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the voter id law i think you slightly miss on here, just because the policy itself is not inherently racist/discriminatory doesn’t mean the application isn’t. The supreme court even said quote ‘targeted minority groups with surgical precision’
2 kids, a house, and a white picket fence apparently were tossed aside for being one of the richest people on the planet. If that was a guarantee I'd take it, but if I'm gambling I'll take the safer bet please.
The difference between being a millionaire and a billionaire is staggering. If your average American makes an average salary, has a decent retirement/ investment fund, and stays out of prison the chances of them being a millionaire at some point in their life is high. To become a billionaire you either have to revolutionize a market or inherit the money from someone who did.
Yeah, I think the only way they were able to remotely get away with that monumental goal-post shift is because people usually can't visualize numbers larger than ~1000 all that well. The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is enormous. 1 billion is 1000 millions, so it's kinda like the difference between one dollar and 1000 dollars. But I don't think even that puts it into proper perspective. 1 million seconds is about 11 and a half days. 1 billion seconds is 31 years, 8 months, and 12 days.
Speaking of inheritance, most who inherit that kind of money blow it all within three generations. Old money is super rare, and the "lazy rich kid" is usually inheriting that money directly from their parents, and will generally not keep it or grow their fortune over the course of their lifetime.
@@nickhollerauer4295 That's why all the major rich tycoons families from the Gilded ages have fallen out of the richest family list. Turns out when you don't have a government system that upholds old money, you see them fall out of "nobility". Like not even twenty years ago, was Jeff Bezos even close to the top 100 richest people list.
The median household income in America is around $60,000. They would have to save every cent of their earnings, not spend a single dollar, and work for over 15 years straight before having one million dollars. That’s before factoring in taxes, which takes away about a third of that, extending that time to well over two decades. Yes, it’s possible to become a millionaire, but achieving wealth like that while still having your youth is highly unlikely.
Also their praise of USPS feels... backwards. "It provides jobs, while allowing people to deliver packages". It sounds as if they think that providing jobs is the main point, while actually providing a service is a secondary consideration.
Well thats really how the government thinks sometimes lol. In New Jersey you can't pump your own gas, the reasoning for this is partly because it creates gas station attendant jobs
@@deathpony698 New Jersey always confused me with that thought process. The only tangible effect I've seen it have is that people from New Jersey don't know how to pump their own gas and get made fun of when they go to other states because of it.
Many leftists have a post-scarcity mindset as if our current output of goods and services was just a given. Wealth just spontaneously arises, it is limited by technology, maybe its tied to raw materials, work input is degraded, management and organization input is severely degraded, risk and speculative input is denied. Some right wing neo cons have inverse of it - they degrade other inputs and overestimate entrepreneur/first mover.
@@LibertyFanatic Imports do also take jobs. Domestic production would be better for us, but we've moved so far away from it the cost to get there would be big.
"Defund the police to stop crime, give us reparations instead" Then they go and rob every shop in CA till they all close down, don't expect honesty from the left, it's all a power game trying to ransack anything they can, it was never about helping anyone but themselves. The fact they want to kill their own children for comfort and saving themselves some cash is the most extreme way in which their greed shows what's really going on inside their deranged minds.
Also: China calls itself socialist, and it is making the average person earn more money, so socialism is good! While in actual fact, China is closer to textbook fascist than any regime ever was...
@o00nemesis00o YES. Finally, someone else gets it. They have more in common with Fascist Germany than Communism these days and what many still refuse to acknowledge is that Nazi Germany was VERY Socialist.
@@o00nemesis00oI wouldn’t say China’s is the most textbook instantiation of fascism; Italy, Spain, and Portugal each did it pretty much by-the-book, and China deviates from fascist philosophy in some places. You could pretty easily argue it’s fascist rather than socialist at this point, but considering that fascism is the philosophical offspring of and practical endpoint to socialism, that line is quite blurry.
Seeing Australia higher on the “human freedom index” is hilarious. They arrested people for going to parks and beaches ALONE during Covid? And now they’re literally bringing a comedian to court over a joke.
The world looks to America as its example, for better or for worse due to financial and cultural power. even modern Japan, Korea and China (as much as they hate it) are explicitly modeled on America. If America is humiliated, the rest of the world is humiliated along with it and will follow whoever is the humiliator. If Australia is placed over America despite being a worse version of everything at play in America, people will take notice
seeing Canada high on that list was also pretty funny, considering our government invoked a national emergency in order to close the bank accounts of people who *may* have donated to a protest
“Dude we need to change the script to billionaire. I just googled it and there’s more millionaires than billionaires” “Yea just change the M here to a B and we can record this”
I love how Gravel's argumentation from 13:05 to 18:00 Is literally refuted the moment you realize that the reason Big Companies have so much power is because the Government has so much power.
@@brendancoulter5761Exactly. Why do people think that businesses will become less abusive if we give control of their operation to something even worse? It really is just backwards.
These people are so inconsistent. A few years ago they told us “literally Hitler” was in charge of the federal government whilst also advocating for a form of governance which would have given the person they believed was “literally Hitler” complete power over their lives
The American dream was never about being middle class or even home ownership. It was about being able to carve a life out for yourself free from undue interference. OF being the maker of your own destiny. There has been a strange comodifacation of the American dream recently.
But living with the expectation that you will be paying rent, subscriptions, and other bills for the rest of your life on a check by check basis where you don’t own anything isn’t exactly a life many would consider “free” from undue influence, yet that is evidently the life being set up for the young generations. It’s just that leftists and libertarians don’t agree on who’s fault that is: Big Government or Big Business (this is not a disagreement on the commodification of the term, just an observation that it still loops back around to the blame game)
It's interesting that the Gravel Institute complains about how businesses and billionaires are buying the government, but conveniently forget to mention that one of the worst offenders in this regard are unions. Especially at local and city level, union support (both financially and by political endorsement) are a major driver of local politics.
@@marcusmoonstein242 unions aren't all bad. I don't think anyone has a problem with fair pay and conditions that aren't shit, and trying to make sure it happens the problem is when they get stuck in the past and become arrogant, like the RMT in london. because of them, everyone in london expects the trains to not be running either due to a strike or someone not wanting to drive the drain. they're already paid considerable amounts, and want even more. the Right Mining Tossers have done more damage to the concept of a union than anything thatcher could have ever dreamed of
@@Sillimant_ Unions are effectively an economic cartel that tries to enforce monopoly pricing on labor to benefit its members at everyone else's expense. This inevitably leads to all the problems associated with monopolies and cartels, including higher prices.
@flashgorgon188Unions are still shit for the economy as a whole. Just look at the housing crisis. Tradesmen in big cities are all making 6 figure incomes, and then people complain about how no one can afford housing. I'm not saying workers shouldn't make a livable wage and have benefits, but when the base of the economy costs that much then everything else is severely inflated.
@@marcusmoonstein242 to add some, they want states to have more power, but if they own every mean of production (the commies love that) then it literally becomes the biggest monopoly
@@jonathanoriley8260 the thing with post modernism is always "It depends". PoMo's tried to move away from rationalization of modernism, and bring more creativity into that, and then it came down to skill and aesthetic taste of the author. So it really depends on what architect saw as a movement away from modernism. Considering that modernism had its ugly ducklings too(some see post Stalin soviet architecture and commieblocks as having the same mentality) i don't see why the postmodo aesthetics would be inherently inferior to what came before it. Some people take postmodernism in a very bullheaded way, some generally tried to create smth new that didn't depend on existing notions. The modern corporate art contradicts what pomo intended to do in the first place imo. Its cliched, sterilized and purposefully non offensive. In my eyes post modernism at its best is discarding old preexisting bias and notions to seek "diamond in the rough" among those who wouldn't usually would be heard and considered. I can support that.
Reminder that when in the 90's that the Satanic Panic amounted to "I don't like this, I think it is immoral and want you to know it." Even Jack Chick just believed it should be discouraged, not banned. The argument on the Satanic Panic isn't even remotely comparable to modern cancel culture.
Eh, it REALLY depends on which part of the "satanic panic" you're talking about. If you're sticking to what some moms and dads were doing regarding records or merchandise their kids were into, the most they ever took it was burning or breaking the supposedly "satanic" objects. Like, there was a big burning of KISS albums by angered parents once (though groups like KISS sponsored events which burned mass quantitites of Disco albums themselves in a "disco is dead" fad, so really, it seems people in the 70's just like burning things en masse every once in a while). But another part of the "satanic panic" is the McMartin Preschool trial and everything that came after it. That was a real trial over totally made up supposed ritual satanic sex abuse, and thankfully, the falsely accused man won. But it received ENORMOUS press coverage and caused a huge spate of copycat claims throughout the country, an in several cases across the US, in these copy cat claims, the defendants lost, and spent many years in prison. But if you're making a larger comparison here, that part of the Satanic Panic, the unreasonable ability to make false claims against men with literally zero or totally made up claims and severely punishing them for doing nothing, ends up resembling the #MeToo movement the most, and it was the part that was totally supported by the left of the day. Lots of feminists called the many, many false accusations being hurled around in the wake of McMartin Pre-School a "reckoning long overdue" when it was in fact, one of the worst travesties of justice that ever occurred in the US at scale.
@@daskampffredchen i do remember conservatives trying to ban video games like MK, GTA and doom. isn't that lobbying covernment? Not sure but it sounds like that to me.
@@zupasanic"conservatives trying to ban-" Conveniently forgetting that Joe Lieberman, a DEMOCRAT from CONNECTICUT (Blue state), was one of the most ardent supporters and even a de-facto leader in the videogame ban push. You're not getting away with revisionist history around here.
Late to the party, but concerning 4:39, it is the same cringe people. The one spearheading the banning of rock music, video games, and D&D was in fact Tipper Gore. They literally threw a rock, hit themselves, and said 'evil conservatives'.
@@ceinwenchandler4716I only got the chance to play fourth edition a few times myself, but I never saw what was supposed to be so wrong with it. It seemed to improve some things that were wrong from 3rd edition, at least. I can't say as to whether the fixes were as good as the ones that Pathfinder implemented, though.
@@ChrisWilliams-lf8ex I love 4e. I will admit that it falls apart in the last ten levels, though. The numbers stop making sense and everyone is so overpowered, you can't meaningfully challenge them anymore.
@@daviddechamplain5718 Conservatives/the right haven't had an edge in that category since the separation of the Church from the State, while the left which has always veered towards academia gained more control in return.
China: Achieves poverty reduction by starving out their poorest populous and disposing of them through government programs and agencies. Gravel Institute: "Is this a successful centralized economy?"
"You can't GLASS A FUCKING PLANET and say 'I did it because it solved the unemployment problem'!" Gravel Institute: "That's not WHY they did it...but it's an upside!"
Oof. That "you can choose bud light but everything else is owned by the same corporation" didn't age well. It seems people found a way, and I am sure Gravel are very mad about it.
They forget those company is merely "branch",if one "branch" fail as hard as Bud light it's a fair game to cut It off,in fact cutting It of is the real capitalist move
They named Bud and 3 beers I've never heard of. They even had a much easier example in news media because 6 companies own basically all news in the US. But I guess they didn't want to call out fellow ideologues.
Your videos are like coming up from the depths of a deep ocean to catch my breath. It's so nice to hear reasonable well informed opinions and not parroted, clearly nonsensical, propaganda points and disinformation.
"You don't actually have a choice because every small company that deals on this commodity is owned by the same large corporation" That's actually explicitly false, particularly in the case of beer. The idea that a few beers being owned by the same company means that all beer is owned by a single company is ludicrous. Yes, many major brands are owned by a few corporations (including many well known craft breweries), but there are plenty of widely available independent craft beers. What she said is the equivalent of someone asking if I prefer Pepsi or Coke, to which I respond "Well Sprite, Barq's and Coke are all owned by the same company, so there's really no difference"
@@Eye_Of_Odin978 The government didn't tell disney to buy out fox or arrange the formation of stellantis, etc... If we had actual regulation, none of these mergers would have happened.
Quick reminder that the only way to effectively resist a hostile army is with another army. Ancap, which promotes the NAP, neglects the self defence principle.
@@Anon1gh3 The NAP is very much pro self defense though? We just believe in decentralized (therefore efficient due to not being a bureaucratic nightmare) militias and people being able to own whatever weapon they see fit in case of terrorism.
3:00 What I remember from growing up over here in Germany as "The American Dream" was that "You can make it from Dishwasher in the back of a small restaurant, to a millionaire, if you just work hard enough." And... that's sort of true in a lot of places.
At 9:08, I like how Canada is listed #4 in the 2019 human freedom index... while having had some of most restrictive lockdowns of any country during 2019 to 2022. We had mandatory curfews at 8pm, vaccine passports to go to restaurants and legally enforced obligations to wear a mask for 2+ years in most provinces. There is a reason why people were pissed and went to the freedom convoys... and that they were called *freedom* convoys. But hey, Canada is so free that the organizers had their bank accounts cut off without a judicial process... At this point I legitimately just hope that Poilievre gets into power before we get a social credit score and before I am blocked from writing comments like this one.
Shilling for China and setting them as a gold standard for increasing the quality of life of their citizens is insane, especially when China is trading an insane amount with the rest of the world using capitalistic systems.
This is a pretty common fallacy among leftists, including ones that are unarguably smart like Chomsky. They seem to believe that voting is always better than buying for per dynamics.
And Gravel loves to use Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden as “perfect examples” to show how socialism really works but the problem is they never say the demographic information on those countries which are all like
So the conclusion I can draw from your comment is socialism works in an ethnostate? Hilarious. But seriously the reason the Nordic countries are so well off is because they are market economies with large social safety nets. They aren't socialist countries. They do have some state owned enterprises, sure, but that's not socialism.
Also that their culture is incredibly communal, and has been for centuries. Even then, they aren't socialist, they just have a strong social system, while the free market is very much still allowed to operate
@@filmandfirearms Indeed, I'm Danish and people romanticizes Scandinavia way too much. We have so many problems in this country, and our "free healthcare" is a joke. Only checkups are free, not actual treatment. Though, you do usually get a pretty large discount on prescribed medicine. The dentist isn't free, psychiatric help isn't free, but discounted. All for the totally fair price of up to 52% income tax. And an insane 57% on your shares. Not to mention all the other taxes they've decided to implement for nonsensical things. I'd gladly pay full price for any of these, if it meant the Government only taxed me for things I actually used like Roads.
I am so sick of these countries being called socialist and used as examples to try and convince people that socialism is a good idea. These are neoliberal countries with well developed social safety nets, the only part of socialism worth adopting. Yet these social safety nets are often incredibly taxing on the economy and don't live up to their intended function, because to chase the socialist utopian idea of these policies would bankrupt a country within a year.
And to state a few facts: Capitalism and the United States WON the Cold War while the Soviet Union disintegrated under its own weight without a single shot being fired; Socialism is the obsolete ideology that failed miserably in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Grenada, Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Libya, Sri Lanka, Chile, Hungary, Nicaragua, Poland, El Salvador, Mozambique, Romania, Honduras, Mongolia, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Angola, China (which has been Capitalist in everything but name since the economic reforms of 1964 by Deng Xiaoping), Russia (of course), and everywhere else it has been tried. Capitlism continues to be the best and only option while Socialism continues to be the worst, the most failed and most lethal after having caused at least 120 million deaths in less than 90 years which would translate in more than 1 million deaths per year. BTW, how come reds keep bitching about American "imperialism" but never mention Chinese imperialism in Vietnam or North Korea? Or Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, East Germany or Yugoslavia? Or Cuban imperialism in Angola, Mozambique, Grenada, Nicaragua or Venezuela? Or Yugoslav imperialism in Albania? And let's finish with the Socialist prayer: If it's a Socialist atrocity, it never happened If it happened, it wasn't that bad If it was bad, they deserved it I'd they didn't deserve it, mistakes might have been made If mistakes were made, that wasn't real socialism.
NEVER ! Don't fight rape refugee lovers with Israeli's slave preachers. Did the PragerU ever that that many pedophile Rabbi rapist with Israeli citizenship after being caught for raping is deported to Israel where all of the cases never appear in their courts. They want from children to be raped.
Switch from millionaires to billionaires in the definition of rich vs poor is an interesting slip. Because as far as I know, America is a country where you are literally more likely to become a millionaire than a homeless person. Its around 14-15 millions of millionaires vs 0.5-4 millions of homeless people. Yes, an American is literally more likely to earn a million dollars than to completely lose his or her accomodations. It kinda nukes the whole point of Gravel's video, doesn't it?
I never knew that. Although, there are different kinds of homelessness. Like in some countries if you're homeless, you're more hungry or cold than others. I say that cause Californias warm.
@@Stuff857 Well, hence the discrepancy in numbers. ~500000 is American statistic - and establishment is interested in portraying itself as good as it can, so official data should sometimes be taken with a grain of salt. Some other sources place the number as high as ~4000000, which is still much less than the number of millionaires. Statistic do sometimes fluctuate like this, because their numbers depend on math used - different formulas and variables will give different results. But regardless, America literally has more rich people than homeless people. Sounds crazy and kind of counter-intuitive, but it is what it is.
@@mauser98kar I googled the 1st results for amount of people millionaires or homeless. 21,951,000 millionaires How many millionaires are there in the U.S.? There are 21,951,000 millionaires in the U.S. This is 39.1% of the world's 56.1 million total millionaires. Is a millionaire in the top 1% of wealth in the U.S.?Feb 24, 2023 582,000 Americans The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counted around 582,000 Americans experiencing homelessness in 2022. That's about 18 per 10,000 people in the US, up about 2,000 people from 2020.Mar 16, 2023 It's far easier to count millionaires than homeless, but there's a bit of wiggle room. There also billionaires and people who make 100+k.
@@mauser98karOne thing I would want to know however is the breakdown of the number of millionaires by age group, because I think that most of them made their money a long time ago or through opportunities that are no longer available to the young generstions, because I really doubt that Millenials and Gen Z make up a very big portion of the millionaire population (and I think that those that do are for the most part probably there through inheritance)
@@sephikong8323 it's more about finding the right work because I know a guy who lives in Alaska doing nondestructive inspection who could be a millionaire before his thirties as long as he saves which he does so it is still possible just you gotta get different jobs because the jobs peoples parents worked as they grew up get filled by people now you need other jobs 26:20
Libertarianism is pretty silly. The only impact it has on mainstream politics anyway is pushing for mass migration which is a disaster. People have an interest in keeping their nation, and if you want to see what unmitigated gene flow can do to the fate of a country, just look at what sharing and island with Haiti has done the the Dominican Republic or what importing all those slaves has done to the US or Brazil, or Colombia
Great vid. Keep it up! Interesting that Gravel dumps on Pfizer over insulin, given that the average Gravel fan is like just hunky dory with vax mandates. That is, government compelling citizens to consume a for-profit megacorporation's product.
They seem to shy away from that topic. Part of it may be that the TH-cam algorithm doesn't like anything about Covid unless your channel is a mainstream media channel. I did a short video on No New Normal censorship and it got hit with a Covid 19 label even though it really didn't contain much info about Covid 19 at all.
You can believe that every one should be vaccinated AND think it bad that big pharam is making money off it. They actually called out Biden for not weaving Pfizer’s patent on the vaccine so other countries can make cheaper, just yesterday.
@@MentisWave wait, werent most people in the 80s democrats? the ones who yknow, sided with KKK, were religious like most people back then, and opposed freedom of other races? Everything that video claims is coming from their side that used to be different
14:50 That image of the "evil hospital corp" is what the public hospitals that are being centralized into megahospitals in germany feel like. If you can afford a private hospital or are lucky enough in your emergency to end up in one, you will choose that every time.
I clicked on this because my dad used to be an excavator and I thought it was something about some institution manipulating standards regulating gravel and I could not see how they could possibly trick people into getting ripped off buying rock Unless they convinced(lobbied) some regulatory body to require washed rock or more screening stages or something for something it's totally pointless for
There was a big scandal with them where, after the stock price of gravel plummeted after 9/11, they decided to increase their sales numbers by putting gravel into the Thanksgiving gravy ! I am shocked your father never told you about it
@@crizman7032 There was a retired mercenary talking about that. There used to be nine of them for each side. It was crazy, turned Teufort metro area into a God damn warzone.
The greatest irony I've ever seen is socialists complaining about monopolies, without realizing their whole ideology revolves around the most quintessential monopolies that could ever exist.
About that freedom comparison... I live in Slovakia, which according to that map seems to be less free than UK. I would not want to live in UK if they paid me to. It is a country where hospital can decide you are better dead and refuse to let you go even if your family wants to check you out and take care of you. It is a country where state can take away your child for dumbest of reasons like crying in kindergarten, where police are calling people to check their thinking, where you can be arrested for carrying a pocket knife or posting Bible verse on internet. And these morons are trying to tell me THAT country is more free than mine? Bullshit.
Didn’t seem all that compelling? I like the Gravel Institute but this video just had weaved things away. For one thing, Capitalism incentivizes monopolies, and if a corporation can’t use the government to secure one, they’ll just find another way.
@@willhiggins9563 that is entirely ahistorical. Capitalism has not created monopoly. The notion that they will “just find another way” is not supported by the facts.
@@ExPwner Way to create monopolies. Controlling a resources needed for your industry. Building up your business, then running parts of it at a lose in certain areas to our price out competition. Having a head start.
My understanding of the American Dream has always been generational upwards mobility, to set up your children to have a better life than you. Whether the children capitalize on that or squander it, well, that's on them. Hopefully you raise them well enough not to fail too hard.
Actually, the only monopolies that cause a deadweight loss are the ones enforced by the State. Natural monopolies like Alcoa are actually *very* good for consumers.
I wouldn't say that a natural monopoly is inherently good, rather natural monopolies MUST be good in order to survive, otherwise a better alternative will naturally manifest to take advantage of their failings.
@@nathanboettcher6431 seems phenomenally rare. But when Bell Labs broke up, we saw a massive renaissance in communications, and paved the way for the internet.
nor the fact the "religious right" was a minority, democrats were the dominating political side and also religious, as they sided with KKK, even Biden now has a friend tied to the KKK. Everything they said goes against what both Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King stood for
I like that "the study excluded high income capitalist countries because there were no socialist equivalents" line. Okay... So everyone is poor in socialist countries? And that's meant to argue for socialism?
I will also add to that USPS comparison with UPS and FEDEX, not only do the private companies produce better results, but they do so while also no hemorrhaging nearly 10 billion dollars each year.
14:30 I live in Australia, I would MUCH rather be cared for by "Hospitalcorp" than "PublicHealth". I waited 2 years for surgery that they botched, re-hospitalised within a week, another 2 years trying to get proof of how they botched it, this started in 2019 and I've had to save up for health insurance and try to do it privately. There's a private hospital right next to a public one in my city, just like in the picture, PublicHealth still has me suffering from 2019, Hospitalcorp would have had actually cured me before covid even existed to create such a long waiting list. They literally fucking told me they didn't do the surgery right, not in those words, but I asked "so you got rid of the sac right?" and they straight-up said "no" casual as anything... it was a For context this was a haemorrhoidectomy, not removing the sac is like being promised a cure for herpes, waiting 2 years then when you go in they just remove any current sores and when you ask "do I still have herpes though" they say "yes, we just got rid of the sores that are there NOW; you ABSOLUTELY still have herpes. You're welcome!" It's almost like *you get what you fucking pay for...*
@MentisWave voting right map is wrong. Or just 25+ years old. you should probably check what's the source for it. Cause it seems like a really rude mistake.
That millionaire/Homeless statistic is mindblowing to me...I would have never thought in a million years there are more millionaires than homeless people. Literally 1 out of 20 ppl In america are millionaire... That is INSANE. IN A GOOD WAY
Honestly the only point i agreed with them on would've been the bit coin one, but they "somehow" fuck that up by trying to say its a scam instead of the actual problems with bit coin and other crypto currency. Im not too educated on the subject but my understanding is that crypto will not be able to replace tangible currency, however its not trying to and just wants to be a type of virtual dollar( like a video game) and it can be used in place of actual money when buying things, like a barter system but instead of normal tangible money its virtual money that has a lot of verification and firewalls in place to make it hard to counterfit, and you trade in tangible money for the coin, make your purchase or wait for its value to go up and then trade it back for tangible money when you need to. My main problem with it is that too many people and inflencers are trying to scam others and not explain it properly so people just see it and buy it in hopes of getting rich
Re: that first video, you will never be rich. What is rich? The poorest Americans have access to more amenities than Caesar, Cleopatra, or any king and emporer for a thousand years. The middle class today has more access to goods and services than George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and all those slave holders. We all have access to more information and education than even the wealthiest elites of a hundred years ago. Who says we aren't already rich? If you think being rich means not having to work, then you're not a socialist, you're pro slavery.
The way they say "$1.90 isn't enough to live on for a day" is really funny to me. There are countries where the AVERAGE monthly earnings are between $20-$60. You might hear that and argue that is inhumane and cruel, but their local economies are working on those numbers just fine. Those people can afford housing and food. This just proves that americans don't have any idea what the rest of the world is like. To argue the actual number is over $7 a day to be out of poverty is absurd in some regions. These people need to realise that the poorest people in the US are actually still in the top 5% globally. These socialists crying about the injustice that not everybody can have a yacht while living in the richest country on the planet is insane to me. There are countries right now that have modern piracy, slavery and genocide, and these people want to complain that not everybody can be a billionaire? Socialists are awful people.
They're so used to modern extreme inflation that they can't fathom that there are still places that pay our equivalent to 50 cents that we would pay $10 for. Even though that used to be us as well within the last century.
It would be interesting to see someone like yourself interact with people like Yglesias and Mounk, people who basically accept elite theory and even HBD to a certain extent but want to paper over it with some technological application of liberalism.
That Cancel Culture video seems to fundamentally misunderstand what Canceling even is. Cancel Culture is deplatforming people for saying something deemed offensive or for having the wrong opinions. It's not trying to ban things or take away rights.
Yeah no. Horseshoe theory is dependent on a nonsensical modernist definition of "right and left wing" while the original definitions couldn't be more opposed in every aspect regarding the absolute ends of them.
Yeah it's actually kind of surprising how they really don't care about truth. I had a harder time finding instances where data they cited was not misrepresented in some way.
See the problem with the Gravel institute is that they set out with the goal of beating prager U at their own game. Of course they're a bunch of cherry-picking liars. They're taking best practice from their opponents.
The contemporary concept of cancel culture only exists as a consequence of social media. It is honestly silly to compare it to anything from the 80s, or any other decade, because of how the phenomenon of social media changed everything about the proliferation of information.
wow your content is literally amazing. Man you debunked these idiots with ease. I'm able to catch most of their bs having studied economics but I missed a fair but that you.highlighted. extraordinary.
I thought the American Dream was about a family owning a house with a white picket fence. The fact that Gravel Institute claimed that the dream is about becoming a billionaire shows how elitist their worldview is.
As an animator, lemme just say that these animations are fucking trash and I literally NEVER say that because in my opinion virtually all animation is beautiful just by nature of existing
The American dream was never about being rich, it's about building a good life from your own hard work. Getting a job, a house, and a family, all off of your own work. You don't need to be rich to live the American dream.
This is a little utopian but free market homelessness would be solved much faster, building homes wouldn’t cost trillions & unclaimed land could be claimed to place those houses for the homeless. Things we already have in the construction market like modular homes would be affordable as hell in the free market
Yes homelessness is largely a govt caused problem. The private sector is literally outlawed from building SROs and tiny homes that would be very helpful for the homeless. And zoning prevents even the construction of luxury housing in most of these expensive places, which would bring down housing costs and scarcity that would make the low end housing cheaper for the poor. Another solution using existing tools would be to give section 8 vouchers that only transfer to low cost parts of the USA. There are a lot of cheap areas that could house homeless people at a fraction of what cities like SF spend while they are failing to house the homeless. All the money poured into useless nonprofits could be better spent, so we don't even need to raise taxes to reduce homelessness. Just let the market handle most of it and use existing assistance with market incentives. It's much cheaper to house someone in Texas than in California.
24:45 They actually used the "number bigger today than yesterday" argument. Yes, the number of almost any group of people will increase over time as the total human population increases. They then turn around and mention proportion, which instantly proves their claim wrong, but it's presented like that number doesn't really matter.
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6:02 the map is incomplete, because in most countries that have any type of voting, including countries like North Korea, that are obviously authoritarian, you are required documentation for voting (even if your vote doesn't matter...) . The UK, Denmark and US are rare exceptions afaik.
The very first example of you will never be rich is classic manipulation and I knew everything I needed to know about these people from that short snippet. These people certainly make 6 digits or more, or close to 6 digits, that's why they defined rich as "millions to billions." They don't possibly see themselves as privileged or well off despite having all of their necessities cared for. They think being rich is being able to "buy literally whatever they want", when funnily, rich people often get rich because they DON'T buy stuff.
Glad there are people like you that do a good job explaining this. I'll know some of these concepts, but find it difficult to argue them well. I still have a lot to learn.
11:35 Sure, but the bigger that your Government is, the more opportunities there are for them to be bought. It seems kind of obvious that the more people who are employed by the Government, the more likely it is that they will hire Employees that wouldn’t have a problem with being bought. Especially if the Employees are hired, rather than elected, because the Corrupt Individuals can hire people who are similarly corruptible, which will continue to exacerbate the problem of Corruption.
There exists another graph from Worldbank that uses a term called societal poverty instead of extreme poverty. It's called "a quarter of the world lives in societal poverty" That number has also decreased. I suggest you read the article.
Why would that be bad, noone would lend money without interests and in case you want to do it there is nothing preventing you from lending money without charging interests
@@lolmenx4 Usury isn’t the practice of losing money in a fair way. It’s the practice of losing money in a extreme ways or in ways to trap people in debt. Aka being the only lender that’ll lend to Irish immigrants but you charge them 15% compounding interest. It’s extremely predatory, produces no excess value and is morally wrong. It’s like monopolies in the sense that it has to be trust busted to prevent abuse.
@@deacon6221 in that case that just looks like a muh monopolies bad problem, not usury problem. The lack of options is the issue, but yeah that does look bad, usury wouldn't be the problem tho.
@@antoniotrivelloni8191 Links are fucky so the comment with the link needs to be approved, they tweeted "Bill of Rights is good, pretty much everything else is bad or obsolete" on October 27th 2020 from their Twitter
The last video you covered was truly egregious. I think that channel must really prey on young, inexperienced people who don’t have the context to spot obvious lies.
They never speak in actual concrete terms with things like human and social capital, their trends, and the underlying causes as to why they are going that way. All things being equal, we would expect for things like wages and GDP to go down because human and social capital are actually getting worse due to dysgenics. This is one of the main reasons why say wages have been stagnating since the 80s because productivity has increased due to capital investment and effects from things like the internet whereas the average worker is actually worse.
4:30 It is very important to note that the right wing moral busybodies of the 90s/2000’s are the same people that now are on the left. I wish I remembered her name, but there is this woman who frequently used as a case study that this activist behavior isn’t actually bound to any political ideology. Said woman was a very prominent pro-establishment, christian moral busybody during the Bush era. Citing bible verses in rallies and basically using them like spells, you get the gist. In the late 2010’s, the exact same woman has been spotted countless times at LGBT, abortion and marxist rallies. Go figure.
When these people use the terms, democracy, freedom, Americans, etc, they've shifted the semantics of these terms and now where them as a skin suit as if they retain the same essence as say the founding fathers or anyone until 5 minutes ago used them.
idk i wouldn't call prageru normal when they have a cartoon that says christopher columbus was a cool dude cus everyone was doing slavery at the time. Yeah guys, the og kkk were cool cause everyone was super racist back then
using USPS as a positive is one of the dumbest arguments I've heard who else reads "do not bend" and think it means "roll into a cylinder and pack it just under the lock of your PO box so you cant even open it"?
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Monero payment when?
the voter id law i think you slightly miss on here, just because the policy itself is not inherently racist/discriminatory doesn’t mean the application isn’t. The supreme court even said quote ‘targeted minority groups with surgical precision’
I like how the American Dream has been redefined from the opportunity to succeed based on one’s own hard work to material wealth.
"Being free to persue your interest and make a living of it"
"UhG i Am NoT a BiLlIoNaIrE"
2 kids, a house, and a white picket fence apparently were tossed aside for being one of the richest people on the planet. If that was a guarantee I'd take it, but if I'm gambling I'll take the safer bet please.
@@MrDj232got all of it. Was homeless at the beginning.
@@adamtedder1012and now you're one of the richest people on the planet?
@hidesbehindpseudonym1920 yeah technically. I'm in the upper percentile in the US. Which makes me very very wealthy compared to most people on Earth.
The difference between being a millionaire and a billionaire is staggering.
If your average American makes an average salary, has a decent retirement/ investment fund, and stays out of prison the chances of them being a millionaire at some point in their life is high.
To become a billionaire you either have to revolutionize a market or inherit the money from someone who did.
Yeah, I think the only way they were able to remotely get away with that monumental goal-post shift is because people usually can't visualize numbers larger than ~1000 all that well. The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is enormous. 1 billion is 1000 millions, so it's kinda like the difference between one dollar and 1000 dollars. But I don't think even that puts it into proper perspective. 1 million seconds is about 11 and a half days. 1 billion seconds is 31 years, 8 months, and 12 days.
Speaking of inheritance, most who inherit that kind of money blow it all within three generations. Old money is super rare, and the "lazy rich kid" is usually inheriting that money directly from their parents, and will generally not keep it or grow their fortune over the course of their lifetime.
@@nickhollerauer4295 That's why all the major rich tycoons families from the Gilded ages have fallen out of the richest family list. Turns out when you don't have a government system that upholds old money, you see them fall out of "nobility". Like not even twenty years ago, was Jeff Bezos even close to the top 100 richest people list.
Not with the ongoing inflation, soon all of us will be billionaires. :)
The median household income in America is around $60,000. They would have to save every cent of their earnings, not spend a single dollar, and work for over 15 years straight before having one million dollars. That’s before factoring in taxes, which takes away about a third of that, extending that time to well over two decades. Yes, it’s possible to become a millionaire, but achieving wealth like that while still having your youth is highly unlikely.
Also their praise of USPS feels... backwards. "It provides jobs, while allowing people to deliver packages". It sounds as if they think that providing jobs is the main point, while actually providing a service is a secondary consideration.
Well thats really how the government thinks sometimes lol. In New Jersey you can't pump your own gas, the reasoning for this is partly because it creates gas station attendant jobs
@@deathpony698 New Jersey always confused me with that thought process. The only tangible effect I've seen it have is that people from New Jersey don't know how to pump their own gas and get made fun of when they go to other states because of it.
Many leftists have a post-scarcity mindset as if our current output of goods and services was just a given. Wealth just spontaneously arises, it is limited by technology, maybe its tied to raw materials, work input is degraded, management and organization input is severely degraded, risk and speculative input is denied. Some right wing neo cons have inverse of it - they degrade other inputs and overestimate entrepreneur/first mover.
@@LibertyFanaticThat's not the same at all, and immigrants are undeniably taking jobs away - no matter what silly accent you attach to this point.
@@LibertyFanatic Imports do also take jobs. Domestic production would be better for us, but we've moved so far away from it the cost to get there would be big.
Gravel logic:
The government is bought by big buisness.
Therefore giving more power to government over us is good.
"Defund the police to stop crime, give us reparations instead"
Then they go and rob every shop in CA till they all close down, don't expect honesty from the left, it's all a power game trying to ransack anything they can, it was never about helping anyone but themselves.
The fact they want to kill their own children for comfort and saving themselves some cash is the most extreme way in which their greed shows what's really going on inside their deranged minds.
Yeah, that's very brain dead
Also: China calls itself socialist, and it is making the average person earn more money, so socialism is good!
While in actual fact, China is closer to textbook fascist than any regime ever was...
@o00nemesis00o YES. Finally, someone else gets it. They have more in common with Fascist Germany than Communism these days and what many still refuse to acknowledge is that Nazi Germany was VERY Socialist.
@@o00nemesis00oI wouldn’t say China’s is the most textbook instantiation of fascism; Italy, Spain, and Portugal each did it pretty much by-the-book, and China deviates from fascist philosophy in some places. You could pretty easily argue it’s fascist rather than socialist at this point, but considering that fascism is the philosophical offspring of and practical endpoint to socialism, that line is quite blurry.
Seeing Australia higher on the “human freedom index” is hilarious. They arrested people for going to parks and beaches ALONE during Covid? And now they’re literally bringing a comedian to court over a joke.
The world looks to America as its example, for better or for worse due to financial and cultural power. even modern Japan, Korea and China (as much as they hate it) are explicitly modeled on America. If America is humiliated, the rest of the world is humiliated along with it and will follow whoever is the humiliator.
If Australia is placed over America despite being a worse version of everything at play in America, people will take notice
They also have some of the most documented and blatant corruption I have seen lol
seeing Canada high on that list was also pretty funny, considering our government invoked a national emergency in order to close the bank accounts of people who *may* have donated to a protest
And they most likely tryed to burn a journalist in his own house.
Yeah all these indexes are BS my home country is represented as very not corrupt but it absolutely is
“Dude we need to change the script to billionaire. I just googled it and there’s more millionaires than billionaires”
“Yea just change the M here to a B and we can record this”
Oh hi Praxben. I mentioned you in my video on HasanAbi. And yeah, they really should have just scrapped that short.
Look at how the gravel institute tries to hide how many millionaires there are in America:
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@@MentisWave or keep the millionaire
@@decepticonunknown236 And then they contradict themselves.
Sloppy job, Mossad.
I love how Gravel's argumentation from 13:05 to 18:00 Is literally refuted the moment you realize that the reason Big Companies have so much power is because the Government has so much power.
It’s the inevitable end of any capitalist system.
Big government and big corporations are entirely dependent on each other,
@@brendancoulter5761 many in the federal government are working with the companies.
@@brendancoulter5761Exactly.
Why do people think that businesses will become less abusive if we give control of their operation to something even worse?
It really is just backwards.
These people are so inconsistent. A few years ago they told us “literally Hitler” was in charge of the federal government whilst also advocating for a form of governance which would have given the person they believed was “literally Hitler” complete power over their lives
The American dream was never about being middle class or even home ownership. It was about being able to carve a life out for yourself free from undue interference. OF being the maker of your own destiny. There has been a strange comodifacation of the American dream recently.
They tried to change the definition to push their own seductive lies on you.
@@sintheemptyone8108Precisely.
@@sintheemptyone8108you nailed it
But living with the expectation that you will be paying rent, subscriptions, and other bills for the rest of your life on a check by check basis where you don’t own anything isn’t exactly a life many would consider “free” from undue influence, yet that is evidently the life being set up for the young generations. It’s just that leftists and libertarians don’t agree on who’s fault that is: Big Government or Big Business
(this is not a disagreement on the commodification of the term, just an observation that it still loops back around to the blame game)
@@chopperjoe1998how about people are setting themselves up for that life.
It's interesting that the Gravel Institute complains about how businesses and billionaires are buying the government, but conveniently forget to mention that one of the worst offenders in this regard are unions. Especially at local and city level, union support (both financially and by political endorsement) are a major driver of local politics.
@Flash Gorgon True. But that doesn't change the fact that unions are also some of the worst offenders when it comes to buying politicians.
@@marcusmoonstein242 unions aren't all bad. I don't think anyone has a problem with fair pay and conditions that aren't shit, and trying to make sure it happens
the problem is when they get stuck in the past and become arrogant, like the RMT in london. because of them, everyone in london expects the trains to not be running either due to a strike or someone not wanting to drive the drain. they're already paid considerable amounts, and want even more. the Right Mining Tossers have done more damage to the concept of a union than anything thatcher could have ever dreamed of
@@Sillimant_ Unions are effectively an economic cartel that tries to enforce monopoly pricing on labor to benefit its members at everyone else's expense. This inevitably leads to all the problems associated with monopolies and cartels, including higher prices.
@flashgorgon188Unions are still shit for the economy as a whole. Just look at the housing crisis. Tradesmen in big cities are all making 6 figure incomes, and then people complain about how no one can afford housing. I'm not saying workers shouldn't make a livable wage and have benefits, but when the base of the economy costs that much then everything else is severely inflated.
@@marcusmoonstein242 to add some, they want states to have more power, but if they own every mean of production (the commies love that) then it literally becomes the biggest monopoly
There is something poetic about the fact the Prager U commie counterpart has beautiful graphics and art and far FAR worse methodology and biases
I personally detest the corporate artstyle gravel institute use
their art is actually hideous, makes me depressed.
@@monkeyhighlord4412 Kinda like all forms of Post-Modernist art and architecture: butt ugly
@@jonathanoriley8260 the thing with post modernism is always "It depends". PoMo's tried to move away from rationalization of modernism, and bring more creativity into that, and then it came down to skill and aesthetic taste of the author. So it really depends on what architect saw as a movement away from modernism. Considering that modernism had its ugly ducklings too(some see post Stalin soviet architecture and commieblocks as having the same mentality) i don't see why the postmodo aesthetics would be inherently inferior to what came before it. Some people take postmodernism in a very bullheaded way, some generally tried to create smth new that didn't depend on existing notions. The modern corporate art contradicts what pomo intended to do in the first place imo. Its cliched, sterilized and purposefully non offensive. In my eyes post modernism at its best is discarding old preexisting bias and notions to seek "diamond in the rough" among those who wouldn't usually would be heard and considered. I can support that.
@@CantoniaCustoms kinda funny how the anit-corpratist think tank uses corpratist art
The Gravel Institute: named after what fills their cranial cavities.
It describes their arguments. Loose and barely connected
😂😂😂
I prefer not to confuse "evil" with "stupid," assuming that my enemies are stupid would just make it easier for them to trick me.
@@catoticneutralExactly. Never attribute to incompetence what SHOULD be attributed to malice.
@@catoticneutral And you complain that the left demonizes their opponents...
Reminder that when in the 90's that the Satanic Panic amounted to "I don't like this, I think it is immoral and want you to know it."
Even Jack Chick just believed it should be discouraged, not banned. The argument on the Satanic Panic isn't even remotely comparable to modern cancel culture.
Exactly what I thought. They never attacked somebody physically or lobbied the government or threatened someones lifelyhood
Dont you know, content warnings are exactly the same as ruining a persons life!
Eh, it REALLY depends on which part of the "satanic panic" you're talking about. If you're sticking to what some moms and dads were doing regarding records or merchandise their kids were into, the most they ever took it was burning or breaking the supposedly "satanic" objects. Like, there was a big burning of KISS albums by angered parents once (though groups like KISS sponsored events which burned mass quantitites of Disco albums themselves in a "disco is dead" fad, so really, it seems people in the 70's just like burning things en masse every once in a while).
But another part of the "satanic panic" is the McMartin Preschool trial and everything that came after it. That was a real trial over totally made up supposed ritual satanic sex abuse, and thankfully, the falsely accused man won. But it received ENORMOUS press coverage and caused a huge spate of copycat claims throughout the country, an in several cases across the US, in these copy cat claims, the defendants lost, and spent many years in prison.
But if you're making a larger comparison here, that part of the Satanic Panic, the unreasonable ability to make false claims against men with literally zero or totally made up claims and severely punishing them for doing nothing, ends up resembling the #MeToo movement the most, and it was the part that was totally supported by the left of the day. Lots of feminists called the many, many false accusations being hurled around in the wake of McMartin Pre-School a "reckoning long overdue" when it was in fact, one of the worst travesties of justice that ever occurred in the US at scale.
@@daskampffredchen i do remember conservatives trying to ban video games like MK, GTA and doom. isn't that lobbying covernment? Not sure but it sounds like that to me.
@@zupasanic"conservatives trying to ban-"
Conveniently forgetting that Joe Lieberman, a DEMOCRAT from CONNECTICUT (Blue state), was one of the most ardent supporters and even a de-facto leader in the videogame ban push.
You're not getting away with revisionist history around here.
Late to the party, but concerning 4:39, it is the same cringe people. The one spearheading the banning of rock music, video games, and D&D was in fact Tipper Gore. They literally threw a rock, hit themselves, and said 'evil conservatives'.
The other difference is modern cancel culture is much more powerful. Nobody succeeded in banning rock music or D&D.
@@daviddechamplain5718 Yeah, D&D is still around and going strong. Now if only I could find someone who likes D&D and doesn't hate its fourth edition.
@@ceinwenchandler4716I only got the chance to play fourth edition a few times myself, but I never saw what was supposed to be so wrong with it. It seemed to improve some things that were wrong from 3rd edition, at least. I can't say as to whether the fixes were as good as the ones that Pathfinder implemented, though.
@@ChrisWilliams-lf8ex I love 4e. I will admit that it falls apart in the last ten levels, though. The numbers stop making sense and everyone is so overpowered, you can't meaningfully challenge them anymore.
@@daviddechamplain5718 Conservatives/the right haven't had an edge in that category since the separation of the Church from the State, while the left which has always veered towards academia gained more control in return.
"You're more likely in America to be a millionaire than homeless" 👏🏻
China: Achieves poverty reduction by starving out their poorest populous and disposing of them through government programs and agencies.
Gravel Institute: "Is this a successful centralized economy?"
"You can't GLASS A FUCKING PLANET and say 'I did it because it solved the unemployment problem'!"
Gravel Institute: "That's not WHY they did it...but it's an upside!"
Oof. That "you can choose bud light but everything else is owned by the same corporation" didn't age well. It seems people found a way, and I am sure Gravel are very mad about it.
They forget those company is merely "branch",if one "branch" fail as hard as Bud light it's a fair game to cut It off,in fact cutting It of is the real capitalist move
They named Bud and 3 beers I've never heard of. They even had a much easier example in news media because 6 companies own basically all news in the US. But I guess they didn't want to call out fellow ideologues.
@MrDj232 my thoughts as well.
@@MrDj232
They’d never call out fellow members of the tribe.
Your videos are like coming up from the depths of a deep ocean to catch my breath. It's so nice to hear reasonable well informed opinions and not parroted, clearly nonsensical, propaganda points and disinformation.
"You don't actually have a choice because every small company that deals on this commodity is owned by the same large corporation"
That's actually explicitly false, particularly in the case of beer. The idea that a few beers being owned by the same company means that all beer is owned by a single company is ludicrous. Yes, many major brands are owned by a few corporations (including many well known craft breweries), but there are plenty of widely available independent craft beers.
What she said is the equivalent of someone asking if I prefer Pepsi or Coke, to which I respond "Well Sprite, Barq's and Coke are all owned by the same company, so there's really no difference"
We saw over the last months how that worked out with Beer Companies
In the case of beer, sure. But most industries have consolidated to the point where there are only two or three major options.
@@thiccactusYeah, mostly through govt interference 9/10 times.
@@Eye_Of_Odin978 The government didn't tell disney to buy out fox or arrange the formation of stellantis, etc... If we had actual regulation, none of these mergers would have happened.
I don't know why, but listening to false information from a guy with a lazy eye just made it that much more unbelievable.
"Is BiG gOvErNmEnT rEaLlY tHe PrObLeM?"
YES. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Big government, and the large-nosed kosher merchants who have fiscal incentives to make sure that we continue to have a big government.
@@scrappyanimations4096 Antisemitism.
*Sigh*
@@verindictus3639 More of a statement of fact. > *"St0P NoTiciNG!"*
Quick reminder that the only way to effectively resist a hostile army is with another army.
Ancap, which promotes the NAP, neglects the self defence principle.
@@Anon1gh3 The NAP is very much pro self defense though? We just believe in decentralized (therefore efficient due to not being a bureaucratic nightmare) militias and people being able to own whatever weapon they see fit in case of terrorism.
3:00 What I remember from growing up over here in Germany as "The American Dream" was that "You can make it from Dishwasher in the back of a small restaurant, to a millionaire, if you just work hard enough."
And... that's sort of true in a lot of places.
At 9:08, I like how Canada is listed #4 in the 2019 human freedom index... while having had some of most restrictive lockdowns of any country during 2019 to 2022. We had mandatory curfews at 8pm, vaccine passports to go to restaurants and legally enforced obligations to wear a mask for 2+ years in most provinces. There is a reason why people were pissed and went to the freedom convoys... and that they were called *freedom* convoys. But hey, Canada is so free that the organizers had their bank accounts cut off without a judicial process... At this point I legitimately just hope that Poilievre gets into power before we get a social credit score and before I am blocked from writing comments like this one.
Shilling for China and setting them as a gold standard for increasing the quality of life of their citizens is insane, especially when China is trading an insane amount with the rest of the world using capitalistic systems.
Chinese People's Republic meets all the requierment to be classified as a fascist state.
And stealing their people's organs
@@m808bscorpionmbt3 and reenacting the holocaust
Temporary comment 16:59
Gravel: "The government is bought therefore big government isn't a problem."
Everyone with a functioning brain cell: ???
This is a pretty common fallacy among leftists, including ones that are unarguably smart like Chomsky.
They seem to believe that voting is always better than buying for per dynamics.
The government is bought why? Because our "small government" republicans made it easy to buy it.
And Gravel loves to use Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden as “perfect examples” to show how socialism really works but the problem is they never say the demographic information on those countries which are all like
So the conclusion I can draw from your comment is socialism works in an ethnostate? Hilarious.
But seriously the reason the Nordic countries are so well off is because they are market economies with large social safety nets. They aren't socialist countries. They do have some state owned enterprises, sure, but that's not socialism.
Also that their culture is incredibly communal, and has been for centuries. Even then, they aren't socialist, they just have a strong social system, while the free market is very much still allowed to operate
@@filmandfirearms Indeed, I'm Danish and people romanticizes Scandinavia way too much. We have so many problems in this country, and our "free healthcare" is a joke. Only checkups are free, not actual treatment. Though, you do usually get a pretty large discount on prescribed medicine. The dentist isn't free, psychiatric help isn't free, but discounted. All for the totally fair price of up to 52% income tax. And an insane 57% on your shares. Not to mention all the other taxes they've decided to implement for nonsensical things. I'd gladly pay full price for any of these, if it meant the Government only taxed me for things I actually used like Roads.
And their size and population is smaller than the average us state.
I am so sick of these countries being called socialist and used as examples to try and convince people that socialism is a good idea. These are neoliberal countries with well developed social safety nets, the only part of socialism worth adopting. Yet these social safety nets are often incredibly taxing on the economy and don't live up to their intended function, because to chase the socialist utopian idea of these policies would bankrupt a country within a year.
And to state a few facts:
Capitalism and the United States WON the Cold War while the Soviet Union disintegrated under its own weight without a single shot being fired; Socialism is the obsolete ideology that failed miserably in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Grenada, Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Libya, Sri Lanka, Chile, Hungary, Nicaragua, Poland, El Salvador, Mozambique, Romania, Honduras, Mongolia, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Angola, China (which has been Capitalist in everything but name since the economic reforms of 1964 by Deng Xiaoping), Russia (of course), and everywhere else it has been tried.
Capitlism continues to be the best and only option while Socialism continues to be the worst, the most failed and most lethal after having caused at least 120 million deaths in less than 90 years which would translate in more than 1 million deaths per year.
BTW, how come reds keep bitching about American "imperialism" but never mention Chinese imperialism in Vietnam or North Korea? Or Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, East Germany or Yugoslavia? Or Cuban imperialism in Angola, Mozambique, Grenada, Nicaragua or Venezuela? Or Yugoslav imperialism in Albania?
And let's finish with the Socialist prayer:
If it's a Socialist atrocity, it never happened
If it happened, it wasn't that bad
If it was bad, they deserved it
I'd they didn't deserve it, mistakes might have been made
If mistakes were made, that wasn't real socialism.
😔🙏
PragerU isn’t perfect by any means, but they’re certainly a better alternative to Gravel Institute
bleach tastes way better than drain cleaner
@@ovencore2549 True
@@ovencore2549 bleach is the gentlemans drink, drain cleaner is for drainoholics
NEVER !
Don't fight rape refugee lovers with Israeli's slave preachers. Did the PragerU ever that that many pedophile Rabbi rapist with Israeli citizenship after being caught for raping is deported to Israel where all of the cases never appear in their courts. They want from children to be raped.
lol what an idiot
Switch from millionaires to billionaires in the definition of rich vs poor is an interesting slip.
Because as far as I know, America is a country where you are literally more likely to become a millionaire than a homeless person. Its around 14-15 millions of millionaires vs 0.5-4 millions of homeless people. Yes, an American is literally more likely to earn a million dollars than to completely lose his or her accomodations.
It kinda nukes the whole point of Gravel's video, doesn't it?
I never knew that. Although, there are different kinds of homelessness. Like in some countries if you're homeless, you're more hungry or cold than others. I say that cause Californias warm.
@@Stuff857 Well, hence the discrepancy in numbers. ~500000 is American statistic - and establishment is interested in portraying itself as good as it can, so official data should sometimes be taken with a grain of salt. Some other sources place the number as high as ~4000000, which is still much less than the number of millionaires. Statistic do sometimes fluctuate like this, because their numbers depend on math used - different formulas and variables will give different results.
But regardless, America literally has more rich people than homeless people. Sounds crazy and kind of counter-intuitive, but it is what it is.
@@mauser98kar
I googled the 1st results for amount of people millionaires or homeless.
21,951,000 millionaires
How many millionaires are there in the U.S.? There are 21,951,000 millionaires in the U.S. This is 39.1% of the world's 56.1 million total millionaires. Is a millionaire in the top 1% of wealth in the U.S.?Feb 24, 2023
582,000 Americans
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counted around 582,000 Americans experiencing homelessness in 2022. That's about 18 per 10,000 people in the US, up about 2,000 people from 2020.Mar 16, 2023
It's far easier to count millionaires than homeless, but there's a bit of wiggle room. There also billionaires and people who make 100+k.
@@mauser98karOne thing I would want to know however is the breakdown of the number of millionaires by age group, because I think that most of them made their money a long time ago or through opportunities that are no longer available to the young generstions, because I really doubt that Millenials and Gen Z make up a very big portion of the millionaire population (and I think that those that do are for the most part probably there through inheritance)
@@sephikong8323 it's more about finding the right work because I know a guy who lives in Alaska doing nondestructive inspection who could be a millionaire before his thirties as long as he saves which he does so it is still possible just you gotta get different jobs because the jobs peoples parents worked as they grew up get filled by people now you need other jobs 26:20
The curse of libertarianism is that you’ll always be underrated. Get a shoutout from Kirk Wilcox, Stephen Michael Davis, or ajw if possible
Ain't that the truth
And don’t forget the great Praxben.
Absolutely 💯
Wilcox isn't exactly a libertarian but more of an objectivist. Though he is still on the libright.
Libertarianism is pretty silly. The only impact it has on mainstream politics anyway is pushing for mass migration which is a disaster. People have an interest in keeping their nation, and if you want to see what unmitigated gene flow can do to the fate of a country, just look at what sharing and island with Haiti has done the the Dominican Republic or what importing all those slaves has done to the US or Brazil, or Colombia
Great vid. Keep it up! Interesting that Gravel dumps on Pfizer over insulin, given that the average Gravel fan is like just hunky dory with vax mandates. That is, government compelling citizens to consume a for-profit megacorporation's product.
They seem to shy away from that topic. Part of it may be that the TH-cam algorithm doesn't like anything about Covid unless your channel is a mainstream media channel. I did a short video on No New Normal censorship and it got hit with a Covid 19 label even though it really didn't contain much info about Covid 19 at all.
You can believe that every one should be vaccinated AND think it bad that big pharam is making money off it.
They actually called out Biden for not weaving Pfizer’s patent on the vaccine so other countries can make cheaper, just yesterday.
@flashgorgon188 Taxpayer-funded isn't free - it's expensive as fuck and they hide the bill from you.
Especially when so called "leftist anarchists" like Chomsky openly advocate for forcibly starving the unvaccinated.
@@MentisWave wait, werent most people in the 80s democrats? the ones who yknow, sided with KKK, were religious like most people back then, and opposed freedom of other races? Everything that video claims is coming from their side that used to be different
14:50 That image of the "evil hospital corp" is what the public hospitals that are being centralized into megahospitals in germany feel like. If you can afford a private hospital or are lucky enough in your emergency to end up in one, you will choose that every time.
I clicked on this because my dad used to be an excavator and I thought it was something about some institution manipulating standards regulating gravel and I could not see how they could possibly trick people into getting ripped off buying rock
Unless they convinced(lobbied) some regulatory body to require washed rock or more screening stages or something for something it's totally pointless for
never heard of the 1968 New Mexico "Gravel Wars"? You should look it up, it was a pretty interesting corporate fued.
There was a big scandal with them where, after the stock price of gravel plummeted after 9/11, they decided to increase their sales numbers by putting gravel into the Thanksgiving gravy !
I am shocked your father never told you about it
@@crizman7032 There was a retired mercenary talking about that. There used to be nine of them for each side. It was crazy, turned Teufort metro area into a God damn warzone.
The greatest irony I've ever seen is socialists complaining about monopolies, without realizing their whole ideology revolves around the most quintessential monopolies that could ever exist.
Government is the mother load of monopoly
Free markets are decentralized
About that freedom comparison... I live in Slovakia, which according to that map seems to be less free than UK. I would not want to live in UK if they paid me to. It is a country where hospital can decide you are better dead and refuse to let you go even if your family wants to check you out and take care of you. It is a country where state can take away your child for dumbest of reasons like crying in kindergarten, where police are calling people to check their thinking, where you can be arrested for carrying a pocket knife or posting Bible verse on internet. And these morons are trying to tell me THAT country is more free than mine? Bullshit.
Those are extreme examples, probably, but, from an a American with a Czech grandmother, USA!
The name The Gravel Institute sounds a lot like it came out of TF2,specially since the war the mercs are fighting is called "The Gravel Wars"
The gravel institute logo is literally the Microsoft Word logo.
Say what you want, but at least they're consistent about wanting to steal shit.
Knocking it out of the park with these videos, great job.
Didn’t seem all that compelling? I like the Gravel Institute but this video just had weaved things away. For one thing, Capitalism incentivizes monopolies, and if a corporation can’t use the government to secure one, they’ll just find another way.
@@willhiggins9563 ok
@@willhiggins9563 that is entirely ahistorical. Capitalism has not created monopoly. The notion that they will “just find another way” is not supported by the facts.
@@ExPwner Way to create monopolies.
Controlling a resources needed for your industry.
Building up your business, then running parts of it at a lose in certain areas to our price out competition.
Having a head start.
@@willhiggins9563 again, entirely made up story. The “predatory pricing” story is not rooted in fact.
My understanding of the American Dream has always been generational upwards mobility, to set up your children to have a better life than you.
Whether the children capitalize on that or squander it, well, that's on them. Hopefully you raise them well enough not to fail too hard.
Claiming China has reduced poverty is ridiculous when it’s literally one of the poorest on a per capita basis.
You know damn well the Gravel institute will ignore this video, too.
Actually, the only monopolies that cause a deadweight loss are the ones enforced by the State. Natural monopolies like Alcoa are actually *very* good for consumers.
"but the state needs more power!"
-leftists/shillers
I wouldn't say that a natural monopoly is inherently good, rather natural monopolies MUST be good in order to survive, otherwise a better alternative will naturally manifest to take advantage of their failings.
What exactly do you mean they are a natural monoply?
@@rowrowmrmao6250 A monopoly that arises without the intervention of the state.
@@nathanboettcher6431 seems phenomenally rare. But when Bell Labs broke up, we saw a massive renaissance in communications, and paved the way for the internet.
25:35 ironic how poorly this aged now that the Chinese economy is collapsing due to their overexpendature on real estate bubble popping
Let’s not forget that unions and many other special interests groups are entrenched in politics as well, not just corporations
they compare the spike that peaked around 1954 with 2020 and dont mention the fact that the korean war had just ended
nor the fact the "religious right" was a minority, democrats were the dominating political side and also religious, as they sided with KKK, even Biden now has a friend tied to the KKK. Everything they said goes against what both Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King stood for
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Well, Mlk was a socialist.
@@Stuff857 sure, back then there was actual discrimination that the law allowed
Also you can see spike when the Civil War and WWI started.
I like that "the study excluded high income capitalist countries because there were no socialist equivalents" line. Okay... So everyone is poor in socialist countries? And that's meant to argue for socialism?
I will also add to that USPS comparison with UPS and FEDEX, not only do the private companies produce better results, but they do so while also no hemorrhaging nearly 10 billion dollars each year.
14:30 I live in Australia, I would MUCH rather be cared for by "Hospitalcorp" than "PublicHealth". I waited 2 years for surgery that they botched, re-hospitalised within a week, another 2 years trying to get proof of how they botched it, this started in 2019 and I've had to save up for health insurance and try to do it privately. There's a private hospital right next to a public one in my city, just like in the picture, PublicHealth still has me suffering from 2019, Hospitalcorp would have had actually cured me before covid even existed to create such a long waiting list.
They literally fucking told me they didn't do the surgery right, not in those words, but I asked "so you got rid of the sac right?" and they straight-up said "no" casual as anything... it was a For context this was a haemorrhoidectomy, not removing the sac is like being promised a cure for herpes, waiting 2 years then when you go in they just remove any current sores and when you ask "do I still have herpes though" they say "yes, we just got rid of the sores that are there NOW; you ABSOLUTELY still have herpes. You're welcome!"
It's almost like *you get what you fucking pay for...*
@MentisWave voting right map is wrong. Or just 25+ years old.
you should probably check what's the source for it. Cause it seems like a really rude mistake.
That millionaire/Homeless statistic is mindblowing to me...I would have never thought in a million years there are more millionaires than homeless people.
Literally 1 out of 20 ppl In america are millionaire...
That is INSANE. IN A GOOD WAY
"America has failed"
"You'll live on 4$ a day and you'll be happy"
Honestly the only point i agreed with them on would've been the bit coin one, but they "somehow" fuck that up by trying to say its a scam instead of the actual problems with bit coin and other crypto currency.
Im not too educated on the subject but my understanding is that crypto will not be able to replace tangible currency, however its not trying to and just wants to be a type of virtual dollar( like a video game) and it can be used in place of actual money when buying things, like a barter system but instead of normal tangible money its virtual money that has a lot of verification and firewalls in place to make it hard to counterfit, and you trade in tangible money for the coin, make your purchase or wait for its value to go up and then trade it back for tangible money when you need to.
My main problem with it is that too many people and inflencers are trying to scam others and not explain it properly so people just see it and buy it in hopes of getting rich
Bitcoins original idea was it is decentralised so can't be controlled by government.
Given that as of now the gravel institute last video is 9 months ago. It looks like they have gone down.
Update: They still have not uploaded a video since I made the above comment.
It looks like they went the way of the birds and the bs.
Big Joel among others attempt to trash PragerU with their enlightened rubbish on TH-cam for free(?)
@@GoldenRedder"went the way of birds and the bs" Im sorry but what does that mean?
@@GoldenRedderoh thank goodness birds and the bs is dead, a villain trying to cosplay as Mr. Rodger is humanities greatest sin
Re: that first video, you will never be rich. What is rich? The poorest Americans have access to more amenities than Caesar, Cleopatra, or any king and emporer for a thousand years. The middle class today has more access to goods and services than George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and all those slave holders. We all have access to more information and education than even the wealthiest elites of a hundred years ago. Who says we aren't already rich?
If you think being rich means not having to work, then you're not a socialist, you're pro slavery.
The way they say "$1.90 isn't enough to live on for a day" is really funny to me. There are countries where the AVERAGE monthly earnings are between $20-$60. You might hear that and argue that is inhumane and cruel, but their local economies are working on those numbers just fine. Those people can afford housing and food. This just proves that americans don't have any idea what the rest of the world is like.
To argue the actual number is over $7 a day to be out of poverty is absurd in some regions. These people need to realise that the poorest people in the US are actually still in the top 5% globally. These socialists crying about the injustice that not everybody can have a yacht while living in the richest country on the planet is insane to me. There are countries right now that have modern piracy, slavery and genocide, and these people want to complain that not everybody can be a billionaire? Socialists are awful people.
They're so used to modern extreme inflation that they can't fathom that there are still places that pay our equivalent to 50 cents that we would pay $10 for. Even though that used to be us as well within the last century.
The argument that crypto is a scam is like saying 'Because I got scammed in a ponzi scheme, it means that all money is a scam'
It would be interesting to see someone like yourself interact with people like Yglesias and Mounk, people who basically accept elite theory and even HBD to a certain extent but want to paper over it with some technological application of liberalism.
That Cancel Culture video seems to fundamentally misunderstand what Canceling even is. Cancel Culture is deplatforming people for saying something deemed offensive or for having the wrong opinions. It's not trying to ban things or take away rights.
True, both still bad.
@@tentacledood5784 Never said they weren't.
gravel institute and prageru proves the horseshoe theory
Yeah no. Horseshoe theory is dependent on a nonsensical modernist definition of "right and left wing" while the original definitions couldn't be more opposed in every aspect regarding the absolute ends of them.
“We need more government to hold our hands ” vs ”We need to hold our hands in prayer more”
Yeah, no. How about just grow up and clean your room bucko?
Good video, always viewed Gravel as liars
Yeah it's actually kind of surprising how they really don't care about truth. I had a harder time finding instances where data they cited was not misrepresented in some way.
Their videos are one point. Yes, when people with other biases read the same data they come to different conclusions.
@@willhiggins9563 no they aren’t. Dude just detailed them lying all over the place.
@@ExPwner Depends on the context of the data.
@@willhiggins9563 there is no context that saves their lies here.
See the problem with the Gravel institute is that they set out with the goal of beating prager U at their own game.
Of course they're a bunch of cherry-picking liars. They're taking best practice from their opponents.
Last I checked, the American dream was just being successful whichever way you want to be, not everyone being fuckin' millionaires or billionaires.
The contemporary concept of cancel culture only exists as a consequence of social media. It is honestly silly to compare it to anything from the 80s, or any other decade, because of how the phenomenon of social media changed everything about the proliferation of information.
wow your content is literally amazing. Man you debunked these idiots with ease. I'm able to catch most of their bs having studied economics but I missed a fair but that you.highlighted. extraordinary.
Imagine thinking usps is a good example of a solid government program lolol
I thought the American Dream was about a family owning a house with a white picket fence. The fact that Gravel Institute claimed that the dream is about becoming a billionaire shows how elitist their worldview is.
These animations for Gravel Institute are really good. Sucks that the talent is being made for political garbage.
Not really to be honest, just goanimate-tier globohomo shit.
Ehh not really they seem generic pragaru graphics look wayyy better depsite also being political hell hole
@@CANINE_CORE they are the art style of typical corporate nowadays, another ironic thing to add about gravel institue
As an animator, lemme just say that these animations are fucking trash and I literally NEVER say that because in my opinion virtually all animation is beautiful just by nature of existing
You really need to find out what good animation looks like then. Go watch Lackadaisy or something.
The American dream was never about being rich, it's about building a good life from your own hard work. Getting a job, a house, and a family, all off of your own work. You don't need to be rich to live the American dream.
I just found this channel yesterday. Idk how you're not at 100k subs yet because this is top tier content.
The Political Checkmate makes top tier arguments against leftist
It is called Gravel Institute because it is made up of loose points that barely stay together
This is a little utopian but free market homelessness would be solved much faster, building homes wouldn’t cost trillions & unclaimed land could be claimed to place those houses for the homeless. Things we already have in the construction market like modular homes would be affordable as hell in the free market
Yes homelessness is largely a govt caused problem. The private sector is literally outlawed from building SROs and tiny homes that would be very helpful for the homeless. And zoning prevents even the construction of luxury housing in most of these expensive places, which would bring down housing costs and scarcity that would make the low end housing cheaper for the poor.
Another solution using existing tools would be to give section 8 vouchers that only transfer to low cost parts of the USA. There are a lot of cheap areas that could house homeless people at a fraction of what cities like SF spend while they are failing to house the homeless.
All the money poured into useless nonprofits could be better spent, so we don't even need to raise taxes to reduce homelessness. Just let the market handle most of it and use existing assistance with market incentives. It's much cheaper to house someone in Texas than in California.
5:53 Where did this map come from? I’m Aussie and I need photo ID to vote.
24:45 They actually used the "number bigger today than yesterday" argument. Yes, the number of almost any group of people will increase over time as the total human population increases. They then turn around and mention proportion, which instantly proves their claim wrong, but it's presented like that number doesn't really matter.
6:02 the map is incomplete, because in most countries that have any type of voting, including countries like North Korea, that are obviously authoritarian, you are required documentation for voting (even if your vote doesn't matter...) . The UK, Denmark and US are rare exceptions afaik.
You should assume all crypto is a scam until proven correct.
The WW2 chart is when I literally stopped even listening to their opinions 💀
Monopolies are enabled by the government, every time, not the free market.
The very first example of you will never be rich is classic manipulation and I knew everything I needed to know about these people from that short snippet. These people certainly make 6 digits or more, or close to 6 digits, that's why they defined rich as "millions to billions." They don't possibly see themselves as privileged or well off despite having all of their necessities cared for. They think being rich is being able to "buy literally whatever they want", when funnily, rich people often get rich because they DON'T buy stuff.
Glad there are people like you that do a good job explaining this.
I'll know some of these concepts, but find it difficult to argue them well.
I still have a lot to learn.
"the right attacks voting rights" did she really say that after the 2020 election, wherein conservatives were refused entry to voting stations
"wherein conservatives were refused entry to voting stations" Internet myth.
nice argument senator, why don't you back it up with a source?
@@Hvision0000 really dude? check the centrist and right-wing coverage of the election.
I suggest you debunk second thought
Yes
The Political Checkmate has made a video debunking second Thought
@@margerald1 The Political Checkmate content is your kind of guy against second thought arguments
11:35
Sure, but the bigger that your Government is, the more opportunities there are for them to be bought. It seems kind of obvious that the more people who are employed by the Government, the more likely it is that they will hire Employees that wouldn’t have a problem with being bought. Especially if the Employees are hired, rather than elected, because the Corrupt Individuals can hire people who are similarly corruptible, which will continue to exacerbate the problem of Corruption.
There exists another graph from Worldbank that uses a term called societal poverty instead of extreme poverty. It's called "a quarter of the world lives in societal poverty" That number has also decreased. I suggest you read the article.
I am tired of people calling the US a democracy. We are a Republic.
What’s your opinion on usury?
Why would that be bad, noone would lend money without interests and in case you want to do it there is nothing preventing you from lending money without charging interests
@@lolmenx4 Usury isn’t the practice of losing money in a fair way. It’s the practice of losing money in a extreme ways or in ways to trap people in debt. Aka being the only lender that’ll lend to Irish immigrants but you charge them 15% compounding interest. It’s extremely predatory, produces no excess value and is morally wrong. It’s like monopolies in the sense that it has to be trust busted to prevent abuse.
@@lolmenx4 one more addition: it was banned in every civilization that lasted more than 500 years.
@@deacon6221 in that case that just looks like a muh monopolies bad problem, not usury problem.
The lack of options is the issue, but yeah that does look bad, usury wouldn't be the problem tho.
@@lolmenx4 Using money to make money and not producing any goods is objectively useless for society. It’s parasitic.
I love how PragerU can't be taken at face value...but they took that idea and made THE SAME CHANNEL but lefty.
Admire my prowess of refutation: "It's just not true."
Ugh that corporate art style is so aggressively ugly.
Richard Wolfe is a legit evil movie villain
Never forget that time they came out against the 13-15th & 19th Amendments
They did what
I don't want to crack the "based" joke, but oh my god, it's sitting RIGHT THERE
@@antoniotrivelloni8191 They said that the us should repeal all amendments besides the bill of rights
@@aredjayc2858 That is hilarious. Do you have the link to the video?
@@antoniotrivelloni8191 Links are fucky so the comment with the link needs to be approved, they tweeted
"Bill of Rights is good, pretty much everything else is bad or obsolete" on October 27th 2020 from their Twitter
The last video you covered was truly egregious. I think that channel must really prey on young, inexperienced people who don’t have the context to spot obvious lies.
They never speak in actual concrete terms with things like human and social capital, their trends, and the underlying causes as to why they are going that way. All things being equal, we would expect for things like wages and GDP to go down because human and social capital are actually getting worse due to dysgenics. This is one of the main reasons why say wages have been stagnating since the 80s because productivity has increased due to capital investment and effects from things like the internet whereas the average worker is actually worse.
4:30 It is very important to note that the right wing moral busybodies of the 90s/2000’s are the same people that now are on the left.
I wish I remembered her name, but there is this woman who frequently used as a case study that this activist behavior isn’t actually bound to any political ideology.
Said woman was a very prominent pro-establishment, christian moral busybody during the Bush era. Citing bible verses in rallies and basically using them like spells, you get the gist.
In the late 2010’s, the exact same woman has been spotted countless times at LGBT, abortion and marxist rallies.
Go figure.
"You're more likely to become homeless than a billionaire." Gee, ya don't say?
This channel deserves more recognition. Good production, simple explanations, convincing and thorough analysis. Keep it up.
When these people use the terms, democracy, freedom, Americans, etc, they've shifted the semantics of these terms and now where them as a skin suit as if they retain the same essence as say the founding fathers or anyone until 5 minutes ago used them.
I’m stunned that Americans are _44x_ more likely to be a millionaire than homeless!
idk i wouldn't call prageru normal when they have a cartoon that says christopher columbus was a cool dude cus everyone was doing slavery at the time. Yeah guys, the og kkk were cool cause everyone was super racist back then
the founding fathers owned slaves. but we still admire them
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 I admire some of their actions but not all
Humans are flawed and should never be worshipped
@@pugtatogaymer6269 i said admire, not worship
using USPS as a positive is one of the dumbest arguments I've heard
who else reads "do not bend" and think it means "roll into a cylinder and pack it just under the lock of your PO box so you cant even open it"?
VA Healthcare sucks it's your example of gov Healthcare. I constantly have to go to private doctors. VA almost killed me.