
      @hamluk_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      as a sexually confused blob, they're right regardless of why they say it so

  • @aspektx
    @aspektx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    It troubles me more that Carl finds his opinion of Sarkeesian morally equivalent to someone else's opinion of Nazism.

    • @wasabi1363
      @wasabi1363 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The thing is he just thinks on a very very surface level. And at this level of unintelectuallity, his arguments make sense. He is so dumb that you need to be even dumber to understand what he's saying.

  • @fey0217
    @fey0217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    im shocked that so many people hate anita sarkeesian. people made her out to be a misandrist monster when her arguments are perfectly valid.

  • @TheBlarggle
    @TheBlarggle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +575

    Sargon's tactic when he gets cornered or called out on misrepresenting something or just being straight up wrong is to exclaim "I don't care!" or "There is no reason to care!"
    Exclaiming "Who cares?!" _IS_ his argument.

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      My brother does this. He's always thought of himself as some kind of a brilliant debate tactician just because he can reduce everything down to broad navel gazing pseudo philosophy about the natural uncertainty and subjectivity of reality. Often the next step to "winning" the argument is by nihilistically proclaiming meaningless to everything. And so they conclude with smug satisfaction in supposedly being "right" for having the "best argument" even though by logical extension of their worldview their own argument is meaningless by default; leaving no reason to take satisfaction in it.

    • @YourMoonJoy
      @YourMoonJoy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Oh yes the famous, "I don't Care."
      Every single time, I've even called him out of it and he said that's not true.
      He doesn't care about climate change, or solutions to sexual harassment, or race, or media representation, or feminisim, or SJW, or anything.
      Ergo he's never wrong about anything, because, who cares?

    • @Lightwolf234
      @Lightwolf234 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If one doesn't care, then why should we is my response.

    • @justinberg8687
      @justinberg8687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So I used to watch a lot of these anti-sjw videos and the point of "I dont care" is simply that Sargon and the others dont see the value in what Anita is saying. Some points that Sargon and others have made is that Anita's time would be better spent using her resources/influence trying to effect change with real issues,such as the mistreatment of women in the middle east. She made many thousands of dollars and used that money to attack gamers/developers. Really? Damsel in distress is perpetuating the patriarchy? So I should ignore a woman in need of help? Anita is an absurd person with some (not all) of the arguments she makes, and i've met the type. One time some crazy feminist got angry with me because I held a friggin door for her?? Like wtf? She actively made my day worse even though i was clearly trying to do somthing nice. I now disagree with Sargon on most things, but on this issue there is clearly a loud annoying minority of people who seem to have the sole objective of tearing people down and playing the victim. The sad thing is Anita could effect change. But no, VIDEO GAMES BAD!!

    • @Lightwolf234
      @Lightwolf234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      greenbay champ
      There's a term for what you are suggesting. It's called a "whataboutism." Look irregardless of how much you feel Anita is an "evil person", she more then allowed to say what she damn well wants and focus on what she damn well please as much as Sargon is allowed to whine endless about how Anita doesn't care about woman in the Middle East rather then worry about that himself. Either you can debate them on their on points they have made, or you can shut the fuck up. And how do you even know she doesn't care about the woman in the Middle East? What's your proof of it beyond the fact that she mostly focuses her channel on talks about media and not on other things? We are allowed to talk about multiple things in this world. We don't have to be forced to talk about things you deem as "more important." Because in the end it would be so easy for me to come back at you and say "why worry about the people in the Middle East when the climate is changing?" or "why worry about climate change when people are dying of famine?" It doesn't disprove anything she has said, nor does this talk about how "evil" or "crazy" she and other feminist are. That's why Sargon fails. That's why anti-feminist fail.

  • @hannabelphaege3774
    @hannabelphaege3774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +568

    "Not well served by masculinity"? With those eyes? Wow, Sargon has a narrow view of masculinity and poor taste in men.

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I think he's more in mind of which one of them would win in a wrestling match. When all you have is girth every problem can be solved with wrestling.

    • @MultiversePatroller1
      @MultiversePatroller1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I just laughed like an oil tycoon's widow in those old moving pictures. Your wit is sparkling. I hope your night/day is magnificent.

    • @ThatOneGuy7550
      @ThatOneGuy7550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sargon says this but he looks like a complete sack of shit compared to Joel, who looks much handsome, physically. Carlgon has some clear self-image issues about himself he's covering with his faux-nationalism.

  • @innocentbystander1993
    @innocentbystander1993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    >I don't care about anita sarkessian
    >has made his entire youtube career out of making videos about her for fucking years
    Mhmm sure

    • @JJ-qo7th
      @JJ-qo7th 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Aw, Carl is tsundere for Anita.

  • @-chloe-8728
    @-chloe-8728 4 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    to this day, i'm still puzzled by sarkeesian hate train. like, damn, god forbid someone have a different opinion than you. i thought that's what edgy centrists are all about defending.

    • @sorryifoldcomment8596
      @sorryifoldcomment8596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Time is not being kind to their obsession...it will only become more and more pathetic, I am sure of it. Because of how ridiculous it is, how seriously they take this (especially when contrasted with the stuff they refuse to take seriously). 'Don't worry about what politicians are doing...only worry about what this lady is saying in her TH-cam videos.'

    • @loverainthunder
      @loverainthunder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Edgy centrists are radical about being accepted and approved.

    • @Swaggerpede
      @Swaggerpede 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      for me it wasn't her opinions in and of themselves, i didnt mind that she had a different opinion than mine or anything. it was more that i felt like there didnt come from the most honest place sometimes. she was exposed to not really be that interested in games, and just wanted to make some patreon/backer money for some video essays that she didnt deliver on or something. so to my young mind, it was sort of disingenuous. as well as that, i found some of her takes to be quite odd. for instance, her notorious hitman piece really missed the mark for me. you know about the strippers and how you completely had the option not to kill them or something? . it was a long time ago, to be fair and that being said yes the obsession with her is really out of fashion, didnt gamer gate happen years ago? like, Chill sargon lmao. I havent been a fan of his for years now because he's just slipping. did you know he tried to start some sort of gamergate 2 ? failed tremendously of course. I tuned into his channel for the first time in a while just to see if he had evolved at all, but instead i found him taking WAP all too seriously. it must be exhausting being that concerned with everything.

    • @KattReen
      @KattReen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Yeah, I'm a feminist and I always found her takes pretty boring and not really adding anything new to the existing conversation. Which is fine, I can just find more interesting takes all over the internet. It's not a fucking hatecrime against gamers to compile "problematic" stuff about games from a feminist perspective that is already talked about and make it accessible to those who haven't thought about it a whole lot already.
      Objectively, she's at most a little bit annoying or boring, and it's hilarious that gamers are so genuinely THREATENED by her. Like, stay mad, they've made this woman incredibly successful.

    • @-chloe-8728
      @-chloe-8728 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@KattReen completely agree.

  • @LoLo1k2k3k
    @LoLo1k2k3k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1577

    God hearing Carl say “I don’t care” so many times makes it even more strange that he is a grown man and not some fifteen year old loser who watched South Park as a kid and thinks they’re cooler than Everybody else.

    • @MrThomazSatiro
      @MrThomazSatiro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      If you watched South Park as a kid you are objectively cooler than everybody else

    • @Absenteeee
      @Absenteeee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      as someone who didn't watch south park and was an uncool kid i cannot deny this

    • @someonerandom8552
      @someonerandom8552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      gamingLegacies But I was an uncool kid and I watched South Park.
      Am I a paradox?

    • @huntermattson169
      @huntermattson169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@someonerandom8552 You're just Someone random

    • @jasonmillsom2981
      @jasonmillsom2981 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrThomazSatiro facts

  • @bilbobaggins5752
    @bilbobaggins5752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1326

    Sargon suffers from the lazy response video formula. Where he records himself reacting to a video sentence by sentence. So he will miss points being built up in a paragraphs and pages. He'll complain that there's no forest because of all the trees in the way.
    They are always tedious videos where it takes hours to get through a few minutes of video to critique.

    • @silvertamagachi
      @silvertamagachi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      The most bizarre thing though is, at least to a very easily-swayed mushbrain like me . . . it's kind of compelling. Like, Sargon is obviously a fucking moron, but he *sounds* smart enough if you're not paying too close attention. Like if you don't notice that he's doing the sentence-by-sentence trick, you might think some of his discrete points have merit, and start nodding along. There were a couple times where I was like "well, I guess so . . ." before Joel smacked me in the face with his polite, soft-spoken common sense and I realized I was being played.

    • @mycenaeangal9312
      @mycenaeangal9312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I mean at the very least sargon knows what he's doing through intuition scraps of reading and other things. Don't feel too bad about falling for it.

    • @dvillines26
      @dvillines26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Whenever someone responds to something I post with a granular sentence-by-sentence critique, I go "you know, this is not my idea of a good time" and peace out. It's exhausting and pointless talking that way!

    • @Nolrai12
      @Nolrai12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@silvertamagachi Reminds me of my first reaction to James B. Peterson, they aren't the same _kind_ of compelling until you listen to someone else, and then insine, (wel obviously their pushing the same views in a lot of ways, and both going for a kind of authoritative masculinity, but jordan is much more intensely post-modern.)

    • @PVDCC
      @PVDCC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      The nice effect that comes from it is when they go to the next sentence and realise, midway ranting, how they just cornered themselves. Like when Joel is finishing the Lubensluben rhetoric and he cuts right before Joel gets to the point of the thought experiment. Then, on continuing the video, he sees that he needs to back down on his argument, but instead he chooses to go full gas and says "well fuck it, you can say nazism is bad, so I can say feminism is bad".

  • @88Ulloa
    @88Ulloa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Sargon: "I don't care about Anita Sarkeesian"
    Also Sargon: Makes a 40 minutes video to talk about Anita Sarkeesian

    • @kain52002
      @kain52002 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Way more than just one... Made a whole TH-cam channel to talk about Anita Sarkeesian.

  • @katiequinn5589
    @katiequinn5589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    This is one of your best videos. I was thinking about this when I saw Sargon respond to one of Lindsay Ellis’s videos about J.K. Rowling, in which he suddenly acted like the safety and comfort of women was worth prioritizing against “radical trans activism.” It just hit me how Carl thinks how the only conversations worth having are the ones that he decides are worth having. If Carl doesn’t have complete control over the topic, if it can’t revolve around his ego and preference, if he can’t be validated that he is 100% correct and doesn’t need to learn anything new, then he simply says he doesn’t care and acts like the topic isn’t worth investigating or exploring. HBomberguy put it best. Carl doesn’t know. He doesn’t care. And he wants to know and care less.

  • @simd3082
    @simd3082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    This is what we call "I can never admit i am wrong" syndrome. Carl of Akkad is patient 0 in the last epidemic of it.

    • @dvillines26
      @dvillines26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's the influence of fash tactics filtering down to the rationalist dipshits

  • @JC-D0lphin
    @JC-D0lphin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +991

    How on earth is Big Joel "not well served by masculinity"? He absolutely is, in my view. 10/10, would ask out for coffee, would leave an awkward comment on his YT channel.

    • @terri8372
      @terri8372 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      J C agree

    • @nightcollapse
      @nightcollapse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Yeah. He's more feminine then most (which isn't a bad thing, femboys deserve all the love, y'all are sweethearts) but he's still most Definetly masculine in a ton of ways. (The way he presents himself, etc.) 10/10 what a cutie.

    • @dpax2195
      @dpax2195 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Dexter Badger AJ What does effeminate even mean anymore? I FEEL
      “effeminate”, yet I work out, served in Marine infantry for 8 years, and my ideal GoT character isn Bobby B.
      No one can tell that I am effeminate at heart, but yet I am.
      I need a strict definition of the word, is what I’m saying

    • @bobbyb6053
      @bobbyb6053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dpax2195 *OHHH, SHOW US YOUR MUSCLES! YOU'LL BE A SOLDIER!*

    • @Hakajin
      @Hakajin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Even if this were true... He's starting by admitting that men who don't live up to some masculine ideal in our society have a hard time. Isn't that an admission that, yes, our society does favor masculinity and/or force gender roles on us?

  • @lilchromie
    @lilchromie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    In the opinion of this completely straight man big Joel is more handsome and masculine than Sargon

  • @cambrown5633
    @cambrown5633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I just realised we're like 6 levels deep on criticism here, this is Big Joel, in response to Sargon, in response to Big Joel, in response to Sargon and Bigfoot, in response to Anita, in response to modern games...

  • @GetOfflineGetGood
    @GetOfflineGetGood 5 ปีที่แล้ว +652

    Congrats on making Carl say "lubenshluben" out loud as a very serious grown man

    • @jbkjbk1999
      @jbkjbk1999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      everyone go subscribe to bemundolacks channel it's great

  • @luisnavarro5298
    @luisnavarro5298 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2610

    This is a 6 Sargon long video Joel, you know damn well he’s not going to watch it

    • @belegl.7721
      @belegl.7721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      There's diasgreement in that regard. @DustyO'Rusty, a bit down in the comments, estimates it to be about 15 Sargons long.

    • @EE-gv9wt
      @EE-gv9wt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      @@belegl.7721 that's in imperial system. In metric sargons it's 6

    • @alfiewillis4893
      @alfiewillis4893 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I think he will watch it, but not in its entirety, because he does tend to skip around and not absorb a person's entire argument before dismissing it. Hopefully he proves us wrong, but for the love of god don't hold your breath.

    • @Odinsday
      @Odinsday 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@EE-gv9wt I thought that 15 sargons was the metric standard and that 6 sargons was the imperial standard.

    • @EE-gv9wt
      @EE-gv9wt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@Odinsday shit we need a convention to resolve the misconceptions

  • @RemnTheteth
    @RemnTheteth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    The problem is always the ego. Instead of being flexible and open to better information, an attack on Sargon's ideas is an attack on Sargon himself, just in the same way that he attacks Joel personally because he thinks Joel's opinions must be a reflection on Joel himself. And in the same way Anita exposes bad ideas in video games, which literally inspired him to start making videos, he feels the need to defends his worldview unprovoked. And I'm pretty certain his view on feminists hasn't changed. He's not here to learn or grow. He's here to demand others comply to his perspective. Because it's about being right, not about what is true; his argument boils down to the idea that his views are true for him, without being bothered to contend with the lived experience of more than half the human population, women who have been the butt of the joke of the video games he baselessly defends.
    The end point of his philosophy is a moral nihilism of the worst sort, which precludes the need for him to even state his opinions in the first place. And instead of believing people who are negatively effected by harmful stereotypes and cultural norms, he entrenches himself deeper into those norms, crying out for someone to agree. And the approval of others who live equally unexamined lives is the end point of some of the most pernicious parts of the internet.

    • @clemsontgr84
      @clemsontgr84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      B W last sentence is fucking poetry.

  • @henrique3865
    @henrique3865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Coming back to this from the future, where Carl basically trapped himself into his own wasteland is almost a spiritual experience.

  • @animorph17
    @animorph17 5 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    You'll notice sargon's behavior in a LOT of conservative arguments. They never actually address your point directly, they always attack the idea standing vaguely adjacent to your argument.

    • @virani3120
      @virani3120 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I was watching a "debate" at one of the local uni's in my city that was a terf against a transwoman, and the topic was on if trans rights were harming women's rights. At one point in the debate the terf just straight up asked "who even cares about trans rights?" to a room that had a couple dozen trans people in it.

    • @giannigiovful
      @giannigiovful 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Rachel Madison
      Well, the TERFs already think that. She just said the quiet part out loud.

    • @erikdumas9873
      @erikdumas9873 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I think that's because conservatism, at it's core, is really about maintaining/reinforcing social hierarchies. Most of the ideological beliefs they claim to hold are just a smokescreen (albeit, often an unconsciously created smokescreen), and they will be dropped immediately if holding those beliefs no longer serve to defend their position of relative power over those below them in the hierarchy. Facts, logic, reason, truth, equality, justice, egalitarianism, scientific or academic inquiry, happiness, prosperity, fulfillment; these are all things that they are happy to sacrifice if they think it helps to preserve the "natural" hierarchy. And if any of those things threaten their good standing in the hierarchy, then they must be unnatural.
      Under those assumptions, Trump's actions as a conservative make sense. He's using the power of the government to reinforce what he thinks is the natural social hierarchy. One where Americans (and white, protestant Americans in particular) are on top.

    • @pithagorian4394
      @pithagorian4394 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@erikdumas9873 citation needed

    • @jamesoakes1819
      @jamesoakes1819 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@pithagorian4394 Capitalism is an inherently hierarchical system which is what the entire conservative platform seeks to defend at all costs.

  • @jadetortellini6150
    @jadetortellini6150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2478

    Sargon only sounds smart because of his accent. That is literally it

    • @possumhead2812
      @possumhead2812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      *cough paul Joseph Watson cough*

    • @jacklandismusic
      @jacklandismusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +323

      It’s like how Ben Shapiro employs the genius, galaxy brain tactic of *talk real fast*

    • @justincoleman3805
      @justincoleman3805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      He still says nonsense with that accent. So he doesn’t sound smart to me.

    • @mtlewis973
      @mtlewis973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      he doesn’t sound smart at all, he has the same sort of vocal shape as alan partridge. he sounds like a total wanker, and that’s even before you start listening to what he’s saying

    • @badsoup8857
      @badsoup8857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@possumhead2812 *Imaaagine maeh shouk*

  • @herrsvartvinter1578
    @herrsvartvinter1578 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    i’m sure you understand better than anyone else here Joel, but i want to point out how absolutely devastating it felt in the moment when you called Carl ”King Baby”. it felt like the entire video was perfectly building towards that one final blow, and it blows me away every time i watch this

  • @laureljean4062
    @laureljean4062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Returning to this video years later feels like going insane. I cannot believe there are humans who listen to Akkad and think, "This is a smart man."

    • @laureljean4062
      @laureljean4062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      OMFG I thought this was from 2017. It's from 2019. COVID has ruined my concept of time.

    • @sizskie
      @sizskie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@laureljean4062 reminder that these people still exist going into 2022

    • @KeDe1606
      @KeDe1606 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sizskiereminder that the amount of those people has somehow increased exponentially over the course of 2023. I’m scared

    • @teathesilkwing7616
      @teathesilkwing7616 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@laureljean4062it’s almost 5 years old now!

  • @matti.8465
    @matti.8465 5 ปีที่แล้ว +365

    On this video alone, Joel has gotten more coments saying he's hot than Sargon has probably received through his career.

    • @drdyer23
      @drdyer23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      if this comment isn’t 100% true then i’m done with this life. done, i tell ya.
      carl is and always has been a disgusting melting hippo of a human being with zero brains & the most annoying voice in history. i can prove it too! try this: try to imagine carl talking dirty. i just threw up in my mouth 🤮

    • @awfuledgyusernamethatsalso4695
      @awfuledgyusernamethatsalso4695 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I mean its easier to tell the truth than to lie

    • @awfuledgyusernamethatsalso4695
      @awfuledgyusernamethatsalso4695 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@macmcskullface1004 whoa what? What a fucking psycho

    • @jdprettynails
      @jdprettynails 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@macmcskullface1004 Not his kid. He's a stepdad

    • @jdprettynails
      @jdprettynails 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@macmcskullface1004 Whaaaat?? Surely not. I bet Mr. Sargon "It depends on the child" of Akkad is a great father!

  • @cactus_judy3929
    @cactus_judy3929 5 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    This is the worst burn he has received in a good long while. I'm sure he'll not care so hard that he makes seven videos about it.

    • @cactus_judy3929
      @cactus_judy3929 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      @The Bandog yeah, I'm often wrong. Always admit it. Does this make sargon something other than a whiny piece of shit? Great defending here.

    • @maivaiva1412
      @maivaiva1412 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      assuming he even can watch all of this. i mean, it is over five minutes long.

    • @christianeriksen7907
      @christianeriksen7907 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@maivaiva1412 Carl is renowned for his attention span and reading comprehension. How dare you!

    • @barthalamewdiaz4733
      @barthalamewdiaz4733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      He won't watch it, this video is at least six Sargons long.

    • @ComatHam
      @ComatHam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Eli You must be part of Carlgons core audience

  • @adriancarter85
    @adriancarter85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Honestly I never engaged with Anita's content but I always was told by others whose words I trusted at the time that "She says videos cause people to hate women." And the fact this uses her own words at 8:03 to prove very easily she isn't an absurd person she is simply talking about how society is affected by these constant portrayals. I had gotten over these old ideas I had a while ago but like this really hit me hard in this video.

  • @professorhazard
    @professorhazard 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    "I don't care" is what children say when they want to hurt your feelings but they don't know about curse words yet. And I can't hear Sargon talk about anything without thinking it sounds like a fart wheezing out of a balloon.

  • @inannab7769
    @inannab7769 5 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    27:05 Did Sargon really just say “disliking nazi propaganda is a political bias” and “Anita sarkeesian is bad for the same reason nazi propaganda is bad” in the same paragraph?

  • @loopholesloopy
    @loopholesloopy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    Local man builds TH-cam career proving how much he doesn't care about your opinions

  • @earnthis1
    @earnthis1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Why does Carl, a white suburban Brit boy, identify with an ancient ruler from the middle east? So weird and self aggrandizing desperation.

    • @JokerFace090
      @JokerFace090 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      My guess is less people know about Sargon than Caesar or Alexander the great, so it makes him think it makes him look smarter than other people. That is the typical insecure narcissist play.

    • @garyb3946
      @garyb3946 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One can only identify with people who are of a similar ethnic and cultural background to themselves?

  • @shenanitims4006
    @shenanitims4006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I love that the line cook in question is attacking your masculinity while hiding behind an avatar. Last time I saw an actual screenshot of him, I didn't exactly see the Rock looking back at me.

    • @ppppppqqqppp
      @ppppppqqqppp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hey, bash him for his ideas but don't fall into the meme of bullying someone over their looks. Sargon is by far enough of a piece of shit that there are plenty of things to focus on without saying men who aren't masculine are worth mocking over it. Yes, even if he claims to be hyper masculine, no reason to fall for the same bullshit he's trying to peddle just to get an "ah ha" in.

  • @bomberfox5232
    @bomberfox5232 5 ปีที่แล้ว +572

    Sargon of Akkad, the guy who has been ranting on and on about Sarkeesian for years, pushed Gamergate, and has been the biggest contributor to anti Sarkeesian videos doesnt care about her.... Consider me skeptical..

  • @InnuendoStudios
    @InnuendoStudios 5 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    "The card says moops."
    -Carlgon

    • @randomguy019
      @randomguy019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      He really does speak for a generation.
      A generation of men like me who were so petrified by appearing wrong (and therefore, weak). Rather accept the fact that they could be incorrect, they built up an ideology where facts and arguments are supposed to be fungible so that they could never appear weak again.
      A belief system built upon radical self-interest to defend fragile egos.

    • @quadpad_music
      @quadpad_music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      How are YOU so far into the comments section. Specially considering that you are making a reference to one of your own videos.

    • @Kropothead
      @Kropothead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Never play defense.

  • @kashe7285
    @kashe7285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    holy shit you absolutely obliterated this guy

    • @SilenceOase
      @SilenceOase ปีที่แล้ว

      Legit game set match right here. How this Sargon clown has any fans left is beyond me, it has to be a narcissistic cult atp

  • @frozenweevil4022
    @frozenweevil4022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    And he launched a harrassing campaign against Lindsay for... writing a book

  • @Methus3lah
    @Methus3lah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    “‘Well let me just replace what you said with something I disagree with’” BRILLIANT

  • @SaintZaiya
    @SaintZaiya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Big Joel energy on this video

  • @MK-cz2rt
    @MK-cz2rt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    the way you've stripped sargon's soul bare and revealed his vulnerabilities is truly extraordinary. I cant imagine how distraught he would be after this haha

  • @JohnBrockman
    @JohnBrockman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    "Why do we still care about Anita Sarkeesian?" A year and a half later, she's going strong and he is *dead*.

    • @CandelaShred
      @CandelaShred 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Really? What’s Anita up to these days? I’ve been out of the political sphere of video games for a while.

    • @JohnBrockman
      @JohnBrockman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Podcasting, running a nonprofit advocacy group, got a few other projects going.

    • @raynajcarter
      @raynajcarter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@JohnBrockman i didn’t know she was doing all of that, thanks for sharing!

    • @shadenox8164
      @shadenox8164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Its especially hilarious because she can only do all that because of the fame those idiots gave to her. If they had just left her alone when she was getting backing for video essays she'd have probably made them, we'd have discussed them a bit maybe and then forgotten who she was. They made their own boogeyman.

    • @michellehawkins7814
      @michellehawkins7814 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@shadenox8164 yeah i agree and the way some acted in rage just proved her point really and made them look stupid to the people that already agreed with her before she made the videos. they just gave more reason why her pointing out that the game industry still hasnt changed how they represent people in them.

  • @poppyraima5342
    @poppyraima5342 5 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    Anyone who goes to Chuck E. Cheese's expecting shrimp is automatically an irresponsible actor.

    • @soSkikik
      @soSkikik 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ...or just careless af

    • @ShootingStarNeo
      @ShootingStarNeo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Anyone who goes to Chuck E. Cheese's is automatically an irresponsible actor.

    • @a.morphous66
      @a.morphous66 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ShootingStarNeo Fuck you, Chuck E Cheese’s was awesome.

    • @keemstarkreamstar7069
      @keemstarkreamstar7069 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bookhead714 Ok mr. “I like recycled pizza”

    • @keemstarkreamstar7069
      @keemstarkreamstar7069 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bookhead714 ok mr. I like my pizza recycled

  • @vee2739
    @vee2739 5 ปีที่แล้ว +517

    > thinks society isnt sexist
    > is sexist to big joel by calling him a beta male immediately

    • @rociohernandez3077
      @rociohernandez3077 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      @Luke Reid there is no such a thing as alphas and betas. The whole thing has been disproven more times than it needed to

    • @bainbonic
      @bainbonic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      People who believe in alphas and betas are funny.

    • @rociohernandez3077
      @rociohernandez3077 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @Benjamin Figgins Exactly! The man who coined the term has debunked his own work yet plenty of people still believe in it.

    • @heavydny86
      @heavydny86 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      B-b-but you can't be sexist towards men?

    • @heavydny86
      @heavydny86 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bainbonic
      Social and reproductive hierarchies exist. This isn't controversial.

  • @JasonMcCarrell
    @JasonMcCarrell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "I don't care" is what an adolescent says when they don't understand why things aren't going their way, and they're frustrated it is that way. It's also an obvious sign that the child has disengaged with the conversation.
    I'm not saying all conservatives are stuck at adolescence... well actually maybe...

  • @Violette205
    @Violette205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Sargon isn't interested in making a valid point, i don't even think he's interested in having people believe in his ideas, all he wants is establish himself as a moral authority without actually having to engage in any moral discussions.

  • @sasak369
    @sasak369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +560

    I have to keep Big Joel videos playing in the background rather than watch the visuals just so I don't get overwhelmed by the sight of that hot troubadour.

    • @alexsmith2910
      @alexsmith2910 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's too late for me...

    • @AliceDiableaux
      @AliceDiableaux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He is the new Contrapoints in regards to objective hotness on breadtube

    • @AdrianLopez-hr5rq
      @AdrianLopez-hr5rq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      AliceDiableaux the hottest on breadtube is objectively the puppets the non-compete guy uses in his mst3k parodies

    • @coolepicperson4150
      @coolepicperson4150 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      AliceDiableaux I ship contrapoints and big Joel

    • @leiram8833
      @leiram8833 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@coolepicperson4150 HOW DARE YOU HBOMB AND CONTRAPOINTS ARE SOULMATES AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT

  • @Owlpunk
    @Owlpunk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +341

    This was probably the most polite and sensible mic drop I've ever witnessed.

    • @thinkcritically1990
      @thinkcritically1990 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Confirmation bias and you..

    • @thatsterroristsbro7855
      @thatsterroristsbro7855 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@thinkcritically1990 That's some choice critical thinking there. Definitely confirmation bias, only logical conclusion. Obviously.

    • @WickedNPC
      @WickedNPC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@thatsterroristsbro7855 The best part with that confirmation bias argument is that everyone can pretend that they are immune to it themselves.

    • @chaosvii
      @chaosvii 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Think Critically What an ineffable exchange:
      “Man this video fits an idiom that tends to be abrasive really well despite not being abrasive in and of itself. Probably more so than any in my limited memory.”
      “Hey I’d like to remind you that you are, as a human being, vulnerable to confirmation bias, but only imply that it is relevant here.”
      What fine lessons we could all learn by having teachers that take this approach! And I would explain that statement, but I think we’re all better served by leaving that as an impossible to complete task for the viewer unless they engage with me in a specific fashion I won’t mention.

    • @jaffacake1881
      @jaffacake1881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@thinkcritically1990 Dunning-Kruger effect and you...

  • @tonycampbell1424
    @tonycampbell1424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Big Joel: unironic bastion of masculinity.
    Man, myth, legend, role model.
    Sorry Carl, but this is what peak performance looks like. Deal with it.

  • @hockeygrrlmuse
    @hockeygrrlmuse 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Cannot tell you how disappointed I was that this was not about the historical Sargon of Akkad and was rather about some pathetic lil Brit I had never heard of and hope I will never hear of again. Not to say it isn't a good and important video, because it is both of those things, but shit, I was so down to hear your hot takes on ancient Mesopotamian warrior kings.

  • @TheOneSevenNine
    @TheOneSevenNine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +401

    the entire point of this video is a 30-minute buildup to the phrase "K I N G B A B Y"

    • @JC-D0lphin
      @JC-D0lphin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Absolutely. Had trouble keeping in the sip of coffee I had just taken in. KING BABY

    • @lopez.jacinto.6726
      @lopez.jacinto.6726 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@JC-D0lphin i never thought Big J would say something like that. (But i'm glad he did)

    • @malehumanperson7901
      @malehumanperson7901 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's pretty much correct. 30 minutes of nothing followed by some childish insult.

    • @JC-D0lphin
      @JC-D0lphin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@malehumanperson7901 It really wasn't. Look, I'm capable of understand when Sargon has a point, even though I don't like the guy. It's rare, but it happens. Surely you can extend the same here.

    • @TheOneSevenNine
      @TheOneSevenNine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@malehumanperson7901 you are the subject baby of the king baby. a peasant baby.

  • @mb-qi1qq
    @mb-qi1qq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    "The contract we sign as we enter Shark Tale discourse" bro that took me out

    • @GreyeHazel
      @GreyeHazel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I got to this part of the comment section AS that quote was said

  • @384Freak
    @384Freak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love how, what offends Joel most are not even Benjamins low blows, but the fact that he [C. Benjamin] can't even seem to form a coherent argument, but has to resort to personal inults. Joel seems genuinely disappointed, because he wanted have a real conversation, just warms my heart

  • @IAmNumber4000
    @IAmNumber4000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    LOL Sargon said he didn't care about Anita? He's fucking obsessed!

  • @Laihoistheman
    @Laihoistheman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +355

    "I thought Karl cared about facts and logic and evidence"
    That was your first mistake.

    • @ordinarytree4678
      @ordinarytree4678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "THAT WAS *HIS* MISTAKE"

    • @torrent8446
      @torrent8446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ordinarytree4678 THAT MISTAKE WAS HIS

  • @geraldbarfe3341
    @geraldbarfe3341 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    "Part of what we sign with the 'SharkTales discourse contract' is that it is something we are interested in talking about"
    Big Joel, I love you so much!

    • @matti.8465
      @matti.8465 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I hate/love that part because there's no way to deny i care about Sharktale discourse after watching that video.

    • @jeniferjoseph9200
      @jeniferjoseph9200 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That line killed me

  • @DoodMcAwesome
    @DoodMcAwesome 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    “Not served well by masculinity”
    This really stuck with me. Because if someone can potentially not be server well by masculinity, doesn’t that prove in at least some way that there actually is a problem?

  • @collegiumpontificum7971
    @collegiumpontificum7971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Sargon: Makes a sloppy response video to Joel's
    Joel: You have woken the dragon

  • @rainrope5069
    @rainrope5069 5 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    Sargon of Akkad: the only person to care so little that he makes a long editted response video

    • @suides4810
      @suides4810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Rain Rope a person that cared so little that they kind of started the conversation.

    • @Scoring57
      @Scoring57 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@suides4810
      Ha ha ha ha. This is one of the funniest 'funny cause it's true' statements I've seen

    • @suides4810
      @suides4810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Alex & Rah have you been living under a rock?
      Anita S is known due to Sargon and similar people in the first place

    • @aaronsanders6162
      @aaronsanders6162 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rain Rope did he though? He literally puts no effort into his argument. His schtick is so baseless he should be executed

  • @ericdorland3707
    @ericdorland3707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    Damn Big Joel is cutting straight through Sargon's bullshit sophistry. That double dragon permutation was quite the spicy debate meatball.

  • @TheBigAyland
    @TheBigAyland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I used to love Sargons videos. Even if I disagreed with him, at least he put forward new sources of information, and different takes on topics. At least that's what I thought.
    His videos now basically regurgitate the Daily Mail. He's gone from indepth, to another reactionary, mediocre hack. He talks of free speech, but won't defend it when a party holds alternate views, often excusing any attempts to silence said parties, such as justifying a car driving into BLM protestors (which doesn't apparently fit his views of cancel culture like a twitter ban does).
    I don't watch him anymore.

    • @xp8969
      @xp8969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Welcome to Based