Feedback: You are by far my favorite mtg YouTuber and I used to watch your videos daily. My friends and I stopped playing the game around the time that the Marvel cards came out due to WoC scandals, constant power creep, and wider availability of similar games, such as Gundam Card Game.
Nobody better give AOC any grief for riding around in private jets instead of taking the the cheap flight on Travelocity or whatever.
If the culprit is almost always right-wing and the motive is almost always boredom, then maybe we should stop pretending that liberals and leftists can change anything with their public statements condemning violence. Maybe the focus should be on the activities of bored conservatives.
If actual evidence of liberal misbehavior enters the right wing misinformation machine, does it make an impact? (The new “If a tree falls in the woods and no one’s around…” for our times).
What a beautiful day 🌞
One thing that never gets enough attention is how propaganda got us to this point in history. How can the 1st Amendment survive the machine that Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch built? We’re kidding ourselves if we think things will go back to sanity with our current media system intact.
Welcome to the Doll House and Happiness by Todd Solondz.
They aren’t weak and feckless when it comes to protecting corporate interests. They’ll play games when it comes to stopping fascists, but the gloves come off when a democratic socialist comes around.
For fascists to stop lying, their strategies need to stop being effective. For the kid who likes candy bars, for them to stop throwing tantrums, those tantrums can’t keep getting them candy bars. Logical discussion with the child or pointing out the problem to the parent BY ITSELF does nothing.
If you treated a person as well as an expensive machine part, you would generally be a lot more patient with them. A knee jerk reaction to human error tends to be the equivalent of removing and running diagnostics on a car’s engine when it fails to start before checking a million other things first.
Anyone who has ever supervised somebody else would be familiar with the human tendency to make excuses. What supervisors often fail to realize is that you can’t put a well trained and highly motivated person into a dysfunctional system and still get optimal results. www.sixboxes.com/Six-Boxes-Mo...
Because capitalism. Why else would organizations do things that are so hostile to the interests of everyday Americans? They’re defending the oligarchy.
Redlettermedia…you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Before you dismiss me for citing junk science, here’s the much better science you probably won’t read: www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...
I’m pretty sure almost any stimulus paired with a traumatic event can elicit stress responses (see classical conditioning research). There was a famous study where scientists made a little boy afraid of rabbits: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
I want to make enough money to bribe Jason Pargin to read and react to all of my annoying comments forever. “Another brilliant observation! Well done!”
The “make” in MAGA is referring to forcibly brainwashing or intimidating Americans into saying America is now great.
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Jason Pargin @jasonkpargin.bsky.social deserves way more credit for unpacking subjective social concepts for those of us with interpersonal blindspots youtu.be/InMtCxy_Yaw
I think you’re confused. I was making a point that if states had enough people wanting to leave the US to actually do it, they wouldn’t have elected the people they elected. I agree with you that violence is a bad way to do things. Nonviolent direct action is twice as good as violent direct action.
That’s true, it just says he wants to hire more ICE agents. It takes some work to compile all of his background wheeling and dealing, but it points to him largely supporting fascism. Here’s a bill he introduced lowering the qualifications to become an ICE agents.
If Democrats are culpable, then States won’t cecede because they are either controlled by Democrats or Republicans. If we had enough people to take power by force, those places would just vote for the rebel party instead of Dems/Repubs.
You might be astonished to learn that many of the Democrats are actively supporting building concentration camps, including this Senator who I now regret voting for: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
We absolutely should not become numb to this
It’s like fighting a duel by throwing your gun on the ground and asking your opponent’s best friend for assistance in stopping the conflict. The left is getting metaphorically shot in the face right now.
We needed Biden to crush the Republicans before they could crush us. The perception on the left is that Democrats work for the same wealthy donors and actively oppress us in similar ways. They fight to stop people willing to take radical action (see recent New York race for mayor for an example).
I guess a lot of us felt like we were in the midst of a fascist coup attempt with the Republican Party literally destroying truth, justice, and the American way. Instead of treating MAGA politicians, judges, and news organizations like a threat to our lives and liberty, Biden just did normal stuff.
As Arizona’s first Latina congresswoman, Adelita Grijalva will fight AGAINST Trump’s agenda, and FOR healthcare, climate action, and an economy that works for all of us. Adelita is a proven champion for working families, and she’s ready to represent her community in Congress.
I heard that Jason once saw SEVERAL prominent politicians and movie stars on the Epstein list when he “accidentally” hacked into the government’s computer files while trying to learn more about Bigfoot.
Researchers keep collecting data on the attitudes of people who are politically impotent. They should acknowledge that we live in an oligarchy and collect data on the attitudes of rich assholes who dictate policy to government toadies.
The Republicans learned to treat Americans like ignorant simple children decades ago. Every news interview is just Mom patiently explaining why Dad keeps coming home late smelling like whiskey. “All you need to know is that your father and I love you very much.”
The genocide committed by Germans during WWII lead to a cartoon version of history, with good guys and bad guys. What happens when people we sympathize with commit genocide?
That’s my point! The reality is so much different than the popular perception of the genocides in history that lots of people are able to ignore genocides happening right now. In reality, there is no perfect victim, bad guys take control of narratives, and good guys look for excuses to do nothing.
The word “antisemitism” is powerful. It evokes all those images we’ve watched in movies and tv shows. Any variation from the model seems to get easily dismissed by (white racist) people who still think the National Socialist party was a party of socialists.
Is it antisemitism to say that WWII created the perfect victim? White, well dressed people with cute children, horrifically lead to death camps by clearly labeled bad guys. Americans can’t wrap their heads around US fascism or the genocide in Palestine, because it doesn’t look like Schindler’s list.
Democrats make SO much more sense when you realize their primary goal is to serve the billionaires and corporations that support them.
My backup camera allows me to park LESS like a chode than my own stupid eyes.
Just got to keep an eye on the ball: Anyone beholden to big corporations and wealthy donors will eventually fuck over black people (and everyone else that isn’t rich).
Build something. workingfamilies.org
If Democratic Party “leaders”deciding to oppose Mamdani more than Marco Rubio offends you & you want to join a movement for a true party for the left. One that inspires people to vote, it might be time to check out the Working Families Party @workingfamilies.org. I am member maybe you should be too.
If winning elections and making constituents happy was what Democrats really cared about, do you think they would be voting for Trump nominees, going to crypto conferences, and attacking another Democrat for some shit he never said, all while Republicans literally kidnap, torture, and kill us?
End of Animal Farm vibes 🐷🐷
I’m glad someone else recognizes Calvinball as the universal label for constant arbitrary rule changes. Every time I use that term nowadays I have to immediately say, “which is from this Comic I read back in the late 80s early 90s. Have you heard of Calvin and Hobbes? No? Okay…”
I’ll try to live that message. Thanks for your insight 🙂
What fucks me up is that I’m a white person whose parents are from South Dakota, but grew up in Hawaii in the 80s and 90s. I learned how to speak pidgeon with my friends and loud haole with my family. I never got a “talk” about code switching and have had to improve my social skills on my own.
I suspect that the correct answer for how to build trust is give people time to get to know you and behave like someone they can chill out around. Any MAGA troll can put on a blue bracelet, after all. Having a secret way to instantly build trust would be cool though.
I didn’t know that was a thing until just now www.glamour.com/story/the-bl...
Is there like a secret phrase or something that white allies can give to let black people just be themselves or is that like telling a gunslinger to put down their pistols in the Wild West days?
9 minute mile jogging speed seems incredibly fast to me watching from my comfy couch.
Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
Some really great tv shows sometimes have 6 or more seasons that require you to watch most of the previous content to fully get (and sometimes episodes can be movie length). Maybe movies are trying to do the big screen equivalent?
Eyeing little girls with bad intent!
Sexism-bot cleverly connects all observable and measurable phenomena in the universe to American patriarchy propaganda from the 50s and 60s.
Alright, let’s jump into some videos and see how the YouTube account does ▶️
Oh what a tangled web we weave…
The sad thing is that when you go to town hall meetings there is ALWAYS some concerned citizen there demanding more police presence in their neighborhood. I went to a town hall in Glendale, AZ, where a man demanded that police be able to take over every video camera in the city to monitor for crime.
Some people condemn professional trolls who share child sexual abuse material. We prefer to take a vaguely amused, aloof stance that treats them as “characters” and denotes our contempt for people with beliefs or values. Tomorrow in the NYT.
Unlike the general public, corporations have carefully studied operant psychology and now wield immense control over most of us. Ever wonder why you can’t stop doom scrolling? Why you spent too much money online? Why productivity is so high and wages are so low?
Applied Behavior Analysts are the Democrats of the psychology world, doomed to try to explain complex research findings while mainstream psychologists can make untestable hypotheses in a MAGA-like fashion, with the gullible public ready to uncritically consume sensational sounding sound bites.
Operant psychology is the lonely kid at the prom, largely ignored because journal articles in the field read like stereo instructions and use niche terminology, like ratio strain and intraverbal.
Operant psychology mostly ignores the brain and focuses on functional relationships between a person’s behavior and their environment. That is to say, it focuses on observable and measurable phenomena rather than private events occurring between a person’s ears.
The science of why people choose to do stuff is called operant psychology. It was pioneered by BF Skinner a hundred years ago and there’s been thousands of research papers published since then. The autism therapy with research to support it is based on operant psychology.
Main ‘n Tail shampoo slaps tho
This is the greatest day of Travis’ life. He has just thrown away all pictures of friends and family and plans to replace them with various bag of shit items.
I feel like this article is saying that all my worst fears about the world have come true: Everyone is stupid except me and I need to somehow become even more awesome than I currently am in order to save the nation from tyranny. Challenge accepted 😾
This guy I know named Travis just bought a bag of shit!
Maybe that guy’s dog was requesting an assisted suicide due to a chronic, incurable, and painful condition.
He never gets to actually eat popcorn. Right when he’s about to throw some in his mouth, the theater explodes and he needs to dust himself off and RUN!!!
My partner let me score some secondaries in her deployment zone 😄🤚
“Your Wrong About” podcast reunion pretty please 🥺 🙏
Capitalism is strong. Just look at what it does to politicians from Arizona!
Scientists in a racism lab discovered that the n-word argument was an effective tool for making centrists actively defend the growing racism industry. Centrists are now incapable of understanding the difference between social stigmatization and government mandated censorship.
Being bored is the most important emotion to make peace with. If you can tolerate boredom you can get smarter, better looking, and have more skills just by doing effective things consistently. Learn to distrust exciting things you hear about. Real things take time to fully understand.
OK, I’m told the feds released Mayor Barka rather than holding him over the weekend on the pretext they couldn’t get him before a judge. I am pleasantly surprised, through I suspect the decision was made on a lower level and that the people who made it may suffer.
What happens if the Mayor stormed in with thousands of national guard and armed leftist civilians? I’ve been told that if this was possible, ICE would eat shit, the incoming wave of frantic right wing propaganda would fall on deaf ears, and Republicans would respect the rule of law more.
Liberal/leftist people love science until you ask them to apply it to politics or large scale social engineering projects. They think it’s unethical or something, so right wing nut jobs get to control all of our lives instead.
That’s levitation, Kyle
One sentence one picture per slide is the path to enlightenment! Lengthy paragraphs with multiple pictures is the highway to hell.
Even red Arizona districts have school board members who are fighting the good fight! Skip to the 1hr49min mark to see a great example of mostly unsung heroism! m.youtube.com/watch?v=naVa...
Liberals and leftists really want to manifest a world where everyone can be loved into rejecting their harmful beliefs. The reality is that we’re all potential fascists given the right environment. If you can’t convince them to change environments, you no longer have friendly options to stop them.
If the opposition has a strong police and military, it’s not called a civil war. The superior force would just steam roll the rebels and people would call it something else. Ireland had years of violence that people called, “The Troubles.”
It’s quite difficult to get the average US citizen to consistently engage in peaceful acts of protest, like writing emails to politicians or showing up for rallies. Civil wars require 24/7 commitment, hardship, and high risk of death.
Yeah, but civil wars happen when the average GDP per capita is around $1800.00 per year. The average GDP capita per year in the US is $69,000.00.
I agree with you! Getting people to sympathize with you is what actually changes things. If the guns are enough to allow you to be in the public sphere long enough to get the attention needed to persuade people, then in that situation, guns were a good idea 👍
Measure twice cut thrice
I can’t claim to be an expert on the French Revolution (or most things), but “national guard” makes it sound like a formal military with trained soldiers and the backing of people with money. It’s not the Hands Off! protesters with guns. We had no orders except, “show up between 10am and 12pm.”
I agree with you, but I think “nonviolent” is a poorly defined term, so we’re probably just talking passed each other. The Republicans used mostly nonviolent forms of protest. The violence we remember was never them fighting the full force of the police or military in any situation, J6 included.
I’m becoming popular by arguing with a famous podcaster! Surely the principles of operant psychology won’t turn me into a contrarian reply guy douche bag 🤡
Sure, but there’s an important point that gets lost: The Black Panthers didn’t defeat the police in battle. The police chose to use other methods to attack them besides all out assault. Probably because the Panthers weren’t hunting them or destroying lots of stuff people cared about.
Plus there’s this one: youtu.be/hXWTMxQFXNQ
Also: youtu.be/hhCHRS_Z7Zs
1st: I’m a huge fan! Don’t hate me! 2nd: This video has very few clicks, but she cites her sources at the end: youtu.be/hcfRs_g9MYA
Civil wars only happen when a country is MUCH poorer than we are now. Otherwise whoever controls the police and military just crushes any resistance. That’s why non-violent forms of protest work best. They tend to persuade political elites to sympathize with protesters better than violent protesters
Guns probably do not prevent tyranny. Militia groups have never been able to face police and military forces unless the government is poor and the rebels have wealthy supporters. Our American myth is a lie. Washington thought militia groups were worthless.
Pretty sure it’s all about the degree that you can control the media, military, police, and secret police. The so called left never bothered to build an infrastructure capable of organized resistance. We’re not cooked, but someone better address our lack of strategy before the riots start.
If people were aware of how reinforcement influences behavior, they might be motivated to resist giant corporations and governments that addict customers, exploit workers, and manipulate politics. Instead, we believe our free will allows us to transcend operant conditioning. We become complacent.
There’s nothing inherently disrespectful about systematically reinforcing target behaviors with food and social attention. Doctors were prohibited from taking free dinners with drug reps, not because the doctors were offended, but because that shit worked. They recommend the drugs more often.