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https://youtu.be/ussCHoQttyQ&	/r/videos/comments/qsefj4/since_youtube_is_getting_rid_of_dislike_counts/	[ "Noooooo\n\nBut also\n\nYessssss", "This was the middle thing I thought of as well.", "Same with [this one](https://youtu.be/Vx5prDjKAcw)", "This is exactly like burning the Library of Alexandria", "Tell YouTube I said hello", "Literally the same lol.\n\nAnd while we're at it, it's also exactly like when the Romans salted the earth at Carthage so nothing would grow there.", "every time this gets posted I would go check if I had liked it or disliked it. I currently dislike it but i might as well change it since there's no point now and it's a great moment from one of my favorite shows", "haha \"literally\", because books", "This is the only reason I'm mad.", "So now it is a group effort to adjust the video down to a perfectly neutral and ambivalent 0 likes?", "I think from now on everyone who comes across the video should flip a coin and make their vote based on the outcome.", "I'm pretty sure it's been forced to be 50/50 for a while now, it's not the community keeping it there", "The commercial I needed to endure was twice as long as the clip. Wasn't worth the click.", "we're just going to see top comments like \"Like this comment if you hate this video\"", "On mobile? Youtube Vanced. You're welcome.", "yootoob and suck a dick", "how many times will i have to see this before i die", "Whats more like to happen is two comments one about how they enjoyed this video and one how they disliked will rise up with exactly the same thumbs up", "This is a decision that invokes feelings of average acceptance and benign rejection.", "Wow... that magic is now dead and gone. I un-disliked it and refreshed the page. No change. :(", "because of what you guys did to the youtube rewind video", "I have no strong feelings about this one way or the other.", "Yeah it's just a meme, it probably started out legit but there's no way the internet would let something like that stay organically for so many years", "Neutrality….. it sickens me.", "What makes a man turn neutral?", "I can't get Vanced to open Youtube links on Reddit. Drives me nuts.\n\nEdit: Thanks for all the tips, guys. Vanced was already the default app for all links and Youtube was disabled. I just went back into the app info for Youtube and deleted all user data. This seems to have done the trick.", "Might be something to do with your defaults? That's the first thing that springs to mind for me. If you have the normal YouTube app opening links, you might have to go into the settings for your app defaults and manually change it to Vanced.", "So... am I supposed to upvote the post or down vote to keep it close to 0?", "Already done, didn't help unfortunately.", "Not sure what else it could be, sadly. Sorry I couldn't be more help.", "\"this video sucks, move on\"", "I bet you think you know why you're downvoted and you're wrong about it.", "I use Relay for Reddit and it works flawlessly.", "hey, what if they just displayed a view-like ratio? wouldnt that work? I mean the information is there and you can calculate it yourself anyway.", "Meh", "I think you underestimate the power of memes, my guy.", "Youtube is very much capable of coding something especially for this video- there is a video on why views used to freeze at 301+, and that video still has 301 views.", "They're not going to update counts on every single click... caching is a thing", "This has been posted like three times this week. I’m excited for us to forget about this and move on. \n\nReady for the next “outrage”", "Then you'll see 'Comments are blocked for this video' a lot more often.", "Pushing in the clutch?", "OH NO! Well, anyway...", "[Corporations when dislikes are private and comments are disabled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQkXXBqj_U)", "As youtube is a freaking big website™ they may have a variety of optimizations that could make stuff like vote counts not update immediately.", "Was going to like/dislike and put a comment, but i see i already comment 9 years ago lol", "that has been the goal for about 10 years now", "This post deserves visibility on Reddit, however, neutrality must be maintained.", "I have no feelings about this either way.", "dislike count is still there. when's it supposed to happen?", "Also a fuzzing thing, since people obsessing over the score was part of the problem they were already dealing with by obfuscating it.", "Then 6 months later, people will start commenting \"ratio\" and get more likes than the video.", "Yes. “Eventual consistency” is good enough for some operations that aren’t at all critical and would require significant effort to provide accurately in real time.", "Not caring about social pressures isn't always a virtue.\n\nI'll help out. No one, not a single person, thought that YouTube removing dislike counts was actually anything remotely like burning the Library of Alexandria. No one. It was a joke.", "Wait what, this is the real conspiracy of my generation. Now i need to look into this", "When this video dies, tell my wife I said hello", "Let's go Brandon anyhow\n\nEdit -- judging by the downvotes I guess read it really hates Brandon!!! Noice!!", "and the channels that cared about dislikes will just remove those comments", "Every time this gets posted I remind everyone that the like/dislike ratio is divisive, not neutral. So the whole premise is flawed from the get-go.", "that video is unavailable in my country...", "If you use Relay and want to use the in-app player, you have to have the default be the stock YouTube app. It's fine a majority of the time since the in-app player doesn't include ads, but if you ever try to open a YouTube link externally, it will open into the stock YouTube app. Sadness.", "I already can’t see them :\\", "Does [this one work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzU05QmJMDg)", "fuck i'm old, this has been going on for 12 years now!", "Good lol", "Oh man if only there were a concise YouTube video to convey this idea", "Go ahead. Explain.", "How could you say something so controversial, yet so brave?", "As a viewer I'm outraged but as a content creator I'm relieved that my dedicated dislikers who make sure none of my videos have 0 dislikes will have to find something better to do.", "I guess that will be the indicator for a bad video.", "Making change just for the sake of making change", "I feel pretty neutral about the whole thing.", "Idk what narrative he's on about specifically but it's pretty obvious that the goal is to shield content from big corporations from criticism. Mainstream news, talk show hosts, so on and so forth.", "That is already an indicator that a video is bad.", "The problem is that Youtube can't see how unpopular this move is since all the dislikes are hidden.", "I disabled the in-app player and it let me choose Vanced as the default. I think I have the stock YouTube app disabled as well.", "They need to allow video creators to Opt-in the dislike button.", "it did, thanks.", "Holy hell that is impressive.", "Oh no whatever will we do", "Yeah you can do that, I just prefer the in-app player over switching between apps. I just wish I could have the in-app player and have it open into Vanced, if I ever open the link externally. First world problems I suppose!", "How? Viewing a video does is not an indication that you interacted with the video in any other way i.e. I can view a video and neither like nor dislike it.", "I’m not sure how I feel about this", "I had to disable the normal YouTube app entirely. Which was no problem because I never use it anymore.", "What retard at YT thought this was a good idea? Sure, it will inflate view time because it will leave it up to EVERY SINGLE viewer to decide for themselves if a YT guide is accurate or not. This is such a dumb decision. I hope enough people make a stink about it to cause them to retract this idiotic idea.", "the fact that ratio exists for a decade shows that people can indeed work together for a common goal", "Didn't even know that was happening. Dislike count is usually the only way I can know, in under a second, whether or not a \"how to\" video actually solves the problem.", "Why would they be removed? Too many people with their heart on their sleeves easily offended or some corporate reason for making everything rose colored?", "Its a 4 second video with 10 million views, would Youtube even bother doing something like that?", "It's also literally identical to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at Pompeii.", "Can’t let the common rabble have a voice on my video advertising platform", "Look out guys, we got a badass over here.", "Ironically, this meme misses the point.\n\nTrue neutrality is not an equal amount of likes and dislikes, but an absence of either.", "The dislike button would work if people didn't dislike good videos that are covering negative topics.", "Too accurate. It hurts my soul.\n\nSeveral years ago my old work started a company newsletter page with different articles every few weeks with information leading up to a very controversial merger. They put like/dislike buttons on every article. Pretty much every article talking about the merger like it was a good thing got hundreds of dislikes and a token three or four likes within the first week. The second week, only the like option became available. Then the view counter dropped to near zero. Hopefully YouTube sees a similar major drop off after this and realizes what a monumentally bad idea it is. They won't, but I still hope.", "Here is YouTube explaining. [Dislike this](https://youtu.be/kxOuG8jMIgI) while you can. Already has a pretty good ratio going, lol.", "Le gem", ":-( that is actually really sad, but if you think about it it's actually a positive :-)\n\nNahh - I have no strong feelings one way or the other.", "so... how do we trace this back to money?", "Well it's only because Youtube doesn't have a neutral rating.", "You're [probably right](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0). But I still believe cause damnit I need this.", "Big corporations such as vaccine manufacturers, and the biggest corporation of them all, the government", "They could've not voted at all in the first place! Easy!", "anyone on android who isn’t using relay and vanced is living wrong and it’s the duty of anyone who knows better to help our lost brethren live justly", "I still don't understand how \"disliking\" something is harassment. No one has to \"like\" anything. and there are perfectly valid reasons to dislike something on youtube like on videos where the creator is giving bad information regarding some topic. and i'm not saying \"bad information\" to mean something that's opinionated that you disagree with, i mean objective facts that the creator is getting wrong. if you're searching for a video about \"how to change my car's oil\" why the fuck should you have to watch a video that doesn't show you how to do it properly or even do it at all despite the title. are we expecting youtube to moderate that kind of thing? it's been made very clear that youtube can't/won't do stuff like that.\n\ndisliking something isn't harassment. i shouldn't have to watch stuff i don't like and i want to know beforehand if something that someone created is worth my time. i mean obviously this is just to protect big corporations and other rich entities that suck, but it's completely fucked. it's a shame there's no alternative to youtube. it's probably not feasible anyways and even if it were i'm sure they'd end up as corrupt as youtube anyways.\n\nwe have to make sure we're always making advertisers and our corporate overlords happy.", "why is it this restores my faith in the goodness of the human collective spirit", "Disable normal YouTube", "I guess the comment section will be filled with this 👎", "[This](https://youtu.be/oIkhgagvrjI) is great", "Freedom, nah it's their way or the highway...", "Am I too late for the \"it's hard coded into youtube\" vs \"no, it's just people are coming together to balance it for the meme\" debate?", "Pay $1 for a \"Super 😐\"", "They already have this for comments, you can dislike them but it doesn't do anything.", "HEY WHO ARE YOU", "I also reported it as harmful and left a message", "Possibly related to informative videos on the pandemic being constantly flooded with dislikes by conspiracy theorists.", "Getting rid of the dislike counts makes it impossible to determine if the content is quality or not. The number of likes becomes meaningless without context.", "They’re actually doing it", "Yeah, as their knickers bloom full of giant wads of cash being shoved down them by advertisers that are snorting twice as much cocaine as usual, the execs at youtube will shed a small tear about content like this 6s video.", "They used to have a 5 star rating system, where 3 stars was effectively a neutral rating. \nAccording to Youtube, they switched to thumbs up and down because people would only give either 1 or 5 stars.", "I don’t know how to feel about this except that I know it is happening.", "Let's say your average video has 1 like per 100 views. Videos that people generally dislike will likely have fewer than 1:100 like-to-view ratio. Conversely, videos that people love will likely have >1 like per 100 views.\n\nOne thing that may skew it though, is well-liked + rewatchable videos. You can only like a very good video once, but you can watch it hundreds or thousands of times, which effectively will bring down its like-to-view ratio.", "FUCK I didn’t think about this. That’s gonna be a huge loss. Hoping something else comes and competes with YouTube in long formats.", "This seems like the bigger issue for me. YouTube needs to stop giving me super shitty, very disliked videos in the initial results. Stop wasting our time.", "Whoever that guy was has the most condescending false voice I've ever heard.", "i am the original. the reason you couldn't get this name.", "I watch a fair amount of instructional/DIY videos on YouTube and the first thing I always check to see if the advice in the video is garbage is the like/dislike ratio. What a terrible feature to remove.", "Don’t forget to smash that hate button and turn off notifications so YouTube can hide your favorite channels from you anyways. Hate and subscribe to help the algorithm !!\n\n-every YouTube in the next few weeks.", "This is Youtube, part of Google, one of the biggest corporations in the world. Literally everything they do is because of money, no matter how they justify it in words.", "It was already disabled. What helped was also deleting the user data for Youtube. Now it works!", "Thought so.\n\nImagine being so far down the rabbit hole that “hiding dislikes” on YouTube is to protect vaccine manufacturers and the government. Yikes.", "or like a heat map?", "Youths were a mistake.", "The corporate reason, except less about rose-coloring. \nMy suspicion is this: \nYoutube doesn't give a shit about content so long as it doesn't get them in hot-water with their advertisers. \nYoutube wants everyone to spend as much time as possible watching ads on Youtube. \nWhen people decide to not watch a video because they see it has an abysmal ratio of likes to dislikes, those are ads that were not watched, that Youtube didn't get paid for. \nQuarterly profits are the name of the game, and Youtube could shoot a person on Fifth Avenue and not lose viewers. \nThey know this choice will be bad for users but good for profits, which is simple math for psychopaths.", "Whos brandon and where is he going?", "i mean if you care about authentic social pressures from real people you should probably fix your joke detector", "Who will still dislike videos if it doesn't make a difference.\n\nI at least don't bother disliking YouTube comments for that exact reason.", "[This was posted two days ago with a better title](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qr0qe9/for_12_years_viewers_of_the_neutral_response_have/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)", "Is it lust for gold? Power? Or was he just born with a heart full of neutrality?", "Is the video being region locked part of the joke?", "That would actually be a funny reaction by corporations not liking dislikes", "Aren't they just getting rid of PUBLIC counts? Wouldn't their algorithm still show you the most popular videos but now we can't go group dump a video and take a screenshot for clout?", "This'll be the new \"like if you're still listening in 2021\"", "I've probably saved hours of time from clicking on videos, seeing how disliked they are and knowing they aren't worth my time. This is a massively stupid idea.", "It’s almost like people will need to rely on themselves a bit for self assurance and decisions. THE HUMANITY.", "Having netrual opinion and disliking something are two complete different things. \n\nYour idea would completely blur that line. \n\nBad solution :/", "YouTube wins to your having to watch multiple videos as long as you keep coming back", "It's literally Orville Redenbacher's Wonder Woman 84", "\\> \"Sometimes, a star shines a little too bright for its own good. Goodnight, sweet prince.\"\n\nFucking LOL", "Are they really doing this? So stupid.", "Reminds me of all the video uploads with the Infinity War scene in which Thanos says \"perfectly balanced as all things should be\" and the like:dislike ratio is the exact same", "Why thats pretty funny. Some random comment gets more likes than the video out of spite? Love it", "This is just more of the same “participation awards” bullshit that society has been moving towards over the last few years so that nobody gets upset that they didn’t do well, or nobody ever gets offended at anything or feels left out and bullied. \n\nI’m as liberal as fuck but this kind of namby pamby bollocks drives me mad. Not everyone has to like everything. Not everyone can be popular. Learn to live with disappointment, get over it and strive to be better. That’s how we got where we are as a species.", "Modern problems require modern solutions.", "Prob to a capital building to stop a government function and rub his feces on the walls. Never forgive jan 6.", "Lmfao love how this is downvoted despite being correct. It's not the community keeping at 50/50, its done with code by utilizing the YouTube API.", "> I still don't understand how \"disliking\" something is harassment.\n\nIt's not harassment. But harassment is a thing in the public's mind right now so they're using it as a convenient cover for their real motivations: to protect what is essentially ad videos from big corporations from being disliked (the biggest youtube channels are corporate).", "Tell my wife I said.... hello.", "I missed a joke, it happens, especially on the internet where there is no tone. If it makes you feel good to be snarky though I'm here for that! Keep em' comin!", "There's a reason reddit bans brigading", "Yeah but that's because you are never seeing the numbers in real time, and you might not see the se numbers of likes/dislikes someone else does but they should be very close.\n\nIt's not the community keeping it at 50/50, there is code that is keeping it at 50/50.\n\nEdit: lmfao reddit Is a silly ass place 🤦‍♂️", "Anyone can apply for access to their API and do this, its not all that fancy or anything special.", "The amount of people in this thread that actually think the YouTube community is keeping the video at 50/50 is embarrassing", "Funny how mainstream reddit is treating this like a joke.\n\nThen, it was Amy Schumer getting star ratings removed from Netflix.\n\nNow, it's Youtube removing dislike counts. \n\nAnd none of this is raising any red flags... with anyone? Oh that's right, I'm just a crazy fucking conspiritard. Nevermind me.", "its less about the missed joke and more about the excessive doubling down on it tbh", "I don't even remember when I disliked the video, but I sure as shit have seen it at least 30 times. Balanced as all things should be", "It's gonna be great for spam channels. Normally, when you're trying to see highlights of something, you can tell when a channel is just using clickbait in the thumbnail instead of the actual content you want to see from the amount of dislikes it has. A lot of wasted time trying to find what you're looking for now.", "Won't that make the whole \"spreading hate and misinformation\" problem on Youtube worse?\nDoesn't the lack of dislikes create this perverse incentive for loud toxicity on Facebook or Twitter?", "Red flags for what?", "Big safe place country! New Zealand?", "Lust for gold :)", "that's a completely different topic. brigading does not equal disliking. again, there are perfectly good and valid reasons to enable users of a platform to dislike something. there should be systems in place to handle issues like brigading, trolling, etc, but that doesn't mean disliking something isn't good or healthy for a platform and doesn't mean that real, organic participation by users should be punished.", "I like it when they keep recommending a video I have already disliked.", "So brandon is one of those maga hat people? Sorry, I'm not american, but I've been seeing a lot about brandon going places lately.", "Like upvote my comment if you hate my like.", "AdBlock everything and you're just leaching their servers", "Anybody can apply for access to the API and change likes and dislikes on a video???\n\nThat can't possibly be accurate. Why would Youtube allow that?", "And this is how they'll get you to surf their website for longer.", "My butt's been wiped!", "Perfectly balanced. As all things should be.", "Fair enough, bored programmer could do it for sure.", "I will genuinely use YouTube less.\n\nI use it to learn a lot of stuff and I immediately look to the like/dislike ratio to see if the video is worth anything.\n\nIf I don't have that advantage anymore I'll just go elsewhere. It was literally one of the main reasons I liked using YouTube to figure something out. \n\nI don't have to read comments or watch the video to find out it's trash. The dislikes tell me", "The marketing guy that sucks corporate dick. Coca Cola, Pepsi, Blizzard & co don't want the people to see that their new clip has 600k dislikes, they want you to see the 10k bot likes", "I don't think this applies any more, I haven't seen a 301 view in a long time.", "12 years later and it still has an equal amount of likes and dislikes. So neutral!", "The depiction of Steven Seagal is... accurate.", "Have Matt and trey always channeled boomer energy and I never noticed, or are they just settling into it more as they get older? It seems like more and more there are bits just griping about \"kids today\" without them really seeming to understand the underlying issues\n\nLike I get people can be dumb about using safe spaces to protect their own insecurities and ego, but that sketch seems like it's mocking the concept of safe spaces in general, and that's more and more how Southpark seems to be going these days", "Didn't Mark Rober make a video where the title is like \"This video is at X views\" where X was the exact views the video was? Something about you can write some code a certain way in your titles so the text gets replaced with whatever element you coded it for.\n\n\nAs I've been informed, it was Tom Scott. Woops", "EXACTLY.\n\nI will actively ua YouTube less bc of this. \n\nI can read of watch how to do shit on other websites if none of them have the handy dislike feature.", "> Corporations when dislikes are private and comments are disabled\n\nAlso subreddits that instantly delete conflicting viewpoints and then ban the user.", "How do you know?", "How on earth is that a rabbit hole. We’re talking about google and big pharma; literally some of the biggest companies in the world that are making decisions that would protect them from scrutiny/criticism, in the name of profits. Extremely far fetched isn’t it…\n\nAs a note governments pay for advertisements on YouTube just as corporations do.", "Tom Scott actually (unless Mark Rober did one too, idk)\nhttps://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0", "Hot take: instead of equal likes and dislikes that video should have none of either", "It will still have all the same effects you just won't see it.", "Also whether or not the video is a:\n\n* scam\n* low quality\n* low effort\n* highly unpopular opinion\n* just shit in general\n\nI still remember when Facebook removed the thumbs down button. People just can't handle any negativity in their closely curated safe space.", "The linked video has 301 views lmao", "This was the first video I thought of when I read about their change. rip neutrality", "If you think google loses all value if you block the ads then I've got a surprise for you...", "People are too sensitive for dislikes. Idiocracy here we come!", "This doesn't really belong and no one cares - but I will NEVER click the like button again. I've always been a \"if I watched a vid, support it with a like\" guy. Never again. You don't want my opinion? You don't get my opinion.", "ALIENS.", "I didn't know about that change and I do not like it. Wasn't it enough for big companies to hide comments and likes/dislikes.\n\nCowards.", "South Park has always punched out at things they find stupid. Heck, they've been doing the PC principle stuff for years now. Micro-aggressions was even an attack in at least one of the South Park video games. I think it's less they're \"channeling boomer energy\" and more they make fun of everything.", "Matt and Trey can't get mock my safe space in my safe spaaaaaaace", "Which will be a much more blatant indicator that things are going badly", "This is a terrible loss for the internet", "You think Redditors would actually click on links?", "You could write a bot to like or dislike the video, then periodically withdraw or change its vote whenever needed. As long as the community keeps it close enough, only a few bot accounts would be needed to force it exactly even. Not changing it on the backend, just adding/subtracting the bot account's own vote.", "an error occurred :(", "Uhm... I'm sorry but are you familar with any sort of history?\n\nIf so, name one time when active suppression of public opinion has ever been a good thing. Did you know that the U.S. Bill of Rights was written to avoid that kind of government control over the populace? It's true. Freedom of speech. A completely alien concept nowdays, I know.\n\nIf you can justify why our 1st Amendment is being destroyed by the wake of this technocratic social media cyber-scape, I'd very much like to hear it.", "They haven’t changed, you have.", "I’ll say it again like I do in every thread for this video: an equal number of likes and dislikes isn’t neutral. You want to be true neutral you wouldn’t have an opinion of this video whatsoever. It should have zero engagement other than views.\n\nThis whole thing is a farce that doesn’t even understand the original joke about being totally neutral.", "Just report everything now.", "Good! I'm annoyed by how much of the internet's wealth of information has been locked behind youtube videos so people can make money on sharing information. It's not even the most accessible or useful way to find information, just the most profitable.\n\nI'll happily watch a video Ad for your text list explaining something, but instead you made a 10 minute video.", "I was discussing this with my gf, and she thinks we shouldn't judge a book by its cover.\n\n \n\n\nFuck that, life's too short to have my time wasted by bad and misinformation tutorials and how tos.", "\"This video is unavailable\"?", "oh it's not that, it's the uploader didn't make it available in my country.", "The guy that uploaded it will have to create some kind of bot that auto updates the description with the Likes and Dislikes since only they can see the video likes/dislikes.", "And?", "Where ya gonna go then?", "What you dislike still makes a difference in what your own feed shows, according to them.", "We must start the journey with of making it 0", "I think it’s a mixture of issues\n\nMatt and Trey have always had issue with liberals, Stone said something to the effect of \"I hate conservatives but I really fucking hate liberals” back in the 2000s. It seems that they really dislike the virtue signaling aspect that some liberals engage in (the Prius episode) the problem is they’ve just kind of run with that being the joke in of itself for a while now. When at least before there was something deeper.\n\nThe other problem is that South Park is over 20 years old now and Matt and Trey are a lot closer in age to the people that South Park originally mocked - I think it’s hard to do bitting satire when you’re now the wealthy out of touch guys complaining how things were different when you were young.\n\nLastly, and I think this is a bit more meta, but I think humor tastes have changed and I’d say cringe and edgy humor have really fallen out of favor among younger people. I think you have a lot of people who saw edgy humor as the joke - like “it’s okay to make a racist joke because we all agree racism is bad” type of thing. Then we all kind of figured out there’s a really big portion of people who actually think that. Louis CK is a good example of it. A lot of his early humor is about how he’s this schlubby guy who can come off as creepy and his jokes are around that. Then we found out that’s exactly what he actually is. South Park hasn’t adapted to this, and has just double downed on “people are so sensitive these days Urgh” instead of trying to adjust for the times.\n\nLikewise, I think Trump really shifted political comedy and it’s hard for SP to operate in that atmosphere. My family is pretty conservative, and I’ve seen their humor go from slightly off colour politically incorrect jokes to “infuriating the libs is the joke.” It’s really hard not to take a side in politics these days, and South Park has always ridden the “we don’t take sides” line to justify all their nihilism. South Park sold this idea that you were cool for not caring (giant douche and turd sandwich is a good example of this) and I think a lot of people have realized the danger of apathy. Like, I think 2016 is the high water mark for “apathy is cool” comedy. The 2016 election was the first time my peer group could actually vote, and I remember seeing so many of my friends vote for Trump because it would be funny/it would stick it to the system - there was no principle to it, they were just being edge lords for the sake of it. Turns out that apathy can actually lead to some bad things. \n\nEdit: for what it’s worth and to answer the original point, I think SP has always had big boomer energy. A lot of their political and social issue episodes haven’t aged well at all. You realize so many episodes’ jokes are just “haha racism and homophobia are funny.” Garrison being trans and the entire character of Mr. Slave are especially bad, but you see it especially in bit characters likes the guy who runs the Chinese restaurant. The episodes satiring current events and the absurd episodes still hold up really well.", "What’s the matter with you people? Are you saaaaaad?\n\n[I love that episode](https://youtu.be/K-I9Ju3gJnk?t=0m44s) ❤️", "Also, freaks. Like these guys that eat themself to death. Or scream obscenities.\n\nLiterally the only people who can really benefit from these are... not so nice people, I guess.", "All because peoples feelings. I swear to god this is so fucking retarded.", "There is only one reason. They don't have control over it and they can't stand it.", "Wait that was real?", "Isn't it amazing how information companies keep removing information?", "Seems like every video would start harassing the viewers to like more often.\n\nPlease upvote this comment, it'll really help me out!", "I seem to have contributed to this clip years ago 😂", "Yeah that could happen, but I don't think thats what he meant by 'not the community keeping it there'. You'd need an obscene number of bots to force that video to stay even, if the community wasn't actually voting evenly.\n\nedit* I guess if a bot just kept making new accounts for the sole purpose of adding votes it could work. I'd be a bit puzzled if Youtube would allow that through their API, but I guess it isn't impossible.", "Youtube could literally murder babies on their platform and I think they'd still hold essentially a \"monopoly\" over video streaming (ik there's competitors but they really aren't up to YT standards for a few reasons).\n\n\nEach time YT does something downright stupid like this, people always say they wish there were alternatives and if there isn't by now, there probably never will be :(", "Ha, very true. But not sure how much different it'd be from the current system (with both likes and dislikes)?", "Literally my first thought when I first heard about it", "I think you’re last section is really telling. SP’s main thing was making fun of people who care about things, no matter what the thing is. We, at least younger people, have moved away from apathy for apathy’s sake. We’re living with the consequences of not caring.", "They are just mad about the 2018 rewind dislike ratio.", "Holy shit I'm so pissed of now. Suffer the wrath of my dislike.", "Lol that's gonna be a step up for Blizzard videos.", "Bitchute is great as a free-speech platform, allowing content that YouTube has banned. Hopefully they become more popular after this bullshit.", "Why do people keep commenting this, it will just get filtered as spam.", "He thinks he got downvoted because he didn't realize the original person was being sarcastic. He is correct.", "So let me guess this straight:\n\n1. There's this problem about people abusing dislikes\n2. That YouTube's Creator Liaison had never heard about\n3. But it's a big problem\n\nSo they are now fixing this problem that was so big they hadn't heard of it?", "YouTube is going to become another safe haven for Trumpets, just like Facebook and TikTok are - those are 2 other platforms that content can't be downvoted.", "I have no strong opinion on this matter.", "ta chido el dibujo", "There was an unethical LPT posted just yesterday about this. Just make a video where the first 60 seconds makes people believe you're leading towards fixing the problem, then after that you can just fill video time with whatever.", "Part of the context here is that Cartman is the one who is singing. Essentially the person most likely to be a huge asshole is retreating to his safespace to avoid the consequences of his mean behavior. \n\n\nWhen I see this clip, I see safespaces being purposefully misinterpreted because the lens we are looking at it through is someone who is too much of an asshole to really understand the concept.", "My biggest thing was reviews. When you saw a high downvote course you could on it was a robot voice with speculative specs. And not a review.\n\nNow I get to go through them all to find a single person that actually ownes what they are reviewing.", "They've always been in the \"edgy libertarians who always side with the right when it matters\" space, but I think they have been straying into more strawmen lately - especially with the switch to more of a serialized structure (as in, an overarching plot for each season). The cringiest was PC Principal imo, like, those episodes were all just a who's-who of outdated right wing strawmen. That season still had some good commentary though, iirc the issue of gentrification was done well, and the internet trolls arc was hilarious (I think this was a bit from that?)\n\nOverall, the show is very hit or miss but still mostly fine imo, the issue is the people who use it as a basis for their political ideology.", "Is it full of Nazis and pedophiles like every other \"free speech\" oriented platform?", "Any mirrors, please? Video is gone now...hmm.", "Back to reading forums", "YouTube is a monopoly and needs government intervention.", "The point is that they don't want you to be able to calculate it. They made that pretty clear.", "It’s called growth. If you’re the same, in humor or perspective or thought process, then you will be out of sync with culture. \n\nI hope people are able to see that I didn’t put a value judgement on growth, it’s not inherently good or bad, it just will happen, and when you’re unable to grow (which, again, not inherently wrong) you become Abe Simpson yelling at clouds. My culture (early millennial) is wildly different than that of the late millennials, and we’re the same generation. Imagine what Gen Epsilon will think of the Zoomers when they’re 80.", "Curiosity stream and nebula are good platforms for educational content", "YouTube is a monopoly and needs government intervention.", "So you think the CIA went to Google and said “The dislikes on YouTube. Shut it down.”?", "YT is a multi-billion venture, consistently and “intentionally” operating at net negative. Nobody is gonna compete with them, not in this universe.", "Even outside the subs where you aren't allowed to have certain opinions, I've noticed that, in a great many popular subreddits, disagreements are not allowed.\n\nEven if there aren't any personal attacks, people can just be like, \"this hurts my feelings\" and boom, comments removed, thread locked as unproductive. Because everybody holding hands and repeating the same opinion is so productive.\n\nObviously there is a point where argument becomes unproductive, but it isn't the point where disagreement occurs.", "Yes", "I wouldn't be one bit surprised if they code in an exception for this video and show a downvote count. I'm pretty sure the YouTube devs actually already fudge the upvote/downvote ratio on this particular video.", "Spewing misinformation and passing it off as \"Alternative facts\" absolutely deserves deletion and banning of the user.", "Squatter's right's don't mean much to a publicly appointed official\n\nNice upper-case C though", "The ironic thing is that people are going to watch this video, dislike it, and prove the exact points the video made about dislike bombing and about dislikes not affecting viewership.", "Gonna take this opportunity to point my fingers at /r/cryptocurrency with the recent LRC debaucle.", "There is one in its work. It’s called COSTV. Currently in Beta rn.", "Isn't this exactly what did in Digg? \n\nThey remove the Bury button and everybody was pissed.", "[Huh](https://i.imgur.com/NRFuNlE.png)", "oh there are full episodes i can view. \n\nit was not made available in my country by the poster.", "> South Park hasn’t adapted to this, and has just double downed on “people are so sensitive these days Urgh” instead of trying to adjust for the times\n\nThe PC principal arc was a good example of this, it was all absurdist conservative strawmen of \"the libs\". Like, the whole \"consent forms\" thing at the frat party. The \"joke\" there is basically \"haha, consent is dumb, y r people so sensitive about it, lol\" - like, they're just complaining that rape is unacceptable, but in a weird way? Just... no, stop.", "I'm specifically referring to some well known subreddits that literally censor any opposing view. It's one thing to spread lies and filth toevery corner of Reddit and be punished as a result. It's another to blockade an entire sub from any and all dissent, while remaining a \"public\" subreddit. If you can't tolerate outside opinions the sub should be invite only. It's that simple.\n\nEven subs that I routinely enjoy and browse I refuse to comment or post in, ever, if they require a special \"flair\" for some things. It doesn't matter if I qualify for said flair or not. I'm not about stonewalling debate and forcing an artificial echo chamber.", "Yeah I'm not sure. \n\nUsually I look for views and dislikes to initially judge a video. Now I'll be looking for a like per view ratio?\n\nRight now they want likes for the algorithm, now it'll be for the algorithm and to judge the quality? Not sure how big of a jump that is since they already want likes.\n\nThough if they actually add a like per unique? view ratio that's displayed up front on every video, I feel like that'll be pretty big incentive to beg for likes even more.", "But isn't the whole point to cultivate the videos so that the best content is easy to find. If my feed becomes a shit show I'll just stop watching YouTube then how many ad views will they get", "Sweet I'll check those out thanks", "Which will be funny still, because that boosts the video's engagement.\n\nThey do this already - especially in politics videos or anything posted by cable news channels. They religiously go to every video, immediately pause it, downvote, and go comment how bad it is while making wild (usually wrong) assumptions about what it actually said. Except, the YouTube algorithm weights likes/dislikes by watch time, and counts comments as engagement. So they're literally just boosting the video's ranking in The Algorithm&trade;. Morons.", "Try clicking the play button, turn the volume on, and wait 8 seconds", "It moves them towards the bottom of the comment section. Not sure the threshold on that though", "> like if you're still listening in 2021\n\n_video uploaded in 2019_", "Well, if comments are blocked it usually means you shouldn’t watch it. It will either infuriate you or just good ol’ waste time you’ll never get back.", "There are more noteworthy ones do it year round, while some are guilty of doing this with specific events or topics. I can excuse or even forgive the latter when it occurs, so long as it's a rarity. The former just has no place on a \"public\" forum and subs that do should either be forced private, or have their moderation replaced.", "This will just lead people to downvote more often because they are now not sure it hasn’t already been downvoted to all heck.", "The word \"harassment\" has been so heavily abused in recent years that it's become meaningless.", "I dont know why but I did not like that man lol", "Right? The thing is there’s a lot you could have done with PC principal that would have worked really well. Like, off the top of my head, have an episode where he realizes Kenny is being bullied for being poor, so he launches an entire event to force students to use positive” economically disabled” language to make Kenny feel included. But, to fund the program, he had to cut free school lunches - so the entire episode you have PC Principle congratulating himself for fixing poverty while simultaneously watching Kenny slowly starve to death.\n\nThere - you’ve got a pretty solid criticism of leftist activism. Instead you’ve got these weird “haha isn’t asking for consent stupid?” jokes", "I'm cool with governing the void, that sounds bad ass\n\nand with how much you run your mouth, you should consider a career in politics too", "The internet is a baby. YouTube isn't forever. They want you to think they're inevitable and immortal but they've been around less than 20 years. Don't give up!", "Yeah, I've seen comments drop, similar to reddit. I'm not sure why people think it does nothing.", "Futurama is forever and is never not in style.", "It's gonna suck. I do a lot of repairs and tear-downs. And seeing a lot of dislikes on that type of videos has been a huge timesaver for me. \n\nNow I will not know if a video has been unhelpful to others.", "> according to them\n\nAh yes - [Algorithms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMsH_3cRKeI).", "Please can we lose our collective shit and make them backtrack this? Facebook doesnt have a dislike button so people arent forced to face the reality at times that they are fucking crazy.\n\nHell, its how I fine tune my memes. Shitshow shotgun blast of fecal meme splatters and bam, shiney gold kernal for them sweet doots", "Wait what? Why??? How will I know what's garbage and what's not?", "They are about as GenX as you can get. What you misconstrued as \"boomer energy\" is really just GenXers habit of calling out stupidity they see. And the concept of safe spaces is stupidity incarnate.", "That's what it always feels like until things change. I don't buy that YouTube is unsinkable. Likewise Amazon and all the other corporations. When it's all you've ever known it's all you can imagine, but that doesn't mean it will be that way forever.\n\nEdit: to be fair the most likely scenario is that they get beaten out by an even bigger corporate behemoth, so not exactly a net positive, but the point stands", "Or when my \"recommended\" feed is all videos I've already watched like, years ago.", "reddit was better with up and down vote totals too.", "Why would it? People will find one way or another to show their dissatisfaction.", "That's different, Tom's script updates the video title to match the view count, not the view count itself.", ">Usually I look for views and dislikes to initially judge a video. \n\nI do the same thing by the way :)\n\n>Now I'll be looking for a like per view ratio?\n\nYeah, basically. \n\n>I feel like that'll be pretty big incentive to beg for likes even more. \n\nThey already do this though, begging for people to subscribe. I think additional subscribers is more beneficial long-term for content creators than likes on a specific video.\n\n\nWhat sucks is, this is exactly what happened to digg.com and why it led to its downfall. They removed the bury button (effectively the same as a dislike or downvote). So there was a mass exodus to reddit, where you could upvote/downvote stuff to prevent crap from making it to the top. That's the whole reason I'm here.", "No dislikes, no comments. This is going to be the best time for misinformation, clickbait and trash videos. Why can't they just track dislikes and so something about \"the abuse\" ?", "That wasn't the sense that I got from the second comment. I think they figured it out by now, though.", "This. Missing the joke is totally fine.", "Literally 1984", "That's because Youtube froze the view counter specifically on that video", "> You could write a bot to like or dislike the video, then periodically withdraw or change its vote whenever needed.\n\nYou'd need literally tens of thousands of bots to do that.\n\nOccam's Razor applies here. This is a popular and well known clip from a popular show on a popular video sharing platform. It's entirely likely that a majority of the people who have voted on it wanted to play into the joke the clip is about. It's far, far more likely that it's natural than some nefarious scheme where someone creates thousands of bots to constantly update the bar for... literally zero benefit.", "Yup. Can't have the major news networks and other corporate channels lose their credibility by getting ratio'd whenever they try to slop their bullshit into what used to be a platform for mostly independent content providers.\n\n\nI guess we'll just have to use views:likes until they just eliminate it all together.", "Oh wow, the gem isn't the video it's the like/dislike ratio.", "There is no love except for big thumber up", "The internet collectively wrote the entirety of \"Darth Plagueis the Wise\" pixel by pixel with only one update per hour per person and maintained it against malicious graffiti for multiple days. It might be hard to admit, but sometimes, mildly interesting things _do_ manage to happen.", "And that says Video Unavailable for me.\n\nAppropriate.", "Why not just make it togglable", "No doubt that it happens in the bigger subs more often and with broader strokes. It's a shame. \n\nThe recent crypto sub ban hammer spree has me scratching my head. Start an analysis discussion about a project that has great fundamentals, could improve a large swath of the crypto ecosystem, is currently rising but isn't in the top 10? Ya gone. \n\nReason: brigading.", "That's the opposite. He's updating the video title to match the view count, not updating the view count to match the title. The YouTube API doesn't let you change view counts or like/dislikes.", "This is was the first thing I thought of when I heard they were getting rid of it. It's a sad day for the internet.", "The simple solution is to stop liking or disliking all videos. In a year when their algorithm is trash and the advertisers start complaining they'll fix it.", "They literally don’t care anymore bro corporations are honestly becoming quite sadistic literally 0 quality to expect from anyone anymore …..", "The concept in general is fucked.", "561k upvotes, 561k downvotes.\n\nImpressive", "I thought this was going to turn out funny and interesting but here we are", "I can still view the dislike bar and this video is already becoming uneven.", "Thank you for this.", "Guess ill be manually blocking a lot of youtube channels as its easier for garbage content to reach me now.", "I agree with you but so many people miss the joke. I feel South Park was always of the mind we as the audience were all in on the joke and why it is funny but sadly that isn't the case. When Cartman acts horrible we laugh because of how absurd he is. Some people laugh because they think the things he says are funny and acceptable things to say.", "I dislike shitty ads even though I know it doesn’t do anything.", "I am listening...", "Its all very corporate. Like an informational video they'd show you at job training.", "They said they ran tests in early 2021 that ended in July, and those tests reduced the problem. So they heard about it, tested to see if they could solve it, found out they could solve it and implemented the change. It's pretty straight forward.", "If users were collectively determined to break it, you would need many bots to overcome that. But most people see the funny joke and try to play along. The total should be close enough that it wouldn't take very many bots at all to keep the gap closed.", "> , disagreements are not allowed.\n\ndisagreeing about whether certain people deserve civil rights isn't the same as disagreeing about appropriate pizza toppings.", "Small content creators who rely on the like system to generate traffic to their videos are going to suffer because of this. \n\nI cant imagine people are going to use the like/dislike system nearly as much when there is no visual feedback to make people feel like their vote matters. People just aren't going to vote at all..", "Tom only changed the title of the video not the likes and dislikes which im sure YT doesn't allow.", "Clickbait and misleading videos everywhere on YouTube rejoice!!!", "How is YouTube a monopoly? There are so many other video platforms. TikTok is absolutely massive, that alone is proof that YouTube isn't a monopoly.", "i'd rather not, i'd like to keep my gmail account", "Tom Scott. He just has a script that runs every 5 mins or so that gets the latest view count for the video and updates the title.", "Don't even consider having a different opinion because twitter and the news already told you what to feel. \nAnything beyond that is a wrongthink.\n\n\nPeople act like China is this big menacing threat, but everyone is busy getting their own social credit points for following the trends and shouting down anyone on the outside.", "I feel this comment in my soul. The first time this happened to me I was so thrown off. I was questioning a bully dog pile that seemed to break one of the sub's rules. I asked if that rule even mattered if the mods were cool with so many people breaking it. I got banned with no explanation. In hindsight, I view it as a rite of passage.", "Yeah that's what Moe's saying, they could code it to still show the ratio. Just like they did with that Numberphile video", "> There - you’ve got a pretty solid criticism of leftist activism. \n\nno, it's a criticism of liberal activism. [Actual leftists would feed kids and scare the government into starting a free breakfast program.](https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party)", "I miss when YouTube was about any average person sharing their own content.", "Broadcast Your ~~self~~ sponsor ™", "It’s exactly like Asmongold said. This change is solely for corporations and agendas political or otherwise. It is not for creators at all. This shit ruins tech tutorials on YouTube. I could always tell which ones to watch based on dislikes.", "Or from a creator that you already requested not to show in the feed but here is 5 videos and special category for them.", "Beaten by who? I doubt you can name me a single company.\n\nThe most likely-plausible scenario is that they get bitten in by another large monopolistic platform that ventures into their “territory” - but those cases almost always end in favour of the “home” company, ie YT in this case.\n\nCase and point - remember when Twitch was trying to make a “thing” out of the videos shareable on their platform? Supposedly trying to compete with YT, beat them at their own game. Yeh. That was not a huge success.", "Believe it or not I’m banned from “Am I the asshole?”", "Gem, not gems. One video lol", "/r/askwomen", "Tik tok is not a competitor with YouTube. They fill totally different spaces, both are big but not the same.", "Yep, it runs the script every X minutes to keep the title as up to date as possible without overusing the YouTube API and hitting some sort of throttling", "I'm not saying it wouldn't take years/decades of ruthless corporate maneuvering, I'm just saying you're giving YT too much credit by saying it's impossible.", "Youtube went from a video hosting site that had ads to an ad site that has videos, and those videos usually have their own ads inside them just in case you thought you found an adblocker", "apparently dislikes will still affect what videos are recommended to you.", "Dislikes already are gone on the YouTube app for me, both official and YouTube vanced. Just says \"feedback shared with the creator\" when I hit dislike now", "It's because of how the algorithm works, any interaction, negative included, is still considered engagement with the video. It's fucking stupid, but it means that if you truly don't like a video, the best thing you can do is to not comment, like/dislike, and just move on.", "They sure have figured out how to turn everything valuable about the internet back into TV 2: Electric Boogaloo.", "\"channeled boomer energy\" just means:\n\n1. zoomer is being made fun of\n2. zoomer doesn't like it\n3. zoomer is trying to explain why the joke is bad without admitting to the first 2.", "You can't be this dumb. Youtube already provides very easy ways to filter out anything you don't want in the comments. It's Google. How do you think Gmail got to be so popular?", "If Epsilons are really paying attention, my suspicion is that they'll realize that a lot of these differences make sense on paper, but that people are people. The media creates these distinctions and social scientists don't generally find them to be as significant as the general public does. The differences are often based on geography and scope. We're all part of the same culture until you zoom into subgroups. Then, the distinctions become more pronounced, but they also cease being so broadly applicable.", "This is absolutely devastating for any tutorial or music cover video. The like dislike ratio is the best way to tell in less than a second whether its worth watching or not", "He says in the video there's no way it can be 100% right all the time. Just most of the time.", "cough EA cough", "Nah it's code on his end that checks the viewcount and updates the title. Not code in the title.", "Well, I guess that may still count as an answer of sorts?", "That's not something I've ever disagreed about, so I'm not sure what you're on about.", "This is a Chewbacca defense. They didn't say anything about civil rights. You're gaslighting his opinion by blowing what he said out of proportion and making an argument against one you made up.", "We're talking about seeing ratings on internet videos.", "Gems. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/Vx5prDjKAcw", "Just reading comments wondering if I'm the only one who reads comments and doesn't give a fuck about like and dislike counter", "Isnt this a win for people who spead viruses/malware too, I've seen videos for things like emulator roms where there'd be thousands of downvotes cos the download link had a virus.", "Wait Youtube is actually doing this? I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE! oh my...", "Oh I believe it. [That is literally the only subreddit I'm in negative karma.](https://imgur.com/a/Ax4seOF) -100 is the max it will show, but I am probably somewhere around -700 from a single thread. It was my first and last time I participated rather than lurked, in the seven years of subbing to it. I also unsubbed right after as well because it was absolutely tainted for me.\n\nIf you give an opinion that doesn't match the popular one for that post, you are going to be banished to the netherealm. Just an absolute flood of downvotes if it conflicts with the most upvoted opinion. \n\nThis just creates a huge echo chamber, where no matter how well written or thought out someone's conclusion is, they are getting double or triple digit downvote totals.", "It definitely sucks, but maybe other ratios will be helpful, like the number of likes to views, or maybe views to members subscribed to that channel.\n\nMaybe be worth look at those metrics now, while you still have the dislike count to serve as the source of truth.", "Reporting on YT does fuck all unless it's porn and even then it sometimes does nothing.", "Also to tell if a \"trailer\" for a new movie is fan made or not.", "It's mainly because anything the white house puts up gers massive down votes", ">I still don't understand how \"disliking\" something is harassment.\n\nEh, I’ve seen plenty of instances where multiple videos across a channel essentially get brigaded with mass dislikes for reasons like coming out. It can absolutely be used as a form of harassment, same as any other feature.\n\nThat of course doesn’t change the fact that this is an obvious move away from transparency to try to please larger corporate interests who don’t want people to see just how unpopular a given video/announcement is.", "sorry people are downvoting, you are completely correct", "Well dislikes have been effectively useless for a while now.", "I lost my shit the other day. My buddy asked me to help him put some coilovers on his car and he sent me a YouTube video of a guy taking off springs with a towel and a bar. Had 18 likes. I told him go to AutoZone and rent a spring depressor before I beat him with the towel.", "I love every music video that has comments disabled.", "\"Brigading.\"", "This is 0% about Youtube being concerned for anybody's feelings, this goes back to them removing ratings visible on thumbnails - reducing content on their platform that is \"dead weight\" i.e. not generating ad impressions", "It is interesting because you are right. Marques Brownlee made a video on it with a great point, which was the reason people come to Youtube is not just whatever video is posted today from your subscribers, it is also random niche content. For instance my Food processor broke, so I looked up a Youtube video that showed how to take it apart, it had something like 5000 views over 3 years, 60 upvotes and 2 downvotes, it wasn't a refined video, but it showed be what I wanted and the upvote/downvote ratio showed that at least there was content there to be seen about the title of the video. But what it did was fix my food processor and make me go, if I need content on something to fix youtube.com is a good option, it provides a service. I also watch many hours of youtube content anyway in other regards, but as a tool for knowledge and fixing things, it wasn't necessarily top. \n\nLosing the downvote count placates corporations, but it destroys large amount of your product, it also doesn't keep me on the site longer, if a video is rubbish and I end up watching it, fine, I watched a video and some ads (Ha no adblock), but how many times do I put up with that, 5 bad videos, 10, 20, 50? How long until I see youtube.com, and go that is yelp.com and therefore worthless to click on? And therefore good content or not, I am out? Because that is how companies die, by users stereotyping their product as \"Myspace\", or these days Facebook, i.e. out of touch and not where I want to be. \n\nIt would be interesting to see what their strategy is with removing downvotes because, I can't see it being good long term, and that is because I can't see it providing a service to the users of the sites. Sure maybe for the first 14 days hide the upvote and downvote counts, that will stop your bandwagons because they are monkey's with a 10 second attention span, but permanently just removes from your product.", "In before no negative comments allowed", "Yeah and reporting will become even more useless since it'll be full of more spam since there's no dislike button.", "Yes Virginia, media conglomerates only want opinions coming from one direction.", "I’ve wanted a “No bullshit, just instructions” YouTube channel for a long time now. Like, no music, no commentary, no back story.\n\nJust fucking tell me how to screw the lightbulb in, don’t tell me what brand bulb you bought, why you bought it, what others prefer, or the history of the electricity. Just fuckin show the fix.", "Turns out I had disliked this video years ago already. Gotta maintain that balance I guess.", "Its how I can tell if the hunting video is worth watching. For whatever reason anti-hunting and anti-meat types of people actively search hunting videos simply to dislike them, its crazy.", "Fair point...", "/r/selfawarewolves", "He edited his original comment to say that he missed the joke at first", "The concept of safe spaces? You may not really understand what role safe spaces play, they are fairly innocuous.", "> it doesn't do anything\n\nIt feeds google more free data about what grinds people's gears.", "Basically 90% of Reddit\n\nI just got banned from ask a conservative for suggesting the solution for Japanese population decline was more sex. They didn’t like it.", "\"The uploader has not made this video available in your country\"\n\nThat's a double whammy.", "RIP?", "This is the reason it's being done. It honestly a smart decision for them as a company. Not saying I like it, but it makes sense.\n\nAdditionally, there has been a ton of research that suggests that the average person will often vote towards the majority, rather than form their own opinion. If a video has millions of dislikes for example, you're more likely to think negatively of it going in.\n\nRemoving the displayed likes/dislikes will result in less people voting, but will provide better analytics overall.", "> Basically 90% of Reddit\n\nMost of the big subs allow for plenty of discourse. It's the controversial and/or highly political ones that take a sledgehammer to the opposition.\n\n> I just got banned from ask a conservative\n\nCase in point.", "It's because there's no immediate feedback, there's no dislike counter and it doesn't make the number of likes go down. I always assumed (hoped) dislikes still did something, but I've never gotten more confirmation than from other comments.", "Tee hee just unbalanced it", "And I'm with you but where will the line be drawn if we continue to allow it?", "Yeah? Who determines misinformation? \n\nNews sources like CNN \" [It's illegal to read these emails, but it's different for us](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/17/remember-its-illegal-to-possess-wikileaks-clinton-emails-but-its-different-for-the-media-says-cnns-chris-cuomo/?outputType=amp)\"", "Not when they're just little petri dishes for idiots to cultivate their shitty opinions with other idiots egging them on.", "They are paid services, FYI. We'll worth paying for though, imho. If I remember correctly, you get Nebula access free with a Curiosity subscription, you might need to use a promo code from one of the Nebula creators though, like TierZoo, LegalEagle, Razbuten etc.\n\nI've been making a habit of watching new videos from my YT subscriptions on Nebula when I see them in my YT feed. This will probably be a good push yo just switch to nebula entirely.", "Dailymotion !", "Honestly, I'd love to see a browser add-on that just adds it back. even if its third party and only those who also have it installed can see votes. Would be a good way to get genuine reviews on videos again.", "The irony that this video is not available in my country, and that comments are disabled. You could not have linked to a better video.", "Absolutely.\n\nUnfortunately you can't go there for something like... \"how to get best graphics from ps2 emulator\" or any number of product reviews from folks. Now you just gotta hope that the 10 minute video you clicked on actually explains what you want, or is just some fucking idiot rambling. I've solved many PC issues and have gotten great advice on shit to buy from YT, and dislikes help weed out the nonsense.", "The thing is, they're standing on the shoulders of giants. A video sharing platform the size of youtube is going to cost you a stupid amount of money and resources that they were able to slowly build up to. \n\nIf a company wanted to get in on this now, they'd have to start likely from scratch in a turf that's not their own just to compete with a project that consistently loses money. There isn't much incentive for the viewers or the creators to migrate since the money is almost guaranteed to be worse as well as the actual tech. I think it's hard to deny that YT has made their backend of everything pretty quick and seemless. The videos render quickly, the search feature is pretty solid, and its quick and easy to view a creator's backlog.\n\nI think YT keeps making the UI more and more annoying personally but i can't deny that they're good at what they do.\n\n I really doubt they'll be taken down in a long time unless they simply just give it up.", "A “huge loss”… really? I’ve been getting along just fine not caring at all about the like/dislike button. From my experience it was only used when people wanted to brigade and flame another creator or company.\n\nStill better content on YouTube than any other streaming site IMO. Couldn’t give half a shit.\n\nEdit: and you probably didn’t think of it, because you didn’t do it or need it.", "I'm permabanned from r/worldnews because I said Colin Powell ought to rot in hell for his involvement in the war in Irak", "This is neither a Chewbacca defense nor gaslighting. They're not trying to confuse \"the jury\" with an irrelevant argument, and they're not trying to make OP question their reality/sanity.", "Safe spaces are not about creating bubbles of input, and aren't about not having your opinions genuinely challenged at all. They are to have a space where that isn't all that happens. Bubbles are naturally arising and comparable but definitely not the same.", "Yes I do, because it's social media. Why do you think totalitarian regimes tend to control speech? This is the same thing.\n\nI'm not saying \"YouTube is removing dislikes?? THIS IS LITERALLY NAZI GERMANY!!11!\" but I am saying it is a way to change how people view things. \n\nIt's only allowing people that agree with things speak. Sure comments are still there but at a quick glance you can see the like vs dislike ratio and not have to analyze every single comment to get a consensus.", "Are you saying boo or boo-urns?", "Wow that IS absurd I guess I'm wrong /s\n\nIf anything it would be Google showing favors for the government since they're always a few weeks away from being heavily regulated.", "YouTube operates at a loss even with add what money it makes to Google is through building up your profile so they can sell the most accurate user data available on the market", "They aren't accusing you of anything, I think they're just saying there have been a lot more politically/socialy charged arguments over the last 4 or 5 years, making it seem like most arguments are getting nuked by the mods.", "Yeah I haven't gotten a sub yet because lazy but it's like 15 a year or some shit. Really is not expensive.", "Gotcha, well I'm not sure how the world will survive without this single meme on a few videos. This must be where we have truly fallen from God's grace. RIP", "A pretty good example of this is the r/LosAngeles sub a week ago.\n\nThere was [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/qnkj7k/lapd_shot_my_dog_in_the_head/) from someone claiming that for no reason at all, LAPD came into his yard and \"hunted\" their dog, ultimately shooting it in the head with a beanbag gun.\n\nThe thread ended up hundreds of comments where people were mostly attacking police. Which yes, there are many criticisms against them, especially the LAPD, but mods had no issues with it despite everything coming from a very one-sided story. The thread also featured a pinned comment from a mod stating than anyone who says anything about the breed of dog will be banned and their comments deleted.\n\nTwo days later, [someone posted the LAPD bodycam of the event](https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/qofwzk/lapd_released_bwc_footage_of_the_beanbag_dog/) which shows that someone in the neighborhood called about a dangerous dog roaming free (which OP admitted they don't properly secure their dog and allow it to roam around). LAPD showed up and took their less-than-lethal gun with them to make contact with the owner and get them to lock up their dog so that it wasn't a public safety issue.\n\nThe thread managed only 35 comments before mods deleted every post and then locked the submission.\n\nA few hours later [another thread was created](https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/qotro5/why_nuke_the_comments_section_of_the_bodycam_post/) asking about the difference in reaction from the mods.\n\nThat thread at least managed 82 comments but two hours later the same mod as above complained that they didn't like the comments and didn't want to deal with doing their job, so deleted every single comment (except their own) and locked the thread.\n\nIt was a pretty clear display of bias where the mod was happy to allow people to push anti-police rhetoric in one thread and then shut down any discussion about the same issue when it came out that the OP (who hasn't made a single post since last Saturday) was misrepresenting the situation and that the police weren't \"hunting\" the dog and that they had a valid reason to be there. The vitriol was fine as long as it was targeted towards LAPD and not towards the irresponsible dog owner who allowed the situation to occur.", "You're dreaming if you thought you ever had total freedom of speech. It's a company and they can do what they want lmao.", "That was after I literally spelled it out but yeah", "Literally animal crossing", "You say that like there aren't other, even taller giants out there to stand on. It took a while for Android to beat iPhone, ~~and maybe they don't dominate the market share~~, but it's objectively a better product now and nobody has to use an iPhone anymore.\n\nEdit: hell you could argue TikTok is currently displacing YouTube as we speak\n\nEdit 2: never mind about the android market share thing.", "Right, but it would still be assuming that I'm responding to the way things seem, rather than personal experience. It suggests that my statement is wrong, and I simply don't understand and/or am an awful person.", "Awesome now people are going to be flooding the platform with jump scare shit and you'll never know not to click on it.", "Tell my wife I said; \"hello\".", "What's the reasoning they've given for getting rid of the dislike button?", "r/conservative", "\"AI, Rewind was massively disliked! Please come up with a way to fix it.\"\n\nDeepmind AI:", "There are so many crap how to videos with too many views. Or 'information' videos without any info. Especially those with the screen reader voice over a copy pasted Wikipedia description that comes after a 2 minute blurb about subscribing the channel and how people are looking for the information that is meant to be coming soon.", "What did you say", "What happened there?", "An equal amount of likes and dislikes doesn't indicate neutrality, it indicates a split opinion. It would be truly neutral if there were none of either.", "ratio", "Now we can just all comment “dislike” on YouTube rewind from now on", "> YouTube needs to stop giving me super shitty, very disliked videos in the initial results\n\nThat's what they're doing. Remove the dislikes, problem solved boss. No more disliked videos in your feed.", "[I said that everyone involved sucked.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/pi5rdz/aita_for_calling_my_wife_a_blatant_hypocrite_in/hbngwjp/?context=999)\n\nIt lead to me agreeing with others in the thread that said he was in the wrong, which spiraled into more downvotes. People were basically emboldening OP to mistreat his wife and I didn't approve, so I got buried.", "I'm sure you think it's worth making that distinction but reality doesn't often follow the ideal and given that people can always be trusted to be people you can generally rely on it deteriorating into a shitstorm.", "Well obviously that call wouldn't exist, but that's why I said 'code' too. Someone made a program that leverages the API.\n\nAPIs usually have simple requests that you can use in your program to create a much more complicated piece of automation.", "But that's what it seems they want us to do, not knowing something that could prevent us from watching a video is a way of making us watch more to find out", "Ah ok", "TikTok absolutely is a competitor to YouTube.", "Android crushes apple by market share.", "I didn't realize dumpster fires were considered \"safe\". /s", "When did that place just \n become people arguing with steven crowder?", "Well mainly from experience being a software engineer. Here is a video explaining how it works in laymans terms\n\nhttps://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0\n\nEdit:y bad this video explains how you can control the likes/dislikes of your video not how YouTube counts those, but that's also very easily accessible information. If you don't believe me than just do some googling, this is not a secret or anything... It's extremely common...", "It's because it used to be the case however many years ago. It was quite noticeable actually. Heavily disliked comments weren't just ignored they were actively driven to the top of the comments section because a dislike was counted as \"interaction\" and that was what YouTube focused on promoting the most. YouTube has since changed though but it's not extremely obvious on a surface level that it has so people assume that's how YouTube still works.", "The API probably cannot change the likes and dislikes on a video, I find that highly unlikely. It could however send a GET request to find the current number of likes for the program so it would know how many likes or dislikes it would need to create toale that 50/50 balance.\n\nEdit: here's a video that explains it in laymans terms and much more in depth if you'd like to know more.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0", "Eh, more comments will drive more views to the video, regardless of the content of those comments. I don't see many people disabling comments if they are looking for ad revenue or lots of eyes on their video.", "That would certainly be a good example of a sub where you aren't allowed to have certain opinions. I was also thinking of the examples where you are allowed to have either opinion, but not allowed to interact with those who disagree.\n\nFor example, from personal experience. In a book-related sub, you could say, \"This author does a great job of portraying both men and women,\" or you could say, \"This author is a sexist creepy POS who objectifies women.\" Neither would be removed, but if people holding both of those opinions debated the merits of their positions, the discussion would be removed.\n\nIn the end, it amounts to, \"It's fine to try to harm someone's reputation and convince (or trick) others into not reading their work, but it isn't OK to defend that reputation.\"\n\nIt's something that really irritates me. I debated someone who claimed an author \"always and only\" described women by their personal appearance/desirability, as sex objects, but who was unable to come up with a single example over the course of an entire trilogy. I went so far as to buy ebooks so I could easily search them, and discover, for example, that the word \"breasts\" appeared exactly once, and in a non-sexual description. Hell, even between actual couples in the story such descriptions were omitted.\n\nIt quickly became apparent that the person I argued with had personal experiences that colored their view to the extent that it had virtually zero basis in reality (and included even worse accusations than the one I've mentioned). I had all of my comments removed because argument was \"unproductive\" and because it was \"getting too personal(!?)\".\n\nI leveled no insults, I sourced and cited my arguments, and, to me, the debate was incredibly productive. I was honestly concerned for the person I was debating. But that person merely needed to \"feel attacked\" and state that it was \"OK to feel this way about it\" to get everything except their initial accusation removed.", "You're not understanding that there isn't a lot of incentive for a company to do that. For android to dominate the mobile market, that would equate to hundreds of millions.\n\nFor another service to conquer youtube, they'd have to have another incentive outside of money since youtube constantly loses money. I'm not saying it's technically impossible. There just isn't many people who want to throw away millions of dollars to stick a middle finger at youtube's face", "Oh yeah I got banned really quick because I would criticize the people in the posts because they were... Spoiler alert! Assholes. And apparently calling someone an asshole or any of a few synonyms like garbage person dick idiot etc meant I was being rude. And therefore eligible for a ban.", "This is a really stupid idea. I look at dislikes far more than like as it is a much better metric to see whether the videos content is worthwhile, especially for ‘how to’ videos and many more.", "You're absolutely correct. Edited.", "Lmao fuck that sub that was really reasonable", "I'm also a software engineer and I don't see how your idea is anything besides speculation.", "Yeah no thanks this will fuck up my recommendations.", "Likes can be misleading. I saw a \"How to make Dalgona Candy\" video, it had a great ratio, by the third smash I checked the channel name and realized it was a How to Basic video. \n\nYou're totally right though. I would say we can at least rely on the comments to tell us if it's useful, but the person can disable comments too so...damn.", "I'm always trying new crafts, hobbies, or just doing general research on random shit. I see so many \"informative\" videos that are just shit. Either missing info or they draw out what should be 2 minutes into 10 with multiple ad breaks. This makes youtube just about unusable for me.", "I go to BitChute when I can't find a video I wanted on YouTube. Jim Can't Swim, true crime documentaries, are a good example.", "Flood the Google play store with 1 star reviews for the YouTube app. \"Removed dislike counter\"", "What's worse is the dislike feature genuinely does nothing. It still counts as interacting with the video, so it still gets pushed to new people. It just showed that people didn't like it for whatever reason, but people would still watch it and they'd still their views.", "Not a lot of incentive to do that right now. My only point is these companies are driven by human beings and even the biggest giants can fall. I agree that it won't happen anytime soon, but I hesitate to treat these platforms like gods. China certainly doesn't.", ">still remember when Facebook removed the thumbs down\n\nI don't recall it ever having one. People were asking for years and the best they did was give us 😡", "When it's something that matters literally at all.", "you cant have politicians and corpos getting massive dislikes. if a video gets 10000 likes and 80000 dislikes it will still be shed in a good light. This is a straight up move to appease corperate/government intrests.", "This is just because their yearly review is about to drop and they know how much it will be down voted", "Who says the competitor cannot create a lucrative model that doesn't operate at a loss? All the things YouTube fucks up but ads cost advertisers a bit more and pay content creators slightly less. You create your slice and as you gain footing and creators use the new service and YouTube they slowly migrate more users until they overtake. I feel like the problem with your argument is the assumption that content creators won't be able to use both and diversify across multiple platforms to potentially increase incomes.", "Well if you're actually a software engineer then you should know that an application as large as YouTube would never poll the main servers for the real time number of likes and dislikes, instead there will be other servers that are keeping a cache of data and they will refresh every so often, but each time you make a connection you could end up on any of those servers from the second layer. It is simply unrealistic to have every single client poll the same server for the real time numbers. Just think about it for a second. \n\nThere are also many interesting videos about how YouTube handles their massive amount of traffic but I don't see why I should keep fetching videos for you.", "What we really need is a return of the Wadsworth Constant!", "Gotta agree with you there. The like/dislike system was more like a giant bookclub informing you that a book is bad and not worth their time. Saves the reader from spending their time / money on a product that is in some way subpar. \nWe judge books by their cover all the time every day in some form.", "💀", "Having watched 10 minute how-to's that only advertise products....I'll never use youtube for how-to's again once they remove the dislike counter.", "The Verge PC build video is gonna have only likes now...", "I didn't know that I even disliked this vid... I wonder how many years ago that must have been.", "Ah yeah, that sounds even worse. Typically the worst I see with things like that are downvotes based on narratives, circle jerks, or whatever people are calling it.", "But like what part. Which person are they buying off.\n\nPeople like you always talk about the government as if it’s an individual person that gets dealt with and any money given to the government literally goes straight into the pockets of the government employees. That’s just not how anything works. At all.\n\nTheres a ton of corruption. Just not for the reasons you think it is or same motivations you think it has and it operates in a lot more complex ways than you say.", "Not to mention videos aren't a great way of conveying information for a lot of people. \n \nI immediately close the video now if there's not a quality description that includes timestamps because there's so much shit long-form content that could be transcribed into like two paragraphs and a diagram or two.", "My comment was asking how you know the like/dislike count is programmatically manipulated, not about how they show the count to users.", "It's not nefarious there are actually many videos that do this and there are many more videos on how they do this.", "This is the only reason I will dislike videos. Some creators take it personally, I get it, but I dont want to be bombarded by recommendations for channels that I only watched one minute of and didn't like or subscribe to.", "Solid idea", "Perfectly Neutral, as all things should be", "A curated safe space is objectively distinct from algorithm induced bubbles. The whole point of a safe space is for someone to exist in it without having their very existence and humanity questioned at every turn.\n\nThere is no reason to assume \"hey let's not question someone's very identity here\" turns into \"let's share nazi opinions and if anyone catches us say it's just a joke.\" The latter happens regardless, the prior is important especially for young people and people who lack other safety nets. A safe space is literally just quantifying what you want a home to be, and saying \"well not everyone has that so let's make something akin to it for them.\" They are also literally physical spaces more often than not.", "I don't think it is that clear cut. Seeing how eager youtube is to push ads and seeing as content creator how much YT makes from certain ads, it is pretty clear that ad revenue is huge part of their revenue model.", "On each video recommendation, there's three dots on the right. If you click it, you can tell YouTube \"Not interested\" or \"Don't recommend channel\" and have the video removed that way as well.", "Disliking doesnt automatically mean the content has been brigaded, but you absolutely know it happens. Brie Larsons youtube video got swamped with incels mad at captain marvel, for example. \n\nOnline reviews these days are dishonest, no one who rated Eternals on Rotten Tomatoes, as another example, actually watched the movie\n\nThis is an internet wide problem and the only way itll be fixed is to ignore likes/upvotes/ratings completely", "Jesus that entire channel entirely neutral on all videos.", "People watching free content mean nothing to them. If you become an advertiser and throw money at them maybe they will change", "Thanks for the tip!", "Around the time when steven crowder followers became a popular cult of stupidity for easy pickings examples of self defeating logic.", "Aren't algorithms supposed to be... like... wanting to show me content that I'll want watch?\n\nIs YT trying to tell me to go outside or something? /s", "NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US!", "I dunno, just sounds like people sitting around trying to pick apart someone's words all day. Sounds pretty dull.", "Youtube done messed up.", "Remember when Digg took away the downvote button, leading to user revolt and a mass exodus to Reddit? I don't think that will happen with YouTube, because it doesn't have real competition, but it is making competition more possible every time they make their service worse. By making people wish for a better option they're opening the door for someone new to enter the market and eat their lunch.", "I really don't understand the News channel Dislikes. \nThey're all Disliked to hell yet all the comments are complaining about the story itself. Are they actually against the channel, or is it boomers thinking \"NO I DISAGREE WITH THIS\" and thinking Disliking the video is the way to show it?\n\nI'm in the UK as well, so the channel in question is often the BBC. Where both sides routinely accuse it of being biased propaganda for the other side.", "Reminds me of when Netflix removed their rating system and replaced it with a simple thumbs up button. You used to be able to give one of their videos 1-5 stars. Made it easy to spot crap, the hard part was shopping around for something highly rated because of all the crap.", "YouTube isn't government.", "I filter subreddits for shit like that, I'll have no problem filtering youtube channels too. I suggest everyone who stands for free speech and open discussion to do the same.", "Bit besides the point, but how did you check your sub karma like that?", ">~~People~~ Corporations just can't handle any negativity in their closely curated safe space.\n \nAgree with everything but this. People who can't handle it turn off comments or don't upload to YT and google doesn't care about their feelings only their corporate ad revenue.", "> Even outside the subs where you aren't allowed to have certain opinions, I've noticed that, in a great many popular subreddits, disagreements are not allowed.\n\nif the mods dont punish an unpopular opinion that others hate, they just mass report untill the admins automated system bans you from reddit entirely. \n\nask me how i know", "nothing like some good ol fashioned censorship and suppression of opinion. thank you youtube!", "Honestly, getting rid of the dislike button count made the entire voting thing pointless. I don't like or dislike anything anymore.", "use an ad blocker too.", "The creator of the content can still see the likes and dislikes just not the users that watch and comment on it", "How about the doctors and scientists with decades of experience in their field?\n\nThe ones who constantly have their work undermined by dipshits in suits with no experience or training in any medical field?\n\nNot a pharma company representative, not some bigwig CEO. The doctors and scientists on the ground level who understand how things work.", "Ah yes, subreddits that you can't link to without getting brigaded. Subreddits with a certain political bias.", "They probably did an A/B test and discovered it drove slightly more 'engagement; or ad views or something. Like if people land on YouTube from somewhere else, see a video has a lot of dislikes they might just close the tab and not watch it, and therefore not watch the ads.", "Also how I proactively prevent the algorithm from suggesting Joe Rogan to me until the end of time just cuz I clicked on one stupid video.", "That’s so interesting — I was actually going to comment that he seemed quite personable and was pretty good at delivering what many will feel like is bad news. Funny how differently we can perceive the same thing", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI\n\nAnnounced here.", ">I'll just stop watching YouTube\n\nI bet the average person doesn't. Statistically, you probably wouldn't either. You'd complain, and say you would, but it probably wouldn't affect their bottom line much.", "> You're gaslighting his opinion by blowing what he said out of proportion and making an argument against one you made up.\n\nSince nobody else mentioned it, the word you're looking for is a \"strawman argument.\"", "We cant have sports day anymore because people will get sad if there are loosers.... ffs cotton wool generation", "Least you can still check imdb or something", "As many, many, many youtube creators have pointed out, the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons do the exact same thing. They don't exist to gage how much people like the video, they exist to gage whether or not the video is engaging enough for people to bother clicking an extra button, thus gaging how much advertising is worth on that video.\n\nThe fact that you actually believe your opinion had an effect on the algorithm is a red flag for your intelligence.", "It just means you use YouTube for different things than some of us. As someone who frequently watches tutorials for coding, piano, 3D modeling, etc. the like:dislike ratio lets me instantly tell if the video will be worth watching. If I see a ton of downvotes I know it's probably poor quality and skip it.", "“Am I out of touch? No it is the children that are wrong”", "That's clearly not what they're talking about in the song though.", "Sure they could. It just wouldn't be a for-profit company. \nChina could launch a platform (see tik tok) hosted and funded by their government that could out perform anything a for-profit company like Alphabet.", "The term ”big boomer energy\" covers a lot of things. There's all the \"non-political old person gripes\", like griping about marriage or\nsmartphones. Then there's \"conservative gripes\". \n \n(It should be noted that we're talking boomer stereotypes, not boomer reality, as in actuality boomers (at least in the U.S.) are fairly equally divided between conservative and liberal. [In the 2020 election, 51% of boomer voters voted for Trump and 49% of boomer voters voted for Biden.](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/) The bigger conservative tilt is in the silent generation, which was 58% vs. 42%, but pretty much nobody acknowledges their existence (much like GenX)) \n \nIn one sense, Trey and Matt are about as Gen X as can be, as Gen X is when really edgy satire became mainstream. On the other hand, as libertarians, they're a mix of pretty liberal ideas and pretty conservative ideas, with not much in the middle, so they also have always had a bunch of \"big boomer energy.\" For example, political correctness is a Gen X movement, and Trey and Matt have always been anti-PC, which is generally seen as a more boomer trait than a Gen X trait. \n \nSo, it's kind of like arguing if a red apple is red, or an apple. It's both. They're very Gen X, and they've always had a streak of big boomer energy.", "It can change with technology. Costs of storage and networking, availability and power of ML systems for recommendation, classification, etc and lots of other factors change with time and could lead to them going the way of MySpace. Not anytime soon with Alphabet behind them, but everyone wishes there were real competition for Facebook and Youtube, one day there will be.", "Yeah I agree. No hate for people put off by him but I thought he was genuinely good and explained it well. Just commenting because it’s interesting that there’s such a strong difference of opinions.", "The only thing removing the dislike count on videos will do, is that retarded videos about conspiracy theories and shit will now be at 30,000 upvotes, instead of 30,000 upvotes and 580,000 downvotes. \n\nThe downvote count really serves an important job. Seeing that ratio on a video will make some people stop to think, and realize perhaps there are some huge flaws to the reasoning in this video or whatever. \n\nGetting rid of downvotes is just stupid.", "But no comments will mean lower engagement to the channel hence will negatively affect the algorithm.", "[This one explains it pretty well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeyEGebJ1l4).", "The more videos we have to sort through, the more ads they’ll get to play at us", "That's what they want, for you to watch all the video and ads before you decide if it was relevant or not. Once you've seen the ads they don't care if the video was relevant or not.", "Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever paid attention to the likes/dislike. \n\nAgree it’s a cool idea to judge a how to video, but I feel like it’s a gamble on whether I agree with the masses or not. sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. And yeah, it’s pretty funny to point out that it’s a “huge loss” when they didn’t even know about it before", "wait what? it's not even never gonna give you up", "They said say hello back.", "I disagree that a blanket policy of removing dislikes is the answer. Just because brigading affects a few people/entities doesn’t mean it doesn’t serve a useful purpose for the 99% of YouTube or any platform that uses a like/dislike system. Systems should be developed and implemented to fight like/dislike manipulation.", "Too many people are using the dislike button as a \"I disagree/dislike\" button rather than a \"It's a bad video from any and all perspectives\" button. \n\nSame thing happens on Reddit.", "A guy named Brandon won a race and while being interviewed the crowd was loudly and clearly chanting \"fuck you biden\" so the moron reporter chose to handle the situation by awkwardly asserting that the crowd was chanting \"let's go brandon\" and predictably people are now mocking the incident by using \"let's go brandon\" as code for \"fuck you biden\".\n\nI personally find the whole thing pretty funny but many people are very upset about it.", "It's becoming a lot like Facebook.", "But there are also plenty of blogs, forums, and articles full of text that you can read..? Some people like to make videos, some like to write, some like to do both.", "I’m just gonna start reporting channels more now I guess", "Well, you’re also leaching revenue for the people who make videos", "..Right, because it's either the misinterpretation of a safe space as pointed out above to satirize both bullies who cower and people's misinterpretations of safe spaces, or an accidental misinterpretation of a safe space by the writers because they themselves didn't understand it and are trying to satirize what they believe it is. The song isn't talking about what is actually a safe space, it is in one way or another a satirical misinterpretation.", "Google’s revenue numbers is public, they definitely make the most from ads", "Who is the dumbass at Google who decided this was a good idea, how are you going to know which videos are shit now? Or all the scams on YouTube, propaganda, and so much more.\n\nI hope whoever came up with this is fired and shamed.", "lol that video is blocked in Canada.", "Liberal \"everybody is a winner\" trophy mentality ruining YouTube.", "Honestly, it’s a great opportunity for another video streaming service who can just run on this one piece of marketing “Unlike YouTube we allow you to dislike videos, because you know, not allowing that is the dumbest thing you could do, because even fucking Netflix has a dislike button”", "Also, pointers on how OP can clean his nails.", "Permabanned from r/todayilearned cause I posted a link that hasn’t been posted in 2 years but my title was superficially similar to the last one, mod refused to hear my explanations and gloated like a child about it, it was honestly hilarious how little authority made him so powertrip, thought he was a superhero with a catchphrase “go karmafarm elsewhere” unlike him I couldn’t care less about my fake internet points I just wanted to post a interesting tidbit", "More people will get viruses from videos, fall for propaganda, false information, waste a lot of time on misleading videos. And for what?", "Good counter \n\nBut until I can watch a 1 hour lore video on warhammer 40k on tik tok these platforms will remain different.", "As if that does anything, there's videos with malware that have been on their platform for 5+ years.", "Just like reddit. Ever downvote something and then refresh just to see it goes back to what it was or they auto reverse vote you out of the way. Then if you remove it then refresh it does it again.", "What other videos out there were like this?", "Bidens dislike to like ratio is so bad, they have to remove dislikes", "ublock origin+sponsorblock+privacy badger", "This was honestly the first video I thought of when I heard the news.", "Because those cannot be manipulated?", "Sure makes it easier to manufacture consent.", "You won't, you'll have to sit through more ads to find out.", "Boy, howtobasic must really give mixed messages", "Well I'm sorry, but I'm not the one to explain this to you then. There are other videos on YouTube that do the exact same thing but I'm not going to write a dissertation to explain how it works.", "The like/dislike is not the cover. It's the review. The cover is more analogous to your video thumbnail.", "You called my \"idea\" speculation, read up the thread and see where I'm responding to someone who is saying that. If you want to know more there's lots on Google about this exact thing.", "I don't even care about the like count, I care about the ratio. They should just display the way reddit displays percentage upvoted on posts, it's one of the most important statistics on Reddit posts. Even upvotes themselves matter much less than that percentage when judging community response to a post.", "People should go protest outside their HQ, this legit pisses me off.", "A method to dive interaction/comments on videos… fucking YouTube", "Could you give an example of a video that admits to manipulating likes then? I feel that's against TOS.", "No, it doesn't mean what you say anymore. People have ruined it.", "But there's only a limited amount of time that a viewer is willing to spend on something before getting frustrated and trying another method. \n\nHopefully this gives people some impetus to leave YouTube, but that won't happen for a while likely.", "[Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx5prDjKAcw)", "YouTube can do anything it wants at this point sadly. If the platform crumbles the likely outcome is the fracturing of major communities and small creators suffer en masse. The big guys who have other platforms and distribution methods will be fine but the standard YouTuber dies. And despite the platform being so shitty through the years, the quintessential YouTuber is kind of the purest, original form of content creator online. The current YouTube format is almost synonymous to modern online entertainment.", "I have no strong feelings about this one way or the other.", "Lmao the only comment with actual good advice while all the top posts enable their kinda explosive behavior. Done my part and upvoted it.", "They really think this will stop bullying? \n\nIt will make it worse, instead of a courtesy dislike telling people to skip a video that sucks the top comments will all be \"This video is trash, see X instead\"", "I was going to say that the fact the video has such a large amount of engagement with the sentiment ratio is a contradiction with the message.", "I hate this idea so much. How is disliking something the same as bullying? JFC, people.", "My opinion on this youtube not showing dislike counts is as this video \"I have no strong opinion one way or the other\".\n\nI think they might just go all the way and not show like counts either. Like counts are useless without seeing the flip side of the coin. Let the creator be able to view them but not the general public. Allow the like-to-dislike ratio can still be used to affect the algorithm the same as before, but it might stop the dislike brigading because they have no hard data to show if it's working or not. \n\nI think most people are more upset that this is a half-assed measure more than anything.", "It’s just so stupid to do this “blanket fix”… why not just give creators the option to hide the counters or not as they see fit.", "Seriously, I do a lot of DIY and that is usually the measure to find good videos.", "YouTube employees must be participation trophy parents.", "Truly? That's bizarre. I can watch this video just fine and I too am in Canada.", "It won't be retracted, and it wasn't YT that did this. This is what always happens when a social media presence becomes so large that it starts to considerably devalue the narratives of the MSM. The identical thing happened to Reddit and Twitter around 2017. An intelligence committee will cite misinformation and they are forced to install a government agent \"policy director\". Reddit's policy director has a glow so bright it could be seen from outer space. Youtube installed theirs, a former government/ngo consultant in 2020. Just like Reddit phase one was the manipulation of the voting systems, next will be the comments. You'll soon see \"comments are disabled\" on an even wider scale, with things like Rogan looking similar to the comment chains on /r/news.", "I am well informed of the unfolding situation, and I must say that I am whelmed and and do not feel strongly about this matter.", "Google’s biggest money maker is search ads. Remember YouTube is the worlds second largest search engine, so video ads may not make them money but the search ads certainly do. As an ad buyer 80% of my clients budget goes to Google and Facebook. In that order and it’s disgusting. They have squeezed the independent publisher to the brink.", "That's so stupid for a sub called \"today I learned\". Guess fuck you for learning something \"today\" instead of 2 years earlier", "Now, how do we differentiate between a real and a scam video. Damn.", "lol what. Why are people upset? Because of the moron reporter?", "> best way to tell in less than a second\n\nTinfoil hat time: Less seconds means less ads viewed. Probably part of the reason.", ">For example, from personal experience. In a book-related sub, you could say, \"This author does a great job of portraying both men and women,\" or you could say, \"This author is a sexist creepy POS who objectifies women.\" Neither would be removed, but if people holding both of those opinions debated the merits of their positions, the discussion would be removed.\n\nJust a guess but I am betting it's a Wheel of Time sub?", "Of course it still means its original definition, it was a design choice not fully naturally arising. People may also use an alternate form to disparage it, but that happens with literally everything, so who cares? If someone refers to a safe space you can safely by context clues figure out whether they mean genuine safe spaces or strawmen safe spaces. Not even that hard.", "I don't even use YouTube anymore. I didn't think it could get any worse but disabling dislikes does it.", "I’ll be disliking every video just out of spite, even the ones I like. If everyone starts abusing the dislike button maybe they’ll change it back.", "You just reminded me there’s a dislike on YouTube. I don’t remember using it at all.", "Get rid of the like count too then", "A sad day", "Honestly that's not a huge deal, most people like or dislike something and will rate 1 or 5 stars anyway. It still lets you go yes good or no bad.\n\nYoutube is removing the no bad. It sucked when it got removed from related videos and is even worse now because there is just so much garbage either fake, false, or robots reading a text post that's baited as good content.", "was banned there on my first time commenting lmao. Wasn't even anything too crazy I said, a lil controversial maybe but nothing against the rules", "because the \"abuse\" is people voicing their opinions", "Removing the dislike counter is the equivalent of thinking everyone deserves a participation award.", "I have developed the ability to know exactly how far ahead I have to skip to go over the ad-read.", "... And the channel will just delete that post so the dislike count disappears. Three solution doesn't work unless you have a scrupulous channel. (Also, what about all the channels that disable comments?)", "And when you have to use youtube, use Freetube to watch it. It is an open source program that grab video stream directly with no ads nor giving google information about you.", "The world continues to be built of glass... one day someones gonna throw a rock and then what?", ">So there are plenty of doctors who disagree with the vaccinations for COVID, even the efficacy of masks. They have experience in their fields but if you disagree that's disinformation?\n\nCompetancy hearings would be in order.\n\n>So Biden is a suit, why is he mandating medical requirements?\n\nBecause he's doing so on the advice of said doctors and scientists with decades in their field. Trump was the one that taught people that it was normal to ignore the experts, which led to hundreds of thousands dead and dying. Millions worldwide.\n\n>There are different views but you won't listen to them because it's not your view.\n\nThe reason I refuse to listen to them is because their main interest is making money, not saving the world. Don't put words in my mouth.", "Man I remember when youtube videos had a star rating system that was displayed before you clicked on the video. You instantly knew what was clickbait-y garbage and what was potentially good by seeing X/5 starts with Y# ratings.\n\n1/5 stars with 9000+ ratings? Yep that's a rickroll.", "This is just priceless.", "This has to be due to the fact that anything even slightly related to joe Biden is getting 10x the downvotes, and they’re hiding the real numbers already", "A _long_ time ago Youtube also had a 1-5 star rating system", "I was there at some point", "That's honestly a good example of the point you were trying to make. Some subs are just too much of a circle jerk to accept anyone with a remotely different take. Or they are so pushed in one direction of reaction that someone trying to play devil's advocate or even just see things from a different point of view will just get bashed, hidden and a bunch of angry copypasta pinged at them thru the day.\n\nHonestly the way you feel with AITA is how I feel about this site in whole after about 12 years here. I venture out to the main subs less and less and mostly just have niche gaming subs or animals and recipes. This site as a whole is becoming too much for me. It doesn't always feel sane.\n\nAnother example is the mtbi sub where people will get their ideas of personality types based on memes shared by other people who don't even know one person of each type in real life and are just repeating other memes, much of which are shallow assessments people pull out of their ass. Also reddit is composed of like 80% INFP or INFJ or something which are two of the rarest personality types, and both introvert types. But these people are teaching each other about what people are like when often they haven't met anyone of those types or even want to socialize and meet different types of people at all. Reddit itself is a like safe space where people act like Tiktok users, Facebook and Instagram users (Lots of extraverts) are dumb total alien species. There are a lot of smart, funny and cool people who use all of these though.", "It's 100% corporate decision lol everything is", "..Blogs?\n\nYes searching forums is great, but that mostly means using Google to search Reddit. Nothing comprehensive, but at least useful..at times.\n\nYou maybe aren't familiar with the pre-youtube internet but it had great wonders, like compiled information you could use control-F on.", "Which makes it even more personal. Comment sections going to get worse than ever on YouTube. That is saying something.", "For real we're gonna need these comments now, dislikes were not for bullying they were a courtesy by the community so it doesn't waste people's time who are trying to get information.", "Are you still allowed to dislike stuff and it just doesn't show you anymore? Like could someone just make a browser extension that shows it?", "Wow. That makes me as salty as Netflix getting rid of reviews and ratings so they could shovel us more shit and less quality.", "my version of youtube on pc still has a dislike button, so i don't see where this is coming from", "Google isn't in the business of servicing users. Users are the product for their real business. \n\nAt this point they don't really have to care about user experience beyond a certain minimum. After all, where are we going to go?", "I’m just going to put the thumbs down emoji", "The Biden Whitehouse will be leaping for joy following YouTube’s decision to hide the dislike counter.", "Ah Christ this is literally the only good reason to have the dislike option as far as i'm concerned; if people make videos giving extremely bad advice for home repairs and other stuff like that. I don't need to waste my time or hurt myself due to taking advice from a bad video.\n\nBesides that i kind of like them taking away the dislike button. I wish Facebook would take away all the reacts. These massive platforms enable bullying and cruelty and trolling and misinformation way too much.", "Wait, they're doing away with comments too?", "👎", "Askaconservative is the shitty one, try /r/askconservatives.\n\nPeople made that one because the other one was total shit. The people who answer questions there go specifically to have civil discussion with people who have different views. There is not a lot of fighting or bait questions and I think it's one of the few subs that have actually given me some sense of perspective and not felt overly moderated circle jerk or safe space. People give you their real takes and even if you don't agree with them, as long as you are respectful people seem to be respectful back. Having a venue for civil discourse with 'the other side' is in my eyes invaluable.", "So stop using it", "Exactly. It does a lot.", "I was thinking they'd be doing it to combat misinformation and trolling. People flooding anything pro-vaccine with downvotes, stuff like that. \n\nEvery time i see a Facebook post by a news site or medical organization talking positive about getting the vaccine, i see laugh reacts, and it makes me want to burn the world down.", "I consider myself a lifelong feminist and sometimes read headlines from twoxchromosomes or whatever it's called, because sometimes the topics are of genuine interest to me. But I am scared to ask any questions or share a male perspective on anything. Its so easy to get mobbed on there if you post something that differs from that subs established stance, even if you frame it in an open minded way asking for feedback. Your phone would be blasting angry notifications at you the whole rest of the day.", "More propaganda.", "You’d need everyone who ever liked it to unlike it, and some of those accounts are surely deleted. It’s broken forever", "And shamed? Like... How?", "I believe they are talking about the comment thumbs down. If I recall correctly, and I will openly admit that may be the case, it stopped when they did the Google+ thing.\n\nAt first, you'd see them work exactly as they do here on Reddit. Then they forced everyone to get a Google+ account to comment on things. I don't think it had any type of \"dislike\" feature, kinda like how Facebook started out not having a \"dislike\" option. (They may have one now, I don't know due to it having been so long since I've actively used the site.) So the comments stopped indicating anything when it was thumbed down.\n\nThen, once they rolled back on the Google+ nonsense, they never returned the indication that your thumbs down did anything.", "Video unavailable\r \nThe uploader has not made this video available in your country. \n\n\nOuch", "Can't have any way for people to express their dissent.", "seems like this will just open up Youtube to more spam, fake news, scams etc. Dislike ratio is a good way to see straight away if a video is bullshit. Remove the ability for the consumers to moderate/curate content and it'll just make it so much easier for scammers to prosper. The clickbait is bad enough as it is now, next we will be seeing a rise in fully fake videos.", "[try this ](https://youtu.be/Vx5prDjKAcw)", "I feel like the world became a darker place when they added the laugh react and the angry react. I know people used to complain about like being the only option when someone would post something tragic or terrible. But now we have people laugh or anger reacting legitimate information about vaccines or advertisements featuring anyone not up to their physical standards or any sort of diversity.", "Yeah, it was a huge deal when we could finally rant in the first person. Although I'm pretty sure my first post was to write \"(my name) [is glad we can finally stop writing in third person!]\"\n\n\nI also think we weren't able to reply to status updates at first. But I might be making that up. I think you were only able to write on people's walls. \n\nOh, and when we could reply to comments, that was such a huge deal.", "I haven't seen dislikes at least on the mobile app for forever. Sucks but I get it.", "So when that happens, wouldn't 0 be the new neutral? So should we all go down vote it, to get it to 0 beforehand?", "YouTube is the worst managed platform.", "#😐", "Wait, what happened? I have crypto but I find a lot of financial and investment subs are a bit dramatic.", "Technically, you only need half of the upvotes to reverse themselves.\n\nedit right, can't down vote anymore", "So… they decided you were the asshole eh?", "I assumed the video would still get buried if it had tons of dislikes, but now I don't know", "I feel like you've missed how youtube works, which is the entire point here?? Dislikes do nothing, and even before this a dislike didn't subtract from the likes, it added to the dislikes. You're thinking with reddit logic which doesn't make any sense because then removing the dislike count wouldnt even mean anything", "Unfortunately the video creator can remove comments. God , this world is turning into snowflakes", "Nope, nor was the discussion about that series.", "Wait a second, people actually like the like and dislike buttons?", "I wish that they were combating misinformation, but then I see who they let advertise on their site; and I quickly remember that YouTube has no interest in spreading truth. \nThey are happy to host vaccinated anti-vaxxers, and asshats who tell everyone to down some Ivermectin pills dosed for horses; while they take the monoclonal antibodies when they get sick. \nIf there was any justice in the world there would be manslaughter charges in the works for these clowns. \n \nBloody hands are easy to ignore when you are using them to stuff cash in your pockets I guess", "This honestly blows my mind how dumb of a move this is. In the academic and scientific worlds, it's literally the quickest way to tell if a 30 minute lecture is worth your time.", "This enrages me. Especially with music. I will pick a song in a genre I dont listen to and second third and fourth recommended videos are all shit I’ve listened to before. Years before. So I have to start telling YouTube not to recommend things I like but I’m tired of being shown everytime I watch anything.", "Just a way to avoid another year of youtube rewind shitstorm", "i give this shit a month before a bored 12 year old makes a chrome extension that brings back the dislikes", "> I miss when YouTube was about any average person sharing their own content\n\nthat still exists on youtube to some extent, but really more so on tik tok nowadays. it's hard for an \"average person\" with zero views to be seen when there are millions of other videos already on the service.. the landscape has changed. despite that, plenty of average people post videos on youtube even today.. the issue here is that we start seeing them as \"influencers\" or youtubers if they manage to become popular, even though they're still the same person.", "Official reason from Google is to prevent mass brigading against content creators. To spare their feelings or some shit", "That's like 90% of the fix stuff videos already.", "I would imagine that the negative effect from those rare instances in which there are “coordinated dislike attacks” do not come anywhere near outweighing the benefits of having a dislike button across the platform so people can avoid shitty videos. Do people brigade videos sometimes? Yes, but that’s no reason to completely remove an important feature that affects billions of videos on YouTube. \n\nThis is definitely not being done due to “coordinated dislike attacks.”", "I’m using the app and can still see dislikes and click dislike. Main website has them removed tho", "What i hate about this is this decision by Youtube is done against the interest of virtually everyone who uses the platform. Yet they have the gull to say it's being done to foster an environment with more open communication.", "The view count of a video doesn't increase fr a rewatch (same person, same device, etc)", "Good. YouTube comments are cancer.", "YouTube is one of the largest platforms in the world for propagation of information. Seeing someone saying that doesn't matter is pretty crazy to me.", "it needs to be said that there isn't anything inherently wrong with chasing profits. the problem is when our collective societal goals are in conflict with the means to which corporations make money.\n\ne.g. automakers investing in electric cars because they predict that will make them the most money in 10 years. this aligns with the goal of being less reliant on fossil fuels, but is also primarily motivated by profit.", "Lol getting rid of the thumbs down button is \"suppressing public opinion\"? Get real.\n\n>Did you know that the U.S. Bill of Rights was written to avoid that kind of government control over the populace?\n\nTIL YouTube is a government branch.\n\n>our 1st Amendment is being destroyed\n\nNo... its not.... the first amendment protects you from the GOVERMENT infringing on your free speech. A corporation can have any policies they want regarding their social spaces. Holy persecution complex, batman!", "Save you a click: \n\n4sec animated YouTube clip character says I have no opinion one way or the other. \n\nHere's the kicker:\n\nClip has 537k up votes as well as 537k down votes, a balanced somehow maintained for over a decade.", "12 years perfectly balanced, as all things should be", "YouTube uses to have the same star system and moving to the like/dislike system was the right move there as well. Who the hell would rate a YouTube video 3 or 4 stars", "I REALLY don't like this direction.", "It started with IMDB banning comments. That was pointless and its led to this", "1. Click your profile name at the top right \n1. Directly below your total comment karma on the top right, click \"show karma breakdown by subreddit\" at the top right\n\n\nI am using Reddit Enhancement Suite so the layout or wording could be different for you.", "Vanced and AdBlock baby. Ads make me cringe, I have time when to walk into the theater before the movie starts just to avoid them.", "Ima click off out of spite", "Yeah this is gonna help scam videos a lot more", "If so then blocked comments are a red flag. If this goes to pass than I’m hoping decent creators will remain transparent.", "Or comments saying \"can I be the dislike button\"", "Now i can watch it and i feel weird and seen", "That clearly cannot be correct as the creator can still see the dislike count the most disliked video are from YouTube themselves and the White House along with other msm outlets", "\"I thought this information was legit but look at the dislike count.\" \n~ Tons of people, I'm sure.", "I've been saying they need to go opposite and show likes and dislikes before you even click on a video... But then that would benefit us more than them so...", "To be annoying I guess", "I feel like they're going to backtrack on this decision based on the community's response I've seen", "Disliking counts towards engagement, which is super dumb", "Replays and re-visits are counted in total view counts. It's not unique to same person and same device. I've confirmed this before with my own videos (that are not viewed by others).\n\nFirst few hits on Google agree with this ([here is one]( https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-does-youtube-count-views)). Gangnam Style has 4.2B views and I highly doubt that is 4.2B unique viewers.", "Omg I broke it 😩😩😩\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/1pOd3w0", "Comments should be blocked from the get go for all videos, so those god damn sexbots quit spamming their shit.", "Still would have been better with three choices \"loved it\" \"worth watching\" \"not my thing\".", "Perfectly balanced, as all things should be", "Yup, that's why the White House disables comments.", "I have been thinking about this clip nonstop.", "Bullshit everything they listed could be functionally solved with a band ratio warning. They're desperate to push their own agenda and corporate sponsorships. Because they literally can't create watchable content, they're going to force people to watch their horseshit. Bing video is looking better everyday.", "Are you kidding? PR and Legal worked on this together and split the bonus.", "This is basically Whole New World", "Exactly, a likes to views ratio would even make more sense than simply displaying likes..", " <span style =\"font-size: 1000px;\">&#128528;</span>", "This is pure corporate ball licking. Both parties do that, they just favor different industries.", "Is the joke that that takes me to a \"this video is unavailable in your country\" page?", "Welcome to bidentube", "Nobody is upset. Republicans think Democrats are upset, but it couldn't possibly be more of a meh. Just seems kind of effete. If you mean \"fuck Biden\" say \"fuck Biden\". Who cares?", "Impossible seems a bit extreme….I have done just fine with view counts and comments. Only time I’ve looked at likes/dislikes is on those videos that were bombarded with dislikes like that one YouTube rewind video", "You fucking nailed it!", "I think everyone who comments there is eventually banned. I got banned for “bullying” a third party to the conflict. I called someone, who wasn’t OP, but was mentioned in the post - a twat.", "Barely seems like dislikes influence recommendations anyway. Same with 'not interested'.\n\nYouTube algorithms are garbage.", "Gonna be a pain in the ass to find a decent tutorial that doesn’t spend 10 mins taking bullshit.", "Let's face it, youtube's, ahem Alphabet's excuse for this is bullshit. It isn't about harassement or trolls. Youtube's had a report feature for years and they've ignored youtubers that were harassing people because they made youtube money. Now the companies are a bit unhappy that people are disliking their obvious bullshit and skipping their videos, things like Nintendo's $50 half assed N64 emulation. Gotta have that sweet ad money so no more dislikes.", "Literally just watched this scene 5 mins ago lmao", "With Biden in \"power\" all the white house videos are getting disliked more as his approval ratings plummet. I have no doubt that Googles left wing views and revenue streams are the reason for this.", "Or maybe everyone can host their shot on their own servers? There is now way you could legally call YouTube a monopoly when anybody can do exactly what they do on their own.", "I’m upset that I had to watch an ad that was equal length to the clip.", "i'm just going to put DISLIKE in comments from now on", "Ok we can probably calm down a little bit here", "They used to do this. I remember when they stopped. And like you said: Exactly.", "This is my immediate concern. Tutorials and Informative videos are what I use youtibe mainly for.", "I see am awful lot of people on Reddit who see only in black and white and if you try to bring any kind of nuance or allow for context in a moral situation, they see you as siding with evil. I really hope these are just naive, inexperienced people and this is not a broad societal trend. I'm not real optimistic though.", "Yeah I think you're right. I'm probably mistaking it with the idea that if you keep refreshing a page it keeps counting up, when you actually need to watch the entire video (or a certain portion of it) after actively clicking on the video for it to count.", "564k now!", "On the plus side, this stupid shit won't be posted every other week.", "Or people just dump YouTube and switch to something like Odysee. Does it have all the features? No. Is it filled with crazy people? Yea. But that can all be fixed by having “normal” people switch over. It’s a good platform with some interesting tech behind it. We don’t have to put up with googles crap.", "You haven't been paying much attention, have you?", "Sure, Youtube isn't government. Yet it is governed by political powers.\n\nExplain that contradiction, Batman.", "I think they're salty that their YT Rewinds keep getting pummeled to death", "This is exactly the end goal. YouTube's objective is more watch time at any cost.", "Do you have a source on this?", "We should all just send corporations paper mail to show our disdain. It’s more permanent than digital comments", "LMFAO.\n\nHave you been paying attention to anything recently? Holy shit. These bots aren't even smart enough to formulate actual responses.", "When you watch that video you can see the thumbs down count..", "Sooooo... no?", "even if it does nothing, it hiting the dislike button brings happiness to mt soul", "I see you are a subscriber of HowToBasic", "Figured as much.", "Lol We're bitching about YouTube not having dislikes, but what about ~~plebbit~~ Reddit?", "It's the corporate propaganda media's videos getting down voted to oblivion. You wouldn't want people thinking that other people think like them now because they can see the down votes now would you. Need to control the narrative even if it makes the site as a whole worse.", "Corporate media's feelings are very sensitive.", "They can see the dislikes. Creators too. It's only private to the general audience.", "We were glorious enough to witness it's beauty", "Because they don’t want people to see the whitehouse channel’s like/dislike ratio", "Just the latest consequence of censorship ruining lives.", "Just like at the whitehouse’s youtube channel", "People like you and me are not YouTube’s target audience. They want the kids who watch YouTube instead of TV. They don’t care about the instructional or tutorial videos that was the backbone of YouTube for the longest", "I think it’s time YouTube was replaced by something resembling what YouTube used to be", "dont worry OP, I took a picture of the like/dislike ratio ;)", "The uploader can choose to turn off the comments. This current news is that dislike count will be hidden.", "I found using the \"Not insterested\" feature is actually great at filtering the feed. I almost never see trashy or irrelevant videos (in featured or suggested/recommended), and if some topic pops up I don't want to see more of, a couple of clicks removes it completely.", "Which makes them part of the group they used to mock lol", "Aww Matt did you get mad in your safe space", "I still love when [Reality crashes the party](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-I9Ju3gJnk)", "What's wrong with spaces where people can talk about their trauma and sensitive subjects where they feel safe?", "No, obviously this is is Trey", "I promise the inverse was true though and now no video has negative opinions easily displayed and unhidable.\n\nHow much garbage will be passed as truth after this change?", "I promise the inverse was true though and now no video has negative opinions easily displayed and unhidable.\n\nHow much garbage will be passed as truth after this change?", "god i hate people who write comments like these. Then there's the one like \"music has no age\" to a song that's lile 1.5 years old, like wtf", "Oh boo hoo. How will you know which conspiracy theories to follow if there is no dislike button 🤢🤮", "The fact that it has held for so many years gives me hope in humanity.", "Doesn't raw watch count do that", "What is more likely to happen is YouTube eventually failing horribly then smaller competitors move into the void, but that isn't going to happen for a long while. In the meantime there is a 0% chance anyone tries to dethrone YouTube, just because the upfront investment required vs the the returns makes no sense.", "Not really, at least not not in that way. \n\nYouTube has spent a bunch of time and energy into making sure that their platform emphasizes content people engage with regularly. It’s why they’ve prioritized long form video and boost videos where people spend more time actually watching the entirety of the content, rather than the vine method of click bait titles and 5 second cat videos that people jump around from. The latter may generate more revenue initially, because you’ll get a new ad every new video, but YouTube figured it would be worse than over time, because this kind of content doesn’t create loyalty to content creators in the same way (like really do I give a fuck where my cat videos come from?)\n\nIf this effort causes people to spend less time on single videos because they can’t find quality (although maybe more time total) then it goes against what they’ve tried to develop previously. Also they’ll likely lose total time spent anyway because people give up and leave the platform. \n\nI really don’t think this is some nefarious move to fuck the customer, I can definitely see both sides.", "Hence the dislike button being useful", "I watched an old YouTube video that showed the 2009 layout. It was a totally different world", "They're making Youtube worst? Shocked pikachu face", "Why are we doing this to ourselves as a society? Like we all know this is not the right way and we still do it.", "Take a look at ‘the white house’ and you’ll figure it out", "Probably pornhub. But I already go there anyway.", "Like if it’s 2035 and you’re still watching this video", "but if you don't watch a bunch of crap you'll see less ads. better just suffer through it, it's for the greater good (money)", "Shit. Someone better alert emplemon to take his vid about it down. \n\nI didnt think about this till now, it will be a shame. Big shame.\n\nWhat about pewdiepies constant dislike video?", "I can't see the dislike count already, I hate this.", "this is incredibly stupid. the reason sites like twitter and facebook are a cesspool is because they dont have a downvote to keep things in balance. this is going to backfire.", "Then we go for the ultra dislike then. Reporting videos.", "This video also has about 200 more likes than dislikes, so magic was already gone.", "The only real problem i see here is that content creators can now just ignore part of their audience. A pretty crucial part thatll tell tehm theyre headed in a direction that they arent ok with obvis the creator are still gonna see the dislike but they can just choose to ignore it and say “everyone” is loving this new direction. This is especially bad with bad content creator like prageru or other conspiracy type channels cause they can just say “see how many like i have i must be right” itll create mini echo chamber that people can choose to live in without letting the general public know that they have a ton of counter views.", "Since the creator can still see the number, could it be that it's still accessible through the API? \nThen someone could write a bot that just periodically posts the count as a comment under the video.", "NOW how am I'm gonna tell Primus that they suck????", "They know", "And in the treasure vault it goes", "Like 10% of the audience clicks on that shit", "Ah..YouTube Gold will let you see Dislikes and give said color to Original Poster! ;)", "Why do you need that when you have an abiguous red cross that just tells you it's somewhere vaguely in the middle? /s", "No? Lots of people could've found the video from searching and made it enough of the way through for it to count as a view before realizing it was trash.", "… just stop fucking watching videos on YouTube. Not very hard.", "Thanks Amy Schumer", "that's the danger of their humor and why the show was so great, because they would create a scenario where more than one interpretation is valid. i thought the whole PC principal thing was an example of how trying to enforce moral behavior in an aggressive way was an antithesis of the goal. trey and matt trust that their audience knows rape is unacceptable, so that's only a focal point when you internalize it as one. \n\nsouth park traditionally presents ethical challenges that demand dichotomy of thought, for instance, the consent forms are an attempt to compel moral behavior while it's cynical to assume most people don't have a moral compass. we can't live like that; if there's one bad apple out of a hundred, it's unfair to treat the majority like one. that's just the tip of the iceberg in an interesting conversation about ethical principles, human psychology, and how they dictate what's \"right\" socially.", "The Facebook approach", "Yeah, I can’t see it in certain apps. My YouTube app isn’t updated though so it’s still showing. \n\nIt’s at 68k dislikes currently.", "Which is funny because the likes and dislikes could already be removed from videos...", "It really won't make a difference to the average user. Did people stop watching videos when comments were allowed to be disabled? No, so they sure as hell won't for this. It's a bad move for users by youtube, but really, they have experts to evaluate these changes and it was determined that we won't give a fuck and won't stop watching videos at all.", "Get downvoted for stating the truth, racist", "Now the people will not be able to see how 90% of people hate them", "What was Youtube's official reason for it's removal? (and actual reason?)", "Perfectly balanced", "Absolutely.\n\nThere's a massive difference between knowing you said something that 40% of people love and 60% hate versus having -1 karma and wondering if your comment was seen by 2 people.\n\nAbsolutely braindead move then, and nothing's changed now, especially since posts still indirectly show this with percentage upvoted.", "it all makes sense now. we allowed corporations to be people and now they need safe sapces. youtube is a safe space for world destroying corporations that also make shitty videos.", "It would help if YouTube’s recommendation algorithm wasn’t so horrible too. They recommend watched videos even if it makes no sense. I am not going to watch a news clip or review of an old product again. Even when I select reasons why I don’t like a recommendation it never seems to learn.", "I don't think that's necessary to be honest.\n\nWith all the engagement data that platforms gather these days, I reckon YouTube would be able to implement a 5-star rating system while only giving people upvotes and downvotes. \nThey could calculate it based on how long people watched the video, how much people clicked around on the video (especially to repeat stuff), how often it's getting comments (and the tone of said comments), etc.", "Let me see if I remember correctly. 2010 was the last feature date?", "Now they will all be 10 minutes instructions on how to do a 1 minute job :(", "the sad thing is these comments and all their likes will actually get those videos a higher priority with youtube’s algorithm", "I can kinda understand that even though I still don't like it. Kinda similar to why FB has no dislike button on people's posts", "Why? It’s like those subreddits that disable downvotes, it removes the engagement.", "99% of my dislikes go to poorly produced videos. Low effort memes, people that forgot to take the marbles out of their mouth before recording, music playing over the top of people talking, minutes of intro for seconds of info.", "Problem is they can just as easily edit it months down the line to say \"Like this comment if you love this video\"", "I’ve been straying away from YouTube. I wish a solid competitor would pop up. Unless I’m unaware of one?", "I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. This company has always had great moves like forcing integration with Google Plus or creating YouTube Red or the glorious Rewind every year.", ">but the standard YouTuber dies.\n\nMaybe that needs to happen. Wipe and start fresh. Ditch the sunk costs.", "You know when a solution to a problem is actually worse than the problem itself? That’s this.", "Not only that, but I've run across videos where the person presenting was saying that things that were actually incorrect. \n\n\nStuff like car maintenance, electrical wiring jobs, gun stuff, etc. \n\n\nAll those have the potential to kill or hurt people when done incorrectly, and there's quite a few youtubers that will make a how to video and spread bad information.... and their dislikes are usually through the roof. \n\n\nNow I'll have no idea what the legitimacy of a video is without browsing comments. Ugh.", "Back in my day you could give up to 5 stars.", "Get rid of\nThe likes then too", "That was my first thought as well. My second was to also get rid of the likes option and all comments", "I hope someone comes out with a plug-in for Firefox and Chrome where if you dislike a video it will automatically dislike every other video by that content creator.\n\nFor corporate bullshit and fake how-to videos, it will dislike everything for me. Gonna suck for YouTubers that only make one bad video and that’s the only one I watch, but if enough people use it then YouTube will lose ad revenue and they might revert their decision.", "How the hell is that thing within 5 votes of being even? Is it being maintained artificially with bots or something?", "Controversial doesn't always mean I'm not interested in watching, having the like/dislike ratio show under the thumbnail is the better option to me.", "The whole Youtube rewind situation sums this up pretty nicely, namely the 2019 one.\n\nBasically for the longest time, Youtube Rewind was solely dedicated to the people that contributed a ton on Youtube's growth, so old Rewinds had big Youtubers in it like Jackstepticeye, Pewdiepie, etc, 2018 was where they started this ratio where it would be 20% actual Youtubers/80% corporate shills, then on 2019 it was just all corporate shills, it evens opened with Will Smith despite the fact that his Youtube was a huge failure.\n\nAlot of companies had their own content creators and investments in that video and it later became the most downvoted video on Youtube. It didn't really look good on Youtube's actual customers, the corporations. Youtube promised them that they'd make them look hip to the kids, yet they got downvoted to hell. Add the whole situation with Ghostbusters 2016 where it was so downvoted, it was an affront to Sony and Youtube was starting to look unmarketable and they think that removing the dislike button will fix that.", "Its as much agree/disagree as it is like/dislike.\n\nSo you may express agreement on youtube with youtube-approved content but you may not express disagreement.\n\nSo when you get info from youtube, remember its censored and put in your feed to serve their needs.", "It’s unbelievable. A decade ago, if someone had told me they were being harassed, I would think they’re being sexually harassed, stalked, or bullied. \n\nThese days, I’m more likely to roll my eyes unless it’s someone I know saying it.", "Disliking a video is problematic and negative. Just abolish all negative criticism in the world and control the narrative, that’ll make things swell, right?", "more like the tiktok approach, youtube have been copying tiktok with youtube shorts, and you cant see dislikes on youtube shorts way before this", "Netflix removed ratings a while ago too but who were they trying to please?", "$20 says someone will end up looking up a CPR demonstration or similar other emergency, find a scam, and end up killing someone. Congress will hold a congressional hearing with YouTube/Alphabet and use other examples of medical issues, financial scams, etc. YouTube will claim that they had no idea this could possibly happen and will, “Promise to do everything in our power to ensure such a tragedy never happens again!”\n\nThen, rather than revert this decision, they will delete 100k+ scam/spam accounts within days and claim they will *Do Better™\n\nAlmost every single non-mainstream media outlet will correctly point out that 100k is an astronomical number of accounts to suddenly delete within days of the hearing and that:\n\n > a) YouTube is lying about how many accounts they banned\n\n> b) YouTube actually did delete that many accounts, but they created most of them themselves.\n\n> c) YouTube always had a way to filter them out, but didn’t want to lose the revenue from having people learning how to change their oil have to flip through 9 different bullshit videos (and their respective commercials/“paid sponsorships”) to get to a real one.\n\nEveryone will say C is the most likely answer. However, Congress won’t give a shit and will pretend that they solved the issue.", "$20 says someone will end up looking up a CPR demonstration or similar other emergency, find a scam, and end up killing someone. Congress will hold a congressional hearing with YouTube/Alphabet and use other examples of medical issues, financial scams, etc. YouTube will claim that they had no idea this could possibly happen and will, “Promise to do everything in our power to ensure such a tragedy never happens again!”\n\nThen, rather than revert this decision, they will delete 100k+ scam/spam accounts within days and claim they will Do Better™\n\nAlmost every single non-mainstream media outlet will correctly point out that 100k is an astronomical number of accounts to suddenly delete within days of the hearing and that:\n\na) YouTube is lying about how many accounts they banned\n\nb) YouTube actually did delete that many accounts, but they created most of them themselves.\n\nc) YouTube always had a way to filter them out, but didn’t want to lose the revenue from having people learning how to change their oil have to flip through 9 different bullshit videos (and their respective commercials/“paid sponsorships”) to get to a real one.\n\nEveryone will say C is the most likely answer. However, Congress won’t give a shit and will pretend that they solved the issue.", "Straight up, if you're a \"how to\" video, and you:\n\n have an intro\n\n* start your video with \"whats up guys\" or \"today we're going to learn...\" or \"a lot of people might be wondering how to...\"\n\n* ask for like/comment/subscribe before actually doing anything\n\n* aren't teaching within literally the first 5 seconds\n\n* give me any information, whatsoever, that wasn't 100% necessary\n\nDisliked and closed. \n\nThere are way too many videos, and way too many people being disrespectful with the audience's time. I don't give a single shit about you or your YT personality, and I don't give a shit about your channel, sub count, or ad revenue. \n\nWaste a single second of my time? Go fuck yourself. Downvote + close tab -- get this -- all in under a second. \n\nKeep it short and to the point without being obnoxious? Upvoted + possibly shared.", "And by context we can see here which one matt and trey were talking about.", "Surely there's some 3rd party add-on we can install that would insert the downvote button and track it to be shared with other users, after scraping the current downvote counts....And I realised while typing this that it wouldn't work for the youtube app.", "Really??? These YouTube ads are getting more and more shoved into the video and not allowing you to skip so much more often. It's like every 4 to 5 min of videos you're forced to watch 2 ads, plus before the vid starts and after. Driving me crazy!\n\nI'm gunna check out freetube. Thankyouuu\n\n\nEdit: youre a dick. 😑", "I don't remember ever watching this before.\n\nMy account apparently has thumbs-downed this video.\n\nI have no feelings about it.", "You were born with a heart full of neutrality", "No man, this is literally the holocaust.", "Netflix's case is a different case since they don't want reviews and downvotes on their platform since it lifts the veil about how most of their cheap licensed shows aren't that great.", "To be fair the dislike button was technically dead anyway since the algorithm was valuing the interaction higher than the dislike itself.", "did you get the correct url \n\nhttps://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube", "God forbid a single narcissistic facade of an actual \"personality\" lose even a dime of their precious, unskippable, 15 second long shitty beer ad revenue before every god-forsaken video of their dumbfuck attention whoring, devouring incalculable amounts of time from human life.\n\nFuck em.", "Yea, now not so smart people will believe even more scams. Or when you are looking for some products and the video is just 5 ads with ai voice.", "Or just turn your anger to the comments section...", "Please tell me this was archived", "Honestly they shouldn't mess with the like/dislike on videos. But they should add thumbs down count back to comments if it ever was there. \n\nYouTube is a very reliable source of extremely stupid comments that I personally think should be held accountable for themselves. The fact that the thumbs down button does nothing makes no sense. Why is it even there anymore?", "The author of the video should pin a post \"dislike\" and the amount of likes that gets is the amount of dislikes :)", "Time to go back to commenting \"dislike\" and if you see a video with comments turned off then you know", "Ahh, noo. I just typed in freetube.com lmfaoo.\n\nLooks like its only for browser ): unfortunately I only use mobile. Sorry about calling you a dick, thankyou anyways!", "Maybe we should have a rating system that has a range of ratings...maybe from 1-5...", "Thanks mate. I’ll join up. To be fair my comment was a bit flippant so I probably deserved the ban, but it’s just so boring being banned from subreddits because you wanna make jokes\n\nI forget that most people on this site are void of any humour or sarcasm", "Back when people said \"comment, rate and subscribe\".", "yeah netflix has been going downhill ever since.", "Because many of us have become too invested or too dependent on these services to imagine ever walking away from them. And that's literally all it would take. Have the discipline to stop using YouTube and this decision gets reversed tomorrow. So easy and yet so impossible at the same time.\n\nPersonally, this might actually get me to stop using YouTube, but I was never a big consumer of it to begin with so I'm a meaningless data point. And let's face it: a number of us will keep using it because we're cynical enough to expect a majority of users to continue to use it regardless.\n\nYouTube literally admitted as much in their explanation: testing showed that removing the dislike button will not have an overall negative impact on them. Of course, that completely disregards the user experience side of things.\n\nIt sucks, but once a company would be able to claim a large enough market share with limited direct competition, this sort of thing tends to happen eventually. Doesn't matter the sector or field. If only our intentionally broken capitalistic system didn't allow for such quasi-monopolies to exist in the first place.", "Maybe try likes/view count ratio next?", "Thank god for high speed viewing though. It's ridiculous how slow some people talk..", "I guess this is the reason they remove it. They want you to watch youtube!", "At least I can get happy, I got more dislikes on this video then the entire channel just because I edited a cool visual tumbnail & used the first video I created of that car that didn't had nothing special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2JBKmzZPc", "Comments have been removed for this video", "I was extremely active on imdb boards but that was mostly just film and actor discussion. Also not as much backlash as this iirc, as YouTube comments are way more mainstream. I do miss the imdb message boards though. Reddit seems to have picked up the slack considerably.", "If they remove the upvote button, all will be neutral again.", "We can still fix it. We just need everyone who liked the video to unlike it. Then it will be 0 to 0, and neutrality will be restored. Spread the word!", "There's a difference in opinions and personal insults/insults of groups of people though. It's definitely true that some opinions, no matter where on reddit, just get downvoted despite the fact that's not what the downvote button is supposed to be for at all. This is why a lot of threads asking something end up being very one sided, the \"opposition\" is just downvoted. But honestly usually when people complain something was removed because \"someone hurt their feelings\" they said some dumb slur or something.", "And who's gonna take that hit, You? Me? Some poor YouTuber with 900 subs trying to get their foot in the door?", "Wasting my time means I watch less youtube as I only have a limited amount of time. If they really want me to watch more, sorting by length would be best.", "Right, those things exist, their complete irrelevance to my comment notwithstanding. Look elsewhere in the thread, and I give one example.", "I do think this is going to have major negative effects but this whole ‘the problem is so small I didn’t even know about it yet so big we needed to fix it at all costs’ type of logic is not it.", "Same here, but we might be outliers", "I am almost certain this is faked by YouTube.. I saw a breakdown of it once debunking it.\n\nNot certain where though and to ambivalent to Google it to link", "Time to go by a views to like ratio.", "I feel YouTube is trying to kill itself slowly.", "No it's because certain politicians were getting ratio'ed. It's basically to stop people from voicing their opinions about politicians that google actively supports. This is why you will get CNN, CBS and other mainstream media almost always on a second bar under your recommended section. Thats also why they put misinformation warnings under certain videos their algorithms detect. \n\nThis is all very political and it's very easy to tell what is happening if you pay attention. Hopefully someone makes a plugin that runs on top of sites to get dislikes back on websites that are censoring the community. I would help code one myself ,but I'm too busy with work and know no one in the freeware community. I wouldn't be suprised if likes start magically going up for certain political bodies as well to try to fool users. This is why i use adblock on youtube and yotubed vanced on mobile. You can just turn it off for creators you think need the revenue.", "Theyre mad because their rewind videos got so much dislikes.", "I'm ambivalent on this particular issue.", "Hmm, I could definitely write a chrome extension to do this, but the hard part is gaining a critical mass of users. It wouldn't be useful until hundreds of thousands of users are engaging with it", "I follow quite a few left leaning youtubers and am still constantly suggested Fox news, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, etc.", "Apparently I have overall negative karma on /r/ShitWehraboosSay. Don't remember ever commenting there, so I don't know what I said, but that's a pretty bad look for me, lol.", "Fucking Google, first they release the worst update of Android to date now this...", "Damn, that's some pathetic stuff. Hey, /u/voodoo_curse, your flair on that sub has a typo, it should say BIASED MOD.", "I've been paying attention enough to know that YouTube isn't government and therefore isn't obligated to give me free speech or any other rights on their platform.", "Also heard things about odysee", "it's not a strawman, the people who whinge like that usually oppose gay marriage or the like.", "Same with tech problems/issues videos.", "Couldn't they have disabled dislikes just on ads? We all know that's why they're doing it, so ...", "usually people who complain like you have there are regressive on whatever issue they're mad they can't \"disagree\" about.", "On the other hand. This is great if you run a terrible DIY channel.", "I'm banned from all the conservative subs, try again dumbass.", "I agree with the motivations aspect, but I don’t agree with the profits analysis. YouTube videos are zero sum with each other (people can only watch one video at a time) and YouTube incentivized chained video watching (hence the, ‘more like this’ and ‘more for you’ sidebar/etc.). People not watching a video because it got too many dislikes are unlikely to drop platform, they likely to watch something else.\n\nI think the reason they got rid of the dislike option is because: \n\n1. User engagement is higher with content which elicits emotional response: which is high with very liked content and highest with anger inducing content\n2. A video with visible dislikes is unlikely to be watched\n3. By hiding the fact that a video was disliked, they can trick people into watching it, to which they then have a strong emotional reaction, and thereby are more likely to engage.\n\nThis is similar to what you’re saying, but different in only one respect. It’s not about ad revenue on watched videos: they will get that regardless. It’s about the user engagement on the back end, which retains user continued participation on the and with the platform.\n\nIf this was your point, I apologize for misinterpreting and posing your own logic back to you as a ‘correction’!", "Yes, user are the product of their business however that is supplied to the customer, the advertiser, if your product isn't there watching the videos, there is no reason for the customer, the advertise, to pay. \n\nPeople pretend these sites are immortal mega corporations, tell that to Facebook losing market share to Tik Tok and having to buy Instagram, there were days where BB message boards were a thing, now here is Reddit. \n\nIf Youtube doesn't provide good content, and good content is relevant content, which while not always shown by upvote/downvote ratio, it is in my example, then people will go else where. Not today, not tomorrow, but in 5 years time. All it takes is content creators to upload it to multiple sites, there is nothing restricting it bar it being necessary presently.", "In the most ironic twist, that video is blocked in my country\n\nI live in Australia", "And yet ironically, the video sums up my feelings on the removal of the dislike count.", "Original? That's a stretch I think. I would agree with them being the purest modern creators though, with overlap into other streaming/vod platforms.\n\nSites like YTMND had a lot of original content well before YouTube existed. And frankly a lot of that content got ported/copied to YouTube when video streaming became more accessible with better internet connections.", "Also it gives no tools to offset trolls/clueless persons. \n \nWith a like and a dislike, it's easy to combat trolls/clueless persons by just switching your vote from like to dislike or vice versa. This way, as long as there are enough people participating, the like/dislike ratio can always be restored. But if you only count the likes (and want to get it to 0) then a single troll can like the video and there's nothing you can do.", "Download Brave. Built in ad block and you get paid to browse the internet.", "There's nowhere on the internet that comes close to the variety of content YouTube has unfortunately.", "So you have to sift through more shitty videos in order to watch more adverts. That seems like the real move for this.", "\"I'll be watching your video responses...\"", "Instead of the stupid “SMASH DAT LIKE BUTTON”", "I think a green, yellow and red light would be cool and unique.", "What the fuck, why do try to fix a perfectly fine working machine?", "I have been archiving YouTube metadata for 3 years, I have metadata for about 1.2B videos. If you plug the video id or the channel id in the search box on https://filmot.com it will show you a summary page. Of course the data I have only reflects a certain count at the time when it crawled the video. My crawl resources are limited and I only updated counts for videos over a certain view count. Less popular videos were only crawled once. My site serves as a search engine over YouTube subtitles (both manual and automatically generated).\n\nFor example: \nhttps://filmot.com/video/ussCHoQttyQ/Neutral+Response \nhttps://filmot.com/channel/UCYxRlFDqcWM4y7FfpiAN3KQ/0/The+White+House\n\nThere is also this older dataset from 2019 that has data on 1.4B videos, including dislike counts. https://archive.org/details/Youtube_metadata_02_2019", "Here's the thing. If people want to fucking brigaide your shit. You're beat. Even without a counter. Because they all still have the ability to dislike. It's still going to affect the performance of the vid on algorithm. So wtf.", "Just you wait.. YouTube’s next great idea “unable to fast forward until you have watched the full video”", "Sounds like we need a decentralized video platform where participants VOTE on changes made to the platform. A DAO for video hosting. \n\nOur governance token can be called DLIKE and itll be the YouTube red block but witha thumbs down in it.", "I remember it!!!", "Any video of Them gets massive dislikes !", "Sounds like we need a decentralized video platform where participants VOTE on changes made to the platform. A DAO for video hosting. \n\nOur governance token can be called DLIKE and itll be the YouTube red block but witha thumbs down in it.\n\nPeople could tip with our token as well. \n\nYou could enable ads, user side. And then get paid in the token for watching the ad and solving a quick click captcha .", "What we need is for that stupid, incompetent bitch Susan Wojcicki to fuck off to the asteroid belt.", "This is Susan Wojcicki. This is what she does.", "It's not braindead. It's a clever way to keep the masses from pushing back against propaganda shoved down their throats.", "They are preparing for an undefeated Rewind!", "Not to mention that you can choose not to enable voting on your videos. \n\nSo an issue that is unknown to most, but a big problem apparently, that there already is a solution for.", "Oh I absolutely want then to take it personally. When they give me a 3 minute intro, about how I should Subscribe, Like, Comment, their new upcoming merch, their existing on sale merch, then their sponsor, all because I'm trying to find an answer that should take 30 seconds.\n\nI want them to take it very personally! :D", "Why is everyone bummed about the fake downvote being gone? It hasn’t change the count of votes forever.", "EA and game publishers pushing out shitty games and trailers probably love this feature. Wouldn't be surprised they requested YT to remove dislikes", "I don't even remember this video but apparently I had already disliked it years ago", "They want people to watch more garbage it seems. Probably the decision involves big companies that make said garbage.", "Dislikes were definitely used for bullying in some communities. I don't know if this change will really help the issue, or just cause the bullying to change methods. I also don't think the change will be as big of an issue as people complaining make it out to be. People will probably just switch to checking the comments instead of the like ratio, and life will go on.", "Man remember that \"the verge how to build a pc\" tutorial? They probably would left that video up if not for the dislikes", "PrIvAtE CoMpAnY", "Celsius 233.", "You forgot D, they mass delete or banned piles legitimate accounts based on some half-assed heuristics. No appeal. No refund if you paid for it.\n\nThen they say they made everyone \"safe\" and go on as normal.", "I'm slowly moving away from Youtube, it's just a scummy business at this point and the platform is getting worse and worse.", "I feel if enough people voice their opinion, YouTube will ultimately back track. Or not, I don’t work for YT and they could tell me to eat a burlap sack of balls, but it’s a possibility", "YouTube should really change its management.", "That's literally what they said in the introduction of the video", "Another method to check how popular a video is, is by checking the views compared to likes\n\n\nA 1 million view video with 100 likes will probably mean that most people did not think it deserved a like", "Ya, thats why you have to know freeware people that know the game of free advertising/promoting. Kind of like how vlc is on alot of computers or other apps like gimp etc.", "Idk about that but every person ik has a second bar filled with Covid19 stuff from left leaning news sources. What you probably did is search up someone you hate and now its recommending them. Its more about the politics category than youtube being active. I also love being downvoted by reddit thats when you know you're on the right side now. I honestly would like to be downvoted than applauded by this group of lonely degenerates. But best of luck with the crack smoking and circle jerking. Don't forget to downvote, plz and thank you.", "Atleast it fits. I personally want to reinstitute gallows for corrupt politicians. You could make a day of it, take the kids out to poke them with stick's or something.", "And then banning the user from all the other subs they mod as well", "Information is power. This is how they get rid of your power, by removing information.", "I don't think that where we are as a species is gonna last for that much longer with that attitude", "remember \"video responses\" haha. shit.", "What TikTok is doing ain’t even new. I believe the first one to come up with shorts was Vine. After that got shut down, musically came to surface and in the end TikTok overtook shorts", "Watch My [Video](https://youtu.be/64QPLqqUQT0)", "Why the change?", "Yeah. Was looking at a new Soda Stream machine yesterday,online. I already have an older model. I was looking for videos on what the difference was. All I got was “saving the environment.” Seems that they changed to an easier “quick lock” canister & that requires a newer machine. Anyways… You can still read the comments. 🙂", "I think he's confusing it with disliking YouTube comments. They used to have a rating based on thumbs up/down but when they made them integrated with Google+ they made the thumbs down not work anymore since Google+ only had a like button.", "Not getting this reference. Did she mention something like this in a stand up or something?", "I've replaced so many screens :(", "I must admit I’ve never unliked anything on the internet. If I don’t like it I just stop watching it.", "Sadly their isn’t any thing close to the level YouTube is at, so no mass migration at all, maybe we might see one at some point, but I’m just not sure. Still this is a horrible choice the dislike button is great to see if some video is horrible or not.", "People say this as if ad blockers aren't a thing.", "Because some people are stupid and usually review things anyways as 1 or 5. Movie not good? 1. Service was slow at restaurant? 1.\n\nNetflix has things figured out and it was probably easier for their recommendation engine.", "Nah. I never watch those clowns on YouTube specifically so I don't get them taking over my algorithm. I didn't downvote anything here but you do seem to be talking out of your ass", "> part of Google\n\nwhich is a part of Alphabet Inc.", "Must have backfired when Netflix started releasing crap movies.", "I appreciate your analysis. \nIt seems we are very much on the same page. I don't feel you have misunderstood my position. \n \nPredominantly I think you are correct, many users will simply watch a different video if the one they come across is heavily disliked and/or generally shitty (I know I do when I'm looking for something to watch while I eat). \n \nIt is in pursuing engagement from users who are not already dicking around on youtube where the like/dislike counter has the non-zero-sum effect. \nIf someone on a different platform clicks a link that takes them to YouTube and sees that the video is trash, they leave the site to return to where they were. \n \nIt's not a huge difference, overall I think we are of similar mind. \n \nE: Hell, perhaps I missed your point entirely. If so I am sorry. I had a bit of a bender last night. I am definitely not running on all cylinders this morning.", "Yeah YouTube dislikes are a very accurate way of determining video quality. Stupid to get rid of them especially with so much instructional content on the site.", "Youtube is handing the site over to the trash, the fake and the deplorable videos.\n\nIf you take away the power to dislike it turns the platform into a cesspool like Facebook.", "Shouts out to Vanced", "Or when there's not even an option for \"related\" videos in the little scroll wheel. It's like dude, don't show me anything ever except related videos. If I wanted 20 videos from the same channel, I'd just go to their channel myself.\n\nAlso, the continue watching is 95% of the time shit that I stopped watching specifically not to ever finish it lmao", "I mean the last ten years have been like the Slow Burn of the Library of Alexandria for YouTube imo", "Yeah now when I need to get a quick bit of info on something, I either have to watch the whole damn video and realize it’s shit or hope that the top comment is going to start being “This video is shit, don’t waste your time” or “This person knows what they’re talking about”", "Theres been a large public outcry about this since it was announced so they may reverse their decision. Or not, they’re youtube its not gonna lose them users", "You both just saved my life a bit longer. I’m a massive youtube learner. fully remodeled a house, built a cafe racer, learned so many DIY things. Literally having a panic attack over here. So in the future, I’ll just look to the comments for that vote, and If comments are disabled, I’ll leave the video.", "Every time something updates it gets worse", "I feel pretty neutral about that", "Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about that!", "For News Channels the real treat is clicking the replies to YT Comments.", "Exactly. They want you to watch more videos. They really don’t care if you enjoy the experience as much because nothing contends with YouTube.", "It because Biden keeps getting downvotes.", "“Disliking something isn’t harassment” \n\nIt has been like that for the last like 8 years to the very super progressive left. And guess what side YouTube and every other big Corp is on?", "I get hit with PragerU ads a lot and they are the fucking kings when it comes to misinformation especially that shitty video about slavery with candace owens. First time I saw one of their ads they were saying you can't be a good Conservative I have to worship Christianity and have family values and Atheists have no morals.", "Comments have been disabled for this video.", "They're going in the direction of Facebook. There's a reason why misinformation is rampant on there. When no one can get a quick gage on how disliked something is, every post is considered factual. I mean, it's already rampant on youtube too, but it's about to get so much worse.", "Huh, that's pretty interesting. I'm actually kind of shocked that I don't have explicitly negative karma anywhere.", "Whoops, I misremembered the quote :(", "Same here, but I thought it was part of the joke....", "why in the fuck are they getting rid of the dislike bar? It's a vital part of seeing if the video is worth watching, as well as community input. Are they still butt hurt mad about the 2018 rewind? Fuck Susan, she's the worst thing to have happened to youtube", "78k now I can see", "If you weren’t aware, it is my understanding that before and after the visual change the Netflix rating system worked the same:\n\nIt is not a user rating system. It is Netflix’s prediction on how much you will enjoy the given content.", "I haven't tried it yet but something similar to [DTube](https://d.tube/) maybe?\nI know it's decentralized and based on Blockchain, maybe it has some or all of those features?", "Done!", "“Freeware” — that word you’re using, I don’t think it means what you think it means.\n\nYou clearly have no understanding of what you’re talking about, your conclusions are bad, and you should feel bad.", "This is one of the worst if not the biggest shit change theyve ever done.", "Back to books it is.", "Isn't a creator able to turn off the like/dislike ratio? So this is completely unnecessary....", "I have no strong feelings one way or the other", "What we need is an alternative to YouTube. If YouTube executives want to make sure people move on to other platforms, then this is the first correct move.", "has anyone seen the two not match? Like 566likes and 565 dislikes", "^(use the report button instead. if enough people start doing this...)", "They even said it was just a feature not an actual thing", "Yes people and entities tend not to be on the side of nazis. That’s true.", "I pretty much only watch YouTube for videos in the background while I game, or for guitar lesson videos (shout out to guitarzero2hero, he's great). Literally every content creator I watch consistently is also on twitch or has their own website to host their videos, only reason I used YouTube was familiarity and the \"one-stop-shop\" ease of use. \nYouTube/Google may not give a fuck about the loss of one user but I'm committed to using YouTube as little as possible from now on. \nSure they may get me with a 2 minute video on how to fix my toaster here and there but gone are the days where I leave a channel autoplaying for hours at a time (usually with ads off so the creators got their tuppence)", "Mentally ill. There’s literally nothing I can do to help you lol. \n\nWhen you can label anyone a nazi, it’s pure cognitive laziness lol.", "I think ideas like this are one of the reasons YouTube are getting rid of the dislike counter :)", "Well that's why. They don't want to you to know if the video is bad or good before thus garnering another viewer.", "Her Netflix special was review-bombed. She complained about it, blaming the alt-right or something as I recall. \n\nShortly thereafter, Netflix did away with the 5-star review system. Many thought it to be in response to the Schumer incident.", "And \"The uploader has not made the video available in your country\"", "It will never be perfectly balanced", "I didn't do much, but I'm happy I helped if only incidentally.\n\nNice projects by the way. I'm glad they turned out well.", "Yeah I do this for people that I don't want to watch, but recognize their content isn't bad, just not my cup of tea. For me, the dislike is much harsher since it is a public statement via the number presented that X amount of people publicly do not endorse the video. And now that will be taken away :(", "That's a bit extreme imo. My rule of thumb is we should be getting into the the point within 15-30 seconds. Most of those bullet points don't indicate if the content will be good or bad and you can just skip 30 seconds ahead or something.", "This is Sparta", "My bad, you’re right. I am sorry. So so so so so sorry.", "The dislike is also important for weeding out those fake ass movie trailers. It's pathetic when the \"free speech award winners\" at youtube can't even handle people expressing themselves by clicking an icon. I'm heading to Bitchute and Rumble.", "The \"free speech award winners\" at youtube can't even let people express an opinion with an icon? This is just sad.", "It’s hard to take you seriously when you basically have the n word in your username 🤷‍♂️", "I’m black and it’s just a nickname from irl. Thankfully I don’t get offended that easily. \n\nMy point that you ignored still stands but no point in arguing with a mentally ill person. \n\nImagine calling anyone whose not a democrat, a nazi. Insanity. Weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. \n\nYou’re the weak man causing the hard times.", "Why would they remove dislikes?", "Lol do it then.", "YouTube is such a big website with millions of different communities though, they didn't think about that, dislikes are useful for countless of communities, many depend on them.\n\nI don't see how this curbs bullying in any way, they'll just comment straight up saying their video is shit or the person is shit now, that's even worse, comments are more toxic than any dislike ratio, I have them hidden with an extension.\n\nThis only benefits big corporations when they face backlash and advertisers, like Nintendo and their greedy NSO expansion pack, the ratio on that video is like 18K/190K dislikes.", "The intent of this is to make you sift through for content and view more ads. This is all related to getting you so annoyed as a customer that you’ll pay for their subscription service.", "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware\n\nThis is some of the stupiest shit I have seen. You sound like a moronic douche that has been on reddit too long. You can't even explain anything clearly or with a source to back your disagreement.\n\n\"Freeware\" is basically interchangeable with open source you just don't share the source code to protect the integrity of the software/service or other common reasons. Something like adblock is considered freeware. There are communties that specialize in creating these projects and gathering devs to work on them. I worked with several friends in college on projects like this through a prof that had alot of contacts. I just don't personally have the contacts nor do I care to try to find them. You are a typical reddit user and I'm done replying to explain basic shit that one google search could have told you.", "\"Freewate\" lol\n\nKeep on truckin little dude. Fight that big bad liberal media!", "Thanks, YouTube...now when I'm looking for some quick tutorial for something, I have no idea if the video I'm watching is complete trash or not. But, you gotta protect those precious creators!", "Hah that's brilliant!", "All I can say, is that YouTube is now a [SAFE SPACE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzU05QmJMDg) ;-)", "Wtf are you on? I just searched, I didn't see wtf you are mentioning. You have two accounts like a loser lmao. Thanks for being a typical redditor, shove your head up your ass some more please.", "Long live Reddit. The only big name social with the potential to hear both sides of the opinion", "I for one will happily be on the lookout for YouTube functional replacement in the coming years", "Imagine being on the \"dislike\" side to this meme", "I was today years old when I saw this video for the first time and downvoted", "And the comment section was on the right side of the video rather than underneath", "Remember the 'Reply Girls' who would spam their videos of them with their boobs out as a reply on every video they could find? IIRC they were a big reason why the feature was removed.\n\nIt's sad because it's the sort of thing that was really useful when YouTube was much smaller. You can still find old videos where the creator will say 'See part 2 as a video response' or 'Please post a video response with your entry' if it was for a competition. YouTube is just too big for that to exist now.", "What are some of the best alternatives to YouTube? I can’t stand the ads, corporate slop, and misinformation peddling they’re obviously going to let continue to ramp up.", "\n>\"Freeware\" is basically interchangeable with open source you just don't share the source code to protect the integrity of the software/service or other common reasons.\n\nIn other words, it's not interchangeable with open source since literally the only defining feature with open source is that the source is open. Your own source even makes that very clear, so what gives?", "I totally get that, I truly despise those channels too and avoid them at all cost. Usually I skip through the video and try to get some sort of first impression if I should actually watch it. \n\nMaybe I don’t spend too much time on youtube, but when I open youtube.com, there’s a decent amount of channels that I enjoy watching. Like Mark Rober, Ben Eater, great music channels, people camping in the wilderness, programming tutorials, people restoring things, etc. I truly learn a lot and feel good watching it", "I suppose it's possible a Chinese version of YouTube will pop up and take over. That's not exactly better for users, though. They would just be trading a sociopathic conglomerate for a tyrannical government.", "The only comment ITT that calls it like it is folks, PROPAGANDA, SHUT DOWN THE DISSENT..", "lol", "not true - I did a great cover that got disliked to fuck and a mediocre cover that didn't get that many at all. Sometimes a video just finds its way into the wrong crowd!" ]	1,027	videos	Since YouTube is getting rid of dislike counts for viewers, gems like this will lose its magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FmvzD8yyjw	/r/videos/comments/qsemwf/i_want_my_baby_back_please_mothers_heartbreaking/	[ "Chili’s", "fuck man.", "Goddamn that’s sad. This is a heartbreak I can’t understand and god willing never will.", "I could go for some skillet queso.", "I don't expect you can ever fully recover from a situation like that which the mom is going through right there. She can be forgiven for being a bit all over the place at the moment. The mind surely wanders looking for some form of reprieve and I imagine there simply is no corner from which to find any when you've lost a child so abruptly.", "He drives a brown probe.", "Who doesn’t like some queso with their sodium. 4250 mg of sodium people. That’s 2x the daily recommended intake. In one fucking appetizer.", "i want my NaC NaC NaC...l", "I want my heart attack heart attack heart attack….", "Maybe, take this down after a few hours? I've been trying to reconcile displaying people's grief as a means to spur action vs. people shouldn't need to be bombarded w/ other's pain to toggle their moral barometer towards empathy. Not to mention the family's most trying moment, when they're most vulnerable and unstable, being blasted all over the world... But then, I also get this is absolutely heartbreaking and I can't deny the effect. So maybe just don't lambaste it for long? It's there, enough for people to see, to have an effect, then it's up to that individual person if they want to give into the current of media and forget about it in 10 seconds or for it to catalyze the social change necessary for this shit not to happen again. We need a medium between the internet's 'forever memory' and our present non-digital world. After all, our lives are but a fraction of a fraction. Poor Bharthi and her fam... :( And all the other lives lost.", "You’re preaching to the wrong crowd", "my heart breaks for this woman. I can't imagine ever having so much grief that I think there's a chance my loved one could return with the right amount of hope. I totally understand that this is just an expression of her grief and I am sure there will be a day when I feel it and hope the same thing. This poor poor woman.", "Meanwhile msm is covering Travis Scott like he's a goddammit saint.", "If the baby is dead, it's not possible to bring it back. It's outside of the realm of medicine at our point in time. I know. I checked. Online.", "The media gets a massive boner at stuff like this because it translates to massive $$$'s.", "Is she going crazy?\n\nThis is so fucking scary, I can't even imagine what she could be going through. \n\nIt almost seems kind of cruel putting this woman in the public spotlight right after her daughter died.", "You may have seen a depiction like this in a movie before. A mother so engulfed by grief that the reaction seems manic. In my opinion it would be cruel to not show her extent of grief. She's trying to explain how awful she feels. I think her speech does a great job at that. She feels so bad she can't put into words - though she actually does do that pretty effectively in most of her story.", "that was brutal to watch", "Fuck man, the paaaaaaiiiiinn.", "I agree. Travis Scott is shit, and deserves bankruptcy. \nBut this kind of pain? Its raw and feral. The people being filmed are not in a good state, and haven't finished grieving. \nHowever, until he's paid in actual money, and words of acknowledgement for what he has done, this needs to stay up. \nHe doesn't deserve a music career after this. So if he tries to stay relevant, this should follow him everywhere he goes.", "Travis should probably be at most the third party people think about when assigning blame for what happened. The majority of the blame falls on the event organizers and law enforcement as it was specifically their job to keep people safe not the music artist who's job is to entertain.\n\nTravis seems like a huge asshole and his music sucks but he is being scapegoated, hate him all you want, I don't like him either but don't let the other guilty parties walk away whistling, look into what actually happened this was a huge fuckup by the people actually tasked with running the event and keeping people safe.", "Please take this down, I have felt her grief.", "People think artists actually \"see\" the crowd... \n\nYou don't, if you're performing for more than 1000 people, it's just a fucking sea of people, just because the STAGE is all lit up and you can see the stage, doesn't mean the artists has a lit up view of the crowd... Have you been to a concert, crowds are blacked out. \n\nPeople also seem to forget , artists rarely perform fucking sober. I would never in my life expect someone on drugs or drinking to notice a problem unfolding in front of them; and neither do courts of law. People are just mad at HIM because they don't know the promoters name, the venue, security, all the people involved... They know Travis Scott, so it's \"his fault\"" ]	23	videos	"I want my baby back, please": Mother's heartbreaking words after daughter's Astroworld death
https://youtu.be/Nr_3MvtSgDE	/r/videos/comments/qsf8sg/musicians_banjo_playing_attracts_a_wild_fox/	[ "Musician’s Banjo Playing Attracts Wild Rabies", "What song is this? Any way to hear a full version?", "Guaranteed he fed this fox before and it's sticking around in hopes for food", "Yea, probably feeds it often. Fucking sucks because the fox will end up dead because of it.", "This is Andy Thorn from the band Leftover Salmon. They are a fun and wild bunch!", "[Not the first time this fox has shown up.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMGCPwQNe4g)\n\nI doubt the music is the only* reason the fox showed up.", "Yes. Keep your distance from any wild fox behaving oddly.", "Absolutely lays out food and starts playing banjo and the fox has made the connection and comes when he hears the banjo. Very Pavlovian. And in this video the fox is waiting for the snack", "Eh, I'm going to go on a limb here and say that's unlikely. A fox's range doesn't typically go past 5 miles and judging that scenery, there's not much around for it to get itself into that kind of trouble.", "A perfect example of Pavlov's Dog theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical\\_conditioning", "There was a post earlier that was saying that friendly foxes usually have rabies and now I’ve seen THREE different videos where people have are chilling with foxes. Watch out!", "Fox: this human sounds good, smells good, hopefully tastes good!!", "What the fox going on", "This is what I came to say as well, glad I'm not alone is suddenly worrying.", "Well, as one of those things that I spend far too much time looking into for no discernable gain, it looks like they are up in [Lee Hill](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lee+Hill/@40.0669832,-105.353293,3296m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x876be88b5e0e9dd9:0x44d0c9d11f9bce9b!8m2!3d40.0722097!4d-105.3544343) Outside Boulder, CO.", "Mountains and bluegrass, man. That's livin'", "I'd sit and listen to any kind of music with that view.", "Music hath charms", "Damn, I often do the same thing but I wouldn’t have figured this out. What context clues did you have? Most I could see is the color of the dirt matches the Boulder front range area, the expensive flat in the background suggests the Rockies, and that lake could possibly be the one outside of Boulder", "/u/codered434 posted another video which gave me this guys name (admit I had no idea who this dude was).\n\nUsing Andy Thorn Mountain Home gave me [this article](https://bldrfly.com/art/2020/09/01/boulders-most-epic-music-venue-a-tiny-deck-in-the-foothills/) which mentioned McDevitt Taco Supply - looking that up put me in Boulder and moving over a bit plopped me into Lee Hill.", "Ah, that works too haha", "Strong Disney Prince energy here.", "You guys just can’t let someone enjoy that the fox is there and the sunset is amazing the music is pleasing can you? Music has proven to attract many curious critters.", "It’s no mystery that foxes like leftovers. They especially enjoy Leftover Salmon😉", "Musician's Egg McMuffin that he left out on the table attracts a wild fox.", "Imagine you are trying to get rid of Fox underneath your porch for days.. and then a guy shows up with fucking banjo \"I got this\"", "Love me some good OSINT", "What a beautiful view", "I know Andy and he doesn’t feed this fox. There are tons of fox in these hills and they all dig the banjo.", "Thornhub, eh?", "What an amazing view!", "Is that the Blue Ridge mountains in the background?", "It’s a conspiracy!", "This is awesome. Also I want your music as my ring tone haha", "r/wholesome", "Rabies! Who wants rabies?!", "Andy Thorn from Leftover Salmon. An old buddy of mine from high school in NC, and now we both happen to live in CO. He's a good follow on FB, posts these beautiful sunrise picks all the time. This fox has been visiting his place for years.", "What an amazing place to have a deck and a BBQ!", "The one", "Either that or he's been fed by other humans before.", "there is so much bad ass in this video, i friggen love it", "So the other videos with his pet fox that's the same fox doesn't count?", "Redneck Snow White", "Not an exact match, but their song [Red Fox Run](https://open.spotify.com/track/4Tt6YjWgfg1Sr5FOaRqRAI?si=7e1d9489aee24335) sounds pretty similar.\n\nEdit: It's actually [Hard Times Come Again No More](https://open.spotify.com/track/4PjPKf4rek9CaMccF3dBRc?si=62e6b166da7641a3)", "Well now I must learn to play the banjo and move to Appalachia", "Strap a grease can to a vulpid and we've just found a permanent solution to squeaky hinges.", "something something deliverance", "He may have been conditioned, however I've seen plenty of videos of groups of cows gathering around to listen to someone playing music, who seemed genuinely curious." ]	51	videos	Musician's Banjo Playing Attracts a Wild Fox
https://youtu.be/-Ns-lVWoKGU	/r/videos/comments/qsfdr5/should_we_tax_the_ultra_rich/	[ "They are taxed...at 0%", "See https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/EX62u9bXsAUtRO8.mp4\n\ntl;dr: Yes, absolutely. Wealth and income inequality in the US is greater than any time since the Great Depression. And, yes, that's a very ominous sign.", "I think they should be taxed at the same rate anyone else would be... No more, no less. And I think all write offs should be eliminated entirely for everyone. Taxes should be entirely what money is brought in each year... Make $1 be taxed 10 cents, Make $1 million, be taxed $100,000..." ]	3	videos	Should we tax the ultra rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5YEO4CgThw	/r/videos/comments/qsfys0/are_beer_brands_getting_too_cold/	[ "this was a whirlwind of emotions", "This was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Loved it.", "finally a beer made for guys like me!", "We get it, you like Tim Robinson. Jk though, this was very good and I'm sure he'd like it too.", "anyone who as ever drank warm coors light will understand why their marketing and branding is so over the top with its COLD theme. This is true for many light beers", "listen it's just too cold for me. I like something that protects my hands.", "I you like your beers warm, you should try your steaks sloppy.", "Was that Sheffy's made from a Banana Bread Beer? I have a yellow snuggy just like it, and it peels down, like a banana.", "wait, really?", "Never mind, I went to check the shelf I thought it was on and there's just a fish basket there.", "that's strange... I never knew they carried fish baskets.", "(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ Can I get you another fish basket my man", "Sheffy kinda cute?? 😍", "Hey, that’s the line he said in the video!!", "***I didn’t order a basket***", "The way I see it is, hopefully with more practice and if they keep making content they'll find their own voice and won't have to rely on copying the tone of the content they're emulating. I did the same in music when I was younger and eventually found my groove.", "That line broke me", "It's like how there are a million Joel Haver clone channels and Joel is always encouraging about it but I feel like he would rather see them do their own thing.", "funny how this is the new \"hmm seems like a tim and eric skit\" remark made by people who clearly rarely are exposed to alternative comedy", "Get some Mr Show vibes from this", "If a beer doesn't taste good warm it's shit beer", "His mannerism, especially right after he throws down the check, really remind me of Tim Robinson and the Sheffy’s music reminds me of the type of music used in his show too. So to me it’s more than just a case of “I see alternative comedy let’s bring up Tim Robinson” In any case I really enjoyed the video", "I just see this comment about tim robinson under any sketch where a guy yells or is confused about a product. It is almost always backhanded compliment too which is just annoying", "Getting a lot of Detroiters vibes from this comment", "Getting strong snl season 38 vibes from this reply", "Well yeah 100%. But sometimes cheap shitty party beer is the best way to go.", "Treesnthings said it already but yeah, He's basically doing a Tim Robinson impression at one point.", "Yo, that's Shamir in the background haha", "https://youtu.be/_5YEO4CgThw?t=141\n\nStraight Tim Robinson impression. Still enjoyed the sketch, though.", ">https://youtu.be/\\_5YEO4CgThw?t=141\n\nYelling in a button down is reserved only for Tim Robinson now? He sounds nothing like him lol", "yup, when i am finished cutting the grass in 90 degree heat i don't reach for a quality craft beer. I go for a cold as balls domestic Light. and it is the best fucking beer, at that time.", "They didn't know how to end the skit did they", "“… we’ve been drinking cold ones all nigh…”", "I feel this. I hate when my coke or beer is too cold, like so cold I can only take small sips at a time, what the hell is up with that? Who would want that?\n\nThere is an ideal temperature. Get it right!", "There's something about Coors Light after doing manual labor that just hits perfect." ]	35	videos	Are Beer Brands Getting Too Cold?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRxqKhNUUA	/r/videos/comments/qsggle/left_ear_is_much_older_than_right_ear_wtf/	[ "right ear is 45, left is 40. \npretty good bc i turn 40 next year", "*dependent on the quality of your speakers and/or headphones.", "Left 57, Right 47. Actual age, 50.\n\nEdit: Using Pixel Buds 2", "Ear buds, hard of hearing from construction, age 60, result says 30. there were some gaps.", "Whoa that was freaky! I am 45 and the moment it hit 30, dead silence!!\n\nCan any of you young-ins confirm if they hear anything 30 or below??", "Left 57, right 51. I’m 60. Surprisingly not as bad as I would have thought considering all the rock concerts I’ve been to and other noisy things I have done.", "Tinnitus intensifies", "Interesting. Also noticed intensification of my longstanding mild tinnitus for several minutes after ending the video.\n\nI'm 72, and the video gave me an \"ear age\" of 65 listening with both ears.", "Turning 40 in two months.. Ears are apparently 28. Not too shabby considering I went pretty hard on my ears in my 20's.. lots of concerts and loud stereos.", "I’m 35 and at 27 it’s all just went away. The slightest sound between 30-27", "no. [Sennheiser HD 598Cs](https://en-us.sennheiser.com/headphone-around-ear-home-mobile-hd-598-cs)", "One thing is sure.. using earbuds was a mistake \nI did get to hear more but, oh.. did it make my head hurt", "Dead silence at 29, just turned 30 last month. I don't know if I'll get the same result on my other headphones.", "I'm 26 and also dead silence at 30", "I was a little concerned for a moment because it went out at 58 for me and I'm 37. Had to turn up my own volume to hear it until 28.", "I'm 30 and have the ears of a 55-60 year old. Don't be like me in my teens and early adults years not taking your hearing seriously. Turn down the volume a tad on headphones, take ear plugs to concerts depending on the show, and wear hearing protection when needed.", "Nice facebook headline", "Dead silence at 30 here as well. HyperCloud 2 headphones." ]	18	videos	Left ear is much older than right ear! WTF!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsgrxu/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsgrxu/deleted_by_user/	[ "The Engrish is off the charts on this one.\n\nI want to get me some of that SPLASH PROOF WATER.", "footage of fps game... mouse intensive only lmao", "I don't get it." ]	3	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9RCQjPqh4	/r/videos/comments/qsh17u/a_step_saving_kitchen_1949/	[ "It is crazy to see how much time and research went into the design of this kitchen, by the government no less.", "Man, I think every kitchen made 1950 thru 1970 had that pullout dishtowel rack.\n\nok wtf, I want an in-range chafing dish.", "Yeah, this was back when government research was oriented around improving the lives of Mr and Mrs. John Q Taxpayer, not about boosting congressional district employment or kickbacks to political lobby special interest groups.", "But what about the island?", "I'd argue that this sort of convenience research would be better funded by the private sector (e.g. Consumer Reports). The government is already bloated and inefficient and tax dollars should only be used for critical tasks like infrastructure and welfare." ]	5	videos	A Step Saving Kitchen, 1949
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsh3wv/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsh3wv/deleted_by_user/	[ "redgifs do (they really are not gifs, it's just their service's name). \n\nclick the audio icon.", "Dude it's a gif lol", "Why don't you try clicking the audio symbol... If on mobile you have to click the redgifs link. It has audio. If on desktop its right in the bottom right of the player.", "There is no way to click on that link while on mobile.. you should probably post it as a comment" ]	4	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GpCU76kIRY&ab_channel=AlasdairBeckett-King	/r/videos/comments/qshksj/guy_who_is_about_to_die_in_space/	[ "Wife and or children?", "Strangely accurate", "This guy reminds me strongly of lindybeige", "It was nice of Petty Officer Deadman to scatter the logs, in order, along the exact pathway I needed to take through the ship. So thoughtful.", ">Project Hubris \n\nBig “HMS TERROR” vibes. Tf did they expect?", "this guy needs more vitamin d", "Gingers make their own", "haha!" ]	8	videos	Guy Who Is About To Die In Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459UfFJLCt4	/r/videos/comments/qsi8mr/batman_christmas_ornament/	[ "And how come Batman doesn't dance anymore?", "How does it change their outfits so quickly while moving them up and down? Was it edited out?", "Think.", "The figures dont move, they are simply covered by a wall. Two plain dressed figures up top behind door number one, and Batman and Robin figures below behind door number two.", ":) thank you for the full explanation. I was being sarcastic, but I appreciate you taking the time to legitimately explain it. You're a real champion.", "Woosh", "Where can one buy this thing?", "Check the time stamps dork. I posted an hour before he came back and covered his tracks.", "OP what on earth is up with your channel? [NSFW?](https://i.imgur.com/uU4Aly2.png)", "What an odd thing to ask.\n\nNot everyone's a child living with their parents, you know.\n\nSome people are adults and can do whatever they want.", "Ah but you're missing the point, as those two figures at the top are actually the secret identities of Batman and Robin. Most people don't know that as it's a secret. It's Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson.\n\nWhere you see them at the top in one set of costumes, and then at the bottom in other costumes, it makes it appear like they're different people but actually they are the same and they DID change costumes quickly as they slid down the pole.\n\nIt is very quick though, so I don't know how they do that. Maybe tiny robots like in Iron Man?", "That is an extremely valid point, but it is you who is missing the finer context of the scene; the ornament wants you to believe that you see Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne figures on the top, but it is really small figures of Burt Ward and Adam West that are depicted here. \n\nYou have been played the long con by the big ornament people and you are a fool for not seeing the bigger picture here.", "Gosh, I've been bamboozled! What a fiendish riddle!" ]	13	videos	Batman Christmas Ornament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs	/r/videos/comments/qsihzc/the_ar_hellscape_that_awaits_us_in_the_near_future/	[ "Yup. Pretty much. This is where things are going and has been since Steven Mann strapped the XT to his back.", ">You could get a phantoscopic system planted directly on your retinas. [...] You could even get telaesthetics patched into your spinal column at key vertebrae. But this was said to have its drawbacks. [...] It was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the middle all the time - even when your eyes were closed.) Bud knew a guy like that who'd somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself. - The Diamond Age (1995) by Neal Stephenson.", "I'm so conflicted by this. I know I'm supposed to hate the commercialization and gamification of everything... but there are so many cool UX things going on that are really well designed.", "Enough with this fake dystopic luddite bull shit. This is not what AR will be in the future.", "Doubtful. If Google Glas was any predictor, no one wants this.", "Seems to me like paradise -- as long as you can take off your glasses.", "Well... FB bought Oculus Rift right? and the Google glass didn't picked up because was from the \"top-down\"... Google always had very bad incursions in hardware. But if you look at their purchase of Fitbit, Microsoft's buy of Nokia, etc... always the big corporation find a way to take advantage of good ideas, either copying, buying, stealing or bullying... So the scary part is that someone somewhere will actually make a product that everyone wants, and then bam!", "Since Facebook will shovel infinite money into these, how do you think Facebook will handle it?", "Apple is getting into this too, potentially in 2022.", "You're right, there will be waaaaaay more advertisements.", "If it was streamlined and less cluttered I agree. I like a lot of this and can think of a bunch of ways it could be useful day-to-day. Advertising is annoying but some more integrated advertising that isn't so \"in your face\" seems like it would be less distracting and more effective. So many of the ads here get lost in the noise.", "Scary! \n\nBut also, I bet it's all gonna be much more subtle, and maybe that is even scarier.", "No one wanted the Apple Newton in the 90s.", "The creator of this video, Keiichi Matsuda, now works in the AR industry and has said that he wanted to depict one possible dystopia, but does not believe that this hellscape is inevitable. He and others in the industry are working to make it a better future. \n\nThat said, Facebook (now known as \"Meta\") has been dominating the consumer VR space and have their eyes set on AR, while still focusing on ads as their primary revenue source. I think this video still depicts a more cartoony version of a dystopia, when in fact an ad-based future might be terrible in more subtle ways -- where Facebook and ad companies have perfect profiles of you, down to measuring your micro expressions in reaction to a particular ad, or embedding and tracking in-game/real-life product placements at every possible opportunity.\n\nI don't think it's an exaggeration to say they'd be selling control of your emotional state to the highest bidder. Companies have been doing this for decades with ads and marketing. A prime, relatable example are the snack shelves at supermarket checkouts, designed to tempt you into making one last purchase. They've already got that down to a science. Now imagine the shelves could be digitally altered to suit your taste on the fly, and they also continuously measured your pupil dilation for every item you looked at.\n\nIt sounds like it's right out of a sci-fi novel, and it's still early days, but it's truly happening right now. Personally, I'm an optimist -- AR and VR are amazing technologies, if we (ordinary people) retain control of them, they have the potential for tremendous positive change.", "If it had the ability to run functional open-source ad blocking software I think it could be great. Imagine not only having the ability to adblock your web browser, but to completely blur any brand logos you didn't want to see.", "Meh, I've worked with AR and I can't see a reality like this for at least another 15-20 years.", "I mean, what it comes down to is do you have control over the device and content, or do the companies who sell it to you? If you control it, can modify it, then it'll be a great device, because it'll be whatever you want it to be, and you can disable/remove anything you don't want. That being said, if it's something designed to harvest data and run advertisements, then it'll be annoying as fuck by design. Companies might realize they can pretty much hold people's social lives, work, money, all hostage through the device, forcing you to complete certain tasks or watch ads to continue as well.\n\nI don't know. Personally while the device would probably be pretty cool, it'd be a huge eh for me. I'd probably use it once in awhile, but unless the UI is very minimalistic, it'd annoy the fuck out of me regardless. If I could customize it to whatever I want, I'd probably use it more, but still that's just too much stimuli to be spamming your brain unless it's the only thing you're concentrating on, at least for me.\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if something like this is developed/sold, and a lot of people realize they might not like wearing it all the time. Stuff like that gets old after a short time, and like I said, having all that stimuli being thrown at you can get a bit much. Sorta like when there's a constant loud noise (engine, siren, buzzer, etc) for awhile, but then just cuts off and you suddenly realize how nice it is to not hear it anymore.", "Did you see anyone wearing glasses? This was an implant.", "how exactly is this luddite?", "Never was one of my professors but I got to attend a few lectures by him. I remember thinking at the time \"naw, this stuff will never happen\". Like his story about him being in the bank and his wife who was watching his video feed commented that the teller was the daughter of one of their friends - which he saw in his little video window - and commented on it and a conversation ensued and I was like \"no fucking way is THIS ever gonna happen in real life.\"\n\nAnd yet here we (nearly) are.", "I think the timeframe may be a bit shorter, and it won't be an instant switch -- this tech is going to trickle out slowly, just like it already has with social media face filters, for example. But even if it is years out, I'm glad the ideas are getting out in front of people now, so that we can think of the implications before they're right on top of us.", "What, a panel didn't open in his rib-cage and he didn't just slide the soundblaster inside?\n\nRight now the big players are combined hardware+ software like North and Occulus and Google Glass and the like, so because of proprietary hardware integration they'll be able to gatekeep (i.e. forceably enable) the advertising. And as long as that's the case Im going to be staying away. But once unlocked glasses that support open source software become available, Ill be game. \n\nI think AR augments will conform to various protocols and standards. That eventually you'll be able to buy your vision augment from one vendor, your audio augment from another and the control hardware from yet another and running the control software from a source of your choosing. Its really kindof like the modular cyber decks that Gibson and Stephenson were talking about.", "Definitely not. This video is not only old and out dated, it is a parody. It’s like if you were watching Blade Runner in the 80s and thought that’s what the 00s would look like. Scifi always does this. It takes current trends and instead of predicting an evolution, exaggerates the trends to caricature. UX/UI has come along way since then. \n\nAsk yourself honestly, “would I wear this” and I’m guessing based on the comments the answer would be “no”. Welp. You guys are the consumers. Companies that design things that people don’t want to use, don’t last long. \n\nIf you want to see the future of AR HUD look at how it’s being used now. You can see in video games already, the trend is towards cleaner, intuitive, and less busy HUDs. I have little doubt that AR will be implemented in the future, but based on what I see now in the top UX/UI space it’s going to look clean and be very helpful. There will be downsides, but they will be far from the obvious ones people expect now.", "Yes, but we'll have glasses first. Implants are at least a decade away (probably more), and there's going to be great wariness / resistance to them. Compared to glasses, the risks are simply too great imo.", "Welcome to the world of Metaverse.", "As a kid who grew up with my dad's Neal Stephenson novels, I for one welcome our new cyberpunk hellscape.", "Bang on, as long as Ads are the primary revenue source for companies that sell the AR/VR tech, it's doomed to go down the same horribly commercialized path as the modern web", "This also reminded very much of Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge", "Ar hellscape doesnt give it away. screams of New tech bad.", "SHHHH, reddit loves to shit on tech while using tech. \nEsp new tech, unless this tech is bullshit like thorium car or solar roadways, then they lap that shit up like a starving dog.", "As long as it's not a R landscape, I'm ok with it. AR is fine", "I agree the video is exaggerated, but I think it's done so intentionally, for effect. \n\nBut, it is possible for you to really want to use a product or service in the moment, and also have it become a negative thing over longer periods of time, or at scales larger than a single person. We've seen this over and over again with current technologies, and I think it's something we have to get used to recognizing ahead of time.", "Reminds me of the \"Ordering Pizza in the Future\" video: \nhttps://youtu.be/RNJl9EEcsoE", "I would also add that if this technology does become common place, particularly in the specific way where people are perceiving common virtual elements in public environments, seen by everyone at once, then there are significant safety implications that will almost surely be heavily regulated. ie. No massive flashing arrows and graphics cast upon and obscuring roadways.", "You cry babies. I’m over 50 and more than willing to face whatever madness the future holds. Bring it on!", "Dawkins coined \"meme\" in 1976.", "Ahh, I gotcha. I think he's still using it in the Dawkins sense, just more loosely. Technically the modern usage is still in the Dawkins sense, it just has more connotations. Anyway, it is a direct quote.", "That's supposing brick and mortar shops are still ubiquitous by this point.", "Just saw that for the first time. With all the data that's out there for a person now, this could 100% happen today if all the companies merged into one mega-company. Though of course they wouldn't be so transparent as to tell you why the prices are what they are, they'd just make it opaque. \n \nGood thing there's no modern day issue of corporations merging into mega-corps!", "People think Google Glass was a failure, when it was in fact a trial run. If you think they didn't get their moneys worth from that experiment, you are mistaken. They are using the data they gained to make the next generation of that kind of shit.", "And so... It begins.", "Cool video. Horrible title for the post.", "Nah I can totally see people getting into this. Every new social technology starts out as a place for outcasts and then becomes mainstream. Think chatrooms in the 2000s and VRchat today. And it's especially alluring for younger people - so we can sit here and be like \"I'd never put that shit on my eye\" but the next generations won't have the same knee-jerk reaction against it. The same way millenials all embraced the internet and social media before everyone else did. I can guarantee that the outcasts of the next generation that has access to AR will embrace it too, and be the settlers of that new sphere.", "No thank you, I much prefer dying in a ditch of starvation or dysentery. 100% okay with going back to the 1800s and pretending we never did this. Not joking.", "I specifically said AR would be a thing and people would get into it. What I said definitely would not be a thing is this terrible gaudy design.", "Pretty much. I think most likely it will be that (based on the OS option you choose) you have a completely passive view of the real world, and then when you focus on a specific object that has AR tags you will be given the option to view the media attached to it based on subvocals or some other conscious micro movement. But there can also be a verification system on the back end which will not allow you to view media based on location data correlating with specific hazard zones.\n\nThe video posted was made out of fear of the future, but did not put as much thought into how it would actually be used as the people who make the tech will.", "When I first heard about google glass this was the future I envisioned, but I also assumed that there would be filter options and a large selection of different AR worlds that users could tune to that wouldn't be so invasive, now, over a decade later, I have seen more and more products and services with ads and other garbage hardwired into them with no options for removal, and less and less companies offering alternatives; After all, it is almost impossible to buy a regular TV these days without ads installed. I had thought of myself as a tech cynic in the past, but I was actually a hopeless optimist and didn't know it.", "Fucking Facebook and Meta.\n\nThey totally are planning this kind of thing.\n\nI had to contain my urge to throw up. This video is visually and audibly nauseating. Moreover, the obsession of the actress with her points.\n\nIt isn't far off.\n\nIf not Facebook, then another company will be right there to do it.", "The roadway is handled very well. When pedestrians can cross it shows big yellow arrows across the roadway. As the pedestrian walk is ending it starts flashing then shows a big blue arrow ahead of the cars which are coming.\n\nDefinitely looked safer than a normal, unenhanced crosswalk.", "Google and snapchat already tried this with their glasses. Didn't take. I don't think it'll ever be a thing. Look at 3d movies of the 50s, and 3d tvs a few years ago. It's just a gimmick and at the end of the day, humans just don't like their field of vision being fucked with. \n\nWe're comfortable staring at our screens all day because we have the option to look away. Even if you had some glasses or whatever that let you customize the content, it's still ALWAYS THERE. Seems like even from an evolution perspective, our monkey brains don't like being distracted by shit we don't need in the moment. There's a point in which the convenience of information becomes a nuisance.\n\nBut who knows, I've been in my cups.", "[This feels like an intermediate step](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qf9usm/walgreens_has_started_installing_video_freezer/)", "Remember when the internet was just an interesting place for nerds to do cool things? \nWhat happened to that? \nWhat was next?", "This is what VR is like right now but every year that goes by and the price goes down and the headsets get effortless to setup the community is becoming more mainstream and lame. There are still lots of online corners of VR with less popular older multiplayer games that are full of developers and nerds creating cool worlds.", "By the time we have AR like this and wear it all day they wont bombard you with adverts. The cameras you wear on your face all day will know everything about you. How you talk, how your pupils dilate when you look at certain items, how long you spend looking at certain things. This is a targeted marketing company's wet dream. The holy grail of data collection. By the time Zuckerberg or Google has you wearing AR glasses they can just send you a single advert and you will buy it.", "The only reason I want this technology is so I can download an ad blocker to my brain and block out all the bullshit.", "Back to the Future 2 got it wrong and this video is gonna get it wrong too. Our world will never look like this.", "AR?", "I'm so glad I never brought kids in to this world.", "If it gives you solace, there are still nerds doing cool things on the Internet today. It’s just a really really big place now. My team and I used the Internet to make 2 pair of pajama pants that share videos for friends to enjoy. No advertisements anywhere. Just fun.", "points are safu." ]	59	videos	The AR Hellscape that awaits us in the near future
https://youtu.be/m6nBd9e7xrA	/r/videos/comments/qsiolz/everything_a_normal_person_needs_to_know_about/	[ "Informational and useless, just the way I like my YouTube content.", "thanks. I was actually worried about the helium supply. It got really expensive for a minute there. I guess I'll stop worrying about it. Should I still be worried about Phosphorus, or did we solve that one too?", "I’m disappointed that he didn’t use a Helium voice throughout the video. My day is ruined." ]	3	videos	Everything a Normal Person Needs to Know About Helium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6tafIJ6Z6c	/r/videos/comments/qsj16p/trying_to_see_rotating_magnetic_fields/	[ "* Drink too much \n* Lie on my back on the sofa \n* Yup. Rotating fields. Not sure if magnetic though.", "This guy is an idiot, every video he has sort of goes off into the weeds and fails to demonstrate what he set out to do", "I think about 4.8 million people would disagree with you there, buddy.", "This dude just built a flux capacitor, right guys?" ]	4	videos	Trying to See Rotating Magnetic Fields
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsj42q/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsj42q/deleted_by_user/	[ "This is beyond stupid.", "more like 2 minutes of displaying man pages", "Did you just assume the page's gender?" ]	3	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsjm6r/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsjm6r/deleted_by_user/	[ "what the actual f? Did he graduate 1840 or something?", "I watched it live. He proved that taking an image and trying to zoom in beyond a certain point makes it illegible to determine the actual contents.... Exact what the defense was arguing.....", "It's be very, very happy. He seems to be right on top on the various abuses of process the prosecution keep attempting to sneak in.\n\nThe point he makes - somewhat inarticulately - is how much detail is fabricated and how much is revealed by the hd enhancement of the original images. I believe the prosecution's own expert witness confirmed that there was no real way of knowing how accurate the process was.\n\nSo he did a good job of eliciting that information for the benefit of the jury - who may also have differing levels of expertise (or none at all)", "I downvoted because the video is boring.", "Downvotes are from people who have watched the entire trial and/or people who can see trough this silly attempt to cherry-pick a clip with no context to try and make the judge look bad.", "No. He clearly has an agenda. He knows exactly what he’s doing.\n\nEDIT: Reminder to oneself. Context is king. Seems he was doing it to make a point. My bad. \n\nEDIT: unless there is a further deeper context that I don’t know of…\nHow deep does this go…\nIs. Anything. Real?", "Showing that zooming in to an extreme amount makes it impossible to be certain of what you are looking at.... Yes. He knows....", "I watched the video and I have watched a good portion of the trial. I think he makes his point fairly well for someone who is not tech savvy. I also dont know who is on the jury but there may be some people on the jury who are also not tech savvy.\n\nDo you know why hes even discussing this subject with the jury?", "This discussion didn't take place in front of the jury", "There was a discussion during the trial on not allowing digitally enhanced photos....photos being zoomed into digitally....that the jury did hear.", "Yes, but the clip OP posted - this was from today. The jury were not present", "He is doing a fantastic job. People are brainwashed into thinking you can zoom into, and \"enhance\", a digital image to see minute details because of shitty shows like CSI and other bottom-of-the-barrel television with asinine \"technology\" parts. It is exactly the opposite to anyone with any actual knowledge - the more you zoom in the less detail because there are only X number of pixels in the original image. \n\nBut the fuckwit that cherry-picked this small clip is using it to state that he's not with it or too inept to be doing the job he's doing. He is 100% correct in asking the prosecution to prove to him, and the jury, that the detail they are claiming is there is actually there and not lost in the pixelization from zooming in.", "Ok, so what?", "If you can’t do the math, then I can’t help ya. Sorry champ", "It seems like you are the one who cant do the math.", "I deleted the post because the politics of this trial trumped everything else about my post . The judge is clearly bias towards the defense team and we're seeing some pretty strange behavior from him. This trial isn't a tv show and I don't have clue how the jury will rule. In that minute and forty seconds I saw a man who didn't understand how his phone worked, yet had previously admonished the defense because he was zooming into a distorted image and thought it worked that way for everything. I'm a gun owner and I don't know what the kid is guilty of besides minor possessing a firearm." ]	16	videos	[deleted by user]
https://youtu.be/8SqALWicD5s	/r/videos/comments/qsjpve/vermont_farmer_has_beef_with_bear_hunters/	[ "Pretty crappy neighbors", "Certainly the ones that made it into the video. But I'm willing to consider that maybe the video was edited like that, to paint him as the reasonable victim in his own video. \n\nLeft unanswered here, is why hunting bears like that might be necessary. Why hunting the bears at all might be necessary. Etc. We're only getting one side of it to be certain. It could very well be, that in rural vermont, there is a bear problem. I know i've seen my fair share of videos of bears crashing through people's sliding glass doors, sitting on their decks, turning over trash cans, etc. I can see how if unchecked, they could be a nuisance and a danger. And this is just a fact of nature that most people take for granted when they live in cities. Most cities have _animal control_. You get to be a certain size, and a community comes together to say 'we can't have coyotes running around, they are a danger to our pets and small children'. It's why wolves were almost extincted too. There's a line between safety and preservation that has to be maintained as part of having the comfortable societies that we want as humans.\n\n And maybe for bear hunting, dogs are the quickest and easiest way to do that. Maybe not though. I have no idea really. And that's kind of my point here. Could be that every other person in that rural community is of the mind of 'yes, please do come onto my property and get that bear.', as they are concerned about the safety of their livestock, pets, children, etc. And this 1 farmer is drawing a kind of belligerent line of 'stay off my land no matter what!'. Could also be that they are a bunch of assholes who just think hunting with dogs is fun and cool and it's completely unnecessary. \n\nBut I bet we'll be deep in comments before anyone who knows anything about bear management can actually shed light on it. And I bet most of those comments will just side with the content creator, because oh man, so sad to see a bear up in a tree with dogs gnashing bloodthirsty teeth. And did you see the old man in the video talking about 'go back where you came from?' That's racism almost! \n\nAnd I bet my comment will get downvoted to hell for even suggesting that the video creator might be fallible. Even if I do personally agree that hunting with dogs is wrong.", "So these rednecks sick their dogs on black bears? God damn, that's the dumbest hobby I can even imagine.", "Saying black bear hunting is a necessity for farmers is ridiculous. These things might come and mess up with your garbage bin at night or swoop an entire chicken coop, but they are not a threat to humans and a simple guard dog's bark will keep them away, they are not aggressive and very shy.", "I tried watching this guys video giving him the benefit of the doubt. It is his property, he should be able to dictate who uses it. \n\nBut halfway through the video the guy he has beef with makes the plea to have his followers stop harassing him. OP goes through the motions as if he is doing that. Than a minute later, he posts an \"email reply\" with the worlds worst censorship on the guys email. I can read that email. Why not just black bar it? Seems disingenuous.\n\nI get the feeling if the guy just said no hunting on his property and left it at that, nobody would really have any beef here. It's the interjection of all the youtube, social media, harassments, and politics that is blowing this out of proportion. \n\nThe focus of the video isn't even about hunters on his property. He says they had issues with racoon hunters and such. But the focus keeps going back to the issue of hound hunting and how it's conducted - not about property trespassing issues.", "You use dogs to make it easy, the dogs chase after bears. And get them to hide up a tree, the hunter shows up, some times an hour later cuz they use gps collars and don't check on the dogs at all times. So the dogs go where ever they want to chase a bear. Then the hunter shoots the bear in the tree and the bears falls out of the tree, most of the time still alive, then the hunter shoots it again while it is on the ground. \n\nBear hunting with dogs IS NOT HUNTING. It is a cruel joke, that puts dogs, and innocent people in danger while the less then humans sits in a truck and watches the GPS on a tablet. \n\nAnd to answer your comment on \"bear problem\" there is not one anywhere. To hunt bear in the US and Canada you have to apply for a license/tag ahead of time, sometimes years, know a few people waiting 5-7 years to get one. Then you can hunt a bear for 1 season (if you don't get one, to bad so sad, apply again next time). The DNR know how many bears are out in the wild and only let X be hunted to keep numbers in check. \n\nThe reason dog hunters exist, is so when people get there one tag they are guaranteed a bear. So the owners of the dogs is paid big money by tag holders. It is a business. \n\nIf a bear is breaking into homes, staying near people, then the DNR will send a game Warden to check it out, they will try to scare the bear out of the area, or if needed kill the bear and donate the meat to the local food pantry.", "Not a hobby, it is a business. Some out of city/state person paid X amount of money for a bear tag, then they will pay the dog owners 1000s to make sure they get one.", "I really wish Morgan would make a second channel for all of his political \\*ish. I agree with him on this issue, but the videos he makes on this subject are so... angry isn't the right word, but... let's just say that the tone of these videos is the complete opposite of everything else on the Gold Shaw channel and what I enjoy about his content.\n\nAgain, love Morgan and 99% of the content he makes, but I don't like the confrontational nature of his hound hunting videos, especially since he's the newcomer to the community.\n\nedit: spelling", "gross.", "I'm going to take a guess here and say that what Morgan blurred is actually Butch's google contact card, not his literal email address...but what difference would it make anyway? Morgan clearly just had to google to find Butch's email address, because Butch was too much of an arrogant prick to give it to him. I found Butch's in literally 10 seconds.\n\nI agree with you about the keeping it short and sweet in the first exchange, though, but the point is that the dogs can't be controlled. Morgan can say \"not on my property\" to Butch, but Butch can't do anything about it if a bear ends up on Morgan's land and they're out hunting.\n\nI think this is more of a dig at invasion of privacy and trespass. These 'good ol' boys' haven't been told no by anyone before, and they don't have the social skills to actually sit down and talk.", "Yeah, humans are fucked that way.", "You wanna see dumb hunting, look up what English fox hunts were like", "Just to add a correction: In British Columbia specifically, we have two open seasons on Black Bears, spring and fall. We also have a ton of black bears. in my favorite spot on one trail, i have pics of over 10 different individuals. I hunt them with just a rifle, but AFAIK we can use dogs, but no baiting. We do need a tag, but they are readily available at anytime of the year.", "It's about good ol boys wanting to keep doing the same thing the same way they always have, and getting mad they can't anymore. Like dynamiting or electrocuting fish, it takes no skill so it's not hunting. But let me whine in the name of my freedumbs and get a group of likeminded old men to back me up. I consider anyone coming on my property with a weapon either an enemy or at the least suspect until they leave.", "I'm on Morgan's side, but Butch's presentation was a chance to sit down and talk, and Morgan torpedoed it. I get he has every legal right to record and all that, but it seems the biggest reason he wanted to record everything would be to have more snippets to use against Butch and post on youtube for clicks.\n\nIt's all sort of irrelevant anyway, the law is currently on Butch's side. Morgan is trying to change that, but it won't be by talking to Butch, it'll only happen if there's enough pressure on politicians to update the law. Pressure that might come from a well executed youtube/social media campaign.", "To be fair…Butch said he wouldn’t talk to Morgan without cameras rolling. You could argue that Butch could use his own footage to manipulate his own agenda. Morgan recording was a pedantic move, but it was also protect himself. No one can edit his own footage. That’s why he ended up asking Butch to agree to send him the footage, but Butch bottled it because he didn’t get to stand on his soapbox first.", "He's milking it. All he should have done is tell butch that he may not enter the property to retrieve his dogs without paying a large fee.", "100% dog hunting in this manner With bears needs to stopped. They do this with wild pig hunts; but I gotta be honest when it comes to them I'm game for any kind of hunting; wild pigs do tons of property damage.... But bears??? Nah.", "i mean, you coulda like pretended to turn it off... they wouldnt have known the dif", "Do you allow mail carriers on yours? Workers?", "i agree with the pigs, they do destroy alot of farm land, and they breed into the 1000s. but bears....2-3 cubs a year. so yeah, hunt pigs not bears" ]	21	videos	Vermont farmer has Beef with Bear hunters
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1459233634909630474?t=liNzjLcxVRsBAq8buKJK0w&s=19	/r/videos/comments/qsk7ia/this_should_concern_you/	[ "Alright, who dropped their Death Note? Come on Yagami, I know it was you.", "If you have to add dramatic music then the subject wasn't dramatic enough on the merit of the subject alone. \n\nDon't throw all this emotional garbage at people. Show us numbers. How far from normal is this trend? Is this a trend? Prove it or shove off. \n\nHad enough of this low content emotionally manipulative fear mongering.", "Also this is pretty compelling. These are all very healthy people, notice the huge uptick this year? Also notice the dates and how they correlate with the vaccine rollout. You asked for numbers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\\_of\\_association\\_footballers\\_who\\_died\\_while\\_playing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing)\n\nThink it over, watch the video and do some research of your own and then we can talk.", "That doesn’t seem statistically significant. I think your wiki link actually invalidates your argument.\n\nPerhaps you should do some research and some critical thinking. Then come back to us when you have something that isn’t total bullshit.", "That link on it's own is meaningless. You are not showing a pattern. You haven't shown us anything about the number of footballers playing now vs some year previous and then shown if there is a difference in rate. You haven't touched on drug use, or family history of cardiac events in the families. You have given us nothing.\n\nRemember: you are the one making the argument. It's on you to make it compelling. And, the only real way to make a compelling argument is with irrefutable hard evidence. All you've provided so far is an unfiltered list and a video with moody music and quick emotionally manipulative cuts. \n\nDo better or gtfo.", "Did you not even look at the link man? It shows previous years and the vast difference in rate. 2021 after the rollout shows a gigantic rise from any other year. You didn't even fucking look at it. I'm not going to bother wasting my time digging up info for you anymore if you wont even look at it. You have no desire to hear out both sides. You will learn the truth in the future. Dude, you're dumb....", "....and what about the video? Not even a word about that. Your gut instinct is telling that something is wrong and I'm sure that scares you. It should.", "There were several words about it actually. \n\nLet me help you with that. \n\n\"If you have to add dramatic music then the subject wasn't dramatic enough on the merit of the subject alone.\n\nDon't throw all this emotional garbage at people. Show us numbers. How far from normal is this trend? Is this a trend? Prove it or shove off.\n\nHad enough of this low content emotionally manipulative fear mongering.\"\n\nTL;DR: The video is empty emotionally manipulative garbage with no real content.", "I did look at it. But a list without context isn't an argument. It isn't even data. \nWhat's the relative rate of rate of incident to population of sport participant?\nWhat about adjustments in numbers to take into account family history of cardiac event? Where are those numbers? Those are important my dude.\nWhere are to toxicology results? Is there a new steroid going around?\n\nSo, yeah, I did look at it. It's just a list without context. Go back to your flat earth meetings.", "You have to look at the data that is available. There is no actual monitoring of such events... that should concern you and raise up some red flags.. There is however a ton of antidotal evidence and irregularities as compared to years past.\n\nIts also disingenuous and ignorant to call me a flat earther or conspiracy theorist or whatever other bullshit insult. I am none of those things nor am I an anti-vaxxer. There is a lot of legitimate concern surrounding these vaccines. You are not open to hearing out both sides and we both know why this is. You are afraid of what you will see. Your gut instinct is telling you something is wrong and you have already taken the experimental vaccine.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nI could put a lot of compelling data in front of you but i wont waste my time. You have neither the curiosity, desire or intelligence necessary to consider it. Stay blind pal but you may be forced to face the truth in the future.", "...and as you watch it consider that the one of the inventors of RNA technology and the former head of Pfizer agree with him as do many others who are being silenced. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nDid you get the video because i think Reddit algorithms is blocking it. You're not supposed to see it.", "If you are not getting the link go on Rumble and watch the video titled (copy and paste this)\n\n\"Best Explanation I've Seen About Why the Covid Jabs Are Killer Shots\"\n\n&#x200B;\n\nGet back to me after you watch it. I can link you to a TON of others who are equally qualified speaking out about this very thing. All are completely censored from Google search despite the fact they are leaders in their field. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nAll of them have everything to lose and nothing to gain by speaking out.", "Lol, deepstate pizzagate moon baby abortion clinics. get the fuck out of here with your insanity.", "Lol, deepstate pizzagate moon baby abortion clinics. get the fuck out of here with your insanity.", "\"I could put a lot of compelling data in front of you but i wont waste my time.\"\n\nNah, you couldn't.", "Man, i tried to just have a talk with you and like all angry self hating people you only respond with insults. It must be hard to live that way, i bet you are always irritated. You will see the truth going forward. I'm not going to engage with you as you want me to because i am not like you. I'm happy in life and simply don't feel the need to sling a bunch of insults. You lost pal, feel better." ]	18	videos	This should concern you!
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsksa9/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsksa9/deleted_by_user/	[ "Best one I've seen in a while", "the mj one is perfect lol", "Ok but that \"TRY NOT TO LAUGH\" schtick is so bad. Wasn't even fun back in 2008 when it was \"invented\". It's never been fun. It's just sad.\n\nWhen a video says \"TRY NOT TO LAUGH\" I automatically downvote it. Enough of that noice." ]	3	videos	[deleted by user]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIcOEtyYwpo&feature=share	/r/videos/comments/qskttd/chasan_caught_offguardちゃーさんカメラに気づきビックリする/	[ "Somebody please get this poor kitty to a vet or a groomer!", "We did. :) [https://mochi.perivision.net/](https://mochi.perivision.net/)\n\nLong story: [https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2021/11/the-twists-turns-and-upheaval-of-adopting-a-16-year-old-feral-cat/](https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2021/11/the-twists-turns-and-upheaval-of-adopting-a-16-year-old-feral-cat/)", "Thank you! Good on you for taking care of that poor animal!" ]	3	videos	Cha-san caught off-guard/ちゃーさん、カメラに気づきビックリする
https://youtu.be/Ll6M5QiIa6k	/r/videos/comments/qslkw5/skyrim_was_nearly_broken_by_a_bee/	[ "I swear I have never seen a bee in Skyrim.", "He’s beginning to bee-lieve", "I'm sorry... the premise of this video is that Bethesda was about to shut down the production of the game because of this bug? Did they say anything about how this was an insolvable problem?", "Tldr; when you play the intro the bee might block the cart and screw the intro. \n\nSaved ya 8 minutes.", "I'm not sure where you got any of that from. The video I watched was just an amusing account of a physics bug that interfered with the opening scene. I have no idea where you got the \"shut down production\" or \"insolvable problem\" ideas from. At the end, the narrator guy says the cutscene \"almost didn't happen\" because of the bug but I don't think he's making this statement with any sort of authority - I think he's exaggerating for the video.", "The title is “the bee that broke skyrim”", "'broke' it during development, and then they found and fixed it. During development, games are pretty janky and broken up to the very last minute usually.", "It broke one feature during early development. I'm still trying to figure out why you believe Bethesda was going to shut down the production of the game." ]	7	videos	'Skyrim' Was Nearly Broken By A Bee
https://youtu.be/2yV3Uj8qbCU	/r/videos/comments/qslolk/once_the_ocean_is_completely_screwed_so_are_we/	[ "Hey is Japan still spewing radiation into the ocean? I'm at work and can't watch the video you posted yet, but the title made me think about Japan. . . Will watch the video soon.", "The photo of you in your posts is exactly how I imagined you would look like, LoL.\nBe not afraid", "Kinda like that cept wearing a Tie. And home made Red and blue 3d goggles", "China are humanity's locusts. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9t5MC7WXNg\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUClXFF2PKs\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIUUYJJNiA\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMhQ5zmm-pI\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiJ9GaKfQ0Y\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKtFlNQizFo\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kfioTMk3uI\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJiT_KUP_4g\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3lkM4t8AaA\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUPahOOuXI\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X__NNlfpYVk\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DmXtlVQro\n\n\n\nThe number of videos and news reports about it over the past 10 years is astounding, there are thousands of them.", "Sink their fucking boats.", "Wow, just wow. I knew it was bad but this is on a whole other level.\n\nI have serious concerns about my own country's fishing practices but it is a drop in the bucket compared to this.", "A boat that sink can be pretty fucking harmful to the ocean too, so it's by no mean an easy fix with violence", "More bad news is that [atmospheric carbon dioxide causes ocean acidification](https://news-oceanacidification-icc.org/2021/06/22/plastic-and-toxic-chemical-induced-ocean-acidification-will-cause-a-plankton-crisis-that-will-devastate-humanity-over-the-next-25-years-unless-we-act-now-to-stop-the-pollution/) and we might have 25 years before a trophic cascade collapse in the marine ecosystem is irreversible. This is a much more immediate threat from CO2 than global warming in that it affects the food supply for 2 billion people soon, and warrants expedited further study.\n\nChina absolutely has been illegally overfishing the oceans for decades. Combined with the environmental impact of CO2, the oceans are wrecked. Over the last 70 years, more than 50% of all marine life has been lost from the world’s oceans, and it continues to decline at rate of 1% year on year. By the time the ocean pH goes below 8.0 in 25 years, we should expect 80-90% of all marine life to be gone.", "In the not too distant future, I foresee a reality for humans where fish will be a treat you have on your birthday, anniversary or special occasion. \"I think I'll treat myself tonight and have the fish\".", "People seem to forget that the ocean, is kinda like our planets \"AC unit\". It helps keep everything at that perfect temperature (along with volcanoes). Without the ocean? Say goodbye to a lot of ecosystems and daily livelihoods. Our planet could be Mars in the making. Even 1-3⁰ is terrible. \n\nImagine your body raised up 3⁰. Feel good?\n\n\nThere are ways to still fix this. Let's take care of the planet that has taken care of us. Before she decides she doesn't want us anymore.\n\n\nEdit: sp, and felt the need to elaborate a lil bit more.", "All the focus on reducing coal etc, the ocean is our biggest concern.", "Videos like this makes we wish all countries can unite and stand up to the evils of the world. But in reality we bicker among our own and we cant unite as a community, county, state and country. I have crappy representatives that only cares about oil and gas companies and downplays science and facts. Most of us wants this world to be a better place, But I myself dont pay attention to what type of fish i buy, and I am sure I have been guilty of supporting this bad practices by buying fish from China. And guess what, i will go to sleep tonight then forget about this awesome video tomorrow. But hopefully subconsciously i will pay attention to the seafood i buy next time.", "So they are 20% of the world's population and they are responsible for 20% of the fishing? That makes sense.", "Cops are killing unarmed innocents.\n\nHey are people still dying of lung cancer?\n\n&#x200B;\n\nLike wut?", "China killing the Ocean, man wait until you see what us Australians are doing to the great barrier reef.", "Don't let it get you down. But do not condone it either. The over whelming, hopeless feeling is the same feeling that stops people from dieting, working out, asking that girl or guy out.\n\nOcean problem. Simple. Don't eat ocean fish. And feel good about your restraint. As a collective people we should strive for more. As an individual do what you can.", "Yes they are and at an alarming rate too. But I don't think that has anything to do with the oceans being fucked over by pollution though.... unless the plan is to put all the cops in the ocean...then in that case go for it....", "Oh yeah downvote a comment that loosely ties into what the main post was about. Fuck me right, I'm such an asshole for asking a question...\n\n m\|\|n//", "Only have to sink a few to scare the rest", "This post has been up for five hours and has 88 upvotes. Brittney Spears conservator news has also been up five hours. It has 4866 upvotes. People’s priorities are fucked.", "Speedrun.", "Feels good when I need to get rid of an infection.", "It never feels good.", "Except you’re wrong and the radiation from Fukushima is incredibly weak and actually doesn’t have any effect on the environment in the small quantities it’s been leaking.\nAnyone who tells you otherwise is science illiterate.", "You could easily fix your predicament by just not buying or eating any fish.", "Both are important, because global warming is driving ocean acidification and coral reef bleaching (on top of its other effects)", "But it's a quick fix and that's what's needed. Sink a few and the others get the idea.", "Brittany could actually be helped.", "for the infection.", "lol", "Done!\n\nWell, glad that problem has been solved now.", "It seems I was born just in time to witness the absolute moment of devastation this planet will see by the time I'm ready to retire... so, great, by the time I get to do that we will have wars over the last scraps of fish to eat as the oceans acidify and everything starts dying anyways.", "It's actually the other way around. Algae eat the ships, and fish become attracted to the algae and use the ship wrecks as a habitat. \n\nSunken ships are great for marine environments. They're not great when they contain polluting cargo like oil.", "Serpentza and Adv is the best authority on China I can think of. The videos are well produced, and quite interesting and informative on everything relating to China. For another example, they were warning us about Covid-19 weeks before it appeared in the U. S. He and his friend lived in China, married Chinese girls, then moved back to the U. S.", "I'm disgusted that he takes a worthy topic and cheapens the video by throwing in a promo for some fishing game mobile app. [For those who wanna skip the ad.](https://youtu.be/2yV3Uj8qbCU?t=240)", "Ok all I asked was if that was still a thing or not, I could of googled it, but no I wanted to ask an actual person. Felt like it would be cooler to have someone explain the information instead of asking my search browser. But I forgot people are jerks and would rather be shitty and try to belittle a motherfuker for asking a question. But it's cool lesson learned Fukushima apparently ain't shit , and dont ask questions on reddit. Thanks", "Dark! Assuming you're talking about Earth removing its human infection and I'm not just high off my balls. Both maybe?", "Now China has a Cassius Beli", "Yeah, it's a closed system, so to say one is more important than another just didn't make sense. It's all connected.", "And 3 degrees celcius. I think to help american audiences understand the gravity, you need to give it in F. And with examples, like what you did.", "And we’re the infection.", "There was a thread that was like \"kids these days don't know why we say 'hang up the phone' - what sayings will future kids be confused by?\"\n\nTop answer: \"There's plenty of fish in the sea.\"", "This is warmongering bullshit.", "The end of humanity is nigh. We’re fucking ourselves over 12+ different ways these days. We will destroy our entire planet and every ecosystem, and all of Earth’s biodiversity, and we’ll have nothing left to eat.", "I mean... humanity is already screwed, unless you mean our survivability.", "If the oceans are gonna become to acidic for life and were gonna lose all this fish anyway.... Why not fish it up and store it now?", "Love ADV China! I'd add that they didn't just \"marry Chinese girls\" but they actually both started families and are very dedicated husbands and parents. They honestly have a lot of love for the Chinese people and culture, but they reveal the reality of the CCP in a digestible format for western audiences. I was fortunate to catch the premier of one of their longform documentaries in LA, and it was the most accurate presentation of modern China ever depicted.", "Yikes.", "Creators gotta eat, dipshit.", "They're paying him to produce the video, you mongrel. Didn't you listen when he said that he could only find one company to sponsor him as the ccp scared off all the rest? If you're that disgusted, donate some money.", "> I wonder why there are so many downvotes on those videos you linked\n\nLiterally only the last video he posted has an absurd ratio and if you read all the comments it's likely due to the clickbait in the title that says that the US coast guard attacked chinese vessels when they did not in fact do that in the video.\n\nI wonder why someone would lie about something so easily verifiable? It makes me wonder if you're not only manufacturing dissent but also bullshit.", "Carbonic acid is Earth's grim reaper.", "This guy is a fucking moron. China doesn't run those fishing vessels. Those are private vessels that work for private companies for markets in the West. A lot of them are illegal and the Chinese government tries to stop them. This is bullshit propaganda.", "I wonder who buys that fish. Is it all for China’s consumption? Sanctions on illegal fish might work better tbh", "This isn't changing my mind. The video is fine otherwise, but I can't say I learned anything that I hadn't already read elsewhere. Pass.", "And consumers have a right to filter content. No?", "Oh ok, so you're just an asshole.", "You're the one calling internet stranger names, so you tell me.", "You can’t masturbate to fish videos.", "Need more propaganda so I know exactly who to hate today!", "This is China we're talking about so they're not going to correct the problem on their own, and legal pressure from others isn't going to do anything. \n\nThe alternative is probably war, and NOBODY wants that.\n\nI would love to hear someone suggest a realistic solution that doesn't involve sending fleets of ships to torpedo these illegal fishing vessels. (Which is an emotionally satisfying thing to imagine but my brain tells me is unrealistic.)", "I don't think people know what waters heat capacity is and how massive in scale the Oceans is", "Uhhh no, they have hinted in their previous videos that they support Trump and the Republican ilk, they are the definition of a sexpat. Wow 2 White guys went to China and married Chinese girls and brought them back to the US, unbelievable! So praiseworthy!", "No. Climate change is going to be really bad, but nowhere near that bad.\n\nEdit: Wow, unpopular opinion, but it's true. Not even the worst case scenarios spell out any close to the end of humanity. No one who knows anything about climate change actually believes that.", "People are sick of depressing shit. What does me knowing about this do for me? Nothing, I can't do shit.", "Don't consume any marine animal products.\n\nWatch Seaspiracy.", "But it is a fix.", "I don't know what that is, but fuck China.", "Can't forget about the wars for water", "Oof", "People only pretend to care about climate change", "care to elaborate?", "Mars? Nah, Mars would be optimistic. Venus with sulfuric acid rain, and 475℃ surface temps is where we're headed.", "\"Dying\" great barrier reef is a myth. See Dr. Peter Ridd.", "This funny. Chinese news are not warmongering you will say next.", "are you telling me that china is evil? im SHOCKED, shocked I tell you", "Allows for war", "Litteral translation means \"case of war\".\n\nChina now has a reason to declare war.", "Against who? If you're a vessel without a transponder who sinks a \"Ghanaian\" Chinese vessel without a transponder, then did anything actually transpire? Who would who prosecute where?", "This video is an ad for a fishing game app disguised as activism when it's kind of just anti-China propaganda that a lot of people were already aware of.", "Fuck China. And fuck the U.S., and the U.K., and the E.U. We're all led by maniacs.", "Causus Belli: An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war.\n\nIf someone starts sinking China's ships, China can declare war on them (should they want to) without being seen as the aggressor.", "Not to mention the sound pollution", "Marrying somebody while you live away from your home country makes you a sexpat?", "What can I as an individual do?", "He has made videos in the past why Chinese girls love White men and how to pick up Chinese girls as a White guy. LITERAL definition of a sexpat. Any White dude that goes to Asia to have sex with Asian girls is a fucking weirdo to me and their politics always seem to align with the Trump variety.", "Hate to break it to you, but if you move to Asia, you'll probably end up having sex with Asian people.", "So you're just going to ignore the part about the sexpat, nice. Weirdos defending weirdos.", "Think you might be extrapolating personality traits from someone trying to get people to click on their YouTube videos.", "This. We need to act. Now. It's not a fucking joke anymore. Extinction Rebellion are doing great stuff but we've gone beyond civil obedience as a means to stop the imminent climate disaster. The leaders, the big capitalists, the oligarchs, nobody cares because their omnipotence is too vast. \nWe need to show them they're not sitting safe. We need an armed anti-extinction brigade. Building a coal power plant? Death penalty. Burning coal? Death penalty. Extracting oil? Death penalty. Etc. \n\n\nIf you want to be able to look your children and grandchildren in their eyes in 50 years and say that you at least tried to stop the mass extinction, then you should join an armed anti-extincttion brigade.", "I think you aren't even bothering to due your due diligence and looking up this guys history. Or your values align with his. He's already known as a sexpat, why would I listen to you that hasn't even bothered to do the research.", "He's right... People listen to celebrities or people in a powerful position. She could just like a lot of other celebrities could insight change.", "lol watching YouTube videos is \"research\"?", "Unfortunately I feel it will get to this point... Sure the cyber security war is current but eventually it will result in actual war.", "It's stuff like this that just feels me with utter despair. How do you fight this feeling if complete hopelessness? I mean we have COP26 atm and the 2 biggest polluting countries (India and China) didn't even show up. What's the fucking point?", "That documentary had some pros and cons, the parts referring to illegal fishing were spot on but the aquaculture part was almost completely false. \n\nThere are issues within aquaculture and it’s no secret within the industry. Almost every company that I’m aware of in Europe and North America is dedicated to making a sustainable product. I remember one part of the documentary spoke about how the feed conversion ratios on the farms are misreported, but I’ve seen the data first hand at these farms and at research institutions. The feed conversion ratios really are as good as they say. \n\nAnyway, the point is people are always going to eat fish. Since that’s just a fact of life, they should get an option to choose a sustainable product and aquaculture will offer that.", "Unfortunately for us humans, WE are the infection.", "LMAO I just realized you're a fucking sexpat. You literally live in Asia, well that gets shit out of the way and clears things up. Hey buddy, stop replying to me kindly fuck off sexpat weirdo. Oh and your Trump daddy lost.", "ngl kinda weird you think you know someone inside and out after reading a few comments and watching a few videos.\n\nnever voted for trump btw", "no shit, you couldn't vote in the first place cuz you're in ASIA as a sexpat weaboo weirdo. Fuck off blocked.", "you think absentee ballots aren't a thing?", "I know they probably pay you a fairly decent amount of money per post. If you're really from Mexico, I can understand it's enticing. But deep down you too understand that shilling on a website for one superpower against another superpower doesn't make the world a better place, and it certainly doesn't help you living your best life.", "We should create a virus by way of gain-of-function. Then spread it throughout China enough that it requires a strong response and shutdowns that result in economic turmoil.\n\nThis would hypothetically be a pretty effective way to damage an enemy nation enough to remove them as a threat.", "Nah, just fuck China. Maybe the U.K. too, but not the U.S.\n\nDefinitely fuck India as well though", "But muh gas prices!", "I blame autocorrect", "Humans the worst all of us specially greedy American corporations", "> There are issues within aquaculture but it’s no secret within the industry. Almost every company that I’m aware of in Europe and North America is dedicated to making a sustainable product. \n\nNo. Just no. And if you honestly believe that you're as gullible and naive as they fucking come and you better get your head out of your ass for starters.\n\nEvery company might SAY they are dedicated to making a suistainable product, but they're not. They're dedicated to maximizing profits above all else. Because that is the system we live in. Norwegian wild salmon and seatrout are on the verge of extinction due to massive aquaculture farms.\n\nNot to mention the amount of pollution they drop straight into the sea. And all the other wildlife they fuck over in the process.\n\nLast 3 years a company has reported 3 escaped salmons in my area. Funny thing is that over 40 has been caught (genetic testing lets them know where they come from). That is just one example. There are lots of examples of over 100k salmons escaping from one farm alone. Mixing and breeding with wild salmon. \n\nMeaning the company is either deliberately lying or aren't in control. Both things are fucked up.\n\nAquaculture is NOT a suistainable product in any way in it's current form, nor will it EVER be in the current system our civilization is based upon (profits above all else)", "Im not saying he's wrong, but dont upvote or watch anything made by Serpentza (Winston). He's a complete fraud and hack, he literally just exists to profit off of increasing tensions between China and the west. If ww3 started, he would be sitting on his pile of gold smoking a cigar.", "Sure the problem is bad. Over fishing been reported on many times. But this is just a poorly disguised mobile game ad.", "Britney also doesn't have a massive pool of fanboys to downvote and be apologists like China does.", ">by the time I'm ready to retire\n\nBold of you to believe we have that much time left", "[No, these guys are not the 'best authority on China'.](https://imgur.com/a/DSRElwN) \n\nThey are a couple of ESL teachers who moved to China when it was up and coming, and white people were treated like royalty. They are bitter now that China actually has laws and they can't just open a fly by night bike shop, and that China isn't just a bigger Vietnam.\n\nThere are thousands of foreigners in China, not all of them have Youtube channels.\n\n> they were warning us about Covid-19 weeks before it appeared in the U. S\n\nThey haven't lived in China since like, 2018? And his 'escaping China' story is so full of shit, but that doesn't matter to his modern audience, because his original audience was just expats in China.\n\nThey thought that there were like, thousands of bodies being incinerated or some shit. \n\nI feel bad for their wives, having to hear from smug white dickheads about how 'Are Chinese men cowards?' (actual title of their video) or that their culture is shit and they barely register as human to them. They even had an East Turkestan Islamist on their show, even though he clearly wants to purge Xinjiang of people like their wives. \n\nYou can walk into any sports bar in Shenzhen and get the same amount of insight as these hacks.", "Fucking China is overfishing illegally where ever they can. They need to feed the 2 billion citizens cheaply. Humanity is screwed, thanks to China.", "> They honestly have a lot of love for the Chinese people and culture, but they reveal the reality of the CCP\n\n[Sure they do](https://imgur.com/a/DSRElwN)", "> The number of videos and news reports about it over the past 10 years is astounding, there are thousands of them.\n\nYeah, it's called manufacturing consent.", "This video about illegal fishing started with an add for a fishing video game...oy vey.", "Pff our planet will be fine, it's the living organisms that fucked.", "same thread with the comment “china are humanity’s locusts.” Nah but everyone LOVES china, they just hate the government bro", "China not giving a shit about anything or anyone? Didn't see that coming.", "Why can't they just be poor and make all my stuff?", "+30,000 social credit points! 🇨🇳😊👍", "You do realise that the salmon they farm are triploid, meaning they can’t breed.", "Bitter South African moves from a country where he's no longer in a privileged position moves to a country where the colour of his skin means he's treated like royalty. \n\nHim and his friend [who makes yellowface](https://imgur.com/a/DSRElwN) Makes a bunch of videos where he talks about how dumb Chinese women are, and how Chinese men are all pussies, and bitch about such and such.\n\nNow that they are bitter about China becoming too powerful and having laws where they can't just open sketchy businesses, they move to the US to become full time propagandists.", "The imperial mindset", "LE EPIC MEME BRO.", "Too late", "Yes, you haven't noticed since the Travis Scott incident... All of the \"look at xxx band or person saving someone from a crowd\" videos??? Manufacturing spin creating negative energy without even talking about or mentioning Travis Scott.\n\nYou don't think that's... Odd?", "This is my thought, every fucking day I read this shit and its the same comments over and over; \"We're so fucked\", \"We have X years left\", \"We're completely doomed and its irreversible\".\n\nI painstakingly sort my recycling every week, don't buy more than I need, make eco friendly choices when it comes to travel, food consumption and waste, I try and vote for the most eco friendly political party that I can. What fucking more can I do? I'm sick of this shit. \n\nYou can't blame for John and Jane Q public for sticking their head in the sand. These changes needed to come from the top down, and reading the same doomsday headlines every single day is exhausting.", "It's easy for us in first world developed countries to look at this and say what they're doing is awful, and it is devastating our oceans, but these people are dirt poor and doing this to live and eat. They don't have a choice.", "They say those ships don't exist... so how could they miss them?", "That would be a good idea if we weren't so stupid, unfortunately though humanity isn't good at thinking long term so when we do \"fish it up\" we just sell it for consumption since its more valuable then storage or farming.", "The UN should have the world navies put China on notice that they are now guarding the fishing areas. And any Chinese vessel or vessel caught illegal if fishing will be immediately destroyed with missiles and torpedo. \n\nFuck CCP and fuck the people of China who do nothing but destroy the world and spread disease.", "You're using a computer powered almost certainly from fossil fuels, and if not yours, then the routers/servers that you're interacting with.\n\nDeath penalty I assume?", "Fuck you CCP piece of shit.", "If you are in China and haven’t led a revolution against the CCP YOU ARE THE PROBLEM", "You deserve the treatment you get in China. I can’t wait for the next wave of Chinese starvation when they do another stupid thing again.", "We could have limited war with China and win by complete isolation. Eventually their people will start starving to death. And hunger leads to revolution.", "Who cares. They are stealing resources from other nations. I don’t care why they do it. They deserve to be boiled in vegetable oil", "Stupid Chinese makes comments that support the CCP. Later finds out we all hate them and is surprised. Oil and boiling for all CCP supporters.", "china bad. Meanwhile, the US has more prison and prisoners than most modern countries combined. And the US institutionalized it's racism for the last 400 years. American cops kill 1000+ citizens every single year, that we know of.\n\nI bet you've never been to china. Of course, nobody is stopping you for going there and fighting, but alas, you're too much of a coward and a hypocrite. Cope.", "How many concentration murder camps do we have? How many assassinations by explosion have we done in the last week against our own people. \n\nYou’re garbage.", "Also I lived in Shenzhen for 4 years so fuck off ccp", "Holy shit you have not been watching the same videos I have", "Cops kill 1000+ americans every single year so do the math. There are 130,000 private prisons in the us. Institutionalized racism infects every single one. Slavery too.\n\nSo, never been to china and don't plan on going, eh coward?\n\nThat's what I thought. You have no clue but what Q told you.", "I lived in Shenzhen you piece of shit CCP. God you Chinese apologists are garbage and stupid.", "Sure you did.", "And I bet you are a communist. Not worthy of life.", "When it happens people like you will be in terrible conditions. The world will hunt you all down and inflict pain like you can’t imagine on your kind of CCP apologists.", "Meanwhile, 1 million americans died from a very preventable virus in the last year. 99.8% of them were unvaccinated. Keep following Q. It's given great results. lol", "I bet you're a child. Never experienced life.", "Hahaha that the CCP unleashed on the military games in wuhan on purpose.", "Qtarded.", "Kill every living soul on board. Sends a message", "No, I just don't like dishonest advertising posing as green activism.\n\nYou want me to be critical of China, I have no problem with that.\n\nChina was broke in the 70s. The US corporate class sold out working class Americans by sending all your domestic manufacturing jobs to their country where they had millions of workers who had never heard of unions or worker's rights.\n\nSince the 80s, the US has had access to extremely cheap consumer products but the trade off is a massive wealth disparity and loss of manufacturing as an export industry that supplied middle class jobs. It's also led to an insane amount of global pollution like some of the crap these guys are cleaning up.\n\nChina replaced the US as a manufacturing exporter and now American corporations are realizing that they got used and that China doesn't really need them any more so they're trying to kiss China's ass, or twist and try and portray themselves as hapless victims of those mean commies.\n\nMan, i've been protesting China's government and companies like Nike for using sweatshop labour for decades but please tell me how i'm evil and supporting them.", "Plot twist, he's 64", "But what if the front falls off?", "Found a chinese bot", "Fast forward thru the ad. It’s simple. And yes China is illegally stealing from Japan, Indonesia, Philippines , South America. … you saw a 1 minute ad and focused on it. Sad", "America has held definitive naval supremacy for almost a century, telling it's taxpayers the extreme bill was for deterrence. They haven't deterred anything. Fucking losers.", "Gasp, guess what? China has been doing that for decades. It's just been ignored by people because corporate media is connected to corporations that get all their manufacturing done in China.", "So say it with me. \n\nCCP is an evil empire hell bent on the death and destruction of non Han people. In fact Chinese people do not believe non Han are people.", "I guess you are joking.. Because that's way too stupid to be serious.", "Enjoy being on government eco-terrorist lists.", "I have no problem criticizing the Chinese government but will not trash Chinese people. I really don't like your creepy McCarthyist tone.", "They're both bad", "I think he meant 'helping britney' as a person not Britney helping environmental matters.", "We can shit on the CCP all we want, but the real problem here is demand. The current human population level has no real benefit to the planet or those of us who live here. Our collective hang ups about curbing world population will be our downfall.", "Presumably. I know the US is bad because I lived here my whole life. I see the propaganda all around. I see anti-vaxxers parading around like idiots. I see the Qtypes looking for JFK. I've seen the US lie about the middle east for decades. And these are all the same people telling us about how bad china is. \n\nIf the outrageous china propaganda came from anywhere besides conservatives, I'd might lend it some credence. But as it is, they shout the loudest and fake conservative outrage is usually my bullshit gauge. It's like Iraq all over again.", "It's hard to trust any authority in america, they lie too much", "Oh well. Until you live among them like I have, and learn that all non Han are considered not human. Maybe you’ll change your tune.", "We have so many problems here in the US and we have lied about other countries for so long that we don't deserve to question other countries. Glass houses and shit.", "They still need to fight it. They still need to spend those resources. They still can lose. \n\nDepending on whom the combatants are and the theater of conflict they can still lose way more than some fishing ships", "I agree. Government lied to invade vietnam and iraq, meanwhile numerous human rights violations in the states would justify invasion by an outside source should they have the means.", "exactly.", "Violence won't solve the problem - that can only lead to anarchy and a faster breakdown of society. Government has been the enabler of the problem, but government is also the only feasible enabler of the remedy.\n\nFor decades there has been a false-choice debate over whether the responsibility for correcting global warming falls more on corporations or more on consumers. The responsibility has actually always been on governments. The climate effects of CO2 have been known for over 110 years. Governments had the only authority to regulate industry and development, the only ability to steer the use of technology through taxes and subsidies, the greatest ability to build public opinion toward environmentalism, and the greatest responsibility to do all these things. Global warming is the failure of governments to resist corruption and misinformation and govern for the public good. Governments failing to do their job is the most accurate and productive way to view the problem, because the only real levers that people have to correct the problem are in government.* The ideas that consumers can directly convince corporations to 'save the environment', or that consumers can 'save the environment' directly by carefully selecting from consumers' choices and by being mindful, are utter pipe dreams by comparison. Making it about corporations vs individuals leaves governments that failed to do their job less accountable, and it diverts people's efforts into unproductive directions that leave governments and corporations free to continue the status quo.\n\nWe need all the money being spent on fossil fuel subsidies to be reallocated for atmospheric CO2 capture technology development and deployment, additional nuclear power plants (preferably gen IV, but there are good gen III designs) in addition to wind and solar, and a carbon tax/credit system calibrated to make the country carbon neutral as quickly as feasible. Oh, and a government that sets and enforces appropriate environmental emission regulations - like it's always supposed to have done.", "do you like fish sticks?", "In terms of geologic time, living organisms will likely be fine too. Many will go extinct, but others will thrive and new species will fill open niches—it’s happened several times in the history of life on earth. Humans and the comfortable, relatively predictable earth system our modern society depends on? Not so much.", "Your first four videos are legit. The rest are garbage.", "Lol ain’t that just perfect. Just blindly say “fuck China” without any more thought or knowledge", "Talk about it. \n\nNo, really. Talk about it with friends. Talk about it with family. Mention it to coworkers. \n\nAnyone alone, this means nothing, but changes in the world start with people making other people aware of the problems.", ">I feel bad for their wives, having to hear from smug white dickheads about how 'Are Chinese men cowards?' \n\nNailed it. Every time someone talks about what an authority on China these guys are, I can only think back to their horribly, horribly offensive video titles.", "He's literally made pick-up videos in the past.", "China truly is an awful country.", "I don't like seafood, so I've never bought fish. \n\nI guess I've had it covered this whole time, no need to thank me. \nBut do.", "All i ever see here is grocery stores marking seafood at 50% off then throwing it out because no one can afford a $20 filet.", "Hes a westerner bro. Me and them are both foreigners living in China, and neither of us support the CCP.\n\nMaking random anti china comments to everyone you see doesnt make you look cool, it just makes you look really small minded.", "Absolutely right", "You sound like those culture warriors who insist that white people want to genocide all POC.", "you sure showed them", "I'm American. I specifically left out C/F as it doesn't really matter for context. 3⁰ is 3⁰. Be it C or F it's still dangerous.", "M87", "I can’t help that the U.S. is a better nation with better culture", "Wu-maos are late to the party today.", "Cause they don’t wanna.unify us,\n\n so fuck it,\n\nGlobal anarchy, can’t nobody stop us.\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2EVN17XY_YU\n\n(It’s also possible that what you’ve described is currently happening, but who am I to say?)", "What a sad little person you are.", "makes tuna sandwich", "Yeah. It is. When I say fuck China what I mean is fuck the CCP triads in their stupid asses.", "Why?", "Mass extinctions have happened before. Life will find a way to go on.\n\nHuman civilization, not so much.", "Is all you know weird propoganda? Jesus", "Propaganda?", "Smh these Chinese shills need to step it up.", "Bro everyone knows that it’s about Travis Scott when they post that and upvote it. It’s not some secret thing. It’s people posting like “look how bad Travis Scott is in comparison” \n\nIt’s absolutely not odd that it goes unspoken. This is what happens when something trends.", "Ohhhhh boy here we go. Whenever anyone mentions how shitty, miserable, awful, and pathetic China is, you shills always talk about America. Stick with the topic at hand you retarded shill.", "A bit funny that fish fished illegally out of USA waters end up imported back into the USA just because the domestic shippers are probably being restricted by quotas on what they can fish in the same waters.", "Can't we just go to war with them already? Rip the bandaid off?", "They think themselves the victim of their circumstances in a world with other superpowers (predominantly America / the west) and use that victimhood to justify anything they want to do.", "A violent uprising is trillions of leagues more likely to succeed than actually getting anyone to hold these people responsible. \n\nIt's a pipe dream if you or anyone ever thinks we will fix this without violence, hell we probably won't even fix it WITH violence. Frankly, make peace with death and enjoy what time you got left. Humanity is absolutely doomed and there is no realistic chance we will survive what we've done. \n\nReduce what contributions to the death you can so you can live and die with a little less weight on your soul. \n\nProtect those you love, it's all we can do.", "I'm not seeing a remedy in what you're saying.", "Well, he didn't reply so...", "Winnie the Pooh says what?", "yes, not wanting to rush headlong into another cold war means I deserve to be tortured to death. That's reasonable", "I've spent a lot of my career navigating large vessels around the world. Waters around China are INSANE, few times my lookout has asked me \"hey, what is that city on the horizon, didn't know we were so close to land\" only for me to reply \"this is not a city, that's a Chinese fishing fleet\"\n\n\nThese fleets can go for MILES, and I mean they can completely cover in fishing boats a square 50 x 50 nautical miles big. No wonder South China Sea is barren. I've been encountering these fleets further and further from China, sometimes in Africa, sometimes in the middle of the Indian ocean. Absolutely ridiculous.", "Too bad they have no naval force projection. I say sink them on sight and let China seethe.", "Probably better to just board them, arrest the crew and impound the boat.", "At least post nathan who objectively breaks down serpenza.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrwjVEj40GI\n\nIt's sad to see serpenza chase views. I wish he kept his teaching job, and kept the chill videos of him just biking around china, they were really good. but that doesn't give him the 250k views the hate china videos do.", "This comment thread proves how screwed we are as a species. It’s not “China,” it’s humans. Everyone does the same selfish destruction across the globe. Imagine the damage America would be doing if they had billions of people. It’s a population problem, we’re hitting the peak of our bell curve", "Fuck the Chinese government.\n\nThey constantly lie, steal, and cheat. Anything to further their economy and to help them become the #1 superpower nation eventually.", "The Chinese government has an army of online soldiers who manipulate platforms to be pro-Chinese.", "Brainwashed NPC detected\n\nEnjoy living in your shithole of a country.", "All we can realistically do is reduce our personal contributions to our extinction, help others that believe the facts, condemn those who don't. \n\nNo amount of hopium can change things, we will most definitely see a massive reduction in our species by billions or the complete annihilation of our species before im even 50 and I'm only in my late 20s. \n\nThe rich think they'll escape to space, proves how even more delusional they than anyone would normally think. They'll fail and we will eat them alive for what they've done to us.", "Sadly they would just fire a nuke and wether we stop it before it hits or not, someone in another country will surely fire too and thus we have MAD mutually assured destruction. \n\nTruly all we can do is wait to starve, wait to die of thirst or be blasted from the face of the earth in nuclear fire. \n\nAlso of course every politician is taking bribes from China in some way or another so no one would ever decide to do that even if mad wasn't a thing.", ">If you are in China and haven’t led a revolution against the CCP YOU ARE THE PROBLEM\n\n\nSo they should all die!!!", "Not really. Assuming access to the proper materials, chemicals and nutrients we could essentially now create an infinity habitat.\n\nSo, the applied idea of that is: do not let the ocean die and get really good at efficient botany, chemistry and nutrition.\n\nIf some dudes 20 years ago could create weed in a growhouse that is still better than some of the dispensary stuff...then I am pretty sure we can create massive agriculture endeavors almost anywhere...including the vacuum of space. And especially with what is about to occur in the next 50-100 years.\n\nHave you seen mylar ventillated growhouses with a few plants and nerd level botany? Next.Fucking.Level science.\n\nSeriously: some of the growhouse weed in 2005 was better than anything most people have ever smoked(other than hash, shatter, distillates or synthetics). Botany biiiiitch.", "What is the deal with this guy btw? I watched one of his videos about his time spent in China working as a bodyguard for this rapist guy, which was appalling, but when I looked at his channel and found that literally every video was so strongly anti-China, I found myself wondering whether the pro-China people in the comments were maybe half right in calling him a propaganda tool.", "They are behind so much destruction... China is truly the cancer that will end us... but they arnt alone, the corporations sucking at its teet are just as guilty. Disgusting", "China won't care about what you are talking about and Chinese people won't dare to criticize its government.", "all modern ships contain polluting cargo through, no? they carry fuel after all.", "Why are you talking about growing dope?", "Because of botany. Noob. \n\nLearn some botany. Or don't. I do not care.", "But we're talking about oceans...", "And I don't see a remedy in trying to make sociopaths not be sociopaths or have sociopaths hold other sociopaths accountable. Nothing wrong with discussing it, but nothing will change. We make a small victory here they do something a thousand times more damaging elsewhere.\n\nNo matter what a few hundred or a few thousand do here, or there, or anywhere, it'll never be enough.\n\nBetter to prepare to save yourself and the ones you love, cause we are barreling towards annihilation and there's no stopping it. \n\n\nNot saying sit around and cry or.. worse to yourself.. Live it up, enjoy what you have and what you can have, the only future we have is a nightmare beyond comprehension along with a long, slow agonizing death for billions.", "A lot of those ships are literally illegal. As in they are operating outside of China's fishing Waters. Greater international pressure, which starts with individual citizens caring means politicians have a reason to put international political pressure on China and much more importantly simply enforce existing protections. Several of those videos already showed them doing so but the more we talked about it and that more we make it clear to our government that we care about this the more resources they are willing to spend on it. Don't be cynic. It's what the shity people in the world want.", "People talk about how China is genociding Uighurs and is harvesting organs from minorities. Everyone knows about it and has talked about it and nothing has happened? Not even Muslim nations care about them either.", "That's not in international waters and it's far from clear that there is a actual genocide going on. Absolutely a destruction of culture. \n\nBut more importantly a genocide does not threaten humanity itself. The global collapse of the ocean ecosystem very much could threaten a huge part of human population.", "> it's far from clear\n\nYeah like when those ships have no flags and turn off their ais. It's not really clear they are Chinese?", "Everyone but me seems to know that these people are being paid for their pro CCP opinions. How do you know that they are? Is there some article I can read?", "Your form of thought is limited then.\n\nThis.Is.Everything.\n\nYour ocean could dry up, die completely and I could still tell the world how to potentially support 100 billion people. (Spoiler alert: that is not even a significant possible factor yet).\n\nScience biiiiiitch. Also, dont kill the ocean please if you can avoid it...that will make something that would be really easy...quite a bit more difficult.", "Good one, the Matrix wants their dialogue back.", "> 80-90% of all marine life to be gone\n\nI was watching some YouTube video about the coral reefs and the checks/balances system of the ocean, and they said if things go bad, we'll only have jellyfish remaining.", "Bro im anti-ccp too...", "Gotta respect a man who follows through on his convictions.", "China has no way to project force outside of their territorial waters", "Its not like they don't have a massive naval industrial base and are currently expanding their fleet.\n\nIn 1939 the US had an active fleet of 335 ships in 1944 they had about 2000 ships not counting patrol and amphibious ships.\n\nChina could have a fleet larger than any other luckily naval warfare isn't what it used to be.", "China literally has people who downvote anything anti-China on reddit to try to keep it off the radar for other readers of \"rising\" so it doesn't get more attention and votes by general users.", "Makes sense, I literally copied and pasted the first clump of search results without looking at all of them.", "No worries. We all do that sometimes. But this is how misinformation spreads like cancer. \nWe all got to be on the look out and be willing to vet and cross reference before making our own conclusions. \nThanks for sharing the first links, I actually watched them all.", "I didn't even say anything pro CCP. The CCP doesn't operate fishing vessels. That's like pretending that the US government is responsible for video games being too violent. It makes no sense if you think about it for more than 2 seconds.", "No. Crude oil is substantially worse than a diesel spill.", "how come? also don't all marine diesel contain some heavy oil as well? here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil\n\nanother article I just found worth reading: https://theicct.org/blogs/staff/end-era-heavy-fuel-oil-maritime-shipping", "[Fuel oil](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil) \n \n >Fuel oil (also known as heavy oil, marine fuel, bunker, furnace oil, or gasoil) is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation. It includes distillates - the lighter fractions, and residues - the heavier fractions. The term fuel oil generally includes any liquid fuel that is burned in a furnace or boiler to generate heat, or used in an engine to generate power. However, it doesn't usually include other liquid oils, such as those with a flash point of approximately 42 °C (108 °F), or oils burned in cotton- or wool-wick burners.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( \| )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( \| )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( \| )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove \| v1.5)", "Desktop version of /u/the_aligator6's link: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil>\n\n --- \n\n ^([)[^(opt out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiMobileLinkBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^(]) ^(Beep Boop. Downvote to delete)", "42°C is equivalent to 107°F, which is 315K.\n---\n^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)", "Human ingenuity always seems to swoop in and save the day. Maybe we'll be fine and we can rebuild the environment to the virgin land it once was.", "LMFAO\n\nthis some really hilarious irony", "They're sometimes called \"50 cents\". It was particularly obvious during the Hong Kong protests in 2019.\n\nhttps://www.voanews.com/a/who-is-that-chinese-troll/3540663.html", "Wow. Thanks for replying. It's pretty interesting." ]	277	videos	Once the ocean is completely screwed, so are we.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPUeB8-CTw	/r/videos/comments/qsm0yi/look_at_what_youtube_is_hiding/	[ "HOLY HAND GRENADE BATMAN!!! YOU WERE NOT KIDDING.", "Damn this is real...", "Why the threats at the end of the video? Is this dude the YouTube Bomber?", "I mean, it's gross and strange but this guy's reaction is borderline sociopathic\n\nMoreover. If you actually watch the videos YouTube should be \"hanged for\", you quickly see most of them are bait and switch \"get FBI'd lol\" type videos, or completely irrelevant to the thumbnail, or generic shock value that's well within YouTube's guidelines.\n\nIt's basically a meme search term with nothing behind it.\n\nTL;DR:\n\n* It's not hidden, anyone can see it by literally putting a period \".\" At the start of their search.\n\n* Most of the videos are just bait'n'switch 4chan trolls\n\n* OP spends 10 minutes saying he wants to hang people in his clickbait video\n\n* OP harrasses anyone who disagrees", "You don't even know me dude. Get over yourself.", "Did you take the time to read the description? Maybe the stickied top comment huh?", "Lmao this is you? Dude, you're a sociopath. You didn't even watch one video and here you are making clickbait and sounding like the unibomber.", "No, I am using RES and don't have to leave reddit like a peasant to view YouTube videos.", "People like you are why I just mentioned court of law in the title. You dont know me asshole. Keep trying to get this hidden everyone is exposing it right now. You failed.", "Well if it makes you feel better I made sure to change the title for a smoothbrain such as yourself.", "It's not \"hidden\" you dumbass.\n\nYou literally just showed how easy it is to find. How the fuck is that hidden?\n\nMoreover, again, actually click even one of the videos. They're all troll memes.\n\nYou got baited and outsmarted by 4channers.", "I never said once I wanted to hang anyone you fucking liar. I said people will hang for this. Lying pos. Thousands disagree with you apparently for all the support pouring in for exposing this evil shit.", "You tricked a handful of gullible idiots into the same prank you fell for.\n\nAlso, go watch your own video, there's an awful lot of threats in a dark room and oh-so-serious voice for somebody not suggesting people be hanged.\n\nYou're a scammer or an idiot, take your pick.", "Again you don't know me. I live in the suburbs and am as friendly as can be. You are making ass assumptions because you are an asshole.", "I'm not making assumptions my guy, I'm referencing the video you posted.\n\nTed Bundy lived in the suburbs too and was really friendly to everyone... Else...", " We are making assumptions because this video comes off like a crazy person's manifesto. You wanna help educate people and stop this? Be more like [This guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/artkmz/youtube_is_facilitating_the_sexual_exploitation/), instead of making threats and calling everyone insane and disgusting( because we the viewer can't tell if you're talking about US or youtube). \nMost of these videos are tame clickbaits, and low-quality creepy videos. \n All of the execution videos are just thumbnails that don't even show the video. They just skip to some other video like [the rock singing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUGW-SYO0IQ) or [dumb tiktoks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwtPl5_baEo).", "Wow.", "> Get over yourself.\n\nSays the \"IAmVeryBadass\" idiot freaking out over very simplistic gore/horror/edge videos on YouTube.", "Smoothbrain, lol, that is pretty awesome coming from a conspiracy fuckwit like yourself. I mean just look at the shit you post and spend time on. You sprewing the EXACT SAME BULLSHIT about \"camps for unvaccinated\" in Australia that you were spewing about them in the USA last year says all anyone needs to know about you. You morons just keep moving the goalposts on your conspiracy rhetoric to get views and sell books/pamphlets/subscriptions and so forth to your garbage. \n\nGo fuck yourself." ]	20	videos	Look at what YouTube is hiding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FOS1GvZOY	/r/videos/comments/qsm4s8/cat_slaps_farting_dog/	[ "Old fake fart video with millions of views on YouTube. Slow Friday huh?", "Don't worry the other commenter is all ready to repost it again :D", "Cats are jerks. Be was asleep dammit", "Never seen this before and I burst out laughing. That cat was having none of that! Looking forward to seeing this reposted over the next 6 weeks.", "HAHA FUNNY DOG GO FART AMIRIGHT", "Yea what the hell?" ]	7	videos	Cat Slaps Farting Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIwHWiBkXnw	/r/videos/comments/qsmein/interviewing_drunk_japanese_people_on_halloween/	[ "Sweet, now I know how to say pussy in Japanese", "I understand.", "わかりません", "So, Japanese Version of Channel 5?", "All Gas No Brakes/Channel 5 vibes.. good good, great", "Looks like a good time to me", "I miss Japan.", "Awww, even their far right ethno-nationalists are adorable.", "they just want to do a little genociding and i say we should let them but only a little bit", "Are you the video creator? Entertaining video!\n\nI feel like you could hold the awkward silence a bit further sometimes. It will put pressure on the other person to divulge more information, because the silence is uncomfortable. Don't jump to another question or subject too soon.", "No I am not the creator.", "Yeah it's a very odd series of interviews.\n\nWhat's your favourite scent?\nDick.", "All Gasu No Brakesu Happy Fun Time", "Japanese Joe Goes, I approve.", "I understand!", "Just toss in a confused Bill Murray and we have a hit!", "Hideo Kojima is really happy his grandma died", "Oh dang is that the rapper that made the Wakarimasen song? Forgot about that music video until seeing this. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/yEo87oaQXZY", "Yep! It's the same dude!", "Oh man how much I miss Joe Goes :/", "There's a huge far right movement growing in Japan among young men", "Ethno-nationalists are bad, yeah, but I was really feeling his rant about old farts. Can't say I disagree with that.", "We do a little trolling", "Haha yeah", "Guys, I love channel 5 but Andrew did not invent the concept of ‘man on the street’ lol", "Makes me want to move to Japan", "It’s the specific style of editing and the type of content they choose to feature that makes people think of Channel 5, as well as the behavior of the host.", "No he means the song:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEo87oaQXZY", "i was at Universal Osaka in 2019 around Halloween. I never seen that many people who were happy and afraid at the same time. they fucking sent it and enjoyed the hell out of it. i wish American parks had the same atmosphere.\n\nIt reminded me of the scenes where a shark is swimming through a school of fish. a massive crowd, but none get close to the shark. when the shark moves the fish give a wide open space around it. \n\nlike this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEKjFfHG_lM", "Japan on Halloween is awesome!", "i love the girl who said her regret in life is her friend who was with her.", "Dark Ocean Society has entered the chat", "Japan is fun to visit but would really suck to live in if you aren’t native and filthy rich. The culture there when taken even a little deeper look into sucks.\n\nMy opinion at least. As an Asian, I have a lot of issues with Asian culture and Japan seems more severe even among the lot.", "Joe Goes, the OG... doing Andrew's/ Channel 5's schtick since Andrew was a baby.", "At 1:00 the interviewer starts doing a great Kyle Rittenhouse impression.", "Vox Pop, and yet, this is VERY Channel 5", "[ Jump to 01:00 @ MIYACHI PRESENTS KONBINI CONFESSIONS EPISODE 8: HALLOWEEN IN SHIBUYA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIwHWiBkXnw&t=0h1m0s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: KONBINI CONFESSIONS, Video Popularity: 99.65%, Video Length: [07:28])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@00:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIwHWiBkXnw&t=0h0m55s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^\| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)", "I love it", "It's still there.", "so is the global pandemic", "I don't understand old farts either my dude!", "Holy shit that's amazing thank you for showing me!", "We’re they going to kiss at the end? I feel like their sat right is a little more centre", "It ain't that bad man. I'm back for round two and vastly prefer it to the American south.", "Wizza Andalew Callahana des", "Well done!", "I need more", "Is considered so vulgar that not even porn says it most of time \n\nThey'll just say \"Over there\" most of time.", "Are the newer gens going into full fascist conqueror mode? Trying to get some lost glory back. That would suck.", "Everyone seems so friendly...", "The dude is just listening, People on Reddit just have tunnel vision when they like some thing everything else is a threat or ripping off of it", "I noticed that people kept switching to English, plus that one guy asking “where are you from?” and wondered why. Then when he spoke English I realized he must be speaking Japanese with an American accent. Any folks that speak Japanese - is my guess right?", "You have guessed correctly.", "I just want to point out, that while there's a lot of aspects of Japanese culture & society that.... kinda suck, you really have to analyze what your life is going to be like there. I think that applies to anywhere - not every individual living in a place experiences the overall cultural and societal elements in the same way - and in any place, there are different regions and subcultures that also play an impact. \n\nA foreigner moving to Japan is going to be impacted by the culture and society of Japan, but not in the same way that someone who is born and raised in Japan is impacted by it. And two foreigners moving to Japan are going to be impacted differently depending on their circumstances.\n\nI'm not saying that life is going to be amazing in Japan. And I'm definitely not saying that you don't need to learn about Japanese culture before considering moving there. Not only do you need to learn as much as you can about Japanese culture, you need to research even deeper, until you can determine how you will be affected by that culture.\n\nAnd of course, regardless of where you are considering moving - moving across the globe is a big deal. You are leaving your entire life behind - your family, your friends, your culture - everything you know. You may think that's fine now - but 6 months in you may feel differently.\n\nDisclaimer: I haven't lived in Japan. I'm from the U.S. I've been interested in Japan most of my life. I got the chance to visit for 3 weeks in 2019. I've always toyed with the idea of living in Japan, so I've done quite a bit of research.\n\nPersonally, I would love to spend a year in Japan. From what I currently know, I don't think I'd want to live there permanently - although I don't think I can really say without living there for a while first. I'm a software engineer - so if I could secure a well-paying job with an international, U.S. based company - I think I would strongly consider it. Unfortunately, it's not really in the cards at the moment. Both my wife's family & my family really need us right now, so we can't just up and move halfway across the world.\n\nIf I had been single during / after college, I think I strongly would have considered finding a way to spend a year in Japan - whether that had been through university, or through an English-teaching program or something.\n\nAlso, FWIW - yes, I am a \"weeb\" - but I'm not hyper-focused on Japan. There's a lot of places around the world my wife & I have considered giving a try.", "lol, from what I remember I kinda think Korean is the same way", "Porco Rosso?\nYeah.\nHAHAHAHAHA", "I don't think it's not as \"bad\" as Japanese but I don't speak Korean fluently so I have no idea.\n\nI was only 10 when I moved to US so at best I can only do basic conversation.\n\n Also don't watch Korean porns.", "Yeah i was like os that him!", "Manko = vagina\nChinko = dick\n\nBut these are extremely bad words, like cunt in American English. However they are getting used more often by younger people.", " is there an Australia of Japan where you use them as a formal greeting", "You should check out the Squid Games remake.", "That's like saying mcdonalds isn't bad, because it tastes better than a meaty turd.", "I'm very similar to you. Software Engineer from the US with a large interest in Japan.\n\nAt the end of the day, I think I'd rather just visit a few times a year as opposed to living there. Maybe buy a vacation house if that's something that can be done.\n\nIf I moved there, I don't think I'd make even kind of close to the money I'm making here, and like you said I'd be leaving my friends and family behind.\n\nI've still never visited, but hopefully I'll be able to soon so I can see for myself.", "I learned manko from FilthyFrank", "I think Manko has more of a stigma than Chinko though. You can hear people use variations of chinko (Ochinchin, Chintama) in casual conversations but you don't really hear manko unless if you're talking dirty with bros.", "Yup. Japanese companies aren't fun to work at. But it is a fun place to visit and eat and drink.", "Why did I watch all of this?", "The real question is why did you watch it again.", "japanese teens are being brainwashed by anime to think being obnoxiously loud and vulgar is a good thing", "At least those two extremists found love after that ones grandmother died", "This was completely tame compared to what you might get in the same scenario in a western country.", "That's why.", "That’s what ethno-nationalist do. The genociding is unpalatable so the wrap it up with some populist rhetoric. Don’t buy into it.", "Well yeah. The populist sentiment is the driving force behind his anger though, and I'm sympathetic to that. He perceives a real injustice, he's just latched onto something even worse that won't solve anything.", "Western teens are like poorly feed chimps" ]	77	videos	Interviewing drunk Japanese people on Halloween. Absolutely hectic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nD6Q9X0SFw	/r/videos/comments/qsnv8g/how_covid19_mrna_vaccines_work/	[ "That's a beautiful illustration of how it works with a well worded explanation.", "Human bodies and nature in general is pretty amazing when you think about all that it does that we usually take for granted and dont think about! Great video, definitely saving it for later for those idiots.", "The human body is badass.", "Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.\n\nThis is the real virus.", "Great explanation. I wish they’re spend more time on how ribosomes process RNA. That process alone is kind of cool.", "Super interesting!\n\nHow come we still get “a little” sick though? Does that mean that the antibody cells don’t capture all viruses or do the viruses still get through, just less powerful?", "I think they're worried about people attaching misinformation to this video. You'll notice they also disabled comments.", "This video goes into the bigger picture process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfEK8G8CUI\n\nI believe (and I'm no expert so I could be 100% wrong) is that it takes a while for the immune system to recognize and ramp up, even when it's a familiar pathogen. It's just that a big part of the response process can be shortcut.\n\nAnother thing to consider is that a bunch of the symptoms we associate with getting sick are actually caused by our immune system. Fever and swelling for example are results of our immune response." ]	9	videos	How COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qso6qk/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qso6qk/deleted_by_user/	[ "That shot while laying on the ground was sick", "[This](https://youtu.be/BNHjX_08FE0?t=264) will always be my favorite Warriors shot that was called off. Not as impressive initially as most of those others, but it was at the tail end of Klay forgetting the ball could also not go in the basket for a full quarter. Also I was there, the crowd went nuts for it (and had been doing so for a bit by that point). The other Warriors were too stunned to even be that hyped, by that point.", "Curry is simply incredible. So many amazing performances.", "Stephen Curry is the [Vladimir Guerrero](https://youtu.be/3_3iRXtfbtY) of basketball... never saw a shot he couldn't make.", "Good compilation, but you could have left all of the dunks out lol, none of them are wild by NBA standards haha", "they are wild by stephen curry standards, though." ]	7	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsx8EkQmpo	/r/videos/comments/qsof0q/i_know_what_i_like_genesis_1980_live/	[ "Better with Peter Gabriel", "Maybe so, but Collins stepped out from behind a drum kit to take over the lead singer position. He was filling the shoes of one of the most memorable and dazzling stage personas in rock history--Peter Gabriel wasn't just the lead singer of Genesis, he was the face of the band. \n\nCollins beat out Manfred Mann, singer Mick Rogers, and future New Wave star Nick Lowe to get the position. \n\nNobody, apparently, was up to the task ... and then the band realized that its drummer, who'd taken lead vocals on the occasional album cut, actually had a pretty good voice.", "I know what I don't", "A modern day warrior\r \nMean, mean stride\r \nToday's Tom Sawyer\r \nMean, mean pride" ]	4	videos	"I Know What I Like" - Genesis [1980 Live]
https://youtu.be/CU-WdnXJabs&t=3m54s	/r/videos/comments/qspwpq/james_austin_johnsons_incredible_tump/	[ "Who wants to find a mirror and reap that sweet karma?", "Shane Gillis has by far the best Trump impression I’ve ever heard", "\"I walked into the room and I said 'Wow, what a big room'\".", "“My opponent’s GAY…. I said, ‘wow my opponent’s SO gay…’”", "Who is Tump?", "\"Ted's wife..ugly as a dog!\"", "I was hoping I would never hear Trumps voice ever again then this guy impression just nails it like a quarterback on prom night. I hate how good it is." ]	7	videos	James Austin Johnson's Incredible Tump Impersonation (SNL)
https://youtu.be/mGfBEnBw01A	/r/videos/comments/qsq9ws/bad_idea_jeans_saturday_night_live/	[ "This is funnier if you know that this is spoofing this series of Dockers commercials here:\n\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=H0N5ZTIE3Yk", "forgot the actual ad they were spoofing, but i remember almost all jean ads being that weird \"artsy\" style. i guess pretty much most late 80's 90's commercial were though.", "This commercial feels like a deleted scene from American Psycho", "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here starts a binge of watching SNL videos until 4 a.m..", "back when it was actually funny, that made me lol", "[SNL today](https://v.redd.it/vg8jyyliz7y71)", "I doubt they'd allow the Haiti joke in particular these days.", "Whoever came up with \"if you're not wearing Dockers, you're just wearing pants\" doesn't understand why I wear clothes. Just wearing pants sounds perfectly reasonable.", "There was another one, right? Something with a guy, a woman's underwear, and her husband on a yacht? That was passed around back when we shared videos at LAN parties.", "That’s a best one!", "Yes, it was a Swedish commercial for the clothing brand 'Rocky':\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAr-Oof9NwQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAr-Oof9NwQ) \n\nand also this one:\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e09snMu4www](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e09snMu4www)", "Hey, I know guys like that. To me the dialogue rings true.", "YoU CAn'T dO tHAT on Tv aNYmOrE!\n\nExcept of course you can.", "You can't as in you could but then you'd have to spend a month apologizing on every news network except fox, drop terms like \"I educated myself\", then find some Haitian to host the show.", "I happen to like that commercial.", "I get the reference. :3", "Thank you." ]	17	videos	Bad Idea Jeans - Saturday Night Live
https://youtu.be/P-4xyg4PU-U	/r/videos/comments/qsqp1t/harry_belafonte_dayo_banana_boat_song_ft_the/	[ "That is exactly what it's about.", "The best part is watching Harry Belafonte trying not to lose his shit, lol", "Fozzie Bear did a good job in this song but we all know The Count is the real tally man.", "No? It's about dock workers working the night shift loading banana's on cargo ships, hoping their shift ends soon.", "You are right and I am wrong 😆", "Beetlejuice…", "He's still here too, 94 years old.", "They joke about it a bunch in the song of course, but Bellafonte was very reluctant to have his material on TV, but he had a huge amount of respect for Jim Henson and jumped at the invitation to be on the Muppet Show. So it really was a big deal to have him on the Muppet Show because he was a huge star who had said no to most of the other variety shows of the era.", "You're both wrong it's about the taliban, he even says so.", ">They joke about it a bunch\n\nI see what you did there. ;)", "Beetlejuice" ]	11	videos	Harry Belafonte - Day-O (Banana Boat Song) ft. The Muppets!
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsqsfn/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsqsfn/deleted_by_user/	[ "This will never not be funny.", "I had the pleasure of watching this in the local theater on throwback Thursday", "I had the pleasure of watching it in the theater in the original run", "A comment 100% worthy of your user name!", "I love this scene haha. One of my dad's favorite movies", "As I understand it, Danny Devito was director Rob Reiner's first choice for Wallace Shawn's role. I can imagine Devito being great in this, but for this particular scene Shawn seems to be the better casting choice.", "Oy, I’m old.", "Nice gate keeping...we don't have to go to 1987 to be funny...1989 was hilarious...can't say much about the world since then though.", "Vizzini: No more rhymes now I mean it!\n\nFezzik: Anybody want a peanut?\n\nVizzini: So anyway, I started blasting.", "writing so good, you'd never think that in this time, nobody in the west knew what an Australia was.", "Who calls this the poison scene and not the Battle of Wits?!?", "I'm old too. Me and my friend rented it on vhs when we were drunk after the bar because it had Andre the Giant on the box. I never returned the tape. It wound up being my go to date movie for years.\n\nThe duel with Inigo is probably one of my favourite scenes ever.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/WDlZ_SXx5gA", "this is a princess bride thread sir", "Poor Naggus..", "I think its interesting to note that Wallace does get it right when he says the he could just rely on his strength to save him from the poison, as that's very similar to how it plays out.", "A classic scene from an infinitely quotable film!", "He has that iamsosmart act down to a science. Like hes the embodiment of those people. His vocal quality works well for knowitalism too", "This is one of few if only films that is greater than the book." ]	18	videos	[deleted by user]
https://youtu.be/gZk0kqRrlTA	/r/videos/comments/qsrhf1/what_was_amazoncom_like_in_1999_interesting_video/	[ "Interviewer : what’s the wifi password? \n\nJeff:customer service", "I tried posting an old 60 minutes video about Zuckerberg and it got automatically removed. How'd you do it, OP?", "Zuckerberg and Gates and Buffett, amateurs can fucking suck it", "Think I've seen this one before, where he states that Amazon's purpose is \"Obsessive attention to delighting the customer\". Can you go wrong with that as a business strategy?!", "This is amazing.\n\nLoved that bit at the end - Amazon collecting half a gigabyte of user data per day(!!!!), and Bezos hasn’t ruled out selling it but doesn’t think his customers really care.", "This is great but I've discovered that I really hate looming at Bezos' face for extended periods of time.", "Could he get any closer to the camera?", "Get ‘em Jeff!!", "[You don't say?](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dd3882c4ad0fd11a14cffc7e5edaabe5ce8a8b53/0_85_1077_646/master/1077.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=655bb453d9203003505f7b0fb5497fde)", "Could the reporter have been anymore judgemental in the beginning?", "You’re right. He sure showed all those Deep State, old-money drivers and warehouse workers who’s boss!", "It's worked so far", "Not sure how much you're weighting the success of the company on that.", "I wouldn't recommend doing that, but it doesn't take away from what I said above as a successful business strategy. If you can't separate the two, that's on you!", "Amazon did what Sears should've been doing, but they were too blinded by retail expansion to see it.", "Yeh, I'm not disagreeing. I'm saying I'm able to evaluate one part of a company without kneejerk repeating something that's not really relevant.", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=6z7xExTzjNs&feature=share\n\nTop 10 most expensive and luxury supercars that will take your breath away that are coming out in 2022🔥🤑" ]	17	videos	What was Amazon.com like in 1999 interesting video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ne9RX6tN5A	/r/videos/comments/qsrj73/im_pretty_sure_im_in_love_with_kristen_schall/	[ "Edit: Shaal.", "God damn, could've sworn there was better than 240p even back then.", "Schaal\\*", "Careful, she's a horse.", "Never heard of her.", "I always thought she killed on this appearance, both the audience and Letterman seemed to love her. Makes me wonder why she didn't make another one, there was plenty of time for it between this and Letterman leaving late night.", "Flight of the Conchords", "She's like a younger, female version of [Stephen Tobolowsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Tobolowsky). \n\nShe's talented and has been in a ton of movies and TV shows. But she's almost always doing [character actor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_actor) work in supporting roles.", "She smells like cabbage", "All yours.", "Omg same here.", "Thankfully.", "Genuinely thought she had a beard on the thumbnail", "Can never not hear this song in my head when i see her name and its been what? 12 years?", "Do you have a band?", "OMG that Butter movie is rated R???\n\n[https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2889852185?playlistId=tt1349451&ref\\_=tt\\_ov\\_vi](https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2889852185?playlistId=tt1349451&ref_=tt_ov_vi)\n\nAfter watching the preview, I gotta see if I can get it on Netflix. It looks hilarious!\n\nJennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone, Hugh Jackman, Ashley Greene? How have I not heard of it before?", "Get in line.", "I haven’t seen this one but the original was so funny hah. Jacques Villeret cannot be equaled in this role. RIP", "Not as good, but still funny.", "She might be the funniest female comic right now. She is one of the very few people male or female who is genuinely funny.", "I remember reading that youtube dropped a lot of the options for older videos. \n360/480p were pretty common, if not standard, right?", "Ew why", "Louise on Bob's Burgers", "Well look at her dance", "think i saw it on hulu but cant recall if it needed a rent fee or just subscription", "who was still recording on 4x3 VHS in 2010?", "There’s a couple of [clips](https://youtu.be/1jkoTAFrT4M) of her on Anthony Jeselnik’s show on YouTube where I think she shines. Worth the watch if you haven’t seen them yet.", "It’s pretty funny. Olivia Wilde is hilarious in it.", "Cool. Actually I went on IMDB and found out she also voices Sarah Lynn on Bojack. Don’t know why I received all the downvotes. Am I supposed to know who every voice actor is?", "Best of Mel \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2sa6iHWF8I", "She's not just a voice actor, she's been in a ton of TV. She was a reoccurring character in Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, a main character in Last Man on Earth, and a reoccurring character on What We Do in the Shadows.", "Wonderful for her. Unfortunately I don’t watch those shows.", "720p was standard 11 years ago. In 2009 they announced 1080p.", "Her and Isy Suttie are my two favorite unconventional hotties.", "I’ve only ever seen her on Glee, and she played such a magnificently bizarre character.", "\"Never heard of her\" is a fair thing to say in a spoken conversation depending on how you say it, but over a Reddit comment it can easily be seen as rude because why bother commenting when you can Google who they are.", "He really wants that award", "I don’t use Google.", "By far the best supporting character on that show.", "[Kristen even writes erotica that's fucking hot.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v1F_uU4nMw)", "For those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvd6MBsiDBo", "Is this the girl that had AIDS?", "What nonsense are you speaking, Broom? My words you must obey.", "Who isn't", "And he'll never get it.", "I think people expect you to take the time to look at her IMDb before you take the time to say you don't know who she is", "I mean, who isn't? She's Cleary a sex machine." ]	47	videos	I'm pretty sure I'm in love with Kristen Schall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wncO5AYgw8	/r/videos/comments/qsrjcs/howard_stern_puts_coolio_and_lv_on_the_spot_to/	[ "This is some talent right here! L.V. has an amazing voice", "Legit. The real deal.", "A blast from the past. Appreciate it.", "OMFG BEST EVER FANTASTIC....", "Howard has to cringe thinking of how he mangled the lyrics there. Great moment nonetheless.", "100, always appreciate talent", "Incredible talent! Wow.", "I've always been partial to [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMKgMZsfDM) of him ending up in a house with some college kids and singing this song while jamming with them from 2013. \n\nThe kids drop the ball a few times, but he carries it and coaches them through the whole thing. It's just a crazy authentic moment between some very different people.", "i clicked this thinking it was gonna be Howard stern screwing with these guys, calling there skills into question. i'm glad i was wrong.", "Call me crazy but I do believe that was discussed beforehand and they were not actually put on the spot. Also Coolio is the shit.", "This is when rap meaning, had a message. \n\n\nAlso no autotune.", "Howard Stern is an idiot saying condescendingly he doesn’t know what the song is about. What is there not to get about the song. It’s as clear as it gets.", "Rap has meaning now, you're just listening to the wrong [Artist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM7lw0Ovzq0)", "They both have great voices. It's a great song.", "You never seen Stern before? He’s a great interviewer actually. He’s a dick at times but it’s part of the act.", "Yea that's just silliness. I guess that was kind of the era still, where middle-aged white guys ignored rap completely.\n\nAlthough I say that and the older I get, the less I consider rap to be of merit musically, so I don't have much room to talk.\n\nIt's a great song though.", "Its a talk show, so its meant as exposition for the people who never listened to the song before.", "I pride myself myself on not being a hipster who complains about the state of modern rap and I actually think there's a lot of really amazing creative stuff going on in the mainstream to this day (I was bumping ZillaKami and Playboi Carti in the car earlier today) but god DAMN the old school dudes from this era were on some different shit. Just unmatched soul and feeling and they all really had something to say and could deliver it so powerfully.", "you realize that part of his job is to be a proxy for the audience right? He's leaving space for them to elaborate on the themes of the song. He definitely has some idea of what it's about but he's not condescending, he's allowing them to explain it to people who might not know. And in the process, by not assuming he knows everything, he's probably learning more about it than he realized", "Had the same reaction at the end. Jesus Christ. \n\n\nThat was so good.", "I'm 33. I just heard Stevie Wonder's \"Pastime Paradise\" for the first time and it blew my mind, I've only ever known \"Gangsta's Paradise\". EDIT - Link for the curious: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0S4SiLxt1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0S4SiLxt1s)", "Lol maybe. Granted rap never needed or will ever need the validation of that demo it is so silly to see him try to be so condescending as if he’s the arbitrator of culture. Oh the delusion.", "Got the chills, great stuff", "I was born and raised on hip-hop and I absolutely love to see the heads who can put it DOWN live.\n\nOne of the best for me is Slug of Atmosphere. Seen him and Ant over a dozen times over the last couple decades and everytime it's been cathartic.\n\nCoolio and LV so damn smooth here, well deserved", "Only knew the Weird Al song. I knew it was a parody of another song (Weird Al and all), but I wasn’t familiar with Gangsta Paradise until long after I heard Amish Paradise. It’s wild to think Amish Paradise is a parody of an homage to the original.", "I feel like most of hip hop unashamedly stole riffs from elsewhere. And that's okay if they did cool stuff with it. Too bad DMCA and other stifling IP laws have the chilling effect on that time-honored tradition of building on earlier works.", "This is actually the sad hustle that a lot of one hit wonders fall into. At my fraternity Vanilla Ice played a show for one of our parties (long after he was no longer relevant) and after the set he hung out with the bros, exactly like in this video, on a beer stained couch, with some nerds rapping with him, but he was game. It was his living. I respected that he didn't act too cool for school but it was sad.", "Dope!!!\n\nI had 2 childhood friends that just got done serving a 25-to-life in the last month. This song came out the week they changed the world we all lived in.", "Oh fuck off", "There is a 25 year old kid that grew up without their father and if that kid knew what this song meant to me and how I thought about them at the time shortly after my friends removed their dad from the world...", "r/hellofellowkids", "Lol it’s just the film camera bro", "What’s sad about him hanging out after like a regular guy?", "I mean, this is by far Coolio's most ~~favorite~~ famous song, but I wouldn't call him a one hit wonder.", "I literally don't know what this means", "Fr, dude was on the theme song for Keenan and Kel too", "Hating on someone for expressing a love for something online is the lamest thing around", "Jesus, that's crazy. Hope they can find some new peace in their new life, that is rough", "This ahit gave me chills, the last 10s or so gave me goosebumps", "LV fucking killin it.", "What ever happened to LV?", "I remember Howard saying Podcast is a dumb idea, “nobody would listen to an internet show in their cars, Satellite radio is the only future”. \n\nAnd then Joe Rogan Podcast happened. \n\nThat didn’t age well.", "There is good sampling, where you take a snippet here and a snippet there and create something new, and then there is [Puff Daddy.](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sting-puff-daddy-2000-a-day/)", "Do we make music as good as this nowadays? Doubt.", "I think it's sad from the perspective of youth. I remember when I was younger being judgemental of older adults who hung out with younger ones, or who weren't financially successful or whatever.\n\nLike I thought life was easy and progressed in set levels, and if you weren't progressing how my brain thought you should, then that was sad.\n\nSo I can see how a college student would think a 40-year-old man hanging out with college students is sad.\n\nAs a 40-year-old man now myself, I can better see the nuances of life. If people are enjoying themselves and aren't being destructive, then I'm happy for everyone involved.", "Nah Howard really loves music and musicians and has some of the best live performances I’ve ever heard.", "Vanilla Ice is still worth $12 million dollars today, so it’s not all that sad.", "Howard Stern did a pretty good job at the end too!", "U must be new to the internet", "One of my top ten songs of all time!", "Oof. Isn't that kinda cool? What's sad about that? I mean you bros paid him. I think you should reevaluate your perspective.", "Thank you - I was just about to post the link of Pastime Paradise I keep on hand for this. The Coolio mod is a fine update, and I can understand it - I do have a copy on my playlists - but the Stevie Wonder version just has so much more soul and feeling in it.", "I don't know why the official song cut out LV's last verse of \"ain't no gangsters living in paradise, ain't no gangsters living in paradise\\~\". Just adds another lair to an already amazing song imo.", "That song was so massive my father, a 60 year old white man who mostly listens to AC/DC knows every verse and singgs it enthusiastically", "I mean, television does it. Of course radio does too.", "Howard Stern is the greatest entertainer who's ever lived.", "I used to like this song.\n\nThen in '97 when I was in college, we lived across the alley from a party house. They played Gantsta's Paradise probably 10 hours a day for most of the summer. Just on repeat and at full volume.\n\nNow the song gives me flashbacks to that summer. Just Gangsta's Paradise every time you walked outside.", "Even Pastime Paradise is sampled from an older classical track, I think.", "It's like no one remembers Ooh La La, 1234, Fantastic Voyage, Too Hot...he had a pretty respectable run of radio hits in the mid 90s.", "Saucing.", "Howard suddenly realizes he has an instrumental version of the song somewhere, if only he could find it, and two seconds later he's playing it? Total coincidence I'm sure.", "uh... FAAARRRRRR from it. Gangsta's paradise isn't even his best song. FANTASTIC VOYAGE!", "Nah Howard Stern always has that track queued up for all his guests just in case. Got really lucky on that day.", "So good. Love a good live* performance.", "Stern’s deal with SiriusXM makes Rogan’s Spotify deal look like chump change.", "The only delusion is you guys thinking a host asking questions they already know the answers to so the guests can talk about what they’re there to promote is anything but doing their job.", "What?", "You can really tell just how much this track means to both of them", "That's super rough man. I'm sorry that happened, I know how things like that can effect a person. I hope that kid is happy, I hope your world healed, I and I hope those two kids figure out what made them think they had a reason to do that, and learned why they didn't.", "I don't think they do either lol.", "He sings the outro so cleanly it's amazing\n\n\n\nLike...\n\nHow can anyone sing this good \n\nWaht\n\n\nWhen I try singing that, it sounds like a walrus is dying", "Sting actually sang on stage with Puff at an award show around the time this song was released so not sure how big of a deal it was.", "and he’s part of the Monstars", "Also in most cases LV wouldn't have been on the show due to it being Coolio's song unless it was already planned that he'd sing.", "Love the intimate, stripped down performances Stern gets out of people on this show.\n\nHe had Sai sing Chandelier to just a piano on his show and [it's unreal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEhVCG8Emfo).", "Yup. Its was at the VMA awards in 97 I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrhwerU66U", "Yeah, as a hip-hop fan at the time I didn’t mind either. People put Diddy’s work down as lazy but they were still enjoyable and just the fact that it was a rap over the top of a well known loop made it something different. It opened me up to a lot of great older music. \n\nBut a cleverly worked sample was always a joy to hear and incredibly creative.", "Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart?\r \nWell, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art", "Title made me think they were gonna suck. Pleasantly surprised.", "Yea, that was absolutely amazing..... Thanks for posting this, trip back to my teens on a Saturday morning. So many memories wrapped up in this song for me.", "Sorry about that, try it again without me stabbing a walrus behind you.", "Every kid in primary school in 95 knew the words to that. It's burnt into my brain.", "Don’t feel too sad for him. His estimated mental worth is $12 million.", "It baffles me how Howard Stern was always able to get REALLY good live, in studio performances yet late night TV shows sound like shit 99% of the time.", "Well that’s a new euphemism for ‘masturbating’...", "Yup, this has been the way for Black music since the beginning. While the musical tradition has always been about leaving your mark on a piece or playing it in a new way, the music industry stressed ownership or invention (despite many instances of it overtly stealing from black artists). So much of Jazz is influenced by skirting these lines and the music that grew out of it also eschewed concepts of ownership. Music industry took advantage of this free sharing of ideas, arguing against ownership when plagiarizing, but arguing for it when defending copyrights. Now that we live in this digital age, samples are seen as materially different from playing a lick from another piece, despite it functionally serving the same purpose in a song.", "He opened up a chain of restaurants in South Central called paradise fried chicken.\n\nEdit: I guess this joke went over ppls heads...", "I miss Howard enjoying himself in the studio. Old fans complain about the modern Howard show but watching these old clips you can see the vibe was just way different from what it is now.", ">After decades of being on traditional radio, Stern began airing his show on Sirius’s satellite radio in 2006 when he signed a five-year deal worth $500 million with the company.\n\n[Source](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sirius-xm-holdgs-howard-stern/siriusxm-signs-new-five-year-deal-with-howard-stern-idUSKBN28I1RA)", "One of the best songs, ever.", "Holy fuck, 1995? Where did the damn time go?", "This song always transports me somewhere when I listen to it, I don’t know where to but definitely somewhere else.", "Got 'em", "Greeting... Earthlings....", "He-oly-shit. I haven't thought of 1234 since the 90s. \n\nIt's six am on a Saturday morning and I absolutely gotta get up, get down now.", "You've just brought up a happy memory about my own father. He passed earlier this year at the age of 62 (fuck kidney disease) and was always listening to music, nearly always rock music. But one time when I was at his house and we were jamming out this song came up on his playlist and he shocked me by knowing all the words. I asked him basically what the heck and he said \"Oh I love this song.\" It's amazing how you can know someone for your whole life but still learn new things about them all the time.", "I stole a brand new fresh ass telephone van, so now I guess I'm the telephone man.", "If you got beef then,\n\nEat a pork chop", "Man the audio guys have always been bang on point on Howard Stern's show. The quality is great.", "No mention of Stevie Wonder.... shame on them", "1) Damn this song is special to me, takes me back to the mid 90s as a kid. Great memories to this song.\n2) Stern actually held is own quite well! Nowhere near as bad a singer as I thought he would be!", "Sonic is a gangsta", "My thinking is that IP laws in general are anti-music. I love the Beach Boys, but would Pet Sounds have been made if their previous rip-off material had been shut down in lawsuits?", "Fuck yeah, Atmosphere are awesome. I love their realness, especially how Slug has gone from rapping about being young and reckless and troubled to rapping about the difficulties and pressures of fatherhood and responsibilities.", "in that case it'll probably blow your mind to hear that Stevie Wonder totally ripped off Weird Al", "Oh man, you watch this video and the talent dripping off these two is incredible, and they do it effortlessly. And then Howard comes in at the end and he's not bad but the juxtaposition really drives home how fucking talented Coolio and LV are. They do basically a studio perfect take on the spot with no warm-up, warning, nothing. This was such a cool blast from the past. Thanks OP!", "Howard at the end!", "props to those 2 for putting everything they got into it on the fly. that brought me back!", "Sort of a double edged sword. If the were no ip laws producers would just go to clubs and have established acts record anything fresh the kids were doing. \n\nIt’s much easier to just give proper credit the first time around. Perhaps the costs should be on a scale. \n\nWhat’s really screwed up are the live music cover fees.", "Posted for the 1000th time.", "Transported back to being 10 years old and sneaking in to watch Dangerous Minds.", "Songs aren't worth money, marketing is.", "I hear what you are saying. Learning to be generous with judgement of people and just increasing empathy is more a mark of age and experience then who they hang out with.\n\nBut I also get people who age and get more bitter and become emotional wall builders too. Life can be brutal, and it leaves it’s tire tracks upon your skin. There is so much more to it, then the overly simplistic view I had of things when I was in my 20s.", "Man, I miss the days when everything your heard was something that actually did happen in the real world.", "I actually love sampling, found so much good music by digging for the original samples. Everybody should be allowed to cover and sample anything as long as they always give credit to the original artists.", "Oh man Sting looks so out of place on that stage..", "Bob James is on the Mount Rushmore of hip hop sampling. He does some good videos where he breaks it down. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WLV1vhXpE He used to be firmly against it. But since copyrighting has gone in the original artist’s favour now, he’s pretty into it.", "Yeah fantastic voyage resonates even more with me now as a family man than it did back then, such a sick track", "MTV uploaded a HD version a while back, before removing it. But he doesn't look like he wanted to be there. But seeing Diddy dancing his ass off for B.I.G. made me feel something.", "Joe Rogan wishes he were 1/4th as good as Howard Stern.", "I feel like a man that size in 95 becoming owner of a fried chicken empire bodes poorly for his health", "I grew up sheltered, but in my early 20's moved to three countries to live. During that stage i found ii associated with everyone.\n\nMy best friend at the time was 30 years my senior, my second best was 5 years younger. \n\nIn any case, the standard deviation was high compared to what it was when i lived in my home country.\n\nIf you find someone, anyone in your life that makes you feel good and vice versa, you're doing better than most.", "> I feel like most of hip hop unashamedly stole riffs from elsewhere. \n\nthats what i love about hip hop\n\nits kids making music out of the music their parents listen to", "Wait, he's still alive? I heard LV died a few years after Gangstas Paradise and Fantastic Voyage (actually preferred this over the big hit), dude had a hell of a voice.\n\nGlad to hear he's still about doing his thing.", "😆", "Amazing!!", "I work in radio and of course, it’s planned. Radio does tend to do a better of job of making things seem spontaneous due to the flow of personalities chatting away.\n\nIt’s structured enough to keep the show moving but maintain the flow of natural conversation", "About 15 years ago there was one of those reality shows on German TV where older artists were put through a casting type process to revive their careers and Coolio was one of the contestants. It was sad to see him reduced to that but he represented himself pretty well.", "While we're on the subject of one of my favorite artists ever: Have you heard his version of the Beatles' 'We Can Work it Out'?\n\nhttps://youtu.be/JgHIm5AqtXc", "Fire", "Howard Stern puts Coolio and LV on the spot\"\n\nCoolio: \"LV lets do it\"\n\nNice click bait OP, you're truly a trustworthy source!", "Same age as you and had never heard this song until now...\n\nLove the song, thank you!", "If you think this wasn’t planned you are incredibly naive", "You and Howard Stern have that in common.", "Bonk", "Holy shit I was there for this. This was Uclan university in Preston England, Before this he played at a now out of business club called MACs.\n\nHe put in a fantastic performance. There was like no security, we talked with him about his time on big brother etc and before we knew it he was heading to a student house. Everyone was too far gone, but the girl whose vide it is and the guy playing guitar had it together enough for the night to end up with them jamming with him.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L\\_6-Qe9K\\_X0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6-Qe9K_X0)\n\n&#x200B;\n\nUclan doesn't have a lot claims to fame coolio playing with students, student dying in their room, student stabbed outside, student who went to join ISIS.", "jumped on it like it's breakfast", "alanis morissette recent one was superb", "Quoted from a website that gives zero explanation about how they estimated that number...", "nowhere we wanted it to", "church, thank op for bringing surprises like that back", "OP what gave you the impression Howard Stern put Coolio on the spot?", "I'm embarrassed to say rhawi was young enough that I didn't know that the song \"Come With Me\" (Godzilla soundtrack. Yeah, weird.) was sampled from Zeppelin. I thought it was the coolest riff I'd ever heard.", "Jackie failing to keep the beat was the highlight for me.\n\nFucking great song though. It’s become sort of background music over the years so to hear/see it performed really reminded me what an awesome song that was.", "I'm guessing, but I don't think the dude was happy. I don't think happy people cling to their youth by talking about how great they were at high school sports in their 30s-40s and smoke weed and drink with kids barely out of high school. Or, in Vanilla Ice's case, not talking about high school sports but his faded stardom.", "Wow. 92.3 FM... this was way back in the day.", "If you're gonna sing Stevie, you better bring it. This guy does.", "Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is wrong!", ">Been SPENDING most our lives living in a gangsters paradise\n\nvs Howard: \n\n>Been LIVING most our lives living in a gangsters paradise\n\noops", "That seems to be part of the rationale record companies used to spin IP in their favor. \n\nSo cutting through all the usual arguments, in your version how are we supporting Brian Wilson and providing resources to get pet sounds made? Just a one time percentage of record sales? The songs themselves have no value.", "LOL old timer nod", "Interestingly, you can cover a song and sell it without getting permission from the artist, but you still must pay a \"statutory rate\" for what's called a [mechanical license](https://help.songtrust.com/knowledge/what-is-the-harry-fox-agency-hfa). I believe it's still 9 cents per song, but the calculation gets a bit more complicated with streaming.\n\nIf using samples from the master recording or syncing to video (even on YouTube), you need to get permission and granted a license. That's why covers on YT will often get flagged and can't monetize themselves.", "I actually have a funny story meeting Coolio in the early 2000s while sitting on park bench in a City in central europe:\n\n&#x200B;\n\nIt was a regular weekend for us, buying some cheap 2l bottles of wine sitting outside, getting drunk and having fun in our teens. On the same evening there was a concert where coolio performed but as we´ve been all metal heads we didnt know and we didnt care. \n\nWe´ve been sitting there at and around a park bench getting drunk when suddendly a bunch of black dudes came along (notice, city in central europe where you rarely saw black people), two of them REALLY big guys (bodyguards). The dude with the crazy hair approached us holding us at gunpoint shouting \"THIS IS A ROBBERY, GIVE US ALL YOU MONEY\". It was obviously a water pistol and it was obviously a joke but we´ve been kinda stunned. I then told them that we´re all piss poor and only have alcohol but no money. We then joked around a bit and he told us that his name is Coolio before they went on exploring the city...", "If you don't think it's sad being in your 40s and smoking weed and drinking with college kids, then you probably peaked in high school.", "And it would almost be fine if the guy could actually rap. He always felt like Biggie's little brother who just wanted to hang out with the big boys.", "Reminds me of the wheel of impressions on Jimmy Fallon. It's still really impressive what the guests do with it, but no way they just randomly pull those songs or impressions on the spot like that with zero prep.", "I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline, got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin.", "I honestly wouldn't want a world where old Japanese citypop faded into obscurity without vaporwave and futurefunk sampling them.", "> But in the wake of Gangsta’s Paradise – the song he’s most known for – Coolio got the reputation for being a one hit wonder – despite 6 other top 10 hits. \n\nhttps://altpoprepeat.com/what-happened-to-coolio/", "For real. I wasn't even huge into rap as a kid, but I recorded this to cassette off of the radio and played it on repeat. I had to explain the message to my parents and they actually thought it was a pretty good song after that.", "Correct.\n\n> But in the wake of Gangsta’s Paradise – the song he’s most known for – Coolio got the reputation for being a one hit wonder – despite 6 other top 10 hits. \n\nhttps://altpoprepeat.com/what-happened-to-coolio/", "Man I wish Howard Stern didnt onto Sirius, was the last time I ever heard his show.", "Usually people tend to prefer the whatever version of a song they heard first, regardless if it is the original or the cover. This is one of the few examples of a cover I heard after the original where I prefered the cover.", "Yeah modern day copyright and DMCA needs to be trashed. There should be laws to make sure you paid for your work but as is it is broken. \n\nI roll my eyes when you see some of these articles get into lawsuits about a rift being used, or line of lyrics, or a little 2 second dance routine. \n\nGranted there is nuance and you shouldn't just copy but as you said if you build upon it or make it transformative it should be fine. Plus it is ridiculously that an artist can hold onto a beat their entire life, then their family/company holds onto it for 70 more years (and probably longer when mickey mouse is up for public domain and Disney pays to extended it another 20 years).", "But he isn't new to your mother\n\n/s", "It would have just been a misunderstanding in some way. \n\nBoth performers were huge stars and both songs were big hits. It’s not like Puffy would have thought he’d “get away with” stealing the riff, like Sting wouldn’t find out or something. \n\nAnd it’s not even a small snippet that Puff could argue only “coincidentally” sounds live EBYT. It’s the whole damned bass line and it’s the backbone of both songs.\n\nNah, I don’t know what happened, but I know Puffy wasn’t trying to slip something by anyone.", "Sounds like it's 1995. No change. So good!\n\nAlso I don't think it was In the spot. Howard just happens to have the instrumentals queued up like that? CoolIf was even the one to suggest signing it lol.", "I'm 35 and never knew this was a sample. We studied Gangsta's Paradise in Music class in Junior High for a week and it infuriates me they never mentioned that.", "They sound just like the track, damn!", "You’re listening to the wrong artists", "Sad compared to what? Slaving away 50 hour weeks at a mundane desk job just to enjoy 2 days of weekend?", "Kenan and Kel song still hits", "I’m 44 and this is the first time I’ve heard this song! My mind is blown! Thank you.", "One of the best TED talks I've seen talking about this exact concept:\nhttps://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_laws_that_choke_creativity", "r/hiphopcirclejerk", "I love this performance— Stevie with Coolio at the Billboard Awards (skip to a couple minutes in). \n\nhttps://youtu.be/STSSPO0vEio\n\nStevie let Coolio use the song on the condition that there’s no swearing- hence the relatively tame lyrics! \n\nHe (SW) is my absolute favorite musician. In addition to his talent, he’s an amazing person and incredibly supportive of other artists.", "Not even a hint of autotune was detected. \nMassive respect!", "Lol. So there's only two types of careers? Hustling the college fraternity circuit or mundane desk jockey? You really have a full understanding of life's possibilities.", "Most people don't use their voice as an instrument of music, and that's ok.", "Pretty sure that was pre planned but still amazing anyway.", "You're being rather condescending assuming most people analyse the lyrics of pop songs.", "If you're hanging out with the people who paid you 15k to perform it's not the same thing as the old man who graduated 20 years ago still hanging at the college bar.", "Finding a well paying, fun job is rare for most people. That's reality.\n\nMost people find a job that's tolerable", "Almost all 1990s hip hop contains samples, some are close copies of the original (Tupac - Changes) and some are very different but still contain a sample.\n\nI fucking love 90s hip hop and I love learning more about the original songs.", "You just really want to look down on coolio. Not taking a moment to reevaluate your opinion of him you formed as a kid.", "Oh my gosh. You know those popular YouTube videos where young people film their reaction to 70s, 80s music? Like that. Coolio's comments are so profound. I was very busy and isolated in the 90s, glad to see it finally.", "That was fucking awesome", "I'm happy to hear that and I'm sorry to hear about your father.", "Honestly, in my world you're the sad one.", "I can't think of any modern equivalent. Who could go on a talk show and deliver a great performance of a modern song that everyone will still know and rave about in 25 years time? In 2055? Seems unthinkable.", "Sure hope he knows how to sing it, that was pretty much an one-hit wonder.", "https://youtu.be/DvL46X6qCso", "Was not expecting these goosebumps this morning. Great video!", "Let’s not kid ourselves, he’s definitely wealthy regardless", "Hold up.. then why was Coolio so mad at Weird Al for doing Amish Paradise? Lol, its not even his song to get mad about.", "It's not like he's the creepy guy hanging out at college bars trying to pick up chicks. He's spending time with people who are apparently fans of his music, chilling out and creating shit. How is that possibly sad. If T Swift played a fraternity and hung out after we'd be calling her \"down to earth\" or \"so kind to her fans\" or some shit, but because its a dude it's creepy? Fucking shitty double standards having...", "Still sounding so good after so long", "It's just that that song was such a massive success that it tricks people into thinking it was the only hit even if just by comparison. Big enough that even Weird Al's parody was also incredibly successful", "It\\`s just his own life", "Lol I respect Howard but that’s a bit much", "What age? This clip happened in 1995.", "To Legit To Quit", "Awful. Sucks out the melody and natural swing.", "Me too", "Nothing is “spontaneous” on TV or Radio. Everything has to be planned to the second.", "Yeah. It’s funny like that. I was already a full-on adult when Gangsta’s Paradise came out and I know for a fact I had known Coolio for years before that. Yet now, all these years later, I cannot tell you a single song of his other that GP.", "Yeah apparently this sub don't agree. But unless you listened to Howard when he was on regular radio he was 'must hear\" FM. He\"d simulcast into a new city and within a week become the number one show. Movie, books, TV chased after interview guest, the guy is / was a phenom. I can't think of a more talented individual than Howard but I think fame and fortune has gone to his head.", "The same way indie artists make money now: T-shirt sales.\n\nThere are millions of amazing records that have been made and sit on shelves as vanity weekend projects for musicians who work real jobs monday to friday. I have written 4 or 5 records of my own material that I would put up against any singer-songwriter going, but I'm not willing to work on the road 8 months of the year selling t-shirts and vinyl prints to small theatres across Canada like a Stephen Page or Ron Sexsmith. So, my music makes a little money on streaming services (like $10 every 3 months or so) and I keep the cheque in a photo album so that I can show my kid some day.\n\nAnd I'm not unique. I work with people exactly like me every day through my real job. \n\nSo, how would my music make money? The first step would be a family tragedy or my death or some other talking point in my life story. Second, some film maker would have to hear one of my tunes and like it and then ask who I am and hear a story worth telling. Then he makes a doc about my life and my music \"and he died in obscurity\". After that streams would pickup, someone would start making t-shirts and then a little business could be supported based on the narrative of a failure who was unappreciated during his lifetime.\n\nSame business as the Tesla people, or Van Gogh, or Daniel Johnston, or Wesley Willis.\n\nOr, for that matter, Lady Gaga and Adele. They're not the best writers, the most beautiful, best singers. They're a story that can be and is marketed well. They make their money from endorsements and T-shirt sales, not music.\n\nHere's the real real crux of it: prowrestling and music are the same business.", "Very cool", "Fuck nowadays autotune shite.", " WOW 👏", "Awesome song. I actually went out of my way and bought the CD so I could have that song.", "Hey I posted this... like I dont know, some years ago. I dont care its so good", "The 90s were good. I was there", "My dad died this year. He started singing Beck's Loser ironically. He thought it was the stupidest goddamn shit. \n\nAnd then he got good at it. \n\nThe right song can take us out of ourselves, our culture, our community, and take us to an entirely new place and way of thinking.", "Coolio suggested it. Howard had the track. \n\nShows are not just planned but likely rehearsed beforehand.", "And then there is the original version of Thriller by Micheal Jackson.\n\n[Starlight.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9xcevwcAuY)\n\nTurning it into \"Thriller\" was definitely the right move. Made it much more iconic.", "I went to the college that the dude who played Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore went to. He was frequently at his old fraternity on the weekends, trying to hit on 18 year old girls who weren't interested or impressed and drinking with underaged college kids. The kids in the fraternity thought it was so cool, but I just thought it was pathetic. I understand visiting your fraternity once every few years or offering guidance and maybe some money to make their college experience better, but it's just sad when you can't grow past that stage of your life and associate with immature college kids.\n\nBut that's completely different than what's going on here.", "This is an amazing song. It ended up with a weird connotation in my head though as I got punched in the face and broke my nose as this played in the background!", "Which makes sense. Bob James is a ludicrously prolific artist. Classically trained and honed his craft. Hip hop producers may have found, chopped, and parsed his music up. All he was sayin was, “Well...I kinda did half the work.” And they rightly paid for services (previously) rendered. \n\nIf memory serves, Pharaoh Monch did an AMA a while back. Most everyone here remembers his Simon Says hit. His producers and label never cleared the sample from a Godzilla movie. He got served a lawsuit as he was mowing his lawn....He explained that the label, the distributor, and himself all got sued to the tune of half a million dollars. He admits his career pretty much stalled from there. Damn shame. Organized Konfusion was one of my favorite hip hop groups to listen to as a kid.", "Soo much pain in LVs voice. Freaking brilliant!", "did you even READ the article from UltimateClassicRock.com that cites CelebrityNetWorth.com???", "yes, I know some of those words", "Kendrick’s performance on the final week of Colbert’s show is something I go back to often.", "or maybe he just really likes the sonic trailer a lot...", "Oh no I didn't. I thought I was dealing with some unreliable blog not a site with such journalistic integrity as UltimateClassicRock.com. I retract my statement then. Reddit, delete my last post please. Thank you ;)", "I didn't know either, but really just about every rap/hip hop song samples something. Mostly from the 70s.", "Props to Howard for giving it a go at the end. That would have been intimidating as hell.", "I will say he’s one of the top interviewers. He has a way of going straight to the point and not being truly obnoxious about it. In recent years since he’s toned down his shock jock antics he has really come out as one of the best. He’ll get guests to open up about stuff and talk about unique things that others don’t want to ask about.", "Also Sting, like so many white British rock artists, got famous appropriating black music (reggae) in the first place. So many blues songs back in the day were just outright copied by white artists with absolutely no repercussions.\n\nNot specifically responding to you but there’s a lot of historical cherry picking going on in this thread.", "Coolio will do GP anytime, anyplace, and then make you chicken.", "tbh how do you not sing that song? It's just too groovy", "I didn't know this is what I needed to hear today, but this was hype.", "Yea that seems a bit too coincidental. I know there are some people with a massive massive collection of music and they know where to find each and every record between thousands of them. But to have it within arms reach by chance? Pretty sure that was planned.", "Back when Howard was good. Don't listen now. Ugh.", "> student who went to join ISIS.\n\nThere's probably some alums who became ridiculously rich, although I'm not sure that \"and one former student is a billionaire\" is all that much more interesting than somebody joining ISIS unless you were friends with the guy (or, in the billionaire example, if he stole your app or website idea)", "Counterpoint\n\nStern was clearly caught if guard, not ready lol \n\nHe did better than I would have lol", "Was hoping that would be recent 😹", "I'll see you when you get there is a banger too. I freaking loved Coolio", "Bahaha replying to this and dodging the roast. You are a baby aren't you", "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.V._(singer)", "[L.V. (singer)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.V._\$singer\$) \n \n >Larry Sanders (born November 21, 1957), better known by his stage name L.V. (which stands for \"Large Variety\"), is an American R&B singer. He is best known for his collaboration with rapper Coolio on the single \"Gangsta's Paradise\" and has been featured on multiple soundtracks since then. Having released five solo albums to date, he was also a member of the gangsta rap group South Central Cartel since their beginning, usually singing the vocals and chorus.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( \| )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( \| )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( \| )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove \| v1.5)", "Sting has earned a lot of money due to people using(stealing) his music so he is probably more okay with it than other people.", "i miss pulling up howard stern show late night on E and hoping my mom didnt catch me. she HATED stern since his days at WBCN 104.1 in boston haha", "big of you", "I’ve heard it’s in part because in SNL and late night talk shows the audio is actually mixed for the room (the live audience) not the people watching on tv which makes the audio seem dead. Howard’s studio is also much more like an actual recording studio in terms of size.", "I think you're missing the mark a little at the end there: Adele 100% has a career because of her incredible singing and writing talent, Lady Gaga moreso because of her writing but is also a very talented performer -- I won't knock you if you want to attribute there super stardom to the regions you listed, but at the end of the day they got into the business because of sheer talent (and of course luck and hustle and all that )", "Frank Ocean", "What do you mean, that was only 10 years ago, right? RIGHT?", "Yeah let's have Kanye rip the mic out if some teen girl's hand and Travis Scott go egg on the crowd after a bunch of people died... What hardcore gangsters right? Right?", "Howard still does some real good interviews. He's probably my favorite interviewer, including TV, radio, or podcast.", "Responsible and wholesome technology peaked in the late 90s/early 2000s. Feel so bad for kids coming up today and having to deal with the current tech and media landscape.", "Holy shit", "Ever since the Weird Al debacle, Coolio ain't Cool. Especially with how lazy of a sample his shit was to Stevie Wonder to start with.\n\nNothing wrong with sampling, but some rappers rip so lazily", "TV focuses on visuals. Bright colors. Fast cuts. Scenes.\n\nRadio people care about sound quality.", "Hell no L.V.s original kicks the hell outta the collab in my view!\n\nhttps://youtu.be/dnk2Go7efxQ\n\nMy favourite shower song, man is soulful", ">Just Gangsta's Paradise every time you walked outside.\n\nThis is hilarious.", "This holds up well.", "That was a great performance even with Howard. I wonder if they can this today.", "I don't think you get to act smug when you're the one out here acting like Coolio is a loser for spending a night hanging with fans of his lmao.\n\nWhen was the last time you got to chill with your fans?", "I’m 33 never will I live to see 34", "The video of the guy playing Weird Al’s Amish Paradise on a tv monitor in an Amish store and them running around trying to figure out how to turn it off is absolutely hilarious.", "Probably because weird al takes someone's work (while asking permission sure I don't care) and basically slaps some inferior lyrics on it and resells it. It's pretty artistically bankrupt.", "There's some deep realness in those lyrics.", "That’s not how creative inspiration works. Yes, some white people were inspired by black artists. And those black artists were inspired by white artists. Hell, Pythagoras discovered harmonics, were the black reggae artists appropriating the Greek? Of course not", "One of the top comments \"I can't believe Stevie would rip off Weird Al like this\" lol", "Sting singing in a Jamaican accent is not creative inspiration. Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones literally recording copies of existing recordings is not creative inspiration.\n\nI love these artists but you can’t whitewash this stuff.", "I thought Coolio was like a kid friendly rapper growing up in the 90s. My only exposure to him was the stuff he did on Nickelodeon. Wasn't until I was in high-school in the 00s that I realized he was actually the real deal in his time. \n\nDitto Missy Elliot, I just remember seeing her on All That, then she had a major album come out a few years later, and I learned she had some pretty dirty lyrics.", "Anyone else wish Coolio would stfu when LV is singing the hook?", "Nah he seen that movie Dangerous Minds which I think was what track was written for.", "[T-Pain as Stevie Wonder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jL0NJ98Nc)", "Coolio sounding rough", "And Weird Al totally ripped off Morshu\nhttps://youtu.be/5bmXDcsuAsA", "Yet, everyone thinks Bill Murray is just the coolest for crashing frat parties. I'm pretty sure that dude is actually just a sad-ass dirtbag.", "Vanilla ice’s net worth is an estimated $12 million. It’s not like he’s homeless or something. Dude has had a couple TV shows he’s hosted, he’s been on a bunch of other ones, he’s been in movies. Guy probably thought he was doing his fans a solid by chilling and being real with them and shit. Sitting on their shitty couch, rapping with them and you’re over here judging him calling him sad lol.", "Not just sampled. It's virtually a remake of Pastime Paradise.", "Loads of singers are better than Adele. Loads of people are better writers and performers than Lady Gaga. The talent is a necessary ingredient, but it is not going to make you successful.\n\nAlso, lacking talent will not prevent you from having a career. There's tons of millionaires who made their money in the industry with no musical background or ability. People supported by their production teams and backing bands who make big money in big venues selling merch. The merch sells cause of the story, not the song. \n\nBeyonce has made a guestimated $5 million from streaming, but and her net worth is roughly 100 times that amount.It's not songs that line those pockets. And it's not her singing or her songs that made her a star.", "How about “Amish Paradise”?\n\nhttps://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg", "Like another Beatles song, With a Little Help From My Friends.", "Example of a real wheel \nhttps://youtu.be/dhQQeLflOXo", "I could see why people like it, and I love Stevie. But I agree with you here.", "Notice how he just say \"let's do it\" when Howard proposes they do the song live. Many times musicians just give some excuse to not do it. However, truly talented musicians are always eager to do their stuff.\n\nI remember a story about Whitney Huston, in the final month or so of her life, when her drug addiction was destroying what was left of her.\n\nShe was at a party, and people there asked her to sing a song. Despite being visibly intoxicated, she step up and sang. People there stated that it was like seeing someone turn a switch and suddenly the erratic drug addict Whitney Houston became the spectacular singer that she was.", "Nope.", "There was a little period of time when a bunch of huge rap artists were putting out songs like this that used the entire chorus of other songs, or were nearly full covers. For instance, Jay-Z and \"Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)\", or Erick Sermon, Keith Murray and Redman's cover of \"Rapper's Delight\"", "Back when a rappers appeal came from his natural singing ability and lyrical prowess. Today’s age of auto tune and songs created for mass appeal cant touch this generation!", "He also purposely cracks his voice and sings like this in situations like this. I've heard Howard actually sound pretty damn good singing, but he acts like it embarrasses him, probably because it does when faced with people who are actually really good.", "Add me to the list of people here that have had their mind blown today. Know Pastime Paradise pretty well but I don't know how I never knew \"Starlight\" was a thing. Thanks for that.", "Well of course Feyd-Rautha would be out of place at a music awards show!", "Wow that’s really cool and one of a lifetime experience! How come there wasn’t security present? I assume usually the bouncers won’t let attendees get too close to the performer. I’ve been to many shows and I’m surprised to hear the artist not only stayed behind to mingle but also went to party and kick it with the students.", "That's cool. Next time you go to a big concert in a stadium take a glance at the t-shirt line. I don't buy t-shirts, but my wife does and it's never quick cause there's always a line. \n\nI would guess that roughly 10% of concert goers buy a piece of merch at the merch table and that the average spending on merch at, say, a Paul McCartney concert would be $40. I would guess the cost of the merch sold for $40 would be $5. \n\nSo, 19,000 people attend a show at barclay. 2000 or so buy merch for an average take of $70,000 profit. Per show. \n\nIt's the main thing for the music industry. CD sales are over, the most streamed artists are making low 7 figures TOTAL off spotify, and they're income is well more than that.\n\nIt's marketing that makes the difference. Merch, licensing, endorsements. That's the business now.", "So dope. They sound just as they do live", "No, Weird Al takes people's works without permission under the parody law. Hence why some artists get mad at him.", "slide glide slippty slide, don’t worry about your troubles or your 9-5!", "I feel like most people know the words to this song regardless of race or musical taste. It's just one of those genuinely universally amazing tracks.", "Just heard an NPR piece about how the drumming from Led Zeppelin's When the Levy Breaks has been sampled over 200 times now, up to and including by Beyonce.", "One could say it's a [Pastime Paradise.](https://youtu.be/1TLFnokO1Oo)", "Thanks for this.", "Weird Al ALWAYS gets permission. Coolio’s people told him he could and then Coolio claimed to say he didn’t. Weird Al doesn’t need permission but he asks for it anyway because he wants the artist to be cool about it. Prince constantly turned him down and so he has never done a Prince parody", "They were definitely not \"put on the spot\"", "my dad bought a 12\" sub-woofer and amp for his Camry to bump this song. He really likes Gregorian chants / music like that and the song connected with him.", "In another life dude could have been a renowned opera singer with pipes like that.", "Have you listened to howie lately?", "Just about every rap song from the 90s is like this. I love stumbling across old songs and being like “This is where 1/4 of the beat for Fuck Wit Dre Day came from!”", "I'm sure you do, Al.", "gotta wait a bit, good things usually come back after the fever", "Ok your opinion is now solidified as useless", "Same, I heard this song on the radio when it first came out and I just found out about this last bit today. Should have left it in.", "Singer L.V. Calls out rapper COOLIO [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko24X9DyWSY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko24X9DyWSY)", "This made me happy. Thanks for posting!", "Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and P Funk we're sampled heavily in the 90s", "The perfect example. I never realized how amazing Gaga’s voice actually was until I heard her on sing on Stern \n\nhttps://youtu.be/r0X7PodqDSE", "Day what you want about Howard, I like him.", "That song came out in 95. They were still bumping it 2 years later??", "Man that was well said", "Then Stern suddenly taking up the chorus, completely surprised and un-coached, and hitting it much better than expected.", "Remix!", "I thought everyone knew that about Weird Al. He’s a good dude. Morally bankrupt?…come on, now. 😆", "fan-fucking-tastic!", "Thank you OP. Made me cry while on the toilet this morning.", "Amish Paradise was my joint.", "Thanks for sharing u/op, this was the video I didn't know I needed to see today!\n\nRemember listening to this song as I did my homework on the kitchen table after school.", "LV from the SCC", "Not using the same lyrics, but Ghetto Superstar is just Islands in the Stream.", "Howard stern is an absolutely insufferable little goblin cunt", "I hate Stern's daily routine of just talking about whatever and doing stupid shit. But I'll always tune in when he's doing an interview with a musician or actor or something. Something about Stern's style just makes everyone reveal basically everything about their lives. \n\nI know when a lot of people think of Stern's interviews, they think of him asking someone like Helen Mirren if they do anal (I don't know if he's ever asked her that, but just a generic example). He almost never does that. He only goes that route if the person he's interviewing is being an asshole or if they're just boring.", "I'm 34 and you just blew my mind.", "It’s not on this level. But Chance’s small desk concert was really good.", "he stil makes probably around 100k/year from royalties alone\n\nthe sonng was number 1 worldwide in the 90s when people bought cds he probably made 100million", "its sad until your relaize he gets 18 year old pussy", "what are royalties", "Howard is the GOAT. I used to listen to him on the radio from the mid 90s to early 00s and whenever he would have a musical act in his studio it was always special. I remember hearing foo fighters do \"everlong\" in his studio back in like 97 and it blew my mind. \n\nI always especially found it entertaining when he had a hip hop artist in or when he would really get into a new hip hop act, his energy was just so funny but so enthusiastic because he knows rock music up and down, but hip hop was something that was sort of a mystery to him but it also would capture him from time to time. \n\nI remember when he first found out about DMX and he couldn't get enougg of him. He would play play tracks from his album that were extra dirty and just get fully into them. Same with Lauryn Hill and 50 Cent. Stern was and still is amazing.", "Jesus this made me feel old. I totally remember watching this on tv", "Stern said it best at the end “Jesus fucking Christ!”", "Simply amazing.", "Man i remember dressing like this", "Most 90s hip hop were sampled from older 80s and 70s songs.\n\nPretty much anything by Zapp and Roger was made into a hip-hop song.", "All That really didn't hold any punches with its guests.", "The article linked at the top of this discussion was about how Puffy didn’t ask for permission to use the music so I think they were implying theft. The subsequent comment (the one I responded to) also reinforces that this is the discussion since Sting cares about being robbed, not Puffy’s creativity.", "That fact that he's an op and this all the fixins that come with that", "I feel this is more like a pre interview set up bit than the fake RNG is that is wheel of impressions. They got into this Pretty naturally.", "Ice Cube doing the clean version of we be clubbin (I think) on all that with a bunch of kids plays rent free in my head", "jackie laugh", ">on a tv monitor in an Amish store\n\n[Hmmm](https://www.reddit.com/r/hmmm/)", "I loved it, like being in church.", "That was absolutely beautiful.", "Fantastic voyage is the shit and we all Time soundtrack for rollerskating", "Everyone was happier in the 90s", "Next you’re gonna tell me that this was planned ahead of time. Psh. Yeah right.", "I trust this guy. Thanks Meth_User!", "Howard used to say that about himself and it caught on as sort of a joke, aka the king of all media. Now people say it sincerely. \n\nIve been in radio and podcasting for 20 years and to me, he is the best long form interviewer of all time.", "That was absolutely fire. Top notch. Doesn't even seem real. They were seriously spitting right there. Man, what a couple of legends.", "Bosnia", "Simply beautiful", "For me he would be even cooler having an intimate moment like that, a lot of famous people don't seem approachable anymore because of fame.", "I mean you're the one that was in a frat. Bet you peaked in college.", "I begged my mom to rent this movie at 12 yrs old lol. She did and was NOT happy about the content, it was the first \"violent\" movie i watched.", "Yeah, when this song came out I was in middle school, and I knew what gangster rap was and I thought this was just another gangster rap song. I was so wrong.", "1 2 3 4 get your woman on the floor gotta gotta get up get down song still slaps didn't even know I knew those words haha", "Howard has-been", "Tell me you dont listen to rap without telling me.", "On Jah my Nathan 😎", "https://youtu.be/hBmSS8fDmek", "Tell me you dont listen to rap without telling me.", "Oh my god. How fucking cool!!!", "TIL", "Based on a Bach tune actually.", "What about C U when you get there?", "That part is believable. I mean, he didn't even get the words right after just hearing LV repeat them 24 times. \"Been living most our lives living in a gangsta's paradise,\" I think he was truly put on the spot.", "Wow, I had no idea the song was a cover of something.", "Man you know back in the day I never realized how powerful this song is. Listening to it now is really an experience. Very tragic song.", "Here's a version where not everyone is decapitated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEVY35\\_mPSQ", "Sampling was a much more primitive art back then, so the farther you go back, the more likely it is to get entire musical phrases being sampled.\n\n> Almost all 1990s hip hop contains samples\n\nWhat doesn't? I thought samples were part of the definition of hip-hop. But I've only heard maybe ~~20~~ (oops, 10 lol) or so 90s hip-hop albums and it's not really my field.", "That will always be Joe Cocker's song to me thanks to The Wonder Years.", "So, would you say you're pretty confident that you make more money than me?", "Dang....what a burn", "I'm perfectly willing to be persuaded by evidence...", "I had the same impression of him when he was still new and big on MTV because he didn't drop f-bombs and n-words every 5 seconds like Snoop and Dre. \n\nBut then when I got his first album and saw song titles like \"Hand on my nutsac\" and \"Ugly bitches\" I realized he wasn't quite as kid friendly as I'd inferred from his hit songs.", "You think my fraternity paid 15k for a house party?", "Stevie Wonder is one of the most sampled and covered artists of all time.\n\n[https://www.whosampled.com/Stevie-Wonder/](https://www.whosampled.com/Stevie-Wonder/)\n\nStevie is basically a one man hit groove master.", "How much did they pay coolio? Nostalgia acts routinely make 10k or more for these shows. Personal after show interaction is often part of the deal.", "You’re crazy.", "Did he do the Ninja rap", "Just makes me think of being a kid, playing Sonic the Hedgehog ya know?", "Am I the only one thinking this is cheap trashy hiphop? Covering a song adding a couple raps to it.. nah I m passing thats trashy, fake and ridiculous. I ll never understand people who like it.", "That was great", "You just really want to feel like people who have a viewpoint different than yours harbor sinister motives to perpetuate a mythical power imbalance. You also have reading comprehension issues because my guess at what was being portrayed by the Coolio video was something I pulled from my memory of Vanilla Ice. Not the other way around you dumb fucking idiot.", "Yeah, I actually hate that people only know it from the Wonder Years, and I love Sgt. Pepper, but the Joe version is just such a good song on its own. And way superior.", "Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone", "Ah thank you, I didn’t even question the decapitation!", "We through a Toga tequila party at a house we were renting when we we like 19 or 20. I'm walking around and see 2 50 year old dudes in togas. I was confused on if they were cops trying to blend in or something. Nope, turns out they were our friends older brothers. Like a 30 year age gap just hanging out with their little brother.", "This is a great song. Lyrics are thought out, great beat, makes me sad where rap has gone.", "Let's not get carried away here.", "What coolio video are you talking about? I never replied to anything about whatever that is.\n\nJust that I don't think it's sad to make 13k or 9k or 22k to play a show and hang out with your fans. I'm sure some of them use it as a sleazy way to pull in college girls or to get emotionally jerked off after losing their fame but it kinda just sounds like coolio hung out.", "Lol what a way to live your life. \n\n\n\" I don't think it's inherently sad for Coolio to hang out with some fans\"\n\n\"Fuck you piece of shit! You don't know me! I'm the cool guy!\"\n\nDid you try to make Coolio laugh and he rolled his eyes or something?", "Pretty much all major TV shows are scripted or pre-planned. Even reality TV shows. They pick contestants who will provide entertainment value. They will only show part where it creates drama/suspense. For example, on The Amazing Race, the last two people to arrive at the mat will be shown as if they are neck to neck, but in reality the last team is at least 20 minutes away. I'm not saying it's wrong to do it. Just saying they need to make it entertaining so they have to stitch it differently then how it happenend.", "I believe it was because Coolio felt the subject matter of the song was too important to be parodied and made into a joke. He’s not exactly wrong for that.", "Lol god this is the saddest thing I've seen on this website today.\n\nSomeone pulling the \"I make so much money bro\" card cause he's getting clowned on over his opinion off coolio. \n\nCoolio's prob just another old man. It's not that big of a deal.", "Meh. Autotune is fine, it’s just a tool like everything else. Most people don’t get upset when an artist uses an electric guitar over an acoustic.", "I have no idea where he lives but I bet if you look it up the houses are not cheap.", "If anything, coolio put Howard on the spot by making him sing the hook a couple times", "Agreed", "Its really too bad how much of a liberal tool Howard Stern has become. Once a man against the system is now just part if the system.", "King of all Media baby.", "When this song came out I was just a kid. Never paid much attention to the lyrics, though I knew them all. Listening as an adult, it strikes me just how poignant and powerful this message is. It’s fucking insane. Poetry. All time classic.", "They absolutely kill it in this video", "Gansta had a paradise too?", "His cover of The Letter is another one where I prefer his version even though I heard the original first.", " Fallon has said multiple times that they choose Impressions that each can make. He says that on the show. So it is at least prepped to that degree. I think the pairing with a song title is impromptu though.", "Man... Fuck Howard stern", "He was getting paid to hang out with them. I've hung out with lesser-known older musicians after shows to shoot the shit. It's not like his only friends are 18-24. Nothing sad at all.\n\nIf he's just showing up for free to hang out at frat parties, then it would be sad", "LV triggered that asmr singing that chorus", "Its so weird to hear rap sound good without some horse shit auto tune. Who can even do this today?", "One of the only songs I can recite front to back and could feel the words were a warning and not an anthem", "Looking back that's true.. I wasn't really into music much, until a few years later, so mostly tuned out the musical guests.. The only performers I really remember are Coolio, Missy Elliot, and Puffy. \n\nI really only remember Missy Elliot because she was wearing like a life jacket thing, that my sister said was cute, and my mom said \"good grief, she could have a cob up her ass and you'd call it cute\". I'll always remember that whenever I hear or see Missy Elliot.", "As I watched I imagined myself in the room. If I was there I would've pushed a bunch of old memories out and mentally hit record to sear it in memory. That was cool.", "I said artistically bankrupt. In my opinion there's minimal artistic work involved in what he does because it's already been done by the original musician. I think it's in a moral grey area since he gets permission. Now, if he and the artist work out a profit sharing agreement, then I guess I'm completely ok with it.", "Holly Molly I didn't know that.", "I mean... no", "Violent language maybe, but nothing compared to the cartoon violence we watched on a daily basis in that era.", "Lol, always a fun listen", "Damn that song will always hit for anyone who's into hip hop/rap. They missed they chorus about churning butter though", "One of my favorite chains of a song is Pete Rock and CL Smlooth T.R.O.Y. because it's 3 layers deep.\n\nJefferson Airplane - Today\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uokp0aEiT-A\n\n...Was performed by a jazz saxophonist, Tom Scott...\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKPc-DooNo\n\n... And then Pete Rock& CL Smooth dug around in some vinyls at a record store and found the saxophone riff which they sampled for T.R.O.Y.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mdRv0ZdR8\n\n\nI have tons of em", "We sell quilts at discount price living in an Amish paradise", "For better and worse. In his early days he was one of the real big (if not the first such) shock jocks. Saying and doing things on the radio that were outrageous, dangerous, and sometimes even illegal. And encouraging their listeners to do the same.\n\nStern calmed down a lot after some of those incidents got people hurt needlessly, and I think his show is often the better for it. Even if moments like this video don't happen as often anymore.", "That was really powerful", "Fuckin' Stern like \"I guess we're doin' this live~\"\n\n8D", "That seems really unlikely since it wouldn't be hard to have it mixed as separate feeds from the same source. No reason for the live mix to affect the broadcast mix.", "Monch is such a god. \n\nWho am I? I'm the poetical pastor\n\nSlave to a label, but I own my masters\n\nStill get it poppin' without artist and repertoire\n\n'Cause Monch is a monarch, only minus the A&R", "Butt-Hole-io", "He's on Instagram @lvsangs", "I attended a conference at UCLAN once. Odd place.", "Gansta's Paradise is just the biggest in pop culture, but yeah, I wouldn't call it his best song.", "His timing is off as fuck. The whole thing about that song that made it dope when I was a kid was how tightly laced those lyrics were.", "It’s such a hard song and has no curse words. Crazy", "Honestly he did better than I expected", "No worries!", "Consider us a lucky generation (mid 80s-1990 born). Last one to have experienced both ends of the spectrum. Our kids and grandkids will never understand. Though I'm going to make sure my daughter grows up on the SNES and without a smartphone till she moves out lol.", "It absolutely is.", "wow. I'm in awe. Thanks for showing me this!", "Is this such a surprise? They have openly discussed having writers meetings for decades.", "Rhymin & Stealin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4m_M0JwGLI", "It’s great to see rappers actually being able to sing. Unlike that Travis guy.", "lol", "🔥", "Absolute legends, nailed this performance.", "Yeah, it's changed a lot and I'm not totally into what it's become but I can't deny that Howard is a really talented interviewer and is still really funny. Also, any recent null doesn't undo the fact that he's responsible for the greatest radio show of all times for many many years.", "I think what they said has some truth. At the very least I am just here to cancel out your 'no'.", "Haha. To YouTube I go. Haven't thought about that song in decades", "I was a teen in the 90's and grew up loving this song..... I was this many years old when I found out it was a cover for a Stevie Wonder song..... Thank you..", "when i was younger i didn't really understand all of the lyrics. as i'm older now the song hits so true. everything he sings about is still true today. it sounds stupid but when i watched the wire, like every other episode made me think about some of the lyrics in this song.", "He was drinking, smoking weed, and trying to pick up sorority girls. What are you his wannabe PR manager? Lol the fuck out of here fuck boi", "Again....I remain open to evidence.", "Oh wait hold up.... he's taking in all that home interior lighting sales rep cash....yeah he probably has a swimming pool full of money...🙄\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.joe.ie/amp/life-style/ever-wondered-what-happened-to-vanilla-ice-joe-shows-you-what-hes-been-up-to-44771", "I remember this song. Back then, it was almost unheard of for a rap song to reach the charts like this. Will Smith was an exception.", "Uuhhhhh....buddy seemed pretty confident that I peaked in college. What am I supposed to say, \"nuh uh\"?\n\nI mean, you seem pretty confident of your assessment of me. Why don't you take a stab at the question? I'm giving you an opportunity to actually clown me instead of being self-impressed by your internet comments.", "You seem to lack reading comprehension skills. When did I meet Coolio?", "Oh so you just jumped into a visceral reply without gaining any context? Makes sense. Anyways, you clearly have a hardon for me so I hope you respond to my direct comment/opportunity to embarrass me in my other response.", "Is there any evidence he was \"trying to pick up sorority girls\". Even if he was, aren't they 18+?", "You got to check out https://www.whosampled.com. They catalog all popular songs (especially hip hop) and list the samples they use.\n\nAt times it is mind blowing.", "Good lord, what are you the biggest Vanilla Ice fan in the world or something? What dog do I have in the fight? Why would I make up such a fucking useless lie? But what the fuck do you care? Like I said, you're either the biggest Vanilla fan of all time, or you're deluding yourself into thinking you're fighting some sort of righteous fight.", "How are people supposed to know that this is a joke? Am I too german to understand?", "Well I’ll be damned…", "Fire 🔥", "Like Steve Jobs saying people don’t want to watch video on tiny screens…until they had a product that could play video on a tiny screen.", "Because you're listening to pop. Mainstream music from every genre is actually the same. Change a few lyrics and add a twang? Now it's country. Change to a minor key? Now it's a sad song. Almost the same words though. Change the music slightly and now you've got R&B. \n\nJust dig deeper into it, and you'll start finding the good shit. Once music companies figure out how to monetize a genre, they grab some generic song writers, and pump out trash.\n\nWe live in a world where the dickweasel that made Spotify has more money than fucking Sir Paul McCartney.\n\nIt really happens is all media. True artists are pushed aside for easily digestible 3 minutes of fluff.", "You're funny.", "I don't think you know what a cover is...", "I was going to say--Kendrick is a man out of time in terms of his skill, artistry, and performances. He reminds me of the icons from the 90s and he's definitely a cut above the rest of the game right now. He won a pulitzer for fuck's sake.", "TFW when 2055 is as far away as 1996", "You're confusing pop for rap.", "And look at the Will Smith songs, also. Completely the original 10-year-old song, just with a rap.", "True Artists. I love it.", "How am I embarrassing you? You've spent like 24 hours cursing at people while defending your position that coolio is a loser for hanging out with his fans. If you feel embarrassed you should maybe reevaluate what's actually going on.\n\nAlso what do you mean I \"jumped in\". Your posting in the comments and I replied to your post.", "Lol what the fuck is going on. You saw ice play and you're spending a day arguing about the cool level of coolio?\n\nSo ice didn't laugh at the joke?", "\"We're goin' straight...to! The wild wild west!", "This is Haim recorded live off TV, actually sounds more inspired than the album version:\n\n[https://vimeo.com/275353007](https://vimeo.com/275353007)\n\nSNL also had a YouTube copy up with enough tweaks to the sound that you can also tell they have multi-track masters for reissue. Has been removed tho.", "To be fair, if you knew you were going to interview X musician and your skills as a radio host were worth even half a bag of shit it would make sense to have on standby their best song just in case.", "The mics he uses are pretty standard, the sm7b, but his personal one which is only like 1k$, kind of amazing he gets this quality, whoever his technician is is brilliant.", "So this song has been my ringtone on various phones since 2003. Every time it rings in public someone tells me they love it. Probably unexpected from the way I look…", "You seem to think you're making a point. You're poor and it bothers you, but instead of being industrious you go for feelz on the internet by waging absurd virtue signaling wars, and when people point that out you count that as an internet win?? Wow. What's it like being poor, anyways? Do you get used to disappointment?", "This?\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy_n-nSfpyk", "Lol digging through history over coolio. \n\nYeah man covid and the schools being shut down resulted in over 12 months of reduced income.\n\nLol that you think it's a virtue signal war every time someone says your opinion is dumb or that your a shitty person\n\n\nYou seem very happy and fulfilled in life to get so furious over everyone unanimously agreeing your opinion sucks\n\n\nGo back to bragging about vaguely bragging about your income in a way that doesn't open you to any questions.\n\nI bet coolio is having a good night. Probably not raising his blood pressure while he furiously searches for something to attack his \"enemy\" with.", "\"Been spending most our lives getting butthurt over coolio online\"\n\nEnjoy the money fam.", "Same here. \n\nBut rewatching this as an adult now, I can see that the collaboration and the performance is downright legendary.", "Boy, must be great being able to win every argument in your mind by simply arguing points never made by others. But, that's why you're a broke ass piece of shit loser. Hahaha. With your broke ass. Enjoy your fast food dinners, champ.", "Hahahhahahahahahahahahah you fucking baby.\n\n\n>won't be repeating it. My wife and I sold our wedding and engagement rings to buy guns and gun training courses. We won't let them take our ethnic neighbors some day. We all need to train ourselves to protect our democracy before it's too late. It sucks that I wake up crying every day now because this is our world. I wasn't meant to be a soldier I was a cheese maker. I made fucking cheese. But now I'm a soldier thrown into some Hitler remake god it's awful. \n\nNut.job", "I'm sorry for whatever is going on that makes you this way. I'm not being sarcastic. We all go through shit.", "For real on-the-stop freestyling, nothing beats Wayne Brady's 5 Fingers of Death:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMkrtXr4b8", "That's the beauty of the Stern Show, lots of 'bits' and also lots of not bits.", "Such a great performance no matter how many times ive seen it", "In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe you don't know what it is?", "Oh please....you got all virtue signally, white knight syndrome over me simply sharing my experience with faded stars and when I told you to fuck off with your shit you spun off into outer space with your smug nonsense. And now you're acting like you're above it all while still thinking you're insulting me. If you're going to be an asshole, you're going to get called on it, that's all that happened. It's not rocket science. Now, enjoy your life of struggle. I'll enjoy my life of leisure, supported by my life of achievement. You can have your imagined SJW wins, though, champ.", "I don't give a fuck about Vanilla Ice, the original story in this thread was about Coolio going back to a frat house and I think that's equally not sad.", "Just how life works. You can produce a hundred billionaires and nobody cares, but you produce ONE terrorist...", "They were basically trying to call me a boomer", "Imagine talking this say to someone who said \"is it really sad to hang out with fans\"\n\nLol do you really think people read that nonsense and believe it \"man he really must be successful and loaded. He seems so fulfilled in life.\n\nAnd yeah man this is a \"social issue\". I'm like the BLM for nostalgia acts. All low talent artists matter.\n\n\nI know that part of what is going on is your condition but a large part is you just don't have a realistic view of yourself or your place in the world. Although maybe that's tied into the condition as well.\n\nI feel bad for you but yes I'm insulting you because you are a nasty turd. Going around acting like a tired child and flapping on the ground yelling at anyone who thinks you're wrong.", "Lol \"geezer guys I was just trying to share my experience with the stars. I was being positive and friendly until all you jerks came in here being mean to me\".\n\n\nIs that really what you think happened this week? Is this similar to how a lot of interactions in your life go?", ".....do you think having your last name is an achievement?", "I'm willing to bet a very substantial amount of money that you've accomplished nothing in your life...I'm even willing to bet that I earn 20x what you make in a year...", "Apology accepted", "Lol. You copied and pasted a definition but still don't get it. Maybe you're just too old.", "Lol no denial the name played a role. Almost like you'd rather not acknowledge the subject. \n\nBut sure chief let's play your game. I'll wait for some numbers or more likely some vague comments about how successful you are.", "It is kind of funny that you think \"I'm rich\" is some sort of proof you're not an asshole. Which makes sense considering your name", "Lol...how confident you are. Yeah, I'm willing to stipulate in our bet that my family are all of modest means and I did not inherit, nor benefit from any sort of familial ties.\n\nSo, let's just get the number established. How much would you like to bet?", "Pfft.... what's funny is you have built this fiction in your head that you're fighting a righteous fight. If you cared to peruse my history you would see that I overwhelmingly call out Trumptards for their bullshit....but you're no better than them. Your motivation stems from the exact same source, a lack of achievement. You've accomplished nothing meaningful in life but that doesn't diminish your thirst. You can't try any harder to accomplish anything in real life, or else you'd have done it by now, so you choose these grandiose showings of virtue signaling. Shitheads on the far right think people on the left are lazy tax vampires. Fuckheads like you on the opposite end think you're more enlightened than everyone else and can see signs of power struggles where they don't exist and demand that they be reconciled. You're the lame, self-impressed, smug piece of shit high on your own righteousness. Not me, champ. I'm what you wish you could have made out your life. I've helped the poor and indigent, not just with monetary donations, but with literally thousands of hours of my personal time both volunteering and working in a past career, to make meaningful change in peoples lives. But one thing I remember a lot, actually, are the people who came in the my non-profit thinking they could come in, give an hour pep talk and change lives. Yet, when I explained how many hours of commitment we actually needed, poof, so many would disappear. It's easy to make your grandiose battles when you have nothing at stake, so, again....how much do you want to bet? (And, yes, I'm willing to add a side bet to prove that I've done more for people in real life than you.......)", "\"I'm very rich. I'm one of the most successful people. You are poor and that makes me better than you\". Sounds a lot like you....and trump.\n\nChief you've repeatedly tried to use your claimed income to add weight to your argument or to shut down others by claiming they are poor. Hell you even have a habit of staying you'll make bets you have no intent on following through.\n\nLol you even yell about sjws.\n\n\nYou have completely lost me with the ramblings of a \"righteous mission\" I just think your a much of a smug asshoe as trump and it's funny to watch you scream into your monitor at your perceived enemies.", "Lol god you do the same word salad buzzword shit too.\n\nEven deflecting or ignoring all questions about your family name and claims to cast wealth. You've almost got me thinking this is some character within a character shit and you're just playing what the right pictures as a typical liberal.", "$650.\n\nVenmo works for me. You have a preferred middle man?\n\nYou want to lay the specifics or am I?", "I'm probably pursuing a fruitless path but I keep going back trying to understand what you think is happening. \n\nCould you define what virtue war you think I'm waging? Normally there would be some sort of target. The patriarchy. Racism online. What do you think I'm targeting?", "Lol actually read that nonsense. You really care that I believe you are successful and a good person. \"I'm rich and nice you piece of shit!\"\n\nWhy do you care so much what strangers think of you? Why is it so important that everyone knows you \"made it\". \n\nYou don't have to prove anything to the world only to yourself.\n\nWhy is politics and a right/left dynamic seemingly central to every negative interaction you have? This is a discussion over it being sad or not for coolio to hang out after a show and you've spent days yelling about far left extremists, people trying to make you look bad or like a failure, and social justice warriors being out to get you. \n\nYou need more than online therapy.", "Yeah I got that. Just have no idea why they would think that.", "I bet you have a college bumper sticker on your car despite being in your 30s.", "Wow thanks for that. Damn", "Awww...c'mon now, don't be like that. Let me switch it up to make it impossible for you to refuse. I am willing to bet that I make at least 10x what you make in a year. How can you say no to that, champ?", "Weird how all those aspersions you cast can be made against you. What do you care about what someone says on an obscure internet thread, whom you seem to think has self-esteem issues? Why have you invested all this time to try and pay yourself on the back while thinking you're putting me in my place? It's because you're a broke ass loser piece of shit who projects with the best of them. I mean, Jesus Christ....how miserable must it feel that no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do, you will always be a loser? Simply because you are you. God you're pathetic. You know it, I know it, and you know that I know that you know it.", "Rrright.. I don't get it lol. Or maybe you listening to cheap trashmusic and trying to defend it? :) It's fine we all been there but at least face it.", "Don't know what salary has to do with this but I bet you want to be friends with your frat bros but they moved on and developed personalities, also you probably got married to a girl you met freshman year at an invite.", "Lol this is a good day.\n\nHow you equate someone laughing at you and your obviously false claims to to yelling for days that you are rich and everyone is a loser is beyond me.\n\nThe lack of self awareness it must take to just lay out your inner psyche for all to see.\n\n\"God damnit why won't you believe I've made it! I overcame the odds and proved my worth! I didn't deserve to be treated that way and they should have stopped it!\"\n\nSo what's up with the bet? Also I'm still confused about what social issue you think this is about or what makes me an extreme leftist for.....well I'm really confused about that point.\n\nI imagine I'm not the only confused person in this conversation.", "Ok, but you're still wrong. Tell me, what makes it a \"cover\".", "To answer the one part that kind of makes sense I \"care\" about this because its funny to watch you do this to yourself. \n\nSomeone told you it was ok for coolio hang out and here we are a day later. Walls of text about non profits, sjws, bank accounts, and a hatred for trump. It's been fun. Let's keep it going.", "Locating my response to your far flung and rapid fire responses here.....you think you have me pegged and seem pretty confident about your assessment. And I'm pretty confident I have you figured out enough to bet about it. You deemed that I \"just want to look down on Coolio\" That was your reductionist argument. You just want to find imagined power differentials, because, as I said, you're a low-achieving piece of garbage. \n\nThe bet can be accomplished in a way that preserves anonymity towards each other while maintaining integrity of the bet. Our lawyers get in touch, they don't disclose their clients' names. They draft the agreement and open an escrow account into which we both deposit the full bet amount. An independent third party consultant like PriceWaterhouseCoopers is hired to perform the due diligence to determine two things: first, that we are indeed the people associated with our LL accounts to prevent using a rich friend as a stand-in, and second, they review the financials and declare a winner. Escrow clears to the winner. The consultant will know who we are but will be bound by a NDA. Does that sound fair? And, $650 is fucking laughable. The bet needs to both: a) be enough to offset the cost of setting it up, and b) be enough that the loser feels the loss in a material way. That ain't happening with 650", "Lol \"instead of the dozens of other ways this could be conducted without either of us giving our identity to anyone it must be this absurdly complicated scheme that I will describe in a tone that although completely disconnected from my normal way of communicating will infer that this is totally serious and I am on no way just making this too much of pain in the ass so I can \"win\".\"\n\nHow about we do the bet the same way millions of other similar bets are placed and we deposit our money with a 3rd party familiar with the process?\n\nOr we meet on the 3rd day after our your mother's birthday but not if it occurs in April. We will both wear mask that are purchased for no less than $35 but no more than $125 in order to show that we take the but seriously but that we also acknowledge the absurdity of the situation. The first to shoot the others Dove winds. Unless of course it just shot in the left wing.\n\nIf you want to increase the amount we can. If you want to other methods that are actually used for things like this instead of your idea of how the absurdly rich make bets we can proceed.\n\nOr your ass is serious and the family name continues to be apparent. My bets on the former.\n\nPs. Your arguments about cost are absurd. You should have gone with another \"I'm super serious but only if....angle.\n\nPss. I still think you're a failure and a disappoint. You need to try harder in life if you want others to value you.", "Lol imagine seeing yourself as some kind of warrior against trump and the kind of person he is and also trying to get strangers to bet who has the bigger bank account to prove who has the better opinion about coolio.\n\nWild world full of wild people.", "Try to keep up but here's another one. I went through your history a bit and don't see you \"taking on trumptards\". I see a lot of talking about guns and bitching about the left.\n\nYou don't seem to know who you are. Betterhelp.com isnt going to be enough hun.", "What way do you propose we make a bet that \"millions of other bets are made\"?", "Dark web escrow and we both take a shot of our asses hanging out in front of our cars and our houses.\n\nI will have you know I take the matter of our bet very seriously. I expect you to do the same. A man of wealth should understand that words carry power and with that power comes a responsibility to ourselves and to others. \n\nI give you 11 minutes to agree to the terms or I will consider your word as worthless as your bank account.\n\nThe honor of coolio is something I don't fuck around with. If you think this is some kind of joke be aware that I'm not fucking laughing\n\nMoon your car or you may find you are the one living in a gangsters paradise.", "It's identically to the original, but replaced a couple random words with fake gangster rap? That alone wouldnt make it as terrible, but come on the dudes name is coolio and he was a skinny fat wannabe back than when his label pushed him. The whole thing is an embarrasment to not only people listing to hip hop but also musictaste of the general population..", "Why so silly all of a sudden?", "It's still not a cover. It doesn't matter how you feel about the dude.", "Lol? Have I been deadly serious until this point? Are you talking about the previous post were I imitated your \"as a rich man I bet as such\" post? The one that involved pigeons?\n\nThe ones were I told you I'm not on an sjw mission but I thought it was funny to watch you immediately go to 100 and call people fucking idoits while screaming about your income, trumptards, extreme leftists, \"people that try to make me look bad\", non profits, and the generosity of your soul......\n\n\"You just want to look down on coolio\".\n\nIt is INSANE that comment sent you down a path where you were being attacked by an online extreme leftist because of your success and accomplishments. Dumbass I just think you look down on people because your a shit person. \n\nIts just dumb that you thought the guy prefacing half his posts with lol, and who had already said was covid broke, was serious about a bet with some random asshole online over who had the most money.", "Why don't you prove yourself right? While also proving that I'm wrong about you being a stupid fucking broke ass cunt with nothing to your name except your online crusades? Why not take the bet? Why constantly deflect and mischaracterize? You're convinced you're right, why not enter into a legally binding agreement that can be enforced by the courts? A contract that can make stipulations to prevent any deception? Why are you so afraid? It's because you're a useless piece of shit, just a yappy little dog. You've amounted to nothing in life and you never will.", "Lol bro I don't know how much. clearer to make this.\n\nI never took the bet seriously or care what some turd makes. I came here to say your opinion of coolio sucked and you spun out big time. I've just been enjoying the ride.\n\nLol at deflect and characterize. Someone told your opinion on the stupidest fucking issue was bad and you started acting like you're being gang stalked.\n\nHow about this bet. How about we exchange notes from out doctors and see which one has the most laughs?\n\nBut sure man send me the docs and I'll sign. I'm super invested in what you've done with your parents money. Hey at least they gave you that.\n\nHonestly I starting to think you're bot. You respond to keywords but continually miss the context that a human would get.", "Lol look at you're language compared to mine. Look at which one of us desperately needs to know if they make more money than the guy who gave them shit about coolio.\n\nYour ass is invested in this. Like let it go bro. You're opinion sucked and that's ok. It's not a big deal if literally everyone else on the board thinks you're opinion is bad\n\n\nYour opinion is great and you know that! Canned poodle have a bad take? Nooooo. He's put too many hours of thought into coolio and his army of sjws. \n\nI'll pray they don't find you with coolio dreads. Those fools don't mess around.", "Sweet fucking Jesus you must really be poor. You can't bring yourself to take the easiest bet of your life. I'm literally willing to let you put me in my place and make you money in the process. I'm literally willing to bet you that I make at least 20x what you make. But you can't. Why? Because you're a goddam loser. Just a run of the mill, never going to climb your way out of poverty, loser.", ".......yeah man you are the winner of the day. \n\n\"Why doesn't this complete stranger want to involve multiple lawyers and a months long process to prove which of us has a bank account big enough to judge coolio? Ah ha! It must be because they are a loser! A winner would spend 3 days begging a stranger to please please believe I made it!\"\n\nLol and what happened to the \"for a wager of this importance we must both convey to our lawyers the direct violations blah blah\" way of talking? \n\nWhy suddenly back to drooling about \"fucking losers and their god damn cunt empty wallets? It really upsets you that someone doesn't take you seriously?\n\nI don't know of your family hit you too hard or not hard enough. \n\nAnd again chief I told you I would take the bet. It says a lot that you refuse my serious off. After all you are a very important person. It would be a shame for you to waste your time breaking your keyboard over a poor person laughing at your pathetic lack of redeeming human qualities.", "\"The easiet bet of your life\".....that will take weeks of your time and thousands of dollars in fees and that you also have no intent on following through with. Hence the \"I'm dead serious but only if it's by the ridiculous terms and through the company you just googled(you know it took like 10 seconds to figure out where you got the name)\"\n\nPeople that are serious normally create complicated schemes. It's in no way just a method for you to walk away from this thinking that you \"won\". That the horrible man who told you youre opinion sucks is just a loser. That it's not your fault or a lack of personality(or your diagnosis) that causes strife in your life\n No. Everyone else is just a poor asshole.\n\nSo we showing our butts or what? It might calm you down and bring some peace to your soul.", "Lol I do love that this is literally all you've talked about for days. Getting on here SOLEY to see if the poor person has submitted to the power of your parents money(which you will ignore and continue to talk of your \"accomplishments\" like all your ilk)\n\nLook man you are a winner and your parents were bad parents. Now go find some trumptards to bond with...I mean confront.", "Maybe you missed it in your rapid fire, fever-brained messages but I said I would stipulate in the agreement that I've earned everything on my own. My parents are upper-middle class but they sure as shit never even came close to making the kind of money I do. You keep playing hide the ball. You're just a fucking run of the mill peasant loser. With your broke ass. Lol. So are you going to take my bet now that I'm eager and willing to give you everything you're hiding behind? God what a loser you are. I can't imagine the fucking rinky dink room you're sitting in right now, surrounded by fucking peasant rubbish.", "You use that word a lot....loser...that have significance to you?", "You're grasping at straws. All you have to do to put me in my place is take the bet. But you can't. The only redeeming thing I can say about you is that you didn't choose your parents. Your parents are stupid and poor, as were their parents, all the way up your family tree. Your entire bloodline is fucking pathetic. That's why you won't take my bet. You're unoriginal despite how much you yearn to be interesting and relevant.", "It is the definition of a cover. No matter what your little own made up definition of a cover is....", "Lol you mean the bet that you never defined beyond \"it needs to involve lawyers and llcs and be for a very large amount and and and its uh uh going to cost a lot of money like right now. So take the bet if you dare\" snickering to yourself like a fucking snidely whiplash.\n\nYou think its some kind of power move to offer a bet while making it such a pain in the ass or an absurd amount for the topic at hand that no one would take it seriously. You didn't take my bet to moon your house so I guess that proves I win?\n\nYour either mentally Ill or a child. You've done nothing for 3 days expect bounce from one unconnected topic to another. If you expect me to take your \"bet\" seriously than do something other than screaming \"take my bet or I win!\"\n\nBegin the process and I'll take your bet. Shit I'll accept it now. What lawyer should mine contact? How quickly can you have something ready to show your something more than a lunatic who is obsessed with trump and dreams of wealth? If your lawyers any good they will wake up for your call.", "You want to hop on discord while we wait on your lawyer? You can put panty hose over your head if you're worried about \"exposing your identity\"(you should have nuked your history if that was a concern. 8 years is a long time).\n\nI wont talk about coolio. I promise. We can talk about your money or my parents or whatever you want.", "Is that what it takes to get through your life? To cope with what was done to you? Imagining your \"enemies\" living in filth?\n\nLol at needing the \"upper\". Weird way to admit your parents are rich.\n\nThis reply is one of your best. It's got the laughs without the struggle of parsing 4 paragraphs of whatever thoughts are bursting through your skull. Please tell how you intend on showing you've \"earned everything on your own\".\n\n Lol Hahahahhaaaha oh fuck your poor lawyer having to deal with this shit. \"Steinhoff you don't fucking get it! This jagoff said I formed a bad opinion while I was in the college daddy paid for! I don't care how you do it you find a way to legally show I'm a winner and he's a loser!\"\n\nLol I took your bet. I don't care who has more money and I'm happy in my life despite the lack of rubbish but I do like to see you try this fucking hard to make someone mad by calling them poor. Lol jesus man. You think that's the ultimate insult because your parents were rich. Lol oh fuck god damnit I love you.\n\nFor reals can we Skype or something?", "Lol yeah man I read your shit again and I just can't help but say something. Once again you're a master in projection. Were you fucked up the other day? Do you not remember telling me about people trying to embarrass you in the middle of a rant about trump and a million other subjects?\n\nPlease don't be just mentally Ill. You can be rich and mentally Ill and this shits still funny(maybe funnier) but don't make me the mad guy by being plain nuts.\n\nI'll talk to you in the morning. Let me know how we can chat.", "Jesus you reek of mediocrity. My lawyer is Chuck Michel in Long Beach, CA.\n\nWho is your lawyer? Btw, we landed on a number. 50k? More?", "Nope.", "Is \"My life is outta love, fool\" a censored or radio friendly lyric? I had no idea there was an alternate lyrics \"Hand is on the pump, fool\".", "That’s so dope. More please!", "Imaginary Places by Busdriver\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEHc4u-1QIk\n\nIs from Johann Sebastian Bach's \"Minuet and Badinerie Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor\" .\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhZ86qwEwug\n\n\nAnd Paganini's 5th Caprice\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jXXWBt5URw\n\n\n\nIf you look at any hip hop from the 80's and 90's, sampling was an art form. Look for any group that features their DJ and you'll find a lot of influences in early music", "my left ear loved it.\n\nseriously wtf, why is the steeo fucked up on such an awesome performance?", "Probably a stereo mic in the room not pointed directly at them. \\shrug\\ It's about a 50% pan, 7 dB or so.\n\n[Here's a fixed version](https://vocaroo.com/156vxxsqSSla)." ]	556	videos	Howard Stern puts Coolio and LV on the spot to sing Gansta's Paradise live
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsszos/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsszos/deleted_by_user/	[ "Ppl are down voting this but as an ex-officer I have actually seen this in actual operation. Had a guy come at me with a hatchet and had to fall back on my martial arts training to disarm him.. he came at me from about 15ft... the officer with me was behind me and though he got his weapon out, the perp and I were in the thick of it before he could do anything. \n\nThe time it takes to react to any situation is amazingly long and try keeping that level of awareness and reaction time for a 10 hour shift... it is exhausting. \n\nPeople wonder why cops are so hair trigger... They have the shit scared out of them with training videos like this. The worst part is that these videos aren't wrong, just not what the job is about all the time. It is nearly impossible to tell the situation that is going to go south vs the one that has no danger at all.", "If cops are allowed to have a hair trigger than everyone who has to deal with cops has a right to have a hair trigger in dealing with them, this creates what we know today as the united states of america", "https://youtu.be/7_8BzXING-A", "[Mythbusters](https://youtu.be/ckz7EmDxhtU)", "reddit thinks being a cop means eating donuts and shooting innocent black people", "the greatest, freeest country in the world", "[Surviving Edged Weapons.](https://youtu.be/p1sxc3V0lzQ?t=1911)", "One of the best videos ever reviewed on Redlettermedia." ]	9	videos	[deleted by user]
https://vimeo.com/625179260	/r/videos/comments/qst13x/rare_unit_731_surgeon_okawa_fukumatsu_interview/	[ "Anyone that wants their day ruined should look into just what atrocities were committed at Unit 731. I would personally go so far as to say that it includes some of the worst things you can possibly do to another human being", "The Unit 731 doctor in this video is living a relatively normal life right now despite fucking dissecting a pregnant woman while she was still alive", "Chilling. Dissection is one thing, vivisection is another entirely.", "There is no scientific knowledge that can be taken from things like that, at least not as late as the 40s. It was pretty much senseless exploitation", "They did this to thousands of people, including children and infants. Women would be regularly raped and innocent people would be purposefully exposed to various infectious diseases like the Bubonic Plague. I don’t like wishing bad things on people, but I hope a Hell exists so that these doctors got what they deserved", "The Japanese were worse than the Nazis in some aspects. Considering what they did to everyday Chinese/Korean/Filipino civilians during WW2, it’s very understandable why many people still hold a grudge against them", "I can't say there was anyone qualitatively the worst during WW2 but Japan is certainly up there. They probably would have continued had the A-bomb not been dropped.", "Agreed. The fact that they're not rotting in jail at minimum baffles me." ]	5	videos	(RARE) Unit 731 surgeon Okawa Fukumatsu (interview footage)
https://youtu.be/rOuyEZMKIic	/r/videos/comments/qstgmm/what_chicago_wind_sounds_like_at_night/	[ "Wind?\n\nThat’s gunfire", "Gunfire? That’s a skateboard", "I didn't know they had Texas weddings in Chicago.", "Chicago is basically GTA 6", "Alright lmao. \n\nI heard at least 3 gunfights or exchanges including automatic fire (wonder if they filled out a form 3 and passed the background check)", "Alright alright. Maybe it’s not a giant skateboarder roaming the streets of Chicago but god damnit that’s so much gunfire.", "Sounds like guns. You sure this isn't Detroit?", "Why do a background check when you give a 17yr old kid $500 to take a bus to Indiana and buy any gun he wants no waiting period and come back.", "July 4th. You can see fireworks in the background. This bullshit video and post feeding a bullshit narrative.", "Skateboard? That’s a hoverboard", "There's snow on the ground in the video", "Can't do that with an automatic, they are all at least $10k since the only legal ones are grandfathered in.\n\nNo idea what an illegal automatic, but it won't be cheap because that is serious time if you are caught with it.", "Not enough people left in the D to have that many gun fights at once. \n\nStuff there is taken care of quite like, mostly.", "Then its completely faked. If there was that much gun fire, there would be hundreds wounded and scores dead per night. Total fabrication. My point stands. Bullshit video and post feeding a bullshit narrative.", "It's fake because it doesn't conform to his narrative. Duh.", "Chiraq", "Really bad aim", "Maybe you’re hearing the sound of ice breaking on the lake. Yeah, that’s it! /s", "Sounds like the narrative is you trying to prove it's fake. When we don't know either way.\n\nAs they pointed out, can't be 4th, theres snow.\nPast that, it's Chicago....... on the right night, in the right area, this video could be plausible. You don't know enough to call it fake, should have deleted after you thought it was the 4th of July.", "This is what cognitive dissonance looks like.", "New Years? :shrug:\n\nSeems\n\nhttps://youtu.be/iuBQCxZtKyk\n\nTo\n\nhttps://youtu.be/41FDMBKhhso\n\nBe\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Qx0zQwz5zSY\n\nA\n\nhttps://youtu.be/oRdWuJ7H5bc\n\nNew\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ji8-P9FoWEg\n\nYears\n\nhttps://youtu.be/GGeND-hMr24\n\nTradition. \n\n\nComing soon to a city near you.\n\nI was sleeping outside once when someone started shooting an AK47. 25 something rounds holy shit. Fuck these people.", "Valid!", "New Years Eve*", "Damn, this is a great way to scare people off America", "All those chicago gun control laws are working well i see", "Then americans have the guts to tell us that Mexico is dangerous lmao", "What a stupid ignorant comments. Actually Chicago is worst that Detroit and as a proof this video. Now go now to downtown Detroit and see if that type of shit happens like in Chiraq.", "Traditional chiraqui in denial.", "Bans on gun sales in Chicago was [ruled unconstitutional in 2014.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-chicago/judge-rules-chicago-ban-on-gun-sales-is-unconstitutional-idUSBREA0515J20140107)", "Ah i miss that sweet summer snow", "It's weather balloons. And maybe swamp gas.", "This is what the woods and farms behind my house sounds like sometimes.", "Sounds like a lot of good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns, just like the NRA intended /s", "Also [not the first time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._City_of_Chicago) it's happened either", "It’s so cold in the D", "Yeah, let’s take away all the good guys’ guns so we’re safe.", "This is your take from that video, huh?", "Chi-raq", "Hoverboard? Monorail!", "For anyone curious: Chicago has 50+ \"gangs\" with possibly 100,000 active members. The gangs are not too organized. Rather they are mostly geographic (if you live on this block or blocks, you are in this gang.)\n\nBasically, if you aren't in a gang, gang members will attack you, so you have to be in a gang. It's kind of a prison mentality.\n\nAnd of course a lot of the gangsters are teens or have mentality of teens, so when someone does something bad (or perceived as bad) to their gang, they retaliate even worse and gun fights break out frequently, largely because the area is flooded with illegal guns. (Handguns are illegal in Chicago, which is useless since guns are legal in Illinois and surrounding states. No one is doing a security check at the Chicago city limits.)\n\nBecause the gangs are so entrenched in anger and \"beefs\" and there are no clear leaders and not even obvious motivation like money, it's really hard for anyone or any organization to help disentangle the situation.\n\nAnd once this \"gang\" narrative caught on with police, police started labelling huge swathes of gun violence \"gang\" related, regardless of whether it was gang related or not. It allowed the police to close tough cases without as much investigation and further allowed more gun violence to go un-checked in Chicago. It doesn't help that the police and city are at war over funding, overtime, Covid vax, etc.\n\nIt's a difficult problem.", "Almost like most of the guns are coming into the city from other places. Crazy huh?", "How does that work if you move to a different street? Are you in a different gang? I'm just wondering because I grew up in inner city Milwaukee and people were always moving, getting evicted, having to go stay with other family etc. Gangs seemed to cover a much broader area than a street or a few streets. Then again, there weren't over 50 gangs in 80s-90s.", "We were in Chicago several years ago and were headed from downtown to the water somewhere, I don’t remember where,but it was a fairly steep hill that only was only a block long but nobody could walk up it because the wind was blowing so hard. You physically couldn’t walk up that hill. I grew up in North Texas and it windy but I’ve never seen it like that, of course we don’t have any hills so…", "From the descriptions I have read, the big problem is being harassed by gangs that you're not a member of.\n\nSo, if you move to a new place the gangs in surrounding areas will harass you because you're not part of their gang. I imagine you'd join the gang in your new area so the other gangs don't harass you as much (and your own area's gang won't harass you.)", "Chicagoan here. I find this so annoying. Chicago has dangerous areas and crime does happen here but no one talks about the literal 20 cities in America with [a higher crime rate. ](https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-violent-cities-in-america). People not from chicago say things like ChiRaq and murder capital but you won’t here that about St Louis or Memphis.", "You're absolutely right that other cities have a higher crime rate, but according to that site, Chicago has the highest per square mile violent crime rate by almost half. It also has the highest population so the overall number is much higher than other cities as well. I'm not saying it isn't annoying, but the numbers are against you on this one.", "Also Chicagoan here.\n\n>People not from chicago say things like ChiRaq\n\nIt's easy to tell we don't live in the same area just with that.\n\nPeople I know here constantly refer to our city as \"Raq\" short for Chiraq. That moniker was coined here a long time ago. \n\nIf people around you don't say Chiraq it's because you're in your nice safe bubble in the most segregated city ever where the violence is quarantined neatly so you don't have to worry. And I'm glad you don't have to suffer the violence and live in fear. \n\nBut your comment is just whataboutism and it's so obtuse and privileged.\n\n>waaa people talk bad about my city but other cities bad too!", "Hoverboard? You know hoverboards don’t work on water…unless you’ve got POWER!", "Gangs in the 80's and 90's were connected to a larger hierarchy of affiliations and networks, usually correlated with the drug trade. A lot of that got broken down through attrition and arrests, so now it's more fluid and subject to change.", "https://t.me/joinchat/XvKUV9-3iwg5OWJh", "Also, this video is from New Years celebration. Not just some average night.", "50 gangs? Try 900", "Yeah as a non-American this sounds kinda like an Iraqi saying \"This annoys me! Baghdad isn't as bad as Ramadi or Fallujah!\" Like ok.... they're still all more violent then anywhere in my country and I won't be booking vacation there anytime soon.", "/r/whoosh", "That’s what I thought. There’s tons of fireworks going off in neighborhoods during holidays.", "\"Per square mile\" just means it's the most violent huge city. Which, true, but like you said, per capita, it's lower than a lot of smaller cities. \n\nWhat \"lower per capita crime rate\" actually means it that for the average Chicagoan life is less dangerous than it would be living in Cleveland or Indianapolis or Milwaukee. Those are just the numbers. I'd use the FBI's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate\n\nPosts like this really don't help that perception though. This is new years eve. It's a mix of guns and fireworks, but it's NYE... and it's being presented like the most normal thing in Chicago, the wind. It's absurd, but people who have never visited really enjoy the narrative as evidenced by most of these comments.", "Why so many people building fences and roofs at night?", "Here ya go, Detroit can join in the fun too!\n\nhttps://youtu.be/QfCZqkpS4PA\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/P3yo7tX7c_k\n\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjScYx7nmcY", "Yaay, Philly's not even on the list. <3", "More annoying than the constant violence and death?", "Same gang (usually) different set." ]	61	videos	What Chicago wind sounds like at night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqRw3narHOs	/r/videos/comments/qstyq7/this_nyc_pizza_maker_uses_a_barter_system/	[ "This pizza looks disgusting", "Don't worry. He has super-rich parents backing his stupid idea of freedom, I'm guessing. \nWhy else would he be in NY for an education, and have enough to also start a business?\nGet used to random super-rich internationals comming in and buying up property to do whatever they want. Capitalism cuts both ways.", "Who’s downvoting? You’re absolutely correct. You can find good roman pizza, but that sure as hell ain’t it. Wayyyyy too much shit on there. When it comes to pizza, less is more.", "Having never had a Roma style pizza that I know of I would 100% trade for this, sure they may not look super appetizing but it doesn’t look like he cuts any corners with preparation nor ingredients plus it appears he’s sincere in his intent.", "I actually think it looks pretty good. But wait! WTF! How is that possible?? It's almost like people can have different opinions!?" ]	5	videos	This NYC pizza maker uses a barter system
https://youtu.be/NpYqFJxVuBc	/r/videos/comments/qsu5mi/pov_its_2009_and_you_are_in_the_mall_parking_lot/	[ "More 07/08 vibes but yeah", "“You’re a fool, Sora.”\n\ndramatic hoodie raise\n\nUPS Truck looks on knowingly", "This is an absolute treasure" ]	3	videos	POV: it’s 2009 and you are in the mall parking lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFB5TvqodQ	/r/videos/comments/qsv1cc/psychedelic_entities_broken_down_and_described/	[ "Cool video wish I still had access to LSD. :(.", "dark web", "grab some shrooms", "if you do illegal drugs without a teacher you will get hurt or worse", "Good news, chances are you already do. \"Research Chemicals\" such as 1B-LSF, 1P-LSD, ALD-52 etc. are prodrugs for LSD, they're broken down in the body to pure LSD. It's literally like Amazon, you just \"add to cart.\" Make sure it's legal in your state/country first.\n\nHaving said that you don't see entities on LSD, that's BS. They're thinking of DMT which actually is illegal pretty much everywhere.", "'beware of wisdom you didnt earn' -jung" ]	6	videos	Psychedelic Entities - broken down and described
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WipFqwSjSMM&feature=share	/r/videos/comments/qsvqi8/sam_kinison_sings_are_you_lonesome_tonight_and/	[ "He's actually a pretty funny guy. Like his take on ending world hunger.", "Your words are poetry to me. Nobody these days knows what a feather in the cap is...", "RIP Sam. Gone to soon and I would of loved to hear him today. How crazy that would be.", "It's macaroni, baby! That's what a feather in your cap is.", "You never forget the first time you saw him perform. Mine was a monologue about breaking with his girlfriend sequing into yells of \"I want my records back!!\"." ]	5	videos	Sam Kinison Sings "Are You Lonesome Tonight" And Sits Down With Johnny \|...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGOs1a1lOk	/r/videos/comments/qsw4ro/if_you_like_some_blues_rock_give_this_a_minute/	[ "No I’m questioning weather or not I speak English.", "Well how about that. That was intense", "this is probably the the best cover of anything ever, sean totally smashes this song, fantastic", "I used to play this song at open mic nights many years ago. The [original recording by Richard Thompson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yw2yKNLEPc) is an all-time classic." ]	4	videos	If you like some blues rock, give this a minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_rY6gn7GNM	/r/videos/comments/qswbwo/austin_powers_in_mass_effect/	[ "Grooovy baby, the sheer amount of planning that goes into finding the right scenes for these is always amazing", "Brilliant", "Definitely applied their mojo here.", "Never played the game but love the high quality effort! Bravo!", "Really captured the essence of Mako driving", "This really shouldn’t work but it goes so well together", "That made my day.", "I love how this is both dumb af but also brilliantly executed. My kind of content.", "Brilliant", "the crossover I didn't know I needed", "Repost.", "lmao the Mako", "this was wonderful, thank you.", "Ok but in all seriousness I liked that ending more than the one we actually got in ME3.", "Yup, top post with 33k upvotes just three weeks ago. Repost aside it's fucking gold.", "There must another movie or something being made i'm seeing Austin Powers everywhere it seems\n\nIt'll go over about as well as introducing Johny Bravo as a concept in 2021", "I see this posted here at least once a week.", "That was way better than I expected.", "Technically the new Bond movie makes people think about Austin Powers." ]	19	videos	Austin Powers in Mass Effect
https://youtu.be/i_mTFac2VyE	/r/videos/comments/qsxiy1/russian_sputnik_v_covid19_vaccine_ad/	[ "[Basically this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBtiKap_-b4)", "That was actually pretty cool.", "Why is everything in English?", "Yep", "US is gonna start offering Sputnik Vaccine for Americans that are still not trusting the other brands", "Thanks. That is pretty interesting, especially since I am hearing from friends in Russia that vaccine trust there is pretty low.", "it was a joke :P but I'd not be surprised for it to be a thing at some point..." ]	7	videos	Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atu59QJ_Y2M	/r/videos/comments/qsxv0n/took_in_a_lost_husky_for_the_night_gave_him_a/	[ "That's a great dog right there.", "Seems to be pretty stressed with all that panting... might just be a husky thing?", "Really knows how to take a pet.", "I mean it's cute, but you're filming an animal that is stretching out horizontally holding your phone in a... \n\n\nnever mind.", "...that and fighting not to fight asleep, he's probably still unsure about his condition. \nIt's unusual to find stray huskies, should have a vet check him for a chip.", "I own two dogs, one of them a siberian husky. I don't think this is the dog exhibiting the human behaviour of passing out but wanting to stay awake. I think that dog probably ate something off/is fighting some kind of sickness or discomfort. You should bring it to the vet asap.", "Whatever you're filming the rule is horizontal anyway", "Aww, poor awoo!", "did you find their owner? he's panting and won't sleep from stress", "The panting is from stress, not heat (probably).", "He’s definitely stressed", "> It's unusual to find stray huskies\n\nIt's really not. They're probably the most common breed to find in shelters because they tend to run away and get lost - huskies infamously are escape artists. Speaking from experience.", "These dogs are actually very good with maintaining their body temperature. Their fur doesn't just heat them up (that'd be pretty horrible design) it also keeps a layer of air in which allows them to stay cool. That's why you should never shave a husky in the summer. It'd have to be insanely hot in that appartment for the dog to be discomforted by it.", "👆", "This guy isn't even the original person who posted. \n\nReal OP found the husky last night, is taking to vet today for microchip.\n\nFrom the original post \n\nUpdate - no hits on my posts. We are going to see if he is chipped in the morning. If he isn’t, I will take care of him a couple days and see if we can’t find the family. I hate having to put him in a shelter, so you all might have to convince my brother to let him stay if it comes to that.\n\nFYI he has been fed and yes... this is real. I can’t believe I have to say that.", "Putting ”x-post” in the title doesn’t make it a crosspost.", "I think they specifically meant it's unusual to find huskies without owners.", "Something is not right here, you need to feed that dog some salad. Source: I own two turtles.", "After spending time around Huskies my opinion is that if they don’t escape, it’s only because they don’t want to.", "Not anymore old friend. These days apps are designed for vertical recording. Even though horizontal is the better way, vertical has become… the right way.", "It's still a crosspost and better to claim that in the title when the wording is like that.\n\nBut anyways, OP is karmawhore", "Right but many ppl browse reddit on laptop contrary to tik tok for ex.\nPlus if you record a moving thing it gets out of the frame easily in vertical, etc...", "lmao but srsly my sibe is 10 y.o and he's had 3 solid escapades and one where I legit thought I'd never find him again - I was very lucky. And he's well behaved, fully trained and his recall is reliable 99% of the time... but these dogs, sometimes they'll just hit that \"run towards the horizon no thinking back\" switch and all the training just goes out of the window.", "they've somehow come to the improbable conclusion that it's not in their best interest", "Is this in Colorado?", "This..ground is so soft...what is it?? hmmm falling asleep....NO! CAN'T TRUST SOFT GROUND...It's a traa...NO! but it's so soofftt and comfer...NO I WONT LET MY GUARD DOWN!", "Yes this is what I meant, I can believe they are experts in running away.", "If OP is a karma whore they are doing a bad job at it.", "Fuck browser users", ":( mobile app is shit and browser in android is designed to make you want to cut your throat out of frustration.", "Sync", "Not gunna link the original post tho?", "Texas" ]	33	videos	Took in a lost Husky for the night. Gave him a bath and some water. He wants to stay awake but can’t (x-POST r/aww)
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qsy8sr/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qsy8sr/deleted_by_user/	[ "I miss Patrice! RIP, my man!", "Man, I still miss him. His Fox News appearance was Legend!", "Fuck Opie sucks at radio.", "HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON...", "You're telling the joke all wrong first you kick them in the shin then cum in their eye 💦", "I only heard about this guy when Chappelle's accuser said Patrice Oneal defended her from some of the other staff. I youtubed his specials and they were funny as hell. I also learned about his passing, RIP\n\nEdit:\n\nHere it is, \n\nHer name is Stacey Oristano, she's and actress. \n\n/r/videos deletes comments with automod for having links, but you can google Stacey Oristano Chappelle", "Love Patrice. This video is a waste of time", "What do you mean? Who's accusing Dave of anything?", "i think if you google chappelle harassment, ice cube, patrice o neal defend it'll come up", "...Nope. Nothing but the Player Hater's ball, because Ice T is in it. You just making things up...?", "that's the episode the harassment happened, ok try this\n\nchappelle harassment, accuser, Player Hater's ball, ice cube, patrice o neal defend and do a time duration of 1 month", "You're blatantly just trying to spread slander since you're not linking to anything yourself.", " I'm not accusing chappelle, I'm saying another girl did.", "Yeah. I'm saying you're lying about that. To slander the guy.", "I'm not though. You're slandering me by lying about me.", "Feel free to provide an actual source then.", "I told you have to google. So now you're a slanderer and a lazy slob", "Pathetic", "ok if you say so \n\n> So now you're a Pathetic slanderer and a lazy slob", "That doesn't sound right, not sure what video you are talking about but let me test it right now with the player's hater ball video as a test.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKIwj1TQmFs\n\nI am 99% sure your links got deleted by automod because of user error. Remember that this sub has the following rules about videos.\n\nNo web pages that only embed Youtube or Vimeo videos. No URL shorteners. No links to playlists or to channel pages.", "yeah, I have a hard time posting links, I would just recommend people google this following\n\n Stacey Oristano Chappelle", "Well I did and didn't see the video you were talking about. Everyone's Google and YouTube search results are different because they are personalized to that account. If you want to bring in a reference video for an argument you should be willing to provide the link it isn't hard to do.\n\nIf you are mobile just click the share button found directly below the YouTube video and then copy link.", "I never said she accused him on video", "# Grandpa you seem confused did you remember to take your meds?", "lmao, that's how I feel about you, except schizophrenia instead of dementia", "Why? I have done nothing but try and help you as you clearly are having a hard time using modern technology to copy and paste but I guess your ego couldn't accept that and took it as a personal attack as I didn't saying a single thing about her accusing him on video. Maybe you are treating all of the comments as a single like minded crowd like someone with dementia might.\n\nSo okay boomer", "lmao quit it with the tantrum. \n\n>and took it as a personal attack\n\nQuit with the victim complex. I traded a joke for your joke. If it ruined your day shouldn't have told it. \n\n>you clearly are having a hard time using modern technology\n\nNo, more like you have a reading comprehension problem. Somehow it got in your mind that I said there was a video, read my comment again, I never said that. \n\n>I didn't saying a single thing about her accusing him on video.\n\nSo you spent 3 comments explaining how to share a video for no reason? I would make another schizophrenia joke but I don't want to hurt your fragile ego again.", "either way, this thread is clearly bad for your mental health. Blocking you now.", "The fact you are interpreting what I said as a tantrum only further cements that you are adding emotional context that isn't there that only exists in your head to the comments.\n\nMy text never once conveyed anything that indicated a tantrum. The emotions I was actually experiencing was was more me shaking my head and mild amusement.\n\nAlso I didn't spend 3 comments explaining how to share a video, I spent only 2. You clearly have issues and I will leave you too them try not to take everything as a personal attack." ]	29	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY	/r/videos/comments/qsywco/remember_this_classic_from_the_golden_age_of/	[ "Man, this brings back some memories. I remember when this went viral, it was everywhere even made my local news. This was as popular as the Raise Your Flag song during the World Cup long ago.", "No", "This video was the pinnacle of YouTube", "The carbon footprint of this man", "This one is the original from 2006:\n\n[Where the Hell is Matt? 2006](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNF_P281Uu4)\n\nIt was the first video I added to the favourites playlist and just noticed I still have a comment on it too from 15 years ago. Nothing quite tickles the nostalgia bug for me than watching it and hearing Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby.", "y this make me wanna cry lol", "Exactly, I find it bloody disgusting people are out there enjoying their lives and seeing the world.", "Cause at the end of the day, all of us everywhere are animals who just want to laugh and dance but the overlords crush us with possessions and obligations.", "downvoted for truth. smh", "Truuu", "I remember using napster i think to get that song. maybe it was something else i got it.", "I agree", "> he is out of line but he is right", "I participated in Shanghai for the 2012 video but I don't think he used the clip.", "This video changed my life. I was borderline depressed and wasn't sure why. I realized I wanted to travel but never did because I was alone. After watching this like 100 times I booked my first solo trip and have since travelled a lot and become a lot more comfortable with who I am. I moved to another continent, met someone, got married and now have a kid.\nThanks Matt.", "I was so impressed by this but now I think it's just silly.", "An upvote for you! Congrats on finding happiness!", "[I just want to be happy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzyI93e_zY)", "Wow that's fantastic. I'm happy for you. If you don't mind me asking, how did you decide where to go and where did you end up staying?", "The dream of healthy globalization and unity seemed so real back then. What happened?", "Yeah he did a few. All of them are really good. [The 2012 one is also great](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-pA6TaZk) - The final scene really gives me to feels. You'll see why", "great memories!", "One of the best things about the Internet and YouTube. Thank you.", "People happened", "Showed someone this that was born in like 2000. They didn't get it and thought it was weird.", "It's easy to look back with rose tinted glasses but politics definitely seems more crazy and pessimistic now. Maybe I've just forgotten.", "It can be both =)", "Do you dance at every place you visit?", "While I'm sure you're joking a bit - The anger towards travel I think is a bit overblown. Aviation accounts for 2% of the global carbon footprint. If everyone stopped going on holiday to foreign countries we'd still have to solve the energy crisis. Also I think travel really broadens people's minds and probably does a good deal towards bringing people from different countries together. (Which is very important for tackling issues such as climate change)\n\nThe only real solution I can see for global warming is people putting pressure on their governments to calloborate and invest in renewable energy resources. Switching the lights off at night or avoiding flying is a nice idea but doesn't really do much in the scheme of things.", "I was born in 2002 and think it's a cool video 🤷🏻‍♂️", "Ambassador to the world.", "Global collapse was only looming over the horizon instead of breathing down our necks.", "We learned that what really matters are the co-conspirators we make along the way.", "Trump, Putin.", "We allowed corporate monopolies to take over the internet", "I'm a sucker for this shit", "I chose places that were reasonably easy to get to, where it was easy to travel around and cheap. I normally just booked my plane tickets then worked out places to stay when I got there. I would have an idea of a place for the first night but check it out first. I don't like talking to people normally but somehow it's easier when travelling and talking to others doing the same. So I'd ask people for advice and move on based on that. Lonely planet books were incredibly useful. Most of my earlier travel was to south east Asia because of the ease and cost. I was from the UK. Thailand in particular is really easy for the novice traveller. My first trip was inland and I moved cities every few days. My second trip was to the islands, Koh Tao to start with to learn diving. I found it's a lot easier to meet people while traveling if you are doing an activity. So then most of my trips had at least a part that involved diving. Next was Malaysia + Singapore, Indonesia, India, China, then when I moved, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Hawaii and then some different trips to Zambia Zimbabwe and Botswana, Peru and Chile. The latter ones weren't as cheap. For about a decade each year I did two two-week and one one-week trip abroad.", "I don't, but part of me wishes I did.", "Thank you", "Aw, there's just more of you to love.", "It's unfortunate that traveling teaches you so much about the world, but contributes significantly to killing that world (carbon emissions).", "You started paying attention to your demented uncle on Facebook", "No, Trump was the end result of a long simmering political divide in America. You can definitely say that politics in a post-Trump world is different a different beast. But pointing the finger at those two makes it seem like they were some kind of black swan event. Like out of nowhere they were put into office. Americans already felt a notable divide in the Obama years as well. Trump was the reaction, not the instigator.", "Didn’t know about those, thanks for bringing Matt and his dancing to my attention!\n\nReminds me of this gem:\nhttps://youtu.be/MAFhh47DYCc \n\nDifferent focus but always gives me heartwarming „zest for life“ vibes. And such a awesome track to boot!", "These videos make me cry happy tears every time I see them. Something about seeing that many random people all over the world doing the same thing together with smiles does it for me.", "No, I don't remember this, but it's now reawakened my desire to travel the world. Thanks, and damn you", "dude went to the dmz and did a jig a couple of feet away from a north korean guard. incredible.", "I'm glad you found yourself and.... \nSo does he; Where's Matt now? \\~2012. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-pA6TaZk", "86' born. I can still cry everytime I watch his videos.", "mmmm yeah, great song. I feel exactly the same way.", "Wonder why he was in Kuwait City in 08? I was just a little north of him for 15 months. Wasn't a fun trip.", "remember [Davey Dance Blog?](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2516C639A8FC9C3D)", "Lmao \"the west\" is a coalition that spreads death and destruction all over the globe. Blaming everything on Russia is brainworms.", "Seeing folks dancing and happy like this from just a decade ago makes you really put thing into perspective. I mean compared to how worse it is now for pretty much all of us, everywhere in the world... The absolute nostalgia from this memory makes me even more depressed. Where the actual fuck did we all go wrong.", "I feel like I'm also not getting it, from the way you're speaking of it.\n\nIs there a deeper meaning here other than a man having a fun time traveling and meeting nice people?", "Mans hot hella passport stamps", "yes! this is the one.\n\nFirst notes of that song just caused a giant wave of nostalgia to rush over me.", "This is just so beautiful", "If you seek to understand people, start here: We all want to be happy and we don't want to suffer. In that way, we are all the same.", "I'm actually in this one! I was able to go to the filming the Manchester, England bit.", "Remember, this is the guy that came up with the title for \"Destroy all Humans\" while working at Pandemic.", "I'm in this video - Matt is really friendly in real life. :)", "i cry every time", "how have I never seen this wtf", "black president make america go crazy. ok gotcha", "Still makes me happy. Very happy.", "Why not go vegan? The animal industry causes violence and massively more environmental harm than planes.", "I am vegan", "Sounds like the Secret Life of Walter Mitty! Glad you took the leap and found adventure and happiness!", "Here's his video where he explains how they afford to do this\n\nhttps://youtu.be/sXZPLJffF0k", "The message is that we all are more alike than we realize. Humanity is one big tribe but we just don't see it yet.", "Cool!", "Fear is more profitable.", "Watching this I’m also struck by how different things seem. I feel like making something like this today just wouldn’t be as organic, as people are now jaded with the number of tourists/smart phones/people recording their own content everywhere. It just isn’t as novel and more than that, there seems to be a pervasive and anxious individualism. \n\nPeople have turned inwards and prefer comfortable, curated reflections of themselves in their use of the internet and technology but also in day to day life after the economic beatdowns/inequality we’ve experienced and most recently the hardship of the pandemic. I think most people feel the pressure that’s been growing as the world has changed and have a more pessimistic future outlook, e.g. the climate crisis that is well under way but that we can’t tackle at the individual level, where we are increasingly held/opt for politically. \n\nI wish their was a word for the kind yearning I have for ‘collective intimacy’ once again. This cycle of just-trying-to-get-by and lonely consumption just ain’t it. It’s soul crushing.", "You're viewing it amplified by the internet and instant mass communication. Every metric we have says the world was more violent in the past. \n\nThat said, the instant mass communication has definitely made it so everyone feels the need to amplify their voice, and opinion on politics. In the past, you could just chill in your village.", "He also did one for 2016", "Funny cuz this video was funded by a corporation. Matt has pure intentions but from the start money is involved in some way", "That and the orange crush shirt. It’s all about dance. \nMakes you realize we shouldn’t be surprised that tiktok blew up as a dancing video platform", "amazing video , loved this shit", "....fuck", "Great reflections, I can only agree.", "But are you a level 5 vegan?", "[Garry Schyman - Praan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dav0Ho4GEkA)", "What was the story behind this? Was Matt in the travel industry? Or did he have a lot of spare money?", "You can see a few lectures on his channel that explain it. To give a quick summary:\n\nHe quit his job and initially did a video in about 15 countries. Then Stride gum ended up sponsoring him which is how this video and a few others are funded. Managed to stay about 5 days in each country as well. Getting paid to go to a country and do a little dance with great people is probably one of the best jobs I can think of!", "Ever since 2012, I've been on this 'travel the world' binge and i have to say, the world is generally very open. It's only when you hear about things through the media that you get the idea that everything is going to crap. The news media isn't going to cover the global unity. It's only going to report on government interactions (which CAN vary over the years) and 'bad' news stories like immigrant crises because that's what will generate views.\n\nI've literally been around the world and the one thing I've come to learn is that everybody, everywhere, is human. We are much more similar than we think. Sure, some customs and social cues might be different when you cross borders, but overall people are open and friendly.", "I made this video. Wonderful to read the comments. Thank you. Glad it still stirs up feelings for people, and I don’t know what happened to the world either.", "Let's also not pretend that reddit itself doesn't also permeate these myths of how terrible the world is right now.\n\nThere's a whole subreddit dedicated to saying how terrible the US is, to the point that people outside of the US just refuse to believe that the US isn't in a constant shithole state.", "There's [more refugees today than ever before](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/there-are-now-more-people-forcibly-displaced-around-the-world-than-ever-before/655af16f-ec58-4029-8d65-c6ea16c0eee0), its been increasing every year for basically the past ten years. \n\nAnd the climate crisis is going to keep getting worse, leading to more conflicts and suffering. \n\nIts kind of silly to just have blind faith that things are automatically gonna keep getting better and more peaceful. If you do believe that, at least explain what trends and factors you think are responsible, and why you think they will continue.", "My story is almost the same as /u/Therealmesf. This video changed my life. After seeing this I started traveling more, and now years later, I'm on the other side of the planet. Married, 3 filled passports later, I'm still traveling as much as I can (well, during normal times)\n\nMy two seconds of internet fame is that I'm pretty front and center in one of the shots in his 2012 video. Was an honor to meet him in person. Keep being awesome, Matt!", "I hope he is, people tend to forget just how many calories there are in shadows.", "Hey there are you claiming to be Matt?", "That made me smile so much. Well done you.", "Not too late to start.", "There isn't really anything to get other than before the ADHD mentality towards videos and online media, this was entertaining and humorous. There was no endless scroll of funny posts, just a handful of new things everyday to look at. The video is really just meh, but nostalgia makes it great. Also, his idea was unique at the time. Do something and document doing it a thousand times with variations or whatever.", "Yup." ]	99	videos	Remember this classic from the golden age of YouTube?
https://youtu.be/JJT_vN3yu6s	/r/videos/comments/qszeka/ewe_know_the_grass_is_always_greener_in_the_next/	[ "[TFW](https://i.imgur.com/zEDBTMO.gif) you're just having your dinner but you realise someone's filming you", "Eye know.", "\"Help step-shepherd, I'm stuck!\"", "They need to be moved from their field soon." ]	4	videos	Ewe know the grass is always greener in the next field Kirkham Abbey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0dEd5Ma3X0	/r/videos/comments/qszp7b/michael_jackson_recording_the_demo_of_beat_it/	[ "I dunno how to tell you this, but they always record the artists voice separate. Everything is recorded separate and then layered on top of one another.... It's called the vocal tracks/vocals. Just FYI", "But that's not what this is, that's the demo of the song in which Michael shows what he had in his head. That's a home demo vocal.", "yes he layered different tracks of his voice to harmonize", "Shut the fuck up lol", "Whah whah whah", "Confession. To this day, even after listening to this acapella, I still can't make out what are the lines in the chorus after \"no one wants to be defeated\" and before \"it doesn't matter who's wrong or right\"", "Showin' how funky and strong is your fight", "I think it is “Show them how funky strong is your fight”", "I'm beginning to think that Jackson kid was pretty talented.", "https://genius.com/Michael-jackson-beat-it-lyrics\n\nAlmost any song ever made is on Genius, unless it's obscure.", "I always thought it was show them hot pockets show them you're right.", "Many of the great artists had a better natural intuition for learning music or playing it, than the average person. He also came from a musical family and had been surrounded by Motown musicians and producers since he was 10.", "Show them hot monkey!", "What is your point here?", "This is before any production had begun bro\n\nThis is like him just singing into a microphone", "Y’all should YouTube Rod Temperton demo tracks. He and Quincy Jones were the ones giving Michael direction for his songs, how the melody would and such", "Holy shit… look everyone! It’s the smartest person alive!!!", "I agree, MJ was extremely talented in many ways. RIP king of pop :(", "Yes, for songs such as Off The Wall or Thriller, but MJ composed Beat it from start to finish, same for Billie Jean", "Michael Jackson used his voice for most of his songs", "A whole different breed of stupid", "Not in any way disparaging this post, but this was well-known. Despite his decades making music, he never had any desire to learn the production instruments, tools or technology. Instead he would just record himself beatboxing the rhythms on a tape recorder and then let the producers do the magic work.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n\n>Jackson had no formal music training and could not read or write music notation. He is credited for playing guitar, keyboard, and drums, but was not proficient in them.\\[425\\] When composing, he recorded ideas by beatboxing and imitating instruments vocally.\\[425\\] Describing the process, he said: \"I'll just sing the bass part into the tape recorder. I'll take that bass lick and put the chords of the melody over the bass lick and that's what inspires the melody.\" Engineer Robert Hoffman recalled that after Jackson came in with a song he had written overnight, Jackson sang every note of every chord to a guitar player. Hoffman also remembered Jackson singing string arrangements part by part into a cassette recorder.", "In the spirit of isolated vocals: Merry Clayton on 'Gimme Shelter'. Her part starts at 2:12\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChONufP0FEs", "hells yes. six feet from stardom!", "He'd be Prince", "hits a biiiiit flat at 0:38", "I periodically sit my 11 yr old girl and 9 yr old boy down for some musical education. This is one of the videos I hit them with. They dug it.", "No one wants to be the fetus!", "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4NrUxcsYs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4NrUxcsYs) \n\n\nMichael is pretty good at crushing cans as well.", "Hahaha I knew exactly what video would be linked. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.", "That whole album Thriller still stands today. From front to back that album was genius.", "Hot pockets are delicious.", "that makes what he did even more impressive", "\\*beat the fetus", "first time seeing this gem. thanks LMAO", "? It's a demo dude 💀", "That crack in her voice literally brought me to tears.", "Still slaps" ]	37	videos	Michael Jackson recording the demo of 'Beat it' using only his voice
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uumJsZGX01s&feature=share	/r/videos/comments/qt0c4q/highpowered_magnet_slow_motion_impacts/	[ "buckyballs", "If this channel was a crypto, i'd invest my life into it lol. Awesome idea man, ur channel is gonna blow up in views for sure!", "Thank you so much :)" ]	3	videos	High-powered Magnet Slow Motion Impacts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUWq_aBiE_s	/r/videos/comments/qt0mki/to_which_song_was_this_is_america_clip_actually/	[ "This is America by Childish Gambino", "Lmfao", "This would really work with any song that is 120 bpm and in 4/4 time signature. Carly famously not American tho", "Hilarious and disturbing at the same time!", "It's true. She's Canadian. I seen her at the bank one time.", "I feel like this should be a Reddit challenge .... Like the Photoshop contests 🤣\n\nSee who can find the best mashup combo", "Check out [r/sharedbpm](www.reddit.com/r/sharedbpm).", "Ha had never heard of that but this is the all time top post there", "Oh Thank you, mr Obviousness. The seriousness kills slowly.", "Huh, I always thought a white girl sang this." ]	10	videos	To which song was "This is America" clip actually recorded
https://youtu.be/x50CFBj--Vo	/r/videos/comments/qt0vh1/creating_a_unescaple_minecraft_maze_to_trap_one/	[ "Inescapable* 👉👉", "WTF is 'unescaple'?\n\nThink ya meant \"unescapable\".", "I read uni•skay•pul and wondered if a new word was developed over night\n\nThen realized this guy doesn’t know words", "Its to shorten the title im not stupid", "I call bullshit.\n\nThe title is 55 characters (not including the spaces.) You dropped just two letters in the word \"unescapable\" to \"shorten it\"?", "Yup", "Unescaple is easier to read than Unescapable it therefore i decided to make it Unescaple it probably doesnt have to much of a difference but i thought it would be useful to try out\nObviously it doesnt..lol" ]	7	videos	Creating A Unescaple Minecraft Maze To Trap One Minecraft Player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WecUR1ESYAA	/r/videos/comments/qt0zay/old_irish_farming_life_with_poetic_commentary/	[ "This is nice. Thank you OP", "Thanks for posting this.\n\nI've been trying to figure a way to plant into bare ground without tilling or using plastic silage tarps. Harrowing probably works. Chicken tractors could work to a degree but then the weeds would germinate before the crops... v0v", "go raibh maith agat!" ]	3	videos	Old Irish farming life - with poetic commentary. Beautiful and soothing.
https://youtu.be/2Lc8So_ij9s	/r/videos/comments/qt1erc/this_is_why_modern_women_cant_get_married_in_2021/	[ "I don’t think I’ve had enough meth this morning to enjoy this", "acne wouldnt be so bad if they stop plastering their faces", "That's just methed up.", "I don't understand the title. Why can't they get married? Because they are great at applying make-up? I really don't get it.\n\nEdit: Ah it seems it's some kind of toxic incel shit. Never mind.", "SIMP" ]	5	videos	This is why MODERN WOMEN can't get married in 2021\| 19
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qt1q8r/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qt1q8r/deleted_by_user/	[ "No no no. \n\nIt’s Be Prepared. This one does come in second", "Do you think Ursula has normal human parts under those tentacles, or is there an octopus beak where her lady bits should be?", "Both. Don't piss her off during sex.", "IMHO it's just the greatest Disney song period" ]	4	videos	[deleted by user]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gwwltsk1fdc&feature=share	/r/videos/comments/qt20s6/who_its_not_vaccines_or_its_vaccines_and/	[ "Low-income countries should have developed their own vaccines if they didn't want to wait for our hand-me-downs.", "That is probably not too far off what corrupt 3rd world rulers thought when they decided that they would spend their careers enriching themselves at the expense of their people.", "Why do you think I didn't get the extremely well-known Marie \nAntoinette reference?", "So let the people suffer?", "That is what their corrupt leaders choose every time.", "That's not what I asked. If I see someone pushed down by someone else in the street, I am going to help them up. I'm not going to say \"Well the person with you did it to you.\" and walk away.", "A single person is not a nation; that is why my intuition in that case is different.", "https://www.citizen.org/article/pfizers-power/", "relevant username.", "How is an article explaining why many poor countries are waiting not relevant in this thread, is there any other conversations going on here?", "This is a video from the WORLD Health Organization. On a world scale it makes sense to get everyone vaccinated with at least the first dose before doing boosters. The virus can spread easier among unvaccinated people and more transmissions means more opportunities for new variants. All of the vaccines have done worse vs the delta variant than the alpha variant. \n\nLetting low-income countries suffer also hurts those countries who developed their own vaccines." ]	11	videos	WHO: It’s not vaccines or, it’s vaccines and.
https://youtu.be/GPKt4D66dB8	/r/videos/comments/qt2bbd/best_scary_bushman_prank/	[ "Kumasi right?", "Yh bro", "Missed the place. What’s happened to ksi High school students been shook… we were harder than that in my time 😎", "I much prefer Nickxar's bushman pranks.", "Bro they were very cool with it after relaxing it.", "Choice" ]	6	videos	Best scary Bushman Prank
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qt2gkg/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qt2gkg/deleted_by_user/	[ "So Red Dawn: Australia?", "Kinda, this isn't really a good representation of the rather fantastic book series from 1993 though.", "Kinda. The series has a non-specific actor (intentionally non-specific, not 'hur hur its really China') invade Australia. Don't know why the poster mentions NWO or China." ]	3	videos	[deleted by user]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WY9KckPI68Y&feature=share	/r/videos/comments/qt2i3e/the_james_webb_telescope_is_about_to_launch_the/	[ "\"First 30 days will be pee.\"\n\nGross.", "... will be delayed", "scrubbed due to seals scratching their bellies too much on the beach 20 km away from the launch complex in Guyana.", "“Pure terror”.\n\nIt’s terror for the scientists as they won’t know if it has all worked.", "Yikes. 344 single point failures. \n\nIf each of them has just 0.1 percent change of failing, the probability of failure for the whole telescope is 30%.", "Assuming each change is failure is independent, you just multiply them. \n\nProbability of success of one event is (1-0.001) = 0.999. \n\nProbability of success for every event is 0.999^344 = 0.7", "I've a question. As the images I've all seen show the telescope sitting parallel to the sunshield and the sunshield always has to be facing the sun, does this mean JWST can never look directly away from the sun and will always be pointed out perpendicular to it instead? If so, what does that limitation place on potential observations which Hubble didn't have (I know JWST is much larger and in a different league and spectrum etc, but still).", "Why assume such a high chance of failure for each point? What other project are you comparing it to that had a similarly high rate of failure?", "0.1% is not that high for satellites and aeronautics.\n\nTake for example Hubble. It has faulty mirror. Unlike Hubble, James Webb can't have service missions to repair it. If anything goes wrong, mission has failed.", "By definition a a single point failure is a fault that affects one element and corrupt the ouput of the whole system. \n\nMulti-point faults and latent faults are often correlated.", "The people building the JWST are definitely aware, and billions of dollars and millions of man hours have gone into making sure it will deploy correctly. There was a quote from a project director I think that said something along the lines of \"We've done everything possible to make sure this works. If it doesn't work, then it was an impossible mission from the start.\"", "I don’t believe that it can face directly up. But because it’s in a locked orbit around the sun, say we needed an image directly above it. We would need to wait up to 1/4 of its orbit around the sun which will mean that it would then be able to face that direction easily at that point.\n\nThink of the moon and it’s locked orbit having one side always facing earth.\nNow you’re on the dark side of the moon, you want to look at the sun, it’s directly above you at the time but you can’t look directly up (because reasons).\nAs the moon orbits earth there will be a point where you will be able to see the sun on the horizon.", "Sorry, still doesn't make sense. JWST can never look at the sun, and the way it's aligned makes me think it can never look directly away from the sun either. I've not seen any animations that show the main scope even angling away from the sunshield. So in my mind it's always looking at a line tangential to the orbit of the sun, +/- a few degrees I presume to achieve good pics. However I've never seen any images or animations showing any articulation of the scope relative to the sunshield so then I'm thinking how far can it traverse the entire structure while still maintaining sufficient shading from the Sun to keep the instruments cool enough to work.", "JWST can rotate the telescope around the Sun-Earth L2 axis. That's how you can get 360° view of a particular strip of the sky. If you want to take pictures of a different area, all you need to do is wait for JWST to move in its orbit around the Sun. Since the telescope sits around Sun-Earth Lagrange 2 point, it will orbit the Sun roughly for a year before combing back to the same place in its orbit. This means that if you want to say, make pictures of a 360° strip perpendicular to your current position, you need to wait around 3 months for the telescope to be in the correct place in its orbit (6 months will be at the other side of the Sun, so not good for our purpose).\n\nAnother way to imagine it is like riding a train. You cannot look directly in front of a train while in the passenger car, all you can see is the sides. But if the train goes into a curved track, you suddenly can see what was in front of it previously, while looking at the side.", "Imagine if they send it up facing the wrong way and all we get back is pictures of earth.", "I've seen a lot of title mistakes, but never seen this, I wonder what OP did", "We lost one shuttle due to seals...", "I am so excited for this and the discoveries we will make.\n\nI really hope it all goes off without a hitch. It's truly amazing.", "Please change the name to someone who wasn't a massive homophobic bigot.", "Hahaha I thought you were just being snarky, but lo and behold their user name is actually Lt Cdr. Data 😂😂", "Ok, we changed it to AHST (Adolf Hitler Space Telescope).\n\nYou're welcome.", "What will the first 40 days be again?", "It's actually launching?!", "It's 50%\n\nIt either fails or it doesn't", "If it doesn't work somebody is going to demand his head on a platter.\n\nNah I am just kidding. There will be no consequences for the billions of dollars wasted.", "Pretty sure it's the default behavior if you share a link and it grabs the default title", "JWST cannot look at the sun. That would damage it. Its shield blocks the sun. But as it orbits, the objects that are \"sunward\" become visible. After a year, it will be able to see the whole sky.", "imagine.." ]	29	videos	The James Webb Telescope Is About To Launch: The First 30 Days Will Be P...
https://youtu.be/SDuHXTG3uyY	/r/videos/comments/qt2y48/you_still_think_you_can_control_them_this_scene/	[ "Build back better....", "MAGA", "It’s not yearning for a better future, it’s yearning for an idealized past.", "Because he is, like, literally a Nazi, like, right?", "Yes true, but the general population was lulled in too by all of what I said as well", "Basically yeah", "His Dad was, Don has a bit of that in him but he's a different beast.", "The previous poster is a 4 day old account, likely avoiding a ban.", "Fred Trump was a bonafide racist (not allowing black or puerto rican tenants in his properties) but he was not a Nazi. He downplayed his German heritage after WW2 to put Jewish tenants at ease and publicy supported Israel.", "As long as their are no more coup attempts, subverting Democracy, or treasonous insurrections at the Capitol building, Im good with that.", "Easily the most Fascist like President the United States has ever seen.", "He was a member of the KKK. I mixed up which despicable racist group he belonged to.", "Strange antifa started to oppose him, a group that uses hate and violence to silence any opinions that differ from their own.\n\nSounds super anti facist, right?", "Trump is a populist without any ideology, that differs him from Nazis.", "no, dip shit., because he and they literally use the same playbook. Jesus you fuckers are DENSE.", "dont forget the weakness, they felt after ww1. thats why the nazis powerfull shows were so successfull.", "Like, Nazis are bad ok? I mean, when Trump, like, put those millions of people in, like, those camps where you think real hard, and then like, sent an army to take over, like, the WORLD it was like, VERY detrimental to my positive thinking.", "if the nazis would have tried to overthrow your government, there would not have been unstructured attacks and no idiots with strange looking hats. and you would say \"guten morgen\" now instead of good morning.", "\"Weird how everyone who opposed the Nazis used hate and violence against them\"", "Stop speaking. just stop. Stop using \"like\" over and over you fucking teenager. Speak like an adult. JUST STOP. You are horribly ignorant, and you are missing the point. Read a book. Learn about history. You aren't even processing this point properly. JUST STOP FUCKING SPEAKING.", "I too would be impressed if a child can sing with a 50 year old's voice.", "I'd prefer Unfuck America - might resonate with the military too.", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRfP_TEQ-g\n\nsimilar, just out of tune, lol", "Well excuse me for trying to speak in the level of people that run around saying everything they don't agree with are Hitler and Nazis.\n\nObviously it got through.", "This is exactly the feeling some people in the north east of Spain (some people in Catalonia, not all of them) are feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbNv5u43RB8 . They are just nuts", "Yes definitely! I would have added more info, but I reached max character number. Also it's nice to leave something up for discussion :)", "Covid?", "Can you pls elaborate?", "I thought they were making fun of the way trump talks", "Trump wasn't what Nazis were by 1945, he was more comparable with what Nazis were doing in the early 30's.", "So edgy", "Fitting username", "Trump does have an ideology, it's called hate.", "Hate is not an ideology, hate is a feeling. At least to me, he seems like a man who only believes in himself, money and power - thats not really an ideology.", "Lol, is that how you view the world? Your righteous side and everyone else is cartoonishly evil? \n\nThe real world is much more complex than whatever narrative you’ve been force fed. Narratives are curated with themes to reinforce an ideology. Incidents that don’t conform to the narrative are discarded. You aren’t left with an accurate view. There is a lot of gray in the world. Saying that “one side” is full of hate is really naive.", "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE", "His supporters definitely have an ideology. Trump’s entire political platform is playing into nationalist/revisionist in a vague unspecific way so that each and every one of his supporters gets to imprint their own idea into what he’s saying. You can see it in people like Qanon believers who Trump has painstakingly made sure to avoid giving too much negative or positive attention to so that he can maintain political appeal beyond them while still keeping them believing that he’s their guy.", "the undercurrents of Ur-Fascism are there. From Umberto Eco:\n\n&#x200B;\n\n1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus ofevery fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. TheNazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occultelements.”\n2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason,is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascismcan be defined as irrationalism.”\n3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautifulin itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection.Thinking is a form of emasculation.”\n4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makesdistinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modernculture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way toimprove knowledge.”\n5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurelyfascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism isracist by definition.”\n6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features ofthe historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, aclass suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of politicalhumiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”\n7. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascistpsychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an internationalone. The followers must feel besieged.”\n8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting ofrhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and tooweak.”\n9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”\n10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”\n11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology,heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with thecult of death.”\n12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women andintolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastityto homosexuality.”\n13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internetpopulism, in which the emotional response of a selected group ofcitizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”\n14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooksmade use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, inorder to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”\n\n&#x200B;\n\nedits to include sources:\n\n&#x200B;\n\nUr-Fascism: [https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/](https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/)\n\n&#x200B;\n\nAbridged Article on Eco: [https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html](https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html)", "Wow I bet you're the first person to ever make that insight", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenetic_ultranationalism\n\n>Palingenetic ultranationalism is a theory concerning generic fascism formulated by British political theorist Roger Griffin.[1][2] The key element of this theory is the belief that fascism can be defined by its core myth, namely that of revolution in order to achieve a \"national rebirth\"—palingenesis.[1][2] Griffin argues that the unique synthesis of palingenesis and ultranationalism differentiates fascism from para-fascism and other authoritarian nationalist ideologies.[1][2] This is what he calls the \"fascist minimum\" without which there is no fascism.[1][2]\n\n>Such movements thus compare the (recent) past with the future, which is presented as a rebirth of society after a period of decay and misery.[1][2] The palingenetic myth can also possibly stand for a return to a golden age in the country's history, so that the past can be a guidebook to a better tomorrow, with an associated regime that superficially resembles a reactionary one.[1][2] Fascism distinguishes itself by being the only ideology that focuses strongly on the revolution in its myth, or as Griffin puts it:\n\n>the mythical horizons of the fascist mentality do not extend beyond this first stage. It promises to replace gerontocracy, mediocrity and national weakness with youth, heroism and national greatness, to banish anarchy and decadence and bring order and health, to inaugurate an exciting new world in place of the played-out one that existed before, to put government in the hands of outstanding personalities instead of non-entities.\n\n>Through all this there will be one great leader who battles the representatives of the old system with grassroots support.[1][2] They appear as one mass of people who have only one goal: to create their new future.[1][2] They have infinite faith in their mythical hero as he stands for everything they believe in.[1][2] With him, the country will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of corruption and decadence.[1][2]", ">The real world is much more complex than whatever narrative you’ve been force fed. Narratives are curated with themes to reinforce an ideology. Incidents that don’t conform to the narrative are discarded. You aren’t left with an accurate view. There is a lot of gray in the world. Saying that “one side” is full of hate is really naive.\n\n\nWho are you who is so worldly and righteous of view? To be so immune from the very things you state so as to claim right of arbitership?", "\\>Trump’s entire political platform is playing into nationalist/revisionist in a vague unspecific way\n\nAbsolutely agree. While not all his supporters are nationalists, he is surly popular with them and caters to their views. But I think from his life before politics it's pretty clear that he does not care too much about ideology, at least not more than it benefits him personally.", "Interesting you are talking about Donald Trumps Dad when the current president is an actual racist. Biden gave the eulogy to Senator Robert Byrd an exalted Cyclopses of the KKK. Byrd led KKK meetings and was a proficient recruiter for the KKK. \nOne of the most despicable men on earth was the late Governor George Wallace who blocked black youth from entering the University of Alabama. Biden has a long history of invoking and at times, praising the late-Alabama governor.\nBiden talked of his sympathy for the South; bragged of an award he had received from George Wallace in 1973 and said “we [Delawareans] were on the South’s side in the Civil War,” as reported by the Inquirer in September of that year.\n\nWhat a fucking racist cunt.\n\nThen theirs the Donald.\nYou can find a picture on the internet of Trump, Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks for Trump getting the Ellis Island award an award in celebration of 'patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood and diversity.'\n\nFeels good to not being a tool of the bs our media puts out.", "Not sure how this is related to me. I don't argue that he uses fascistic elements and caters to clearly nationalistic audience. I just don't buy for a second that he has any ideals himself besides ego, money and power.", "what's with the vampire at the end?", "Fucking read a Western European history book. You people are moronic.", "right, but you don't need ideals or have convictions for the consequences of what you argue to be fascistic.", "1) this is fiction. It is a film made by a director to have a message, and that message is filtered thru modern sentiment and aimed at a western audience\n\n2) the Nazis were not any more nationalist than most other countries. The critique of national socialism is always on the national but never the socialism. The Nazis were not conservatives. They didn't want to go back, they wanted to totally transform Germany like never before. More importantly, while fascism is seen as the opposite communism, fascism is more like a hyper nationalist version of it. You cannot have Nazis without acknowledging that Nazism was a quasi religious movement cut from the same Hegelian cloth as Marxism", "What are they saying? Is it just a religious ceremony or like one of them american rally's?", "Weird, considering it wasn't Antifa that violently attacked police officers at the nation's capital or tried to overthrow an election. Strange, huh?", "Umberto Eco doesn't know what he is talking about lmao. This diagnostic is do vague to be useless and accurately describes most leftists today. On second thought, maybe it accurate after all", "Be 100% assured that Trump is just the beginning. Now that the seed has been planted the roots are spreading - a leader is all that will be required for all out chaos next time. \n\nJoblessness, homelessness, feeling their way of life is under attack, exceedingly small world views, undereducated, propaganda, feeling of community… The rallying cries are clear and present - if a leader arises it will be a legit civil war.\n\nIt also doesn’t help that at the same time the media and companies are leaning into “non-whiteness” creating fear.", "Thank you so much. This describes it perfectly! Have the only award I can give :D", "https://youtu.be/XZUoCpx8jag", "[http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19440324.html](https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc)\n\n>It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else. \n> \n>By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.\n\nOh, are the military allies of fascists also fascists? \n\nStalin proposed formally joining the Axis powers during WW2, including giving Hitler 2.5 million tons of grain, as long as the Soviet Union got land claims in Eastern Europe, but his proposal was rejected by Hitler: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet\\_Axis\\_talks#Soviet\\_counterproposal\\_agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_talks#Soviet_counterproposal_agreement)", "The story is set around a cabaret in 1931 Berlin, so that's a flash of a tie-in to that.", "He is Emcee the Master of Ceremonies played by Joel Grey. Not a vampire though.", "Chilling scene.\n\nIf you need a palate cleanser, I suggest [La Marseillaise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeFhSzoTuc&ab_channel=AndrewBarbin), from Casablanca.", "I was talking about Fred Trump because the conversation was about Fred Trump and by extension his son Donald. I have no particular affection for Biden either. I'm not even American.", "Umberto Eco lived through Fascism in Italy, and is widely respected for his academic work. \n\nThe point isn't that Fascism is specific, it's explicit that it doesn't care about policy. Fascism develops without policy but relies on the incitement of emotions and fears of a populace.", "With all of the examples in our culture of the dangers of nationalism, it's truly disheartening that we are always still suffering from it.", "No, it's truth\n\n...x sounds patriotic... Patriotic is nationalism ... And SO WERE TEH NAZIS", "[60 second summary](https://youtu.be/tDJgbHoRIXw) of the works of [Roger Griffin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Roger_Griffin), [Umberto Eco](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Umberto_Eco) and [Robert Paxton](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Robert_Paxton)", "Hold up, are you trying to suggest that the real world is black and white? \n\nThink very carefully about how you respond.", "My favorite part of that is that they later sued him because he refused to pay them like he was supposed to lmao\n\nIt was all so on brand.", "Its the hymn from Catalonia. There's a very long story there between Catalonia and Madrid.", "It was done by the US in WWII as well to great success. Take “We Did it Before and We Can Do it Again,” “Strike Up the Band” or frankly any scene from “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” https://youtu.be/i5oWH6JWBJY", "Indeed.", "But that wasn’t a political movement trying to replace the country’s government. That was to drum up support for a war that we were already involved in.", "Yes they did. Look at the 2016 riots in DC when Trump was elected.", "Dangers such as sovereign nation states built around the idea that different peoples deserve legitimate nations that reflect their shared cultural character and language.", "Eco's 14 points is so vague and nonspecific it's basically reading tealeafs or fortune cookies. None of these point actually describes a fascist society or government, just perhaps an illiberal one, so calling it ur fascism is meaningless. It is with great irony that most of these points now describe AntiFa and their \"woke\" compatriots and sympathizers, who are peddling in a postmarxist race/identity-grievance with the same Hegelian origins the Nazis had", "I watched this clip and it's powerful. Glad you posted it", "What does this have to do with Nazi ideology?", "We’re discussing methods not motives.", "GOP elites also thought they could control and co-opt Trump. That didn’t happen.", "\\> without any ideology\n\nif only you know how silly that sounds lmao\n\nyou can't NOT have an ideology. it's literally your ideas. unless you're saying that trump doesn't have any ideas.", "I'm glad you watched it", "the point of calling it Ur-Fascism is exactly that, to describe the conditions underlying the different strands of fascism. \n\nYou can say hey these have similarities with other illberal movements without saying the description is meaningless. It actually reinforces the accuracy of the description! You're just changing out the term illiberal with ur fascism. \n\nIt wouldn't be ironic that illiberal movements have similarities to these characteristics! It would actually say hey, these things do tend to pop up in authoritarian movements together, and maybe we should be aware of that.", "Exactly! How dare you talk about these ideas from the 19th century that helped form many of the nation-states of Europe that are still around today.", "There is literally nothing wrong with populism.\n\nFuck neoliberalism and anyone who supports it.", "I was taught this movie in high school and so glad I did- we got to break down how they rose to power and seeing how history repeats itself is terrifying.\n\nEdit: didn’t learn how to type on a cell phone in HS", "Get out of here, this stupid argument might dupe your Facebook friends but we aren't buying it.", "Not the same thing at all.\n\nCatalans have been forbidden to speak their tongue under Franco for decades. Their current political leaders are in prison in Madrid or in exile.\n\nPre WW2 germans weren't subjugated like catalans were.", "I am not saying the Nazis are leftists, I am saying that like communists, they are both Hegelians. They have the same metaphysical beliefs that by progressing history forward to an end, an eschaton, the state would become perfected and realize itself as God on earth. To Hitler, the German people, Germany, and the state were one and thus purifying the Aryan race of Jews and undesirables would bring about bthe perfected state. For Marx, it was dialectical materialism", "Who the fuck is we?\n\nIf \"people become nationalist in hard times\" were necessary and sufficient conditions for actually literal Nazi, EVERY nation-state on earth would be nazis", ">Who the fuck is we?\n\nSane people that aren't buying your bullshit conservative propaganda. You should be ashamed.", "Consider the difference between citizen state vs. nation state. \n\nCitizen state. If you can attain citizenship you become member of the state. The idea of the United States. \n\nNation state. You can't become \"real citizen\" unless you also absorb the culture, language etc.\nTurkish immigrant in Germany, Jews in England, Germans in Poland....", "Jawohl fellow nazi pretending to lecture on the evangelical Christian pro corporate and union loathing nazis being actually (of course!) nothing of the sort!\n\nKeep up the good work, spread the myths! \n\nSomeday we’ll all believe nonsense like ‘Israelites aren’t the jews, but actually white British men who founded America!’ Smh. \n\nAnd yes, for those interested, that’s a real claim now going around in right wing nut circles.", "You mean like when they threw homemade bombs and gas bombs at families with little kids in a park? Then violently attacked people in front of their children?\n\nAnd taking a knee? Wow, while you make $100k per game. \n\nThink those rich people taking a knee thought to give the money to the people that actually fought their battles? Maybe $100k per person per battle?\n\nWhile you sit on a phone or computer, in the AC, while comparing yourself to Jews who were put in concentration camps and murdered.\n\nGood for you. How is it working out for you pretending to be victim?", "We did this show in high school. Director had the idea to do a big goose-steppin' march of the entire cast around the audience and across the stage to introduce the second half. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nGuess who's got two thumbs, a stiff elbow, and was picked to wear the swatstika and shout Sieg Heil to open it up in a spotlight?", ">Have the only award I can give\n\nMy other awards were confiscated and melted down, as their mineral content was needed for other purposes.", "I am sorry, I misunderstood your words.", "the parallels to whats going on in America right now is pretty terrifying", "If you're asking if Stalinism was fascism, then yes I firmly believe so.\n\nEdit: I was wrong.", "Tell me where I'm wrong. Show me where every 'conservative' movement has been underpinned by a movement to purify race in order to bring about the final stage if history (among others).\n\nMaybe I'm wrong and the humanities, history, political science, and philosophy professors I had along the way to getting a degree in the liberal arts were actually conservatives and nazis all along? Maybe I'm actually a Nazi despite my staunch commitment to the liberal values of individual human rights and rejection of race hierarchy(both of which is fundamentally incompatible with fascist collectivism)? If you can tell me how I'm wrong, I'll listen. But if you think that the three parallel arrows are an AntiFa symbol, it already betrays that you are not well read on this subject", "The reparations from WWI were a sort of subjugation. Imposed by other countries, strongly negative effect on the economy.", "No worries then it is a complicated issue. I should have made my words clearer", "It's interesting that this is the one song in the movie that takes place outside of the night club. When people think of musicals they often think of people bursting into spontaneous song and choreographed dance routines with strangers they've never met with no rehearsal. But in Cabaret, almost every song takes place in the night club where we understand that these songs are happening because that's what the space is for. These are professional performers who sing and dance for the club patrons. The club is dark and sexual, and probably wouldn't be viewed as wholesome or family friendly.\n\nAnd then there's this song. Beautiful pastoral setting, a community coming together to eat and to enjoy each other's company. Then they're brought together in song. What is the animating force that's moved these people to sing together with joy and hope? Nazism.\n\nIt's such a stark contrast to the rest of the film. On the surface it's quaint and picturesque, while the nightlife of Berlin looks sordid. But it becomes clear to us that there is a deeply dark and dangerous undercurrent to this scene that far outstrips the supposed \"immorality\" we see at the night club. \n\nTo me at least, it's a reminder to be careful about what we give a pass to or maybe even appreciate because of its initial appearance. Just because a movement or institution is meeting a need doesn't mean its work is for the better.", "Except that's not what he is doing in practice since most all of his points offer no exclusionary criteria. \n\nAll he is doing is making observations about ingroup/outgroup distinctions and how they typically manifest themselves in behavior and pathologies. He then takes the label of \"fascism\" and voila, now the ingroup/outgroup pathologies of his political adversaries are always fascism. What follows is that his political adversaries are always fascist. It's completely bereft of any value to anything since it applies to literally every single political entity that has ever existed, so long as you position them as being an outgroup.\n\nThe only two criteria that are not immediately applicable to most anything are 6 and 12. Since they are exclusionary, broadly, to men and the working/middle class fighting for political power vs the high and low.\n\nIt's genuinely embarrassing that people look at this and are unable to see past their own nose.", "So, how does the apply to Sarah Palin again?", "How are any of these unique to nation states and nationalism?", "If you need to have it pointed out to you how modern conservatism supports racism(You know, that thing Nazi were all for?) Then you are either an idiot or so far gone in your bias that you aren't even worth talking to anymore. Good luck with that.", "lol", "What were the Inauguration day riots, again? Oh, right, you're just... Yeah... OK...", "I haven't heard that claim, nor do I really care, because I am a liberal, and thus will get the bullet too. The liberal framework rejects the collectivist scape hosting of both communism and fascism, along with the psuedo religious teleology of any if the Hegelian movements, but I don't think you'd understand that", "They peacefully protested the person taking a knee, they didn't beat that person up.\n\nAre you too dumb to tell the difference?", "Dude this entire post reads as a victim’s complex lol", "Play the Marseillaise… PLAY IT!", "Southern Dixiecrats? Yeah of course. MODERN conservatives? No I don't see it. Unless you mean that black marine woman getting elected to lieutenant governor is \"a black mouth moving but white supremacy comes out\"", "Thank you for your insight. I also think all the other songs are sung in the nightclub, because they have to perform them in relative secret as in the nazis would have persecuted them if they knew what and how they were performing.", "Bro do I have your permission to quote you in a song? That shit was poetic AF 👌", "And he wasn't even the beginning. The Republican party had to make ignorance, lies, anger, and fear not just acceptable but preferable. Decades of a concerted Governance As War doctrine (committed to during the Gingrich era) set the stage for Trump. Trump is a logical progression of that effort. But, yes, Trump isn't the end of it.", "That's still peaceful?\n\nI guess you are too dumb to tell the difference. lol", "\"beau of the fifth column\" \n\nNo offense, but it sounds like a fucking load of commie gobblediegook if you ask me.\nOf course you can try to cram the 14 points onto the Jan 6 riot, because it's THAT FUCKING VAGUE. Do you want me to elaborate on how well those points map into the progressive left 'libertarian socialists' such as AntiFa, race-crits et al?", "It’s not much of one if you know what the lyrics mean:\n\nArise, children of the Fatherland,\nThe day of glory has arrived!\nAgainst us, tyranny's\nBloody standard is raised, (repeat)\nDo you hear, in the countryside,\nThe roar of those ferocious soldiers?\nThey're coming right into your arms\nTo cut the throats of your sons, your women!\n\nTo arms, citizens,\nForm your battalions,\nMarch, march!\nLet an impure blood\nWater our furrows!…\n\nAnd it goes on like that. It was written by a hyper populist, nationalist wing of the French Army who were going to go fight in a war in which France was the aggressor who would plunder surrounding countries for a generation. It was that model of Warfare that produced Napoleon, upon whom Hitler certainly modeled his own ambitions of European conquest and image of himself as dictator/military strategist par excellence", "What glorified past were they striving to restore? \n\nWhat rigid hierarchy were they trying to enforce?\n\nStalinism was authoritarian (and terrible), but not fascist by any reasonable definition.\n\nA lot of the methods were similar, yes, but not the underlying ideology.", "wow so profound. nothing odd about this post at all, nope no way. DAE Nazis btw? I'm the first person to draw parallels between nazis and, well you know... anyways this definitely isn't an agenda post and Marx was totally down with black people.", "Ha, exactly. Actually, he employed the 'Kitchen Sink' method, in being that every single person alive fits into a majority of those 'ideals' if you really think about it.\n\nHonestly, Eco was just like those Astrology 'experts', in that he listed so many descriptions so that if you look really hard, you could totally fit your 'enemy' into it.\n\nJust like a Horoscope; they're so completely open ended and vague, there's no way to actually NOT fit into those descriptions.\n\nHence, the kitchen sink method, which is to throw so much vague garbage out there that you can't ever be wrong about somebody because they'll always fit if you really try. It's honestly ridiculous people fall for stuff like this... and Horoscopes.\n\n(Except me, because my Horoscopes totally fit my personality, as crazy as that seems! /s)", "Basel Exposition, British Intelligence.", "That's why my 10 year old only smoke quality cigars", "Fascism is an entire society thinking that, if they believe hard enough, they can actually throw a kamehameha.", "So, um, you mean MAGA?", "he also said\n\n“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.”\n\nedit: stop upvoting this, you are the idiot. yes, you. especially you. the guy i replied to too. he’s the biggest one.", "Thank you for that!", "Dracula seemed pleased.", "Sounds like Democrats now.", "Not only WW1, but immediately afterwards the Spanish Flu and the death of the Monarchy, the conflicts between leftist and right wing groups and then economic collapse of the late 1920s. \n\nIt was truly a time of unimaginable uncertainty.", "Or trumpism or really any leader that has an ism attached to their name.", "Watch the movie. Its awesome.", ">If you're asking if Stalinism was fascism, then yes I firmly believe so.\n\nWell, that view won't get you popular on Reddit.", "Does it also talk about how they made people carry papers, restricted their access to restaurants, sporting events, venues, etc? Or, about how they demonized those people and blamed them for the crisis within their country? Or, how about how they took over the news and censored out other voices so they could spread their own propaganda? Anything about book burnings (which happens on a digital medium now)?", "People can embrace their cultural heritage without controlling an entire nation, and casting people outside of their group as inferior.\n\nNationalism is a poisonous ideology. Try patriotism instead.", "The movie focuses around a German cabaret which puts on song and dance numbers that satirize or poke fun at the rise of facism that is going on outside the cabaret itself, or promoting things the nazis would object to. So the movie will often cut back to the cabaret where they are putting on another number that tries to lampoon a very serious issue that is happening to our protagonists, or being observed by them. The person you saw is known as the master of ceremonies, who runs that cabaret (or runs the show), and he has some moments of breaking the 4th wall to make the viewer into an audience member watching the show.", "Only a spoiled child, living in the PEAK of safety, development and decadence could say nationalism has zero uses unironically.\n\nTell the Poles that are currently being all but attacked by Belarus (and belarus purposely funneling aliens across their border) that nationalism doesn't matter.", "This song is used unironically by white supremacists as an anthem today.", "Nationalism is so much better than everyone fighting for a chance at the table. We are all Americans for christs sake. Stop making us fight each other. Everyone equating nationalism with racism instead of literally just a united system. All the developed nations in Europe do it but in murica m'freedom to be a total piece of douchebag shit is tolerated. You know who also has less segregation too? It's not America.\n\nNo one stands up for me now lol why the fuck do I give a shit about our current system thats literally just constant power grabs between different groups. That's the only reason MAGAism exists because the stupid degenerate nature of domination in politics.", "By your arbitrary (and made up) definitions, the only country in the world that is a Citizen State is USA, and ~maybe~ Canada.\n\nEvery other country in the world is a nation state, by your definitions.", "Where in the USA are communities breaking out into nationalistic song singing and those refusing to participate are outed as not being part of the in-group?\n\nOr did you mean metaphorically? If so, what are some examples of the parallels?", "I think the point is that the people are being forced to sing and are generally unhappy with the song.", "I'm sorry I seem to have missed the part where these problems were unique to nationalism?", "> If you need to have it pointed out to you how modern conservatism supports racism\n\nI would love for you to point out to me how mainstream conservatives support racism.", "written by an Early Life individual", "Lol seems you are a bit of both.", "Pretty sure Reddit comments aren’t copyrighted", "Then why are you acting as if they are, in your initial response?", "Most of and I really do mean most of the people that are currently cast into the so-called right in the left vs right paradigm, are not even conservatives and certainly not fascists, but people who are angry at the current establishment and wish to return not to America exactly as it was in the past, but rather to a more constitutional framework. By contrast, and please understand I mean largely the thought leaders and not the average Democratic voter, currently the other side of the aisle, which gets progressively smaller and smaller as more and more people are forced into being right-wing when they were considered centrist only a couple years ago, is promoting and operating in a framework that explicitly rejects liberalism and the liberal ethic. I see myself as a Jimmy Carter sort of liberal. I disagree with the conservatives on policy, and was definitely on the left of the cultural issues back in the 90s when it was the moral Puritans always complaining about rock or rap or video games. I despised the Bush administration. But if you're insinuating that this makes me a cultist then I think you need to self reflect", "Because it's idioting, wrong, and dangerous historical revisionism.", "dumb dems trying to Make America Great Again.", "Ironic that's all made worse by the policies of the GOP.", "Lol fair point however I’d still feel dirty using someone else’s words that aren’t mine", "Tomorrow belongs to me! But the weekend belongs to Stalin.\n\nEdit: what? It’s a historically accurate statement.", "Hahahahahaha amazing. Just amazing. People are sheep, redditors especially.", "Where? All I see is a dude singing", "What are they making great and when was it great and when did that greatness stop?", "Tell that to the countless of minority cultures and languages slowly fading out of existence... Hard to maintain the entirety of one's culture if none of the institutions, none of the national identity nor even the official language represents said culture.", ">Who dragged police officers into the crowd and beat them to death with an American flag?\n\nNO FUCKING BODY DID. ZERO cops died Jan 6th. If you can't stop spewing bullshit, why would you expect people to take anything you say seriously?", "I'd like you to explain how", "Don’t expect self reflection from these morons.", "Ah yes, the patronizing liberal boomer. \"Its those dang Republicans that did it!\"", "I'm sure you'd love for me to waste my time listing out things that are pointed out constantly on the news, just for you to then ignore it just like you do those reports. Well, I won't be doing that today, so you can just put your blinders back on and shove your fingers in your ears.", "This is an eye opening video. The Navi's were really predatory in how they appealed to people.", ">the devastating economic situation in Germany, \n\nIs a myth. The economic situation in germany wasnt that bad.", "I strongly suggest anyone raised in an English speaking country, to read up on Napoleon. His rule and legacy was far more complicated than is often portrayed in English speaking countries and culture. There are very good arguments to be made that the Napoleonic wars were largely defensive, as royalist powers including Britain attempted to quash a revolution spreading democratic ideals they found abhorrent. Certainly, Napoleon's legacy across Europe, is also one that spread democracy, rule of law, abolished serfdom, and diminished of the influence of the Church. Thanks to Napoleon, these countries and their citizens, would never really accept a return to the status quo ante bellum. That's certainly not a bad thing.\n\nSo, for example:\n\n> It was written by a hyper populist, nationalist wing of the French Army who were going to go fight in a war in which France was the aggressor \n\nWikipedia, La Marseillaise:\n\n> [The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled \"Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise)\n\nWikipedia, war against Austria:\n\n> [From 1789 to early 1792, the French Revolution gradually radicalised, breaking with old institutions and practices as it went, and targeting defenders of the Ancien Régime. Some of these defenders, or people who were unintentionally caught in the crossfire, emigrated from France to avoid persecution. ... The French king was put under surveillance, and increasingly suspected of conspiring with other European monarchs, who wished to preserve the House of Bourbon in France and restore its pre-revolutionary authority. This was explicitly stated in the Declaration of Pillnitz (17 August 1791) by king Frederick William II of Prussia and emperor Francis II (Austria, Hungary and Bohemia), who called on all monarchs in Europe to 'liberate' Louis. ... In early 1792, conservative royalist Armées des Émigrés were forming just across the borders in cities such as Koblenz, readying themselves to invade and end the Revolution with the help of other monarchies. The Girondin majority in the Legislative Assembly favoured war, especially with Austria, in order to display the Revolution's strength and defend its achievements (such as the Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789 and the early beginnings of parliamentary democracy) against a possible return to an (Enlightened) absolutist regime. They cited the Declaration of Pillnitz to justify the urgent need to strike first. ... there was a real risk that France would be overwhelmed by foreign forces if a large anti-French coalition were to be formed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaigns_of_1792_in_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars#Background)", "Yes, a good reminder that civilly and wholesomely presented ideas do not make the ideas civil or wholesome, but may distort the perception of them such that they are seen that way.\n\nVice versa is true of course.", "I think it's more like a spirit bomb :)", "This is Poland today.", "And I'd like you stop trying to push the idea that Nazis arent right wing but hey, can't always get what you want right?", "that's exactly the point, fascism wasn't a one off brought about by circumstances that will never happen again. It could happen again in our current time. Also, the OP didn't compare this to any modern government, so I think your reaction indicates something", "Its a human problem. Not a modern or recent one.\n\n\nIt is a human thing to hope. To long for a better life. And with the delusion of being able to attain it, we are willing to justify horrible things if we think it is for a greater purpose.\n\n\nIt is how we have convinced ourselves and others to do great evil all throughout history. And it is how we will continue to do so likely until we either go extinct, or evolve out of the behavior.", "I figured it was obvious I was not talking about the exact scene going on in the movie...I'm talking about the reference to using patriotism, propaganda and populism which the GOP is currently pushing in an effort to instill fear and divide the nation.", "vote for me and ill tell you! i promise this time!", "great movie intense scene", "How did my comment lead you to the belief that I was making commentary about a conservative holocaust? Because I wasn't.", "So what was Stalinism in your view?", "Fascism is authoritarian, but not all authoritarianism is fascistic. Apart from leadership structure and dictatorial strategies like propaganda and suppression of dissent, they're as far apart ideologically as they can be. Fascism is already hard enough to define without muddying the waters.", "You are describing nations, not nationalism. Despite the similarity in names, they are actually very different things.", "Yep.\n\nNot a boomer.", ">If you need to have it pointed out to you how modern conservatism supports racism\n\nYou asshats elected Biden, a very obviously racist dickhole, to President and still have the balls to keep calling everyone you disagree with racists.. Get fucked.", "The \"Republican party is the devil\" mindset when essentially DC is a Uniparty with the reps being simply \"controlled opposition\" is the exact \"turn neighbor against neighbor\" tactic of division that allowed the Nazis to not only rise to power, but commit atrocities without outcry. I've literally seen celebrations over cold blooded murder, then in the next week, candle light vigils for extremists that died as a result of their actions\n\nWe can see this division has already taken root. Fueled by corporate media and social media, we see can watch it in real time. You can watch something live streamed and corporate media will twist it in a way to make the events opposite, then factional zealots will parrot those points onto social media.", "VOTE FOR SIMAUL!", "You mean the Poles using this as an excuse to openly [advocate killing Jews](https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/qsjdwq/death_to_jews_polish_nationalists_shout_at_rally/)? Yeah, ok...", "I'm not saying nazis are actually left wing. Rather, there is no left or right wing as typically understood", "Probably Mexico too. The New World seems generally less monocultured or monoracial, you are allowed to have a culture within another with no real repercussions beyond a mild neighborly discomfort with different norms, which is assuaged with adherence to the overculture. I.e. Americanism etc\n\nThe idea being you share the overall ideal and norms and differ slightly on less important things.", "The old man who stays seated with that broken expression on his face... he's seen some shit in his time, and he sadly knows where this is all going.", "It is about what the songs/hymns represent, isn't it? \"Tomorrow belongs to me\" sounds quite innocent at face value. It is not about that.\n\nSurprising that something so patently obvious is not clear.", "Which really has nothing to do with anything. The people in the scene are not singing in support of conquest, but of freedom.", "Surely you aren't comparing having to \"show papers\" because of your race with having to show papers because of your vaccine status. Because you'd truly have to be the thickest fucking moron on the planet to not see that the bad part is the racism, not the documentation.", "a touch of brilliance of Bob Fosse\n\nhe is not just the presenter for the cabaret but for the movie audience, presenting the shows/events directly to the camera, omnipresent in the whole story as if he is aware of the struggles of the characters, the audience, and germany itself, while smiling and dancing cynically to it", "Woobiedoo Basil, but what does it all mean?", "So your response to me genuinly asking for example of what you claim is somehow me \"puttting blinders back on and shoving your fingers in my ears\" ?\n\nI'm surprised you didn't run out of hoops with this jump in logic.", "Good", "Possibly my favorite scene in movie history, especially as some of the actors (including the Germans) were refugees from areas that were still under Nazi control at the time the movie came out. The emotions were very real for many of them.", "GOP desperately searches for all copies of Cabaret (1972) and burns them.", "Who said conservative? Who said anything about the US?", "Cabaret is one of the few plays where the movie is arguably more powerful than the stage production could ever be.", "Most western states are de facto citizen states legally. They don't consider nation as a sociological concept when considering rights of the citizen. \n\nMany countries have minorities who want their countries to be nation states.", "Why are you purposely acting obtuse, and pretending like there isn't a video of Belarussian soldiers *BLINDING Polish soldiers with lasers* on the front page?\n\nSo in your mind some non-government extremists advocating for killing Jews is enough to write-off the entire nation of Poland?\n\nDo you not see the irony behind what you're doing?", "If you read anything about how Germany was before the wars, the music, the nature and art you will understand how people got fed up with it all and embrace it. \n\nThe degeneracy, the shame, being robbed by banks and foreign investors of their savings etc.\n\nPeople saw hope in the Nazi party, it was more than a return to a glorious safe clean past it was about an even higher goal and what a beautiful goal it was.. national socialism on paper before the extermination and expansion part was like a dream.\n\nI suppose so was communism, the idea that the world would unite and become equal and fair.\n\nPlays out tragically the same as it is sadly about the same thing - a power grab.", "1. I didn't want Biden.\n\n2. I LOVE it when right wingers try to cast people on the left as the ACTUAL racists. Seriously that shit is sooo funny, especially since you are the only ones dumb enough to believe it.", "There's only one party that voted in a venal, self dealing, walking personality disorder, anti-democratic, compulsive liar, ignoramus who would violate his oath of office, the democratic process and the constitution, to the presidency. If you can't see him for what he is, you're a sucker or foundationally anti-american.\n\nAnd, no, there is no symmetry.", "> Probably Mexico too. \n\nAbsolutely not. Not even in the slightest, Mexico has a very strong nationalistic culture", "Uh, no. The nazis where ultra-nationalist and painted themself as a return to the values of the roman empire, or the first reich as the would call it. Every piece of nazi iconography communicates that. Also they hated marxism, or as they called it, \"cultural bolshevism\" and saw it as a Jewish plot to destroy the white master race. That's why the attack on the soviet union was a foregone conclusion no matter how ill advised when Hitler took power.", "What will happen when they take control back in 2024 using fair elections?\n\nCause this current administration isn’t doing any favors for itself to gain more support in midterms", "Don't forget the marrauding paramilitary units that attempted to overthrow the government before and were terrorising political opponents and other people....", ">I LOVE it when right wingers try to cast people on the left as the ACTUAL racists.\n\nSorry that reality is what it is. Don't even try and tell me that people on the left can't be racist. Just shows how fucking brainwashed you really are.", "whatabout marx!", "I didn't know Martin Shkreli had such a voice.", "So kinda like America's romaniticization of the Revolutionary War and \"don't tread on me\" mentality? Hero worship of a bunch of wealthy land/slave owners who didn't want to pay their taxes.", ">2) the Nazis were not any more nationalist than most other countries. The critique of national socialism is always on the national but never the socialism. The Nazis were not conservatives. \n\nThis you bro? Yeah good luck with your doublethink.", "Indeed. Nobody has given the direction to cry. Those tears are all real.", "The fact you're trying to argue about de facto situations and legal rights (AKA de jure, the opposite of de facto) shows you don't really have much ground to argue from.\n\nWhether or not a country is a de facto citizen state has literally zero bearing on their de jure legislation.", "Well that's rather tone deaf in this context wouldn't you say", "This was written by the Republicans against the autocratic monarchies of Europe who were invading France after the French Revolution. Impure blood refers to the common folks who died for the defense of their nation and wasn’t used by Napoleon and was banned by the new French Monarchs due to its Republican sentiments.\n\nLa Marseilles is a very French Republican and populist anthem written about the Army of North France defending against Austrian aggression.", "Nationalists are on the forefront of erasing peoples, with genocide, using both violence and forced integration into their 'superior' culture.", "People always said Trump is the symptom for a reason. He's not causal for anything. Populism was endorsed well before him by multiple factors. Here are some of my favorites: 20% Congress approval ratings despite 90% reelection rates existing in a two-party system nobody wants, stagnant real wages with the inflation of the cost of all necessities of economic mobility - housing, education, medical etc despite productivity continuously increasing resulting in constantly increasing wealth inequality, consolidation of power for unsustainable status quo narratives - 5 companies now own 90% of media in America, and a trajectory since the start of neoliberalism of political corruption by capitalists rivaling the Gilded Age. All of those are rather left wing arguments for why populism happened that preceded Trump. Fox News among others simply used rhetoric during the 90s to spin an alternative narrative for why populism is endorsed while sustaining or expanding power towards the status quo of power which promoted this trajectory.\n\nIf people were critical of America's trajectory they would consider how the nation changed starting immediately after WWII. That was the first in major shifts on the nation where in this example the consequences of WWII caused capitalism to concentrate in America. Other major shifts were neoliberalism and Cold War propaganda. Then post-USSR or 9/11 comes next. There is a rather steady trajectory here of populism being endorsed with an ideology being built for what is best at the same time accelerating towards the same consequences within the status quo.\n\nAlthough this isn't the best media, I find the [propaganda](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX67CSAmlnI) from America following WWII on Nazi Germany very helpful for explaining this trajectory. I believe Michael Moore utilized it in one of his movies.", "I didn't say leftists can't ever be racists, just that its extremely obvious to anyone, not deluded by right wing propaganda, that conservatives on the whole are racists and to suggest otherwise is really stupid.", "Well, I know of only one former president that [spread neo-nazi propaganda](http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45291_We_Found_Where_Donald_Trumps_Black_Crimes_Graphic_Came_From), [spread disgusting lies about religious minorities](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-thousands-new-jersey-ch/) and literally tried to overthrow democracy when he lost the election, but he wasn't a democrat.", "It's easy to identify why two things are different in an analogy. If they were exactly the same then it wouldn't be an analogy. The point is to identify the similarities. Is it not also \"the bad part\" that the gvt was singling out groups of people, demonizing them through the use of propaganda, and forcing them to things against their will?", "I never said they were Marxists. I said that, like Marxists, they were Hegelians. Their Roman empire rhetoric was not conservative either. The conservatives wanted a return to the kaiser. What Hitler wanted, while inspired by the Romans, was radical transformative change", "that is ridiculous\n\nnever were americans less patriot than today\n\nthe american left did such a terrific job segregating people you have a billion groups tearing at each other for control and finger pointing", "Well said. Fun fact: Music that is \"in-universe\" is called \"diegetic\" music.", "I'm describing nationalism, which is based on the idea that the world is populated by different peoples and they deserve their own sovereign nation states.", "Asking something in bad faith is not genuinely asking.\n\n>I'm surprised you didn't run out of hoops with this jump in logic.\n\nRight back at ya champ.", ">I don't think I did act like this.\n\nThat may be, but you did act that way.\n\n\n>Can you explain why you think I did?\n\nI can, but are you just going to argue with me when I do?", "All politicians use these tools.", "Ideology is just that, an idea. Their actual actions and methods should be the metric", "That is not nationalism. Nationalism is \"identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.\" More specifically, we're talking about the concept of where one is born becoming that person's identity, to the point of bigotry and prejudice against others. Or, as SMBC put it best: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction", "It is chilling to me because, as I understand it, the German people were driven down after WWI due to economic sanctions and the loss of the war etc and based on this movie clip just wanted to feel good about themselves the their country and the Nazi's exploited that. It could happen again, it could happen here and that is terrifying.", "Yeah but youd dint match it to any real world parallels. Anyone can copy and paste articles. Its all inference. \n\nPopulist being mad is not something one should wave away with accusations of Fascism.\n\nThe US suffers horribly from a tyranny of the radical minority. Its why the socialist wing of the Democrats basically runs the show despite being less than half the total population. Cause though they are small the are virulent believers compared to the \"meh or I dont care\" wing that will vote on party lines. Same for Republicans though its less apparent in the immediate sense. \n\nSo a populist comes along as says we are not gonna do what they powerful 20% say anymore and we'll do what they other, generally more moderate, 80% want and then they get called fascist because they say they want to stop the powerful 20%. But because the radicals control everything they are the \"old way\" and attacking that fits a few of the definitions that some authors use to describe fascism. \n\nIts kinda fucky. Some of those listed, every politician does to some extent or another but only some get called Fascist. Like theres literally people arguing over whether Stalin and Trump was a fascist. Comparing Trump to Stalin just shows how little people care about what things actually are and that they just want to toe the political line.", "> The degeneracy\n\nYou just showed your whole ass here.", "Yearning for a better future like this is more like, well I dont want to get political but it's more like a certain 12 year old world traveling someone.", "If you read the comments above thoroughly you’ll see restoring a glorified past was one possibility not an end all be all. The most important elements as I read it was that it’s comparing the recent past with some idea of an idyllic future. I think that pretty well fits Stalinism.", "What was with gay Dracula at the end?", "The metric for what? I didn't say it wasn't bad, I said it wasn't fascism.\n\nFascism is an ideology, or at least a genus of ideology. So when determining if something is fascism, shouldn't ideology be the metric?\n\nIf you're just worried about how 'bad' something is I agree, all forms of authoritarianism are trash, no matter the ideology, the methods are unacceptable. But that's not what we were talking about.", "I didn't have enough characters, otherwise I would have been able to add more information. But your point is valid: we all want a better future for ourselves and the ones we hold dear.", "> Does it also talk about how they made people carry papers, restricted their access to restaurants, sporting events, venues, etc?\n\nHey everybody Vaccine = Political Identity now...", ">What is the animating force that's moved these people to sing together with joy and hope? Nazism.\n\nIf only the Nazis didn't try to conquer the world and genocide people, then it would have been quite an invigorating example of patriotism.", "\nhow so? Germany at the time was decadent, you had mothers turning tricks to feed their babies\n\nunderaged brothels and all sorts of perversions for rich foreigners\n\nThis was even more shocking seeing how Christian the nations of the 20s and 30s were", "But now it's done mostly with memes and misleading Facebook posts", ">What are they making great and when was it great and when did that greatness stop?\n\nI don't know, ask Trump. He was the one who was going to \"make America great again.\" \n\nAccording to MAGAs making America great again means killing 750,000 by lying about a pandemic and crashing the economy putting 20 million people out of work and sucking up to Russia and Saudi Arabia is making us great.", "You mean the dude with the swastika on his arm.", ">Just because a movement or institution is meeting a need doesn't mean its work is for the better.\n\nReminds me of the BLM movement and Critical Race Theory in schools.", "I should watch Casablanca", "The American GOP playbook. Page 1.", "Patriotism is necessary to hold a country together. Too often opponents of nationalism confuse it with patriotism.", "I think they were making a joke about how Trump had a nationalistic slogan \"make America great again\" and in response to you calling democrats nationalists, he said \"dumb dems trying to Make America Great Again.\" And now you are taking him literally and yelling back \"BUT THE DEMS!!!\". That made it more funny. Weather or not the dems are actually doing a good job or not is not what made their joke funny.", "Yup, stay the fuck in your echo chamber.. Believe whatever they tell you to believe.. You do realize the more you just throw out the racist bullshit the less impact it is going to have? Bullshit is always bullshit.\n\nBet you think there is no left wing propaganda either, right? Only one party can be shit. All bad things come from conservatives.. You need a good shot of reality.", "You talking trump, obama, bush or biden?\n\nBush started 2 wars, one of which was based on a lie. Also patriot act.\n\nObama introduced indefinite detention and ramped up the Patriot Act.\n\nTrump was Trump.\n\nBiden literally keeps trying to push laws and mandates that the Supreme Court deem unconstitutional. Then after they do so, he literally says \"i know this might be unconstitutional, but i'll do it anyways\" and does it again", "Phony patriotism, humping the flag, fawning over the police unless it's the police guarding the Capitol, and Josh Hawley crying about the Left is making men less masculine because they force them to play video games and watch porn.", "Ever heard of the \"Black Friday\" of 1929?", "Absolutely. SMBC expressed it best, IMO: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction", "You might be on to something there", "No it doesn't", "Are you replying to your own comment by a different account?", "Tomorrrooow belongs to youuuu!", "That doesn't mean they weren't conservatives, that means they were even more conservative than most of the other conservative parties they allied with. Hell the word Kaiser is directly derived from the name of the first roman emperor.", "So an artist activist puts a quote on an American monument and now that quote dictates our national policy from now on?", "Yeah I just learned that thx for explaining again :)", "That's going back to what Orwell was criticizing: calling almost anything Fascist. Even if there is a narrower definition (I suppose, involving big state and political persecution), you'll have Fascism all the way down to Ancient History. And some people will do it and call anything non-liberal Fascist. Guess what? Some call anything non-progressive Fascist, too. If we choose to use the word in a way that it doesn't mean anything anymore, why use it at all?\n\nDespite the cynicism of realpolitik and geopolitics (even Western powers prefered Fascists to communists at some points), there was ever no force in the 20th century that fought Fascism more then socialism. And Stalin was a socialist, head of a socialist state. If he was a bad leader and/or a bad socialist, this is something else to be discussed. Republicans in Spain were the very first to take arms against Fascists, and the Soviet Union not only rid Europe of Fascism and suffered the worst destruction at its hands, but fought it politically inside its borders - before and after the war - more consistently than the Western powers. We can call anyone anything, sure, might as well call Joe Biden a socialist because he spends money or George Washington a monarchist because he was powerful. But I think the point of all the fascist-labelling is, we believe Fascists are demons, so if someone is creepy and dark enough, we'll call that someone a Fascist. That's not quite the issue with Fascism though, and even Cabaret's scene, though simply amazing from an artistic point of view, just repeats a reaction of irrational fear in the sight of decadence, fanaticism, fate - it's the Devil and his spooky power of making you feel alienated from your own land. That's how Fascism makes us feel, not necessarily how it works. You don't smash a spider by developing aracnophobia.", "Pathetic attempt at cover. Your comment history exposes your biases.", "There's a saying about chickens and when not to count them. The midterms are a lifetime away in the political timescale. We'll see how things are when the economy is back on track and there's not 1,500 people dying a day because Trump politicized the pandemic and got the MAGAs to kill themselves to own the libs.", "I can see how you might come to that conclusion, but that's not really what palingenesis means in a political context. Palingenesis is specifically a recreation of a past, real or imagined. For instance you could make a palingenetic argument in favor of the creation of Israel, saying that you are returning a people to a rightful homeland from long ago.\n\nYou could not make a palingenetic argument for transhumanism (actually you probably could, but it'd be twisted and disingenuous), because it's not some history, real or imagined, that you're trying to restore. It's strictly progressive, as was communism back then. Sure there were some arguments about historical communities, and a time before the Tsars, but they weren't at the core of the ideology, the ideology was progressive (not in the way the word is generally used today).", "you need a strong element of fantasy to solidify a desperate people.", "nice try\n\nYou have no idea which way I lean politically or sexually\n\nInsufferable adolescent", "Having this song be the only song out of the Kit Kat Klub was intentional by Bob Fosse for this very reason. The enotions that you felt and your dscription of e.otions is spot on to the directors intents.\n\nThe film is starkly different from the stage musical. So much so that i almost consider them two separate entities. \n\nThis is definitely in my top 50 films. An absolute masterpiece.", "Nearly every word illicits strong nostalgia and affinity, none of it means anything but the feeling of nostalgia for what was and what should have been plus the feeling of affinity for what should be is powerful. Beware someone who can create nostalgia and affinity, for they can get people to do things they should not do.", "this isn't even remotely close to being on base", "Not at all. How did you infer that from my comment?", "Get the fuck outta here, nazi scum. \n\nAlso, imagine the absolute stupidity required to argue that they didn't want to go back, when they explicitly coined the term 'third reich' as a way of connecting to you know... the first and second empires that germany was at the heart of in the past... not to mention their obsession with tearing down everything postmodern and returning to classical roots.", "Good eye!", "My family didn't make it out of the Holocaust. About 50% of them were killed by the Nazis and the other 50% were killed by the Soviets.\n\nMy branch of the family moved to the US after WWI which is the only reason we still exist. \n\nI've been studying this since I was 15. I'm 45 now. I've read about 20 books on the subject. Countless documentaries, etc.\n\nMy thinking has evolved over the years and I think Nazism and the Holocaust can be explained by one main cause - LYING.\n\nI've come to believe that that lying is the root of all evil.\n\nOne of the main issues is that many people WANT to believe these lies because sometimes a convenient lie is better than an inconvenient truth.\n\nGood people normally want to do good things. MOST people are good. However, to get a good person, to do something objectively evil, they have to believe in some lie that convinces them they're actually doing something good.\n\nTowards the end of the war Joseph Goebbels murdered his own children. I think he had something like five girls. They would have been fine and wouldn't have faced prosecution but these people believed their OWN lies about Nazism. \n\nThey lied about the Jews being at fault for the loss of WWI. They lied about the problems in Germany. They lied to the German people and about the deaths at Stalingrad. \n\nThere's NO upside to lying. It's just sabotage. You're hurting someone else for your own benefit. Some of the damage is small bit it can often spiral out of control in situations like this and cause absolutely massive damage. \n\nIf you study game theory you'd recognize this as defection. In many of these games defection is a strategy where one person wins but overall, everyone loses. \n\nNEVER lie. Try to live your life so that you're never in a situation where lying would benefit you. If you're up front about this and have integrity people WILL reward you with promotions, better relationships, etc. \n\nIf someone around you lies and is a habitual liar, remove them from your life. Confront them with the lie and refuse to interact with them until they acknowledge they lied and promise it will never happen again. If it does, they're persona non-grata and move on.\n\nEDIT. WTF is up with the Nazi's PMing me and saying my family deserved to die because they were Jews. WTF is wrong with you people! I've had like 20 messages so far!", "Absolutely untrue. Brissot had been threatening northern countries across the Rhine with war since he and the Girondens rose to power in the legislative assembly. Going to war was an important part of them inflaming populist passions to shore up political support for their policies. Even after imposing unreasonable ultimatums to expel emigre nobles - which German princes and neighbors ACCEPTED, they still poked Austria and those northern powers. For a long time Prussia, Austria, and other monarchies were fine with waiting on Revolutionary France existing because it depowered an historically important player in Continental European Politics.\n\nBut here is the [Wikipedia entry](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars) on who declared war on whom: \n\n“As early as 1791, the other monarchies of Europe looked with outrage at the revolution and its upheavals; and they considered whether they should intervene, either in support of King Louis XVI, to prevent the spread of revolution, or to take advantage of the chaos in France. Austria stationed significant troops on its French border and together with Prussia, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which threatened severe consequences should anything happen to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette. After Austria refused to recall its troops from the French border and to back down on the perceived threat of using force, France declared war on Austria and Prussia in the spring of 1792; both countries responded with a coordinated invasion that was eventually turned back at the Battle of Valmy in September.”", "> It is a human thing to hope. To long for a better life.\n\nWhat a better life actually means it the difference. A lot of the Right believe a better life is one where only on race runs everything.", "Oh we reflect just fine. We're just tired of 1,500 people a day dying from a preventable disease and the moronic MAGAs who refuse to stop spreading the virus.", "What does it all mean, Basel? (I'm pretty sure that's Basel from Austin Powers at the first, and ending of the video)", "He also seems like he is omniscient. We all have hindsight, but he plays the role as if he had planned all of the bad stuff that happened, like he is orchestrating the nazis.", "To be fair it makes them uncomfortable so it should be banned. ^/s\n\nFuсk book burners.", "Have you not heard the chants of Let's go Brandon? They even made a song and made #1 on iTunes after all.", "I do agree, its all in all a perfect movie", "Fosse is a genus and he made a brilliant movie.", "Part of the recent Alberta curriculum?", "The victimhood complex is seeping between the letters.", "Murderous authoritarian Communism. Never said Stalin was a good guy.\n\nBut the USSR did not have the nationalism and glorification of the past Fascism had. It's very specifically pushing an international ideology.", "Oh yeah, the SS were monsters.\n\nEdit: SA", "Hi, not true. Catalonian was forbidden in the public administration. Just for convenience. Which can be understandable, or not... But never forbidden between the people. Catalans were NEVER subjugated. If anything, Franco made the catalan region grow and industrialised it.", "Watch \"The Man in the High Castle\"", "I’m here for the mental gymnastics coming from conservatives desperate to convince themselves that this video isn’t talking about them.", "Lol, guess everything of the past two years went way over your head, that or your a white nationalist sympathizer.", "So a sucker.", "What past would that be? Pre-WW1 Germany?", "I didn't even think of this concept until now. It still confuses me though... For example, in Tron:Legacy, the soundtrack is used throughout the movie to set the tone, I doubt the characters can \"hear\" it \"in-universe\" but in one scene, a nightclub, the sound is very similar and we see daft punk being the DJ. So are the rest of the songs diegetic as well?", "The definition of Fascism is the marriage of corporation and state. - Benito Mussolini", "It was not.", "the nazi's were human and youre one too", "That is a fair analysis", "Eh, he slipped the whole \"open border\" concept into it.", "You mean like what’s happening in the USA this very moment?", "US too.", ">Bet you think there is no left wing propaganda either, right?\n\nNo there def is, in fact I argued against some just last night on here. But just the fact that Fox News and OAN exist show which side is cranking out more, and how readily you saps will eat up baldfaced lies lol. \n\nIts all a matter of degree. Do some people on the left have racist views? Of course they do. However its people on the right that support and pass extremely racist laws. Is there left wing propaganda? Of course there is, but its usually in response to inequality perpetuated by right wingers, supported by extreme right wing propaganda.\n\nBut yeah go watch Tucker 'married into money' Carlson ask his obviously leading \"questions\" and pretend you aren't be lead around by the nose.", "[This was redone for the second season of The Man in the High Castle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeng-lRMlUM)", "I'm talking about the people in the movie, the characters. I am not disputing the origins of the song.", "Happening in Ethiopia rn", "Yes, precisely, which is why the argument that Trump and his cohorts are firmly nazis is so compelling. It's not about them being \"bad people or \"people I disagree with\", as they'd have you believe. It's about the whole structure and ethos of their movement. It's textbook fascism.", "You can tell me what it reminds me of? Wow! I wish I had your ability to read and dictate thoughts.", "If the American right were actually capable of offering anything to anyone, we would be in deep shit. \n\nFor now, all they offer is cruel rhetoric and empty promises, so the majority of us see through their shit.", "I definitely agree with that", "It's amazing that you're calling me a Nazi just because I'm arguing that you're using the word not seeing correctly and don't understand what the Nazis actually believe, as if that means I'm actually endorsing the Nazis. The Nazis were not tearing down post-modernism, the Nazis were post-modernism. Much of the Nazis obsession with what they called history, was completely ahistorical and more along the sort of hyper-real LARP that is entirely in the realm of post-modernism. They were not trying to go back to the Kaiser, they were trying to reinvent Germany and do as magical Before Time of hyperborean Aryan Superman in order to create a magical state with the government and German people were one and the same and dust the state would become perfected and become God itself as manifested on Earth. None of this has anything to do with German traditions, proclivity for leiderhossen and German beer, or a veneration of royal bloodlines. Noting this distinction, the three arrows In parallel that are often used ironically and hilariously as an antifa symbol, were adopted by the iron front in opposition to Hitler. But only one of those arrows was meant to pierce the heart of the Nazis. The next arrow was to pierce the heart of and tifa and the Communists, and the third one was to pierce through the heart of the conservative monarchist. German conservatism in the Weimar republic and Nazism were Wholly distinct ideologies.", "Whoa, hot take Hitler here.", "I'm sorry I seem to have missed the part where they claimed they are", "I hate to be all r/enlightenedCentrism, but almost all political groups do this. Don't be so close minded as to think \"your side\" is any better. Always approach everything in the world with a bit of cynicism and you'll be wiser for it.", "Yeah... no. \"Fascism sure sounds great in the abstract, shame about all the genocide though\" is not the wise, relatable historical perspective you seem to think it is. \n\nAlso, it's utter bullshit. Nazism was literally always about restoring German \"glory\" by making it \"pure\" and removing non-Aryans and enforcing a particular view of what Germany was supposed to be. Trying to insinuate otherwise is just patently fucking false. It's historically ignorant at best, at worst it's knowingly trying to whitewash fascism as \"not so bad once you take a look ;) \". Which it honestly seems like, with your comment on \"the degeneracy\" those poor Nazis were forced to endure. The infamous book burning that coincided with their rise to power? They were burning books on... gay and trans people, for one. That's what they viewed as \"degenerate\". And you're here saying it's totally understandable that the German people turned to fascism because of \"degeneracy\", by which they meant gay people existing, feminist ideas like gender equality, etc.\n\nSo, you either don't know what the hell you're talking about, or you know exactly what you're saying. Either way, it's some pretty fascist-adjacent Wehraboo bullshit. Might want to think about that.", "It’s happening in many places all over the world… those who lived WWII are nearly all gone. We have forgotten our history - and seem to be doomed to repeat it.", "Oh shit, is that Basil?", "You want to be patriotic? Make a society worth being proud of. \n\nFascism is built on yearning for a mythic, imagined past that never actually existed. \n\nThat's why the current culture war the right is waging is insidious. They want to control the narrative of America's past.", "Actually made me laugh how this is going nowhere", "You are not a Jew in a holocaust because you refuse to get a vaccine because you pretend to believe bullshit, you fucking fascist. You are not being limited access anywhere. No one has taken over the news, except Fox, Newsmax, OAN attempting to create a fascist propaganda network. There’s your nazi newsletters. As for book burning, people like you are trying to burn American history in school. People like you literally just proposed burning all books in a school library written by gay people. So go fuck yourself, fascist. Your arguments are pathetic and transparent.", "I guess, but it’s hard to ignore the glaring similarities when you know the Marsellaise. Nazism arises from the same populist nationalism. Also kind of hard to really feel good about it when the French are singing their national anthem in a client colony which shouldn’t have been theirs in the first place. It took two very expensive World Wars with Germany to weaken France enough for those colonies to get the freedom and national determination the French supposedly supported.", "> (((rich foreigners)))\n\nYou forgot some parentheses. \n\nIf you genuinely don't know that you are repeating anti-semitic dog whistles, and throwing out the exact propaganda the Nazi party used to lure moderates to their side, then consider this an impetus to learn how you are inadvertently siding with Hitler. \n\nI find it hard to believe you don't realize it, though, since you are doing such a good job sea-lioning your way into sounding like you know what you are talking about.", "So subtle 🙄", "I hate how much this song slaps, but at least it was written by a Jewish person.", "You mean like the people who think that driving while drunk is their right? Or perhaps those who enjoy strolling naked on the streets. There are so many groups being demonised and forced to do things against their will, huh?", "That was the SA aka the brownshirts. Had running street battles with Communists.", "The morning will come when the country is yours...\n\nTomorrow belongs to yooouuuu!", "This reminds me of all the genuinely upbeat and funny kids who were in the Hitler Youth Summer Camp in Jojo Rabbit.\n\nKids being kids. Running in the woods....to learn ambush tactics. Pitching tents at night....to prepare for their eventual turn in the army. A kid so patriotic his imaginary friend isn't a dinosaur or a dragon, is the leader of his country.....who is Hitler.\n\nEvery awful group has a decent-sized population of idiots, children, and outcasts who just want to be in a community. And another, MUCH LARGER population of people who think the group is the answer to their problems. \n\nHow many Germans had no opinions on Jews, or even loved them, until they were convinced that their destruction would help the country? How many loved their enchanting countryside (Germany is gorgeous!) and thought they were keeping it safe? \n\nShould we feel sad for these \"bystanders\". Absolutely, many of us would probably do the same if we weren't looking out for it. \n\nShould we forgive them.....that's a much tougher question.\n\nShould we learn from their mistakes. YES!", "Thank you for the heading words and sharing your family's story with us.\n\nI am so sorry you had to endure such traumatic experiences.", "That's how Hitler died, haven't you heard?", "It started out to be about the german farmer, the german factory worker and the german family\n\nAs I said, it (de)evolved from that.", "Ah yes, the old \"you're stupid or evil\" approach. \n\nGod forbid having a discussion to understand a position and finding common ground.", "The supposed decadent setting of the Cabaret was where Jews, gays, feminists, and artists were accepted and embraced. The Nazis wanted to crush the Berlin night scene to \"purify\" the country. Everyone was accepted in the Cabaret, \"but there's a place on the bottom if you drop in some night\". Many people were not accepted by the Nazis, including the above plus invalids, the elderly, and anyone who disagreed.\n\nAt the end, the Nazis even took over the Cabaret. They wanted the entertainment but without the atmosphere of diversity that created it.", ">parentheses\n\nNot sure what you mean. The fact is germany was the sex capital of europe at the time and going through hyperinflation.\n\nNazism like all other\"ismsm\" always try to lure in the masses for democratic support\n\nUntil you can bypass it with ideological fervor", "It's legitimately one of the greatest films ever made, cannot recommend it enough", "Godwin's law speed run!", "Thank you for the informative and historically interesting post, r/JesusAnalAdventures1.", "Every bullshit sing and dance propaganda needs a [Stefan Westmann](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0hdT0qMwFc) character for good measure.", "I worry when they replace that incompetent boob Trump with someone who shares his authoritarian intents but has more competence.", "THAT'S where I know him from! Watched Austin Powers a few days ago. Thanks!", "Economy back on track...dude idgaf what side your own that is laughable. There's an old saying socialism works great until you run out of other people's money. Well we are currently in the burning through other people's money phase that well will dry up then what? I mean for real we just had $2500 show up from the IRS yesterday where the hell is this money even coming from.", "No shit this is an agenda post, the agenda is \"Nazis suck\" and everyone should agree with that", "Without the conquests and the genocides, they would have been overthrown. They had to purify the country and unite them against the world to stay in power. They had nothing to offer the people to keep from being ousted.", "That's every despot in history. Pol pot, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Chavez, Kim, Castro.", "BLM is the opposite of Fascism. It's teaching real history, not white nationalist propaganda.", "Oh cool, i didnt know that", "Fascism is corporate government with complete regulation on every aspect of life.", "Glad the hypocrisy for your Fuhrer pays well.\n\nGood day, npc", "As much of a paranoid, cruel authoritarian as Stalin was, at least he was looking forward, trying to escape Russia's horrible, dark past under the Czars. There was a vision for the future that was something new and inspiring. For most Russians, as bad as Stalinist Russia was, their lives were dramatically improved from the days of the Czars.\n\nAlso worth nothing, Stalin didn't seek a massive war in Europe. He was trying to reclaim the lands of the Russian empire lost after WW1, but he doesn't seem to have had any ambitions beyond that. Nazi Germany, by contrast, was a looting, plundering, murderous war machine that wasn't going to stop until they were defeated in war. They were perfectly willing to take the world with them too.\n\nI, and most Marxists, believe socialism can't function without robust democracy. The politburo was doomed from the start to create an authoritarian dictatorship.", ">You want to be patriotic? Make a society worth being proud of.\n\nTo accomplish greatness you need motivation. Patriotism is the motivation by having a vision of a great future to build with your countrymen, and a dedication to your country.\n\n&#x200B;\n\n>Fascism is built on yearning for a mythic, imagined past that never actually existed. \n> \n>That's why the current culture war the right is waging is insidious. They want to control the narrative of America's past.\n\nWhat about the 1619 project? Literally trying to rewrite America's history to make it slave focused at the objection of many respected historians. That would be Fascistic to you then, right?\n\nWhat about all the historical monuments being destroyed? Seems like an attempt to destroy history, and pretty fascistic, no?", "That's human history. Native Americans held slaves.", "In other words, the core of a fascist movement is a desire to make one’s country “great again“?", "Oh wow, it was actually a vampire wound on him! ...it all makes sense now", "Which is the cherry on top.\n\nBeing racist shitheel Nazis in the streets is accepted.\n\nBeing self-confident and freely sexual in seedy nightclubs is persecuted.", "tiene un contenido razonable", "Yes you should. I watch it every year. Its a classic for a (lot of) reason(s)", "People saying let’s go Brandon isn’t exactly the worst thing they’ve done. The most mask off moment we’ve seen is Jan 6 and not really much since then", "I mean, I could try and dissect that rambling nonsense you just posted and use basic facts to show you how absolutely pig-headedly wrong your interpretation is. \n\nBut we both know you're a fucking nazi who is just trying to obfuscate, so I don't fucking care to make the effort.", ">Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power (popular sovereignty).\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism", "Just follow The Science!", "[Nationalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism) \n \n >Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power (popular sovereignty).\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( \| )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( \| )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( \| )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove \| v1.5)", ">\t“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”\n\n-\t[Voltaire](https://voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/voltaire-on-capitol-hill-anyone-who-can-make-you-believe-absurdities-can-make-you-commit-atrocities/)", "Yep, the freikorps. They formed directly after WWI and the big lie of Jews and Socialist being the reason Germany lost WWI was a uniting factor. \n\nThe idea that the Weimar government was somehow responsible for the rise of hitler is really off base as the friekorps started right after WWI and then later became the SA and made up large parts of the Nazi party.", "are you okay?", "nah man, those aren't the folks who get called fascist. The fascists do. That's what January 6th was, a bunch of fascists rejecting a fair and free election. \n\nJust no to all of your bullshit.", "woah dude you don’t like nazis? you’re like a modern day revolutionary, dude. that’s so sick and awesome! long live stalin dude he had a sick stache and loved ukrainians", "You are right. Thank you.", "Lol- wtf are you on about? Do you know what a fascist even is? Do you think OAN or newsmax are main stream media? What books are \"people like me\" burning? What happened to Huckleberry Finn? Hmm...You're angry but, being angry at me is a misdirection of your anger. Also, anger is often a secondary emotion. I wonder what you're feeling first? Perhaps fear? How come?", "Just like the communists, the imperialists, the monarchists, the zionists, the islamists, the crusaders... Fanatics are fanatics, regardless of the ideology.", "So the show isn't amazing by any means, but Mr. Mayor has a joke about this feeling that was extremely well written.\n\n\"I hope you'll forgive my Southern drawl and folksy manner. I'm just a man, nostalgic for an America that *never actually existed*.\"", "Hahahaha yes. Please tell me how proponents of critical race theory yearn for a past in which times were better. Tell me about Antifa and their desire for rigid social hierarchy. Tell me about how those groups rely on having an enemy that is simultaneously too weak to respect but so incredibly strong that they threaten the very existence of the group. Or how rejection of modernism is critical to their belief structure. Above all, tell us about how nationalist those two groups are.", "Who?", "Yes, we shouldn't be taking proud-boys, 3 percenters, and oath-keepers so lightly. They are un-American fascist leaning groups devoted to violence and unfortunately have the support of significant amount of government and law enforcement. Of course the claim patriotism, but its a ruse and they are only patriotic to their fascist vision, just like the Friekorps and SA were.", "Ever hear that the effects of that on Germany, while bad, was no different from other nations like France, uk and the USA?\n\nEither way the point is that ascribing the rise of nazism as a direct cause of the economic situation portrays the rise as some inevitably that had to happen.", "Okay, why you have to be a dick about this?", "Proof of this? How did they gain power then?", "This is why I hate musicals", "Great song. This is my favorite. https://youtu.be/w8HdOHrc3OQ", "That doesn't answer how you came up with the assumption that I made this about political identity. Can you explain?", "Surely you know the people you're arguing with are strongly in favor of most of what you refer to as \"decadent\" or \"degenerate.\"", ">The degeneracy, the shame, being robbed by banks and foreign investors of their savings etc\n\nGood thing today is nothing like that.", "Yup, all the different flavors of authoritarianism are pretty bad.", "The sad part is that this playbook is used again and again by megalomaniacs and dictators/authoritarian governments around the world with quite a decent rate of success. When I see 'nationalist' bs of this sort propagated by Trumps, Modis and Bolsanaros of the world I fear for what's to come.", ">They want to control the narrative of America's past.\n\nSure, they want to control the narrative.", "Right, but it's practically their new anthem, or slogan, or handshake...it's a clear signifier of where they align.\n\nYell it in a crowd once and I'm sure you'll get somebody to chant/sing along.", "Many modern movements are reframing American history in ahistorical ways, doing the very thing you are accusing it of doing currently.", "> real history, not white nationalist propaganda\n\nAh yes, our propaganda is truth, your truth is propaganda.", "I mean, it's not like \"Die Wacht am Rhein\", which the Germans are singing, and which the exiled French citizens are trying to drown out with \"La Marseillaise\", is any less nationalistic and blood-thirsty. As a general rule, national anthems tend to skew that way.\n\nI think the important part is who is singing these competing battle cries: French exiles and members of the resistance, vs. literal nazis.", "The conflict wasn’t as inevitable as many people paint it to be. The Mountain was basically against the war because they rightly knew the French Military wasn’t prepared for it. Brissot and the Girondens had been warmongering by making unreasonable ultimatums/threats to Northern European countries for some time. The German Princes had even expelled those Noble emigres when the French demanded it. Ic the Autocrats around France had wanted to restore the Ancien Regime, they could have invaded much earlier before the constitution of 1789 got ratified. I think they were fine with a weakened France/ rival dynasty because it had completely shifted the balance of European power in their favor. Spain and Prussia were basically free to run around the Low Countries without a strong France and could shift their attention towards Russia who was then an expanding power under Catherine the Great. I’m open to the idea that they were into restoring the Bourbons because they were opportunistically looking to acquire some territory and maybe even partition France like they had Poland. However, Brissot’s circle in the Girondens were stoking fears and calling for war in large part to raise popular support for their coalitions. He himself acknowledged the wars were for the purpose of revolutionary propaganda.\n\nTo really think Revolutionary France was really in the defensive, you have to ignore how unnecessary the suspicion, and surveillance of Louis were after he had had his regal powers mostly stripped, especially since in 1789 he had fully embraced the new constitution. Given that Mary Antoinette was a Habsburg family member and the treaties ratified with the monarchies were recognized because Louis signed them, I think the way the family was being treated helped push everyone towards Pillnitz. Not that the new Holy Roman Emperor and his dad weren’t rattling their own sabers, but the conflict was definitely fueled by bad actors on all sides and in the end, France declared war first.\n\nAs for Napoleon - I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Napoleonic Code and his ability to reorganize France according to the enlightenment goals of the Revolution. If he had simply stayed in France after expanding it out to its natural borders after his victory in the War of the Third Coalition and implemented these policies/helped the continent achieve a balance of shared power like Tallyrand wanted - I would feel a lot more mixed about him. The fact that he got paranoid, overextended himself, crowned himself emperor and basically got addicted conquest/setting up client KINGDOMS (not Republics anymore once he was Emperor) which he basically looted for the French Treasury is why I think we’re right to consider him not just another enlightened despot, but a tyrant with Pan European ambitions.", "Franco was a Tyrant.", "They’ve had dog whistles for years", "Just the song in the nightclub.", "I dont find brothels, underaged prostitution, sexual rearrangement \"surgeries\" to be the way forward", "Yes, they are mainstream media. People like you are trying to keep American history from being taught, that is a kin to bookburning, to say nothing I if the literal example I gave you. Nothing happened to guck Finn, still on library shelves. And you’re the one whose living in fear of their own fucking shadow. Got get your shot, you big baby.", "Sounds familiar.", "By a tiny portion of the population that is constantly reamed by the news? Yeah. Just like that.", "Neither do I.", "baby steps", "Ooh, edgy take . . .", "Monuments are meant to revel and look up to inspiring people, not only to remember they existed. Having a school named after a known racist just because their family settled there 200 years ago is not a good enough reason to continue just because it's tradition. \n\nI'm not advocating we erase racist history bullshit, just that we not idolize it by keeping around a literal idol in the town square.", "The last US administration proved this.", "The great Michael York", "Yep!", "Thank you for posting that", "Trump reads Mein Kampf. he knew what he was doing.", "Rent-free", "\"hurt durr people that believe in science are nazis\"\n\nShut the actual fuck up dude", "Republicans are telling their constituents that ivermectin is preferable to a genuine, effective vaccine and they're buying into it. As a result of that lie, and others, one out of every 438 Americans has died of COVID, and Republicans are still pretending it's no big deal. Now that's control.", "You're literally saying that as the nazi cheeto leaves office.... Do you laugh at yourself when you look in the mirror?", "Also, this is what I’m on about:\n\nPalingenetic ultranationalism is a theory concerning generic fascism formulated by British political theorist Roger Griffin.[1][2] The key element of this theory is the belief that fascism can be defined by its core myth, namely that of revolution in order to achieve a \"national rebirth\"—palingenesis.[1][2] Griffin argues that the unique synthesis of palingenesis and ultranationalism differentiates fascism from para-fascism and other authoritarian nationalist ideologies.[1][2] This is what he calls the \"fascist minimum\" without which there is no fascism.[1][2]\nSuch movements thus compare the (recent) past with the future, which is presented as a rebirth of society after a period of decay and misery.[1][2] The palingenetic myth can also possibly stand for a return to a golden age in the country's history, so that the past can be a guidebook to a better tomorrow, with an associated regime that superficially resembles a reactionary one.[1][2] Fascism distinguishes itself by being the only ideology that focuses strongly on the revolution in its myth, or as Griffin puts it:\nthe mythical horizons of the fascist mentality do not extend beyond this first stage. It promises to replace gerontocracy, mediocrity and national weakness with youth, heroism and national greatness, to banish anarchy and decadence and bring order and health, to inaugurate an exciting new world in place of the played-out one that existed before, to put government in the hands of outstanding personalities instead of non-entities.\nThrough all this there will be one great leader who battles the representatives of the old system with grassroots support.[1][2] They appear as one mass of people who have only one goal: to create their new future.[1][2] They have infinite faith in their mythical hero as he stands for everything they believe in.[1][2] With him, the country will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of corruption and decadence.[1][2]", "Ohstin! It's about Germany.", "You mean members of the colonial elite in a conquered territory? Sure they’re better than the Nazis but I have trouble really considering the European allies fully “good guys.” They are the indisputably better side, but it’s ironic to sing for freedom in a territory you’ve had under your thumb for a century.", "Oh. Neat theory. What about the other questions?", "I really do think a lot of them truly aren't trying to exterminate the other races. They just want them to act more \"white\" in their culture and behavior. To assimilate and blend in and be on their side. I know this because I've seen how welcoming the alt right is to the occasional minority lunatic that sides with them.\n\n\nI think they do genuinely have a picture of a better America that they believe would be better for all Americans. The issue is their version requires us to adhere to THEIR rules and unfortunately their version often requires or ignores that a lot of people DONT get to actually enjoy those benefits. But they see how it would positively benefit them and because they lack empathy they are unable to understand how it wouldn't positively benefit others. When others point out the flaws in their argument, they get angry and frustrated that others cant see the world the way they do (because clearly their view must be correct /s). And so they dismiss others. Many of the people at the top who hold their views are well aware of the brutal pragmatism required to attain their fucked up dystopia. But it would be a utopia for them thats for sure. And you have to first accept that when you fight their ideas, you ARE actively fighting what they can clearly see would be a better life for themselves, even if its at the expense of others. When you are fighting someone elses better future, thats when people start to get aggressive. \n\nAnd understand, they look at us (the everyone else) in the EXACT same way. They think they're trying to help us. They think their way is right. If we were to only accept it and let them \"fix\" the ghettos with their extreme policing. To \"whip\" us all into shape. We'd be better for it. We know its not true. But when you stop to see it from their perspective. Not as people who are evil, but rather people who are just simply self interested, unempathetic, and predominantly misguided (im talking about the general populus of the right, not the leaders). You can begin to realize what we're up against and that's the only way we'll ever be able to create solutions that have any chance of working.", "Basil is looking young", "Fascism makes the present the enemy. Now is the low point. Now is the decline that must be reversed. Once that revolution is accomplished everything will be great.\n\nProgressivism instead villainizes the past. The past is a horrible place from which we must escape. The present is a continuation of that escape but can never reach a point that is good enough and does not need improvement.", "But whats with that clown looking bitch tho", "I really have to say, this post is beautifully written.", "He was a dictator. Yes.", ">They would have been fine and wouldn't have faced prosecution\n\nWell, assuming they weren't raped and killed by the Allies.", "What's the science behind banning unvaccinated people from the activities I named? It would make sense if vaccinated people were not capable of spreading and contracting the virus but, they are (contrary to what we were told early on). Do you follow the science? It seems that you may be stuck with old lies and lacking in data.", "Who's my Fuhrer? Because I have none. I'm not a cheerleader for a team or a cultist for a leader. Those are projections you've made and they say more about you than they do me.\n\nI get it. No one wants to be a sucker. No American wants to be anti-American. It hurts. But the reality is clear. And \"Trump was Trump\" is as empty and self-serving as he is.\n\nYou can dismiss me with you not-so clever \"Fuhrer\" and \"npc\" comments that you probably just borrowed from someone else, but you can't just dismiss the dissonance rattling around in your head when it hits the pillow at night. So you bury it in passion and name calling and equivocation because that what you've been conditioned to do.\n\nI chose not to participate in your brand of nihilism.", "Glossing over the fact the wiki article has some real ideology going on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow\\_Belongs\\_to\\_Me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Belongs_to_Me)\n\n>...not a historically authentic song, but instead was written and composed by two Jewish musicians – John Kander and Fred Ebb – as part of an avowedly anti-fascist work...\n\nIt was perhaps too effective a pastiche, Skrewdriver covered it and Richard Spencer loves it.", "Monuments also act as remembrances of history. No one is reveling 9/11, yet we have monuments for it.\n\nThey were removing Abraham Lincoln from the names of schools too. The President that freed the slaves. He should be inspiring to people.", "Sometimes being a perfectionist sucks, because it takes you 15 minutes to send a text message.\n\nAnd sometimes you get to pretend you're a writer and get a self esteem boost. Like now.", "Well, it's too bad there wasn't a character in the scene to talk such good, common sense that you have. Someone to say, \"Yes, my friends, the nazis are bad, but who are we to sing of freedom and to defy their aggression, given our own colonialist past? Better to keep quiet and not rally ourselves with a commonly-shared, well-known anthem, lest we fall victim to irony.\"", "No, that's the good kind of authoritarian government.", "One race, one sexuality, one gender, one class.", "No, those are all good now. Because … reasons.", "Wow im not crying", "Lol- what is this fear you refer to? A projection? Huck Finn has been banned from school curriculums. Thankfully, it's still illegal to ban books from libraries. How am I \"trying to prevent American History from being taught\"? You're really not making much sense here and you're very upset...are you OK?", "I think you've created a cute idea where ideologies use concepts of time as the enemy; but I think it is a stretch.\n\nBy that argument any person who wants to address an existing problem is making the present the enemy. It's a bit silly.", "The Uniparty.\n\nThey tell tell you who is good and who is bad and you repeat it ad nauseam\n\nAnd no i did not come up with the \"npc\" label, but it fits. I talk about how one party runs everything with the other running controlled opposition while high fiving each other afterwards...and you're response is a long winded version of \"but trump\"\n\nWhen an NPC runs out of dialogue, they will either repeat the same phrase or an algorithm slightly alters their last phrase. The one in this case being: but Trump.\n\nAs for the \"Trump was Trump\". He was a loud mouthed braggart that loves money and is a classic narcissist. You know this, you believe this, i shouldn't have to type it out. I literally left it for you to call him everything you called him and THAT pissed you off because i didn't say what you did", "That's how authoritarians gain power, by either appealing to patriotism, or fear. Sometimes both.", "Actually they are. Pretty much everything written is copyrighted unless specified otherwise. \n\nIn the case of reddit, you own the copyright of your own posts, but the Ts&Cs also grant Reddit a licence to do pretty much anything they want to with that copyrighted work.\n\n> You retain the rights to your copyrighted content or information that you submit to reddit (\"user content\") except as described below.\n\n> By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.", "Maybe you should have asked that before making your comment?", "It was the leftists and antifa that went after the and attacked the center in a gamble that without a coherent liberal center, the rest of the Germans would obviously choose them over the Nazi.", "Please explain to me how being descriminated against for your race is in anyway the same as being restricted from some public spaces because you willfully choose to spread a deadly and completely preventable disease.", "Yes, but almost certainly not the ones you're thinking of.", "Or you can stop insisting on trying to find a good guy in this or feeling good about the Marsellaise. In historical context the conflict was about a European power with a vicious foreign policy defending itself against a significantly more vicious European power. It’s not much of a pállate cleanse.", "My ex-girlfriend got us tickets to see the show a few years ago. I warned her it wasn't a happy play, and she didn't get it until the wedding at the end of the first half when the guy took off his jacket and was wearing the Nazi armband. Then there's a whole abortion sub-plot later. I still enjoyed the show.", "That will take me a hot minute to type all that out.\n\nSo you admit CRT is real?", "Yup", "There's a line in the song \"The Communists Have the Music\" by There Might Be Giants, that says, \"The Fascists have the outfits\", and it really resonated with me. The black leather aesthetics, and the traditional folk music really appeal to me. If I didn't find violence so abhorrent, I could see how the cultural aspects could lure someone like me in, and so I'm unsurprised that those who think that violence is not only necessary, but justified, to defend their beliefs get caught up in it.", "So you got... \n\n> how the Nazis used patriotism, propaganda, populism, the devastating economic situation in Germany, and a sense of yearning for a better future for it's population to gain popularity and rise to power.\n\n...from a Nazi dude singing? \n\nI admire your powers of deduction, Sherlock. Congratulations on your 200 IQ.", "Thank you for posting this comment, without having seen the movie this gives me a lot more context for this scene. It really is a stark reminder that not everything that looks pretty on the surface = good. No matter what political stance you have, it's so important to look deeper than the flash. The pretty outside only lasts so long, the deeper motivations underneath carries it. If the deeper motivation isn't so pretty, don't fall prey to the surface. \n\nGoes outside of politics of course as well, such as cults, abusive situations, etc.", "He is the MC at the cabaret, and narrates direct to camera.", "if huck fiin has been banned form school curriculums, then why did my nephew have to read it? Perhaps you're unaware of your party's attempts to ban \"critical race theory' from schools?", "Careful you’re not too patriotic or wish for a better future for your country. Don’t want to basically be a Nazi or anything.", "I've already answered the first part of this and explained how race discrimination wasnt the comparison at all. I haven't received a reply to my question around the 2nd part: how does being unvaxxed spread the virus? And, your 3rd part makes no sense, \"a completely preventable disease\"? Please explain the science behind completely preventing covid. Wait, you don't...think that being vaccinated makes the virus go away, do you?", "I never noticed this. I was always unsettled by how beautiful the song was versus what it represented, which I guess is the point. It’s a splendid moment of cinema, that’s for sure.", "Lol, no. BLM is teaching nothing. Literally nothing. If you take an empty bag, it holds more substance than BLM.", "100% agree. Curious as to why you don't want to be labeled a centrist?", "God, Cabaret is such a good movie. Not nearly enough people have seen it", "While “good” writing often follows rules (grammatically especially) and a purpose of conveying a message, it is still also very much an art form and therefore should be judged subjectively just as much.\n\nDon’t ever doubt yourself a writer. All people have a voice that can be appreciated by someone.\n\nEdit: And that was well written btw :)", "The danger is this kind of thinking is that if you immediately dismiss any attempt at replacing mediocrity with success, and weakness with strength, and lawlessness with order, as tell-tale signs of fascism, then what are you left with? A mediocre, weak, and lawless society? Is that really the ideal?", "He will still be beholden to capitol. The last 5 years have really shown the absolute death grip capitol has on our political system. Even with overwhelming popular support for his policies, Sanders couldn't break though. I don't see how an actual right wing populist gets through the republican primary.", "Of course it’s unironically? They stand for the same things…?", "Even the dog had the better sense to just leave and not have any part of that....", "I don’t think that’s accurate. Germany had a past history of being strong, and it was crushed after WWI. They yearned to make their future bright like their past once was.", "Except for the whole part about following a great leader, putting the government into the hands of outstanding personalities, mythical heros, and a bunch of other shit that is clearly not part of libertarian philosophy.", "Small point of contention, Republicans in Spain were not the first to take up arms against fascists - the Red Front Fighters' League had been squaring off against the SA since their formation in 1925, while the fascists in Spain didn't really start organizing until '33.", "Yeah but that's not what the Nazis did that was horrible, it was the genocide and medical experimentation without consent on it's population. The general racism, antisemitism and bigotry was quite popular in that era.", "Alan Cumming as the emcee in the stage production just completely blows the movie version out of the water.", ">nice try\n>You have no idea which way I lean politically or sexually\n>Insufferable adolescent\n\nWe can see your comment history, and your comments in this thread.", "Here's an analogy: Imagine it's the middle ages and you carried the black death with you. There's a cure, but you're not having it, and insist on being allowed to go to bars, restaurants etc. I don't know how you can be so thick, man. Can you just think for one goddamn second?", "Nationalism is revolutionary when it helps establish independence from colonialism. Vietnam used nationalism to break free from France. Same with China from Britain and Japan, Cuba from Spain and the US, the Phillipines from Spain. South Africa, Zimbabwe etc etc\n\nNationalism is good when used against colonialism. It's a tool for liberation. It's bad when it's used to colonize.", "😂", "It absolutely does, though.", "I think we found Candace Owens Reddit account.", "Jesus, no they did not. How many people were put in concentration camps under Trump? How many people had to wear stars? How many countries did we invade?\n\nZero. Absolutely zero. Quit being so dramatic and stop regurgitating everything you read from the NYT or CNN. You might actually think for yourself once.", "Not only that but the hate toward those from Germany. America saw the hardest hit on its German speaking people post WW1 due to fear. Germans weren't only beat in a war they didn't start, but were also bastardized as a people. When ya beat someone down, essentially neuter them post war and then put them through a gauntlet of shit the next few years you are setting yourself up for a comeback enemy. I've never been surprised that Nazis rose so quickly and honestly had a high acceptance from all Germans. Not all supported Nazi ideology but definitely supported nationalism and a sense of pride that came with supporting them.", "SHOCKING OPINION FROM YOUR KIND.", "that truth bomb was violent", "I listened to that so intently. Such raw feelings. With modern day drone strikes and covert ops, it feels like there will be fewer soldiers who get the revelation of seeing the whites of their enemy’s eyes.", "Hell if this blows your mind, go watch Logan's Run", "It's funny, because everyone can see you can't express a single coherent thought or argument, except for yourself.", ">God forbid having a discussion to understand a position and finding common ground.\n\nNah. Can't find common ground with nazi sympathizers like you.", "> Should we feel sad for these \"bystanders\". Absolutely, many of us would probably do the same if we weren't looking out for it.\n> \n> Should we forgive them.....that's a much tougher question.\n\nI would say yes, we should. Why? Because like you say, most of us would do something similar if we weren't actively trying to avoid it. I would argue the behavior of these bystanders is to be considered just normal, average human behavior. We like our heroic ideals and gladly cling to to them to the point where we would judge others and somehow imagine ourselves immune to their mistakes, but that's pure self-delusion. Demanding more than average ethics of the average person suddenly brands the common citizen as immoral, concluding ethical elitism based on historical hindsight and perceived insight. \n\nI always assume I am unknowingly partaking in some heinous shit that will come to light much later but that I for the time being think is a great idea and a just cause. I just don't know what. Staying humble is a good way to avoid at least some of it though.", "Well-deserved here! I enjoyed that comment.", "cool, gonna google it", "\"great again\"", "And by creating the conditions for that. Read; any conservative government that cuts services, causes poverty and mismanages finances (the economy as a bank balance for example), whilst blaming immigration and “others” for moral decay and shit jobs and wages.\n\n\nBut yknow, the world needs to repeat mistakes apparently; but in this day and age, there might not be a war to evict the ideology from power and enough lessons have been learnt that they might hold it for far too long to undo any damage they wrought IMO. 🤷‍♂️", "But there is a difference if you want to stop an idealist or an opportunist.", "Yes and going all the way back to the roman empire (first reich).", "I never said \"every school\". Each district makes their own decisions. It has been banned from the curriculum exclusively in liberal school districts across the country. The Catcher and The Rye is another great American classic that has fallen victim to the curriculum ban list as well. Do you agree with that? If so, why?\n\n\nAlso, CRT is not a book; it's a theory. Nobody wants to ban history. People simply do not want a highly controversial theory being taught to children.", "> So you admit CRT is real?\n \nAs conservatives understand it? No. As a framework of analysis and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States and to challenge mainstream approaches to racial justice? Yes.", "Hey, if you really wanted to know the very details on how being unvaxxed spreads the virus, there are millions of sources out there. Here's a link explaining it, since you seem to be incapable of finding basic information: \n[https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html) \n\n\nIf you want to argue with someone, argue with doctors, researchers and scientists, not with people on reddit. These guys can explain it to you in every detail you want. I know you won't do any such thing, because you don't care, you don't care about facts, you have a strong feeling of injustice, and that's the basis for your behaviour: not critical thinking, intelligence, looking out for your fellow citizen or whatever. You have a victim complex and that's it, nothing else to it.", "It's just so incredibly well written.\n\nI'm putting it up on my wall...", "Someone who doesn’t view republicans or democrats as inherently evil.", "The black death had a death rate of 50% (or survival rate), and killed at least 100 million people. The current pandemic has a survival rate of over 98%. Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality", "That's what everybody's working for", "Ideas are not an ideology.", "How are you this daft, seriously dude? You're asking random people on the internet what the science is, instead of actually looking it up like a person with basic fucking intelligence. \n\n\nAnd before you open your mouth critiquing the science, you and me both know you don't have the knowledge or ability to do so.", "As someone else mentioned, one song being diegetic doesn't make the whole soundtrack diegetic. In fact, it is possible for one song to move from one to the other. I'm sure you've seen a scene where someone starts playing music in scene and then it cuts to another scene but the music keeps playing? In that case the song would be diegetic while it has an in-universe source, and non-diegetic when it moves to another scene where the jukebox or whatever is not present. \n\nThis doesn't just apply to music. For example, if you have a video of someone walking down the street with added narration, the sound of the footsteps would be diegetic but the sound of the voiceover would be non-diegetic.\n\nAn example of something which moves from non-diegetic to diegetic would be the opening scene of xXx, which I admit I'm not sure why it was the first example I thought of. In that case, Rammstein's Feuer Frei is playing through the intro card and chase scene, at which point it is non-diegetic - until the chase ends up in the crowd of a Rammstein concert, at which the music (which has been playing without interruption) becomes diegetic through the recontexualisation of the scene.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Y5RwxjWJcFQ", "And written by two gay Jewish guys, John Kander and Fred Ebb.", "Sure there's plenty of nostalgia, but if your past seemed fine and your current financial situation sucks, then that just creates the draw for potentially radical changes in government with promises of a better future that aligns well with their idealized past.", "ummm, because w82So* is a human. Lots of folks judge others as inferior if the don't \"get\" something. \n\nA great example is business classes that teach good communication tactics such as: Returning phone calls (because they can lead to more business). It's obvious to a lot of folks, but not so obvious to others.", "Well jailing political opponents and killing them, as well as people who you think are worth less then you and you think don't belong into your country, would be too patriotic.", "That actually crazy similar to that other dudes rise to power. But more as a farce. At least from the outside.", "I love Cabaret but I literally cannot watch this scene: it's too fucking chilling", ">It's easy to identify why two things are different in an analogy. If they were exactly the same then it wouldn't be an analogy. The point is to identify the similarities. \n\n\nIt's incredible how fucking stupid you are and walked straight into that one.", "Nobody said this was the only horrible thing nazis did.", "Sounds like the perfect definition of Trumpism.", "The link is just the CDC FAQ Page. I typed, \"stop the spread\" yet didn't see anything about vaccination. Since you ignored my questions, I think it's worth asking them again. This time, please try to be specific or send actual data rather than sending generic links and telling me to argue with scientists you haven't referenced:\n\n>how does being unvaxxed spread the virus? And, your 3rd part makes no sense, \"a completely preventable disease\"? Please explain the science behind completely preventing covid. Wait, you don't...think that being vaccinated makes the virus go away, do you?", "It really is, one of my all time favourites!", "There were plenty of illegal immigrants put in cages under Trump, but most of that started under Obama and plenty of it continues under Biden. I agree it's far from the same thing, and not as fucked as what happened under FDR's Executive Order 9066 or the much earlier Page Act of 1875 and Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.", "We don't have monuments of Osama bin Laden. You don't memorialize slavery by building statues of slavers.", "But why then compare a virus with a survival rate of 98% with the plague? What should our response be to seasonal flu, which is much more comparable to the current virus than the black death?", "And Liza’s character calls herself “an international woman of mystery\" in this movie at one point to him lol.", "You'd need to watch the full film. In a sense you are watching a show and this is one character gently making a commentary on what is happening in the world presented.", ">pread\" yet didn't see anything about vaccination. Since you ignored my questions, I think it's worth asking them again. This time, please try to be specific or send actual data rather than sending gen\n\nYou're incapable of navigating a website? Really? I'll play ball:[https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/effectiveness-research/protocols.html](https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/effectiveness-research/protocols.html)\n\nSee the sources at the bottom? Read through them and get back to me. Should take you a couple of days, if you're really as curious as you pretend to be.", "George W. Bush?", "You'd need to watch the full film. In a sense you are watching a show and this is one character gently making a commentary on what is happening in the world presented.", "yea lots of alt right people are now using this song unironically. similar to american history x", "You think the vaccine is a cure? Why? And, why have you gone through my entire comment history here and replied to everything I've said to others? That's really weird, Mike.", "How's that?", "It's also important to note that the first people the nazis came after were other germans.", "yeah that username just screams ‘human’", "This is a wonderful movie, and I highly recommend it. Maybe even more meaningful now than when it was released but for different reasons.", "Its uncanny", "Do you believe Italy was fascist under Mussolini? Or does that not count because they didn't have concentration camps and people weren't forced to wear stars?", "Sooooo...... Basically the same thing democrats have been doing for years?", "> different peoples deserve legitimate nations\n\nSo... the US shouldn't exist, on account of different states can and do have wildly different cultural characters? Just how finely should political organizations be ground down?", "As well as trump", "It is notable how the sincere parodies of fascist songs get adopted by fascists while the comedic ones (Springtime for Hitler, say) don't.\n\nAt the same time, be sure to remind the fascists adopting Tomorrow Belongs to Me that it was written by two gay Jewish guys, John Kander and Fred Ebb.", "Give it a few years, that's the only way Republicans (none of whom will admit to ever having voted for him) will remember the doofus.", "Who is \"you\"?", "So because everything = everything, tear down the foundations of democracy. It's all the same.\n\nRegardless of the obvious dysfunction in the system, I still chose not to participate in your brand of nihilism.", "wrong comment. lmao. meant for a different thread.", "You'd need to watch the full film. In a sense you are watching a show and this is one character gently making a commentary on what is happening in the world presented.", "It is happening here (I am assuming you are American)", "Just get him a Tammy Craps doll. If he’s not 60 lbs it’s like smoking 5 Macanudos a day.", "I occulize that my flounderous and speculative nuances on the subject of mine own hard copy linguistics can disprove the notations that the novelized ideas are such of a painter's framed fantasy can be intuitively proposed in our own prose. But what could a gentlemen of my enormous cerebral thinking possibly attune to you?", "Brissot had been threatening northern countries across the Rhine with war since he and the Girondens rose to power in the legislative assembly. Going to war was an important part of them inflaming populist passions to shore up political support for their policies. Even after imposing unreasonable ultimatums to expel emigre nobles - which German princes and neighbors ACCEPTED, they still poked Austria and those northern powers. For a long time Prussia, Austria, and other monarchies were fine with waiting on Revolutionary France existing because it depowered an historically important player in Continental European Politics. Prussia could acquire territory in the Low Countries without fear of French defense, and both Prussia and Austria could turn their attention towards Russia who was expanding aggressively. If they were just interested in restoring the Ancien Regime they could have invaded much earlier. The King was in real danger, and was tried and killed out of paranoia more than his presenting any real threat to the Revolution. He had ratified the constitution of 1789 and promised raise his son in the spirit of French Citizenship. Killing him would have fucked the treaty they had brokered with Austria by marrying off Louise to Mary Antoinette and put a family member of the Habsburg monarchy in real danger. I’ve got no illusions that the European monarch as hadn’t been waiting to carve up France for some time, but the Legislative Assembly did a lot go help push everyone towards war. Brissot was reportedly depressed when it looked like it wasn’t going to happen because Noble emigres were getting expelled.\n\nBut here is the Wikipedia entry on who declared war on whom:\n\n“As early as 1791, the other monarchies of Europe looked with outrage at the revolution and its upheavals; and they considered whether they should intervene, either in support of King Louis XVI, to prevent the spread of revolution, or to take advantage of the chaos in France. Austria stationed significant troops on its French border and together with Prussia, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which threatened severe consequences should anything happen to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette. After Austria refused to recall its troops from the French border and to back down on the perceived threat of using force, France declared war on Austria and Prussia in the spring of 1792; both countries responded with a coordinated invasion that was eventually turned back at the Battle of Valmy in September.”\n\nAlso, given that the author of the song, Rouget de Lisle, was noble, and still commanded by king Louis XVI, it seems unlikely impure blood refers to common blood being shed or noble/ignoble blood at all. It seems far more likely that it refers to the unvirtuous enemies of France.", "Two gay Jewish writers.", "Right but reason and logic never seem to get through to someone who is in a heavy emotion.", "Because as far as a lot of people are concerned centrist just like to sit there and criticize both left and right sides while offering no answers or alternatives, while getting to still feel smugly superior. \n\n\nThis is coming from someone who doesn't believe it's possible to boil the world into \"my side good your side bad\".", "Thank you for sharing. That was utterly chilling. (It’s a great example of the complex ideas that film can convey so succinctly.)", "I think it's a tough question because some people, myself included, think there is a point where you have to say\n\n\"I don't fucking care how manipulated you were, you did X.\"\n\nThere's a line where the momentum of being swept up in something stops and you are fully responsible. It's very hard to define, and it's messy, but it's there.\n\nI try to hold myself to a higher moral standard than the average person. I haven't been able to figure out if that is out of a sense of duty, love of the moral high ground, or if I am just a high functioning narcissist. Time will tell.\n\n>I always assume I am unknowingly partaking in some heinous shit that will come to light much later but that I for the time being think is a great idea and a just cause. I just don't know what.\n\nI'm stealing this from you. That's a very well written thought, and I think it will keep me grounded.", "That’s not what the person did though, which makes your comment very confusing.\n\nWhat mediocrity was being replaced with success?\n\nWhat weakness was being replaced by strength?\n\nWhat lawlessness was replaced by order?\n\nThose were all just propaganda slogans just like the whole maga slogan. And unfortunately for us, maga tracked far too close to fascism to not notice and see the danger in it. I mean, at some points they dropped the mask and showed us what they were. Nazi marches, nazi salutes onstage to a massive picture of trump, sending out memos with the nazi symbol for political dissidents, having that CPAC stage be the exact shape of a odal rune that was often used as a replacement of the swastika on uniforms and coincidentally is the symbol that the national socialist movement (new nazis) used as their standard at the unite the right rally where the largest subreddit for trumpers, the_donald, helped argainize it and informed their people that they’d be marching with ethnonationalists (neo nazis) but their goals aligned so don’t punch right at them.\n\nThere just so much of it wide out in the open that to frame it as dangerous to acknowledge seems dangerous and suspicious.", "There's an old saying that Communism is when politics enter art, and Fascism is when art enters politics.", "Smells like delicious pasta", "That would be one of the core elements, but not the only one. Generally you would also see things like a charismatic male leader who sells him self as the sole solution to the woes of the nation and the creation of out-groups that all problems can be blamed upon.\n\nSimply wanting to make something \"great again\" really wouldn't be enough to reasonable consider something fascist.", "Corporatism is simply private fascism. The economic structure is top-down rule. At the other end you have bottom-up organisation, which is anarchist socialism.", "Comment section is a real shitshow", "Convincing people that their own people are NOT their own people, the best play in the shitty person handbook.", "The question is will we or have we learned from our mistakes? The answer is no.", "It's always funny how conservatives compare themselves to the Jews because they can't actually compare themselves to the Nazis political enemies since those enemies were literal socialists. That poem doesn't start [\"first they came for the anti-vaxers.\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...)\n\nAlso [Hitler restricted vaccines from \"undesirables\" ](https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/vaccine-mandates-covid-pandemic-german-nazi-inoculation-policy) because it was easier to just let them die of preventable diseases than actively kill them, while the Nazis stayed safe and vaccinated. So even that comparison falls apart pretty quickly.", "A kicked dog will holler. 🤷", "To add to this, the musical numbers in the musical (presumably in the film too) that aren’t in the club are mostly between the romantic couples, Schneider/Schultz and Sally/Cliff. So it really emphasizes the idea that happiness is found in one of only a few places: in a club, in the arms of a lover, or in a nazi rally.", ">Trump is just the beginning\n\nDude, fascists are hardly a new phenomenon. Hell, Qanon is basically just a duplicate of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. And we know the response that is required: extreme violence. Fascism means war.\n\nHowever, it is worth trying to ensure that the conditions that gave rise to support for Trump (i.e. the two right-wing parties of the Democrats and the Republicans) taking constant steps to worsen wealth inequality and the like, rather than abolish wealth inequality, are opposed.", "Wow, first person to call me a smart black woman instead of a white supremacist or stupid person.", "Lol, Lincoln shouldn't be celebrated either, you are clearly ignorant to American history. Also who tried to demolish 9/11 monuments?", "What does 'success' look like?\n\nWhat does 'strength' look like?\n\nWhat does 'order' look like?\n\nIn my mind, success means being generally happy and healthy. Strength means allowing yourself to question and be questioned, to be vulnerable, a self-assuredness that gives the breathing room for opinions and traditions to be revised, because your sense of self-worth isn't tied so closely to them. There's strength to helping others selflessly, because you don't fear other people surpassing you. And order isn't delivered via force, but instead cultivated by serving a community's base needs.", "Blah blah blah", "Honestly this reminds me of the dichotomy of this very website as a whole, what was once a platform of discussion and debate has been completely divided by the emotional discord that is left versus right. I know many of us are tired, tired of not being heard one way or another. Both sides shout and shout but neither side listens.\n\nBoth sides seem like Nazis more to me every single day with the amount of censorship going on. The question is, who has the most people on either side? Who will snap first? Many pray for a rich political pseudo savior to make a difference, when we should be looking at ourselves collectively. In the end, we will kill each other while the rich that propagate the propaganda get away with it scot-free, drink in hand, ready for the next \"election\". Fuck.", "Who is \"my kind\"? You're putting me into a box when we never had a discussion.", "Seriously? Did you read this? It literally says that they're still trying to understand the effectiveness of limiting spread. They even admit that variants and schedule affect the effectiveness. None of this answers my questions. Should I ask again?", "For anyone new to the show, the MC is traditionally shown with heavy grease makeup. he’s getting on in years, but he’s trying to cover it up and show only a youthful, cheerful veneer. Kind of like how Germany at the time was using its nightlife to present a lively, successful veneer. The cracks in the makeup show the truth, that behind that front is something darker, sadder, and possibly scarier.", "I am anti-Nazi. I don't sympathize with Nazis, and I think we should stand against them.\n\nIf you are unwilling to have a discussion with an anti-Nazi, does that make you pro-Nazi?", "I highly doubt Trump read and understood a thing if Mein Kampf. He idolizes those figures as his father did and has had those ideas beaten into him and rarely questioned until the Obama ordeal. \n\nHe just stuck with the group that would accept his b.s. and cheer him for it.", "Very true. In America, both parties are in on it, truly it is a class war, them (everyone in Washington) vs us (middle and lower classes). As Carlin once said, \"It's a big club and you ain't in it\". To them, we are cattle.", "Agreed. I just come on Reddit to see how quickly things can devolve into a fucking political debate.", "Bro, fuck trump. But don’t think that he’s creating a fucking fascist party. Everything someone does something that you don’t like doesn’t make them a NAZI.", "Lying is merely a tool to be used. It's neither inherently good or evil. Santa Claus is a lie. The Holocaust didn't happen is a lie. Lies can differ in magnitude, but again, the act of lying isn't inherently always a bad thing.\n\nThe reason for the lie is what was evil, here. And at the end of the day it all comes down to power and money.", "> Only a spoiled child, living in the PEAK of safety, development and decadence could say nationalism has zero uses unironically.\n\nI hope someday more people learn this, but I fear what events will cause them to learn this", "Trump reads?", "Who said anything about \"conservatives\"? You think vaccines are split between the political aisles? Didn't Trump publicly tell people to get vaxxed several times (even again recently)? Why does this have to become a politically blue or red issue with so many of you here?", "is that a dogwhistle? yeah right here guys this one, he’s the [redacted]!\n\nstop kicking dogs or i’m calling peter", "I'd like to see your evidence that huck finn has been banned in \"liberal districts\".\n\nGood thing CRT is not, and never was taught, in high schools or elementary schools. Not anywhere in the US. you have no idea what CRT is, yet you think it shouldnt be taught to children. No. What you and people like you want is to ban teaching American history from children, because you're ashamed of how rife with racism it is.", "They made him another British politician in [this puppet spoof of it just during the 1987 U.K. general election](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ohhib)", "I find myself hating things instinctively for things I will later decide deserve nuance. A lot of people will ignore the nuance and try to further strengthen their original position. That is what I find to be a troubling part of our reality.", "He was a Democrat before all of this. He was a darling on the tv circuit and posed with celebrities all the time and no one truly batted an eye. We all overlooked his actions of being a shitty landlord and businessman, going several times into bankruptcy in several failed businesses, being very litigious and morally cheating on all his wives. We were happy when he was on \"our\" side. But there is no side to those that stand on the bloodiest hills. We are just cattle to them.", "Oh, you haven't heard?\n\n https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/08/14/the-creator-of-godwins-law-explains-why-some-nazi-comparisons-dont-break-his-famous-internet-rule/\n\nYeah, Godwin himself said it's cool to compare you sad fucks to Nazis. Guess we can just throw that on the big old pile of \"shit you know nothing about\".", "Tribalism is baked into our nature. Fear of the unknown is often warranted\n\nNazis also played with envy (rallying against the privileged bankers), revanchism (other nations have been keeping us down!) and general ire towards the system (it's the system imposed on you that's keeping you poor, in national socialist Germany you will be free and oppressed no longer!)\n\nThey used every trick in the book to mobilise and anger people, and the boogeymen they mobilised the people against were very often made up (Nazis attacked themselves and blamed Communists and Poles for example)", "Thank goodness the lunkheads here, in America, can't do any better than that off-key \"Let's Go, Brandon!\" repeat chant I am assaulted with in every other meme that pops up.", "Very groovy, baby.", "Your whole analysis is bunk, the majority of Nazi's fully believed what they were preaching so it wasn't lying. I don't think you could actually read 20 books on the subject and come to this conclusion, most of the ideas weren't made up by the Nazis and pre-dated them. \n\nI also think there's tons of social utility to lying, it's honestly one of the most effective political strategies especially in the modern day where you can lie en masse so much that you can never be fact-checked on it all. Anyone successful in life has learned to lie when appropriate and you will have to associate with these people to get anything done", "The Poland where a populist nationalist party has gained control and is destroying the constitution in order to force their religious morals on everybody? What a quaint example.\n\nThe only concerning thing is that you have any upvotes while being a prime example of what the video is about.", "Humans are still the same 'hardware' and so still runs mostly the same 'software'.", "A rich guy and his rich group (GOP) tried to find a new source of voters that would adamantly oppose the other side and so what kind of group would do that? What group would be as narrowminded and easily led in the direction they need them to be? Ah, right, the racist white supremacists. Plus, they're extreme and have been wanting a war for quite some time now, so let's show them some support.", "And here we are again.", ">Good thing it's not, then. Not anywhere in the Us\n\nContext would be helpful here so I know to what \"it's\" is referencing. That is, if you're actually interested in a serious convo and not just looking to vent.\n\n>you have no idea what CRT is, yet you think it shouldnt be taught to children\n\nWhat led you to those 2 thoughts? I do know what it is. You didn't ask me for a definition. And, I never gave my personal opinion on whether or not it should be taught.\n\n>What you and people like you want is to ban teaching American history from children\n\nHow did you come up with that? I clearly said, \"Nobody wants to ban history.\" What's wrong with you?\n\nEdit: I see you edited your comment to address the first part. Here are some ex of Huck Finn being banned in liberal districts: \n\n\n[Montgomery County, PA](https://pen.org/press-clip/schools-continue-to-grapple-with-huckleberry-finn/)\n\n[Lyons Township, PA](https://www.rblandmark.com/2021/02/23/lths-board-drops-huck-finn-from-curriculum/)\n\n[Duluth, MN ban. Bonus includes To Kill a Mockingbird](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/02/07/a-school-district-drops-to-kill-a-mockingbird-and-huckleberry-finn-over-use-of-the-n-word/?outputType=amp)\n\n[Burbank, CA](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-11-12/burbank-unified-challenges-books-including-to-kill-a-mockingbird)", "I've come to believe that as well. Truth is paramount, so we should all strive to be able to be objective, unbiased, and tell the truth, or at least not be accomplices of hiding and distorting it", "\"You mean we can further remove humans from the act of killing, increasing the likelihood that they'll actually kill? Brilliant!\"", "https://t.me/joinchat/XvKUV9-3iwg5OWJh", "He's another side of that character, but I don't think he fits in with the context of the times as Joel Grey did in the film.", "You should read House to House by David Bellavia. \n\nAbout a US Soldier in Fallujah who’s squad gets ambushed inside a house if you’re interested in that very up close kind of thing.", "its population", "I understand the criticism about criticizing both sides and not doing anything. My counterpoint is that with the bipartisan system of the US, can you blame them? Whatever they do, they cant win against either side. Though I also agree that being labeled isn't good either.", "Might be he's just ticked off about the average political redditor comparing everything to fascism\n\nAnd yes people instituting all powerful totalitarian regimes can happen nowadays. Best way to avoid that is to denounce all manner of political violence (violence being defined as unfairly taking the rights of another)", "it's irrelevant to what exactly? This is a video posted without context. How can anything be irrelevant to that?", "If you don't think it's also telling you something about you, then you've missed the point\n\nDividing people into tribes like you just did IS the problem", "I love that quote.\n\nBut, to be fair, you have to know what is absurd in the first place.\n\nHow can you, when you're being taught that there's an invisible man in the sky who's telling you to be good or else?\n\nThat he has beings with wings that float around you judging you so, be good or else.\n\nOh, you can't see them? Well then, you weren't baptized or you have committed some sin and so are now too dark to see. \n\nYou can be indoctrinated from childhood to believe absurdities, sometimes just to get along within the community.", "Steve bannon openly talked about how to radicalize discontent white males into what they became. He had a whole pipeline set up to do it.\n\nWe had full on fascists popping up all over the place on Reddit talking about (((them))) and globalists (Jews) and hook noses or big noses and whole subs like frenworkd where they used baby talk in a insanely cringy attempt to have deniability. They even had a sub about hvac where they said their white units were far superior to the black units.\n\nAny popular enough post would have them pulling their dumb alt right playbook plays.", "Again about your Iron Cross ? 🤦", "Point made and taken. Thanks for the insight", "I kept mine in my butt when I crossed the border into the Netherlands.", "It's a great thing to teach kids but they can build a better world. Telling them things belong to them because of where they were born or their race is a recipe for disaster. They were all promised something that belonging to someone else and a lot of them got it. A little piece of land in Tunisia Italy France or Russia.", "Don't forget the very real red threat to the east that was murdering half the country and wanted to spread", "Okay thank you, but I cannot seem to find the mistake. Also English is my third language, so give me some slack please.", "/r/averageredditor", ">Always approach everything in the world with a bit of cynicism and you'll be wiser for it.\n\nThe real trick is not becoming too cynical that it paralyzes you", "Robert Evans has a great podcast called Behind the Bastards, and the episode [\"How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible\"](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-nice-normal-people-72548148/) touches on this exact subject. The episode revolves around a book by journalist Milton Mayer, who traveled to Germany after the war to get to know the average everyday people that allowed the holocausts to happen.\n\nThese were completely normal teachers, bakers, and small business owners who didn't hate Jews (at least not any more than the average person in the 1930s), they were just tired of the poor economic state of their country and thought the Nazis had the answers to their economic woes.\n\nI'm not justifying what they did, because while they may not have been bigoted fanatics like the Nazis, they still looked past the bigotry of the Nazi party for their own personal gain, which is almost worse.", "I feel like people who say idiotic things like this live a very sheltered life, are very young and have zero sense of history, or are just so brainwashed they will believe anything other people say. Trump sucks. We get it. Let's stop disrespecting people that actually went through the worst events in history while comparing it to your boring life where nothing happens in the safety of your own home where you get to live and be free and not tortured to death. When your biggest issue was a papercut last week you've got a lot to be grateful for here.", ">They were removing Abraham Lincoln from the names of schools too.\n\nWhat are your thoughts on [removing Abraham Lincoln](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2021-01-27/san-francisco-to-strip-washington-lincoln-from-school-names) and Washington from the names of schools?", "It's not really up to us to forgive, they're already dead.", "Yep, if you're a tribe, you stick together and all of America, with all it's colors and beliefs are one big tribe. Any sect that seeks to separate itself from the rest and cause division is trying to sabotage and destroy the entire tribe for their purpose. That group, to me, are the people on the hill who've been doing that successfully for decades now.", "Just like Scottish nationalism.", ">Generally you would also see things like a charismatic male leader who sells him self as the sole solution to the woes of the nation and the creation of out-groups that all problems can be blamed upon\n\nOh! Well then we're all good then. Right? Right?", "You can also bet that when they board their rocket ships and leave the planet, there will be no room for us onboard. We will have to Snowpiercer our way onto the ship somehow and then we will be \"their problem\" again.", "My mistake, I forgot it's actually antifa that's been complaining about vaccine mandates and not Trump supporters that booed him for suggesting they get vaccinated.", "And it's a one day old account.", "That was entertaining to watch you own that npc", "Lincoln was an abollitionist, so he's good. Well, not exactly, but he definitely didn't own slaves, and he was in effect, an abolitionist.\n\nWashington is in the same boat as the other 11 slave owning presidents. It's complicated. As a white person I don't feel like I can tell black people that those people should be celebrated because honestly, slavery is THAT horrific. It is. Maybe they didn't think so at the time, but they were very wrong.\n\nSo if that taints their legacy enough for people to want their names removed, I'm about it.\n\nEdit: You asked directly for my personal opinion, and then downvoted me, lol. Guess that's all you can muster against the obvious.", "It is happening right now in America. Look at every piece of propganda put out by conservatives and the Republican party. This is it. We are witnessing the rise of fascism. What are we doing about it?", "I.e. \"Make America Great Again\". Trumpism is right out of the Nazi playbook.", "Just enjoy it. \n\nSource: Not a creative writer, but I once received awards for writing a Hitler Rom-Com using electricity puns. So technically my Hitler Rom-Com is award winning.", "Except the GOP isn't into censorship, or cancel culture, or overt fascism like forcing vaccines onto the population or shutting down businesses like the left.", "Well the reason is that so many conservative republican types think that they are the true America and that other people like me or black people or Hispanics cannot be the “real Americans” like they are. So when they attack those groups and the country as a whole they don’t see it that way at all. They see it as taking the country back from nonAmericans. \n\nWhen they couldn’t deny their fascism anymore they stopped crying about being correctly described and started with the “so what if I’m a nazi or fascist” and leaned into the fascism even harder.", "Capitol is a building where the government is housed.", "Nobody was ever \"happy\" that Donald Trump was a Democrat. Everybody could see right through him and see that he was a manipulative lying selfish narcissistic cheat who would say and do anything to gain popularity and power for himself.", "Mein Kampf", "> America's romaniticization of the Revolutionary War\n\nUsing force to respond to what they argued were rights infringements. \n \n> \"don't tread on me\" mentality\n \nIs there something wrong with supporting individual rights?", "Do you have any statistics on who, within the US, is not* being vaxxed? And, within those stats, surely there is some correlation between political party affiliation, right? You wouldn't just make these claims without facts behind them, right? The last I heard, there was a big problem getting the black population vaxxed, which tend to lean left. But, for some reason, vaccine mandates weren't considered racist like the voter ID push was right before that. Do you have an explaination for that hypocrisy?", "It's really frightening that Fascists feel free to speak out publicly these days.", "For sure.", "I can’t help seeing similarities between scenes like this, and the [dancing girls](https://youtu.be/YRNRHzUoBuQ) scene from The Last Emperor.\n\nPretty faces .. patriotic songs .. uniforms .. and the strong sense that something bad is happening.", "You're a bit late to the party. The flyover-state American working class kept getting shat on so they elected Trump.\n\n It happened before, it's happening today, and it will happen again tomorrow too.", "This song is so disturbing because if you don’t look at it, it’s a beautiful song. Instead, it’s propaganda for the worst thing to have ever happened: the Nazi regime.", "And they would be wrong. That's why I don't trust them. I think it's also the Dems too, because they don't do enough to reverse the Republican changes when they do get back into power and could do more with giving a voice to the lower/middle class by giving them a seat in power. We no longer have a representative for our class in the White House, that was removed when they started killing the unions. The only \"unions\" that exist are corporations who have lobbyists running the fold. No one is out to bat for our side. The one person who is, Bernie, has been sidelined by his own party. Both parties are in on it.", "We wouldn't have to forgive them if we'd fight them before it came to that. Then they could wonder over forgiving us.", "Good luck with this comment. I'm sure reddit will recieve it well", "Ignore the comment, you have \"it's population\", which is perfectly correct as it's showing Germany's possession, whereas the commenter is reading it as a contraction of \"it is population\", in error.", "If you eat animal products you're doing it now. Why should animals bred to miserable lives forgive you? You didn't know? Now you do.", "Did you read all the studies? Did you? Or did you just look at one sentence and then give up? Yes, you did.", "They took a lot of pictures with him and made deals with him, so it seems to me that it is a bit cooperative, no? Or maybe it was like a Harvey Weinstein thing, where everyone knew for years what he is like but they also wanted to keep working so they just kept letting it slide?", "No, you can't, but thanks for the drive-by shit take anyway!", "You only think they're fascists because you have no idea what their ethos actually is. You generated one for them.", "Nah, they (i.e., you) have always been quite outspoken. It's encouraging that your enemies are finally starting to feel free to speak out against you, despite knowing you'll smear them as \"fascists,\" \"racists,\" \"misogynists,\" or some other epithet.", "\"Build back better\"", "> Nationalism is \"identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.\"\n\nGroups who act in their interests rather than others' interests. \n \nThis describes every single group. \n \n>that person's identity, to the point of bigotry and prejudice against others. \n \nThis describes every single person who puts their group identity over their individual identity and the individual rights of others. \n \nNationalism used as a pejorative is just ad hominem, it's deceitful.", "It's an actor just acting... It's probably in the script for him to stay seated...", "Ha! Yup democrats are shitty too. They’re the controlled opposition that has to give us scraps every now and again to keep the charade up. Somebody described it as a ratchet effect where republicans move farther right while democrats prevent any movement back to the left. Rinse and repeat and you find yourself in a country reversing abortion rights and embracing a weird new age kind of feudalism wherein the wealthy owner class owns all the assets and the lowly serfs have to rent from them, which just furthers the wealth gap.\n\nThat’s why we have this cyclical market crashing going on. It gives the rich fire sale prices to further gobble up and hoard resources and wealth.\n\nEventually they will learn the hard way that unions were the nice option that is far more preferable to the other option where they get dragged out of their homes and best to death with their families.", "Why is there a vampire at the end?", "Yeah, it's not hypocritical. There are many ways to prevent voter fraud/verify your identity, but the GOP is only focused on the one way that specifically effects black people the most. IDs cost money, essentially creating a poll tax, while the vaccine is free. Nice pivot though.", "Except we can draw parallels to every part of those requirements", "No, I didn't click through all of the study links from March at the end of the write-up. Why would I? I read through the CDC page and, as I pointed out, it didn't seem like you did (otherwise you would have never sent it). Do you have at least one current study that you can point to that backs up your claim? Surely you can if there are tens of thousands, or whatever you said.", ">Lincoln shouldn't be celebrated either, \n\nLuckily, most Americans still disagree with you on this point, and you would be an example of culture war going too far and destroying the great heritage of our country.", "Love you fucking morons that just assume that everybody that you don't agree with must watch Tucker Carlson and OAN. Do you watch CNN and MSNBC? Joy Reid and Don Lemon are 2 of the worst fucking people on the planet.\n\n>Is there left wing propaganda? Of course there is, but its usually in response to inequality perpetuated by right wingers, supported by extreme right wing propaganda.\n\nYeah, we all get it. Even problems that democrats have are because republicans. You shitheads have no fucking imagination anymore. Can't even take responsibility for your own fuckups, must be that republicans are so bad that your shit is bad. People like you are the fucking problem.", "Says...you?", "The sad thing is the very country he served turned on him solely because he was a jew", "That understanding is the most cursory understanding that could only be applied to the 'crt' during it's initial inception but certainly not today", "People think anyone to the right of Mao are basically nazis", "What you're actually PROUD of your history and tradition and the accomplishments of your family bigot????", "he asked about concentration camps not going to jail for breaking the law", "That's a common misconception. Nearly all states that require voter id have a free id available. The studies show that they increase black votes and the large majority of black voters are pro-voter id. Its funny that people like you think black people need your protection to help them because they're so poor and inept. \n\nBut, you're right- that was off track. So, please answer my initial question about your stats on the correlation you made about unvaccinated people being conservatives.", "Coincidentally, I just finished watching Judgement at Nuremberg. Pairs well with the Cabaret moment.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGfHkdR3tXs&list=WL&index=1", "I think the founding fathers' ability to set this country upon an enlightened path, one with principles that culminated in the freeing of the slaves, allows them to be celebrated even with them partaking in the sins of their time.", "\n\nYes, did you find that with a script or did you comb over my 7 year comment history?\n\nIq differences are very well established and no scientist worth their salt disputes them\n\nThere's conversation on where they come from, if they're biased or if it even matters at all (my view is it doesn't, group differences really are of no importance as we should judge everyone individually, plus the ability to solve complex problems is a very small part of what makes us human - it doesn't even correlate with being good or evil)\n\nIn any case, that IQ predicts salary is not up for dispute. It's how iq tests are made as far as I know - you ask people a series of questions, find them later in life, measure their success in life, and use that data to try to make new, predictive questions (maybe you can see here why there's talk of it being biased)\n\nI've exposed that view many times, did you find those comments too?", "Hey, the big blue cat people just wanted to protect their forest planet, okay", "This is a massive leftist cope to try and justify the fact that their party is now unpatriotic, elitist, crashing the economy and not even yearning for a better future for our population.", "Hey I'd post more on leftie subs if they didn't ban me for not toeing their moral line\n\nI was actually very active in politics early on when I joined Reddit\n\nAnd yes, that's me Lmao", "Yep, kill everything FDR set up, destroy the middle class and the cattle will keep to themselves and the hierarchal equilibrium will continue as it always has, a 1% running the world from different castles while the marching moron serfs continue to do their labor for them. This is until robotics gains the upper hand and there is no need for the \"cattle\" anymore wherein they will wipe them out and then it will just be 100,000 of them fighting amongst themselves for the rest of eternity, psychopath vs psychopath.", "Culture war 🤣 \n\nCelebrating heritage can be done in so so many different ways and you are really showing your ignorance in blindly fellating Abe because you seem to think that if you don't then you hate America? Is that it? You can't criticize this man that everyone tell you to love? Culture war, really...", "It’s odd that white suprematists would unironically use a song written by a gay, Jewish man about how fascism and Nazis were corrupting of everyday people.", "Babylon Berlin is a contemporary look at that time, as well.", "I think Cabaret is the only movie that I've seen that depicted the rise of Nazism in Germany. The Sound of Music sort of gets into it, but it's not super explicit. \n\nI had always wondered how people went along with plainly heinous shit. Cabaret depicted it so well. And now, of course, I only have to turn on the news or look out the window and I see it happening all over again. It hurts my very soul.", "Yeah German show. I presume that you're German too?", "What's the difference? It's just [schutzhaft.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protective_custody_(Nazi_Germany\\))", "I'm a paleoconservative, and the paleocons have all but been frozen out of the GOP for decades at this point. Why? Because they aren't beholden to the needs of corporations (that and thanks to Harry Jaffa).", "Exactly like [Nietzsche's ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche) wonderful ideas were purposely twisted and pushed onto a confused, scared and uneducated German populace to benefit [Nazism/Fascism](https://www.activehistory.co.uk/ib-history/extended-essay-history-samples/nietzsche.pdf) .. some of [ Carl Jung's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero's_journey) ideas are being used now to the same ends. The first name that comes to mind doing exactly this technique is Jordan Peterson.", "Yeah, I think the implication is that he is a veteran of WW1, and he's seen this kind of nationalistic fervor before. He's not going to be standing up for that (again).", "Don't ever let someone convince you that partisanship is good or necessary. The \"eNlIgHtEnEd cEnTrIsT\" crowd will always try and present non-partisanship as a bad thing.\n\nOnce you make a political ideology part of your identity, [you struggle](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380695/) with any sort of identification with your other. It leads to outright hostility in dealing with any that you perceive as your other. Makes objectivity impossible.\n\nStay moderate friend, need more of that in such a polarized world.", "Well, that and the Brown Shirts beating the shit out of people in the streets.", "They tried to build everything back better and failed.", "Yep", "I think the precise hypocrisy of saying those things but also owning slaves taints their message enough that celebrating them is a complicated question. Do Englanders celebrate King John for his role in the Magna Carta? I really don't know, but I doubt it.", "No they tried to build everything back better for themselves through nepotism.", "It wasn't the taxes per se it was taxation without any buy in from the colonial governments. The American colonists had no representation that agreed to these taxes. \n\n\nThere had been uprisings not technically related to the Revolution in the decades preceding the war, and not all of them were started by wealthy land owners (the North and South Carolina Regulator movements come to mind in the 1760s). The South Carolina Regulators at one point even threatened to march on the then capital city of Charleston and burn it to the ground over lack of courts and representation in the SC colonial government.", "Maybe Ian McKellen was not really a wizard but just pretended to be one in lord of the rings...", "Anthony Hopkins?", "Yes as it should be. People need to know why these things happened", "The evil of fascism is here, in America, right now. And it’s wearing the disguise of Liberalism.", "This and The Sound of Music, indirect ways of showing how how the nazi propaganda merged with nationalism/localism: how it can penetrate perceived inviolate communities, as their Achilles heel is isolation.", "No, its on Netflix w/ subtitles.", "r/politics used to be a great group for discussion. It 's complete trash now. Trying to have an intelligent, middle of the road conversation is impossible. It's sad really.", "Al Queda puts too much oil in their hummus.", "In the case of the US, there are scarcely any services that the US gov can provide that could be considered constitutional (nor are the privileges and welfare given to corporations constitutional)... \n\n\nImmigration is a problem though, but so is central government policies that interfere with the market and create a condition where certain entities (namely corporations) are privileged over the rights of individual citizens.", "You're talking about heart disease right?", "Oh sweet you watched it dubbed then", "> Your whole analysis is bunk, the majority of Nazi's fully believed what they were preaching so it wasn't lying. I don't think you could actually read 20 books on the subject and come to this conclusion, most of the ideas weren't made up by the Nazis and pre-dated them.\n\nYes. This is part of the problem and what people don't understands.\n\nThe BEST way to tell a lie is to tell people what the WANT to believe.\n\n> I also think there's tons of social utility to lying, it's honestly one of the most effective political strategies especially in the modern day where you can lie en masse so much that you can never be fact-checked on it all. Anyone successful in life has learned to lie when appropriate and you will have to associate with these people to get anything done\n\nAnd what ends up is the Holocaust ... study game theory for a bit. Lying is effectively defection and there's a net loss. \n\nI'd recommend starting with Prisoners Dilemma, Stag Hunt, Tragedy of the Commons, etc.", "How do you know when your accusation of someone being a Nazi is true or not?\n\nNow we have a Schrodinger's Godwin!\n\n&#x200B;\n\n>you sad fucks to Nazis. \n> \n>the big old pile of \"shit you know nothing about\".\n\nAlso, these are pretty mean and vulgar comments, and hurt my feelings a little. If you keep insulting me I will stop responding.\n\nHave a good Saturday.", "So not, well good luck with that", "Part of my argument is that people don't realize how evil lying is.\n\nYou're hurting everyone else at their expense so you can benefit and tearing down the entire system as you go.\n\nYou're burning the city down so you can be king of the ashes. \n\nIt's not clever. It's pathetic.", "This would make sense if getting vaccinated protected other people from getting sick and dying. We know that it doesn't. We know that the vaccination has waning efficacy (see boosters). We know that vaccines don't make the virus go away. So, please tell me why you disagree with any of that or, if you agree, why would you be ok with any gvt forcing this vax?", "You just need to stay away from the main subs.", "Stop it with the straw man, I never used the word only.", "I mean the Russians might have been a problem but even the Germans realized that they wouldn't have been with the Americans.", "Bear with me for a second, but IMO one related issue that has really come to the forefront for me is the sadly-misguided lack of care and consideration of others shown by some people during the Covid pandemic:\n\nThose who can't even see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else. It's the ability to help others which rewards those who commit themselves to getting vaccinated - something which we will need to renew every winter. \n\nOur social welfare systems are so much more than just charity. Because we're not just saying to rich people, \"Please get vaccinated to help the poor\". Instead we say, \"Please help yourselves! Everyone must get vaccinated whether they are rich or poor!\" \n\nEveryone must have the belief that there is always someone in a much worse situation than I am, and this person I want to help as a friend.\n\nAnd if you think \"Isn't getting a vaccine a big deal for me to do?\" - that's the glory in giving! When you sacrifice for your community, then you can walk with your head held up high.\n\nDid you find yourself agreeing with anything I just said in bold above?\n\nBecause substitute \"vaccination\" for \"socialist state\" and the above is taken practically word-for-word from [this speech by Adolf Hitler - starting at the 1:50 mark.](https://archive.org/details/10AdolfHitlerThisIsNationalSocialismVOSTFR)\n\nThis is the real danger of fascism to my mind - if someone spews enough rhetoric for long enough, pretty soon there's a good chance he'll say something that rings true to you in your current situation/mindset.\n\nAnd it might make you think for a moment, \"Hey - maybe that guy's onto something. I think I'll listen a bit more\".\n\nAnd that's how it starts.\n\n(PS: I'm in no way against getting vaccinated - I just wanted to use this as an example that many of us might be able to relate to).", "This is one of the only interviews I can think of with someone who actually describes taking a life in such direct terms.", "The guy to which you replied didn't say that, I did. Lol- dumbass.", "I've always been torn about the Soviet army's treatment of German women during the occupation. Horror in payback for horror. The horror would never end if so.", "You didn't read and then jumped to conclusions, that's why you were so bad in school, mate. You neither have the willingness nor the ability to understand. So please refrain from voting next time, it's for your own good. \n\n\nGoing through these texts takes time, you didn't bother. You don't want to understand. So please stop pretending you do. You absolutely proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that you do not.", "Using the 'Yearning for a better future' is how Communist dictatorships take power, selling people on a utopian vision, they follow similar tactics to the Nazis, just slightly different.", "Fun fact some Nazi uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss", "\\headsratch\\ Couldn't agree more.", "Sounds like the Dems in the US", "Meanwhile, in Britain \"Hitler has only got one ball...\"", "In the case of Germany pre-WW1 Germany was quite a bit better than post-Treaty of Versailles and especially Great Depression Germany. Idealized past isn't really the term to use in that case, it was an actually better past. They just coopted the conditioning and fear a generation of PTSDed survivors of WW1 got from the struggles and pain of the war years and aftermath as well as collapse of the economy in 1932.", "MANDATORY viewing if you haven't seen it.\n\nhttps://www.pbs.org/video/the-story-of-fascism-in-europe-pthanf/", "Here's a question you might not want to answer honestly depending in who asked it: \"where are the children?\" (of currently actively and violently prosecuted group)\n\nIn the presence of other good faith actors you can morally agree with, cooperate honestly. What's the point in giving information to an aggressor just because they asked, though?", "FDR?", "Yeah but he was unavailable so I ended up covering for him", "Or the New Deal. Or Build Back Better. Or any other slogan used by any American politician ever who says their vision is better than the other guy's.", "They didn't mind taking his money and showing up to his weddings did they?", "So how about FDR's New Deal? Get rid of the Republicans in charge, give the government unprecedented control over the economy, and transform America into a new paradise. If you apply the metric in a non-partisan way you could also apply it to things you hold sacred.", "Honestly wondering, but when Obama was doing this same exact thing no one cared. When Trump took office and was doing it he was a racist nazi.\n\nHell, Trumps administration even ended the separation of parents and children, an Obama policy, and he is still accused of being a racist nazi.\n\nTrump, policy wise, is a Clinton democrat. The majority of his policies and goals as president aligned with what Clinton was trying to accomplish in the 90's. \n\nThe issue is that the left has moved further left and convinced themselves that anyone and everyone that does not agree with them is a racist nazi.\n\nYes, Jan 6th was bad, but it wasn't some nazi takeover. They were protesting and a cop shot a women, killing her.\n\nBiden was still confirmed president and the people on Jan 6th were arrested. Many will be serving time.\n\nTo act like anyone and everyone that does not agree with big government progressives are Nazi fascists is very fascist in of itself.", "Sounds like both sides the aisle in the US.", "To be fair, the GOP has learned quite a bit as the lack of serious consequences for their Jan 6/ Beer Hall Putsch showed to their followers who might have been on the fence that it will work next time. They had a pretty darn successful rehearsal and now the courts and right-wing media is setting up the real thing. The boogie men have been designated and the hate generation campaign will run full steam ahead for the next three years. Few of them are smart enough to comprehend that they will not escape the economic destruction it will cause when the government and the dollar are unstable and no longer trusted by the rest of the world.", "They do provide some resistance to infection, not to mention that the significant reduction in hospitalisation prevents hospitals from being overwhelmed. An overwhelmed health system is a danger to the community. It truly boggles the mind how anyone in their right mind could suggest that vaccines aren't useful during a pandemic. \n\nOn the other hand you have a group of people hell bent on resisting this simple solution in the name of what? Conspiracy theories?", "No, it's in German, just with English subtitles.", "Well said on both counts", "This right here. This comment right here. Both sides are fucked.", "Oh even better :)", "The only defense I can give them is that they were coming from total economic devastation and felt that they could only look up from the bottom. The problem with the movement here is that GOP voters are heading for the same political solution while standing on top of the world economically and there is no \"up\" for them to go to by upending democracy and equality.", "[More black and Hispanic people are not getting vaccinated compared to white people. Seems like its an issue of race at this point.](https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-by-race-ethnicity/)", "This is the \"Where is the Ann Frank?\" argument? \n\nI won't deny that it becomes fuzzy when we're talking about an obvious aggressor but I even issues like lying about Santa Claus (which may be neural) is also wrong.\n\nPlato talks about this in the Republic btw:\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie", "\"plus invalids\" - This was my very first thought when I saw 74 million Americans approve of a man who publically mocked the handicapped. I fear that it's over, those people cannot be fixed.", "What brand of whiskey do you recommend? I know a friend who have a baby and want to start early. You know there is plenty of money if you can get a 5 year old to sing like a 20 year old. We have seen Michael Jacksson.", "I 99% agree with you. The only thing I'd amend in your comment is that fear has to exist in order for a lie to really take hold. When people are fearful, they are pliant. And from fear, racism, antisemitism, nationalism, fascism, and all the other isms are possible, and lies become the currency of the oppressors.\n\nThank you for sharing your story and for being a good human being.", "True. But nazis aren't showing up to support Democratic politicians like they are Republican politicians. And the GOP isn't doing much of anything to actually discourage them from showing up. I accidentally ended up in the middle of a nazi rally back in the 1980s and it was pretty damn scary to hear those people speak, or yell actually.", "[This reminds me of all the genuinely upbeat and funny kids who were in the Hitler Youth Summer Camp in Jojo Rabbit.\n\nKids being kids. Running in the woods....to learn ambush tactics. Pitching tents at night....to prepare for their eventual turn in the army. A kid so patriotic his imaginary friend isn't a dinosaur or a dragon, is the leader of his country.....who is Hitler.\n\nEvery awful group has a decent-sized population of idiots, children, and outcasts who just want to be in a community. And another, MUCH LARGER population of people who think the group is the answer to their problems.\n\nHow many Germans had no opinions on Jews, or even loved them, until they were convinced that their destruction would help the country? How many loved their enchanting countryside (Germany is gorgeous!) and thought they were keeping it safe?\n\nShould we feel sad for these \"bystanders\". Absolutely, many of us would probably do the same if we weren't looking out for it.\n\nShould we forgive them.....that's a much tougher question.\n\nShould we learn from their mistakes. YES!]\n\nThis sounds like the Boy Scouts of America. A paramilitary group for training kids from a young age (Cub Scouts) to be self sufficient and good at taking orders.", "All they need now is 14\nhttps://www.bremertonschools.org/cms/lib/WA01001541/Centricity/Domain/222/Fourteen%20Defining%20Characteristics%20of%20Fascism%20slides.pdf", "Aren't you mixing up the American Civil War and the independance war ?", "Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Sir Ian, Sir Ian Sir Ian…", "Most people in war are innocent except for the brass that sent them over the top", "This sounds disturbingly familiar.", "Godwin's law at work again I see.", "Oh, guess I'll go read a big book then /s\n\nThanks for the contribution!", "> Not a vampire though\n\nThat we know of.", "I'm a jew, and he's not wrong. Also, Judaism is a religion, and therefore a choice.\n\nWhen you suppress science in an effort to grant yourself emergency powers, and then strip rights away from dissenters, you are absolutely being a nazi. \n\nSemantics aside, you're dividing the population based on who will blindly follow, and who will stop and ask scientific questions before being controlled. Antivaxxers are not without merit, and to pretend that they are, only shows your own ignorance.\n\nHitler needed to be granted emergency powers in order for his plan to work. His plan involved demonizing part of the population, making \"normal\" Germans see their fellow countrymen as less-than-human, and then stripping them of their rights.\n\nLike it or not, forcing a new drug on people \"because the CEO of Pfizer told us to\" is not science. Not a single vaccine has undergone phase 3 or 4 clinical trials, and are only approved *on an emergency basis... People are fucking dying and being maimed by the vaccines. Young Boys are six times more likely to have myocarditis or pericarditis. My captains son, Jason Barnes of Long Beach CA, died from myocarditis on a flight to Hawaii after his second dose of the vaccines. Another firefighter that I work with had a pulmonary embolism from a blood clot.\n\nThere is no long term data on these drugs.\n\nThere IS proof, from multiple studies, that naturally immunized people are better protected, and their immunity is longer lasting. Yet the government won't acknowledge this.\n\nThe VAST MAJORITY of people dying, we're talking 80%, are obese or overweight with comorbidities directly tied to their voluntary obesity.\n\nYoung healthy people aren't dying from covid. Young men are significantly more likely to be hurt by the vaccine, than from covid. If the obese and the elderly and the at-risk get their vaccines, there is literally no reason to force this on children or young men... Because, per the CDC itself, the viral load is nearly identical in vaxxed and unvaxxed when they are infected... And per the CDC itself, the vaccine does NOT stop you from being infected, or infecting others. In fact, since the vaccinated are more likely to be asymptomatic, they are what's is known as a \"superspreader\". \n\n\nLets circle back to the part about the Gold Star... When you suppress science in an effort to grant yourself emergency powers, and then strip rights away from dissenters, you are absolutely being a nazi.", ">\tTowards the end of the war Joseph Goebbels murdered his own children. I think he had something like five girls. They would have been fine* and wouldn't have faced prosecution but these people believed their OWN lies about Nazism.\n\nlol no", "> but certainly not today\n\nIf that's true, it's only because the conservative outrage machine has mangled what critical race theory means in popular media.", "I have some really bad news for you. Thanks to the parts of the Constitution that protected people who wanted to own other people and keep them in camps, a party can win without having a majority of the voters.", "r/technicallythetruth", "They're salivating for their version of 'Gilead'", "I fear the people who upvote this post. Paleoconservatism is no better than what the GOP is today, it's just nationalism and xenophobia/isolationism rolled together with a bunch of homophobia and religious values.\n\nHonestly Trump's moronic protectionist policies and generally racist attitude should have made paleoconservatives a big fan of the guy. \n\nA quick glance at your profile makes it apparent though that you're not even an american- you're a brit. I'm gonna hazard a guess what your opinions on Brexit are and just point to the current state of the UK rather than criticize your ideology here any further, since I think reality does that well enough for me.", "Build back better is literally different.\n\nIt’s not about a return to the glory days- it’s about building things back up, but this time doing so in a way that will last. It’s about taking our knowledge from past periods of prosperity and using our knowledge and skills we’ve since gained to improve upon it.", "The version from the original Broadway soundtrack is way better than the movie version and is just beautiful. My parents played soundtracks when I was a kid and I sang along to this song many times a week. Had no idea what it was about until I went off to college and saw the play.", "Thanks for the rec! I’ll put it on my list for sure.", "Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite twitter dunks: [https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/843227257061761024?t=kHDzXW13AZPlMxga_W0nBA&s=19](https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/843227257061761024?t=kHDzXW13AZPlMxga_W0nBA&s=19)", "That's hardly it but thank you for boiling down the work of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, and Roger Scruton into one sentence.", "Wow. That is creepily beautiful. How has no one put a montage of Trump supporters over that soundtrack? I wonder if Youtube would censor it.", "I think what's interesting is that this is happening in America today and that the people calling other people Nazi's for the most part are the ones falling for the propaganda being shoved down their throat. Would never acknowledge their viewpoint is based on propaganda unless the propagandists told them it was. We're fucked.", "The definition of American conservatism.", "Well I guess I know what movie I'm adding to my queue.\n\nAlso that kid has pipes!", "Wishing to return to a glorified past isn't enough to be palingenesis. You have to want to get to this greatness by tearing down what currently exists. Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes. So, you'd need to do something like convince your supporters that the election results can't be trusted. When you lose, it was because of fraud. That justifies taking drastic -- even violent -- action. \n\nPalingenesis alone isn't enough for fascism either. You have to have ultranationalism. Fascism is the confluence of these two forces.\n\nSo, wanting to make America Great again by ensuring that only the real Americans benefit from our society, excluding undesirable religions/ethnic groups, and believing that violence may be justified to do so would be fascism.", "neoliberalism", "It's the juxtaposition of sinister and wholesome. The Nazis here appear very wholesome. The emcee represents the other side.", "Money makes the world go round", "What makes a paleoconservative any different from the average Trump supporter?", "Joel is a talented fellow and father of also talented Jennifer Grey, Baby in Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's sister, among other roles.", ">ignorance in blindly fellating Abe\n\nFor shame.\n\nNotice, I'm massively downvoted here, but not for the Abe comments. People still like Lincoln because he literally ended slavery in America.\n\nAnyways, you're just picking for a fight now, so I'm going to move along. Have a good Saturday.", "I was quite young when I first saw this first movie adaptation of Cabaret. This particular scene left such a powerful impression on me.\n\nAt my young age, I was around ten years old, I didn't know why that scene left such a strong impression on me. I loved music and was a budding musician but never realized how music could be used as propaganda and towards such a frightening end.\n\nThank you, OP, so much for posting this clip. It's been years since I've seen it and it still gives me chills.", "Michael York. Super talented fellow. First saw him in Logan's Run as Logan. One of the last of the old school sci-fi films, before Star Wars changed everything.", "Forgotten or, as in the red states, never taught it in a classroom. Well, maybe they are taught it but not as a tragedy.", "In no way was your comment \"moderate,\" it was 100% \"both-siderism\"", "Yeah press X to doubt. I think it has more to do with that he lived through WWI and his age brings with it the wisdom to stay seated and not get caught up in the fervor which he probably knows all to well.", "Trump is a cult of personality. There is no ideology there at all. \n\n\nPaleoconservatism is an ideology oriented toward maintaining the institutions that sustain local communities, the family, the built environment, legal institutions, etc. There is a lot more to it than that, but I'd recommend as an intro: \n\n\n'The Conservative Mind' -Russell Kirk \n'How to be a Conservative' -Roger Scruton \n\n\nThere are tons and I mean tons of literature past that but those are 2 decent primers.", ">Paleoconservatism is an ideology oriented toward maintaining the institutions that sustain local communities, the family, the built environment, legal institutions, etc.\n\nI'm aware of the theoretical cornerstones of the ideology.\n\nIn practice paleoconservatives are [this.](https://www.reddit.com/gallery/ovrah3) Essentially a part of the crowd singing in OP's video. That is from the actual /r/Paleoconservative sub before it closed down due to rampant nationalism and racism.", "Hardly. Your bias is showing.", "Why would you? YOU LITERALLY ASKED FOR EXPLANATIONS! THEY'RE THERE. Now you're saying you're too lazy to read them? Well then, you deserve what you get. I gave you your explanations. You didn't read them. Now you're still behaving like that's somehow someone else's fault. If you want to desperately be a victim, you can. But don't blame that on anyone or anything except your willful ignorance.", "My bias? I have literally just linked you to what self-proclaimed Paleoconservatives have said.\n\n[Hilariously though here you are defending literal confederates.](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/iresrk/crowd_cheers_as_charlottesville_takes_down_statue/g4ymo6h/ ) And you are literally a part of the [United Daughters of Confederacy.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy)\n\nFuck off you quasi-nazi. You are the boy singing in OP's video, go away.", "Colin Kap?", "The world go round", "The world really runs on water.", "This is exactly what I'm talking about. You don't know what the ethos of your other is, so you conform it to affirm your biases. You want* them to be fascist so you will contort your perspective of what their beliefs are until it fits the mold, but you don't actually know what they believe.\n\nIt's nuts to me that you honestly perceive your other as fascist. Particularly with their perspective on corporate and state powers, and their perspective on speech and censorship.", "Because a subreddit is completely representative of an ideology. What you showed is what representative of something that could have been posted on 4chan. \n\n\nStill a paleocon, not changing my mind.", "“ReDdIt iS a LiBeRaL cEsSpOoL!!!”\n\nCry more", "Hilarious. I'm also a member of DAR. I'm a PhD history student too. Fuck me for caring about my ancestry right?", "Dems are left wing, not right wing.", "Yeah I am and I hear what you're saying. Guess I just wanted to add my 2 cents.", "To your point, we as people feel safer if we believe that there is some intrinsic flaw that caused a person to go so bad. We hate the idea that born in a certain place at a certain time we would most likely have chosen poorly and be a villain of history. An entire country of people went along with this. It really is ridiculous to think that we would be the outlier. But it is horrifying to accept that we contain the potential for such monstrous cruelty. Oddly, accepting that we are capable and culpable is the beginning of preventing ourselves from participating. \n\nMitchell and Webb tipped their caps to this idea in one of their skits: https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU", "Had the Holocaust not happened, would these methods be seen as anything concerning or out of the ordinary? I think there’s a leap between patriotism and genocidal world domination.", "Fuck, you've never seen Cabaret ? I envy you. It's an amazing film, because of scenes like this and because some of the performances are just transcendent. Lisa Minelli is stunning in this movie. Iconic. It's a real film lovers film.", "There's a difference between caring about your ancestry and literally joining an organization like the UDC- which if your PhD was actually useful you'd pretty quickly recognize as an explicitly fascist and white supremacist organization.", "Really? There are a handful of black Southern women who are members. DAR was accused of the same thing back in the day. I'm solely the descendant of colonial American settlers in the backcountry 1608-1767. My own ancestry is as important to me as anyone else in the country. \n\n\nOf course, I'm not writing a dissertation that ventures off into woke history.", "this is true for all good parodies. The best parodies are so good they can be mistaken for, and often are, the thing they are making fun of", "Patriotism = nationalism", "Scary to know how quickly fascists take a piece of anti-fascist art and de-contextualize it so their shitty followers think it was written for them.", ">Really? There are a handful of black Southern women who are members.\n\nThere were also black people who wanted to keep slavery in place. And there are today black people who defend slavery and support fascist/white supremacist groups as a grift. This doesn't mean shit, you don't get a pass for \"having black friends.\"\n\n>DAR was accused of the same thing back in the day. \n\nI don't know why you brought this up as if I would care. Not only am I Canadian but I'm indigenous to the continent, I don't care about your war for independence or the groups formed around it. And in all likelihood this kind of group probably was guilty of being racist.\n\n>I'm solely the descendant of colonial American settlers in the backcountry 1608-1767. My own ancestry is as important to me as anyone else in the country.\n\nAnd I'm the descendant of people who have been here for thousands of years. I don't give a shit who your ancestors are, but joining a group like UDC which is pretty blatantly racist and nationalist is a massive red flag for you as a person.", "They have proven themselves to tick all of the boxes, it doesn't matter what their views may or may not be when their actions speak for them", "You are wrong. So sorry. Fuck off I guess?", "Looks like a trump rally", "These lists were created and studied way before Trump, no molding done", "If you aren't a racist piece of shit, why do you consistently align yourselves with people who very clearly are?\n\nOh, you're just an innocent paleoconservative right? You're not like those xenophobic fascists. You read literature. I recommend Mein Kampf and Atlas Shrugged.", "Best use of music in a movie. Or play. Ever.", "OP: To me at least, it's a reminder to be careful about what we give a pass to or maybe even appreciate because of its initial appearance. Just because a movement or institution is meeting a need doesn't mean its work is for the better.\n \nThis guy: Believe Me, I see it. It’s the other side! Just like my tv said! Rittenhouse, and the oldsters that walked through the Capitol, and the rest of the white supremacists!", "How the Nazis did it is well understood.\n\nAsk any Republican Death Cult leader.", "I disagree. I can also state that from their perspective, their other ticks most of those boxes. It's the same exact trap.\n\n\n\nTheir views do matter, as do their actions. You're exposed to a subset of their actions that conform to your beliefs. You don't know the wider context. \n\nI notice you talk a lot about the hate the right wing has. Honest question, have you considered what sort of hate you might be lead into generating?", "We'd have to have an enemy that was simultaneously strong enough to destroy us and contemptibly weak.", "Eh. \"Could ever be\" is a pretty strong statement, especially in light of the Mendes revival. I like them both, you don't need to dismiss one to praise the other.", "And the fusion of corporate and State power...", "Scotty Doesn't Know?", "No. You think these people like their donors?", "I think they were being sarcastic.", "Enough with the \"maybe you're the real fascist\" bullshit.\n\nThe modern conservative movement is explicitly fascist. You don't like it? Sucks. Don't support Republicans.", "I don't think anyone is arguing nationalism isn't useful. The point is that it's dangerous.", "I never said anything about Trump. You're molding this too him. There has been a greater merging of corporate and government powers in the US in the last year than in the decade before that. \n\nNevermind that many of these points are literally used by fascist governments to condemn their designated other. Communism is literally proto-fascism. Proofs in the pudding.", "No thanks, I'm not a libertarian or a fucking Nazi. ;) \n\n\n\\-Cheerio.", "Look kids! A wild d̶i̶c̶k̶h̶e̶a̶d̶ antivaxer!", "Doesn't have the nostalgic nationalism. It's a future facing slogan.", "Don't play ignorant, you know who the OP was referring to. Have more fun playing whataboutism", "\"Don't tread on me\" was sadly co-opted by people who want to defend their individual rights to tread on others.", "Sounds a lot like what’s happening now...", "Pretty sure that’s what they want. They know and the want to hurt others to try to save themselves and the way it used to be lol", "Lots of it was made up and mixed like the pseudo scientifically idealization of the aryan race (which was completely different altogether) and them Norse folks and also that culture‘s religion plus Nietzsche.\n\nit was quite the melange.\n\nand as we can see today again, it never needed to make sense.", "The moment one of these republicans wins the White House I’m moving to Iceland.", "You seem to think that matters...", "Look I can only get so erect, okay?", "I didn't play whataboutism? Where is my whataboutism?\n\n And I'm not playing ignorant, the discussion was directed at their political other. Trump is involved but wasn't the basis for the conversation. Even if he hypothetically was, it's literally irrelevant to my point, you're conforming this to his governance without complete context out of a desire too.", "I wanted to share that it appears you have a deontological value where you believe people should never lie and u/Ashenspire has a more consequential view where they believe lying depends on the context. I'm not sure if you read anything by Immanuel Kant but he's rather famous in moral philosophy for arguing that people should never lie. He and his critics would be valuable for your perspective.\n\nI personally view the world consequentially most of the time because I believe a closer understanding of morality exists there. Morality as I'd define it as the maximization of well being and the minimization of suffering. For instance, say for the sake of argument we were living during the Holocaust today. Given our knowledge today I'd hope we would try to save as many Jews and other discriminated people from the Nazis as possible with our efforts. What if we had to lie to Nazi personnel or others to achieve that objective? I'd hope we'd agree this is worthwhile considering the circumstances.\n\nOverall though, I do agree with you in that lying is rarely productive. 9 out of 10 times it is wrong. I also believe we have unfortunately promoted a world where people are naturally inclined to lie, mostly for economic reasons. This is especially problematic with a world that promotes inequality in any form of power, whether that's economics, nationality, military, or any social construct people subjectively value. Democracy demands a balance in power that must be respected otherwise it's quickly lost to despotism. There are strong forces that exist in the world which contradict the vision of democracy.", "right populism can only be combatted with left populism.", "That is the most striking part of this. He knows ww1 and maybe the Franco-Prussian war too. He's tired of all this.", "I disagree. I don't think either side is fascist, and never implied that. They're both clearly liberal, with different focuses that are each necessary for a healthy republic.\n\nMy point is that partisans don't know the ideology of their other, they both invent stereotypes and labels to apply to them out of a dogmatic need to demonstrate their righteousness. This isn't some arbitrary opinion, this is well studied. You need to consider that you don't understand your other and that it might be possible that your perspective isn't accurate on what they believe in both action and ethos.", "In Moana there's a really cool use of diegetic and non diegetic singing in the same song. In \"We Know the Way\" when the song is in Polynesian (I think? Sorry if i'm wrong) you see the characters on the boats singing, and then when the song transitions into English it's no longer the on screen characters and is Lin Manuel Miranda singing non-diegetically.", "You're acting like all of the links give the answer. They certainly don't. I doubt highly that any one of them does. But, I'm not reading a half dozen outdated studies so I can find something you claim exists in one. What's the point of sending a link if you can't point to the answer? The real reason you can't point to it is because it doesn't exist in there (or probably anywhere) but, you'd rather continue to argue an unsubstantiated claim rather than admit the facts.", "Like bombers in ww2. They knew they were killing thousands of innocent civilians but they were \"just doing their job\". They never had to see the results of their actions close up.", "Cabaret is set in 1931 so 13 years after the end of WWI. I'm not great with age but that man looked minimum 70 years old putting him at 53 years of age at the start of WWI.", "trump lost get over it", "it doesn't have to exist. \n\nI'm upset now, I didn't use to be upset. Everything must have been better before, and the things I am upset at now must be new. Therefore, the solution to all my problems is to change the world back to when I didn't have them.", "Is that a sincere question? Do you not know what the term means?", "You wouldn't say it represents a \"National rebirth?\"", "It's not really Godwin's law when we are talking about the Republicans. They welcome the Nazi's as an important part of their base. \n \n[They get angry when normal humans want to punch Nazi's.](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/wolfenstein-ii-stars-address-nazi-marketing-controversy-games-unexpected-relevance-1047880/) \n \nHere is a U.S. Senator defending a Nazi on the floor of the US Senate... in 2021... \n \nhttps://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/10/28/ted-cruz-defends-nazi-salute-merrick-garland-memo-orig-jk.cnn", "Yep. I know what it means. I didn't use a whataboutism. Trying to figure out what you think I said that is.\n\nThe recent merging of Corporate and State powers is pertinent to the topic being discussed, as is the proto-fascist nature of Communism. I'm not saying \"what about Communism\" or \"What about the last year\" as a means to change the subject or context of the conversation, or to deflect criticism.", "waaah I can't eat at denny's temporarily I am being oppressed", "Its not over. The Nazi's lost and so will the current crop of racists in the United States. Jan 6th was a collosal failure. There is a Democrat in the White House as we speak.", "Dude, go outside", ">vaccines aren't useful during a pandemic\n\nPlease quote me where I said that. It's crazy how many of you here make up these narratives in your heads on what I'm saying and just inject your own lies into what I've actually said. \n\n>They do provide some resistance to infection\n\nSo do vitamins, sunlight and exercise. What's your point? Getting vaxxed still doesn't prevent spread and infection. My point is essentially that they shouldn't be mandated not that they are completely useless.", "its", "Why do you send multiple replies to the same comments of mine? Your behavior gets stranger and stranger, Mike.", "Eh?", "Doesn't really matter if they do, they are owned by their donors.", "China. Or at least it's often used that way within the sphere political rhetoric.", "China", "All those people hoping for a golden future. What a joke", "Socialism is resentment disguised as compassion, enforced by tyranny disguised as tolerance.\r \n\r \n“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.” - Albert Camus\r \n\r \n\"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.\" - H. L. Mencken\r \n\r \n“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” - George Orwell, 1984\r \n\r \n“Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word “justice” into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason… and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.” - Friedrich Nietzsche\r \n\r \n\"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.\" - Vladimir Lenin\r \n\r \n“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth… We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” - Vladimir Lenin\r \n\r \n\"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.\" - Anthony Malcolm Daniels AKA Theodore Dalrymple\r \n\r \n“A generation of the un-teachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.” - George Orwell\r \n\r \n“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” - Henry Lewis Mencken\r \n\r \n\"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced all the trees that since his handle was made of wood he was one of them.\" - East Asian & Greek proverb\r \n\r \n“It is very hard for a man to defend anything of which he is entirely convinced. It is comparatively easy when he is only partially convinced.” - G.K. Chesterton\r \n\r \n“The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future evolution has produced the snail and the owl; evolution can produce a workman who wants no more space than a snail, and no more light than an owl. The employer need not mind sending a Kaffir to work underground; he will soon become an underground animal, like a mole. He need not mind sending a diver to hold his breath in the deep seas; he will soon be a deep-sea animal. Men need not trouble to alter conditions, conditions will so soon alter men. The head can be beaten small enough to fit the hat. Do not knock the fetters off the slave; knock the slave until he forgets the fetters.” - G.K. Chesterton\r \n\r \n\"It will not be necessary for any one to fight again against the proposal of a censorship of the press. We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.” - G.K. Chesterton\r \n\r \n\"Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea — he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility... Do get up from your knees and sit down, I beg you, these posturings are false, too.\" - Dostoyevsky", "It's Basil Exposition!\n\nI never got that pun until the last watching maybe a year ago.", "As a German it's how I feel when Americans throw in the Pledge of Allegiance at any inopportune moment.", "This may be true, but when people finally realize this, it opens the door to guys like Trump.......outsiders, populists, extremists, charismatic authoritarians. Political voids often get filled by the worst types of \"governments\".", "It is shocking and beautiful at the same time. It starts off gently and builds up steam. You can feel them being led like the pied piper to their doom.\n\nThe old man, who knows too much, who doesn't join in is the best part.", "Even as a kid I liked it at a superficial level. When I got older I realized all the subtexts and what was really going on.", "As a German I always feel the same way.", "A nightclub in Weimar Germany struggling to have fun and pretend the world isn't going to hell around them.", "I’m not sure why you were downvoted. Nazism was definitely a small club. You were either in it, or you weren’t getting the benefits. It didn’t matter how german/white/“aryan” you were. I’m not sure if nepotism is the right word, but I can’t think of a better one.", "I think part of the reason the movie is so powerful is because it was released less than 3 years after the Stonewall Riots, so a story about marginalized people looking for a place to feel welcomed and free to be themselves was incredibly relevant for the time. \n\nI imagine the themes of the film felt very personal to Fosse and the cast of the movie, as a group of flamboyant artists (I don't mean that in an insulting way).", "There are also lines that reference it directly like \"...she doesn't look Jewish at all.\"", "He was defending freedom of speech not endorsing Nazi-ism ya’ walnut.\n\nYour mindset is:\n“People I disagree with politically are Nazi’s so that justifies violence against them”", ">Love you fucking morons\n\nAnd stopped reading, have fun spouting hate by yourself, blocked.", "This is suspiciously like coke ads in the 80s\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BnzI5B_eZyQ", "> the oldsters that walked through the Capitol\n\nJust to clarify, you're referring to the oldsters that walked through the Capitol with the specific intention of disrupting the peaceful democratic transfer of power that has gone uninterrupted for over two centuries?", "I'm from Austria and it is taught from early on that it was NOT ok to be a bystander. Not acting is considered acting for the Nazis. I see your point but it is dangerous to use words like forgiveness as it implies that, come another situation like that, it would be fine, to accept eg. a faschist regime. \n\nThats what I took from history in school and at least it made me a more sceptical person concerning leading figures/authoritarian governments", "Cringe", "Every word in your paragraph reminds me of Trump and his supporters. I wish more Republicans would read this and make that connection, but i doubt it.", "Something something Chris rufo. \n\nProblem is, I don't follow Chris rufo and I have never followed Chris rufo. What rufo did successfully as a conservative is pin down a very nebulous subject by using CRT as the central head of a many headed hydra. \"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it\" as Alinsky would say.\n\nThe thing is, I have been aware of 'CRT et all' since the early 20s, without the help of any conservatives", "If you could see her through my eyes, you wouldn't wonder at all...", "Stalin wasnt a big fan of free election either. The Jan 6th thing is increasingly an egg on the face moment as nothing comes from it, especially since they have been violating their rights and illegally detaining them without bail on top of a bu8nch of other human rights abuses like beatings by prison guards like its some sort of actual fascist country. Just like the Trump Russia allegations that were pushed for literal years as front page news dying off like the wet fart it was. Or the Kyle Rittenhouse debacle where he is literally 100% innocent but they still slander him in the face of overwhelming evidence and a prosecutor that admitted the trial was politically motivated and violated his 5th amendment rights by impugning getting a lawyer before speaking made him guilty which almost resulted in a mistrial.\n\nNo, no to all your bullshit. I'm withholding judgment against all that, until the evidence is out. Your side of the political aisle has falsely accused far too often to get a pass anymore. So you want to call the Jan 6th incident worse than FUCKING STALIN then show me the evidence.", "That's a good observation. It makes the ending especially powerful when...slight spoilers...>!some of what's on the surface seeps into the night club. !<", "Is telling young, naive kids the lie of Santa Clause really a good thing? After all, you are betraying their trust in you. You are teaching them to ignore physical reality and instead believe in a fairy tale, setting them up to believe ever more elaborate untruths.\n\nWhat if, instead, we told them the truth. That mid-winter is a special time of year because the days are the shortest and the nights the longest. That we take this time to celebrate the love and warmth of our families and homes in the middle of deepest winter. That we give each other gifts of appreciation because we care and we SEE each other. We see those we love, we see their interest and their passions and we take the time to pick the perfect gift for them because we love them.\n\nWouldn’t that be better than a myth of an old white guy that breaks into your house at night?", "Powerful", "Hey wait... I've seen this one before", "Lol- Who still says that?", "We've created a total characature of\nNazis here in the west, and I'm not sure why. Maybe to delude ourselves into thinking it could never be us. The cold reality is the vast majority of people could go to some pretty dark places given the right conditioning, propaganda and push.", "I think it's Fosse's best movie. All That Jazz is generally considered his best but I personally don't \"get\" it.", ">I always assume I am unknowingly partaking in some heinous shit that will come to light much later but that I for the time being think is a great idea \n\nWe internet old guys call this \"the 80s\" sorry for all our media! Please don't judge us too harshly. I promise, it will happen to you...", "All that jazz literally changed my life. I'd read up on some fosse biographies and try it again.", "Black people and Mexicans.", "He’s defending punching people and in the video clip Cruz specifically mentions the first amendment.", "I think it's unfair to say the suspicion was unnecessary. In the minds of these people the King and the monarchy had been as powerful as God. They still very much believed that the king could come back and crush them - and indeed they weren't entirely wrong. Louis was totally angling to get the Austrians involved which is why he agreed to sign the document demanding the Austrians kick out the emigres in the first place. He assumed that the Austrians would refuse and march on Paris, and that he would be able to regain his position. To say he had fully embraced the constitution isn't accurate - he only did so on the surface, and internally was extremely frustrated with the attack on the monarchy's powers. Marie Antoinette had been in communication with the Austrians via letter trying to meet up had their flight been successful. So it's easy to look back with hindsight and say that their fear was unfounded - but that's really only because a number of overtures were unsuccessful, for reasons out of their control. Had the monarchy been more directly supported by the European powers they would have been mortally dangerous for the Revolution as a whole. They just had no way of knowing at the time that the other powers were entirely busy with their own nonsense aka Poland.", "[ Jump to 01:50 @* Tomorrow belongs to me - Cabaret](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDuHXTG3uyY&t=0h1m50s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: nibelungenstar, Video Popularity: 93.42%, Video Length: [03:07])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@01:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDuHXTG3uyY&t=0h1m45s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^\| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)", "I consider lying about santa clause to be just as bad as any other lie. I remember when I found out santa wasn't real. I felt so STUPID. I felt like my entire family had made a fool of me. My entire family lied to me about something so silly... and I just believed them. Like an idiot. Because OF COURSE there's not some old man climbing down my chimney to leave presents. \n\nI will never forget that feeling. And I never pretended santa was real with my kids (or the tooth fairy etc). They still get presents under the tree and a dollar for a lost tooth. The magic isn't lost. Because the lie is not required to create the magic. \n\nThe magic is in having a fantastic holiday with your family and just appreciating what you have and enjoying life for what it is. Because isn't life good enough without inventing a fake old man giving out presents? Isn't this miracle of a world enough?\n\nWe give each other presents. And my kids understand that. And it's great. We spend time picking things out for each other, anticipating how much they'll like the gift. It's so much better, I think, than giving credit to some imaginary dude. \n\nnote: no, I am not religious either. I consider that to be another lie told to me as a child, even if my parents thought it was truth.", "Bla bla.. so now liking your country makes you a nazi? Is that the Reddit angle with this boring clip?", "While I'm all for not just pointing fingers at the other side, you're really downplaying the events of the Capitol insurrection here.", "Michael C Hall did a more recent Broadway revival and was also excellent.", "First time I saw this years ago, it scared the daylights out of me. So many people don't understand how easily propaganda works across a society.", "Yeah, I rather doubt the Soviets would've treated them kindly.", "I think it’s more about distrust of the government in general", "How is your comment relevant in the current political climate? Yes these things can apply to future leftists or such but what's the motive behind explaining that in 2021?", "Youre mad 🤣", "‘Cruel rhetoric’ is all you got. Of course", "> or overt fascism\n\n\"Take the guns first, due process second\"\n\n\"They bring drugs, crime, and disease, and some I assume are good people\"\n\n\"Very fine people on both sides\"\n\nTrump's comments on January 6th and support for the overthrow of the constitution are another example. Lies about the electoral process. Accusations of cheating.\n\nThe GOP is openly flirting with fascism and has been for a while now.\n\nBut in your mind, fascism is when the government does things within its power like vaccine mandates, because you don't know what fascism is.\n\nEdit: Not to mention lies about critical race theory. Ooooooh the evil libruls are brainwashing children by teaching them... a theory that is explicitly taught in higher level lawschools as part of a legal hermeneutic to understand historic racism in law.\n\nCRT isn't being taught in K-12 education anywhere in the country.", "Not at all. Just surprised by your outdated slang.", "Trump playbook captured in a movie.", "Thanks for sharing this I was ignorant of this cinematic masterpiece.", "He actually looks a lot like the mathematician [David Hilbert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert), and looks to be someone of Hilbert's generation. He was part of some of the height of German intellectualism that fled/kicked out of the country during the time of the Nazis (many because of their Jewish heritage). While Hilbert himself didn't leave, the styling of this character in the film could be a call to that older, wiser, academically dominant generation that could do nothing to halt the rise of authoritarianism.", "The Biden family has made millions with Joe in office if you weren’t aware", "The bigger is answer yes, some of us. Enough? Hopefully. Its clear fascism is rising again and in fact I'm sure many here are seeing it seed in members of their own family. It's certainly happening in mine. I don't know how to talk to them about it because I get the feeling that their resistance isn't to the idea that fascism is back, it's to the idea fascism is bad.", "Looks fun", "You flat out did a whataboutism by redirecting - \"nevermind that...\" is functionally just passive aggressive version of \"what about...\"", "Who said that?", "So many us from different countries can resonate with this, the lying of populist is pure evil manifesting itself slowly please pay attention I don't even have to mention my country but any of you all around the world probably understand, the blatant lying with a cultish following is probably the most traumatic aspect. Watching people refusing to admit a lie their prophet has said slowly means that said following will accept everything ther messiah says AND EVENTUALLY DO ANYTHING THEIR MESSIAH ASKS THEM TO DO no matter how wrong.", "Thank you for watching:)", "Good illustration — that's exactly what fascists were saying during the trump era. \"I'm just a patriot\". And then they attempted to keep their dictator in power.", "But it's not even remotely true. The current admin just fought for months to pass an infrastructure bill to help Americans, they tried to block evictions despite the unclear constitutionality.\n\nMeanwhile there's a rising force of authoritarianism in this country that uncritically follows and believes everything one man says. They also actively fought against the above efforts as well as most efforts to control a pandemic. They lie about elections they don't win and try to storm congress in a final effort to overturn it.\n\nThis person is blatantly incorrect and you're giving them way too much middle ground. Things are rather dire right now and both-sidesing the issues is part of the problem.", "Yes, those with the genuine belief that the election was fraudulent, who are not organized beyond showing up at a speech at a scheduled time and place, who are a useful target for the media but who were a threat only to themselves. And now we gets to call them nazis and punch them.", "One of the most genuinely \"what the fuck\" moments of the last few years was standing in an airport looking at a row of newspapers that all had Donald Trump on the cover, all with huge block lettering of the same quote:\n\n\"I ALONE CAN FIX IT\"\n\nAlso a really scary example of how counterproductive so much of our news media is. Most of those newspapers put that on the cover because they knew their target audience would find it shocking and scary - not because they were pandering to his supporters. Yet that attempt to sell newspapers using that fear also meant that they put out his exact message, on a giant poster of his face, for free, all over the country.", "> who were a threat only to themselves\n\nHoly shit.", "And history repeats itself...", "I think it is way overblown. I’ve watched the videos and read about the imprisoned. Those people are jokes and the media is pretending that we have to be afraid of them.\n \nEdited to add that I appreciate your point and tone.", "It's directly related to the topic we're discussing.. It by no means is a deflection or redirection, passive aggressive or not. My entire point has been that partisans don't know the perspectives of their other. I was demonstrating how these attributes could be applied to opposing ideologies, and often are. Am I not allowed to bring that up? Did you just see \"Nevermind\" and automatically related it too a whataboutism?", "Well, who got hurt?", "It’s important to take responsibility as well and admit how weak the German people were….but not all. There were those who resisted, who stood up. If there were no cases of resistance or those helping the Jews, the Germans could feel better about themselves. \n\nThis aura of “we didn’t know any better, we’re helpless” is what ultimately fuels the fire.", "To pump people with pride, flatter them and fill them with real hope for an Utopia. \n\" (Only) the true leader will make us grand again\".\n\nThere is no other one who have a similar competence or as grand vision.\n\n\"I am the one who truly represent the voice of the people\".\n\nFlattering being a father gestalt:\n\"The people that is so special, everyone of you. Yes even you! See that guy! See how great he is. He is the essence of our country.\nAn honest hard working man\". \n\nWho doesn't want their country to be grand? Who doesn't want to feel chosen? \nOr be part of a movement to something good or grand?\n\nThose are actually not bad wants, but they are very easy for bad people to use.\n\nAnd what is wrong with being proud over the country you were born in?\n(There is actually nothing wrong with it, good pride over what a country have done, such as when a country has helped another country in need or invented something that have helped humans or humanity, or culture enriching the lives of humans).\n\n\nAnd the last part as you said. Fear and dehumanization.\n\"Only I/we dare to call out the enemies for what they are\".\n\"An enemy that is threatening the very foundation of the nation\". \n\nDehumanization justify violence and brainwashes people into associating primordial emotions such as disgust with the enemies.\nUsing words such as parasites, worms, invaders, etc. \n\nThe problem is. The person wanting the power often really don't have any scientific solution, even if they believe they do, so the solution is to not talk about how things will be done practically, what laws will be changed and how, what taxes will be raised and lowered and why and how it would be measured.\n\nBut suggest a simple solution.\n\n\"If we just admit that the problem the whole time was that group or groups of people, and we get rid of them our country will become great again!\"\n\nA solution that does not care about if people in that group are actually honest working people, they belong to that dehumanized groups so who cares.\n\nThe solution is never to lift that group up never to pull them up and include them. But to exclude. \n\nTo stir up a fight against that group or groups of people, in order to keep people needing that person in power to win that fight, otherwise that group will surely take away all of your rights. \n\nLifting those humans up would mean losing them as an enemy and would feel like a failure as you have been told you are better than them.\nIf they are lifted up you can no longer be considered better. It really speaks to the our worst narcissistic side in us the one that wants us to feel special, not because who we are, but because we are defining who we are based on being those that are better than others. Something we should not do. We should be proud of the good things we do and acknowledge our weaknesses and work on our weaknesses. Be proud that we help lifting others up. Not simply be proud that we belong to some group. There has to be many different things we put our identity in so we do not become vulnerable if someone is better than us at some things.\n\nThe grand vision justifies bad ethics, maybe even demands it\n\nAnd another problem is when people are convinced that the need and vision to make the country grand justifies that they \"sacrifice\" their ethics and are willing to compromise with them, for the \"greater good\". They should be willing to spy on their Neighbour, DDR, Nazi germany, Communism, extremely religious countries.\n\nThis spying, silences people out of fear of becoming an outsider, losing their job, their friends etc. So people never get to hear any valid criticism or alternative to the vision or politics of the leader or the party. \n\nAnother way that is used to silence people is stochastic terrorism. \nMore or less abusing free speech to silence others, using clear threats of violence against those who voice an opinion that the leaders or the party do not like. \nInstead of using debate and meeting it with sound arguments or facts.\n\nAbsurd loyality\n\nThey should be willing to give up their rights to their leader. \n(Not loyalty to democracy, but to a leader, effectively putting loyalty to a leader before loyalty to the system the nation have.)\n\nIn Nazi Germany, they swore an oath to the party, to be loyal to the death to Hitler and the party. \nReligion fundamentalists wants their people to fight to the death for their religion etc.\n\nAs soon as people are lead into absurd loyalty, a loyalty which means you can not question what happens.\nQuestion or question to much or the wrong things, puts you at risk of becoming one of the enemies of the group. It makes you a suspect.\n \nYou have given up your freedom and are in a cult. That is why religions and those who want to indoctrinate aim at the young people.\nBefore they have the ability to stop and think, hey wait a minute. This does not seem to be right.\nLike Pepe the frog, was appropriated by Q-anon because he speaks to the young adults.\n\nHe was a really likable character that almost any teenager can identify with.\nOnce identity was tied to Pepe the Overton window could be moved.\nHe was beginning to become more and more violent against out-groups. \n\n\"Hey it is just humor, jokes. Don't be so boring or weak\". \n\nAnyone who calls it out as not being okay is at risk of losing being one in the group and becoming an outsider.\n\nThis in fact requires mental strength. Willing to do the right thing.\n\nAs what seems organic is actually not organic, it is an orchestrated artificial movement, but it have to be seen as organic posts by members of the group\nor else people would understand that they are being manipulated.\n\nThat is moving the acceptance of what imagery is considered okay. \nNow since people identify with Pepe they will also be open to taking up Pepes hate against certain groups.\nAnyone who posts hateful images against whoever the true leaders don't like, will be cheered on and up voted.\n\nPeople are given fake reasons as to why they should not like a group. That group is \"weak\", when in fact they might be mentally strong which scares the leaders. \n\nKnowing these manipulation tricks and being able to identify them helps one defend against them, call them out and see some for who they are.\nBut it also requires that you check that the posts on the internet about some group or some person actually is true.\nSometimes very difficult since we assume every comment or post is organic and the person writing it tells the truth it makes us very vulnerable to bad actors.\n\nThis documentary is really interesting. It documents how Pepe was abused to move the overton window and introduce hate via Pepe.\nhttps://www.polygon.com/2020/7/15/21325660/pepe-the-frog-documentary-feels-good-man-trailer-release-date", "Fascism isn't inherently sexist, thats a dangerous description in a place like France.", "That they’re incompetent doesn’t mean that they aren’t dangerous. \n\nPrison is filled with stupid, but dangerous, people.", "Unfortunately, trumpists started finding their way back to reddit.", "Don’t care", "Came in here to comment this! He was old enough to remember the devastating consequences WWI had on Germany and remembers the loss of life that war brings and doesn’t just feel patriotic or nationalistic about Germany starting another world war", "I am not in any remote sense a fan of the Democrats, but if you are comparing both parties' current incarnations to historical instances of fascism, it is no contest.\n\nYou can make an argument that both sides are equally proto-fascist, but it's a pretty silly, mostly semantic argument. The actual historical parallels on the one side are large and obvious, and the other side requires some pretty serious No True Fascist gymnastics, finding abstract definitions and explaining how, yeah, even though the party doesn't much resemble historical fascism, it is fascism in some more abstract, semantic sense (and/or reanalyzing various historical regimes as \"fascist\" so you can compare the Democrats to them).\n\nWhich isn't to say that the thing the Democrats are progressing towards is good, but it seems like a real stretch to suggest they're progressing towards the same thing as Republicans are, at least in the context under discussion here. This feels a bit like another version of \"everything I don't like is fascism\".", "Fascists always pretend to be patriots. But unlike real patriots, they hate a lot of people in the US.\n\nSo Fascists would complain about made up shit like Critical Race Theory, Antifa, immigrants, LGBT stuff.\n\nSee, you don't really love your country unless you also love everyone who's a part of it, including those you have disagreements with.", "It's like a Nazi version of I Believe I Can Fly", "I don't know, these Nazi guys seem fine. Did you hear that singing? You can't be a bad person and sing like that.", "The song they sing in this video?\n\nOhhhh got it. It’s not a real song and it was written for the movie by a gay Jewish guy. I figured it was just a classic actually taken from the times.", "Those germans speak supperb english!", "Fascists tend to start shouting about socialism the moment you point out the evils of fascism.\n\nOpposition to fascism is the duty of humanity, and it is opposed by people of all political opinions.", "Very true. Any generation is close to slipping into Nazi like behavior. In America we could be singing God Bless the USA while herding people into camps and later killing them. People are easily manipulated.\n\nAlso if we had lost, can you imagine?", "RENEW!", "> In total, more than 150 officers were injured in the attack: 86 Capitol Police officers reported injuries, the sources said, along with 65 members of the Metropolitan Police Department, Chief Robert Contee testified in January. Contee said that even more D.C. police officers sustained injuries they \"did not even bother to report,\" including scratches, bruises and eyes burned from chemical spray. -[source](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-police-injuries-riot/)\n\nI mean, this shit isn't hard to look up.", "I am in pre-production right now, am directing the musical Cabaret, opening in April. One of the hardest bits of staging to come up with was this moment, trying to recreate the feeling on stage of the brilliant zoom that Fosse uses to reveal the Nazi youth uniform.", "This scene, my absolute favourite (among many, many amazing options because the film is a feast) is also of note because it was the inspiration for the Rage Against The Machine album art for Evil Empire.", "Some aren't even aware of how polarized they are. Just innate to humans, I think. Applies to more than just politics, too.\n\nI'm a fan of a gridiron football team, the Texans. A few years ago they where doing pretty good, and I noticed threads popping up in r/texans about how our divisional rivals where \"so jealous\" because they had threads cheering when we lost. Used that to portray a sense of superiority over fans of our rival team. When the roles where reversed, the Texans where doing poorly and our rival was doing well, we had threads celebrating when they lost. Our rivals had the same exact thread about how envious we where as fans and how superior their fandom was. A complete lack of awareness on both sides for the same exact behavior, even when pointed out.\n\nPeople love to indulge their bias for their other. It feels good. It took effort for me too shake that off, you know? To actually consider what my other was saying, and not just dismiss them as inherently bad people. And when people are under stress (such as during a global pandemic) they're prone to more and more polarized mindsets. It's why the rhetoric these days is so heated relative to even just a decade ago.", "There's a difference between patriots and fascists. Fascists pretend to be patriots, but unlike real patriots, they hate huge swathes of their own country.\n\nModern fascists hate LGBT folks, immigrants and people from immigrant backgrounds, and the like.\n\nIf you're one of the folks pushing the lies about critical race theory (something taught in law schools as a legal hermeneutic) or agree with Trump's BS about immigrants bringing disease or being rapists, then you might be a fascist, and I would advise you to stop.\n\nBecause you can't be a patriot unless you love the people who live in the country you're supposedly patriotic about.", "Wow", "That film was closer in time to the war than we are now to the film.", "The Nazis did use the idea of socialism as a tool for gaining power. The economically disenfranchised German working class, plus the popularity of Marxism at the time, was the perfect recipe for promises of workplace democracy and a new economy. It was a ploy obviously - fascists will use whatever tools and propaganda available to seize power.", "I'd like to point out that the centrist parties did not let actual socialists try to solve the problems in Germany, and the Nazis were the only \"populist\" alternative to the status quo that was left. We are seeing the exact same thing happen right now in the US, with Sanders and progressives (who are center left, not even actual socialists) trying to enact policies that the majority of Americans want, including universal healthcare, a green New Deal, higher minimum wage, and so forth, and being ridiculed for it. The lack of a real alternative will only lead to the working class voting for whatever demagogues are available that promise to change the system. It's why Trump won and why he'll win again if he runs.", "I can’t look at that Nazi idiot, Madison Cawthorne, without thinking of the kid singing in this scene.", "They weren't all Nazis, some were hauling around Confederate flags instead.\n\nYou call them a useful target for the media, and you say not organized beyond showing up for a speech. Who put all those ideas in their head about the election being fraudulent? That wasn't some disorganized round table where they each had thoughtful meetings with their neighbors and arrived at the same conclusions independently. They were all plugged into GOP propaganda outlets like Fox and OANN and Sinclair, or getting it all secondhand through Facebook's targeting algorithms. They were targets for being transformed into a violent mob, not targets for scapegoating.\n\nWho scheduled the rally for that time and place? Which president of the US spoke to them in person and urged them to march on to the Capitol? Which president did nothing to mobilize the National Guard when it was clear their presence was needed? It wasn't Biden, it definitely wasn't Obama, but I'm sure there was another president in between them I'm leaving out.\n\nThe crowd also included organized, well-equipped members of right-wing extremist groups who worked in squads and had specific targets in mind. You can see them and hear them coordinating with themselves on some of the video from that day. Yeah a lot of people in the crowd were brainwashed TV cultists who genuinely thought they were standing up for their freedoms. But armies throughout history have put weapons into untrained hands to bolster their forces. Those people did not show up spontaneously in that time and place, and they did not storm the Capitol of their own volition. They were fired up ahead of time and deployed for a distinct strategic purpose.\n\nThis video is an excellent compilation of key events from that day along with the timeline and location context for understanding how it all unfolded and how close it came to causing much worse harm.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJVMoe7OY0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJVMoe7OY0)", "You missed one.", "The Liberals aren't the ones using fascist tactics and telling Americans to hate other Americans if they happen to be gay, muslim, or from some other background conservatives don't like.\n\nTrump's whole \"mexican rapists\" speech he kicked off his campaign with?\n\n\"Take the guns first, due process second?\"\n\nCome on dude.", "Wow that is really cool, how did you solve it?", "Another palate cleanser, [Les Miserables \| Do you hear the people sing](https://youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U)", "This would have been less than 20 years after Germany was devastated by WW I; it is amazing how fast people can forget and give themselves over to another suicidal crusade.", "> Or, about how they demonized those people and blamed them for the crisis within their country?\n\nYou mean like when trump went after Transgender folks or called Mexicans rapists? \n\n> Anything about book burnings (which happens on a digital medium now)?\n\nMaybe we shouldn't give private corporations the ability to control how Americans communicate?", "Fewer, but there will always be the need for one guy with a gun to go into a building/bunker/trench to get another man with a gun out of it. We've been perfecting ways of killing each other from far away for centuries, and yet it still comes down to sending one guy into a place to get another guy out at the end of the day in many situations.", "Chinese communist government is following the exact same recipe today", "That doesn't even make sense as a response.", "Helping your fellow humans doesn't mean voting against them, it means teaching them the meaning of love.", "Sadly, it's an idealized future that may send us back here", "Ah yes, because the Nazis only attempted to overthrow their government once...", "Except Cawthorn would be sitting - and the Nazi’s would have killed him as damaged goods.", "Mexicans can't or don't rape? How did he \"go after trans folks\"? And, I'm not sure what you mean specifically by your last \"point\". But, do you think it's ok to have the handful of private corporations that currently control how we communicate (see censorship and filtered results from Google, FB, Twitter, reddit, etc)?", "If he were 80 years old, then he would have been 20 years old during the French-Prussian war of 1870-71.", "It means the subtext is in his comment.", "Right. Back to your role playing or whatever a 40yo virgin nerd does.", "It still needs to be tested on stage, but in short: having the Emcee lead the child out to sing, and as the kid is singing, have the Emcee turn to face the audience…revealing his arm and the armband he’s wearing. There’s a bit more to it, but that’s the reveal.", "Oh cool I would have a few ideas too :D", "Yearning for a better future is how almost every single government in the world comes to power. Right now all over the world, things are so bad Hitler would get elected pretty much anywhere, he'd just need to make a more convincing promise than the current mob of incompetents.", ">Mexicans can't or don't rape?\n\nThey're the same as everyone else. Calling them rapists who are bringing crime is fascist language.\n\n>How did he \"go after trans folks\"?\n\nA whole wave of executive orders erasing 100% of the progress made under Obama, including a military ban.\n\n>do you think it's ok to have the handful of private corporations that currently control how we communicate\n\nNo. I think Corporations need to answer to the American people, I think we need to tax the shit out of billionaires. I think that media companies, newspapers, and networks shouldn't be owned by a handful of companies so that they're independent.\n\n100% of that is the fault of the Republican Party killing things like the fairness doctrine, killing to ban on media consolidation, and being very pro-corporation. \n\nThat's the point. When you're mad that y'all are getting your accounts deleted for saying heinous shit, the reason that's happening is that conservatives ceded power to corporations when they were in power.", "Kind of how the Democrats are doing. Very chilling", "Spitting Image...so prescient.", ">unknowingly partaking in some heinous shit that … I think is a great idea and a just cause. I just don't know what. \n\nI have some pretty good guesses what they might be.\n\n\\- Infanticide if they call it \"women's health.\"\n\n\\- Racial discrimination if they call it \"affirmative action.\"\n\n\\- Chemically castrating children if they call it \"trans rights\" and claim the puberty blockers are completely reversible.\n\n\\- Censorship with the suppression of books/podcasts/videos (and \"deplatforming\" people more generally) with some specious bullshit about \"tolerance of intolerance.\"\n\n\\- Curtailing civil liberties \"temporarily\" under the guise of a \"devastating pandemic.\"", "Born in the USA was used by Republicans for political campaigns in the 80s. These people are as stupid as they are shameless.", ">taught from early on that it was NOT ok to be a bystander.\n\nI'll believe it when I see widespread outrage over \"pandemic\" measures like [these](https://fortune.com/2021/11/12/austria-vaccine-skeptics-lockdown-europe-germany/).", "We're all in Weimar Germany now", "Patriots are proud of their country and the freedom it offers to everyone.\n\nUnfortunately most loud patriots are proud of an idea of their country and spend a lot of their time and energy making sure its freedoms are not available to everyone.", "Those people aren't patriots. You can't be a patriot and try to prevent your fellow citizens from enjoying the full rights of citizenship.", "[Now where will they find that...] (https://i.redd.it/erhnj5q9mcz71.jpg)", "That was a long time ago. He just got cancelled, not arrested or thrown in a re-education/death camp.", "Except fascism is just a different form of socialism. Much of what leftists demand, can be taken word for word from the original national socialist workers party manifesto. Mussolini, invented fascism, because he felt socialism was radical enough.", "\"Isn't that the essence of conservatism? It's a longing for a past that is half-remembered, half-imagined.\" - Robert Evans", "Poland is using nationalism to attack its own people. What Belarus is doing isn't relevant to nationalism unless you mean it in the barest sense of being a nation.", "> walked through the Capitol\n\nTrashing offices, urinating & defecating, crushing capitol police underfoot and in doorways? Stealing laptops?\n\nMaybe you should go back watch some of the livestreams from people at the riot if you really think of it as \"walking through\"\n\n>oldsters that walked through the Capitol\n\n[Just walking through the capitol! Overblown!!](https://youtu.be/jWJVMoe7OY0?t=1976) lmao ok dude", "The Caveat is that the Nazi's had policies like the elimination of jews, one way or another, in their platform alongside the rest, along with conquering and colonizing their neighbours for living space, historical context is important. As far as I'm aware the Democrats aren't intent on genocide.", "Imagine believing in science instead of studying it.", "The old man’s despair in the clip is so telling. Having lived through the “war to end all wars” he knows where this will lead.", ">Except fascism is just a different form of socialism.\n\nNo it isn't. Fascism has existed in multiple forms. German National Socialism leaned economically left, while Spanish Falangism was anti-union.\n\nRead Ur-Fascism by Ecco.\n\nAs he points out, fascists have different economic positions based on who they oppose.\n\nThe Nazis were economic centrists, as they opposed the left-wing social democrats. They banned the original unions and created fascist unions. \n\nThe Falangists in Spain were economically right wing as well as socially right wing. They opposed labor organizing and instead of a German model of organizational fascism, they used what the founder of Opus Dei called \"national catholicism.\"\n\nBenito Mussolini called his economic model \"Corporatism.\"\n\nFascism is not a form of socialism. Though Stalinism is. And that's been labeled red-fascism by anarchists.\n\nFascism is reactionary and populist, and socialism is quite populist as well. What you're identifying is the populist elements of fascism and using that to say it's left wing.", "> But don’t think that he’s creating a fucking fascist party.\n\nHe's definitely towing the line with the creation of his own personality cult.", "I HIGHLY recommend the book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer, published in 1955. For the book he traveled to Germany and befriended 10 ex-Nazi Party members of varying social status and involvement with the Party, in order to extensively interview them for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of how it was all allowed to happen.\n\nIf nothing else, I'd urge anyone to check out [this powerful and revealing excerpt](https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html) in which the author is interviewing his German professor friend.", "It's pretty poor self reflection to make this similar to Vaccines when you do in fact, carry papers to move between countries, drive, drink, etc etc. You literally need papers to move around regardless of any pandemic.", "What are liberals doing that's fascist.", "When I was in middle school, I showed this scene as I was doing a presentation about propaganda.", "\nHello! You have made the mistake of writing \"ect\" instead of \"etc.\"\n\n\"Ect\" is a common misspelling of \"etc,\" an abbreviated form of the Latin phrase \"et cetera.\" Other abbreviated forms are etc., &c., &c, and et cet. The Latin translates as \"et\" to \"and\" + \"cetera\" to \"the rest;\" a literal translation to \"and the rest\" is the easiest way to remember how to use the phrase. \n\n[Check out the wikipedia entry if you want to learn more.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_cetera)\n\n^(I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Comments with a score less than zero will be automatically removed. If I commented on your post and you don't like it, reply with \"!delete\" and I will remove the post, regardless of score. Message me for bug reports.)", ">FDR?\n\nYou think libertarians support him? We're individuals, not a collective, so you might find some, but not typically.", "It’s tough on stage…esp if you don’t have a very good light setup. How would you stage it?", "Would [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/NonEnglishMusic/comments/qtcsro/north_korean_moranbong_band_with_pride_%EB%B3%B4%EB%9E%80%EB%93%AF%EC%9D%B4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) be considered a similar example from North Korea?", "People are hardly segregated today. Maybe you just pine for the days when someone saying they were openly gay was a death sentence for their social and political life. I'm sure things were far less segregated then.", "Somewhere Lee Greenwood is laughing his ass off.", "> I mean for real we just had $2500 show up from the IRS yesterday where the hell is this money even coming from.\n\nWhere does any of the governments money come from? The USA doesn't print other peoples money, it prints its own money. The amount of money literally made by that country isn't created through wealth redistribution. That's what makes the US dollar so powerful.", "I'm just glad we could all come together at this moment, while enjoying the community of reddit, to be moved and inspired.\n\noh...shit...", "Every American politician has tried to develop some type of cult of personality. Jesus Christ look at Obama and Reagan.", "I just finally watched this movie for the first time two days ago. WHAT a masterpiece. It‘s haunting, chilling, bizarre— and this scene gave me hair-standing-on-end. The face of that old man who doesn’t dare speak out against the crowd— chills\n\nfun fact: The song was written for the musical, but so many people thought it was an authentic Nazi anthem that the writers got flak for using it and „glorifying naziism“. Also, the actor who sang it didn’t want his face used with it. They got an extra to do it but no one noted his name.", "What is the similarity when you include historical context like Nazi parties promise to create more \"living space\"", "\"Nazi's bad.\"\n\n\"Wow fucking leftists coping.\"\n\n???", "The future belongs to me...", "Sigh.... We are going to have to come to terms w/ each other...", "Um, yeah I would like you to explain since I'm also waisting my time on someone making a cartoonist blanket statement about a strawman of their political opponents. Again, I am not a conservative. if your evidence is what's \"constantly on the news\" then I don't know how to tell you this but you have been lied to", "[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWG7HrJtIA) you go. You might like [\"Tomorrow belongs to Trump\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y4fN6WqQBY) as well.", "You pretty much described modern day white supremacists AND antifa in the same damn post. Impressive.", "I think the odds are strong that we'll make new mistakes next time.", "Lmao", "For one, it seems like you do actually understand the difference between that definition and \"historical fascism\", since just after saying you don't know what the difference is, you not only describe the difference I was pointing to, you say that Republicans are \"absolutely\" more representative of it!\n\nMore generally, if the question is \"which one is more fascist\", the best answer is \"which one most resembles actual, real instances of fascism\", not \"which one fits the definition I found in a dictionary\".\n\nWhere do you think that definition came from? The definition is an attempt to give a brief description of the distinguishing characteristics of actual, real instances of fascism - of what that word has been used to describe.\n\nIf you're looking at two things trying to decide which is \"fascism\", and one of them better resembles the actual, real instances of fascism, but not the dictionary definition, that means the people who wrote the dictionary didn't do a great job, not that reality has somehow failed to live up to the dictionary.\n\nYou're talking about a definition of \"fascism\" which is just synonymous with \"authoritarian\", and that just...isn't what that word normally means. That is a thing that people on the left do too.\n\n\"Fascism\" is normally about particular kinds of authoritarianism, not just authoritarianism in general. When people are talking about the dynamics of fascism, about where it comes from, then yes, it is silly and not useful to say \"actually by this definition I found in a dictionary, this other thing that doesn't really look like the fascism you're talking about and has different dynamics and causes is fascism too\". At best, it's just irrelevant - sure, we can agree to call that \"fascism\" even though it isn't really the usual sense of the word, but if we do, then it still doesn't really have anything to do with the topic at hand, which is about, in that world, a subset of this more general \"fascism\", the subset that is more like the actual, real regimes that have been typically called \"fascist\", which the Republican party currently resembles a lot more than the Democrats do.", "Lindsay Ellis has a good video on the \"Ethics of Satire about Nazis\" & it mentions how this song has been co-opted by white nationalists. That part starts in chapter 6 but the whole video is worth a watch.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/62cPPSyoQkE", "I really don't think you can compare Donald Trump to Hitler. Trump lacks ambition and as long as everyone tells him he's great and puts money in his bank account he's satisfied. Hitler had a deep anger toward the rest of the world (via the treaty of Versailles) that would only be sated by its complete destruction and occupation.", "You Are arguing with me about Nazis, but you also keep calling me one. I don't think the Nazis would believe in striving for a society that rejects collectivism in favor of treating men and women equally under the law, a steadfast belief in pluralism, and wanting to see the government help alleviate class disparity along racial lines as a consequence of the legacy of racism in America's past.", "You speak so confidently out of your ass. What do you really know, and what is simply something you've heard? Fascism and fascists seem like a buzzword bogeyman.", ">They're the same as everyone else. Calling them rapists who are bringing crime is fascist language\n\nYou're taking things out of context. He pointed out the influx of rapists and criminals that were illegally crossing the border. He didn't call all Mexicans rapists and criminals. That's ridiculous. \n\n>including a military ban.\n\nI guess I'll address that since thats the only thing you pointed out within this \"100% progress\", or whatever, comment. Trump did not ban trans from the military. They were banned since the 60's. Obama threw in some last min EO before he left office in 2016 that was going to allow trans people to have federally funded gender reassignments and allow all to enter into the military (without the need for using their assigned birth gender). This was going to take effect a year after Obama left office. It was a political mess to leave with his successor. If not, why would he have waited nearly 8yrs to do it? Trump reversed that attempted policy and went back to having them claim their assigned birth gender. This didn't \"ban them from the military\". You can't see through the political posturing here?\n\nAnd, how can you say the Republican party is 100% to blame for the handful of silicone valley corporations that control all social media and our internet search engine? Last I checked, these were exclusively leftist companies. \n\nBut, I'm willing to bet you're a socialist, right? Republican and corporations bad but, never a negative word about the wealthiest and most powerful party in the country (democrats) from your lot, how come?", "Misogynist, racist, transphobic, cry baby/narcissist, and anti vax. The GOP special. Good lord get a grip.", "I'm not sure about Raegan, but Obama 100% did not. Not even close. The most you saw of that man's face was on a few posters and on TV.\n\nFor anyone with a memory, there's stark differences.\n\nTrump constantly built his own cult of personality. From the constant use of messages that he alone can fix what's going on in America, the sale of immense amounts of merchandise quoting his face and messages far outdoing any other recent president. It's built itself into popular conspiracy theories such as Q-anon, which state that he's messiah like figure destined to drain the swamp and jail the pedos, or that the 2020 election was a fraud, that he'd been cheated out of victory, his followers going so far as to harass and ostracize Republican politicians who dared say that the results were true. Or hell, even how Mike Pence had his career die almost instantly by following the constitutional law on January 6th, being uncritically rejected by the republican establishment for not doing the impossible thing Trump asked him to do. Even today, he's at the forefront of Republican's minds. You don't see the same attitudes across the street. Canadian's aren't obsessed over one particular leader, especially if they lose. Brits drop them just as quickly. And the French are notorious for their cynicism with leaders.", "I saw a West End production of it in the UK. They had a Nazi flag go over the performers after a certain point then did the rest of the number naked. Not joking. The Broadway one with Cumming was more simple from the video I've seen. He just plays a record", "Cabaret shows how to do movie adaptations of musicals right. Many adaptations attempt to do 1 to 1 faithful adaptations not understanding each medium has its differences. So they often just come across as more musical than movie.", "It’s why I always never liked the statement of “they didn’t know what they were doing” when talking about Nazism rising in Germany. \n\nYou’re telling me they didn’t think rounding up the “undesirables”, at bare minimum, being forced relocated elsewhere wasn’t a problem? Let alone Death Camps systematically exterminating them? \n\nBull fuckin shit, maybe the young sure, but those that were in their 20’s plus? They knew but didn’t care as Germany was beginning to return. \n\nAs for why other countries didn’t punish, I can’t be 100% certain as I wouldn’t be alive for 50 years, but my best guess was that people were tired from the blood already spilt.", "But then you have neo Nazis unironically utilizing the imagery and creative work of satire as a weapon to promote their ideology.\n\nAnd it works.\n\nIt’s like an artistic catch 22", "Bro, I’m 35. I was going to college in Ann Arbor when Obama ran in 07’ and 08’. I was born and raised in Detroit. There was a huge cult if personality around Obama. You couldn’t go into a corner store and not find Obama memorabilia. Now, you’re going to say “it was historic” that’s right, very much so. But the rhetoric he was espousing was similar to Trumps in terms of populist appeal. \n\nI don’t know how old you are, but your memory is fading if you don’t remember 07’ and 08’ Obama’s run.", "Yes, I know that they give answers, since I've looked into them. Unlike you, I get informed. You, right now, are actively choosing to stay ignorant. I've pointed you directly at the answers. You're saying the answers are too long for you to read. Tomorrow you'll be back to asking 'where are the answers?' Newsflash: Scientific answers aren't 2 lines of reddit comments. They're contained in large studies. And those are not outdated, even if you may claim that for no reason at all. You've already admitted that you're unwilling to read the answers you've asked for. If you were to disagree with the studies or their methods I'd be happy, but you just refusing to read them, proves that you have no interest in research and science, you -want- to believe lies, because they're easy to understand and fit your world view.", "Why does germany do nothing about the foreign nationalist groups living there?", "And yet the irony will be lost on so many.\n\nNo matter.\n\nIt is for your safety.\n\nAfter all", "You might have misread it.\n\nEvery group like the Nazis has a decent PERCENTAGE of the group that is just idiots, children and outcasts. \n\nThey join because they don't know better, their parents brought them into it, or it's the only place they feel like they belong.\n\nIt's how cults operate. If nobody else will have you and they will, you'll be inclined to overlook the fact that some 45-year-old jackass is claiming he is Jesus and you should give him your money. The alternative is being alone again. People are social animals. We will do almost anything to avoid not having a tribe or pack.\n\nAnd a much larger percentage of those groups are people who think joining will solve a problem they have, or protect them from something they fear (whether the fear is real or imagined varies.)", "Both parties do that. State and corporate interests have merged more in the last year than the decade before that.", "Thank you for being rational. Doesn’t your description, which I can agree with, sound more like a high school senior class prank? Or more like the attempted overthrow of the US? \n \nSeriously. I can’t understand how this narrative continues. At least with the Rittenhouse trial people are waking up to the media’s abject failure.", "You’re reminding me of a video essay I watched a long time ago about how Mel Brooks depicted nazism, and how it is ultimately a better way to tackle depicting evil things than other artists try to do (with say American history x)\n\nThe problem with works that try to tackle the inherent tragedy of following a movement so evil is that they use really powerful, and at some times to neo Nazis- sexy imagery that can be easily and uncritically co-opted by the very targets of the satire.\n\nThe only good way to depict them then, is ridicule. To make them ashamed of what they are, and make it so no one has any desire to associate with them.", "That podcast is phenomenal in general for examining the mindset behind atrocities and some of the worst people on earth. Excellent research—and it’s also funny, yet horrifying.", "There is at least one other song outside of the cabaret.\n\nThe other one is played on the piano in the background by a background character. It's actually from the stage musical that was rechanged to being a more domestic song.", "Insert certain organizations claiming to fight for democracy and people’s rights but are financially supporting politicians instead of the community they are claiming to aide here", "One of the best musicals of all time!", "Austin what universe is this?", "that clinking, clanking sound...", "Lol- you didn't read them. I actually read through the page and looked through the sources then replied to you while addressing the content. Also, the few links on the page are sample studies on vaccine effectiveness from Feb/March. What good is that in addressing the questions I've asked? Go play DnD w/ little kids, creepy Mike. These conversations exceed your intelligence and I've grown tired of reading your repetitious, middleschool-aged drivel.", "A large chunk of the Weimar Republic's stereotypes and party scene (at least in the English speaking world) is directly based on Christopher Isherwood's stories that was heavily romanticized. He ended up in Hollywood, got published, and had at least one movie made about his stuff starting in the 40s-50s.\n\nBasically if you took some British guy partying it up in Berlin and then turned that into the basis of an entire city's stereotypes, that's how you end up with the hard partying Weimar Republic.\n\n\nWithin Germany, however, Berlin was considered pretty base (Babylon Berlin) and the like.\n\nBut it was Isherwood who solidified that whole view into English pop culture.", ">PATRIOT Act, NSA mass surveillance, etc\n\nAll terrible.", "I get huge pushback when I point out that O Brother is a musical, but there are a number of diagetic songs- the ending, the girls singing, the grave diggers, the sirens singing.", "First time I saw this scene I cried tears of disgust.", "He absolutely does have ambition. Hitler was not the only, or even the first, contemporary fascist leader. Mussolini is a more apt comparison to trump, in that personal aggrandizement was a central interest to him, and the mechanics of a fascist state was conducive to realizing that.", "The tricky part of something like this is finding where the line is. What point are you no longer swept along? At what point are you now part of the tide. It's...hard to figure out where that line is. What makes it even murkier is how many people ignore the unsavory aspects because they like the benefits.\n\nHence why \"Should we forgive them?\" is such a difficult question. Especially when situations like the rise of Nazism are extremely dangerous to people who resist it. Sometimes people pretend to be on the team because they are terrified of what will happen to them if they aren't. They end up surrounded by maniacs they don't agree with, and the only defense is camouflage.\n\nThere were people in the Nazi Party who were victims of the world turning insane around them. And people who fell for propaganda. And plenty of soulless, heartless bastards who were just waiting for the opportunity to terrorize someone, and saw the chance. And right next to them were apathetic people who just halfheartedly gave a Heil and went home, only worrying about what to eat for dinner.\n\nMovements like this are so fucking complicated. It would be so easy if it was just a bunch of evil bastards. The world would be simple if they were just evil. \n\nUnfortunately, it isn't.", "You seem to not think...", "Every soldier is at least partially responsible for the war crimes they carry out, even if they were just \"following orders\".", "this is how you gauge that a parody or satire is good. If those it is making fun of cant figure out if it is real or fake then you have succeeded. It means your portrayal of these people was 100% accurate if they can not tell. There is always the danger of the person/group being made fun of leaning into it and laughing with you or not caring and just rolling with it", "I don’t know. I reckon this is an analogy that has been made ever since the Nazis first rose to prominence", "The nazi’s loss doesn’t provide much hope when it took the deaths of tens of millions and the conflagration of all Germany.", "Meanwhile, in the aftermath of encouraging their supporters to attack the seat of democracy, a sitting member of that seditious party posts a death threat in the form of a cartoon. Because it's presented in a silly way, the traitor says we all just can't take a joke.", "I can't imagine what sort of circles you run in that the diegeticity of certain songs from a decades old film regularly get people all het up.", "> He absolutely does have ambition \n\nIn what way? He's like Boris Johnson, he wants to be leader but he doesn't want the workload. He just wants the respect that goes with the job, not the job itself. His ambition was fulfilled the moment he stepped into the White House, everything else is pure reaction which can be dangerous but it is just very different. \n\nHe's definitely a huge autocratic threat to the US. I just don't think he's going to have the same impact as someone like Hitler. I'd be more worried (in that context) about who his replacement is.", "The face of Joel Grey being inserted in this clip is so enigmatic. He knows what's going to happen. It is a almost evil grin, saying what dumb fucks they are for excepting this crap.\nI'm not very good at explaining it, but I know it just makes this scene perfect", "You say that, but the number of times I've seen variations of the headline \"Biden to continue Trump-era policy\" is depressing.\n\nAll Biden is doing is trying to maintain the status quo, but unfortunately the current status quo is \"sliding towards fascism\".", "Even Godwin says the law no longer applies to the modern American conservative movement. Try to keep up. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/19/27874178/godwins-law-suspended-by-godwin", "It’s really clear reading the comments here that more people need to actually watch the movie Cabaret. The movie (and the live show!) very much try to show the evils of fascism. It isn’t a happy story. The OP is right about the portrayal here but as others have said the song is used showing how well the propaganda and lies worked on people.", "Massive numbers of enemy troops were placed on their borders, and foreign kings threatened genocide in the capital city if a tyrant king was mistreated, but France is the aggressor because they moved first. Hard to see it.", "The 4th Reich is rising in our own government", "Huh? Yes, Nazis are bad.\n\nIs patriotism, nationalism, populism or yearning for a better future?", ">\tHe had ratified the constitution of 1789 and promised raise his son in the spirit of French Citizenship.\n\nAnd he renounced all such decisions as made under duress when he attempted to flee the country to return with foreign armies to kill the revolutionaries.", "Burbank, CA is very red.\nDuluth MN is very red.\nLyons, and Montgomery PA are both very red. \n\nNon of your examples came from Democratic held offices or legislators.", "The problem is that the Constitution allows a minority to win an election thanks to its built-in protections for the southern slaveholder states.", "They sound just like SJWs.\n\nHow funny.", "Well said.\n\n> If you're up front about this and have integrity people WILL reward you with promotions, better relationships, etc. \n\nNot sure about this. Good liars prosper far more and are in more positions of power than honest people. Honest people appreciate other honest people, but liars couldn't care less.\n\nLiars can manipulate, converting other liars and misleading honest people into their cause, and using any tactic at their disposal to do so. They don't play by the rules, so by definition they have the advantage over any honest person.\n\nHonesty is a noble trait, but our society simply isn't setup to value it.", "Try to stay on topic.", "This some Good Will Hunting shit.", "Comparing French revolutionary politics to nazism is fucking insane. The American Revolution would be a more apt comparison and both are insulting to the actual reality of enlightenment revolution compared to German hyper nationalism.", "The core of fascist movements is to fear an enemy that you are also unfathomably stronger than. It's first dictation is that you accept logical inconsistencies when they come from the party. That is always the first step in every fascist movement. This is also why Orwell brings it up in 1984 in the first line of the book.\n\nPeople in the United States don't like to hear this, but I know many will understand: America has had two Fascist Presidents before. Trump is obvious, but George W. Bush and the \"absolute fear of \"terror\" from the Middle East which we have a military that is infinitely stronger than\" is the core of the Bush Jr. flavor of fascism. People probably don't even realize that in 100 years, historians are going to refer to the War in the Middle East as a genocide perpetrated by the United States. Do you know how many Afghani and Iraqi civilians died in the Iraq and Afghani wars? 250,000. That's about the same kill count as the Hutu massacres and Kurdish genocide combined.", "Nice. I guess it was pretty obvious to anyone living in reality.", "“Democracy means nothing.”", "Let's be clear. It's not just a video game. The Nazis killed millions of innocent people. They were degenerate monsters. If I were ever to meet one, I would punch him. Right in the face. This is America, we dont have to put up with Nazis.", "Extraordinary", "> He pointed out the influx of rapists and criminals that were illegally crossing the border\n\nThis was a lie.\n\n>Trump did not ban trans from the military. They were banned since the 60's.\n\nThis is a lie. \n\n> I'm willing to bet you're a socialist, right?\n\nLibertarian.", "Says the fake patriot.", "Z", "In the context of Nazis, yes, which is exactly what OP's title is about, and something you seem to be very aggressive over.", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/12/contractors-religious-exemption-trump-biden/ \n \nhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-restores-haiti-guest-worker-visa-programs-reversing-trump-overstay-concerns \n \nhttps://www.ecowatch.com/owl-habitat-biden-trump-2655538058.html \n \nhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-reverses-trump-stance-on-palestinians-right-to-return-to-israel \n \nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/biden-g20-reverse-trump/2021/10/31/068409b2-38ed-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html \n \nAnd those are just the first five links on a quick Google search. Wherever you read headlines that Biden was just going to continue Trump's policies... well they were lying to you. Sorry.", "Thank you for your comment very well written", "Sounds like the real enemy is ignorance", "I agree with you mostly. The only thing I would change is the idea that forgiveness once means acceptance later. I imagine many have forgiven Germany in a sense. Maybe not most, but many. Do I think that either many or most would accept another fascist regime in Germany? Very unlikely.\n\nAre there other regimes elsewhere doing horrible things in the world today? Yes, but there are other ways to bring about change than full world war as we've learned. Now whether or not we're doing enough to combat them is open to debate, but I think it's unlikely another fascist regime will be allowed to start a campaign unchecked like the Nazis did.\n\nThe big problem now is they've learned to stay within their borders where it's much harder to prosecute them for atrocities happening to the citizens.", "Basil!", "People like you always bring up that bullshit when you know you have something to be ashamed of. It's the same reason why racists want everyone to forget about race. Yeah, I'll bet they fucking do.", "Basically parrots hitler.. Christians are the original nazis, as they are against liberalism.", "Are you calling me a liar or saying that the video I watched of the speech was a lie? Trump was referring to the mexican criminals that were illegally crossing the border as having rapists (this was around CA's catch and release program IIRC). Your claim is that he was just saying, \"mexicans are rapists\"?? Lol- please produce a source to back your claim. \n\nI'm also lying about trans being banned from the military starting in1960? [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_personnel_in_the_United_States_military)\n\n>The subject began to engender some political controversy starting with a total ban on transgender servicemembers in 1960. \n\nAt least give me actual rebuttals rather than just quoting me and saying, \"that's a lie\".", "[Transgender personnel in the United States military](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_personnel_in_the_United_States_military) \n \n >The United States Military has a long history of transgender service personnel, dating back to at least the Civil War. The subject began to engender some political controversy starting with a total ban on transgender servicemembers in 1960. This controversy came to a head in the 2010's and was subjected to relatively rapid changes for the next few years. As of 2021, transgender individuals are expressly permitted to serve openly as their identified gender.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( \| )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( \| )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( \| )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove \| v1.5)", "Desktop version of /u/mickeybuilds's link: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_personnel_in_the_United_States_military>\n\n --- \n\n ^([)[^(opt out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiMobileLinkBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^(]) ^(Beep Boop. Downvote to delete)", "DeSantis", "> a man who was slandered as having publicly mocked the handicapped\n\nFTFY. Look up the compilations of him using the same gestures to mock many people without disability. This was as nonsense as the Fine People Hoax, or that he instructed people to drink bleach.", "> You couldn’t go into a corner store and not find Obama memorabilia\n\nI remember Obama's run. But you're seriously mistaking simply having personality, with typical US flair, and a personality cult. For as long as there's been presidents there's been ruthless supporters and people selling buttons and pins and posters. Part of typical election path hoorah. \n\nIt didn't extend past his election and especially past the end of his terms. People weren't going to rallies to cheer him on after he left office wearing his face in droves and sending death threats to people that thought two terms were enough. There wasn't armed men \"guarding\" voting booths.\n\nI think you're applying something fairly normal and saying that because presidents had memorabilia, that makes what Trump did the exact same thing. \n\nIt's not a perfect comparison, but here's two post presidency images, one of trump one of obama.\n\nGranted it's hard to find Obama doing a rally by himself post presidency, but here's one. https://foodtank.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Barack-Obama.png\n\nAnd here's a [trump one.](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d0a30669f1781bbd77766706664f9ee3?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=720&cropW=1280&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485)\n\nI think the difference is immediately clear.", "I am reading an excellent book that contains interviews with a handful of post-WWII Germans (all from the same town). It does a good job of depicting the rise of Nazism and the way it was interpreted by common citizens while the years passed.", "I think about this scene all the time. As an American, there is so much from the German case that we stand to learn yet. Sadly, a lot of people who idolize the Greatest Generation don’t bother with it.", ">well they were lying to you.\n\nNot really. The total number of policies that existed under Trump could be counted in the hundreds or thousands. So unless Biden changed every single one (which wouldn't make sense) it's technically true that he \"continued with Trump's policies\".", "Totalitarianism and Nazism are their own beasts for sure, and the Napoleonic era is probably a better point of comparison. But they didn’t arise in a vacuum. Using Xenophobic Nationalism and the Levée en masse to pioneer Total War, making violence a dominant political tactic and conspiracy theories dominant political theory, and the dream of Pan-European Imperialism? European Nationalism that arises in the 19th century and German hyper nationalism definitely have their roots in those innovations. People were willing to be Nazis because the party seemed like it would The Nazis relied on 19th/20th century race science that made their dreams of domination particularly abhorrent - but what really made them awful was that industrialization and telecommunications technology allowed them to enact brutality with unforeseen efficiency at incredible scale. \n\nFrench Revolutionary politics, especially in 1793, get just as fucking crazy as the totalitarian states of the 20th century. The only reason the infernal columns and reign of terror (especially away from Paris) aren’t comparable to 20th century attrocities is because The Committee of Public Safety didn’t have access to industrial technology to carry out those atrocities the way they wanted to. I mean they ordered the extermination of all political opposition in the Vendée - which really amounted to exterminating everyone in the region.", "They're America jr.. switch out the illegal immigrants to Muslim to spark their patroitism.", "Lol- wrooong\n\n[Burbank- VERY liberal](https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/california/burbank)\n\n[Duluth- liberal](https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/minnesota/duluth)\n\n[Montgomery- STRONGLY liberal](https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/county/pennsylvania/montgomery)\n\n[Lyons Township HS is where they banned Huck Finn. It's located in Western Springs IL- 74% voted Dem. LIBERAL](https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/illinois/western_springs)", "If you mean the Electoral College, the reason Congress and presidents aren't elected proportionally is because small Northern states with few or no slaves wanted to balance the influence of populous Southern states with many slaves by giving small states guaranteed votes in addition to what they would get from population. The plan for proportional representation, the [Virginia Plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Plan) was put forward by Southern slaveholders James Madison and Edmund Randolph of Virginia, while the plan for equal representation of each state regardless of population, the [New Jersey Plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Plan) was put forward by Northern non-slaveholder William Paterson. \n\nEventually the [Connecticut Compromise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise) was agreed upon creating the Electoral College, with slaves counting as 3/5ths of a person for representation purposes since Northern states with few slaves wanted only free people to count for representation purposes and Southern states wanted both slaves and free states to count since they had more slaves. They decided on equal representation for each state in the Senate to appease Northern states with smaller populations and proportional representation in the House to appease more populous Southern states.", "A policy existing under Trump doesn't make something a Trump policy. It's not a Trump policy to drive on the right side of the road... \n \nAnyway, it only took me a few seconds to find counter examples. Now I think it is time for you to find examples. What are these \"Trump policies\" that Biden is saying he is going to continue?", "No, not any government. Just the white nationalist ones. Like the white nationalist movement rising across the west right now. \n\nCorrelation isn't causation. But don't just completely fucking ignore correlation when it's accompanied by lots of other variables - like WHITE NATIONALISM. \n\nHow can you possibly miss the point this badly?", "And now you'e strawmanning. You're just as toxic as the side you condemn. It's time we start questioning our own stances before others or things will only continue to get worse.", "Does this look like a senior class prank?\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CEEEMB0c5So\n\nHow about this?\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCHra6JuuQ\n\nOr this?\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWMpTHLJXbw&bpctr=1636861939", "Queue the 'everyone I disagree with is a Nazi' crowd...", "the lack of legal consequences or widespread voter rejection has certainly created a playbook. and if it happens, it will be a nightmare. our version 1.0 democracy isn't designed to withstand that shock of so many distributed bad-faith actors. and yes, the economic fallout will be catastrophic.", "I alwasy find it wild that the WW2 movies made in the 60s and 70s were only 20 years removed. WW4 ended in 1945. \n\nMaking a movie about it in 72 feels like a different lifetime but it was the same as making a movie about the 2000's right now ya know?", "Well, it's both. The idealized path is the idealized future. Both are fictional. The fictionalized past is that which you demand a return to, which in turn becomes the future you demand be made reality.\n\nLots of axioms get tossed around about the study of history. \"Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it, etc...\"\n\nIn my experience, the least appreciated is \"Who controls the past, controls the future.\"", ">”Who controls the past, controls the future.\"\n\nAlright Kane, enough of your propaganda.", "I don't know anything about this work, but I love your idea! You could play it many ways, too. Like having all the people around at the gasthaus and then they move out of the way to show the singer. This one isn't feasible but a platform that can turn would be a cool reveal. Show the crowd and the singer from a side view, then spotlight on the singer and dim the rest so the crowd is gone, then slowly turn the platform to have the singer facing the audience, displaying the arm band. \n\nSorry, I know you didn't ask for my opinion. It just captivated my imagination and I ran with it. That doesn't happen for me much.", "This is top of controversial.\n\nAnd with the best worst goddamn reason.", "Because blood is red as Caber(n)et?", "Democrats long for a future that will never happen while Republicans long for a past that never was.", "So you’re saying that the US are well on their way 😏", "Just the opposite. The club is rot and pleasure. The community event is a response. The pendulum swings.", "All the actors except for the main stars actually.", "...at the expense of all others as the loss of greatness was the fault of those 'others', and this conflict to regain that greatness is about the return of what has been perceived 'stolen'.", "So reddit?", "Those \"free\" IDs aren't actually free and [come with hidden costs that add up.](https://today.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/FullReportVoterIDJune20141.pdf) And no, studies show the exact opposite, ID laws decrease the number of black votes because black people are [less likely than white voters to have the specific IDs the GOP is asking for.](http://mattbarreto.com/papers/PS_VoterID.pdf) It's not for you or me to guess why this is the case, it's just a measurable fact that black voters are less likely than white voters to have those specific IDs.\n\nAlso a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation [found that republicans are the least vaccinated group.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/28/republicans-remain-much-more-resistant-coronavirus-vaccines-than-black-americans/) Even the black population as a whole is more vaccinated (70%) than both republicans (58%) and white evangelicals (62%). So, yeah majority of unvaccinated people are white conservatives, only 14% of US the population is black, so you can't blame them for our country's 59% vaccination rate.", "We're all so very tribal. It's baked in to our genes. People yearn to conform, it overpowers rational thought of most people.\n\nHow many times have you caught yourself downvoting something simply because the score was negative? 90% of us never realise that the score often primes us to think whether a post is good or bad, not the content. It's our caveman brain looking to conform.\n\nThat 90% is so very easy to manipulate. The more people you get to agree on something (or pretend to agree to feel included), the easier it is to persuade more.\n\nIt's a difficult thing to forgive, and not everyone deserves it. I don't know if I could ever forgive people for supporting nazis, but I can certainly understand them.", "I always like the fraudulent election claims because if it were such a big issue, he had four years to fix the system with a republican backed house and senate. \n\nAccording to many republicans the problem is still here. What would they do differently and how will they fix this issue in the future?\n\nI would like to know what they want to do and not get rid of programs such as early and weekend voting. I as a teacher would never be able to vote if it weren’t for these programs. It should honestly made a national holiday. \n\nAs someone who tows the center line, typically conservative on economics and left leaning on social policies, I actually have a hard time understanding how 24 hour drop off locations and mail in voting contribute to systemic voter fraud.\n\nI’ve only heard anecdotal evidence of a friend of someone’s brother or videos of people from other countries counting ballots and throwing some away. Everyone seems to know someone that has experience voter fraud first hand and when I press for more information the topic is changed and if I ask about it again later down the line, they don’t want to explain anymore.\n\nEdit: I’m not trying to point fingers or anything. I just want to know what would be done. I’m fed up with both sides. They both say what their base wants to hear and accomplish absolutely nothing. The country is going down the drain and unless someone can actually cut through the bullshit, call these lazy assholes out, and actually unite us, I don’t see us being a world superpower for more than ten years. It really seems like western democracy is falling before our very eyes because of the selfish and greedy pricks that continue to get elected.", "It's certainly envoked a visceral reaction in some. Oh well.", "Great explanation. THank you.", "\"Make America Great Again\"\n\nIt's so obvious that it's happening here right now and it really seems there's absolutely nothing we can do to stop it.", "I mean realistically, governments like that have been the norm across the world for 99% of human history. Obey the king/emperor/living god who will lead you to prosperity and victory, or die horribly. That was just a given Tuesday. For much of the world right now that's still a given Tuesday.", "Let me guess comparing nazis to republicans 🗑", "yeah letting socialists solve the problems really worked out great for the USSR", "I always believed that the absurdities were the actions and ideas that hindered us from staying alive and propagating as a species. If you look at history, this is what history is really all about. To maintain a society we have always adhered to rules that will maintain the cohesiveness of that society and throughout history those rules have usually come from religion. Depending on what region of the world you are from depends on what religion and the rules of that religion you follow.", "Indeed.", "If I'm not mistaken there's some weird psychological ramifications for drone operators. As I have heard it it's that there's an element of tracking the enemies movements, having all the cameras and sensors to see the before and aftermath, and clock out at 5 pm and help your kids with homework. \n\nBut again that is only hearsay, and if anyone knows more I would love to hear!", ">I always assume I am unknowingly partaking in some heinous shit that will come to light much later but that I for the time being think is a great idea and a just cause\n\nI mean literally everything in modern society, from our clothes to phones, we're built partially or fully by literal slave labor. These companies are like, \"We're so great! We're giving jobs to hungry children in Botswana!\" And even the people who know they're full of shit just shrug and go, \"What can I do? Boycott every company in existence?\" \n\nSame with China. We know China is a dystopian police state committing an active genocide, and the richer they get the more they can spread their influence around the world. We're bankrolling what will go down in history as the 4th Reich or next USSR, and we still gladly do business with them across the board because God forbid someone stops giving us cheap shit. \n\nThe irony being that we often support these heinous practices and regimes in order to mass produce cheap virtue signaling bullshit for a cause or politician most of us won't really even give a fuck about come this time next year. \n\nYeah, history won't judge us nearly as kindly as we judge ourselves.", ".", "The left are doing exactly that right now, except they aslo invented and enforced the populism.", "Now they are using divisive propaganda, the mainstream media, and the notion of being on \"the right side\" of history. The facists are pretending to be liberal and a lot of people are falling for it.", "I find this comment to be [shallow and pedantic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yetwdpsiM8Q)", "Populism is a hell of a drug. Whether it's from the right or the left, it's all bullshit. Reddit is very good at calling out righty bullshit. It's also sadly very good at falling for lefty bullshit.", "Also I see that you can really get a gist for the kinds of people everyone is supposed to be, as in the one man looking more like a petite bourgeois business owner or landlord, the judgemental housewife. The people all reminded me of the dinner party guests in Dorothy Thompson's essay, Who Goes Nazi?\n\nhttps://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/", "Care to explain the fine people hoax", "Reminds me of college professor talking about ethics and whistleblowing.\n\nI asked how should people weigh the decision between doing what is right, and potentially being blacklisted by the entire industry (e.g. whistleblowing on a mining company for dumping mercury/lead into drinking water supply) and being dragged through years of expensive legal fights. He said he had no idea.\n\nAt a company I worked at, it was known that their \"whistleblowing 3rd party operated hotline\" does a s*** job of keeping complaint filers anonymous from the company. There was a running joke about how many hours it would take for a manager to find that someone had used that hotline to file an anonymous report against them.", "Well when you see two apples you don’t think of one apple and another apple", "The old man that suvived the first war: \"aw shit here we go again\"", "So republicans are nazis 🤔", ">Time costs involved in learning about photo voter ID requirements and how to meet them. \n2. Costs of purchasing required birth, marriage, naturalization and other certificates. In some \ninstances, the calculations include legal fees needed to secure these documents. \n3. Costs of travel expenses to the departments of vital records and motor vehicles, and the \npotential cost of hiring a driver and/or vehicle.\n4. Costs of travel time and waiting time at the agencies.\n\nThese are your \"hidden fees\"? Astounding how inept you think black people are in this day and age. \n\nYour source also is made up of a whopping 3 individuals who all live in states that don't require IDs to vote. Did you even read this?\n\nBlack people do go to the polls more often post voter id. Look at Georgia. They've had record breaking black voter turnouts this year. And, they showed up in the runoff more than any other demographic (something like 93%). Does that mean voter id is racist towards other demographics? Lol- ridiculous. \n\nAlso, here's how they got their data in that KFF poll buried in the untrustworthy wapo opinion piece:\n\n>The survey was conducted September 13-22, 2021, among a nationally representative random digit dial telephone sample of 1,519 adults", "Here is how they did it in a production from the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=408E7Wb0ubs Very tense\n\nAnd here's the 1968 version which is sung by a choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKF-1G2mjrE Very eerie\n\nFrom the same 1968 cast album, a young Judi Dench sings Sally Bowles' song \"Cabaret\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onF8Z0b8E3Y", "To the tough question of forgiveness, I’ll share this video I found [When a Former Nazi Youth Meets a Holocaust Survivor](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_4DQ-JcXg)", "If that's the case then we're doomed. I'm sure people will call me a \"both sides\" person but I don't see either side caring about truth or facts.", "Well, republicans are using patriotism, (make America great again), propaganda (look at any republicans feed and see the intentional slander), populism (first and second amendment intensity, as well as “for the children” to control women), using the devastating economic situation, (major focus on “tHe eNonOmy” when it comes to republican ideals, and a sense of yearning for a better future (again, maga) to gain popularity. So yeah. Republicans are nazis. Good point", "Not the easiest transition, unless you have a ton of savings and an Icelandic job. Every year I look lately, seems like less good options to move to; but then, as America gets worse, I guess the options open up again. New Zealand, Montenegro, Germany, are some I looked at when I thought Biden would lose. Tough though, lots of careers, the licenses don’t transfer.", "Implying Marxist-Leninists are socialists...", "When did people throw gas bombs and homemade bombs in a park? Or violently attacked people in front of their children?", "You think Hitler came to power quickly? Lol, no. It was failed attempt after failed attempt, with attacks just like the Capitol happening. The warlords send the poor to do their bidding while they sit in their tents and plot the next attack, pushing the envelope a little farther each and every time, normalizing the attacks and spreading the propaganda.", "actually pathetic", "the victim complex is pathetic.", "Hahah your upset 🤪🤪🤪", "Such a good scene and damn powerful!", "yeah they were the ones trying to overthrow democracy sure.", "Effin excellent movie", "https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2021/08/10/terrorist-group-antifa-attacks-prayer-event-with-young-children-present/\n\nIf you don't want to believe the article then it also has a video link and you can watch it yourself.", "The vaccine is slowly being required for basic things so it being free isn't really the important part", "LOL yes the very credible source standing for freedom. Now you’re gonna tell me that Portland was in constant riots for three months straight and the entire city was burned down? Fuck off.", "> How many Germans had no opinions on Jews, or even loved them, until they were convinced that their destruction would help the country?\n\nAs someone that is trans, this sentence strikes the hardest for me. Trans people have been entering sports for over a decade now. Did anyone care? No. Did anyone even care about women's sports? No. Did anyone even care about children's sports? Lol, no. But as soon as Tucker, Benny, and Joey started making noise, suddenly everyone started to care and started stripping our rights away, using women and children for their tokenism. They still don't give a damn about women's sports. The highest-paid WNBA player makes $8 million less than the lowest-paid NBA player, and when you bring that up, they will tell you that the women deserve that pay. You can bring up that cis girls were being targeted and threatened after they were mistaken as trans by FOX, and they won't care. The only thing they actually care about is hurting us trans people, and they will use every means necessary to do it, including using women and children as a shield.\n\nAnd when you look at the history of this rise in trans hate, there is a major milestone in it. This frothing at the mouth over trans people didn't happen until 2015/2016. It was almost like there was a monumental shift that happened that made them suddenly scatter like roaches to find someone to attack. Something like, I dunno, gay marriage? They lost the battle on gay marriage so they had to find the next vulnerable group to come and attack in order to stay relevant because it was obvious that they lost that battle. Nobody had ever given much thought to trans people until that time period. Yet, suddenly, everyone did start to care and now it's trendy to be transphobic. On the plus side, this has been beneficial to me. Their hate unearthed a lot of hidden information and brought trans people to the light. This is exactly why I am trans now. I had no words to describe how I felt and didn't really know what being trans meant, so their rise in hate actually educated me. And, my story is not unique. There are plenty of trans people that didn't know what they were until all this information started being uncovered. So thanks for that, conservatives.", "No Goggle, only watch. It's a good movie.", "Fun fact. Lost is almost entirely Diabetic.", "This. It was both real and fictional. It was a glorified idealization of a traditionalist past. Germany was a great country before WWI, but it absolutely was not some pure Aryan fantasy world of masculinity, independence, and grit. It was just as messy, chaotic, and diverse as any other nation.", "A good portion of the right is clearly fascist in every way and it disturbs me that that's still a \"controversial\" view to hold among moderates.\n\nI detest how people think \"the middle ground\" is a political platform. It's foolish. If one side keeps going down the fascist rabbit hole, and you insist on remaining in the \"middle ground\" then soon you'll be smack dab where the old \"right\" used to be.\n\nAnd same with the people who think \"both sides\" are to blame--at this point, go fuck yourselves. Both sides are to blame, but both sides are not equally to blame. Both sides were also to blame for WW2 but doesn't mean we can't point some fingers at who really fucked things ujp.", "Literally sounds like what republicans are doing now", "Bro literally republicans are doing this what are you talking about. The left Just keeps telling us half truths and never actually doing what they platform on. Then when they try to Actually passed the laws and regulations that they promised they would, 2 or 4 other democrats stand in the way while the entire the Republican party Votes against them. Even when it would actually be in Favor of The people they represent. Stop drinking the cool aid.", "The Nazis weren't in power for the first half of the film. If I remember right, one shows up at the club, is mocked, and is kicked out. You're watching the rise of the Nazis in the background the whole time", "Honest question. What do you mean by \"the right side of history.", "No, lying is always bad, I agree with OP. It is a tool to gain advantage or try to recover when you are in the wrong. It is deceit and deceit is bad. I'm not a religious person but I tend to agree with the tenets of all the major religions: treat others how you wish to be treated, and don't lie...among others", "The songs are fire though. Wilkommen, Money, Mein Herr, Two Ladies...", "Video. A picture that moves. You can watch it from a link in the article.\n\nOr just be simplistic cunt. Doesn't matter to me.", "Not all republicans are nazis but all nazis are republicans. Change my mind I dare you. I've never once seen a Democrat or a liberal. Show up to a fucking nazi rally.", ">\tUsing Xenophobic Nationalism to Pioneer Total War, making violence a dominant political tactic and conspiracy theories dominant political theory, and the dream of Pan-European Imperialism?\n\nThe French revolutionaries created modern war because they were the first modern state willing to make every man a soldier in its defense. Violence has always and will ever be the foundational political tactic. Conspiracy theories are inevitable when conspiracies abound—nearly every major event of the revolution involved successful conspiracies. It was not a conspiracy theory that the king and queen were desperately trying to get foreign soldiers to kill French citizens. The dream of Pan-European imperialism was founded on Rome and Napoleon, while the most radical revolutionary had this to say on the matter \n\n>\tThe most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.\n\nThe Vendee and Terror are incomparable to the Nazis (let’s not run away from your initial claim now with “totalitarian states of the 20th century”) because extermination of entire peoples was never national policy, and a civil war is a profoundly different environment from the absolute control the Nazi party exerted over the German state. The comparisons for the vendee are the French wars of religion or the Red Terror, not German attempts at racial dominion over the continent.", "No, it just means that the people that adopt it are idiots that don't understand context.\n\nFallout is a good example. New Vegas is where the word \"degenerate\" came from that all the white supremacists use. In the game, it is Vulpes Inculta from the Legion that uses the term \"degenerate\". The Legion, of course, being a genocidal, slave-owning tribe. It's even better when they use Liberty Prime from Fallout 3. Liberty Prime is a symbol of irony yet the neo-fascists of today love him all because he basically says \"communism bad\". However, the irony of Liberty Prime is that he is lobbing nuclear bombs at a technologically advanced tribe that uses American patriotism as a means to pacify an area before they colonize it and commit their own genocide. Both of these things show that fascists are idiots that can't understand what they are seeing. Instead, all they see are the flashy explosions or some cool lookin' dude in sunglasses and a wolf hat talking bad about other people who were also bad. They don't understand that Fallout is mocking them and saying that they are the baddies.", "Let's not be too reductivist about the fascists in Germany. They were building off nearly a century of German hyper-nationalism and a historical perspective that prioritized Germans ahead of non-Germans within Europe. Let's not start drawing parallels to other heavily militarized states that draw lines between citizens based on ethnic grounds and elect leaders based on their negative rhetoric about neighbouring nations.", "Working a harbor in Iceland has got to be easier than in the US. I work in a warehouse now but I’ll just have to claim refugee status. I have no delusions of expatriate or anything fancy.", "They were just roommates\n\n(/s)", "You are 100% accurate. Now I'm not gonna sit here and act like the left doesn't have its problems especially with all the lying and half truths they tell us. ( Where's my legal weed Joe!) But it's important that stuff like this is actually talked about. Because while the left are pretending to try to make a better future for everyone. The right is literally going down the nazi Handbook. And the funny thing. 10 years ago republicans didn't seem this extreme. I wonder what or who caused them to get all rolled up... maybe it was hiring a fucking corrupt businessman man to be our president", "This is a joke right.?", "No, queue the \"call nazi's what they are crowd\"", "r/woosh", "The Trump campaign playing Fortunate Son will always crack me up.", "That’s a useful observation. Thanks", "I find it very funny how a lot of comments on here are calling out the democrats for doing this. Even though the democrats are just telling half truths and lying about what they're platforming on . And then only partially doing what they said they will. And republicans are literally doing exactly what this is inscribing. Don't give me wrong I don't trust any political party at this point. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Then it's following the nazi Handbook.", "I got the same thing from Man in the High Castle. Where you see the history of how a red blooded American soldier becomes the main Nazi antagonist and all it starts with is some food for his wife and child.", "you're", "Are you surprised. no one on the right understands the difference between marxism and socialism. They're just boogie men words they've been taught to hate and fear. Almost as if They're following this exact pattern..", "> EDIT. WTF is up with the Nazi's PMing me and saying my family deserved to die because they were Jews. WTF is wrong with you people! I've had like 20 messages so far!\n\nWelcome to Reddit. Fascists love to bomb posts like this and comb through comments, sending death threats to those whom they hate. I get it all the time as someone that is trans and strays outside the LGBT+ subs. You get used to it after a while and it just becomes a reason to keep doing what you're doing. It also makes me an advocate for banning hate subreddits and pushing others to not purchase anything on this site while using an adblocker.\n\nOh, and they'll always do it through PMs so that people don't see it since they are giant chicken shits who want to harass others and get away with it. Yet they'll turn around and call everyone else \"beta\".", "You seem exactly like someone who would end up in the choir in that video.", "I think you need to stand back and get a bit more life experience.\n\nSimplistic notions of peoples intent are being fed to you, I woyld argue you are in the kool aid.", "Ibe read about 100 comments you're like the 2nd person to actually see this. I've seen a lot people say how democrats are doing this. And while I really don't like our current democratic Leaders. They are definitely not using the nazi playbook. The using the old school governmental playbook of telling people what they want to hear and never delivering on it.", ">Because like you say, most of us would do something similar if we weren't actively trying to avoid it. \n\nWe shouldn't give people a pass for acting poorly just because it's \"normal\". That's precisely how you reinforce those behaviours as okay.\n\n>I would argue the behavior of these bystanders is to be considered just normal, average human behavior. \n\nAnd every attempt should be made to ensure that is changed.\n\n>Demanding more than average ethics of the average person suddenly brands the common citizen as immoral, \n\n\nOh boo fucking hoo.\n\n>I always assume I am unknowingly partaking in some heinous shit that will come to light much later but that I for the time being think is a great idea and a just cause.\n\nI can without a doubt say I am not turning a blind eye to my neighbour being taken from their home, throw into a camp where they are executed and then their body burned.", "r/woosh", "[Shadow of the Vampire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire)* \n \n >Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 metafiction horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige, written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe. The film is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. W. Murnau, during which the film crew began to have disturbing suspicions about their lead actor. The film borrows the techniques of silent films, including the use of intertitles to explain elided action, and iris lenses. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup, losing to How the Grinch Stole Christmas.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( \| )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( \| )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( \| )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove \| v1.5)", "You beat me to it. Here is one relevant link instead.\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow\\_of\\_the\\_Vampire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire)", "[Shadow of the Vampire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire) \n \n >Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 metafiction horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige, written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe. The film is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. W. Murnau, during which the film crew began to have disturbing suspicions about their lead actor. The film borrows the techniques of silent films, including the use of intertitles to explain elided action, and iris lenses. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup, losing to How the Grinch Stole Christmas.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( \| )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( \| )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( \| )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove \| v1.5)", "I mean they did it so well that we still have major major major nazi following all around the world.", "I have always thought this was one of the most chilling scenes I have ever seen in a movie", "> Infanticide if they call it \"women's health.\"\n\nNo infants are being called in the name of women's health.\n\n>Chemically castrating children if they call it \"trans rights\" and claim the puberty blockers are completely reversible.\n\nOh yeah, also doesn't happen.\n\n>Censorship with the suppression of books/podcasts/videos \n\nWhat's being suppressed?\n\n>(and \"deplatforming\" people more generally)\n\nSo you're against private institutions making their own decisions?\n\n>Curtailing civil liberties \"temporarily\" under the guise of a \"devastating pandemic.\"\n\nLMAO", ">But Democrats want to literally control everything.\n\nEven if this is true (it's not), that isn't fascism. \n\nThis is true of communism, especially Marxism. These ideologies are opposites of each other. One aspires to a hierarchical society, the other aspires to an egalitarian society.\n\nSaying that this defines fascism is like saying that anything green is grass. \n\nIn fact, it's [not even clear that a fascism even has an economic policy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism). Some even argue that fascism is devoid if an economic policy; that fascist leaders offer an incoherent framework.", "Chappelle's black kkk member sketch suddenly feels less absurd...", "Essentially no nazi was ever punished for not committing war crimes.", "\"Should we learn from their mistakes. YES! \"\nWill we? No!", "What's fun is knowing Germany's history enough to know that Hitler made the rich richer and the poor poorer, turning the poor against other poor people in order to do so. The war machine didn't just spring up out of thin air, it was done by destroying over a hundred thousand jobs, many of them farmworkers. It pushed people into the factories where they worked 10+ hour days for bread crumbs. And if you didn't join the factories, you enlisted.\n\nWhy does much of this sound so familiar?", "They knew.\n\nThey didn't care.", "\" Fascist and fascism seem like buzzword boogie men\"\n Then how do you feel about Democrat socialism.\n Art they just buzzword bogeyman to you? someone who has no idea the difference between Marxism and socialism. Or how there's different types of socialism. And how the most successful( And by successful I mean the populations with the most happiest and comfortable lives.) countries in the world are democratic socialist.", "You can rephrase it to malicious lies without changing the original intent.", "🤝", "I’d rather be simplistic than a fucking white nationalist religious zealot fascist.", "It's legitimately beautiful, which is what makes it so chilling. \n\nDo You Hear The People Sing from Les Mis hits that same vibe, minus Nazis of course.", "That's Baby's (from Dirty Dancing) Dad. He's the emcee at the cabaret.", "Sounds closer to what the left wing is doing than anyone on the right\n\nEdit: whine all you want, you know I'm right", "Fish, plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea!", "Yeah. No room for nuance with any of those people. Making distinct comparisons between historical events is not the same as declaring a contemporary one as identical or predetermined.", "Oh did the poor little maga get triggered? :'(", "Means a lot from the '14andthisisdeep' crowd. Enjoy your bullshit perspective that your side is always right and never uses the same tactics as the people you dislike. Should be a fun life for you :)", "Is Judaism a relatively easily preventable, communicable disease with significant health effects?", "You must have missed ruby ridge and Waco. Dems do whatever they want and they use these same tactics. But what does that mean to the 'vote blue no matter who' crowd. Did I unduly the fantasy you put all of your hopes and dreams into? Poor baby", "Lots of people showed up at at Charlottesville who weren't neo-nazis. There were a lot of random locals who just wanted to keep the statues because they felt they were local landmarks or historically significant. \n\nWhen Trump addressed the violence at Charlottesville he was clear that he wasn't talking about the neo-nazis:\n\n>\"But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group -- excuse me, excuse me -- I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.\"\n\nhttps://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-charlottesville-transcript-20170815-story.html\n\n> Related comedy – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eq0X4qDlR0", "Ah, you actually support those little racist backward antifa bitches. Makes sense, you're a fucking moron and fit right in. You ignore facts and make up your own little special fairy land, where you play with all the other fairies.\n\nEnjoy being what you name yourself to be against.", "Don't try to explain basic science to a conservative.", "That's the emcee at the cabaret. He's a bit of a cynical, creepy character.", "sure", "> A policy existing under Trump doesn't make something a Trump policy.\n\nThis is the core of my argument. Any policy which Trump maintained could be reasonably called a \"Trump policy\". \n\nJust like kids in cages.", "\"Cool sick copypasta bro\"- John Locke", "\"Simplistic notions\" ok bro. Keep watching fox news and Ben shapiro. I'm sure They're not just paid by big corporations to feed you lies so you end up Hating your fellow man. instead of The people that try to pass laws that actually oppress you.", "Typical child's response. Go back to YouTube", "Man it just astounds me how people manage to continually say stupider and stupider things.", "What the rest of the world sees when US kids pledge the allegiance to the flag.", "The way his face relaxed and looked down when the man behind the camera said, \"nothing else, that was beautiful, cut,\" said a lot. The things that man carries.", "I mean, you're right, but I don't think it started that way. Religion has to be two things for people: the role of teaching humans their internal morality barometer and cosmic spiritual hoo-ha so that you keep believing that all this shit is worth it and that you will gain some sort of reward when you die. I mean what do you tell a bunch of cavepeople terrified of the thunderstorm or the eclipse or the earthquake to make them keep believing that everything makes sense and has a purpose? How else do you keep them all together and following forward when everything is unknown chaos, darkness, death and confusion? So at some point, it did have a purpose, to keep us motivated and banded together as a tribe. Just now, since science is a better explainer of the unknown and how to combat it, we've lost the need for religion. Those in the religious business fight back as they don't want to lose their unthinking flock and the influencing power it brings and here we are, Trump 2024.", "It was inflammatory and deeply beneath the standard to which we should hold public officials. But calling it a death threat is also inflammatory, it clearly was not a literal death threat.", "Those people are funded by the 1% to get them to kill the other half and make them feel like they're part of them, when truly they are not. They are tools that serve the 1%'s purpose until they are not needed.", "The Dems are Centrists, not left leaning, they are just there being somewhat neutral in order to show you that they're not as insane as the GOP, who are just outright conmen thieves. But Dems have their own darkness, see [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw). If you want to see what all of them are doing, see [here] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyop0d30UqQ) & [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LPuKVG1teQ).", "Same thing happening in India", "Right wing populism can be as simple as firing up the crowd against imaginary enemies and then pouring money into corporations in the name of fighting those enemies. Economy goes up, crowd stays happy, the wealthiest corporations make all the real gains, and everything hums along until the momentum runs out and the bills come due. Then you need some real enemies to deflect the blame and provide new growth opportunities.", "And also creating the incentive to not encourage high voter turnout. You get the same amount of Electors in the College if 17% of your population votes or 70%.", "Trump played the game incredibly well, in a way America hadn't seen before. He knew that for the people he was pandering to, bad press was good press, so he cultivated an increasingly bad relationship with the press, and got exactly what he wanted: the kind of increasingly unhinged and vitriolic opposition that only made his supporters dig in deeper, while it patted his detractors on the back and told them how smart they were.", "Twins Basil!", "The quote he closes on is so chilling. \n\n\n>>Another colleague of mine brought me even close to the heart of the matter – and closer to home. A chemical engineer by profession, he was a man of whom, before I knew him, I had been told, “He is one of those rare birds among Germans—a European.” One day, when we had become very friendly, I said to him, “Tell me now—how was the world lost” \n\n>“That,” he said, “is easy to tell, much easier than you may suppose. The world was lost one day in 1935, here in Germany. It was I who lost it, and I will tell you how. \n\n>\"I was employed in a defense plant (a war plant, of course, but they were always called defense plants). That was the year of the National Defense Law, the law of ‘total conscription.’ Under the law I was required to take the oath of fidelity. I said I would not; I opposed it in conscience. I was given twenty-four hours to ‘think it over.’ In those twnty-four hours I lost the world.”\n\n>>“Yes?” I said.\n\n>“You see, refusal would have meant the loss of my job, of course, not prison or anything like that. (Later on, the penalty was worse, but this was only 1935.) But losing my job would have meant that I could not get another. Wherever I went I should be asked why I left the job I had, and, when I said why, I should certainly have been refused employment. Nobody would hire a ‘Bolshevik.’ Of course I was not a Bolshevik, but you understand what I mean.”\n\n>>\"Yes,” I said.\n\n>“I tried not to think of myself or my family. We might have got out of the country, in any case, and I could have got a job in industry or education somewhere else.\n\n>“What I tried to think of was the people I might be of some help later on, if things got worse (as I believed they would). I had a wide friendship in scientific and academic circles, including many Jews and ‘Aryans,’ too, who might be in trouble. If I took the oath and held my job, I might be of help, somehow, as things went on. If I refused to take the oath, I would certainly be useless to my friends, even if I remained in the country. I myself would be in their situation.\n\n>The next day, after ‘thinking it over,’ I said I would take the oath with the mental reservation that, by the words with which the oath began, ‘Ich schwöre bei Gott, I swear by God,’ I understood that no human being and no government had the right to override my conscience. My mental reservations did not interest the official who administered the oath. He said, ‘Do you take the oath?’ and I took it. That day the world was lost, and I was the one who lost it.\n\n>>“Do I understand,” I said, “that you think you should not have taken the oath?”\n\n>“Yes.”\n\n>>“But,” I said, “you did save many lives later on. You were of greater use to your friends than you ever dreamed you might be.” (My friend’s apartment was, until his arrest and imprisonment in 1943, a hideout for fugitives.)\n\n>“For the sake of the argument,” he said, “I will agree that I saved many lives later on. Yes.”\n\n>>“Which you could not have done if you had refused to take the oath in 1935.”\n\n>“Yes.”\n\n>>“And you still think that you should not have taken the oath.”\n\n>“Yes.”\n\n>>“I don’t understand,” I said.\n\n>“Perhaps not,” he said, “but you must not forget that you are an American. I mean that, really. Americans have never known anything like this experience – in its entirety, all the way to the end. That is the point.”\n\n>>“You must explain, “I said.\n\n>“Of course I must explain. First of all, there is the problem of the lesser evil. Taking the oath was not so evil as being unable to help my friends later on would have been. But the evil of the oath was certain and immediate, and in helping my friends was in the future, and therefore uncertain. I had to commit a positive evil, there and then, in the hope of a possible good later on. The good outweighed the evil; but the good was only a hope, the evil a fact.”\n\n>>“But,” I said, “the hope was realized. You were able to help your friends.”\n\n>“Yes,” he said, “but you must concede that the hope might not have been realized – either for reasons beyond my control or because I became afraid later on or even because I was afraid all the time and was simply fooling myself when I took the oath in the first place.\n\n>“But that is not the important point. The problem of the lesser evil we all know about; in Germany we took Hindenburg as less evil than Hitler, and in the end we got them both. But that is not why I say Americans cannot understand. No, the important point is – how many innocent people were killed by the Nazis, would you say?”\n\n>>“Six million Jews alone, we are told.”\n\n>“Well,that may be an exaggeration. And it does not include non-Jews, of whom there must have been many hundreds of thousands, or even millions. Shall we say, just to be safe, that three million innocent people were killed all together?’ \n\n>>I nodded.\n\n>“And how many innocent lives would you like to say I saved?’ \n\n>>“You would know better than I,” I said.\n\n>“Well,” he said, “perhaps five or ten, one doesn’t know. But shall we say a hundred, or a thousand, just to be safe?”\n\n>>I nodded.\n\n>“And it would have been better to have saved all three million, instead of only a hundred, or a thousand?”\n\n>>“Of course.\n\n>“There, then, is my point. If I had refused to take the oath of fidelity, I would have saved all three million.”\n\n>>“You are joking,” I said.\n\n>“No.”\n\n>>“Or that others would have followed your example?”\n\n>“No.”\n\n>>“I don’t understand.”\n\n>“You are an American,” he said again, smiling. “I will explain. There I was, in 1935, a perfect example of the kind of person who, with all his advantages in birth, in education, and in position, rules (or might easily rule) in any country. If I had refused to take the oath in 1935, it would have meant that thousands and thousands like me, all over Germany, were refusing to take it. Their refusal would have heartened millions. Thus the regime would have been overthrown, or, indeed, would never have come to power in the first place. The fact that I was not prepared to resist in 1935, meant that all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, like me in Germany were also unprepared, and each of these hundreds of thousands was, like me, a man of great influence or of potential influence. Thus the world was lost.”\n\n>>“You are serious?” I said. \n\n>“Completely.” ", "A lot of people publicly espousing white supremacist ideas are doing it purely for the memes. Not to say that their behaviour isn't corrosive and racist in its own way, and encouraging to sincere white supremacists. But ideological purity isn't necessarily going to be a priority at all times. Also a lot of them are as sharp as a sack of bricks, with the same result.", "Like a deep state government that does everything to cheat their way to victory in 2016 but forgets to put in enough votes to win?", "What's up with creepy smile dude at the end?", "He means being right wing, and that he believes the stupid conspiracy theory that the \"real fascists\" are the liberals. God these people are so far gone they don't see the massive pipe of shit sitting before them.", "As far as I know there has been religion as long as we have had organized societies (villages, towns, cities). I cringe at the thought of a society without religion for the simple fact that North Korea is a good example of a country without a major religious presence. China persecutes anyone who doesn't practice the state sponsored religion. I would never want to live in either of these countries. I can't think of a country or society in all of human history that shunned religion for science.\n\n \nReligion is based on belief and science is supposed to be based on provable fact and this is the reason why I believe science will never replace religion. People need to believe in something just as much as they need science. These are just my random thoughts and I'm not trying to get into an argument with anyone.", "It didn't help that Democrats pushed the media to cover Trump during the primaries because they hoped he would win, thinking he was the Republican who would be an easy win for Hillary. Even with all the absurdities he said just to get attention, I don't think most media outside of Fox News would've given him the press he wanted so badly without that extra nudge.", "He had a book of Hitler's speeches. His first wife said he would read them occasionally.\n\n>Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, \"Heil Hitler,\" possibly as a family joke. \n> \n>Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist. \n> \n>\"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?\" I asked Trump. \n> \n>Trump hesitated. \"Who told you that?\" \n> \n>\"I don't remember,\" I said. \n> \n>\"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew.\" (\"I did give him a book about Hitler,\" Marty Davis said. \"But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.\") \n> \n>Later, Trump returned to this subject. \"If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.\"\n\n[https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a](https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a)", "It should be this: Science should be for facts and solutions to the unknown, Spirituality should be for the inner cosmic hoo-ha in all of us that also needs fulfilling, it's part of our emotional need for communal connection and such, that's the way it should be. Neither should be the answer for either.", "Hear, hear.", "Well, republicans are using patriotism, (make America great again), propaganda (look at any republicans feed and see the intentional slander), populism (first and second amendment intensity, as well as “for the children” to control women), using the devastating economic situation, (major focus on “tHe EcOnOmY” when it comes to republican ideals, and a sense of yearning for a better future (again, maga) to gain popularity. So you are dead wrong on that account lol.\n\nBut yeah, constantly blame the left and ignore everything else like a good little conservative they tell you to be 😂", "Damn, basically just the modern GOP", "There's plenty of stuff written about the Nazis rise to power and it's fucking terrifying to be honest.\n\nPeople need to read more history.", "It's a phrase I've heard and seen by very authoritarian people who take it personally when someone disagrees with them. They seem to be trying to argue that even if their ideas seem terrible, they are in fact the correct ideas which will be proven in time. \n\nTo disagree with these ideas, no matter how disturbing the ideas may be, is to be on \"the wrong side\" of history. Where I think they are not only taking some unprovable moral high road and refusing to defend their ideas, I also think they intend it as a threat. I.e. you will be sorry eventually, if you don't agree with me.\n\nIt's a phrase that if spoken, seems to indicate someone not willing to defend their beliefs, but might also do violence to you if you don't agree.\n\nEDIT and yes, these people would tend to align themselves with the American left and some call themselves liberal. I have not seen as much from the right since the Christian Coalition fell apart in the late 90's.", "I’m thankful every day that he lost. Almost hoping he lives long enough to lose again in 2024.", "Is it?as an Italian, it is cristal clear to me what the difference is between PATRIOTISM and NATIONALISM. I'm pretty sure it's very clear to my German friends too. Only a naive nation that never had to re-examine its own narrative after utter destruction can struggle with the differentiation. In the era of internet, I'm pretty sure you can educate yourself, instead of having to wait to learn from destruction.", "The song from Cabaret is not a parody. Within the larger dramatic work, it functions to produce the oppressive feeling of being trapped in the spread of fascism in the space of only a couple of minutes. It's not a comedic scene meant to mock their beliefs. It's a serious scene meant to be unsettling. It gets picked up by actual Nazis because it is well written music that basically expresses what they actually believe.\n\nBesides fitting better into the show's dramatic flow and musical style, there are other obvious reasons to create an original song instead of performing an actual Nazi piece. Having it turn into an actual Nazi anthem was not the intent of its creators, but neither was parody. If anything, the cabaret scenes are the sarcastic parody that drives home the futility of trying to ignore the Nazis marching around everywhere.", "You don't think riots and threats of violence over politics is fascistic? Maybe disinformation from major news, like CNN calling prescribed medication for humans, horse dewormer, because the wrong person took it. Or politicians misrepresenting criminals for public influence. \n\nTo you I would seem full of shit. But that's because you're lost and exactly the type of people who would be in OPs video.", ">New Vegas is where the word \"degenerate\" came from that all the white supremacists use.\n\nI think people were calling other races degenerate a lot farther back than computers?", "Yeah, we do nothing about heart disease except spending billions on health care and research. It’s unprecedented how we’ve responded to a viral pandemic (but only if you ignore the response to every viral pandemic before this one)\n\n\nYou have a victim complex.", "The Nazi version of their past was full of ideological inventions and repurposed mythology.", "Ooh, where? I’d drive several hours to see a performance of Cabaret. I’ve seen a high school performance, I’ve seen it on Broadway, and a couple in between.", "They have drank too much of the cool and my guy. And honestly in reference to his comment below this. He's not even half wrong. But he folks is on the wrong things. And they can't see their own hypocrisy", "Yes, that's where New Vegas got it from. However, it didn't become a mainstream meme until a screengrab from New Vegas landed on 4chan.\n\nKind of like how \"cuck\" is old as hell, but didn't become a thing until the alt-right created \"cuckservative\", which they got \"cuck\" from racist cuckold pornography that depicts black men as inferior to white men.", "Yeah parody isn't quite right. It is for dark comedy but maybe emulation is a better term?", "And you just can;t wait to make yourself a victim of something.", "The truly amazing thing is that you genuinely believe you are right, and there is no amount of data or information or evidence to the contrary that will convince you otherwise. In fact, it's been scientifically proven that the more evidence we try to present to prove you are, in fact, 100% wrong, the harder you will cling to your absolute conviction that you are right. It's fascinating (and also a little horrifying and disheartening)", "It's It's proven that people hold tighter to their beliefs in the face of corrections and contradictions. If you're interested in actually changing views, you get a lot farther with epistemology practices, addressing the framework of their arguments, and redefining the logical path to their conclusions. It's amazing how much people are open to working through ideas when they're not being berated.", "A chilling scene from one of my favorite movies.", "Where’s mah goddamn electric car Bruce?!", "Jokes aside, while the left isn’t doing anything very progressive, which I agree is happening, they at least aren’t moving backward", "It's important to point out that the Nazi economy was also on an unsustainable death spiral from the beginning. The only thing keeping it going at one point was methamphetamines and plunder from war. It was never beneficial for the average German worker or family.\n\nIt turns out alienating trade with many former allies and banishing vital segments of your economy (trade unionists, intellectuals, and Jews to name a few groups) while gifting their seized industries to your billionaire cronies will doom your economy to fail. Who would have thought? Especially when rich industrialists like Oskar Schindler also sabotaged the munitions factories he inherited. Or your banished scientists would go on to work for the Allies and the Manhattan Project.\n\nToo many right-wing circles like to praise Hitler's failed economic policies when they were nothing but self-destructive idiocy in the name of purity. But it didn't seem to matter, since Hitler always had another group to blame, another enemy to hunt down, for why the economy wasn't working. It'd be eerily similar if the American right-wing ever seized one-party control and tried to get rid of their biggest communist boogeymen in California, Hollywood and Big Tech. They'd divvy up the seized companies to their inept, corrupt cronies, fire all of the 'undesirables' from their jobs, and the entire American economy would come crawling to a halt.", "Exactly. We truly do live in a society.", "Just for the raw sewage pumping into the river..Milton Friedman Newtown as they cut down forests to build new homes... It could have been filmed today", "Been like that for [years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jc2jnY9K-s)..", "Critical race theory is a bullshit hateful set of ideas based on inaccurate information. It has zero merit.", "You don't even have any idea what it is, outside of your hateful bullshit conservative propaganda. You don't know what it yes, yet you hate that it's being taught in high-school and elementary school?", "I do know. I've read the material. It's bullshit. Utterly subjective tripe with no data to back up their sweeping claims. Read Harry Frankfurt's 'On Bullshit' Maybe it will help you learn to think critically.", "Well, then, why don;t you explain it to me, since you know so much about it, and explain why you hate that it's being taught in high schools and elementary schools? \n\nNo, I;m not reading your propaganda, i already know how to think critically, thank you, unlike some people.", "Ur's 14 points are fucking stupid, and is so general that it can be applied to almost every system outside of liberalism.", "I think I probably agree with your views, honestly. It since occurred to me that even in the case of an aggressor trying to obtain information, if you are exceedingly brave/self sacrificial the is always the option of honest open defiance (i.e. \"I will not tell you that\"), although misdirection does seem wiser to me in that situation.\n\nI suspect that information that is withheld from the public under the guise of \"national security\" is basically only ever a noble lie or a cynical lie.", "How about this: quote something from the link you gave him verbatim proving him wrong. You’ve been incredibly vague, just sending a link that doesn’t really give a specific answer… why not spell it out?", "Harry frankfurt propaganda!!! lol. He's a left leaning American academic and philosopher. You're playing team sports and you back your team whatever they do. You are the one caught up in propaganda not me. I have no inclination to explain shit to you, as you are a lost cause, and I have better things to do.", "Re: the PMs...\n\nReport them and get them perma-banned.", "sure :)", "Ah, the LOLsurrection. When 10,000 right-wing gun nuts tried to overthrow the US Government but accidently left their guns at home... It's almost like there's some kind of manipulation going on...", "Thanks for sharing those links. Super helpful way of summarizing what I've researched myself! I wish people would quit with this us vs them bullshit.", "One of my favorites. It's what got me started on sci-fi.", "I'm not referring to him, I'm referring to you. I don;t need him or you to tell me how to think critically. Now, why don;t you tell me all about CRT? Why are you so upset that it's being taught in high schools and elementary schools? Or are you afraid to asy?", "I guess I'm just overthinking it. Like in that tron movie...if part of the song is diegetic then wouldnt the whole song be diegetic since it exists in universe? But I guess the terminology is more used from a second to second type of thing. To describe what the audience is hearing at that exact moment in time is something the actors would be hearing if the universe were real.", "You were referring to him, don't bullshit me lol. I'm not afraid to \"asy\". You're not very bright, and seemingly quite agitated and eager for a debate. I've better things to do with my time, and if you can't see through the pyramid scheme that is CRT and wish to inflict it upon your kids, that's on you. I've no interest in talking to someone who promotes borderline psychological coersion and manipulation upon minors.", "Dead on.", "Right like not liking nazis is somehow not the norm. So edgy. So cool!", ">This would make sense if getting vaccinated protected other people from getting sick and dying. We know that it doesn't.\n\nYes, you're not saying their useless on an individual bases, but you're certainly casting doubt on the effectiveness/usefulness of vaccines in preventing the spread of the virus. Talk of making up narratives...\n\n>So do vitamins, sunlight and exercise. What's your point? Getting vaxxed still doesn't prevent spread and infection. My point is essentially that they shouldn't be mandated not that they are completely useless.\n\nVitamins, sunlight and exercise are either not even remotely effective as the vaccine, or impossible to control. My point is that the vaccine is the best, most effective measure we have against the virus, that it helps preventing deaths to others, and thus that the state is legitimised in putting pressure on the people to get as many vaccinated as possible.", "Populism only works on the uneducated and that’s definitely not the left.", "Lol\n\nThat is hilarious, the left are even easier to hypnotise by stroking their smug egos..", "Uneducated scum mad?", "> How many Germans had no opinions on Jews, or even loved them, until they were convinced that their destruction would help the country? How many loved their enchanting countryside (Germany is gorgeous!) and thought they were keeping it safe?...Should we learn from their mistakes. YES!\n\nI take it you are now willing to stop dehumanizing anyone who didn't agree with you politically? To stop going around calling people degenerates, nazi, facist, and terrorists because you disagree on how to run the country? To get rid of dictator Biden and reinstate the lawfully reelected Donald Trump yet? To prosecute all those who by intention or cowardice aided in the coup that was Nov 2020 elections? No? That's what I thought.", "You’ve already told me everything I need to know. CRT is law school literature, you dumbass. “Minors”, elementary school children, and even high school students, don’t come anywhere near it. It is NOT taught in schools, and is only an ELECTABLE field of study in law school. \n\nWhat you have been told is CRT by your conservative propagandists is a lie. They are taking advantage of your ignorance, and it has exposed you for what you really are. What you’re really upset about is that our school children are taught only a minor fraction of the the terrible racism wrought throughout American history. You want to censor it because you are ashamed of it.\n\nNow, I am the one done arguing with someone who proven without a shadow of a doubt that they have absolutely no idea what theyre talking about.", "I see a lot of this type of shit in Kyle Rittenhouse. He tried to look like a \"good kid\", worked for the police, pretended to be a medic, cleaned graffiti, anything to pass as a helpful volunteer. Then he found a situation where people were stirring shit, inserted himself, and ended up killing people, and he'll probably walk. Dude wrapped himself in patriotic garb, brags about shooting people, and probably knows the laws well enough to get away with it.\n\nThen Kenosha will get torn apart in the inevitable aftermath, he'll become a hero to all the right-wing vigilantes, and the people who were fighting for justice for Jacob Blake in the first place will be vilified and cast as violent, dangerous communists, and just like the Nazis, they'll be used as an excuse to return to an era of \"law and order.\"\n\nBlack people and liberals will be scapegoated, propaganda will emerge supporting the police, and eventually, people will start to be disappeared into jails and prisons for stupid offenses like curfew violation.\n\nOh wait, that happened last year.", "Oh yeah, I bet irs very hard! Depends on what props you have too. I think I would let hin sit behind something so you can only see his head and when ever you need the audience to know, I would let him stand up and come to the front.", "No, because this song isn't a nazi song. It was written by a jewish gay man.", "Why does the German gov not do anything against the German nationalist groups that live there? Cause you cannot count on the Gov and the police to fight Nazis.", "How so?\n\nYou can hardly blame the Germans for trying to improve their country.\n\nI don’t think modern people quite understand how absolutely miserable and hopeless life was in post WW1 Germany.\n\nAt that point, either Fascism or Communism was going to take power. Fascism won because it was the new kid on the block and hadn’t yet stacked millions of bodies like the reds.\n\nAfter the Nazis took power, German quality of life improved drastically and Germany once again became a leading power in the world. Most historians agree this economic prosperity wouldn’t last- but that’s not what regular people would have thought.\n\nThey would have thought “wow my life is awful, this party said they’d fix it, I voted for them and they fixed it, now they have my loyalty”.\n\nThen the Nazis started to try and recover German territory lost in WW1. This eventually culminated in the demand for the return of the Danzig corridor (or a trade of territory for it) from Poland- which was refused. \n\nThen, under the pretext of polish persecution of German minorities in Poland (which while true, the numbers were heavily exaggerated by Nazi propaganda)- Germany invaded and the rest is history. \n\nI don’t see how even a rational German at the time could be blamed for what happened. It all made perfect sense for the people living in that moment in time.\n\nAfter all, in THEIR view Poland stole German territory and then persecuted the Germans still living there, Britain/France declared war on them- not vice versa- and in the east they were fighting off the evil communists and protecting all of Europe (including the French and English, who will surely see reason and change sides to help us fight the Soviets).", "And you're an idiot", "Might be", "Dude usually the left are people who put theit ego after other ppl, what you're describing are Magats.", "\n\n\n\nI saw that outrageous claim, utterly untrue. Law school!! pmsl. I have seen numerous pieces of school work and curriculum that is pure CRT, and their teachers admit it on leaked zoom conference calls ffs!! Get back to cnn. If you are seriously genuine in your belief, you need to open your eyes, you are being lied to. If you're just playing silly team games then you are the problem, I suspect that is it. If so, you are the problem because the truth matters nothing to you, only winning does and that makes you a cancer on humanity. Lol crt isn't taught in schools, jesus christ, funniest thing I've heard all day.", "Great and noble sentiments, but nothing has changed. Anti-Semitism is the highest racist crime in America and Canada and higher in Europe than it has ever been....any excuse to hate will do, it seems.", "I feel like this could work today… scary", "Today I leaned that Caberet takes place in Nazi Germany.", "Gun nuts in America are literally this and will swear on their life they are not supporters of a bigoted, blood thirsty power dynamic. Happening right now, right here… on Reddit.", "I feel there's a very real danger in simplifying it down to \"they still looked past the bigotry of the Nazi party for their own personal gain, which is almost worse.\"\n\nThat downplays the reality of the situation for many which was:\n\nEither you join the Nazi party or forget about ever getting a promotion at work ever again. Enjoy being treated as an outcast. Enjoy looking in on your neighbours enjoying the fruits of success while your life goes backwards.\n\nIt wasn't just about personal gain in a greedy sense, it was about the alternative being to not have any gain ever again unless you became part of the system. If the default for any civilised society is that over the course of your life you should expect to climb six rungs up the ladder of personal growth, then it's not greedy to want to climb that ladder, it's just normal functioning personal growth with no attached guilt or blame. The Nazis replaced that civilised normal societal growth up the ladder and instead attached a stipend that if you want to climb the ladder at all, you must be in the Nazi party.\n\nWe can't suddenly then declare, \"They were being greedy by wanting to climb that ladder,\" because climbing the ladder was never considered greedy before the Nazis came along and we all climb that same ladder today without guilt. They weren't being greedy in joining the Nazi party, they just wanted to carry on having what was considered normal and there was literally no other way to achieve that. When your choice is narrowed down to, \"Either I sign this piece of paper saying I'm a Nazi, even though I know I'm not and I disagree with them but after all it's just a piece of paper, it doesn't change who I am.\" or \"Oh well I'll give up on ever achieving anything in life just so I don't have to scribble my name on a piece of paper.\" I think I know how 99% of society would react.\n\nSo the danger is that we create in our minds this vision of greedy Germans climbing over the bodies of jews just so they could get a promotion and we think, \"Yuck, I'd never do that.\" But in reality they were doing nothing more than you and I do today in our current society. We work hard, we expect promotions. If you start thinking Germans then were different to how you or I are today, then we're already destined for catastrophe. The flaw the Nazis took advantage of is one that's inherent in all of us and it very much could be taken advantage of again, anywhere.\n\nIt even happens today in the US to some extent. Do people join the Army in order to get scholarships? Do they see themselves as being greedy by joining a nationalist cause or do they just consider themselves doing what's necessary to attain the normal expected societal growth? So what if the US Army occasionally goes off to some other land to occupy it resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. It's ok because we're the good guys right? I only did it because I wanted a scholarship. I'm not an evil person.\n\nIt's really not all that far detached when you think about it.", "I wonder if America will ever reckon how close it came to fascism under Trump. Not like we're out of the woods yet. He's going around now saying it's totally understandable why everybody wanted to hang Pence, so who knows we might still tip. It's just so scary how blatant Trump was using the fascist playbook. It feels like it's all getting swept under the rug. If that does happen, I will officially have lost faith in America.", "Yes, the Nazi's claimed to be for all those sorts of things too. It's almost as if people can lie to try and sow doubt about their true motives. \n\nYou can claim all you want you believe in these things but it is very obvious from your posting history that you're really just a crypto-fascist. \n\nMaybe you genuinely don't realize what side you're on. I very much fucking doubt it and am pretty damn convinced you do but are just pretending not to in order to muddy the waters. But it's possible you're just that lacking in self-reflection and genuinely don't see what you're actually doing.\n\nEither way, your protestations will fall on deaf ears. Now fuck off.", "this reply appears to be attached to the wrong comment. \n\nI will reply anyway: FWIW the trans hate appears to coincide with people realising they're on the wrong side of the law. At least in my nation there were significant legal changes in the past few decades. The laws are a good thing and I think its natural for society to whine a bit about the changes given that not many people pay attention to laws when they're actually passed. I'm hoping its a swan song and as the present generation grows who had the laws as their default the rhetoric will fade a little.", "Which heart disease are you talking about? There's a bunch. You're not comparing the death rate of a massive category of diseases against the death rate of a specific virus are you? That wouldn't be intellectually honest.", "Could you imagine thinking it was ok to let Nazi's attending a school board meeting? I guess there is a reason Cruz's own children hate him. \n \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplpSfaouP8", "I just learned how to make a fire and camp and be nice to strangers. I guess my boy scout troop was the boring one?", "Jackpot....MAGA", "1 it's actually not jail, the conditions of these people are much worse\n\n2 illegally crossing the border is a misdemeanor, not a felony, and treating them like you treat murderers is a good way to push some of them towards extremist ideologies\n\n3 more than a few times news of human rights violations came out of those cages (see [the uterus collector](https://www.google.com/search?q=uterus+collector+doctor&oq=uterus+collector&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512j0i22i30l6.5250j0j7&client=ms-android-asus-tpin&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8))", " This reminds me of slowly blaming one group of people for everything wrong in the country. The effect snowballs and soon you see riots, blacklisting, doxing, attacks, etc. Kind of like BLM in the US is blaming white men for all their personal problems. Sad times.", "Stop comparing getting a little poke with being a Jew in Nazi Germany. It is incredibly tasteless.", "But also don't forget the terror which Nazis used on any opposition inside the country. In my country many people hated socialism and its authoritarian government yet there were plenty of snitches who would report you to secret police and threatened your live and your family. Few people could control the lives of many through fear.", "Hitler even failed his first attempt at a take over. Even getting charged with treason, but it brought attention to the Nazi party, which lead to it’s rise in popularity. And eventually…", "And it still works..that's why the orange imbecile had support despite being the opposite of what his imbecile supporters think he is", "BLM never tried to take political power. And the way you say “blaming one group of people for everything wrong in the country” is exactly what right wing media did with BLM.", "You're conviniently leaving out how he failed to condem those nazis, as if this wasn't the most obligatory and easiest thing to do for a US president. Him talking about fine people is him blowing a gigantic dog whistle that he's not condemning, but rather supporting these people, even though they walked with nazis, and one of them murdered a protestor.\n\nThat's not hoax story, but you (willingly) dancing to the tune of fascist propaganda.", "Mittläufer", "So you can't define fascism. You cant define Nazis. You cant rebut a single thing I've said.\n\nbut somehow you have the ability to read minds\n\nThanks for conceding the argument", "Clearly no. “We’re all in this together” propaganda has been pushed by the corporate controlled media and their political allies to control the agenda all year. The constitution is being trampled to thunderous applause. Even social media platforms have done their part by silencing speech and quashing decent.", ">blocked.\n\nApparently can't figure that out either...", "Using patriotism, propaganda, populism, and the devastating economic situation to control the populace? Where have i heard this before....\n\nMaybe America paperclipped more than just STEM field scientists...", "lol just look at CRT in schools... dividing white men from everyone else. Nazi schools did the same thing during the pograms with Jews", "The split-second cut to the old man with a grimice face as to reflect the stupidity forth-coming to the patriotic crowd, clearly is a message that appeals to today.", "CRT was never about dividing people. How many times have you found out that the history they taught you in school was wrong? We’re taught Christopher Columbus discovered America, when the Vikings were here long before that. We’re taught George Washington had wooden teeth, when they were slaves teeth. These lies are set to make white people look like heroes. CRT wants to reveal actual history, not divide. These boomers don’t want their grandkids finding out that they were the ones throwing rocks at black kids going to non segregated schools. Or how that are current state lotteries we’re designed around the betting game Policy in the black community of Chicago, before they made it illegal and stole it for governor use. Or acting like “we didn’t mean to hurt Indians feelings” when killing and displacing entire tribes of indigenous people. Our education isn’t about accuracy, it’s about indoctrinating nationalism and unfounded trust in government", "There's a lot of excellent German content on Netflix in the US. Dark was hugely popular, for example. As was Tribes of Europa.", "My highschool school play was Cabaret, still find it weird to this day consider the context of the show", "Well there’s one thing we did do to hold it off…", ">Robert Evans\n\nOne pump? One cream.", "Crawling? It would keel over like it had a bad hunting trip with Dick Cheney.\n\nBut yes.", "A lot of modern American shit is made in sweatshops around the world. That's an obvious start.\n\nYour sneakers earned some kid half a bowl of rice. The guy who made your cell phone has a net on the roof to reduce employee suicide rates.", "It’s not “beautifully written”. You just understand the point he’s making.", "In the beginning quite a few Jews supported the movement, figuring that they were too important. The Nazis got to them all. It blows me away how minorities can support an openly racist party and expect it'll work out just fine for them.\n\nEdit: down voted by a Nazi?", "Wow. \n\nI didn't notice it was closeted white nationalist Tucker Carlson's subreddit until the end.\n\nActually though, is he still closeted? Does he have to buy a fucking t-shirt or is espousing replacement theory on TV enough?", "I've said for a while that Tucker Carlson is the Fuckstick McGee drop-in replacement for Trump if he wants the job. Still probably not ambitious on a Hitler level but he's a white nationalist and his stupid face game is on point.", "jailing criminals = nazi got it", "And here you go doubling down on your idiocy. Congrats.", "Well written but full of shit. Fucking dolts.", "Replacing your “live laugh love” poster ?", "Sharpen your head and you'll have a point.", "Ironically this song was adopted as a neo-nazi anthem.", "You know a right winger would say the same thing about you? And they would be as right as you. Your tribalist mindset and certainty of your cause and views is the problem. You may think it isn’t, but it precisely is.", "It was certainly implied.", "I think I saw a documentary that suggested this very thing. The only way to shatter the illusion is by mocking it, and showing how absurd it is. And shatter is the right word, because we're talking about some \"ideologistic\" promise of a better future so long as you buy into everything they say. Once you are reminded that they are human, and worse, politicians, you see it's a fever dream and nothing else.\n\nThe Nazis after the debt from losing the first world war had it rough for some time until the events leading up to WWII. They wanted someone to blame their frustrations on, as if by doing so, suddenly the country could return to what it once was.", "Is the rest of the movie as good as this scene? \n\nI thought Cabaret was just some boring shit I got dragged to by theater kids…", "If you take away the Nazi uniform and swastika symbol, it's just a bunch of people standing and singing for patriotism and country. I think that's what makes it scary, is we know exactly what that resembles and where that took them.\n\nThere's nothing wrong with loving your country, but be wary for the ones who think you should not criticize your country or your leaders. I look at the events of today, and I think we're two heartbeats away from that.\n\nBe sure to get out there and vote in 2022, folks.", "So when a state flips after an election, they bring in a whole new curriculum?", "Nazis suck", "Reminds me of trump supporters", ">Yet they'll turn around and call everyone else \"beta\".\n\nThe people who use the 'alpha' and 'beta' labels unironically are hilarious to me, because they're almost always pretty homophobic and yet the original study of captive wolves that's the source of those terms defined the alpha by behaviours like [licking the other males' genitals and drinking their urine.](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1379064) I've yet to encounter one of them that's happy to hear it, but watching the progression from skepticism to anger to googling is a beautiful sight.", "Everyone going ham on politics in the comments. I'm just like \"nice username OP\"", "The banality of evil", "“MAGA” is an inherently fascistic slogan which was readily adopted by the Republican Party. Not surprising, since the GOP has adopted quite a few fascist principles and methods over the past 40+ years. Another example, which they are going to escalate as they get more desperate, is the use of pseudomilitary groups to intimidate the public. Proud boys and their ilk are the exact equivalent of the Brownshirt members of the Nazi Party.", "I do not get this reference.", "Is the lesson that BLM needs more cymbals? I think antifa is too bass heavy myself. Then again, high frequencies don't travel as far. That is to say, if you are going do 'by any means necessary' invest in a full band then.", "Thanks for proving my point.", "Don’t care", "That makes 0 sense.", "> Only a naive nation that never had to re-examine its own narrative\n\nA nation is a description, the mass of people in an area ruled by a state isn't an entity. There is no \"it\" re-examining anything. \n \n>I'm pretty sure you can educate yourself\n \nYou're a neo-animist, I think you need to learn how to think correctly.", "You think it’s only the Nazis who use this method?", "Jesus.\n\nJust having to live with that for the rest of your life must be a massive toll on his mental health.", "In many ways our current economic climate is VERY similar to the late 1920s Germany. It's very concerning to me.", ">At a company I worked at, it was known that their \"whistleblowing 3rd party operated hotline\" does a s*** job of keeping complaint filers anonymous from the company.\n\nUnless there are laws specifically prohibiting it, never assume a company will keep this kind of information confidential. They will do what suits them in the moment, not what is best for you. Even if they promise.", ">The American colonists had no representation that agreed to these taxes. \n\nSo, kinda like now but worse.", "> Look up the compilations of him using the same gestures to mock many people without disability.\n\nSo instead of mocking a single person with a disability, he habitually mocks all disabled people and implies that anyone who says something he doesn't like is mentally disabled. How is that better?", "Command & Conquer", "\"I don't just call black people the N-word, so it's ok!\"", "Oh, my god. I never realized it until now, but you obese anti-vax fucktards are totally oppressed just like the Jews were in Nazi Germany!!!\n\nLiterally 1944.", "It's almost as if comparing being anti-science in 2021 to being a Jew in Nazi Germany might cause some people to have a negative reaction.", "Holy false equivalence Batman!\n\nDriving a Volkswagen doesn’t make you a Nazi. Being a Nazi makes you a Nazi.", "Most people use mental gymnastics to absolve themselves of guilt. This guy used it to heap more upon himself.", "Lol. No. No they were not", "Is there a reason his numbers are so off about the number killed? I know denialism still exists today, but it sounds like this person is one who wouldn't be a denialist. When this interview was done, was the consensus on the minimum number not as clear?", "I grew up in the theatre. Your statement is unoffensive and accurate.", "It was fairly soon after the end of the war, and the allies hadn't come up with a final count yet.", "Where is this sourced from? Second, just because something is started by a political group doesn’t mean one’s membership is mandatory. \nHere’s a quote out of context as well \n\n‘Anti-fascism has been an element of movements across the political spectrum and holding many different political positions such as anarchism, communism, pacifism, republicanism, social democracy, socialism and syndicalism as well as centrist, conservative, liberal and nationalist viewpoints.’", "Pissed you off enough to make an alt account lol", "Before I end this convo, as you’re obviously either the poster before that made a new account or just a shitty right wing troll; who are ‘we’, exactly?", "Who’re ‘we’?", "I think it's the opposite, really. He did mental gymnastics to allow himself to take an oath his conscience told him was evil, on the basis that it may allow him to do good somewhere along the line. But in the end, he saw the act for what it was-- an evil act, a capitulation, a moment when he could have stood for right at little cost to himself. \n\nOnce he crossed the Rubicon, it was too late to stop. But way back on the other side, he could have stopped the whole thing. While I hope I never live to see those times here, should they ever arrive... I will remember this man.", "Who’re ‘we’?", "No, acknowledging right-wing tribalism is not \"left-wing tribalism.\" One group singles out trans people, gay people, immigrants, and scientist as \"the enemy,\" while the other wants equal rights for all races/ethnicities/sexualities/etc. This is like the \"intolerant left\" argument. Tolerance includes being intolerant of intolerance.", "Wait seriously? Did you miss the part where I said they looked past the bigotry? Like they saw it, they heard it, they recognized it was wrong, but that wasn't a deal breaker for them.\n\nLike Nazis at least actually believed what they were saying (the Jews were Bolshevik spies trying to destroy Germany or whatever), but these average citizens didn't see Jews as a threat, they were just fine with having them killed so long as they got something out of it.", "Yeah, but; who’re ‘we’?", "I mean the SA", "I don't know man. But \"an enemy that is simultaneously weak and strong\" seems to be fitting the LGBT as a whole perfectly right now. Apparently we can simultaneously infect all your friends families and kids with THE GAY while also being unable to muster up any real significant control in the government. Just over here casually replacing all of the conservatives with dirty ideas like \"hey don't be a dick\". The nazi's put LGBT folks right up in front, so why wouldn't nazi 2.0 do it too.", "Talking to yourself in the mirror again?", "I think you're skipping the part before the Nazis took full control and were VOTED into power. Germany didn't just wake up one day and the Nazis were in control threatening to destroy their lives if they didn't fall in line. They were voted into limited power first, on the promises of economic prosperity while blaming Jews and \"degenerates\" for Germany's shortcomings.\n\nIf someone genuinely believed the Jews were Bolshevik spies destroying the country intentionally, I understand why they would vote for the Nazis. But if someone doesn't believe any of that, has no hatred for the Jews, but doesn't mind throwing them under the bus for economic prosperity, I think that's unconscionable. Like at least the Nazis were following their own twisted morality; These other people were just immoral by all standards.", "Sure dude keep going around getting really offended when people talk about Nazis. Definitely nothing strange about that.", "The Nazis weren't just spontaneously in power one-day, threatening people with the SS. They were voted into power before taking complete control. I'm not talking about the people who refused to resist, I'm talking about the people who literally, physically voted for them. The people who did not actually perceiving the Jews as a threat, but were fine with throwing them under the bus for economic prosperity.", "Yes, but still the art of cabaret, vaudeville, etc.wasn't well received in the broad masses at that time", "Brought to you by Raytheon?", "Yeah why should we draw comparisons...", "Same", "Nah, you're just indoctrinated af: patriotism/nationalism and left are polar opposites", "Precisely", "Watch the movie :)", "Mine too :)", "It is", "I think you need to read up on how many Nazi sympathisers there were in the US during that time", "Bang them drums - bang em hard. \n\nYou are the problem and believe the self serving rationalization your tribe has concocted to bootstrap your own beliefs. \n\nMake no mistake about it- you are the horseshoe in horseshoe theory.", "If the alt-right ever start singing, we're all fucked aren't we.", "Don't waste your time with u/supercold1. This person doesn't even know the difference between CRT education vs CRT applied principles. Fresh outta college I bet. Humanities degree possibly? I imagine this barista is simply burnt out from making mochas all weekend.", "I mean, you cannot just import the scientific mind of someone", "Even though I'm a German, I'm nit a massive fan of German productions. German dubs are even worse.", "Imagine being this dumb. Everyone around the world is laughing at you and your political party", "I think you were downvoted, because the NSDAP weren't openly racist at the beginning. That's the thing with demagogue, they appeal to the masses in every way necessary.", "Nah the whole movie is just brilliant", ">if you don't agree with my neoliberal ideas, YOU'RE a fascist!", "Majorly", "TIL. I’ll totally check it out thanks!", "In regards to the French Revolution/origin of the Marsellaise: I think if your democracy is xenophobic, populist and blood thirsty because it’s caught in a cycle of radicalization, it won’t remain a democracy for long. And a year and half after the Marseillaise was written, France was ruled by the Committee of Public Safety, the sham Republic of the Directory, the Consulates, and then became an Empire.\n\nIn regards to Casablanca: the French were better colonial rulers than the nazis would have been, but the French were not keen on their colonies getting Democratic ideas like self-government and national determination.", "Segregation and re-education? Stop being so dramatic and comparing Nazi Germany to the pandemic. That's disgusting and just repulsive. How does one even do the mental gymnastics to compare a time where 75 million people died to the pandemic, that's just delusional. Do you even know about polio, measles, mumps and many more diseases? Do you know how decimated the human race would be without the vaccines for these diseases? You really need to start educating yourself, otherwise you definitely will regret this phase of your life.", "<3", "Who?", "Indeed, to me too", "I would say that is incompetence would be his saving grace, if it didn't have a 6 figure body count", "lol", "> (i.e. \"I will not tell you that\"), although misdirection does seem wiser to me in that situation.\n\nI mean the issue/design here is that you're not lying and that you're taking the negative outcome yourself.\n\nThe other option is to lie but this could also have unintended consequences. \n\nI actually think this would make for a good book now that I think about it... Like you're trying to have some positive outcome but it has some negative outcome from the lie you didn't predict.", "Fuck neoliberals. \n\nSincerely,\n\nA libertarian.", "Sure thing! I especially love the sociopolitical songs :)", "I mean this the entire point of science. The scientific method literally exists so that it can obliterate issues like this.", "Not in my field ... And in most scientific fields that are non zero-sum lying is not a stable strategy.", "Kafka trap is a good way to describe tankies, yeah.\n\n>Fascism was an ideology derived from marx-leninism\n\nThat's incorrect. Fascists are all different, but the only ones with any socialist ties would be the Nazis who have some roots in the writings of Engels (See the Magyar Struggle) but were a right-wing movement seeking to replace the economic class of marxism, with an ethnic identifier. \n\nFor marxists, the existence of economic class created class conflict. For the Nazis, class conflict existed because of the Jews.\n\nSo the marxist view is eliminate class distinctions and you eliminate class conflict, ignoring all the other reasons conflict exists, and for the Nazis, well, they thought that getting rid of the Jews would do the same.\n\nBecause they were a psychopathic death cult.\n\n> Post-modernism\n\nIs antithetical to Marxism. The two can't exist simultaneously.\n\nMarxism believes in things like the labor theory of value, with work having inherent value, while postmodernism rejects antecedents to value.\n\nI.e. under modernist theories such as capitalism and socialism (see socialist realism and capitalist realism) all labor has a point. You even see this expressed in Architecture. Look at the Empire State or Chrysler buildings. Everything builds up to a single point. So truth derives from labor, it's something that must be struggled for.\n\nFor postmodernists, truth is truth, and the struggle to obtain it is irrelevant.\n\nI know there are youtubers throwing around insane terms like \"postmodern neo-marxism\" and the like, but anyone using that phrase has no idea what they're talking about.", "It by no means suggests that it’s exclusive to Nazis. What a worthless point", "Unfortunately I have to work today, and will make this my last comment. It doesn’t address everything you’ve brought up directly enough and I’m sorry for that. If you want to have the last word, go for it. \n\nBrissot, who had been pushing for war, himself acknowledged that part of why he pushed was for the purpose of Revolutionary propaganda. And the Royal Family didn’t make the flight for Varennes until after Louis had helped ratify the constitution of 1789 and after multiple insurrections at the Royal palace - despite nobles and allies warning them to leave for over a year prior. I’ll concede that by 1791 he was a threat to Revolutionary France but I’m not as sold by the idea he always was. I think he was pushed there because the new Legislative assembly, Jacobins, and Sans Culottes were insistent on actions of unnecessary preemptive violence and intimidation. People keep insisting the push for the war was entirely defensive, and I think if you look at Brissot’s motives and the Mountain’s resistance to war abroad it seems more reasonable to conclude that the Girondens helped push people into a conflict the country wasn’t ready for, which caused mass panic, which amplified the conspiracy theories and created the cycles of internal violence/purges the Revolution is infamous for. \n\nThe policy in the Vendée went beyond Civil War when the military directive there was extermination - that’s what makes it comparable to the purges and liquidations of the 20th century. Turreau used the Nuremberg defense before Nuremberg when he was brought in front of a military tribunal for his actions. \n\nI would reread Robespierre’s speech on public virtue and the role pervasive and constant terror plays in inspiring virtue. This speech and his insistence on ramping up executions (despite the war going well for the French so no need to hunt down internal enemies) makes me see him as man with totalitarian intent but without the technology to make it possible. When you kill start killing everyone because they might conspire against you - you might induce people to conspire against you because they are trying to survive - and that is exactly how Thermidor came about. There were legitimate conspiracies, but the Girondens and Jacobins invented and created many more than there actually were.\n\nEarly Napoleon is a wonderful enlightened despot but also an expert propagandist and liar (like other revolutionaries of all stripes). His “happiest memory” was his first communion (highly doubtful - but got the Catholics back on board), routinely failed to disclose military defeats, and promised his Egyptian army he’d be right back to help them… and then never returned. If he had stopped after his victory over the Third Coalition, kept France at its natural borders then simply deterred further invasions and helped create a balance of power in Europe like Tallyrand wanted, I’d be inclined to believe his words. The facts that he started assassinating perceived enemies abroad then invaded the Iberian Peninsula - installing family members as monarchs instead of Republics like he had previously, and then further overextended himself by taking Le Grande Arnie through Russia, all makes me think this early Napoleon you’re quoting was no match for the later Emperor Napoleon who wanted European conquest. His words are right and I agree with them, but they don’t line up with his actions and Policy. The Spanish overthrew his brother - despite Legislative improvements - because the French were armed missionaries there.", "If you feel attacked when someone posts something critical of Nazis, there is an obvious conclusion to make...", "The fact that you're getting your information from YouTube is really quite telling.", "I can completely understand guilt and remorse over that oath and wishing that he had taken a stand for something bigger, but he's delusional to think that if he had resisted and taken a stand at that point then 100s or 1000s more like him would have done the same and prevented Hitlers rise. He doesn't even claim that others would have seen his example and followed, he basically says that if he had been resolute enough to resist, it would have meant others would have done the same... with no real reason as to why - as if he's some kind of central node in a groupthink hivemind. That's the mental gymnastics I'm referring to although I agree with you that he did do them too when deciding to take the oath.\n\nIn reality, so much had happened already to set the stage that by 1935 it was going to take way more than someone, even a very influential person, denying an oath to stymie Hitler's rise to power. We always talk about learning history so we don't repeat it, but it's usually very shallow and simple - as in don't let another Hitler rise to power. The lessons I think that are of much more use and significance is understanding the human nature and consistent phenomena that lead to despots being able to seize power. Fighting the battle there and righting the ship before things are bad enough for people to desire a strong all-powerful leader or regime is the only way you can truly succeed.", "r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM", "Soviet occupied territories were rapeapalooza", "It bothers me when people today look at Nazi Germany as if they couldn't possibly have been a Nazi themselves under those circumstances.\n\nImagine being blamed for starting a world war and having your society crippled by the terms of a peace treaty. Imagine losing almost 3 million of your countrymen just to get screwed like that.\n\nNow some veterans of that war come along and start preaching about national unity and how their going to get the country back on track. You don't have access to the internet, the only news and information you hear are what they want you to hear. You don't have historical examples to show you that what they're preaching is evil and dangerous.\n\nIf I was a German in the 1930s-1940s, I can confidently say that I wouldn't have had it in me to execute innocent men/women/children, but then again plenty of actual Nazis didn't either. But to say I wouldn't have been a Nazi myself or complicit in other ways--I just don't know.", "I once heard someone say we are all 4 missed meals away from being capable of absolute savagery.", "Yeah - I actually specifically feel like this scene, with this very song could happen today and half of the US wouldn’t think twice (or once) about it.", "My grandpa went up the beach at Normandy in WW2. I know more than you.", "Ivanka has stated (before his presidency) that he does have Mein Kampf on his night stand next to the bed. So maybe he only reads what he wants.", "Go to the border and check the camps. They were still operational under trump. Trump bombed 2,200 times in a NON war zone with drones in the first TWO years, while Obama did 1,700 in EIGHT years. Trump also killed 24 civilians in a drone strike that was covered up. This is facts, sorry if it upsets you.", "Aren't they already chanting together for their orange demagogue?", "I'm tired of your antivax bullshit. If i catch you in the street, i'll inject you myself. You'll scream, you'll plead, but you're gonna be vaxxed.", "That's exactly what the whole trump movement is about. I mean they even tried to keep their leader in power.", "It's incredible how daft you people can be.", "I bet you're a trump supporter.", "Yeah fucking right. “I’ve got it on secret zoomcalls” pffft haha haha. You guys are always so pathetic with your dumbass conspiracies. Yeah, what’s REALLY happening, is our children are getting taught history, and people like YOU are calling it CRT because that’s your latest buzzword for any TRUTH that our children is taught that YOU don’t like, and you’re trying to censor it. YOU are burning books. You have displayed your ignorance for all to see. I’m done here.", "Are you gonna cry because i attacked trump?", "Except they’re playing MeinKampf, the fascist playbook, to a tee, and people like you pretend that it isn’t true because, we’ll, you’re one of them.", "I bet you burnt out from wanking off in your moms basement. You people always fall back to baseless conspiracy theories when you’re proven wrong. CRT is not applied in schools, it is applied in law. Prove it otherwise, not opinion, actual fact, or shut up.", "That's because fascists are stupid. I suspect they aren't even fully sentient.", "You’ll prob point to hitsorical facts that our children are being taught and you’ll call that “evidence” of CRT being taught in high school or elementary school. You’re just trying to erase history and burn books. Go fuck yourself, lying fascist racist asshole.", "Of course I am. A jewish trump supporter too. .. I bet youre the kind of guy that closes the fridge with your hips", "You sound like you’ve never set foot in college, or a library. Your education begins and ends with Infowars", "Ooooooooooh, yeah!", "Good one 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡", "Does the movie not have the pineapple song? That’s the fucking bisomode song and that’s a massive disappointment if it doesn’t", "Every male member of my family going back has been in wars. It doesn't make me any more or less knowledgeable about history. Let me know when you're forced out of your home, starved and forced into a concentration camp and and I'll listen to your nonsense.", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)\n\n> While Jones taught his students about Nazi Germany during his senior level Contemporary World History class, Jones found it difficult to explain how the German people could have accepted the actions of the Nazis. He decided to create a fictional social movement as a demonstration of the appeal of fascism. Over the course of five days (or nine, according to student Sherry Toulsey), Jones, a member of the SDS,[3] Cubberley United Student Movement sponsor[4] and Black Panthers supporter[5] – conducted a series of exercises in his classroom emphasizing discipline and community, intended to model certain characteristics of the Nazi movement.\n\n> As the movement grew outside his class and began to number in the hundreds, Jones began to feel that the experiment had spiraled out of control. He convinced the students to attend a rally where he claimed that the classroom project was part of a nationwide movement, and that the announcement of a Third Wave presidential candidate would be televised. Upon their arrival, the students were presented with a blank channel. Jones told his students of the true nature of the movement as an experiment in fascism, and presented to them a short film discussing the actions of Nazi Germany.[6]\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICng-KRxXJ8", ">it's just a piece of paper\n\nHey, I think I heard almost exactly that just last week.\n\nEDIT: No, it was \"just a piece of cloth.\" Totally different.", "Lol no they're not and you're deluded if you can't see it", "If people claim to be left and are nationalist, they are not left anymore", "No, I am suggesting that Mr. Chicken Instrument is not immune from the thing they were calling someone else out for.", "No I know I'm right, you're being led down a path to be under total government control, what's laughable is your side is welcoming this BS", "It is said that history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.", "First and second ammendment has nothing to do with populism and everything to do with freedom. Occupy wall street was an example of a populist movement.\n\nIf you read I'm blaming the current political structure which the left and right are both part of.\n\nBut biden administration and their current fuck ups have caused a huge cluster fuck", "Is it? Please list all your trusted media and I'm sure I'd find a problem with it as well. Troll.", "If he does have Mein Kampf, it's the Cliff Notes version which is one page and it says Germany is great if we get rid of all the undesirables and then it's just a bunch of racist names after that.", "What's interesting is your assumption of where I live.", "Yes, sourcing your info from randos on youtube proves that you're a gullible fool. Find a newspaper or scientific study that proves you right, not some layperson idiot who makes youtube videos. \n\nGod people have become so insipid with the rise of social media. Y'all can't even properly vet information anymore! Idiocracy here we come.", "If you stand side by side with a neonazi youre a neonazi. Any good people would not have been involved in any part of the night that includes the violence.", "Thanks for sharing that. Wow... It's so easy.", "LOL. It full well might be.", "Ok. Have you been forced out of your home and into a concentration camp?", "Has more to do with state and local government. When GOPers get in, funding for schools go down, demands to teach superstition and magic go up.", "why downvotes? i’m singing the next line in the song. nobody wants to join in?", ">Should we learn from their mistakes. YES!\n\nEspecially since, unlike Germany, if this happens in the United States, no one is coming to save us.\n\nGermany in 1933? Only around 30% larger than Germany today. The US? 27 times that size and full of guns. The only way to defeat these fascists is if Americans on the left wise the fuck up and get ready before they start shooting all of us.", "The Night of Broken Glass? The Nazi's called for racial purity in 1920 and labeled Jews \"racist enemies\". Just which beginning were you referring to?", ">We always talk about learning history so we don't repeat it, but it's usually very shallow and simple - as in don't let another Hitler rise to power.\n\nThat's because for the last 50 years it's been treated as a Saturday morning cartoon from the 70's. Historical figures are treated as bit actors rather than actual people with long lives before and after the events they took part in. Van Buren is always associated with pictures taken almost two decades after his term as President, only five years before his death, when he looked like a crazy old man. Hitler is portrayed as a monster that appeared out of nowhere rather than a dangerous, conniving politician who knew how to influence people to do what he wanted.", "Well some people need a horseshoe to the forehead. Seems you're included.", "Try looking up the word, before you respond. You will seem less foolish", "Just do what the West is doing and make everyone a criminal.", "Oh I know what horseshoe theory is.\n\nUnfortunately jackasses like you don't understand puns, thus proving my earlier statement.", "Lol what? Libertarians Hate FDR.", "That was a pun… oh … even worse. I’m so sorry for you.", "Nobody did they're nationalist their beliefs are in line with controlling the populace", "They're also the ones to scream about \"made up genders\" while they run around with their pseudoscience male genders.", "Wow. I thought maybe you were just a cringe-inducing loser on /r/Futurology, but I guess that’s the entirety of your personhood. What a depressing thought.", "I don't know who Chris rufo is.", "Just so we're clear, you're equating being born to a certain racial/cultural group with refusing to get vaccinated against a global pandemic and you think both of these groups are deserving of equal protections, when only one of them is a choice and an extremely selfish one at that? \n\n\nYes or no is fine.", "Defending Nazis by using Nazi tactics (\"Look over there! Socialism is coming!\") isn't a great look", "Did you lash out at OP as well or, just the people that don't align to your favorite MSM narrative?", "He's republican anti CRT man", "The distinction is basically \"is the audio source part of the scene?\" It doesn't matter whether Daft Punk or whatever exists in the Tron universe if their music is playing non-diegetically in a scene. Is it something the characters can actually hear?\n\nIt's not like all fictional universes don't have any music like that one film where the Beatles don't exist but for all bands which haven't been explicitly shown to exist in the universe.\n\nOK that was poorly phrased but I can't think of a better way to frame it rn.", "That's rather a lot of words to completely ignore the question, but I'll at least answer yours: I didn't lash out at anyone, I asked you to clarify that your point was as abhorrent as it seemed since I try not to think the worst of people. I guess the fact that you use the phrase 'mainstream media' enough that you need to abbreviate it tells me all I need to know though.", "Randos. Did you even bother to watch the one on Nonlinear Warfare? That's from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 2014. Suddenly you're the arbiter of all information? You're a goddamn troll just here to poke buttons without even gazing at the material.", "Had you taken the time to read through the chat, you'd see I'd answered your question several times over. You're not unique. You're the same miserable being that intentionally sorts the chat by \"controversial\" because it gives you an excuse to be ugly to someone. I have to mix it up with your kind or I'd just copy/paste the same reply. Was actually interested in whether or not you realized the meaning behind this post. I think you did yet, you chose to sort the comments and reply to me and not OP. It'd be interesting if you miserable fucks weren't so predictable.", "> They constantly say shit like \"eliminate whiteness\"\n\nWhom? Who do you quote beyond people wanting to get rid of the lingering sentiment of white supremacy?\n\n>and clamoring about concentration camps\n\nNobody is.\n\n>They also believe that covid will kill anybody opposed to their dogma.\n\nIt's retarded to think Covid is dogmatic but it's funny you mention that since for a good number of months the amount of people dying from it has been by far unvaccinated republican voters.", "nice try nazi, I can see right through your hugo boss facade right into your evil, evil projecting heart! i bet your nazi ass thinks marx was a nutjob racist but you'd be wrong!", "I think your natural irony has overtaken your ability to speak, it's just coming out as nonsense now.", "that's exactly what a nazi would say, nazi", "I did nazi that coming", "I am a progressive independent and I can tell you from personal experience that Dem run states and cities are as much as a mess as red states/cities. I just left CA for personal reasons, but the lack of action on homelessness, inequality, ridiculous home prices, corruption and immigration is pathetic. And yes, they have mismanaged the state's forest lands, contributing to the devastating fires. WA, OR have similar issues. Property taxes in NY and CT are forcing people to leave and head for red states. I think the fundamental problem is the US version of Federalism. There are simply too many levels of government and often they are at odds.", "I know, right? And yet somehow they did.", "Ah got it", "I can tell you from experience the opposite, funny how inane anecdotes like that work.", "Just friendly advice. No need to be defensive", "There's a world of difference between taking the money of a moronic wannabe relevant cunt and willingly accepting him and electing him as your overlord. Only Republicans would be that stupid.", "There's a world of difference between taking the money of a moronic wannabe relevant cunt and willingly accepting him and electing him as your overlord. Only Republicans would be that stupid.", ">There's a world of difference between taking the money of a moronic wannabe relevant cunt\n\nAnd doing his bidding. \n\n>Only Republicans would be that stupid.\n\nRight, Dems only elect the politicians he owned", "Don't forget that the richer GOP voted for him because he was a clownish cunt and that's what you need to distract the people while these other cunts rob us blind. They're all in on it.", "Or one might argue a much more fitting “build back better”!", "https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/qufiao/fucking_creep/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf", "https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/qufiao/fucking_creep/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf", "https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/qufiao/fucking_creep/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf", "Whenever people like you are exposed foo being fascist, suddenly that's when people like you care about \"tribalism\".", "https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/11/teachers-parents-rip-school-board-shreds-suggesting-public-book-burning/", "Sit down you clown lol!", "Why did you send me a photo of Biden kissing his own grandson on the cheek?\n\nA lot of new england irish catholic families are really physically affectionate. My dad and grandad have both kissed me on the cheek. \n\nThe New England Scots/Irish and Scots Irish are nowhere NEAR as affectionate as the old Italians used to be.\n\nIt stopped with the gay panic in the 80s, but italian families used to kiss each other on the lips. \n\nJust because you never got hugged as a child doesn't mean families can't be physically affectionate with each other, jesus.\n\nI genuinely blame the breakdown of the American family for this.\n\nSo many people don't know what it's like to have anything other than a stepparent, or abusive parents, that normal physical affection humans have been practicing for millennia looks weird to us now because of a complete social breakdown.", "just pointing out who actually wants to burn books", "You have 0 understanding of fascism - you're probably more fascist than me judging how you slandered me like that tbh\n\nRemember if fascism ever comes again, it won't call itself fascist, but anti-fascist", "Gee, look here at who is doing the book burning: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/11/teachers-parents-rip-school-board-shreds-suggesting-public-book-burning/", "???\n\nSo. A guy is holding a kid and giving them a kiss on the cheek or something? Do I know their familial relation? Is this supposed to be creepy? Why are you so retarded as to think that someone being obviously accused of pedophilia from a subreddit of pundits means they're A. Liberal. And B. Fascist? Is Paedophilia an inherent aspect of fascism?\n\nGod I hate idiotic comments like this. You just link stupid 5 second clips and expect everyone to enter the same outrage Ferris wheel.", "That's easy, don't have to go into your link, Lefties banning Huckleberry Finn and to kill a mockingbird", "You’re looking the other way from literal book burning, which is what your side is doing. It’s not the same as removing huck Finn from a caricullum.", "Lmao again with my side\n\nYeah no, sorry pal - take a look at the mirror", "Oh, so I guess you're against taking any side. All sides are the same. Pointing out that one side is extraordinarily evil is tribalism. I see. \n\nSo, you're against borders, then? Shouldn't all borders be open? No tribalism, right? No \"us vs them\"? Walls are the ultimate expression of the \"us vs them\", \"tribalism\" mindset. So walls are bad, right?", "No you just have too low of an IQ lmao\n\nOnly idiots see the political spectrum as exclusively left-right", "It's always the double-digits that bring up IQ first, lol", "If it is not the unvaccinated that cause all the woes in our society than it is the white man and their whiteness that has spread to other people who may appear people of color but do not have a person of color voice. Somehow this is no longer considered racist or a conspiracy theory yet it is judging people by the color of their skin and says that an entire group of people is to blame for all ills similar to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.", "Well, you're definitely one. Why are you a nazi? Don't you know that nobody likes nazis?", "Why are you commenting on my posts from 4 days ago you stalker freak", "I jvst want to learn from yov how to not be a race baiter. oh please help me vnderstand yovr strong traditional retvrns", "The instability of losing the war is the perfect breeding ground for starting true next", "> is somehow a Nazi specific tactic.\n\nNah, that's your bad interpretation. It's saying that those tactics are used by fascists, and never implies the are specific to fascists. You really think anyone would imply \"yearning for a better future\" is tactic only used by fascists?", "When reality sinks in", "Should we forgive them? All Germans?? We’re about 3 generations beyond the nazi party at this point. I think to not forgive them is persecuting a nation’s people for the sins of their grandfathers, no? Can we forgive all Italians yet because the Roman Empire had slaves? Should we forgive Japanese for violations of the Geneva conventions during WWII, or Americans for internment?\n\nMan’s inhumanity to man is a proverb and to err is human.", "Curiously, only one party is forcing a change...", "Which one?", "Just watched Only the dead yesterday and got a glimpse of that event. Didn't know he shared so much as to write a book. I'll take a look, thanks!" ]	1,579	videos	"You still think you can control them?": This scene from the 1972 movie "Cabaret" tries to depict how the Nazis used patriotism, propaganda, populism, the devastating economic situation in Germany, and a sense of yearning for a better future for it's population to gain popularity and rise to power.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qt3i2p/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qt3i2p/deleted_by_user/	[ "/u/gifreversingbot", "Here is your gif [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCeK6BxAI4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCeK6BxAI4)", "I want my 13 seconds back, thanks.", "It’s exactly what the title says, what did you expect" ]	4	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qt3v8z/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qt3v8z/deleted_by_user/	[ "Some cheap shots right there. Leave Britney alone, Sarah!", "Ah I remember comedy!", "Thats a pretty misleading title. She did a comedy bit, she didnt humiliate anyone.", "Ah, yes. When comedians were still allowed to do their job: ridicule everyone and everything.", "Comedy comes for everyone even your sacred cows. Loosen up people these are jokes", "Touché! But truthfully I have no problem with actual comedy.", "In this thread you'll get a lot of \"in comedy everything is on the table or nothing is on the table\". It will exclusively come from people who won't he able to handle a single second of being roasted. Like the comdeidans they admire, they can't handle the slightest criticism.\n\nTo get them off my back I'll just say that her bit was fine. There were some cheap shots and it came off as a little petty, but it wasn't an awful thing to have happen. Just wanted to point out that now any criticism of comedy is met with \"this is 1984\"." ]	7	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUnAFeYCoM	/r/videos/comments/qt4e8h/i_spent_way_too_much_time_making_a_1_hour_and_35/	[ "There's a human in like the second clip", "Humans are allowed, just not humans being mean/annoying the cat for content.", "Alternative title: \"I just stole a whole lot of cat videos and I don't even care.\"", "Well, I am happy you did spend the time!", "I mean im not earning any money from the video", "I liked it. My 7 year old is sure to enjoy the chill. Thanks!", "amazing.", "Dude, this is great. Thanks!", "Where did you get all the cat videos?", "some youtube, some reddit, some imgur, some 4chan. gathered over a couple of months" ]	10	videos	I spent way too much time making a 1 hour and 35 min video that is just mixed cat footage (no mean humans and no loops)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaFTKRjMY68	/r/videos/comments/qt4mt1/tom_scott_matt_parker_dodie_and_sophie_ward_play/	[ "dodie's comment on the video, just a few minutes ago: https://i.imgur.com/yu5uJpM.jpeg :D", "fucking love matt parker. picking numbers based on their facts", "Lol why is her name \"dodie\"", "Dodie has a Little Sister from Bioshock vibe going on.", "When people are born their parents give them names.", "Because her parents are \"unique\"", "They made a mistake playing with a mathematician.", "Her birth name is Dorothy but she goes by Dodie. Maybe don't make cluelessly wrong negative comments about people.", "fucking spoilers.", "Surely I can't be the only one slightly annoyed that they're playing 'in a pub', and none of them have a beer.", "The other comment said it was the name her parents gave her, not my fault they're wrong.", "The mathematician lost. :)", "That's a very strange thing to be annoyed about." ]	14	videos	Tom Scott, Matt Parker, dodie, and Sophie Ward play No Thanks
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dN3wEdK_vxw&feature=share	/r/videos/comments/qt4zy6/soon_may_the_kittyman_come/	[ "These boys need some liquor", "Never got into Trailer Park Boys, but I like me a good Wellerman. This was a well done satirical rendition, good job.", "Frig off!", "Just finished the series for today and I can't wait to start rewatching the series again. Truly a Canadian classic!\n\nE: grammar", "Holy fuck Ricky looks different", "I wonder if this post will gain thousands of upvotes?", "There's no way that's Ricky.", "Considering how few upvoted these clips always get you'd think people would have figured out by now that Trailer Park Boys clips aren't that interesting to the vast majority of redditors.", "I was disappointed when I realized this wasn't about Steve French", "Because all that matters is posting things that net upvotes. Not about sharing things you find entertaining. /S", "Sure but the guy in the front.. ehm seems like pretty low comedy to me. A couple of funny glasses and cross your eyes and act like a 'tard? I mean that's pretty darn low IMO. Too much cringe for me. But I guess if you're white trash then that kind of comedy might be appealing.", "Frig off.", "If you dont gamify reddit what is it even all about?", "Well that’s not at all what his character is but sure…", "This is absolutely fantastic.\n\nOriginal song is [Wellerman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-7GNoDJ5c), an old sea shanty.", "that's what years of eating pepperoni sticks does to you.", "decent!", "Ray's been getting into Ricky's pepperoni stash again.", "Surprisingly well done.", "Saw a van with a freedom 35 sticker on back and couldn't stop chuckling to myself I didn't know TPB was as popular in England", "Holy guacamole your account is old", "One of my buddies I play Sea of Thieves with has a program that allows him to blast music over in game voice chat. We will pass other boats blasting hits like \"Big Pimp'n\", \"Do that Conga\", the John Cena theme song, etc... and we always get good reactions from other crews. This song will be a perfect addition to the list.\n\n\nEdit: etc not ect. Thanks /u/ectbot", "Ok", "I'm gonna not watch the show and then form an opinion of its characters. Sounds like Reddit alright.", "There's no way you aren't a labrador that just learned to type, how else would not have at least a passing knowledge of the Trailer Park Boys?", "You mean that shut lion?", "Says the jackanapes who got here early enough to snatch \"ONOMATOPOElA\".", "I saw one of their last live shows in the UK maybe in like... 2018 or early 2019. Was really silly, lots of fun, and there was a heartwarming tribute to Jon Dunsworth at the end, was practically in tears by the end of it.\n\nI wouldn't say it was popular but it has a decent following here", "I was in New Orleans in March 2020 and went to see Davis Rogan play at a bar near Bourbon. Had seen him on HBO’s Treme alongside a fictional character based on him. I turned out to be the only person other than the bartender and Rogan so I got to ask him questions about the tv series. He asked where I was from. I said Canada. He whipped out his phone and showed me his pics of him hanging out with Ricky, Julian and Bubbles when they were down in the FQ.", "and so the kittens civilization of [http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/](http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/) was born", "You think that’s old?", "So first you support concentration camps in China and now you diss trailer park boys?!", "Thanks for linking that. Makes me want to sing and I never sing.", "What in God's name did I just watch?!", "What, not that Alestorm song, \"Shit Boat (No Fans)?\"\n\nI guess you'd want to reserve that for after you've sunk their ship, actually.", "Wait should I be offended?", "I hereby called to order the meeting of The Old Farts Club.", "The guys from a popular show called Trailer Park Boys doing their own rendition of Wellerman, involving cats.", "Trailer Park Boys", "His character is so much of the heart of the show, far more interesting than your description.", "I want you to know, sincerely, that people like your buddy are one of the worst parts of online multiplayer games. \n\nI know you love that song, not everyone does. If I wanted to listen to music while I'm playing a game, I would put it on my good speakers and use my own playlist, not through the team chat being taken over by a selfish obnoxious player.", "I'm pretty sure he's talking about playing music through proximity coms, on his ship, so that other players, on other ships, hear it when they pass by, as if they had a boombox set up on the deck of their ship. I know what you're complaining about, and I hate it too, but this isn't it. OP's buddy is adding a bit of silly fun to the game which, as he mentions, everyone that encounters it enjoys.", "Did you mistype \"slut lion?\"", "How is that different than you supporting US concentration camps and drone strikes?", "> ONOMATOPOElA\n\nonomatopoeLa* actually", "[This Remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDTaeqUEWNQ) makes it sooooo much better.", "No that's exactly what above poster is talking about. Many of us dont want to hear your shitty music, ever, for any reason. You may think its cool or funny or what have you, but in reality its just obnoxious", "I wanna play SoT with these peeps, finding non toxic crews is hard", "I like The Longest Johns rendition of it", "That's a cool take, but the minimalism of the pounding rhythm and vocal harmony of a shanty isn't quite captured here. Thanks for linking!", "May he forever soar on the wings of the Shit Hawk.", "Pure genius.", "They are hilarioussss !! 😂🤣plus love they’re show", "If this was entertaining people would actually upvote it. Ever thought of that?", "Nobody wants to admit they ate 9 cans of ravioli", "Add this banger to that pirate jam list\n\nhttps://youtu.be/h1zGqRXZlnY", "Where are my pants?", "Don't you have some offs to fuck?", "Oh, sneaky.\n\nGood catch.", "He looks normal? Just as he always does?", "Thanks I hate it", "lol, older than some redditors!", "Wow......... :-O", "You are trolling everyone with the same comment." ]	64	videos	Soon may the kittyman come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLODGhEyLvk	/r/videos/comments/qt6gph/george_carlin_life_is_worth_losing_dumb_americans/	[ "I miss George.", "How far ahead of his time was this man!? It always amazes me. \n\nI wish Chappelle would use his talent to talk about real issues, he has the potential to follow in Carlin’s footsteps.", "If Chapelle had 1% of the class consciousness or understanding of economics/politics that Carlin displays in the last 2:30 here, he'd be making a legacy for himself. Instead, he's stooped down to the level of the arguments being made in bad faith on wedge issues popularized by conservative media that have fuck-all to do with the major drivers of financial stability of every single American -- or as you say, the real issues.\n\nCarlin was a bright light in the ocean of political darkness that plagued the 00's. We're beginning to see an uptick in the understanding of class politics and its popularity in media (nothing mainstream, obviously, as Carlin alludes to pointing out would never happen as it would be against the interests of those in power). I know your question was rhetorical but at least 10 years.", "Man he is so right about America being one big mall (or just a bunch of stores now since malls are dying). There is almost nothing to do for free except go to a library if it's open. So beyond that wtf can we do that is free and somewhere we can see our friends and neighbors, fucking nothing and I hate it.", "Shopping, eating…and complaining!\n\nIf there was an Olympic event for being an overweight selfish branded human the US participants would do fantastically well.", "I don’t disagree with your assessment of Chappelle, I just feel like he had the momentum, the audience and the „voice“ to address these topics, but this too could be wishful thinking from my end.", "Sad but probably true. The people he was talking about in this, the willfully ignorant who are too stupid to think critically, have flipped in the complete opposite direction. Now we've got people who are thinking critically about complete nonsense, and are too stupid to listen to logic and reason. Antivaxxers, flat earthers, Qanon...none of them are trusting what the government tells them but for the worst possible reasons. You can't even make fun of them when reality is this ridiculous.", "Maybe you don't agree, but check some Ricky Gervais standup, he's pretty poignant when it comes to religion, social medial and stupidity", "Carlin was the angry and apathetic Bernie.. \n\nWe need more like both.", "I just noticed, so first he says fuck the politicians they dont matter, because we have owners. then at the end he says that we all elect politicians that dont care. Contradiction!!!!!!!!!!!", "Both statements don't contradict each other.\n\n* The second one says that people keep putting their faith in certain politicians, even though these politicians always had their own interests in mind, never the people's because...\n* (Now the first one) the great majority of politicians are owned by the same big corporate pockets that lobby them to get the laws they need to get even wealthier, basically saying that even voting is pointless, our democracy is an illusion, and we have slim to no hope of ever changing things unless we go French Revolution on the bastards.", "“wtf can we do that is free and somewhere we can see our friends and neighbors, fucking nothing and I hate it.”\n\nGo for a walk in the forest?", "“And they’ve got backpacks strapped to their back so they can carry around lots of STUPID SHIT!”\n\nThis line gets me every time.", "True, if there was a forest nearby. Unfortunately I'm surrounded by the concrete jungle :(", "Old man whines and does his best job of pretending to be an edgy tween. Here comes reddit to jerk itself silly over him.", "Then there's a public park nearby.", "These days, when Ricky Gervais isn't an out of touch celebrity telling other celebrities that they're out of touch and should keep their mouth shut, he does the exact same stuff as Chapelle, complain about social media and trans people. \"Twitter bad\" isn't one of the real issues. \n \nHe used to be marginally better, but [not by much.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/AgPJFCnCAAEP_sr.jpg:large)", "This guy seemed more like a truth speaker than a comedian. I miss GC :(", "bro I just listened to You Are All Diseased from '99 the other day. The whole opening of the act is about the security theater of airport security BEFORE 9/11 EVEN HAPPENED. And then the next bit he talks about infectious disease. Fuckin wild.", "George blasted all things that were ignorant, tribal, and morally narcissistic. He brought levity to everything. He’s missed for sure.", "George Carlin was such an intelligent individual and I remember watching his last stand up “It’s Bad For Ya” when I was younger and just began to realize how brutally accurate he was which led me to watch all of his prior specials and interviews. His spite brought happiness to me and I am glad a lot of people got to experience it.", "wtf you want a theme park made from your tastes?", "Pretty much 99% of George Carlin takes on anything were dumb conspiracy theories. And being the original edgelord.", "Yeah George bush Jr's CIA used a heart attack gun on him", "Fuck you asshole", "cry som moar spoiled brat", "Chapelle following that path", "cool a patch of grass", "not really, Chapelle is getting less socially observant as he gets older. Carlin was on a different level.", "Well put. I had a few downvotes earlier probably because it sounded like I was making a political statement, like conservatives=bad. But I meant more what you said, tribal and morally narcissistic. People these days will do anything but do objective research on their own. They'd rather seek out information that confirms their beliefs and ignore the contrary, even if the best minds Earth has to offer are in agreement. My liberal sister is like this, she'd rather listen to her FB than her doctor.\n\nAgreeing with the vast majority scientists and doctors doesn't make you tribal. Ignoring them when all logical evidence points to them being correct is what makes people tribal and ignorant. Narcissism to the highest degree to say that you know better than people who have no reason to fool you, and have spent their careers educating themselves." ]	31	videos	George Carlin - Life Is Worth Losing - Dumb Americans
https://youtu.be/KgCOdj228lQ	/r/videos/comments/qt78mr/fortune_cookies_supermega/	[ "SuperMega? More like PooperMega. Fantastic skit btw", "Is that [meat canyon?](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC91V6D3nkhP89wUb9f_h17g)\n\nlmao", "It’s a BBQ joke didn’t you watch the video?", "It's people like you who are lame. \n\nLaugh or don't, nobody cares about your takes.", "A Captain Phillips box set? How can one movie have a box set? I need to get to the bottom of this.", "Dude looks like if the 90s were a person\n\nYou know which one I’m talking about" ]	6	videos	Fortune Cookies - SuperMega
https://youtu.be/kI9_wnlOx0Q	/r/videos/comments/qt7abt/how_to_cook_steak/	[ "Montreal Steak Spice really SHOULD be a part of this conversation Dan. You know what's up my man.", "Wait at the end he says let's meet halfway, but then just repeats his preference again. No S&P, flip twice. Why does the dude with the cigarette agree to that, I thought his character was pretty sharp?", "Might wanna check your math again, there, bud.", "If you aren't putting salt on your meat you are doing it wrong. This isn't up for debate.", "...alright I watched again. The two sides are:\n\n* S&P flip 4 times\n\n* No S&P flip twice\n\nThen he says \"let's meet in the middle\" and the agreed upon suggestion is... No S&P flip twice. What am I missing?", "There was the difference of 4 min each side (flip twice)\n\nOr 4 min total, 1 min each side (flip 4 times). Perhaps the doneness waa what they were agreeing on? The last thing they talk about is rare to medium rare.", "...yeah, flip 4 times or flip 2 times... I covered that...", "Basically, 100% of food talk between Italians are exactly like this", "There is no flip 4 times.\n\nIt was flip 3 or flip 1, halfway being 2.", "No no. What I'm saying is the difference is in total cook time, and total doneness. \n\nOption 1: flip twice. 4 minutes each side. No salt and pepper (total 8 minutes cook time,prob medium well if not well done).\n\nOption 2: flip 4 times. 1 min each side. With salt and pepper. (4 min total, half the cooking time of option 1. Asks for it rare). \n\nThe guy was prioritizing his preference of rare/med rare steak over his preference to salt and pepper. That's the compromise.", "He was right about pan sear and oven too.", "Not the person you're replying to but Option 1 is flip once. Option 2 is flip 3 times.\n\nOn grill, 4 minutes, flip #1, 4 minutes, off = 8 minutes\n\nOn grill, 1st minute, flip #1, 2nd minute, flip #2, 3rd minute, flip #3, 4th minute, off = 4 minutes\n\nIf you cook sides an even number, you can only ever flip an odd number.", "If you're not watching Letterkenny you're probably the shame to your whole fuckin' family.", "I dunno, sounds like he's overhandlin' em", "IMHO sirloin is too lean to cook without salt, and a cut like that needs herbs (rosemary, thyme, garlic) to truly shine. Else you are just chewing plain protein.", "Without salt, food tastes like shit.", "oh right because squirrely Dan and Gordon Ramsey are both morons", "this whole conversation actually sounds like an extended conversation of the show if ya sprinkled a bit of the dialect into it.", "😂😂😂 right", "From a literary perspective, this scene sets up future narratives where one protagonist seeks signs of compatibility and incompatibility in mates based on their meat preparation biases.", "They speak like uomini del tubo.", "Fuckin' embarrassing!", "Pan sear and finish in a hot oven all the way!", "what?", "S&P both sides, Sousvide @ 134.5F for 57 minutes. \n\nRemove and gently pat try. \n\nHotttttt cast iron pan w/butter and oil, sear steak on each side 2x for 30 seconds flipping each time or until browned. Let rest, then eat.", "If you like what is on your plate, you are doing it right...for you.\n\nI agree S&P makes it better, but that's me and your, it's not a universal cosmic truth", "Did you read the other guys comment and then decide to expand on it?", "What if you salted shit? Would it taste like food?", "Letterkennyyy\n\n\nGrill marks bud!", "No, because shit isn’t food you mouth breather.", "It isn't? Do you know what is shit, though? Your sense of humor. It's too salty.", "cast iron skillet ftw", "Team flannel guy. \n\nActually the bearded bro saying a quick blast in a cast iron and finish in the oven isn’t half wrong just have to disconnect your smoke detectors first.", "Reverse sear is very popular now", "You need a Puppers bud. Figure it out.", "I'd love a puppers premium. With salt?", "Salt is a pretty universal truth. Salt makes food pop. I'm not saying it has to be salt crusted (though that definitely sometimes has a place), but if you don't season meat you are missing out on the flavours. \n\nIf you skip salting your food you might as well just plug your nose and swallow it. You'll get only slightly less flavour.", "Your sous vide game is trash. \n\nSalt/pepper steaks, add butter, olive oil, rosemary, crushed garlic, thyme to the bag before vacuum sealing. Then sear both sides.", "sous vide and then pan fry is basically the \"steak assembly line\" in the restaurant I worked at long ago. Cooking a steak from room temp all the way to medium rare and having to watch it is too much to ask an overworked chef during a rush (I'm guessing; I suck at cooking and was a busyboy)", "Reverse sear all you heathens. \n\n1. Dry brine it. Liberal S&P, leave uncovered in the fridge for 24-48 hours\n2. Bring to room temp 15-60 min\n3. Stick it in a cold oven bring it up at as low as you can go (175 F if possible, 250 F is acceptable)\n4. Get the internal temp (a keep-in probe thermometer is key) to 108 F\n5. Take it out of the oven an let it rest (I prefer under foil) 10-15 minutes\n6. Get a cast iron skillet ripping hot, butter+olive oil, crushed garlic clove and whatever herbs you have on hand (thyme, rosemary, etc).\n7. Sear for 30-60 seconds each side until you get a nice crust, basting with the oil/herb mixture the whole time. \n8. Add compound butter if you wish or make a red-wine sauce from the drippings", "I’ll meat you halfway. Salt and pepper. Sear on both sides.", "And 🤌", "Sounds like you’re over handlin it bub", "is there anyone more insufferable than steak retards?\n\nNo.", "This is the way. Sous vide, then sear on cast iron or grill. Anything else is amateur hour.", "I stopped eating salt and after getting over missing it, you can actually taste your food. Even light salt kills flavor.\n\nBut all in all, it's a bit dumb to say \"universal truth\". Everybody has different tastes. Some people like me, don't put salt on anything. Some people put too much salt. It's whatever you want bud.", "Sous vide is a cop out and doesn’t get you the best flavor. It makes it bland.", "That's how I do it. Sous vide then finish over charcoal. I'm also getting into sous vide brisket finished a few hours in a smoker. Really pisses me off how easy it is compared to the traditional method I've been doing for years.", "I agree. I do sous vide almost exclusively for steaks but nothing beats a steak that slowly drips its juices and fat ontop of charcoal just to have all that goodness turn into smoke/vapor and sent back up to the steak. \n\nI suppose with sous vide atleast all those juices stay and can be used to make a sauce, but what kind of child eats their steak with a sauce?", "I took sides in this video.", "I haven't watched this show(?), is there a reason they talk like this? \n\nIt's like robots reciting lines, that's not how humans talk, it's weird.", "When someone explains to you what toxic masculinity is, you’re gonna be real depressed to find out you could’ve been enjoying fruity drinks and flavorful steak sauces your whole life instead of worrying about seeming “manly”.", "Juice in the steak is better than juice poured on it. The point is for it to remain in it. Don’t turn this discussion into something else.", "You sound like a smoker I knew.", "Butter would dissolve the the fat, no butter for a stronger beef flavor", "If you don't put salt on your food, your food is bland. You don't salt to get a salty taste. You salt to reduce bitterness, enhance sweetness and bring out flavour.", "With all that seasoning it seems to me like he doesn't want to taste the beef.", "i didn't expect to chuckle so hard this far down the comments haha", "You only think food is bland without salt because you use salt all the time, you've just gotten used to it.", "Spoken like someone that’s never made a pan sauce.", "Isn't the point of searing to keep as much moisture as possible? I thought the idea was to sear all sides and slowly bring the steak up to a cooked tempature, at least if you want as much moisture as possible so you can cut it with a fork.", "I find sous vide steak (and other meat I’ve cooked in it) has a different texture than reverse seared steak, though I definitely see the appeal.", "Yeah, steak au poivre is for children!", "This is wrong. There's extensive literature looking at the effects of salt (and particularly sodium chloride) on food, including how it tastes and is perceived. It is particularly a problem in that food that is not salted tastes almost universally worse than salted food. The magnitude of this taste change can be decreased if you ween yourself off salt, but it's difficult to do (hence why it's hard to get people to adopt low salt diets). [Here's one such paper](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50958/).", "this thread is literally the skit LOL \n\n(but who the fuck doesn't s+p their steak)", "christ, talk about overhandlin'", "It's television, you can throw out just about any other show and people won't talk like that show in real life either. It's scripted, just more rapid fire.\n\nBut watch the show (Letterkenny), it's pretty great.", "> if you ween yourself off salt, but it's difficult to do\n\nIts difficult because you are addicted to it. Salt does change the flavor not denying that, but unsalted food is only \"bland\" to you because you are addicted to salt.", "Again that's wrong. You can keep being a science denier all you want, but your personal opinion doesn't hold a candle to the years of work by hundreds of people in the field.", "One of Letterkenny's shticks is rapid-fire banter between characters. It's very unrealistic but at times can be hilarious. And a walking meme factory. \n\nThe first several seasons are great but the later couple feel like they lost something of what made it shine.", "I recently got familiar with the sousvide thing and I'll never go back.", "Sous vide always comes out too firm for me, almost like the meat gets pressed in while cooking and then it just sets that way. Cooked in the open, as the meat shrinks it pulls in at uneven rates, effectively tenderizing the meat. Not getting that effect in a sous vide is hugely consequential to how much chew a steak has.", "If I pay for a premium cut, I want to taste the beef. Salt, pepper and garlic powder. All that fat is going to dilute the beefy flavor.", "You need to rest it for longer.\n\n(I feel like I'm just part of the sketch at this point)", "yous gonna flip it twice and pop some S&P on there errrrrrrrrrrrrr", "I tried 4 different methods actually:\n\n1. No rest\n2. Rest before sear\n3. Rest after sear\n4. Rest before and after sear\n\nWith sous vide resting seemed to do nothing at all other than leaving me with a steak that isn’t as warm as it should be.", "> garlic powder\n\nHeresy. Garlic powder only belongs in rubs.", "I’ve always heard resting doesn’t make as much of a difference when cooking at lower temperatures, but, then again, there’s so much conflicting information about cooking steaks out there it’s hard not to take anything with a grain of salt.", "If you want to guarantee a perfect medium rare from edge to edge....", "How am I denying Science here? \nThe Article you linked states salt is a flavor enhancer, something I have not denied. \n\nYou saying that food is bland without salt is in fact your opinion, you have become so used to salt that you find everything bland without it.", "Read the article more carefully.", "When rest you also want to insulate. If you have a wooden chopping board leave it on that and cover with foil and a kitchen towel, leave it for 2 minutes more thank you think you should.\n\nWhat ever you do don't leave it on anything heat conducive, like glass, or a stone marble work surface \n\nYour not trying to cool down the meat but rather give the structure time to relax.\n\nRetain the heat as much as possible while giving it time.\n\nAt this point I'm the sketch", "This has been tested quite a lot in videos on the internet - almost every single time the steak comes out better if you don't add any oil, butter, or any other type of fat to the bag, and that garlic powder is a far better tasting (and works better on the sear) seasoning than crushed garlic." ]	84	videos	How to Cook Steak
https://youtu.be/CxU_qom_j-4	/r/videos/comments/qt87ub/restoring_a_pair_of_20_year_old_leather_shoes/	[ "Couldn’t make it through the annoying music. Why not just let us enjoy the sounds of the guy working", "This is a \"grandfather's axe\"/\"ship of Theseus\" situation. They replace so much material they might as well have made brand new shoes.", "The cobbler agrees with this and mentioned as much in the description. He did the work specifically because he could make a video out of it.", "Stunning restoration. \n\nComments on the video do raise the question of why just patch in a small section of welt instead of the whole thing? \n\nCan anyone clarify how the deep cuts and cracks in the uppers were filled?", "How to restore shoe: Replace 90% of it.\n\nGreat video though.", "At what point does restoration just become recycling? lol. nice work", "Got to keep that classic leather from 2001.", "The boot looked way cooler with the warn out look.", "Do cobblers all get paid off by saphir?", "the heart of the shoe stays the same thats important." ]	10	videos	Restoring a pair of 20 year old leather shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjRNAwqxt7c&t=4s	/r/videos/comments/qt8ap8/its_surprising_how_little_you_have_to_say_to_get/	[ "the meme is to just say \"some\" so no, it's not surprising", "two videos now you're commenting, I dont like you. I downvoted everything you posted", ">two videos now you're commenting\n\nit's the same video\n\n> I dont like you\n\nsource?\n\n\n> I downvoted everything you posted\n\neverything? all 11 years?" ]	3	videos	It's surprising how little you have to say to get people sing All Star by Smash mouth
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qt8nfk/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qt8nfk/deleted_by_user/	[ "The more you know….", "Big Hercs eyes look like he smoked ten blunts before this episode", "The word “midget” is considered offensive by little people", "I'm Jewish, so that makes you Anti-Semitic ;-)", "I’m a woman so that makes you sexist" ]	5	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD7-hBi-Wc	/r/videos/comments/qt8os7/i_never_knew_wine_could_be_made_from_pomegranates/	[ "I went to a place not long ago that made pomegranate wine. We did a tasting and my gf almost spit it up it was so bad. I barely got it down. They also had a raspberry wine that I found fair but I’d never buy a bottle.", "Ooo raspberry \nThat must’ve been interesting. Was it tart?", "I remember it being tart but there were so many bad flavors happening it wasn’t my main complaint. All of their wines were unusually bad, they even messed up white wine and I have a really loose tolerance for white wine." ]	3	videos	I Never Knew Wine Could Be Made From Pomegranates
https://youtu.be/tX7hwtfzy5s	/r/videos/comments/qt8yop/the_most_incredible_whistler/	[ "Ahhh, so OP is just one of those shitheads who steal videos from other sources, filled his channel with them, and spams the links looking for hits.\n\nFuck off with your spam, OP.", "You just described all of Reddit.", "[Hey it's not even peanut butter Tuesday, you know what I mean.](https://youtu.be/HQ_fO8BSPZo)", "Sit tight, im on the phone with the internet police right now!", "1:15 Jay Z", "It’s kind of a problem though because the thieves create a disincentive for others to create original content. Why make something original when you can just steal? And so the overall quality of content starts to become trash\n\nThat is caused by people with your attitude of not caring" ]	7	videos	The Most Incredible Whistler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTeDkyQUbyY&ab%5C_channel=UndertheFocus	/r/videos/comments/qt9ylw/if_magnus_is_an_alien_from_an_advanced/	[ "I'm just saying...", "Someone said....PIPI?!\n\nno..? No PIPI? \n\nDamn...wrong sub again..sorry.", "Players not even close to Magnus's level can do this", "Many questions remain though like where exactly is he from in the universe, how did he get here, when?", "True. This looks superhuman but a lot of players can do it. If you play chess kinda seriously you can get to the level of visualizing one board.", "But they can do it in 10 separate games at once? I can understand remembering a single games and the places of the pieces without ever seeing the board, but 10 separate ones? I'm amazed the brain capacity even exists for such a thing.", "I'd say plenty of Granmasters can do it. Specially if the opposition is not that strong (quite common in simultaneous matches).\n\nBesides, in chess you can remember \"positions\" much easier than individual piece placements.", ">But they can do it in 10 separate games at once\n\nYes. This is a novelty a lot of players that wouldn't stand a chance against Magnus can do. No one becomes close to a GM without being able to memorise ten games, and playing ten games is easy when they're random weak players.", "Chess Universe. Where everything is chess based. They even have chess on the cob.", "Sir….", "this..is a Wendy's..?\n\n..I did it again. Sorry.", "Jesus fucking hell. Hey can someone come grab this asshole.", "where are my pants? I'm not leaving without my pants.", "You’re fucking drunk again? Huh Jerry? High? What is it this time? You know I stuck my neck out for you, in front of my mother, and this is how you repay me. Same shit and nothing changes. It’s no wonder she left and took the kids. You’re an asshole and you’re just like your father. Grab your pants, grab your shit and go. We’re done.", "https://youtu.be/zLcAu1VuP0w", "Ten is obviously impressive.\n\nThink about language skills. If told to you can probably memorize one or even multiple simple sentences after reading them once and write them down from memory. Because your brain knows the words and can also connect the words in the sentence with meaning.\n\nIf you were instead trying to memorize a similar amount of unrelated words the problem would be much harder.\n\nTo someone not knowing the language it would be even harder as since they'd essentially have to memorize a sequence of letters instead of words.\n\nTo someone not used to the alphabet being used it would be an insane feat since it would require memorizing lots of lines and arcs making up the letters.\n\nMost of us are just \"chess illiterate\".", "There is a rather large number of moves, but not an infinite number of moves.", "There is an infinite number of moves if you remove threefold repition and just shuffle your knights around", "Oh yeah, if you change the game to allow for an infinite game then it's totally possible to have an infinite game.\n\nThere is still only a finite number of moves per turn, however." ]	19	videos	If Magnus is an alien from an advanced civilization he is not doing a good job hiding it
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qta264/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qta264/deleted_by_user/	[ "WW1 was a true hellscape. Im so glad I didn’t have to live in that era, let alone fight in that war.\n\nI say this, but I’m probably jinxing myself, and I’ll probably have to fight in WW3 in the next decade or so. But who knows?", "It's called a Thomas splint. Used to re-align femoral fractures and as a result reduce bleeding/pain/deformity. Similar types of splint are still used today.", "Many of the trauma care and surgical techniques that were used by Physicians during world war 1 are still standard practice today. I love this TikToker, makes me think all the time “wow the more things change the more they stay the same”", "[Always look on the bright side of life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo)", "Variants are still being used to this day in emergency medicine", "Paramedic here. We still use a variation of this device called a traction splint. Everything he stated was pretty on point. Femur fractures are nasty and can cause massive internal hemorrhaging if the bones aren't aligned.", "What kind of day does from a femur break?", "Yep. We call it the Sager splint where I work. A thin bicycle seat like thing braces into the patients crotch and a strap around their ankle pulls the leg taught and locks into place. Fucking medieval seeming device and maneuver but I can attest from experience that the patent feels immediate relief. \n \nFeels wrong to be like “this leg? This is the one that has the worst pain you’ve ever felt and sounded like a gunshot when you landed? Cool, ok I’m gonna pull on it real hard and keep it there, K?” \n \nAlso: “sir, please stop screaming. Sir, I’m going to need you to move your testicles to the side, this is important.”", "Doctors should dress like him more often", "Last man standing.", "yes", "WW3 will end in a bright flash. WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.", "There's zero chance of a major war in the next 10 years.", "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yrbv40ENU_o", ">There's zero chance of a major war in the next 10 years.\n\nI suspect 90,000+ Russian troops currently sat in laybys and temporary camps facing the Ukrainian border right now, might say otherwise...\n\n[Link for anyone who hasn't heard.](https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-says-russia-leaves-units-near-its-border-keeps-90000-troops-2021-11-03/)", "Not to mention the escalation between China and Taiwan…", "It won't amount to anything. People have been talking about WWIII since 1945. The closest we've come was the height of the cold war and we're far past that in a much more stable period of history. \n\nRussia won't start a World War over the Ukraine. We all know it.\n\nAnd yeah, feel free to message me when it does happen. If either I or Reddit is still around then.", "It's 'Ukraine' and not 'the Ukraine'\n\n[[Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ukraine)] [[BBC Styleguide](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/u)] [[Reuters Styleguide](https://handbook.reuters.com/index.php?title=U#Ukraine)]\n\n^(Beep boop I’m a bot)", "Yo thats sick, but also god please no", "I see", "I too, have played Sid Meier's Civilization V and know full well that when questioned about why my army is on the border of another territory I simply answer \"You do not need to be alarmed\"\n\n...And then attack ASAP.", "Well good thing is that the WW3 will probably be over in an hour. The bad thing is you'll be fighting your neighbors over canned food and water for the next decade after that as perpetual nuclear winter sets in.", "Define “major war.” There are any number of armed conflicts going on in the world as we speak.", "What you mean is the west won't start WW3 over Ukraine. Putin may take it, the west will do nothing beyond economic sanctions.", "Dont worry you wont need to fight, just start collecting some bottle caps.", "pretty sure you can move the goddamn testicles mate", "To be fair. We came ridiculously close to WWIII numerous times during the Cold War. The USA and the USSR both came very close to launching nukes on several occasions. And a lot of Third World nations probably would have called it a hot war.\n\nIt just goes to show you that the cliff is steep, and we’ve always been a bit closer to the edge than most people think.", "Massive as that war was, odds are most people still wouldn't have seen anything that remotely resembles combat. Less than 4% of the world's population actively participated in the war. I think there's some comfort to be taken in that.", "Opposite of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qtaayz/lecter_vs_lecter_but_which_is_better_we_discuss/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs as well", "cool story, but... who asked?", "I live sandwiched between a nato base, Heathrow, a RAF base and London.\n\nI'm gone in seconds and happy for it.", "That is what I mean.", "One on the scale of WWI/WWII. Essentially, as they said, WWIII." ]	35	videos	[deleted by user]
https://youtu.be/TDvkKic782E	/r/videos/comments/qtaayz/lecter_vs_lecter_but_which_is_better_we_discuss/	[ "This is a 2 minute video drawn out to over 20 minutes. Get to the point", "Really... so you can discuss the performance of a complex character, by two esteemed actors whose approaches are radically different, and very intelligent in er... 2 minutes lol? \n\nI think probably God made you in 2 minutes...", "I’m sure being brief seems impossible in your mind, but it’s not impossible in reality\n\nhttps://youtu.be/swtO9566au4", "Hopkins vs. everyone else: [\"Despite the Academy Award?\"](https://youtu.be/a94jraWNG-g?t=75)", "Without Mikkelsen considered this isn't a fair question.", "lol... sorry that's a fail - try again :P" ]	6	videos	Lecter vs Lecter? But which is better? WE DISCUSS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tJ8SAWV1lg	/r/videos/comments/qtacoi/lewis_black_was_right_all_along/	[ "There isn't a video codex in the world that will give you Lewis Black's mannerisms in fine detail. He exists between key frames.", "Lewis said, \"buyers and sellers / pimps and whores\" but I have to disagree with with this. I think the correct comparison would be- buyers and sellers / John's and whores. The marketers are the pimps, and the business owners are the cosa nostra who control it all from behind the scenes.", "The days when there was a new 'college' movie every month. Actually, this was probably the tail end of that fad if you want to call it a fad.", "Wildly underrated comedy. It's a legitimately hysterical and sometimes insightful piece of work.", "I swear I saw cock when he was playing polo...", "Yea i loved it, was surprisingly good" ]	7	videos	Lewis Black was right all along
https://twitter.com/i/status/1459591738809622532	/r/videos/comments/qtana5/man_denied_medical_service_based_on_color_of_his/	[ "That's pretty shitty", "She gives an explanation though? This guy sounds like he's 25 or something, what medical attention does he think he needs? Make room for someone 65 who actually has a risk ya muppet. Instead he sees his chance to get all offended", "classic \"why were they filming though\". he knew what he went in there to get, and he got it.", "Clickbait alert. This is a misleading take on this video. \n\nThis man is attempting to get a specific COVID treatment that is being given out to symptomatic patients. It is inappropriate from both a cost benefit analysis and with respect to supply constraints to just give it to everyone. Patients are chosen based on a multitude of identified risk factors. This pandemic has required the rationing of care and for at risk populations to be given priority for treatment. That's just the way it is. A young white man with few if any health problems with mild covid symptoms does not need further treatment, he needs supportive care and time. While we may feel entitled to a specific treatment because of whatever reason that still doesn't change the fact that there's only so much medicine and other people would benefit (re: increase their odds of survival) from such treatments. \n\nIt sucks, health statistics are a fickle bitch. Coupled with the massive influx of patients, that's just how it has to play out. I understand though, from any one patients perspective to be denied treatment for really any reason is never going to be easily accepted. And if you have a propensity to be outraged over racial bias targeted at yourself, you might understand the rationale behind targeting minority populations with said treatments, as that very racial bias contributes to that population's increased mortality related to covid-19.", "Yup, it is exactly that, bait.", "Im glad i came to the comment section. This title sounded so poor and clickbaitt", "This is what is entailed by prioritizating first-time vaccine shots over boosters. This guy is probably looking for a booster shot, and is being denied b/c he's not part of a high risk group.\n\non top of this, his twitter avatar is a typical alright rant-sona. His pinned tweet is a bunch of bullshit about climate change. he claims to work, via his bio, for \"american journal,\" which doesn't seem to actually exist. Instead, his bio links to a website on which there is a blog of that title, and is not an actual new service. It hasn't been updated since February. It frequently links to the blaze and the daily caller, very disreputable sources. It doesn't do any of its own journalism, it doesn't even try.\n\nThere's no reason to believe this video represents the title accurately.", "Yeah man there's a lot to unpack with your whole thing. Unfortunately you're not my project. I can't help you come to the correct conclusions. You are free to perceive reality how you please. \n\nHonestly let's start a bit further back though my friend. Why did you get covid in the first place. Are you vaccinated?", "So we can now fully see the root of your dysfunction.\n\nYou're a maga dumbass.\nYou're racist.\nYou don't understand basic public health principles\n\nWhen the dust settles and all this stupid shit is over with people like you are going to have a lot to answer for. You'll try to claim its a 'librul conspiracy' or whatever flavor of bullshit you like but there's no hiding from the truth. You were an idiot and you collectively all fucked up. People died because of your choices. You get to live with that. You get to explain to your children why you fell victim to such obvious delusions.\n\nHave fun with that." ]	9	videos	Man denied medical service based on color of his skin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qtaxv9/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qtaxv9/deleted_by_user/	[ "keep going man. me likey", "This has a ton of potential, you have a great voice and covered the major points of the game nicely", "Subbed! Keep up the good work!", "I want all my media delivered like this", "Thanks i really appreciate it! Its fun learning the ropes!", "Great concept, I liked it! Didn't really understand why you gave it such a low score, from what you said. What I want from these videos more than anything is all the negatives that will make me reconsider buying it. Maybe devote more time to pros/cons? There was two big flaws that stood out to me immediately that are easy to address, so you can improve. With a few small steps like these, this could be a very successful series.\n\n1. Get rid of the camera. You're good looking, but having your face there brings nothing to the videos, it distracts from it. Its a short format, and you'll be throwing condensed information at the viewer, you want them focused. \n\n2. Audio is terrible. Something to fix this, even with a average mic, is to get closer to it, adjust the levels so its not running so hot, and get a pop filter. Another thing, since this is not live, you should put the audio into a program like Audacity to remove the background static, and other sounds like clicks of the mouth and tongue. Its incredible what you can filter out these days in post. A good mic is also a great investment regardless imho.\n\nJust my 2 cents, subbed, and looking forward to seeing more.", "Seriously - this is the kind of stuff that becomes a monster youtube channel if you stick with it.", "You’re on to something. Keep it up.", "As some one who also makes short video game reviews. Good Luck laddie.", "Ha, thanks! Editing videos is way harder than i realized but were doing it!", "That means alot! I have a hard time watching myself on these haha", "Thanks! I know right! Just get to the point peoples, we got crap to do!!!", "I so wanted to play this game when it came out as I LOVED L4D, but when I found out you can only progress with multiplayer I opted out. The L4D game online multiplayer was a cesspool and I don’t want to deal with that again. Maybe I’ll look into it if I ever make friends with someone who actually likes to play video games.", "I wanted to at least have a log of all the games I beat over a lifetime. Itll be cool to look back on my gaming adventures one day.", "I know its short, but gotta have a Niche!", "I'm almost in the same boat. I simply didn't want to be like every one else and have games from my Stream library that I would never touch. Some games I did give up on beating though. Cheers.", "agreed, thank you for sharing", "Subscribed, I hope your channel takes off!", "Please keep doing these. I'd consider 100 upvotes and 20 comments on a sub as big as this as a good sign. Once this catches on, it will catch on.", "How DARE you assume that you can make a short, concise video reviewing a game? Everyone knows you can't be truly O B J E C T I V E unless you do a 5 hour long DEEP ANALYSIS. Checkmate, video game critics!", "I 100% agree the audio is awful! Doesnt help that I live super close to the busiest highway known to man! I swear. I need to work on getting the audio so that its crisp and clear and no unwanted noises in the backround. I just started this as a dumb little project so Im only using my Phone! haha. Ill get a better mic now. Cuz I agree.\n\nAnd agree on the face also, in a way. I just feel like I can emphasize alot more of what I mean by how I look and move. Otherwise im just another voice in the sea of 100k people also doing reviews. I dunno. Super Appreciate the feedback though! Im always looking for help when I can.", "Im tryin! Editing is way harder than I anticipated! haha", "I literally started this project because of that thing exactly! I was looking to see if a game was cool, and what the general verdict was on it and I found myself watching 20 minutes videos blabbering on about who knows what, with ads and sponsors littered through and was like \"Screw IT, Were doing it live!!\"", "I love and hate that you can wait a few months now for games to \"Get better.\" Love that a game is never really in its true form because devs can take feedback and make the game truly great, bad because they release crap early and just patch as they go.\n\nI need to work on more pros/cons for the reviews, im trying to be SUPER picky with them though. I hate how every game now reviewed by the big guys ALL get a 8, 9, or 10. Not every game is going to be a masterpiece, we gotta save the rating for the Life altering games so you know its worth it. I think anyways...", "Not gonna lie, Im excited now! Im glad that this wasnt deemed the stupidest idea to hit youtube yet! Plus its easy for both parties!", "That would be neat. Never thought of it as having potential, just wanted to keep a log of my games so when im old and senile Ill remember the good ol days when we use to play games with actual Controllers!", "You're providing immense amount of value. Keep it up! Value > Quality", "I have a three hour rule for games. I have to sit down and play it for 3 straight hours, and if it doesnt hook me or pull me in. I literally hide it in my Steam Library so i dont have to look at it anymore. I gave it the ol' college try!", "Bet your knickers the quality will go up! I give massive amounts of props to the amounts of work people put into editing videos. Im over here just trying to make one transition look cool while people are out there with Marvel level CGI in there videos!", "More importantly in the world of late 2021 algorithms... consistency is a very important factor regarding retention.", "Much more Favorable? Ahhh a fellow picky rater as well! I feel like im being harsh, but im tired of every game out there in the world getting a 8 or higher. Gotta draw the line!", "I found some pretty cool people a few times playing, but the general conscious was that was rare. I 100% had a much better time playing with a group of friends I knew. So I agree in that regard, the Computer controlled people in B4B are ding bats. I think my time is up for this game as of now, but maybe when another expansion comes out ill jump back in. Hit me up and well play!", "I agree. Just gotta keep on it. I have videos made already set to release every Saturday for a few weeks out now. Just gotta keep it up. If only these damn things like having a JOB or needing SLEEP didnt get in my way of doing things. Stupid human bodies", "I haven't heard a sane rating in so long: a 6.5 game treated as a fun jaunt but not groundbreaking in any facet. Pls do more.", "It did exactly what it said on the label, and it did it fast. Good formula. Bad for YouTube algorithms however. Don’t be discouraged if low numbers. Only bit I could see to improve, your talking was distracted by the corner. You look like you were asked to review a game on your way out the door to go for a run and the lighting background kind of threw off… something? I can’t quite place it but I think I’d prefer to see you with a plain background behind you.", "I agree with both points he made. For sound, you can pick up a used rode nt1-a for about $70-100 and a focurite scarlett interface for $50-80, you will sound better than most YouTubers.", "Pointless gripe here but do you put yourself in the video cause YouTube wants dumb shit like that or cause you wanted to? Seems forced", "I'm one of your first 200 subscribers. Lets do this.", "Hell Ya! Lets see what this wannabe gamer has to say! :D", "I personally thought It was gonna add to the enthusiasm of how I feel about the games using my expressions and just overall body language. I just didnt wanna be ANOTHER voice over gameplay. I guess...", "Awesome. Looking those up now!", "Im winging it for most of these. Im just using my phone to record video. I live on the busiest street in the world i swear, and its hard to get good light in this city apartment. BUT, I agree with you. I need to speak more smoothly and get some better backrounds that work with the ambiance of the game im playing. Thats a good tip. Hopefully i can keep adjusting as I go and find the perfect Formula.", "Ya, and a few levels were SUPER long and others only took like 5 minutes. I wouldn't be surprised if you can buy copper soon with real money and use that for \"Card Packs\".....sadly.", "Exactly! You totally get it. Its still fun, but lets all face it! We have played this style of game before and you more or less know what you are gonna expect. We live in a world of games now where everything gets an 8 or higher, so its impossible to know what is actually worth our blood sweat and tears.", "Thanks! That game was so fun! My buddy and his GF just finished playing through both and it was so funny listening to them talk about all the creepy moments. I love feeling happy after beating a game because it was just so good.", "Absolutely. I don’t want my criticisms to diminish what you’re doing either, I ended up watching all your current videos after you posted this. If anything I like that you could binge the series in a lunch break, it doesn’t need to be a video essay. Own your niche, It’s the kind of thing I could watch in the car before I walk inside the shop to buy a game or not, and your brutally honest review of Back4Blood was refreshing with the raving I hear about it from friends and my reluctance to play it.", "Exactly. Just a quick run down. Honestly, I just hope it sparks an interest of like or dislike either way. We have gotten to a place with games where there are TONS of games coming out all the time. We dont have time to play them all. And honestly you cant trust the big guys anymore cuz they love literally every game they review. Gotta bring some sanity back to every Call Of Duty game getting a freaking 9 out of 10!", "it wont.", "Glad to see someone giving actual 0-10 ratings, instead of the 80-100, every-game-is-90-something nonsense that's so prevalent among game journos these days.", "Exactly! You get it. I lose a little bit of respect for gameinformer when they rate Call Of duty a 9 out of 10 every freaking year one is released.", "Ha, I had a similar thing but for YouTube Shorts. Did about 20 videos before stats said that it was not remotely worth it. Be careful with your time limit, you are going to have to compress a lot of thoughts and sometimes you might not have the time or linguistic capability to express your thoughts in a way that the viewer will understand.", "What if you beat a game in under 3 hours?", "The congratz, you get to remove it from your steam list and cast it into the abyss! Or you are a gaming savant and need to go speed run games!", "I am of the mindset that if you live life disappointed, you can never be let down! I wanted to just keep a log of all the games I beat, and thought it would be fun to put them on youtube. My friends have reminded me about the \"algorithms\" and what it takes to be successful, but I suppose Im just gonna keep doing this while its fun and hopefully have a good time engaging with the Gaming Community!", "Dope! Nice review. I like the format.", "Good video", "Are there any zombie shooter/survival games you have scored higher", "On video...no, BUT in my human brain!....also no. \n\nIm comparing to past L4D, Killing Floor, COD Zombies etc...\n\nIts a good game, just not revolutionary!", "Keep this up, you've just gathered another subscriber. Quick, to the point and enough to tell me what the game is about and how it works without spoiling it for me.", "Thanks! I appreciate you getting the whole gist! Thats all I ever wanted it to be :D", "Great concept and solid delivery. I've been annoyeed by 10+ minute, full of chaff, reviews recently so this is a breathe of fresh air.\n\nOnly suggestion is to reduce explanation of the game and increase explanation of your score and its reasoning. You can assume that if someone is seeking out a 90s review that they already know the gist of the game (name, concept, core features, etc.) and would rather hear your honest appraisal. Maybe even consider starting with your score and then spending 90s explaining it. It is a bullshit review trope to save the score until the end - you don't need to do it if your reviews are 90s!", "6.5/10 is low? Assuming 5 is average 6.5 is a pretty solid game, which is the impression I got from his review.", "> I just feel like I can emphasize alot more of what I mean by how I look and move.\n\nYou'd be surprised how much you can emphasize just with your voice. The monotone delivery makes sense since it's almost like a speedrun review but play around with new ways of delivering the lines.\n\nOne way to help is learning the script by heart. Once you learn the script then you don't have to focus on saying the words right, you can start to focus on how you say them.", "I actually really enjoyed that. Thank you.", "A suggestion you could consider: maybe try not using the X/10 rating system at all? The conventions of game reviews will make people misinterpret your ratings, especially as a small creator.\n\nX/5 tends to be more accurate, but you could also just not have numerical scores. Advice like: \"You should buy this game if you just want more L4D, but don't expect anything groundbreaking\" can be more informative than a number score.", "Good video, but dunno why you felt the need to stick your face in there.", "Hey man, i can recommend something for the sound. I used to work a bit in Adobe Audition. This program has a noise reduction option. It's meant for static noise caused by shitty mics, but i feel it might have a shot to work on your audio. The highwaysound mimics alot from the static noise. You need Adobe Audition though, but i guess more programs have this. \n\n\nIf you need help the Adobe audition kind, let me know :D", "Black Mesa is the only game I've played from your reviews so far. Wanted to see how my experience compares to yours.\n\nHonestly great stuff. Very good quick overview of what the game is and how it works with the good and bad stuff. Perfect whenever looking for something new to play without having to go through long reviews.", "You are the Anti-Tim Rogers", "RTX Voice can help with the noise reduction. It's AI based noise reduction and it works insanely good.", "You didn't give a review, you gave a description of the game.", "Very informative and concise! Perfect review format for my ever-fleeting attention span.", "Really well done! In my experience, these kinds of informative videos have a hard time blowing up because it's almost purely information. Idk if your personality fits it, but if you can squeeze in a few jokes to make the viewer laugh inbetween all the info, you're golden and will keep a good audience. \n\nKind of like how youtuber penguinz0 have some long videos discussing serious things, but always finds ways to come up with some funny sentences, I think the sprinkling of humor is what really makes people keep coming back.", "In the heads of a lot of people, 10/10 is good and 8/10 is literally trash.", "Audio is 'terrible'? Really?", "Subbed - thanks mate!!", "Just saying, you are gonna have a hard time selling a realistic rating system in the current environment. You really need to at least somewhat go along with the expected standard.\n\n\n5/10 for curse of the dead dogs just seems way off.\n\n\nI actually think your format may lend itself better to just not giving a score, since you have so little time to explain that score it will come as even more of a curveball.", "Loved it. Keep doing them.", "Cool idea. Although a 20 minute review that is good isn't wasting anyone's time. Just adds more value.", "[Ben Plays Vr 2 minute review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2so4EJKdMo)\n\n[90 Second Reviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgBIF56c4Q)\n\n[7 Minute Abs](https://youtu.be/rnso4nfdM9w?t=46)\n\n\nNot a dig at your channel, just something that popped into my head after watching your vid. GL on the channel.", "This is great. I want to know if games are worth playing without watching a streamer/YouTuber do a 3 hour playthrough or a reviewer spoiling all the good bits. I literally just want to know \"is this a waste of money?\"", "Nah, you're a pro at this. Solid idea and solid review style. I would also include what kind of a computer you need (i.e. \"this is playable on your typical gaming machine\" as opposed to you can really only enjoy it on a high end machine) and perhaps price range. Also not sure about the whole affiliate thing but you could have affiliate links to buy the game in the description in case people want to support your channel to buy the game.\n\nAlso, I know you're pretty and all but if you want to have your face in the video then either only in the beginning or the end? There's no real point in seeing your face as you're showing gameplay since you'd want people watching the gameplay, right?\n\nI'd recommend perhaps only intro for branding, maybe less than 5 seconds?\n\nI do like how you shortened your intro and as others said a while ago, was definitely too long before.", "This was actually legit.", "Subscribed :)", "Huh... I'll sub to that", "Thanks IGN.", "I really enjoyed that! I've watched a fair bit of reviews on B4B and that was a very balanced review, with a realistic score!\n\nSubbed, hope to see more that are balanced (I'm just sick of seeing the reviews that are either fully obsessed with either hate or love!)", "Not a fan of seeing the narrator while watching a review but overall the video was s, sweet and to the point. Subbed.", "There is also a USB version, I have no clue about the audio quality of that though, so do some research first.", "I strongly agree with other comments saying to switch to a 5 point scale. \n\nI get that you want to buck the trend of \"anything below 7 is garbage, dont play it ever\" but thats jsut a waste of your time. Dont try to \"fix\" the normal scale. Just use 5 points\n\n1. Terrible. Dont play\n\n2. Bad, superfans of the series may want to try it\n\n3. Decent, nothing really new or exciting, but fun\n\n4. Good, a lot of fun, but some flaws hold it back\n\n5. Almost perfect or perfect. Pinnacle of its genre.", "That was a really nice, concise, thoughtful, well-written and well-edited review. 9.5/10 and subscribed.", "Tldw", "I also enjoy the channel \"60 minutes in 60 seconds\". Sort of a review of how the first hour went and if he thinks it's worth playing more. https://youtu.be/3KXu8seq_yk", "The recording is trash, especially considering this is a prerecorded and edited video. If I were playing with this dude online I'd mute him. But I am known to be a bit anal about sound. \n\nIts not something regular people pick up on I think, but they are all subconsciously aware of it. So a video with bad audio will have more people exiting out early, but they won't necessarily know why they did it.\n\nThe traffic is very loud, he is too far away from the mic so the warm tones are lost, and you can literally hear the sounds bouncing off the walls in his apartment.\nHe could also spend more time rehearsing, and getting the flow of the script to sound better. Some of the lines can be cut and rewritten too, but Id say its a reaaaally fucking good first video attempt.", "Oh don't mind me I just want to hear the review, but it probably was a good choice. Was just curious", "Anything below 8/10 is not worth my time.", "Gonna learn as we go. Who knows maybe the people want me to do the review in full cosplay and thatll be the selling point!", "See now I love that! Straight to the point! He pretty much summed up my thoughts as well! haha", "Great, now im gonna have to make it 9 second reviews. Then ill appease the masses!!", "Thanks! I appreciate that. I want the deets, no filler and promotions. Just quick and fast.", "I love that scale, and thats basically what im doing with the 10 point scale, i feel like if i switched to five, i would start doing insane scores like \"I give this game a 3.47\" Not bad lol.\n\nI think im just too picky because of the world we live in with everything getting mega high scores", "I think maybe just for a bit longer, so people can get a sense of who I am? Or maybe i just need to speak more charismatically. I don't know. Its a work in progress.", "I know right! As gamers i feel like we have played alot and know not EVERY game is a 8 or higher. It loses its pizazz if everything is super high.", "And Ill drink to that!", "Thanks! I appreciate the words. Warms my cold icy soul.", "I know, in retrospect that intro was like 10% of the whole damn video! I appreciate the advice, and I love the idea of the affiliate program. I never really thought of this as a money making venture, but who knows! I just wanna have a catalog of all the game I beat for when Im old and grey and cant remember crap!", "Funny you should say that. I ALMOST was gonna name the channel that. \"Is this a waste of my money!\"", "Oh boy, you've heard of 7 minutes abs.....but have you heard about the superior 90 second abs! Oh are you in for a treat!", "I totally agree, and i would LOVE to do full length reviews, but lets face it. Im a nobody, and until I feel like anyone would give a damn about a full review, i gotta stick to quick things like this so I dont waste my life away with long videos. One day though....", "Roger that! On it!", "I agree. It seems like the review gets a harsh score when im praising it. I guess i just want them to be more realistic so when I do give a game an 8 out of 10...your like....DAMN...this game must ACTUALLY be good. Curse of the dead gods was a weird one. I felt like it was good at its core....but I think its was just too bland.", "No, Thankyou!", "I like the format. Keep making reviews!", "Say no more. Im trying to walk the line between having funny input and giving a serious review. I think ill find my swing pretty soon, I just dont want the humor to feel forced. BUT im with ya!", "I know right. Thats where the idea of this came from. I was flipping through reviews and would get like 2 minutes in and was like \"NEXT.\" And bam...here I am...", "Beyond a review...i literally just want people to SEE the game. Everytime i look for a review online of a game I want to play, thats all im looking for. Not the first hour of gameplay, not sponsors or all the glitches. I just wanna see if its something I can get on board with.", "Looking it up now. I gotta get on board with the better Audio.", "Quick google search is telling me Tim Rogers is someone who does extremely lengthy and thought provoking gaming pieces. So yes...yes I am...", "Adobe Auditon, sweet. I use Adobe for the editing...ill check this one out!", "I know, that guys keeps ruining the videos! Im gonna just crop him out!", "Thanks! Im on it! Just need more TIME lol", "I'll write my review of your review in the same manner that you did: trash review. \n\n\nSee how I left out all of the pertinent information?", "Don't we all. I subscribed and will keep an eye on your coming reviews.", "If you decide to not be on camera over the gameplay consider having your face at the end when you are presenting your opinion and rating. I think it would preserve the personal touch that might be missing if you were not on camera at all. After all ratings are highly subjective and the advice often given is to find a reviewer that likes the type of games that you like.", "This review made me hold off until the game is on sale. Subscribed.", "If you dont wanna spend the money its also on Gamepass if you have a PC or Xbox. I know, 60 bucks now a days is alot for games considering they are coming out faster than we can play them.", "I was trying to figure out how to do quick snapshots of me when I really wanna emphasize something then going back to the gameplay. Its a work in progress...literally just gotta figure out how to do that in Adobe!\n\nAnd im picky, I know. I just hope I can at least pick out the truly unique and not overtly overdone games.", "Appreciate it! At least I can write the review on my phone at work, save a little time.", "Love it. You one upped me and did a 3 second review of my review. Meta AF.", "He's my absolute favorite videogame writer", "Thanks for the tip!", "Very cool. Also for those watching there is a channel I watch called “60 Minutes in 60 Seconds”. They do a great job as well. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCgy43c3YLaRKo_fiW6_tFUw", "Nothing wrong with that. I was going to do the same thing for rare books (I'm a collector).", "Hey I liked this, I hope you make more! I also thought the face in the corner was odd at first but youre right, adding a face in a sea of faceless reviews might set you apart. Good luck meng.", "Thanks! Thats what i thought also, maybe once anyone cares what i have to say, ill take it away. But for now...tally hoooo", "Please make more.", "Hell ya! Thanks! Got all of tomorrow dedicated to making the games i just beat!", "Cool, I'll be here listening to yet another onslaught of pointless meetings as I look out my window and wonder: \"...is how the musicians felt playing while the Titanic sank?\" :) \n\nBest of luck to you, stranger.", "\"It was an honor playing with you gentlemen tonight\".....\"\"\"head dives face first out the window\"" ]	139	videos	[deleted by user]
https://twitter.com/OfAthenry/status/1459377009050759169	/r/videos/comments/qtc0xc/eh_who_am_i_kidding_i_probably_would_have_made/	[ "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzCo7IgVgAI97sJ?format=jpg&name=small", "Any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.\n\nAnd that includes the police.", "The only difference here is that you are probably not trained properly to handle a firearm, whereas he is probably trained to do this, and yet he still seems to get it wrong", "\"at least\" concerns me a bit... I would not do this mistake more than once for sure" ]	4	videos	Eh, who am I kidding? I probably would have made this mistake at least once too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRAJOCXo51k&ab_channel=Yojimbo	/r/videos/comments/qtckr4/gta_trilogy_definitive_edition_but_its_actually/	[ "This seems like a better representation of what to expect than a lot of the memes. Like for the most part it does look better than the original however not as good as it should and there are definitely still quite a few issues as well.", "Rockstar once again dun goofed", "tbf all the \"nice\" parts were taken from the trailer itself", "I mean honestly everything looked better than the original to me apart from the weird driving camera and bugs. Visually I think it's definitely an improvement just not as big of an improvement as it could/should have been.", "If you're willing to pay for shit, companies will continue to sell you shit", "I think \"Mafia\" is the only one that did the 'remake' out of this world. Love the soundtrack though.", "What's the music?", "O Mio Babbino Caro (Hudson Mohawke Remix) by Grand Theft Auto III (00:18; matched: `100%`)", "Links to the streaming platforms:\n\n[O Mio Babbino Caro (Hudson Mohawke Remix) by Grand Theft Auto III](https://lis.tn/tlOyL?t=18)\n\nI am a bot and this action was performed automatically \| [GitHub](https://github.com/AudDMusic/RedditBot) [^(new issue)](https://github.com/AudDMusic/RedditBot/issues/new) \| [Donate](https://www.reddit.com/r/AudD/comments/nua48w/please_consider_donating_and_making_the_bot_happy/) ^(Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Music recognition costs a lot)", "Mafia was a remake, not a remaster. But yes, they did an excellent job.", "Don't forget Spyro!", "inb4 fanboys who try to call you princess snowflake for complaining about something shitty. \n\n#We get it, it's a remaster, not a remake.\n\nIt could still be a little less shitty." ]	13	videos	GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition but it's actually the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NX188aMd8	/r/videos/comments/qtcml5/interested_in_the_real_reason_behind_vaccine/	[ "you're on the right side of things, but man, I can't with this title.", "ohhh, clickbait!! \n\nSo: no.", "All good. Hey, Reddit and u/bucko_fazoo, suggestions for a better title?", "Got any better idea on how to get a lot of eyes on this to help save lives? Seriously, I would love to hear any good suggestions.", "\"The real reason behind vaccine hesitancy\" would be much better. It wouldn't be great, but it'd be better than it currently is by far.", "you know what? maybe it'll get the people it needs to get just the way it is. I thought about it, it seems to be effective, and I sincerely take it back. I mean, it still hurts my soul. But the video's not for me.", "Lol was this Pfizer or GSK who paid for this advertisement. Hello propaganda, no one wants your corrupt fast tracked experimental injections. Go torture some more beagles.", "I guess you're lucky breathing is automatic.", "> Got any better idea on how to get a lot of eyes on this to help save lives?\n\nI don't think anyone has a great idea. After all, there's something called the backfire effect. It means that if you believe something that's incorrect and you were shown proof that you're incorrect, the person actually develops stronger belief in that wrong view.\n\nSomething that doesn't hurt is to stop treating these people poorly. For instance, it's easy to say that they're ignorant idiots but that's not going to change their mind.\n\nMaybe treating them like a regular person could help and engage them. They could be more open to hearing different opinions. Not in a hostile manner but just trying to understand their viewpoint.\n\nYou won't get anywhere for the most part and there are way too many people who believe these things and not enough time to change their minds but if it's a relative then it could be worth it. After all, if you do nothing then they're already lost (and potentially could lose their life as well). So you have nothing to lose by engaging them but you should do it if you have the patience.\n\nThere's no real answer though nor would there be. After all, it would be a very bad thing if there was a quick and efficient way to change peoples minds about anything.", "I'm going to pretend this is [Toffee from SVTFOE](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/star-and-the-forces-of-evil/images/8/8d/Toffee_ID.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/418?cb=20180505221127) successful brother, Taffy.", "Why would anyone actually watch this? Aside from the really weird vaccine nazis. (As in Grammar Nazi, not Nazi Nazi)\n\nPeople who already distrust the authorities (Literally everyone with a lick of sense) see this kind of push, and reject it.", "LMAO", "The video, certainly without meaning to, builds an argument for the anti-vaxxers. You spend several minutes detailing how horrific and uncurable diseases such as Polio and Measles were, which just brings into focus how *relatively* moderate (compared to Polio, Smallpox, ect) Covid-19s symptoms and death rate are. I'm not trying to make this argument myself, but that's the direction I thought the video was headed for the first 2 minutes. If I got that impression, I'm sure others will too. Just honest critical feedback for you.", "I legit thought this was reptilian dr. Doofenshmritz", "the lady with the key thing.... how do you not stop right then and think... oh maybe i was fucking WRONG AS SHIT.\n\n\"explain to me why this key sticks to me!\" proceeds to put key on neck and watch as it falls right off. then tries it again.... seriously people?", "if diseases were created by aliens.\n\ni dunno, i liked the video but the title was strange.", "i don't think anything is ever going to reach the hardcore anti vaxxers, so there's no point paying them any attention at all. reasonable people who are hesitant because they've been lied to can see the logical outcome of this. i mean do they really think covid isn't as terrible as some of those diseases? watch some of the videos that documents a patient going through covid pnuemonia, you die gasping. also if people don't know, it fucking HURTS being on a ventilator, to describe how it feels, it's like you took a deep breath and you think your lungs are full, then someone shoves a tube down your throat and pumps even more air into your lungs making it feel like it's going to explode. repeat that for every breath, it's not a good way to go.", "A good majority of Reddit is already pro-vaccine. You're just preaching to the choir here.", "Ok, Plague rat.", "Ok, Plague rat.", "Please ignore all the odd nit-picking in this thread. You made an entertaining/comical animated video, outlining how an outbreak can thrive with those that choose to ignore science. \n\nWell done. Everyone chill out.", "Given everything I'd go with something short and simple:\n\n\"Evil loves the non-vaccinated\"", "Your title is shit.", "As a reptilian, I find this disgusting and racist.", "The lizard people!\n\nI knew it.", "> You spend several minutes detailing how horrific and uncurable diseases such as Polio and Measles were\n\nMore importantly, the video makes the false claim that there are only two groups: pro-vax and anti-vax and that anti-vax means against all vaccines.\n\nIt's like if someone objects to the Gulf War. If someone says, \"I think this is a war based on lies\" - and in response you label them \"anti-war\" and show them evidence from other wars, which were just wars. You show them WWII footage of concentration camps being liberated and say, \"SEEE!!!!!111 WARS ARENT BAD SEEE!!!!\"\n\nThe (false) claim being that if you're against the gulf war, you're a conspiracy theorist who hates jews, or something. It's just ridiculous reasoning.\n\nYou have the right - the basic human right - to object to this specific vaccine, and doing so doesn't make you \"anti-vax\" nor does it mean you're against the smallpox vaccine.", ">More importantly, the video makes the false claim that there are only two groups: pro-vax and anti-vax and that anti-vax means against all vaccines.\n\nAbsolutely! In fact, the Us vs Them (false) Dichotomy is forced onto to almost everything it seems. There is very little nuance in the public conversation.", "You need to delete this account. I have already explained this to you. Go ahead and delete this account.", "you're right. I'm vaccinated, but the vaccine sucks so much we're not back to normal.", "You had said that black people are not allowed to vote anything other than what you have decided for them. That if they vote GOP they are no longer a race bit will be designated as \"GOP voter\". No doubt you are a Nazi. Labeling a particular race as not human. So you have covid and you are an extreme fringe racist. Lol, and you are calling people names? Go ahead buddy, post your data comparing black people vs voters. No different than you saying your poll is \"people who like pineapple on their pizza vs white people\". You wouldn't do that with any other race you racist.", "What was the real reason..? Because people believe crazy shit out of the mouths of random people with no relevant expertise? Surprise, surprise", "Not to mention..... keys wont stick to magnets......", "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dfxfnUogMcQ\n\nSome of us just have an in fact long term memory.\n\nOthers think the government and corporations would never ever harm us for power or wealth.", "Ok, Lab rat.", "For the same reasons the flu, and the common cold will never have a proper vaccine, so too will covid.", "It also takes shots at people who have clearly been fooled and indoctrinated into a weird cult instead of those that would be perpetrating it. It also builds into that counter idea that any level of skepticism is bad and uncouth.", "The real reason for \"vaccine hesitancy\" is that the ones refusing the vaccine think they are smarter, better, more educated and all around just more important than those of us who get vaccinated. Stupid people with a superiority complex! Let them die! They are the ones who think it's ok to discriminate against others for no other reason than they can.", "have you seen how many people who refuse to exercise and eat healthy. the answer is simple its not our business and you wont convince them on reddit of all places to do either of the two things i mentioned.", "wow are you ever stupid. you're like one of those people who are like look all those people jumped out of planes without checking their parachutes and they were fine i should never bother to check mine. so governments acted early to try to stop a virus, turns out it wasn't as deadly as predicted. then when covid rolls around every government acts slow and now we have this and you're still like omg remember swine flu and how that turned out to be nothing?\n\nhow many people are dead from covid right now? how many people have had to have their medical treatments postponed because of covid right now? use your last brain cell and think for half a second.", "> how many people are dead from covid right now? \n\nAbout 25k or 30k out of a third of a billion Americans.\n\nI'd link the news story about how 85% of Americans had covid antibodies by the time the Delta came around but you seem pretty anti-learning.... so... I guess good luck with those four boosters per year?", "wow are you ever dumb as shit. there are over 700 000 dead in america alone.", "So, when are you running for office? Because the division in this country is stifling everyone. We need to unify. Here come the downvote bots:", "Yay for injecting more anxiety into my feed, I could never see this sort of thing anywhere else, thank goodness for your post, or I'd have never heard about it...", "you're like a flat earther playing mental gymnastics. you don't like vaccines but you've clearly vaccinated yourself to facts.", "I was banned from this subreddit for making the distinction between \"died with covid\" and \"died from covid\". \n\nShucks.", "Here", "100% this. Thank you for the empathy lol. 5 minutes typing, and 10 minutes tailoring it to the sensitivities of a 15 year old. Welcome to Reddit!", "What in fuck are you talking about?!?", "Ok, 3 day old troll.", "Be quiet plague rat. 🐀" ]	51	videos	Interested in the REAL reason behind vaccine hesitancy? Prepare to be surprised!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghP7kImI9WM	/r/videos/comments/qtcukg/this_company_owns_the_world_blackrock/	[ "BlackedRock", "Fun fact. In an old version of Lotus Notes the spell check would change Blackrock to Blackcock. Found that out the hard way.", "When you say we, maybe you mean you? Anyone who's invested in any fund or etf will probably have heard of BlackRock. They're not secret at all.", "The hard way, huh", "If you haven't heard of them you must be living under a black rock.", "This video is very light on details for its length.", "The solution is not to on a person basis keep check on where their money end up, no matter how much messages like this are repeated, whether its urging people to recycle or make sure their money doesnt end up in coal, its impossible make a large enough portion of the public to follow. Corporations love pushing the narrative that its up to the individuals, the consumers to vote with their wallets. Its a corporate lie. The solution is political, the solution is informing the public that these corporations have to be regulated out of existence. Anything else is a distraction.", "Haven't you heard of Black Rock chemtrails, you sheeple?", "It’s a publicly traded company lmao they aren’t hiding", "It's land and real estate that's pissing us off. Blackrock is investing billions into buying and holding residential homes. They want to be your forever landlord, and your kids forever landlord, and their kids, etc. They don't want you or anyone else but them to own a home, because the value of the home and the land will go up in the future, they want it.", "They are well known", "I did some contracting work for Black Rock. They're like any other investment firm except they have a shit ton of money and eat champagne and pizza for lunch. At least in the NYC office.", "I'm 10 minutes in, and nothing was really said. Yeah, capitalism requires growth and consumption- does it really matter that how the assets are controlled/allocated? The only point that's even slightly made is the discussion of ownership, and yeah that seems like a point of concern... which is why that sort of stuff is regulated.\n\nThis video is silly, like, what's even the point of it?", "Lesson was hard won", "Her solution is laughably idealist, and naive. Its the same argument that says the average person is responsible for climate change because we aren’t responsible consumers and don’t recycle enough. \n\nIts capitalism. The only solution is overthrowing capitalism with socialism.", "Does she (Sorelle Amore) have a finance background? or a degree in anything? I tried looking her up and I'm getting a strong influencer vibe.\n\nedit: I cant finish her video. If you know nothing and watch this, you'll know less by the time it's over.", "It seems like they noticed Blackrock/Vanguard/State Street/Invesco etc. on shareholder lists and assumed these are active investments. The vast majority of these assets come from ETF hedge baskets. When someone buys an ETF, the provider of that ETF owns the component basket on their books and passing the returns through to the holder, taking a small fee. i.e. if you're holding SPY, they're holding an equivalent $ value of the all 505 stocks in the S&P 500. \n\nThis doesn't mean they're actively investing in any of these companies...the world just holds a lot of ETFs ([think trillions of dollars worth](https://www.statista.com/statistics/269928/assets-under-management-of-the-largest-etf-providers-in-the-us/)), meaning their ownership stake in every company in any index they maintain an ETF for goes up...\n\nThey don't profit on the fossil fuel industry...they pass those gains through in the same way they'd pass losses on to their customers. It's the American people + ETF holders who are the \"single largest stakeholder\" in these companies. We're all the holders of all these ETFs to redeem their baskets with the provider, Blackrock's holdings would go to zero...", "Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street control eighty percent of the Fortune 500 companies on Wall Street and most of the western world. If you want a happy life just follow this simple mantra. Consume, Be Silent and Die. That's all you have to do. Now go back to banging the rocks together.", "> which is why that sort of stuff is regulated.\n\nYeah except it's not very well regulated which led to industries being monopolized under companies like BlackRock and Vanguard.", ">I don't buy the argument that this broad ownership somehow makes them evil.\n\nBecause a fair society is better, one where everyone has equal economic power. Not some group that have extreme power simply through lucking out with extreme wealth.", "> Her solution is laughably idealist, and naive. \n\nThe US has the biggest prison industry on the planet. You guys lock up a ridiculous amount of people in publicly funded prisons under the pretense of being tough on crime.\n\nPrisons being publicly funded is a form of 'socialism', same as public schools, roads, water treatment facilities, fire departments, police departments, the military, and any other shared cost infrastructure.\n\nThe thing with prisons though is that they outsource a ton of stuff like laundry, cleaning, food services, training, etc to third party contracted companies that are publicly traded.\n\nRich people invest in prison service companies and get good returns and the public has to pick up the tab via tax dollars.\n\nOver the last few decades, there's been a growing quota issue where police are told to arrest low income people on bullshit charges which gets them into the prison system as a statistic used to boost budgets and help make money for the prison industry. It's a predatory racket and that's just one industry. Companies like BlackRock are cross invested in everything.", "This lady clearly doesn't understand anything about how investments work. This is the logical equivalent of saying that the bank owns the money you deposit in your account.", "CEASE YOUR iNVESTIGATIONS", "Read the sentence before that one. BlackRock holds assets on behalf of its clients, which can be some group that's lucked into extreme wealth and it can also be something like the University of California (see https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/blackrock-goes-to-college-to-bolster-private-equity-dealmaking).\n\nThere are a heck of a lot of retirement funds and endowments that are managed through BlackRock that allow it to own a bunch of assets, not just shadowy dark money from the billionaire class", "They don't own a lot of housing. Not really something to lose sleep over.", ">Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street control eighty percent of the Fortune 500 companies on Wall Street and most of the western world.\n\nLol what?", "The gist is that most people don't think housing should belong to anyone but real people, not corporations.", "Really? What difference does it make?", "This video contains some serious misinformation.\n\nBlackRock is an investment management company. They buy and manage assets on behalf of pension funds, 401Ks, universities, NGOs, associations, etc...\n\nThey are custodians of the assets owned by those institutions, pension funds, 401K plans, etc...So yes, on paper they \"own\" a lot. But they don't control those assets and can't do with them as they see fit. Those assets ultimately belongs to their clients, which if you have a pension fund or a 401K, it means YOU.", "r/LostRedditors", "People shouldn't make videos on topics they don't understand lol", "People are potentially confusing BlackRock and Blackstone (who do own a lot of property/real estate assets)", "Last I looked neither owns a lot.", "Corporations can last multiple lifetimes, thus creating a serfdom. People die and yes the land can stay in the family, but it is at least owned by a human. Our economy is based on movement of capital, and stagnancy is death.", "This is that rare moment where r/investing /r/wallstreetbets are both laughing at this video.", "Last I looked both owns too much residential housing. The appropriate amount for these corporate lords to own is none.", "https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/about-us/road-to-net-zero", "Im sure all these overweight redditers flipping thru video after video in their boxer shorts in bed are about to get up and take action now.", "This lady has a giant mouth. I can like see every tooth in her mouth", "For anyone that's curious, all these firms have to disclose their holdings with the SEC to be publicly available\n\nBlackrocks latest 13F can be found here:\n\n[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364742/000108636421000104/xslForm13F\\_X01/form13fInfoTable.xml](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364742/000108636421000104/xslForm13F_X01/form13fInfoTable.xml)", "...what?", "Yeah good point, consumer behaviours have no relation to capitalism.\n\nEdit: also a good lol:\n\n> Her solution is laughably idealist, and naive.\n> \n> ...\n> \n> The only solution is overthrowing capitalism with socialism.", "They betting on GME. Still.", "So funny you're downvoted for this factual post. Americans are a strange bunch.", "Here's [an article](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/blackrock-ruining-us-housing-market/619224/) from earlier this year in the Atlantic which tries to push back against the Blackrock is evil narrative. \n\nAlso FYI I know very little about this issue.", "Why?", "Humans own corporations. Capital still moves. Serfdom isn't created by long term ownership. \n\nYou're all over the map here..", "evidently", "thanks I dont know what it was but I couldnt even get through a few minutes of her video", "you have no idea what you're talking about 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂", "There's a reason we don't allow bank's to own property that they aren't using as a branch or planning to put a branch on in the near future anymore in the United States. The same federal regulations need to be put into place on other corporations.", "What reason is that?", "They are the largest single shareholder of Goldman Sachs and have a lot of voting power...\n\nThey own 6.1%, they aren't making any grand decisions with that.", "I had those same thoughts as well watching this videos. Like she mentioned vanguard multiple times as a competitor and part of the problem and I have a hard time agreeing with that.\n\nits a passive fund that can't really purchase new stocks on it's own, so if vanguard does well, its because the sp 500 is doing well and by extension blackrock is doing well.\n\nThey compete not by what they own but who purchases their efts. Blackrock for example has a few efts that mirror the sp500, some straight up and others that factor in size of the company, momentum, plus a bunch others. It just so happens that the stock market has fossil fuel companies and companies that participate, those companies have a return are assigned a risk and so if they meet the criteria, blackrock/vanguard purchase stock. Its important because it diversifies their portfolio lowering risk and attracting people to purchase their indexfunds/efts.", "Her own website has her claim to fame as having won some video contest from a luxury travel company.\n\nAnd you can pay her a 1000 dollars a year to join her club to get sent newsletters.", "[Influencer spreads 2 minutes worth of wrong information across 15 minutes because youtube pays by the minute.]", "Thank you peanut gallary", "You can come view my nuts anytime😏", "I agree with the first part of your statement but disagree with the second.\n\nI don't think it's a viable alternative to overthrow capitalism and have socialism instead.\n\nBlackrock and vanguard in particular came about as products that people want to invest in because they wanted a safe option that still generated decent returns. A pension fund for example, something that is supposed to be safe for years on end, would not care about massive gains but instead would want to invest in something secure for many years, something that could grow moderately well to fight inflation for ex., in order to hand out those funds to their pensioners.\n\nIf you want to institute complete socialism there would be a tremendous overhaul of nearly every company and bank in the world. All of a sudden the practices that were deemed safe for decades long pension funds are open to all types of risks that jeopordize the future of those pensioners.\n\nThink about the '07 housing crisis, that effected a single market, a single investment source and had ramifications in nearly every industry and all across the world. Things are too intertwined and delicate to ever consider socialism as an economic model in this country.\n\nNow a socialistic approach to governmental practices would not be that bad.", "Noice 😎", "🥺\n👉👈", "[$411B](https://www.blackstone.com/our-businesses/real-estate/) isn't a lot?", "Hard disagree with your last point. I think the best solution would be for the government to pass and enforce laws that do now allow such large corporations to own and control as much as they do and incentivize competition. Obviously this is not going to happen because they have a huge jnfluence on our lawmakers as well but its just what I think woul be ideal.", "Nice", "I don’t like the presumptive attitude of this lady that we haven’t heard of black rock.\n\nHow do you make a 20 minute video about black rock and not mention ETFs. \nThis video is 100% clueless.", ">This video is 100% clueless.\n\nThe video is very smart. It relies on the indignation of a clueless audience to make money through monetization .\n\n1.5 million views already from a channels who's previous content was all about \"getting rich\" and generated mediocre amount of views at best. She struck gold with this bullshit.", "My understanding is that blackrock manages underlying assets on behalf of investors. So its investors who are the shareholders and they buy into mutual funds created, managed or intermediated by blackrock. There is a big push for change on the industry for example with the introduction of Environmental, Social and Governance regulation.", "Sounds more like she fell forward. Wouldn’t give her the credit of being that savvy", "> The only solution is overthrowing capitalism with socialism.\n\nok\n\nHow?", "She’s not very knowledgeable on how investments and asset management works. She keeps conflating Owning with Investing. BlackRock, while a huge corporation, is a minority investor in the companies she’s mentioning. Their investment strategy is to be extremely diversified, which is why they own little chunks of so many different companies.\n\nHere’s the most important part she’s completely missing, they don’t control ANY of those companies. The board and management of those companies are responsible for the actions and results of the company. BlackRock’s only real action is to buy or sell the company’s stock based on the direction they see the company going.\n\nBlackRock raises capital from 401k’s, pension funds, etc because they are experts and investing that capital and getting a consistent return. Their fund and asset managers become experts in the sectors for which they are investing, and it’s their job to make the optimal buy/sell decisions to drive value for their shareholders and investors, which is all of the people that choose to invest to fun their retirements.\n\nSo her solution is to say, don’t invest with a large mega asset and investment manager (who is probably the best in class) and instead take your cash and invest it where? Under your mattress? With a small investment manager that likely has higher fees, less information to support their investment decisions, and is likely riskier?\n\nShe’s pretty clueless.", "Here’s the socialist’s dilemma: they want all of the good that comes from capitalism with none of the downside.", "The solution to the issues with capitalism is not to overthrow the system in favor of socialism, which tilts too much control to the government (who are really bad with money). The solution to the issues with capitalism is to figure out a system that creates better support for the lower socio-economic classes in society so they can share in the benefits from capitalism. Balance of benefits is tilted too far to one side right now, it just needs to be adjusted a bit, not completely destroyed.", "Globally in real estate, no", "Oh the irony, we all thought socialism would end private property, but now capitalism is ending private property, because everything is just licensed and rented.", "By posting on reddit and twitter about it untill it magically happens one day.", "US is something like a $33T real estate market. Blackstone owns like tens of thousand residential homes out of over 80M. In context, no its not a lot.", "Wait are you talking about the company whose CEO is a prominent member of the World Economic Forum just like Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch? The entity that is currently resetting the Global economy? Larry Fink right? Not Flint… Fink? Also, something about a fiddler", "This guy is better studied on the topic\n\nhttps://youtu.be/UNg3Vnfu4Pk", "They don’t know that they don’t understand 😃", "That's a high schooler or Facebook addict's take on socialism, sure... Stay in school, friend.", "She's really trying to sell based on the few videos i saw after this.", "This whole video is predicated on not understanding AUM. BlackRock doesn’t own $9 trillion, they manage it. While the $22 billion BlackRock made in revenue this year is nothing to scoff at, The Home Depot reported $110 billion in revenue for 2019. It’s hard to claim BlackRock is ruling the world when a retail home improvement chain is 5x their revenue lol. \n\nStupid video by someone that doesn’t understand basic finance.", "\"What if I told you that my mouth was so big, it has been known to suck people in with it's gravitational pull?\"", "Lol. Study history, my friend.", "That's not market socialism, that's just regulated capitalism...", "Transparency in government, accountability, term limits, and take the money away from the politicians. Jail congress for insider trading. Invest in other financial systems. Break up the monopolies because they are supposed to be illegal.", "Free r kelly", "Too distracted by mouth dip", "It makes it difficult if not impossible for those of us that are on the lower end of the income scale to ever own our own home. Investing is fine, but companies buying up land as an investment could just end up gobbling it all up, and in time no individual may own their own land because of it.", ">It makes it difficult if not impossible for those of us that are on the lower end of the income scale to ever own our own home.\n\nDoes it? Institutional investors have been a tiny part of the market (1% or so). Is there an issue here or are we just discussing personal housing anxieties?", "This is purely anecdotal, but I thought the main problems with some cities are the external investors that don't actually rent out the property. \n\nI also assumed that as time goes on, of a corporation can own land, don't they usually end up owning more and more? I'm sure I'm committing some sort of fallacy, but it feels like owning property is becoming more difficult.", "Not a very good investor if you own property to lose money. \n\nLots of people bought houses last year and this year. That combined with supply issues have pushed house prices up a lot. But people are still buying..", "Lol.", ">And you can pay her a 1000 dollars a year to join her club to get sent newsletters.\n\nOh yay!", "Well my habit of reading through comments while the video is playing paid off yet again, i know not to waste any more time on that.", "Very smart?\n\nSo even if the content is bad and possibly misleading, she is very smart because she got more views?\n\nThat line of thinking nowadays rubs me the wrong way. Clickbait media and reporting is hacky and bullshit.", ">So even if the content is bad and possibly misleading, she is very smart because she got more views?\n\nYep. that was her goal. Smart and being a good person are not the same thing.", "It's not just about being a good person. It's about being aware of the impact your work can have. If her only goal is to get views and nothing else then she's starting out on the wrong path.\n\nAlso these cheap views might be good for the short term but this is not a smart strategy for long term success nowadays. \n\nThis isn't smart, it's hacky.", "You come off as completely uneducated on the topic, yet insist that what you believe is somehow correct.", "What do you mean? The posters I'm replying to are making up nonsense. \n\nBanks are generally not involved in commercial activities as they have regulatory obligations and funding opportunities unique to banks. Not really an applicable thing to corporations in general.\n\nAnd really serfdom? Serfdom is farmers tied to land under a lord.. doesn't really matter if the land changes hands.", "> the government (who are really bad with money)\n\nAh, the Conservative lie. Slow down government so that it can't process any governance on behalf of the democracy. The best application of wealth! Private ownership over democracy is the Conservative way, and it isn't genocidal fascism because you'll never hear or be representative of the people it subjugates.", "Except that that is always the case.", "You can already tell by the haircut that the video is a waste of time" ]	113	videos	This company owns the world - BlackRock
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qte6fd/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qte6fd/deleted_by_user/	[ "Mumble mumble mumble 😡😡😡", "Sorry about that", "It's not a video.....why are you pretending it's a video?" ]	3	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/qtetsj/deleted_by_user/	/r/videos/comments/qtetsj/deleted_by_user/	[ "what!?", "s̸̛̲̤̩̈́͗̌̾̃̈͂̒̄͛͐͒͊̀̏̀́̔͗͒̽͒̾̋͐͋̎̇̇̌̂̈́͛͒̿̍́̾̉̀̃̈̓̿̕͘͝a̵̧̨̭̤̳̺͉̦̝̗̳̯̬͕̦̭̦͖͚̹̤̫̼̬͚̖̬͔̞̱̫͔̤͖̞̻̜͇̘̺̫̦̟͖̖̝̭̼͓̞̖͖̰̝̾͋̆̽̽̂̐͂́̽̇͂́̂͛̀̉͆̾̇̀̓̉̓́͑̀͑̈́̄̉̈̀͑͐̾͐̂̆̋̒̿̑͑̕͘͜͝͝͠͝͝͝ͅÿ̴̢̨̜̞͎̻̹̝̭̦̺̞̳̭͇̫͇̪͚́͆̇̚ ̶̗̯̞͓̻̥̜̏̎͐́̈́̈́̐͒̀̎̋̈́͋̄̔̿̈́̈́̽̅̇͌̽̋̅̾̿̐͋̚͠ͅ'̴̢̡̛̤̘̼͖̬͉̘̩̼̳͎͈̖̝̜͙͇̙̲͕̤̹̓̽̋͗̀͆̀̉͋̒̔͛̏́̌̒̅̎̂̓̋̓̓͛̚̕͜͝͝ͅw̶̧̨̡̛̯̯̼̞̞̯̯̟̝̝̘̙͉̝͎͙̺͚̠̪͔̖͔̭̹̲̫͈͙̥͚̭͖̜͖̬͎̮̜̦̼̜͓̏̅̑̇̓̓̈́́̍̽̎̊̓̍̑̏̚̚͜͝ͅh̸̡̢̛̝͔̯͚̯̞͕̲̬̦͕̖̻̱̙͓̺̮͉̺͚̳̣͚̰̥͎̯͓̻̱̗̟͎̟̟͖̱̠̹͂̊̅̑̔͒̊̅͒̋̏̾͂͑́̋̿͂̑̈́̇̈́̔͜͠a̷̡̜̺̙͚͕͕̻̟̮̞̞̹͋̑͒̽̆̀̈͌̇̏̏͋͐́̌́̀͂̇̅̂͑̚͘͝t̴̢̨̛͕̬͎͇͙͓͉̻͕́̑̈́̒̿́̀͒̿͊͌̾̉̀̋̊͗̚͘͝ͅ'̶̧̡̧̡̡̢̧͇͕̦̠͈̱̯͕̫̱̜͍̺̠̪̠͔̩̲̬̰͕̳̗̥͉̮̠̠̬͎̲̳̗͈̥̥̞̻͙͔͔̦͓͚̞̟̙̭̜̦̩̘̝̓̐͛̅͐͊̋̏̽̀͆̅̈̀̉̇͐̚͜ͅͅ ̴̢̧̧̡̨̢̧̛̛̻̻̪̦̼̰̤͓͈̱̮̟̣̺͔̻̖̻͚̱̼̭͕͎̺̥̜͈͈̭̦̣̮͎͖̭̪̯̻͓͓̭̭̠̲̭̲͔̱͚̯͙̞͈͎̓̌̒̊̈́̒́̐̒̐͋̆̒̿͂͛̍̓̉̉̂̽̇̍̈̈́̽́̌̒̓͑̿͆̂̇̿̇́́̈́̚̕͜͜͝ͅa̶͇̙̠̪̩̤͚̰͔͇̣̪͙̗̭̰̳̜̺͖̖̽͒̉̌̉̏̆̓̉̒̓̔̀̿̀͆̀̾̈́̈̑̏́̊̌̓͐͊̽̉̓̿̍̔̇̚͜͠͝͝͝ģ̷̨̫͚͖̲͍̱͚̱̘̖̖̞̲͉̻̥̥͈̟͎͙̻͇͚͖̪̗̖̯̞̠̏͗̉̎͆̆̎̅͘̕͜ȃ̸̡̡̧̭̪̝͉̻͖̮͖̤̟̩͕̬̞̪̞̖̭̝̞̟̱͙̜̰͔͔͕͈̬͚͖̬͎͙̼̰͉̲̝̯̭͋͑̈͆͜ȋ̸̡̢̡̦̭̩̤̩̫̟͙̘͈̫̮̠̱̝̤̩͓̞͍̜̝͋̉͋̾̑͐̊̾̃̑̋̄̽̓͒̐͑̏́͐̈͝n̸̢̥̥̜͓̫̤̲̼̠͈͓̲̩̱̻̹̗͓̭͚̠̬̙͙̜̈́́̏̑̀͋̎̀̔̈̏͆͆̕̕͜ͅͅ,̵̛̲̖̝͙͍͙̻͛̃͂̎̽͒̃̉̏̌͂̿̃̅͂̓́̎̅̌̑̅͋̄͂̚͘̕͠͝͠͝ ̴̧̡̛̘̰̝͈̹̥̫̮̠͚̱͕̠̩̖̙̪̹̳͈͔̗̰͉͉̲͇̆̿̔̒̅͊̍̉͂͐͒̋̇̈́͛̄̅͠͝͠m̴̧̧͇̭̗̦̘̻̹͍̣̺̲̠̪̤͇̪̞͕̣͖̜͕̜̻͎͇̥͓̰̬̲͍̘̙̼̞̲̹͚̩͕̱̣̳̩͑̀́͛̉̾̽͒́͒̉̓̃̆̓̅́̄̈́͗̌̍̌́̿͊̾̚̕̚͜͜ͅͅo̶̡̡̼̝̘͙̖̻̰͙̮͔̭̠͓̝̟͙͔͍̝̹͈̙͎̜̪͔̹̹̪̰̲̠̯̣̬͚̿͛̀̿͊̂̈́̽̿̒̅͗̆̑̍́̆͆̊̈́̑̄̅͆̃͒͑̈́͌̍̈͐͛͐̐̄͑̂̾̆͐͑̎̑̕̕͘͘͜͜͜͝͠͝͝ͅͅͅt̸̛̥̹͍̓̊̋̈̾̈́̒͒̈́̎̓͗͂̀́̿̀̑̆̎̂̓̋̌͊̀͒̈͂͗̔̂̑͛̄̔̍͌̀̈́̅́͘͝͝͠h̵̢̨̨͕͓̳̰͕̻̤͕̘̫̜̥̱̦̬̟͓̥̳̘̹̗͎̞̫͖̏̋͛̈́́̔͌̍̿̍̒͗̾̐̂̓͐̔̀͌̈́̄͋̽́͒̀̐̐͋̿̈̌́̚͜͜͜͝͠͝e̵̟͇͂̍̽̾́̽͒̀̌̔͊̈͛͊͆̊́͗͒͘͠ͅͅr̷̰̖͎̽͆̆̈́͗̇̍͐̽͊̽̂̋̏͐̿̎́̐̐͗̓͑͛͋͗̀̌̈́͊̽͗͗̓͋̍͂̎̓́̑́͂̾̎̉̍̓́̒́̚͘͘͘̕͝͠͝͝͝͠f̷̡̛̛̺͛̊̒͛̇̄̔̐̏̈́̅́́̂̃̎̓̍̿́̈́̑̿͑͋͛̾̓̋͗́͋̅̆̽͒̚͘͠͠ư̴̘̳͂̔̋̽̿̈́̓̀͗̏̏̆͒̔̿̎̈́͘̕̕̕ç̴̧̧̨̧̢̨͉̫̰̯̦̹͕͎̱̹̘̼̠͕̺̰̱̰̱͚̥̘͍̘̥̺̦͍̯̝͙̗̰͚̹͎̻̙͔̬͇̲̱͕̟͕͈̑͒͗̊̌̓͆͐̾̄̐́̽̐̾̿̽͊͒̅͐͛͒̅̄̋͌̆̾̓̒͂̆͐̈́̋̂͂́̍̅̍̈́̚̕͘͜͜͝͠ͅͅͅḳ̸̨̧̧̡̨̢̛̛̖͕͕͍̘̗͍̠̙̗͖̭̗͚̜̝̞̣̙̫̰̣̬̰̮̠̪͈̮͖̝̻͉̳͇̝̣̱̭̥͋̾̄̈͐̄̉́̈̅̽̒͋̈̋͗͆̒̾̊́͘̕͜͝ͅͅͅͅͅę̷̛̗̣̐̋̋̄̍̓͂̅̆̿̽̇͆͌͂̈͗̈́̍͆̎̽̂́̈́͋̌̏̃͛̕̚͘͘r̵̯̹͙̱͎͕̜̜̤͖͈̤̜̱̈́̉̅̋͐̓͒͐͂̎̒̄́̅̆̊͘͜͜.̸̨̧̨̰̥̮̗̩͕̭̰̣̭̲̰̤͎̞͎͈͇͕͎̺͔̗̄̄̈́̏́̍̅̍̓̌̒̒̀͊͆̐̔̍͊̌̀̋̐͌̌͗͛̈́̂͋͊́͊̄̒́̈́̽͌̇͋͒̚̕̚̚͘̕̕̚͝ͅ", "This made me laugh, it’s so stupid", "Thought it was going to be an ad for an ISP:\n\n\"Don't be a glitch, get our ultimate work from home bundle starting at $69.99*√=×¥®©€\|°^^\\ \"", "Anyone else getting Black Mirror vibes" ]	5	videos	[deleted by user]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMP_xEiC284&ab_channel=InvertTunes	/r/videos/comments/qtf1ko/inverted_version_of_we_wish_you_a_merry_christmas/	[ "It works", "you can almost hear the original in it, played it for my wife without telling her what it was, and she called it.", "There's this video, I suppose", "How is it inverted?\n\nFront-to-back? Or like, the music version of a photo-negative?", "lol, i played the video we just watched, i'm far too uncoordinated to do anything like \"play a musical instrument\"", "Speed that s\\\\t up and you got Scott Joplin.", "umm… so you’re saying it’s front to back?", "There goes my merry Christmas", "I... are you a bot who rotates between spamming a pasta on penis size, racial stereotypes, regretting having daughters, and a study on celibacy?", "idk but I'd guess treble flips upsidedown around the B line and bass around the D", "But what about girth?\n\nTell me about the girth, damn your eyes!", "Not quite the same… but almost sounds similar to “major key songs in a minor key” vibes that give a bright/happy song a more somber and melancholic feel.", "Wow this has such a mysterious vibe. It reminds me of the movie Anastasia - like, where did she disappear to? A bit solemn but has hints of hope fullness and joy (merry)", "I was curious, so I checked, and it's not a reverse of the track. Also running through 'Invert' in Audacity does almost nothing. So I think there's a bit of artistic interpretation in the word 'inverted', unless it means something more technical in music note terms.", "Sounds like Bo Burnam about to sing some clever shit over it", "It's been flipped, like right-to-left, on the keyboard. So the bass notes are playing in the treble, and if a melodic line went 'down' before, it instead goes 'up'", "This is really weird to listen to. I haven't heard it before, but it's like my brain somehow still recognizes it as familiar. Musical deja vu.", "My penis is only 3 inches, and every girl I've been with said that's plenty wide enough for them.", "Or the right hand is playing the left part, and vice-versa.", "Even if they're not a bot, repeatedly posting the same thing in unrelated threads should earn a temp ban", "The \"Good tidings we bring to you and your kin\" part is still very recognizable, probably because it's the same notes repeated several times and makes no diff if it's backward or forward" ]	23	videos	Inverted Version of 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' is pretty cool
https://youtu.be/4JzXjUZll2k	/r/videos/comments/qtg5pa/burger_king_dumps_used_oil_in_local_storm_drain/	[ "Post the manager video.", "Where is this?", "I feel sorry for the poor guy who got yelled at for doing something his boss probably told him to do. There had to have been a less obnoxious way to handle that.", "he was just following orders", "oh well", "'Not my problem'", "Edit \\~ In the video info. The video is 6 years old.", "worked well for the prosecution of nazi soldiers in court.", "I hate how all these people on the internet are going to give this poor guy a hard time without understanding him, the situation, or having to live his life", "Yea the obnoxiousness added nothing to the video.", "I can not believe that “the boss” told anyone to do that. That BK, most assuredly, has a free grease container for used grease. And “the boss” would want that grease in the container (that costs nothing to have) because once per month the company that provides the free container comes and empties it and then pays the boss money for the used grease.\n\nI doubt the boss would be happy about a couple thousand dollar fryer filter getting flipped up like that either\n\nFrom a purely objective cost based perspective there is absolutely no financial incentive for the business to do this.", "If you have an older diesel, like an '80s Mercedes 300D...you can process animal fats and used cooking oils into fuel.", "I saw beauty in the beast in theaters for my 4th bday. I remember that shit like it was yesterday.\n\nSame with this piece of video, saw this one on liveleak when that place was still live", "You severely overestimate the competence of managers and shift leaders in the service industry.", "God I swear, you fucking morons compare everything to nazis.", "I also hate the idiots who don't understand the Nuremberg Defense", "Just fucking think of the mental gymnastics you have to pull to make a comparison to a burger king employee doing what he's told to a fucking nazi. \n \nSeriously, reddit is big time nutty with this shit.", "Actually, all diesels can run used fry oil as fuel......An older diesel requires considerably less processing (basically filtering) than a new car does though. Bio fuel is incredibly easy to make on a large scale.", "To me the occam’s razor scenario is “fuck it I’m doing the easiest thing”.", ">Godwin's law, short for Godwin's law (or rule) of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting that as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1.\n\n\nLol why am I being downvoted?", "I've worked at other places that have a grease pickup service and they don't pay. It's a free service, but I can see the BK manager not wanting to replace the grease container if it somehow got lost or damaged, and just telling employees to empty it out in the gutter.\n\nAlso, why would a general employee want to go outside the store to empty out grease if they had a container inside the store?", "I will agree with you here... Had the audio been cut in this video... OK... but with the audio... \n\n\\-\\_-", "he was just following orders was on a documentary i just watched on WW2, the comment i made isn't meant to the employee but the commenters quote. \n\n\nthat was my mental leap haha", "There is a difference when his actions begin to affect others. No amount of hardship excuses fucking up the world for everyone else.", "Came here to say the same thing. Thanks OP.", "> Uuh what do you mean he caused you to become infertile\n\nHe told me he was clean but he had chlamydia, which developed into pelvic inflammatory disease, scarred up my fallopian tubes and now I can't get pregnant.", "I’ve been having my grease picked up for a decade. Yes, they do pay", "Me too, I feel like I missed the boat..I don't have an issue finding a suitor, but I just don't fall in love anymore and I'm seriously considering settling down with a guy that I'm not attracted to but that I know will be good to me.", "Wtf are you on about?", "by your same logic, there is no reason for the guy to be dumping it there. why not just empty it into the grease container, if anything it would be easier than hauling the thing out to the sewer drain.", "They keep posting random out of context post on different threads", "It's truly incredible that in this world of 7+ billion people, your experience is universal and shared by everyone.", "Nah you gotta pay for containers similar to trash collection. This is an egregious violation in most US municipalities because it clogs the system", "It is right to document this.\n\nIt is wrong to harass the (likely) minimum wage employee who wasn't in charge of the decision.", "I'm kinda confused as well.. Is the manager an old white man?", "I am not denying that your place does, I am simply saying that your experiences are not universal.", "The man was doing his part to keep the C.H.U.D population at bay.", "As an employee you can refuse to do something that is illegal. \n\nIf they reprimand or terminate you, it's an easy lawsuit to win.", "This is a guy who should be retired, but instead he's earning poverty wages at what some people would consider a job for teenagers. He's got no choice here but to take the verbal abuse or risk losing that job. I doubt he's getting full time hours or benefits, so he could very well be working two or three jobs.\n\nI agree with the corporate hate, but the behavior of the person recording is pretty shameful. This is a human being, being humiliated on the internet because they need to keep their minimum wage job to survive.", "Forget it, I'm arguing with people on the internet got it.", "Gravity. You would have to lift it up to the grease container.\n\nNormally you dump the hot grease from the fryer into the filter with a stabilizer and use the tube/handle and pump the oil back in to the fryer. If the oil is shot you dump it from the fryer into a dump container and from that container in to your outside grease container.\n\nIMHO, the most likely scenario is that the filter pump overheated and tripped the reset switch. The oil is still extremely hot going into the storm drain/sewer and it’s coming from an oil filter machine which leads me to believe that the oil was intended to go back in the fryer.\n\nSo, with the filter pump down (they don’t know how to reset it or didn’t wait for the pump to cool down) the “fuck it I’m going to do the easiest thing” is send it down the storm drain", "No, it’s wrong for the employee to hear this ludicrous demand from his boss and carry it out anyways. He knows it’s wrong, yet he did it. He deserves all the shame as the manager deserves.", "If only it were that simple. Sometimes you need a job, and don't want to risk it by disobeying your manager", "The rats love him.", "Its called bating. In betting this is a bot trying to stir shit up.", "This wasn't a corporate decision. Burger King's are franchised and it was probably the dickhead owner who told them to dump it. I am guessing their traditional way of disposing oil was backed up and the owner said fuck it pour it out. That owner probably lost his franchise license after this was posted.", "Look at the old man trying to keep his job and probably the only place that would hire him. He may have money issues and need this job cos of x reason (maybe medical, debts, etc).\n\nPlenty of things are wrong in the world but people keep doing it knowing its bad. Everyone knows the problems in the world yet most people dont care or even moves a finger.", "Sure, but I had to look up whether it's illegal or not, only to find out the answer is \"maybe,\" and very dependent on where you are. Apparently it is where this was shot, but it took some work to figure that out. If it was hard for me, I'm not very confident the guy doing the dumping would have been a lot more familiar with county ordinances.\n\nFor what it's worth, I also realized while searching for that information that this video is six years old and the employees at that Burger King have since received more training to prevent it from happening again:\n\n[https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lake-worth-burger-king-oil-20150512-story.html](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lake-worth-burger-king-oil-20150512-story.html)", "Just following orders, sir.", "Happy Cake Day!!", "Odds are the employees all lost their jobs and the owner is running a Hardees down the street. Or a BK in the next town over.", "I think it’s a stray flamer bot.", "don't care i'm grabbing my pitchfork and tiki torch, less go", "Your actions affect my life by using electricity or commuting to your job/school with a car/bus you are making earth less habitable for everyone. So whats your excuse?", "It's hard to say. The video was posted in 2015 and possibly filmed even before it was posted. Was a little bit different time then so it's possible that corporate BK just told him not to do it again but if this happened recently they would've revoked his franchise license.", "This dude in his 60s working fast food and you think he has options.", "there's a hose that you plug into that trolley thing that sucks out the grease into a large tank.", "2nd party companies provide the containers for free because they make their profit off of the used grease.", "I agree the man behind the camera is obnoxious, but that's pretty liberal usage of \"verbal abuse\". Nothing the guy said was threatening or even disparaging.", "this happened 6 years ago, the employee and the general manager who ordered the dumping were fired by the franchisee owner. the franchise also paid to have it professionally cleaned up by a plumbing company and retrained all their workers. they were not fined by the local government due to the cleanup and mitigation steps taken.\n\nthe dumping had happened over the course of several weeks with an estimated 30-50 gallons of oil disposed of improperly at the direction of the general manager.\n\nand yes, the restaurant had a oil recycling program in place, no idea why the general manager would decide to do this except out of stupidity/ignorance.\n\n[https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lake-worth-burger-king-oil-20150512-story.html](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lake-worth-burger-king-oil-20150512-story.html)\n\n[https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html)\n\nedit: correction, happened 6 years ago", "Yeah I had a kid working for me with an old diesel truck, he had a reserve tank of normal diesel and he would take all our rancid/reject oils and pump into his main tank. Started up the truck on the reserve tank, got moving, switched to the oil, drove home 20 miles ... Final mile before home he'd switch back to the reserve with normal diesel to clear the lines and did this for 5 yrs no issues.", "🎶 Teenage Diabetic Turtles 🎶", "This bot is a master at it.", "Ah yes, definitely don't put diesel in that one.", "Not if the pumps not working or there is t a receptacle nearby or an extension cord is just too darn much work.", "Yeah, do what’s right. He has an HR department and a corporate number to call if he’s fired. He’s old enough to know not to do something this stupid.", "You understand that if he got fired for refusing to do this he has a wrongful termination suit on his hands? \n\nBy saying no and getting fired he is set for life. But no, he just decided to do something he is old enough to know is wrong.", "It’s not worth much of anything right now. Pennies per pound but when this video is as shot it was worth considerably more.", "\"I was only following orders.\" Sounds familiar.", "My retirement grease!", "Ok, that ain't a sewer, it's a rainwater catch basin that most likely drains into waterways. They said \"storm drain\" in the article, so that's what I'm going on. \n\nIt's so much worse if it's a storm drain. \n\nMy phone is screwy, please, somebody tell me this ain't a rainwater catch basin...", "[Relevant](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/671/387/17c.jpg)", "lol. Are you seriously comparing this guy to a Nazi?", "[This story](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html) gives some details of what happened. It seems a general manager and store employee was fired. They hired a professional clean-up crew to scrub the run off water and added a page in the employee handbook. Shockingly, no fine... because they were sorry.", "There are a lot of people that refuse to learn standards and code. \n\n\nThis is what their work looks like.", "Somebody else said that the old man, and the GM were both fired by the franchise owner, who also paid to have it professionally cleaned up and 'retrained' all other employees. They were not fined because of these steps taken. \n\n\nIMO the employee should've been left out of it, old man or not.", "What odds? Who fires every single staff member?", "That's racial profile and harassment and age shaming.", "HR department protects the company, FYI", "The manager was fired over it so it's more like the boss's boss wasn't happy lol. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html", "This was filmed 6 years ago, I don't think we're gonna get an update.", "If you don't see the difference I can't help you.", "Dude filming was a total prick. He should be just as ashamed as the manager or whoever ordered the oil be dumped like that. What a fucking dick. It's one thing to do a dickheaded move dumping oil or instructing someone to dump oil, but to act like the guy with the video recording device did is just as pitiful. WHAT A FUCKING WANKER!!!", "Yeah, the hardships excuse is bad, but regardless, this man most likely didn't make a the decision to dump there, probably just doing what needs to be done to not be fired and end up homeless and cold. The beef and responsibility should be held with the franchise owner/GM, not a grunt/cog in the wheel. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nNot to mention, the videographer was making an absolute douche of himself in public so it's easy to side with the other guy. Even if his actions are not right, that doesn't mean anyone should approach, film and harass", "Dude filming was a bigger douche for acting the way he did. What a fuckin' wanker!", "\"Don't blame the man pouring oil down the sewer, surely we can find someone else to blame for all this oil in the sewer.\"", "That camera is worse that the oil in the sewer.", "Forgot to change accounts there bud", "Nah man.", "I like how he made it a point to mention, several times, that the gentleman in the burger king uniform was walking back in to the burger king.", "Dang this guy is in his old age, working a shitty job, probably a shitty life. Has a shitty boss. Probably knows enough that what he’s doing is shitty.\n\nBut then this dude comes with a shitty attitude and shits all over him… Shit.", "Got ‘em.", "Thank you for the follow up and sources", "Jesus, this guy filming is unbearable. Watch without sound.", "Lol ok dude. Demand is not ludicrous. It’s not like he is killing babies.", "My point was the owner loses that franchise but bounces back pretty quick.", "I'm 56 and I'm just about to finish my first day at Burger King. How can it get any worse? Oh, now I'm internet famous.", "Maybe they were so high they weren’t paying attention to who they were replying to.", "That's disgusting. I know folks that take used veggie oil and make bio diesel fuel from it. Free oil and a bit of time converting", "Yup. He is oil-dumped-nto-drain irritating to listen to. I definitely prefer the disposition of the senior citizen making minimum wage to illegally dump oil.", "I mean at some point you have to know you're not supposed to do something even if your boss told you to, and I can understand getting that angry at someone who is doing something that harmful to the environment and infrastructure.", "Ever heard of a soundbite?", "[This guy](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giulia-Bini/publication/348477964/figure/fig1/AS:979916514418688@1610641711008/The-Spiderman-pointing-at-Spiderman-template-Source-Reddit.jpg)", "Titled as if the organization condoned it. Just ignorant fast food workers and an 8gnorant post to match.", "The manager was probably stealing the money the restaurant would have pay to properly dispose of the oil.", "Firing the employee is a bit of a dog act, no? In a state where they can be fired from a job that they might desperately need for no reason.", "Rats love piss. NYC subway is where I saw many a time a drunk urinating right on the platform and the rats coming out for a sip within minutes.", "No, most restaurants have separate collection bins for their grease that is picked up for free. This is possible because oil recycling is a lucrative business, getting it for free is already a steal. Some businesses are even paid a modest sum.", "> it's an easy lawsuit to win.\n\nRight and then he'll need to find a new job, Wheres this old dude going to find a new job? in the meantime while hes fighting that lawsuit with some hopefully pro-bono case, where will his income come from?", "Video creator is such a douche that it makes me question if dumping oil in the sewer is a good thing. Certainly feels like I should be supporting whatever the opposite of this guy's stance is.", "My wife is Asian, and desperate for a white boyfriend, which upsets me greatly.", "And people don't necessarily do thing like this out of malice, quite often, it's just ignorance. As wrong as it is to trash your oil like this, this video made me feel uncomfortable.", "or just replied to my own post by mistake", "Especially when they're just doing what they're told. Maybe the guy just wanted to be on the GM's good side or something.", "I thought this kind of oil was worth money by those biodiesel folks who drive cars that alway smell like French fries (which is not a bad thing)", "Money for the lawyer? Hopefully it will be pro-bono. \n\nWhere will his income come from during this case? oh right he'll just find a new job, Where will an old man find a new job? maybe the mcdonalds down the road. \n\nI wish life was really simple and we could just lawyers to make things right, but thats not how the world works.", "its like that spongebob shit", "The post that started this comment string is the literal translated phrase of the\n[Nuremberg defense](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders)\n\n\"Ich tue nur meinen dienst\" doesn't absolve one's actions.\n\nThe real irony is you calling it mental gymnastics to make that connection.", "I used to work fast food and some days I’d be the one to empty the grease. I’d have to drain the fryers then put the oil in a container then take it outside to the grease dumpster and then I think I had to lift it up to empty it. Could be this guy just didn’t like lifting up the container to dump it", "100% agree. Just following orders isn't a defense that has done very well historically. \n\nBut, for sure cringey video. Should have not been such a douche.", "Conjecture\n\nEdit: he edited his comment after making up stuff…", "Then I'm gonna bet the pump was fried in that filter machine weeks ago and the \"fuck it\" started with the GM not wanting to pay to fix the machine.", "case solved. have an upvote", "Why is a 6 year old video being posted here that's already been posted here?", "A GM was fired and they had been doing it for weeks article was posted elsewhere in the thread.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nYou're right. Never overestimate the competence of managers.", "\\^ this guy dumps grease.\n\nDid a remodel on our kitchen last year and put a grease container in our basement under the kitchen. Now they just plug the filter pump into the wall and pump it right into the tank. No one has to carry used grease around anymore. Grease company just hooks up on the outside of our building and their truck pumps it out.", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhZXkFmPyk&t=3s", "That thing he has there has a built-in pump. You just have to connect the hose and plug the pump into a receptacle on the bulk container. What he is doing is a lot more work than doing it the right way.", "Tell your wife to dm me please 🥺", "You can do whatever your manager told you to do but when you don't immediately tell someone higher than them what they're doing, especially when you know it's wrong, then you're also complicit.", "Wendy’s gets around this by never changing theirs. Their fries and nuggets used to be the best, now they taste like poison.", "This video is from 6 years ago, so if it makes you feel any better, he’s probably dead now.", "Simpsons taught me this.", "You are right. It wasn't labors market in 2016 like it is today.", "Yes, by making sure this guy gets paid out so he doesn't threaten to sue the company. HR always protects the company, but that doesn't always mean that you get fucked over in the process. Sometimes helping themselves involves helping you.", "It could be worse, she could be looking for her husband!", "Not to forgive dumping oil down the storm drain, but it does seem a douchebag move to harass an older guy who is probably making minimum wage and doing what he was told to do. Tell the dumper he was doing wrong, then go talk to the manager like you said you were going to.", "I know oil is bad but why is it bad?", "That’s pretty sweet that it has a pump, I hated emptying the oil back when I used to work fast food, I’d have to put on rubber gloves and apron and carry the thing of oil to the dumpster and dump it", "Yup. I had a friend years ago, who had a deal with the local McD, to pick up their used frier oil for free. He had rebuilt his VW Golf to run on frier oil instead of diesel. Smelt like french fries when he drove it. Incredible.", "At the time this was filmed used grease had some value, over the last 3 to 4 years it has not been worth much but post-pandemic the price has spiked back up a bit due to not as much used oil being generated by restaurants. In 2015 (around the time this was filmed I'm guessing?) I was getting about $25-30 a month for my used grease.", "Meanwhile in China they use gutter oil.", "You’re greatly overestimating two things: one- the criminal competency of a Burger King manager that’s willing to tell an employee to dump oil down a sewer drain, and two- how much it costs to recycle used fry oil.", "What if the manager told them to shoot people in the dining room. Just following orders right?", "One of the more effective fast food commercials I’ve seen showed a manager demonstrating how the oil is collected to an employee. The employee makes a comment about how this is where it goes and they look over in the direction of the customers eating greasy burgers and fries as the manager says “Well, not ALL of it!” I guess it wasn’t that effective because I can’t remember the product, probably Subway or some place that doesn’t use much oil.", "Eh, in reality you'd have no idea how far that went up. If he tried to go higher, it could have just been worse for him.", "Worse than being fired? I guess you're right, his franchisee could have mob connections. I never thought of that.", "If you play it in reverse you learn where BK gets all its flavor from", "Maybe he didnt know he shouldn’t do that.", "Why would that make someone feel better? Whats wrong with you?", "[BP is also sorry](https://youtu.be/15HTd4Um1m4)", "Yeah in America, that can get you fired.\n\nThe higher ups probably only gave a damn because the video went viral. Had the employee went to them first... Yeah \"fuck you carl, get back to the fryer\"", "It's free (for restaurants like BK) to recycle used fry oil", "Which means he's in exactly the same situation. You do see how him saying something, doesn't negatively effect him but does have the probability of giving him a better chance at keeping his job, right?", "Not really. The owner wants to make sure employees aren't so blind they won't approach him about CLEARLY illegal shit going on in his store.", "I used to work for Pizza Hut and we got paid for our used fryer oil. It wasn't much, but the company provided us with a barrel by the dumpster and we called them when it was 3/4 full.", "Hm it says a employee but not the employee.. I wonder if it was that guy or someone else who wasn't caught doing it.", "So what exactly happens if you dump the oil down the storm drain?", "Store manager and a employee were fired. Not sure if it was that employee or not though.\n\nhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lake-worth-burger-king-oil-20150512-story.html", "Exactly lmao. Idk if I worded it weird but that is……exactly my point. Oh well, I’m leaving it up. Downvote me for agreeing with y’all.", ">following orders isn't a defense that has done very well historically.\n\nWhat are you comparing this to, what history?", "Nnow they have a tank system. They have one tank for fresh and one tank for used oil, it’s all dumped by levers now. All burger kings/KFCs/McDonald’s and a bunch of restaurants use the system, I use to install them. They sign a contact for the system which also includes getting the fresh oil delivered and used oil taken away", "I agree, if I had to bet, I’d guess the manager thought this a great money move that would somehow look great on the books.", "False, they sign a contract with a company for tanks of fresh oil and for their used oil to be taken away. I know because I used to work for the company that install/services them", "Idk, but figuring out what I'm worrying about literally doesn't exist anymore, might make me feel better. \n\nDwelling on something that probably isn't bothering him anymore is just pointless.", "You would think an older person knows that’s just not how you deal with oil. Some teenager I might give them some leniency with just not knowing basic cleaning procedures, but adults should know better imo.", "I didn't know I wanted a french fry car until right now...", "Can't break the law if you don't know the law obviously! /s", "I think they are one of those missionary types, the ones who go the Sentinel Islands and wonder why they're getting arrows shot at them by the locals.", "Knew a guy who did that. He had a lawn care business. Had a bio fuel filtration system in his garage. All 4 of his trucks used for the business ran on it. He would do restaurants and fast food places in exchange for their oil. It was an incredible set up.", "You file your case with the labor department. \nThe same people he would be filing for unemployment benefits with. \nThere is no lawyer, so your lack of knowledge is apparent.", "Internet.", "I know the guy that filmed this. He was interviewed on the local news. Lake Worth, FL\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html%3foutputType=amp", "Um. What? Sorry. Fucking what?\n\nYou think people shouldn’t be fired for doing incredibly illegal things because their boss told them to?\n\nFucking…..WHAT?!", "Fuck, the camera guy/narrator has an obnoxious voice. If he was going to get fired anyway, the employee should have kicked him in the balls or something.", "Where you think? Florida, of course 😅", "Psh, way to diminish my outrage and keep me from upvoting internet garbage.", "If there's one thing I've learned from my 55 years on earth, it's the older people aren't inherently any smarter than young ones. The whole \"older and wiser\" thing is mostly just old person propaganda to keep those little bastards in line.", "Are you like 12 years old? “Just doing what you’re told”????", "Ah, a crayon eater. I see.", "Yeah an all-in-one service contract is the way to go for efficiency for sure. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about it", "I'd definitely use the term harassment", "Yo. A 60 something adult should know that dumping oil down a drain is really fucking not ok. \n\nLike…there’s clearly a reason this idiot is working at Burger King in his golden years.", "So, OP who posted this video is the first post in almost 6 years.\n\nThe start of a bot account? Likely.\n\nReddit historians, I called it first, mark me down in the history books!", "Probably trying to \"own the libs\"", "You mean like the person who ordered him to do it?", "Good thing it didn't smell like smelt.", "Umm", "> He had rebuilt his VW Golf to run on frier oil instead of diesel.\n\nThere isn't really any rebuilding in it. Filter the junk out of the oil, possibly change a few hoses and o-rings depending on how old the engine is, and go.", "Nurenburg.", "Glad to see you don't know what you're talking about. Have a nice night.", "If you believe in a Judeo-Christian afterlife, then cool, he’s either in heaven… or, you know, the other place, depending on how God feels about dumping food waste into municipal-maintained waterways.\n\nIf you don’t believe in heaven, then, at least he doesn’t have to work at Burger King anymore 🤷🏼‍♂️", "Gahh!!! MY RETIREMENT GREASE!!!", "need to [convert it to biodiesel](https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-transportation/biodiesel/home-biodiesel-production-zm0z15aszmar)", "I work in a restaurant right now and it's fucking hell. I'm not surprised. \n\n\nI hope they raise minimum wage soon.", "> Worse than being fired?\n\nHe could have gotten fired earlier.", "I saw one system a number of years back that did this. It still used diesel because the oil burned very poorly when the engine wasn't hot enough. The car started on diesel, and when the engine was up to temperature it switched to the oil system. \n\nI don't know if that's how all of the oil biodiesel conversions do it, because I have only seen one in person.\n\nPoint being, the second tank and the control system for switching were all extra stuff.", "I knew a guy 10 years ago who ran his biodiesel truck in Berkeley, CA with deals with fast food joints. He said it was harder and harder to find places and the ones that he went to wanted to start charging him money.\n\nI think a pickup service probably took over all of that and is making money doing it.\n\nEdit: (I just find it funny that a city the rest of the US calls 'socialist/communist' is just as venal and money-grubbing as any other place.)", "Mike Rowe/Dirty Jobs did an episode on this https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/dirty-jobs/full-episodes/bio-diesel-man", "Well actually they’re not supposed to “just do what they’re told” because they are CARRYING OUT ILLEGAL ACTS.\n\nIf I pay someone minimum wage to take dogs and cats from peoples houses and turn them into burgers, is it still ok because I’m the manager and I told them to do it?", "It's an old man if he's desperate enough to keep working a minimum wage job post-retirement maybe he can't afford to say no.", "Yeah, because he for sure knew the video would go viral and force BK to do something, right?", "Yeah he’s like super mad about something, I can’t put my finger on it hm.", "I agree, more so I understand when younger people don’t know things. You’d think older people would know basics, but clearly that’s not the case.", "It's Burgerking, not Dachau for fuck sake", "Going over your manager's head is the surest way to get fired. It's a lose-lose situation for the minimum wage employee.", "That's what the conversion is. New oil filter, new hoses, and attachments. Your link doesn't even say anything about the conversion lol", "We all do been doing this for years, all the cleaning companies and wax companies do this too.", "Celebrity Houses.... At Night.", "Incredibly illegal? lol this doesn't rise above a misdemeanor. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nIdeally employees should be fired for doing this kind of thing, but at the same time, ideally their livelihoods shouldn't be at risk every minute of the day for pissing off their manager. If someone made me choose between defaulting on my loans and becoming housing insecure, or pouring some oil into a waterway... sorry Nemo.", "Oh ok I thought you couldn't possibly be comparing this old BK employee to literal Nazis but I was wrong.", "Bit of a false equivalence but okay lmao", "Fired and blacklisted in their town.", "No, because he knew it was wrong to do what he's doing.", "What do you thinks happens to the used oil that gets sucked out of their grease traps?", "that's my retirement grease!!!", "They're talking about turning the used oil into biodiesel.", "No, I wasn't at all. I was commenting on the familiarity of excuses I heard coming from another redditor.", "It sounds awful to me, I’d be hungry every time I drove my car", "While the guy couldn't know it at the time, obviously it wasn't since his franchisee fired the GM for it. People higher up in businesses will take issue with things that can blow back on them, such as illegal dumping.", "I thought it was a question", "You can see his adrenaline spiking with the video shaking. He's positively riled up.", "You don't know what that word means, i guess even trolls are low quality these days", "Not likely. What incentive do they have to oil dump when they get free oil pickup and dumping opens them up to a massive lawsuit?", "That's illegal I think. /s", "There's no difference. This is just happening in the view of the public.", "Eh, bypassing the chain of command would also get the dude fired.", "Why would the boss tell him to do that? There is literally no reason for it. The guy probably just doesn't know how to follow instructions or was trained poorly. I feel like I've had this conversation before for this exact video already.\n\nEDIT: Apparently the general manager told them to lol. What a dumbass. How does a general manager even get to that position and do something so easily avoided.\n\nhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html", "I don't think you're familiar with how whistleblowing of any form gets treated, especially in the US, but I'd certainly love to live in your world instead of mine.", "The point you were arguing was stupid.", "Most bosses will fix issues that will blow back on them, such as illegal dumping. It's not like it'll go unnoticed forever.", "You don't know what I do for the world and I don't plan on wasting my time telling you. I don't do it for you. See ya.", "Agreed, there is literally no reason for any boss of a fast food restaurant to do that. The worker was either a dumbass and doesn't know how to follow instructions or was poorly trained. That or just malicious. My gas is poorly trained.\n\n\nEDIT: Apparently the general manager told them to lol. What a dumbass. How does a general manager even get to that position and do something so easily avoided.\n\nhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html", "Instant Godwin's law here", "Yeah??? I'm gonna go take a BIG DUMP in Burger King then. Who's with me???!", "It's hardly even whistleblowing. This would be helping the big boss protect himself from their employee. It's not like dumping like this would go unnoticed forever.", "That has nothing to do with what you were saying. He had no way of knowing that he was going to get fired for this, so he wouldn't know that going to the higher ups and getting fired wouldn't matter since he ended up without a job anyway.\n\nThat also doesn't take into account the extra time he spent earning money to pay bills, since he's probably not working for BK at that age for fun.", "It's not his job to even know this is illegal", "r/oddlyspecific", "yup they used to pay use. probably because competition between oil recyclers", "Might as well lose in the way that means not doing the illegal thing.", "What's crazy is that bakers commodities will come pick that shit up literally for free", "How do you know?", "You mean, \"don't get caught\"", "60 year old man~ working a minimum wage job that’s for high school students. Sad.", "Crazy he would do this. When I was in high school years ago, a buddy worked at a fast food place. His manager would sell the used oil to a guy who had a car that ran on cooking oil. He’d take it home and filter it and use it as fuel. The manager loved it because they managed to make a few bucks they otherwise would have to spend to hire a company to dispose or recycle the oil.", "Lucrative is an understatement. I used to collect fryer oil from my local Chinese takeaway and fish and chip shop for free, filter it and throw it in my diesel tank. Now a company pays them more per litre than regular diesel costs.", "Why the fuck would any minimum wage employee try to fucking help the upper management? Pay me a living wage and I'll go over the manager's head without a second thought.", "Context and follow up, followed by rampant speculation.\n\nThis is Reddit.", "Yuppers people are incredibly stupid", "Yeah that's not how that works unless they were paying cash and literally no businesses do that because no other businesses are going to accept cash as that means their drivers have to handle the money. Businesses write checks with memos so that everything is tracked and nothing can be stolen.\n\nCrazy how people with absolutely no sense of how businesses operate will make such wild accusations about people they don't know.", "He was told to by his boss", "Well you can lose your job for dumping the oil, or lose it for refusing to pollute. One of those is a better option, IMO.\n\nEither way, you lose your job.\n\nI'd applaud the employee for doing the right thing, but I would also understand if the guy is trying to feed his family.", "Depends where you are", "We all need to get rid of racism by constantly bringing up racial stereotypes, bro. Duh.", "You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but it does make me sad that he carried it out. We can hope its 2/2 ignorance and fear of losing his job, but with a recycling program in place (per the news story from 6 years ago), it seems the request was unquestioned. Some people also just don't care about others the way we hope.", "If you have a carbureted diesel you don't need to convert anything. Probably better to do it for gas mileage reasons but it's not necessary in most cases.", "You're in the grease business now!", "So is the guy in the video probably. It's easy to sit on a high horse on Reddit. You're not a senior citizen working at burger king.", "I'm well versed in Bird Law, I'll handle this.", "Filibuster!", "Or it would ruin fries and other fried foods :(", "Getting on the GM's good side while annoying the owner is never smart.", "This is infuriating but also like infinitesimal compared to what big corporations are doing to our oceans", "It's easy to sit on a high horse on Reddit. You're not a senior citizen working at burger king for minimum wage. He's not doing it for fun and probably isn't in a place to rock the boat and risk his paycheck.", "Serious question. What damage would an edible and non-toxic oil do in this instance? Surely even if it made it to the ocean it'd biodegrade, or be consumed?", "Just sucks your soul right out.", "As soon as someone brings up Nazis or Hitler the argument's over and you won.", "Bro why harass a man that had no control over what his Boss told him to do? He just trying to live try that at the owner next time buddy", "Are you trying to make a copypasta happen?", "Lol", "... And now I know why another commenter said it costs a couple thousands.\n\nIf it saves that much work, it's clearly worth it.", "As with anything in life, it depends on the situation.\n\nBlow the whistle on your manager who is asking you to come in on your day off? Probably not going to get a good response to that.\n\nBlow the whistle on your manager who is asking you to do some blatantly illegal and idiotic things, which any competent regional manager or owner would look down upon? Now you're looking better.\n\nOf course there are counterexamples to this, like the whole VW diesel cheating fiasco, but in my experience unless the chain of command is poisoned by nepotism or something of the sort, higher management usually appreciates being told about the unlawful activities of its employees.", ">Why the fuck would any minimum wage employee try to fucking help the upper management?\n\nSounds like a good way to get promoted at a fast food place, maybe it keeps you from getting in trouble when the shit hits the fan, if nothing else, maybe a few AWOL's get overlooked/more leave gets approved.", "Non-Amp link:\n\nhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-lantana-burger-king-update-20150604-story.html", "Doing illegal shit because your manager said to doesn’t exonerate you of the crime.", "Yeah. The place I worked at in college got their waste grease stolen one night before pickup, and they were TIGHT about it. When you're working on narrow margins a couple hundred bucks fir your used grease is huge.", "The GM made the call and was fired unfortunately so was this guy", "Bro did you see who was dumping the oil? Context matters", "You are a dumbshit", "Again, no you don't. It'll still run without converting the fuel. \n\nhttps://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/05/diesel-vs-biodiesel-vs-vegetable-oil/index.htm", "No fine because they paid to clean it up", "Do what's right and starve. Internet warrior", "All you had to say was Florida", "I have no idea what you are trying to say. Kind of want to know what you do for the world that is so important an noble.", "in china they had to start subsidizing it to deal with the gutter oil market.", "an \"easy lawsuit\" is still a huge pain in the ass. It's easier to keep your head down and do your job.", "Where's the native stereotypes I wanna see those", "It does absolutely nothing to the environment. It's an organic and edible oil.\n\nBut what it can do is float on water, stick to pipes, and coat any solid matter in the pipes. Which makes it easier to clog.\n\nSo it wont cause any environmental harm, but it will eventually cost the city money down the line when that oil creates a blockage somewhere in the drainage system and the city needs to clear it.", "It’s free…to fry with recycled oil.", "Fuck, where do you go to sell it? I generate all sorts of grease, and here I am washing it off with shampoo every couple of weeks like a sucker.", "The GM made the call", "ITS A DUDE PASSED THE AGE OF RETIREMENT WORKING AT BURGER KING. YOU THINK HES GOT THE WILL TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THE SYSTEM AND THEN THE ENERGY TO DEAL WITH LITIGATION? \n\nYou are just an internet kid saying dumb internet kid logic", "that old dude really didn't give a fuck.", "In your heart you knew", "tbh, I feel sorry for the employee. He's an older guy working an obviously shitty job, and he was just following orders, probably without any real appreciation for the environmental damage he was doing. He looked a little confused about why anyone would be upset about it or why he'd bother filming him. \n\nIf he knew it was a really bad thing, he'd probably have either stopped when the camera came out, or had something to say to the cameraman about it.", "The only one I'm seeing whos sensitive is you. Why did you bother commenting? Take your own advice.\n\nYou understand reddit is a internet forum don't you?", "You can't be an adult and dump a cart of oil into a sewer no matter who tells you to do it", "> One of those is a better option, IMO.\n\nThen on the next job interview:\n\n<manager> \"hmm we see you were fired from your last job, care to tell us about that?\"\n\n<wage worker> \"yeah, they were telling me to do illegal things, and I told them no and reported it to the management above who gave the order.\"\n\n<manager> \"well that sounds real noble, good job.\" (yeah fuck that, I'm not getting backstabbed for this goober, hard pass)\n\nMinimum wage work is a hellhole because it's designed to keep you down and running on that wheel, never gaining any ground.", "Nothing. This is cooking oil. Not motor oil. It could potentially cause a clog in the line because it'll stick to pretty much everything moving through it, but that kind of oil doesn't solidify, so it's not going to create a solid mass.\n\nIt's also an organic and edible oil, so there's no environmental issues with it.\n\nIt's not like something like bacon grease which will solidify once it cools down. This shit is liquid all the time. It freezes at a lower temperature than water does.", "Well that's enough reddit for the night.", "I was gonna say, despite the oil dumping being the bigger issue, my main thought after having watched the video was 'what an annoying loudmouth that guy is'.", "Depends on a lot of things. The oil needs to be quite warm to work, so if it gets cold, you need a way to heat it. Some other details I forget now, I looked into it ages ago, but it can sometimes be a bit of a job.", "Melancholy!", "Some conversions have a way to heat the oil tank so the oil can be pumped, metered, and injected properly, since it gets thick when it isn't warm.", "I worked at McDs back in the day, and we also had some random guy take our used oil for his modified car. Then we changed the way we disposed of our oil and he was no longer able to do it.. I felt bad.", "Dumping oil can lead to hefty fines and possible shutdowns. Pouring oil liquid oil down the drain hardens in the pipes and can create fatbergs. As the oil travels along your pipes, it leaves tough residue that builds up over time.\nSewers are full of chemicals from cleaning supplies, the oxidization of pipe systems, and decomposing waste. When cooking oil comes into contact with these chemicals, they react together and form a new soapy, waxy substance known as a fatberg. As they form, they stick to the walls of sewers and collect bits of other debris that adhere to their surface. These fatbergs keep growing and growing over time, sometimes reaching over 100 tons in weight!", "Well, the guy wasn't really being bad to the employee, per se. Annoying as hell and super gauche, sure, but it seems like he was directing his anger at the manager rather than the employee.", "You can't joke on reddit man people downvoted you", "thank you for explaining it, may the downvotes lead people to it. lol", "What the fuck is wrong with you?", "Oops wrong person, I'm on your side", "You talk like you've never worked in fast food. I'm not making waves when I'm making minimum wage. You literally have to pay me to care. That's the world most of us have to live in now. I'm not going above and beyond to kiss the ass of the guy who decides I don't deserve a living wage in the hopes he'll toss me a few more sheckels for being obedient.", "THIS oil isn't bad.\n\nMotor Oil and liquid fat like bacon grease are the ones you really don't want to dump down the drain.\n\nMotor Oil because it's inorganic and harmful to the environment.\n\nMelted Fats because they solidify once they cool down and create \"fatbergs\" in the pipes which cause clogs.\n\nThis is fry oil though. It's all plant based. Soybean oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, and canola oil. It's all liquid at room temperature and biodegradable. It's not going to be harmful to the environment unless you're literally drowning something in the shit.\n\nWhat it does do though is float on water, stick to solid matter and make clogs in the pipes a bit more likely. (A hair coated in oil is thicker than a hair on it's own).\n\nSo it's not dangerous to the environment, but it is dangerous to the city's budget when they might need to eventually clear a clog in a storm drain.", "That explains that one time I was on the highway behind a truck and suddenly smelt KFC.", "It's a fickle place.", "that stuff is so cool dude", "It's cute that you think people are 100% honest at job interviews.", "First it was foot lettuce now it’s ocean oil", "Says the guy that posted 16 separate comments on a video of a guy pouring oil down a drain. Lighten the fuck up.", "What's an acceptable amount of times to be reposted and what date is set for a video not to be posted?", "I mean I'm light but that was too much mustard.", "I was just pointing out doing the noble thing won't look good on the next interview, because shithead managers are only looking out for themselves.", "He's as much to blame as the manager. Manager also knows it is wrong, but sends someone else to do it. They all play a part in this. Can't just excuse this old guy from responsibility. He's probably older than his manager too. This guy has been around long enough to know better.", "It used to be. But biodiesel is going down the drain.\n\nBiodiesel was never about saving the environment or anything. It was just an alternative fuel. \"We're running out of oil but would like to still have oil.\" You're still burning and oil to run an engine. Biodiesel was always about cost. Waste oil was cheap to buy because it was otherwise just garbage people didn't want, and even with the processing cost to create biodiesel, it still ended up coming out cheaper than oil.\n\nLike 5-6 years ago, the price for crude oil dropped pretty low, which killed the market for biodiesel. Plus we're having a more readily accepted market for electric cars now.", "Per seeeeeeeeeee", "I've been fired for some wild-ass shit. Rolled a concrete mixer truck while drunk, crushed my ribcage, spent a month in the hospital. As a mailman I got caught chucking mail into a Taco Bell dumpster. Been caught drinking on the job. . . multiple times. I'm the world's worst employee. \n\nNever been blacklisted. Just got a job working in a clean room making medical devices. Were you one of those kids that got in trouble and thought it was going on your \"permanent record?\"", "I don't mind it if its something normal. But this was already resolved years ago. \n\nThis subreddit has really turned to crap.", "Composure", "But what happeneds when he doesn’t have a job and is on the side of the ride you gone take him in? It’s the fact that the root is the corrupt leadership first off he’s flipping burgers for a shitty amount of money he doesn’t want you up his ass when he has somebody that’s paid to do it you want change? Fill out an app at Burger King and lead by example other than that continue slandering people who don’t hold the power big man fight the power", "Gummo.", "Yo, I killed a dude but my manager told me to do its cool.", "Storm drains normally flow into waterways, so sure the oil will break down - after coating local creeks in oil, killing insects, wildlife and fish. Buy hey, it saves a business a few buck, so who gives a shit?", "We have literally no reason to believe that, such a random and basless accusation to make for no reason.", "\"golden years\" what a misleading term.", "In terms of u/IMTrick excusing someone on the basis of them following orders, absolutely. You shouldn't follow unethical orders.", "Yes, shallow and pedantic.", "I've worked in a few places in the past where the place had another company that was contracted to regularly come pick up something from the job site regularly for disposal.\n\nI worked at a hardware store that had a truck trailer out back that we had to fill with used pallets for disposal/recycling.\n\nI worked at an office that had giant garbage cans with locked lids that would be picked up regularly for shredding.\n\nBoth locations on a regular basis, would have those companies be late for their pickups causing massive backups of whatever item they were picking up sitting in the open taking up space. (In the case of the paper one, this was an insurance company with people's personal information.)\n\nThese were businesses though. We couldn't stop what we were doing because of what this other company was doing. In the case of the hardware store, this meant having a massive pile of pallets sitting outside the back of the store getting rained on or going into the dumpster. In the case of the paper, this meant people's private information sitting out in the open in the office in a cardboard box.\n\nFor the restaurant, they would have a massive drum of oil that the oil is dumped in to out by the dumpsters most likely that gets picked up and swapped out with an empty one every X days. But if the guys dont pick it up, manager has Option 1) Stop using the fryer until they get a new barrel and lose business and almost certainly his job once the sales figures make it to the owner. Option 2) Dump the oil down the drain and possibly lose his job if he gets caught.", "As long as you don't mind oil coating your waterways. Great for all the insects, fish and birds, eh?", "Kinda shitty the employee lost his job. He was just doing what he had been told to do.", "\"This subreddit has really turned to crap.\"\n\n\\- Someone on every subreddit ever, Current Year", "He was trying to get some kind of response out of the guy and he was just not having it. You can tell he’s frustrated because of the seizure he’s clearly having as the man starts walking away.", "Common practice in Thailand. YOu cant find a single drainage that its not glued with oil. \n\n\nThey have so many street vendors, most of them rely on deep-fry oil.. The amount that they dump like this is imaginable.", "Sewers might be, but how about storm drains?", "I read that cars powered with that have the added benefit of the exhaust smelling like french fries.", "It's super easy, he doesn't even need a lawyer. He can just study environmental and labor laws on the side and he can easily take care of the case himself within the next 20 years! He will definitely not have any problem collecting unemployment after being let go.\n\n-top reddit comment probably", "\"incredibly illegal\"\n\nThey're dumping fry oil down a storm drain. They're not dumping bacon grease and motor oil.\n\nThis isn't going to solidify in to a massive lump of fat in the drain and it's a biodegradable (not to mention edible) oil.\n\nIt's illegal because it can make shit that already causes clogs slightly worse, like sticking to leaves and hair, and because people are dumb so it's a lot easier to say \"dont dump oil in drain\" instead of \"dont dump X Y or Z oils down the drain\".", "I wouldn't. He's just narrating what's happening. He didn't do or say anything directed at the employee from what we can see in the video.", "It's not /r/recentvideos...", "The restaurant that I managed was paid for their used oil.", "Wait. You mean some people that manage fast food restaurants are stupid?", "Meh, 🤷🏼‍♂️", "Weird, I don't think that of many other subreddits.", "I don't think it matters, it won't make it to the river or ocean anyways. The real problem is damage to infrastructure not to the environment. It will cool down, turn into jell and stick to the walls of the piping long before entering the water way. This is why they tell you not to dump oil into your sink's drain. It will either clog the drain in your house or the main sewage piping connection in front of your house.", "I worked with a company that recycled used cooking oil and grease from grease traps. They filter and resell it to other companies. It’s used in dog food, make up, and other uses.", "I work in the hazardous waste industry and this is literally a felony.", "This subreddit used to have good content is what I mean.", "I wonder the value/return of that setup. I would assume it's more of a hobby thing than an actual return. The cost in converting the trucks (I assume?) to run on biofuel, the cost and time it takes to setup the filtration system in his garage, the cost of lawn care involved in the trade, and driving to each location to do it, and to pick it up and haul it, then the process of converting the oil to a useable fuel in order to save the money it costs on gasoline. Seems like a lot of steps vs paying $100 to fill the truck up (or whatever it costs to fill up their truck).", "Not the first time something sketchy happened at burger King\n\nRemember the shoe lettuce dude? Had pictures of the dude standing on the lettuce?", "it is true - I was behind an old VW diesel the other day and I smelled French fries for two miles", "> A 60 something adult should know that dumping oil down a drain is really fucking not ok.\n\nI'd 100% expect a 60 something to be ok with dumping oil down a drain like it doesn't matters. There's plenty of boomers still dumping car oil at a spot they find convenient (Hole in the yard, drains, rivers) rather than take the time and effort it would take them to bring it to a recycling center. Hell, some of them take time to go out of their ways to avoid dumps with a recycling program just to throw their trash into a ditch or a river that is farther away. There's no logic outside of I did it when I was young and I won't stop for them hippies.", "That's not necessarily a bad thing, for one's long-term health..", "I've seen other fast food restaurants get paid for their oil as well so I really don't understand the dumping idea.", "This is true. I run a WVO collection company. We are in a bull market right now, so this pains me", "Dude filming doesn't confront the manager about this and absolutely did not call the police or some other authority to report this. If this were a murder, the person filming would be charged as well.", "[Thanks banana man.](https://youtu.be/v1gWyKmeQ_A)", "There's like a whole episode of the Simpsons about this I think lol", "Upvoted", "My God you're greasy.", "It is more than that\n\n[https://inhabitat.com/converting-your-vehicle-to-run-on-veggie-oil/](https://inhabitat.com/converting-your-vehicle-to-run-on-veggie-oil/)", "Funny how the title said \"Burger King\" did this. Almost like all Burger Kings do this. A bit lazy on posters part to not be specific.", "People pay good money for used fry oil around here to clean and turn into biodiesel.\n\nThere is no logical reason to do this.", "Thats a Simpsons deep cut", "This is not true. I run a company that collects and sells used cooking oil. \n\nI sell it for 53¢ a pound as of last Friday. We are in a bull market, thanks to Biden.", "Looking at the user's profile shows that was pretty much the last time they were really active.", "It definitely can solidify with all the fat in it. Wtf are you talking about?", "The water and insolubles, called MIU, get processed out via heat until the purity is less than 3% MIU. The oil is then sold to biodiesel manufacturers.", "Please stop shaking so much", "Why does the video have so many dislikes?", "Years ago, when I worked at McDonald's, they had us dump the grease traps into buckets of ice, then this them in the dumpster. Always seemed like an odd way of disposing of that.\n\nAnd now I just realized that was 22 years ago, and now I feel old...", "Yea fast food definitely doesn’t work this way. There’s like a 50/50 chance at best that the higher up even gives a shit to begin with if there’s little risk of them getting in trouble for if", "I’m sure the manager thought he was very clever by saving the restaurant the oil disposal fees.", "That Burger King was pretty crappy anyways.", "Here comes a giant greaseball!", "When he knew he was being recorded he might have kept his job if he had then called up the owner and said he thinks he was told to do something he isn't so sure is right.", "Son! Ah said, son! That there’s the joke!", "A solution for when the can is full should already be solved and ready to implement when the situation comes about.", "Zealots get a real hardon when they find a \"good cause\" they can use to justify their behavior.", "I KNEW my dogs kibble tasted like chicken fried in old grease", "They could recycle it for greesil cars, of even just dump it down their pipes that might get clogged.", "in the case of Burger king - sure. I worked a mom and pop bar and we did all kinds of cash transactions. Took money from the till and replaced with a receipt. Your drawer still had to balance and the receipt was counted as cash.", "Which means that all anyone needs to do to end any argument is to bring up Hitler first thing, discussion is over, then they can go back to doing whatever they wanted in the first place because 'merica.", "because they dislike what is happening in the vid.", "Frankly I'm in my thirties and if I was a minimum wage employee and my manager told me to do that, I'd stop for a second and think about it and come to the conclusion that I know fuck all about how to dispose of oil and got this job through my qualifications of being not currently on drugs\n\nAnd he manages an entire restaurant whose top sellers rely on oil that needs to be disposed of and has presumably been vetted by the owner and hired based on some qualifications of proper management\n\nAnd I'd come to the conclusion that he probably knows what he's talking about and I don't.\n\nNow I don't know how burger King training works, if they have training on how to properly dispose of the oil then sure, he should have known what he was doing was wrong. But if not then I don't blame the guy at all. Knowing what to do with oil isn't his job and it's not immediately apparent to the wider public, at least in my opinion, that that's blatantly not right. I mean I don't know if they have an oil... Trap... Thing in the sewer system, I have no idea how sewers work. I know not to pour oil in my own pipes but I don't know how a city waste system over a restaurant might differ from that.", "My local Popeyes recently got shut down for this", "It's the lack of common sense, if your Manager asks you to dump oil down a sewer drain that should set off a red flag or two.\n\nMost people might do it in the heat of the moment and some wouldn't, but when they see the franchise owner the next time they are at work they would approach them and ask them if that's really how they do things.\n\n\nTheirs a massive difference between being a sheep and doing whatever people tell you because you just don't give a shit versus using your brain and being able to think for yourself.\n\n\n\nIf I owned a company and my GM did this and the employee didn't come to me about it I would fire them point blank.\n\nThey've proven they can't think for themselves or don't give a shit, don't come to me about health & safety concerns etc.\n\n\n\nYour livelihood wouldn't be at risk if you could think for yourself and knew when to approach about issues instead of just blindly following orders without regard for health & safety.\n\n\nLet's say you dump oil down the sewer drain like in the video, a while later someone walks over the sewer grate and slips on the oil falls and breaks a bone or gets injured.\n\nNow your most likely going to be sued because your GM was a dumbass and your employee was a brainless sheep who couldn't give two shits about health and safety and come to you about any concerning issues.\n\n\n\nYou can't just keep employee's like that around because they will just cause more issues down the line. If it was a minor issue it's fine but doing shit like in the video is clearly something someone with any form of common sense would know is not the proper way to dispose of used oil.", "From memory (and it does vary wildly by locality) but its worth it on a hobby scale, it becomes rapidly complicated when you start transitioning into a smallscale business operation.", "This is a rare case where this style of aggressive video is 100% appropriate. 👏", "Down side is your always hungry for frys and does not work well in the winter. Unless you have a nice setup to heat the lines and oil tank.", "Cost to fill up 4 trucks with gas every week/few days compared to one time cost to convert vehicles + monthly lawn care maintenance might even out in the person's favor.", "Probably what happened to the restaurant I worked when I was out of high school. There's a company that came by every week to take our oil. We weren't at fast food levels of oil usage but my manager made it a point to collect what we had and dump it into a large container in the back of the place. Guy who came by always took massive amounts and never more than once a week. One week they stopped showing and we called them and they stated they had no where to put it. We went back and spoke to a few other companies who said they couldn't for days. Meanwhile we were there with used oil in our fryer for 2 days (again we were not using it as much as fast food places). Eventually my boss gave up and ordered us to dump it in the old containers we used to fill the fryer and waited the extra 3 days to get our pickup. We stopped serving fried items the day before but my boss considered dumping it behind our place in a drain that was behind 4 other businesses. Glad we didn't.", "Yea, he's probably just trying to earn enough money to buy his sick dog her medication.", "> no idea why the general manager would decide to do this\n\nDestroying your local environment to pwn the libs.", "at the burger king i worked at, buckets worth of grease from the broiler went in the trash with all of the garbage and all of the recyclables. one big happy fire code breaking dumpster.", "It's almost like not everyone has been here for 6+ years and was here to see the original posted.\n\nAlso the one from 6 years ago had 18 comments, this one has 400+ and 40x as many upvotes.\n\nShit get's reposted all the time, as-long as I haven't seen it before I could care less.", "Aww man It went totally over my head lol", ">\"Might just delete their history every so often like I do.\" - /u/kohbo\n\nNot letting you delete that. ;)\n\nDoing that deletes comments/replies/etc that could help others in the future. Too many times I have looked for an answer and found a [deleted] with people saying \"yes, that was it!\". \n\nStand by what you say, even if it is weird later. Don't delete anything.\n\nI am sure there is crazy stuff in my past (even with relative context)... I have been wrong before, I'll be wrong again. The only way to learn is by recollecting the past.", "Why do the people with the camera have to be self riteous pricks?", "The YouTube algorithm. This video just popped up in my youtube feed, so I watched it and then googled \"Used Oil in Local Storm Drain\" and it brought me directly to this thread. I'm gonna say the YT algorithm put this in OP's feed, and they just reposted it.", "That guy is a straight asshole", "In this thread: people who have never worked a minimum wage job", "Okey dokey!", "Wait a second...", "The only time I get behind an old VW it just smells like skunks.", "Or you don't get caught, don't tell and don't get fired. Although that's kind of hard if you do shit like that in broad daylight.", "The floor is yours counsel", "China street food vendors all crying over spilled oil right now", "The employee is obviously an idiot, he doesn’t even stop. Shame he was punished. When an old guy like that is working for 7.25/hr their need the money.", "I worked for a major grocery store and yeah we had a company who would buy the oil from us.", "Who tf is filming this? Michael J Fox?", "Yes the way he’s yelling. Dude hasn’t been in much confrontations. It’s just not being used to it.", "If you run a restaurant you'll get sales folks coming in and soliciting you to sign up with them to sell the oil. They supply the waste oil holding bin and empty it at regular intervals, or have their truck come in and pump it out if you have a holding tank as part of your system. \n\nWhile the GM of a franchise isn't making that money directly unless they're also the owner, this is still almost literally pouring money down the drain.", "Shit, i rewatched this a week ago but remember watching it when originally aired. Time flies…", "You can tell from his voice and his shaking his adrenaline is going. He likely just hasn’t been in s lot of confrontations so it got him worked up. \n\nIt was annoying.", "yup, we've got a trap at work that all the fryer oil goes into once it's gross. The company comes around, drains the old oil and we get a check in the mail. Usually only \\~$50 for an entire small dumpsters worth of oil, but it's worth it.", "Grease me up woman!", "Most diesel engines can run on fryer oil once its been filtered. You don't need to convert the trucks. Each deep-frier emptying essentially gives ~9 gallons of free diesel.", "Must've been a diesel.", ">no idea why the general manager would decide to do this except out of *Florida", "Gutter oil", "He said the other person was overestimating how much it costs", "If only there was a lubricant made from old catsup.", "You're generally not using it in a truck that would run on gasoline. \n\nGenerally people use it with diesel engines and as far as conversion costs go, depending on the era of engine, there is little to none. Lots of older inline and ve pump diesels will pretty much run on it as they are.", "I mean, he's literally not. He's angry and yelling like a dickhead, but he's not pinning any of it on the employee. He says \"Burger King\" is doing it, he says \"gentleman right here was told by his manager to dump it in the sewer,\" calls him sir rather than berating him, lets him walk back to the store without following, and at the end says he'll be speaking with the manager.\n\nIt's like you guys didn't even watch the video.", "I'm sorry you're so embarrassing, don't expect a reply.\n\nHow you can work through your issues soon <3.", "I heard the manager's wife had gambling debts", "Episode name? Been watching a bunch of Simpsons lately", "Lard of the Dance", "I agree, but the expression is \"I couldn't care less\". To say you could care less implies that you already care an untold amount, which could be a lot.", "This happened 6 years ago. Coincidence?", "Deep cut?", "It's like with coffee grounds; I began going around town to McDonald's, Burger King, Jack n da Box for their used coffee grounds. I mix it in with my compost for my garden. At first the businesses were chill about it, especially Starbucks.\n\nWell, I guess someone that worked for Starbucks made a fuss and got promoted because now Starbucks has \"used coffee ground bags to go\", except you gotta pay now. So that was the end of me getting free used coffee ground, Starbucks began their service and word got around.", "It's faster.\n\nLiterally, I've worked at a job that dumped excess water out of a pipe into a field because it was faster than putting it into a container.", "Lard of the Dance.", "That's a pretty dumb comparison. Try again.", "Don't worry, happens to the best of us.\n\nWe still love you", "Everyone should know that old, dirty, oil needs to be disposed of properly in the forest.", "install deep frier in middle console and have fresh fries available for you and passengers! Problem solved!", "Wtf are the people who live paycheck to paycheck supposed to do in that situation?", "Shitter was full.", "What if the higher up dosent beleive you and your manager is way better at lieing then you are at telling th truth and only you get fired?", "u bb v\nm n", "Lol and people think humanity is capable of cleaning up its act in regards to the environment. \n\nYeah right", "/u/wordscounterbot", "Or a van full of stoners.", "Thank you for the request, comrade.\n\nu/IXI_Fans has not said the N-word.", "Sure. To power the \"time machine\".", "VW makes some models with diesel engine option.\n\nAlso diesel being a weed descriptor.", "I was reading this thinking why does this sound so familiar", "Nah he probably just wanted to destroy the environment, in a way that is very visible and obvious to the general public, because he’s evil and nefarious like that.", "If your choice was do it or be homeless, you don't have much of a goddamn choice", "The American dream", "It was pretty clearly a heat of the moment thing though. Dude was pissed, rightfully so, it's a fucked thing to do. But he should apologise to the old dude that was definitely just trying not to lose his job.", "Interesting they didn't get fined, because they cleaned it up. Let me go forth and lead a life of let's say, theft. As long as I return the shit, we're all good y'all. Noice.", "You wrote a lot of words to say \"I have absolutely no ethics.\"", "Yeah, that's fine and all, but not everyone has the privilege of being safe on the internet. I regularly have to dump my history because I'm trans and speak out on a number of controversial subjects outside of LGBT+ subreddits. I've been doxxed before and the fear that it brings is not fun, especially when they get the wrong person and you have to call up an old coworker and tell them what is going on. So, I have to delete my history every couple of months in order to make sure I don't leave any breadcrumbs.", "Reading these comments from well off people makes the blood boil. Sitting on their high horses acting like they'd do any different if they were some old guy who is actually desperate enough to work for pennies all day long. Fucking clowns.", "This is exactly it. Absolutely film it because it's fucked, but don't berate the old dude that's clearly just trying to keep food on the table. I can't imagine it was his life's ambition to be at BK at his age. It needs to be reported, it needs to be stopped, but the old guy didn't need to be yelled at. When thinking about paying your rent or a bucket of oil in the sewer I know what the vast majority would think about first.", "Was that the femdom strapon version? What platform has that...asking for a friend.", "> Like…there’s clearly a reason this idiot is working at Burger King in his golden years.\n\nI worked McDonald's and had a vew \"golden year\" coworkers. None of them were there because they were dumb, they were there because they got fucked simply because of a spouse dying and leaving medical bills. Which is why it pisses me off to no end when people bitch about jobs like this being for high schoolers and how people shouldn't live off of minimum wage.", "Many employees are told to do minor illegal shit by their managers all the time, most of it just hurts them(like not clocking certain hours or working after hours) but when that's the standard shit like this happens.", "They work at burger king, how much common sense do you expect?", "This reminds me of the Anchorman 2 scene in the RV", "There is no “maybe”. There is no place in America where you can legally dump waste into a storm drain that leads to waters of the U.S.", "You are instructed on how to properly dispose of oil. In fact, the whole thing is often free (which in this case it was). But this is also a possible generational thing as people his age just did what the boss told them without question.\n\nAnd let's face it, even if many of us knew it was wrong, we'd still debate doing it because it is our job on the line. I've cleaned out human shit with my bare hands all because my boss told me to. Was it illegal for him to do that, especially after I asked for gloves? Yup. But I was desperate for the money at the time.", "Remember Ken Bone? Red sweatshirt guy? Look what happened to him after he didn’t delete his Reddit history. \n\nEVERYONE should overwrite and delete their comments semi regularly. Reddit is now a social media site, not like it used to be.", "Yeah, I agree with all the other actions taken, but firing the old guy seems shitty. Dude looks like he's easily over 60, but he's having to empty fryer oil for a living. That burden shouldn't fall on him, but rather entirely on the manager who instructed him to do that.", "There's a hair in my food!", "Ain't that the truth. They have gone downhill HARD.", "I bet this guy just bought himself a whopper and fries.", "I wonder why this video is coming back strong. It happened 6 years ago and nothing happened.", "I had a friend who had a crazy coke habit, because he became a millionaire from collecting use oil from burger restaurants.", "He probably just didn’t give a shit. After all why pay for a legally required thing when illegal dumping solves everything right?", "Almost all vw have a diesel option. If it came to euro market, it prob had a diesel.", "Scottish? Should be Laird of the Lard of the Dance. /s", "I, too, feel bad for the guy being filmed, but counterpoint: the man recording doesn't seem to be harassing the employee as an individual. To me, it doesn't look as if he's calling out names or insults or trying to get a reaction out of the employee. \nHis obnoxious comments seem pointed directly at the corporation instead of the poor asshat who is \"just following orders\". Saying\"Burger King is dumping this oil\" instead of something like \"This asshole is dumping oil\" makes it seem less of a personal attack.\n \nThat's just my two cents that will probably be down voted.", "That sounds like a good way to burn the absolute fuck out of your arm. Fresh fries are worth it though.", "How would you feel if your dog started rummaging through the fridge eating your tasty food?\n\n\"Oh I knew my human's food tasted like the yard\"", "If you’re asking what a deep cut is, it just means the reference is pretty esoteric.", "Or a diesel van driven by a bunch of stoned skunks.", "I don't know why you're being downvoted.\n\nThese people are apparently fit to run society but they can't be held accountable for polluting the fucking environment and breaking rules.\n\nPeople need to pick a fucking lane.", "I didn't watch the video, I'm just [memeing](https://youtu.be/ctf260qnDeU)", "the tates...are worth the peel.", "Not having a choice doesn't exonerate you of the crime", "Break the law or find another job. Shitty situation but the alternative, not holding people accountable for the crimes they committed, is FAR worse.", "Any Diesel engine can run on cooking oil. In fact, they can run with almost oil", "Anonymous tip to owner.", "That was probably my old landlord. He lived next door, and it always smelled like fucking French fries or fish.", "Contact the authorities or the franchise?\n\nYou guys are really cutting them too much slack", "It's a franchise. Burger king corporate would not approve of this at all.", "So, old ass video and old ass news. Cool reddit. Take my repost downvote.\n\nAnd yes, mostly just saying this in response, I've seen this before.", "You are if you think keeping a job that asks you to act illegally is worth keeping. You are an excellent example of projection of insecurity. Leave your shitty job and stop making excuses because you are too scared to stand up for yourself.", "He’s not that much of a poor guy. If your manager orders you to do something highly unethical and illegal, you’re a fucking idiot for not saying no.", "Esoteric?", "Probably like many shitty managers, the General manager was bucking for a raise in status. And to do so he thought “I know how I can save some money and impress my superiors. I’ll watch how many napkins people use and stop ordering other services I have to pay for.”\n\n\nBasically a person with questionable judgment who should have never been a manager was made a manager.", "The employee didn’t look too bright though. He may have sincerely not known it was wrong.", "25p a litre in the UK. That's a tidy sum for a waste product.", "Guy recording/talking sounds like a POS. is.", "So wait... the guy who was likely forced to comply with orders or lose his job lost his job ?", "Neither is the guy in the video. \nHe needs to understand that there are resources to protect him from an abusive workplace that is forcing him to act illegally. \n\nYour attempt to cushion him from becoming aware of his options to save himself do nothing to help. \n\nJust like your comments about this video from 6 years ago. \nYou do nothing but make other viewers assume that there is no recourse for their own situations because you falsely reinforce the notion that there is no better action to take than to accept it. \n\nIt's not a, \"high horse,\" to tell people to fight for themselves. My actual job is to be involved in labor disputes. I know first hand that it's hard but absolutely worth it for him to fight back. \n\nSave your comments for when you actually have something of value to say.", "Dude is kind of a dick record it report it. Old man is gonna be fired to save face for the company but was more than likely order to do it by a superior. No need to shame him.", "Because piss-ant managers seem to think that not utilizing tiny portions of the budget are actually helping the company. \n\nManagers also get bonuses as a factor of various efficiencies, so reducing operating costs by 1% can mean thousands of dollars in bonuses if targets are hit. Corporate is just as guilty for tying bonuses to fractions of percentage points. Mostly because customer service isn't easy to score.", "he means when they were crawling through the vents, there was some really sharp metal that messed up Willie's leg", "McDonald's trucks here in the UK all have signs on them saying they run on recycled frying oil.", "Is managers pay based on profit from the restaurant in a situation like that in the fast food world?", "Go on. \n\nI want you to explain your view of, \"context,\" in detail.", "Not because they're sorry. It was because they admitted to the dumping, fired the GM and employee in the video, had the oil removed and the sewer cleaned up, and retrained the employees to keep it from happening.\n\nZero reason to punish or fine", "More like arthritis and dementia years. Looking forward to it!", "I knew not to do this when I was 12, and \"I'm just doing my job\" stopped being an excuse in 1945.", "Man, this video makes me feel old. Enjoy your downvote. Remember, be original! Don't repost shit as old as time.", "Doing wrong is, \"easier.\"\n\nThat's your argument?\nSeriously, try again. \n\nFighting for what is right is difficult but that never makes, \"acting illegally,\" a better choice.", "I did! And I feel pretty good about it.", ">I feel sorry for the poor guy who got yelled at for doing something his boss probably told him to do.\n\nFun fact: If your boss tells you to do something obviously blatantly illegal, you're allowed to not do that illegal thing.", "Pushshift archives all posts and comments on Reddit within seconds, making deleting your comments less useful.", "No way why would you bring facts to the table when we can be outraged now?", "They were ever good?", "Simply mind-embiggering.", "Thanks for the thoughtful response!", "His boss told him to do it…. Are you insinuating that he doesn’t have the intellect to tell his boss, “hey ya, no. I’m not doing that, not only is it wrong it’s ILLEGAL and I’m not gonna risk paying fines and jail time.’”? Over a Burger King job. That’s rough if that’s truly the case then.", "Keep doing your thing. You don't owe this place anything. Be safe, keep deleting", "I think it was just a lot of anger and shock after witnessing something so vile. And not being able to really stop it. It was obnoxious, but from a psychological standpoint, I can understand it. He didn’t try to hurt the guy or even get near him really and clearly wasn’t threatening the guy physically, but it was borderline crossing the line. I think he was just hoping that by doing so, the guy would stop doing the vile act of dumping used fry grease into our sewers. Just my two cents fwiw", "lmao it's been so long since I watched the older family guy episodes that I'd completely forgotten about this", "Not saying the act is ultimately justified, but anything other than compliance with orders is likely to result in termination in that scenario. I'm willing to be a little lenient on someone whose welfare is at stake.", "thats so dumb. #1 they are throwing away oil that a company would gladly pay to come and collect. #2 depending on the cities sewer system this could be 100% legal. In my town I uaed to run a kitchen where we collected our oil and a company came and collected it. I once asked what we paid to dispose of it and my boss looked at me dumb founded. turned out the Chinese restaurant next door had been getting 100$ checks a month for 10 years for our used fryer oil. It also turned out our bin was licensed to us and not them so my boss cut them off from using it. they just started dumping it into the sewer and I personally called the dept of health on them. turned out our sewage system was totally okay with this. infact our neighbors a brewery were also dumping shit tons of caustic and other cleaners down the drain that were all kosher according to the city. idk what kind of pipes they were made of but I watched that caustic at a 25% concenteation eat 1/2 inch of concrete in under an hour...", "That's a perfectly cromulent explanation.", "I mean, he was dumping fry grease into a sewer. Does the bk employee have zero common sense?", "It’s a perfectly cromulent reference.", "Kinda sad that all that happens to this horrible person is that they get fired.", ">but I would also understand if the guy is trying to feed his family\n\nBut fuck him if he's only trying to feed himself, house himself, buy his own medicine, entertain himself... Since this is in the US, he better not need or have any hospital visits either. I really hate how that country operates. \n\nUnless Burger King was paying some sick coin and that was his first choice of employment, I'd guess this elderly man was struggling to get by. He may not be first pick for a lot of jobs, leaving him even more desperate to stay employed.\n\nSo should he take his chances not getting caught doing something he was told to do, or stand up to the people who told him to do it? Those people he'd be standing up to don't seem like they don't have a lot of integrity or decency, I think I can imagine how that'd go. \n\nPeople are fired from these jobs for a lot less. If I were in his shoes, I'd likely do the same thing because rent is due, my medication is running low, and I have a new pain in my guts that's probably going to set me back a few bucks to have remedied.", "WHERE YA HAIL FROM?\n\nuuuh... North... Kilt...Town...\n\n NO KIDDING! III'M FROM NORTH KILTTON!", "God forbid he get worked up about somebody for openly helping destroy our ecosystem, so that a shitty, billion dollar company can save a few bucks. I can’t understand people shitting on him for getting worked up about it. Very strange", "It’s information relating to a very specific topic. \n\n\nSo like, if you had a specific movie memorized because you watched it a lot as a kid, that knowledge would be considered esoteric.", "It depends. My old Mercedes just smelled like hot cooking oil when I ran it on waste oil", "Ya apparently most people in this thread think that the bk employee is a complete moron and lacks any common sense to do be able to say “no” to his manager when asked to something so obviously wrong and illegal. It’s a weird phenomena.\n\nAnd what an ass hole this guy is for responding in an emotional way as he watches earth get destroyed even more at the benefit of a billion dollar company. It’s a pretty shitty thing to have to witness and not be able to do anything about it. So he responded with emotion snd it was a little obnoxious, but idk how people expect him to react while presented with that fucked scenario. Sure he could’ve handled it better, but he could’ve also handled it a LOT worse as well.", "Spoken like someone who's never had to choose between putting gas in their car, or finally being able to afford ground beef this week. It's wonderful to hear what you* would've done, but following orders because you flat out cannot afford to lose your job that barely pays the bills...that doesn't make you a \"sheep\". Nice to hear you've had so much of a safety net your entire life that you can afford to lose money just to make a point, though\n\nOh, this isn't the case at all, stranger? Then you either have zero self-preservation instincts, have been incredibly lucky, or both.\n\nYou don't know this person's circumstances", "He was probably lying trying to save money by telling the guys that pick up the oil to not come. You have to pay for a service for them to get your dirty oil. The franchise owner never knew because they generally don't do shit and just let their GM's run the store.", "Btw animals that weren't slaughtered get processed the same way. Uf your locality had an ordinance against hurrying pets in your own land, you'll have to either find a pet cemetery, get it cremated or it will end up in a facility turning your pet into oils or even just coal. It's the same facilities that process diseased lifestock and shit.\n\nAnd those products get used in everything as well. No reason not to. Chemically pure stearic acid is chemically pure no matter whether you got it from purposefully slaughtered lifestock or rotten corpses.", ">palm-beach/fl\n\nKnew it. Had to be Floridians.", "ITT: people too stupid to understand that you can't fucking dump oil down the drain feeling sorry for the idiot who was \"just following orders\".", "Someone with common sense in this thread! What a breathe of fresh air", "In a lot of cases that's exactly what a mitigating circumstance is lmao. That's the exact reason pre meditated murder is a lot worse than a murder in self defence", "He would if he could, man. He would if he could.", "As the pig in the air duct found out, there's nothing more dangerous than a greased-up Scotsman!", "I ran a bar and grill. \nYou actually get paid by my local company to recycle the oil. Not a ton of cash. But a couple hundred bucks every 6 months.", "Just because you’re being paid minimum wage doesn’t mean you have to do everything your boss tells you to do. If it’s illegal, you still should have the common sense to tell your boss no, I’m not participating in legal activities, then sue if they fire you. You really think it’s worth risking a bk job to do this? There’s so many other fast food places, he will land another job in no time, come on.", "Of course you're legally allowed to not do it…you're also allowed to walk out on the job and not be able to pay your next rent payment.", "Apparently old guy working at BK = zero common sense to most people in this thread. Talk about weird", "This video really only has any entertainment value of us recent. Why would anyone care that a burger king dumped oil down a drain 6 years ago when everything has already been resolved. I'd be more interested in the aftermath then this video", "Back when I was teen looking for work, post 9/11, you were required to get a servsafe cert at a minimum to even wash dishes (reputable joints and chains like these). Maybe because I was in a tourist area where 11 months out of the year was \"in season.\" And the instructors in the area talked about illegal dumping. The instructors were also well I own chefs and former inspectors. So this guy, would have known this to be illegal. When did the standards change?", "Unlikely to be a bot account. bots typically repost word for word with identical links to old popular accounts. This was posted a few years ago but neither the title nor the link are exact matches. \n\nThere's also no evidence they were posting and deleting submissions: \n\nhttp://api.pushshift.io/reddit/submission/search/?author=SorryAbootEh&fields=full_link&limit=100\n\ntheir second submission is 6 years ago. \n\nhttp://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search/?author=SorryAbootEh&limit=100&fields=body,permalink,created_utc\n\nHe has a handful of deleted comments recently but after only going back a few, they're all 6 years old. \n\nThere is a chance the account is compromised as hackers have been targeting old abandoned accounts.", "Then you’d be a Moron… come on now. You know god dam well enough that dumping used fry grease is not right. My 7 year old son even would tell you that’s not right. Wtf", "Maybe the oil they used wasn't used for deep frying potatoes but skunks", "Ya it’s very fucking weird tbh… gives me little hope for the near-future of society lol", "Yes.", "Weird. Very triggered by the wrong thing", "Stop. Not everything is political.", "No, he was “just an innocent 60 year old man doing what he was told”…\n\nMeanwhile our last few presidents have been over 70 years old running the country making huge decisions. The irony in this thread is completely fucked to say the least.", "What has changed?", "He was just following orders.", "That employee didn't have shit to say back to the guy recording the video. Mainly because he didn't have shit to do with deciding that the oil had to be dumped into the storm drain. You got a simple old man who found himself employed at BK probably realizing what an asshole move he's stuck in but he doesn't want to cause any trouble so he just does what he was told.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nIf this guy was capable of being a social vigilante he probably wouldn't fucking be 60 and working at Burger King.", "Gogle it", "I feel like they hit their high water mark late 90s-2000. Whoppers were 2/$2.22 sometimes- and they came out with their best burger ever (IMO), the Fiesta Whopper, which came with a packet of spicy seasoning.", "Also a bunch of people who have never had to decide between eating or doing the “right” thing, or worse, your kids eating. Shit isn’t always as simple as just finding another job. People got rent to pay, kids to feed, child support, medicine, a whole host of shit that if you lose that barely scraping by minimum wage paycheck, it’s game over.", "Be original, remember.\n\nDon't repost the same shitty response posted since time in memoriam.", "With an unnecessary large truck for the errand he’s running, and that will probably pollute just as much", "Can you elaborate?", "Guy's obviously old. Obviously needs that job. Obviously only working this job because he find anything. How thankful they must be, to have never had to choose between feeding themselves and preserving their environment. \n\nHow privileged do you have to be to denigrate this guy for doing what he has to to survive, when they've obviously never had to make such a decision. I wonder if they'd give up their job for their principles if it meant going hungry.", "Back then, it would've been a play on the Irish 'Lord of the Dance' that was permanently on tour back then.\n\nEdit: Plus, Lard = Grease. And 'Grease' is the Word.", "[Lunch Lady Doris, have ye got any grease?!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HI22bUV4QE)", "I had a friend that converted an old Mercedes to oil. He would avoid fast food restaurants though. He said that was the worst oil you could possibly use. Instead he would go to other restaurants and they would happily give him the oil for free instead of paying to have it collected", "I was in the same situation a few years ago. I worked at Burger King and was training to be a shift leader (junior manager). One night there was a buildup of fry oil in the fry filter box due to a machine malfunction. It was too hot to dump in the trash and wouldn't cool down by the time we had to clock out. I asked my manager what to do and they told me to dump it down the storm drain outside. I didn't think it was a problem because I knew the problem with dumping oil down the drain is that it can clog your plumbing. I thought the storm drain went directly to the sewer or something.\n\nI wasn't the only one who did it - I think I even told someone else to do the same thing when they asked me. Later the city government found out and fined the restaurant thousands of dollars. I felt fucking horrible.", "Lol the nerve of some people", "When I worked at BK we didn't have a container for used grease. The fryer was supposed to be self-filtering and the grease was recycled back into the wall hookup where it came from. The machine malfunctioned and we had to dump it.", "When I did it I literally had no idea it was illegal. I was 23 and the manager that told me to do it was 19 😆", "Why would you imagine I'm arguing for what's right here? \n\nI'm just describing the world. This is the way real humans behave.", "Much smaller portions, the meat sucks, and the buns really suck. It's sad...", "I know what he did was wrong, all I'm saying he probably had very few options. \n\nWish people would stop comparing pouring cooking oil into a sewer with pushing Jews into a gas chamber to win an argument btw.", "Nice way of saying \"I've never had to choose between bread on my kids table and doing something a bit dodgy\".", "(Really good reference withstanding, don't worry, I'll fix the chain.)\n\ncough\ncough\nSimply??", "60 years old working in Burger King as a regular wage slave (like....I doubt he was even in any leadership position) is comparable to being 70.....and the fucking president of the US? There are also 70+ year old senior executives in major Fortune 500 companies.\n\nYou clearly don't understand the context of what people are pointing out. The isolated age of the man isn't the issue.", "Willie is not Irish, he is Scottish.", "> just as ashamed", "So the manager was just an idiot?", "You're right: I've never been a worker with zero skills who somehow thinks dumping grease down a storm drain is acceptable.\n\nIf you're working fast food, and that's the most valuable thing you can do with your time, you can literally walk next door to the McDonalds and be working there within an hour.", "Ahhhh damm repost.", "Burger King is fucking trash. I don't know what happened to that company, but like 10-15 years ago they went from my go-to to my last resort.", "It's your job to know, most don't know the ins and outs and it's silly to assume that others will make decisions based on your knowledge.", "Same idea.", "My local Wendy does that they pour it into a empty lot thats next to a stream and when it rains it all gets washed into it.", "Was the shitter full? I hope they got fined for that.", "Yeah i was going to say, did “Burger King” really do this or the idiot employee who wasn’t following protocol.", "Am open to other reasons.", "Yeah, that's the good stuff.", "Yeah, you start the engine on diesel, and then once the engine is warm (5 minutes?) a small heat exchanger warms the oil to thin it. \n\nDrive on straight vegetable oil. Then, about five minutes from home, you switch back to diesel to flush out the lines for the next start-up", "You don’t starve. You call HR and say what happened. \n\nDo any of you have a spine or a sense of your own awareness? Have you never been threatened by a shitty boss and stood up for yourselves? I feel sorry for you if not.", "And the clowns downvoting me don’t realize he can call HR, the franchise owner, Burger King HQ, and even his state labor board if he gets fired for doing the right thing. He has zero financial risk for standing up to his shitty boss and doing what’s right.", "Piss off with your bs", "Not yet, but I have stood up to shitty bosses and refused to do stuff like this. Not quite on this level, I haven’t had that bad of a boss before, but immoral stuff none the less. Didn’t get fired, but I knew I had the states labor board on my side and a wrongful termination suit if I got fired. \n\nI was asked to throw a bunch of old propane tanks(grilling sized) into a dumpster that the landlord had brought in for a reno of FvR building next to us. We were a hardware store and the tanks we couldn’t fill had piled up and they were an eyesore. The company we used for pickup hadn’t been by and wasn’t answering the phone. I refused to toss them and she threatened me with a firing. I grabbed the appropriate numbers off the state labor and job board in her office and told her again, no. \n\nOn top of that, it’s not like this is the only fast food restaurant in his area, there are plenty of menial jobs he could apply for if he wasn’t working there any more. \n\n“Why did you leave BK?”\n\n“I was fired for refusing to pour hot fry grease down a storm drain. Yes, seriously”", "Civil cases are paid after the settlement. Not upfront.", "He edited his comment.", "Nope. HR protects the employees and company image. The manager is not protected in this case. As seen by the fact that HR fired the manager for this.", "You can make up whatever dumbass, what-if scenario's you want, I don't have all the answers because that's not what we're talking about.", "It gets dumped at the local sewage processing plant. \n\nYou pay to have it hauled off. They pay to dump it.\n\nThe grease trap exists to keep the sewer lines from getting clogged up.\n\nA very tiny amount gets processed the way you think.", "Yes, but you need to adapt it for cooking oil. The viscosity of cooking oil is way, way higher than diesel, so it's extremely thick when cold and can cause problems like clogs. You need to add a heated tank and pumps so the warn oils becomes thinner and the engine can burn it.", "Which is why they use the internet and become disheartened when they find ignorantly dismissive statements like yours and falsely assume they are relevant to their struggles.", "You claim to be, \"describing the world,\" but blatantly ignore factors in order to perpetuate a biased claim.\n\nA true representation of reality would incorporate an understanding of other resources outside of the artificial limitation you have proposed.", "What artificial limitation? What factors? Most humans are lazy. It's a fact.", "You can't be fired for refusing to do something illegal. If they do, you sue for wrongful termination.", "Health-wise absolutely, happiness-wise :(\n\nPlus, fried stuff is everywhere so if it got to where you hated the smell, it would suck to go anywhere.", "It’s the exact same concept. Sorry that’s hard for you to understand.", "This dude is ancient working for fast food.\n\nHR doesn't work for you.\n\nAre you that out of touch with reality? Damn must feel nice", "There's no reason that old man should be working at burger King. He's not some internet dude who knows how shit works. He's just some fucking farm hand that does what he's told. Those people exist and it's due to their life and generation. Poor people use to be reeeeeaaally fucking poor", "I disagree, and I think a jury would too.", "I don't think anyone should do that. But I can see how this old man would.\n\nProjection of insecurity lmao. I bet that's your go to comeback on reddit. You are out of touch with reality", "Tell that to the nazis.", "It really isn't comparable at all and doubling down is not doing you any favours.", "That is a different kind of grease trap. That grease trap is fed into via the plumbing that leads from the 3 compartment sink. Brown grease, like what you're talking about, does not come from the fryers.\n\nFry oil, called yellow grease, is what is being dumped here", "And the same thing happens to it.\n\nWhoever collects it typically just dumps it out or sells it as animal feed.\n\nThere isn't enough of a market for biodiesel for very many people to take it seriously. \n\nI own 26 diesel trucks and I won't buy it. It's simply not cost effective to do so. \n\nYour maintenance costs go up, your power goes down significantly, and you lose MPGs.", "Right, but that makes the manager's job easier, not the owner's.", "Sure and I do the same. I just think many still don't know you can't really delete your comments and wanted to add it here.", "It's so profitable in fact that it is run buy organized crime in many places. They'll come by and offer their collection services. If you try to decline, your business will suffer a sudden string of thefts and vandalism.", "Yeah I don't blame him for his behavior, it's completely understandable. I just feel a little bad for the poor employee who probably didn't feel like he had the option to tell his manager no.", "He edited it within 2 minutes because that is the only window you can edit without the comment itself saying \"last edited x hours ago\", which his does not. Your comment response to him is literally 20 minutes after the person who replied to him posted, who commented 30 minutes after the original posting.\n\nYou are objectively lying, and it is visible as fuck. Dumbass.", "I literally run a company that sells yellow grease and cleans brown grease traps. \n\nYellow grease is currently in a bull market right now and is selling for 53¢ a pound. Check the ag energy report weekly round up of you don't believe me.", "Are you seriously comparing the holocaust to someone pouring oil down a storm drain?\n\nNot to mention that the Nuremberg trials focused on officers involved with war crimes. \"We were just following orders\" absolutely was an acceptable excuse for frontline soldiers because it wasn't just \"following orders\" it was \"we were following orders because if we didn't, we would be executed\". \n\n\nCrimes committed under duress is absolutely an acceptable defense and we knew that in the 40s. The fact that you don't understand that 80 years later is concerning.", "How is not comparable. It’s the exact same words?", "How tf did you conclude I am comparing oil in a drain to the Holocaust? Stop making jumps in logic that were never made. I used an example of people not being exonerated of their crimes. I never said they were equal crimes to dumping oil. If you’d like to argue that the severity of the crime should dictate whether duress gets you off the hook or not, then sure, go ahead. But I never said dumping oil is equivalent to the Holocaust so be gone if you just want to strawman me. \n\nThe soldiers weren’t put on trial because you can’t put millions of people on trial. The officers would be executed if they didn’t follow orders either. There is no difference.", "I'm not explaining to you how the context in which these statements are used are vastly different and the comparison is bad. If you can't figure this out on your own, there is not much I can do.", "I recognized and acknowledge the context. Even in light of that it is the same logic. Wether that’s killing Jews or dumping oil it’s the same logic and it fails. Are the Holocaust and dumping oil even close to the same? No. But if the excuse doesn’t work for one it doesn’t work for the other. \n\nI was following orders is NEVER an excuse that should be given validation. If you can’t detach from the atrocities to recognize the words and their meanings, well…", "Yeah I'm not doing this. It's a shitty comparison and it's not one you should ever make. We condemn the similarities the alt-right and anti-vaxxers make. This is no different. Have a good day.", "Lol you are sad kid.", "Yes, because I pointed out that you are lying that he edited his comment despite providing sources, I am sad.\n\nMove along little petulant amoeba", "Meanwhile, your belongings are collecting rainwater.", "There is a difference. One is claiming equivalency of things being done to them, the other is a person who is not being persecuted trying to pass blame up the line. \n\nThey are not the same.", "How can a grease trap be recycled? The one at our restaurant would start to smell like a dead body before they would change it. I can’t imagine that grease being able to be used in anything.", "It's nice of you to think that others will use this informal thread as a guide to live their life. To those that are reading this thread don't live your life based on what I say or anyone else on Reddit says.", "Umm, indeed.", "No, I took out a personal loan to pay rent. The interest rate doesn't even matter because I'm getting a big payday.\n\nYour belongings on the other hand are collecting rainwater while you sit in jail.", "Sucks to live under the bridge you call home. HR does work for you, sorry you had shitty employers and never felt empowered to stand up for yourself.", "You just a boring troll", "They absolutely do. \n\nEvery day I hear the same repeated, \n\"Everyone knows it's hard that's all you hear.\"\n\"Everything I've been told is, it's impossible to fight against a boss.\"\n\nIt's called an, \"environment,\" and you are contributing to a constant ideological reinforcement. Reddit can be great resource because people with experience exist and post here. \n\nIt's ruined when dumb people like you come in and give shitty statements about the, \"real world,\" when you don't know anything.", "You sure got a lot of information from a man about his life from a video where he never speaks a single word. \n\nSimply put, you complained about, \"context,\" but since you had none; it fit your bias to imagine some.", "Why you ignoring the fact that hes extremely old? You don't think that. Matters?\n\nBias. What a strange trollhard word to use here", "I never said he shouldn't know, just that he likely doesn't. What should happen and what does happen are two entirely different things. When you realize that is the day you stop being so angry lol.", "Here in Canada, the winter process is more involved, as you can imagine, but I think it's mostly just more time spent warming.", "Get up on outta here with my fry holes", "He must have come across ancient video which historians date back to the 1900s.", "its a odd line of redditors on this 1 lol", "> just that he likely doesn't.\n\nHe never said anything in the video. \nStop making up information to fit your fake claim.", "You're claiming the opposite with equally little information", "If you put that oil directly in the ocean it'd be relatively fine, right? It's all organic stuff. I think the main concern is absolutely fucking up the sewer system with clogs, right? Actually asking.", "Eh, he's trying to make a stink to get something to change. I don't think he's experienced in video narration." ]	652	videos	Burger King Dumps Used Oil in Local Storm Drain
https://youtu.be/RYdtd0xpwB8	/r/videos/comments/qtg8bk/grand_theft_auto_v_the_rise_and_demise_of/	[ "play at 1.75x speed", "Hey that’s me! Thanks for sharing my video", "Thank you for making it! It's a very good, in depth video and I was very surprised that you don't have more subscribers as of now. To bad this post didn't take off, cause I think you deserve more recognition. Keep it up and I'm sure your channel will grow. I've subbed to your channel this week :)", "Really appreciate that man. Truly means the world" ]	3	videos	Grand Theft Auto V, The Rise And Demise Of Rockstar Games
https://youtu.be/oC4RqrxzfMI	/r/videos/comments/qtgi9g/its_chinese_for_japan/	[ "lol what's this from", "A TV show called \"The Good Place\". I personally didn't like it, but there are a few good moments like this.", "China here. \n\nIt says 日本 which means \"Japan\" in Chinese", "Danson in truly excellent on \"The Good Place,\" but I think this is from something else.", "What didn't you like about it? I thought it was annoyingly campy until the transhumanist existentialism. As a transhumanist myself, I fucking BAWLED through the whole last season.", "Definitely a scene from the show.", "The Good Place - quite possibly one of the best TV shows ever made. Here's a quote:\n\nMichael: There's also an IHOP.\n\nJason: Ooh! I'm gonna order the Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N' Fruity!\n\nMichael: No. Sorry. In this realm, IHOP stands for \"Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes\". You don't really eat these pancakes. It's more like they eat you.\n\nJason: Okay. I'll get eggs, then.", "It's too... American", "Google Translate here. \n\n中国 is \"China\" in Japanese.", "Jason is the soul of that show.", "The very same characters are also \"China\" in Chinese", "With a weird line above it, which makes it look like you're meant to read it upside-down.", "Wa.", "That's probably the most unhelpful description ever made. \n\nMost English television from any given studio or creator is either about America or partially made by Americans.\n\nIt's like calling theater \"too theatery\".", "I see you also got Algorithm'd.", "I find it a really useful description. It's like Mr. Bean vs. Yes, Minister. Or like Have I Got News for You vs. Taskmaster. \n\nAmerican audiences are for more likely to 'get' the former.\n\nIt's not just about cultural references that people don't get but also the way people behave that seem weird or unrelateable depending on where you live.", "That's a weird coincidence. Almost as if Chinese and Japanese are somehow related.", "I once saw an Asian guy with an 'America' tattoo but it was written in English?", "Japan invented anime and the Chinese based their language off it.", "[this comparison should make it more clear.](https://youtu.be/ukI7XEelQAs)", "God I crush so hard on Darcy Karden", "Wow extremely hilarious congrats", "The good place is a fantastic feel good show.", "Thanks? I didn’t write the good place, that’s from the show.", "Without furigana I would be so lost sometimes.", "Literally copying a 2 month old youtube comment with exact punctuation, nice.", "It is character driven if that's what you mean.", "Fun fact, it also means Japan in Japanese.", "Of every show he’s in.", "It's simultaneously Chinese and Japanese for Japan." ]	30	videos	It's Chinese for "Japan"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGO4LtCctTk	/r/videos/comments/qth42s/spinlaunch/	[ "If they go on to build the full version, I wanna see them intentionally destroy the prototype by releasing the payload at the wrong time. Might make for a really cool video!", "I have seen a ultra centrifuge burst a cinder block wall like a balloon popping. That ultra centrifuge was less then 100 lbs and not filled with rocket fuel.\n\nThis isn't a launch system, this is someone trying to get the all time top post on /r/CatastrophicFailure", "I doubt there is any satellite system that can take the incredibly ridiculous G forces required to get it into orbit.", "Should have called it YEET.", "I want to agree but we also have rocket thrusters that can land themselves after burning and re- entry. Might be someone working on.\n\nProbably these dudes.", "There is no part of those rockets that will hit anywhere near the lateral g forces this will hit. Wild guess would be around 50g. Rockets and the satellites that ride them are good with vertical g forces.", "Scott Manley calculated 500g.\n\nAbsolutely insane.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAczd3mt3X0", "Whoaaaaaaaaaaaa! and i thought i was over estimating hahaha! I will add my ex wife to the test subject list if they ever wanna yeet some humans.", "If that things goes wrong it’s going to be one HELL of a show.\n\nCan’t wait.", "These would work a lot better in space.", "TL;DW: Scott actually calculates around 10,000 Gs for the full-scale (50m radius) device. Time stamp 5:50 in the video.", "And he also states common consumer tech like an iphone could withstand it.", "They can put electronics in rail gun shells.", "There are electronics built for devices that will be shot out of a cannon.", "It would vibrate itself apart without something heavy, like the Earth, to anchor the centrifuge to.", "This frog ^ outer-atmospheres.", "The Moon would be a better place for a facility like this. Large enough to provide a solid anchor, while also small enough the escape velocity would be much lower than required on Earth.", "nah it works in KSP", "KSP does a good job representing some aspects of physics, but it's a simplified model, not a perfect replication of reality. The system doesn't take into account a number of things, like Lagrange points or the sound barrier. There's no orbital decay above atmosphere, craft are only affected by the gravity of one celestial body at a time, and aerodynamics are crude.\n\nConsider how much energy is built into a system like this necessary to move a payload at orbital or escape velocity. In KSP you can simply turn on a gyroscope and gain stability of the craft. In reality however, this is a huge amount of momentum in a low gravity environment. Every action has an equal and oposite reaction. A freefloating launch platform would need significant stabilization to nullify the force exherted backwards. Otherwise the platform would begin a counterspin and vibrate to pieces with so much energy stored in the centrifuge.", "Not really without something providing counter to the force generated by spinning arm.", "Another spinning arm free gyroscope all this ends up being is an undersized skyhook", "Gyroscope could help mitigate the rotation, but once it stops the rotation it can't be easily spun up. Not without some propulsion. Also we have to take into account that launching is reducing mass and changing center of mass significantly. So getting gyroscope to counter rotation would prove to be tricky.", "Having 10k gravity pull on 100g device and 600kg device are two totally different beasts. At this much gravity pull, 100g device would be ~101kg heavy while 600kg would end up being at around 611620kg. Huge difference. Making materials which would withstand 100kg is not hard, but making 611620kg at that speed, is.\n\nAlso, let us not forget that Hubble was 11000kg heavy and we have to add to mass engines and fuel for second stage burn. So resulting figures end up being quite big when everything is taken into account.\n\nAll that said, just spinning big numbers like this means nothing. There are more clever ways to solve a single problem instead of just throwing more power at it. Just look at Antonov 225 plane. Just by gut feeling alone one wouldn't believe that thing can fly, let alone carry other planes in its cargo.\n\nWe'll just have to wait and see.", "i know", ">>> nah it works in KSP\n\n>> No, here's why.\n\n> I know.\n\nWell thanks for your input.", "you toss esseys at jokes and want input? well karen no shit kerbals are not a scientific method of designing \n\nhttps://youtu.be/U6MwNrUETTM", "Two simple paragraphs does not an essay make, not unless you have the attention span of a gnat. It was SO clear you were joking and not actually that dense of a cabbage. 🙄\n\nPoe's Law, ever heard of it? \n\n> Karen\n\nLol, ok Zoomer. Good one." ]	28	videos	SpinLaunch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2242N5NJPUw	/r/videos/comments/qthaqo/mike_tyson_gives_bill_burr_therapy_therapy_with/	[ "hell yeah man these guys are awesome", "You a silly gooth", "Mike Tyson is a wise man nowadays. Nice to see him like this" ]	3	videos	Mike Tyson gives Bill Burr therapy. (Therapy with Mike starts at 8:53)
https://youtu.be/zlGmOKCNsyM	/r/videos/comments/qthkxi/waves_of_weather_rolling_in_across_the_bay_in/	[ "How could it not be lmfao. They're 20 feet away from a 4 lane expressway", "Not really. Windows are pretty soundproof but it’s a really popular road on weekends, and although it’s 60km limit (Not an expressway), the rev-heads like the stretch in front and sometimes come screaming past later at night. Eating on the balcony is noisy sometimes but no worse than eating alfresco at a roadside restaurant.\nAlso, I’ve lived at super quiet places and noisy road places and you definitely get completely used to the noise of 90% of the traffic.", "Ha ha. Actually i rewatched the video and see that it looks Super busy and really fast with the time lapse but the innermost lane is parking and the speed limit is 60K so not quite a 4 lane expressway.", "Ha we were out in the dandies and watching the rain radar, timing our snack stops (under a tree) with the clouds coming over. Nice day!" ]	5	videos	Waves of weather rolling in across the bay in front of our house.
https://youtu.be/4CoUkheJjes	/r/videos/comments/qtk45y/girl_tries_to_eat_corn_on_the_cob_and_it_goes/	[ "C. 1974", "Yup this definitely needed to be narrated.", "Should have buttered it first.", "l u b r i c a t e" ]	4	videos	Girl Tries To Eat Corn On The Cob And It Goes Terribly Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgEp_ftcNFs&ab_channel=StcStasi	/r/videos/comments/qtkqv2/bearly_missed_them/	[ "Watch to the end folks. :D", "I think you mean almost met!", "Honey scented body wash causes dirty underwear.", "\"Miss, would you be interested in cheaper electricity bills... Miss? .... MISS!!\"", "I enjoy it a lot more at 4x playback speed.", "That woman almost met a grizzly fate at the end there.", "Listen, no one's going to panda to your desire for a pun thread here.", "what a shitty title... it just ruins the surprise and thus the whole point of interest of the video.", "Wow", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo", "Hmmm, the downvote that I just canceled seems to indicate this as a bit of a polarizing statement." ]	11	videos	Bearly missed them!
https://youtu.be/TxpJOzxPO_c	/r/videos/comments/qtkzj8/ubear_eats_in_russia/	[ "Ubear eats.\n\nU 🐻🍴\n\n🤣🤣🤣", "People who feed wildlife are idiots.", "Bear equates road with food. What could possibly go wrong?" ]	4	videos	UBear Eats in Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBM1arX2W5U	/r/videos/comments/qtl1zx/drifting_techniques_taught_by_keiichi_tsuchiya/	[ "Video: How to drift\n\nMe: alright sure, what should I know.\n\nVideo: change your suspension, brake pads and brake fluid, but thats about it\n\nMe: change them to what though? what am I optimizing for?", "No multi track drifting?", "Forza is calling...", "#HOW TO WRECK YOUR SHIT AT HOME IN 3 EASY STEPS", "DK started his own youtube channel during lockdown, if y'all interested: https://www.youtube.com/c/DRIFTKINGTELEVISION", "> what am I optimizing for?\n\nYou'd be surprised how much difference high quality brakes can make. I have Wilwoods on my 240sx with Pirellis. Hard braking would tear my teeth out.", "> Going sideways relying on only brute power is not what Tsuchiya aims for \n\nMustang owner: \"What? crashes into a guardrail\"", "Suspension, tyres, brakes, power, knowledge - check. But my Audi has an electrical handbrake. Bummer.", "crashes into a crowd, I think you meant to say?", ">Me: change them to what though? what am I optimizing for?\n\nStiff springs or coilovers. High quality ceramic pads and new brake fluid just because you'll be smashing the brakes.", "Also when the narrator is translating it sounds like he's doing an English anime dub", "brake", "I actually appreciated the translator conveying some of the natural inflection.", "So just better brakes in general, not a certain kind of brake?", "Haha whoops! Thanks, I fixed it now", "The specific mention of the MX5 speaks to my experience owning one lol. They love to throw the arse out, but similarly they are usually easy to catch. Any roundabout can suddenly turn into a NIGHT OF FIRE, especially in the wet", "That music reminds me of og Gran Turismo", "I intend to try these techniques, safely, in Forza Horizon 5.", "Love the porn music in the background", "Right now i drive a 2013 impreza hatch with the CVT so, not gonna be drifting in this machine. I want an MX5 or one of those 2-door altimas to blow up as a drift machine :)", "Just be warned that the MX5 is a unique beast. Their native setup on the NA/NB is not as “sporty” as you expect: more body roll than I anticipated, and barebones as far as assists and dashboard notifications go. My model has ABS, but most NA don’t, and it doesn’t even have a low fuel light lol.\n\nThat said, I owned a Fiesta ST before this, and its suspension was “very firm” to say the least. Either way, I’m lucky that I’ve had two very capable go karts for my last two cars. I think I have to go up a spec next, but with JDM prices what they are atm that will be a while off I think lol", "I didn't expect this to be as interesting as it is, great video.", "Some punk from Mt. Akina", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Vcx3zRE-0&ab_channel=RetroGenGaming", ">Wilwoods", "Wilwoods are my go to...but brembo is the shit if you have 5,000 USD you can spare...YES!!", "ceramic pads are not to be used in extreme driving conditions such as track use/drifting\n\nthey will fade, maybe ok for autoX but scrubbing 30-40mph in an instant can glaze the pads easily", ">ceramic pads are not to be used in extreme driving conditions such as track use/drifting\n\nThat was true years ago but not anymore. Literally all of Brembo's top-level brake pads designed for race use are ceramic: https://www.brembo.com/en/Varie/RACING%20PADS%20Catalogue%20(012).pdf", "right but i'm going off the fact that you told the guy to swap out for ceramic pads. what's generally considered high quality ceramics are not rated for track use. ceramics for track use are not easy to come by and are expensive, especially pads with those compounds in that catalogue\n\nand to use those pads you're going to have to get the needed brembo brake kits for them.. thousands of dollars and not easy to acquire", "It’s useful to know how to handle a oversteering car.", "Meh. I got em on one of my wheels. They weren’t that difficult to acquire." ]	32	videos	Drifting techniques taught by Keiichi Tsuchiya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPSUKdDUDRA	/r/videos/comments/qtmyjy/a_regular_night_somewhere_in_australia/	[ "What the actual fuck", "Ah this brings back memories", "Yup, so many people have a gme antenna on the front of their vehicle.", "Darwin, Australia's Florida.", "Why does this seem fake. Perfect timing, perfect camera angle, clear audio.", "could have happened anywhere tbh", "You're underestimating Australia", "As an Australian, I still think this is fake.", "Too little resolution, too boring to be fake.", "Gronks..", ">Perfect timing\n\nIf it wasn't perfect timing he wouldn't have been there to film it and upload it to YouTube. You could make this argument about literally anything that happens when you're there. \n\n>perfect camera angle\n\nIt's a dash-cam, it points forward. \n\n>clear audio\n\nOf what, the guy who is in the car with the camera?", "Notice his car had lights on the front JUST for seeing at night and perfectly pointing in the same direction as the camera for lighting the scene. \n\nA little too convenient, if you ask me.", "So you think they staged police, tow truck, several people, a car crash, all for a short mildly amusing video of something that could easily have been captured in real life.", "Found where it happened: \n\n\nhttps://www.google.com/maps/@-12.3856022,130.9045143,3a,75y,356.18h,88.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRSoDIwTwXsgF61C2ZyF6fw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656", "This guy sounds EXACTLY like Ser Winter, wtf", ">As a ~~Australian~~ social paranoiac.\n\nCan you imagine how elaborate this would have had to have been as a fake? At least 6 people. One fairly normal sounding bloke. Three degenerates. A cop, with a car, using emergency lights. A totalled ute. A tow truck. To share a few seconds of manufactured amusement?\n\nThe internet really is damaging our brains :(\n\nEven if this particular instance was fake, something similar is probably happening in some part of the country at any point in time. This type of situation really isn't that weird for certain groups of people, redditors just tend to avoid those groups.", "Normal reaction to a huntsman in the vehicle.", "DashCamOwnersAustralia has the best twitch channel ever.", "Check out their channel, people from all over Australia submit dash cam clips.\n\nThere are others that are this goofy.", "You have a drunk passenger that likely threatened to leave the car immediately, and old vehicles that don't have door safeties. \n\nGuy slams brakes because he doesn't want sloppy friend to be ground meat.\n\nIf this is accurate, driver did the right thing.", "You're either very naive or you're 12 years old.", "I bet that crashed truck is the same truck from the beginning of the video!", "Can't put a thing past you, Columbo!", "Never been out of Melbourne then?", "Darwin resident here. Definitely not fake. Sigh.", "its called a ute mate.", "Queensland is our Florida for sure." ]	27	videos	A regular night somewhere in Australia
https://youtu.be/h8sJ0thOamk	/r/videos/comments/qtn0qg/us_debt_of_30_trillion_visualized_in_stacks_of/	[ "So we’re fucked?", "No you're ok because you happen to control said $", "Inflation will take care of it. No worries.", "As I understand it having a National debt isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it means other countries will lend us money because they trust our economy to pay it back. When no one is willing to lend you money is when you have a serious problem with your finances. Every major country has enormous national debt. \n\nThe deficit is a different thing all together where you’re spending more than you take in via taxes and that’s the real bad thing because that’s what leads to more debt, but it can be corrected easily in the short term (eg Clintons surplus). \n\nYou also have to compare our debt to our % of GDP and also adjust for inflation to get an accurate account of where our debt actually is. \n\nCorrect me if I’m wrong!", "You said it yourself yet at the same time you seem to have forgotten the part about paying back. Just like a business loan or personal loan, the more you owe, the more of your income would be spend on paying back. Usually it get to the point that you can no longer pay back the principal and you can afford only paying the interest. At that point you are officially working for someone else for life.\n\nRich people will continue to tell people it is good to have debt, because that is how they get money from the government. They don't pay tax so it is up to you and me to pay those interests back.", "True, but currently the interest rate on our debt is only 1.4%, pretty dang low, so that helps a lot. We’re not even close to defaulting like Greece so even in spite of our large debt and deficit we’re doing alright, we have the ability to pay our interest and our principal without issue. \n\nDon’t get me wrong, it’s best to avoid debt if possible, it’s always best to have more money than you owe. But sometimes taking on debt is an aspect of life and just because you have debt doesn’t mean your finances are problematic. Our debt to GDP ratio is 125% right now which is bad but from what I’ve heard it’s fixable so we’re not in dire straits. \n\nIt’s a very interesting topic I enjoy learning about even tho I find it difficult to wrap my brain around. I could probably be 100% incorrect on all this and I’m happy to be corrected.", "whats with the scary christmas music ?", "I do like how this video contains many different US standard units of measure, such as:\n\n* Pallets\n* Freight trucks\n* Boeing 747's\n* Football fields\n* Statue of Liberties\n\nI mean it makes sense to compare it to physical objects, but these feel like the standard units of measure I've seen people compare things to.", "Unlike a business the government has the ability to control inflation through central banking and a unlimited ability to create money to pay off debts. The US government has 1.56% 10 year interest rate from being a politically stable, economic powerhouse and continuously proving it pays back its debts and being immortal. The US government targets a 2% inflation rate for monetary stability. Government debt naturally disappears faster than its created not to mention almost every dollar of government spending goes through the US economy which creates economic growth and partially comes back in the form of taxes, individuals don't get this kind of macroeconomic rebate through spending.\n\nGovernments have a much better deal taking on debt than individuals or businesses. Its not at all the same.", "I'd also add that a significant amount of that debt is owed to the US public rather than other countries. About 20 trillion as of July 2020.", "This is why wealth needs taxed. We can't have people in our society who are 70 billion dollars more wealthy during a pandemic, who don't pay any tax on that increase.\n\nStock needs to be treated more like other assets. I pay property tax on my house, and if I can't pay, I'll lose the house. Stocks that people own need to be taxed annually. We can exempt the first million in stock or have progressive thresholds or exemptions for retirement accounts, etc. but we can't have a class of people who's primary mechanism for increasing their personal wealth goes untaxed.\n\nTheir wealth comes from our system, and they need to contribute a fair share to that system.", "\"You and me will all go down in history with a sad Statue of Liberty and a generation that didn't agree.\"", "'unlimited' until our credit rating gets knocked again...", "Which works out to about 100k per person. Which really isn't all that bad to be in debt by as a nation.\n\nNow can we stop the scare music?", "I can see your point but I am still unsure of that. It has been growing exponentially for 30+ years with no stop in sight.\n\nWhen will the debt actually go down.", "How many Tom Brady’s tall is the money stack? Like, exactly how many Ford F-150’s are we talking here?" ]	17	videos	US Debt of $30 Trillion Visualized in Stacks of Physical Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HROY5MlA0QU	/r/videos/comments/qtn5c0/i_paint_street_art_and_people_always_ask_how/	[ "I really enjoy beautiful stuff like this. I assume the artist didn't have permission for this one, but my local town contracts street artists to paint stuff like this. It's beautiful, makes a mostly rainy city seem a bit less dull and grey, and it prevents ugly tags. Ten thousand times better than a white wall with some shitty graffitti and a swastika.", "I like your guys' mixed style of freehand and stencils. It's kind of an evolution of old signwriter tricks.", "That was tight, thanks for the video!", "Stinkfish has been painting for 20 years and hes the one who introduced a lot of freehand into his style. Great guy.", "The only thing missing from this vid is an actual cop standing behind the artists!", "I 100% agree. Whenever I see an ugly wall wall outdoors I think about what I could put on it.", "Glad to hear you enjoyed it. Video wasnt planned but had a lot of footage that would have been a waste if it was never shared.", "Drawing the cop or security guard is done so much it no longer feels meta.", "IIRC you popped up around a time when the Viennese start art community was beginning its downward spiral. Did you ever connect with the folks that hung around INOPERAbLE?", "Meh. Stencils are cheating. It's the autotune of the art world.", "So, so great. Bravo!" ]	12	videos	I paint street art and people always ask how stencil pieces are painted. Heres a recent piece showing the process.

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