@Peter Hockley The conspiratorial side of me isn't entirely unconvinced that they aren't both robots made by the wealthy to spread propaganda. And they only paid one voice actor to record the lines.
They are actually the same person. Dennis Prager cloned himself to make a younger more insufferable right wing pundits for the new generations. Find a difference between Prager and Shapiro on any issue I dare ya.
A kid I went to school with their parents had no money. The only time he could bathe or eat was at school. It got so bad, we as students would invite him over for dinner or take him a sandwich. His parents worked hard but all their money went to rent and medical bills that were sent to collectors.
You need a decent healthcare service in America, it's the most expensive by far(costs approx x10 than other countries for many reasons, including expensive greedy lawyers), and has the lowest quality of care per capita of the population. The rich will be OK regardless of the National systems. There needs to be Some National Systems for ANYTHING needed for a society to progress Humanly, and Scientifically to enhance everyone's Life with new discoveries. Children should be given medical care regardless of the parent's wealth, .....I am depressed and actually SHOCKED that i have to write that down! Also other things should be taken care of like education, housing, transport, basic food, water, communication. The USA has enough wealth to change their public spending drastically. Drop down economics don't work, neither does austerity. John
@@roselynn6753 That's the current American dream. You need to privatize an essential service and price gouge the poor. You can't make money unless you take it from others.
To Prager, a boss wage-stealing from their employees is ok but a starving person who steals to feed themselves (or their children) is the worst thing ever
tax evasion is worse than murder. Might sound hyperbolic, but if a billionaire dodges millions in taxes every year, he potentially kills way more people than if I go out into the street and stab someone.
Committing crime makes you poor, Jake. Why else would we have so many notable poor people like Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, Brett Kavanaugh, Chris Brown, R Kelly, Roy Moore, Bill Cosby, or the rampant poverty in the wall street banking community?
Right down to ignoring all the bits in the Torah & Bible that condemn rich people for not helping the poor... or outright claiming those bits are "atheist Marxist leftist propaganda!"
Rent out here in Colorado essentially starts at 2,500 a month. We have so many rich hippy-types moving in and absorbing all of the lower-range housing that would normally be affordable. It's getting to the point where a run down, bug ridden apartment with a hole in the floor for a toilet is being sold as a "luxury mountain-adjacent housing for 4,600 a month."
There's a word for that: Gentrification. It's great for people who own property in the district, because they see their property shoot up in value - but it's terrible for people who rent their home, as they just see their rent increase. Not just rent, but local prices too, as stores adjust their pricing to reflect the influx of people with more income who will pay more for the convenience of not having to travel far.
@@vylbird8014 You can call that "gentrification", but it had a lot more to do with the legalization of weed. I know people who own apartments in denver who can't even tell you what the capital of Colorado is. They didn't even go through the effort of gentrification, we just have such a massive and sustained influx of people coming in that there's nowhere to live any more.
"I never met my grandfather, but it's inconceivable to me that he would commit crime because he's poor, therefore being poor doesn't make people commit crime." This is the level of discourse on the right.
I wonder if he realizes that the family members of serial killers largely don't see it coming and have believed that their loved one had a strong moral compass
It could be at times. Some people are selfish, some people are vindictive. But yes, some people are indeed desperate. You kind of have to consider all three, and the reasons for each of them so we can work out what the solution is...
Yeah. Because desperation=moral justification. Just like when a shop owner dies in their attempt to protect the property that feeds and otherwise supports their family. If the thief that shot the shop owner was desperate then all is well.
I love that he never met his grandfather, but he has full knowledge of his grandfather’s values just by looking in his own heart. Feels over facts, y’all.
@Damián Ignolfi What European leaders weren't at the time? He did a "L' Otto" good for the German people. he was much better than Belgium's Leopold II.
I’ve been so poor that I’ve dumpster dived for food. I was also working as a waitress at the time. $2.13/hr + tips is nothing when you live in an area where people rarely tip over 15%.
When I was in high school, my dad would sometimes force me to watch Preger U videos and would offer me $5 per extra video I watch. I never took him up on that offer, but it did make me hate this guy's face to this day.
this guy really believes, from the bottom of his hearth, that you cant be poor if you work a 9-5 job. im at a loss of words to how idiotic that is. also cool channel jake just dicovered it and now i binge everything
Come on. Otto is a fairly common though a bit outdated German name, like Hans or Heinrich. At its height, the SS had 260k personnel. Give me a traditional male German name and I can find a Nazi with that same name. Its a bit like saying the name John is connected to slavery, because there was a man named John who owned slaves, ffs. The most famous German named Otto is probably Otto von Bismarck, who was the Chancellor of the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm I (and a bit under Wilhelm II). Died before Hitler taking power. The second most famous German Otto is a Frisian comedian who was born way after WWII. No third comes readily to mind. There is nothing connecting the name Otto specifically to Nazis. Not defending Dennis Prager, that guy's a reactionary idiot. But not everything German is immediately connectable to Nazism. Unless your only knowledge of Germans comes from watching Indiana Jones movies...
Just for fun the third Otto that comes to mind is Otto the founder of HRE. Adolf was surely big fan of his (as pretty much any German nationalist) so that is probably where the Nazis come in play and maybe Adolf's brother name was Otto (he died in infancy). Although I also hate the German Nazi stereotypes and I am not even German.
@Hans Hanzo Yeah that was a pretty bad comment. One has to remember that Nazi Germany wasn't a nation that built itself up over thousands of years, it was a dictatorial coup which got out of hand. WAY out of hand. But it was only 11 years, so you can't expect the culture to transform a lot. I really don't think there is such a thing as "nazi names", aside from probably Adolf. If you named your kid Adolf after 1945, that's pretty bad. But even "Heinrich" and "Josef" aren't stigmatized at all, and those where probably the two most famous nazis next to Adolf.
I don't think the dog's name is some big gotcha moment. But that being said, the dog isn't a german man and as far as I know neither is Prager. There is usually a reason you would pick a given name for your pet and if you pick one that is culturally foreign to both of you it isn't the strangest thing to ask why you picked the name that you did.
1:03 for those who are unaware in his video about Ben Shapiro, Philosophy Tube compares Dennis Prager to the Predator with the paraphrase, “horrific aliens who kill people for sport... and Dennis Prager...”. Just in case people don’t get the reference.
Wait, no one think sits moral to starve to death if you have access to bread? I've literally had a conversation about that 3-4 times in the past few months where people will say there is no time when stealing is moral.
The bit about the dog's name is kind of funny in a dark way because it comes across as an exaggeration of an unfortunate truth... then you notice the first topic is "Does Anyone Hate Their Pet?" and realize the joke works because it's an understatement of the horrifying reality we live in.
The Medieval diet consisted almost entirely of Bread. Bread, Bread Pudding etc. rarely Meat, and if they absolutely had to Vegetables. Fruits were right out, as only the rich could generally afford them. Also Oranges weren't known till Tudor times, same with the Color Orange. The name for the color Orange wasn't invented for the English Language until the Tudor era. Also Prager is just a waspish old fart who likely hasn't ever met a poor person, let alone a homeless person. I was working a full time job and homeless due to my rent jumping nearly 200 dollars.
"I love rationality. I always do what is rational. All my views on issues are rational. Except when rationalist tells me to do things that feel wrong like withhold medical care from old people, in which case I ignore it."
That was a weird example anyway since it assumes that our emotional ties aren't something that should ever be given any consideration, but in reality they're an important part of being human and thus it is actually rational to do things that will improve our emotional well-being.
Dennis Prager unironically thinks children with poor parents eating multiple meals a day is a bad thing. I know several people who, as kids, had no regular and expectable meal but the one meal they ate at school. They were miserable in the morning, got bad grades in the morning classes, were usually very low-energy despite literally being children who are SUPPOSED TO BE HYPER AND ANNOYING, they were clearly just not getting enough food and severely suffering for it. My school later started serving breakfast and you know what happened for those kids? They got better grades, they had more energy, they were nicer, they stopped looking like zombies all the time. This was across the board for every kid I know who didn't have enough food at home. Dennis Prager is a fuçking monster. Feed the children, eat the rich.
I confess to being morbidly fascinated with PragerU. Every video of theirs contains at least one nuclear take that haunts me for days. Like their suggestion that fighting climate change makes less sense than just building huge walls around all the continents.
Dennis Prager: "Idk, there was a poor guy in my family two generations ago and *I* personally cannot imagine him ever doing crime so uuh, I just FEEL like it can't be true, you know? And regardless, the poors should can bootstrap themselves out of poverty anyway."
Jake, could you take the bit where you're calculating the minimum wage stuff and put it up on your main channel? Signal boost it a bit? I didn't know most of this until you sat down and showed me. I live on SSI with my mom.
There was a study done with farmers in india. Half the year they were poor waiting on the harvest and the other half they were considerably more wealthy. They gave them iq test both before and after the harvest and they found that they scored a lot higher after the crop came in. Poverty weighs on your mind. It causes you to only think maybe a day in advance. How am i gonna get dinner tomorrow. Or the lights are past due. These thoughts eat you up. So its not that poor people (myself included) are dumb. It's just that they have less capacity for more fruitful thoughts in the midst of the poverty.
Poverty reduces freedom quite substantially and being rich increases freedom quite substantially so I don’t think Dennis has fully thought through the idea of being “poor and free vs. being rich and unfree.” Also Dennis doesn’t value liberty, he wants everyone to conform to the same right wing standards that he has in mind for himself. I don’t think he supports freedom for the lgbt community or the freedom to smoke weed or all kinds of other freedoms. Also rich man Dennis Prager has been taken care of by everyone else around him for his entire life, he clearly loves comfort and being taken care of and he’s perfectly fine with it when it benefits him, but not when it benefits groups that he dislikes and not when it benefits society in general. The state provides him with the infrastructure that he needs to live comfortably such as roads and schools that teach people how to be doctors for when he needs medical care and the working class that performs the labour required to keep him alive such as building his house, making his things, his bed, his shower, his car, all of the stuff that he has and growing the food and bringing him the clean water that he needs to live and he’s just fucking fine with that, but if it helps anyone else his response to that is “fuck you.” This is clearly not a way to structure a functioning society, but Dennis doesn’t care because he benefits from this (and he’s one of the few that actually benefits) at the expense of almost everyone else.
As people become poorer, they are more likely to join gangs in order to have some kind of support structure. Gangs are very violent, that's where most of the violent crime comes from. So it's less poverty directly, it's more that governmental collapse causes poverty, and the resulting poverty causes people to seek out alternative power structures to integrate into. You can see this right now, as the US gov't collapses, more and more gang violence happens.
So I know Prague doesn't get this. The reason ALL kids get free breakfast and lunch is because there are so many children whose parents can't afford it that it is EASIER to assume they are ALL poor. Pro-life but let kiddos starve. Your a true humanitarian Mr. Mayonnaise.
@@Mortiis558 In Seattle it's $12 for employers with 500 or few employers that contribute $3.00 toward employee health benefits and/or reported tips, employers with 500 or fewer employees that don't do that have to pay $15.00 and large employers with 501 or more employees have to pay $16.00. The state minimum is $12.00, there is no tipped minimum wage.
Ethan Davenport No tipped minimum? So what happens if they make no tips? Do they get the state minimum or the does it depend on the number of employees? Or just no money for you?
@@Mortiis558 If the work for an employer that has 500 or fewer employees and contributes $3.00 towards health care benefits than they get paid the state minimum of $12.00.
During childhood, (Being In a economic downturn in the U.K and having borderline poverty in household), I did actually steal from the super market after school ever day. The circumstances then were desperate, with little economic hope, and stuck In council housing unable to have a childhood.
Got paid/reduced lunch many kids school breakfast/lunch were their only meals. Some didn't make the reduced lunch list so they went w/o lunch/ i would give them my meal if I didn't want it or the side meals.
1:10:34 can you live in a share house with kids? That's when a bunch of people pool their money to rent the same place. I'd imagen it's possible though I've not heard of it happening.
I'd say any candidate for any important federal position be sent to live in poverty for two years in a third world country, and fail them if they get deported and not allow them to run. Let the be real victims if discrimination and hate and allow these tough lessons to teach them empathy, humanity and good social values.
Otto used to be really common name. One of Germany's most famous comedians just goes by Otto. Also our term for average Joe is Otto Normalverbraucher which translates to Otto Average Consumer.
Dude’s never been poor if he thinks internet is even on their minds. Also, poor folks still have landlines. If they have a cell phone, it’s pay as you go, not on a plan
Landlines are point less now. Cellphones are cheaper when on a plan and pay as you go is more expensive in the long run also internet is unlimited info and entertainment and relativity cheap compared to bundling it with unnecessary things like a landlines or T.V especially when you could pirate everything.
living letters local tv is free, so there’s no “building” internet. It’s not a necessity, so poor folks aren’t going to waste the precious little they have on it. Pay as you go may be more expensive in the long term, but poor folks can’t afford to think long term, and only using their cell phone when they absolutely have to and only paying for it when they do is cheaper right now than being obligated to pay a certain amount of money per month. My point is things like internet and cell phones are luxuries, and they’re the first thing Jake budgeted for. They would be the last thing on a poor person’s mind
@@PatheticApathetic ok so internet is cut out besides internet is free from your cellphone anyway so you could cut local T.V too but do you really think poor people shouldn't think about long term goals because there income is low cuz pay as you go really takes alot of money that could go somewhere else like savings or whatever.
@@PatheticApathetic But that's the point make ever cent count and think about things like "what do i get from pay as you go compared to a plan" compare and contrast dont just pick the cheapest option because in reality it's probably not gonna be leaving you with much at the end of the day.
My parents got married before having kids, they put in a full day's work, and we're still poor. I'm unemployed at the moment because my country would rather hire foreigners and women while allowing legal discrimination of men, but I've worked, and hard. Very hard. Both physically and emotionally, to the point of Major Depressive Disorder. I'm still on the lower class. I have committed crimes before, and I will do it still. Pirating games, for example. But that's because the industry nowadays doesn't deserve any profit.
Even though he tried to backpedal it slightly it's still pretty mindblowing to see someone actually claim that not only does poverty not cause crime, but it's actually the other way around. How dishonest can a millionaire get.
4.40 imagine being so American, that you think, Otto, a very normal German name, especially in its early history, is specifically for this one SS Guy, lol
Yes Dennis... no one has EVER turned to selling drugs because they couldn't afford basic necessities. No one got in debt to the wrong people and were forced to do illegal things to pay off their debt. Dennis, you already said that your father was giving them money to live. If your grandparents hadn't had that lifeline what would they have done? If your family was starving what would you be willing to do if it meant feeding them?
yeah, debt got overlooked. If you have two cars, you probably took a loan, you're probably paying that on top of gas and insurance. And if you have chronic illness, hoo boy
I'm listening to you on 2x speed and had no trouble understanding that guy. I would have a lot of trouble stying focused on him if I had to hear it in normal speed 😂
Otto is not considered a nazi name, it's a common German name and the most famous German historical figure bearing the name is Otto von Bismarck, who isn't associated with nazism (though with German colonialism in the late Monarchy). Our dog is named Otto! He's a German Shepherd.
I'm about 30 mins in and I just have to mention how he Prager has totally moved the goal posts by limiting the discussion to VIOLENT crime. I can imagine poverty having less of an impact when it comes to some violent crime (considering things like assault and murder that are crimes of passion) but when you start looking into property and drug offenses then I can't understand how one could ever dissociate poverty as a cause.
Full screen drive the point home Jake is by far the best thing I've seen today 😍
Oh god...when you speed him up he sounds like a geriatric Ben Shapiro.
@Peter Hockley The conspiratorial side of me isn't entirely unconvinced that they aren't both robots made by the wealthy to spread propaganda.
And they only paid one voice actor to record the lines.
They are actually the same person. Dennis Prager cloned himself to make a younger more insufferable right wing pundits for the new generations. Find a difference between Prager and Shapiro on any issue I dare ya.
while funny, both being fashie Jews doesnt make them clones.
That's just Ben Shapiro. Bennie is a perpetual boomer at heart, no matter what body he has at the time
A kid I went to school with their parents had no money. The only time he could bathe or eat was at school. It got so bad, we as students would invite him over for dinner or take him a sandwich. His parents worked hard but all their money went to rent and medical bills that were sent to collectors.
That's some real bleak shit right there
You need a decent healthcare service in America, it's the most expensive by far(costs approx x10 than other countries for many reasons, including expensive greedy lawyers), and has the lowest quality of care per capita of the population.
The rich will be OK regardless of the National systems.
There needs to be Some National Systems for ANYTHING needed for a society to progress Humanly, and Scientifically to enhance everyone's Life with new discoveries.
Children should be given medical care regardless of the parent's wealth, .....I am depressed and actually
SHOCKED that i have to write that down! Also other things should be taken care of like education, housing, transport, basic food, water, communication. The USA has enough wealth to change their public spending drastically. Drop down economics don't work, neither does austerity.
John
@@roselynn6753 That's the current American dream. You need to privatize an essential service and price gouge the poor. You can't make money unless you take it from others.
crime does cause poverty. it's just more the kind of crime dennis prager is engaged in than the kind of crime he's talking about.
To Prager, a boss wage-stealing from their employees is ok but a starving person who steals to feed themselves (or their children) is the worst thing ever
tax evasion is worse than murder.
Might sound hyperbolic, but if a billionaire dodges millions in taxes every year, he potentially kills way more people than if I go out into the street and stab someone.
Ikr lobbied for tax loopholes by ancapsr
Committing crime makes you poor, Jake. Why else would we have so many notable poor people like Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, Brett Kavanaugh, Chris Brown, R Kelly, Roy Moore, Bill Cosby, or the rampant poverty in the wall street banking community?
hardcorewhoopass
Reading that list of names made me feel violated.
What did chris brown do?
@@tano3166 beat up Rhianna
He sounds like he's genuinely never struggled in his life.
He hasn't
Let's create a musical starring him where he sings about being the very model of privilege. Satire? Parody? Nope. Biopic.
He must've been born in a wealthy family.
Nope not true
@@jonjonboi3701 Not true? I said that's how it seems, not that it's how it is 😅
Says he's Jewish but man he follows Evangelical prosperity gospel to the letter, doesn't he.
That's where the money is.
Hes the Candance Owens of Jews.
Right down to ignoring all the bits in the Torah & Bible that condemn rich people for not helping the poor... or outright claiming those bits are "atheist Marxist leftist propaganda!"
@@mikenerdcore There are many far right/fash j's in the establishment. Unbelievable given their history. They're all right/white now...
Rent out here in Colorado essentially starts at 2,500 a month. We have so many rich hippy-types moving in and absorbing all of the lower-range housing that would normally be affordable. It's getting to the point where a run down, bug ridden apartment with a hole in the floor for a toilet is being sold as a "luxury mountain-adjacent housing for 4,600 a month."
There's a word for that: Gentrification. It's great for people who own property in the district, because they see their property shoot up in value - but it's terrible for people who rent their home, as they just see their rent increase. Not just rent, but local prices too, as stores adjust their pricing to reflect the influx of people with more income who will pay more for the convenience of not having to travel far.
@@vylbird8014 You can call that "gentrification", but it had a lot more to do with the legalization of weed. I know people who own apartments in denver who can't even tell you what the capital of Colorado is. They didn't even go through the effort of gentrification, we just have such a massive and sustained influx of people coming in that there's nowhere to live any more.
Crime does cause poverty. Only proble. Is that the criminals become millionaires and innocents become impoverished.
what's even worse is that it's not even a crime.
"I never met my grandfather, but it's inconceivable to me that he would commit crime because he's poor, therefore being poor doesn't make people commit crime."
This is the level of discourse on the right.
He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
I wonder if he realizes that the family members of serial killers largely don't see it coming and have believed that their loved one had a strong moral compass
It's the same bullshit as "But Bill Cosby can't be a rapist....he's so nice!!"
this guy really thinks when someone robs a convenience store its for fun and not out of desperation?
Na, he thinks its because they aren't a good Christian.
nitehawk86 even though he’s a Jew lol
I know I rob gas stations just to own the libs lol.
It could be at times. Some people are selfish, some people are vindictive. But yes, some people are indeed desperate. You kind of have to consider all three, and the reasons for each of them so we can work out what the solution is...
Yeah. Because desperation=moral justification. Just like when a shop owner dies in their attempt to protect the property that feeds and otherwise supports their family. If the thief that shot the shop owner was desperate then all is well.
Otto is the smartest one in that room
nerd Surfer To be fair, Dennis likes to do that stuff too, just with politics and rhetoric.
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I love that he never met his grandfather, but he has full knowledge of his grandfather’s values just by looking in his own heart. Feels over facts, y’all.
Dude, free breakfast and lunch at school was a lifesaver.
"I'd rather be poor and free. I value freedom." Liar. You're a Capitalist Conservative, you value the exact opposite of freedom and humility.
Mah man. Otto von Bismarck wasn't a Nazi. He is literally like the most famous person named Otto, ever.
DOCTOR OCTOPUS!
BLLLAAAAAAAGHH!
Otto von Bismarck even brought healthcare reform to Germany in the 1880s. Holy shit, America is behind.
Damián Ignolfi who in 19th century Europe wasn’t?
@Damián Ignolfi What European leaders weren't at the time? He did a "L' Otto" good for the German people. he was much better than Belgium's Leopold II.
You should have seen Dennis when Shaun called him out . The old man filled his adult diapers with rage
I’ve been so poor that I’ve dumpster dived for food. I was also working as a waitress at the time. $2.13/hr + tips is nothing when you live in an area where people rarely tip over 15%.
“Donate to the children’s fund? Why? What have children ever done for me?”
He probably named the dog after the bulldog Otto in the Beetle Bailey comic strip.
This is most likely the correct answer.
The Dunning-Prager effect
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When I was in high school, my dad would sometimes force me to watch Preger U videos and would offer me $5 per extra video I watch. I never took him up on that offer, but it did make me hate this guy's face to this day.
"It's ok to steal bread if you are starving"
"We shouldn't give poor kids food."
How can he make both statements? What an asshole.
this guy really believes, from the bottom of his hearth, that you cant be poor if you work a 9-5 job.
im at a loss of words to how idiotic that is.
also cool channel jake just dicovered it and now i binge everything
That Ivotian guy was off the chain.
video is pretty much old man yells at clouds.
59:40 Ask not what your school can do for your kids, but what your kids can do for their school.
This guy just wants to justify his bigotry. And I'd definitely take the chocolate eclair over him. I like the dog, tho.
4:40 maybe he just really likes the early 2000s nicktoon Rocket Power
Come on. Otto is a fairly common though a bit outdated German name, like Hans or Heinrich. At its height, the SS had 260k personnel. Give me a traditional male German name and I can find a Nazi with that same name. Its a bit like saying the name John is connected to slavery, because there was a man named John who owned slaves, ffs.
The most famous German named Otto is probably Otto von Bismarck, who was the Chancellor of the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm I (and a bit under Wilhelm II). Died before Hitler taking power. The second most famous German Otto is a Frisian comedian who was born way after WWII. No third comes readily to mind. There is nothing connecting the name Otto specifically to Nazis.
Not defending Dennis Prager, that guy's a reactionary idiot. But not everything German is immediately connectable to Nazism. Unless your only knowledge of Germans comes from watching Indiana Jones movies...
Just for fun the third Otto that comes to mind is Otto the founder of HRE. Adolf was surely big fan of his (as pretty much any German nationalist) so that is probably where the Nazis come in play and maybe Adolf's brother name was Otto (he died in infancy). Although I also hate the German Nazi stereotypes and I am not even German.
@Hans Hanzo Yeah that was a pretty bad comment. One has to remember that Nazi Germany wasn't a nation that built itself up over thousands of years, it was a dictatorial coup which got out of hand. WAY out of hand.
But it was only 11 years, so you can't expect the culture to transform a lot. I really don't think there is such a thing as "nazi names", aside from probably Adolf.
If you named your kid Adolf after 1945, that's pretty bad.
But even "Heinrich" and "Josef" aren't stigmatized at all, and those where probably the two most famous nazis next to Adolf.
Imagine writing an essay over an obvious joke, we've reached peak autism.
That Otto 'joke' was odd and weirdly delivered. I have never heard of such a thing as a 'nazi name' and now I feel sorry for all the Ottos out there.
I don't think the dog's name is some big gotcha moment. But that being said, the dog isn't a german man and as far as I know neither is Prager. There is usually a reason you would pick a given name for your pet and if you pick one that is culturally foreign to both of you it isn't the strangest thing to ask why you picked the name that you did.
1:03 for those who are unaware in his video about Ben Shapiro, Philosophy Tube compares Dennis Prager to the Predator with the paraphrase, “horrific aliens who kill people for sport... and Dennis Prager...”. Just in case people don’t get the reference.
"Act happy to be happy " great advice! Worked so well for Robin Williams...oh wait, shit! NOPE!!
Anne Frank's father was named Otto. It's not a "Nazi name."
Poor social environment =/= poverty
Nice jumping skills, Dennis.
Wait, no one think sits moral to starve to death if you have access to bread?
I've literally had a conversation about that 3-4 times in the past few months where people will say there is no time when stealing is moral.
The bit about the dog's name is kind of funny in a dark way because it comes across as an exaggeration of an unfortunate truth... then you notice the first topic is "Does Anyone Hate Their Pet?" and realize the joke works because it's an understatement of the horrifying reality we live in.
I love when they tell people who have no boots, to pull themselves up by their boot straps.
The Medieval diet consisted almost entirely of Bread. Bread, Bread Pudding etc. rarely Meat, and if they absolutely had to Vegetables. Fruits were right out, as only the rich could generally afford them. Also Oranges weren't known till Tudor times, same with the Color Orange. The name for the color Orange wasn't invented for the English Language until the Tudor era. Also Prager is just a waspish old fart who likely hasn't ever met a poor person, let alone a homeless person. I was working a full time job and homeless due to my rent jumping nearly 200 dollars.
there's actually some really good arguments that excessive wealth causes crimes
Dennis Prager doing a fireside chat is incredibly ironic.
I like my steak smoked
"I love rationality. I always do what is rational. All my views on issues are rational. Except when rationalist tells me to do things that feel wrong like withhold medical care from old people, in which case I ignore it."
That was a weird example anyway since it assumes that our emotional ties aren't something that should ever be given any consideration, but in reality they're an important part of being human and thus it is actually rational to do things that will improve our emotional well-being.
dennis prager should love the poor since he's made so many of them.
Dennis Prager unironically thinks children with poor parents eating multiple meals a day is a bad thing. I know several people who, as kids, had no regular and expectable meal but the one meal they ate at school. They were miserable in the morning, got bad grades in the morning classes, were usually very low-energy despite literally being children who are SUPPOSED TO BE HYPER AND ANNOYING, they were clearly just not getting enough food and severely suffering for it. My school later started serving breakfast and you know what happened for those kids? They got better grades, they had more energy, they were nicer, they stopped looking like zombies all the time. This was across the board for every kid I know who didn't have enough food at home. Dennis Prager is a fuçking monster. Feed the children, eat the rich.
So cute to hear someone who dropped out of college, disparage people who went to college and didn't drop out.
Oh so THAT'S how Moses n Peeps got through 40 days in the desert! Cannibalism!
I confess to being morbidly fascinated with PragerU. Every video of theirs contains at least one nuclear take that haunts me for days. Like their suggestion that fighting climate change makes less sense than just building huge walls around all the continents.
Dennis Prager: "Idk, there was a poor guy in my family two generations ago and *I* personally cannot imagine him ever doing crime so uuh, I just FEEL like it can't be true, you know? And regardless, the poors should can bootstrap themselves out of poverty anyway."
Jake, could you take the bit where you're calculating the minimum wage stuff and put it up on your main channel? Signal boost it a bit? I didn't know most of this until you sat down and showed me. I live on SSI with my mom.
There was a study done with farmers in india. Half the year they were poor waiting on the harvest and the other half they were considerably more wealthy. They gave them iq test both before and after the harvest and they found that they scored a lot higher after the crop came in. Poverty weighs on your mind. It causes you to only think maybe a day in advance. How am i gonna get dinner tomorrow. Or the lights are past due. These thoughts eat you up. So its not that poor people (myself included) are dumb. It's just that they have less capacity for more fruitful thoughts in the midst of the poverty.
Poverty reduces freedom quite substantially and being rich increases freedom quite substantially so I don’t think Dennis has fully thought through the idea of being “poor and free vs. being rich and unfree.” Also Dennis doesn’t value liberty, he wants everyone to conform to the same right wing standards that he has in mind for himself. I don’t think he supports freedom for the lgbt community or the freedom to smoke weed or all kinds of other freedoms. Also rich man Dennis Prager has been taken care of by everyone else around him for his entire life, he clearly loves comfort and being taken care of and he’s perfectly fine with it when it benefits him, but not when it benefits groups that he dislikes and not when it benefits society in general. The state provides him with the infrastructure that he needs to live comfortably such as roads and schools that teach people how to be doctors for when he needs medical care and the working class that performs the labour required to keep him alive such as building his house, making his things, his bed, his shower, his car, all of the stuff that he has and growing the food and bringing him the clean water that he needs to live and he’s just fucking fine with that, but if it helps anyone else his response to that is “fuck you.” This is clearly not a way to structure a functioning society, but Dennis doesn’t care because he benefits from this (and he’s one of the few that actually benefits) at the expense of almost everyone else.
As people become poorer, they are more likely to join gangs in order to have some kind of support structure.
Gangs are very violent, that's where most of the violent crime comes from.
So it's less poverty directly, it's more that governmental collapse causes poverty, and the resulting poverty causes people to seek out alternative power structures to integrate into.
You can see this right now, as the US gov't collapses, more and more gang violence happens.
So I know Prague doesn't get this. The reason ALL kids get free breakfast and lunch is because there are so many children whose parents can't afford it that it is EASIER to assume they are ALL poor. Pro-life but let kiddos starve. Your a true humanitarian Mr. Mayonnaise.
6:41 You just spoke the truest words ever spoken 😂😂
"Why isn't it conceivable to me?"
Because you have no imagination.
Why does Dennis' voice make me want to bash my head against a wall
Ohio's non tipped minimum wage is $8.55 an hour, the tipped minimum wage is $4.30 an hour.
Ethan Davenport Texas is 7.25 and 2.13 respectively. Or the tipped wage was last time I worked for tips.
@@Mortiis558 In Seattle it's $12 for employers with 500 or few employers that contribute $3.00 toward employee health benefits and/or reported tips, employers with 500 or fewer employees that don't do that have to pay $15.00 and large employers with 501 or more employees have to pay $16.00. The state minimum is $12.00, there is no tipped minimum wage.
Ethan Davenport No tipped minimum? So what happens if they make no tips? Do they get the state minimum or the does it depend on the number of employees? Or just no money for you?
@@Mortiis558 If the work for an employer that has 500 or fewer employees and contributes $3.00 towards health care benefits than they get paid the state minimum of $12.00.
During childhood, (Being In a economic downturn in the U.K and having borderline poverty in household), I did actually steal from the super market after school ever day. The circumstances then were desperate, with little economic hope, and stuck In council housing unable to have a childhood.
Debates usually make me uncomfortable, but I'll always be down for some Trash.
Liked because I finally found someone that also has virgin mobile because cheap.
The "episode 17" comment from the beginning do be giving off QAnon dog whistling vibes tho...
the john mulaney reference in the description is A1
Got paid/reduced lunch many kids school breakfast/lunch were their only meals. Some didn't make the reduced lunch list so they went w/o lunch/ i would give them my meal if I didn't want it or the side meals.
I created a windows Excel model to calculate income and the cost of living. Just like you did in this video and I agree it's not enough.
Just buy more bootstraps.
@@Mangocatz1with What? Zip ties?!
@@kingzilla36 No with the money you're gonna get by picking up those bootstraps.
@@Mangocatz1 I'm pretty sure you gotta by boots and straps first.
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@@kingzilla36 nope I was told the only thing we need is bootstraps.
The comments here are so damn worried that Jake called Otto a Nazi name in what was obviously hyperbole.
1:10:34 can you live in a share house with kids? That's when a bunch of people pool their money to rent the same place. I'd imagen it's possible though I've not heard of it happening.
I'd say any candidate for any important federal position be sent to live in poverty for two years in a third world country, and fail them if they get deported and not allow them to run.
Let the be real victims if discrimination and hate and allow these tough lessons to teach them empathy, humanity and good social values.
Well Otto is also the name.of Anne Frank's father so I'll let that name slide
Otto used to be really common name. One of Germany's most famous comedians just goes by Otto. Also our term for average Joe is Otto Normalverbraucher which translates to Otto Average Consumer.
HOW DID I MISS YOU HAD A SECOND CHANNEL WITH HOUR PLUS VIDEOS!?!?!?!
Uhhh, depression era.... dude didn't survive without some level of crime.
57:00 isnt something people keep asking is "Am I better off than I was 4 years ago" isnt that just the same question but retrospectively?
Dude’s never been poor if he thinks internet is even on their minds. Also, poor folks still have landlines. If they have a cell phone, it’s pay as you go, not on a plan
Landlines are point less now. Cellphones are cheaper when on a plan and pay as you go is more expensive in the long run also internet is unlimited info and entertainment and relativity cheap compared to bundling it with unnecessary things like a landlines or T.V especially when you could pirate everything.
living letters local tv is free, so there’s no “building” internet. It’s not a necessity, so poor folks aren’t going to waste the precious little they have on it. Pay as you go may be more expensive in the long term, but poor folks can’t afford to think long term, and only using their cell phone when they absolutely have to and only paying for it when they do is cheaper right now than being obligated to pay a certain amount of money per month.
My point is things like internet and cell phones are luxuries, and they’re the first thing Jake budgeted for. They would be the last thing on a poor person’s mind
@@PatheticApathetic ok so internet is cut out besides internet is free from your cellphone anyway so you could cut local T.V too but do you really think poor people shouldn't think about long term goals because there income is low cuz pay as you go really takes alot of money that could go somewhere else like savings or whatever.
living letters I didn’t say they shouldn’t think about long term goals, but every cent you have right now has to count, so you may not be able to
@@PatheticApathetic But that's the point make ever cent count and think about things like "what do i get from pay as you go compared to a plan" compare and contrast dont just pick the cheapest option because in reality it's probably not gonna be leaving you with much at the end of the day.
The minimum wage in Ohio is higher than 7.25 so you should take that into effect
My parents got married before having kids, they put in a full day's work, and we're still poor. I'm unemployed at the moment because my country would rather hire foreigners and women while allowing legal discrimination of men, but I've worked, and hard. Very hard. Both physically and emotionally, to the point of Major Depressive Disorder. I'm still on the lower class. I have committed crimes before, and I will do it still. Pirating games, for example. But that's because the industry nowadays doesn't deserve any profit.
"bein a w-hite" hahahhah
Even though he tried to backpedal it slightly it's still pretty mindblowing to see someone actually claim that not only does poverty not cause crime, but it's actually the other way around. How dishonest can a millionaire get.
That meltdown at 59:47
Excellent
Dennis Prager needs to have a stroke already
Maybe two strokes, or is that too mechanical?
4.40 imagine being so American, that you think, Otto, a very normal German name, especially in its early history, is specifically for this one SS Guy, lol
And also thinking that the Luftwaffe was exclusively a Nazi filled part of the military in Germany
Wait a minute...he writes his tweets down on paper before publishing them? Lmao
Name the dog stalin lmao....no wait even better! Venezuela!
1:05:09 Just feed your kids the Jordan Peterson carnivore diet.
Dennis Prager telling poor people to eat less is fucking hilarious. Like he completely lacks any selfawareness.
Yes Dennis... no one has EVER turned to selling drugs because they couldn't afford basic necessities. No one got in debt to the wrong people and were forced to do illegal things to pay off their debt.
Dennis, you already said that your father was giving them money to live. If your grandparents hadn't had that lifeline what would they have done? If your family was starving what would you be willing to do if it meant feeding them?
Potato, the world's most perfect food.
I got so stressed when jake was doing the math and kept forgetting things. It gave me anxiety.
yeah, debt got overlooked. If you have two cars, you probably took a loan, you're probably paying that on top of gas and insurance. And if you have chronic illness, hoo boy
Jake there are people alive today who still need iron lungs 😅
I wonder if he have seen Les Miserables.
I imagine Javert would be his favourite character.
Aww puppo
I'm listening to you on 2x speed and had no trouble understanding that guy. I would have a lot of trouble stying focused on him if I had to hear it in normal speed 😂
Dennis Prager literally votes in people who give him money I dont' understand this.
"America has a problem with racism and capitalism is exploitative"
Conservative "It's worse somewhere else"
"That doesn't address what I said"
@0:05
DEFINITELY "versus" xD
Otto is not considered a nazi name, it's a common German name and the most famous German historical figure bearing the name is Otto von Bismarck, who isn't associated with nazism (though with German colonialism in the late Monarchy). Our dog is named Otto! He's a German Shepherd.
Denny P cominatcha with the genius takes! Crime causes poverty, like fuckin puddles cause rain.
@10:11
He ALMOST sounds like a "NORMAL HUMAN"...
Just like having a lack of and no sex and or female intimacy etc. I have to break the law lol
I'm about 30 mins in and I just have to mention how he Prager has totally moved the goal posts by limiting the discussion to VIOLENT crime. I can imagine poverty having less of an impact when it comes to some violent crime (considering things like assault and murder that are crimes of passion) but when you start looking into property and drug offenses then I can't understand how one could ever dissociate poverty as a cause.
Just in time for my lunch.
Dennis Prager is super old. I don't think his meat will be very good. Probably tough or stringy, you couldn't even make a decent gumbo with that.