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The Tech Bro-ligarchy
Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who needed to get laid in college but didn’t, so they made it our problem.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
11:55 Mark Zuckerberg is Spineless and the Outfits are Bad
33:56 Factor
35:40 Elon Musk is a Ketamine-Fueled Little Gremlin
44:40 Shou Chew I Was Rooting For You We Were All Rooting For You
52:42 Sam Altman is Just as Bad (AND GAY!)
56:06 Incogni
57:44 Why Do Tech Bros Think They're Philosophers
1:14:13 Apocalypse Bunkers
1:21:27 So What Now
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Відео

Blake Lively and the Amber Heard Effect
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The success of misogynistic smear campaigns can end with us. Support the show listen to Kat's and my four-part analytical series on BYE SISTER on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Follow Kat on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/kattenbarge.bsky.social Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at www.rocketmoney.com/fruity. Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at w...
Why is the Media Coverage of Luigi Mangione So Bad?
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The remarkable dissonance between the public’s embrace of UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione and the mainstream media’s outward disdain for both Luigi and the public’s martyrization of him has been… bizarre. In a rare moment where the culture war has been traded in for the class war, billionaire-owned media corporations and politicians alike seem to be panicking. That panic should be ...
How Did Elon Musk Get Like This?
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There was a time before Elon Musk was tweeting 60 times a day about trans people and the woke mind virus - and it wasn’t that long ago. As recently as 2018, Elon was boasting about Tesla scoring a 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equality index and telling anyone who was bothered by that to “not buy our car.” So what happened? Today, Ryan Mac and Kate Conger, authors of Character Li...
Is Glinda Good?
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Wicked is a kids movie that is actually for adults, holding up a mirror to our increasingly fascist reality and asking us to question our struggle against it - or place within it. Glinda the Good Witch, thoughtfully delivered by Ariana Grande, is both easy to love and easy to hate. But while some characters’ politics are obvious (a fascist Wizard, a radical Elphaba), Glinda’s are harder to pinp...
How the Right is Winning Young Men
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This was the first election where the online far-right radicalization of young boys and men revealed itself in exit polls. After years of being fed diet-incel podcasts, one thing is clear: Gen Z will not, by some inherent virtue of youth, save us. Today, Taylor Lorenz and I break down the “epidemic of male loneliness”, the influencers exploiting it, the conservative media machine that funds the...
Riley Gaines: Tie for 5th, Grift for Life
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Jubilee Must Be Stopped (with Big Joel)
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UA-cam’s most popular debate channel says it wants to “provoke understanding & create human connection.” I’m not convinced! Take back your data with Incogni! Get an exclusive 60% off at incogni.com/fruity. Eat well save time! Work smarter not harder! Get 50% off your first Factor box at factormeals.com/fruity50. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Big Joel’s UA-ca...
The Cult of Stan Culture
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Chappell Roan’s War on Fame
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H-O-T-T-O-G-O, Chappell Roan is someone we do not actually know. Get 1GB of data totally free from Saily & stay connected wherever you go at saily.com/fruity. Eat well save time! Work smarter not harder! Get 50% off your first Factor box at factormeals.com/fruity50. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Listen to Eliza's podcast, Binchtopia: open.spotify.com/show/5U...
The Crunchy to Far Right Pipeline
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It’s time to do our own research. Get an exclusive 60% on Incogni! incogni.com/fruity Support me listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Huge thanks to Blueland for sponsoring today’s show. Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at www.blueland.com/fruity. Derek’s podcast, Conspirituality: open.spotify.com/show/2imIsM2NZRPpQvI56TLdM5?si=fb9596cbe22d4edc De...
Transvestigating (with Contrapoints)
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Your gender is not determined by your anatomy, your chromosomes, or even your internal sense of self. It is determined by J.K. Rowling. Get an exclusive discount on NordVPN (that I wish I had when I first signed up for it, but hey): NordVPN.com/fruity. Support me listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Eat well save time! Work smarter not harder! Get 50% off your firs...
Hawk Tuah: From Harmless Meme to Right Wing Symbol
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I stay away from heterosexual mess, but this time it came to me. Today, Taylor Lorenz and I work backwards to understand how a 21-year-old bed spring factory worker from Tennessee became a culture war symbol because of a drunken joke about spitting on that thang. None of these words are in the bible. Support the show listen to bonus episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Listen to T...
The Celebrity Ozempidemic (with Aubrey Gordon)
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Today, we are ALL beating the Ozempic allegations. Use code "fruity" at incogni.com/fruity to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan! To uncover and cancel the unwanted expenses you’ve forgotten about, try Rocket Money: www.rocketmoney.com/fruity Support me on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Listen to Aubrey’s incredible show, Maintenance Phase: open.spotify.com/show/3rDR8CfpIEM...
Oli London & the Right Wing Grift
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Oli London & the Right Wing Grift
Amy Schumer & the Plague of White Feminism
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Amy Schumer & the Plague of White Feminism
Everything the Media is Getting Wrong About the College Protests
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Everything the Media is Getting Wrong About the College Protests
Annoying Gays are Not the Problem
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Annoying Gays are Not the Problem
Drake Bell and the Cycle of Abuse
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Drake Bell and the Cycle of Abuse
J.K. Rowling’s Spiral into Madness (with ContraPoints)
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J.K. Rowling’s Spiral into Madness (with ContraPoints)
How Love, Simon’s Author was Pushed Out of the Closet
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How Love, Simon’s Author was Pushed Out of the Closet
Conservatives Don’t Care About Your Kids
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Conservatives Don’t Care About Your Kids
The 100-Year-Old Myth of Gays “Coming for Your Children”
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The 100-Year-Old Myth of Gays “Coming for Your Children”
Surviving AIDS in the 80s
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Surviving AIDS in the 80s
Bud Light and the End of Rainbow Marketing, For Now
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Bud Light and the End of Rainbow Marketing, For Now
George Santos is a Terrible Person and the American Dream
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George Santos is a Terrible Person and the American Dream
The Detransitioner Panic
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The Detransitioner Panic
Queers for Palestine & The Power of Pinkwashing
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Queers for Palestine & The Power of Pinkwashing
Christian Indoctrination in Homeschooling
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Christian Indoctrination in Homeschooling

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @ScoochIsuppose
    @ScoochIsuppose 34 хвилини тому

    It’s amazing to see the cogs turning in their heads. Their knowledge of the topics they discuss speak volumes to both their passion toward politics. Love hearing your perspectives!

  • @gwhite002
    @gwhite002 Годину тому

    1:21:07 it feels like a weird self fulfilling prophecy. Maybe if you didn't burn the world down for a few extra million dollars, you wouldn't have to worry about people revolting and building a bunker.

  • @juliejeavons6949
    @juliejeavons6949 Годину тому

    Facebook banned the U.K. group Stand Up To Racism straight after reducing censorship!

  • @simplenough
    @simplenough Годину тому

    Matt actually went to Harvard?

  • @Rizzal169
    @Rizzal169 Годину тому

    We’re fked. The “undesirables” will be enslaved, exploited, and pruned out of the gene pool until humanity is all white. The same way Neanderthals and other human species were wiped out by homo sapiens, capitalists will wipe out the humans who aren’t like them and who are unable conform to this system.

  • @NikolaiTheJester
    @NikolaiTheJester Годину тому

    I was one of the trans children at protests when cox signed those bills in utah and the level of power and sadness at those ralleys was overpowering. I remember the day in highschool when my friend told me they got kicked off the track team for being trans. The people they are hurting mean nothing to them. When cox signed that bill there were screaming children outside his door freezing our asses off and he didnt care. Me and my friends are only here today and getting our hormones and surgery because we had each other and I want every trans person, especially children to know you can make it with your community. Im now an adult and on hormones with my top surgery consult scheduled later this year. We will be okay. Dont give up. Please stay alive.

  • @lookitskatiex
    @lookitskatiex 2 години тому

    31:40 oh I think Zuck is getting a divorce tbh.

  • @nataliefoley1117
    @nataliefoley1117 2 години тому

    1:08:55 They have to put forth a grandiose vision in order to raise money in the VC/tech world. Investors always want to know how your company is going to change the world before they give you money. Money raised correlates with the founder's ability to project that grandiose vision, the bigger the better. They talk this way because it's the water they swim in, the whole silicon valley culture is built around it and promotes the people who do it to the max.

  • @CarlyVan-i4h
    @CarlyVan-i4h 2 години тому

    Why are the paul brothers up there?

  • @Ben-wd2in
    @Ben-wd2in 2 години тому

    Always dead name Twitter 😘

  • @natalierichter2637
    @natalierichter2637 2 години тому

    Depopulation agenda

  • @damnitfinni
    @damnitfinni 2 години тому

    I had to listen to this one in two sittings a few days apart, but I’m glad I made it to the end. Thank you for continuing to talk about this. To Ed, 1:23:15 gave me whiplash because I work at one of these companies and I literally spent my holiday in the woods for a week with no cell signal LOL it was a much needed respite away from everything to NOT think about work and feel re-centered And now I’m gonna take a nap!

  • @Girl2TheCity
    @Girl2TheCity 3 години тому

    The problem with….. Space X is in the real aspect of things it’s not needed. Imagine so many ways his money could have been used to have social initiatives that would have done faster more feasible results from even using Tesla in productive ways. 1. Creating a Tesla program for highschools on helping kids getting driver’s licenses 2. Contracting Tesla with public Metro services to get people to bus and metro stations or providing a work commute program 3. No offense… no one should be able to get that type of wealth as an individual in one lifetime that has the power to break up governments/ sway or push public opinion through lobbying or propaganda/ be able to access resources that can match or be a deterrent to actual countries.

  • @ishaangovardhan7430
    @ishaangovardhan7430 3 години тому

    At best I might be persuaded to say that both Heard and Depp are terrible people - but that's it. I'm not gonna be able to pretend like Heard was Depp's victim, sorry. Too much evidence and too many testimonials to the contrary. It is possible for BOTH people in a relationship to be bad and toxic. Doesn't have to be a case of 1 good person and 1 bad person. Or 1 oppressor and 1 imperfect victim It can also be 1 POS and 1 A-wipe. And just because Heard is a woman that doesn't automatically make her the better person. Stop overzealously overcorrecting the oppression that women have historically faced in society. The last time we overcorrected this way, we let a criminal like OJ Simpson get away with murder. That was a horrible moment for black people everywhere. Let's not repeat that moment, but for women this time.

  • @sunkun983
    @sunkun983 3 години тому

    NOT THE COLLAGE LMAOOOO

  • @ayannafit2441
    @ayannafit2441 3 години тому

    With regards to going to the inauguration, I personally feel like we should keep close to the dangerous ones to keep an eye on them. Say if we all tuned it out "in protest" we wouldn't have known what exactly happened there on the day.

  • @AndreiTraieste
    @AndreiTraieste 4 години тому

    The repellant haircut was on purpose? a julius caesar? Wow, he’s a loser through and through.

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 4 години тому

    Dangerous leftards

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 4 години тому

    Bad data centers stealing water!

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 4 години тому

    Mocking them for their beliefs while actively taking up all known mind viruses from palestine, to communisn, to green....

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 4 години тому

    Black queer tiktokers talking about Palestine. Where they would immediaty ve publucly executed.

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 4 години тому

    Twitter and FB was neutral. And kids are pushing right wing points. How out of touch with reality can you get?

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 5 годин тому

    They didn't ban Trump riding a T-Rex? Fascists.

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 5 годин тому

    "Pro Wrestling is about grifting". Poor boy, you thought it was real?

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 5 годин тому

    "Victimized by gamergate"

  • @LLlap
    @LLlap 5 годин тому

    This is waaay to gaay

  • @felicitymousey1195
    @felicitymousey1195 5 годин тому

    Yet my sister still got fact checked after that policy 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @cameronimacaroni2
    @cameronimacaroni2 5 годин тому

    I wish you’d join and post on BlueSky.

  • @m3ntal_c0re
    @m3ntal_c0re 5 годин тому

    they say the same thing about the other side

  • @Shoot4AlarmFire
    @Shoot4AlarmFire 6 годин тому

    My sister says that Twitter is the one time it is okay to deadname!

  • @MaloriKate
    @MaloriKate 6 годин тому

    you pronounced anoka and hennepin right love! 40:02

  • @MiriamClairify
    @MiriamClairify 6 годин тому

    This is a powerful crossover I never imagined. I hope people check out TMK, they are doing great work. Gotta be one of the podcasts doing the most to make my brain bigger.

  • @TapKim
    @TapKim 6 годин тому

    Favorite fruity podcast. I love being a lot fruity.

  • @Smileyfacefamileyguy
    @Smileyfacefamileyguy 7 годин тому

    I've watched a lot of videos calling out Blake, and it is all the same stuff on repeat. Ppl are pulling out every bad thing Blake has ever said or done to discredit her. How does a racist comment in the past discredit a sexual harassment claim in the present? It shouldn't. Y'all are completely right. It's misogyny at its finest. I have to keep myself in check. I never liked Blake or Ryan, i think they are bullies based on interviews. However just because I dont like them doesnt mean they are lying, and that doesnt give me the right to attack them or make light of their claim of sexual harassment. Both things can be true, you can be unlikable and a victim. Her claims need to be taken seriously by the public. Ffs.

  • @tani.e
    @tani.e 7 годин тому

    I'm wondering how long it might take for Elon to seriously consider staging a coup

  • @MaloriKate
    @MaloriKate 7 годин тому

    can i just say, i need a matt bernstein break down of the politics of every single decade of history

  • @rosesweetcharlotte
    @rosesweetcharlotte 7 годин тому

    We always wondered what would happen when nerds ruled the world. In retrospect it seems obvious that letting a bunch of weird nerds have that much power was a bad idea, but at the time you had to think, hey, this could work

  • @MereAYT
    @MereAYT 8 годин тому

    I feel like the level of inequality on a dying planet has reached such an extreme that the most privileged have decided to spend the earth's final days tormenting the rest of us for their own amusement. A real life Squid Game. How do we stop this?

  • @iamnotjcook
    @iamnotjcook 8 годин тому

    Part of something you may not have considered with platforms going right is that not only are they benefited by the politics, the politics are more profitable to talk about since the right seems to enjoy engaging with negative and reactionary content. The Facebook post about xy good things: 😴 The Facebook post about fake/anti trans propaganda: 🤯

  • @roachno.24
    @roachno.24 8 годин тому

    comparing everyone being skinny to ending a genocide is craaaaazy

  • @ellehcimbelle
    @ellehcimbelle 8 годин тому

    He is a white South African man whose entire generational wealth is due benefiting from supporting the apartheid. The fact that anyone ever thought that he wasn’t a piece of shit is what is baffling to me.

  • @direneedofhigherfructose7153
    @direneedofhigherfructose7153 8 годин тому

    Fruity scout tf2 realness outfit❤

  • @JaimeEros
    @JaimeEros 8 годин тому

    Don’t give disgusting people attention.

    • @justawatchin2
      @justawatchin2 8 годин тому

      unfortunately i feel we're a bit beyond that when they're running our government

    • @JaimeEros
      @JaimeEros 5 годин тому

      @ that’s when you give the attention to the right people who need that exposure so they can do something with it for their community. What’s beyond just talking about the same old men all the time? It’s counterproductive and all it does is rally more hate and animosity causing a greater divide. Human beings are not perfect and we all have made crappy decisions based on useless bias. What’s the point in giving more attention money and time to these people who have all the attention money and time in the world? So I can just give more time money and attention? There are good people out there doing the work to help our community through this. This isn’t just a mere “right vs left” people are more complex than that and the sooner you understand the sooner you can give your energy into something that would make real change.

    • @JaimeEros
      @JaimeEros 5 годин тому

      @ we constantly ignore the good people for views because hate is more provocative. This ignores all the advocacy and work that could be going into communities that need help. People who have platforms and want to “change the world” need to start with themselves and understand that there isn’t another species of human Being. We each are responsible for the content we pay attention to, things we consume and the things we purchase. You have to start with yourself and the complicity of the actions of the people around you. Each individual are responsible for their own actions and you start losing when your not aware what your own TEAM is doing.

    • @justawatchin2
      @justawatchin2 4 години тому

      @@JaimeEros you make some good points, thanks.

  • @chenierevoo
    @chenierevoo 9 годин тому

    What is wild to me (I am around the same age as you I believe), I keep thinking about how in high school they implemented a financial literacy course in my area. But the course was not realistic, and it often just quoted billionaire or billionaire wanna-be advice shills. It was nothing useful but a few things such as writing checks or figuring out a career path. The whole spill of the teacher was about the greatness of these men like Zuckerburg. And then in college of course I learned this is just part of the American Dream. A dream being loaned to us at young ages with a high interest rate. I wonder about education in other parts of the US.

  • @MooImABunny
    @MooImABunny 9 годин тому

    Very interesting and insightful. Also, good news, my anxiety just flated the fuck up? -did I say good news? I meant bad. terrible, dog shit news. I watched this whole podcast in one sitting, what a stupid idea that was. Guys, please remember, always prioritize your health over knowledge. Even if you really want to know to be able to act on it, you're not gonna be very effective if you're stressing the fuck out. I'll be fine. Give me a day or two...

  • @RyanSmith-rb1ch
    @RyanSmith-rb1ch 9 годин тому

    You know someone is lame when they call nerds "Bros". This video sucks.

  • @FireyCurls22
    @FireyCurls22 9 годин тому

    If ppl have an issue with the vocal fry you can watch on like x1.25-1.35 speed cuz when you mentioned a vocal fry I didn’t even notice because I usually watch (listen) videos sped up lol

  • @aBirdAndHisBoy
    @aBirdAndHisBoy 9 годин тому

    Unpopular opinion as a liberal gay guy, but I think that free speech includes ALL speech, even nasty, homophobic speech. Homophobes should be free to expose themselves as such. Side note: Community Notes are just as effective as 3rd party fact checking.

  • @aBirdAndHisBoy
    @aBirdAndHisBoy 9 годин тому

    Billionaire apocalypse bunkers are meant to protect their families against nuclear bombs, asteroids, and volcanoes. Billionaires are only a tiny fraction of global warming: beef & dairy farming is the biggest causes due to methane emissions. Also, the California wildfires are out of control due to poor water & forest management.

  • @hiericas
    @hiericas 9 годин тому

    Grimes keeping the twins a secret made me think about the Simpsons secret Bart twin.