This is some unscripted blog content that I felt like getting off my chest. Next video will be the breadtube episode on Adam Something and how breadtube spreads strawman arguments and disinformation in regards to right leaning ideology.
Innocent man trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare: "I didn't kill the victim your honor, I'm innocent" Crazy woke judge: "That's exactly what a killer would say" Imagine being so brain-rotted that they believe that defending yourself from an accusation is somehow proof that the accusation is valid, it's utter insanity.
It doesn't matter. They don't hold the same moral wievs as we do. They have a greater good. And if it means to be considered hypocrites by their enemies who they see ontologically evil, then so be it. They think we are evil and only evil so we deserve whatever they inflict upon us.
That's the basic problem with modern progressives. A lot of them don't understand or care about the fact that hypocrisy means admitting their beliefs aren't sound ( Hypocrisy almost always presents a "Special pleading" fallacy ). Also many of them legitimately don't understand that they are being hypocritical, because their understanding of different sides is too narrow for them to even begin to examine their beliefs from the standpoint of another for them to even recognize said double standards.
@@MentisWave That makes sense when some progressives are too stupid to understand, but you must also remember that some of them are driven by malice. Not all, but some.
I’m a libertarian that used to live in Beaverton. I moved to a small town after the riots. I got tired of people hating me because I had American flags (I spent 8 years in the Army) and because I like hunting. My neighbors thought I was racist, even though my gf at the time was not white. I got tired of dealing with those nut jobs.
I was living in the south side of Chicago during the BLM Riots in 2020 triggered by the George Floyd incident, I was able to witness some of it first hand from the comfort of my own home. I watched businesses owned by many races indiscriminately destroyed, and remember thinking how wild it is that these people think that such hate-fueled violence was going to help them reach their goal. As I was a defenseless minor at the time my mother swiftly preformed a tactical extraction and brought me to my grandparents house were we laid low. Thankfully our house wasn't hit and from what I heard the riots were swiftly pushed back from the area and I was able to return home after a night.
honestly, you must be extremely brave to go undercover in one of the protests. especially at night when they went violent. you deserve way more subscribers.
It's more confidence than bravery. I know for a fact that I can easily fit in with them. The key is recognizing the fact that most progressive leftists and even Antifa aren't actually "Bad guys™". Many are actually mostly good people. Their problem is that they are extremely gullible and easily manipulated by the establishment they think they are fighting against. So it's more of an issue of them having been brainwashed through group-think rather than them being "Evil™".
@@MentisWave being anti white and promoting transgenderism is as evil as it gets. More evil than communism. This is coming from an atheist. If you wanna see some of those anarchist idiocrats getting absolutely pulverised check out the short vid I have on my channel.
@@MentisWave"most are good people" will you still be saying that when they kick off the second civil war? Dude they're maoist communists; they'll kill you for any reason
they don't care about how big the government is, as long as it achieves their utopia. you seem to view fascism = big government (b is a main tenet to a, though it's not itself exclusive to it). in their eyes, every ideology that doesn't achieve utopia: is capitalism or fascism. try to understand where their generalisations are coming from. they see themselves as the resistance, so anything centre or right wing belongs to a monolith instead of different groups.
You deserve waaaay more subs. A guy who goes out and reports on his own investigation is better than a hundred RUclips channels that just react to Tweets and curated news items. 2:05 "Got the heck out of there" Yep. The Left owns the streets. Fighting them on their turf is foolish. Rittenhouse even said if he had to do it all over again, he'd have stayed home. Which brings me to: 3:23 "It really doesn't take much brain power to pretend to be one of them." One of the mistakes of the Right makes is that they think the malicious elements on the Left are also hyper-competent. Nope. Ideological rage blinds them. To fight them, find the blind spots and make the rubble bounce. 6:20 "The vast majority of people on the Left are not this crazy." I agree, but will add that every ideology is subject to a variation of Dollar Auction theory. Namely, since the shrillest voices get control of the microphone, and hence set the agenda, there is irresistible incentive to up the bid in extremism. In short, the nuts eventually call the tune and everyone else must dance or be purged. This is why censoring even the hardest Right voices on social media is a disaster. There's no strong base (see what I did there?) to neutralize the strong acid. Keep up the good work.
you know how a certain hero beat the dragontooth warriors right he threw a gem in the midst and they tore themselves apart something simalr might work on one shortsided as those folk
Even at my furthest left point in my life I had a simple view on why you should listen to the Right. "Sometimes the Right is correct. Even when they aren't they have a point."
I can bear witness that generally Portland people are extremely nice. I visited the city in 2015, and the first person I met accidentally turned out to be I think the manager of the airport. When he found out I was in IT, he immediately asked me if I was looking for a job, gave me his card and said call me if you like. They also are extremely naive, as we can see nowadays
@@tau-5794Portland is essentially antifa hq, so yeah. Most portlanders are your average progressive liberal but they don't wanna stand up to the commie types.
9:01 I have a friend who is like this and our actual irl friendship is decently strong so we usually agree to disagree, it's a weird form of terminal online syndrome I think and I don't know how to really talk about it with them (in a way I think leftoids feel almost the same way when I read pearl clutching articles about their sons or brothers or boyfriends being radicalized by the right wing youtube algorithm or whatever)
Well silicon valley forcibly got rid of the anything remotely right wing getting major traction and instead gone the other way. The only standard the left knows is a double standard. Jokes aside I feel for ya, my best friend growing up and best man at my wedding told me after Jan 6th that all Republicans who voted for trump are complicit in a coup attempt. I told him we can still be friends but we can't talk politics anymore due to his radicalism.
Just abandon them. They are parasites by choice, not biology. They need no sympathy. Bitter medicine is better than the sweet poison they are hooked on.
A totally free market _would_ _be_ "racist" in the modern sense of equality of outcome due to innate and cultural group differences. But to achieve genuine equality of outcome in a country like America, you'd have to crush the top down to the point where it becomes a third-world hellhole (because ethnic pluralism makes the variance between the top and the bottom ridiculously large). I suspect that only psychopaths would rather live in a country where everyone suffers equally under third-world living standards than navigate the harsh, Darwinist free market (and I'm not even a free market absolutist -- not by a long stretch). Genetic determinism is a harsh mistress and one of the reasons I'd never advocate intentionally creating a pluralistic society -- but once you've got one, you're kinda stuck with all the difficulties and "unfairness" that entails. Conservatism is (or, at least, should be) all about trying to work within the unavoidable hierarchies that nature has created, rather than waging an endless and unwinnable war against them (to be fair, I suppose modern liberalism does have a victory condition, but it's only achievable when every single person is as poor, stupid, and broken as the most poor, stupid, and broken person in society -- which, when you put it honestly, doesn't sound like a victory at all).
It seems that you purposefully ignore the fact that many "innate" differences are practically almost forced upon some groups, like for example the Black community in the USA, considering that they spent approximately 300 years in slavery, in which a certain kind of picture about the black community was pushed to external world by people who mastered the lives of black people, and after the emancipation, when Sherman's 100 acres and a mule plan was vetoed, that very plan would have given the blacks their own means to control their lives, but no, they were forced by conditions to stay where they had been slaves, but only for a meager pay, and after when the northern units left, the black population was swiftly removed from all places of political control and voting rights practically eliminated in some places, until the 1970's. When you are treated like a monster for centuries, no wonder you slowly start to believe it and think you must do what you must do to survive, that whatever you have, let it be family or property, had been taken away during centuries by their "masters". So don't wonder why some peoples "innately" avoid working, it is generally because even if they would want to, nobody would hire them and nobody would do stable business with them because the stigma the group has for generally very stupid or downright evil reasons. I am an European by the way and with this I'm referring to the Roma people, so you can't use that against me by claiming that I have double standards (as many Americans nowadays do, that's why I use this argument). I am not a BLM supporter, by a long shot, but I am not a right-wing pseudointellectual either, who only blames everyone for being biased, while relying mainly on sources that already agree with them. Conservatism generally aims to enforce unnecessary hierarchies, by promoting anti-trade union activities and overall delegating societal improvement to people themselves as long as they don't threaten the status quo. Funnily enough, if the people themselves want to oppose the hierarchy, they are crushed through legislative or directly violent means, and propaganda is made out of them as they threaten the status quo. If you think that the current system is what the left wants, you are a fool, as economic stability is weakening and access to stable life is prevented as it is not lucrative enough. Making everyone equally poor and dumb only benefits the business owner, as when you are poor, you have no other options and when you are dumb, you have no insight of what could be, which is what the corporate world wants. You can blame the left all you like, but the fact is that nothing has been achieved, the economy is the basis of all and as long as the current system where business dominates the world through legislation and violence through it's paradigm, nothing is really going to change.
I tried commenting on your post in Black and Gold but it wouldn't let me. : How about mental health check? It seems a lot of leftists love to be victims and have an overwhelming amount of mental health issues. Did you find this to be true?
It's true, but it wasn't always this way. Victimhood has become a progressively worse problem the more they focus on identity politics, as they are psychologically incentivized to make themselves a member of a victim group.
@@MentisWave Agreed. And Most therapists love victimizing their patients too, then they medicate their victims, and don't tell them that personal accountability is the solution to most of their problems.
@@MentisWaveI'm pertually perplexed by wondering if it's weak envious flawed people seeking out these Cults or that the beliefs of these Cults induce so much Cognititive Dissonance that they devolve in mental problems because of the induced stress.
@@MentisWaveBut what else they have than identity politics? When they try to make economic change, people die in strange circumstances, get politically outmaneuvered by government-business alliance and get outpropagandized by them. Name-calling seems to be your main strategy and makes me really question your assumed intellectuality of which you seem to champion yourself for.
Great analysis. I'm in the PDX area too and I've noticed these trends as well. Something I haven't been able to answer is why the neoliberal MSM in service to the state. How would you answer this? Do you think MSM acts to further statist interests because it happens to serve its own (greater viewer interaction thus more profits), or is there a more ulterior motive? I understand the undercurrent well enough, but to be I haven't been able to argue cohesively without being dismissed as a complete conspiracy theorist.
The MSM and the State have a revolving door relationship for which there is verifiable evidence of on Opensecrets. No one tries to contest the data there, but the problem is the Media of course never talks about it which means the average normie will often think it's a conspiracy theory even though it's not.
@@hughjass9656 An Example would be www.opensecrets.org/orgs/at-t-inc/summary?id=d000000076 and then scroll down to "revolving door" as well as looking at everything else. Alternatively I did a video about it: ruclips.net/video/fRsx1YKJfR8/видео.html
It's fundamentally an issue Aldous Huxley predicted in Brave New World Revisited in 1958. The nature of the expense of Television and need to use Public Air Waves makes for a situation where Television was controlled by a small number of entities, which makes them particularly open to Capture. The Internet created a hole in this, which caused it to start actively breaking circa GamerGate causing the Media types to drop their masks and start just doubling down.
Much love and sympathy from a like minded neighbor similar range from downtown. Never thought I'd watch urban decay in my life when I moved here in '07.
I've seen someone post a chart about how left-wing ideology by definition is for maximal freedom while right-wing ideology is inherently authoritarian. So, yeah, it fits with what you are saying here.
I imagine once I have his episode of RB out within the next 1~4 weeks or so ( Working on two videos at the same time right now ) they will find their way.
Im from Southern Oregon and ive only been to the Portland area a handful of times in my life since its do far away. Portland doesn't feel like Oregon to me. Its so different from everywhere else in the state.
2:26 used to live near portland around this time and while these riots were going on I just never went downtown, heck my house nearly got burned down because a homeless camp started a fire and all the nearby fire fighters were downtown because of the riots.
Thank you for your content, it has helped me relax and better understand my opposition rather than write them all off as crazy extremist. I lived in Oregon for a few years and loved it for it's beauty and weather, although legalizing marijuana as a recreational drug didn't really do the community any favors. However Portland was a creepy weird experience, even before chaz and the summer of love. I went there to visit their famously overrated Voodoo Donuts shop. The streets were trashed and smelled like wet garbage, parking was outrageously priced, we were accosted by drug addicts and our car got vandalized. Maybe I was unlucky or my expectations were too high.
When I first moved to Oregon in 2010, I was struck by how clean and nice Portland was. I remember seeing the streets near Pioneer Square being so clean that you could almost eat off them. No broken glass, no needles, no litter. Definitely no homeless camps and graffiti everywhere. But things started to change in 2012 after the Occupy movement died down. That was when the homeless camps started. That's when the streets started to get trashed. That's when the city leadership began giving into unreasonable demands. By 2018 it was hopeless.
I found this out a year ago. I joined reddit and it had no idea what my politics were so it put me in all the groups I disagree with. It's still like that lol it hasn't learnt. But I got to experience this and they do not want to know what your beliefs are :/ It's tricky. I stopped trying to explain because they get mean and sarcastic, they would rather tell me what I believe. Weird, this is probably half because it's reddit. Reddit sucks I avoid it at all costs.
Great video! I'm actually moving to Portland soon for a new job. Would you recommend living across the river in Vancouver for tax reasons? I'm a bit worried about the commute to downtown Portland though (not the traffic but genuine safety, downtown Portland seems pretty lawless).
Portland has gotten slightly better, the daily riots are over and a lot of the plywood is gone last time I was down there. And I do know some people live in Vancouver but shop in Oregon for tax purposes ( Oregon has no sales tax ), but I have never lived in Washington myself.
I know that the term “civil war” is thrown around a lot, but it’s hard to imagine any other outcome when one side doesn’t accept the other as legitimate. If only one side merely disagrees without calling the other the worst adjectives they can muster, that’s not enough. You can’t have peace when only one side wants it.
The saddest thing is that many of them will never realize that they are just how ignorant they truly are. Most dying a useless death for people that ultimately see them as tools. Instruments for whatever special interests need them at the time.
Spent nearly a year in a shelter downtown back in '03 (litteraly 100' from O'Bryant Park). Everything you described attitude wise was already there back then, it just hadn't lit off yet.
i went to one “fuck trump” rally when he was speaking in my city. Messed me up real bad. being exposed to so much blatant hate totally warped me. I did a full 180, and while im thankful i saw the light, im also scared to death of it because it wasnt ever addressed and was allowed to flourish.
I went and watched that "right libertarians are just fascists" video from Adam something and his point was basically personal responsibility leads to more oppression of non whites and instills white nationalism. He instead tries to say that the only answer to poverty is for the government to give you handouts. But I think he fails to realize that government handouts encourage people to remain in their current state as to keep collecting the money that the rest of the working class is working to make only for the government to give it to the ones wanting handouts. Personal responsibility on the other hand makes you reflect on your current condition, think of how you can improve said condition, then strive to pull yourself up out of the mud and to prosper on your own terms. He also tries to make a point about free markets that says that your boss at work can control your life and yheres bothing you can do about it. But he also doesn't realize that the employee can just leave and go work for someone who will treat them better. When enough people follow suit, that initial boss's company will go under and guess what? Problem solved. The free market heals itself.
Though that's based on extremely naive thinking that such a thing as business culture does not exist, that the position of a boss is the kind of where certain kinds of people generally reach it, those being ruthless or workaholic (or both) and overall toxic people for those who work for them. Under conditions where they have the capital and the means to create value, while most of the average folks don't and they need to be housed, fed and kept warm enough, and if they do something out of their own initiative the police will shut them down for socialism, they have no other options but to suffer under those bosses until the day comes, where they'll have more control over their lives and the corporate police society.
I used to live in Portland, OR and FINALLY got an opportunity to leave. I really like the city. It's very pretty and being able to see it from Pittock Mansion is honestly a really beautiful sight. There's a lot of good food in Portland and, after that, there's nothing. The people ruin every single other thing there possibly could be about Portland. I had to grow up around these people and the level of arrogant ignorance was insane. Lambasted for saying things like "abortion may not be the good thing they thought it was" or "its OK to be white" was stuff that had to be dealt with by me or my friends and it all seems to come from an insecurity about their parents. They were claiming "I don't think like my parents. I'm cool" which is funny, considering some of us (me), knew their parents views on things were the exact thing they were saying. I really liked growing up there but as soon as I got to high school, things changed a lot and they made it permanent when the riots happened. I miss my home but they killed it and rotted its core so deeply that I am unsure how well they can make it recover. I hate the idea of leaving your home to go somewhere else because things can't get better without good people and my family is so ingrained in Portland that the high school I went to has a lot of my family in their hall of fame but those schools really just went down hill. I see no possible way to raise a kid there anymore. I got to witness people get murdered there right around the time I left. My older brother physically attacked me because he thought me saying polyamory was a bad idea made me sexist and abusive. Mentis, if it's possible, try to get away from there. Get far away
17:17 To my understanding (regarding what I have researched), Thomas Hobbes wasnt really a conservative figure, considering that at the time he was vehemently opposed by people who said that everyone who believed into true morality and religion should oppose Thomas Hobbes, and he opposed the power structures at the time, specially regarding the church, not to even mention that he was one of the first to present the social contract theory, which is something the statist conservative right and libertarian right really do not agree on, atleast on paper, as he, if I read correctly, said that a powerful state is needed so that people wouldnt become animals, very conservative, very statist, and not very libertarian. I know what youre overall aiming at there but in the end, Rand and Hoppe are both much more on the right than Hobbes was.
I went to some of those protest too, but I was among the patriot prayer group. watching people protesting against, what was honestly a very simple/peaceful group, was insane to watch. There was maybe 200~300 of us in the center, with 2 separate groups of about 200~ on the either side who were various groups of midwits (some workers union retards and some animal rights group who align with the left) but then the crazier thing was on the 3rd side of the park.... somewhere close to 1200 antifa people who were beyond violent and were even fighting amongst themselves. That animal rights group should have focused on antifa honestly, cause I saw was crammed together wild animals who clearly can't handle the conditions they're living under, lol with that said I left the Portland Area for a more rural city about 5 years ago, and no way I'll ever go back
Hey brother, I go to college in Seattle and completely understand. If you reply to my comment I’d love to share social media or something. I find myself down in the Portland area sometimes :)
This is some unscripted blog content that I felt like getting off my chest. Next video will be the breadtube episode on Adam Something and how breadtube spreads strawman arguments and disinformation in regards to right leaning ideology.
"Im not a part of the Proud Boys."
Exactly what a Proud Boy would say. We got him Boys.
Is this a joke
@@lbgamer6166yes
We got him PROUD boys
Innocent man trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare: "I didn't kill the victim your honor, I'm innocent"
Crazy woke judge: "That's exactly what a killer would say"
Imagine being so brain-rotted that they believe that defending yourself from an accusation is somehow proof that the accusation is valid, it's utter insanity.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've got him.
The irony of calling everyone who disagrees with you bigots, when bigotry is defined as an intolerance of dissenting views.
It doesn't matter. They don't hold the same moral wievs as we do. They have a greater good. And if it means to be considered hypocrites by their enemies who they see ontologically evil, then so be it. They think we are evil and only evil so we deserve whatever they inflict upon us.
That's the basic problem with modern progressives. A lot of them don't understand or care about the fact that hypocrisy means admitting their beliefs aren't sound ( Hypocrisy almost always presents a "Special pleading" fallacy ). Also many of them legitimately don't understand that they are being hypocritical, because their understanding of different sides is too narrow for them to even begin to examine their beliefs from the standpoint of another for them to even recognize said double standards.
@@MentisWave That makes sense when some progressives are too stupid to understand, but you must also remember that some of them are driven by malice. Not all, but some.
@@TheNamelessScholarOfficialits much simpler. Leftists are close to primative savages that realy entirely on tribalism
@@MentisWaveNo, they're just evil brother.
They absolutely fail the ideological Turing test.
I’m a libertarian that used to live in Beaverton. I moved to a small town after the riots. I got tired of people hating me because I had American flags (I spent 8 years in the Army) and because I like hunting. My neighbors thought I was racist, even though my gf at the time was not white. I got tired of dealing with those nut jobs.
Idk if you moved to Carlton or not but they’re so based down there. Love my boys from Carlton.
I was living in the south side of Chicago during the BLM Riots in 2020 triggered by the George Floyd incident, I was able to witness some of it first hand from the comfort of my own home. I watched businesses owned by many races indiscriminately destroyed, and remember thinking how wild it is that these people think that such hate-fueled violence was going to help them reach their goal. As I was a defenseless minor at the time my mother swiftly preformed a tactical extraction and brought me to my grandparents house were we laid low.
Thankfully our house wasn't hit and from what I heard the riots were swiftly pushed back from the area and I was able to return home after a night.
Ngl that's traumatic af
They think we are evil. We think they are wrong. Best way to sum up both sides.
honestly, you must be extremely brave to go undercover in one of the protests. especially at night when they went violent. you deserve way more subscribers.
It's more confidence than bravery. I know for a fact that I can easily fit in with them. The key is recognizing the fact that most progressive leftists and even Antifa aren't actually "Bad guys™". Many are actually mostly good people. Their problem is that they are extremely gullible and easily manipulated by the establishment they think they are fighting against. So it's more of an issue of them having been brainwashed through group-think rather than them being "Evil™".
@@MentisWave being anti white and promoting transgenderism is as evil as it gets. More evil than communism. This is coming from an atheist. If you wanna see some of those anarchist idiocrats getting absolutely pulverised check out the short vid I have on my channel.
@@MentisWaveThat's a very mature way of looking at them.
@@MentisWave"most are good people" will you still be saying that when they kick off the second civil war? Dude they're maoist communists; they'll kill you for any reason
I do some irl outreach stuff in my city, and so many of these people have absolutely no ability to hear what I say without inserting phobias and isms.
Why are you wasting your effort on people who think like that?
People need to know there’s a way out. Outreach doesn’t discriminate, it’s not transactional. That’s why it’s called “Outreach”
they don't care about how big the government is, as long as it achieves their utopia. you seem to view fascism = big government (b is a main tenet to a, though it's not itself exclusive to it). in their eyes, every ideology that doesn't achieve utopia: is capitalism or fascism. try to understand where their generalisations are coming from. they see themselves as the resistance, so anything centre or right wing belongs to a monolith instead of different groups.
You deserve waaaay more subs. A guy who goes out and reports on his own investigation is better than a hundred RUclips channels that just react to Tweets and curated news items.
2:05 "Got the heck out of there"
Yep. The Left owns the streets. Fighting them on their turf is foolish. Rittenhouse even said if he had to do it all over again, he'd have stayed home. Which brings me to:
3:23 "It really doesn't take much brain power to pretend to be one of them."
One of the mistakes of the Right makes is that they think the malicious elements on the Left are also hyper-competent. Nope. Ideological rage blinds them. To fight them, find the blind spots and make the rubble bounce.
6:20 "The vast majority of people on the Left are not this crazy."
I agree, but will add that every ideology is subject to a variation of Dollar Auction theory. Namely, since the shrillest voices get control of the microphone, and hence set the agenda, there is irresistible incentive to up the bid in extremism. In short, the nuts eventually call the tune and everyone else must dance or be purged. This is why censoring even the hardest Right voices on social media is a disaster. There's no strong base (see what I did there?) to neutralize the strong acid.
Keep up the good work.
you know how a certain hero beat the dragontooth warriors right he threw a gem in the midst and they tore themselves apart something simalr might work on one shortsided as those folk
Even at my furthest left point in my life I had a simple view on why you should listen to the Right.
"Sometimes the Right is correct. Even when they aren't they have a point."
I can bear witness that generally Portland people are extremely nice. I visited the city in 2015, and the first person I met accidentally turned out to be I think the manager of the airport. When he found out I was in IT, he immediately asked me if I was looking for a job, gave me his card and said call me if you like.
They also are extremely naive, as we can see nowadays
Most of these "protestors" are likely not even local to the places where they "protest", one might even say they're non-local agitators.
@@tau-5794Portland is essentially antifa hq, so yeah. Most portlanders are your average progressive liberal but they don't wanna stand up to the commie types.
9:01 I have a friend who is like this and our actual irl friendship is decently strong so we usually agree to disagree, it's a weird form of terminal online syndrome I think and I don't know how to really talk about it with them (in a way I think leftoids feel almost the same way when I read pearl clutching articles about their sons or brothers or boyfriends being radicalized by the right wing youtube algorithm or whatever)
Well silicon valley forcibly got rid of the anything remotely right wing getting major traction and instead gone the other way. The only standard the left knows is a double standard.
Jokes aside I feel for ya, my best friend growing up and best man at my wedding told me after Jan 6th that all Republicans who voted for trump are complicit in a coup attempt. I told him we can still be friends but we can't talk politics anymore due to his radicalism.
Some of these people can't be reasoned with, they have to be exorcised or something.
Just abandon them. They are parasites by choice, not biology. They need no sympathy. Bitter medicine is better than the sweet poison they are hooked on.
A totally free market _would_ _be_ "racist" in the modern sense of equality of outcome due to innate and cultural group differences. But to achieve genuine equality of outcome in a country like America, you'd have to crush the top down to the point where it becomes a third-world hellhole (because ethnic pluralism makes the variance between the top and the bottom ridiculously large). I suspect that only psychopaths would rather live in a country where everyone suffers equally under third-world living standards than navigate the harsh, Darwinist free market (and I'm not even a free market absolutist -- not by a long stretch). Genetic determinism is a harsh mistress and one of the reasons I'd never advocate intentionally creating a pluralistic society -- but once you've got one, you're kinda stuck with all the difficulties and "unfairness" that entails. Conservatism is (or, at least, should be) all about trying to work within the unavoidable hierarchies that nature has created, rather than waging an endless and unwinnable war against them (to be fair, I suppose modern liberalism does have a victory condition, but it's only achievable when every single person is as poor, stupid, and broken as the most poor, stupid, and broken person in society -- which, when you put it honestly, doesn't sound like a victory at all).
It seems that you purposefully ignore the fact that many "innate" differences are practically almost forced upon some groups, like for example the Black community in the USA, considering that they spent approximately 300 years in slavery, in which a certain kind of picture about the black community was pushed to external world by people who mastered the lives of black people, and after the emancipation, when Sherman's 100 acres and a mule plan was vetoed, that very plan would have given the blacks their own means to control their lives, but no, they were forced by conditions to stay where they had been slaves, but only for a meager pay, and after when the northern units left, the black population was swiftly removed from all places of political control and voting rights practically eliminated in some places, until the 1970's.
When you are treated like a monster for centuries, no wonder you slowly start to believe it and think you must do what you must do to survive, that whatever you have, let it be family or property, had been taken away during centuries by their "masters". So don't wonder why some peoples "innately" avoid working, it is generally because even if they would want to, nobody would hire them and nobody would do stable business with them because the stigma the group has for generally very stupid or downright evil reasons. I am an European by the way and with this I'm referring to the Roma people, so you can't use that against me by claiming that I have double standards (as many Americans nowadays do, that's why I use this argument).
I am not a BLM supporter, by a long shot, but I am not a right-wing pseudointellectual either, who only blames everyone for being biased, while relying mainly on sources that already agree with them.
Conservatism generally aims to enforce unnecessary hierarchies, by promoting anti-trade union activities and overall delegating societal improvement to people themselves as long as they don't threaten the status quo. Funnily enough, if the people themselves want to oppose the hierarchy, they are crushed through legislative or directly violent means, and propaganda is made out of them as they threaten the status quo. If you think that the current system is what the left wants, you are a fool, as economic stability is weakening and access to stable life is prevented as it is not lucrative enough. Making everyone equally poor and dumb only benefits the business owner, as when you are poor, you have no other options and when you are dumb, you have no insight of what could be, which is what the corporate world wants. You can blame the left all you like, but the fact is that nothing has been achieved, the economy is the basis of all and as long as the current system where business dominates the world through legislation and violence through it's paradigm, nothing is really going to change.
These are great findings! Thanks for doing this
I cant wait for you to get big.
I tried commenting on your post in Black and Gold but it wouldn't let me. :
How about mental health check? It seems a lot of leftists love to be victims and have an overwhelming amount of mental health issues. Did you find this to be true?
It's true, but it wasn't always this way. Victimhood has become a progressively worse problem the more they focus on identity politics, as they are psychologically incentivized to make themselves a member of a victim group.
@@MentisWave Agreed. And Most therapists love victimizing their patients too, then they medicate their victims, and don't tell them that personal accountability is the solution to most of their problems.
@@MentisWaveI'm pertually perplexed by wondering if it's weak envious flawed people seeking out these Cults or that the beliefs of these Cults induce so much Cognititive Dissonance that they devolve in mental problems because of the induced stress.
That’s how being a narcissist works, pretend you aren’t then look for issues to “feel better”
@@MentisWaveBut what else they have than identity politics? When they try to make economic change, people die in strange circumstances, get politically outmaneuvered by government-business alliance and get outpropagandized by them. Name-calling seems to be your main strategy and makes me really question your assumed intellectuality of which you seem to champion yourself for.
7:20 it's funny how you can make up the most insane conspiracy theories, and it's acceptable, as long as it's anti Trump.
Great analysis. I'm in the PDX area too and I've noticed these trends as well. Something I haven't been able to answer is why the neoliberal MSM in service to the state. How would you answer this? Do you think MSM acts to further statist interests because it happens to serve its own (greater viewer interaction thus more profits), or is there a more ulterior motive? I understand the undercurrent well enough, but to be I haven't been able to argue cohesively without being dismissed as a complete conspiracy theorist.
The MSM and the State have a revolving door relationship for which there is verifiable evidence of on Opensecrets. No one tries to contest the data there, but the problem is the Media of course never talks about it which means the average normie will often think it's a conspiracy theory even though it's not.
@@MentisWave Can you give a link? I'm digging around on opensecrets, but I haven't found what I'm looking for.
@@hughjass9656 An Example would be www.opensecrets.org/orgs/at-t-inc/summary?id=d000000076 and then scroll down to "revolving door" as well as looking at everything else. Alternatively I did a video about it: ruclips.net/video/fRsx1YKJfR8/видео.html
It's fundamentally an issue Aldous Huxley predicted in Brave New World Revisited in 1958. The nature of the expense of Television and need to use Public Air Waves makes for a situation where Television was controlled by a small number of entities, which makes them particularly open to Capture.
The Internet created a hole in this, which caused it to start actively breaking circa GamerGate causing the Media types to drop their masks and start just doubling down.
Much love and sympathy from a like minded neighbor similar range from downtown. Never thought I'd watch urban decay in my life when I moved here in '07.
I've seen someone post a chart about how left-wing ideology by definition is for maximal freedom while right-wing ideology is inherently authoritarian. So, yeah, it fits with what you are saying here.
I love Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged! It is what inspired me to stand on the Libertarian-Right of the political spectrum!
This was an impressively insightful vlog
The conversation with these people is over. It's why we need guns.
Libertarian freikorps?
@@tugalordTo defend ourselves from their craze
@@lbgamer6166 yes
I wonder how long it'll take for Adam Something's stans to come dogpiling here...
I imagine once I have his episode of RB out within the next 1~4 weeks or so ( Working on two videos at the same time right now ) they will find their way.
Im from Southern Oregon and ive only been to the Portland area a handful of times in my life since its do far away. Portland doesn't feel like Oregon to me. Its so different from everywhere else in the state.
2:26 used to live near portland around this time and while these riots were going on I just never went downtown, heck my house nearly got burned down because a homeless camp started a fire and all the nearby fire fighters were downtown because of the riots.
I was near portland a few weeks ago, I absolutely hated getting close to Portland
I have tried talking to them but they just chant, "Do not engage!".
Thank you for your content, it has helped me relax and better understand my opposition rather than write them all off as crazy extremist. I lived in Oregon for a few years and loved it for it's beauty and weather, although legalizing marijuana as a recreational drug didn't really do the community any favors. However Portland was a creepy weird experience, even before chaz and the summer of love. I went there to visit their famously overrated Voodoo Donuts shop. The streets were trashed and smelled like wet garbage, parking was outrageously priced, we were accosted by drug addicts and our car got vandalized. Maybe I was unlucky or my expectations were too high.
When I first moved to Oregon in 2010, I was struck by how clean and nice Portland was. I remember seeing the streets near Pioneer Square being so clean that you could almost eat off them. No broken glass, no needles, no litter. Definitely no homeless camps and graffiti everywhere. But things started to change in 2012 after the Occupy movement died down. That was when the homeless camps started. That's when the streets started to get trashed. That's when the city leadership began giving into unreasonable demands. By 2018 it was hopeless.
I found this out a year ago.
I joined reddit and it had no idea what my politics were so it put me in all the groups I disagree with. It's still like that lol it hasn't learnt. But I got to experience this and they do not want to know what your beliefs are :/
It's tricky. I stopped trying to explain because they get mean and sarcastic, they would rather tell me what I believe. Weird, this is probably half because it's reddit.
Reddit sucks I avoid it at all costs.
Great video! I'm actually moving to Portland soon for a new job. Would you recommend living across the river in Vancouver for tax reasons? I'm a bit worried about the commute to downtown Portland though (not the traffic but genuine safety, downtown Portland seems pretty lawless).
Portland has gotten slightly better, the daily riots are over and a lot of the plywood is gone last time I was down there. And I do know some people live in Vancouver but shop in Oregon for tax purposes ( Oregon has no sales tax ), but I have never lived in Washington myself.
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I’ve heard that unarmed also includes people that are actively attempting to arm themselves. Do you think that is something plausible?
Depending on who's counting, it does. So does still trying to knock out the officer after being tased several times.
I know that the term “civil war” is thrown around a lot, but it’s hard to imagine any other outcome when one side doesn’t accept the other as legitimate. If only one side merely disagrees without calling the other the worst adjectives they can muster, that’s not enough. You can’t have peace when only one side wants it.
5:41 a good vindication of the 2nd amendment
The saddest thing is that many of them will never realize that they are just how ignorant they truly are. Most dying a useless death for people that ultimately see them as tools. Instruments for whatever special interests need them at the time.
Love your videos! I’m going through your whole catalog
Spent nearly a year in a shelter downtown back in '03 (litteraly 100' from O'Bryant Park). Everything you described attitude wise was already there back then, it just hadn't lit off yet.
i went to one “fuck trump” rally when he was speaking in my city. Messed me up real bad. being exposed to so much blatant hate totally warped me. I did a full 180, and while im thankful i saw the light, im also scared to death of it because it wasnt ever addressed and was allowed to flourish.
bro, this hypnotic frog was my life at and before the age of 10. Then things made sense... and also not.
you are literally me. I moved here end of 2015 from the south seeking something different, which I found, but also wow wtf...
My like brought this video up to 556 likes. As a gun guy this makes me happy.😊
that pepe gif is perfect for this
I only thought these kinds of people only live on twitter 😢
I also live outside of the Portland area and have had similar experiences here as you. The riots were something else.
Is this ignorance a sort of power move? "I don't need to know anything about you, you're history!"
18:40 the entire world is beautiful, humans are the ones that can be ugly
Idk I think mosquitoes and maggots are pretty ugly
@@tentacledood5784 you will eat ze bugs
@@spehhhsssmarineer8961 NO. I REFUSE.
@@tentacledood5784 you will live in ze tube
The landscapes are beautiful, it's the animal life that can be quite ugly.
Thanks
Damn just starting the video wondering if it’s about the cop from where I’m from
I went and watched that "right libertarians are just fascists" video from Adam something and his point was basically personal responsibility leads to more oppression of non whites and instills white nationalism. He instead tries to say that the only answer to poverty is for the government to give you handouts. But I think he fails to realize that government handouts encourage people to remain in their current state as to keep collecting the money that the rest of the working class is working to make only for the government to give it to the ones wanting handouts.
Personal responsibility on the other hand makes you reflect on your current condition, think of how you can improve said condition, then strive to pull yourself up out of the mud and to prosper on your own terms. He also tries to make a point about free markets that says that your boss at work can control your life and yheres bothing you can do about it. But he also doesn't realize that the employee can just leave and go work for someone who will treat them better. When enough people follow suit, that initial boss's company will go under and guess what? Problem solved. The free market heals itself.
Though that's based on extremely naive thinking that such a thing as business culture does not exist, that the position of a boss is the kind of where certain kinds of people generally reach it, those being ruthless or workaholic (or both) and overall toxic people for those who work for them. Under conditions where they have the capital and the means to create value, while most of the average folks don't and they need to be housed, fed and kept warm enough, and if they do something out of their own initiative the police will shut them down for socialism, they have no other options but to suffer under those bosses until the day comes, where they'll have more control over their lives and the corporate police society.
Wait, what if Trump does own wikileaks..............
I used to live in Portland, OR and FINALLY got an opportunity to leave. I really like the city. It's very pretty and being able to see it from Pittock Mansion is honestly a really beautiful sight.
There's a lot of good food in Portland and, after that, there's nothing. The people ruin every single other thing there possibly could be about Portland. I had to grow up around these people and the level of arrogant ignorance was insane. Lambasted for saying things like "abortion may not be the good thing they thought it was" or "its OK to be white" was stuff that had to be dealt with by me or my friends and it all seems to come from an insecurity about their parents. They were claiming "I don't think like my parents. I'm cool" which is funny, considering some of us (me), knew their parents views on things were the exact thing they were saying. I really liked growing up there but as soon as I got to high school, things changed a lot and they made it permanent when the riots happened. I miss my home but they killed it and rotted its core so deeply that I am unsure how well they can make it recover.
I hate the idea of leaving your home to go somewhere else because things can't get better without good people and my family is so ingrained in Portland that the high school I went to has a lot of my family in their hall of fame but those schools really just went down hill. I see no possible way to raise a kid there anymore. I got to witness people get murdered there right around the time I left. My older brother physically attacked me because he thought me saying polyamory was a bad idea made me sexist and abusive.
Mentis, if it's possible, try to get away from there. Get far away
I was a national guard member in seattle during the riots.
Bro, it took me like 7 minutes to realize that it's not a banana t shirt 😭
These people are the metaphorical choir. They just switch to doing the preaching.
I think I would have to actually try hard to fit in with them and not blow my cover lol
17:17 To my understanding (regarding what I have researched), Thomas Hobbes wasnt really a conservative figure, considering that at the time he was vehemently opposed by people who said that everyone who believed into true morality and religion should oppose Thomas Hobbes, and he opposed the power structures at the time, specially regarding the church, not to even mention that he was one of the first to present the social contract theory, which is something the statist conservative right and libertarian right really do not agree on, atleast on paper, as he, if I read correctly, said that a powerful state is needed so that people wouldnt become animals, very conservative, very statist, and not very libertarian. I know what youre overall aiming at there but in the end, Rand and Hoppe are both much more on the right than Hobbes was.
Did you grow up in Portland area? Did you know/live in Portland before the changes?
I went to some of those protest too, but I was among the patriot prayer group.
watching people protesting against, what was honestly a very simple/peaceful group, was insane to watch. There was maybe 200~300 of us in the center, with 2 separate groups of about 200~ on the either side who were various groups of midwits (some workers union retards and some animal rights group who align with the left) but then the crazier thing was on the 3rd side of the park.... somewhere close to 1200 antifa people who were beyond violent and were even fighting amongst themselves.
That animal rights group should have focused on antifa honestly, cause I saw was crammed together wild animals who clearly can't handle the conditions they're living under, lol
with that said I left the Portland Area for a more rural city about 5 years ago, and no way I'll ever go back
I live in Oregon ans would love to meet you. I have no peers.
Mentis wave is a lake oswego Chad?
It's crazy this guy has reasonable opinions. My kinda shit.
On snap i live in the suburbs of portland also.
haidt covered this a long time ago
Hey brother, I go to college in Seattle and completely understand. If you reply to my comment I’d love to share social media or something. I find myself down in the Portland area sometimes :)
I live in eastern washington and I cant stand going to portland. Its become a trash heap in the last 30 years.
Ayyyy fellow Oregonian. Portland is cringe
Too bad you didn't have a Project Veritas camera going during all that.
Oregon is cool and all but Washington is obviously better 😉
California supremacy bow down to me organian peasent
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19:49 And while the right wing is being gaslighted that everything left-wing is socialist or communist, or is that just "the uncomfortable truth™"?
You lost me when you said Antifa have their hearts in the right place.
They should be on trial for their crimes against humanity.
I am coming to your house, mentis.
You live in Aloha, Oregon....Check Mate
Get outta there stalker
Define what makes an ideology dangerous, or is it the miscomprehension that's dangerous? Be specific