20:14 Matt Walsh being so blinded by his hatred for drag queens that he casually acknowledges that biological sex and social expectations of gender expression are separate, distinct things.
They do that all the time. Being a man is purely defined by biology, but also if you don't act the right way, you aren't a 'real' man. They are the ones who pushed the most performative parts of gender over sex, and they're shocked when that leads to people separating the two
Reminds me of how being a 'biblical woman' is both your inherent purpose in life and what you were designed to do, and also a massive challenge that you must constantly fight to live up to even when it feels impossible
@AlexGulino86 That's not what he was saying though. He literally say if you were a real man you'd do this this and this.... Which explicitly proves that he does actually implicitly understands the difference between biological sex and a gender identity but that just doesn't click.
Hate when legacy media lends legitimacy to grifters steel manning conservative policy, claiming they believe it will help and they definitely will say it will help when in no universe would the results actually help, they just are willing to say they will and believe they will because their philosophy says it will in the face of all evidence and understanding of cause and effect and pattern recognition and understanding human psychology even a little. That's right you don't have to hand it to Ben. Actually, you never actually have to hand it to them. You just snarkily say "Welcome to the resistance" and wait to see if they do even a little to try to redeem themselves. Just because they found out that their line in Neimoller's poem came up and are acting in naked self interest doesn't mean they are suddenly forgiven or even adjacent to "not bad", just nobody should get in the way of their attacks against the fascists. What sucks is no one on the right will learn a single thing from Ben's example, because that is something the right cannot do. They have to touch the stove themselves before they can understand why that is a terrible idea, their line in the poem has to come up before they find out there was a problem with any of this and they still believe that all the previous lines were justifiable and the right thing to do. Because their only virtue is naked self interest.
@steakknives Wow, your wisdom is transcendental. All those people believe raindrops make decisions, but you know better! Congratulations. I tip my hat to you. Oh wait, I don't have a hat, silly me.
its so weird that ive never heard this phrase until last week. now ive seen it multiple times. i just tried to look it up and it didnt start to get said frequently until a few years ago apparently
@Matty002I only heard it recently, but I'm not surprised it has caught on so much. The second you hear it you know EXACTLY what it refers to. It is like hearing the word "schadenfreude" for the first time and finally having a word for a sentiment you have felt for a long time.
@mr.stuffdoer8483 Crime, in an impoverished demographic in a country with a terrible social safety net and easy access to deadly weaponry? Say it ain't so!
"First I sent them after the socialists, because I was not a socialist. Then I sent them after the Trade Unionist, because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then I sent them after the ethnic Jews, because they were not observing the faith. Then Candice Owens sent them after me, and I did not care for this at all because I did nothing wrong" - Ben Shapiro.
His wealth and proximity to Whiteness led him to believe he would be safe, as long as he helped the Xtian Nationalists/Xtian Supremacists to win HERE ... he hoped they would leave his people alone while they did the same things over THERE ...
Matt, I think your wife has something to say on the topic. A man is someone with a penis. Maybe you should have a talk with her about what a real man is or isn't?
Conservatives: “if you were born with a penis you ARE A MAN YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A MAN YOU CAN NEVER BE ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN A MAN” Also conservatives: “this man who rides a bike is NOT A REAL MAN, this man who is vegetarian is NOT A MAN, this man who wears makeup is NOT A MAN, this man who shows respect to his wife is GAY AND ALSO NOT A MAN….”
46:30 "trans-loving" is such an awesome phrase here. like. he couldn't credibly accuse the shooter of actually being trans so he had to repurpose an old racist term that most people would recognize the most from the reconstruction-era south or outright fascist circles today
The thing that gets me is that you can see enough evidence on the internet at large that “gay, trans-loving furry” is not at all a descriptor that excludes MAGA. I know the implication is that the shooter must have been liberal, but… spend enough time online and you’ll see that ain’t the case at all.
No, now they're playing semantics about the word pedophilia and arguing that middle school girls are basically sexually mature enough to be socially acceptably trafficked.
When they went after the drag queens, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up. When they went after the transgenders, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up. When they went after the Muslims, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up. When they went after the immigrants, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up. When they went after Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro hoped everyone wouldn't notice his hypocrisy, and speak up for him.
Tbh, I remember the quaint old 2010s as a kid new to this, where he was the scariest far right wing threat that I knew of. He's still disgustingly cruel, but we are pretty far into the kind of dystopia that even people checked out of politics notice. We have far more unhinged, destructive, vice-signalling villains, running governments now. Even the vindication of the leopards starting to eat his face feels like we don't have time to focus on now
@JaceDeanLove My theory is that as the right becomes further taken over my Nazis, some libs in the mainstream media will try to rehabilitate him as "one of the good ones" like they've done with a lot of anti-Trump Republicans.
@JaceDeanLove I actually agree but in the past they haven't really been optimistic iirc, at least not about Ben in particular. But yeah ben Shapiro ain't going away!!
I grew up in a Rush Limbaugh house. His shrill voice screaming from my grandma's radio, nearly 24/7. This was a few decades ago, but I was inundated with that man during my formative years. And now? I completely forget he was even a thing until someone mentions him. And then he's gone from my mind two seconds later, because the man said absolutely nothing of value his entire career. Just wet hot air bloviating with nothing of substance behind it. He is celebrating ten years of sobriety, though, so congrats to the worms eating his corpse!
Not one character in Lady Ballers stopped and asked what would happen if they just decided to be a productive member of society. This is also true of the makers of the film.
Also, the hysteria Ben's colleagues and favorite politicians regularly peddle about immigrants, groomers, and "the wokes" is the exact picture of the paranoid conspiracism he condemned in that clip.
it's such a jewel of argument... clearly Neo should have decided to be a productive member of siciety and stop being a hacker... or maybe Schindler should have (okay that's too much for a joke)
The most glorious irony of that movie is that they chose "actors" who were all washed up high school athletes because they originally intended to do a documentary where they would identify as trans to sign up for and dominate women's sports... until they realized that's not how it actually works at all and they would have to do hormone therapy for years and actually, you know, transition before qualifying which obviously nobody who's not actually trans would ever be willing to do just to try and gain a small advantage in c level amateur sports. So after learning their entire premise was utter BS, they decided to just lie about how it works and call it a "comedy"
Ben Shaprio got into bed with people who are fascists and didn't think eventually Jewish people would be targeted and now he's starting to worry that he might not be exempt. Bless his heart.
Oh. He doesn’t care about most Jewish people. He was calling Jewish people who disagreed with him politically Jewish In Name Only or JINOs. Because apparently little Ben thinks he gets to decide who is Jewish.
@motecs1yeeeep. His loyalty is to Zionism. He doesn't give a shit and (and actively performs) anti-semitism. A few years ago Ann Coulter made some antisemitic comments, and Ben defended her saying he didn't care much about her comments since she supports the Zionist Entity. And Dr Mr Cody mentioned in the episode that exact same attitude towards Candace Owens. He was fine when she said Hitler's big problem was being a globalist, or when she platformed Kanye West during the height of his Nazi arc. And yeah, referring to Jews as "JINOs" because they politically or religiously disagree with you is fucking disgusting. My buddy is a leftist, non-practicing Jew. But actual antisemitism still affects him. It still targets him. He's still Jewish. And Shapiro excluding him is really fucking gross.
"First they came for the communists.. yadda yadda... Then socialists... then trade unionists... Well this all sounds fine, I say just let it all play out." "Ben, that's not the end of the poem..."
Ben Shapiro's "problem" is that he does actually believe in some things, and has projected that onto the total grifters and complete psychopaths he's surrounded himself with.
@dinosaysrawr I’m sure he believes some of what he says. But he’s deeply incurious, and despite people explaining to him why he is factually wrong on numerous topics, he wilfully refuses to learn. Largely because his pay check relies on him not learning anything and just peddling the next culture war talking point. He’s incredibly stupid, and he won’t ever change.
I'm reminded of a conservative coworker of mine who spends hours each day complaining about all the things conservatives like to complain about. One day he was complaining about how kids these days don't want to be productive members of society. I wish I'd been quick enough to call out, "Yeah? How productive are you being right now?"
I used to work in a government building. One of the janitors would show up high and spend hours in the breakroom watching history channel. No matter what time you were trying to enjoy your break, he'd be there taking over the whole break room, with some conservative rant no one else wanted to be a part of. He was constantly complaining about people on welfare because "they don't want to work, and just waste all their money on drugs." For some reason, he didn't the irony that he was saying high, while blowing off his job paid for by tax dollars.
All the while, decomposers such as plants and fungi are eating all of us and quietly grinning to themselves. Knight or bishop, king or pawn, at the end of the game, all the pieces go back into the same box.
The best these people can aspire to is either to die while they're still on top or actually make the wise and calculated choice to fade into quiet obscurity, which would require a modicum of self-awareness and humility. It's always gratifying to mentally list off all of the pundits and grifters who were the talk of the town five years ago who are lolcows or has-beens now.
The fact that Ben, a jew, believes that you are personally responsible for bad things happening to you is baffling... What exactly does he believe his people did pre 1930...
@donalhealy8196 No… they did bring that one upon themselves. And the answer to what did they do is a nearly century long, brutal occupation of Palestine. Pre-Oct 7th, over 10,000 Palestinians died at the hands of the IOF in just a few decades. Look into the details of the Apartheid system they set up. It’s just a shock that such an event didn’t happen sooner… People can only be subjugated to dehumanizing conditions for so long until there’s a violent backlash
In the movie The Fisher King, Jeff Bridges plays a shock jock whose on air rant inadvertently inspires a mass shooting. This causes him to quit his job and slide into a suicidal depression and ultimately a quest for redemption. Ben did not react that way.
Ben looked at this situation and blamed other people for not understanding him correctly. Can't be his fault for explaining things in such a way that led to the very conclusions they drew BECAUSE of how he explains things.
@noggie42but nobody talks about it much. Nobody I've ever asked about it knows it unless they're a huge film nerd. Green Book won 3 Oscars and nobody cares about that movie.
Thats extremely unrealistic. No right-wing grifter has EVER done that. They always scream about how its not their fault despite them always being at the top of the list for inspiring mass shooters.
This is completely unrelated, but I like to imagine that Barney and Big Bird and such are just random guys they found at a furry convention and they don't even know they're on TV. That's just how they always are.
except when he's on the stage at TPUSA trying...trying whatever that weird tempo to try making it sound like the last word of each sentence was italicized 😂😂😂
And Ben Shapiro is such a idiot that he doesn't understand that scavengers are a benefit to the ecosystems that they exist in (something has to dispose of the dead in a fashion that not only benefits themselves, but the environment that they exist in, never mind that lions will scavenge if the opportunity presents itself) because there's nothing wrong with it. Because Nature doesn't judge and divide things into easy to dispute categories, humans do and Ben Sharpiro is an example of humanity at its worst.
One important thing about Niemöller's poem: it's not _just_ a poem, it's a confession. He described his own experience in Weimar Republic. Before becoming pastor he was a career soldier, ending up as a U-boat navigator. He voted for the Nazi party three times during the 30s. By '37 he had turned critical of the party. That lead to him being arrested by Gestapo, and he spent '37 - '45 in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. During his Sachsenhausen stint he tried to volunteer as a U-boat commander but was turned down. He was released when the war was over, and was denied Nazi victim status. The time in the camps opened his eyes, and he started talking about the themes of the poem in his sermons and public speeches. The poem was published '55. He spent his last 4 decades as an ardent supporter of universal human rights receiving global recognition.
@andreirachko Yeah, most people don't. Niemöller's Wikipedia page tells the story. We generally don't spend too much time thinking about what actually inspires art. There's no way of us to know, if the artist doesn't straight out explain it - if even _they_ truly know.
Thank you SO much for that contextualisation! This also clarifies, that Niemöller is in a certain way not only confessing but is being apologetic about his own misdeeds. It was not 'the' Nazis coming for the minorities and he standing by - he himself was a supporter of Nazism, hence HE was coming for those minorities as well. This is a quite subtle but very common form of apologetic thinking in german Erinnerungskultur - downplaying the partaking of oneself or family members as mere bystanders. But voting for a party again, after it imprisons the opposition, implements racist laws (nuremberg laws), repurpises the state for it's means etc. etc. IS an active act, not something passive. For the first time in my live i want to investigate Niemöller more deeply, thx for that inspiration :)
When ben was saying that shit about conspiratorial views of reality allowing people to justify violence around 14m in, I started saying "cmon you've almost got it Ben, cmon cmon you're nearly there" like I was betting on a racehorse
"Scavengers blame all their problems on shadowy figures. Unlike the lions who blame their problems on the scavengers, which are shadowy figures." 36:09
I do love how listening to him explain his lions and scavengers metaphor instantly reveals that he didn’t think about any of it before he had his “Lions vs Scavengers” thing and just intellectually flailed about in an effort to make it make sense.
@joebove4 He likely came up with it in his head one day and thought it sounded good. But because conservatives lack self-awareness, he never bothered to do the next step and consider whether the analogy really made sense. No, just ran with it and forced reality to fit this tortured idea, no matter how mangled reality had to become to do so.
@joebove4 I think his publisher told him that if he called it "lions and hyenas", he might be sued by Disney. This is just another example of Ben Shapiro woefully misinterpreting movies.
I'd have to reluctantly laugh if he then went on to make an episode of whatever Ben does, where he complains about and mocks Cody while referring to him as a bandmate. Of course, he'd either have some weak material, or have to blatantly make stuff up, considering the progressive tendency to have quality standards and factual basis.
Yeah conservatives are very weird about swearing for some reason. I’ve gotten into quite a few arguments with Gen Xers about music (the struggle of slightly preferring past music while still not viewing modern music as irredeemable garbage) that tend to lean in this direction and there comments defending the likes of “Super Freak” and “Love Gun” over modern “decadent” music as being more chaste because it’s “more subtle and they don’t use swear words 🙄”. Which first of all, calling Love Gun subtle is fucking laughable, second….buddy, let me introduce you to a little 80s song by Winger called “Seventeen” that doesn’t have a single explicit mention of sexuality or cursing in it so by that logic is totally chaste and kosher 👍
@SiRenfield Ultimately, conservatives think like this: what was popular before is good, what is popular now is bad. This is part of the foundation of conservative thought. They don't have some carefully crafted mode of thought to justify this; they are instead concocting reasons why their pre-chosen conclusion is correct. And the only reason they come up with those reasons is to win an argument. They don't believe them; they're purely rhetorical strategies to defend what they've already chosen to defend.
Conservatives used to enjoy throwing around Orwellian buzzwords like ‘newspeak’ and ‘thoughtcrime’, but I think Ben Shapiro has pretty succinctly demonstrated that the most prescient of these was doublethink.
@bennash7392 I wonder what the next buzzword will be, I'm surprised woke has lasted so long, but it's pretty clearly in its last days. I guess Bannon can't come up with any new ones without his old pal Epstein to bounce ideas with.
So, a core tenet of fascistic politics is that the in-group must constantly feel under siege. This sense of permanent threat boosts internal cohesion, drives a wedge between them and the outside world, and ultimately makes them easier to control. That’s why anything that doesn’t conform to the fascist worldview has to be folded into this narrative. Nothing can just be neutral or incidental- it always has to be an attack. To outsiders it’s almost comical that even the most mundane nonsense (like red Starbucks cups or drag queen story hour) gets framed as an existential assault on society. But internally, it’s an extremely effective tool of manipulation through epistemic isolation.
Fascists at an individual level are paranoid and violent narcissists. So in the absence of a threat of danger from without, they will imagine a danger within and then act upon that feeling of danger. And that causes the entire movement to implode. That's why every fascist movement centralizes around creating this unifying danger. It's easy to think of that in terms of the inverse, as you've mentioned here. But this is the key. It's not that they do this to promote unity, it's to dissuade the natural enmity that the group would otherwise point toward each other.
just got back from trying to save some family from this -- the good news is they also think managing their diabetes and quitting cigarettes is an attack against society's freedoms, so uh, not like they're going to outlast any of us.
I cannot believe that Ben is saying all this, wholeheartedly, with zero sense of irony. Everything he is saying is the game the right wing has been playing for the last 10 years. He just showed the whole playbook
These people are not blessed with self-awareness or indeed any sort of awareness. They're like little jellyfish that react when you touch or shock them in any way by either firing venom or falling apart. It's depressing, honestly, because if you take the sum of all the things these people don't understand or cannot contextualise, you still get a voter. Listen to Ben's speech and the things he (and, by implication, the room) holds to be self-evident: gay/trans people are murderous radicals, being pro-trans is ideological, Trump is innocent of associating with Epstein, Russiagate, James Comey, Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff were part of an elaborate plot to take over the country and pervert the 2020 election, a COVID-19 conspiracy run by Fauci. Think about the fact that these and more are all the layers of bullshit you'll need to cut through, for every one of the people who believes some or all this to be true, _without_ necessarily being racist or Zionist or anti-Semitic. Then remember that the mid-terms are in nine months.
Wait til Ben sees the Penn State poll of 2025: 47% of Israelis said they support GENOCIDE and 85% support complete ethnic cleansing of Arabs. Sounds pretty radical to me...
[Ben Shapiro looks directly at the camera] "Are you scared yet?" [Camera pans over Jews at worship] [Fade to Black] Note: That's the last line Shapiro asked in his hate-speech, fear-mongering video about the myth of the muslim minority. I've always wanted to make a parody of it about the myth of the non-violent Jewish majority...
As a trans person, it's been viscerally terrifying to go to the SF Trans March for years. Every year for at least 5 years it's been a calculation and an effort of calming my nervous system to get myself together to gather in public at a such widely publicized trans specific event. So idgaf about lil Benny's newfound anxiety after Chuckie bit it. They created the world where me and mine live in terror, are losing access to our healthcare, and getting disowned by our families at even higher rates
I’m a sibling and I agree with you completely. And after the trans hysteria lies and death threats I got after CK death. I don’t care what happens to them.
When Piers Morgan asks if Nick Fuentes really thinks Hitler is cool, there's a little pause before he answers where you can see his life flash before his eyes.
so i read this before watching the video and got dostracted and went to watch a clip of this debate- one where nick says he is fine with being called racist one of the top comments i immediately saw was "they call you racist but they never call you a liar" and im just so sad
@thatoneguy9582Which is so funny because they're actually admitting they're literally 12. Saying "You call me a jerk yet you never said I was lying!" Is how children argue. The reason why nobody calls a racist a liar is because assuming certain people are superior or inferior based on a made up concept is a *lie* by default. Racism only exists because of a lie. Once again, the "everyone is 12 now" theory lives well and strong.
Ben reminds me of my grandmother in some ways; she was not nearly so Not-see adjacent, but if she was eating a burger and you happened to be talking about a cow in a field that you'd walked past, she'd remember she was eating a cow, lose her appetite entirely and blame you.
If reality upsets your ability to engage in your own normal behaviors, it means you were behaving in a way contradictory to your own beliefs. Simple as that.
This happens to me sometimes! I love to talk about the horrors of factory farming and how meat could be sourced ethically, as long as we choose to eat it sparringly at special occasions, while I'm chowing down on a burger at a barbecue. For many meat eaters it validates your opinion to not be vegan while speaking vegan talking points. Yet there's always one person who goes "Excuse me, not while I'm trying to eat a burger! I don't want to think of that!!" And like,,, I can't imagine lieing to myself like that. Plugging my ears and ignoring my conscience so boldly, just to eat a meal in silence.
@thekingoffailure9967meat can't be sourced ethically (unless you're talking about vegan meat), because the problem is not how we exploit animals, it's that we exploit them at all, even if you don't believe in that unless you also eat human meat you are being morally inconsistent but ok
It does make sense from a historical perspective. If you look at someone like Pick-- I mean Nick Fuentes, he likely models himself after Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain. There is a lot of colorism within various ethnic minorities as well.
Hey man, the modern white-supremacist movement is the most ethnically diverse group in the history of the world... it's like the United Colours of Benetton. Perhaps THEY are the real 'woke right'?
The fact that this whiny toddler doesn't know that once, only men and boys acted in theaters in both male and female roles - in a time where male homosexuality was punishable by a gruesome death - should tell you just how much authority and how much audacity he has.
Not saying this to defend Ben (ew) but because I think it's neat: it's true that in England, only men could act, but other countries like Spain allowed women on stage during the same period! It's been too long since my classes for me to recall the precise reasons why, but I've always found that detail interesting
It's also why we have to own our own lives and never submit to any authority, because those in authority are just objectively stupid and don't know what they're talking about at any point. It's always down to whatever a few dipshits think is right personally and subjectively in that specific moment to the extent of their personal ability to engage with life. It's way easier to tell others what to do than to actually know what's right and defend it and live it, and doing so requires personal sovereignity and responsibility. These dipshits just want a war machine and everything they do and say is in service of that goal. They're so stupid and shortsighted and selfish and inevitably self-destructive. True authority and leadership works with you to teach you how to lead as well. Good leaders want more good leaders and will share power and spend time teaching people how to find out what's right for themselves. Bad "leaders" want submission and compliance and will tell you what they want to be right.
I worked with incarcerated people for several years. One of the comments I heard from them was, "I just want to be a productive member of society." I always thought to myself, "Productive for whom?"
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -- Francis M. Wilhoit
Conservatism has always been a cancer to humanity same with unrestrained religion the law should be the same for everyone be they rich, poor people of colour or white to preach otherwise is to invite the downfall of society america's rampant corruption will ultimately destroy it
@JustaGhostDragoon Agreed. (Mostly, cause conservatism isn't a 100% just bad) But ffs mate, use punctuation in your sentences, other than that singular comma. It's very annoying to read.
I'm not trying to be an "um actually". I just wanna point out that that quote was falsely attributed to THAT Francis Wilhoit. it's from just some guy called Frank Wilhoit in a blog response thread.
@jeffersonclippership2588 The Book of Job is a tricky one, to be honest. It rebukes the Prosperity Gospel mindset, which rich christians / jews don't want to accept
They keep talking about our animosity towards them as if they don't realize they've spent the last 10 years actively stoking that fire. The world they've built is so miserable that it makes us want to cry, and then they pretend to drink our tears out of coffee cups, yet every single time, again and again and again and again and again and AGAIN, every time they lead that boot to the snake's neck, they act astounded when it comes back with bite marks on it.
You've got to understand, because they're bullies, conservatives view anyone living differently from them (no matter how obviously minding their own business the other person is) as a deliberate insult to their own life choices. That woman who dyed her hair blue is "attacking" the Republican guy she walked by in the grocery store. Is normal hair color not good enough for her? Then the man asks himself, what if I dyed my hair? Then he freaks out thinking he might turn gay. (I wish I was being sarcastic, or hyperbolic, but that is literally just how your average American conservative view the world.)
@samcyphers2902 You seem to be describing deep seated insecurity, and I think you hit the nail on the head. They can't be content to simply make their own lifestyle choices, they need everyone else to make the same choices so they feel secure and confident that they made the right decision. It would be pitiable if the neurosis had not advanced to the point that they're now trying to tear apart our democracy. Being a little insecure can be healthy, but they're not even satisfied with outward conformity anymore. Now they need to get into your bedroom, into your internet history, into your mind. They've been allowed to grow so ill that now all it takes is someone on TV, or on a podcast, or wherever, telling them "The other side wants to take something important away from you" and they're immediately primed to start taking things away from other people.
38:25 he brings up the book of Deuteronomy to justify that "bad things will happen to bad people". Mr Shapiro, please, inform me as to what the point of the book of Job is?
“Where were you when I laid the fascist foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off the Overton Window's dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched their ignorance across it? On what conspiracy theories were its footings set, or what grifter laid its cornerstone- while the TP USA losers sang together and all the racists shouted for joy?" - Job(?) 38:7
The most helpful analogy for studying the Bible, for me, was acknowledging that the Bible is a library. It contains all kinds of stories from different authors and perspectives. Somehow, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes are all a part of the Wisdom tradition, but have very different takes on how to make sense of good and evil and how to live in the world. They don't have to agree with each other, but they're all a part of the conversation, because they are different books in the same library. I don't think Ben shares this perspective.
I would also direct him to Ecclesiastes 9:11 "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
"People can wake up in the morning and decide not to be rooted in envy." ... quick question for Ben. Who is more rooted in envy, the people who think "greed is good, actually" ... or the people holding the view opposite to that?
Every time I hear Hench Maduro talk I keep hearing "A wise guy, eh? Nyuk nyuk nyuk!" Then I realize I'm comparing him to three skilled comedians and chastise myself for being unfair to the comedians.
Getting targeted ads on this video for a Christian university asking me to "honor my sacred vocation in tech" and frankly that terrified me even if they missed their target.
@thatoneguy9582 seems to fit into a larger theme of tech oligarchs trying to convince people that we can use technology to get closer to god. (mainly by suggesting we can make AI prophets or even make an ai jesus) Idk, i keep catching little whiffs of it from people like Theil, Musk, Rogan, etc and it seems to tie into how a lot of old people just dont understand AI at all so they consider it borderline magic.
Watching the chaotic reactions of the TPUSA crowd when Shapiro was speaking was absolute gold. I hope the infighting tears these horrible people apart.
But it won't. What will happen is that they will find the one or two who dares to speak up (even if just a little) ; like Ben... And they will feed them to those proverbial lions ... And that will silence and unite the rest. The fact that right after his speech other speakers were directly calling him out and continued to cast shadow on "the Jews" is the signal that they are ready to disown him and whoever dares to challenge them. crystalnacht or the night-of-the-long-knives did not break the German party in the 1930s but made it stronger and more unified through purging the internal opposition and power splitting people and groups... If anything this will lead to the elimination of the more moderate voices and will leave the party more united and will continue to shift towards their final form... Ben has only two choices; either shut up and go with the flow or recognise the problem, step out (well he will be pushed out) and "enjoy" the wrath of the party and their followers Which way he will go? I guess it depends how much money he can make through either choices...
The fact that there is literally an African animal that: shares a rivalry with lions, are know to scavenge, and also willing to pick off lone lions is just so annoying. There called hyenas, Ben. The average joe, hell, your children could've told you about them.
it's funnier because lions scavenge off hyenas more often. hyenas can't take lions in a fight so they run off when lions decide they want hyenas' kills. lions ARE the scavengers
@TG-ge7yz The funniest is ultimately that all carnivores scavenge when they have the opportunity and it's been a very successful evolutionary strategy.
19:15 it wasn't murder to Ben because people like him only have empathy for, like, immediate family members, and barely so at that. So he sees Alex Pretti's murder as absolutely fine if it means that he and his feel more protected.
I mean, I don't know the actual names of any of the musicians I listen to. That doesn't mean I don't have real opinions on the music itself. I've listened to Metallica my entire life, and I could *maybe* name one of them if I really thought about it, and that's only because he had a cameo on a show I watch. I don't really see the relevance
@hmnhntri'm not saying you're doing music fandom wrong or anything, but are you not curious about like, who the people are that make the art you're engaging with?
@xujhanokay, but does the context of the artist's life when they made the song/album in question not interest you even a little? music isn't made in a vacuum. the stories behind songs and the people that make them are really interesting. plus it helps me not listen to music from active bigots and creeps.
@awildsylveon9896I heard of one person, only one, who is using the LLM's in what could be described as a correct way. To see what a logicless mouthpeice of the general societal subconcious would say, to better write an alien being/hive mind's mouth peice.
"Take a bullet for you, babe" - dialogue written by Ben Shapiro to be a bad ass tender moment between his Mary Sue protagonist and his wife. "True Allegiance".
18:07 Ben, how was that not your "Are we the baddies" moment? "When people see the pictures and videos of the things I support happening, they're appalled and they no longer support those actions even if they previously did and oh god I'm the monster aren't I"
Seriously?! I even kept thinking about when people saw war in real time on TV for the first time with Vietnam. Of course people are gonna not like it, Ben, it’s terrible and you supporting terrible things makes you the bad guy!
Because when Ben got rejected from Hollywood, he thought “the LEFT (tm) control the media and don’t let conservatives succeed” instead of “maybe I have the writing abilities and worldview of a 5 year old”, and wrote an entire book’s worth of cope. He’s never been the type to actually self-reflect.
@thatnerdyouseeeverywhere7536 well seeing terrible books published and actually make money inspires me to try to write a better book and hopefully make money enough not to die homeless and disabled. the left has to bring the dollars behind their ideals, or they can't reasonably expect any workingclass heroes to survive any of this.
3:49 That whole spiel is so disingenuous. It's not just Libs of TikTok sharing some info about an event and a lone wolf just happens to go attack it. There's a whole culture of violence from conservatives that the lives of children and other people are put at risk. Conservatives are constantly labeling something as 'the end of Western civilization' or 'demonic' or framing things from a disgusting perspective, 'mutilation', etc. Yet they have the gall to pretend to be the victims.
It's amazing how they play dumb about this and are just like "she's just sharing stuff that's already public "......like sure, I bet her followers just want to send a fruit basket to the people she targets 🙄
I mean, as of yesterday, it would appear that Fuentes is abandoning his audience (and I guess his grift) as the grift seemingly isn’t even worth the insufferableness of the type of people he’s attracted. I have ZERO charitability for people like Fuentes BUT it does at least seem that he does not want to be, nor consider himself a political commentator/right wing influencer and just sees politics as a tool for his real-life, real-time comedy/trolling routine… however aversive and disgusting it may be. Shapiro on the other hand has cultivated a similar (Fuentes-lite) following, developed a similar disdain for said bottom feeders, but takes himself far too seriously to demonstrate a modicum of insight/self-reflection to disengage. Who would have thought that all these failed Hollywood wannabes choosing the least critically thinking, lowest intellectual functioning individuals as the quickest and easiest target to make the most money off of could blow up in one’s face(s) smh
Ernest Röhm comes to mind, what an irony if Ben shares the same fate for being of his faith when only a few short years ago he sounded like Ernst's boss when he was denying the humanity of Dave Rubin and said that he wouldn't even come to his birthday.
38:39 “Atheism led to people believing in a shadowy cabal that controls the world”, ummm Lucifer, Satan, Asmodeus, Moloch, Ibilis, Angra Mainyu, Lilith, Belial, the Demiurge?
Which funnily enough is a gnostic worldview of extinct sects like Sethianism. They more or less believed that the god who created the world and was the god of the old testament was a false, evil god called the Demiurge and/or Yaldabaoth while the god of the new testament was the real one, so being alive is being trapped in hell. That's totally heretical in the extant Christian sects though.
None of them are ultimately in control. In Abrahamic religions, GOd is always the supreme lord of creation. The Olympian gods or the Aesir fit the idea of a "shadowy cabal" much better.
There have been more Republicans arrested for child pornography, pedophilia & sex trafficking in the last year than left-wing, liberal, or LGBTQ+ people for the same crimes combined in the last five.
Also notice in his speech where he says Kirk's killer knows a trans person, therefore, the killing has to do with trans people as a whole, but sidesteps the fact that jeffrey epstein is Jewish. "Cmon guys it's bigotry to generalize the actions of one individual to their entire community!"
Yeah, seeing a religious zealot heralded as some sort of "genius" made me be like hol up, maybe these ideas are toxic if this is the kind of person they are associated with.
@krook5158yeah that's not true. He's a conservative to his bones. And the video I saw that made me shift was in 2018. Before I even knew anything about Israel or Palestine. Back when he was "destroying libs" in QnAs all the time.
@hobbsmakescomics Yes, that was his image. Which was always a front, a way to 'get in'. He is a Zionist by heart. His money, his fame, is all because of Israel. He is a produced plant.
"The Scavengers lurk in the shadows. They gather in the darkness. And then they attack." Ben is describing ambush predators, which is also what Lions are. They flank their prey so one can attack while another chases the prey towards the other. They are ambush predators and scavengers. Also the right loves to pretend lions are kings and patriarchs but it's lionesses that do all the actual work, the male lions just fight with each other and murder each other's offspring. Lions aren't the paragons of the animal kingdom Ben. Also, bald eagles are scavengers but let's never explore or unpack that relevance to being the USA's national animal.
Conservatives would love lions as a species for all of the wrong reasons. They mostly eat, sleep, commit infanticide, screw, and let the ladies do the actual work. Also, Ben squandered the opportunity to call his book something punchier like, "Smells like Yeen Spirit."
Lions are also scavengers that poach hyena kills. As for the American eagle, the greatest irony is that they have to dub its call cause it chirps like a little bird.
And for the handful of people who don't know yet, the bald eagle noise you hear on tv is actually a hawk because bald eagles don't sound very impressive irl.
@rav3style Let’s not have this turn into eagle slander, they’re wonderful birds with a delightful noise and didn’t ask to be made into the symbol of the most Olympic level dickriding in the history of humanity.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
Also applies to the AI bubble
@he won't understand it when his masters put him in the human ovens as they will inevitably do.
love that
Such a great quote!
Lol. Bold of you to think I have a salary
The leopards are begging: "Please! Stop shoving your faces down our throats! We're already full to bursting!"
"No, you don't understand.
It's my pronouns that are to blame!"
Lol.
"If I just didn't have pronouns, then you jaguars wouldn't have to eat us!"
I hope someone gets my "message in a bottle,"
This is the best comment I've seen in a while. Truth
lol!
leopard inflation vore button ❤️❤️❤️
When Aquaman buys your house.
I guess he really was going to buy up the properties after all
The ball feels known. It is pleased.
He said the line! W reference
"JUST ONE SMALL PROBLEM BEN??? WHO'S GONNA BUY YOUR FLOODED HOUSES TO??? FUCKING AQUAMAN?!?!!?!?"
Where’s your pfp from? It’s oddly familiar to me, but I can’t quite place it
heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting
20:14 Matt Walsh being so blinded by his hatred for drag queens that he casually acknowledges that biological sex and social expectations of gender expression are separate, distinct things.
Nah, he was just denigrating 'men' who dont see drag shows as inherently evil.
They do that all the time. Being a man is purely defined by biology, but also if you don't act the right way, you aren't a 'real' man.
They are the ones who pushed the most performative parts of gender over sex, and they're shocked when that leads to people separating the two
@AlexGulino86 he did, though. Right in the video. Just because you agree with his hatred of drag queens doesn’t change that lol.
Reminds me of how being a 'biblical woman' is both your inherent purpose in life and what you were designed to do, and also a massive challenge that you must constantly fight to live up to even when it feels impossible
@AlexGulino86 That's not what he was saying though. He literally say if you were a real man you'd do this this and this.... Which explicitly proves that he does actually implicitly understands the difference between biological sex and a gender identity but that just doesn't click.
Wow, who could have thought that feeding into Nazi rhetoric as a Jewish person could have been a bad career decision
Well, career wise it's pretty good. You get dump trucks of money poured all over you, and they actually tell you to be lazier and dumber
Ben is a Zionist. He's as extreme as those people. He's not some poor victim of discrimination
It's not as if he is or will ever be in any actual danger. This is just optics control.
@muskyoxesat first
Can't help but think of Goldberg from Schindler's List
"No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood."
my contribution is insignificant but it mattters.
Except he is a busted pipe causing a community flood
Hate when legacy media lends legitimacy to grifters steel manning conservative policy, claiming they believe it will help and they definitely will say it will help when in no universe would the results actually help, they just are willing to say they will and believe they will because their philosophy says it will in the face of all evidence and understanding of cause and effect and pattern recognition and understanding human psychology even a little. That's right you don't have to hand it to Ben. Actually, you never actually have to hand it to them. You just snarkily say "Welcome to the resistance" and wait to see if they do even a little to try to redeem themselves. Just because they found out that their line in Neimoller's poem came up and are acting in naked self interest doesn't mean they are suddenly forgiven or even adjacent to "not bad", just nobody should get in the way of their attacks against the fascists. What sucks is no one on the right will learn a single thing from Ben's example, because that is something the right cannot do. They have to touch the stove themselves before they can understand why that is a terrible idea, their line in the poem has to come up before they find out there was a problem with any of this and they still believe that all the previous lines were justifiable and the right thing to do. Because their only virtue is naked self interest.
No single raindrop believes anything, it's a freaking raindrop, it doesn't make decisions. 😂
@steakknives Wow, your wisdom is transcendental. All those people believe raindrops make decisions, but you know better! Congratulations. I tip my hat to you. Oh wait, I don't have a hat, silly me.
As they say, "tokens get spent ."
its so weird that ive never heard this phrase until last week. now ive seen it multiple times.
i just tried to look it up and it didnt start to get said frequently until a few years ago apparently
@Matty002I only heard it recently, but I'm not surprised it has caught on so much. The second you hear it you know EXACTLY what it refers to. It is like hearing the word "schadenfreude" for the first time and finally having a word for a sentiment you have felt for a long time.
@Matty002Perhaps it's a case of the, as they call it, frequency illusion.
It's astounding how conservatives both believe that "God has a plan" and that you're solely responsible for any of your problems.
theres a great book about this called "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"
Because the plan is SUPPOSED to be to make their lives better, duh.
They believe that hierarchies are divinely ordained.
Double-think in real life. The future! Yay!
Their idea is that God's plan is for you to be on the bottom of a holy hierarchy.
The irony of the “permission structures” that killed Charlie Kirk was that he built them himself.
Prove me wrong!
@norrington-hell3707 🤣🤣🤣
kirk deserved worse
Okay but what about gang violence
@mr.stuffdoer8483 Crime, in an impoverished demographic in a country with a terrible social safety net and easy access to deadly weaponry? Say it ain't so!
Maybe we really are Charlie Kirk
"First I sent them after the socialists, because I was not a socialist. Then I sent them after the Trade Unionist, because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then I sent them after the ethnic Jews, because they were not observing the faith. Then Candice Owens sent them after me, and I did not care for this at all because I did nothing wrong" - Ben Shapiro.
He would unironically agree with this narrative.
You forgot the first line. First they came for the Communists.
@1991petrolhead Ben doesn't know the difference XD
His wealth and proximity to Whiteness led him to believe he would be safe, as long as he helped the Xtian Nationalists/Xtian Supremacists to win HERE ... he hoped they would leave his people alone while they did the same things over THERE ...
why are you using christogram instead of chi and what does "proximity to whiteness" mean that dude is whiter than me somehow@1MarkKeller
Matt Walsh, at 20:35, explaining what a "real man" is. This sorta plays into the idea that gender is ultimately a social construct, doesn't it?
Matt, I think your wife has something to say on the topic. A man is someone with a penis. Maybe you should have a talk with her about what a real man is or isn't?
Conservatives: “if you were born with a penis you ARE A MAN YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A MAN YOU CAN NEVER BE ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN A MAN”
Also conservatives: “this man who rides a bike is NOT A REAL MAN, this man who is vegetarian is NOT A MAN, this man who wears makeup is NOT A MAN, this man who shows respect to his wife is GAY AND ALSO NOT A MAN….”
Facists believe in nothing, and lie about everything.
"premature ejaculator face" has to be the best insult I've heard all year
46:30 "trans-loving" is such an awesome phrase here. like. he couldn't credibly accuse the shooter of actually being trans so he had to repurpose an old racist term that most people would recognize the most from the reconstruction-era south or outright fascist circles today
I noticed that too.
The thing that gets me is that you can see enough evidence on the internet at large that “gay, trans-loving furry” is not at all a descriptor that excludes MAGA. I know the implication is that the shooter must have been liberal, but… spend enough time online and you’ll see that ain’t the case at all.
@joebove4theres a literal furry convention full of gay trans loving furry maga hell some of them love dogs and kids alittle too much just like maga
@joebove4 never forget that trans porn is most viewed in red states and any time the RNC is in town usage of Grindr massively increases
Wouldn't that be a perfect title for a magazine, though?
Ben lit a tree on fire and is now upset that the whole forest is burning
Ben helped burn down half the forest, and now he’s mad that his tree’s on fire 😂
Ben refusing to accept that he has always been a twig.
Ben didn't care about the forest until the fire got to his house.
Typical of conservatives who think they are smarter than the rubes they're manipulating.
@dinosaysrawr: "Rules for thee, not for me."
Meanwhile, here on the left, we all just want "Rules for we."
Crazy how the topic of "sexualizing children" was a big topic just a year ago, but since the Trump-Epstein files dropped, all of a sudden it's not ..🤔
Been thinking the same thing. I really had hoped that I wouldn't be one of those embittered old people but,💩! It sure is hard these days.
No, now they're playing semantics about the word pedophilia and arguing that middle school girls are basically sexually mature enough to be socially acceptably trafficked.
When they went after the drag queens, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up.
When they went after the transgenders, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up.
When they went after the Muslims, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up.
When they went after the immigrants, Ben Shapiro hoped no one would speak up.
When they went after Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro hoped everyone wouldn't notice his hypocrisy, and speak up for him.
*Ben Shapiro joined them and mocked those who spoke up
thanks you for this quote 21st Century LTrotsky
😂🎉🎉 That about sums it up!
the remaining people are the ones that stayed quiet the whole time... ofc they won't speak up when it's his turn
And don't forget this one....
When they went after the Jews, the Left joined in with the right and no one said a word.
The Overton window has shifted so far right even Benny boy is about to get left behind
Welcome to the Resistance **checks notes** Ben Shapiro
Tbh, I remember the quaint old 2010s as a kid new to this, where he was the scariest far right wing threat that I knew of.
He's still disgustingly cruel, but we are pretty far into the kind of dystopia that even people checked out of politics notice. We have far more unhinged, destructive, vice-signalling villains, running governments now.
Even the vindication of the leopards starting to eat his face feels like we don't have time to focus on now
Well, he's sidled up to Nazis as a proud Jewish man. It was genuinely a shock he ever thought this would work out for him.
@Listening_Books12345 it's simple really, he's thick
@Listening_Books12345 Perfect example of "it can't happen to me."
Well it sure as shit can
"This might be the last time he's relevant enough to talk about."
Cody is always surprised to find he was still being too optimistic.
What do you mean? Did something happen?
I think they’re saying that Cody historically has been too optimistic about things like this and we will see more of Ben
@JaceDeanLove
My theory is that as the right becomes further taken over my Nazis, some libs in the mainstream media will try to rehabilitate him as "one of the good ones" like they've done with a lot of anti-Trump Republicans.
@3dartxsi Ben is also still being paid by his billionaire daddies, so such a rehabilitation might be already in the works.
@JaceDeanLove I actually agree but in the past they haven't really been optimistic iirc, at least not about Ben in particular. But yeah ben Shapiro ain't going away!!
I grew up in a Rush Limbaugh house. His shrill voice screaming from my grandma's radio, nearly 24/7. This was a few decades ago, but I was inundated with that man during my formative years. And now? I completely forget he was even a thing until someone mentions him. And then he's gone from my mind two seconds later, because the man said absolutely nothing of value his entire career. Just wet hot air bloviating with nothing of substance behind it. He is celebrating ten years of sobriety, though, so congrats to the worms eating his corpse!
I read in a book (title) once that he was a big, fat idiot. So there's that.
I feel a bit bad for the worms who have to eat his dusty ass
Thank you for introducing me to the word 'bloviating.' I now have a new way to describe how someone I work with speaks!
Not one character in Lady Ballers stopped and asked what would happen if they just decided to be a productive member of society. This is also true of the makers of the film.
Listening to him constantly complaining about how his opponents are constantly complaining.......
Also, the hysteria Ben's colleagues and favorite politicians regularly peddle about immigrants, groomers, and "the wokes" is the exact picture of the paranoid conspiracism he condemned in that clip.
it's such a jewel of argument... clearly Neo should have decided to be a productive member of siciety and stop being a hacker... or maybe Schindler should have (okay that's too much for a joke)
The most glorious irony of that movie is that they chose "actors" who were all washed up high school athletes because they originally intended to do a documentary where they would identify as trans to sign up for and dominate women's sports... until they realized that's not how it actually works at all and they would have to do hormone therapy for years and actually, you know, transition before qualifying which obviously nobody who's not actually trans would ever be willing to do just to try and gain a small advantage in c level amateur sports. So after learning their entire premise was utter BS, they decided to just lie about how it works and call it a "comedy"
@estebanrodriguez5409Not really. Schindler used his position as a member of society (He was an active Party member after all) to do what he could....
Ben Shaprio got into bed with people who are fascists and didn't think eventually Jewish people would be targeted and now he's starting to worry that he might not be exempt. Bless his heart.
Oh. He doesn’t care about most Jewish people. He was calling Jewish people who disagreed with him politically Jewish In Name Only or JINOs. Because apparently little Ben thinks he gets to decide who is Jewish.
He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer
@notaraccoon710 But he's been a useful tool for a long time.
@motecs1yeeeep. His loyalty is to Zionism. He doesn't give a shit and (and actively performs) anti-semitism. A few years ago Ann Coulter made some antisemitic comments, and Ben defended her saying he didn't care much about her comments since she supports the Zionist Entity.
And Dr Mr Cody mentioned in the episode that exact same attitude towards Candace Owens. He was fine when she said Hitler's big problem was being a globalist, or when she platformed Kanye West during the height of his Nazi arc.
And yeah, referring to Jews as "JINOs" because they politically or religiously disagree with you is fucking disgusting. My buddy is a leftist, non-practicing Jew. But actual antisemitism still affects him. It still targets him. He's still Jewish. And Shapiro excluding him is really fucking gross.
"First they came for the communists.. yadda yadda... Then socialists... then trade unionists... Well this all sounds fine, I say just let it all play out."
"Ben, that's not the end of the poem..."
Ben doesn’t get it because his entire career is centred around him not getting it
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair
It's like this is the first time he's ever looked around the room and listened to anyone else talk
Ben Shapiro's "problem" is that he does actually believe in some things, and has projected that onto the total grifters and complete psychopaths he's surrounded himself with.
@dinosaysrawr
I’m sure he believes some of what he says. But he’s deeply incurious, and despite people explaining to him why he is factually wrong on numerous topics, he wilfully refuses to learn. Largely because his pay check relies on him not learning anything and just peddling the next culture war talking point.
He’s incredibly stupid, and he won’t ever change.
@ej5677, being deeply incurious is practically an essential feature of being a conservative.
I'm reminded of a conservative coworker of mine who spends hours each day complaining about all the things conservatives like to complain about. One day he was complaining about how kids these days don't want to be productive members of society. I wish I'd been quick enough to call out, "Yeah? How productive are you being right now?"
It's okay you might get smarter one day and be able to think of retorts, don't judge yourself too harshly for your slow brain
I used to work in a government building. One of the janitors would show up high and spend hours in the breakroom watching history channel. No matter what time you were trying to enjoy your break, he'd be there taking over the whole break room, with some conservative rant no one else wanted to be a part of. He was constantly complaining about people on welfare because "they don't want to work, and just waste all their money on drugs." For some reason, he didn't the irony that he was saying high, while blowing off his job paid for by tax dollars.
They're eating the lions, they're eating the scavengers
Theyre eating, the leopards, theyre eating my face
everybody knows lions wake up thinking about how to be useful
All the while, decomposers such as plants and fungi are eating all of us and quietly grinning to themselves.
Knight or bishop, king or pawn, at the end of the game, all the pieces go back into the same box.
The "Lions eating people's faces" party has turned on Ben! Who could have predicted this simply by reading that poem in high school?!
@Neuvostis it the leopards? No its the youth that is out of touch
6:55 Hey, there's enough Ben for everyone.
Is that a good thing?
You can have mine, I’m good.
Some say too much
Congrats for your cameo.
More than enough
Ben becoming a lolcow is a rare silver lining in this catastrophe
He always was, thoughbeit.
The best these people can aspire to is either to die while they're still on top or actually make the wise and calculated choice to fade into quiet obscurity, which would require a modicum of self-awareness and humility.
It's always gratifying to mentally list off all of the pundits and grifters who were the talk of the town five years ago who are lolcows or has-beens now.
The fact that Ben, a jew, believes that you are personally responsible for bad things happening to you is baffling... What exactly does he believe his people did pre 1930...
Lol, such a good point, didnt even consider that😅 Neither die he apparently
Or October 7
Hes god choosen people so to him its bad.
I'm not a rabbi but I'm pretty sure Judaism doesn't endorse the just world theory, theologically
@donalhealy8196 No… they did bring that one upon themselves. And the answer to what did they do is a nearly century long, brutal occupation of Palestine. Pre-Oct 7th, over 10,000 Palestinians died at the hands of the IOF in just a few decades. Look into the details of the Apartheid system they set up. It’s just a shock that such an event didn’t happen sooner… People can only be subjugated to dehumanizing conditions for so long until there’s a violent backlash
In the movie The Fisher King, Jeff Bridges plays a shock jock whose on air rant inadvertently inspires a mass shooting. This causes him to quit his job and slide into a suicidal depression and ultimately a quest for redemption.
Ben did not react that way.
Ben looked at this situation and blamed other people for not understanding him correctly.
Can't be his fault for explaining things in such a way that led to the very conclusions they drew BECAUSE of how he explains things.
Underappreciated movie
@cadebryan4088 it got 5 Oscar nominations
@noggie42but nobody talks about it much. Nobody I've ever asked about it knows it unless they're a huge film nerd. Green Book won 3 Oscars and nobody cares about that movie.
Thats extremely unrealistic. No right-wing grifter has EVER done that. They always scream about how its not their fault despite them always being at the top of the list for inspiring mass shooters.
Matt Walsh talking about doing physical violence while looking like he can barely fight his way out of a paper bag is fucking hilarious.
I honestly don't see what's special about him. Why he's famous. He's a soul sucking void in a human shell. He's nothing.
see: jordan "the only thing that makes you listen to me is the treat of me physically hurting you" peterson
@mariaquiet6211Because Matt is a mainstreamed tool for bigotry, bigots use him to target and attack minorities they don't like and nothing more.
@mariaquiet6211 Because there's an overabundance of useless, bigoted men just like him.
@mariaquiet6211 you will never go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator
“but the leopard won’t eat MY face!” says the man made of the same meat as the rest of us
At my most cynical, I imagine Ben Shapiro wears his yarmulke to cover a bald spot.
Absolutely does
I think Ben Shapiro is trying to tell us he's a furry and his fursona is a Lion.
Nah, it's a Lyin'.
This is completely unrelated, but I like to imagine that Barney and Big Bird and such are just random guys they found at a furry convention and they don't even know they're on TV. That's just how they always are.
My fursona is a Scavenger™
@Cyberserker-h4d you're a bit twisted and it's kinda great
@HOTD108_ I'm a fursona scavenger, and I'll be waiting patiently for you to grow out of this phase.
Friendly reminder: You do not have your RUclips player set to 1.25x speed, that is just how Ben talks
I set my RUclips player to 2.0x whenever Ben talks.
@CliffSedge-nu5fvahh a person of culture! I also prefer unintelligible chipmunk noises to Benny boy's nails on chalkboard
except when he's on the stage at TPUSA trying...trying whatever that weird tempo to try making it sound like the last word of each sentence was italicized 😂😂😂
I had my RUclips speed set to 1.25 (only had 50 minutes to -watch- listen to the episode).
@Intact-gf5zzyep, on top of being a racistjew, he’s also a valley girl.
Ben will be screaming, "but I'm one of the good ones!" as he gets loaded onto the train with everyone else.
Call em' "Knight of Long Knives" cuz he stays taking Ls for Natzis.
"but you said: 'Judeo-Christian'" him and Prager will whine in chorus..
Basically what will happen to every single right wing token minority
@hannajung7512 they wouldn't bother loading the quadriplegic Prager onto the train at this point, if you catch my meaning.
Blaire White, too. And Candace Owens.
And Ben Shapiro is such a idiot that he doesn't understand that scavengers are a benefit to the ecosystems that they exist in (something has to dispose of the dead in a fashion that not only benefits themselves, but the environment that they exist in, never mind that lions will scavenge if the opportunity presents itself) because there's nothing wrong with it.
Because Nature doesn't judge and divide things into easy to dispute categories, humans do and Ben Sharpiro is an example of humanity at its worst.
Ben findung out, what is left of a useful idiot, when he is no longer useful.
All the guys I've been with 😂
Thanks, Shatner!
Well, let's ask Ernst Rommel?
@seekingabsolution1907 You mean Erwin Rommel? Let's not!
I always thought he was a useless idiot.
One important thing about Niemöller's poem: it's not _just_ a poem, it's a confession. He described his own experience in Weimar Republic.
Before becoming pastor he was a career soldier, ending up as a U-boat navigator. He voted for the Nazi party three times during the 30s. By '37 he had turned critical of the party. That lead to him being arrested by Gestapo, and he spent '37 - '45 in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. During his Sachsenhausen stint he tried to volunteer as a U-boat commander but was turned down. He was released when the war was over, and was denied Nazi victim status.
The time in the camps opened his eyes, and he started talking about the themes of the poem in his sermons and public speeches. The poem was published '55. He spent his last 4 decades as an ardent supporter of universal human rights receiving global recognition.
Wow, never knew that. Thanks for the info
@andreirachko Yeah, most people don't. Niemöller's Wikipedia page tells the story.
We generally don't spend too much time thinking about what actually inspires art. There's no way of us to know, if the artist doesn't straight out explain it - if even _they_ truly know.
hey man you can use apostrophes to show the exclusion of dates better. like '45 and '55 etc. because using hyphens makes your writing really confusing
@sophsolanumsamsys Good point, thanks :-)
Thank you SO much for that contextualisation! This also clarifies, that Niemöller is in a certain way not only confessing but is being apologetic about his own misdeeds. It was not 'the' Nazis coming for the minorities and he standing by - he himself was a supporter of Nazism, hence HE was coming for those minorities as well. This is a quite subtle but very common form of apologetic thinking in german Erinnerungskultur - downplaying the partaking of oneself or family members as mere bystanders. But voting for a party again, after it imprisons the opposition, implements racist laws (nuremberg laws), repurpises the state for it's means etc. etc. IS an active act, not something passive.
For the first time in my live i want to investigate Niemöller more deeply, thx for that inspiration :)
When ben was saying that shit about conspiratorial views of reality allowing people to justify violence around 14m in, I started saying "cmon you've almost got it Ben, cmon cmon you're nearly there" like I was betting on a racehorse
4 out of 5 stars, a dog doodle was referenced but was not picked up by the camera. We demand the Dog Doodle Cut
"Scavengers blame all their problems on shadowy figures. Unlike the lions who blame their problems on the scavengers, which are shadowy figures." 36:09
Hahaha gold
I do love how listening to him explain his lions and scavengers metaphor instantly reveals that he didn’t think about any of it before he had his “Lions vs Scavengers” thing and just intellectually flailed about in an effort to make it make sense.
@joebove4 He likely came up with it in his head one day and thought it sounded good. But because conservatives lack self-awareness, he never bothered to do the next step and consider whether the analogy really made sense. No, just ran with it and forced reality to fit this tortured idea, no matter how mangled reality had to become to do so.
@joebove4 I think his publisher told him that if he called it "lions and hyenas", he might be sued by Disney. This is just another example of Ben Shapiro woefully misinterpreting movies.
@haukenot3345which is funnier when you learn that lions actually steal far more meals then hyeners.
Gonna be another tense day at band practice
I'd have to reluctantly laugh if he then went on to make an episode of whatever Ben does, where he complains about and mocks Cody while referring to him as a bandmate.
Of course, he'd either have some weak material, or have to blatantly make stuff up, considering the progressive tendency to have quality standards and factual basis.
They keep their band practices politics free
But I don't understand, if I kissed the boot, why is it now in my mouth aswell?
Scavengers are the reason the world isn’t drowning in rotting carcasses. Without them… Well. Ever been in a sanitation worker’s strike?
44:55 honestly really in character for him to apologize for dropping the f bomb seconds after lettin' 'er rip with a slur
That's a very MANsculine profile picture you have there
Yeah conservatives are very weird about swearing for some reason. I’ve gotten into quite a few arguments with Gen Xers about music (the struggle of slightly preferring past music while still not viewing modern music as irredeemable garbage) that tend to lean in this direction and there comments defending the likes of “Super Freak” and “Love Gun” over modern “decadent” music as being more chaste because it’s “more subtle and they don’t use swear words 🙄”. Which first of all, calling Love Gun subtle is fucking laughable, second….buddy, let me introduce you to a little 80s song by Winger called “Seventeen” that doesn’t have a single explicit mention of sexuality or cursing in it so by that logic is totally chaste and kosher 👍
@SiRenfield Ultimately, conservatives think like this: what was popular before is good, what is popular now is bad. This is part of the foundation of conservative thought. They don't have some carefully crafted mode of thought to justify this; they are instead concocting reasons why their pre-chosen conclusion is correct. And the only reason they come up with those reasons is to win an argument. They don't believe them; they're purely rhetorical strategies to defend what they've already chosen to defend.
Conservatives used to enjoy throwing around Orwellian buzzwords like ‘newspeak’ and ‘thoughtcrime’, but I think Ben Shapiro has pretty succinctly demonstrated that the most prescient of these was doublethink.
They didn’t actually understand Orwell’s writing, they just like buzzwords. Negative media literacy in them.
@RavingFantasyof course they don’t, which is why they ditched them the minute something else came along
@bennash7392 I wonder what the next buzzword will be, I'm surprised woke has lasted so long, but it's pretty clearly in its last days. I guess Bannon can't come up with any new ones without his old pal Epstein to bounce ideas with.
Had to actually look up "doublethink" and lemme just say yeah, that's right. We love dictionaries!
I have to practice doublethink as a climate doomer. ... one still needs to act as if there is a future, to function.
If "Christmas Adventurer" seems too stupid, you gotta see what the KKK call their senior leadership. lmao
Media literacy has never been a strength on the right
And Hitler's SS came from a group that was called non-threatening Turn- und Sportabteilung within the SA(gymnastics and sports division).
@Sn0wG0lem i know you meant "media literacy" but media in general has never been their strong suit
it's criminal we never got to see dog drawing after all because of the light reflecting off of paper
I really wanted to see the drawings!! I got a glimpse of the turtle at the very end and it looked good!!!
So, a core tenet of fascistic politics is that the in-group must constantly feel under siege. This sense of permanent threat boosts internal cohesion, drives a wedge between them and the outside world, and ultimately makes them easier to control.
That’s why anything that doesn’t conform to the fascist worldview has to be folded into this narrative. Nothing can just be neutral or incidental- it always has to be an attack.
To outsiders it’s almost comical that even the most mundane nonsense (like red Starbucks cups or drag queen story hour) gets framed as an existential assault on society. But internally, it’s an extremely effective tool of manipulation through epistemic isolation.
Fascists at an individual level are paranoid and violent narcissists. So in the absence of a threat of danger from without, they will imagine a danger within and then act upon that feeling of danger. And that causes the entire movement to implode. That's why every fascist movement centralizes around creating this unifying danger. It's easy to think of that in terms of the inverse, as you've mentioned here. But this is the key. It's not that they do this to promote unity, it's to dissuade the natural enmity that the group would otherwise point toward each other.
I studied that in uni... earlier this week. According to my prof it's a feature of cults
Think about it tho. That has just been America for the last 7 decades
Yup. That's all cult shit.
just got back from trying to save some family from this -- the good news is they also think managing their diabetes and quitting cigarettes is an attack against society's freedoms, so uh, not like they're going to outlast any of us.
Shapiro trying to rehab the word "noticing" is crazy work.
I cannot believe that Ben is saying all this, wholeheartedly, with zero sense of irony. Everything he is saying is the game the right wing has been playing for the last 10 years. He just showed the whole playbook
The whole playbook is scribbled on a napkin and most of it is swastikas, stars of david and dollar signs
These people are not blessed with self-awareness or indeed any sort of awareness. They're like little jellyfish that react when you touch or shock them in any way by either firing venom or falling apart. It's depressing, honestly, because if you take the sum of all the things these people don't understand or cannot contextualise, you still get a voter. Listen to Ben's speech and the things he (and, by implication, the room) holds to be self-evident: gay/trans people are murderous radicals, being pro-trans is ideological, Trump is innocent of associating with Epstein, Russiagate, James Comey, Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff were part of an elaborate plot to take over the country and pervert the 2020 election, a COVID-19 conspiracy run by Fauci. Think about the fact that these and more are all the layers of bullshit you'll need to cut through, for every one of the people who believes some or all this to be true, _without_ necessarily being racist or Zionist or anti-Semitic. Then remember that the mid-terms are in nine months.
*60 years(if I'm being generous)
Wait til Ben sees the Penn State poll of 2025: 47% of Israelis said they support GENOCIDE and 85% support complete ethnic cleansing of Arabs. Sounds pretty radical to me...
[Ben Shapiro looks directly at the camera]
"Are you scared yet?"
[Camera pans over Jews at worship]
[Fade to Black]
Note: That's the last line Shapiro asked in his hate-speech, fear-mongering video about the myth of the muslim minority. I've always wanted to make a parody of it about the myth of the non-violent Jewish majority...
As a trans person, it's been viscerally terrifying to go to the SF Trans March for years. Every year for at least 5 years it's been a calculation and an effort of calming my nervous system to get myself together to gather in public at a such widely publicized trans specific event.
So idgaf about lil Benny's newfound anxiety after Chuckie bit it. They created the world where me and mine live in terror, are losing access to our healthcare, and getting disowned by our families at even higher rates
I’m a sibling and I agree with you completely.
And after the trans hysteria lies and death threats I got after CK death. I don’t care what happens to them.
@DuchessDavia-p1j I really wish I didn't have the same initials as him
@cauykemper2367
I sorry to hear that.
Better than my friend Donald. Or anyone with the last name Epstein lol
Sending you love and good vibes. You are brave to go each year!
So you refuse mental health treatment?
When Piers Morgan asks if Nick Fuentes really thinks Hitler is cool, there's a little pause before he answers where you can see his life flash before his eyes.
The correct response should have been to end the interview right there. "Well, that's all we need to hear from this nazi"
so i read this before watching the video and got dostracted and went to watch a clip of this debate- one where nick says he is fine with being called racist
one of the top comments i immediately saw was "they call you racist but they never call you a liar" and im just so sad
lil gup crossed the rubicon there
@thatoneguy9582Which is so funny because they're actually admitting they're literally 12. Saying "You call me a jerk yet you never said I was lying!" Is how children argue. The reason why nobody calls a racist a liar is because assuming certain people are superior or inferior based on a made up concept is a *lie* by default. Racism only exists because of a lie.
Once again, the "everyone is 12 now" theory lives well and strong.
premature ejaculation probably happened
Jose shoutout! Excellent RUclipsr.
Seconding this. I love his videos.
Every accusation from BS is an admission
Ben’s Wife’s boyfriend liked this video
Ben's boyfriend did too.
Probably Erika Kirk's boyfriend too
The left is in no position to be telling the right what a man should be.
@EynahsintCynn it's true, there are no candidate men on the right so there'd be no point
@EynahsintCynn literally no one did lol. Its okay to be a poly, but not a hypocrite.
Ben reminds me of my grandmother in some ways; she was not nearly so Not-see adjacent, but if she was eating a burger and you happened to be talking about a cow in a field that you'd walked past, she'd remember she was eating a cow, lose her appetite entirely and blame you.
being willing to eat a burger but not being willing to eat a cow is so hypocritical... just like ben
If reality upsets your ability to engage in your own normal behaviors, it means you were behaving in a way contradictory to your own beliefs. Simple as that.
This happens to me sometimes! I love to talk about the horrors of factory farming and how meat could be sourced ethically, as long as we choose to eat it sparringly at special occasions, while I'm chowing down on a burger at a barbecue. For many meat eaters it validates your opinion to not be vegan while speaking vegan talking points.
Yet there's always one person who goes "Excuse me, not while I'm trying to eat a burger! I don't want to think of that!!" And like,,, I can't imagine lieing to myself like that. Plugging my ears and ignoring my conscience so boldly, just to eat a meal in silence.
@thekingoffailure9967meat can't be sourced ethically (unless you're talking about vegan meat), because the problem is not how we exploit animals, it's that we exploit them at all, even if you don't believe in that unless you also eat human meat you are being morally inconsistent but ok
"Whatever damage he's gonna do has already been done" is now at the top of my list of "Things people said that aged like milk."
Easily one of the most moronic things I've ever heard.
"In USA fascism is on the left. In Europe fascism is on the right" - Ben Shapiro (several years ago)
Easily tops his belief that one should sale a flooded house and move inland to avoid rising water levels.
These people literally cannot contextualize information.
This modern phenomenon of non-white white supremacists is wild.
It does make sense from a historical perspective. If you look at someone like Pick-- I mean Nick Fuentes, he likely models himself after Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain. There is a lot of colorism within various ethnic minorities as well.
Hey man, the modern white-supremacist movement is the most ethnically diverse group in the history of the world... it's like the United Colours of Benetton.
Perhaps THEY are the real 'woke right'?
They all literally think they’re the one good one whilst they are all waiting for the moment to sell out their neighbours
Immigrants teaching other immigrants to hate immigrants. The never ending cycle of love (no hate like Christian love).
The Proud Boys had a black man as their leader, didn't they?
The fact that this whiny toddler doesn't know that once, only men and boys acted in theaters in both male and female roles - in a time where male homosexuality was punishable by a gruesome death - should tell you just how much authority and how much audacity he has.
Such an incurious individual and so ignorant about the world
Not saying this to defend Ben (ew) but because I think it's neat: it's true that in England, only men could act, but other countries like Spain allowed women on stage during the same period! It's been too long since my classes for me to recall the precise reasons why, but I've always found that detail interesting
It's also why we have to own our own lives and never submit to any authority, because those in authority are just objectively stupid and don't know what they're talking about at any point. It's always down to whatever a few dipshits think is right personally and subjectively in that specific moment to the extent of their personal ability to engage with life.
It's way easier to tell others what to do than to actually know what's right and defend it and live it, and doing so requires personal sovereignity and responsibility.
These dipshits just want a war machine and everything they do and say is in service of that goal. They're so stupid and shortsighted and selfish and inevitably self-destructive.
True authority and leadership works with you to teach you how to lead as well. Good leaders want more good leaders and will share power and spend time teaching people how to find out what's right for themselves. Bad "leaders" want submission and compliance and will tell you what they want to be right.
@MC-lm7deI admittedly know little about worldwide theater history so this was fascinating to learn!
That's where the term drag comes from. Dressed as girl.
Benny grew his beard and got too old to appeal to conservative men.
Nick, however, could still easily pass for a nubile 14. No wonder they love him
Fuentes is also telling his audience not to vote so... I mean he's at least a useful idiot.
@Setixirtrue. It’s so obvious that his only belief is that he should have a stage and attention
Doesn’t Fuentes rock beardage these days?
Right? I remember New York times I think deemed him "the cool kids philosopher" 😂. He was doing numbers but the fall off is real
I wonder if that Spanish last name will be for Fuentes like being Jewish is for Ben.
If cognitive dissonance were a person
I worked with incarcerated people for several years. One of the comments I heard from them was, "I just want to be a productive member of society." I always thought to myself, "Productive for whom?"
And thats why we need to build a better society.
Its a bad sign when I say the same thing as prisoners and I am just some broke bish living at home 😅
"For fucking Aquaman!?"
That’s how economists talk about humanity too. ‘Productive’ or not.
@lanasartlife economists = apologists for the pathologically rich.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -- Francis M. Wilhoit
Conservatism has always been a cancer to humanity same with unrestrained religion the law should be the same for everyone be they rich, poor people of colour or white to preach otherwise is to invite the downfall of society america's rampant corruption will ultimately destroy it
@JustaGhostDragoon Agreed. (Mostly, cause conservatism isn't a 100% just bad) But ffs mate, use punctuation in your sentences, other than that singular comma. It's very annoying to read.
I'm not trying to be an "um actually". I just wanna point out that that quote was falsely attributed to THAT Francis Wilhoit. it's from just some guy called Frank Wilhoit in a blog response thread.
At this point, the lack of self awareness isnt even frustrating anymore. It is simply baffling.
Broken clocks can be perfectly accurate twice a day, but for an infinitely short time.
38:18 Umm… Ben? There’s a whole book of the Bible about a successful, pious person who does nothing wrong and has a bunch of bad things happen to him.
To be fair he doesn't believe in that book
@raminMTL It's Job lol
@raminMTL
I'm pretty sure he says he's jewish, so he should be all in with the bible (ie, old testament for christians)
@jeffersonclippership2588 The Book of Job is a tricky one, to be honest. It rebukes the Prosperity Gospel mindset, which rich christians / jews don't want to accept
I learned about this from Woolie vs. God
They keep talking about our animosity towards them as if they don't realize they've spent the last 10 years actively stoking that fire. The world they've built is so miserable that it makes us want to cry, and then they pretend to drink our tears out of coffee cups, yet every single time, again and again and again and again and again and AGAIN, every time they lead that boot to the snake's neck, they act astounded when it comes back with bite marks on it.
You've got to understand, because they're bullies, conservatives view anyone living differently from them (no matter how obviously minding their own business the other person is) as a deliberate insult to their own life choices. That woman who dyed her hair blue is "attacking" the Republican guy she walked by in the grocery store. Is normal hair color not good enough for her? Then the man asks himself, what if I dyed my hair? Then he freaks out thinking he might turn gay.
(I wish I was being sarcastic, or hyperbolic, but that is literally just how your average American conservative view the world.)
@samcyphers2902
You seem to be describing deep seated insecurity, and I think you hit the nail on the head. They can't be content to simply make their own lifestyle choices, they need everyone else to make the same choices so they feel secure and confident that they made the right decision. It would be pitiable if the neurosis had not advanced to the point that they're now trying to tear apart our democracy. Being a little insecure can be healthy, but they're not even satisfied with outward conformity anymore. Now they need to get into your bedroom, into your internet history, into your mind. They've been allowed to grow so ill that now all it takes is someone on TV, or on a podcast, or wherever, telling them "The other side wants to take something important away from you" and they're immediately primed to start taking things away from other people.
@erikbrock5444 Yes, I agree with that assessment 100%.
This one's definitely gonna come up at band practice...
The Lion does not concern himself with double checking "facts" or self reflection
38:25 he brings up the book of Deuteronomy to justify that "bad things will happen to bad people". Mr Shapiro, please, inform me as to what the point of the book of Job is?
“Where were you when I laid the fascist foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off the Overton Window's dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched their ignorance across it?
On what conspiracy theories were its footings set,
or what grifter laid its cornerstone-
while the TP USA losers sang together
and all the racists shouted for joy?" - Job(?) 38:7
The most helpful analogy for studying the Bible, for me, was acknowledging that the Bible is a library. It contains all kinds of stories from different authors and perspectives. Somehow, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes are all a part of the Wisdom tradition, but have very different takes on how to make sense of good and evil and how to live in the world. They don't have to agree with each other, but they're all a part of the conversation, because they are different books in the same library. I don't think Ben shares this perspective.
It is to make it clear YHWH has a gambling addiction.
I would also direct him to Ecclesiastes 9:11 "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Uh, is it that people need to get a job and be productive in society? I haven't read the Bible. ┐( ∵ )┌
"People can wake up in the morning and decide not to be rooted in envy." ... quick question for Ben. Who is more rooted in envy, the people who think "greed is good, actually" ... or the people holding the view opposite to that?
Ben's whole reason for existing is envy over his cousin Mara Wilson succeeding in Hollywood as a kid, when he failed as an adult.
Nothing funnier than a Gollum looking guy sitting in a room alone saying "am I right, boys? Let's go".
Every time I hear Hench Maduro talk I keep hearing "A wise guy, eh? Nyuk nyuk nyuk!" Then I realize I'm comparing him to three skilled comedians and chastise myself for being unfair to the comedians.
@snorpenbass4196 Three skilled Jewish comedians, no less
"first they came for the bad guys, and they got em all, and nothing else happened 👍🏼"
Getting targeted ads on this video for a Christian university asking me to "honor my sacred vocation in tech" and frankly that terrified me even if they missed their target.
why does the lord above need tech support so bad
@thatoneguy9582 “What does God need with a starship?”
Why would you subject yourself to ads? Adblockers are free and easy to add to your browser.
@captainunderpants200that doesnt work when im on mobile.
@thatoneguy9582 seems to fit into a larger theme of tech oligarchs trying to convince people that we can use technology to get closer to god. (mainly by suggesting we can make AI prophets or even make an ai jesus)
Idk, i keep catching little whiffs of it from people like Theil, Musk, Rogan, etc and it seems to tie into how a lot of old people just dont understand AI at all so they consider it borderline magic.
Watching the chaotic reactions of the TPUSA crowd when Shapiro was speaking was absolute gold. I hope the infighting tears these horrible people apart.
But it won't. What will happen is that they will find the one or two who dares to speak up (even if just a little) ; like Ben... And they will feed them to those proverbial lions ... And that will silence and unite the rest. The fact that right after his speech other speakers were directly calling him out and continued to cast shadow on "the Jews" is the signal that they are ready to disown him and whoever dares to challenge them.
crystalnacht or the night-of-the-long-knives did not break the German party in the 1930s but made it stronger and more unified through purging the internal opposition and power splitting people and groups...
If anything this will lead to the elimination of the more moderate voices and will leave the party more united and will continue to shift towards their final form...
Ben has only two choices; either shut up and go with the flow or recognise the problem, step out (well he will be pushed out) and "enjoy" the wrath of the party and their followers
Which way he will go? I guess it depends how much money he can make through either choices...
To be honest, "woke-right" is surprisingly similar to "national-socialists", but in more modern lingo
🤯
they're never original, all the right knows is co-opt terminology and lie
The fact that there is literally an African animal that: shares a rivalry with lions, are know to scavenge, and also willing to pick off lone lions is just so annoying.
There called hyenas, Ben. The average joe, hell, your children could've told you about them.
it's funnier because lions scavenge off hyenas more often. hyenas can't take lions in a fight so they run off when lions decide they want hyenas' kills. lions ARE the scavengers
There's even one depicted on the cover of his book!
He probably wrote “Predators and Scavengers” and felt really uncomfortable saying people should be predators.
Hyenas don't deserve to be demonized any more please I beg you. They're wonderful animals with very complex social structures.
@TG-ge7yz The funniest is ultimately that all carnivores scavenge when they have the opportunity and it's been a very successful evolutionary strategy.
Ben Shapiro is less useful than “Bench Appearo” is a magic spell that makes a park bench appear.
The bench is still more useful even though it has anti homeless features.
To be fair that sounds like a completely op spell
😂
@patrickhaley1312 The know how to do bench magic in Chattanooga ruclips.net/video/jMJWrCq_1BE/video.htmlsi=PxpPgSPGSMBigIQx
awesome, i have to take a forest gump
Where I live we have drag shows for children, they're a long running tradition called a Christmas Panto.
😂 true.
A lot of folk don't seem to realize that old timey pantomime shows were performed by men in drag... explicitly for children
He said during first admin he should not be impeached because " he can't possibly do more damage". Moron
Big Susan Collins "He learned his lesson" energy.
19:15 it wasn't murder to Ben because people like him only have empathy for, like, immediate family members, and barely so at that. So he sees Alex Pretti's murder as absolutely fine if it means that he and his feel more protected.
Selective populism leads to selective empathy.
Ben Shapiro not knowing "what else Jonny Greenwood has done" disqualifies him from ever having a serious take about music for the rest of his life.
I mean, I don't know the actual names of any of the musicians I listen to. That doesn't mean I don't have real opinions on the music itself.
I've listened to Metallica my entire life, and I could *maybe* name one of them if I really thought about it, and that's only because he had a cameo on a show I watch.
I don't really see the relevance
@hmnhntri'm not saying you're doing music fandom wrong or anything, but are you not curious about like, who the people are that make the art you're engaging with?
Keep in mind this is coming from the same guy who said rap isn't music because it doesn't have melody or harmony 🤦♂️
@ThomAvella Not the person you replied to, but speaking for myself: no. The art speaks for itself, death of the author and all that.
@xujhanokay, but does the context of the artist's life when they made the song/album in question not interest you even a little? music isn't made in a vacuum. the stories behind songs and the people that make them are really interesting. plus it helps me not listen to music from active bigots and creeps.
Ben Shapiro has never chosen to do "a dutiful or useful thing" a single day of his life.
Because actually trying to make the world a better place doesn’t make one rich, connected, and ego boosted
"Scroll past AI over view thats useless."
This is the news place
I found a plugin that disables it.
The Google AI told me that lions mane mushrooms contained psilocybin 🙄
@rambamblingwhat's the plugin?
@awildsylveon9896I heard of one person, only one, who is using the LLM's in what could be described as a correct way.
To see what a logicless mouthpeice of the general societal subconcious would say, to better write an alien being/hive mind's mouth peice.
You can do -ai at the end of your google search, fyi
"Take a bullet for you, babe"
- dialogue written by Ben Shapiro to be a bad ass tender moment between his Mary Sue protagonist and his wife. "True Allegiance".
His "bear of a man" protagonist
@makhnomiteyou beat me to it, I was gonna say that… I bet your a bear of a man!!
God Ben sucks on every level.
I can still hear Robert Evans voice reading that even though it's been years lmao
18:07 Ben, how was that not your "Are we the baddies" moment? "When people see the pictures and videos of the things I support happening, they're appalled and they no longer support those actions even if they previously did and oh god I'm the monster aren't I"
Seriously?! I even kept thinking about when people saw war in real time on TV for the first time with Vietnam. Of course people are gonna not like it, Ben, it’s terrible and you supporting terrible things makes you the bad guy!
Because when Ben got rejected from Hollywood, he thought “the LEFT (tm) control the media and don’t let conservatives succeed” instead of “maybe I have the writing abilities and worldview of a 5 year old”, and wrote an entire book’s worth of cope. He’s never been the type to actually self-reflect.
@thatnerdyouseeeverywhere7536 well seeing terrible books published and actually make money inspires me to try to write a better book and hopefully make money enough not to die homeless and disabled.
the left has to bring the dollars behind their ideals, or they can't reasonably expect any workingclass heroes to survive any of this.
@thatnerdyouseeeverywhere7536multiple books worth of cope
As an adult, it's shocking and infuriating just how stupid and pathetic so many people, specifically people in positions of power, are.
Ben _"I can totally separate the antisemitism away from far-right ideology, hold my kippah"_ Shapiro
Wait.... They call it T.P.U.S.A.? Like.... Toilet Paper U.S.A.? 😂😂😂
3:49 That whole spiel is so disingenuous. It's not just Libs of TikTok sharing some info about an event and a lone wolf just happens to go attack it. There's a whole culture of violence from conservatives that the lives of children and other people are put at risk. Conservatives are constantly labeling something as 'the end of Western civilization' or 'demonic' or framing things from a disgusting perspective, 'mutilation', etc. Yet they have the gall to pretend to be the victims.
Also every single time they add some made up shit to their "coverage" of the event
It's amazing how they play dumb about this and are just like "she's just sharing stuff that's already public "......like sure, I bet her followers just want to send a fruit basket to the people she targets 🙄
I didnt notice the Hungryroot ad was referencing zelda until I heard stamina wheel...
44:40 When Ben mentions Fuentes being bad because he's a nazi, and a good portion of the crowd seems not too keen on cheering.. Yikes
I mean, as of yesterday, it would appear that Fuentes is abandoning his audience (and I guess his grift) as the grift seemingly isn’t even worth the insufferableness of the type of people he’s attracted.
I have ZERO charitability for people like Fuentes BUT it does at least seem that he does not want to be, nor consider himself a political commentator/right wing influencer and just sees politics as a tool for his real-life, real-time comedy/trolling routine… however aversive and disgusting it may be.
Shapiro on the other hand has cultivated a similar (Fuentes-lite) following, developed a similar disdain for said bottom feeders, but takes himself far too seriously to demonstrate a modicum of insight/self-reflection to disengage.
Who would have thought that all these failed Hollywood wannabes choosing the least critically thinking, lowest intellectual functioning individuals as the quickest and easiest target to make the most money off of could blow up in one’s face(s) smh
Ernest Röhm comes to mind, what an irony if Ben shares the same fate for being of his faith when only a few short years ago he sounded like Ernst's boss when he was denying the humanity of Dave Rubin and said that he wouldn't even come to his birthday.
I thought his name was rommel, my mistake.
38:39 “Atheism led to people believing in a shadowy cabal that controls the world”, ummm Lucifer, Satan, Asmodeus, Moloch, Ibilis, Angra Mainyu, Lilith, Belial, the Demiurge?
"Satan is the king of this word" is a thing I've seen so, so many Christians say.
Which funnily enough is a gnostic worldview of extinct sects like Sethianism. They more or less believed that the god who created the world and was the god of the old testament was a false, evil god called the Demiurge and/or Yaldabaoth while the god of the new testament was the real one, so being alive is being trapped in hell. That's totally heretical in the extant Christian sects though.
don't forget the greatest demon of all: Henry Kissinger
None of them are ultimately in control. In Abrahamic religions, GOd is always the supreme lord of creation. The Olympian gods or the Aesir fit the idea of a "shadowy cabal" much better.
@sarafontanini7051Kissenger makes me believe there’s a hell
There have been more Republicans arrested for child pornography, pedophilia & sex trafficking in the last year than left-wing, liberal, or LGBTQ+ people for the same crimes combined in the last five.
Also notice in his speech where he says Kirk's killer knows a trans person, therefore, the killing has to do with trans people as a whole, but sidesteps the fact that jeffrey epstein is Jewish. "Cmon guys it's bigotry to generalize the actions of one individual to their entire community!"
Ben Shapiro is literally the reason I went from the center right to the left
He has nothing to do with 'the right' and everything to do with international Zionism.
Yeah, seeing a religious zealot heralded as some sort of "genius" made me be like hol up, maybe these ideas are toxic if this is the kind of person they are associated with.
@krook5158yeah that's not true. He's a conservative to his bones. And the video I saw that made me shift was in 2018. Before I even knew anything about Israel or Palestine. Back when he was "destroying libs" in QnAs all the time.
@hobbsmakescomics Yes, that was his image. Which was always a front, a way to 'get in'. He is a Zionist by heart. His money, his fame, is all because of Israel.
He is a produced plant.
"The Scavengers lurk in the shadows. They gather in the darkness. And then they attack." Ben is describing ambush predators, which is also what Lions are. They flank their prey so one can attack while another chases the prey towards the other. They are ambush predators and scavengers. Also the right loves to pretend lions are kings and patriarchs but it's lionesses that do all the actual work, the male lions just fight with each other and murder each other's offspring. Lions aren't the paragons of the animal kingdom Ben.
Also, bald eagles are scavengers but let's never explore or unpack that relevance to being the USA's national animal.
Conservatives would love lions as a species for all of the wrong reasons. They mostly eat, sleep, commit infanticide, screw, and let the ladies do the actual work.
Also, Ben squandered the opportunity to call his book something punchier like, "Smells like Yeen Spirit."
Lions are also scavengers that poach hyena kills. As for the American eagle, the greatest irony is that they have to dub its call cause it chirps like a little bird.
@rav3style We should have gone with the noble turkey!
And for the handful of people who don't know yet, the bald eagle noise you hear on tv is actually a hawk because bald eagles don't sound very impressive irl.
@rav3style Let’s not have this turn into eagle slander, they’re wonderful birds with a delightful noise and didn’t ask to be made into the symbol of the most Olympic level dickriding in the history of humanity.