Just found out about this podcast and as an ex-American soldier that found out he was serving empire let me say, keep up the wonderful work comrades. This is quickly becoming my favorite podcast 🖤
The dress culture thing, a lot of us are just way too damn tired to care tbh. Also many of us can't afford clothes. period. I have 12 year old clothes in my closet and I'm 22.
The scariest part about American gun culture is there is no basic competency requirement to own. There are people who have conceal carry permits that have no trigger discipline, can't maintain/operate them correctly, and certainly don't handle the recoil.
And the further scarier part of that is in Texas, recently, a law was passed that made it legal for anyone who is legally allowed to purchase a firearm (which is pretty much anyone 18+ without a felony record) to conceal carry in public. No training or educational course required at all. This means that people who potentially don’t even understand how a basic handgun functions, will be allowed to carry a loaded one in most public spaces.
@@tmkeesler Incompetent people already carried guns. They're called police. No amount of training makes them safe for humans to be around; in fact, more training probably makes them less safe!
I love how Hakim talks about an "r"-ish sound in Baghdad - although my mind immediately went to "So - why can't we call it 'Bragdad'? They got a LOT to brag about - they used to be Babylon dammit".
It’s so weird and dystopic, too, but I didn’t even begin to realize the depths of this until I started having more international friends through various communities that I belong to, as well as my foray into leftism. It’s so weird how much of the propaganda and pro-USA rituals/aspects of life that there are
lol I heard a story here in the Netherlands of an American "expat" that bought a Dutch flag and was asking people on facebook on how to properly fold and store his brand new Dutch flag and people were like "I don't know, put it in a plastic bag?" Just the idea of treating a flag like a religious item is so creepy and weird to me.
@@fun_ghoul I actually did not know that! Thank you for sharing. I’m lucky that my particular public school system where I am from (the Midwest), pretty much ceased having that be mandatory after grades 1-6. But yes, definitely had to recite that propagandistic cult line for 6 years of my young American life
Speaking from my own experience, dressing as a very comfortable disaster is a combination of desperation, exhaustion, and a declaration of defiance. "I have to put myself through this bullshit? well, I'm sure as hell not going to bother gussying up (It definitely had nothing to do at all with not being able to afford to launder my clothes this week, nope, not at all)." Yeah, US ppl stereotypes really are depressing realities o_O;
Same here, leftist with an academic background in the science but with a huge post-college personal interest in geography, anthropology, and different cultures, especially Balkan and Arab cultures! Being Asian american, I feel there are definitely stereotypes about us from within the imperial core from our own fellow Americans (usually WASPs), as well as our biological fam back in asia for being “Americanized”, as well as people from other countries when interacting internationally, being deviant to the prototypical “white Anglo american male” of the USA
OMG HAKIM thank you so much for clarifying the “monkey cunt pain”. I was raised Armenian, in Syrian and I’ve heard my mom say something along these words for my entire life, but I’ve always assumed that it’s some Turkish phrase bastardized over time and my explained not understanding it to my lack of knowledge of Turkish, hell I’ve even used it myself. Fuck, never thought of it like that… TBANK YOU
The reason why our alcohol laws are so draconian and outdated is because we have ZERO public transportation. Since everyone has to drive themselves and drives drunk it causes so many deaths. If our cities were designed like those in France, Japan, or Amsterdam these laws wouldn't exist.
legit, lol. They reduce bus service where I am from 5 times an hour to, like, three times an hour after like 6, to never after like 10, and I just don't understand why. Like, drunk people need public transport too, lol. and of course, because America, there's only one tram line, and it's always only 6 times an hour lol
@Antonio-Gransci The public transport in US is severely underdeveloped and doesn't compare to almost any European country but it also depends on the region, your could be better deceloped and the other person's could have zero
American food is high in sugar because of the anti-fat campaign in the 90s. Fat got labeled as evil but when you make everything fat free it also becomes thin and tasteless. So manufacturers started adding sugar to make up for the taste. I really don't know what Hakim has against mayo. It's boss. My bidet is the best thing ever. I have given up several savagery.
Sure, it's a bit wasteful! Very responsible of you, thanks. However just imagine how much fresh water is wasted by industry and realize your waste is just a, pun intended, drop in the bucket.
@@tylergriffin3667 Do you know how much water -- AND CHLORINE BLEACH! -- are used in the manufacture of toilet paper? If you did, you'd worry less about wasting water to save paper...
@@tylergriffin3667 Oh, and if it's _just_ running over your ass, it's gonna do nothing. C'mon. Ever changed a diaper? It's shit. You either need sufficient water pressure to blast the shit off your ass, or to use your hand to wipe with water similarly to how you'd use paper; soap can be used in either case as needed.
that fat scare started way back with cereals and carbs being mass produced in the us at the start of the past century, and solidified with the creation of the pyramid of nutrition and an agrarian reform back in the 50´s or 60´s, and it comes and goes out fashion from decafe to decade,
my man, i was searching for this momment so that i could laugh my ass off again, but for some reason i thought hakim said it,and i also thought it was later on so i would never have found it on my own. Thank you
The I raq one…………I heard this lyric in a song, “he lives on my block, and he drives an Irock, I thought he was saying “Drives in Iraq” I was so confused 😂
My mom’s side of the family comes from Iran, so I grew up drinking tea all the time, and it’s definitely true about the hot tea in the summer. I’m sitting here, listening to this drinking a giant cup of hot tea with a fuckton of sugar in it and listening to this 😂 the funny thing is, my family always gave me side eye for putting sugar in my tea (I’m from America too)
That sounds so strange and interesting, in Romania we either would "put dick" into anyone and anything, either would fuck anyone and anything, even dead people which is very strange but so usual to hear. There's a verbal tense showing the will without any additional words that helps a lot, maybe in other languages nobody would've used that.
27:00 Material conditions in America make it more difficult to maintain a healthy body weight, so naturally the percentage of obesity will be higher. (And that's leaving aside the fact that often, shame is at the root of disordered eating, and the solution is actually to care about it less, not more; to break the link between visible weight and shame - at least for those whose pathological relationship with food originates from childhood abuse, as is common.) Urban planning that is hostile to active travel, lacking even the opportunity to walk to a bus stop or metro station, necessitating expensive gym memberships; social isolation and atomisation - evidenced also by the rate of "deaths of despair" - have been shown to cause addictive behaviour; and the need to work multiple jobs leaving no time to cook from basic ingredients (and IMO this is the only healthy way to eat that is not prohibitively expensive); a puritanical worldview (that affect even the outlook of atheists, through osmosis) that creates fertile ground maladaptive thought-behaviour patterns; it would be unbelievable if these did not result in obesity and other metabolic problems.
I'm a trucker, and food is just fucked for me. I don't even have access to healthier foods or the ability to get ANY exercise. The most exercise I get is walking from my truck to the shipping offices and back, and cranking a trailer handle or pulling my pin. And since we truckers don't get to go home like we are supposed to, and we work 70+ hour weeks (even if our logs show 40) at 7 days a week and get s single off day in a month and a half, we don't really have time to exercise either. So many Uber capitalist truckers too. No idea why. Socialism is a truckers fucking dream you ask me. We make less then 1% of the value of our work in some cases. The last load I took was worth 8$ per mile real rate. And since most of these companies broker their own loads, they keep most of that. Probably made around 6$ per mile. 2$ of that to the truck. Another 2$ of that going towards paying everyone. Well then where does the other 2$ go? Profits. The truck driver does the work. Unlike other industry with all these moving parts, the corruption is directly in your face as a truck driver, because there are only three moving parts to the machine, only one of which is getting screwed over. The drivers. The mechanics, and the Dispatchers. The mechanics are getting screwed only in the same ways they usually. The dispatchers earn a commission off of the drivers efficiency, so they work to screw us over too, and then there's us. Making 57 cents flat rate, on work that the market values at 8$. Those extra 2$ should go to us. Or, even we should be paid for the work we do, instead of the miles we run. But capitalism deems it okay for us to work without pay. I went all last week working my ass off for the benefit of the company, and got paid for 200 miles of the 1400 I ran. Why so many truck drivers are right wing facists I will never understand. But anyway back on point, yeah work an finances are the reason why many Americans are overweight.
I mean for the no-cursing rule in American it does kinda serve a linguistic purpose, in that cursing has more weight to it when it’s frowned upon or taboo
Shithouse by itself is slang for an outdoor toilet (en-US: outhouse); one made of brick surely must have been rare, expensive and sturdy. The saying is a comment on the perceived durability of a person or thing, not a means to liken them to the shitter. Also, I've never heard a Brit say this phrase! Glad it still has currency back in the "homeland"...
I'm an American, and I'm autistic, so normally chicken is like a comfort food of mine, but Chick-fil-a is garbage. I hate the texture of the chicken there. I'm definitely more of a Raising Canes guy. You should absolutely go try Raising Canes. You will never be able to eat Chick-fil-a again, I guarantee it.
On the topic of cursing: here in the rural North-West of the United States, its very common to hear "field talk" amongst outdoor workers. For example, my extended family is mostly LDS, and devoutly so. Cursing is heavily discouraged. Yet, my same devoutly LDS uncles could make a sailor blush with the cursing they cut loose while doing field work on the farm.
True for soft drinks, but what about 750ml of coffee in a go? The proper serving size is more like 150ml, and not with 20% half-and-half and 10% sugar! Cheers from so-called Canada, home of Tim Hortons (the main coffee peddlers up here).
@@Tristyn_Waterman You're not wrong about the ice scam, tho! You can scarcely judge how much pop is in the cup, so how can you even compare to a bottle? And this assumes the syrup-soda ratio is adequate, which it often isn't because syrup is several hundred dollars a box. Even if you order a Coke with no ice, it almost always tastes like it's watered down...and it is! As for coffee, it's cheap because the empire wants to extract the max amount of honey from each worker bee, and the money spent on caffeine is more than made up for in increased "productivity." That's why many capitalists employing office workers feed them free coffee...
The toilet water lever thing, in my experience, has a lot to do with the shape of the bowl. My granparents toilets are these massive church pulpit like alters of porcelain with water up to a couple inches below the rim and an almost fish bowl globe shape. And yes, when I'm over there I hover above to avoide teabagging the water. My parents toilet is much smaller, but the shape is.... Bad. The bowl is narrow and sharply angled and the water barely fills the bottom drainage channel and 2/3 times when you shit, it lands on the bowl wall completely out of the water and ends up requiring scrubbing after you flush. The toilet in my house is smaller than any of the others, and the bowl shape is about halfway between and shallowly rounded and the water level is not much higher than my parents, but actually fucking serves it's purpose with out getting you splashed or dipped.
Ok, here's a thing about portion sizes in America; the idea was that you are supposed to have more than one meal in the portion. It is expected that most people eat 1/3 to 1/2 what they are brough and take the rest home to their kids or for later.
I know this is an old video but at the end you said American healthcare is not even close to being good. I’m curious why you think this is (aside from the obvious that it’s mostly not provided for by the state). I have cancer and go to the Mayo Clinic, which is regarded as one of the best clinics in the world. We also have many foreign doctors, I’m guessing because the pay is much better here. I know Hakim is a doctor, is there a better treatment for Leukemia that America isn’t aware of? We use chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, and the somewhat new car T therapy.
Here's how I feel about veterans and our Military. Most people don't realize what it is they are doing until it is far too late. Most join without the knowledge of what they're getting themselves into. My friend Will. My dad. My grandfather even to s certain extent. I feel horrible for everyone involved. The soldier is just as damned as the person he is attacking, and I think that's very important to understand. We all are victims of this system. Some of us in the U.S grew up in third world conditions, and we're never educated about these things until it was far too late. I was lucky to live where I did. I could see first hand the difference between me and my peers. And then to live in a split family it was very easy to contrast between the areas I lived. I have been homeless here as well. I was fortunate enough to know better then to join the military at that time, but I can see why many do. Not to say that there aren't many who join because they are capitalist bootlickers. They almost never see the side of things that my dad did, even if it's starting them in the face. I call those individuals jarheads. My dad had to throw the bodies of innocents from windows. The difference between him and the typical jarhead is in how it impacted them. Him and his colleagues will probably never forget what they did and are forever remorseful. His struggle was a major defining quality of my childhood and how terrible of a father he was. Something I have to remind my mother of sometimes when we all feel like kicking him out for his antics. The jarheads, they will just chock it up to American Exceptionalism. And they tend to feel justified and vindicated in their actions. Others still (American Sniper as an example), will try to mentally reconcile the reality with the propaganda and will forever struggle to grapple with that as well. For these reasons I don't blame the soldiers. I blame to assholes that created a situation that led to their existence in the first place. I feel bad for the soldiers. I couldn't live with myself if I ever found out the truths behind some of the horrible things I would've had to do.
States within the US vary on gun laws. Maine was very easy. Valid driver's license, pass background check, done. In NJ I had to apply for a Firearms Identification Card with a stricter background check and fingerprints and whatnot. Maine is what's called a "constitutional carry" state. Anyone who is legally allowed to own a firearm can carry open or concealed. It was nice. Can't do that in NJ. Some parts of the US have a bigger gun culture than others.
When I was going to high school in Idaho, there was a student who faked a bomb threat so we could all go home. Fucker got away with it too, he just left a note in a bathroom lol
I hate most fast food places, the only flavors they know of include salty and spicy. All other seasonings just don't exist. I'll only eat fast food if I'm starving and I'm too busy and/or depressed to make my own food and my parents forget to make gluten free food because they don't realize I'll actually be home by dinner time. Which, admittedly, happens more than I'd like. I will get vending machine snacks before fast food any day of the week.
Actually American food is high in high fructose corn syrup, the Cheaper Sugar that our body can't use! (We've also started exporting it to poorer countries and obesity is rising in places where the US exports all of their shit, like Philippines and Mexico. Junk food is one of our few exports left, and only half of their factories to make it are in the US. But the corn is the main staple of big farms all across the Midwest, and they gotta keep that stuff selling.) Also I literally work in a smoke shop that is 18+ and dude people accidentally curse and apologize all day, like fuck dude we don't allow minors and we've got dick pipes and Pornographic stickers but you think Cursing isn't allowed? As soon as you get the okay to curse most ppl just go ham, it's only older more Christian folks that still seem to have a problem with it. My parents were not cool with me cursing in casual conversation until I got to be an adult and they couldn't stop it. In the 90s and 00s Evangelical folks went on a big campaign to try and stop their own communities from cursing or "using god's name in vain" which they thought meant using the phrase "oh my god" like at all. Which is just fuckin weird and hilarious in hindsight.
I’m socialist and I own firearms, as you have said before, if you want too influence positive change in the world, you have too be prepared too defend it. Any of socialist gun owners out there? We are every few unfortunately. Maybe I will start a non profit gun range that offers firearms training too comrades at cost lol
I don't know how many Socialist folks are armed, but the Witch-burning Hillbillies and Klan Enthusiasts around here are quite dominant anyway. I plan to go underground and aid the insurgency if possible. There is no use even talking to some of them. 🇺🇸
1:12:51 speaking as an American high school student… we had two threats of a kid shooting up the school this year, and the response was pretty mixed. The first time, the school actually decided to publicize the news and half stayed home and the other half went, not really believing it to be true. The second time, they decided not to publicize it until everyone got to school (so the school can get their attendance check most likely) and then everyone brushed it off. It happened two more times recently and those two times kids actualy brought guns to school, but intended to do nothing with it. Two years ago, this kid accidentally died of a gun misfiring and it was pretty bad… and the administration nor the district have done nothing. We regularly have these threats and nobody really cares anymore. I joked with my friends that someone should actually muster the balls to go through with it so we can take it seriously again lol.
Americans have such an unhealthy relationship with guns. Either they think they have the right to own fifty of them or they think owning even one means you're a barbarian. I'm not bashing the 2nd Amendment at all; I can see the merits of owning a gun or two for self-defense. Handguns for concealed carry in case you're attacked while out and about, shotguns for home defense, and maybe a rifle for hunting (so long as the primary reason for hunting is to obtain food, and you're not hunting endangered species). At the same time, however, no one needs to own so many guns they need an entire room to store them all, and there should definitely be more regulations to ensure that, for example, repeat offenders of violent crimes, don't get access to guns. I also think there should be a degree of training required before you can purchase a gun, and that training should be repeated for every type of gun you purchase. A gun is only as effective as the one who wields it. Also people with suicidal ideation shouldn't own a gun if they live alone. Those struggling with drug addiction should also be barred from owning guns until they can be sober for a few years. Guns should be locked up in safes so kids can't get into them and accidentally hurt someone.
When they started talking about a stereotypical Balkan Slav, I didn't think pale Arab, I thought stereotypical Italian. Maybe it's just something about being that close to the Mediterranean that makes people perceive you like that.
One of my favorite episodes so far. I really appreciate Yugopnik's explanation for ribbing friends in this upfront confrontational yet ironic way. Growing up in a thankfully multicultural part of Texas (if you can believe it) I never understood it and would even come to find it tiresome and not take part but reflecting on Yugopnik's words and watching it unfold in the closing jokes I have to say I have learned something valuable today. It is great to see people from around the capitalist empire connect in a real way and those last few minutes were priceless. Thanks guys, people over profits
Spoons of Mayonnaise want a pinch of Paprika on top. And a little something underneath, so that you can eat it with your fingers. Half of a Saltine, maybe.
Shortly after returning home from Thailand I installed a bidet in my house, I’m the only one in my family who will use it though. The rest of them prefer too level forests too maintain their nasty asses
Ugh, about people looking awful in public in the US. My peeve is the messy top bun. Don't care what gender you are, that messy top bun bouncing around just looks awful and makes me question your decision making ability. Especially when combined with pajama clothes.
Counter to water boiling point criticism for Fahrenheit: why do I need to know when water boils? I’m not water. I don’t experience boiling. When do I know water is boiling? I look at it
"Call the donkey uncle till it you gets you past the river" exist in turkish also in the form of "call the bear uncle" its basically a word play, "bear" means "ayı" and uncle means "dayı"
I’ve been really enjoying your podcast and was coming to initially commend you all on how body positive you were while acknowledging that yes, Americans are overweight and it is a systemic issue that usually is the culprit, not always overeating. Even the acknowledgement of emotional eating and isolation was excellent. However, ik this was an aside and I’m sure he didn’t mean anything by it, JT made a comment about people on planes “spilling into his seat” and said it was “disgusting.” As someone who has lost significant weight but was once that person (still plus-size, just less so), I can’t begin to tell you how uncomfortable it is for the person you’re sitting next to, as well. Airlines have been shrinking seats so they can profit more. Meanwhile, Americans have been growing, not shrinking to match. Sitting next to people who give you disgusted glances or in one case, I had someone talk about me to their kid over me like I wasn’t there is demoralizing. I had paid for an extra seat to prevent the problem and there was a gate mixup. She wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place. The worst thing for you is that you have to sit close to someone because an airline chose profit over your comfort. But I assure you, the other person spent the whole flight agonizing over how uncomfortable both of you were and was probably experiencing high anxiety. Like I said, ik it was an aside and you probably didn’t mean anything by it, but just for future: it’s a really shitty situation to be put in and kind of unfair to call someone disgusting because of their body. I still really enjoy your podcast and how you all discuss the topic of the day. I’m learning a lot from you three! Thank you for your hard work! Edit: Hakim, the thing you said about the bomb threats does happen here in the US, too. I used to be a sub and a couple times a year, we’d have to evacuate the building because a student called in a fake threat to get out of a test or presentation or something similar 🙄 then their parents would come pick them up so they’d get the rest of the day off. Idk how widespread it is across the country, but it does happen, unfortunately. Something needs to be done about the shootings, as well. It’s horrific that kids have to learn to hide from a shooter in school.
The epitome of the "slavs are just european arabs" is that, with no previous exposure to these creators, I'm not sure if the guy on the right is supposed to be yugopnik or hakim.
American idioms/sayings I typically use: Synonyms for stupid: "Dumb as a box of rocks" "Florida Man" "Darwin Award Competitor" "Intelligence is their dump stat" And for a very special brand of stupid: "Covidiot" When we suspect someone's fallen prey to a conspiracy theory, we say they're "drinking the blue Kool-Aid". When I can't seem to find the words to adequately express my feelings/opinions, and/or my mouth decides it doesn't want to pronounce anything correctly, I usually just sigh and say "brain words are hard". When someone's really clumsy, we usually say they have "two left feet". Fake swear words/phrases that frequent my vocabulary: "What the freaking heck" (meaning pretty self-explanatory) "I don't give a flying flock" (substitute the F-bomb or S-word in there for the normal way of saying it) (translates to "I don't care") "Yell heah!" (Switch the first letters around to get the common way of saying it)
Ok each to their own for style/couture etc but what the hell, Hakim please tell your Iraqi brethren not to make their hair a literally target. I must admit though some of the images I just looked at the metallic purple looks sweet.
i thought hakim was exagerating when he said a large drink is 2.5 litres but almost 1 liter of iced tea, that'll be a drink for like 6/7 people here in india
I went to a girl's high school in Melbourne, Australia in the 80's and we often had a student ring up with a fake bomb threat to get their friends out of class.
Northern mn here. Born to parents who made less that N 50k annual... combine Wish I could wexplain what its like being poor in the us... as badt as it is.love you guys. Putting beer away now. Love yall.
You don't need to read more theory if you're confused on this topic (although reading is always good!), just need to know that nearly every single Marxist thinker agrees the proletariat needs to be armed.
Just found out about this podcast and as an ex-American soldier that found out he was serving empire let me say, keep up the wonderful work comrades. This is quickly becoming my favorite podcast 🖤
The dress culture thing, a lot of us are just way too damn tired to care tbh. Also many of us can't afford clothes. period. I have 12 year old clothes in my closet and I'm 22.
The scariest part about American gun culture is there is no basic competency requirement to own. There are people who have conceal carry permits that have no trigger discipline, can't maintain/operate them correctly, and certainly don't handle the recoil.
But when shit pops off they are going to be ready!
@@RedScareClair be ready, shoot their eye out. Same thing.
And the further scarier part of that is in Texas, recently, a law was passed that made it legal for anyone who is legally allowed to purchase a firearm (which is pretty much anyone 18+ without a felony record) to conceal carry in public. No training or educational course required at all. This means that people who potentially don’t even understand how a basic handgun functions, will be allowed to carry a loaded one in most public spaces.
The most important thing isn't safety, but muh freedumb!
@@tmkeesler Incompetent people already carried guns. They're called police. No amount of training makes them safe for humans to be around; in fact, more training probably makes them less safe!
I love how Hakim talks about an "r"-ish sound in Baghdad - although my mind immediately went to "So - why can't we call it 'Bragdad'? They got a LOT to brag about - they used to be Babylon dammit".
I presume he means French-R-ish (a.k.a. Brazilian-R-ish), which is like a light phlegm-y sound.
I wanna volunteer for the R-ish Republican Army... 🇭🇺☘ #UpTheRa
52:30 "I didn't say I'm good at it, I JUST DO IT"
And just like that you become a good dancer:
-Step 1: Have an inflated ego
-Step 2: Dance
As an American I absolutely despise the super patriotism here. It's so goddamn annoying.
It’s so weird and dystopic, too, but I didn’t even begin to realize the depths of this until I started having more international friends through various communities that I belong to, as well as my foray into leftism. It’s so weird how much of the propaganda and pro-USA rituals/aspects of life that there are
lol I heard a story here in the Netherlands of an American "expat" that bought a Dutch flag and was asking people on facebook on how to properly fold and store his brand new Dutch flag and people were like "I don't know, put it in a plastic bag?" Just the idea of treating a flag like a religious item is so creepy and weird to me.
@@alkmibeats2133 Fun fact: The Pledge Of Allegiance didn't exist before McCarthyism. You probably know that, but many don't...
@@fun_ghoul I actually did not know that! Thank you for sharing. I’m lucky that my particular public school system where I am from (the Midwest), pretty much ceased having that be mandatory after grades 1-6. But yes, definitely had to recite that propagandistic cult line for 6 years of my young American life
Look up Mike Parenti's lecture on super-patriotism. He makes an interesting distinction between performative and genuine patriotism.
"you're built like albanian tourism" is my new favorite insult
What point is that at?
Speaking from my own experience, dressing as a very comfortable disaster is a combination of desperation, exhaustion, and a declaration of defiance. "I have to put myself through this bullshit? well, I'm sure as hell not going to bother gussying up (It definitely had nothing to do at all with not being able to afford to launder my clothes this week, nope, not at all)." Yeah, US ppl stereotypes really are depressing realities o_O;
You guys need to pay for laundering?
This one is definitely my favourite episode so far 👍🚩
Same here, leftist with an academic background in the science but with a huge post-college personal interest in geography, anthropology, and different cultures, especially Balkan and Arab cultures! Being Asian american, I feel there are definitely stereotypes about us from within the imperial core from our own fellow Americans (usually WASPs), as well as our biological fam back in asia for being “Americanized”, as well as people from other countries when interacting internationally, being deviant to the prototypical “white Anglo american male” of the USA
OMG HAKIM thank you so much for clarifying the “monkey cunt pain”. I was raised Armenian, in Syrian and I’ve heard my mom say something along these words for my entire life, but I’ve always assumed that it’s some Turkish phrase bastardized over time and my explained not understanding it to my lack of knowledge of Turkish, hell I’ve even used it myself. Fuck, never thought of it like that… TBANK YOU
The reason why our alcohol laws are so draconian and outdated is because we have ZERO public transportation. Since everyone has to drive themselves and drives drunk it causes so many deaths. If our cities were designed like those in France, Japan, or Amsterdam these laws wouldn't exist.
very true, they need to talk about transportation
legit, lol. They reduce bus service where I am from 5 times an hour to, like, three times an hour after like 6, to never after like 10, and I just don't understand why. Like, drunk people need public transport too, lol.
and of course, because America, there's only one tram line, and it's always only 6 times an hour lol
We have laws against drinking in public in Poland, I'm not sure why they are there but Poland is wannabe a US state oftentimes
@Antonio-Gransci The public transport in US is severely underdeveloped and doesn't compare to almost any European country but it also depends on the region, your could be better deceloped and the other person's could have zero
Damn. This channel needs way more attention!
I already listened all episodes on Spotify, i shall commet for the algorithm!
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For the algorithm!
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Why are episodes 23, 100, 105 and 106 missing here in yt?
I always comment on socialist channels in order to boost the algorithm, except I don't explicitly say it
American food is high in sugar because of the anti-fat campaign in the 90s. Fat got labeled as evil but when you make everything fat free it also becomes thin and tasteless. So manufacturers started adding sugar to make up for the taste.
I really don't know what Hakim has against mayo. It's boss.
My bidet is the best thing ever. I have given up several savagery.
I want a bidet but am terrified to ask/research how to properly use it. Because just letting water runn across my ass seems wasteful and ineficient???
Sure, it's a bit wasteful! Very responsible of you, thanks. However just imagine how much fresh water is wasted by industry and realize your waste is just a, pun intended, drop in the bucket.
@@tylergriffin3667 Do you know how much water -- AND CHLORINE BLEACH! -- are used in the manufacture of toilet paper? If you did, you'd worry less about wasting water to save paper...
@@tylergriffin3667 Oh, and if it's _just_ running over your ass, it's gonna do nothing. C'mon. Ever changed a diaper? It's shit. You either need sufficient water pressure to blast the shit off your ass, or to use your hand to wipe with water similarly to how you'd use paper; soap can be used in either case as needed.
that fat scare started way back with cereals and carbs being mass produced in the us at the start of the past century, and solidified with the creation of the pyramid of nutrition and an agrarian reform back in the 50´s or 60´s, and it comes and goes out fashion from decafe to decade,
11:34 this is literally one of the funniest moments on this pod yugopnik is so funny
Got me slapping my knees
my man, i was searching for this momment so that i could laugh my ass off again, but for some reason i thought hakim said it,and i also thought it was later on so i would never have found it on my own. Thank you
1:03:16 Can't stop laughing! That might be the greatest swear word I've ever heard.
I'm an arab and I totally relate to not being able to dance goddamit
12:41 "BAG-dad" gets me every time.
The I raq one…………I heard this lyric in a song, “he lives on my block, and he drives an Irock, I thought he was saying “Drives in Iraq” I was so confused 😂
_"My diagnosis? Generational Hearing!"_
My mom’s side of the family comes from Iran, so I grew up drinking tea all the time, and it’s definitely true about the hot tea in the summer. I’m sitting here, listening to this drinking a giant cup of hot tea with a fuckton of sugar in it and listening to this 😂 the funny thing is, my family always gave me side eye for putting sugar in my tea (I’m from America too)
I noticed in Lebanon we add so much "god" into our swears and I think it'd due to the civil war. Most curses are for "other religions or other gods"
That sounds so strange and interesting, in Romania we either would "put dick" into anyone and anything, either would fuck anyone and anything, even dead people which is very strange but so usual to hear. There's a verbal tense showing the will without any additional words that helps a lot, maybe in other languages nobody would've used that.
JT's Texas accent is fuckin amazing
27:00 Material conditions in America make it more difficult to maintain a healthy body weight, so naturally the percentage of obesity will be higher. (And that's leaving aside the fact that often, shame is at the root of disordered eating, and the solution is actually to care about it less, not more; to break the link between visible weight and shame - at least for those whose pathological relationship with food originates from childhood abuse, as is common.) Urban planning that is hostile to active travel, lacking even the opportunity to walk to a bus stop or metro station, necessitating expensive gym memberships; social isolation and atomisation - evidenced also by the rate of "deaths of despair" - have been shown to cause addictive behaviour; and the need to work multiple jobs leaving no time to cook from basic ingredients (and IMO this is the only healthy way to eat that is not prohibitively expensive); a puritanical worldview (that affect even the outlook of atheists, through osmosis) that creates fertile ground maladaptive thought-behaviour patterns; it would be unbelievable if these did not result in obesity and other metabolic problems.
I'm a trucker, and food is just fucked for me. I don't even have access to healthier foods or the ability to get ANY exercise. The most exercise I get is walking from my truck to the shipping offices and back, and cranking a trailer handle or pulling my pin. And since we truckers don't get to go home like we are supposed to, and we work 70+ hour weeks (even if our logs show 40) at 7 days a week and get s single off day in a month and a half, we don't really have time to exercise either. So many Uber capitalist truckers too. No idea why. Socialism is a truckers fucking dream you ask me. We make less then 1% of the value of our work in some cases. The last load I took was worth 8$ per mile real rate. And since most of these companies broker their own loads, they keep most of that. Probably made around 6$ per mile. 2$ of that to the truck. Another 2$ of that going towards paying everyone. Well then where does the other 2$ go? Profits. The truck driver does the work. Unlike other industry with all these moving parts, the corruption is directly in your face as a truck driver, because there are only three moving parts to the machine, only one of which is getting screwed over. The drivers. The mechanics, and the Dispatchers. The mechanics are getting screwed only in the same ways they usually. The dispatchers earn a commission off of the drivers efficiency, so they work to screw us over too, and then there's us. Making 57 cents flat rate, on work that the market values at 8$. Those extra 2$ should go to us. Or, even we should be paid for the work we do, instead of the miles we run. But capitalism deems it okay for us to work without pay. I went all last week working my ass off for the benefit of the company, and got paid for 200 miles of the 1400 I ran. Why so many truck drivers are right wing facists I will never understand. But anyway back on point, yeah work an finances are the reason why many Americans are overweight.
America, land of some addictions being criminalized and other addictions being encouraged.
I mean for the no-cursing rule in American it does kinda serve a linguistic purpose, in that cursing has more weight to it when it’s frowned upon or taboo
Just to make our British "built like a brick-shithouse" saying even dumber, a brick-shithouse is slang for an outside toilet.
Shithouse by itself is slang for an outdoor toilet (en-US: outhouse); one made of brick surely must have been rare, expensive and sturdy. The saying is a comment on the perceived durability of a person or thing, not a means to liken them to the shitter.
Also, I've never heard a Brit say this phrase! Glad it still has currency back in the "homeland"...
'I hate tea' Hakim says as the animation loops back to him drinking tea
4:45 dude i have members of my own family who lived in the ussr saying "putin is trying to bring back communism" lol
15 minutes in and my body is extremely sore from f****** HOLLERING!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm an American, and I'm autistic, so normally chicken is like a comfort food of mine, but Chick-fil-a is garbage. I hate the texture of the chicken there. I'm definitely more of a Raising Canes guy. You should absolutely go try Raising Canes. You will never be able to eat Chick-fil-a again, I guarantee it.
here in Australia, Guns are treated as Tools for Clubs, but are prohibited from being Personal Property.
God, someday ide like to take to you guys. Feel like I could learn so much.
On the topic of cursing: here in the rural North-West of the United States, its very common to hear "field talk" amongst outdoor workers. For example, my extended family is mostly LDS, and devoutly so. Cursing is heavily discouraged. Yet, my same devoutly LDS uncles could make a sailor blush with the cursing they cut loose while doing field work on the farm.
My dad had to "go home" to SLC to learn to be a heroin junkie and die. Lol
that haircut tho LOL
Okay but our big drinks don't acually have that much liquid because they fill the cups up almost entirely with fucking ice lmao
True for soft drinks, but what about 750ml of coffee in a go? The proper serving size is more like 150ml, and not with 20% half-and-half and 10% sugar!
Cheers from so-called Canada, home of Tim Hortons (the main coffee peddlers up here).
@@fun_ghoul yeah true no excuses for that
@@Tristyn_Waterman You're not wrong about the ice scam, tho! You can scarcely judge how much pop is in the cup, so how can you even compare to a bottle? And this assumes the syrup-soda ratio is adequate, which it often isn't because syrup is several hundred dollars a box. Even if you order a Coke with no ice, it almost always tastes like it's watered down...and it is!
As for coffee, it's cheap because the empire wants to extract the max amount of honey from each worker bee, and the money spent on caffeine is more than made up for in increased "productivity." That's why many capitalists employing office workers feed them free coffee...
I already love this series.
The toilet water lever thing, in my experience, has a lot to do with the shape of the bowl. My granparents toilets are these massive church pulpit like alters of porcelain with water up to a couple inches below the rim and an almost fish bowl globe shape. And yes, when I'm over there I hover above to avoide teabagging the water. My parents toilet is much smaller, but the shape is.... Bad. The bowl is narrow and sharply angled and the water barely fills the bottom drainage channel and 2/3 times when you shit, it lands on the bowl wall completely out of the water and ends up requiring scrubbing after you flush. The toilet in my house is smaller than any of the others, and the bowl shape is about halfway between and shallowly rounded and the water level is not much higher than my parents, but actually fucking serves it's purpose with out getting you splashed or dipped.
Ok, here's a thing about portion sizes in America; the idea was that you are supposed to have more than one meal in the portion. It is expected that most people eat 1/3 to 1/2 what they are brough and take the rest home to their kids or for later.
The fuck?? Chikfila????? You think that garbage is good????????? Jesus who hurt you?
16:23 I'm Romanian myself and I didn't know that, thanks Yugopnik hahah (I'm not ironic just amused)
I know this is an old video but at the end you said American healthcare is not even close to being good. I’m curious why you think this is (aside from the obvious that it’s mostly not provided for by the state). I have cancer and go to the Mayo Clinic, which is regarded as one of the best clinics in the world. We also have many foreign doctors, I’m guessing because the pay is much better here. I know Hakim is a doctor, is there a better treatment for Leukemia that America isn’t aware of? We use chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, and the somewhat new car T therapy.
Here's how I feel about veterans and our Military. Most people don't realize what it is they are doing until it is far too late. Most join without the knowledge of what they're getting themselves into. My friend Will. My dad. My grandfather even to s certain extent. I feel horrible for everyone involved. The soldier is just as damned as the person he is attacking, and I think that's very important to understand. We all are victims of this system. Some of us in the U.S grew up in third world conditions, and we're never educated about these things until it was far too late. I was lucky to live where I did. I could see first hand the difference between me and my peers. And then to live in a split family it was very easy to contrast between the areas I lived. I have been homeless here as well. I was fortunate enough to know better then to join the military at that time, but I can see why many do. Not to say that there aren't many who join because they are capitalist bootlickers. They almost never see the side of things that my dad did, even if it's starting them in the face. I call those individuals jarheads. My dad had to throw the bodies of innocents from windows. The difference between him and the typical jarhead is in how it impacted them. Him and his colleagues will probably never forget what they did and are forever remorseful. His struggle was a major defining quality of my childhood and how terrible of a father he was. Something I have to remind my mother of sometimes when we all feel like kicking him out for his antics. The jarheads, they will just chock it up to American Exceptionalism. And they tend to feel justified and vindicated in their actions. Others still (American Sniper as an example), will try to mentally reconcile the reality with the propaganda and will forever struggle to grapple with that as well. For these reasons I don't blame the soldiers. I blame to assholes that created a situation that led to their existence in the first place. I feel bad for the soldiers. I couldn't live with myself if I ever found out the truths behind some of the horrible things I would've had to do.
That was fun, listening, how you made fun of each other. And it was a relaxed look in the day and day culture of each of you.
States within the US vary on gun laws. Maine was very easy. Valid driver's license, pass background check, done. In NJ I had to apply for a Firearms Identification Card with a stricter background check and fingerprints and whatnot. Maine is what's called a "constitutional carry" state. Anyone who is legally allowed to own a firearm can carry open or concealed. It was nice. Can't do that in NJ. Some parts of the US have a bigger gun culture than others.
When I was going to high school in Idaho, there was a student who faked a bomb threat so we could all go home. Fucker got away with it too, he just left a note in a bathroom lol
I remember that it was de rigeur in the 70s, get everyone out in the Ball Field and then we went up Boot Hill to pass the doobie. 🚬
I hate most fast food places, the only flavors they know of include salty and spicy. All other seasonings just don't exist. I'll only eat fast food if I'm starving and I'm too busy and/or depressed to make my own food and my parents forget to make gluten free food because they don't realize I'll actually be home by dinner time. Which, admittedly, happens more than I'd like. I will get vending machine snacks before fast food any day of the week.
As an American. I would like to have my hair perfectly curled just so. Wearing a collared shirt. With nice pants. But who the fuck has the time
Actually American food is high in high fructose corn syrup, the Cheaper Sugar that our body can't use! (We've also started exporting it to poorer countries and obesity is rising in places where the US exports all of their shit, like Philippines and Mexico. Junk food is one of our few exports left, and only half of their factories to make it are in the US. But the corn is the main staple of big farms all across the Midwest, and they gotta keep that stuff selling.)
Also I literally work in a smoke shop that is 18+ and dude people accidentally curse and apologize all day, like fuck dude we don't allow minors and we've got dick pipes and Pornographic stickers but you think Cursing isn't allowed? As soon as you get the okay to curse most ppl just go ham, it's only older more Christian folks that still seem to have a problem with it. My parents were not cool with me cursing in casual conversation until I got to be an adult and they couldn't stop it. In the 90s and 00s Evangelical folks went on a big campaign to try and stop their own communities from cursing or "using god's name in vain" which they thought meant using the phrase "oh my god" like at all. Which is just fuckin weird and hilarious in hindsight.
I’m socialist and I own firearms, as you have said before, if you want too influence positive change in the world, you have too be prepared too defend it.
Any of socialist gun owners out there? We are every few unfortunately.
Maybe I will start a non profit gun range that offers firearms training too comrades at cost lol
I don't know how many Socialist folks are armed, but the Witch-burning Hillbillies and Klan Enthusiasts around here are quite dominant anyway. I plan to go underground and aid the insurgency if possible. There is no use even talking to some of them. 🇺🇸
1:12:51 speaking as an American high school student… we had two threats of a kid shooting up the school this year, and the response was pretty mixed. The first time, the school actually decided to publicize the news and half stayed home and the other half went, not really believing it to be true. The second time, they decided not to publicize it until everyone got to school (so the school can get their attendance check most likely) and then everyone brushed it off. It happened two more times recently and those two times kids actualy brought guns to school, but intended to do nothing with it. Two years ago, this kid accidentally died of a gun misfiring and it was pretty bad… and the administration nor the district have done nothing. We regularly have these threats and nobody really cares anymore. I joked with my friends that someone should actually muster the balls to go through with it so we can take it seriously again lol.
Bidets rule
Americans have such an unhealthy relationship with guns. Either they think they have the right to own fifty of them or they think owning even one means you're a barbarian. I'm not bashing the 2nd Amendment at all; I can see the merits of owning a gun or two for self-defense. Handguns for concealed carry in case you're attacked while out and about, shotguns for home defense, and maybe a rifle for hunting (so long as the primary reason for hunting is to obtain food, and you're not hunting endangered species). At the same time, however, no one needs to own so many guns they need an entire room to store them all, and there should definitely be more regulations to ensure that, for example, repeat offenders of violent crimes, don't get access to guns. I also think there should be a degree of training required before you can purchase a gun, and that training should be repeated for every type of gun you purchase. A gun is only as effective as the one who wields it. Also people with suicidal ideation shouldn't own a gun if they live alone. Those struggling with drug addiction should also be barred from owning guns until they can be sober for a few years. Guns should be locked up in safes so kids can't get into them and accidentally hurt someone.
When they started talking about a stereotypical Balkan Slav, I didn't think pale Arab, I thought stereotypical Italian.
Maybe it's just something about being that close to the Mediterranean that makes people perceive you like that.
The more I listen to Yugopnik describing balkan stereotypes, the more I feel like algerians are just north african balkans.
We drink hot tea in new England probably more often than you do in Texas. Iced tea is still big here though.
Thank you for reminding me to moisturize my hands
Mashallah daddy The Deprogram has uploaded.
I'm the stereotypical tall (6'4". 1.93 meters) and fat (280lbs. 127kg) American who LOVES gridiron football, lol. #GoPackGo
One of my favorite episodes so far. I really appreciate Yugopnik's explanation for ribbing friends in this upfront confrontational yet ironic way. Growing up in a thankfully multicultural part of Texas (if you can believe it) I never understood it and would even come to find it tiresome and not take part but reflecting on Yugopnik's words and watching it unfold in the closing jokes I have to say I have learned something valuable today.
It is great to see people from around the capitalist empire connect in a real way and those last few minutes were priceless.
Thanks guys, people over profits
Spoons of Mayonnaise want a pinch of Paprika on top. And a little something underneath, so that you can eat it with your fingers. Half of a Saltine, maybe.
Zizek should do Audiobooks
Stupid jokes are the best jokes
Algorithm
We do what we can 😉
A pale Arab that drives a black bmw.
Shortly after returning home from Thailand I installed a bidet in my house, I’m the only one in my family who will use it though.
The rest of them prefer too level forests too maintain their nasty asses
The Chil-Fil-Gay initiative is proceeding apace...
"Ameriphobic" 😆🧡
The haircut make me laugh so hard.
I'm addicted to this podcast
What pensions?! 😂😂😂
Why does yugopnik look so huge???
Another hilarious episode lol
Ugh, about people looking awful in public in the US. My peeve is the messy top bun. Don't care what gender you are, that messy top bun bouncing around just looks awful and makes me question your decision making ability. Especially when combined with pajama clothes.
we Know God is Great, Serbian and a Manifestation of Colonialism.
I'm a proud American owner of a bidet.
As a Canadian, I can bake in either Celsius or Fahrenheit and build in both ft and mm
As a fellow "Canadian", I call bullshit.
great ep
Capitalism bad
Yugopnic is 100% correct on the moral necessity of having 5 litres of mayo in your house at all times
No GULAG for you.
Up against the wall.
Counter to water boiling point criticism for Fahrenheit: why do I need to know when water boils? I’m not water. I don’t experience boiling. When do I know water is boiling? I look at it
"Call the donkey uncle till it you gets you past the river" exist in turkish also in the form of "call the bear uncle" its basically a word play, "bear" means "ayı" and uncle means "dayı"
I’ve been really enjoying your podcast and was coming to initially commend you all on how body positive you were while acknowledging that yes, Americans are overweight and it is a systemic issue that usually is the culprit, not always overeating. Even the acknowledgement of emotional eating and isolation was excellent.
However, ik this was an aside and I’m sure he didn’t mean anything by it, JT made a comment about people on planes “spilling into his seat” and said it was “disgusting.” As someone who has lost significant weight but was once that person (still plus-size, just less so), I can’t begin to tell you how uncomfortable it is for the person you’re sitting next to, as well. Airlines have been shrinking seats so they can profit more. Meanwhile, Americans have been growing, not shrinking to match. Sitting next to people who give you disgusted glances or in one case, I had someone talk about me to their kid over me like I wasn’t there is demoralizing. I had paid for an extra seat to prevent the problem and there was a gate mixup. She wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place. The worst thing for you is that you have to sit close to someone because an airline chose profit over your comfort. But I assure you, the other person spent the whole flight agonizing over how uncomfortable both of you were and was probably experiencing high anxiety. Like I said, ik it was an aside and you probably didn’t mean anything by it, but just for future: it’s a really shitty situation to be put in and kind of unfair to call someone disgusting because of their body.
I still really enjoy your podcast and how you all discuss the topic of the day. I’m learning a lot from you three! Thank you for your hard work!
Edit: Hakim, the thing you said about the bomb threats does happen here in the US, too. I used to be a sub and a couple times a year, we’d have to evacuate the building because a student called in a fake threat to get out of a test or presentation or something similar 🙄 then their parents would come pick them up so they’d get the rest of the day off. Idk how widespread it is across the country, but it does happen, unfortunately. Something needs to be done about the shootings, as well. It’s horrific that kids have to learn to hide from a shooter in school.
The epitome of the "slavs are just european arabs" is that, with no previous exposure to these creators, I'm not sure if the guy on the right is supposed to be yugopnik or hakim.
Love me some leftist content with Umm Kulthum picture in the background
American idioms/sayings I typically use:
Synonyms for stupid:
"Dumb as a box of rocks"
"Florida Man"
"Darwin Award Competitor"
"Intelligence is their dump stat"
And for a very special brand of stupid: "Covidiot"
When we suspect someone's fallen prey to a conspiracy theory, we say they're "drinking the blue Kool-Aid".
When I can't seem to find the words to adequately express my feelings/opinions, and/or my mouth decides it doesn't want to pronounce anything correctly, I usually just sigh and say "brain words are hard".
When someone's really clumsy, we usually say they have "two left feet".
Fake swear words/phrases that frequent my vocabulary:
"What the freaking heck" (meaning pretty self-explanatory)
"I don't give a flying flock" (substitute the F-bomb or S-word in there for the normal way of saying it) (translates to "I don't care")
"Yell heah!" (Switch the first letters around to get the common way of saying it)
I’d say a movie that doesn’t romanticize war or make the US the good guys would be Full Metal Jacket.
Ok each to their own for style/couture etc but what the hell, Hakim please tell your Iraqi brethren not to make their hair a literally target. I must admit though some of the images I just looked at the metallic purple looks sweet.
30:14
i thought hakim was exagerating when he said a large drink is 2.5 litres but almost 1 liter of iced tea, that'll be a drink for like 6/7 people here in india
I went to a girl's high school in Melbourne, Australia in the 80's and we often had a student ring up with a fake bomb threat to get their friends out of class.
The haircut bro. It looks like a yu-gi-oh haircut.
When JT's GW Bush impression
Don't eat or drink anything at 11:45
We will burn the algorithm to the ground!!!
Invite Diego Ruzzarin!! :)
1:16:34 based JT I love you
Water boils at 212° Fahrenheit
Northern mn here. Born to parents who made less that
N 50k annual... combine
Wish I could wexplain what its like being poor in the us... as badt as it is.love you guys. Putting beer away now. Love yall.
Fuck im dumb. Fid
1:21:15 Could someone elaborate on this a bit?
I'm a bit confused as to why marxists should be pro-gun
Maybe I need to read a bit more theory idk
You don't need to read more theory if you're confused on this topic (although reading is always good!), just need to know that nearly every single Marxist thinker agrees the proletariat needs to be armed.
awesome
As an American that has traveled abroad, I too will defend Fahrenheit to the death. It is a more human scale.
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