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The idea of someone holding a Free Palestine sign, someone who is allegedly mad about innocents dying, blocking an ambulance is quite an incredible thought.
Was there vid about austrian economics? One dude in high school basically pulled me into it and I was quite a believer before I did some of my own thinking and now I don't know anymore.
You’re not wrong about passing as a lefty. I’m a bisexual conservative but I don’t tell people who are left that. They just assume since I’m LGB that I’m automatically a far leftist, so they’ll spill their guts on all of their views and (shocker) much of it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
why are you in every single video that can be remotely considered right wing politics it makes me tremble in my boots im shaking dude im gonna die because of you im dead right now thanks for killing me
We’re so close to a breaking point, where I live no one wants to be a cop anymore so they close down most stations at night to violent crime and they just come check it out in the morning.
@@nerdcorner2680the plan is for the state police to cover if they can. Problem is the grey gods are stretched too thin as is. I’m sure you heard they had to significantly drop their requirements
It is so bad how desensitized american cities are. 50 years ago it was a statewide shock if anyone was shot randomly, and now it happens 3+ times a day near the city I live in. Random shootings are not normal, Feeling unsafe walking down the street is not normal, Everything being old and falling apart is not normal, Hard drugs being done/sold on the street is not normal. Yet people who live here will say that all is fine, or this is just how things are. That is the general sentiment of anyone I ask who lives here (or worse they are confused that I even bring this things up as being a problem)
Exactly. I went to RUSSIА of all places, to normal cities, and I never saw homeless, violence, or random aggression... And I see this everyday in PHOENIX AZ.
@@bldontmatter5319 it’s almost like most of the Russia = Bad is just propoganda… (obviously they do have provable issues but it isnt a big scary demon hellscape we are told it is)
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714True, but the problem is that in order to live anywhere near the coastline, you have to live in a state that's run by Seattle, Portland, or the urban wasteland that is Commie-fornia.
@@Espanaer Who was the one who had the bright idea to name 2 same level administrative divisions by the same name? Took me a second to realize thinking - nature trails in a city??
@@HarenunHoppusStephen Harper was imperfect but competent but I guess a Guy saying " it's the current year" was something better. And I say that as a Canadian.
@sebastianmunozochoa1485 Stephen Harper could perform basic math and basic economic theory which Trudeau seems to lack. Fitting considering he was a theatre kid.
There is no any tyranny I can see… I mean, if you are free to criticize a countries leader within their own country and can openly can do so without the secret police knocking on your door; they aren’t a Tyrant. Now, I know Trudeau isn’t perfect, but a tyrant? Idk about that. Like, I do want some change but I don’t want to go around demonizing the other side of the isle so to speak.
what drives me nuts is that so many people here that I talk to would rather vote the Parti Quebecois/NPD/Liberal Party and keep regurgitating mainstream news point when I try to talk to them about what is currently happening in government, so much so that I am going to dedicate a decent chunk of my 20's studying to get a green card to get US residency since at the very least the US has a basis for individual rights unlike here
My fucking joke is “you don’t see people in the Middle East or abroad protesting healthcare costs or workers rights in America. Why the fuck are we always protesting on their behalf??!!”
If people's concern about the conflict in Israel is based on an understanding of Abrahamic eschatologies, I think that makes sense. But most people care bc they have been told to
Being fair, the media ignoring the Libertarian party is for the better given how bad they make libertarianism look with their consistent bad takes and shilling for the CCP.
I think the true litmus test for libertarians is disliking the libertarian party. I think even so-called "left wing socialist libertarian" types could agree even though I think they're living a life of contradictions.
@@urphakeandgey6308 Not if their express purpose is deregulation and lowering the tax burden on people. But those are typically not going to be the tenets espoused by the final contenders, unfortunately…
Is it because they want the USA to keep trading with China like it was before and be totally dependent on them regardless of the consequences because “muh free trade” and GDP, while looking at no other pros and cons?
Reasons to support mentiswave on kofi: 1. The wrong reason: "I wan't to support his channel monetarily." 2. The right reason: Since he gives me entertaining content and I give him back nothing, Were technically in commensalistic symbiosis, and that reminds me of communism, which is cringe.
Counterpoint: by not fiscally rewarding him while consuming the products of his labor, I'm basically winning at his expense in a post-darwinian struggle to collect not just genetic success but to hoard all that has value.
I don't think Rand is an ideal "wake up" for anyone, right or left. There are more intellectually disciplined writers and philosophers who advocate for individualism.
The deal is, Rand wrote many of their books after living a transition similar to the one we are having. This is because Rand used to live in Russia before the takeover of the communists. Her writings are a combination of her philosophy, with a more, dare I say, "relatable" environment in regards to the individuals that surround us. It isn't perfect, but it's hard to read her writings about leftists and not feel she's speaking about someone currently alive today.
Rand is a lousy writer & her philosophy isn't something that could realistically be applied to the real world. Rather than promoting Rand, I'd much rather promote people like Thomas Sowell or Milton Friedman who had simple, clear explanations of why socialism fails.
I feel like, despite the ideology being based on rationalist thought and, y'know, intelligence and stuff, there's a whole lot of the left tail of the IQ distribution on the libertarian right. A lot of them aren't really libertarian - they only dislike the government because they disagree with its actions; they're perfectly fine with overbearing state authority if they agree with the actions such a state would take. "Well, I don't like gays, so the government legislating against them is fine with me." "You shouldn't be able to own an AR-15 anyway." "I back the blue." Now, infighting is still pointless, and they could certainly pick worse beliefs. Good to have a place where they can actually learn the meat and potatoes behind an often grossly misunderstood/oversimplified ideology. And people who subscribe to an ideology they fundamentally misunderstand are poor ambassadors for that ideology. Someone who knows what they're talking about (or sounds like it) can pick them apart, usually on some mainstream media outlet, and the normies who don't understand either side will go with the guy who sounds smarter.
Guns suck, and are nowhere near as good as Americans propagate them to be. But Americans have built such a large culture around it that removing them now would be a net negative
In regard to BoomerLibs, most of them are living fairly comfortable and therefore aren’t really threatened or concerned with a lot of things discussed by everyone else. After all, none of them will ever live to see when their liberal state becomes authoritarian or they’re secure enough to own their own home and not be faced with renting the rest of their lives. Many of them don’t actually live in crime ridden areas and therefore don’t deal with addicts and derelict camper dwellers making neighborhoods unsafe. Talking with them about these issues is naturally going to go nowhere when they’re this insulated.
Adding to this: Most of them own a home which has tripled or more in value & they are in that sweet spot of paying off their mortgage & full retirement. They are the last generation that has truly been able to live a full life in the American Dream, so why would they need to see beyond their own fruitfulness?
@@S_raB even better when most of the democrat politicians they’ve elected have systematically increased inheritance taxes to the point where generational wealth will die with them in order to benefit property management firms. I know this isn’t a libertarian thing to say but fuck HOAs. It’s my property, I don’t give a damn about your BS organization that’s designed to tax income from property ownership. But lord knows, boomers hate it when you suggest dismantling HOAs and lowering inheritance taxes.
Sounds specifically like my mom. She complains a lot about how there are too many white people in her beautiful, safe, upper-middle class city. The family home was sold and her and my dad are set to comfortably retire while taking two vacations per year.
@MentisWave As much as I'm in agreement with most of everything you've said on here, and overall, you're right on the numbers for most things but with all due respect your civil rights take is severely flawed and bad PR. Minorities generally have lower quality of life across the board, and you saying that there's no bias is just crazy when things like red lining exist. It serves no benefit to the cause, and is just gonna get you called a racist.
@@rogerkeleshian2215 I also disagree with it, but more along the lines of the fact that there's only 1 grocery store in my town, and if people of a certain ethnicity or background were blanket banned from the store, I think that people would starve to death or otherwise have undue change forced upon their life. (A lot of these people don't have vehicles, so they couldn't go to the next town- next nearest grocery store is 20 miles away). Sure, the store would lose out on business from those people that they excluded. But what if they would actually gain more business by attracting more customers to the store based on the fact that certain groups aren't allowed to shop there? Ultimately I think taking a stance in favor of legal discrimination doesn't actually solve any meaningful practical issues with the world, it would make life worse for many if actually realized, and in general advocating for the position is an optics nightmare due to the fact that the first assumption people will make is that you're a racist trying to pass laws that will allow you to discriminate against minorities.
I was in Portland in October of 2023. I had just got out of boot camp, and my uncle lived there, and I promised I was gonna visit him. And I rented a truck, and I went downtown, and it didn't look so bad, and I was surprised that is wasn't like a zombie apocalypse you found some of the portland stereotypes but nobody messed with me and the people were pretty chill. And I was overall floored with how I thought I would be and how it was. I enjoyed my time in Oregon, and I didn't just stay in the city. I went out a little into the country, and I my jaw was on the ground with how pretty it was. I see why my uncle moved there and lived there until his death.
I was also there last year and saw only few weird stuff like a convience store where the shopkeeper manually had to open the door before you went in and bought stuff.
It's the contrast against what it was like 2 years ago or three. It is gone so far downhill so fast. If you're in downtown Portland late at night none of the ladies with you feel safe. You can't use the sidewalks without having to step around somebody or a pile of their crap.
It was a much much nicer town pre covid, everything went to shit in 2020. I used to work in the northern industrial sector from 2020-2021 and even there it was bad. Homeless camps stretched for 4 or 5 blocks, lots of businesses and houses in disrepair, drug zombies everywhere harassing people. I nearly got mugged 3 times in different spots, and I didn't even live in the city. Point being yeah it's not super bad now, but those few years of pandemic gave Portland the terrible reputation it has today.
The biggest wound, in my view, was the reaction during covid. It made me realize 90%, would support any authoritarian command. Without question. If the people in the right position told them too. And they still do not seem to have realized this.
Ok thats a low blow Many of the things that came to combat covid made sense like quaratine or wear a facemask. Sure if the others also believed that freeing every prisoner cause it was glogging up the prison ye if they believed that was a good idea then its definitly a stupid shit Other then that most made sense even for me. But then again i live in holland and im not nearly as bitter as americans at nowadays america
@@beerten202 But they did not do any of that rational. Face mask, is to prevent you from infecting other, it does not prevent you from becoming infected. And of course, the mask we used would not work against covid. Quarantine, would make sense, if they really did it. If the sickness was as bad as they first claimed. But they kept the borders open for illegal migrants. They allowed people to break quaranti, when they where out demonstrating for BLM. But shops was still closed. Showing it was about controlling us not blocking the sickness. And, we know all our politicians knew this was hoax. Both in Norway and in Britain, our prime minister got caught having private parties, while the normal people was prevented from family funerals.
As another libertarian that lives in the Portland Metro area, this was a very amusing/cathartic video. At one point during the "crazy period", I worked in Old Town (kinda part of downtown) and had to swim through tents, drug addicts with needless hanging out of their arms (not exaggerating), and mentally ill people yelling at you while defecating on the sidewalk. The pandemic lockdowns, which were completely authoritarian and unnecessary, did have one benefit: I was able to transition to fully remote work and not have to go into Portland downtown anymore.
@@RileyLewis-j2wdon’t worry, she’ll change her attitude the second her dog water politics start affecting her way of life; ie Walmart leaves your town or you get burgled by the third world
My parents are both boomer libs. Well my dad is a boomer lib. My mom doesn't talk about her politics but she does whatever my dad does. That saying about scratching a liberal and finding a fascist is true though. If you press them on ANYTHING, you'll find out.
@@Will-zd2lj I stick to the yuppie parts these days were my grand folks are, not interested in being stabbed by the homeless. Definitely not a place I’d live, visit for a day and get some food sure.
I'm a Washingtonian, and I hate driving through Seattle and Portland with all the craziness. But I love Washington and Oregon, and how beautiful and majestic it's mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest.
I want to scream at every city person like Oddball: "DONT YOU DIG HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS OUT HERE? WHY DONT YOU SAY SOMETHING RIGHTEOUS, AND UPLIFTING FOR A CHANGE?"
Same story in Vancouver, BC. Every year the drug and random violence problem gets worse, and every year the same ideologues rally support for "harm reduction" because it's "just not been tried hard enough yet."
I just hate the whole "lets treat this struggling demographic like helpless fucktards" and having them rely on a government that is both incompetent and endlessly corrupt
As a conservative in the Bay Area I feel your pain. The people here are either clueless or just stupid but the weather and my career keep me planted here.
It’s sad. My perception of Portland a decade ago was that it was liberal in the best way-a relaxed, accepting, artsy place. I hope the wound can be healed.
Yeah, it's the pParadox of Tolerance. "Live and let live" types are often easily overrun by radicals. Leftists often like to cite it as a warning against the far right. But it applies equally to the far left. A great historical example is Pennsylvania, particularly Philadelphia. William Penn founded the colony as a safe place for Quakers, one of the most liberal, tolerant Christian sects of the time. After returning to England to take care of some business there, he returned to Philadelphia to find it had become full of gamblers, drinkers, and prostitutes. The liberal policies he'd instituted to protect Quakers, also protected all the people who wanted to partake in "sinful" activities and they'd flocked there from other colonies in order to partake in that lifestyle.
That is always where it ends up. The "relaxed, accepting and artsy" are simply a seemingly benign symptom, but in reality they're a herald of the illness. Precisely these communities will act like the metaphor of the frog in increasingly heated water, if you just turn up the heat slowly, they won't notice a thing until they're boiled. They sympathise with people who would be banished from any reasonable society without understanding why they're outcasts, only having lived in a hugbox and never having engaged with the worst of society. Because the worst of society are often minorities, it's surely just the discrimination by the stuck-up people in other places, if you just receive them with a feel-good dance, everything will surely work out. If it doesn't, they simply weren't welcoming enough, it's surely those x-ist police officers who are at fault.
It's because the modern left are progressives, not liberals. They sell a story that we can build towards a utopia where everyone can relax and be happy. Only to use that vision as the carrot to lead the lemmings off the cliff
i grew up in the Seattle area and i only slowly recognized woke dishonesty. im ashamed because for so long i wanted to be woke, because i do believe in tolerance, kindness, and unconditional support to fellow human beings. so i tried to brainwash myself. but i never could, because i could not lie to myself. goodness does not exist outside of critical thinking, it actually exists within it. so i attempted arguments for woke beliefs but could never find a compelling answer to all the rational, logical faults with socialism, gender politics. wokeness makes you feel evil for doing the right thing. its next-level gaslighting...but the west coast has beautiful nature unlike anywhere else, so i don't think i'll ever be able to leave either ^^'
It can only exist in a bubble, like most ideologies it won't survive contact with reality. If you look at the history of mankind, you'll see why you shouldn't be tolerant of certain behaviour, how kindness can be repaid and that there are people who are simply beyond saving. If you look at the prison population today, you will see the exact same thing, the criminals won't even pretend to be remorseful because they won't get any meaningful punishment for what they've already done or what they're going to do once they're out, at least in Europe. They won't even get deported if they immigrated illegally, they'll only get a light sentence and soon be released upon the population again. Never give anything unconditionally to strangers.
Yeah, I'm a bit older, and so I'll be a "bleeding heart liberal" until the day I die. ...being that I was born & raised a 40min drive from San Francisco. Even though I understand NOW that the free market, and the traditional family model are the true saviours of humanity, and that gov't & collectivism are pure poison. There's nothing wrong with being an altruist at heart.
As a former discord mod for Dev/SFO for a few years, the comment about him was pretty spot on, he sees the issues and has some pretty spot on takes on the social stuff, but has been pretty steadfastly center-left in everything else, sometimes stubbornly in a way that angers people. He's definitely good at getting everyone to have beef with him. Though honestly I can at least say that despite him being a bit of a dumbass sometimes, he has made a few really good videos, and he's a genuinely nice person to talk to otherwise though, he's even kept up and asked how i've been doing a few times since I left. His community is autism incarnate though, jesus christ. They were too exhausting to moderate.
We need discord but with the level of censorship of 4chan. So the autism may be freed and the mods go from censors to rearguard battalions. Free the shitpost! Free the brain!
Learning what taxation is like happened really fast with my best friend, he wasn't even a leftist but the millisecond he saw just how much the government steals from your wages, he immediately understood the line "Taxation is theft". Note, we're Canadian, so he lost a LOT of what his wages would have been.
I love rain, but only when I’m indoors. I tend to only want Saturdays to be sunny since that’s the the only time I want to go outside on my own. I very much like to hear the rain fall on a cool afternoon.
Born and lived in Portland until 2015 and I followed some family that moved to Idaho. I went back to visit friends in 2022 and Jesus it felt like a completely different city. Good on you for sticking around, i miss it pretty often and i hope it gets better. It won't and i know that but i hope anyway.
My mom is "a boomer lib" :( Can't refute anything I say when I try and show her that *all* the state media proxies (cnn, msnpc, fox, etc.) are either being disingenuous or flat out lying by providing evidence as well as walking her through the critical thought process of how their narrative almost always discredits itself if you don't let emotions cloud your judgement and apply a bit of logic. She tells me that I'm the smartest person she knows, and has been telling me that for most of my life (I'm in my 40's). Still can't accept that the mainstream news isn't a credible source of information. Still believes everything they say. It's exasperating. Part of the problem is that these people are kept angry and overly emotional by design - it clouds their judgement. You can't persuade them by appealing to reason - they aren't operating at that level because emotion is preventing it. So you have to figure out how to appeal to their emotions. To people that do think logically and base their viewpoints on facts, this feels manipulative or likely to present a weak argument. You have to speak the language (figuratively soeaking) of the person you are conversing with. If they soeak facts and logic, you have to do likewise. If it is emotion you have to do the same. The extreme example of this is when one party chooses violence as the language of discourse; logic as well as emotion are worthless in defending your "position." You have to respond in kind.
One summer when I was very young, my family was traveling back to the US from Japan (where my dad was stationed), flying Space Available... which is a free way for military members and their dependents to fly on military aircraft, but you can only claim seats that are available (hence the name). This method of travel led to a lot of connections and huge "layovers" (i.e. several nights in hotels). On this particular summer, we came via Anchorage, then Washington (McChord AFB), on our way to California (Travis AFB). That stop in Washington... it stuck in my brain: the clean, clear air... the greenery... it felt like paradise. Wanting to experience that again, I had the opportunity to visit a friend from college who moved out to Portland back in... I want to say I went in January 2008... we saw There Will Be Blood in a theater, so it must've been... anyway, it immediately won me over... it took me right back to that memory of Washington but with the additional appeal of things that only adults like: functional and affordable public transit, the coffee, the closeness to the ocean, the mountains... I wanted to move there. Then the housing market crashed, and I got stuck in a go-nowhere job, afraid I'd never find another job with my useless college degree. Never could I have known at the time that a market crash would work out in my favor, as ever since, Portland was on a deep, deep decline... though in retrospect, even back then, the city had problems with drug use and homelessness... nowhere near as bad as things got, but still... my friend that I had gone to visit said I should stay away from Old Town. Anyway, I'll never forgive leftists for fucking despoiling the Pacific northwest... from Vancouver to Northern California, they've turned what should've been an outdoorsman's paradise into an utter dystopia.
Sargon has a job posting with the Lotus Eaters.....in London. Funny thing is, he also had the exact same job listing in Swindon launched at the exact same time, and stopped taking applications over a week ago. As I run a live broadcast production company, I am very much qualified for the job. But I am NOT moving to London. Sargon is still trying to fill that position in London. A city with something like 30x the number of people in Swindon. This should tell you everything you need to know about the Portland Effect, and that Austrian economics is undoubtedly 100% correct on the subject.
The thing about junkies is that they behave weirdly on drugs, so they wake up the next day, are emberassed and cope by taking more so they don't have to deal with thinking about it. They numb themselves.
I honesty appreciate your channel a lot, has helped me contextualize a lot of ongoing economic issues. Even though I disagree with some of your social takes
I completely agree. While I would prefer that Israel wins (perhaps a religious bias considering islamic terrorism in my country and my Christian leanings), it really isn't my business. Whatever happens happens. Honestly, I want it all to be over with. This is one of the most boring political conflicts I have witnessed. War, death, lies...the usual.
I don't want to take a side, but one side is Islamic, continually acts in bad faith, refuses compromise, uses its own people as human shields, and is very loudly calling for the extermination of their opponents. And we've already saw what they're capable of on October 7. How can any sane, ethical person side with Hamas?
I don't want to take a side, but one side is [of the religion of pieces], continually acts in bad faith, refuses compromise, uses its own people as human shields, and is very loudly calling for the extermination of their opponents. And we've already saw what they're capable of on October 7. How can any sane, ethical person side with Hamas?
I don't want to take a side, but one side is [of the religion of pieces], continually acts in bad faith, refuses compromise, uses its own people as human shields, and is very loudly calling for the global [unaliving] of their perceived enemies. And we've already saw what they're capable of on October 7. How can any sane, ethical person not side _against_ [the H-men]?
Thanks for mentioning dev, i still listen to him a lot but it gets on my nerves how often he says something along the lines of "progressive policy bad, but anyone on the other side *also* bad so i can still be a centrist." Its quite common for him to have 10+ minutes of refuting progressive ideals, then just drop a "lmao right bad" and never elaborate.
im a libertarian from Italy, a similar thing happen here about boomerliberal, and i Always say to look at Italy if u guys in america keep going this way
It's rough being a conservative in Oregon. I grew up in Coos Bay and even though the rural areas are more moderate you still get screwed because Portland and Eugene have all the votes.
A lot of people don't understand politics for the same reason most people don't understand furry fandom, it's complicated, it's bullshit and it's disgusting. So they assume they can just be a passenger.
Here's a fucking fact: untill the 2000's Jews used to live IN gaza, gaza had synagogues. If you ever think Palestine is a legit country, just remember what graves and monuments it's built upon and who built them.
Wow you really called me out lmao. I did indeed escape the matrix after I learned about economics and learned how contradictory my ideas were when I was a far leftist. I kinda just got caught in the wave as it were,especially since I was in college at the time lol.Another great vid like always!
I’m in the same boat, born and bred in Vermont, one of the most blue states. Ive thought about moving somewhere cheaper and that has better morals, but this is my home, and it is beautiful, I will not abandon it. I was on the left not so long ago so I know there is hope. TRVMP 2024
I live in Portland, I’m actually hopeful things will start getting better. Repealed the drug decriminalization and got anew DA those are pretty big steps and it couldn’t have been done if there wasn’t a shift in attitudes by Portlanders since we pretty much vote in all the policy for the state. Aspects of it do really suck here but I haven’t wanted to move because that feels like ceding my hometown to the commies.
I can appreciate how disturbing it can be to see someone in the throws of addiction. Speaking from my own experience; addicts who live on the streets often encounter violence, exchange of sex for drugs, dead bodies, and all manner of dark and disgusting things. However it is important to remember this is an actual person. That latina is someones daughter, sister, granddaughter, and was not always like that. Its shocking to see people have so little self respect or regard, but these people have lost hope in anything, but that brief chemical reaction that never surpasses the 1st time. If you dont feel comfortable interacting or acknowledging the most vunerable in our society. Just say a quick prayer for a brother or sister, and know it can happean to anyone.
Those guys are the very definition of "living in the moment". They follow current trend only care about what happens in current moment and what makes feel good, not thinking about the future or consequences of their actions.
It's just such a shame because oregon and the whole pacific northwest has such beautiful nature, and for some time I had always wanted to live there. But the politics of the people in the region would make it uninhabitable for me
I'm from Idaho. and I came too portland not too long ago to see a concert with family I actually often visit oregon with my family. it's just the newport/west coast area that me and my family often go. The only time i remember being in portland was 2 times. one was when my brother screwed up and got us on the wrong turn. and we had to spend a long time in traffic(I remember we were singing the entire 'the wall' album while waiting) second time was do too possible car issues and we had to turn to portland as a safer route(We often go on the mountain route past bend) My family didn't want to stay in portland long so it was just there for one night. have dinner and breakfast. then we leave. We made it to china town and got to the hotel. and got our stuff. When we went to diner we went to a nearby ramen place sense everything else was for some reason closed on that day It was alright, But personally I feel like the people who ran it should probably add more filling's. Along the way the place felt more like a red light district. barred up/abandoned building's. broken atm machines. constant graffiti. strip clubs. and right next to it was the occasional nice hotel or restaurant. my mom decided to drop my brothers at a arcade and go back to the room(I couldn't join because i'm 19 and it's 21 only). While me and my mom where in our room I decided to turn on the tv sense i was bored and tuned on to Palestine protesters taking over a library. and a poll on if they should be forcefully removed(a huge amount of people surprisingly said yes). We got ready for the concert and went. And i got a general taste of the local's...and hmmm..several people next to us where talking about 'how to finger a girls ass'. One was extremely loud and annoying. And talked like a 'wacky' ubisoft character. During the account their sound system was crap. in fact similar to our's here where they rise the drum's way too high and you can barely hear the guitar. One of the girls seemed to didn't know if she was in a rave. a club or a metal concert. kept dancing. flipping her hair and didn't have a single concept of personal space and kept stomping on my brother foot. My mom also left to get a whisky and coke at the bar(back issues) and was shocked to learn that you can't even be on the lower floor when drinking. Which is way more restrictive then anything we have here surprisingly enough. The concert was over and along the way we saw someone who pick their tent spot in the middle of the road...for some reason(forgot to mention. my brother saw human feces while walking back from the arcade) we all vented at our issues with the city for the night and went to bed. During the morning we walked to a nearby cafe for breakfast. it was actually quite good. Got a mexican coke. good waffles. and a overall decent breakfast. and we processed to leave. As we were getting in. we saw someone who was just staring into the road. no one around. not even holding a phone and yelled "WHO THE HELL SAID MY NAME?". we all quickly got in the car and leaved as soon as possible It was interesting experience. certainly made me feel better about my home. and i certainly didn't hate the place as much compared to my family. sense i kinda don't mind the occasional weirdo(unless they're on drugs) or the graffiti. But it was definitely not great. and i probably wouldn't want to go again. And it was odd to see a place that decriminalized all kinds of drugs be so strict on stuff like alcohol. more then it is here. It was funny getting back to Boise and noticing just how much of a difference it was
i'm stuck in california. i HATE the climate here. the way you describe it, i'd probably be no worse, and at least a bit better over there than here, but i stay here because my family comes from a long line of san franciscans (as in born in san fransisco, who would willingly live over there nowadays?) from back when california could have been considered "ancapistan". plus, the state of jefferson isn't as bad as the rest of this hellhole, and i can at least pretend i'm not in the same state as the dumbasses, but whenever i have to go to the leftist strongholds, i feel a part of myself dying.
Maybe someday the insane policies of Commie-fornia will go far enough beyond the Overton Window for the normies to wake up, reject all the Marxist weirdos running the state into the ground, elect some people with some common sense, and start dismantling the authoritarian state that the leftists have been turning California into for the past few decades. I can't predict if that will actually happen or when the state might become reasonable to live in again, but I can hope... - fled California in the early 2000s, been a proud #FloridaMan for the past 20 years.
@@stuartthegoose3386 i live in israel smartass a democracy we choose the leaders this alone is more impact over this conflict then any braindead leftie can make
PHYSICALLY REMOVED! If you could Mentis, either include on your next sub question video or possibly do a video refuting "Muh late stage capitalism" and "state capitalism" nonsense terms that I see commies constantly making. That would be quite helpful and much appreciated.
may aswell burn down the entire concept of hyperbolic statements that draw things to their most extreme conclusions that are not an actual reality (nor do they really follow) , to basically act as an appeal to emotion.... fearmongering it's the modus operandi for all these radicalized assholes it's the same method used by climate alarmists or population control wackos everybody knows there will be a breaking point where a population is no longer sustainable, but never ever do they tell anyone where exactly that point is... or what the ideal sweet spot would be, they do not quantify things for a reason... because they're full of shit and not acting in good faith, they don't have the numbers. at least malthus had the balls to make quantified claims that were proven fucking wrong by modern agricultural advancements
Do these people even know who Amin al Husseini is? the grand mufti of Palestine? and who he worked for in the 30s? why the war started? (cant say no more, record time of 8 minutes after the previous ban for going too much into detail)
@@TheGahta tried that previously but it failed. I quite literally cant since youtube is so trigger happy to call history "Hate speech" against the worlds biggest slavers
i live here too, moved from florida for cold weather, got familiar sights of crackheads, cracked up at a bad dragon sticker, than saw a walking dead esq scene of some paramedics trying to help someone OD'ing with 30-40 odd homless around the car shit didnt feel real lol
12:35 Holy shit, you just perfectly described my dad. He’s overall a great guy and I love him, but hearing him talk about current events is the most painful experience possible
No clue dude. Know a libertarian doing politics in the UK, gets actively failed for non left-wing arguments in essays (but will get a first for shilling, which he now does once he realised the game).
@@_Imperium_7 Ah nice man. it's honestly not as bad as you'd think - I study in one of the universities that's considered very lefty, and there's problems, but mostly you can just chill and do your thing. Professors will probably be more of a problem for you with a politics degree, just find like minded students and don't get into debates with the wrong people (I made that mistake).
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@@MentisWaveyour adorably retarded
ThemTube deleting comments
You should make a “no step on snek” shirt.
The idea of someone holding a Free Palestine sign, someone who is allegedly mad about innocents dying, blocking an ambulance is quite an incredible thought.
Trying to explain austrian economics to the average portland/eugene resident is like trying to teach a cat to play the trumpet.
Challenge Impossible.
Was there vid about austrian economics? One dude in high school basically pulled me into it and I was quite a believer before I did some of my own thinking and now I don't know anymore.
@@MentisWave challenge accepted.
@@remuluson2904 what parts do you have doubts about, and why?
@@Ripa-Morameewhich one
You’re not wrong about passing as a lefty. I’m a bisexual conservative but I don’t tell people who are left that. They just assume since I’m LGB that I’m automatically a far leftist, so they’ll spill their guts on all of their views and (shocker) much of it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
No business in their right minds would want to invest in this city.
Anarcho-Tyranny and its consequences.
why are you in every single video that can be remotely considered right wing politics it makes me tremble in my boots im shaking dude im gonna die because of you im dead right now thanks for killing me
@@yeehawitshecrazyfrogys leftists who complain about "dominating right wing media that keeps popping up" be like:
The "rebel" leftists wont last 2 seconds without buisnesses to give them food
Hello my favourite terminally online turtle.
Trying to be a cop in Portland challenge (impossible)
We’re so close to a breaking point, where I live no one wants to be a cop anymore so they close down most stations at night to violent crime and they just come check it out in the morning.
@@nerdcorner2680 new Chaz (but this time in Portland) coming soon?
@@lautystrike1 lol I live near Pittsburgh, we’re absolutely gonna have something bad next time crap hits the fan with no cops
@@nerdcorner2680 holy cow is just my idea or the United States are getting worse every year?
@@nerdcorner2680the plan is for the state police to cover if they can. Problem is the grey gods are stretched too thin as is. I’m sure you heard they had to significantly drop their requirements
It is so bad how desensitized american cities are. 50 years ago it was a statewide shock if anyone was shot randomly, and now it happens 3+ times a day near the city I live in.
Random shootings are not normal,
Feeling unsafe walking down the street is not normal,
Everything being old and falling apart is not normal,
Hard drugs being done/sold on the street is not normal.
Yet people who live here will say that all is fine, or this is just how things are. That is the general sentiment of anyone I ask who lives here (or worse they are confused that I even bring this things up as being a problem)
it's the jews doing
Generational gaslighting. "Part and parcel."
Hive mind. Sad.
Exactly. I went to RUSSIА of all places, to normal cities, and I never saw homeless, violence, or random aggression... And I see this everyday in PHOENIX AZ.
@@bldontmatter5319 it’s almost like most of the Russia = Bad is just propoganda… (obviously they do have provable issues but it isnt a big scary demon hellscape we are told it is)
"Yes, I actually live here"
Sorry to hear that, lad
But the North Pacific USA is actually great if you stay out of the big cities.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714True, but the problem is that in order to live anywhere near the coastline, you have to live in a state that's run by Seattle, Portland, or the urban wasteland that is Commie-fornia.
@@nadrewod999 The capitols authority diminishes rapidly as you leave the city if rural people do not recognise its authority.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 100% When I was in Washington I loved the nature trails
@@Espanaer Who was the one who had the bright idea to name 2 same level administrative divisions by the same name? Took me a second to realize thinking - nature trails in a city??
19:39 - And here we see Canadian refugees fleeing from the tyranny of Trudolf Castreau...
Will the leafs admit they voted for the wrong guy?
@@HarenunHoppusStephen Harper was imperfect but competent but I guess a Guy saying " it's the current year" was something better.
And I say that as a Canadian.
@sebastianmunozochoa1485 Stephen Harper could perform basic math and basic economic theory which Trudeau seems to lack. Fitting considering he was a theatre kid.
There is no any tyranny I can see… I mean, if you are free to criticize a countries leader within their own country and can openly can do so without the secret police knocking on your door; they aren’t a Tyrant. Now, I know Trudeau isn’t perfect, but a tyrant? Idk about that. Like, I do want some change but I don’t want to go around demonizing the other side of the isle so to speak.
what drives me nuts is that so many people here that I talk to would rather vote the Parti Quebecois/NPD/Liberal Party and keep regurgitating mainstream news point when I try to talk to them about what is currently happening in government, so much so that I am going to dedicate a decent chunk of my 20's studying to get a green card to get US residency since at the very least the US has a basis for individual rights unlike here
If only people cared about the border as much as they care about some conflict in the other side of the world.
They only care about looking good instead of being good
My fucking joke is “you don’t see people in the Middle East or abroad protesting healthcare costs or workers rights in America.
Why the fuck are we always protesting on their behalf??!!”
@@thegreatandmightyseff7214Socialists summed up.
If people's concern about the conflict in Israel is based on an understanding of Abrahamic eschatologies, I think that makes sense. But most people care bc they have been told to
You can care about multiple things at a time. Russia invading another sovereign nation is complete bullshit no matter your reasoning. Seriously
Being fair, the media ignoring the Libertarian party is for the better given how bad they make libertarianism look with their consistent bad takes and shilling for the CCP.
Libertarian parties have been taken over by the black-hole brain Ancap types ever since the Tea Party of the Obama era died off.
I think the true litmus test for libertarians is disliking the libertarian party. I think even so-called "left wing socialist libertarian" types could agree even though I think they're living a life of contradictions.
@@urphakeandgey6308 Not if their express purpose is deregulation and lowering the tax burden on people.
But those are typically not going to be the tenets espoused by the final contenders, unfortunately…
@@urphakeandgey6308left wing socialist libertarians. What an oxymoron. Socialist identify as everything but what they are. Stupid
Is it because they want the USA to keep trading with China like it was before and be totally dependent on them regardless of the consequences because “muh free trade” and GDP, while looking at no other pros and cons?
Reasons to support mentiswave on kofi:
1. The wrong reason:
"I wan't to support his channel monetarily."
2. The right reason:
Since he gives me entertaining content and I give him back nothing, Were technically in commensalistic symbiosis, and that reminds me of communism, which is cringe.
Based AF, but i dont have mony
“If the product is free then you are the product”
@@thegreatandmightyseff7214 print some dummy
@@BB-st2zzmoney printer and launderer go BRRRRRRR
Counterpoint: by not fiscally rewarding him while consuming the products of his labor, I'm basically winning at his expense in a post-darwinian struggle to collect not just genetic success but to hoard all that has value.
I don't think Rand is an ideal "wake up" for anyone, right or left. There are more intellectually disciplined writers and philosophers who advocate for individualism.
True, but she's the most widespread. Most anyone who has looked beyond the mainstream of politics has stumbled upon her at some point.
@@jgrif7891 Rand was an immoral and dishonest woman.
The deal is, Rand wrote many of their books after living a transition similar to the one we are having. This is because Rand used to live in Russia before the takeover of the communists.
Her writings are a combination of her philosophy, with a more, dare I say, "relatable" environment in regards to the individuals that surround us. It isn't perfect, but it's hard to read her writings about leftists and not feel she's speaking about someone currently alive today.
Rand is a lousy writer & her philosophy isn't something that could realistically be applied to the real world. Rather than promoting Rand, I'd much rather promote people like Thomas Sowell or Milton Friedman who had simple, clear explanations of why socialism fails.
I feel like, despite the ideology being based on rationalist thought and, y'know, intelligence and stuff, there's a whole lot of the left tail of the IQ distribution on the libertarian right.
A lot of them aren't really libertarian - they only dislike the government because they disagree with its actions; they're perfectly fine with overbearing state authority if they agree with the actions such a state would take. "Well, I don't like gays, so the government legislating against them is fine with me." "You shouldn't be able to own an AR-15 anyway." "I back the blue."
Now, infighting is still pointless, and they could certainly pick worse beliefs. Good to have a place where they can actually learn the meat and potatoes behind an often grossly misunderstood/oversimplified ideology.
And people who subscribe to an ideology they fundamentally misunderstand are poor ambassadors for that ideology. Someone who knows what they're talking about (or sounds like it) can pick them apart, usually on some mainstream media outlet, and the normies who don't understand either side will go with the guy who sounds smarter.
Thank you for feeding us with content, Papa mentis
You're welcome, Chad early commenter!
man thats terrible, almost as terrible as not having a
gun-rights video
jej
holy shit i love firearms
Same
@@satagaming9144 This is so fucking poggers guys!!!
Guns suck, and are nowhere near as good as Americans propagate them to be. But Americans have built such a large culture around it that removing them now would be a net negative
In regard to BoomerLibs, most of them are living fairly comfortable and therefore aren’t really threatened or concerned with a lot of things discussed by everyone else.
After all, none of them will ever live to see when their liberal state becomes authoritarian or they’re secure enough to own their own home and not be faced with renting the rest of their lives. Many of them don’t actually live in crime ridden areas and therefore don’t deal with addicts and derelict camper dwellers making neighborhoods unsafe.
Talking with them about these issues is naturally going to go nowhere when they’re this insulated.
Adding to this:
Most of them own a home which has tripled or more in value & they are in that sweet spot of paying off their mortgage & full retirement. They are the last generation that has truly been able to live a full life in the American Dream, so why would they need to see beyond their own fruitfulness?
@@S_raB even better when most of the democrat politicians they’ve elected have systematically increased inheritance taxes to the point where generational wealth will die with them in order to benefit property management firms.
I know this isn’t a libertarian thing to say but fuck HOAs. It’s my property, I don’t give a damn about your BS organization that’s designed to tax income from property ownership. But lord knows, boomers hate it when you suggest dismantling HOAs and lowering inheritance taxes.
Sounds specifically like my mom. She complains a lot about how there are too many white people in her beautiful, safe, upper-middle class city. The family home was sold and her and my dad are set to comfortably retire while taking two vacations per year.
Life is Strange and its consequences were disasterous for an entire generation of Portlandians
😭😭😭
Zero state solution.
based
Bro thats radical. How too fix s state 1. Elect a good government or 2. DESTROYING THE FLIPPING GOVERMENT. What the hell
SHUT IT DOWN
@MentisWave As much as I'm in agreement with most of everything you've said on here, and overall, you're right on the numbers for most things but with all due respect your civil rights take is severely flawed and bad PR. Minorities generally have lower quality of life across the board, and you saying that there's no bias is just crazy when things like red lining exist. It serves no benefit to the cause, and is just gonna get you called a racist.
@@rogerkeleshian2215 I also disagree with it, but more along the lines of the fact that there's only 1 grocery store in my town, and if people of a certain ethnicity or background were blanket banned from the store, I think that people would starve to death or otherwise have undue change forced upon their life. (A lot of these people don't have vehicles, so they couldn't go to the next town- next nearest grocery store is 20 miles away).
Sure, the store would lose out on business from those people that they excluded. But what if they would actually gain more business by attracting more customers to the store based on the fact that certain groups aren't allowed to shop there? Ultimately I think taking a stance in favor of legal discrimination doesn't actually solve any meaningful practical issues with the world, it would make life worse for many if actually realized, and in general advocating for the position is an optics nightmare due to the fact that the first assumption people will make is that you're a racist trying to pass laws that will allow you to discriminate against minorities.
The Socialist thinks they're so smart but, they can't even do a funny haha.
Portland, here in Oregon, is the real-world equivalent to the Divide in Fallout New Vegas.
SO TRUE
cringe troon game
That’s offensive to how civilized The Divide is
Bear and bull
The marked men are the homeless junkies and the young scholars
I was in Portland in October of 2023. I had just got out of boot camp, and my uncle lived there, and I promised I was gonna visit him. And I rented a truck, and I went downtown, and it didn't look so bad, and I was surprised that is wasn't like a zombie apocalypse you found some of the portland stereotypes but nobody messed with me and the people were pretty chill. And I was overall floored with how I thought I would be and how it was. I enjoyed my time in Oregon, and I didn't just stay in the city. I went out a little into the country, and I my jaw was on the ground with how pretty it was. I see why my uncle moved there and lived there until his death.
I was also there last year and saw only few weird stuff like a convience store where the shopkeeper manually had to open the door before you went in and bought stuff.
RIP to your uncle.
It's the contrast against what it was like 2 years ago or three. It is gone so far downhill so fast. If you're in downtown Portland late at night none of the ladies with you feel safe. You can't use the sidewalks without having to step around somebody or a pile of their crap.
It was a much much nicer town pre covid, everything went to shit in 2020. I used to work in the northern industrial sector from 2020-2021 and even there it was bad. Homeless camps stretched for 4 or 5 blocks, lots of businesses and houses in disrepair, drug zombies everywhere harassing people. I nearly got mugged 3 times in different spots, and I didn't even live in the city.
Point being yeah it's not super bad now, but those few years of pandemic gave Portland the terrible reputation it has today.
@@Xbalanque84 thank you he is in a better place
The biggest wound, in my view, was the reaction during covid.
It made me realize 90%, would support any authoritarian command. Without question.
If the people in the right position told them too. And they still do not seem to have realized this.
That's because 90% of people weren't meant to be anything more than servile slave caste.
People prefer controlled peace over chaotic freedom.
Ok thats a low blow
Many of the things that came to combat covid made sense like quaratine or wear a facemask.
Sure if the others also believed that freeing every prisoner cause it was glogging up the prison ye if they believed that was a good idea then its definitly a stupid shit
Other then that most made sense even for me. But then again i live in holland and im not nearly as bitter as americans at nowadays america
@@beerten202 But they did not do any of that rational.
Face mask, is to prevent you from infecting other, it does not prevent you from becoming infected. And of course, the mask we used would not work against covid.
Quarantine, would make sense, if they really did it. If the sickness was as bad as they first claimed.
But they kept the borders open for illegal migrants. They allowed people to break quaranti, when they where out demonstrating for BLM.
But shops was still closed.
Showing it was about controlling us not blocking the sickness.
And, we know all our politicians knew this was hoax. Both in Norway and in Britain, our prime minister got caught having private parties, while the normal people was prevented from family funerals.
@@beerten202Oh hey, look at that! It's one of the 90% who can't think for themself
As another libertarian that lives in the Portland Metro area, this was a very amusing/cathartic video.
At one point during the "crazy period", I worked in Old Town (kinda part of downtown) and had to swim through tents, drug addicts with needless hanging out of their arms (not exaggerating), and mentally ill people yelling at you while defecating on the sidewalk.
The pandemic lockdowns, which were completely authoritarian and unnecessary, did have one benefit: I was able to transition to fully remote work and not have to go into Portland downtown anymore.
My mother is the Boomer Lib you described, she’s politically stunted.
God help her, _because no one else can!_
My own mom is millennial normie, She's in tune with all the woke shit, It sucks man, Tried to talk her out of it, she won't listen.
@@RileyLewis-j2wdon’t worry, she’ll change her attitude the second her dog water politics start affecting her way of life; ie Walmart leaves your town or you get burgled by the third world
@@_Code_3 I hate for it to have to come to that, But hey, Some of us have to learn the hard way.
My parents are both boomer libs. Well my dad is a boomer lib. My mom doesn't talk about her politics but she does whatever my dad does. That saying about scratching a liberal and finding a fascist is true though. If you press them on ANYTHING, you'll find out.
Literally driving to Portland as we speak, RUclips is listening to me again.
Good luck lol
Why would you do that lol
Tell us...How was it?
@@Will-zd2lj I stick to the yuppie parts these days were my grand folks are, not interested in being stabbed by the homeless. Definitely not a place I’d live, visit for a day and get some food sure.
@@MaximusOverhead You should spend more time in other areas so you can see for yourself. Portland is much better. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise.
I'm a Washingtonian, and I hate driving through Seattle and Portland with all the craziness. But I love Washington and Oregon, and how beautiful and majestic it's mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest.
I want to scream at every city person like Oddball:
"DONT YOU DIG HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS OUT HERE? WHY DONT YOU SAY SOMETHING RIGHTEOUS, AND UPLIFTING FOR A CHANGE?"
Cascadia truly is a uniquely beautiful region of the world. Would love to visit the forests and mountains there some day.
The people in those cities ruined it
Same story in Vancouver, BC. Every year the drug and random violence problem gets worse, and every year the same ideologues rally support for "harm reduction" because it's "just not been tried hard enough yet."
I just hate the whole "lets treat this struggling demographic like helpless fucktards" and having them rely on a government that is both incompetent and endlessly corrupt
I live in Upstate New York... you are right, it is like standing on the edge of the abyss.
lives in New York
has an eightpointed star pfp
it truly is nurgle all up in that bitch, isn't it? 😔
As a conservative in the Bay Area I feel your pain. The people here are either clueless or just stupid but the weather and my career keep me planted here.
same for them
you don't see much of this in places where there's actual winter lol
summertime the shitheads come out
Right????
It’s sad. My perception of Portland a decade ago was that it was liberal in the best way-a relaxed, accepting, artsy place. I hope the wound can be healed.
Yeah, it's the pParadox of Tolerance. "Live and let live" types are often easily overrun by radicals.
Leftists often like to cite it as a warning against the far right. But it applies equally to the far left.
A great historical example is Pennsylvania, particularly Philadelphia. William Penn founded the colony as a safe place for Quakers, one of the most liberal, tolerant Christian sects of the time. After returning to England to take care of some business there, he returned to Philadelphia to find it had become full of gamblers, drinkers, and prostitutes.
The liberal policies he'd instituted to protect Quakers, also protected all the people who wanted to partake in "sinful" activities and they'd flocked there from other colonies in order to partake in that lifestyle.
There is no good liberal way. It's all evil
That is always where it ends up. The "relaxed, accepting and artsy" are simply a seemingly benign symptom, but in reality they're a herald of the illness. Precisely these communities will act like the metaphor of the frog in increasingly heated water, if you just turn up the heat slowly, they won't notice a thing until they're boiled. They sympathise with people who would be banished from any reasonable society without understanding why they're outcasts, only having lived in a hugbox and never having engaged with the worst of society. Because the worst of society are often minorities, it's surely just the discrimination by the stuck-up people in other places, if you just receive them with a feel-good dance, everything will surely work out. If it doesn't, they simply weren't welcoming enough, it's surely those x-ist police officers who are at fault.
It's because the modern left are progressives, not liberals. They sell a story that we can build towards a utopia where everyone can relax and be happy. Only to use that vision as the carrot to lead the lemmings off the cliff
@@oliviastratton2169This is where culture has to do its job. The government can't take care of that
i grew up in the Seattle area and i only slowly recognized woke dishonesty. im ashamed because for so long i wanted to be woke, because i do believe in tolerance, kindness, and unconditional support to fellow human beings. so i tried to brainwash myself. but i never could, because i could not lie to myself. goodness does not exist outside of critical thinking, it actually exists within it. so i attempted arguments for woke beliefs but could never find a compelling answer to all the rational, logical faults with socialism, gender politics. wokeness makes you feel evil for doing the right thing. its next-level gaslighting...but the west coast has beautiful nature unlike anywhere else, so i don't think i'll ever be able to leave either ^^'
It can only exist in a bubble, like most ideologies it won't survive contact with reality. If you look at the history of mankind, you'll see why you shouldn't be tolerant of certain behaviour, how kindness can be repaid and that there are people who are simply beyond saving. If you look at the prison population today, you will see the exact same thing, the criminals won't even pretend to be remorseful because they won't get any meaningful punishment for what they've already done or what they're going to do once they're out, at least in Europe. They won't even get deported if they immigrated illegally, they'll only get a light sentence and soon be released upon the population again. Never give anything unconditionally to strangers.
Yeah, it haves probably the most beautiful mornings
Yeah, I'm a bit older, and so I'll be a "bleeding heart liberal" until the day I die. ...being that I was born & raised a 40min drive from San Francisco. Even though I understand NOW that the free market, and the traditional family model are the true saviours of humanity, and that gov't & collectivism are pure poison.
There's nothing wrong with being an altruist at heart.
As a former discord mod for Dev/SFO for a few years, the comment about him was pretty spot on, he sees the issues and has some pretty spot on takes on the social stuff, but has been pretty steadfastly center-left in everything else, sometimes stubbornly in a way that angers people. He's definitely good at getting everyone to have beef with him. Though honestly I can at least say that despite him being a bit of a dumbass sometimes, he has made a few really good videos, and he's a genuinely nice person to talk to otherwise though, he's even kept up and asked how i've been doing a few times since I left. His community is autism incarnate though, jesus christ. They were too exhausting to moderate.
Dear god, its a discord mod
@@timewarpdrive77 hey hey, former discord mod. I've reformed and recovered from my mental illness.
@@VarionusNW Well, good on you, lol
We need discord but with the level of censorship of 4chan. So the autism may be freed and the mods go from censors to rearguard battalions.
Free the shitpost! Free the brain!
@@VarionusNW Is there N-Step plan for recovering Discord mods as well?
17:38 Dev mentioned 🎉
Bay area has been getting progressively worse, but I'm happy Portlandia is healing
>progressively worse
This is a funny phrase now.
@@snipermagooheheh
Learning what taxation is like happened really fast with my best friend, he wasn't even a leftist but the millisecond he saw just how much the government steals from your wages, he immediately understood the line "Taxation is theft". Note, we're Canadian, so he lost a LOT of what his wages would have been.
Wake up guys Mentis has dropped
lol ok
As an avid outdoorsman and waterfaller, I appreciate the footage.
Better then the gaming background for sure.
Ah Portland, haven't visited in a decade specifically because of the behavior of the politicans and residents.
Use to be a nice place to visit.
BASED Rain Enjoyer.
rain enjoyers need constant validation to convince themselves that they're right
I love rain, but only when I’m indoors. I tend to only want Saturdays to be sunny since that’s the the only time I want to go outside on my own. I very much like to hear the rain fall on a cool afternoon.
Ah, a fellow rain enthusiast and sun hater! My kind of man. As a recent sub, I'll have to check out your backlog more extensively
Born and lived in Portland until 2015 and I followed some family that moved to Idaho. I went back to visit friends in 2022 and Jesus it felt like a completely different city. Good on you for sticking around, i miss it pretty often and i hope it gets better. It won't and i know that but i hope anyway.
Just earlier today I rewatched you other video about Portland. Now you posted a new vlog. I find this coincidence hilarious
My mom is "a boomer lib" :(
Can't refute anything I say when I try and show her that *all* the state media proxies (cnn, msnpc, fox, etc.) are either being disingenuous or flat out lying by providing evidence as well as walking her through the critical thought process of how their narrative almost always discredits itself if you don't let emotions cloud your judgement and apply a bit of logic.
She tells me that I'm the smartest person she knows, and has been telling me that for most of my life (I'm in my 40's).
Still can't accept that the mainstream news isn't a credible source of information. Still believes everything they say.
It's exasperating.
Part of the problem is that these people are kept angry and overly emotional by design - it clouds their judgement. You can't persuade them by appealing to reason - they aren't operating at that level because emotion is preventing it. So you have to figure out how to appeal to their emotions.
To people that do think logically and base their viewpoints on facts, this feels manipulative or likely to present a weak argument. You have to speak the language (figuratively soeaking) of the person you are conversing with. If they soeak facts and logic, you have to do likewise. If it is emotion you have to do the same. The extreme example of this is when one party chooses violence as the language of discourse; logic as well as emotion are worthless in defending your "position." You have to respond in kind.
As a fellow Portlandian, I salute you!
recently got diagnosed with erectile dysfunction, but your videos never fail to make me rock hard. thanks👍
NOWAY I feel the same way
"Babe, why did you put on videos about Austrian economics?"
"No reason"
A surprisingly popular comment!
One summer when I was very young, my family was traveling back to the US from Japan (where my dad was stationed), flying Space Available... which is a free way for military members and their dependents to fly on military aircraft, but you can only claim seats that are available (hence the name). This method of travel led to a lot of connections and huge "layovers" (i.e. several nights in hotels). On this particular summer, we came via Anchorage, then Washington (McChord AFB), on our way to California (Travis AFB). That stop in Washington... it stuck in my brain: the clean, clear air... the greenery... it felt like paradise.
Wanting to experience that again, I had the opportunity to visit a friend from college who moved out to Portland back in... I want to say I went in January 2008... we saw There Will Be Blood in a theater, so it must've been... anyway, it immediately won me over... it took me right back to that memory of Washington but with the additional appeal of things that only adults like: functional and affordable public transit, the coffee, the closeness to the ocean, the mountains... I wanted to move there. Then the housing market crashed, and I got stuck in a go-nowhere job, afraid I'd never find another job with my useless college degree.
Never could I have known at the time that a market crash would work out in my favor, as ever since, Portland was on a deep, deep decline... though in retrospect, even back then, the city had problems with drug use and homelessness... nowhere near as bad as things got, but still... my friend that I had gone to visit said I should stay away from Old Town. Anyway, I'll never forgive leftists for fucking despoiling the Pacific northwest... from Vancouver to Northern California, they've turned what should've been an outdoorsman's paradise into an utter dystopia.
Never forget, never forgive.
Portland is close to Seattle, where CHAZ/CHOP happened. Looks like it's not much different.
Sargon has a job posting with the Lotus Eaters.....in London.
Funny thing is, he also had the exact same job listing in Swindon launched at the exact same time, and stopped taking applications over a week ago.
As I run a live broadcast production company, I am very much qualified for the job.
But I am NOT moving to London.
Sargon is still trying to fill that position in London. A city with something like 30x the number of people in Swindon.
This should tell you everything you need to know about the Portland Effect, and that Austrian economics is undoubtedly 100% correct on the subject.
The thing about junkies is that they behave weirdly on drugs, so they wake up the next day, are emberassed and cope by taking more so they don't have to deal with thinking about it. They numb themselves.
Listen man, you wanna fix Portland? The solution is called TND.
Finally someone saying what needs to be said.
You sure it isn't TNT, lots of it?
@@IchCharacterDarn, beat me to t
Would that even fix Portland?
What's tnd
I honesty appreciate your channel a lot, has helped me contextualize a lot of ongoing economic issues. Even though I disagree with some of your social takes
I am not pro Palestinian, I am not pro Israel. I simply watch both sides carefully, for I am the watcher (Insert Marvel's what if reference here)
Personally, I'm anti-palestine. 🤷
I completely agree. While I would prefer that Israel wins (perhaps a religious bias considering islamic terrorism in my country and my Christian leanings), it really isn't my business. Whatever happens happens. Honestly, I want it all to be over with. This is one of the most boring political conflicts I have witnessed. War, death, lies...the usual.
I don't want to take a side, but one side is Islamic, continually acts in bad faith, refuses compromise, uses its own people as human shields, and is very loudly calling for the extermination of their opponents. And we've already saw what they're capable of on October 7. How can any sane, ethical person side with Hamas?
I don't want to take a side, but one side is [of the religion of pieces], continually acts in bad faith, refuses compromise, uses its own people as human shields, and is very loudly calling for the extermination of their opponents. And we've already saw what they're capable of on October 7. How can any sane, ethical person side with Hamas?
I don't want to take a side, but one side is [of the religion of pieces], continually acts in bad faith, refuses compromise, uses its own people as human shields, and is very loudly calling for the global [unaliving] of their perceived enemies. And we've already saw what they're capable of on October 7. How can any sane, ethical person not side _against_ [the H-men]?
Thanks for mentioning dev, i still listen to him a lot but it gets on my nerves how often he says something along the lines of "progressive policy bad, but anyone on the other side *also* bad so i can still be a centrist." Its quite common for him to have 10+ minutes of refuting progressive ideals, then just drop a "lmao right bad" and never elaborate.
When trying to convince people they are wrong or misinformed, you seemed to run into it already, will run into the backfire effect eventually
right wing people arent much better
@@stuartthegoose3386 right, left, center. Any beliefs deeply ingrained will still see the backfire effect
Thanks man, I recently found your channel and enjoy your content.
Thanks for taking the time
It's so incredibly comforting to find SANITY in this day and age. You're such a blessing to listen to you have no idea.
The west coast is a political thunderdome. Please, for the love the Lord, GET OUTTA THERE!!
You're my favorite e-famous influencer!
im a libertarian from Italy, a similar thing happen here about boomerliberal, and i Always say to look at Italy if u guys in america keep going this way
again, the PNW is very beautiful. I fully agree. I am just tired of the people culture.
It's rough being a conservative in Oregon. I grew up in Coos Bay and even though the rural areas are more moderate you still get screwed because Portland and Eugene have all the votes.
A lot of people don't understand politics for the same reason most people don't understand furry fandom, it's complicated, it's bullshit and it's disgusting. So they assume they can just be a passenger.
Letting a predominately furry government just do its thing wouldn't be that bad, at least it would be colorful and fun
I didn't know there were more people like me and you living in Portland.
I quite like the nature background footage, nice video
Always enjoy tuning in
Here's a fucking fact: untill the 2000's Jews used to live IN gaza, gaza had synagogues. If you ever think Palestine is a legit country, just remember what graves and monuments it's built upon and who built them.
Yes, there were illegal jewish colonial settlements until 2000s in Gaza, your point, 🤡?
That because israil told jew in gaza to leave Gaza.
Loving this frequent uploads
As a rightist in California: Can relate
Wow you really called me out lmao. I did indeed escape the matrix after I learned about economics and learned how contradictory my ideas were when I was a far leftist. I kinda just got caught in the wave as it were,especially since I was in college at the time lol.Another great vid like always!
Portland could totally be recovered. . . It would just require an increased 'Helicopter Budget'. So difficult line to cross.
Lol!!! ... "Not on fire that much anymore...". Hey, the bright side
Ooga booga
T R A N S L A T I O N
LOL THE TRANSLATION
@@thegreatandmightyseff7214 What do you mean the translation?
@@MentisWave Translation?¿
@@petapu if you hit "translate to English" it translates as "And praise him"
I’m in the same boat, born and bred in Vermont, one of the most blue states. Ive thought about moving somewhere cheaper and that has better morals, but this is my home, and it is beautiful, I will not abandon it. I was on the left not so long ago so I know there is hope. TRVMP 2024
Oh boy here we go!
I live in Portland, I’m actually hopeful things will start getting better. Repealed the drug decriminalization and got anew DA those are pretty big steps and it couldn’t have been done if there wasn’t a shift in attitudes by Portlanders since we pretty much vote in all the policy for the state. Aspects of it do really suck here but I haven’t wanted to move because that feels like ceding my hometown to the commies.
Guess The pee Falicestine movement Has unironically become The new Nootzi party
I like that you and Dev are both aware of how much your audiences overlap lol.
are those pictures from the portland area? very beautiful
"Went to Woodstock and never came back" is a hilarious description
i live in city center i often think about making a channel where i just walk around silently lol
I can appreciate how disturbing it can be to see someone in the throws of addiction. Speaking from my own experience; addicts who live on the streets often encounter violence, exchange of sex for drugs, dead bodies, and all manner of dark and disgusting things. However it is important to remember this is an actual person. That latina is someones daughter, sister, granddaughter, and was not always like that. Its shocking to see people have so little self respect or regard, but these people have lost hope in anything, but that brief chemical reaction that never surpasses the 1st time. If you dont feel comfortable interacting or acknowledging the most vunerable in our society. Just say a quick prayer for a brother or sister, and know it can happean to anyone.
Those guys are the very definition of "living in the moment". They follow current trend only care about what happens in current moment and what makes feel good, not thinking about the future or consequences of their actions.
It's just such a shame because oregon and the whole pacific northwest has such beautiful nature, and for some time I had always wanted to live there. But the politics of the people in the region would make it uninhabitable for me
I'd love to see you have a conversation with SFO
I'm from Idaho. and I came too portland not too long ago to see a concert with family
I actually often visit oregon with my family. it's just the newport/west coast area that me and my family often go. The only time i remember being in portland was 2 times.
one was when my brother screwed up and got us on the wrong turn. and we had to spend a long time in traffic(I remember we were singing the entire 'the wall' album while waiting)
second time was do too possible car issues and we had to turn to portland as a safer route(We often go on the mountain route past bend)
My family didn't want to stay in portland long so it was just there for one night. have dinner and breakfast. then we leave.
We made it to china town and got to the hotel. and got our stuff. When we went to diner we went to a nearby ramen place sense everything else was for some reason closed on that day
It was alright, But personally I feel like the people who ran it should probably add more filling's. Along the way the place felt more like a red light district. barred up/abandoned building's. broken atm machines. constant graffiti. strip clubs. and right next to it was the occasional nice hotel or restaurant. my mom decided to drop my brothers at a arcade and go back to the room(I couldn't join because i'm 19 and it's 21 only). While me and my mom where in our room I decided to turn on the tv sense i was bored and tuned on to Palestine protesters taking over a library. and a poll on if they should be forcefully removed(a huge amount of people surprisingly said yes). We got ready for the concert and went. And i got a general taste of the local's...and hmmm..several people next to us where talking about 'how to finger a girls ass'. One was extremely loud and annoying. And talked like a 'wacky' ubisoft character. During the account their sound system was crap. in fact similar to our's here where they rise the drum's way too high and you can barely hear the guitar. One of the girls seemed to didn't know if she was in a rave. a club or a metal concert. kept dancing. flipping her hair and didn't have a single concept of personal space and kept stomping on my brother foot. My mom also left to get a whisky and coke at the bar(back issues) and was shocked to learn that you can't even be on the lower floor when drinking. Which is way more restrictive then anything we have here surprisingly enough. The concert was over and along the way we saw someone who pick their tent spot in the middle of the road...for some reason(forgot to mention. my brother saw human feces while walking back from the arcade)
we all vented at our issues with the city for the night and went to bed. During the morning we walked to a nearby cafe for breakfast. it was actually quite good. Got a mexican coke. good waffles. and a overall decent breakfast. and we processed to leave. As we were getting in. we saw someone who was just staring into the road. no one around. not even holding a phone and yelled "WHO THE HELL SAID MY NAME?". we all quickly got in the car and leaved as soon as possible
It was interesting experience. certainly made me feel better about my home. and i certainly didn't hate the place as much compared to my family. sense i kinda don't mind the occasional weirdo(unless they're on drugs) or the graffiti. But it was definitely not great. and i probably wouldn't want to go again. And it was odd to see a place that decriminalized all kinds of drugs be so strict on stuff like alcohol. more then it is here. It was funny getting back to Boise and noticing just how much of a difference it was
i'm stuck in california. i HATE the climate here. the way you describe it, i'd probably be no worse, and at least a bit better over there than here, but i stay here because my family comes from a long line of san franciscans (as in born in san fransisco, who would willingly live over there nowadays?) from back when california could have been considered "ancapistan". plus, the state of jefferson isn't as bad as the rest of this hellhole, and i can at least pretend i'm not in the same state as the dumbasses, but whenever i have to go to the leftist strongholds, i feel a part of myself dying.
Maybe someday the insane policies of Commie-fornia will go far enough beyond the Overton Window for the normies to wake up, reject all the Marxist weirdos running the state into the ground, elect some people with some common sense, and start dismantling the authoritarian state that the leftists have been turning California into for the past few decades.
I can't predict if that will actually happen or when the state might become reasonable to live in again, but I can hope...
- fled California in the early 2000s, been a proud #FloridaMan for the past 20 years.
Pray for us please. Its hard to live/work here. I love this place but its hard to she what she's become.
I live near(ish) Portland, and I hate going there every time I have to. Especially since I have to pass through downtown
I remember my dad shedding a tear when he saw what Portland turned into. He would frequent Portland back in the 80’s and said it was the greatest city
Those people don't even know the first thing about our conflict yet they think their opinion matters
and yours does?
@@stuartthegoose3386 i live in israel smartass a democracy we choose the leaders this alone is more impact over this conflict then any braindead leftie can make
@@stuartthegoose3386 yes i thought i made it pretty clear that i live in israel
I live in Portland and 100% agree with this take on the city and its people right now. Also, nice winter shots of Latourell Falls!
PHYSICALLY REMOVED!
If you could Mentis, either include on your next sub question video or possibly do a video refuting "Muh late stage capitalism" and "state capitalism" nonsense terms that I see commies constantly making. That would be quite helpful and much appreciated.
may aswell burn down the entire concept of hyperbolic statements that draw things to their most extreme conclusions that are not an actual reality (nor do they really follow) , to basically act as an appeal to emotion.... fearmongering
it's the modus operandi for all these radicalized assholes
it's the same method used by climate alarmists or population control wackos
everybody knows there will be a breaking point where a population is no longer sustainable, but never ever do they tell anyone where exactly that point is... or what the ideal sweet spot would be, they do not quantify things for a reason... because they're full of shit and not acting in good faith, they don't have the numbers.
at least malthus had the balls to make quantified claims that were proven fucking wrong by modern agricultural advancements
Just tell them that Marx considered the 1880s and 1890s "late stage capitalism", that ought to shut them up.
LOLOLOLOL do some googling its not that hard to understand
Starting at 20:00, you describe perfectly the effect this "movement" has had on my life. It has been truly awful to experience. Great work.
Do these people even know who Amin al Husseini is? the grand mufti of Palestine?
and who he worked for in the 30s? why the war started?
(cant say no more, record time of 8 minutes after the previous ban for going too much into detail)
I dont know what you mean portlanders love national socialism
Auf de heide blüht won kleines blümelein
@@ZnamTwojaMama101 wtf does that even mean, is it an old saying?
@@SebastiansSebastian-fc4pj gratulation youre not bsnned, feel free to go into more detsils now
@@TheGahta tried that previously but it failed. I quite literally cant since youtube is so trigger happy to call history "Hate speech" against the worlds biggest slavers
Moved away after college in 2000. What a place Portland was in the 90's!
i live here too, moved from florida for cold weather, got familiar sights of crackheads, cracked up at a bad dragon sticker, than saw a walking dead esq scene of some paramedics trying to help someone OD'ing with 30-40 odd homless around the car shit didnt feel real lol
12:35 Holy shit, you just perfectly described my dad. He’s overall a great guy and I love him, but hearing him talk about current events is the most painful experience possible
I hope to attend university this year as an undergraduate in Politics. Does anyone have any advice for how to survive as a right-winger?
Don't go to a University in an extremely trashlib city.
No clue dude. Know a libertarian doing politics in the UK, gets actively failed for non left-wing arguments in essays (but will get a first for shilling, which he now does once he realised the game).
@@MentisWave Might as well stay in my hometown, then. Lmao. Keep up the good videos, btw.
@@mortuitissedai2085 I’m British myself (English).
@@_Imperium_7 Ah nice man. it's honestly not as bad as you'd think - I study in one of the universities that's considered very lefty, and there's problems, but mostly you can just chill and do your thing. Professors will probably be more of a problem for you with a politics degree, just find like minded students and don't get into debates with the wrong people (I made that mistake).
WE LOVE THIS CONTENT!
March on Brother!
Resident from Bend, Oregon here! We often consider Portland as Oregon’s mini California