The main discussions in Brazilian media today are about the importance of women's soccer and the importance of non-binary restrooms, while 50% of the population doesn't even have basic sanitation in their communities. I am not kidding.
we need a youth focused theocracy i think the left is generally right on immigration but its more and more obvious that on economics and everything else its just a cancer. I am sure at this point that the push towards abortion and the gays is a means to make young people more content to give their entire lives to boomer pensions
That’s globalist ideology for you. I was so sad about the results of your last election because I knew the next administration would throw this at you.
Let them eat cake was about Marie being so aloof she did not know what things cost. It pissed people off a queen would not know that. I feel as though Kamala knows what things cost...& wasn't speaking to those it doesn't apply too. A car is a luxury which pollutes, they're all bad tbh.
@@Cklertand forget cities, good luck with living in rural areas without a car. Small towns have really died. Instead of a 20 minute walk to the nearest grocery it’s a 20 minute drive, and the family grocer has been replaced by Walmart or another chain.
@@dzxn3728 So she doesn't know the cost of electric cars, nor do you. Not to mention the cost to upgrade your house to charge an electric car if it is currently not suited to do so.
In a few years, you'll want to buy an electric car, not just because they're good for the environment, but because they'll be cheaper to own and operate than a gas car, even without subsidies. For the same reason, I don't think they should mandated; it should be choice for people to make for themselves.
Reminds me of a Twitter post I saw ages ago. "You don't understand. You have an entire generation of military-age men who feel they have nothing to live for. You are in danger."
Lack of traditional family values hence stagnant or declining birth rate, lonely men, high divorce rates, biased family justice system, high cost of living, rotten society and may other societal issues. "You don't understand. You have an entire generation of military-age men who feel they have nothing to live for. You are in danger." This is the reason why America will not win the next major war.
Rudyard, as a working class man paying 3100 a month in bills 2500 just in rent and a family of 5. It hurt when you said we're too proud to admit we are working in Victorian era conditions, but I got a great chuckle out of it. You have no idea how spot on you are with that remark. I'm 25 and I work 60 plus hours a week. I never see my kids really and I have a habit of just drinking a six pack when the go to bed to fall asleep and wake up at 430 to do it again. I'm a foreman for an hvav company. I'm not just a coffee maker, I'm a legit skilled worker. I can't imagine how it is for people working 2 restaurant jobs.
Brother thank you for having such a large family in these times. We'll need thousands more of you, one can hope. What you're doing now will be the foundation for the time you get to spend with them later. My dad was a very busy businessman in the 70's-2000's, I showed up in 89. He was always there on weekends, never brought work home with him, and we took a few vacations during the time. I remember all of those moments, and after he had a heart attack and had to step back from work a little he was here more and more during my teens. This also isn't to say my mother was absent at all, she carried raising me, a handful asshole of a son. Your wife probably is doing the same, making them into better people, people who will lead us tomorrow in one way or another. Now if you want my advice to get more family time, I'd say start getting multi-family homes, the best bang for your buck is technically 4 family homes, as many as you can. Owning things others do not want to has been the easiest way for the people I know to have a more "free" lifestyle while still working their jobs. the extra income amounts to hours off each day from your regular job, hours you'll enjoy much more with your family. there's also the route of getting cheap homes in Appalachia, no offense to anyone from there, just it's cheaper than coasts, beautiful, and removed from the bs the coasts come with by and large. Make them into Airbnb's or something along those lines and rent them to ppl for 2k+ per 2 weeks or something. you can make BANK. especially since I can already kinda tell you'd be able to do a lot of the repair/upgrades yourself or you'll have a buddy that can help. I wish someone told me this at 25, I wish I could shake my younger self. I can only impart what knowledge I've gotten making the mistakes I've made, and those around me have made. Keep going brother, stay strong in these tough times, you're already well along the road to being better off in all regards.
@@xxxsgxxx-x1fwhy “should” it? Because it would be nice? …You would think I were quite silly to demand the sky rains Mountain Dew, would you not? It WOULD be nice, right? So let’s protest for it! And civil unrest until the sky rains Mountain Dew!
The US's federal budget/fiscal policy IS unsustainable, the Federal Reserve is stuck in between a rock and a hard place with raising interest rates to curb inflation, but when they do this like they are now, more than 50% of the $32 trillion debt will expire in less than 2 years. That debt is going to be re-financed at the current interest rates set by the Federal Reserve. The US' cost to only carry this debt, not pay it off is going to become the largest individual expenditure. If you needed a good laugh after scratching the surface of how the entire world is completely fucked when the global monetary system(s) collapse, not crash: right now the largest expenditure by the US government is Healthcare.
Technology makes it easier to redistribute. If human labor is not needed, then we can sever the connection between work and income. We need to stop competing with the machines.
@@carlbarrows2487 So does the US launch its nukes at its own cities to kill everyone, then no one has to pay off the debt? Can you find a better solution than this? So if people are going to starve to death as we pay off the debt, do we shoot them to put them out of their misery so we don't at least get to see them starve? Maybe instead of welfare, we just have euthanasia. So if you are unemployed for a certain period of time, you die? So how important is it that everyone makes a contribution to the economy, by providing his labor in exchange for income? How is capitalism supposed to work?
Julius Caesar would beg to differ if he was transported to our time and saw the cornucopia of entertainment options that exist to numb the mind from the economic drudgery
"The left" doesnt exist. There are lots of different groups fighting against each other. Marxists and communists are in no way associated with the ruling class, but are working towards a revolution and destroying the capitalist state. On the other hand you have democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders who want to make capitalism and the state more social from within. Then there is the big center-left fraction, usually in the Democratic Party that defends capitalism and the current state. This "leftern" group is economicaly way more liberal than marxist. Thats why there are Lefties in the resistance and other Lefties in power.
That face you make when you realize you're about to experience both the French Revolution and the Fall of Rome at the same time, except the downfall will trump both as the worst in history.
Add to this the Nazi Revolution of 1933 and the Rwandan Massacres of 1994, add the current global overheating, and this is what sort of future it is we're looking at.
So wait, a bunch if Barbarians are going to come in and take over our capital while half of our empire goes on for another 1000 years until a new religion is born near its eastern capital and overtakes it? While also the poor will rise up and kill the rich allowing for a massive power vacuum and period of terror, leading to the rise of a tyrannical military genius attempting to dominate the totality of the world? Fascinating how you think you know enough about history to make predictions like this, while also clearly knowing nothing about history AND the realities of modern society and geopolitics. Nobody who actually knows about Rome or France thinks the US is honestly on the brink of an event similar to either of their "falls". Honestly, go out into the world. I have a real world job and an online social media job. Guess which group of my co-workers think the types of things Rupert here thinks? Trick question, neither. This is just youtuber, Twitter user, twitch streamer propaganda for views. Society is not falling apart. There are issues, but there were definitely more issues 100 years, 50 years, 30 years ago. Issues constantly exist. They don't mean the end. Hopefully they lead to the end of THAT issue, but often, they're just replaced at best.
@@MrDB91no here’s the thing, it will happen for sure, but only when it’s too late. ONLY when it comes to the absolute worst and final stage, when all hell REALLY breaks loose and shit REALLY hits the fan then people will do something. But yeah you’re right as of right now people are too blind and dumb to see and do anything
@@tsmx92759they won't though, people are totally pacified. Everyone just wants to scroll TikTok and take naps. Trust me, AI is going to totally subdue all of this discontentment, and we won't even know it's happening.
That is exactly why I fear the revolt of the right, even though I am right leaning. Feeling like you have nothing to lose in an all or nothing game will make monster out of even the best men. They are dehumanizing the same people who will turn around and take their lack of humanity out on them by their own creation.
Ding-ding-ding. "Sorry, your outlook doesn't fit. We've decided people who hold your values, despite being a staggering majority, are no longer welcome." "Yeah, ditto." ⚔
I had to laugh the other day when i was trying to teach how terrible working conditions in the Industrial Revolution were, to a room full of kids who grew up in daycare, with parents working 80hr weeks.
@@christopherhook2141I do 60 base and take additional anytime I can. I'm in the top 7% by income in my country, and moved to the cheapest region for real estate. It's working for me, I've been able to buy a cheap 2 bedroom house on the edge of the rough part of town, a pasture just outside of town, and a new car, albeit, one of the cheapest models available. But... 60 hours a week, for a new but cheap car and real estate that is less valuable than Homer's house.
@@madhatterzake3871Saying a union cares about their workers is as delusional as saying your government cares about your well being. I have yet to see a single union leader who isn't out to just enrich themselves and their friends in government at the expense of their workers.
My whole childhood was me being treated differently because of my skin and sex. I was repeatedly lectured on my white, male, privileges. My parents couldn't keep jobs and we bounced home to home even living with their parents and aunts and uncles. It wasn't until I was 17 that we became financially stable. I never understood why I was called privileged when I could never go on school trips and summer vacations because we couldn't afford rent. I now struggle to make decent money without sharing a place to live or working two jobs. And forget a love life for now.
Stay strong brother, I'm white too. My dad was abusive and killed himself when I was 15. Mom was narcissistic and emotionally neglectful. I live with my grandma rn, and building a cyber security career. I feel your pain man. From one man to another, use the Bear Grillz Method: -Stay Positive -Us anything in your environment to make you more comfortable -Learn how to do the 1st two steps better
I think Rudyard has a good point in that an internal sense of honour will help us all pull through. This is essentially what saved my own life in my early 20's which was 15 years ago now. I'm half white, half korean and value the history of the West so my peers treat me as a pariah since I refuse to bow to the message. But that's okay. You will find a way as well, in time.
You need to look up what what privilege actually means. It doesn't mean white people never struggle. It has more to do with systemic racism, the potential to the profiled etc. On average, you're less likely to be shot by cops when pulled over than a black man would be. That's one big example of what people mean when they say white privilege.
Was just recently in a country considered third world, although people are poor they have a solid community and religion and are orders of magnitude happier than anyone here in America. Truly eye opening
Those terms should've died with the cold war. First, second, and third world make no sense in a post 1991 Malta summit world. The terms should be Developed, Developing, Undeveloped world/s instead.
@@kosmas173Humorous, here I thought I was unique in my perspective of 'spin'. I appreciate your beating me to the punch. I am grateful to have learned (and humbled) that rationality still exists. Thank you.
As a Boomer even I see the vast changes for young people. Economically, it’s impossible to do what I did in the 70s and 80s. Men have been demonized and the normal structures that used to bring young men and women into a marriage relationship have been all but destroyed. My wife and I are doing what we can to help our grandsons by preserving as much wealth as we can to give them a fighting chance at a better life. We have our own financial challenges, but we have a home and no debt. It’s our goal to leave the value of that home to them and anything else we can,
Glad there are some in your generation who understand this situation. My parents are Boomers and have opposite attitudes. My dad's mentality is "can't take it with you when you die, might as well spend it all." My mom is trying her hardest to set me up so when she dies, me and my *hopefully future family can have a chance just to own a house and afford to raise them well. I make six figures, and if not for my mom's benevolence, responsibly affording a down payment on a house at a reasonable age would be a tall task.
The next time it gets reset, we going all the way back to the stone age baby!!! We got enough nukes that if we get to poppin them off, if it dont end humanity then we going way back
I know Rudy always mentions it but in this specific video it was something remarkable considering that USA has 1/2 of Europe's population and 1/4 of China's and India's. Europe is a decadent dying continent while the US will keep being a superpower for the next 1000 years
@JC-ld2uo America has the advantage of being able to easily dominate two continents with weak or dysfunctional neighbours, and giant Oceans in the way of anything remotely in the same level as it. With basically total physical security, it can engage with the outside world on its own terms, if it even wants to because all the natural resources it needs are domestic to America or its immediate environment. America's success is inevitable, and its biggest threat is self sabotage. For example the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria were self sabotage seeing America fight wars against enemies which could never mortally wound it, spend two decades and a trillion dollars on counter insurgency while China spent all that time investing in conventional capabilities designed specifically to sink the US navy. Another possible future self sabotage is civil war and successionism, with no peer threats America can fight itself.
Ironically: we are in a better position than ever to let the peasants eat cake, but now realize that actually eating merely cake is extremely bad for you.
@@sheep3866 Maybe if you are playing on a server with the worst lag imaginable, cake does allow you to instantly recover hearts without going through obscenely long eating animations, otherwise I don't see the appeal.
fun fact: the "cake" in question was brioche, which, iirc, the UK has classified american bread as cake, more like brioche because of how much sugar is in it.
How are you only 22?! 😂 I'm an older millennial who has peers who grew up even before the digital revolution, saw the world a different way, and rapidly forgot as soon as social media became the norm. I can't imagine the challenges Gen Z faces to extricate themselves from the ideologues and strange anti-intellectual ideology that is pervasive now and spreading globally outward.
Tbh, as a slightly younger Gen Z male, I’m lucky I never fell into the trap of TikTok, though it was difficult to get myself out of the other social media traps I put myself in (I only deleted my Reddit account when the blackout was about to start, and I still spend way too much time on UA-cam and Facebook), and only gave up on video games when I couldn’t get myself to play any of the games I had for more than 15 minutes anymore. The only video game I still regularly play is Tabletop Simulator, which is just a platform to simulate playing board and card games. I’m not sure how other Gen Z folks would be able to do it without a ton of work on their end, as I was never into TikTok and the video games that are the most overstimulating (e.g. shooter games). When I was still a gamer, I primarily played grand strategy and city management games, and I didn’t like playing those super fast when the people I played with did. I have some hope for those are actively trying to reject modern technology, as flip phones are becoming more popular. I would personally adopt those if I didn’t need a smartphone for specific apps, though Kosher phones (smartphones that don’t connect to the internet for non-essential functions, which are primarily used by Jewish people) seem like a good enough compromise for what I need from a smartphone. Unfortunately, modern technology has also become an induced necessity.
there are a lot of people like Rudyard (such as myself) that are concerned young adults about society's direction. Pretty soon there will be a breaking point, as if that hasn't been reached already.
"There is nothing new under the sun." As a young man, who is 20 years of age, has been unable to get a job due to "experience" requirements, cannot find relationships, cannot even get nearly every position I apply to to even give me a response, cannot afford college, and cannot afford to pursue other avenues of education or skill building, I am terrified by just how relatable this video is. I love my elders, those wiser and more experienced than me, but one thing I cannot tell them because they don't seem to believe it, despite me knowing how true it is, is that the world they grew up in, that they expect to be the way the world functions now, just does not exist. I've been told by them over and over again to just keep trying and just put more and more effort in and I'll eventually get a job, or finish other important milestones in my life. I can't even finish getting my driver's license because its too expensive and relies on private businesses to train people! The Bible tells us to respect our elders, and I do, but I am becoming more and more disillusioned with them because they don't seem to want to acknowledge the state of the world. That's not the universal rule, but it is heart-wrenching for me to have to feel so detached from them because I can see what they either can't see or won't believe. I hate that it has gotten to this point, and there is nothing wrong with trying harder, but when you do so much to never take a single step towards your goals, what do you think I feel like? Frankly I can see how disillusioned people are. People have been tentatively predicting a civil war for years now. If things do break, it will be explosive, no one will be able to stop it, and the young men whom Whatifalthist speaks of will not care about stability. They will charge forwards with all the pent up rage and frustration they have and run over the old order, and destroy what came before. I hope it never comes to that, but frankly, these days the question of a revolution or similar internal conflict in America seems to be less of the aforementioned "if", and more like an ever more ominous "when". Lord, if you are willing, find a peaceful way for us to break free of this era of nonsense and lies. If that is not to be, keep us safe so that we may rebuild better after the conflict we worry may come reaches its end. Amen.
Walmart hires without experience. Stick around for a couple of months and try and become a Team lead. Now rack up the management experience. I know it's not the most ideal but it has worked for a lot of people I know
@@MisterIndrid It’s funny you mention that because that’s one of the places I’ve tried to apply to multiple times, to no avail. I’ve been looking for a really simple place to start since I put a pause on college, but to no avail. The issue goes well beyond simply experience requirements. There’s also been a big shift in our culture since covid, and a lot of people are falling into the “I don’t care enough to take my job or responsibilities seriously” pit. Not everyone, but it’s become more and more prevalent and its only getting worse. If you haven’t, take some time to listen to a few full hearings from Congress. You don’t even really need to watch them. You can listen to them like a podcast. They put all their hearings on UA-cam. Choose a topic that interests you or you are passionate about. You’ll see that no matter where you go, no one is getting anything done, and the leaders we have in place will just keep perpetuating this nonsensical loop and never make any real changes. Problem is… they want that to happen because it benefits them.
There is something that could be worse. If you did get into college by taking out student loans, you could find yourself in a similar situation afterwards with the addition of having a huge burden of debt. Attempting to better yourself through higher education will fail to improve your life while this backwards system continues to exist.
Ime a boomer and I hear you ,my generation live in a bubble,and it gives me the shits because I know were this leads,I do everything I can to lift younger men,when I retire,which maybe sooner than later because I’ve got cancer, Ime going to work for free to help younger tradesmen ,even if it just means been a gofer, if the cancer takes hold Ime going to give my guns and stored ammo to a young bloke I know who was divorce raped by his BPD wife,I hope this gives you hope that not all of us are blind to the plight of younger men
You have not seen shit yet until your have seen war and revolution and Socialist utopias that killed and pauperized millions. Keep with it man, keep sharp, a break is coming your way…
one of the things that has always struck me as a death blow to our society is corporate degree requirements. you need a degree of some kind to get into any position of leadership or power at almost all major corporations, which on its face is economically insane because it excludes a huge pool of skilled labor but is also eerily similar to laws restricting commoners from holding officer or governmental positions during past eras. and worse still is that this idea has totally eluded the VAST majority of people, even common people.
that's a great point. it'd be one thing if people didn't have to deal with such ludicrous costs to get these special pieces of paper that apparently prove you can do a job too haha, then it'd be truly more merit based at least. honestly... these policies are just holding our country back. it's a shame when I imagine all the people who would be great in a field but are hesitant to continue education due to the high cost in the US and don't want the debt...
@@vatefairefoutre0 I've wondered the same. Merit based and actual education for what they are going for is logically more appealing. This divide is worrysome. Young men, such as myself and I'll take a bet the majority of the viewers on this video are in this boat. I live everyday not letting nihilism be my path, life has meaning but the cards are stacked against us. Hard work is required, it's just so dark out there sometimes.
@@vatefairefoutre0it’s still not merit based because we only have so many years to live. If you have to spend 15 years acquiring degrees to get a job over the person with 1 degree and connections then that’s not merit based at all
I'm a Gen-X black American male and I am consistently impressed with the research, thinking and articulate commentary from this channel. Thank you for giving us solid food for thought. I encourage you to keep up the good work. Pax
What do you think of the government and general idea of young white men being oppressed? Do you think you acknowledge that it’s a big problem and side with them? I would like to know your thoughts as a gen X black male
@@Patrick-ld8wy The government has to side with who has all the money and power (because capitalism). What actions are enacted to increase equality and fairness and liberation from those with all the power are typically reversed once the right regains power, actually oppressing those with less by extending and leveraging inequality effectively installing ceiling on how far someone below a line can actually go. It only seems like white men mostly feel oppressed with words of frustration they hear or read online from those living in the system WS has created and trapped those born at the bottom under. At the end of the day white men are easily able to walk into and fill positions the involve receiving bonuses, paid off tuitions, and sabbaticals with their high salaries and positions of power. So it's hard to see white men being oppressed and seems mostly like invisible hot air. Because of the system I can't trace my ancestry/lineage and have a narrative preset and attached to me right out the womb setting me up to fail by design. Kinda hard to support the contrasting side that ignores the big problem with a less sensitive problem like they need to have leverage instead of correcting the problem.
@@Patrick-ld8wy Gen Z black male. I think being a straight man is worse than being white. However, I'd be willing to side with them if they don't plan to oppress racial minorities for their race and not behavior as group guilt is a dangerous game as you guys are sadly being impacted by. My parents think I'm a white supremacist, I'm just honest and a critical thinker. Personally, I think a theocracy would be a better idea since it's more effective to form a group around values rather than race. This is part of why the left would even fail on its own due to being a collation of historically marginalized groups, not any actual values, which is bound to fall apart soon, as it already is.
@@GenedyFilatov-hy7igThing is, anti-establishment these days coincides with right wing or libertarians, whereas the establishment is either the elite (whether it's politician, WEF or philantropists) or the controlled "opposition" like climate change fearmongers, feminists, Antifa, actors and singers.
Living as an immigrant (leaving soon)in the US for nearly 13 years, Iam so culture shocked and confused by this society it gives me a different perspective then most Americans. My foreign friends from other countries cant imagine how these people or I survive here. Things have gotten really downhill since 2011. Like everything is going to shit or is already in shit. Its really gone the opposite way. Babylon is crumbling.
@@maxwellhudson438 He's not actually going to leave, I bet my life on it. He just complaining how easy it is to live in America, that the only thing he can complain about is stupid cultural shit. He's been here for 13 years, why would he leave now lol. If it's a third world country they wouldn't consider you apart of them.
@@Black_Jack9460true. Just a matter of rate of descent. I think sparsely populated agrarian societies are the best bet. The more bought in to the digital gulag, the more the country should be avoided
It's genuinely scary being a history nerd and seeing all the signs of a revolution/civil war, WW3, and yet no one really seems to care, I just hope things can work out in the end, but its wishful thinking
No one cares because no one is noticing. Just like we are deep in a recession, but no one knows because the government just changed the definition and the media avoids usuing the word. Its full on "1984". The Party controls words and do they control reality.
Yeah, its weird isnt it. Poland is gearing up for - as you said - WW3 and life in Germany (my country and NEXT TO POLAND) goes on like nothing's up. Not that i want Germany to be involved in any of this, it just feels weird and eery. Like the calm before a storm and noone knows how its gonna go but everyone with a voice out there seems to be pushing in!
@@durstigerhugo1312 whats weird is the global collective concious KNOWS that there are 3 world wars planned for us. How do we all just feel/know this? Why can't we stop it?
We were presented with a fictional world, a mythology that we believed was real (because either was ignorant or did not want to hurt our feelings). Now as we are learning, we are disillusioned, and saddened we were lied to and unprepared for reality.
...and I was screaming at everyone since 2006 Here we are ...no one wants to work What to risk the dating game? To support a country that treats its citizens like second class citizens! To be told to shut up and take it.... To hell with that Viva la Australia
@@PrivateSi Your comment seems to be shadow banned So fark youtube "Is that Christianity or Capitalism? Both want you to buy into fantasies for profit, sold by prophets." -PrivateSi
I am 70 years old and remember a different America then what I am seeing today. Through my entire life I have always kept my sense of humor and found that laughter is the best stress reliever. What I am seeing today is an entire generation raised without a sense of humor. SNL is the best example, because in the early days of SNL it was totally dedicated to making people laugh, instead of pushing a political agenda. The great comedians are being told to shut up and are being attacked. I have always said that if God doesn't have a sense of humor then we are all in trouble.
@@smak387 You are right, we did let it happen. We were kind of busy with Korea, and Vietnam, the Cold War, putting people on the moon, the disastrous "Great Society" program, on and on. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost and others were left unfinished. That's life. The WWII generation could have gone on to destroy the Soviet Union and free Eastern Europe, but they were people too, and tired of war. So that was left to us. The people who fought the Revolution left the evil of slavery intact to be dealt with by their grandchildren. That's life. So right now, all of us old "Cold War" warriors are tired, and old and quite honestly, we just wanted to be left alone to live our lives. It sure as hell looks like we won't be left alone. We are old, our lives are on the downhill slide, and we damned well know it. I spent over two decades in uniform, I know what fear is, I know what death is. At this point, there isn't a whole lot we have to loose. We just wanted to be left alone. So if we are pushed like it looks like, well buddy, stand by for heavy rolls, cause we will not go quietly into the night......
My brother in law is Irish. He came here, worked his way up from mowing golf courses to running golf courses. After ten years of 60-90 hours a week, he and my sister moved to Ireland. He said their quality of life actually matters to the government in Ireland and America makes promises that aren't kept. "America takes people and grinds them up and spits them out. The American dream is a lie."
ireland is dying too, cost of living is the highest in europe, quite possibly the highest in the world. as a european i feel we are going to shit very soon due to demographics and retirement schemes
@@paulmryglod4802 nope, pretty much all of western and northern europe imports easterners (poles, romanians, bulgarians etc) for hard labor (e.g. the work the natives don't want to do), but even the eastern europeans are getting replaced by south and south-east asians. at least the irish are nice blokes and treat the immigrants well unlike some others i could mention...
I watched a documentary about the French Revolution, crucially one made by French historians, I was shocked how close the parallels were between America now, and France in about 1787 (ie 2 years prior to the Revolution)
I'm 24 and make $52,000 a year. I should easily be able to live on my own yet ive moved back in with my parents as the price if everything has become to expensive for me to continue living on my own. I almost constantly find myself angry at politicians, bankers, basically anyone who has high status in society. And at the same time I'm told "well just go buy an electric car and you wont have to deal with gas prices." Or "there's nothing you can do about it so just shut up, bend over and take it." And people have replaced religion with "genderism and diversity."
Im 24 and I live in the south and have traveled across the entire United States, and have friends everywhere. And something that I can agree with almost all of them is, we need a revolution, and we are really close to our violent breaking point towards the system that is killing us.
@@beneficent2557 Not always. If a revolution does not happen, an authoritarian regime will. At least a revolution happens with the people when they have had enough.
The way working conditions are today is mind boggling, and the way they don't cover expenses fully is even more so. My dad worked a good, high paying job just about all his life as an electrician in southern California. At the best of times, we were lower middle class. At the worst of times, we had gotten evicted due to rent prices being raised. The only reason why my dad is now able to finally try and afford a home at 52 is because my mom passed due to us not being able to afford a life saving hospital stay (the hospital didn't let her stay despite her having issues with diabetes and kidney failure, and she died not even two weeks later. My dad thought about suing, he's a strong, hardass man that I had only seen cry once before my moms passing in my life, but after all the heartbreak and tears shed, he didn't want to deal with all the hassle.) and because he doesn't have to pay for her any more. Let me reiterate: my dad, an electrician paid quite well by many standards, couldn't afford to keep his family alive. What kind of world do you have to live in for that to be the case?
A world where doctors and nurses and hospital staff expect to get paid. Your post is communist and you don't even realize it. You are not entitled to someone else's labor for free. My dad also died in a hospital but my mom ended up in debt anyway as was fair. Dad got expensive medical care, my mom didn't pay half of it. She should have been foreclosed on.
The biggest difference between us and the French during the French Revolution is our standards of living. Today “peasants” live with more luxuries than the royalty of the French at the time. What I think will drive a revolution is when basic necessities like food and water become unaffordable which we are getting close to actually. I bought a roll of aluminum foil and stuffing the other day and it came out to 30$…
Liked & subbed. I’m an elder millennial who lives in the rust belt, and this video hit pretty hard. Three of my grandparents worked for GM and the other at one of the largest naval installations in the world. They had comfortable middle class lives: community, houses, cars, boats, vacations, pensions, and the ability to provide for their family. I grew up poor with separated parents, but the safety net created by my grandparents kept my family from splattering into the ground. Now I’ve got 2 kids, one working car, and our family is one disaster away from potential catastrophe. Having already been through one disaster which forced me to cash in my 401k to keep our house and pay off medical settlements, along with continuing health problems, that is a very real and alarming possibility. Just one of my medications (for cluster headaches & migraines) would be $2070 a month without insurance. I’m not well enough to grind back to a decent life, but I’m not sick enough to be fully disabled. Forget vacations and luxuries - we can’t maintain what we already own. We’ve already trimmed off so much fat that we’re now sacrificing muscle. Working 64 hour weeks and taking classes part time when I was younger, I was fortunate enough to save enough for a house, and to refinance at historically low rates, which I know many of my peers and younger folks have not had the relative privilege of doing. The ridiculous rise in rents has not affected me, rather, I’m paying less for housing than ever before: A saving grace where many have additional pain. Not only is something like a French Revolution inevitable if this keeps up, but I have been continually amazed that it hasn’t happened already. I owe it to our amazing ability to survive & adapt to conditions in our environment, and with some assistance from the elites, to fight for scraps from the table and over relatively minor political issues rather than on fixing a system which is obviously fundamentally flawed. One encouraging thing to see is common-sense & principled voices from the left, right, and center breaking ranks to align against the current establishment. It is the only thing that gives me hope that a bloody mess can be averted in the process of bringing about an end to the suffering that many are enduring under the status quo.
@@sanniepstein4835 Lol, thanks. I'm assuming your comment is genuine and I appreciate your thoughts and the advice. But let me tell you... I was in a car accident in which my cervical spine was compressed to 2/3 of its original height in an instant. I suffered 4 fractures in my cervical spine, 3 in my thoracic, and also had to have surgery on my lumbar due to a fracture there as well. None of this was initially diagnosed. The hospital misread my cervical x-rays, took off my neck brace, and sent me home with ibuprofen. My personal doctor caught it when he re-evaluated them many days later when I was unable to move, telling me that my spine was unstable and I needed to be put in a full back/neck brace immediately. The lumbar problem took 4 years to diagnose and treat, throughout which I was dismissed and looked down upon by many doctors who thought I was faking and seeking additional drugs. I was using a cane and experiencing frequent falls by the time my second child was born. The surgery helped a lot, but I still struggle with my legs and with sciatica. I was on codeine and other painkillers for years. The problem is that there is nowhere to go but to increase the dosage over time or to seek out harder drugs, whether street or pharmaceutical. I've seen this happen to so many people over the years, some of whom are now dead, and others who will likely never escape this spiral until they are as well. I actually blame some of the painkillers and other medicines for other ongoing issues I now have which began not long after the accident. Codeine, if you've ever been in severe and chronic pain, is more of a mask than a cure. It makes you feel better - I distinctly remember "Exaggerated sense of well-being" as one of the side effects. And that is true, it does that. But it does not take away the pain, let alone cure the underlying problems causing it. It's also hard to describe how debilitating cluster headaches can be to someone who has never experienced them. I had migraines for ~10 years following the accident. Don't get me wrong - they are terrible, especially if you suffer from them regularly as I have. But true cluster headaches are in another class. I say "true" clusters because so many people claim to have them but are mistaking the classification with migraines or other headaches that happen in clusters, while actual cluster headaches are diagnosed in only ~1/40000 people. I would wake up in the middle of the night, my pillow already soaked with tears, and I could not handle the pain. I would literally bang my head against the wall just to feel something else. I couldn't stay still. I couldn't sleep. It is like torture. From the NIH: "Cluster headache pain is more intense than any other pain disorder we examined at 9.7, with the next most painful disorder, labor pain at 7.2, a full 2.5 points less on a 0-10 scale." Even women who have given birth with no pain relief and who also suffered cluster headaches rated the pain of the headaches significantly higher. And you get them EVERY DAY multiple times per day during a cluster period, which for me was about 1.5-2 months per year. I would do anything to get rid of the pain, and sadly, some people take that to the ultimate. Look up the nickname for them. This new drug is criminally expensive, and I suspect it is causing me to lose my hair at a drastically increased rate, but it has effectively stopped my cycle for the time being, and as a bonus my migraine frequency has been drastically reduced.
@cabestry9534 My husband has cluster migraines and is still looking for something that works. Are you able to give more info on the treatment you're on?
@@rebeccaf5350 Yes, it's called Emgality. It is a monoclonal antibody taken as 3x injections at once, one time per month for cluster headaches. It is also used for regular migraines in a dosage of 1 injection per month. My wife usually assists me with the injections in my, erm, backside. I can also inject myself in the stomach or thighs. It's not pleasant, but it sure beats constant headaches. For clusters, it is supposed to interrupt the cycle and/or reduce severity, which it has for me. I started taking it about 3 months before my anticipated period of cluster headaches ~2 years ago and have not experienced any since then. I do sometimes feel the shadow of headaches, such as pressure, twitching, or tearing up in my left eye where they would always occur. But in terms of pain, the difference has been night and day. I dreaded the onset of each period. At first I didn't even know what was happening - just that I was in the most unbearable pain of my life: Which if you read any of my history above, you can probably guess means it was pretty severe. I was initially given butalbital, acetaminophen, caffeine, and codeine combination by my personal doctor before I was officially given the diagnosis of cluster headaches from a neurologist. That cocktail helped a bit, but it was not nearly as effective as Emgality has been. I also take sumatriptan injections as a PRN, but I have not needed it for cluster headaches since starting Emgality - only for migraines. Best of luck to you and your husband.
I don’t know exactly but I saw a UA-cam video about a chemical similar to LSD that does wonders for cluster headaches. I think some states made it illegal but it’s worth looking into!
Reminds me of when mainstream reported first started talking about Supply Chain Issues: Some politician: "Oh no, your treadmill will arrive later! Anyway--"
It's scary. We don't know what American authoritarianism will look like. It was built in opposition to that, so culturally it will be weird to see what kind of "kingdom" it becomes when the shiny new leader drops.
What you mean? A few wealthy elites have controlled this country since the beginning. The treatment of minority groups, the bloated military spending and interventionalist tendencies, and thats not mentioning the bureaucracy/lobbying.
I've seen the future and deep down all I can say is I'm rooting and cheering for it. I'm willing to ruthlessly serve the reaction to bring back the light of order and honor back to into this crazy world.
Who wants to join marines des blutes right now it's just me but it could be me and you if you decide to join you just have to be above 13 and willing to do whatever it takes if you are those two things your in and you also have to give me your name, age and email
I have one mate who works 6-7 days a week Every night as emergency highway cleanup I couldnt do that His exact words were "I have to work hard so I can get a chance to stay still" *Hats off to him*
It's amazing to me how people in their 20s today are producing content and having conversations like this on the (mostly) open web. I'm 32 now and in 10 years time I look forward to hearing if/how your perspective grows and evolves.
i didn't have the internet until i was older, the younger millenials and gen z were born into the internet. they are lucky in that sense. they started with immediate access to way more information than those of us who grew up essentially limited to the lies of public schooling
@@cagneybillingsley2165 I also believe that long-term, the internet will give the world the puritan boom that the First World needs. Truth will win the day in the end. Facts cannot be hidden anymore. I pray that one day, people will look back to the days of legal abortion, legal contraception, and legal pornography the same way we look back on legal slavery, legal eugenics, and bronze age debauchery. We deserve to be remembered as barbarians seeking gold at the cost of tens of millions of innocent people.... The internet also reminds me of what was lost. Over a decade of my young life, from age 5 to age 16, was nonstop brainwashing, telling us to hate the past, telling us that today people are happy and wealthier. Now I've learned it's all a lie to squeeze labor and our souls from us. I'm 24, and the Great Depression was arguably my favorite era of American history, and perhaps we aren't far from reliving it.
@@cagneybillingsley2165it’s not all sunflowers and daisy’s. Growing up with this stuff can give you an edge of knowledge but there’s a million things bad effects as well that I could describe to you.
But the idea that you have to put your life on the line to get a degree and make a decent living and still be highly underpaid for how much work you do. If it weren’t for overtime I wouldn’t be able to make still with the basics of transportation to work, minor healthcare, not starve, have pets for a little serotonin, and not have a bunch of mental illnesses…
The issues that led up to the French revolution were somewhat unique to France. Today's mess does not seem to be limited to the United States. There must be similar feelings among young white men in other countries as well, Particularly in western Europe. Meanwhile in China, many young people are seeing a Chinese society not living up to what they had been they had expected either. They call it "lying flat." But the sentiment under the surface is brewing hostility towards their elite leaders, and their failing political system that only favors the rich and powerful.
I can say the same here in Latin America, specially Mexico, the rise of extreme gore violence of the Cartels are making people wish the Military to do something to stop the mess, the Generation Z men are not achieving their dreams, and are working a lot of hours with not enough money to buy the food necessary to live. The Inmobiliary costs are skyrocketing and the education is decaying, people are with resentment about eveythign, specially the Government that will cause us a big and heavy Economic Crisis... I have felt intuitively that here in Mexico, a 2nd Revolution is very close the corner, people can´t live anymore, neither even survive.
Yep, exactly. France has always been kind of...fractured. We saw that during the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, WWII - Vichy/Gaullists/Communists/etc, the completely lack of unity in the 5th Republic. Otherwise, it's a worldwide phenomenon of hopelessness. I think if Rudyard makes a video about the Mice Utopia experiment, it will touch closer to the issue at hand that young people are feeling.
The French Revolution itself did not send France into a decadent spiral, on the contrary it was the apogee, the culmination and climax of French power and domination. The French revolution allowed for talented, ambitious young men to rise to power based on merit or skill and not blood or inheritance. Every soldier had a Marshall's baton in their backpack as they said. Hence most of the legal, civil and scientific advancements that lay the foundation of the west were sprung from a 25 year period. Napoleonic law, civil code, metric system, esprit de corps and modern military organization to name a few examples out of dozens for each field. Sure it unleashed an unbridled stream of resentful and vindictive populist emotions/sentiments so it was very messy but without any restraints things also advanced so quickly. It was a double edge sword, unleashing the full potential of french society, for better AND worse. To the point It took the entire world 25 years of near constant war to beat France and exile Napoleon, that is why France declined, because it fought the entire world at once for decades and eventually the war attrition lead to defeat. Still the ideas of the french revolution permeated all European societies leading to the XIX century also becoming the most prosperous for the west and conquering and dominating the world, european political systems beat India, China and Japan. The revolutionary ideals are to this day laudable and not out of phase. What has happened is that now unlike during the French revolution merit, equality before the LAW (not absolute equality) and rationality is no longer cherished, thus ideological quotas, plutocracy and nepotism is the law of the land, just like it was during the ancient regime.
It’s almost impossible to figure out when it’s going to happen, but you can kinda guess it’s going to happen, but you don’t know when like the outbreak of World War II or World War I was guaranteed to happen due to the politics of the time and how the borders worked, but we didn’t know what was going to start it
I wish you were right, but unfortunately, no. You forget one side has the military, the left. The officers are all heavily left leaning now as any recent recruit can tell you. If you think the military won't obey the leftist government, you haven't been keeping up. The most dangerous military technology is tightly controlled by centralized computers that are controlled by the brass. The possibility of violent right-wing revolt has been an impossibility for decades now. And the american left is no longer peace loving hippies. It's violent Marxists itching for an excuse to break out the guillotines. We are screwed.
The greatest generation is long dead, the silent generation is mostly dead. The Boomers who rule us and control the wealth are weak, vapid, and have never overcome hardship. Gen-X are happy to die to crush the Millenial progressive upstarts. A tuna sandwich could overthrow this order.
@@johnvincent9370 I mean, almost half of the poor people I know (actually, I only know poor people so almost half the people I know) are/were openly in favor of Trump just performing a coup and becoming a dictator, screwing voting or legitimacy. They didn't outright say this, but they also didn't go to far out of their way to hide their opinions either. Now I can only speak for what it is like in my small slice of the country, but I imagine states in similar situations to mine will have similar coup-supporting hopes among their poor populations. All its going to take is someone with charisma to just be willing to actually be ruthless enough to do through with it and speak the right ideology to be galvanize these people into whatever action they want. I just hope whoever takes over ends up being relatively benevolent, but the problem is that whoever finally decides to take over by force will probably, by nature of them being willing or eager to use violence, not be very benevolent, especially against their enemies.
"I don't give a damn what you think, im just going to be racist and sexist" I have been using this logic to some extent for years now. Every time someone calls me a racist, sexist, or any of the things they could call me, I just say "thanks for noticing" or "okay." I simply do not care and if they want to label me things that I am not, I am only going to turn around and actively do things that make them think that more and that make them more mad.
I've tried telling this to my more extreme friends for years, when you tell someone they are the enemy, they're only going to argue against that notion for so long before they accept it. Then it's you vs. them and they know you don't view them as worthy of liberty.
I was born with a birth defect that left me with 1 third of a functioning digestive tract, this has also left me with multiple psychological hangups and blips. This makes it very difficult for me to keep up energy levels for the amount of work expected of the average american man nowadays. I am 27, and still live with my grandparents, because my mother was 16 when I was conceived. Because of internal family issues, I have not been on disability since around the age of 16. Ever since then I was berated by my family whenever I would bring up the possibility of trying to be reinstated, as it is incredibly difficult for me to force myself into working 40 hour weeks when I have to sneak cheese and crackers in the corners of freezers. I never took school seriously as a child despite everyone telling me how smart I was. I wanted to be an artist of some sort, so I understand in a way I've reaped what I have sewn. But it always bothers me that I will forever have to pay almost 3 times the amount to simply not starve than the average person, and I get no help with this. My family hates me because I can't seem to get things together, and at this point I genuinely believe that it would be better for everyone involved if I were just dead. I genuinely don't know what to do anymore.
This may not land, but whatever you do, do not let the despair take you. If you do something permanent, it will spill over to others in ways you can’t predict. There are likely free resources in your area, they’re almost everywhere, if you find yourself drifting there, and if you’re getting there what have you got to lose?Your life can be more and mean more than you ever thought possible but you have to be there. Anything telling you not to be there is a lie, every single time.
@@michaeldyer7421 yea, hang in there man. You should be able to see most people - strangers here perhaps - wish the best for you. And we're all fighting for a better future for ourselves and our country foremost
@@C12341 I really appreciate it. As someone who does play guitar, just play songs you enjoy even if they're hard. Learn them slow, and speed up once you're confident. Also as a fellow linguistic autist, it's fun to hear someone else is doing the same. I'd like to learn French, what languages are you studying?
I’m sure you’ve got a lot to give Although it may take a while I’m hoping you hang on And know there are plenty of sympathetic people who may yet benefit from whatever gifts you bring
I've been thinking we need a French Revolution here in the U.S. Our political and social elite act and treat all others as some kind of peasantry to be only allowed to do as "THEY" say. You'll own nothing and be happy...or else. The Road To Serfdom, a great little book. We all should read it.
That's why it'll fail, miserably. Their great reset is a fantasy, based upon how they're breaking things down with literally NOTHING viable, with which to replace it. Facts. What happened in Syria, is easily coming here (multi-faction/sectarian) civ war. Followed likely by foreign invasi0n. Very very dangerous times, indeed.
That's not necessarily the best idea I hate the current government functioning but if you remove all that too quickly then it was an anarchy plus enemies like Russia Iran China and North Korea may take advantage of that and it could also damaged NATO or make Europe the United States as a liability cause an American to lose influence
I know it's fun to make comparisons to other big moments in history... I mean, I'm here subbed to this channel right? but I think it's very hard to compare our time... it's like a bit of a technological revolution and modern society not really adjusting very well to it as well. I have faith once millennials and gen z have the reins this will improve. I do have a lot of faith and hope in our generations... across the world actually.
@@vatefairefoutre0 I think it's perfectly reasonable to make these comparisons. Having advanced technology doesn't change man's underlying nature. These comparisons aren't arbitrary either. Our current society has many parallels to the three periods I gave that are particular to each one of them.
I like how Rudyard ends the video by honoring the longest standing tradition of the english speaking world: saying how much better Anglos are than the French.
I can feel you getting angrier and angrier as this video goes on and you're a pretty level headed guy. I feel like a tipping point has been reached and more and more people are getting sick of the shit we're all having to deal with.
He seems to have transitioned into a full-blown coach. You can tell seeing as he essentially said nothing new in this video compared to the previous one. I think he started to legitimately perceive himself as one of the leaders of this incel revolution he prophetizes all the time. I just think the guy lost perspective, drowned himself in his loath for the left. He's gotten too bipartisan and straight-out self-contradictory: I mean, on the one hand he says he fears that incel neo-Nazis will start another Holocaust once in power (which honestly sounds to me more like an attempt at blackmail than any genuine concern, but whatever), and then proceeds to tell us how communities composed of those bitterly frustrated individuals are some sort of havens of companionship and solidarity? Can't make heads or tails out of it. And I don't expect things to improve considering how 99% of the comments here pour nothing but praise on him for being so young and so bright, which has been the downfall of many.
Back in the early 19 century the word cake in French referred to bread, not a sweet dessert. The French people were mad at this because they had no bread and were literally starving.
One thing ive noticed from talking to fellow men in their teens and 20s both online and in person is a general rise in both distrust of relations/women as well as a nihilistic towards life and society. Its not surprising to see young men openly agreeing with Andrew Tate or being part of the incel community these days. It scares me that there is a large and growing number of young men with no romantic, social, poltical, or economic stake in society, thats the stuff wars and revolutions are made of.
Society took away all reasons for young men to marry. I'm grateful I got married 20 years ago before society completely went stupid. Getting married today is the worst advice you could give a young man.
I think the nihilism you’re talking about comes from the gap between the country we were told we would inherit and where most millennials and Gen z are, scraping by as you say. Lots of reasons for this, but the root of that divide is lack of representation (both because boomers are driving the government at all levels, and because corporate interests are the constituents rather than actual working class people). The American French Revolution would probably address these two things first and have a big isolationist undertone, both from the left and the right.
I doubt it, the British went through a more similar situation in the 19th century. It more likely will just end in a war or something causing worldwide economic collapse.
That's such a materialist conception of nihilism. Always assuming everything is all about the material conditions, you materialists. Those factors might be what spark the revolution, but the cause of nihilism is the utter meaninglessness of modern existence. There's a giant God-shaped hole in our lives, and no amount of material prosperity can or will ever fill it.
In fairness, that's pretty traditionally American. For most of our history, the USA has pretty much been concerned with staying out of old world affairs as much as possible. Due to communism and the existential threat it posed, we eventually become the world's sole hyperpower, but culturally it wasn't really something the nation had ever strived towards it kinda just happened making us, in a way, be victims of our own "success".
When I first started writing my apocalyptic science-fiction book, way back in 2005, my initial idea for the reason why everything went to shit was a 2nd American Civil War. But I scrapped the idea after a bit, because I thought it was too far fetched. Less than 20 years later I see that I wasn't pessimistic enough in my outlook and should have gone with my gut. In case you're curious, I picked the development of fusion power by a world power other than the US as the new reason for a major world conflict instead.
I think that you might consider taking your book idea back up again. I'd be very interested in reading it, if you completed it. Btw, I'd be very interested in the 'working title' of your book if you decided to go back to it.
I once heard a university professor give a talk about the horrible 1% and how they were due for a reckoning French Revolution-style. Afterwards I went up to him and said, it is not the 1% that needs to be worried. They can take care of themselves and no doubt have already made preparations. No, it is people like you that need to worry. He said, how so? I said, you are a professor. That means you are probably living in a pretty nice suburb; you aren't living in a low-income neighborhood. You aren't struggling paycheck to paycheck (or if you are, something's very wrong). You have benefits. You aren't living on minimum wage. You're insulated from a lot of things. Now--let's say we do have a revolution like the French or Russians did. It will be people like YOU that people like ME will be coming after. Not the 1%. YOU. If you have a home that everyone admires, look out. If you drive an upscale vehicle, again, look out. Because the mobs will not be going to the trailer parks and low-income urban neighborhoods. They will be coming to YOUR neighborhood. Because you have what they want and you are much more easily accessible than that 1% who will be long gone. You're a sitting duck. It doesn't matter that you don't think you are all that well off, what matters is how others perceive you, and if they perceive that you have assets such as a decent home, a vehicle that isn't falling apart, if they sense by the way you dress, act, and speak that you have more than they do, look out. Got solar, wind, EV? That spells MONEY. Going green ain't cheap. I, on the other hand, live in a mobile home park and am just getting by, as are many of my neighbors who are in even worse financial shape than I am. Many cannot pay their rent even though this is the cheapest housing around. So they end up being evicted. Yes, there are a lot of problems, some caused by bad personal choices but others by societal choices. Such as the decision to move manufacturing overseas. And contrary to what you might think, people in the Rust Belt are very much aware of this and they do talk about it. It's not something that's forgotten. Reminders of what used to be are all around. So I am saying, if there is a French-style Revolution in this country, it is going to be very, very, very ugly and some of the people who might be cheering such a prospect on will be in for a very rude awakening as they find that the mobs are coming for THEM. I think, or at least I hope, I gave that professor something to think about.
In all seriousness, I would rather fight and die for a worthy cause than sludge away in mediocrity just to pay rent and fund a government that consistently fails in their responsibilities to us. When I think on what my taxes go towards... it's enough to compel me to fight.
It's fitting that we have a Napoleon movie coming out toward the end of the year. The American Revolution was tame compared to the French, however many believe we didn't go far enough and that's why we are where we are in a society. We don't have the stomach for a French Revolution.
As someone in my late 30s I think I am now enduring my 3rd or 4th “once in a lifetime economic event” The talking heads always make it seem like it’s never as bad as it seems or was. That’s their job. The world is like a wheel that’s not balanced correctly. As it continues to pick up speed eventually it will rip itself apart.
@@donaldtrumplover2254can blame the boomers for selling us out and deregulating wages back in 1983. Reagan basically handed carte Blanche for corporations to stop raising worker wages and enrich themselves through stock buybacks. I’m serious look it up, the 1% has gotten almost 90% of the economic gains since 1985.
Just be glad we went through it. If this video is right, then we've been prepared for this by 9/11, 2007, and covid. If you've been through all that and STILL aren't ready for what is coming then there's nothing that can be done for you.
Bruh.. I am 37 now and me and my mom have been running our own business for 12 years now. We had some good years early on.. but it’s been one “once in a lifetime bad economic event” after another every other year for the last 7-8 years. We fight back every time.. only to have the rug pulled from under us by other people. It’s been a combination of a number of clients fucking us over by taking their sweet time paying us.. which made it difficult for us to keep up with payroll in a timely and consistent manner.. this ruined our reputation with actual good people that want to work and we’ve since been forced to take what help we can get and it’s bit us in the ass every time. People don’t show up every other day, or they lie about going to clients or they do go but do a half ass job and or they steal from clients. If our clients had always paid us in a timely manner and we didn’t lose our quality people.. and thus didn’t lose 95% of our clients.. my mom and I would be millionaires by now instead of not even living paycheck to paycheck. I’ve been living in my office since before Covid, don’t have a vehicle and have been single the vast majority of this time.. mostly by choice because my situation isn’t conducive to a healthy relationship and I emotionally can’t handle another major heartbreak. Every time my mom and I get our heads above water for even a day or two.. something comes along and chains a steel ball to our legs and we get dragged under water again. My mom’s age is starting to catch up with her and then some.. last year she had a major spinal fusion and that ended up getting messed up by the physical therapist.. and she now needs both hips replaced and she can barely walk and almost never gets any sleep. She’s not even 60 yet.. and my health isn’t all that much better.. not even 40 yet but most days I feel like I am pushing 70 already physically, mentally and emotionally.. we haven’t taken a vacation in well over 20 years.. we never buy new clothes or anything nice unless it’s absolutely necessary and even then.. it still gets put off as long as possible. I have no hope for my future and I don’t know if I even want to see 50 if this is already how life is before I am 40.. let alone 60, 70 or 80.. I don’t know what to do and most days I struggle with the urge to just blow my head off. The only thing keeping me from doing it is my faith and just because taking a life, even your own.. is a grave sin. But at the same time.. I see no possibility for any kind of quality life going forward and especially if things don’t change. I feel so alone. Additionally.. every day I have to deal with being demonized just for being a straight white man and told how privileged and evil I inherently am.
@@darthsilversith667 I feel for you man. You should be proud and defiant that you are still going. Look into stoicism. Everyday that you continue to endure and move forward is a victory in defiance of the world we live in.
The number one "let them eat cake" equivalent I see in modern society is the "mass migration is good because we get lots of ethnic restaurants out of it." How often do they think the average working stiff whose wages are being depressed by mass migration can honestly go out to these wonderful ethnic restaurants?
Who is going to clean our houses and mow our lawns if we don't have immigration? Immigrants do the jobs that Americans don't want to do (for that price, admitting that immigration is anti-labor). If you are worried about gas prices just buy a tesla!
A closer comparison would be the time when facing a question about high gas prices some official said "Just buy electric cars" or something along those lines.
Also ethnic food isn’t even very good. We’ve imported all the good ethnic cuisine already. Now they’re like “try a Mongolian fried roach or else you’re racist”. It’s no longer sushi and pizza and tacos being imported. Those are all widespread by now
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se What ethnicity are you if you mind me asking? Ethnic Cuisines aren't for everyone, but it is def liked by a lot of people in Europe and the U.S, so I don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Also if you are going to critique ethnic cuisines at least know a few dishes, you seem to only eat fast food. Pizza, Sushi, And Tacos don't count.
Well done !!!! For years, since 1998, I exchanged thoughts with others on forums where we discussed seeing the breakdown of America due to the Politicians. Since then, steadily the populace has become fractured to nearly beyond an amicable reunion. Every day, I see videos of mostly Black youth, stealing from stores (Nordstrom being the latest) without consequences because they have been enabled by the Politicians. Our entire Alphabet Federal Government is nearly untrusted by the very American People they are/were intended to 'serve'. The Balkanization War is what I've seen coming.
I have a lot of experience with the modern US military leadership and officer corps. I can say for sure that Rudy's assertion that their political leanings to the right is a wonderful fantasy. The institutions of learning that have developed our nations military leadership have been selecting for progressivism for the last 20+ years at least. While the enlisted corps will slant right, the officer corps is very much of one voice to maintain the current progressive order. We will not see the military so evenly join the right's side if it were to come to a civil conflict.
Usually I fall into the trap of thinking "man im living in the easiest time in human history. I must be so pathetic I can't handle this much when people lived with much less in the past" Then this video made me realize people back then had alot more than I ever had. Not in a materialistic sense, but in the sense of having a close knit community that share the same values as you. If those people in the past walked in our shoes, they would be like "man y'all have seriously messed up lives". Now i'm not ashamed to admit we are living in very shitty times and i shouldnt blame myself too much for it lol
How about you don't live life in black and white? It is true that the modern world has created NEW problems for us, but it doesn't mean we live worser lives than our ancestors? We should solve those problems, but going back to how our ancestors lived won't actually fixed the MODERN problems we have. See how easy it is to not think one way or another?
Only way to destroy close nit communities is bus in tons and tons of illegal foreigners who dont speak your language and slowly destroy it through crime poverty higher and higher taxes to deal with the government created problem and soon the community is gone because people you new were killed or moved away.
i agree our biggest curse is so much open knowledge , although i don't have any problems like starvation , shelter but being very lonely i spent most of the time on internet putting myself myself in others problems at an globalized scale
We adapt, sadly but also a blessing or im just a lone wolf, I enjoy being in my company for long periods but not more than 40 days as I physically feel the need to socialize and hit up a friend otherwise my work/hobbies are impaired you could say.
the last time something like this happened in the US, the US wasn't hated by half the world. If SHTF tomorrow, expect Russia, China, Iran and every other country the US has attacked or threatened to jump in and start supplying arms and ammo to stoke the civil conflict in the US.
if hopelessness and gloom are the norm , then virtuous acts become rarer and have their value increased . if you value the responsibility of being good above selfishness , you'll be exceptional and your actions will be remembered by people affected by them , precisely because you'll probably be one of the few people in their week that displayed selflessness . this means that even hopelessness itself is fuel for the biggest hope possible . if virtue and heroism were the norm , the good wouldn't be so special . quoting spiderman , '' Anyone can win a fight--when the odds--are easy! It's when the going's tough--when there seems to be no chance--that's when--it counts! '' .
I'm Gen X and I absolutley love your videos. My grandparents raised me and Its been amazing to see first hand such a Post WW2 1950's USA to now a "Modern Era".
@@jokeinsurance2735 And Clinton, Bush I, Nixon, Johnson, Bush II, Obama and now Brandon. Just remember that it was Johnson who signed off on the 1965 immigration bill that in its first sentence said that the European decedents who were racists and had to give up their power to make sure that America was "equitable". But yes, Reagan started the debt crisis, unfettered capitalism, breaking unions, spending far too much on the Cold War than what it had to be, and growing the size of NATO all at the American taxpayers expense.
@@jokeinsurance2735 Oh Really? How so - In your opinion. We know how Biden and his Administration have screwed the Country in every single area of regulation and human endeavor, as well as the 2A and the Bill of Rights as that has happened since Biden was installed - but you can now explain about the Evil Regan, if you wish to go beyond mere sound bite comments. (It is difficult - trust me, as I often in the past have explained to Citizens on comment streams and they get agitated at long Posts.......)
Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake Politicians: Buy an Electric Vehicle(when it’s more expensive to maintain than a ICE vehicle) and Learn to Code. Me: Always wondering why most of what was happening seemed oddly familiar until I saw a French Revolution video. I’m wondering what’s going to be that spark when people just snap.
From Wikipedia "Let them eat cake": "Although the phrase is conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, it can actually be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution, and when Antoinette was 9 years old and had never been to France." And when she said "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" she doesn't talk about the cake as we understand it, but about brioche, a kind of pastry.
Why are you saying that is more expensive to maintain than an ICE? You don't change oil, you don't change filters, the electric motor works forever. I wonder if you have an EV.
@@Kannot2023the electric motor does not last forever and even if it does you have a risk of it catching fire . That’s not mentioning the fact that most electric grids in America cannot stand the stress that would be put on it if even a fraction of the population switched to them
One very big problem I see with this whole analysis is the fact there aren’t a lot of young men, like at all. This applies to basically every industrialized country. Add to this the fact that young men are distracted and disillusioned. With these things in mind it seems more likely that society will continue on the path it’s on, rather than explode in some sort of revolution. A slow death, in other words.
The whole Melting Pot culture is probably one of the big culprits. Human Nature is just more geared to a village than a city. That's why when you hear about young men escaping into anime. It's not an obsession. It's just that something about it makes them comfortable. In a village, everyone is just familiar with each other. But in modern cities, it's a different scenario. I think it's a set of life skills that our generation doesn't really have yet.
@@eksbocks9438is that why people are obsessed with medieval fantasy settings or isekai settings? Because people want to escape their realities for a more simpler life where they can live happily?
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 It is. And the characters in these shows are usually supportive. I mean, it wouldn't be popular if the female characters were malicious.
The US has 35 million Gen Z men and 35 million millennial men. This is 1/4 of the country. Wokes are 8% of the US population and they’ve managed to destroy society within 9 years. Why can’t young men alter society. Even countries in Europe have large young male populations. Just not as many as the older men. They couldn’t vote their way out of the oppressive system but they could fight their way out of it
When I was kid my dad work 60-72 hours a week doing trades or physical labor, making about 70k a year in California. but he was able to buy a home in a semi-rural suburb and my mom was able to stay home. I make the same in a white collar job, but even with my wife working in about the same economic level it’ll be hard to buy a home in an area that isn’t in a bad neighborhood. Pretty crazy to see those kind of changes in my relatively short life alone.
The 2008-2023 extremely low interest rates, poor financial education, and far too much corporate consolidation have caused vast vast damage to this country.
It was a multi-decade problem. 1990s was Glass-Steagall repeal for banking, and Telecommunications Act allowing for media corporations to buy out left and right. Corporate Bailouts of the 2000s, which is the Republican go-to approach of Bush and Trump
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepeshere we go... It isn't just Republicans you twerp. This is why no one takes you seriously and why the wheels of society will be greased once again.
As a Gen X fan of the Simpsons from the beginning, I feel compelled to point out that the Simpsons started in 1989, so in its heyday, it was really a ‘90s show, not an ‘80s show. As a sitcom, it reflected the economic decline of the American middle class presaged by the crash of ‘87 and cemented by the ‘90s recession. The sitcoms of the ‘80s featured prosperous and well adjusted upper middle class families like the Keatons, the Cosbies and the Seavers. The ‘80s were the last truly happy times in America.
The 90’s if you were already upper middle class. Post Cold War, pre 9-11. Internet Boom. I was born in 83 so I remember the second half of the 80’s. The decline really began with the internet bust in 99.
@@ktoth29as Gen Z (2001) I remember the decline got really bad post 08. I was 7 and I remember seeing the big bust and growing up in the depression. The heavy weight in the air as you see economic stagnation and hardship when you’re learning how the economy works. It only got slightly better with trump before covid destroyed all progress once again
married with children was a better eighties sitcom, Keatons the Cosbies and Seavers were all democrats who the party really threw over board the last twenty years. The Bundys were typical barely hanging on blue collar conservatives who one particular neighbor had a certain disdain for a neighbor chicken (who was a democrat).
Lower middle class and plumber shouldn’t go together. Skilled tradesman shouldn’t be out earned by corporate project managers that literally send emails all day smh.
For someone so young, you really are far beyond many others in terms of your insights and way of thinking. I am a few years older than you and I am sad to say that my knowledge and understanding of these topics pales in comparison to yours. However, I am grateful to have the opportunity to hear your thoughts and engage in the topics you discuss. I and many others greatly benefit from content like yours. Keep up the great work friend!
As a 42 year old woman who watches your videos regularly, I hope your exhortations to your followers get through. Former liberal turned...not liberal, I'm worried about the world my daughters will grow up in, and whether they will be able to find good men to start families with, should that be their path. Keep up the good work, thanks for all you do!
Personally, the more conditions seem to be breaking down in America the more I think there is going to be a radical backlash by young men against women in the coming years. Who knows when it will happen, but I think young women in particular are going to lose a lot of their social freedoms they currently enjoy. The best case scenario is a benevolent paternalism wins the day and women simply lose the vote and have to become primarily wives and mothers again. A worst case scenario is men become so angry and radicalized that they go into full Taliban mode against women and they lose most of their civil rights. Pray for the former and not for the latter for your daughters and encourage them to find a good man to marry so they will have some kind of security and protection as things start to fall apart.
Good men (not me) are still out there. The more I read my Bible, the more I feel my stresses disappear. Of course I am still a beginner in Christianity, so my anxiety and depression is still strong. I am young and still scared, but I have been blessed with very supportive and loving parents. I have learned the power of family. My father wants to bring back multigenerational households, which is something I want for when I father children because having a support system when it counts is vital. I pray for the best for you and your family. I know it is just a UA-cam comment, but it is all I got.
French Revolution was not French. It was done by Grand Orient Freemasonry. They gave the Statue of Liberty to the USA They started WW1 by shooting Ferdinand.
*Me going to academia in the based timeline to learn about:* _Western studies, Men's studies, Applied theology, Traditional thinking, History of Philosophy, Secular studies, Accessorial studies & Stoic studies._
I feel like everyone making predictions now will at the very least get a few major plot twists wrong, but historians looking back will be all "the results were so damn obvious".
This video pretty much gets all the plot points wrong. When people get poorer they move to the left. They don't move to the right. For every right wing young male you will find ten frustrated young men parroting Bernie Sanders talking points. The right has lost the narrative and will never recover.
As a kid I had big dreams that I could do anything. I feel like my life hardly means anything anymore, and I'm past the point of pretending that it's okay. To live my life a bit more honestly and carefully makes my prospects for having those meaningful things somehow worse. I wish I could be a historian, an engineer, a physicist. I've settled for going to school to start a career in HVAC for now, which actually does make me a little excited. But knowing that everything else is out of reach, I can only imagine the rush of life I dreamed of having coming to me only in the ranks of some final bonzai charge as our civilization collapses.
You can still be everything you want to be. While you work HVAC, train, act and publish as an historian/physicist and engineer. Being an HVAC is the exact path to where you want to get. You just have to figure out how all the pieces fit together and trust God. Life is truly a mystery. The path is never straight forward. Good Luck
Good luck and may good times be ahead of you. I think you may find a sense of fulfillment and purpose from a community of people you like and trust, more than work output in the sciences.
Key difference between then and now is the French Revolution took place during the peak of the Enlightenment where dynamic and viable alternate systems were being theorized, worked out, and actively implemented. Our intellectual discourse - especially in term of political thought - is pretty myopic and largely consists of us throwing 19th century memes at each other.
@@nicholassevern88 You know of any place that kind of talk is being held? I feel hashing out a viable replacement to the current system would be quite important for the aftermath of whatever will happen next. So even if the proper conversation right now is small or non-existent, merely standing by seems like a mistake.
The “replacement system” many people gravitate toward is communism. It hasn’t worked anywhere it has been, but they think we’ll do it right!! They should look at cuba and venezuela. The enlightenment made no difference to th french revolution. It rapidly descended into chaos and bloodshed. That is the future of any revolution like it here. The problems during that time will dwarf any problems we might have now.
“Let them eat cake”. This is probably the most famous misquote we will ever associate with Marie Antoinette. It was not the haughty words of an unempathetic Queen, far removed from the struggles of her people. This quote was spoken one hundred years before Marie Antoinette, and even then, it stems from a mistranslation. Marie-Therese, Queen of Louis XIV when appraised of the issues surrounding the price of bread, driven out of the means of her peasant populations, asked “Why don’t they eat Brioche?” Brioche in its contemporary form was a cheap alternative to bread, NOT a cake. Marie-Therese was attempting to support the people in their efforts to limit the price of grain in order to make it a viable commodity, by refusing to pay the prices demanded for bread.
Most fans of western-European history seem to know this is a misquote. A big fan of the channel, but I found that a bit odd for a professed "history-buff".
That’s absolutely fascinating as I have always wondered where it really came from and sensed a story there. If what you say is true, which I will research, that’s actually brilliantly practical advice from an economic leadership perspective. Especially since bread doesn’t have any nutritional value anyway and wouldn’t reflect the population’s ability to survive vs meat or fish or whatever vegetables particularly subsist the customs of a specific community and something with that seemed up to me. I eat brioche for breakfast in Italy as many people do if they eat breakfast at all and don’t touch what I would define as a traditional American breakfast. But people can be quite set in their ways and not want to change or try a different way of life for absolutely no reason and it might still be necessary to state something so simple. People will burn you at the stake for looking at them wrong lol
Americans kept mentioning online "we're living at the end of the Roman Empire" so much but never stopped to think maybe the Empire is only about to start...
@@shorewall There's a problem with that, though. Lots of people like "America", but how many of them have the same idea of what "America" is? There's no way America could have another civil war without losing 90% of the population and fracturing into dozens of smaller countries with different ideas of what they want.
Yeah, I agree. The Roman Empire went in cycles, too, and lasted 1000 years. This is the first 300 years. Despite what people say, the US is not actually an Empire......yet. We're in a Republic stage imo. Plus, if you listen to speeches back in the 40s-70s, people were saying the same stuff. Granted, I do think it has reached a zenith due to social media and out of touch elites not knowing how to build things for the future but America is built in a way where once this current cycle ends at the end of the 21st century (Millennials and Gen Z being the ones to kill it)....its ideals are still going to be the dominant one and America's population demographics will be steady enough to support these ideals. It's not a boast. It's just that the rest of the world isn't going to have the population demographics, economy, and military power to take supplant the US. Maybe in another 200 years, we'll see Europe repair its population demographics and come up with a new set of ideas that can replace the Enlightenment but we shall see.
@@xLeeroycranex "This is the first 300 years" Maybe I'm going to offend some Americans but I'd argue the first 300 years were the British Empire. Monarchy led by a king, just like in Rome - check. The king screwing up so much as to make his subjects finally get rid of him and kings in general, officially starting democracy - check. Of course not everyone was equal still, just like in Rome. "We're in a Republic stage imo" Contrary to popular belief the Empire didn't start abruptly. There was a transitional period where the whole Republic became incredibly corrupt and led by figureheads for the elite. There was an effort to make everything SEEM democratic but over time the elite paid less and less attention to even try to pretend it's a democracy. From the outside it seems that's where America is now which is too bad because I don't want the world to be stuck with a dictatorial America and a dictatorial China.
I’m a Gen Zommer who was born right before Gen Alpha, If young men rise up to stand up for their rights as humans, I support you. God Bless evreyone ❤❤❤
Like you said in your video about the coming far-right backlash, the most radical faction almost always wins in a civil war, but I feel like if we do get a 2ACW (which I personally do think we will get), whoever is the "most radical" faction will be very unclear. It won't be just Democrats vs Republicans, but we'll see actual Communists and actual Fascists clash too. We'll get Monarchist and Autocratic leagues too. It's going to be a clusterfuck and ideologies fighting to be the Top Dog, and whoever does come out of it will determine the course of not just American history, but World history too. Some people say 2020 was a referendum on Trump. Well, I would like to say that a 2ACW would be a violent referendum on Democracies and Republics as a whole. Everybody on both sides of the aisle are scared shitless that they could lose their representation and voice in any given election. People feel like dogs backed into corners, and eventually we're going to snap back, and it won't be pretty for our handlers.
The real Mary Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake". The line came from a play and was meant to make her look stupid, because cake was a very expensive bread type. The actual woman had tried to organize food charities for those caught by the famine and has been badly slandered. It's worth noting that France has had at least three or four government collapses since the Revolution, which more and more, I suspect was a coup by the Merchant and Banking class to gain control.
You are repeating a lie perpetrated by dishonest charlatans. Why are you defending a woman born into extreme wealth that benefitted from the struggles of starving peasants? The marxist, white liberal women teaching you poor saps have LIED to you. Research the miserable lives of the poor French peasant. Research the actual behavior of the French nobility towards the peasantry. They were cruel and barbaric to them. You people live in a Disney world of delusion where you picture yourself as kind nobles. You never picture the reality that you would be the starving mistreated peasants. White liberal female teachers have poisoned your minds.
When I watch these video's, I feel like my whole generation is watching with me. I truly believe that one day in the near future millennials and gen z will assert themselves in public life. And that makes me proud.
Pride is a deadly sin. Pride also comes before the fall. Remember how proud we were of our military after 9/11? How we supported our troops? How is the military now?
Pride is a deadly sin. Pride also comes before the fall. Remember how proud we were of our military after 9/11? How we supported our troops? How is the military now?
Never been so happy in my entire life to in Alaska. We are united here, both in ideology and a sense of nationalism that you just don't see in lower 48. We take care of each other as a culture and we have pride and what we do; and especially pride in being independent in our lives. We act as one big family. We already do not consider ourselves American, and would welcome Canadian break off provinces, Americans looking for a better life, and trade and Aliances with foreign Nations because of the sheer scale of natural resources that we have here could easily be leveraged for trade. The future is ours.
I've read different opinions on the "let them eat cake" attributed to Marie Antoinette. One asserts that she actually said this. Another maintains that it was anti-royalist propaganda. I'm inclined to believe that she never said this. The French Aristocracy was nasty, but they weren't that clueless. They knew they had problems, but they couldn't bring themselves to fix the situation because they were loath to lose any of their power or money. And in the end, their inability to face reality ruined them.
It’s too bad our elites have forgotten the French Revolution ended up with the Terror where even “middle of the road” revolutionaries went to the guillotine! As the saying goes, “He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.”
The French revolution was a revolution of the elites. This seems to be misunderstood by a number of commentators. This was not a peasant's revolt, in fact, many of the peasants, as was the case with the Kulaks in Russia, were persecuted by the revolutionary authorities which were nearly all from the elites.
@@BlunderCity this is true for the first revolution than started in june 1789 but it's less the case for the "second revolution" that began after the the day of 10 august 1792. During the following period, the popular masses of Paris, the famous "Sans culottes", had a huge role in the politics event between 1792 and 1795, even if they were instrumentalized by some révolutionary leaders (Robespierre, Saint-Just...).
@@felix.7760 Yes but the sans culottes were not peasants. There was basically 3 types of revolutionaries: - The noblemen and clergymen who joined the 3rd estate and formed the first improvised national assembly (tennis court oath). It's estimated that about a fifth of nobility and a third of the clergy supported the overthrow of the ancien regime. Many went on to get elected to the constituting assembly and national convention. The likes Condorcet, Mirabeau, Talleyrand, Sieyes, the Duke of Orleans etc... - The bourgeoisie, the economically privileged but without titles, people like lawyers and merchants. They were basically butthurt not have any institutional power. Most of the famous revolutionaries, like Robespierre, came from that class of "notables". - The sans culottes, basically the urban poor, living in what were essentially slums. The peasants found themselves at the wrong end of these developments, often accused of hoarding food and collaborating with allegedly scheming land owners to make money on the backs of "the people". This was not a peasants revolt but a revolution of the elites. The people living in the countryside were strangely not on the side one might expect. The revolution, like most in France, was very Paris focused. As an aside, the role of the countryside nobility is rather interesting. Many of them supported the revolution, not out of a sense of enlightened altruism, but as a way to increase their power. They grew tired of the centralisation of power around the top brass in Paris. Many thought the country could return to a pre Louis XIII when the kingdom was far more decentralised and they had a lot more local power without having to kiss the ring. Let's say this was a "sharp miscalculation" on their part😂.
When achieving the throne, Queen Marie was known to have requested the abolition of a long-standing stealth tax on the poor known as the Queen’s Belt, famously stating “Queens no longer wear belts.” She adopted three poor children, to be raised alongside her own, and paid for the education of several others, not to mention the financial support of their families. She provided purpose-built cottages and employment on her farm, and encouraged her daughter not only to forego Christmas gifts so that they may help the poor further, but to actively wait on the poor, as equals.
I will say the French government itself was largely broken as an institution, elitized and all. The monarchy was the least of many problems, as the 2nd and 1st estates refused any reform recommended by King Louis.
@@petervizzini4006Why do you throne sniffing simps defend her? It's gotten ridiculous. A wealthy white woman that benefitted from extreme wealth and did NOTHING of note except be born into wealth gets defended like Mother Theresa. Who taught you this nonsense? Where are you sycophants learning to be so pathetic? Why are you so weak?
This commentary is very enlightening and you do a great job of tying together multiple issues that seem unrelated but are all interconnected. As a History major myself I realize how difficult that is to do. Great analasis!
I can confirm we are living horribly. I’m 29, 2 kids, wife, I’m a residential construction worker and have been in the industry for 10 years now. I’m in every sense of the word a professional and a skilled tradesman, I work my day job Monday-Friday about 10-12 hours a day depending on the job, I do side work on the weekends directly for homeowners about 8-10 hours a day, I make about 40k a year and I live paycheck to paycheck. I make enough to pay my bills but not save, I make enough to afford my rental home but not buy a house of my own, there’s food in my kitchen but I can’t afford any emergency costs. All of that being said I have it easier than most but I know I struggle like hell so I know people are down bad. Homer Simpson’s life would be like winning the lottery.
@@gyrate98 Not always the case. You're just fking dmb. Too many of you think in Black and White, in Polar sets of mind. Humans and life are Nuanced. Shut the fk up.
@@gyrate98so an only fans model is worth more than a construction worker? Or a low productivity tech worker is worth more? Value and production has been completely divorced from each other in America, hence the economic issues
@@gyrate98a construction worker that helps build the society you live in should be able to live a comfortable life. You know this is not how we should be living. If we dedicate our time and lives to a society we should have benefits and not be a slave to the occupation we chose
@@bentuovila5296 I live in Charleston, SC and that’s pretty much the norm for residential contractors in my area, the company I work at is pretty small. I make $24k salary and $18.50 an hour on top of it, roughly 40-60 hours a week, typically it’s a 5 day work week but if we’re really busy we’ll work Saturdays. Honestly I have a better deal than a lot of the construction workers in my area, I could go to a big corporate construction firm and make a little bit more but that has a whole other set of downsides. Sadly it just seems to be this is the best deal I’ve got for now, so I just keep grinding and hoping for better days
You hit the mail right on the head. I’m 25 and work in safety working 50-60hrs a week my wife worked 45-50 hours a week, never see eachother and feels like we only see our daughter for a few hours everyday. Now we are “better off” than most people our age but it feels like our dream of owning a huge farm is getting out of reach.
@@1mol831 So a commune? Doesn't that seem a bit leftish and hippy? How are you going to work? It's funny how the right just turned to anarchic hippies lol.
As an English that last statement is how I hope it goes. We had Brexit as a kind of mini revolution (a bloodless revolution if you want to go by history) to tell the elite to reduce the amount of burocracy. It didn't work. Things are going sideways on this side of the pond as well especially in France ironically, Asia is also having problems and Africa and the middle east are always kicking off. It feels like we're all getting ready throw down and create a new world order. Interesting times are coming. Keep safe everyone.
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Just as you’re posting RFK jr is too be excluded from the Democratic primary ballot! That is not democracy!
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china is not your enemy young educated man other than that you are correct
@@Houthiandtheblowfish China is everyone’s enemy!
The main discussions in Brazilian media today are about the importance of women's soccer and the importance of non-binary restrooms, while 50% of the population doesn't even have basic sanitation in their communities. I am not kidding.
Wokeness has gone too far to distract from the real issues!
I bet my left ball, on the assumption that someone pays HUGE bribes to push woke agenda. It just cant happen naturally.
we need a youth focused theocracy i think the left is generally right on immigration but its more and more obvious that on economics and everything else its just a cancer. I am sure at this point that the push towards abortion and the gays is a means to make young people more content to give their entire lives to boomer pensions
That’s globalist ideology for you. I was so sad about the results of your last election because I knew the next administration would throw this at you.
It is extremely depressing how global this crap has gotten.
When Kamala Harris said that everyone should just buy electric cars when the gas prices were high, I instantly thought about "Let them eat cake."
"Let them buy a Tesla."
Let them eat cake was about Marie being so aloof she did not know what things cost. It pissed people off a queen would not know that. I feel as though Kamala knows what things cost...& wasn't speaking to those it doesn't apply too. A car is a luxury which pollutes, they're all bad tbh.
@@dzxn3728 For many cities in the US, a car is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. You simply won't be able to get anywhere without one.
@@Cklertand forget cities, good luck with living in rural areas without a car. Small towns have really died. Instead of a 20 minute walk to the nearest grocery it’s a 20 minute drive, and the family grocer has been replaced by Walmart or another chain.
@@dzxn3728 So she doesn't know the cost of electric cars, nor do you. Not to mention the cost to upgrade your house to charge an electric car if it is currently not suited to do so.
1790: "Let them eat cake"
2023: "You wouldn't have to worry about gas prices if you owned an electric car"
2023: "let them charge their electric car with a coal powered electrical grid"
"Let them buy a Tesla."
They even gave subsidy for ev which than these companies increased the price to match that subsidy.
The other one is "learn to code"
In a few years, you'll want to buy an electric car, not just because they're good for the environment, but because they'll be cheaper to own and operate than a gas car, even without subsidies. For the same reason, I don't think they should mandated; it should be choice for people to make for themselves.
Reminds me of a Twitter post I saw ages ago.
"You don't understand. You have an entire generation of military-age men who feel they have nothing to live for. You are in danger."
i give it 8 years
Lack of traditional family values hence stagnant or declining birth rate, lonely men, high divorce rates, biased family justice system, high cost of living, rotten society and may other societal issues.
"You don't understand. You have an entire generation of military-age men who feel they have nothing to live for. You are in danger." This is the reason why America will not win the next major war.
@@aaronfinch3064I'd say 5 to 7 years.
@WrathKing47 I'd say about 12, the 13 year old testosterone filled youth are more likely to push back when they come of age
The irony of the timeline lining up with the 2030 agenda 💀
Rudyard, as a working class man paying 3100 a month in bills 2500 just in rent and a family of 5. It hurt when you said we're too proud to admit we are working in Victorian era conditions, but I got a great chuckle out of it. You have no idea how spot on you are with that remark. I'm 25 and I work 60 plus hours a week. I never see my kids really and I have a habit of just drinking a six pack when the go to bed to fall asleep and wake up at 430 to do it again. I'm a foreman for an hvav company. I'm not just a coffee maker, I'm a legit skilled worker. I can't imagine how it is for people working 2 restaurant jobs.
It’s sort of like that for everyone, I have an education and a good job and I make it but just barely. Everything is just too expensive.
You should be able to work like that and succeed, not just have that be average
@@gyrate98whut
Brother thank you for having such a large family in these times. We'll need thousands more of you, one can hope. What you're doing now will be the foundation for the time you get to spend with them later. My dad was a very busy businessman in the 70's-2000's, I showed up in 89. He was always there on weekends, never brought work home with him, and we took a few vacations during the time. I remember all of those moments, and after he had a heart attack and had to step back from work a little he was here more and more during my teens. This also isn't to say my mother was absent at all, she carried raising me, a handful asshole of a son. Your wife probably is doing the same, making them into better people, people who will lead us tomorrow in one way or another.
Now if you want my advice to get more family time, I'd say start getting multi-family homes, the best bang for your buck is technically 4 family homes, as many as you can. Owning things others do not want to has been the easiest way for the people I know to have a more "free" lifestyle while still working their jobs. the extra income amounts to hours off each day from your regular job, hours you'll enjoy much more with your family. there's also the route of getting cheap homes in Appalachia, no offense to anyone from there, just it's cheaper than coasts, beautiful, and removed from the bs the coasts come with by and large. Make them into Airbnb's or something along those lines and rent them to ppl for 2k+ per 2 weeks or something. you can make BANK. especially since I can already kinda tell you'd be able to do a lot of the repair/upgrades yourself or you'll have a buddy that can help. I wish someone told me this at 25, I wish I could shake my younger self. I can only impart what knowledge I've gotten making the mistakes I've made, and those around me have made.
Keep going brother, stay strong in these tough times, you're already well along the road to being better off in all regards.
@@xxxsgxxx-x1fwhy “should” it?
Because it would be nice?
…You would think I were quite silly to demand the sky rains Mountain Dew,
would you not?
It WOULD be nice, right? So let’s protest for it! And civil unrest until the sky rains Mountain Dew!
Technology has made our society feel like it’s moving forward, when in fact we are economically regressing at a staggering rate.
The US's federal budget/fiscal policy IS unsustainable, the Federal Reserve is stuck in between a rock and a hard place with raising interest rates to curb inflation, but when they do this like they are now, more than 50% of the $32 trillion debt will expire in less than 2 years. That debt is going to be re-financed at the current interest rates set by the Federal Reserve.
The US' cost to only carry this debt, not pay it off is going to become the largest individual expenditure.
If you needed a good laugh after scratching the surface of how the entire world is completely fucked when the global monetary system(s) collapse, not crash: right now the largest expenditure by the US government is Healthcare.
We live in a cyberpunk dystopia minus the cool tech and neon aesthetic.
Technology makes it easier to redistribute. If human labor is not needed, then we can sever the connection between work and income. We need to stop competing with the machines.
@@carlbarrows2487 So does the US launch its nukes at its own cities to kill everyone, then no one has to pay off the debt? Can you find a better solution than this?
So if people are going to starve to death as we pay off the debt, do we shoot them to put them out of their misery so we don't at least get to see them starve? Maybe instead of welfare, we just have euthanasia. So if you are unemployed for a certain period of time, you die? So how important is it that everyone makes a contribution to the economy, by providing his labor in exchange for income? How is capitalism supposed to work?
*unibomber intensifies*
"It is easier to find men who will willingly die, than it is to find those who endure pain with patience" - Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar would beg to differ if he was transported to our time and saw the cornucopia of entertainment options that exist to numb the mind from the economic drudgery
@@MysteriousFuture You could literally own a person to do all of your work back then
@@soulie2001 only the patricians and wealthy landowners had slaves, the common folk never owned slaves cause they couldn’t afford it
@@soulie2001name one non-rich person who did? Answer: You can’t.
@@FazeParticlesyou were able to rent black prisoners for slave work at like a few cents a month. Thus was after the civil war
I love how they still think they’re the “resistance” while controlling basically everything.
victimhood is their dogmatic religion. Doesnt need to be true, you just need to believe in it
its like saying cryptos are an escape from the financial system.
"The left" doesnt exist. There are lots of different groups fighting against each other. Marxists and communists are in no way associated with the ruling class, but are working towards a revolution and destroying the capitalist state. On the other hand you have democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders who want to make capitalism and the state more social from within. Then there is the big center-left fraction, usually in the Democratic Party that defends capitalism and the current state. This "leftern" group is economicaly way more liberal than marxist. Thats why there are Lefties in the resistance and other Lefties in power.
That face you make when you realize you're about to experience both the French Revolution and the Fall of Rome at the same time, except the downfall will trump both as the worst in history.
Read surah 89. It talks about this happening to other great nations.
Add to this the Nazi Revolution of 1933 and the Rwandan Massacres of 1994, add the current global overheating, and this is what sort of future it is we're looking at.
So wait, a bunch if Barbarians are going to come in and take over our capital while half of our empire goes on for another 1000 years until a new religion is born near its eastern capital and overtakes it? While also the poor will rise up and kill the rich allowing for a massive power vacuum and period of terror, leading to the rise of a tyrannical military genius attempting to dominate the totality of the world?
Fascinating how you think you know enough about history to make predictions like this, while also clearly knowing nothing about history AND the realities of modern society and geopolitics. Nobody who actually knows about Rome or France thinks the US is honestly on the brink of an event similar to either of their "falls".
Honestly, go out into the world. I have a real world job and an online social media job. Guess which group of my co-workers think the types of things Rupert here thinks? Trick question, neither. This is just youtuber, Twitter user, twitch streamer propaganda for views.
Society is not falling apart. There are issues, but there were definitely more issues 100 years, 50 years, 30 years ago. Issues constantly exist. They don't mean the end. Hopefully they lead to the end of THAT issue, but often, they're just replaced at best.
@@MrDB91no here’s the thing, it will happen for sure, but only when it’s too late. ONLY when it comes to the absolute worst and final stage, when all hell REALLY breaks loose and shit REALLY hits the fan then people will do something. But yeah you’re right as of right now people are too blind and dumb to see and do anything
@@tsmx92759they won't though, people are totally pacified. Everyone just wants to scroll TikTok and take naps. Trust me, AI is going to totally subdue all of this discontentment, and we won't even know it's happening.
Lesson: If you keep on telling a certain group that they are monsters, for just existing, they might start to believe it.
-Shrek
That is exactly why I fear the revolt of the right, even though I am right leaning. Feeling like you have nothing to lose in an all or nothing game will make monster out of even the best men. They are dehumanizing the same people who will turn around and take their lack of humanity out on them by their own creation.
And they might rise up and take their country back!👍
Ding-ding-ding.
"Sorry, your outlook doesn't fit. We've decided people who hold your values, despite being a staggering majority, are no longer welcome."
"Yeah, ditto." ⚔
Not might, they will.
"Let them drive electric vehicles."
@@content_enjoyer4458 "Let them eat bugs"
@@libertylovin2359 What happens if you repeat that too many times?
"Nobody wants to work"
@@tuckerbugeater The ghost of Joe Biden appears.
Let them own single family homes
I had to laugh the other day when i was trying to teach how terrible working conditions in the Industrial Revolution were, to a room full of kids who grew up in daycare, with parents working 80hr weeks.
Jesus. I usually work 45-50 hours of work per week. If I had to work 80 hours per week, I would have a stroke.
@@christopherhook2141 That's what happens when the Unions are weakened by the state.
80 hour week is fucking insanity, motherfuckers are workers more than a medieval peasant.
@@christopherhook2141I do 60 base and take additional anytime I can.
I'm in the top 7% by income in my country, and moved to the cheapest region for real estate.
It's working for me, I've been able to buy a cheap 2 bedroom house on the edge of the rough part of town, a pasture just outside of town, and a new car, albeit, one of the cheapest models available.
But... 60 hours a week, for a new but cheap car and real estate that is less valuable than Homer's house.
@@madhatterzake3871Saying a union cares about their workers is as delusional as saying your government cares about your well being. I have yet to see a single union leader who isn't out to just enrich themselves and their friends in government at the expense of their workers.
My whole childhood was me being treated differently because of my skin and sex. I was repeatedly lectured on my white, male, privileges. My parents couldn't keep jobs and we bounced home to home even living with their parents and aunts and uncles. It wasn't until I was 17 that we became financially stable. I never understood why I was called privileged when I could never go on school trips and summer vacations because we couldn't afford rent. I now struggle to make decent money without sharing a place to live or working two jobs. And forget a love life for now.
Stay strong brother, I'm white too. My dad was abusive and killed himself when I was 15. Mom was narcissistic and emotionally neglectful.
I live with my grandma rn, and building a cyber security career.
I feel your pain man.
From one man to another, use the Bear Grillz Method:
-Stay Positive
-Us anything in your environment to make you more comfortable
-Learn how to do the 1st two steps better
@@TheBeardHampster1979 Wow you're white. Do you want a gold star? ❄️
I think Rudyard has a good point in that an internal sense of honour will help us all pull through. This is essentially what saved my own life in my early 20's which was 15 years ago now. I'm half white, half korean and value the history of the West so my peers treat me as a pariah since I refuse to bow to the message. But that's okay. You will find a way as well, in time.
You're not the only one. Get ready because at some point everyone will quit this society
You need to look up what what privilege actually means. It doesn't mean white people never struggle. It has more to do with systemic racism, the potential to the profiled etc. On average, you're less likely to be shot by cops when pulled over than a black man would be. That's one big example of what people mean when they say white privilege.
Was just recently in a country considered third world, although people are poor they have a solid community and religion and are orders of magnitude happier than anyone here in America. Truly eye opening
Wich third world country?
Those terms should've died with the cold war. First, second, and third world make no sense in a post 1991 Malta summit world. The terms should be Developed, Developing, Undeveloped world/s instead.
@@falconeshield When is one considered developed?
@@tuckerbugeaterBotswana
@@griffiththewhitefalcon69420 Windhoek?
Mike Pence: "That's not my concern." Saying out loud how nearly all political elites think about the rest us.
Funny how he thinks that being honest will give him an advantage
Confident, secure and honest...
@@kosmas173Humorous, here I thought I was unique in my perspective of 'spin'. I appreciate your beating me to the punch. I am grateful to have learned (and humbled) that rationality still exists. Thank you.
Maybe the interviewer could have at least had the sense to ask Pence to clarify on his statement, but they already had what they needed , right ???
Pence is a good guy, but not a very astute politician.
As a Boomer even I see the vast changes for young people. Economically, it’s impossible to do what I did in the 70s and 80s. Men have been demonized and the normal structures that used to bring young men and women into a marriage relationship have been all but destroyed. My wife and I are doing what we can to help our grandsons by preserving as much wealth as we can to give them a fighting chance at a better life. We have our own financial challenges, but we have a home and no debt. It’s our goal to leave the value of that home to them and anything else we can,
Glad there are some in your generation who understand this situation. My parents are Boomers and have opposite attitudes. My dad's mentality is "can't take it with you when you die, might as well spend it all." My mom is trying her hardest to set me up so when she dies, me and my *hopefully future family can have a chance just to own a house and afford to raise them well. I make six figures, and if not for my mom's benevolence, responsibly affording a down payment on a house at a reasonable age would be a tall task.
@@haroldfarquad6886 your dad sounds like a narcissist, im glad my parents arent like that even tho my dad has been gone for years now
I used to think humanity wouldn't make it to the end of the decade, but now I realize that humanity is a history movie that's set on repeat.
As cliche as it sounds, it always has been.
The next time it gets reset, we going all the way back to the stone age baby!!! We got enough nukes that if we get to poppin them off, if it dont end humanity then we going way back
@@SwampOperator
At least the nukes will wipe Instagram and TikTok off the planet. Massive W right there.
@@superstar64And anime too.
@@gussampson5029😢😢😢
Going to make a bet that “America has remained a stable quarter of the world’s GDP”
Good guess, but you didn't make the Russian roulette this time. Hahahaha
I know Rudy always mentions it but in this specific video it was something remarkable considering that USA has 1/2 of Europe's population and 1/4 of China's and India's. Europe is a decadent dying continent while the US will keep being a superpower for the next 1000 years
@@JC-ld2uothat’s the right attitude. Don’t know how realistic it is, but squad goals are still goals.
Well done 😅
@JC-ld2uo America has the advantage of being able to easily dominate two continents with weak or dysfunctional neighbours, and giant Oceans in the way of anything remotely in the same level as it. With basically total physical security, it can engage with the outside world on its own terms, if it even wants to because all the natural resources it needs are domestic to America or its immediate environment.
America's success is inevitable, and its biggest threat is self sabotage. For example the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria were self sabotage seeing America fight wars against enemies which could never mortally wound it, spend two decades and a trillion dollars on counter insurgency while China spent all that time investing in conventional capabilities designed specifically to sink the US navy. Another possible future self sabotage is civil war and successionism, with no peer threats America can fight itself.
Ironically: we are in a better position than ever to let the peasants eat cake, but now realize that actually eating merely cake is extremely bad for you.
What are you talking about... cake refills like 5 hunger, and u can use it several times
@@sheep3866 Maybe if you are playing on a server with the worst lag imaginable, cake does allow you to instantly recover hearts without going through obscenely long eating animations, otherwise I don't see the appeal.
@@TheRepublicOfUngeria well on the other hand what if the cake is a lie???
fun fact: the "cake" in question was brioche, which, iirc, the UK has classified american bread as cake, more like brioche because of how much sugar is in it.
I think she meant hard tack
Porn and video games are the only reason angry sexually frustrated young men haven't burned this place to the ground.
@@dantesparda7719 🎯
Okay??? Genuinely asking what are people supposed to do 4 them? Product exist to satisfy you, you can’t force people to suck u off
Would love to see the bankers and politicians dangling from a gallows for what they've done to the US. They deserve far worse.
Gangster polishitans and pedocrats run the world, the sooner we wake up and rid the world of this (virus) the better off we'll be.
Plenty of hungry gators down here in the swamps if you're feeling like feeding some animals.
@@MidnightMark12gators still need their survival instincts and it’s better the taste of man is a mystery to them
@@musketsrule5541
Fair enough; we take them to Flamingo for the saltwater crocs then?
Not just bankers and politicians but every single executive at every single major company in the entire US. Maybe the world.
How are you only 22?! 😂
I'm an older millennial who has peers who grew up even before the digital revolution, saw the world a different way, and rapidly forgot as soon as social media became the norm. I can't imagine the challenges Gen Z faces to extricate themselves from the ideologues and strange anti-intellectual ideology that is pervasive now and spreading globally outward.
Tbh, as a slightly younger Gen Z male, I’m lucky I never fell into the trap of TikTok, though it was difficult to get myself out of the other social media traps I put myself in (I only deleted my Reddit account when the blackout was about to start, and I still spend way too much time on UA-cam and Facebook), and only gave up on video games when I couldn’t get myself to play any of the games I had for more than 15 minutes anymore. The only video game I still regularly play is Tabletop Simulator, which is just a platform to simulate playing board and card games. I’m not sure how other Gen Z folks would be able to do it without a ton of work on their end, as I was never into TikTok and the video games that are the most overstimulating (e.g. shooter games). When I was still a gamer, I primarily played grand strategy and city management games, and I didn’t like playing those super fast when the people I played with did. I have some hope for those are actively trying to reject modern technology, as flip phones are becoming more popular. I would personally adopt those if I didn’t need a smartphone for specific apps, though Kosher phones (smartphones that don’t connect to the internet for non-essential functions, which are primarily used by Jewish people) seem like a good enough compromise for what I need from a smartphone. Unfortunately, modern technology has also become an induced necessity.
there are a lot of people like Rudyard (such as myself) that are concerned young adults about society's direction. Pretty soon there will be a breaking point, as if that hasn't been reached already.
Pareto distribution
"There is nothing new under the sun." As a young man, who is 20 years of age, has been unable to get a job due to "experience" requirements, cannot find relationships, cannot even get nearly every position I apply to to even give me a response, cannot afford college, and cannot afford to pursue other avenues of education or skill building, I am terrified by just how relatable this video is. I love my elders, those wiser and more experienced than me, but one thing I cannot tell them because they don't seem to believe it, despite me knowing how true it is, is that the world they grew up in, that they expect to be the way the world functions now, just does not exist. I've been told by them over and over again to just keep trying and just put more and more effort in and I'll eventually get a job, or finish other important milestones in my life. I can't even finish getting my driver's license because its too expensive and relies on private businesses to train people! The Bible tells us to respect our elders, and I do, but I am becoming more and more disillusioned with them because they don't seem to want to acknowledge the state of the world. That's not the universal rule, but it is heart-wrenching for me to have to feel so detached from them because I can see what they either can't see or won't believe. I hate that it has gotten to this point, and there is nothing wrong with trying harder, but when you do so much to never take a single step towards your goals, what do you think I feel like?
Frankly I can see how disillusioned people are. People have been tentatively predicting a civil war for years now. If things do break, it will be explosive, no one will be able to stop it, and the young men whom Whatifalthist speaks of will not care about stability. They will charge forwards with all the pent up rage and frustration they have and run over the old order, and destroy what came before. I hope it never comes to that, but frankly, these days the question of a revolution or similar internal conflict in America seems to be less of the aforementioned "if", and more like an ever more ominous "when". Lord, if you are willing, find a peaceful way for us to break free of this era of nonsense and lies. If that is not to be, keep us safe so that we may rebuild better after the conflict we worry may come reaches its end. Amen.
Walmart hires without experience. Stick around for a couple of months and try and become a Team lead. Now rack up the management experience. I know it's not the most ideal but it has worked for a lot of people I know
@@MisterIndrid It’s funny you mention that because that’s one of the places I’ve tried to apply to multiple times, to no avail. I’ve been looking for a really simple place to start since I put a pause on college, but to no avail. The issue goes well beyond simply experience requirements. There’s also been a big shift in our culture since covid, and a lot of people are falling into the “I don’t care enough to take my job or responsibilities seriously” pit. Not everyone, but it’s become more and more prevalent and its only getting worse. If you haven’t, take some time to listen to a few full hearings from Congress. You don’t even really need to watch them. You can listen to them like a podcast. They put all their hearings on UA-cam. Choose a topic that interests you or you are passionate about. You’ll see that no matter where you go, no one is getting anything done, and the leaders we have in place will just keep perpetuating this nonsensical loop and never make any real changes. Problem is… they want that to happen because it benefits them.
There is something that could be worse. If you did get into college by taking out student loans, you could find yourself in a similar situation afterwards with the addition of having a huge burden of debt. Attempting to better yourself through higher education will fail to improve your life while this backwards system continues to exist.
Ime a boomer and I hear you ,my generation live in a bubble,and it gives me the shits because I know were this leads,I do everything I can to lift younger men,when I retire,which maybe sooner than later because I’ve got cancer, Ime going to work for free to help younger tradesmen ,even if it just means been a gofer, if the cancer takes hold Ime going to give my guns and stored ammo to a young bloke I know who was divorce raped by his BPD wife,I hope this gives you hope that not all of us are blind to the plight of younger men
You have not seen shit yet until your have seen war and revolution and Socialist utopias that killed and pauperized millions. Keep with it man, keep sharp, a break is coming your way…
Remember to never be defeatist about your chances of winning against an empire
Empires always fall
You don't need to win. You just need to not lose.
one of the things that has always struck me as a death blow to our society is corporate degree requirements. you need a degree of some kind to get into any position of leadership or power at almost all major corporations, which on its face is economically insane because it excludes a huge pool of skilled labor but is also eerily similar to laws restricting commoners from holding officer or governmental positions during past eras. and worse still is that this idea has totally eluded the VAST majority of people, even common people.
And since the Universities are propaganda centers, it also ensures that those in power have the "correct ideology".
that's a great point. it'd be one thing if people didn't have to deal with such ludicrous costs to get these special pieces of paper that apparently prove you can do a job too haha, then it'd be truly more merit based at least. honestly... these policies are just holding our country back. it's a shame when I imagine all the people who would be great in a field but are hesitant to continue education due to the high cost in the US and don't want the debt...
@@vatefairefoutre0 I've wondered the same. Merit based and actual education for what they are going for is logically more appealing. This divide is worrysome. Young men, such as myself and I'll take a bet the majority of the viewers on this video are in this boat. I live everyday not letting nihilism be my path, life has meaning but the cards are stacked against us. Hard work is required, it's just so dark out there sometimes.
@@vatefairefoutre0it’s still not merit based because we only have so many years to live. If you have to spend 15 years acquiring degrees to get a job over the person with 1 degree and connections then that’s not merit based at all
I just got a civil engineering job and realized my schooling taught me basically nothing, experience trumps everything tbh college is just for fun
they don't think owning guns is morally wrong. they think you owning a gun is morally wrong
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To be honest, I was pro-gun/anti-gun control until I went through the process of getting a gun.
@@deriznohappehquite Why?
@@deriznohappehquiteYou're comment makes you a fool.
@@shorewall It was too easy to get one, IMO.
I'm a Gen-X black American male and I am consistently impressed with the research, thinking and articulate commentary from this channel. Thank you for giving us solid food for thought. I encourage you to keep up the good work. Pax
What do you think of the government and general idea of young white men being oppressed? Do you think you acknowledge that it’s a big problem and side with them? I would like to know your thoughts as a gen X black male
@@Patrick-ld8wyWhy do you wanna be oppressed so badly? You sound like a sub in a BDSM relationship, js
Same.
@@Patrick-ld8wy The government has to side with who has all the money and power (because capitalism). What actions are enacted to increase equality and fairness and liberation from those with all the power are typically reversed once the right regains power, actually oppressing those with less by extending and leveraging inequality effectively installing ceiling on how far someone below a line can actually go. It only seems like white men mostly feel oppressed with words of frustration they hear or read online from those living in the system WS has created and trapped those born at the bottom under. At the end of the day white men are easily able to walk into and fill positions the involve receiving bonuses, paid off tuitions, and sabbaticals with their high salaries and positions of power. So it's hard to see white men being oppressed and seems mostly like invisible hot air.
Because of the system I can't trace my ancestry/lineage and have a narrative preset and attached to me right out the womb setting me up to fail by design. Kinda hard to support the contrasting side that ignores the big problem with a less sensitive problem like they need to have leverage instead of correcting the problem.
@@Patrick-ld8wy Gen Z black male.
I think being a straight man is worse than being white. However, I'd be willing to side with them if they don't plan to oppress racial minorities for their race and not behavior as group guilt is a dangerous game as you guys are sadly being impacted by.
My parents think I'm a white supremacist, I'm just honest and a critical thinker.
Personally, I think a theocracy would be a better idea since it's more effective to form a group around values rather than race. This is part of why the left would even fail on its own due to being a collation of historically marginalized groups, not any actual values, which is bound to fall apart soon, as it already is.
I love your logical, no BS videos. You are one of the smartest people on the internet, sincerely.
@@GenedyFilatov-hy7igThing is, anti-establishment these days coincides with right wing or libertarians, whereas the establishment is either the elite (whether it's politician, WEF or philantropists) or the controlled "opposition" like climate change fearmongers, feminists, Antifa, actors and singers.
Living as an immigrant (leaving soon)in the US for nearly 13 years, Iam so culture shocked and confused by this society it gives me a different perspective then most Americans. My foreign friends from other countries cant imagine how these people or I survive here. Things have gotten really downhill since 2011. Like everything is going to shit or is already in shit. Its really gone the opposite way. Babylon is crumbling.
i have a question what continent are you planning to move to. I want to leave but no where to go definitely
Lol come to Canada buddy the collapse is much worse here
@@maxwellhudson438 He's not actually going to leave, I bet my life on it. He just complaining how easy it is to live in America, that the only thing he can complain about is stupid cultural shit. He's been here for 13 years, why would he leave now lol. If it's a third world country they wouldn't consider you apart of them.
I wanted to leave the US when I was younger but not anymore seeing that no matter where I’ll go the collapse will be just as devastating.
@@Black_Jack9460true. Just a matter of rate of descent. I think sparsely populated agrarian societies are the best bet. The more bought in to the digital gulag, the more the country should be avoided
It's genuinely scary being a history nerd and seeing all the signs of a revolution/civil war, WW3, and yet no one really seems to care, I just hope things can work out in the end, but its wishful thinking
No one cares because no one is noticing. Just like we are deep in a recession, but no one knows because the government just changed the definition and the media avoids usuing the word. Its full on "1984". The Party controls words and do they control reality.
Yeah, its weird isnt it. Poland is gearing up for - as you said - WW3 and life in Germany (my country and NEXT TO POLAND) goes on like nothing's up. Not that i want Germany to be involved in any of this, it just feels weird and eery. Like the calm before a storm and noone knows how its gonna go but everyone with a voice out there seems to be pushing in!
@@durstigerhugo1312 whats weird is the global collective concious KNOWS that there are 3 world wars planned for us. How do we all just feel/know this? Why can't we stop it?
None of that is going to happen
@@The_king567 You can predict the future but that doesn't mean it will happen.
We were presented with a fictional world, a mythology that we believed was real (because either was ignorant or did not want to hurt our feelings). Now as we are learning, we are disillusioned, and saddened we were lied to and unprepared for reality.
Perhaps, you might add, “We ARE being presented with a fictional world” (and future).
Poetic and true.
...and I was screaming at everyone since 2006
Here we are ...no one wants to work
What to risk the dating game?
To support a country that treats its citizens like second class citizens!
To be told to shut up and take it....
To hell with that
Viva la Australia
Is that Christianity or Capitalism? Both want you to buy into fantasies for profit, sold by prophets.
@@PrivateSi
Your comment seems to be shadow banned
So fark youtube
"Is that Christianity or Capitalism? Both want you to buy into fantasies for profit, sold by prophets."
-PrivateSi
"I'm comparing [the old conservatives] to other societies while the left compares them to Utopia."
It blows my mind how much this explains.
France needs a French revival.
make france french again.
A french catholic revival...
@@hegel5816Make France Catholic Again!
Deportation.
@@hegel5816 check out the numbers of converts to Catholicism in France this past Easter. Some pretty good numbers.
I am 70 years old and remember a different America then what I am seeing today. Through my entire life I have always kept my sense of humor and found that laughter is the best stress reliever. What I am seeing today is an entire generation raised without a sense of humor. SNL is the best example, because in the early days of SNL it was totally dedicated to making people laugh, instead of pushing a political agenda. The great comedians are being told to shut up and are being attacked. I have always said that if God doesn't have a sense of humor then we are all in trouble.
Great way of putting it man
If you want to know what happened, read "1984". Your generation let it happen.
Diversity is the problem nobody wants to admit it
Demoralized people are easier to control.
@@smak387 You are right, we did let it happen. We were kind of busy with Korea, and Vietnam, the Cold War, putting people on the moon, the disastrous "Great Society" program, on and on. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost and others were left unfinished. That's life. The WWII generation could have gone on to destroy the Soviet Union and free Eastern Europe, but they were people too, and tired of war. So that was left to us. The people who fought the Revolution left the evil of slavery intact to be dealt with by their grandchildren. That's life. So right now, all of us old "Cold War" warriors are tired, and old and quite honestly, we just wanted to be left alone to live our lives. It sure as hell looks like we won't be left alone. We are old, our lives are on the downhill slide, and we damned well know it. I spent over two decades in uniform, I know what fear is, I know what death is. At this point, there isn't a whole lot we have to loose. We just wanted to be left alone. So if we are pushed like it looks like, well buddy, stand by for heavy rolls, cause we will not go quietly into the night......
My brother in law is Irish. He came here, worked his way up from mowing golf courses to running golf courses. After ten years of 60-90 hours a week, he and my sister moved to Ireland.
He said their quality of life actually matters to the government in Ireland and America makes promises that aren't kept. "America takes people and grinds them up and spits them out. The American dream is a lie."
Is that why they are flooding their country with "refugees"? Because they care about the average Irishman?
"They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
ireland is dying too, cost of living is the highest in europe, quite possibly the highest in the world. as a european i feel we are going to shit very soon due to demographics and retirement schemes
@Sunrah I was suprised to learn that in Ireland a large portion of construction workers are polish. I always figured Irish built their own stuff.
@@paulmryglod4802 nope, pretty much all of western and northern europe imports easterners (poles, romanians, bulgarians etc) for hard labor (e.g. the work the natives don't want to do), but even the eastern europeans are getting replaced by south and south-east asians. at least the irish are nice blokes and treat the immigrants well unlike some others i could mention...
I watched a documentary about the French Revolution, crucially one made by French historians, I was shocked how close the parallels were between America now, and France in about 1787 (ie 2 years prior to the Revolution)
What was the name of the documentary?
This comment would line up with French revolution 2 taking place sometime shortly after the 2024 election... well see!
I'm 24 and make $52,000 a year. I should easily be able to live on my own yet ive moved back in with my parents as the price if everything has become to expensive for me to continue living on my own.
I almost constantly find myself angry at politicians, bankers, basically anyone who has high status in society. And at the same time I'm told "well just go buy an electric car and you wont have to deal with gas prices." Or "there's nothing you can do about it so just shut up, bend over and take it."
And people have replaced religion with "genderism and diversity."
I'm at $55k and 30, but living alone fine. What state are you in?
@@simunator Minnesota, which would explain part of it. State taxes are pretty high here
You should get a financial advisor bro. That
Don't be angry brother. You have no idea but You are doing great.
so..... what are you doing, to combat this crazy? nothing, right? got you.
Im 24 and I live in the south and have traveled across the entire United States, and have friends everywhere. And something that I can agree with almost all of them is, we need a revolution, and we are really close to our violent breaking point towards the system that is killing us.
Anarchy breeds Authoritarian Regimes.
Remember that all policies built on security eventually build a prison if you wait long enough.
@@beneficent2557 Not always. If a revolution does not happen, an authoritarian regime will.
At least a revolution happens with the people when they have had enough.
@@shauntempley9757 This has slowly been built up since the tax laws were changed in the 80s to cater the rich
Amen
The way working conditions are today is mind boggling, and the way they don't cover expenses fully is even more so. My dad worked a good, high paying job just about all his life as an electrician in southern California. At the best of times, we were lower middle class. At the worst of times, we had gotten evicted due to rent prices being raised. The only reason why my dad is now able to finally try and afford a home at 52 is because my mom passed due to us not being able to afford a life saving hospital stay (the hospital didn't let her stay despite her having issues with diabetes and kidney failure, and she died not even two weeks later. My dad thought about suing, he's a strong, hardass man that I had only seen cry once before my moms passing in my life, but after all the heartbreak and tears shed, he didn't want to deal with all the hassle.) and because he doesn't have to pay for her any more. Let me reiterate: my dad, an electrician paid quite well by many standards, couldn't afford to keep his family alive. What kind of world do you have to live in for that to be the case?
Damn bro.... that pulls the heart strings
R.I.P to your mom bro. You're right too. Things are really unbelievable now
A world that cares more about profits than people.
This society is going to have an upheaval and the more I see stories like this the more I'm looking forward to it. I'm sorry for your loss man.
A world where doctors and nurses and hospital staff expect to get paid. Your post is communist and you don't even realize it. You are not entitled to someone else's labor for free. My dad also died in a hospital but my mom ended up in debt anyway as was fair. Dad got expensive medical care, my mom didn't pay half of it. She should have been foreclosed on.
The biggest difference between us and the French during the French Revolution is our standards of living. Today “peasants” live with more luxuries than the royalty of the French at the time. What I think will drive a revolution is when basic necessities like food and water become unaffordable which we are getting close to actually. I bought a roll of aluminum foil and stuffing the other day and it came out to 30$…
Liked & subbed. I’m an elder millennial who lives in the rust belt, and this video hit pretty hard. Three of my grandparents worked for GM and the other at one of the largest naval installations in the world. They had comfortable middle class lives: community, houses, cars, boats, vacations, pensions, and the ability to provide for their family. I grew up poor with separated parents, but the safety net created by my grandparents kept my family from splattering into the ground.
Now I’ve got 2 kids, one working car, and our family is one disaster away from potential catastrophe. Having already been through one disaster which forced me to cash in my 401k to keep our house and pay off medical settlements, along with continuing health problems, that is a very real and alarming possibility. Just one of my medications (for cluster headaches & migraines) would be $2070 a month without insurance. I’m not well enough to grind back to a decent life, but I’m not sick enough to be fully disabled.
Forget vacations and luxuries - we can’t maintain what we already own. We’ve already trimmed off so much fat that we’re now sacrificing muscle. Working 64 hour weeks and taking classes part time when I was younger, I was fortunate enough to save enough for a house, and to refinance at historically low rates, which I know many of my peers and younger folks have not had the relative privilege of doing. The ridiculous rise in rents has not affected me, rather, I’m paying less for housing than ever before: A saving grace where many have additional pain.
Not only is something like a French Revolution inevitable if this keeps up, but I have been continually amazed that it hasn’t happened already. I owe it to our amazing ability to survive & adapt to conditions in our environment, and with some assistance from the elites, to fight for scraps from the table and over relatively minor political issues rather than on fixing a system which is obviously fundamentally flawed.
One encouraging thing to see is common-sense & principled voices from the left, right, and center breaking ranks to align against the current establishment. It is the only thing that gives me hope that a bloody mess can be averted in the process of bringing about an end to the suffering that many are enduring under the status quo.
Ask your doctor for codeine. It's cheap and it works.
@@sanniepstein4835 Lol, thanks. I'm assuming your comment is genuine and I appreciate your thoughts and the advice. But let me tell you...
I was in a car accident in which my cervical spine was compressed to 2/3 of its original height in an instant. I suffered 4 fractures in my cervical spine, 3 in my thoracic, and also had to have surgery on my lumbar due to a fracture there as well. None of this was initially diagnosed. The hospital misread my cervical x-rays, took off my neck brace, and sent me home with ibuprofen. My personal doctor caught it when he re-evaluated them many days later when I was unable to move, telling me that my spine was unstable and I needed to be put in a full back/neck brace immediately. The lumbar problem took 4 years to diagnose and treat, throughout which I was dismissed and looked down upon by many doctors who thought I was faking and seeking additional drugs. I was using a cane and experiencing frequent falls by the time my second child was born. The surgery helped a lot, but I still struggle with my legs and with sciatica.
I was on codeine and other painkillers for years. The problem is that there is nowhere to go but to increase the dosage over time or to seek out harder drugs, whether street or pharmaceutical. I've seen this happen to so many people over the years, some of whom are now dead, and others who will likely never escape this spiral until they are as well. I actually blame some of the painkillers and other medicines for other ongoing issues I now have which began not long after the accident. Codeine, if you've ever been in severe and chronic pain, is more of a mask than a cure. It makes you feel better - I distinctly remember "Exaggerated sense of well-being" as one of the side effects. And that is true, it does that. But it does not take away the pain, let alone cure the underlying problems causing it.
It's also hard to describe how debilitating cluster headaches can be to someone who has never experienced them. I had migraines for ~10 years following the accident. Don't get me wrong - they are terrible, especially if you suffer from them regularly as I have. But true cluster headaches are in another class. I say "true" clusters because so many people claim to have them but are mistaking the classification with migraines or other headaches that happen in clusters, while actual cluster headaches are diagnosed in only ~1/40000 people. I would wake up in the middle of the night, my pillow already soaked with tears, and I could not handle the pain. I would literally bang my head against the wall just to feel something else. I couldn't stay still. I couldn't sleep. It is like torture.
From the NIH: "Cluster headache pain is more intense than any other pain disorder we examined at 9.7, with the next most painful disorder, labor pain at 7.2, a full 2.5 points less on a 0-10 scale." Even women who have given birth with no pain relief and who also suffered cluster headaches rated the pain of the headaches significantly higher. And you get them EVERY DAY multiple times per day during a cluster period, which for me was about 1.5-2 months per year. I would do anything to get rid of the pain, and sadly, some people take that to the ultimate. Look up the nickname for them. This new drug is criminally expensive, and I suspect it is causing me to lose my hair at a drastically increased rate, but it has effectively stopped my cycle for the time being, and as a bonus my migraine frequency has been drastically reduced.
@cabestry9534 My husband has cluster migraines and is still looking for something that works. Are you able to give more info on the treatment you're on?
@@rebeccaf5350 Yes, it's called Emgality. It is a monoclonal antibody taken as 3x injections at once, one time per month for cluster headaches. It is also used for regular migraines in a dosage of 1 injection per month. My wife usually assists me with the injections in my, erm, backside. I can also inject myself in the stomach or thighs. It's not pleasant, but it sure beats constant headaches.
For clusters, it is supposed to interrupt the cycle and/or reduce severity, which it has for me. I started taking it about 3 months before my anticipated period of cluster headaches ~2 years ago and have not experienced any since then. I do sometimes feel the shadow of headaches, such as pressure, twitching, or tearing up in my left eye where they would always occur. But in terms of pain, the difference has been night and day.
I dreaded the onset of each period. At first I didn't even know what was happening - just that I was in the most unbearable pain of my life: Which if you read any of my history above, you can probably guess means it was pretty severe. I was initially given butalbital, acetaminophen, caffeine, and codeine combination by my personal doctor before I was officially given the diagnosis of cluster headaches from a neurologist. That cocktail helped a bit, but it was not nearly as effective as Emgality has been. I also take sumatriptan injections as a PRN, but I have not needed it for cluster headaches since starting Emgality - only for migraines. Best of luck to you and your husband.
I don’t know exactly but I saw a UA-cam video about a chemical similar to LSD that does wonders for cluster headaches. I think some states made it illegal but it’s worth looking into!
Didn't some democrat say in response of someone asking about rising gas prices they literally said to just buy a Tesla
Let them eat cake
Yep.
@@dannydanny865 yep
Reminds me of when mainstream reported first started talking about Supply Chain Issues:
Some politician: "Oh no, your treadmill will arrive later! Anyway--"
@@dannydanny865 "Just buy a Tesla"
It's scary. We don't know what American authoritarianism will look like. It was built in opposition to that, so culturally it will be weird to see what kind of "kingdom" it becomes when the shiny new leader drops.
Who else can it be but trump
Maybe his son baron
At least we know it won't be communist.
If you lived in middle east (or anywhere far from the west) , your answer wouldnt be the same.
Biden and Hunter
What you mean? A few wealthy elites have controlled this country since the beginning. The treatment of minority groups, the bloated military spending and interventionalist tendencies, and thats not mentioning the bureaucracy/lobbying.
I've seen the future and deep down all I can say is I'm rooting and cheering for it. I'm willing to ruthlessly serve the reaction to bring back the light of order and honor back to into this crazy world.
But first, you must survive. Don't lose sight of thee immediate concerns.
🤝
Who wants to join marines des blutes right now it's just me but it could be me and you if you decide to join you just have to be above 13 and willing to do whatever it takes if you are those two things your in and you also have to give me your name, age and email
I have one mate who works 6-7 days a week
Every night as emergency highway cleanup
I couldnt do that
His exact words were
"I have to work hard so I can get a chance to stay still"
*Hats off to him*
NO its hopeless.... you will end up alone as an old man your youth stolen.
@@X99-h6r
Sounds about right
Im an Aussie so....yeah
I will remind the future youth of what we had
@@azmanabdulaHerpes? Is that what you have? One of my buddies had the clap when we were younger. He said it felt like he was urinating fire. 😂
@@darksu6947
What?
You got gonorrhea?
Syphilis?
Why did you say that?
@@darksu6947Why would you announce online you got HIV an syphilis?
It's amazing to me how people in their 20s today are producing content and having conversations like this on the (mostly) open web. I'm 32 now and in 10 years time I look forward to hearing if/how your perspective grows and evolves.
i didn't have the internet until i was older, the younger millenials and gen z were born into the internet. they are lucky in that sense. they started with immediate access to way more information than those of us who grew up essentially limited to the lies of public schooling
@@cagneybillingsley2165 I also believe that long-term, the internet will give the world the puritan boom that the First World needs. Truth will win the day in the end.
Facts cannot be hidden anymore. I pray that one day, people will look back to the days of legal abortion, legal contraception, and legal pornography the same way we look back on legal slavery, legal eugenics, and bronze age debauchery. We deserve to be remembered as barbarians seeking gold at the cost of tens of millions of innocent people....
The internet also reminds me of what was lost. Over a decade of my young life, from age 5 to age 16, was nonstop brainwashing, telling us to hate the past, telling us that today people are happy and wealthier. Now I've learned it's all a lie to squeeze labor and our souls from us.
I'm 24, and the Great Depression was arguably my favorite era of American history, and perhaps we aren't far from reliving it.
Yeah man I’m 36 now and came from an orphanage… that said I still went to college on the GI BILL after deploying to Afghanistan which changed my life
@@cagneybillingsley2165it’s not all sunflowers and daisy’s. Growing up with this stuff can give you an edge of knowledge but there’s a million things bad effects as well that I could describe to you.
But the idea that you have to put your life on the line to get a degree and make a decent living and still be highly underpaid for how much work you do. If it weren’t for overtime I wouldn’t be able to make still with the basics of transportation to work, minor healthcare, not starve, have pets for a little serotonin, and not have a bunch of mental illnesses…
The issues that led up to the French revolution were somewhat unique to France. Today's mess does not seem to be limited to the United States. There must be similar feelings among young white men in other countries as well, Particularly in western Europe. Meanwhile in China, many young people are seeing a Chinese society not living up to what they had been they had expected either. They call it "lying flat." But the sentiment under the surface is brewing hostility towards their elite leaders, and their failing political system that only favors the rich and powerful.
I can say the same here in Latin America, specially Mexico, the rise of extreme gore violence of the Cartels are making people wish the Military to do something to stop the mess, the Generation Z men are not achieving their dreams, and are working a lot of hours with not enough money to buy the food necessary to live. The Inmobiliary costs are skyrocketing and the education is decaying, people are with resentment about eveythign, specially the Government that will cause us a big and heavy Economic Crisis... I have felt intuitively that here in Mexico, a 2nd Revolution is very close the corner, people can´t live anymore, neither even survive.
Agreed, the current crises is much more globalized
Everythings fucked in the same way everywhere
lot of civil wars and US movements were inspired by french revolutions so kinda it was global back then too, just messaging a bit slower than now.
Yep, exactly. France has always been kind of...fractured. We saw that during the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, WWII - Vichy/Gaullists/Communists/etc, the completely lack of unity in the 5th Republic.
Otherwise, it's a worldwide phenomenon of hopelessness. I think if Rudyard makes a video about the Mice Utopia experiment, it will touch closer to the issue at hand that young people are feeling.
The French Revolution itself did not send France into a decadent spiral, on the contrary it was the apogee, the culmination and climax of French power and domination. The French revolution allowed for talented, ambitious young men to rise to power based on merit or skill and not blood or inheritance. Every soldier had a Marshall's baton in their backpack as they said. Hence most of the legal, civil and scientific advancements that lay the foundation of the west were sprung from a 25 year period. Napoleonic law, civil code, metric system, esprit de corps and modern military organization to name a few examples out of dozens for each field. Sure it unleashed an unbridled stream of resentful and vindictive populist emotions/sentiments so it was very messy but without any restraints things also advanced so quickly. It was a double edge sword, unleashing the full potential of french society, for better AND worse. To the point It took the entire world 25 years of near constant war to beat France and exile Napoleon, that is why France declined, because it fought the entire world at once for decades and eventually the war attrition lead to defeat. Still the ideas of the french revolution permeated all European societies leading to the XIX century also becoming the most prosperous for the west and conquering and dominating the world, european political systems beat India, China and Japan. The revolutionary ideals are to this day laudable and not out of phase. What has happened is that now unlike during the French revolution merit, equality before the LAW (not absolute equality) and rationality is no longer cherished, thus ideological quotas, plutocracy and nepotism is the law of the land, just like it was during the ancient regime.
Nailed it. I like how 3 months ago, it was, "I really hope the young men don't revolt." Now he's more, "so when the young men finally revolt..."
He's noticing patterns, which are now trends...
It’s almost impossible to figure out when it’s going to happen, but you can kinda guess it’s going to happen, but you don’t know when like the outbreak of World War II or World War I was guaranteed to happen due to the politics of the time and how the borders worked, but we didn’t know what was going to start it
I wish you were right, but unfortunately, no. You forget one side has the military, the left. The officers are all heavily left leaning now as any recent recruit can tell you. If you think the military won't obey the leftist government, you haven't been keeping up. The most dangerous military technology is tightly controlled by centralized computers that are controlled by the brass.
The possibility of violent right-wing revolt has been an impossibility for decades now.
And the american left is no longer peace loving hippies. It's violent Marxists itching for an excuse to break out the guillotines. We are screwed.
The greatest generation is long dead, the silent generation is mostly dead. The Boomers who rule us and control the wealth are weak, vapid, and have never overcome hardship. Gen-X are happy to die to crush the Millenial progressive upstarts. A tuna sandwich could overthrow this order.
@@johnvincent9370 I mean, almost half of the poor people I know (actually, I only know poor people so almost half the people I know) are/were openly in favor of Trump just performing a coup and becoming a dictator, screwing voting or legitimacy. They didn't outright say this, but they also didn't go to far out of their way to hide their opinions either. Now I can only speak for what it is like in my small slice of the country, but I imagine states in similar situations to mine will have similar coup-supporting hopes among their poor populations.
All its going to take is someone with charisma to just be willing to actually be ruthless enough to do through with it and speak the right ideology to be galvanize these people into whatever action they want. I just hope whoever takes over ends up being relatively benevolent, but the problem is that whoever finally decides to take over by force will probably, by nature of them being willing or eager to use violence, not be very benevolent, especially against their enemies.
"I don't give a damn what you think, im just going to be racist and sexist" I have been using this logic to some extent for years now. Every time someone calls me a racist, sexist, or any of the things they could call me, I just say "thanks for noticing" or "okay." I simply do not care and if they want to label me things that I am not, I am only going to turn around and actively do things that make them think that more and that make them more mad.
Shii the whole “You want to hate me for no reason, well let me give you some reasons”
I've tried telling this to my more extreme friends for years, when you tell someone they are the enemy, they're only going to argue against that notion for so long before they accept it. Then it's you vs. them and they know you don't view them as worthy of liberty.
"Antiracism" is racism against whites -- also known as antiwhiteism.
"Antisexism" is sexism against males.
As a black man I balk at the hate. Y'all always been little bitches
reeeeeeeeeeee a whowhiiiiiiiiiiite supreeeeemistist join the club of the oppressed LOL
I was born with a birth defect that left me with 1 third of a functioning digestive tract, this has also left me with multiple psychological hangups and blips. This makes it very difficult for me to keep up energy levels for the amount of work expected of the average american man nowadays. I am 27, and still live with my grandparents, because my mother was 16 when I was conceived. Because of internal family issues, I have not been on disability since around the age of 16. Ever since then I was berated by my family whenever I would bring up the possibility of trying to be reinstated, as it is incredibly difficult for me to force myself into working 40 hour weeks when I have to sneak cheese and crackers in the corners of freezers. I never took school seriously as a child despite everyone telling me how smart I was. I wanted to be an artist of some sort, so I understand in a way I've reaped what I have sewn. But it always bothers me that I will forever have to pay almost 3 times the amount to simply not starve than the average person, and I get no help with this. My family hates me because I can't seem to get things together, and at this point I genuinely believe that it would be better for everyone involved if I were just dead. I genuinely don't know what to do anymore.
Whenever you are about to attempt suicide just realize that you have every option
This may not land, but whatever you do, do not let the despair take you. If you do something permanent, it will spill over to others in ways you can’t predict. There are likely free resources in your area, they’re almost everywhere, if you find yourself drifting there, and if you’re getting there what have you got to lose?Your life can be more and mean more than you ever thought possible but you have to be there. Anything telling you not to be there is a lie, every single time.
@@michaeldyer7421 yea, hang in there man. You should be able to see most people - strangers here perhaps - wish the best for you. And we're all fighting for a better future for ourselves and our country foremost
@@C12341 I really appreciate it. As someone who does play guitar, just play songs you enjoy even if they're hard. Learn them slow, and speed up once you're confident. Also as a fellow linguistic autist, it's fun to hear someone else is doing the same. I'd like to learn French, what languages are you studying?
I’m sure you’ve got a lot to give
Although it may take a while
I’m hoping you hang on
And know there are plenty of sympathetic people who may yet benefit from whatever gifts you bring
I've been thinking we need a French Revolution here in the U.S. Our political and social elite act and treat all others as some kind of peasantry to be only allowed to do as "THEY" say. You'll own nothing and be happy...or else. The Road To Serfdom, a great little book. We all should read it.
That's why it'll fail, miserably. Their great reset is a fantasy, based upon how they're breaking things down with literally NOTHING viable, with which to replace it. Facts. What happened in Syria, is easily coming here (multi-faction/sectarian) civ war. Followed likely by foreign invasi0n. Very very dangerous times, indeed.
That's not necessarily the best idea I hate the current government functioning but if you remove all that too quickly then it was an anarchy plus enemies like Russia Iran China and North Korea may take advantage of that and it could also damaged NATO or make Europe the United States as a liability cause an American to lose influence
I pray that we don’t take that road. The French revolution was horrific
yeh.. but they hide.
Hayek was a genius.
I think we're in a combination of pre-revolutionary France, Weimar Germany and fall of Western Rome all at once.
Feels like Numidia in 1987.
And Pre Russian Revolution
Collapse of the USSR
I know it's fun to make comparisons to other big moments in history... I mean, I'm here subbed to this channel right? but I think it's very hard to compare our time... it's like a bit of a technological revolution and modern society not really adjusting very well to it as well. I have faith once millennials and gen z have the reins this will improve. I do have a lot of faith and hope in our generations... across the world actually.
@@vatefairefoutre0
I think it's perfectly reasonable to make these comparisons. Having advanced technology doesn't change man's underlying nature. These comparisons aren't arbitrary either. Our current society has many parallels to the three periods I gave that are particular to each one of them.
I like how Rudyard ends the video by honoring the longest standing tradition of the english speaking world: saying how much better Anglos are than the French.
Anglos >>>>>>>> almost everyone else >>>>>>> animals >>>>> inanimate objects >>>>> the french
Based.
Well we are more civilized
The French have had some of the best ideas of all time. They also have come up with the worst.
@@CyrusFreeman they have come up with mostly shit, weirdly enough the fight of communism vs capitalism is by extension france vs england in spirit.
I can feel you getting angrier and angrier as this video goes on and you're a pretty level headed guy. I feel like a tipping point has been reached and more and more people are getting sick of the shit we're all having to deal with.
Keep crying
@@Donner906Keep denying reality. It worked out great for the delusional French and Russian priveldged class.
Yeah sure and black trans women will stonewall your ass again before you can even 'rise up' lmao incel shit
He seems to have transitioned into a full-blown coach. You can tell seeing as he essentially said nothing new in this video compared to the previous one. I think he started to legitimately perceive himself as one of the leaders of this incel revolution he prophetizes all the time. I just think the guy lost perspective, drowned himself in his loath for the left. He's gotten too bipartisan and straight-out self-contradictory: I mean, on the one hand he says he fears that incel neo-Nazis will start another Holocaust once in power (which honestly sounds to me more like an attempt at blackmail than any genuine concern, but whatever), and then proceeds to tell us how communities composed of those bitterly frustrated individuals are some sort of havens of companionship and solidarity? Can't make heads or tails out of it.
And I don't expect things to improve considering how 99% of the comments here pour nothing but praise on him for being so young and so bright, which has been the downfall of many.
@@yarpen26 Good, he will go off the rails soon enough.
Back in the early 19 century the word cake in French referred to bread, not a sweet dessert. The French people were mad at this because they had no bread and were literally starving.
she said brioche, which is basically bread with butter and sugar, very expensive at the time, cake is just an american adaptation
One thing ive noticed from talking to fellow men in their teens and 20s both online and in person is a general rise in both distrust of relations/women as well as a nihilistic towards life and society. Its not surprising to see young men openly agreeing with Andrew Tate or being part of the incel community these days. It scares me that there is a large and growing number of young men with no romantic, social, poltical, or economic stake in society, thats the stuff wars and revolutions are made of.
As long as those "incels" have skin flicks, vidya games, and all that junk food pushed by daddy gubment there won't be a war or revolution.
It always makes me smile when I hear people share experiences like this.
Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed. :)
Society took away all reasons for young men to marry. I'm grateful I got married 20 years ago before society completely went stupid. Getting married today is the worst advice you could give a young man.
I’m not defending either sex but most young women these days are just insufferable
I think the nihilism you’re talking about comes from the gap between the country we were told we would inherit and where most millennials and Gen z are, scraping by as you say. Lots of reasons for this, but the root of that divide is lack of representation (both because boomers are driving the government at all levels, and because corporate interests are the constituents rather than actual working class people). The American French Revolution would probably address these two things first and have a big isolationist undertone, both from the left and the right.
I doubt it, the British went through a more similar situation in the 19th century. It more likely will just end in a war or something causing worldwide economic collapse.
This^
I hope.
That's such a materialist conception of nihilism. Always assuming everything is all about the material conditions, you materialists.
Those factors might be what spark the revolution, but the cause of nihilism is the utter meaninglessness of modern existence. There's a giant God-shaped hole in our lives, and no amount of material prosperity can or will ever fill it.
In fairness, that's pretty traditionally American. For most of our history, the USA has pretty much been concerned with staying out of old world affairs as much as possible. Due to communism and the existential threat it posed, we eventually become the world's sole hyperpower, but culturally it wasn't really something the nation had ever strived towards it kinda just happened making us, in a way, be victims of our own "success".
When I first started writing my apocalyptic science-fiction book, way back in 2005, my initial idea for the reason why everything went to shit was a 2nd American Civil War. But I scrapped the idea after a bit, because I thought it was too far fetched. Less than 20 years later I see that I wasn't pessimistic enough in my outlook and should have gone with my gut.
In case you're curious, I picked the development of fusion power by a world power other than the US as the new reason for a major world conflict instead.
Did you publish the book? I would like to read it
I think that you might consider taking your book idea back up again. I'd be very interested in reading it, if you completed it. Btw, I'd be very interested in the 'working title' of your book if you decided to go back to it.
@@Ramzi1944 i did self-publish eventually, but it's not available anymore. I have one copy for myself as memento.
Consider publishing it again? It's significantly easier nowadays.
@@entropiated9020publish it bro. I'm excited!!
I once heard a university professor give a talk about the horrible 1% and how they were due for a reckoning French Revolution-style. Afterwards I went up to him and said, it is not the 1% that needs to be worried. They can take care of themselves and no doubt have already made preparations. No, it is people like you that need to worry. He said, how so? I said, you are a professor. That means you are probably living in a pretty nice suburb; you aren't living in a low-income neighborhood. You aren't struggling paycheck to paycheck (or if you are, something's very wrong). You have benefits. You aren't living on minimum wage. You're insulated from a lot of things. Now--let's say we do have a revolution like the French or Russians did. It will be people like YOU that people like ME will be coming after. Not the 1%. YOU. If you have a home that everyone admires, look out. If you drive an upscale vehicle, again, look out. Because the mobs will not be going to the trailer parks and low-income urban neighborhoods. They will be coming to YOUR neighborhood. Because you have what they want and you are much more easily accessible than that 1% who will be long gone. You're a sitting duck. It doesn't matter that you don't think you are all that well off, what matters is how others perceive you, and if they perceive that you have assets such as a decent home, a vehicle that isn't falling apart, if they sense by the way you dress, act, and speak that you have more than they do, look out. Got solar, wind, EV? That spells MONEY. Going green ain't cheap. I, on the other hand, live in a mobile home park and am just getting by, as are many of my neighbors who are in even worse financial shape than I am. Many cannot pay their rent even though this is the cheapest housing around. So they end up being evicted. Yes, there are a lot of problems, some caused by bad personal choices but others by societal choices. Such as the decision to move manufacturing overseas. And contrary to what you might think, people in the Rust Belt are very much aware of this and they do talk about it. It's not something that's forgotten. Reminders of what used to be are all around. So I am saying, if there is a French-style Revolution in this country, it is going to be very, very, very ugly and some of the people who might be cheering such a prospect on will be in for a very rude awakening as they find that the mobs are coming for THEM. I think, or at least I hope, I gave that professor something to think about.
In all seriousness, I would rather fight and die for a worthy cause than sludge away in mediocrity just to pay rent and fund a government that consistently fails in their responsibilities to us. When I think on what my taxes go towards... it's enough to compel me to fight.
Go do it then. I suggest you learn how prison works. Do another January 6th.
Our founding fathers felt the same way.
@@orangemanonsteroids8569 Yeah totally comparable.
@@Donner906 Technically we got it objectively worse since they didn't have as many issues breeding as we have now in the modern day.
@@WildBandit300 Go back then and see if your opinion changes when you get smallpox.
I don’t always drop everything I’m doing for a video; but when it’s Whatifalthist what can I say. Keep up the great work
“Let them eat chocolate chocolate chip ice cream, man.” - Joe Biden (Probably)
"Bennan Jerry was a bad dude"
“Russia sharted my diaper!”~ Dementia Brandon
It's fitting that we have a Napoleon movie coming out toward the end of the year. The American Revolution was tame compared to the French, however many believe we didn't go far enough and that's why we are where we are in a society. We don't have the stomach for a French Revolution.
Is france really in a much better position than the US?
I don't think most people have the stomach for something like that.
Hence they need your guns asap
@@oneill6291 If we get to the point that we will be unable to throw up food from starving then I don't think people will care.
@@razortheonethelight7303 That's a good point, lol
As someone in my late 30s I think I am now enduring my 3rd or 4th “once in a lifetime economic event” The talking heads always make it seem like it’s never as bad as it seems or was. That’s their job. The world is like a wheel that’s not balanced correctly. As it continues to pick up speed eventually it will rip itself apart.
Ye it’s insane to me how both the parties call everything including themselves corrupt and than elect corrupt leaders lol.
@@donaldtrumplover2254can blame the boomers for selling us out and deregulating wages back in 1983. Reagan basically handed carte Blanche for corporations to stop raising worker wages and enrich themselves through stock buybacks. I’m serious look it up, the 1% has gotten almost 90% of the economic gains since 1985.
Just be glad we went through it. If this video is right, then we've been prepared for this by 9/11, 2007, and covid. If you've been through all that and STILL aren't ready for what is coming then there's nothing that can be done for you.
Bruh.. I am 37 now and me and my mom have been running our own business for 12 years now. We had some good years early on.. but it’s been one “once in a lifetime bad economic event” after another every other year for the last 7-8 years. We fight back every time.. only to have the rug pulled from under us by other people. It’s been a combination of a number of clients fucking us over by taking their sweet time paying us.. which made it difficult for us to keep up with payroll in a timely and consistent manner.. this ruined our reputation with actual good people that want to work and we’ve since been forced to take what help we can get and it’s bit us in the ass every time. People don’t show up every other day, or they lie about going to clients or they do go but do a half ass job and or they steal from clients. If our clients had always paid us in a timely manner and we didn’t lose our quality people.. and thus didn’t lose 95% of our clients.. my mom and I would be millionaires by now instead of not even living paycheck to paycheck. I’ve been living in my office since before Covid, don’t have a vehicle and have been single the vast majority of this time.. mostly by choice because my situation isn’t conducive to a healthy relationship and I emotionally can’t handle another major heartbreak. Every time my mom and I get our heads above water for even a day or two.. something comes along and chains a steel ball to our legs and we get dragged under water again. My mom’s age is starting to catch up with her and then some.. last year she had a major spinal fusion and that ended up getting messed up by the physical therapist.. and she now needs both hips replaced and she can barely walk and almost never gets any sleep. She’s not even 60 yet.. and my health isn’t all that much better.. not even 40 yet but most days I feel like I am pushing 70 already physically, mentally and emotionally.. we haven’t taken a vacation in well over 20 years.. we never buy new clothes or anything nice unless it’s absolutely necessary and even then.. it still gets put off as long as possible. I have no hope for my future and I don’t know if I even want to see 50 if this is already how life is before I am 40.. let alone 60, 70 or 80.. I don’t know what to do and most days I struggle with the urge to just blow my head off. The only thing keeping me from doing it is my faith and just because taking a life, even your own.. is a grave sin. But at the same time.. I see no possibility for any kind of quality life going forward and especially if things don’t change. I feel so alone.
Additionally.. every day I have to deal with being demonized just for being a straight white man and told how privileged and evil I inherently am.
@@darthsilversith667 I feel for you man. You should be proud and defiant that you are still going. Look into stoicism. Everyday that you continue to endure and move forward is a victory in defiance of the world we live in.
The number one "let them eat cake" equivalent I see in modern society is the "mass migration is good because we get lots of ethnic restaurants out of it."
How often do they think the average working stiff whose wages are being depressed by mass migration can honestly go out to these wonderful ethnic restaurants?
Who is going to clean our houses and mow our lawns if we don't have immigration? Immigrants do the jobs that Americans don't want to do (for that price, admitting that immigration is anti-labor). If you are worried about gas prices just buy a tesla!
A closer comparison would be the time when facing a question about high gas prices some official said "Just buy electric cars" or something along those lines.
Also ethnic food isn’t even very good. We’ve imported all the good ethnic cuisine already. Now they’re like “try a Mongolian fried roach or else you’re racist”. It’s no longer sushi and pizza and tacos being imported. Those are all widespread by now
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se African food is too frequently bean glop or yam glop.
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se What ethnicity are you if you mind me asking? Ethnic Cuisines aren't for everyone, but it is def liked by a lot of people in Europe and the U.S, so I don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Also if you are going to critique ethnic cuisines at least know a few dishes, you seem to only eat fast food. Pizza, Sushi, And Tacos don't count.
Well done !!!! For years, since 1998, I exchanged thoughts with others on forums where we discussed seeing the breakdown of America due to the Politicians. Since then, steadily the populace has become fractured to nearly beyond an amicable reunion. Every day, I see videos of mostly Black youth, stealing from stores (Nordstrom being the latest) without consequences because they have been enabled by the Politicians. Our entire Alphabet Federal Government is nearly untrusted by the very American People they are/were intended to 'serve'. The Balkanization War is what I've seen coming.
I have a lot of experience with the modern US military leadership and officer corps. I can say for sure that Rudy's assertion that their political leanings to the right is a wonderful fantasy. The institutions of learning that have developed our nations military leadership have been selecting for progressivism for the last 20+ years at least. While the enlisted corps will slant right, the officer corps is very much of one voice to maintain the current progressive order. We will not see the military so evenly join the right's side if it were to come to a civil conflict.
A split perhaps
I don't know. Will the officers risk being lynched by their troops?
@@shorewall yes, once the troops stop fearing them they're pretty much done in such a situation.
Well thankfully your military has imploded in troop count it won't be as much of a force as the degenerates hope it will be.
Based NCOs vs Westpoint transhumanists
Usually I fall into the trap of thinking "man im living in the easiest time in human history. I must be so pathetic I can't handle this much when people lived with much less in the past"
Then this video made me realize people back then had alot more than I ever had. Not in a materialistic sense, but in the sense of having a close knit community that share the same values as you.
If those people in the past walked in our shoes, they would be like "man y'all have seriously messed up lives". Now i'm not ashamed to admit we are living in very shitty times and i shouldnt blame myself too much for it lol
How about you don't live life in black and white? It is true that the modern world has created NEW problems for us, but it doesn't mean we live worser lives than our ancestors? We should solve those problems, but going back to how our ancestors lived won't actually fixed the MODERN problems we have. See how easy it is to not think one way or another?
Only way to destroy close nit communities is bus in tons and tons of illegal foreigners who dont speak your language and slowly destroy it through crime poverty higher and higher taxes to deal with the government created problem and soon the community is gone because people you new were killed or moved away.
You made me laugh today! Thank you
i agree our biggest curse is so much open knowledge , although i don't have any problems like starvation , shelter but being very lonely i spent most of the time on internet putting myself myself in others problems at an globalized scale
We adapt, sadly but also a blessing or im just a lone wolf, I enjoy being in my company for long periods but not more than 40 days as I physically feel the need to socialize and hit up a friend otherwise my work/hobbies are impaired you could say.
Mark Twain once said that “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
the last time something like this happened in the US, the US wasn't hated by half the world. If SHTF tomorrow, expect Russia, China, Iran and every other country the US has attacked or threatened to jump in and start supplying arms and ammo to stoke the civil conflict in the US.
Did he...
if hopelessness and gloom are the norm , then virtuous acts become rarer and have their value increased . if you value the responsibility of being good above selfishness , you'll be exceptional and your actions will be remembered by people affected by them , precisely because you'll probably be one of the few people in their week that displayed selflessness . this means that even hopelessness itself is fuel for the biggest hope possible . if virtue and heroism were the norm , the good wouldn't be so special . quoting spiderman , '' Anyone can win a fight--when the odds--are easy! It's when the going's tough--when there seems to be no chance--that's when--it counts! '' .
I'm Gen X and I absolutley love your videos. My grandparents raised me and Its been amazing to see first hand such a Post WW2 1950's USA to now a "Modern Era".
You can thank Reagan for today's woes
@@jokeinsurance2735 And Clinton, Bush I, Nixon, Johnson, Bush II, Obama and now Brandon. Just remember that it was Johnson who signed off on the 1965 immigration bill that in its first sentence said that the European decedents who were racists and had to give up their power to make sure that America was "equitable".
But yes, Reagan started the debt crisis, unfettered capitalism, breaking unions, spending far too much on the Cold War than what it had to be, and growing the size of NATO all at the American taxpayers expense.
@@jokeinsurance2735 Oh Really? How so - In your opinion. We know how Biden and his Administration have screwed the Country in every single area of regulation and human endeavor, as well as the 2A and the Bill of Rights as that has happened since Biden was installed - but you can now explain about the Evil Regan, if you wish to go beyond mere sound bite comments. (It is difficult - trust me, as I often in the past have explained to Citizens on comment streams and they get agitated at long Posts.......)
Old America died in 2008.
@@jokeinsurance2735and every president since
Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake
Politicians: Buy an Electric Vehicle(when it’s more expensive to maintain than a ICE vehicle) and Learn to Code.
Me: Always wondering why most of what was happening seemed oddly familiar until I saw a French Revolution video. I’m wondering what’s going to be that spark when people just snap.
Kamala Harris installing herself as POTUS after another stolen election.
My best guess is if Trump is found guilty for inciting insurrection. I think that would give the excuse people are looking for.
From Wikipedia "Let them eat cake":
"Although the phrase is conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, it can actually be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution, and when Antoinette was 9 years old and had never been to France."
And when she said "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" she doesn't talk about the cake as we understand it, but about brioche, a kind of pastry.
Why are you saying that is more expensive to maintain than an ICE? You don't change oil, you don't change filters, the electric motor works forever. I wonder if you have an EV.
@@Kannot2023the electric motor does not last forever and even if it does you have a risk of it catching fire . That’s not mentioning the fact that most electric grids in America cannot stand the stress that would be put on it if even a fraction of the population switched to them
One very big problem I see with this whole analysis is the fact there aren’t a lot of young men, like at all. This applies to basically every industrialized country. Add to this the fact that young men are distracted and disillusioned. With these things in mind it seems more likely that society will continue on the path it’s on, rather than explode in some sort of revolution. A slow death, in other words.
The whole Melting Pot culture is probably one of the big culprits. Human Nature is just more geared to a village than a city.
That's why when you hear about young men escaping into anime. It's not an obsession. It's just that something about it makes them comfortable.
In a village, everyone is just familiar with each other. But in modern cities, it's a different scenario.
I think it's a set of life skills that our generation doesn't really have yet.
@@eksbocks9438is that why people are obsessed with medieval fantasy settings or isekai settings? Because people want to escape their realities for a more simpler life where they can live happily?
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 It is. And the characters in these shows are usually supportive.
I mean, it wouldn't be popular if the female characters were malicious.
The US has 35 million Gen Z men and 35 million millennial men. This is 1/4 of the country. Wokes are 8% of the US population and they’ve managed to destroy society within 9 years. Why can’t young men alter society. Even countries in Europe have large young male populations. Just not as many as the older men. They couldn’t vote their way out of the oppressive system but they could fight their way out of it
There are about half as many white non-Hispanic men born every year as in 1960.
When I was kid my dad work 60-72 hours a week doing trades or physical labor, making about 70k a year in California. but he was able to buy a home in a semi-rural suburb and my mom was able to stay home.
I make the same in a white collar job, but even with my wife working in about the same economic level it’ll be hard to buy a home in an area that isn’t in a bad neighborhood.
Pretty crazy to see those kind of changes in my relatively short life alone.
The 2008-2023 extremely low interest rates, poor financial education, and far too much corporate consolidation have caused vast vast damage to this country.
Add to the fact on how the tax laws were changed in the 80s have finally started to show their negative impact on the country
It was a multi-decade problem. 1990s was Glass-Steagall repeal for banking, and Telecommunications Act allowing for media corporations to buy out left and right. Corporate Bailouts of the 2000s, which is the Republican go-to approach of Bush and Trump
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepeshere we go... It isn't just Republicans you twerp. This is why no one takes you seriously and why the wheels of society will be greased once again.
As a Gen X fan of the Simpsons from the beginning, I feel compelled to point out that the Simpsons started in 1989, so in its heyday, it was really a ‘90s show, not an ‘80s show. As a sitcom, it reflected the economic decline of the American middle class presaged by the crash of ‘87 and cemented by the ‘90s recession. The sitcoms of the ‘80s featured prosperous and well adjusted upper middle class families like the Keatons, the Cosbies and the Seavers. The ‘80s were the last truly happy times in America.
The 90’s if you were already upper middle class. Post Cold War, pre 9-11. Internet Boom. I was born in 83 so I remember the second half of the 80’s. The decline really began with the internet bust in 99.
@@ktoth29close...it ended with the removal of the Glass-Stiegal act in 1999
@@ktoth29as Gen Z (2001) I remember the decline got really bad post 08. I was 7 and I remember seeing the big bust and growing up in the depression. The heavy weight in the air as you see economic stagnation and hardship when you’re learning how the economy works. It only got slightly better with trump before covid destroyed all progress once again
married with children was a better eighties sitcom, Keatons the Cosbies and Seavers were all democrats who the party really threw over board the last twenty years. The Bundys were typical barely hanging on blue collar conservatives who one particular neighbor had a certain disdain for a neighbor chicken (who was a democrat).
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Slightly better despite Trump. he has no knowledge whatsoever of macroeconomics.
As a 28year old lower middle class plumber in massachusetts. Can confirm most of what this man has said. Very young and intelligent man, good job bro!
I'm in n.h and it's the same crap here sadly
Lower middle class and plumber shouldn’t go together. Skilled tradesman shouldn’t be out earned by corporate project managers that literally send emails all day smh.
For someone so young, you really are far beyond many others in terms of your insights and way of thinking. I am a few years older than you and I am sad to say that my knowledge and understanding of these topics pales in comparison to yours. However, I am grateful to have the opportunity to hear your thoughts and engage in the topics you discuss. I and many others greatly benefit from content like yours. Keep up the great work friend!
As a 42 year old woman who watches your videos regularly, I hope your exhortations to your followers get through. Former liberal turned...not liberal, I'm worried about the world my daughters will grow up in, and whether they will be able to find good men to start families with, should that be their path. Keep up the good work, thanks for all you do!
Personally, the more conditions seem to be breaking down in America the more I think there is going to be a radical backlash by young men against women in the coming years. Who knows when it will happen, but I think young women in particular are going to lose a lot of their social freedoms they currently enjoy. The best case scenario is a benevolent paternalism wins the day and women simply lose the vote and have to become primarily wives and mothers again. A worst case scenario is men become so angry and radicalized that they go into full Taliban mode against women and they lose most of their civil rights. Pray for the former and not for the latter for your daughters and encourage them to find a good man to marry so they will have some kind of security and protection as things start to fall apart.
Yeah, whatever MAGAt
Good men (not me) are still out there.
The more I read my Bible, the more I feel my stresses disappear. Of course I am still a beginner in Christianity, so my anxiety and depression is still strong. I am young and still scared, but I have been blessed with very supportive and loving parents. I have learned the power of family. My father wants to bring back multigenerational households, which is something I want for when I father children because having a support system when it counts is vital.
I pray for the best for you and your family. I know it is just a UA-cam comment, but it is all I got.
It's half finding the right person and half BEING the right person.
French Revolution was not French.
It was done by Grand Orient Freemasonry.
They gave the Statue of Liberty to the USA
They started WW1 by shooting Ferdinand.
*Me going to academia in the based timeline to learn about:*
_Western studies, Men's studies, Applied theology, Traditional thinking, History of Philosophy, Secular studies, Accessorial studies & Stoic studies._
you will never be able to support yourself in that easy chewed over bs
I feel like everyone making predictions now will at the very least get a few major plot twists wrong, but historians looking back will be all "the results were so damn obvious".
This video pretty much gets all the plot points wrong. When people get poorer they move to the left. They don't move to the right. For every right wing young male you will find ten frustrated young men parroting Bernie Sanders talking points. The right has lost the narrative and will never recover.
yes. every empire falls. just like this one has. maybe robots will be able to rebuild because two gens wont.
As a kid I had big dreams that I could do anything. I feel like my life hardly means anything anymore, and I'm past the point of pretending that it's okay. To live my life a bit more honestly and carefully makes my prospects for having those meaningful things somehow worse. I wish I could be a historian, an engineer, a physicist. I've settled for going to school to start a career in HVAC for now, which actually does make me a little excited. But knowing that everything else is out of reach, I can only imagine the rush of life I dreamed of having coming to me only in the ranks of some final bonzai charge as our civilization collapses.
You can still be everything you want to be. While you work HVAC, train, act and publish as an historian/physicist and engineer. Being an HVAC is the exact path to where you want to get. You just have to figure out how all the pieces fit together and trust God. Life is truly a mystery. The path is never straight forward. Good Luck
Good luck and may good times be ahead of you. I think you may find a sense of fulfillment and purpose from a community of people you like and trust, more than work output in the sciences.
Key difference between then and now is the French Revolution took place during the peak of the Enlightenment where dynamic and viable alternate systems were being theorized, worked out, and actively implemented. Our intellectual discourse - especially in term of political thought - is pretty myopic and largely consists of us throwing 19th century memes at each other.
You have any decent contenders for replacement systems so far?
@@fishfish5119 not really.
The woke, aka regurgitated Marxism through cultural sphere rather than economic sphere, is the most guilty and the biggest plague on our society today
@@nicholassevern88 You know of any place that kind of talk is being held? I feel hashing out a viable replacement to the current system would be quite important for the aftermath of whatever will happen next. So even if the proper conversation right now is small or non-existent, merely standing by seems like a mistake.
The “replacement system” many people gravitate toward is communism. It hasn’t worked anywhere it has been, but they think we’ll do it right!! They should look at cuba and venezuela.
The enlightenment made no difference to th french revolution. It rapidly descended into chaos and bloodshed. That is the future of any revolution like it here.
The problems during that time will dwarf any problems we might have now.
“Let them eat cake”. This is probably the most famous misquote we will ever associate with Marie Antoinette. It was not the haughty words of an unempathetic Queen, far removed from the struggles of her people. This quote was spoken one hundred years before Marie Antoinette, and even then, it stems from a mistranslation.
Marie-Therese, Queen of Louis XIV when appraised of the issues surrounding the price of bread, driven out of the means of her peasant populations, asked “Why don’t they eat Brioche?” Brioche in its contemporary form was a cheap alternative to bread, NOT a cake. Marie-Therese was attempting to support the people in their efforts to limit the price of grain in order to make it a viable commodity, by refusing to pay the prices demanded for bread.
The misquote might also be slander due to Marie Antoinette being disliked by the French as she was from Austria.
I cringed when Rudyard mentioned Antoinette said that
Most fans of western-European history seem to know this is a misquote. A big fan of the channel, but I found that a bit odd for a professed "history-buff".
@@aidanaldrich7795@ 16:26 he specifically states that she likely never did
That’s absolutely fascinating as I have always wondered where it really came from and sensed a story there. If what you say is true, which I will research, that’s actually brilliantly practical advice from an economic leadership perspective. Especially since bread doesn’t have any nutritional value anyway and wouldn’t reflect the population’s ability to survive vs meat or fish or whatever vegetables particularly subsist the customs of a specific community and something with that seemed up to me. I eat brioche for breakfast in Italy as many people do if they eat breakfast at all and don’t touch what I would define as a traditional American breakfast. But people can be quite set in their ways and not want to change or try a different way of life for absolutely no reason and it might still be necessary to state something so simple. People will burn you at the stake for looking at them wrong lol
Americans kept mentioning online "we're living at the end of the Roman Empire" so much but never stopped to think maybe the Empire is only about to start...
Yeah, that's what I think. American Patriotism is too strong. Compare our vision of what America should be, to those in Canada and the EU.
@@shorewall There's a problem with that, though. Lots of people like "America", but how many of them have the same idea of what "America" is? There's no way America could have another civil war without losing 90% of the population and fracturing into dozens of smaller countries with different ideas of what they want.
Yeah, I agree. The Roman Empire went in cycles, too, and lasted 1000 years. This is the first 300 years. Despite what people say, the US is not actually an Empire......yet. We're in a Republic stage imo.
Plus, if you listen to speeches back in the 40s-70s, people were saying the same stuff. Granted, I do think it has reached a zenith due to social media and out of touch elites not knowing how to build things for the future but America is built in a way where once this current cycle ends at the end of the 21st century (Millennials and Gen Z being the ones to kill it)....its ideals are still going to be the dominant one and America's population demographics will be steady enough to support these ideals.
It's not a boast. It's just that the rest of the world isn't going to have the population demographics, economy, and military power to take supplant the US. Maybe in another 200 years, we'll see Europe repair its population demographics and come up with a new set of ideas that can replace the Enlightenment but we shall see.
@@xLeeroycranex "This is the first 300 years"
Maybe I'm going to offend some Americans but I'd argue the first 300 years were the British Empire. Monarchy led by a king, just like in Rome - check. The king screwing up so much as to make his subjects finally get rid of him and kings in general, officially starting democracy - check. Of course not everyone was equal still, just like in Rome.
"We're in a Republic stage imo"
Contrary to popular belief the Empire didn't start abruptly. There was a transitional period where the whole Republic became incredibly corrupt and led by figureheads for the elite. There was an effort to make everything SEEM democratic but over time the elite paid less and less attention to even try to pretend it's a democracy. From the outside it seems that's where America is now which is too bad because I don't want the world to be stuck with a dictatorial America and a dictatorial China.
I’m a Gen Zommer who was born right before Gen Alpha, If young men rise up to stand up for their rights as humans, I support you. God Bless evreyone ❤❤❤
Like you said in your video about the coming far-right backlash, the most radical faction almost always wins in a civil war, but I feel like if we do get a 2ACW (which I personally do think we will get), whoever is the "most radical" faction will be very unclear. It won't be just Democrats vs Republicans, but we'll see actual Communists and actual Fascists clash too. We'll get Monarchist and Autocratic leagues too. It's going to be a clusterfuck and ideologies fighting to be the Top Dog, and whoever does come out of it will determine the course of not just American history, but World history too.
Some people say 2020 was a referendum on Trump. Well, I would like to say that a 2ACW would be a violent referendum on Democracies and Republics as a whole. Everybody on both sides of the aisle are scared shitless that they could lose their representation and voice in any given election. People feel like dogs backed into corners, and eventually we're going to snap back, and it won't be pretty for our handlers.
Lol bunch of larpers. Now go order your dominoes and drink your coke and maybe get in a video game or two.
This is honestly terrifying as a black person. If a facist or authoritarian wins my or other ethnic minorities could be on the chopping block
@@michaelknox3715only if you are an elite.
Unless China swoops in and takes advantage of the chaos
The "Right" in America has an unbroken 100 year losing streak going, not seeing that changing anytime soon. They enjoy it too much.
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The real Mary Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake".
The line came from a play and was meant to make her look stupid, because cake was a very expensive bread type.
The actual woman had tried to organize food charities for those caught by the famine and has been badly slandered.
It's worth noting that France has had at least three or four government collapses since the Revolution, which more and more, I suspect was a coup by the Merchant and Banking class to gain control.
You are repeating a lie perpetrated by dishonest charlatans. Why are you defending a woman born into extreme wealth that benefitted from the struggles of starving peasants? The marxist, white liberal women teaching you poor saps have LIED to you. Research the miserable lives of the poor French peasant. Research the actual behavior of the French nobility towards the peasantry. They were cruel and barbaric to them. You people live in a Disney world of delusion where you picture yourself as kind nobles. You never picture the reality that you would be the starving mistreated peasants. White liberal female teachers have poisoned your minds.
When I watch these video's, I feel like my whole generation is watching with me. I truly believe that one day in the near future millennials and gen z will assert themselves in public life. And that makes me proud.
@@gyrate98society has no time for idiotic nonsense
gen-z is fucked. truly. if only they'd stop fucking downloading chinese spyware on their phones.
Moron your sick dreams will never be fruitful.
Pride is a deadly sin. Pride also comes before the fall.
Remember how proud we were of our military after 9/11? How we supported our troops? How is the military now?
Pride is a deadly sin. Pride also comes before the fall.
Remember how proud we were of our military after 9/11? How we supported our troops? How is the military now?
Never been so happy in my entire life to in Alaska. We are united here, both in ideology and a sense of nationalism that you just don't see in lower 48. We take care of each other as a culture and we have pride and what we do; and especially pride in being independent in our lives. We act as one big family. We already do not consider ourselves American, and would welcome Canadian break off provinces, Americans looking for a better life, and trade and Aliances with foreign Nations because of the sheer scale of natural resources that we have here could easily be leveraged for trade. The future is ours.
I've read different opinions on the "let them eat cake" attributed to Marie Antoinette. One asserts that she actually said this. Another maintains that it was anti-royalist propaganda. I'm inclined to believe that she never said this. The French Aristocracy was nasty, but they weren't that clueless. They knew they had problems, but they couldn't bring themselves to fix the situation because they were loath to lose any of their power or money. And in the end, their inability to face reality ruined them.
To be fair biden did say “let them buy EVs to the 4$ gas crisis”. She could’ve said it. The elites are clueless sometimes
yaz........ something like our inability to face reality??
It’s too bad our elites have forgotten the French Revolution ended up with the Terror where even “middle of the road” revolutionaries went to the guillotine! As the saying goes, “He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.”
The French revolution was a revolution of the elites. This seems to be misunderstood by a number of commentators. This was not a peasant's revolt, in fact, many of the peasants, as was the case with the Kulaks in Russia, were persecuted by the revolutionary authorities which were nearly all from the elites.
@@BlunderCity this is true for the first revolution than started in june 1789 but it's less the case for the "second revolution" that began after the the day of 10 august 1792. During the following period, the popular masses of Paris, the famous "Sans culottes", had a huge role in the politics event between 1792 and 1795, even if they were instrumentalized by some révolutionary leaders (Robespierre, Saint-Just...).
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Yes but the sans culottes were not peasants. There was basically 3 types of revolutionaries:
- The noblemen and clergymen who joined the 3rd estate and formed the first improvised national assembly (tennis court oath). It's estimated that about a fifth of nobility and a third of the clergy supported the overthrow of the ancien regime. Many went on to get elected to the constituting assembly and national convention. The likes Condorcet, Mirabeau, Talleyrand, Sieyes, the Duke of Orleans etc...
- The bourgeoisie, the economically privileged but without titles, people like lawyers and merchants. They were basically butthurt not have any institutional power. Most of the famous revolutionaries, like Robespierre, came from that class of "notables".
- The sans culottes, basically the urban poor, living in what were essentially slums.
The peasants found themselves at the wrong end of these developments, often accused of hoarding food and collaborating with allegedly scheming land owners to make money on the backs of "the people".
This was not a peasants revolt but a revolution of the elites. The people living in the countryside were strangely not on the side one might expect. The revolution, like most in France, was very Paris focused.
As an aside, the role of the countryside nobility is rather interesting. Many of them supported the revolution, not out of a sense of enlightened altruism, but as a way to increase their power. They grew tired of the centralisation of power around the top brass in Paris. Many thought the country could return to a pre Louis XIII when the kingdom was far more decentralised and they had a lot more local power without having to kiss the ring. Let's say this was a "sharp miscalculation" on their part😂.
When achieving the throne, Queen Marie was known to have requested the abolition of a long-standing stealth tax on the poor known as the Queen’s Belt, famously stating “Queens no longer wear belts.” She adopted three poor children, to be raised alongside her own, and paid for the education of several others, not to mention the financial support of their families. She provided purpose-built cottages and employment on her farm, and encouraged her daughter not only to forego Christmas gifts so that they may help the poor further, but to actively wait on the poor, as equals.
I think her head rolling is proof of how ineffectual her attempts were.
@@angelmarauder5647she tried to help in a manner she understood points for trying
I will say the French government itself was largely broken as an institution, elitized and all. The monarchy was the least of many problems, as the 2nd and 1st estates refused any reform recommended by King Louis.
@@petervizzini4006Why do you throne sniffing simps defend her? It's gotten ridiculous. A wealthy white woman that benefitted from extreme wealth and did NOTHING of note except be born into wealth gets defended like Mother Theresa. Who taught you this nonsense? Where are you sycophants learning to be so pathetic? Why are you so weak?
@@awildtannerwasfound5045if the revolution proved anything it was that what France needed was a strong monarch.
This commentary is very enlightening and you do a great job of tying together multiple issues that seem unrelated but are all interconnected. As a History major myself I realize how difficult that is to do. Great analasis!
I can confirm we are living horribly. I’m 29, 2 kids, wife, I’m a residential construction worker and have been in the industry for 10 years now. I’m in every sense of the word a professional and a skilled tradesman, I work my day job Monday-Friday about 10-12 hours a day depending on the job, I do side work on the weekends directly for homeowners about 8-10 hours a day, I make about 40k a year and I live paycheck to paycheck. I make enough to pay my bills but not save, I make enough to afford my rental home but not buy a house of my own, there’s food in my kitchen but I can’t afford any emergency costs. All of that being said I have it easier than most but I know I struggle like hell so I know people are down bad. Homer Simpson’s life would be like winning the lottery.
@@gyrate98 Not always the case. You're just fking dmb. Too many of you think in Black and White, in Polar sets of mind. Humans and life are Nuanced. Shut the fk up.
@@gyrate98so an only fans model is worth more than a construction worker? Or a low productivity tech worker is worth more? Value and production has been completely divorced from each other in America, hence the economic issues
@@gyrate98a construction worker that helps build the society you live in should be able to live a comfortable life. You know this is not how we should be living. If we dedicate our time and lives to a society we should have benefits and not be a slave to the occupation we chose
How are you only making 40k a year from that? That's McDonald's level pay. You should be able to clear the 40k just from the side jobs.
@@bentuovila5296 I live in Charleston, SC and that’s pretty much the norm for residential contractors in my area, the company I work at is pretty small. I make $24k salary and $18.50 an hour on top of it, roughly 40-60 hours a week, typically it’s a 5 day work week but if we’re really busy we’ll work Saturdays. Honestly I have a better deal than a lot of the construction workers in my area, I could go to a big corporate construction firm and make a little bit more but that has a whole other set of downsides. Sadly it just seems to be this is the best deal I’ve got for now, so I just keep grinding and hoping for better days
You hit the mail right on the head. I’m 25 and work in safety working 50-60hrs a week my wife worked 45-50 hours a week, never see eachother and feels like we only see our daughter for a few hours everyday. Now we are “better off” than most people our age but it feels like our dream of owning a huge farm is getting out of reach.
SRU?
It is… unless you 50 families come together and do raise their 100 kids and purchase a 100 acre property together.
Oh boo hoo. You people make your own choices stop blaming other people for you not planning your life well.
The government doesn’t respect farmers and screws them over constantly. If you do become a farmer I really wish you luck.
@@1mol831 So a commune? Doesn't that seem a bit leftish and hippy? How are you going to work? It's funny how the right just turned to anarchic hippies lol.
As an English that last statement is how I hope it goes. We had Brexit as a kind of mini revolution (a bloodless revolution if you want to go by history) to tell the elite to reduce the amount of burocracy. It didn't work. Things are going sideways on this side of the pond as well especially in France ironically, Asia is also having problems and Africa and the middle east are always kicking off. It feels like we're all getting ready throw down and create a new world order. Interesting times are coming. Keep safe everyone.
English have always been a joke. You still have a king in 2023.
No such thing as an English revolution. You lots are cucks
I am a 6 figure restaurant captain in Seattle; everything this man says is 100% correct.