Never felt so called out in an intro before. Like you’re not wrong but jeezus bro. In the immortal words of the artist formerly known as Thomas Sweenard, “will you please calm dooooowwn”
Man spends half of his last video talking about how everywhere is on fire, and then wonders why I'm chilling in my underwear. Stop being so judgmental, Christopher
@@spiritbx1337 wow I really can't believe you said that. It's a hobby and should stay like that. Let the pros do it full time. Stop stealing jobs of people who need them
@@robertdouth8979 just like a public defender, if you don't need it and don't want it, you don't have to use the public option. Pay for private then. and its quality is an issue of funding not a function of being a public good, as is evident looking at public education, for example, state by state especially.
1. Defending your views logically 2. Being humble in an opinion 3. Showing how precise your words were in the previous video 4. Showing how quickly people try to strawman your arguments Really impressive video.
"If you cannot afford an attorney *ONE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU*" Best way to hammer the reason for the need of a public healthcare system. Honestly I don't give two shits about the healthcare discussion cause: 1- I'm not American so it shouldn't concern me unless I plan on moving there, 2- Arguing about it is absolutely tiresome and those against public healthcare systems will absolutely not listen or take the defending arguments into consideration before presenting any possible refutations they might have. 3- I've been thrown more insults than I can imagine in these arguments cause of point 1. I've even been called a commie despite me thinking so lowly of them that a dog would look more deserving of rights (especially now with the Russia situation and communist parties around the world simping for the Kremlin).
@@OfficialDJSoru the whole provided for you thing, i get but the attorneys they get for you are generally people who dont really give a shit and 9/10 they work against your best interest just to get it over with, so i'm not a huge fan of what they give you but its technically better than representing yourself.
@@discussioncorner Not to mention the fact is more public defenders sound like the guy in My Cousin Vinny (not Vinny... the public defender in My Cousin Vinny), not Perry Mason.
@@OfficialDJSoru "those against public healthcare systems will absolutely not listen or take the defending arguments into consideration before presenting any possible refutations they might have. " Let's be clear... this works both ways. People on BOTH sides have generally made up their minds and have little care or concern for what anyone else thinks.
i love how you are cultivating the smooth brain gravel chewers from both sides of the American political spectrum. truly impressive, bringing us together like always chris
Its difficult to describe the frustration I feel when seeing someone... anyone pick a side ETERNALLY. Our two party system was flawed enough, now we have people running around worshipping it like its actually going to save us. So no, YOUR party is not right about everything. Why not actually developing your own opinion on these subjects? That said... Love the videos Chris, highly entertaining, and is always nice to hear someone speak an actual opinion.
What’s even more frustrating is the people like that guy that are entirely on one side just because they didn’t like something one side said. I know too many people (like my brother) who are only conservative because they saw some liberal in 2014 say that “all white people are inherently evil” or something like that
Are you kidding?!jokes like that are hilarious! If you can't laugh at tragedy or at offensive things you might as well give up. I'm American too. I live by the mad Mike philosophy. If you have a sacred cow, I will slaughter it in front of you, and laugh.
Chris, could we get some more of this? Like, I'd rather have two videos from you be one with spicy takes and full of memes and one right after where you riff on comments or whatever, rather than two videos uploaded 3 months apart because, like, a LOT happens these days in 3 months and a 20 minute video can't possibly cover it all.
"Climate change is destroying the world, a clueless right-wing politician accused the creator of Metal Gear Solid of a political assassination, a celebrity was arrested for murder, failing corporations continue to push NFT scams... Oh yeah, also professional gamers were punished because a twittard thinks teabagging in a video game is sexual assault." "Wow, SJW cringe compilation much? 2016 called, Sargon, they want their neo nazi gamergate rhetoric back"
First off, why is it not christian. What is love and whos the enemy? Definitely Not a stranger. Second off, Why does he live by moral standards of Religious ppl, thats not very "liberal"
I find it hilarious when people try to equate content in videogames with real life actions. If they can't distinguish a fictional scenario with reality, that seems like a problem with them and them alone. It's just a bunch of pixels. Calm down.
To be fair there seems to be an alarming rate of idiots on the internet especially social media who can't stop conflating fiction with reality, makes me genuinely scared for the future as a whole.
I like to imagine that one of the first things Chris asks someone when first meeting them is "do you think t-bagging in video games is sexual assault?"
Ah yes, shooting each other and executing downed enemies is fine, but if a virtual nutsack makes the slighest contact with an imaginary person's body the Hague is convened. I want to get off this ride now, please.
Totally. If they at least called the murder part a "lethal lead raping" I could see the angle where they view teabagging as sexual assault...but ignoring the murder part...(eyeroll)
I don't understand the people that take shit like that so seriously, it must be a miserable experience. I usually laugh if I get teabagged because it's funny to me. It's a video game, have fun. 🤦🏻♂️
The funny thing is that despite me being more right leaning, hearing your arguments was a fascinating experience. You were clear and logical in your points, and I feel like you're someone who has given these issues a lot of real thought. It is sad that the vocal minority is always the side that gets the most media attention, because I not only enjoyed what you had to say, but respected you for saying it. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but I admired what you had to say and how well you said it.
Honestly, what helps me get through political conversations without getting as defensive and learning more about other perspectives other than my own out there is focusing on asking people genuine *clarifying* questions. It helps me better contextualize what they believe and gets us both thinking.
I think the way each side is depicted makes it easy to forget that logical humans actually exist in this world. So many problems could be solved if everyone just came to the table respecting that we all (well…most of us) want things to be better and just might disagree about how to do it. Doesn’t help that our “leaders” refuse to do that as well though.
“I’m not saying UBI is the right answer - I don’t know…” explaining why you think something is likely the right answer and also admitting you aren’t omniscient is awesome. It’s so rare to hear someone say “here’s why I think this, but I can’t be 100% certain.” Wish I heard more of it
I think the thing that frustrates me the most about UBI is everyone who supports it 100% seems to have just given up. Like, there’s no way anything could be developed to slow the need for automation or increase the demand for actual human workers, it’s just “Looked, we are fucked. This is the only solution. We’re not looking into any other options. #YangGang2024”
👍As long as something is presented from a point of reasonability, I have no problem hearing anyone out. If flawed, that can come out and either adjustments made or scrap the plan.
@Get 2 people need to struggle to some kind of degree. Humans are not built to live in completely stress free environments. Look at what the pandemic did and how drastically that affected people’s mental health. People had months to pursue other opportunities and hobbies and most did not come out on the other side better. The idea that humans will just exist while machines do everything for us is terrifying to me. Even creative fields are being taken over by AI (like the paintings Chris showed.) We can’t just hand everyone money and go “Oh well, we’re fucked!” There needs to be be more done that demands less automation/more human jobs be created. UBI is a band-aid on a wound that needs stitches. A good one no doubt, but it’s not the end all be all solution some people tout it as
@@LateNightTableCo Just tell that to the 1% that most likely inherited all their wealth and never had to do real work once in their lives. But I'm sure you think cashing all of our incrisingly higher rent checks and pay us $10 an hour for our mind numbing shit jobs is a very hard and stressfull life.
As a Canadian, its always so bizarre to me how many american's are against universal health care. Like, nearly every other country in the world has some sort of health care. I can not fathom breaking a leg or having a baby, or needing treatment for cancer and having to pay nearly everything out of pocket.
@max omalley You seem very confused about what universal healthcare is. It has nothing to do with multiculturalism. In my country, all citizens who are employed have to pay a tax, every month from their salaries, that goes specifically to a public healthcare fund. These funds are then used to provide care to people who need it. Also, you have to be eligible in order to benefit from these "free" services: you have to contribute to the fund if you are able to (when you are no longer a child or a student), except for emergency services, which are free for everyone. And we still have private healthcare services for people who can afford them.
@max omalley Ok, then you are misusing the word culture here. Your opinion is based on political ideology not national or ethnic identity like you initially implied. There are clearly citizens in the US who would like universal healthcare and others that wouldn't. The divide is between the political left and the political right. It has nothing to do with the country being "a melting pot". The way I see it the issue in the USA is the right's individualism and the whole "self-made man" and "picking yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality, which I'm sorry to say but reminds me a lot of the Wild West days. In other countries we encourage collaboration and helping each other out more. The town is big enough for all of us!
Even though I disagree with Chris on a lot of his opinions, I love that he seems like a person you could actually have a productive conversation with. Just the fact that he’s willing and able to reasonably articulate his point and understand the other side. Keep doing your thing man I love seeing your stuff from time to time
As much as I loathe the "abolish private property" tankies, there should definitely be some form of regulation in regards to large real estate corporations, american aristocracy, and foreign investors buying out vast swathes of American land purely for the purpose of investment, especially when those groups are investing against the interest of the American public to ensure as many people are stuck in rent traps, unable to own their own property.
Why there's balance and good points in all systems. Unchecked capitalism *is* terrible and leads to bad things, but Communism leads to worse things, much faster. A little of column A and a little of column B is where it's at.
4:55 This is one of the most common misunderstandings about rights. The idea is that rights are fundamental rights you have as a human being regardless of country and be violated by individuals. If rights were purely country dependent then there would be no such thing as a country violating human rights. Originally the idea was that they are "god given" meaning it was going against god to violate them. Now like most secular moral systems we simply believe it would be morally wrong to deny them. To make this clear to you it is considered an infringement on someone's HUMAN rights to deny them something purely on the bases of their race. That's why it was called Civil Rights and applied to private businesses just as much as the government. It makes me, someone who a lot of religions do not like cause I like the same sex, almost wish we all feared god again just so people understood they aren't given by the constitution and the government. They are just protected by them.
I definitely lean right on political issues. That being said, in the 7 years I've been watching you, and the few years watching snark tank, your politics never once made me stop watching. Your views we're always logical and I agree with many of them. The old BLM and feminist videos were always on point, but that doesn't mean you had to stop being left leaning. I think the problem stems from the fact that you're an ACTUAL left leaning person...while your detractors have gone off the plot. They're not lefty, or Democrat...they're just mind controlled media manipulated crazy persons. That's why you got labeled alt right so many times. We don't all have to agree folks, just don't be an asshole. Even when Chris is being an asshole...he's not really being an asshole. They're called jokes. Joooooooookes. Thanks for the videos. Btw....More Paul please.
iirc correctly chris mentioned his regret at possibly participating in the alt right pipeline. It's been a minute since I watched the video addressing it, so grain of salt on that. I think a lot of folks that made anti-sjw content have made comments about regretting their participation in that whole deal. I don't think anyone could have known alt right shit would go as far as it has, it's why I don't blame chris, shoe, etc for the fucking weirdo maga dildos.
I just posted a comment very very similar to this and agree entirely. The left and the right both must exist to create a check and balance of ideas. Hating the other side is dangerous and turning it into a game that your team must win is how society falls .
@@ChunskieFartFilms Or a better system could be created that isn't choosing between two evils. 2 party systems suck shit and are naturally adversarial.
@@SendarSlayer There is no better system, we live in hell world with no possibility of utopia. The individual will always band together with their ideologies. The problem lies in each individual learning to find common ground in different issues.
@@ChunskieFartFilms There are better systems. The US even had one until about Lincoln. The founding fathers were terrified of a democracy. "A republic, if you can keep it" was what they created.
@@ChrisRayGun It routinely happens to creators/public figures on the left, maybe its about the opportunity to signal virtue. I wouldn't doubt right leaning divisions are more personal, since its so often about intolerance of individuals (race, religion, sex/sexuality, etc)
It's always interesting to hear another person's perspective on things; especially when they're more level headed and willing to engage others rather than simply going on the offensive 24/7. I'd certainly be interested in hearing an in-depth conversation between yourself and the likes of Sitch and Adam over some of the beliefs you've expressed here.
I'm absolutely loving these recent videos. Your points have so much rationale that it's insane that someone is actually saying what I've been thinking for a while to a large audience of people. I really love that you said "not everyone from the left agrees with one another" and that "it isn't just left and right". Like politics is so nuance and it's a huge spectrum and it fluctuates. There is depth to the political spectrum
Centrism isn't "finding the compromise between good and bad things" Saying a centrist would actually argue that "not all slavery is bad" is a pretty disingenuous way of portraying centrism. We're in the center of the political spectrum, we're not in the center of all morality. We agree with some political stances on the left, and we agree with some political stances on the right, and in some situations we might agree with parts of either side on the same argument. But beating up the same dead horse argument by pulling out the extremes goes exactly against the idea, and it honestly pisses me off.
I am very right leaning, but Chris is one of those people who really gets me to think for both sides. Things aren't black and white. If you explain yourself in a way that is not pure ideological garbage, people will hear you out. My "side" is treated like human beings by this man. I always appreciate a reasonable perspective. Keep up the great stuff Chris.
Likewise. It’s kinda hilarious since I constantly get attacked as if I’m literally a goosestepping bad guy’s henchman from WW2 by the more politically vocal folks on GameFAQs’ Politics board, yet I watch Chris and Dev (Short Fat Otaku) on a regular basis alongside a variety of folks on different parts of the political spectrum since I actually want a balanced view on things as opposed to simply staying in an echo chamber.
I’m not sure how to word this without being corny, but I really value your content, Chris. It’s super nice to be able to sit down and listen to someone speak sense for ~15 mins.
"If you can't afford an attorney, *one will be provided to you* " I'm gonna use this point from now on when people imply the government is simply unable to provide healthcare
Shit point, the court is a government institutions that can have which ever service it wants to provide - the attorney is a government employee, she or he has other options. Medicare for all, in this example will force doctors to work only with a government insurance. The court, police and military are the exception to the market economy as they are required for one to run and make violent actions unprofitable. They are monopolies. However security services and attorney offices are always open for your business. Plus, if you think about it, it proves the opposite point, attorneys provided by the state are usually bad - if you are ok with a shit service as long as its free, you haven't had the luxury of actually having a bad health care service then.
@@GameOgreDonkey Its not untested ffs, when you throw such an insane amount of money at smth it doesnt take as long since literally everyone is working on it
@@GameOgreDonkey That's the thing. He says the right is anti-vax and anti-Covid vaxx because of the FDA thing... which is not true at all. Maybe for a small crazy, flat-earther part of the right, but certainly not the majority. Plus, most of us are not even against the thing being available to the public, but we are against it being ENFORCED by the government. He pulls out one of the fringe and shitty talking points and implies most of us think like that. I am literally against it being enforced. I am against it affecting whether or not you can get a fucking job. Like wtf? I, personally, am against the covid vaxx because I know who and what supports it (aka - the rich billionnaires who invested into Pfizer and shit before they administered the vaccine to the public) (also Bill Gates - someone who supports population control through a mysterious vaccine plan)(also Pfizer has the largest criminal fine in the world). You want to take it? Fine, be my guest, but why the fuck should I be forced to take it if Covid is not gonna go away anyways?
Yes, I know sitting on the porcelain throne watching this video when I need to be getting ready for work is a bit awkward, Mr. Ray Gun, but when nature calls, you definitely gotta answer unless you want “accidents” in your pants later on. 😏
8:15 I've noticed this too. A lot of what was considered "right wing" has been adopted by leftists and vice versa. One instance in particular is the criminal justice model. In criminology, I learnt about the two models of criminal justice: crime control, and due process. Crime control is guilty until proven innocent, and due process is innocent until proven guilty. In the textbook and in class, I was taught that due process is left realism and crime control is right realism, but I couldn't help but think to myself about how it seems like it has switched. The Kyle rittenhouse trial came to mind, where the left were saying he was guilty and lying about him even after he was acquitted
The fact that we're trying to figure out if the concept of "due process" is a "right-wing" or "left-wing" thing just shows how much we've degraded as a nation.
The Left: "Bodily autonomy! You shouldn't be killed in the street because people THINK you may have commited a crime, and normal citizens shouldn't have guns!" Also The Left: "Vaccine mandates! Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer who should have been killed in the street by an angry mob, and Ukranian citizens need more guns! Send money and guns to Ukraine!" Hmm...
@@Pamijay wrong he didn't drive with any weapon anywhere. It was in kenosha when he got there. To help one of his hometowns. So as much as I agree with your top half your last paragraph is misinformation.
This sounds more like an authoritarianism vs libertarianism thing. Also, your example is rather poor. Nobody tried to deny Rittenhouse his due process. A better example would be the MeToo movement or the general discourse over sexual assault conviction rates, where people have actually argued in favour of weakening the standards of evidence and the burden of proof, so that sexual assault suspects would be easier to convict. This is something that has happened, and it was indeed from outlets that are considered liberal, like The Guardian.
This video unironically changed my entire view on universal healthcare. Didn’t know my own line of thought could be quite as fucking flawed and hypocritical as it was. Thanks man.
I honestly think the "definition of a right" discourse is a digression, probably strengthened by the terminology media uses to talk about these things. What leftists actually want is public healthcare, not "the right to" public healthcare, yet that's all people seem to argue about. There are a lot of barriers preventing bipartisan progress, i'm guessing because the establishment benefits from us normies infighting.
Listen I’m for universal healthcare but your mind shouldn’t be changed so easily because that indicates that your mind could be changed for the wrong reasons at the drop of a hat. But still obviously glad you’re rethinking shit
On another note, I genuinely believe you're spot-on on automation and the creation of a renter class. It's a chilling thought that at some point in the next 50 years we might be so automated that we can't work, and we might genuinely be in the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" future. I don't know that UBI can help, but if we're automated enough to provide for everyone, I guess "why not?"
I had a problem with the mandate, not the vaccine in general. I think it’s a real problem that you had to get it to work. That sets a terrible precedent for bodily rights and look where it went…
It's a pandemic. Over a million deaths in the US alone have been attributed to it. If people are too stupid or just plain don't care about other people's lives, then mandating the vaccine was the responsible government action. Imagine what the death toll (not even mentioning the people that get severely sick) would be without mandated vaccines. Do you have a problem with seatbelt laws, or any of the other countless laws put in place to keep stupid people safe? Oh, and I forgot to say...implying that the vaccine mandate during a global pandemic somehow set a precedent for (I'm assuming) Rove vs Wade being overturned...the leap of logic is impressive.
"Stupidity knows no party lines" ~ Chris Ray Gun 2022 I'm so fed up with people using left this or right that. Anytime I hear people say things in absolutes, I usually avoid them.
I have always been extremely libertarian but even though I disagree with you some times I still genuinely enjoy all of your content. It always makes me laugh when you make fun of the right or left even if I fall a little more right in terms of libertarians.
The “SJW/Anti-SJW” distinction is so annoying because it frames anyone who simply doesn’t like cynical pandering or moral hysteria as some lunatic reactionary. It’s like you can be a full blown communist and find woke scolding obnoxious. It’s the reason comedy podcasts like CumTown have been popular. The collective culture lost its mind when we started mixing up “edgy” or even just mean spirited art, media, jokes, and whatever else with being right wing. You can support leftist economics and even general cultural values without falling in line with the loons who finger wag and frame everything as problematic.
@@HeyFella I blame CIAtube for Bernie Sanders losing the primary and the right wing going even more crazy and far right because they alienated all the somewhat reasonable pro-choice right wingers by accusing them of being Nazis. They also ignored the evidence for reasonable doubt for the James Fields murder trial which shows that they are bad-faith glow-in-the-dark spooks. Just because he’s a neo-Nazi (with a Jewish grandfather so technically if he wanted to he could have moved to Israel and run over Palestinian Heather Heyer with a bulldozer) doesn’t me he doesn’t deserve a fair trial! And it scares the shit out of me that jurors don’t even know the meaning of reasonable doubt anymore! They vote guilty based on political bias and circumstantial evidence as though this were a civil suit!
@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 I'd define wokescolding as: A purity culture centered around intersectionally derived social morals, where social capital is gained by seeking out and displaying evidence of the perceived impurity of others for public derision.
As someone who just bought a house. Businesses and foreign interest, specifically China, were a major issue for me to find a house. They're paying WAY over asking 100k USD cash down offers while I'm a single human with life savings. I'm genuinely concerned about our financial future as a country.
Intro: I cannot believe you let yourself look like that Me, after a heatwave in an apartment right under the roof with no AC, who thusly spent most of his time at home basically naked to not sweat like a pig: Ouch...
Counteragrument: I didn't take the vaccine, I'm fine. Guess we're even there. Other than that, I agree for the most part. Tired of everything being labeled right wing and left wing as though it means anything.
That's the equivalent of saying "I got shot, I'm fine" yeah you can survive that? But ya know what's easier to survive? Not getting shot at all, and it's easier to avoid shit when you're vaccinated. Is this a hard concept for you? Because it shouldn't be
@@JowoeBunchaNumbers Except the vast majority of people who have not gotten the vaccine yet got the rona survived with no lasting consequences. I'm not saying the vaccines hurt you. I'm simply stating; the vaccine made next to zero difference, if it made any difference at all. Basically: I didn't need a thicker sweater to survive a nurfgun.
5:56 makes me think of Starship Troopers: “When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived... Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."
@@HennyVenny It's a serious perspective present in some way in the source book, and the film debatably fails to pull off it's intended satirical desires effectively, as if the book authors intent shines past the directors goals. Emphasis on debatably though, some people think it's satire worked, some think the film worked in spite of the directors beliefs.
@Henrietta Vermillion Reminder that the MOVIE was sabotaged by a scummy commie who was mad that the BOOK satirised communism. The Federation was the product of an anticommunist revolution.
@@StickNik It's definitely not in your face like some satire. Certainly not Blazing Saddles level of obvious satire, but it's satire nonetheless. You can turn your brain off and watch it as a generic sci fi action movie, but if you analyze what you're watching, you start to get the feeling that something isn't right. That kind of subtle satire is what can make people realize what they've been conditioned to believe. It can also fly over the heads of some people, but that's just the nature of it.
@@arlaux1099 The director assumed it was fascist, hence his Hugo Boss style uniforms and such, but there is little fascism in the film at least regarding human society. You literally have leaders stepping down and being replaced over singular failures, media showing debate between opposing viewpoints, and voting even if it needs to be earned via service.
The discussion around rights boils down to how you feel about negative vs positive rights. For a negative right, somebody else cannot infringe upon your right. However, they don't have to do anything to perpetuate it. With positive rights, somebody else must provide you with something. I personally largely disagree with the idea of positive rights because a right that can be passively violated due to a fundamental lack of something (i.e. not enough doctors exist to treat you) seems absurd to me. Just look to the quality of public defenders to see just how meaningless such a right can be. That's not to say that I disagree with trying to provide things like food, healthcare, or legal representation to everybody. I only disagree with terming them inalienable rights.
It's the Lockean conception of rights vs Mill's conception, or Classical Liberalism vs Social Liberalism. Utilitarians think, for some reason, it's okay to name services or goods rights because they derive the privileges they want the government to confer from the rights originally outlined by Locke, in order to produce the greatest good. I doubt I have to tell you that since you understand the distinction between positive and negative rights already, but that is where it stems from. People who follow Rousseau, Kant and Mill almost always buy into the idea of positive rights because they believe that humans are fundamentally good. Locke did not believe that and did not conceive of the idea of rights within that framework though. He sought to be as objective as possible regarding their description and didn't take the morals or ethics of human nature into account when describing them, merely the human capacity to exercise their will on the world as an actor. Because Social liberals believe that maximizing good is the best practice, they seek to create rights that the government should enshrine to bring about that maximum good. Classical liberals do not believe that the government is capable of maximizing the good of individuals, rather, they only believe that it should be used to mediate disputes between them as a sort of minimum acceptable authority and be given no or very little power further, as it is just as susceptible to corruption as any human is, and that instead individuals should wherever possible, maximize the good in their own lives. I think it's fine to have a middle ground where the government offers services that take care of people who are in need, social safety nets as you will, in order to prevent outstanding poverty and to help ensure the lower class can still function and work towards their own improvement and happiness. I just think it's important to distinguish what a right is, and to do away with the notion of positive rights altogether, as that particular school of thought leads to nothing but suffering when reality time and again proves it to be incorrect.
About AI, there is a difference between creating (especially aesthetics) and identification. One of the big hurdles in computers taking our jobs today is the ability to identify objects without help. There's also the issue of how much time and expense it takes to create robots/AI for a specific task vs. how much labor you save with the robot. If you have a job that cane be made exactly the same in thousands of different workplaces this advantages automation, but a lot of jobs are menial enough to be boring to people but just niche enough to not be worth automating. In time robots will become more and more generalized, and eventually from there less expensive, but it's hard to say how futuristic that world is.
I mean to be fair isn’t the flue shot also mandated? Like you have to get it to work or go to school, unless I’m confused on what something being mandated means
Exactly. If it was made available, and then simply recommended, it wouldn't have been nearly as big if an issue, but he pretended it was just the fact it existed in the first place that was the issue, not people losing their jobs over it.
Because asking questions labelled you as an antivaxer! Even from the left, people were asking questions and made fun of doing so! I'm not against science or anything like that! But everything was very strange! 3-4 different companies came with different vaccines in, like under 2 years? That wasn't really a vaccine? That every time you needed more and more shots? But actually it has little effect? It's baffling how everyone is actually going along knowing the reputation of that industry! 8:50
The rent comment resonated with me a lot. Over here in Puerto Rico it feels like ya can't have shit. We're basically being exploited as a tax haven. Bunch of gringos buying property to make Airbnbs. I'm super left leaning and honestly shit over here feels pretty hopeless with what I mentioned, the climate crisis, etc. If another hurricane passes I'll probably end up as a climate refugee. Edit: I wonder do ya have an opinon on the status. Like do you have an opinion on the whole statehood or independence thing? Obviously I'm really left leaning so Im pro-independece though it certainly feels like the movement died years before I was born.
@@kristofize As far as I'm aware if this has truly been put in place it is easily avoided by US mainlanders/gringos. I still hear the complaints and the interviews. What's more common is property/buildings so you see historical and low income neighborhoods becoming gentrified or just a bunch of Aribnbs. Obviously this still mainly happens in the northeastern parts of the island which is basically like the epicenter of US mainlander activity but it has been spreading quite a lot. Ya also have companies doing this which are more likely to do it anywhere really. Act 20 and 22 basically make us a tax haven. When I was growing up buying land and houses as a native was pretty hard already but nowadays it feels impossible. Even reasonable rent is hard to find since cost of life is pretty high but salaries for all of us are pretty low. Electricity bill keeps going up even though the service still sucks ass and they privatized it. Edit: This comes from a young person trying to begin to prosper. I'm finding it pretty hard to just exist even with a college degree and trade skill. Im definitely in a better place than a lot of people and if I move to the mainland I'm sure I can make it work but but it'd be me ignoring my wish to stay in the island. Obviously Id also like to clarify that it's not all the fault of foreigners/gringos. If that problem didnt exist our govermment would still suck ass, we still have other colonial problems, etc.
Honestly, if I felt our government was more competent I'd be cool with expanding to universal Healthcare. The thing is I worked at a VA hospital for a year and hated seeing veterans go through red tape just to get what should be considered basic care while handfuls of employees either cared about gossip or keeping their jobs while doing the least amount of work. Not getting billed an arm to get your leg checked out is nice but I wouldn't want the already stressed out health system I work in to get another layer of bullshit on it with cutting corners and possible money freezes when someone decides to shut the government down again.
As a person from a country with universal health care. The funds that the government gives for health care do a lot. Yes we have lines for a lot of stuff and a lot of them are really long. And my government is a shit show of mostly Latvian vs Russian beliefs because we are ex-soviet. And being ex-soviet, we have noticeable corruption. And lazy people are everywhere. And Latvia is understaffed in medicine. Especially in nursing staff. But i had to get a stich on my forehead in the middle of the night, i got a surgeon to get it stitched after I got an mri, because i took a socket wrench to the forehead. That cost me 16 euro i believe. And i didn't have private health insurance in which case i would have payed 0 euros for it. My dad had a broken intervertebral discand he chose to do it at the best place you can do it here so he had to pay 2k euros for it. His private health insurances covered half. An appointment with my gp costs me 2 euros. I don't believe that your country can't handle it, but you did work in the field, so you'd have a better understanding of what is better.
Yea you won’t be paying an arm and leg up front but you’ll be paying for it everywhere else at every point in your life Stuff isn’t free AND you’ll be paying for others dumb mistakes AND paying for visits you may never need
@@myfatassdick yeah, but it's so worth it. I don't have to worry about anything health related. It's really freeing. Yeah, sure, i pay like 23% in taxes, but i find that it's worth it. And i don't mind that what i pay for UH is used by someone else. It could have been me that's in poor health. I do believe that it's better for society as a whole to have everyone healthier by everyone chipping in a bit and that noone really is bankrupt by their medical bills
10:02 absolutely, thank you! I've played video games nearly my entire life and went back to college to become a game designer. This entire spiel about video games make you "X bad thing" is infinitely frustrating. The fact that its coming form both political sides now is just another reason I want to flip the bird to the entire political system. edit: In accordance with the "stupidity knows no party lines" a lot of people are getting riled up about the teachers grooming kids issue and rightly so in my opinion. The problem is that...everyone seems to have magically forgotten that just a scant what...10 years ago it was I think, the churches were covering up priests touching small boys. And the political right backed them up and tried covering for them! But they want to act like pedo's are a strictly leftist issue.
Chris I've said this before on other videos of yours where you seemed worried or discouraged about your upload pace and the quality of your content, honestly I doubt you've ever seen any of my comments but I will say it again: Most of us would watch an hour long unedited video where all you do is rant about how you stubbed your toe walking to the kitchen. You're entertaining, you seem like a good guy, and that's why a lot of us are here. I watched a livestream of yours that isn't up anymore I don't think where all you did was sing covers of songs you either liked or were suggested to you, and it was great. So don't let dickheads who are unhappy with their own lives and need to try and make it your problem discourage you.
*just got off work, literally just in shorts trying to make dinner and have background noise home alone. Only to get accurately and painfully attacked*
Idk about that. It's kinda odd that people think that you have the right to be entitled to labor. For example in the video he mentioned free speech but you would have to use some type of force to prevent individuals from having that right compared to using force to make individuals who have the right to freedom perfom labor for the government. Free health care should still be a thing but it not really a right.
@@JohnDoe-vw4zf Rights are 1000 percent a social construct. Without a government enforcing the ideas of the "social contract", no one cares what you think your entitled to in any situation. Without someone enforcing the ideas of what a right is, or isent, it dosent matter if YOU think you have the freedom of speech, because I THINK I have the freedom of stabbing you 42 times with knife for talking in a tone I dislike. So no matter what it boils down to what people overall think should and should not be a "right". If society gets to a point where they think that a universal income, or a basic universal healthcare should be a "right", then it will be.
@@heavens_best1905 In Cuba that "right" was used to imprison people for AIDS in government run sanatoriums. And covid taught us the last fucking people to have a monopoly on health services is the government. We locked down our entire country not only for a 14 year olds science project her daddy ripped off but for a disease that was not as impactful as it was claimed to be. But since none of you care about that maybe you will care about this: Republicans will have a hand in what medical treatments you get. Abortion rights are state dependent now but government run healthcare in a conservative majority? It would almost be worth it just to see you lose the rights the free market would have never touched.
@@heavens_best1905 In Denmark, one of the most successful states with public health care, it is not considered a right but a service provided to you in return for your taxes. The right to life IS considered a right because Danes think of it as something inherent to the human condition. Meanwhile, public healthcare isn't even in the constitution. This argument is of course a semantics argument just as Chris said, but I think it's an important one. Calling it a right is a disingenuous attempt to shape the context of the conversation instead of simply making arguments for what a practical implementation would look like. PS, I support public health care in the USA but think we need to be careful, Denmark's only works because of the moral and cultural background of Danish society, something that we do not share with them.
I understand what you are trying to say, but the word “rights” is being applied to things it should not like “sexist”. People need water and food much more than healthcare. Those are not rights. You do not have a right to be fed by someone else. Just like you don’t have a right to FORCE someone to make you do something. We can set up charities and programs to assist those in need. But that does not mean they are rights. Also, you do not lose your right to speak if there is no money for cops. The police BORROW our collective power to detain and enforce standard from us. If they don’t exist, it is up to us to maintain and enforce those rights. That’s what the right to bear arms is for.
I love listening to Americans justify being the only Western country that doesn't have basic free healthcare. Keep paying those health insurance premiums!
I really enjoy this style of video Chris. It really compliments your more scripted and heavily edited ones which I also enjoy lol. Hope we keep getting blessed with uploads🙏🏻
In regards to the UBI, the issue isn't just when a larger number of people are unemployed, it's when a large number of people become unemployable. As Chris says, when automation kicks out huge number of people out of the labor market, there will need to be something to prevent them from dying in poverty. If your solution is that they should get training for the jobs that remain, congrats all you've done is over-saturated the labor market for those fields, driving down the wages, and likely benefits, of those jobs. Essentially it what needs to be done as we approach a post scarcity society. At least in terms of labor.
And like, automation isn't even a bad thing. We should WANT to live in a world where we leave the menial shit to the robots, so we can focus on things like getting off this godforsaken rock. There's an entire galaxy left for us to explore, but nobody's trying to explore it because you have to worry about who's gonna nuke who, or who's gonna maintain everything.
The solution should be to create new jobs now that people don’t have to do low-skilled/menial work. But for as much as people _talk_ about automation, it’s still taken a long time to take over, and it still hasn’t to the degree people fear monger will happen “soon”. There’s time to figure this stuff out. All of these content creators/streamers is a good example of an alternative/new job. Obviously not something everyone can pick up (doing a job is different from being entertaining), but a lot of them are young and have or would have worked retail jobs or other basic jobs. Now they’re doing something else that automation can’t replace.
I feel like he doesn't understand the difference between Liberal and Progressive on the overton window. The left (and the right to be honest) has really fractured into two major sides that hate each other. Really, both sides hate you the more towards the center you are (aka reasonably willing to listen to and work with both sides without screaming at them and blacklisting them).
That's intentional, why would they want YOU in particular to understand their dogshit, they just want you to agree no matter how outlandish their claims are.
@@necrosteel5013 True. Corporate political media loses its power when people understand what's going on around them(to preface, any corporate political media for either side). And to keep that power they talk about the most outlandish shit to keep our focus there. Hell, in Canada, content creators are being limited so these business can still run smoothly.
No he doesn't. He spouts pop culture leftist talking points his arguments are so bad he resorts to godwins law. He complains about "right vs left" while reducing anyone who disagrees as conservatives. Hangs out with hyper political people like vaush and shoeonhead. "Health care is a human right" funny California made it legal to give aids to people thanks to Scott weiner. Where is the outrage?
@@Darkcide-tl7kl I really like shoe, but I've taken some serious issue since she started hanging around Vaush. Anyone that hangs around Vaush gets terrible ideas. Anybody that hangs around Hasan Piker instantly becomes completely insufferable, though. And yeah, I really hate whenever you criticize any recent position of the left they immediately dismiss you as 'right wing' using 'right wing talking points,' just because you aren't cheerleading their behavior.
I can relate to you on some level with this left vs right tribal bullshit, I'm someone who has a lot of Liberal opinions but I'm also not completely mentally ill and insane so I find I end up buting heads a lot with absolutely everyone in the political spectrum, so it's nice to see someone I relate too
I like your take on rights. Even tough its wrong. A right is something that is inherent to human beings, in predates the state. As such there are only 3 human rights at all. Those that a human would be able to exercise if he was alone on an island and there was no state. That would be the freedom of expression/speech, property and movement. Everything else will require the labor of somebody else and by definition can not be a right. Healthcare can not be a right because then you would be entitled to the time and labor of a doctor. You would be entitled to the time and labor of the person who made the pills or the band aid. And that's slavery. You are entitled to exchange your time and labor for a mode of exchange, or currency as one might say and then you are entitled to exchange that amount of currency which is your property for a good or service which is nothing else than time and labor of somebody else. And these things will depend on the state, as we need to make sure there is an authority that will enforce a contract that isn't just the humans who are involved in it. Well that does not depend entirely on the state as a mafia can take over that part but I'd prefer if we had a state do that.
2:44 I'm a hard progressive/leftist/demsoc, whatever you want to call me. A big issue for me with a lot of fellow leftists is that we live online a lot and understand what makes things problematic, but then view everything slightly problematic from an antagonizing lens. This really cuts into the outlook of a lot of American comedy in leftist circles. A lot of humor covers touchy subjects and problematic perspectives which immediately raises alarms in a lot of well-intentioned people. However a lot of these jokes are not necessarily made in poor taste; there are plenty of comedians who make great jokes on these issues in good taste, not necessarily punching down or enabling any sort of oppressive belief. Knowing "in what taste" a joke was made is fairly subjective, but what isn't subjective is how many of these jokes are definitely not the problem, but still have too much attention diverted to them. It's very easy for the average internet leftist to comment or make a post about seemingly problematic content on RUclips or Twitter, but it's much more difficult for the same person to address legitimate social or structural issues that enable such beliefs, which is why so many people resort to the former. I think it's really important, as any sort of leftist or progressive, to keep in mind the very real, structural aspects of society that enable oppression or discrimination and to focus your energy on those things, rather than giving in to the easy out of ranting about content that may or may not be problematic. Organize with people, either at your workplace or your neighborhood or your building or whatever, build a community, and show these fucking corporations what their priorities should really be.
@@valian8985 Curious what you are working on as an engineer. Also hard to have any leftist country remain stable with the US performing coups on them the moment a socialist takes office. Officials literally admit to doing so on live television, with no repercussions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America You should read up a bit.
Saying something is a right or not isn't just a pointless semantical argument, it's important. By calling something a right you are saying that there is an entitlement and obligation that has to be respected. It invalidates an individual person's own feelings about whether they want to be involved in that or not when normally they should be able to decide that for themselves. Chris also lists a ton of things as rights that aren't even rights so it's important for him to understand this sort of thing (education is not a right for example). The point of a right is that it is something that you would have in isolation without society. When rights were created the political thinkers established these as things that should be protected as a respect to the individual. They are things an individual would have without interference from another. Things you are protected to have by society because otherwise you would be oppressed by the coexistence with others if you are not entitled to them within society when you otherwise would have them. Rights are intended to be a mechanism to ethically include the individual in a society by protecting them from issues created by coexistence with others. This is why rights are things like not being DEPRIVED of something (like access to water) by other people and not things like being REQUIRED TO DO something for another person (like having to give them money). Note that you are not entitled to have water provided to you but that you can't be prevented by another person from accessing it when you otherwise would be able to. Saying that healthcare should be a right is the complete opposite of what a right is meant to be, you would be oppressing people by obligating them to do something for another person against their will when that person is not entitled to having you do anything for them.
Man I love your videos like this, I often find myself politically confused and videos where you help break down some things like this is helpful to find my own opinion and where I stand. Thank you for helping me rationalize my own opinions over the years and get out of the toxicity that is “gotcha” politics and start thinking for myself in that regard. I feel like I was such a smooth brain before I realized the way I viewed politics in general wasn’t remotely healthy.
Coming from a center-right fan's perspective, I never thought that because you were funny and not insane (a SJW) that you knew what you're talking about with regard to poiltics/policy. I don't think you do, and that's okay. I enjoyed your content then, for what it was, and I enjoy it now. I'm glad that Colin started a show with you at the time that he did. It's excellent, and I'm happy for your success. It's nice to see the good guys winning. The anti-SJW shit "died" because they won; anyone who has taken a look around in the last couple of years can see that. The average Joe leftist has backed out of those discussions out of fear. Hell, they're still clearly trying to smack you around for not being completely in the cult. It's too bad.
'You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot get one, one will be provided to you." An attorney being provided to you by the state for free is a privilege. You are legally allowed to be your own attorney.
I dunno, the right to counsel seems like a right instead of a privilege and it seems pretty clear that the 6th includes the right to *appointed* counsel *and* the right to represent oneself.
My dude, that you waive your right to an attourney and repersent yourself does not make the right to an attourny any less of a right. You have a right to free speach, does not mean you have to. You have a right to bear arms, does not mean you have to.
Thanks again for engaging with my stuff! Next videos won’t be serious, I promise.
So you’re saying we’re too dumb for serious content? Just wow, literally screaming and shaking and farting right now
WHAT THE FUCK TWO VIDEOS IN A DAY CHRIS WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING WITH YOU
A little of column A, little of column B... you did good here, Chris. I trust you will be interesting to watch next time.
It's been 7 years, you have to let go it's what the masterchief would have wanted chris
I patiently await "Rightoids can't take a joke" The Musical
"I lived in la for 6 years and I lived in New York for 22"
My condolences to you.
Never felt so called out in an intro before. Like you’re not wrong but jeezus bro. In the immortal words of the artist formerly known as Thomas Sweenard, “will you please calm dooooowwn”
Man spends half of his last video talking about how everywhere is on fire, and then wonders why I'm chilling in my underwear. Stop being so judgmental, Christopher
**me, who hasn’t worn anything but pjs this entire weekend**
Sween the artist formerly known for having a Peen.
Jokes on you Chris you cant criticize my out fit if i'm naked! (nudist)
Legit was taking a shit in the midst of that… he’s not wrong
Chris: "I'm extremely racist and I skin puppies alive when I'm bored"
Wow Chris I cant believe you definitely totally said that
dude i know, wasnt it crazy how he said hitler was kinda right?!?!?!>>!?!?!>!?!>
He said those things!??! Now im mad! Screw watching the video, twitter NEEDS to know about this!
@@crimsonking440 yeah wait till Twitter chris!!!
Ya, only when he's bored? He needs to step up his game and do it more!
@@spiritbx1337 wow I really can't believe you said that. It's a hobby and should stay like that. Let the pros do it full time. Stop stealing jobs of people who need them
2 videos in 1 year. This is getting crazy!
At this rate, hell is going to open and spew his demons
This joke is so freaking epic
Impossible…
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
God tier comment
The whole "Right to an attorney" *"if you can't afford an attorney" "ONE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU"* bit fucking killed me. Thank you.
Me too bro lmao
Gold lol
I for one can't wait for Public Defender quality healthcare in our country.
@@robertdouth8979 they had better in the middle ages when they were blood-letting people, lmao
@@robertdouth8979 just like a public defender, if you don't need it and don't want it, you don't have to use the public option. Pay for private then.
and its quality is an issue of funding not a function of being a public good, as is evident looking at public education, for example, state by state especially.
1. Defending your views logically
2. Being humble in an opinion
3. Showing how precise your words were in the previous video
4. Showing how quickly people try to strawman your arguments
Really impressive video.
"Stupidity knows no party lines."
That's a shirt idea. Sell that shit!
That slogan isn't a shirt already? That's really weird.
As someone who has had their miranda rights read to them. You reading them to me was more intimidating than the real time.
And he probably respected your rights more than the cops did anyways.
"If you cannot afford an attorney *ONE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU*"
Best way to hammer the reason for the need of a public healthcare system.
Honestly I don't give two shits about the healthcare discussion cause:
1- I'm not American so it shouldn't concern me unless I plan on moving there,
2- Arguing about it is absolutely tiresome and those against public healthcare systems will absolutely not listen or take the defending arguments into consideration before presenting any possible refutations they might have.
3- I've been thrown more insults than I can imagine in these arguments cause of point 1. I've even been called a commie despite me thinking so lowly of them that a dog would look more deserving of rights (especially now with the Russia situation and communist parties around the world simping for the Kremlin).
@@OfficialDJSoru the whole provided for you thing, i get but the attorneys they get for you are generally people who dont really give a shit and 9/10 they work against your best interest just to get it over with, so i'm not a huge fan of what they give you but its technically better than representing yourself.
@@discussioncorner Not to mention the fact is more public defenders sound like the guy in My Cousin Vinny (not Vinny... the public defender in My Cousin Vinny), not Perry Mason.
@@OfficialDJSoru "those against public healthcare systems will absolutely not listen or take the defending arguments into consideration before presenting any possible refutations they might have. "
Let's be clear... this works both ways. People on BOTH sides have generally made up their minds and have little care or concern for what anyone else thinks.
"Stupidity knows no party lines." I love that. Gonna use that for sure.
For the record chris I wear a three piece suit just for your videos, thank you very much.
i love how you are cultivating the smooth brain gravel chewers from both sides of the American political spectrum. truly impressive, bringing us together like always chris
Chris, the great unifier!
Jreg would be proud
@@r.henryjr.1533 Another point for the radical centrists yet again
Jesus showed we are all equal by loving us equally, Cris showed we are all equal by hating us equally
gravel do be tasty tho
Its difficult to describe the frustration I feel when seeing someone... anyone pick a side ETERNALLY. Our two party system was flawed enough, now we have people running around worshipping it like its actually going to save us. So no, YOUR party is not right about everything. Why not actually developing your own opinion on these subjects? That said... Love the videos Chris, highly entertaining, and is always nice to hear someone speak an actual opinion.
My beliefs have swung so wide over the years.
Preach !
What’s even more frustrating is the people like that guy that are entirely on one side just because they didn’t like something one side said. I know too many people (like my brother) who are only conservative because they saw some liberal in 2014 say that “all white people are inherently evil” or something like that
I'm an actual Jew and I laughed my ass off at that Anne Frank joke... don't let these 🤡 getcha down Chris
I'm Jewish, & German descent, and I died on the Anne frank joke. I've added it to my list of highly offensive jokes list.
Thank you Chris!
I'm American and I'm sorry you both had to deal with jokes like that. 😟😣😒😮💨
Not all of you guys are bad people, Some of you are good, nice people i wouldn't mind becoming friends with! 😏🙂😄😀
Are you kidding?!jokes like that are hilarious!
If you can't laugh at tragedy or at offensive things you might as well give up.
I'm American too.
I live by the mad Mike philosophy.
If you have a sacred cow, I will slaughter it in front of you, and laugh.
I'm a fake Jew and I say "Oy gevalt, shut it down!"
Chris, could we get some more of this? Like, I'd rather have two videos from you be one with spicy takes and full of memes and one right after where you riff on comments or whatever, rather than two videos uploaded 3 months apart because, like, a LOT happens these days in 3 months and a 20 minute video can't possibly cover it all.
Not a bad idea
I also really enjoyed watching both videos in succession.
@@voidboi0 Right? Like, he obviously edited and uploaded it quickly, and we get a new video without him having to bust his ass to do his usual editing
yes
Yeah, I dug the everloving f-bomb out of this. It was an amazing 1-2-Combo.
"Chris is incredibly consistent in his beliefs, editing, and comedy"
"Wow, Chris is stuck in his anti-SJW SJW Nazi Jew days"
"Climate change is destroying the world, a clueless right-wing politician accused the creator of Metal Gear Solid of a political assassination, a celebrity was arrested for murder, failing corporations continue to push NFT scams... Oh yeah, also professional gamers were punished because a twittard thinks teabagging in a video game is sexual assault."
"Wow, SJW cringe compilation much? 2016 called, Sargon, they want their neo nazi gamergate rhetoric back"
Why is "anti-SJW" considered an insult?
It sure doesn't sound like one.
@@doclouis4236 It's an insult if you are an SJW I guess.
@@spiritbx1337 It's about as non-offensive as the word "Chud".
@@jonathanjones8839 just like every SJW got out of control after 2015 , and became more toxic than the side they're against
“I’m an atheist but that’s not very Christian” is such a great line
no.... no it's not...
@@bosstoober8782 yes, yes it is.
@@AnimosityIncarnate it's the equivalent of "oh, you won't let me [insert unspeakable act]? That's not very liberal"
@@AnimosityIncarnate not quite. If you have no skin in the game it's more like inane bleating instead of a clever jab
First off, why is it not christian.
What is love and whos the enemy?
Definitely Not a stranger.
Second off,
Why does he live by moral standards of Religious ppl, thats not very "liberal"
I find it hilarious when people try to equate content in videogames with real life actions. If they can't distinguish a fictional scenario with reality, that seems like a problem with them and them alone.
It's just a bunch of pixels. Calm down.
To be fair there seems to be an alarming rate of idiots on the internet especially social media who can't stop conflating fiction with reality, makes me genuinely scared for the future as a whole.
@@okamibredren9524 trans hmm *hmm*
I played crash bandicoot last night and now all of today I have the irresistible urge to jump on crates and people.
I play the Lego games, I guess that means I'm a vandal and a human trafficker.
@@valian8985 Trans people exist. Cry more.
I like to imagine that one of the first things Chris asks someone when first meeting them is "do you think t-bagging in video games is sexual assault?"
Hmm. Depends. Can sexual assault happen to a corpse?
Ah yes, shooting each other and executing downed enemies is fine, but if a virtual nutsack makes the slighest contact with an imaginary person's body the Hague is convened.
I want to get off this ride now, please.
I like the implication that game characters actually have fully rendered nutsacks under their armour
Totally. If they at least called the murder part a "lethal lead raping" I could see the angle where they view teabagging as sexual assault...but ignoring the murder part...(eyeroll)
I would blame the insidious and insane gender ideologues for this
No one gets off Mr. Bones Wild Ride!
I don't understand the people that take shit like that so seriously, it must be a miserable experience. I usually laugh if I get teabagged because it's funny to me. It's a video game, have fun. 🤦🏻♂️
"I can't let people think they're more clever than they are."
Christ man I love you lol.
The funny thing is that despite me being more right leaning, hearing your arguments was a fascinating experience. You were clear and logical in your points, and I feel like you're someone who has given these issues a lot of real thought. It is sad that the vocal minority is always the side that gets the most media attention, because I not only enjoyed what you had to say, but respected you for saying it. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but I admired what you had to say and how well you said it.
Honestly, what helps me get through political conversations without getting as defensive and learning more about other perspectives other than my own out there is focusing on asking people genuine *clarifying* questions. It helps me better contextualize what they believe and gets us both thinking.
I think the way each side is depicted makes it easy to forget that logical humans actually exist in this world. So many problems could be solved if everyone just came to the table respecting that we all (well…most of us) want things to be better and just might disagree about how to do it. Doesn’t help that our “leaders” refuse to do that as well though.
Cringelord
@that youtube channel You looking in a mirror?
@@thatyoutubechannel9953 Thank you for introducing yourself.
“I’m not saying UBI is the right answer - I don’t know…” explaining why you think something is likely the right answer and also admitting you aren’t omniscient is awesome. It’s so rare to hear someone say “here’s why I think this, but I can’t be 100% certain.” Wish I heard more of it
I think the thing that frustrates me the most about UBI is everyone who supports it 100% seems to have just given up. Like, there’s no way anything could be developed to slow the need for automation or increase the demand for actual human workers, it’s just “Looked, we are fucked. This is the only solution. We’re not looking into any other options. #YangGang2024”
👍As long as something is presented from a point of reasonability, I have no problem hearing anyone out. If flawed, that can come out and either adjustments made or scrap the plan.
@Get 2 Don’t really have one? It’s not for me, but I get why someone would want to live that life
@Get 2 people need to struggle to some kind of degree. Humans are not built to live in completely stress free environments. Look at what the pandemic did and how drastically that affected people’s mental health. People had months to pursue other opportunities and hobbies and most did not come out on the other side better. The idea that humans will just exist while machines do everything for us is terrifying to me. Even creative fields are being taken over by AI (like the paintings Chris showed.) We can’t just hand everyone money and go “Oh well, we’re fucked!” There needs to be be more done that demands less automation/more human jobs be created. UBI is a band-aid on a wound that needs stitches. A good one no doubt, but it’s not the end all be all solution some people tout it as
@@LateNightTableCo Just tell that to the 1% that most likely inherited all their wealth and never had to do real work once in their lives. But I'm sure you think cashing all of our incrisingly higher rent checks and pay us $10 an hour for our mind numbing shit jobs is a very hard and stressfull life.
I appreciate the fact that the needler wasn't edited in. True dedication right there.
I almost spit out my coffee at the intro 🤣 Much love Chris
😂 me too. As I'm sitting here in my day sweat shorts, t-shirt, no make-up, smoking a Marlboro thinking....💁♀️ hey he's talking about me. LoL
I choked. It was scary and funny.
I felt guilty, because I am sitting here in my undies and a coffee stained white shirt
@@patriciawitt8174 LOL! He probably is talking about you, Sister! 😄😆😏😃
@@Makumbator You go Dude!
Chris, you being sincere for a minute is just like sexual assault. It tricked me into letting my guard down and you took advantage of that.
As a Canadian, its always so bizarre to me how many american's are against universal health care. Like, nearly every other country in the world has some sort of health care. I can not fathom breaking a leg or having a baby, or needing treatment for cancer and having to pay nearly everything out of pocket.
@max omalley You seem very confused about what universal healthcare is. It has nothing to do with multiculturalism. In my country, all citizens who are employed have to pay a tax, every month from their salaries, that goes specifically to a public healthcare fund. These funds are then used to provide care to people who need it. Also, you have to be eligible in order to benefit from these "free" services: you have to contribute to the fund if you are able to (when you are no longer a child or a student), except for emergency services, which are free for everyone. And we still have private healthcare services for people who can afford them.
@max omalley Ok, then you are misusing the word culture here. Your opinion is based on political ideology not national or ethnic identity like you initially implied. There are clearly citizens in the US who would like universal healthcare and others that wouldn't. The divide is between the political left and the political right. It has nothing to do with the country being "a melting pot".
The way I see it the issue in the USA is the right's individualism and the whole "self-made man" and "picking yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality, which I'm sorry to say but reminds me a lot of the Wild West days. In other countries we encourage collaboration and helping each other out more. The town is big enough for all of us!
We’re very spoiled for another video, thank you for putting more time into a great video!
Buckle up cause there won't be any for half a year at least
@@gthek9751 I’m prepared to be disappointed lol
Dude I'm loving, like actually FUCKING LOVING the content you're putting out recently the recaps and this glasses off are all amazing.
Even though I disagree with Chris on a lot of his opinions, I love that he seems like a person you could actually have a productive conversation with. Just the fact that he’s willing and able to reasonably articulate his point and understand the other side. Keep doing your thing man I love seeing your stuff from time to time
As much as I loathe the "abolish private property" tankies, there should definitely be some form of regulation in regards to large real estate corporations, american aristocracy, and foreign investors buying out vast swathes of American land purely for the purpose of investment, especially when those groups are investing against the interest of the American public to ensure as many people are stuck in rent traps, unable to own their own property.
Why shouldn't we abolish private property?
@@Ghdfshhs Because people like having their own stuff, numbnuts.
@@Ghdfshhs Nice hammer and sickle icon...and name... a little bit on the nose though, don't you think?
@@Ghdfshhs Because giving the government that much trust is the dumbest fucking idea in the world
Why there's balance and good points in all systems. Unchecked capitalism *is* terrible and leads to bad things, but Communism leads to worse things, much faster. A little of column A and a little of column B is where it's at.
"staggerling daft and bewilderingly inept" is a very good line
4:55 This is one of the most common misunderstandings about rights. The idea is that rights are fundamental rights you have as a human being regardless of country and be violated by individuals. If rights were purely country dependent then there would be no such thing as a country violating human rights. Originally the idea was that they are "god given" meaning it was going against god to violate them. Now like most secular moral systems we simply believe it would be morally wrong to deny them. To make this clear to you it is considered an infringement on someone's HUMAN rights to deny them something purely on the bases of their race. That's why it was called Civil Rights and applied to private businesses just as much as the government. It makes me, someone who a lot of religions do not like cause I like the same sex, almost wish we all feared god again just so people understood they aren't given by the constitution and the government. They are just protected by them.
Well said.
Chris: the fact that you let yourself look like that whenever you're alone is a gargantuan red flag.
Me: I'M TAKING A SHIT, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT!
At least shit with dignity man.
Wear an ascot.
Same
I definitely lean right on political issues. That being said, in the 7 years I've been watching you, and the few years watching snark tank, your politics never once made me stop watching. Your views we're always logical and I agree with many of them. The old BLM and feminist videos were always on point, but that doesn't mean you had to stop being left leaning. I think the problem stems from the fact that you're an ACTUAL left leaning person...while your detractors have gone off the plot. They're not lefty, or Democrat...they're just mind controlled media manipulated crazy persons. That's why you got labeled alt right so many times. We don't all have to agree folks, just don't be an asshole. Even when Chris is being an asshole...he's not really being an asshole. They're called jokes. Joooooooookes. Thanks for the videos.
Btw....More Paul please.
iirc correctly chris mentioned his regret at possibly participating in the alt right pipeline. It's been a minute since I watched the video addressing it, so grain of salt on that. I think a lot of folks that made anti-sjw content have made comments about regretting their participation in that whole deal. I don't think anyone could have known alt right shit would go as far as it has, it's why I don't blame chris, shoe, etc for the fucking weirdo maga dildos.
I just posted a comment very very similar to this and agree entirely. The left and the right both must exist to create a check and balance of ideas. Hating the other side is dangerous and turning it into a game that your team must win is how society falls .
@@ChunskieFartFilms Or a better system could be created that isn't choosing between two evils. 2 party systems suck shit and are naturally adversarial.
@@SendarSlayer There is no better system, we live in hell world with no possibility of utopia. The individual will always band together with their ideologies. The problem lies in each individual learning to find common ground in different issues.
@@ChunskieFartFilms There are better systems. The US even had one until about Lincoln.
The founding fathers were terrified of a democracy. "A republic, if you can keep it" was what they created.
Chris ray gun has been making good content for a decade now, which is impressive
I do love that the one insinuating oneness on the left clearly pays no attention to the cannibalism that actually occurs frequently on the left
Dave Rubin got eaten alive for having kids on the right so, it’s kind of everywhere. Toe the line! It’s more of a thing on the left tho for sure.
They're going to find gods dead body on Mars
@@ChrisRayGun It routinely happens to creators/public figures on the left, maybe its about the opportunity to signal virtue. I wouldn't doubt right leaning divisions are more personal, since its so often about intolerance of individuals (race, religion, sex/sexuality, etc)
It's always interesting to hear another person's perspective on things; especially when they're more level headed and willing to engage others rather than simply going on the offensive 24/7. I'd certainly be interested in hearing an in-depth conversation between yourself and the likes of Sitch and Adam over some of the beliefs you've expressed here.
>video titled "glasses off"
>keeps his glasses on
Chris' upload schedule right now is just to spite JonTron I bet
JonTron has an upload schedule? What is it once a year?
I'm absolutely loving these recent videos. Your points have so much rationale that it's insane that someone is actually saying what I've been thinking for a while to a large audience of people. I really love that you said "not everyone from the left agrees with one another" and that "it isn't just left and right". Like politics is so nuance and it's a huge spectrum and it fluctuates. There is depth to the political spectrum
Centrism isn't "finding the compromise between good and bad things"
Saying a centrist would actually argue that "not all slavery is bad" is a pretty disingenuous way of portraying centrism.
We're in the center of the political spectrum, we're not in the center of all morality.
We agree with some political stances on the left, and we agree with some political stances on the right, and in some situations we might agree with parts of either side on the same argument. But beating up the same dead horse argument by pulling out the extremes goes exactly against the idea, and it honestly pisses me off.
the "xD le centrists bad!! le spineless!!" is a shit fucking joke that's been dead for so long and i wish it would die already
counterpoint: making fun of centrists is very funny
I am very right leaning, but Chris is one of those people who really gets me to think for both sides. Things aren't black and white. If you explain yourself in a way that is not pure ideological garbage, people will hear you out. My "side" is treated like human beings by this man. I always appreciate a reasonable perspective.
Keep up the great stuff Chris.
There's only 2 sides the people and the government
13/50 should knock that off a little.
That or you can be like me and piss off both sides by being an obnoxious, radical centrist, but that's your choice in the end.
Likewise. It’s kinda hilarious since I constantly get attacked as if I’m literally a goosestepping bad guy’s henchman from WW2 by the more politically vocal folks on GameFAQs’ Politics board, yet I watch Chris and Dev (Short Fat Otaku) on a regular basis alongside a variety of folks on different parts of the political spectrum since I actually want a balanced view on things as opposed to simply staying in an echo chamber.
You're right leaning and you like video games? How is this possible?
I’m not sure how to word this without being corny, but I really value your content, Chris. It’s super nice to be able to sit down and listen to someone speak sense for ~15 mins.
14:54
Christianity: Basically Socailism
American Conservatives: "I'm gonna pretend i didn't see that"
How exactly?
Wrong
Since you uploaded 2 videos in a span of few days I actually consider this now as a regural upload schedule.
Oh my god the attorney bit was bloody shocking. Makes me imagine how you’d go with stand up 🤣
Yeah, hes done a couple open mic nights
Chris, if you keep uploading like this you’re bearing my children wether you like it or not. (Platonically)
"If you can't afford an attorney, *one will be provided to you* "
I'm gonna use this point from now on when people imply the government is simply unable to provide healthcare
Shit point, the court is a government institutions that can have which ever service it wants to provide - the attorney is a government employee, she or he has other options. Medicare for all, in this example will force doctors to work only with a government insurance.
The court, police and military are the exception to the market economy as they are required for one to run and make violent actions unprofitable. They are monopolies. However security services and attorney offices are always open for your business.
Plus, if you think about it, it proves the opposite point, attorneys provided by the state are usually bad - if you are ok with a shit service as long as its free, you haven't had the luxury of actually having a bad health care service then.
Yes, because I want a doctor with the same failure rate as a count appointed attorney.
@@vod96 well said. I also love how he believes the rushed and untested covid vaccine is somehow similar to vaccines in the past.
@@GameOgreDonkey Its not untested ffs, when you throw such an insane amount of money at smth it doesnt take as long since literally everyone is working on it
@@GameOgreDonkey That's the thing. He says the right is anti-vax and anti-Covid vaxx because of the FDA thing... which is not true at all. Maybe for a small crazy, flat-earther part of the right, but certainly not the majority. Plus, most of us are not even against the thing being available to the public, but we are against it being ENFORCED by the government. He pulls out one of the fringe and shitty talking points and implies most of us think like that. I am literally against it being enforced. I am against it affecting whether or not you can get a fucking job. Like wtf?
I, personally, am against the covid vaxx because I know who and what supports it (aka - the rich billionnaires who invested into Pfizer and shit before they administered the vaccine to the public) (also Bill Gates - someone who supports population control through a mysterious vaccine plan)(also Pfizer has the largest criminal fine in the world). You want to take it? Fine, be my guest, but why the fuck should I be forced to take it if Covid is not gonna go away anyways?
Yes, I know sitting on the porcelain throne watching this video when I need to be getting ready for work is a bit awkward, Mr. Ray Gun, but when nature calls, you definitely gotta answer unless you want “accidents” in your pants later on. 😏
Dump gang
"Stupidity knows no party lines." 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
What the fuck we've been blessed with two videos in a row. Are you dying chris ?
8:15 I've noticed this too. A lot of what was considered "right wing" has been adopted by leftists and vice versa. One instance in particular is the criminal justice model. In criminology, I learnt about the two models of criminal justice: crime control, and due process. Crime control is guilty until proven innocent, and due process is innocent until proven guilty. In the textbook and in class, I was taught that due process is left realism and crime control is right realism, but I couldn't help but think to myself about how it seems like it has switched. The Kyle rittenhouse trial came to mind, where the left were saying he was guilty and lying about him even after he was acquitted
The fact that we're trying to figure out if the concept of "due process" is a "right-wing" or "left-wing" thing just shows how much we've degraded as a nation.
The Left: "Bodily autonomy! You shouldn't be killed in the street because people THINK you may have commited a crime, and normal citizens shouldn't have guns!"
Also The Left: "Vaccine mandates! Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer who should have been killed in the street by an angry mob, and Ukranian citizens need more guns! Send money and guns to Ukraine!"
Hmm...
Sounds like schooling brainwashed you like everyone else.
@@Pamijay wrong he didn't drive with any weapon anywhere. It was in kenosha when he got there. To help one of his hometowns. So as much as I agree with your top half your last paragraph is misinformation.
This sounds more like an authoritarianism vs libertarianism thing.
Also, your example is rather poor. Nobody tried to deny Rittenhouse his due process. A better example would be the MeToo movement or the general discourse over sexual assault conviction rates, where people have actually argued in favour of weakening the standards of evidence and the burden of proof, so that sexual assault suspects would be easier to convict. This is something that has happened, and it was indeed from outlets that are considered liberal, like The Guardian.
This video unironically changed my entire view on universal healthcare. Didn’t know my own line of thought could be quite as fucking flawed and hypocritical as it was. Thanks man.
I honestly think the "definition of a right" discourse is a digression, probably strengthened by the terminology media uses to talk about these things. What leftists actually want is public healthcare, not "the right to" public healthcare, yet that's all people seem to argue about. There are a lot of barriers preventing bipartisan progress, i'm guessing because the establishment benefits from us normies infighting.
Imagine this being true.
Listen I’m for universal healthcare but your mind shouldn’t be changed so easily because that indicates that your mind could be changed for the wrong reasons at the drop of a hat. But still obviously glad you’re rethinking shit
On another note, I genuinely believe you're spot-on on automation and the creation of a renter class. It's a chilling thought that at some point in the next 50 years we might be so automated that we can't work, and we might genuinely be in the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" future. I don't know that UBI can help, but if we're automated enough to provide for everyone, I guess "why not?"
I had a problem with the mandate, not the vaccine in general. I think it’s a real problem that you had to get it to work. That sets a terrible precedent for bodily rights and look where it went…
It's a pandemic. Over a million deaths in the US alone have been attributed to it. If people are too stupid or just plain don't care about other people's lives, then mandating the vaccine was the responsible government action.
Imagine what the death toll (not even mentioning the people that get severely sick) would be without mandated vaccines.
Do you have a problem with seatbelt laws, or any of the other countless laws put in place to keep stupid people safe?
Oh, and I forgot to say...implying that the vaccine mandate during a global pandemic somehow set a precedent for (I'm assuming) Rove vs Wade being overturned...the leap of logic is impressive.
"Stupidity knows no party lines" ~ Chris Ray Gun 2022
I'm so fed up with people using left this or right that. Anytime I hear people say things in absolutes, I usually avoid them.
I have always been extremely libertarian but even though I disagree with you some times I still genuinely enjoy all of your content. It always makes me laugh when you make fun of the right or left even if I fall a little more right in terms of libertarians.
The “SJW/Anti-SJW” distinction is so annoying because it frames anyone who simply doesn’t like cynical pandering or moral hysteria as some lunatic reactionary. It’s like you can be a full blown communist and find woke scolding obnoxious. It’s the reason comedy podcasts like CumTown have been popular. The collective culture lost its mind when we started mixing up “edgy” or even just mean spirited art, media, jokes, and whatever else with being right wing. You can support leftist economics and even general cultural values without falling in line with the loons who finger wag and frame everything as problematic.
I think BreadTube has done a diabolically excellent job at selling such a hysterical point of view to the public.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 Yeah it’s a horrible overcorrection.
@@HeyFella I blame CIAtube for Bernie Sanders losing the primary and the right wing going even more crazy and far right because they alienated all the somewhat reasonable pro-choice right wingers by accusing them of being Nazis. They also ignored the evidence for reasonable doubt for the James Fields murder trial which shows that they are bad-faith glow-in-the-dark spooks. Just because he’s a neo-Nazi (with a Jewish grandfather so technically if he wanted to he could have moved to Israel and run over Palestinian Heather Heyer with a bulldozer) doesn’t me he doesn’t deserve a fair trial! And it scares the shit out of me that jurors don’t even know the meaning of reasonable doubt anymore! They vote guilty based on political bias and circumstantial evidence as though this were a civil suit!
What's woke scolding
@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 I'd define wokescolding as: A purity culture centered around intersectionally derived social morals, where social capital is gained by seeking out and displaying evidence of the perceived impurity of others for public derision.
As someone who just bought a house. Businesses and foreign interest, specifically China, were a major issue for me to find a house. They're paying WAY over asking 100k USD cash down offers while I'm a single human with life savings. I'm genuinely concerned about our financial future as a country.
Intro: I cannot believe you let yourself look like that
Me, after a heatwave in an apartment right under the roof with no AC, who thusly spent most of his time at home basically naked to not sweat like a pig: Ouch...
I'm sorry you had to deal with that. I hoped you drank plenty of water to keep yourself cool. 😣😞
Counteragrument: I didn't take the vaccine, I'm fine. Guess we're even there.
Other than that, I agree for the most part. Tired of everything being labeled right wing and left wing as though it means anything.
That's the equivalent of saying "I got shot, I'm fine" yeah you can survive that? But ya know what's easier to survive? Not getting shot at all, and it's easier to avoid shit when you're vaccinated. Is this a hard concept for you? Because it shouldn't be
@@JowoeBunchaNumbers Except the vast majority of people who have not gotten the vaccine yet got the rona survived with no lasting consequences.
I'm not saying the vaccines hurt you. I'm simply stating; the vaccine made next to zero difference, if it made any difference at all.
Basically: I didn't need a thicker sweater to survive a nurfgun.
I scream YOU WILL NOT REPLACE US to my toaster every morning
5:56 makes me think of Starship Troopers: “When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived... Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."
@@HennyVenny
It's a serious perspective present in some way in the source book, and the film debatably fails to pull off it's intended satirical desires effectively, as if the book authors intent shines past the directors goals.
Emphasis on debatably though, some people think it's satire worked, some think the film worked in spite of the directors beliefs.
@Henrietta Vermillion Reminder that the MOVIE was sabotaged by a scummy commie who was mad that the BOOK satirised communism.
The Federation was the product of an anticommunist revolution.
@@StickNik It's definitely not in your face like some satire. Certainly not Blazing Saddles level of obvious satire, but it's satire nonetheless. You can turn your brain off and watch it as a generic sci fi action movie, but if you analyze what you're watching, you start to get the feeling that something isn't right. That kind of subtle satire is what can make people realize what they've been conditioned to believe. It can also fly over the heads of some people, but that's just the nature of it.
@@HennyVenny And it’s important to note the book was an exaltation of pseudo-fascist doctrine.
@@arlaux1099
The director assumed it was fascist, hence his Hugo Boss style uniforms and such, but there is little fascism in the film at least regarding human society.
You literally have leaders stepping down and being replaced over singular failures, media showing debate between opposing viewpoints, and voting even if it needs to be earned via service.
The discussion around rights boils down to how you feel about negative vs positive rights. For a negative right, somebody else cannot infringe upon your right. However, they don't have to do anything to perpetuate it. With positive rights, somebody else must provide you with something. I personally largely disagree with the idea of positive rights because a right that can be passively violated due to a fundamental lack of something (i.e. not enough doctors exist to treat you) seems absurd to me. Just look to the quality of public defenders to see just how meaningless such a right can be. That's not to say that I disagree with trying to provide things like food, healthcare, or legal representation to everybody. I only disagree with terming them inalienable rights.
Just look at socialist european country "free healthcare" (Paid by tax payer dolars) quality to continue you how bad it can be...
The only time I use inalienable right is with the second amendment.
It's the Lockean conception of rights vs Mill's conception, or Classical Liberalism vs Social Liberalism.
Utilitarians think, for some reason, it's okay to name services or goods rights because they derive the privileges they want the government to confer from the rights originally outlined by Locke, in order to produce the greatest good.
I doubt I have to tell you that since you understand the distinction between positive and negative rights already, but that is where it stems from. People who follow Rousseau, Kant and Mill almost always buy into the idea of positive rights because they believe that humans are fundamentally good. Locke did not believe that and did not conceive of the idea of rights within that framework though. He sought to be as objective as possible regarding their description and didn't take the morals or ethics of human nature into account when describing them, merely the human capacity to exercise their will on the world as an actor.
Because Social liberals believe that maximizing good is the best practice, they seek to create rights that the government should enshrine to bring about that maximum good.
Classical liberals do not believe that the government is capable of maximizing the good of individuals, rather, they only believe that it should be used to mediate disputes between them as a sort of minimum acceptable authority and be given no or very little power further, as it is just as susceptible to corruption as any human is, and that instead individuals should wherever possible, maximize the good in their own lives.
I think it's fine to have a middle ground where the government offers services that take care of people who are in need, social safety nets as you will, in order to prevent outstanding poverty and to help ensure the lower class can still function and work towards their own improvement and happiness. I just think it's important to distinguish what a right is, and to do away with the notion of positive rights altogether, as that particular school of thought leads to nothing but suffering when reality time and again proves it to be incorrect.
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need," comrade... 😅
@@icorrectly "He who does not work, neither shall he eat"
About AI, there is a difference between creating (especially aesthetics) and identification. One of the big hurdles in computers taking our jobs today is the ability to identify objects without help. There's also the issue of how much time and expense it takes to create robots/AI for a specific task vs. how much labor you save with the robot. If you have a job that cane be made exactly the same in thousands of different workplaces this advantages automation, but a lot of jobs are menial enough to be boring to people but just niche enough to not be worth automating. In time robots will become more and more generalized, and eventually from there less expensive, but it's hard to say how futuristic that world is.
8:38 because it was mandated. If they literally didn't mandate it and then LIE ABOUT IT CONSTANTLY the right wouldn't have been against it.
I mean to be fair isn’t the flue shot also mandated? Like you have to get it to work or go to school, unless I’m confused on what something being mandated means
@@boopinoop4545 no the flu shot has never been mandated.
Exactly. If it was made available, and then simply recommended, it wouldn't have been nearly as big if an issue, but he pretended it was just the fact it existed in the first place that was the issue, not people losing their jobs over it.
Because asking questions labelled you as an antivaxer! Even from the left, people were asking questions and made fun of doing so! I'm not against science or anything like that! But everything was very strange! 3-4 different companies came with different vaccines in, like under 2 years? That wasn't really a vaccine? That every time you needed more and more shots? But actually it has little effect? It's baffling how everyone is actually going along knowing the reputation of that industry! 8:50
The rent comment resonated with me a lot. Over here in Puerto Rico it feels like ya can't have shit. We're basically being exploited as a tax haven. Bunch of gringos buying property to make Airbnbs. I'm super left leaning and honestly shit over here feels pretty hopeless with what I mentioned, the climate crisis, etc. If another hurricane passes I'll probably end up as a climate refugee.
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I wonder do ya have an opinon on the status. Like do you have an opinion on the whole statehood or independence thing? Obviously I'm really left leaning so Im pro-independece though it certainly feels like the movement died years before I was born.
Have you tried not being Puerto Rican?
I heard about that while ago. weren't there laws being put in place that prevented non -citizens from buying land?
lol gotta love people who believe in something that has never been proven you climate change religious nuts are worse then any religion
@@kristofize As far as I'm aware if this has truly been put in place it is easily avoided by US mainlanders/gringos. I still hear the complaints and the interviews. What's more common is property/buildings so you see historical and low income neighborhoods becoming gentrified or just a bunch of Aribnbs. Obviously this still mainly happens in the northeastern parts of the island which is basically like the epicenter of US mainlander activity but it has been spreading quite a lot. Ya also have companies doing this which are more likely to do it anywhere really. Act 20 and 22 basically make us a tax haven. When I was growing up buying land and houses as a native was pretty hard already but nowadays it feels impossible. Even reasonable rent is hard to find since cost of life is pretty high but salaries for all of us are pretty low. Electricity bill keeps going up even though the service still sucks ass and they privatized it.
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This comes from a young person trying to begin to prosper. I'm finding it pretty hard to just exist even with a college degree and trade skill. Im definitely in a better place than a lot of people and if I move to the mainland I'm sure I can make it work but but it'd be me ignoring my wish to stay in the island.
Obviously Id also like to clarify that it's not all the fault of foreigners/gringos. If that problem didnt exist our govermment would still suck ass, we still have other colonial problems, etc.
those 30% wouldn't be starving in the streets. they'd be Rioting in them.
Honestly, if I felt our government was more competent I'd be cool with expanding to universal Healthcare. The thing is I worked at a VA hospital for a year and hated seeing veterans go through red tape just to get what should be considered basic care while handfuls of employees either cared about gossip or keeping their jobs while doing the least amount of work. Not getting billed an arm to get your leg checked out is nice but I wouldn't want the already stressed out health system I work in to get another layer of bullshit on it with cutting corners and possible money freezes when someone decides to shut the government down again.
As a person from a country with universal health care.
The funds that the government gives for health care do a lot. Yes we have lines for a lot of stuff and a lot of them are really long. And my government is a shit show of mostly Latvian vs Russian beliefs because we are ex-soviet. And being ex-soviet, we have noticeable corruption. And lazy people are everywhere. And Latvia is understaffed in medicine. Especially in nursing staff.
But i had to get a stich on my forehead in the middle of the night, i got a surgeon to get it stitched after I got an mri, because i took a socket wrench to the forehead. That cost me 16 euro i believe. And i didn't have private health insurance in which case i would have payed 0 euros for it. My dad had a broken intervertebral discand he chose to do it at the best place you can do it here so he had to pay 2k euros for it. His private health insurances covered half. An appointment with my gp costs me 2 euros. I don't believe that your country can't handle it, but you did work in the field, so you'd have a better understanding of what is better.
Yea you won’t be paying an arm and leg up front but you’ll be paying for it everywhere else at every point in your life
Stuff isn’t free
AND you’ll be paying for others dumb mistakes AND paying for visits you may never need
@@myfatassdick yeah, but it's so worth it. I don't have to worry about anything health related. It's really freeing. Yeah, sure, i pay like 23% in taxes, but i find that it's worth it. And i don't mind that what i pay for UH is used by someone else. It could have been me that's in poor health. I do believe that it's better for society as a whole to have everyone healthier by everyone chipping in a bit and that noone really is bankrupt by their medical bills
10:02 absolutely, thank you! I've played video games nearly my entire life and went back to college to become a game designer. This entire spiel about video games make you "X bad thing" is infinitely frustrating. The fact that its coming form both political sides now is just another reason I want to flip the bird to the entire political system.
edit: In accordance with the "stupidity knows no party lines" a lot of people are getting riled up about the teachers grooming kids issue and rightly so in my opinion. The problem is that...everyone seems to have magically forgotten that just a scant what...10 years ago it was I think, the churches were covering up priests touching small boys. And the political right backed them up and tried covering for them! But they want to act like pedo's are a strictly leftist issue.
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Ah man, even Carlin in the background is shocked by my horrific appearance.
Chris i just want you to know that im basically wearing the exact same things youre wearing in this video. Shouldnt throw stones in a glass house.
Chris I've said this before on other videos of yours where you seemed worried or discouraged about your upload pace and the quality of your content, honestly I doubt you've ever seen any of my comments but I will say it again: Most of us would watch an hour long unedited video where all you do is rant about how you stubbed your toe walking to the kitchen. You're entertaining, you seem like a good guy, and that's why a lot of us are here. I watched a livestream of yours that isn't up anymore I don't think where all you did was sing covers of songs you either liked or were suggested to you, and it was great. So don't let dickheads who are unhappy with their own lives and need to try and make it your problem discourage you.
*just got off work, literally just in shorts trying to make dinner and have background noise home alone. Only to get accurately and painfully attacked*
Raygun recaps are my favorite video you do, the style is fun and I don't even think of it as "anti" or "pro" anything it's just a funnier news read
6:11 let's put it in a way that would definitely annoy them: "Rights are a social construct"
Idk about that. It's kinda odd that people think that you have the right to be entitled to labor. For example in the video he mentioned free speech but you would have to use some type of force to prevent individuals from having that right compared to using force to make individuals who have the right to freedom perfom labor for the government. Free health care should still be a thing but it not really a right.
@@JohnDoe-vw4zf we decide what rights are, in most 1st world countries it is a right. America is unique in that regard.
@@JohnDoe-vw4zf Rights are 1000 percent a social construct. Without a government enforcing the ideas of the "social contract", no one cares what you think your entitled to in any situation. Without someone enforcing the ideas of what a right is, or isent, it dosent matter if YOU think you have the freedom of speech, because I THINK I have the freedom of stabbing you 42 times with knife for talking in a tone I dislike. So no matter what it boils down to what people overall think should and should not be a "right". If society gets to a point where they think that a universal income, or a basic universal healthcare should be a "right", then it will be.
@@heavens_best1905 In Cuba that "right" was used to imprison people for AIDS in government run sanatoriums. And covid taught us the last fucking people to have a monopoly on health services is the government. We locked down our entire country not only for a 14 year olds science project her daddy ripped off but for a disease that was not as impactful as it was claimed to be.
But since none of you care about that maybe you will care about this: Republicans will have a hand in what medical treatments you get. Abortion rights are state dependent now but government run healthcare in a conservative majority? It would almost be worth it just to see you lose the rights the free market would have never touched.
@@heavens_best1905 In Denmark, one of the most successful states with public health care, it is not considered a right but a service provided to you in return for your taxes. The right to life IS considered a right because Danes think of it as something inherent to the human condition. Meanwhile, public healthcare isn't even in the constitution.
This argument is of course a semantics argument just as Chris said, but I think it's an important one. Calling it a right is a disingenuous attempt to shape the context of the conversation instead of simply making arguments for what a practical implementation would look like.
PS, I support public health care in the USA but think we need to be careful, Denmark's only works because of the moral and cultural background of Danish society, something that we do not share with them.
At 7:30 Chris turned into Kanye for a sec 😂
love this vid chris, I dont agree with some things you say but I honestly thing you are a smart as hell dude and I respect your takes.
Yeah, he's decent at rationalizing his wrong opinions lol.
@@adriancopperblood1546 that's a negative way to look at it my guy. Consider touching grass.
@@geigerdos4360 yeah you're probably right, I like Chris and his content, I'm just fucking around.
I understand what you are trying to say, but the word “rights” is being applied to things it should not like “sexist”.
People need water and food much more than healthcare. Those are not rights. You do not have a right to be fed by someone else. Just like you don’t have a right to FORCE someone to make you do something.
We can set up charities and programs to assist those in need. But that does not mean they are rights.
Also, you do not lose your right to speak if there is no money for cops. The police BORROW our collective power to detain and enforce standard from us. If they don’t exist, it is up to us to maintain and enforce those rights. That’s what the right to bear arms is for.
I love listening to Americans justify being the only Western country that doesn't have basic free healthcare. Keep paying those health insurance premiums!
@@anarchycastro
Wow. You think healthcare in other countries is free. You must be from America. Or you are someone who never pays taxes.
I really enjoy this style of video Chris. It really compliments your more scripted and heavily edited ones which I also enjoy lol. Hope we keep getting blessed with uploads🙏🏻
In regards to the UBI, the issue isn't just when a larger number of people are unemployed, it's when a large number of people become unemployable. As Chris says, when automation kicks out huge number of people out of the labor market, there will need to be something to prevent them from dying in poverty. If your solution is that they should get training for the jobs that remain, congrats all you've done is over-saturated the labor market for those fields, driving down the wages, and likely benefits, of those jobs.
Essentially it what needs to be done as we approach a post scarcity society. At least in terms of labor.
Why not pay low skilled people to plant trees or something?
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 if jobs are automated to the point where 30 percent of people are unemployable, you don't think they'd have tree planting robots?
And like, automation isn't even a bad thing. We should WANT to live in a world where we leave the menial shit to the robots, so we can focus on things like getting off this godforsaken rock. There's an entire galaxy left for us to explore, but nobody's trying to explore it because you have to worry about who's gonna nuke who, or who's gonna maintain everything.
The solution should be to create new jobs now that people don’t have to do low-skilled/menial work. But for as much as people _talk_ about automation, it’s still taken a long time to take over, and it still hasn’t to the degree people fear monger will happen “soon”. There’s time to figure this stuff out. All of these content creators/streamers is a good example of an alternative/new job. Obviously not something everyone can pick up (doing a job is different from being entertaining), but a lot of them are young and have or would have worked retail jobs or other basic jobs. Now they’re doing something else that automation can’t replace.
Wow Chris really just called me out
The intro... I'm literally in my room in my underwear watching this RN (it's 90 degrees)
I fucking live for your vids bro keep up the fucking fantastic work
I love how coherently you explain left-wing policies, better than 99% of all politicians or talking TV heads.
I feel like he doesn't understand the difference between Liberal and Progressive on the overton window. The left (and the right to be honest) has really fractured into two major sides that hate each other. Really, both sides hate you the more towards the center you are (aka reasonably willing to listen to and work with both sides without screaming at them and blacklisting them).
That's intentional, why would they want YOU in particular to understand their dogshit, they just want you to agree no matter how outlandish their claims are.
@@necrosteel5013 True. Corporate political media loses its power when people understand what's going on around them(to preface, any corporate political media for either side). And to keep that power they talk about the most outlandish shit to keep our focus there. Hell, in Canada, content creators are being limited so these business can still run smoothly.
No he doesn't. He spouts pop culture leftist talking points his arguments are so bad he resorts to godwins law. He complains about "right vs left" while reducing anyone who disagrees as conservatives. Hangs out with hyper political people like vaush and shoeonhead. "Health care is a human right" funny California made it legal to give aids to people thanks to Scott weiner. Where is the outrage?
@@Darkcide-tl7kl I really like shoe, but I've taken some serious issue since she started hanging around Vaush. Anyone that hangs around Vaush gets terrible ideas.
Anybody that hangs around Hasan Piker instantly becomes completely insufferable, though.
And yeah, I really hate whenever you criticize any recent position of the left they immediately dismiss you as 'right wing' using 'right wing talking points,' just because you aren't cheerleading their behavior.
I thought the compromise between slavery and not slavery was working retail.
I can relate to you on some level with this left vs right tribal bullshit, I'm someone who has a lot of Liberal opinions but I'm also not completely mentally ill and insane so I find I end up buting heads a lot with absolutely everyone in the political spectrum, so it's nice to see someone I relate too
Nah, there is a loud minority on both sides that thinks that one "solution" was a good idea. 🤣
Damn, I didn't expect to click this video and get my outfit roasted by Chris
Love your content Christopher, I enjoy hearing you expand on all of the correct opinions we share.
I like your take on rights. Even tough its wrong. A right is something that is inherent to human beings, in predates the state.
As such there are only 3 human rights at all. Those that a human would be able to exercise if he was alone on an island and there was no state. That would be the freedom of expression/speech, property and movement. Everything else will require the labor of somebody else and by definition can not be a right. Healthcare can not be a right because then you would be entitled to the time and labor of a doctor. You would be entitled to the time and labor of the person who made the pills or the band aid. And that's slavery.
You are entitled to exchange your time and labor for a mode of exchange, or currency as one might say and then you are entitled to exchange that amount of currency which is your property for a good or service which is nothing else than time and labor of somebody else.
And these things will depend on the state, as we need to make sure there is an authority that will enforce a contract that isn't just the humans who are involved in it. Well that does not depend entirely on the state as a mafia can take over that part but I'd prefer if we had a state do that.
When you started reciting Miranda I knew exactly where the zoom ins and cut would be 😂😂. Fucking slam dunk on that guy
2:44 I'm a hard progressive/leftist/demsoc, whatever you want to call me. A big issue for me with a lot of fellow leftists is that we live online a lot and understand what makes things problematic, but then view everything slightly problematic from an antagonizing lens. This really cuts into the outlook of a lot of American comedy in leftist circles. A lot of humor covers touchy subjects and problematic perspectives which immediately raises alarms in a lot of well-intentioned people. However a lot of these jokes are not necessarily made in poor taste; there are plenty of comedians who make great jokes on these issues in good taste, not necessarily punching down or enabling any sort of oppressive belief.
Knowing "in what taste" a joke was made is fairly subjective, but what isn't subjective is how many of these jokes are definitely not the problem, but still have too much attention diverted to them. It's very easy for the average internet leftist to comment or make a post about seemingly problematic content on RUclips or Twitter, but it's much more difficult for the same person to address legitimate social or structural issues that enable such beliefs, which is why so many people resort to the former.
I think it's really important, as any sort of leftist or progressive, to keep in mind the very real, structural aspects of society that enable oppression or discrimination and to focus your energy on those things, rather than giving in to the easy out of ranting about content that may or may not be problematic. Organize with people, either at your workplace or your neighborhood or your building or whatever, build a community, and show these fucking corporations what their priorities should really be.
Yeah leftist building something... Prety funny....
@@valian8985 I'm an engineer....so keep laughing. Maybe you'll finally build a youtube channel that way lmfao.
@@Pamijay well im also an engineer building things....
Still waiting à functional leftist country...
@@valian8985 Curious what you are working on as an engineer.
Also hard to have any leftist country remain stable with the US performing coups on them the moment a socialist takes office. Officials literally admit to doing so on live television, with no repercussions
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
You should read up a bit.
@@Pamijay ahh yeah fore sûre USA perform coup on every leftist country....
What about China ? What about France then ?
Saying something is a right or not isn't just a pointless semantical argument, it's important. By calling something a right you are saying that there is an entitlement and obligation that has to be respected. It invalidates an individual person's own feelings about whether they want to be involved in that or not when normally they should be able to decide that for themselves. Chris also lists a ton of things as rights that aren't even rights so it's important for him to understand this sort of thing (education is not a right for example).
The point of a right is that it is something that you would have in isolation without society. When rights were created the political thinkers established these as things that should be protected as a respect to the individual. They are things an individual would have without interference from another. Things you are protected to have by society because otherwise you would be oppressed by the coexistence with others if you are not entitled to them within society when you otherwise would have them. Rights are intended to be a mechanism to ethically include the individual in a society by protecting them from issues created by coexistence with others.
This is why rights are things like not being DEPRIVED of something (like access to water) by other people and not things like being REQUIRED TO DO something for another person (like having to give them money). Note that you are not entitled to have water provided to you but that you can't be prevented by another person from accessing it when you otherwise would be able to. Saying that healthcare should be a right is the complete opposite of what a right is meant to be, you would be oppressing people by obligating them to do something for another person against their will when that person is not entitled to having you do anything for them.
That intro was a personal attack as I am loafing around in my pyjamas. How dare you.
Man I love your videos like this, I often find myself politically confused and videos where you help break down some things like this is helpful to find my own opinion and where I stand. Thank you for helping me rationalize my own opinions over the years and get out of the toxicity that is “gotcha” politics and start thinking for myself in that regard. I feel like I was such a smooth brain before I realized the way I viewed politics in general wasn’t remotely healthy.
Coming from a center-right fan's perspective, I never thought that because you were funny and not insane (a SJW) that you knew what you're talking about with regard to poiltics/policy. I don't think you do, and that's okay. I enjoyed your content then, for what it was, and I enjoy it now.
I'm glad that Colin started a show with you at the time that he did. It's excellent, and I'm happy for your success. It's nice to see the good guys winning.
The anti-SJW shit "died" because they won; anyone who has taken a look around in the last couple of years can see that. The average Joe leftist has backed out of those discussions out of fear. Hell, they're still clearly trying to smack you around for not being completely in the cult. It's too bad.
"and i like ape scape"
man of culture right there.
'You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot get one, one will be provided to you."
An attorney being provided to you by the state for free is a privilege. You are legally allowed to be your own attorney.
I dunno, the right to counsel seems like a right instead of a privilege and it seems pretty clear that the 6th includes the right to *appointed* counsel *and* the right to represent oneself.
My dude, that you waive your right to an attourney and repersent yourself does not make the right to an attourny any less of a right.
You have a right to free speach, does not mean you have to.
You have a right to bear arms, does not mean you have to.