So funny to me the way that homophobes in the past would talk about gay sex, describing sexual acts in great detail and pausing... sometimes awkwardly... before condemning the things that they just described in unnecessary detail.
It's a safe bet that *anyone* that invested in the private lives of absolute strangers has a few screws loose at a minimum. That has been my base assumption since I was ~10, and it has never failed me or steered me wrong.
I noticed that too. For someone against gay sex, he sure seems to get excited and detailed about fist f*ing. I’ve seen so many examples where the preachers who go int this level of detail turn out to be closeted gay men, or have secret boyfriends. Would bet that’s the case here.
Reminds me of current homophobic Christians who constantly tell on themselves by saying that people have to resist the temptation of gay relationships, not realizing that no heterosexual person ever has such temptations.
@@alabaster2163, OK, you've got my attention . . . "manifestations" of _what?_ In response to @ivanheffner2587 though, there's an old Jewish observation exhorting one to _not_ behave as if God were watching, but as if one's _neighbors_ were! God may -- or may not -- have a rat's right rump roast to spare about your behavior, but _your NEIGHBORS_ almost _certainly_ will!
@@ivanheffner2587 True, but not everyone is a good person or aspires to be one. The ones who aren't and don't, I want restrained by fear of punishment.
How can behavior determine morality? Behavior is the way people act and the decisions they make. There are people who behave with kindness and non-violence, and people who behave with hatred and violence and everything in between. And what is the standard for morality and acceptable behaviors, and where does it come from? And if you respond with the law or courts, then where do those standards and rules come from? I'm sure there will be responses to deflecting to bringing up religion, and that's fine, but that won't be a sufficient answer for where you claim it comes from.
Nah that plays into what cults want you to think, they want you to think that religions have to be vicious and controlling when they are new and they even have psychologists on the payroll to claim this and fund "reseach" to "prove" it. There are cults that aren't new. There are cults that aren't religions. There are new religions that aren't cults.
Probably closer to 150 years? Or 161 years to be precise. The US was gripped by an apocalyptic panic at the end of the civil war and the trauma of so many deaths had a lot of people questioning everything. Culty grifter prophets had a field day. This was also when our uniquely American strain of Christianity was going full speed ahead, turning the dour self-denial of Calvinism on its head somehow to evolve the weird prosperity theology that could have only come from the USA. But when you include Christian Science and Mormonism, that pushes the timeframe back to the 1820s and '30s. So it wasn't all post Civil War doomerism, though that's when a of slightly older cults really took off. Definitely if it was founded in the US in the last 200 years, cult.
Tulsi Gabbard is the best example of just because some is "outside the establishment" doesn't automatically make them BETTER than the establishment. Her anti-Muslim rhetoric was the first tell.
@@Malidalastill far better than anyone on the left today. Then again the left fell back under Obama and has been degrading ever since. Regardless the current state of politics leaves us old school democrats stuck voting for right leaning politicians because they're the only ones living in reality.
I can't believe anyone over the age of 12 would actually need to be told that, but here we are. I keep realizing that no matter how low my bar for "basic human sense" is, it still always needs to be dropped lower and lower over time.
Oh don't worry, Trump and co will be the most fervent neocon warmongers against Russia. They just opposed the war when Biden was President. Ultimately, the USA is a nation with imperialistic tendencies, no matter who is in power.
She's even got the look! Notice that one streak of grey in her hair? 🤔 I see it in her eyes too. Cult member as head of intelligence?! Not only is this party weird and unserious, but obviously dangerous. HEGSETH!? It feels to me a little like Dr. Strangelove, and Rosemary's Baby, had a baby. It came out Orange, with a golden comb over, a stick of margarine in one hand and a bottle of Brawndo in the other. Grew up to be leader the the free world. The End.
Omg one of these guys approached me while I was having a panic attack at a Detroit anime convention almost 10 years ago, it was the most surreal experience I’ve ever had. This man in robes saw me sitting in a corner tears streaming down my face and said, “you look so peaceful.” I was flabbergasted. He then proceeded to offer me a book about Krishna, for a small donation of course. Sooo I gave him $10, I was an emotionally fragile 18 year old having a mental health crisis at the time, in hindsight it was super predatory interaction
Evilgelicals pull that crap too. They see any indication of vulnerability and they swoop in like vultures. Disgusting cult behavior! Glad you were only out $10 and didn’t get sucked in.
My friend has really bad OCD and was doing a mental ritual in public one time while I left her briefly to not expose her to triggers in the place I was going in. I came out to find a person trying to talk to her while she was obviously trying not to respond. I thought he was a religious person, and told him to leave her alone, but when I asked her what happened, she told me he was trying to pick her up. It's a good thing he was gone by the time I found that out.
That's religion for you. They all do it. They will all prey on you and they will all find a way to make you feel like less than so that you have to have the same crutch that they do because they want to drag you down with them in their ignorant beliefs and hurtful actions.
It's okay to rubbish Hinduism but really hard to talk about others, right!? Name one terrorists organization active as Hinduism And every child can name at least 5 terrorists organizations of Muslims, act on religion. But, most people, like you, can't even heard that. Ppl like you will lead us to today's England
Why are anti gay types always so fascinated with like, very extreme gay sex acts? I feel like homophobes think about and encounter fisting more often than like, most gay men do. Also, your mileage may vary based on what ads you get on UA-cam, immediately after Chris' horrible homophobic screed I got served an ad for a cutsey crochet kit called "The Woobles" so that was a fun palate cleanser.
RIGHT? Always seems like they're solely obsessed with the weirdest shit, such as the standing 69 double-blow that only really works when it's two dudes. Ok, FINE, I _am_ a little jealous that I can't do that. I find symmetry very pleasing.
Legit there are more het kinks than others…. As a young teen in the early 2k’s I remember stumbling on…. Some intense stuff…. Apparently the bald man wanted to go back in head first, and the lady was at least willing to try 😂😂😂 let alone other bdsm… and I’m sorry, did that cult guy never hear of the rusty trombone? In high school that was always seen as het… no wonder these people are so mad, their bedroom is so vanilla they’re tired of it.
I think often of that Onion news show segment about the RNC and gay prostitutes in that regard (look it up it’s a gem) “The average well-adjusted gay man has no interest in…”
Ever read any transcripts of 16th century witch trials? They often sound the same way, with the inquisitors plainly projecting their lurid fantasies of forbidden sex onto the poor victim - who, being tortured beyond endurance, of course confesses to all of it.
Internalised homophobia is a thing He doesn't so much seem upset about the actions of gay men, more so confused and upset he can't stop thinking about it 😅
The other thing that kinda bothers me about "people whose political leanings are hard to pin down" is that they're often mistaken- mostly by the folks who believe in that "ideal, mythical center", as "centrists"- because they're hard to pin down. They did the same thing with Trump- "I like him because he's NOT a politician!". And yeah, of course they have little interest in picking apart all the granules that make up the person's behavior and evaluate them each on their own. Calling them "cultists" feels like it would also kinda fail to raise alarm in the same way calling fascists "fascist" does these days.
And saying "hard to pin down" is often just another way of describing "they're so uninformed/speaking in so many bumper sticker slogans that they clearly don't know anything about anything". I've never met anyone described like that who had an actual clue about anything, least of all anyone described like that that I'd ever personally support in any fashion.
Saying that centrists mistake people for centrists who have openly radical views is an eyebrow-raising claim. More likely I think that the US mainstream media, which frames everything as Democrats vs Republicans and is increasingly careless with their analysis and opinions, erroneously calls people like Gabbard and 2016 Trump centrists (and that can do a lot of damage when voters don't get the full picture).
I think it's one of those phrases that can have a lot of interpretations, depending on the listener. Like, I can see someone having a personal ideology that draws from across the spectrum. However, another interpretation is as you said - they haven't really looked too much into what their ideology is and so they lack the words for it. In doing so, other people start to paint them as whatever those other people want or need them to be.
@@RevShifty I don't think Trump was 'hard to pin down.' He was a lifelong con artist, and with the whole "Central Park 5" he's basically a total racist who refuses to admit that he was wrong even after they were all exonerated.
25 years ago, me and a group of friends got caught by the Krishnas in Glasgow, they asked us what we did at college and we said we were musicians. The Krishna dude thought we said "magicians" and started on about how much he loved magic. Needless to say we all played along for our entertainment
When she was relevant she made a 9/11 speech which was the most unhinged racist jingoism you'd ever see, yet you had weirdos defending that speech saying that having a perpetual war on terror until the muslim threat is eliminated from the world is anti-war somehow.
Ugh, it’s embarrassing that for a time I supported Gabbard in the run up to the 2020 election. The night I listened to her make excuses for Iran when they blew up innocent people on an airliner I went out to my car and scrapped the Gabbard stickers off and was done with her.
To be fair, it's kind of stupid to have those kinds of stickers on your car. Anyways. Literally nobody can read them and nobody fucking cares. Literally it has never changed anybody's mind in all of the history forever and ever. At best. All you're doing is making your car a Target a far-right extremist.
I fell for her fake populism back in 2019, and deluded myself into thinking she could be moved from her more reactionary stances. Oh, she moved all right.
I think she's a fantastic example of how hollow populism works. Note, though, that the more she talked, the less people on "the left" liked her... so she just flipped over to the right without a second though. I was also fooled by the filtered rhetoric she put out, and counted her among my "runner up" candidates (still supported Bernie though). After her subsequent heel turn, I learned an important lesson about being skeptical. Imagine if she'd gotten enough traction to actually be the Democratic candidate. I don't think she ever believed a single progressive-sounding thing she ever said. She was ready to lie her far-right views directly into the White House! Kinda chilling when you think about it. I could imagine her giving the nod to Russia (and tacit support) during the Ukraine invasion and asking Israel "why stop at 2000 pound bombs?" once the Gaza genocide started.
Gabbard strikes me a someone who doesn't really possess any strong intrinsic viewpoints but rather just drifts algorithmically wherever she can find the most popular support.
My experience with them was this one guy that use to hang in front of the student union in college. He always carried a bunch of books and would ask if you wanted a “free book”. As you looked at his selection, he would tell you about meetings and as soon as you picked a book he would ask for a donation. If you said you didn’t have any money, he would take the book back.
That happened to me once in college. I told my friend and he got so pissed that he went over there to ask for my five dollars back. When the guy said no, my friend took all of his books and ran away. One of the coolest dudes I've ever met... I hope he's doing well
At least the Muslims and Christians I see in the city give away their books for free and just tell you where their church or mosque is located if you wanna drop by.
@@scottielebeau943 "America First" was a slogan cooked up by the KKK and The American Bund in the 30s to push Jim Crow and antisemitism. So you can stuff your sarcasm that you think is oh so clever right up your ass.
By generally being pretty predatory. I've been handed goofy Krishna literature at least a dozen times over the years, usually at concerts, where they're intentionally looking for disaffected young people to con. Most of my friends have similar stories, and we've joked about their apparent ever-presence a lot over the years.
@RevShifty I have to say I've been missold what they are by mainstream media. I didn't realise they were just another weirdo cult attaching on the aesthetics of another faith without really committing to the true beliefs of that faith
I think at least the no onion and no garlic thing is not super uncommon in India because of Jainism (the idea is eating roots/bulbs kills the plant and they want to minimize harm)
@@lloroshastar6347 nope. there are some Hindus who refrain from eating onions and garlic because they are believed to make your mind slower and therefore hinder spiritual growth.
homophobes are legitimately more obsessed with gay sex than a lot of gay people. (source: me. don't get me wrong, that's some _fun_ stuff. my entire personality and political worldview isn't built around yelling about it to other people though, that's weird)
The concept of making passionate love to a fun sized twink is infact one of lifes greatest joys but i wouldent go posting all day about it on social media like conservitives do about the very same thing
love how your vids seem super casual and the way you talk to us is but not in a bad way since its full of facts and research that im sockd due the lack of audience you've got, i love you woman, i love your vids please keep doind this.
I called Tulsi Gabbard The Manchurian Candidate the first time I read about her in 2016. Her playing footsies with Assad was just inexplicable to me. Her pro-Putin views were and are very alarming. It's interesting to find out she was born in an authoritarian religious cult.
@@prieten49 But it's not the last bit surprising. It usually takes a good deal of effort to be professionally stupid for so long, and that effort usually starts in childhood.
your fervent anti Russian attitude is very alarming and the kind of thing that might provoke a nuclear war. you are in an authoritarian cult too, you just don't recognize it.
The amounts of arguments I had with the "populist lefties" over this lady years back, I mean, these people were hard down, claiming Tulsi was this new Bernie Sanders type figure. Boy, she's pretty much validated every criticism I and others in various comment sections and what a few progressive content creators were making about her to a T, which is impressive
@@gnostic268 Yep, but under this two party system where any third party option is either just another derivative of the GOP like the People's Party or that goofball party idea Yang was talking, or a scam like the Green Party, his only option would be to vote with Republicans. He'd just be a Republican then.
@@chokinonashes61 That is not research. What you are doing us merely confirming your bias. Imagine going to Tucker Carlson to give you a view of who Obama is.
I went to a Tulsi “rally” in Los Angeles back in 2018. I was enthusiastically curious about the Bernie-adjacent anti-war upstart. I was kinda shocked and weirded out by all these middle aged white dude Hare Krishna there… Tulsi showed up late and was very hungover lol - it was her bday the night before and she went a little too hard. When I got a picture with her I thought she smelled like deodorant and booze.
I would like to openly apologize to Gabby Giffords, who I unconsciously confused with Tulsi Gabbard on several occasions, before learning just how bonkers my confusion was…I kept thinking, “How is this Mark Kelly’s wife?” I feel very dumb. Sorry, Ms. Giffords, I meant no offense.
@badwolf9956 after the stuff her daughter revealed about her, I despise that woman...Well, I despised her before that, but still. Agree on not understanding how her and Conway are still married, though. Has to be out of spite.
My folks are counterculture hippies of the 1960s variety, growing up they warned me about the local Hare Krishnas because they knew people who’d signed up and then were * denied access into the housing * because they hadn’t sold enough books. That was when I was pretty little so the child abuse didn’t come up as such. But that’s all to say: It’s a cult I remember people being furious at me when I (a gay) said that Tulsi being homophobic was a dealbreaker to me (a gay) I’m glad we are talking about this more now that maybe some of those folks realize that homophobia isn’t some small minor issue that can be ignored.
I like how Butler's lack of cognitive bandwidth to understand the idea of gay sex leads him to the conclusion "no one will understand this so theyre gonna force it on us". True genius brain
@@doodlebug1820 Trans people are all over Hindu theology. And have been for literally thousands of years already. Most of the groups I first mention when loudly arguing with transphobes are from that part of the world, because they still exist there. And everywhere else India would set foot, so basically a large chunk of the planet.
In partial defence of the Hare Krishnas, not eating meat is good, especially for the cow. And not gambling is sensible, in a morally neutral way. But you obviously don't need any of the other stuff to achieve those good bits.
She was always fake and failed every single actually progressive litmus test, like healthcare. The only people who got swindled were those who had no real principles other than a vague, easily coopted rejection of "authority".
@@siwiecministro1994 Bernie Sanders for one. He may not be right but he is definitely honest. There are actually a lot of good people in politics, we just don't hear from them very often.
@@mkklassicmk3895 I don't think so. He is not that honest. Remember primaries? "I like Joe Biden, Joe is a firend of mine". He knew that he will not be allowed to win, so from the very beginning he prepared his voters to vote for "Joe".
@@siwiecministro1994 That isn't him being dishonest that is just you being cynical. Bernie went on the Late Show and told people his healthcare bill was gonna raise their taxes, that is a level of honesty that is basically unheard of in politics.
@@mkklassicmk3895 This was dishonest, because people counted on him. He channeled this energy that was behind him into "dead political system" (as, I think, Chris Hedges called it). If it had gone both ways - like Biden saying how he loves Bernie - perhaps it wouldn't look so bad.
A small correction: ISKCON aren’t the only Hindu movement to worship one deity, that’s very common among Hindus. ISKCON are gaudiya vaishnava which means they focus on singing in worship believe that is sufficient to reach enlightenment in this age - this is the main distinction between them and mainstream Hinduism. I also don’t know where you’re getting this about spices etc, I’ve been fed by the Krishna’s a lot when I was nearly homeless and the food was always incredible. Good video either way
1:47 [Frowns in Unitarian Universalist] Since it's the first comment (thereby increasing the chances of Rebecca seeing this) I should clarify that I'm joking and I'm a big fan.
Man I remember getting a campaigner for Gabbard knocking on our door a few years back. They had actually met her briefly! They had a whole spiel about how great she is but when I asked them if they were gonna vote for her they made such a D: face and gave a forced "yep!"
That just makes me think of the people Elon Musk kidnapped and trafficked to force them to do door knocking for Trump. I really wonder what an interaction with them would be like, probably not dissimilar.
Lots of Hindus avoid onion and garlic, and their food is delicious. A Hindu co-worker who observes this practice once made chana masala for a potluck and it was exquisite; savoury and umami. I’m not allium-free person, but it doesn’t necessarily mean a lifetime of bland food.
The reason a lot of Indians avoid onion and garlic is that it involves killing the entire plant by pulling it up by the roots. Jainism is the same way. It's about harm reduction.
Thank you! So many commenters on here outing themselves as only using 3 ingredients to spice their food and utterly unable to imagine well spiced food without them.
Just a note, the USA derived ISKON cult is not representative of all Indian Hindu Vishnu / Krishna based culinary traditions. Very yummy brownies both chocolate-y and blessed-y by Krishna are enjoyed in India.
Thank you for summarizing this so incredibly well. As a not-American trying to keep up in January 2025 and understand the 424 moving parts, I found this incredibly helpful. Many thanks!
It’s probably the fact she has one of those incredibly disingenuous con artist from a movie smiles and speaking cadences. Like I could see her trying to sell me some stolen, almost broken items at higher than msrp
I was like, "I hadn't heard of those guys since I lived in Glasgow." And then you mentioned meeting them in Glasgow! I've never heard about them in any of the other places I've lived so maybe they're Glasgow-centric.
No, they at least attempt to get a foothold around major college campuses. they had a temple in Austin in the 80s. I never went, but I swear some vegetarians told me they served great food. But how? IDK. I think their brains didn't get enough protein or had a caloric deficit or something.
Sikh gurdwaras all offer free food (caring for their community is a core tenet of their religion), and it's always super delicious. And always vegetarian, for that matter, because they want everyone to be able to eat with them. And they don't offer food in the hopes of gaining converts, so that's always a plus IMO.
Agreed. I trust my own palate over Rebecca’s drunken, limited western palate. The attack on food that Rebecca is simply not used to being described as tasteless trash is actually very racist.
@@AshiqD1955she was talking about Glaswegian Hare Krishna and their food . Mixing up religion and race is pernicious. She also asked to be told about what she was eating , if the signifiers did not match content.
@@francesconicoletti2547no one's "mixing up" anything, if you can't understand why that still rubs people the wrong way you have no business commenting here. lmfao edit: especially from a white lady who does the whole "meehh im bad at pronounciation" bit at the start. "he won't see this, but you know who will," etc. kinda weird to play defense for her so hard !
@@AshiqD1955 A friend of mine, now dead I’m sorry to say, was a frequent traveller to India and very much in to yoga, so visited a lot of retreats and monasteries. At several of these he said he found the food,not at all or barely seasoned, to initially be very bland but got used to it after a while. As to your remark ’drunken, limited western palate’ you just outed yourself as an a-hole without any respect for other cultures and other cuisines, behaving exactly the way you don’t want others to behave against you.
I know that this is a random comment and you might never see this. But you are the glue that keeps this world from loosing all sanity, and I thank you for that. Also the red hair and space shuttle poster is epic, space nerds are the best.
I still can't believe that she is still allowed to be an officer in the Army Reserves and good Soldiers are required to render her respect and obedience. Good thing I'm retired from the military because I couldn't do it.
The one thing you gotta say about the HKs is their temples have a really good South Indian vegetarian kitchen attached. Ofc the workers there are massively underpaid
@@DahVoozel You can't become an officer if you can't get at least a secret clearance. Of course that's way below what we're talking about for her new prospective job.
@@brucetucker4847 She also probably should have had her commission reviewed after meeting with allies of an adversarial nation without prior authorization or disclosure.
Fun fact, when a brownie was developed that had no chocolate, there was the huge case of everyone vs non-choc, which resulted in them renaming their square to the blondie.
Back in 2016, all the anacaps were pointing at her as the "anti-war progressive" we all needed and many of us asked, "Then why is she talking to the guy dropping barrel-bombs on his own population?" and then we'd argue about Assad's war crimes and then we all remembered we're arguing with anacaps and left those Facebook groups because they were obviously compromised.
you probably used fake information about gas attacks to make those arguments too. and when you say his own population you probably mean the ISIS terrorists we funded that were tryng to take over his country. you are compromised.
I’m not religious but my late wife grew up a Southern Baptist. Just for fun I toook the family to a Unitarian service. Upon entering we were greeted by an old lady at a table who spotted us as visitors. She asked me to put on a name tag and I said “Do I have too?” She replied; “ This is a Unitarian church, you don’t HAVE to do anything.”
My Hare Krishna experience was a guy on the street handing out books. This was when I was young and not savvy to these things, so I listened to what the guy had to say. I ended up agreeing to take a few books. He gave me three different books, but when I wouldn’t give him a donation, he literally grabbed two of them back out of my hand. Once I got home and looked at the book it started reasonably enough, but then it took a huge logical leap and read something like “and therefore the best use of your time is to chant ‘hare Krishna hare Krishna, hare rama, hare rama’ over and over” at which point the book went straight in the bin.
Exactly. All religions founded by charismatic individuals would be called cults were they newly founded today; as the saying goes, the difference between a cult and a religion is 2,000 years. To my mind, a cult is simply a religion that the person calling it a cult doesn't like.
I just got off the call with my colleagues that handle the bits we need for chemical analysis. Tubes, reagents, dishes, washes, etc. The type of testing equipment that make sure you wake up in the morning. You know, mycotoxin free medicines, botulism free food, heavy metal free fruit etc. Trying to coordinate with industry, regulation and academia. And these clowns keep clowning. I'm tired chief. this crap show is hitting from every angle. BuT dRaG qUeEnS...
I'm pretty certain that conservatism is a mental illness, most especially the sideshow conservatism of the last ~40 years. Almost every single regulation everywhere was brought on by lives lost or large numbers of people suffering in the first place, so there's no universe where the blanket deregulation circus makes any sense in context.
I once asked my dad (who insists he's not a Republican) if there were any Democrats he liked and after thinking a few minutes he Said Tulsi Gabbard. A few months later she switched to Republican.
I hate how deep crank magnetism usually runs. Almost as much as I hate the fact that conspiracy nuts aren't laughed at and mocked so relentlessly that they hide their absurd beliefs anymore.
I am a woman and I hated her guts as soon as I heard her open her mouth in 2016. She's an idiot. That was my whole reason for loathing her. She's stupid.
The late/great, Michael Brooks, was ahead of the curb on figuring out that she was definitely a wolf in sheep’s clothing.. Circa 2016/2017, I loved Tulsi, but late 2017 was when I started watching/listening to Majority Report, which lead me to become a huge fan of TMBS (Michael’s podcast), where I’m pretty sure he was the first person in left media to go after Tulsi as a fraud and opportunist. TMBS was where I first got exposed to that cult past, and though I really did want to believe she left that in the past, her cozying up more and more to the right over the years has made that doubtful… Anyway, I don’t really care if the cult thing is where all this is coming from. She’s clearly an opportunist, and so she can’t be trusted. Also, it’s just the case that you can be anti-war, and have some overlap with more progressive ideas, and be a reactionary. I know such people, I’m still friends with more than one such person… but sure, I definitely buy that the cult past is still in the present in so far as it governs how she thinks. Whatever the case, I cannot stand her opportunism, and don’t think she can ever be trusted.
For me, back in 2016 it was Parker Molloy who was pointing out Gabbard’s homophobia and her ties to Hindu nationalism. I campaigned for Bernie in 2016 and 2020 but have always hatted Gabbard.
My first microprocessor (in 1977) was a Motorola MC6800 so I'm kind of familiar with defying orthodox thinking, but at a certain point you just come to the conclusion that you signed up with the wrong team.
The most insidious cult leaders are those capable of outward acts of extreme kindness and compassion but with a select few show their true colors as malicious and vindictive bullies.
I agree, if you are going to offer someone a brownie, and it doesn't have chocolate in it... You are legally required to say it's not really a brownie.
Ever notice her clothing choices. She seems to only own pants suits in solid colors. She also seems kind of robotic... like she never laughs or emotes and vocally she's very monotone and expressionless.
Very glad to hear you got the true Glasgow experience - go for lunch, get trashed, tell some strangers who won't leave you alone that they're numpties and exit unceremoniously.
you should get along then, in recent years liberal American policies have concerned the anus and the use made of it by famous and less famous gays and transgenders
So I can blame Bernie for liking this person for a hot minute? Thanks, I needed that! Also Bernie... You're still The Man. Everybody gets fooled from time to time. I know I was.
I caught her at her absolute peak. She was rhetorically for medicare for all and anti war, so I donated a dollar to help her get on the debate stage lol. Only downhill since, and farther down that I could have ever imagined.
I was taken in by Gabbard way back in 2016 - I think what really did it for me was her declaration of support for Bernie Sanders, which resulted in her pretty much being expelled from the DNC/Hillary machine. The Hillbots hated her and Bernie, she seemed Progressive, and as for her past - I reasoned that people do grow and change with time. She was young, pretty, and "hip". Boy was I ever fooled. I think many of us were and it was heartbreaking to see we'd all been duped afterward.
the only good thing about the iskcon in india is the great food they have. but i'm not surprised it wasn't good in the west. But the inskcon is so petty they make you pay for the temple food, something that is usually free in most large temple complexes. edit: the no ginger no garlic no onion rule is common in many hindu sects plus among the jains (these things are roots/underground so they necessitate the kiling of the crop for your food. jains don't typically consume potatoes and other root veggies either for the same reason)
Thanks for calling out Hare Krishna! There aren't many critical UA-cam videos on them unfortunately. Maybe Hare Krishnas aren't as homophobic as people who are members of the Science of Identity cult. But as someone whose cousin is in Hare Krishna, I can assure you, yes, there's still a lot of homophobia, transphobia and misogyny there. And a ridiculous amount of sex negativity.
It's ironic because in Hindu myth Krishna is a great lover, who revels with women (the gopis of cattle-herding communities), even married ones, who absolutely adore him. He's a pleasure-loving god, so it's strange that some of his worshippers would eschew the same kinds of pastimes he pursues in the myths.
i laughed when i realized she wasn't going to mention being pro gcide, oh wait she is pretending Assad was some "white supremacist". she doesnt mention the US under democrats funding ISIS and Al Quaida to overthrow him, and faked gas attacks in Douma.
So funny to me the way that homophobes in the past would talk about gay sex, describing sexual acts in great detail and pausing... sometimes awkwardly... before condemning the things that they just described in unnecessary detail.
It's a safe bet that *anyone* that invested in the private lives of absolute strangers has a few screws loose at a minimum. That has been my base assumption since I was ~10, and it has never failed me or steered me wrong.
I noticed that too. For someone against gay sex, he sure seems to get excited and detailed about fist f*ing. I’ve seen so many examples where the preachers who go int this level of detail turn out to be closeted gay men, or have secret boyfriends. Would bet that’s the case here.
They were edging- it was like penthouse letters for them 😈🤣❤️
Reminds me of current homophobic Christians who constantly tell on themselves by saying that people have to resist the temptation of gay relationships, not realizing that no heterosexual person ever has such temptations.
Cue the "They eat the poo-poo" clip... Clearly he would know from experience...
To paraphrase Frank Zappa, "Morality should determined by behavior, not theology."
And to paraphrase [somebody; I don’t know who]: If you need fear of punishment to be a good person then you are not a good person.
Replace behaviors with manifestaions....
@@alabaster2163, OK, you've got my attention . . . "manifestations" of _what?_
In response to @ivanheffner2587 though, there's an old Jewish observation exhorting one to _not_ behave as if God were watching, but as if one's _neighbors_ were! God may -- or may not -- have a rat's right rump roast to spare about your behavior, but _your NEIGHBORS_ almost _certainly_ will!
@@ivanheffner2587 True, but not everyone is a good person or aspires to be one. The ones who aren't and don't, I want restrained by fear of punishment.
How can behavior determine morality? Behavior is the way people act and the decisions they make. There are people who behave with kindness and non-violence, and people who behave with hatred and violence and everything in between. And what is the standard for morality and acceptable behaviors, and where does it come from? And if you respond with the law or courts, then where do those standards and rules come from?
I'm sure there will be responses to deflecting to bringing up religion, and that's fine, but that won't be a sufficient answer for where you claim it comes from.
"If it was founded in the last hundred years, it's probably a cult."
As someone who was raised pentacostal, that honestly tracks.
Nah that plays into what cults want you to think, they want you to think that religions have to be vicious and controlling when they are new and they even have psychologists on the payroll to claim this and fund "reseach" to "prove" it. There are cults that aren't new. There are cults that aren't religions.
There are new religions that aren't cults.
R'amen!
Probably closer to 150 years? Or 161 years to be precise. The US was gripped by an apocalyptic panic at the end of the civil war and the trauma of so many deaths had a lot of people questioning everything. Culty grifter prophets had a field day. This was also when our uniquely American strain of Christianity was going full speed ahead, turning the dour self-denial of Calvinism on its head somehow to evolve the weird prosperity theology that could have only come from the USA. But when you include Christian Science and Mormonism, that pushes the timeframe back to the 1820s and '30s. So it wasn't all post Civil War doomerism, though that's when a of slightly older cults really took off. Definitely if it was founded in the US in the last 200 years, cult.
If it's "Christian" and twas founded in the New World? BEWARE!
i'm of the opinion that if it was founded in the last 10k yrs, it's probably a cult. ok, maybe 5k
Tulsi Gabbard is the best example of just because some is "outside the establishment" doesn't automatically make them BETTER than the establishment. Her anti-Muslim rhetoric was the first tell.
I don't think she had any views not consistent with the republican party. She very much was an establishment republican, and still is.
"Anti establishment" is nothing more than branding to them. I've heard them assert that leftists with no money or power represent the establishment.
@@Malidalastill far better than anyone on the left today. Then again the left fell back under Obama and has been degrading ever since. Regardless the current state of politics leaves us old school democrats stuck voting for right leaning politicians because they're the only ones living in reality.
@@Malidala But people thought she was Democrat at the time.
I can't believe anyone over the age of 12 would actually need to be told that, but here we are. I keep realizing that no matter how low my bar for "basic human sense" is, it still always needs to be dropped lower and lower over time.
I think it should be mentioned that Gabbard's """anti-war""" stance, today, seems to only extend to defensive wars against Russian imperialism...
Shes perfectly find being deployed to Africa to do shady undisclosed stuff there
She's complete trash, just like the rest of that absurd sideshow. She's clueless and hypocritical through and through.
Oh don't worry, Trump and co will be the most fervent neocon warmongers against Russia. They just opposed the war when Biden was President. Ultimately, the USA is a nation with imperialistic tendencies, no matter who is in power.
Lmao. Calling seccessionists "defensive." Just like those defensive Confederates
Yeah she's perfectly fine with any kind of "war" waged against Muslims.
Repulsi Gabbard is just one bad day away from sending a monster of the week to destroy the Power Rangers.
Why does this not have more upvotes?
She's even got the look! Notice that one streak of grey in her hair? 🤔 I see it in her eyes too.
Cult member as head of intelligence?! Not only is this party weird and unserious, but obviously dangerous. HEGSETH!?
It feels to me a little like Dr. Strangelove, and Rosemary's Baby, had a baby. It came out Orange, with a golden comb over, a stick of margarine in one hand and a bottle of Brawndo in the other. Grew up to be leader the the free world. The End.
@@Macrocheniabecause putties are targeting anyone who upvotes it.
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@@Macrochenia This has an upvote from me.
6:23 - "He didn't want his followers to shave their heads or wear robes"
Ah, wanted proper hairy Krishnas
Hairy Fishnuts?
@@whiteknightcat No thank you, I already ate
@@whiteknightcat Just cough up some dough, Mac.
It is amazing how bat shit insane homophobia make some people.
And how batshit insanity leads to homophobia.
Sometimes I wonder if inside every homophobe is a little boy that was abused by a priest.
Correlation is not causation, but there certainly is a correlation, no doubt.
I genuinely do think hatred corrupts people in some way. Like bad drug.
There's no such thing as homophobia. It's revulsion, not fear.
Omg one of these guys approached me while I was having a panic attack at a Detroit anime convention almost 10 years ago, it was the most surreal experience I’ve ever had.
This man in robes saw me sitting in a corner tears streaming down my face and said, “you look so peaceful.” I was flabbergasted. He then proceeded to offer me a book about Krishna, for a small donation of course. Sooo I gave him $10, I was an emotionally fragile 18 year old having a mental health crisis at the time, in hindsight it was super predatory interaction
Evilgelicals pull that crap too. They see any indication of vulnerability and they swoop in like vultures. Disgusting cult behavior! Glad you were only out $10 and didn’t get sucked in.
My friend has really bad OCD and was doing a mental ritual in public one time while I left her briefly to not expose her to triggers in the place I was going in. I came out to find a person trying to talk to her while she was obviously trying not to respond. I thought he was a religious person, and told him to leave her alone, but when I asked her what happened, she told me he was trying to pick her up. It's a good thing he was gone by the time I found that out.
That's religion for you. They all do it. They will all prey on you and they will all find a way to make you feel like less than so that you have to have the same crutch that they do because they want to drag you down with them in their ignorant beliefs and hurtful actions.
I don't know what to say.
Glad they didn’t rope you in further 🩷
I like referring to Hare Krishna as "Hindu's Mormonism".
@@mikececconi2677 That makes so much sense that I'm grumpy I didn't come up with it myself.
nice
It's okay to rubbish Hinduism but really hard to talk about others, right!?
Name one terrorists organization active as Hinduism
And every child can name at least 5 terrorists organizations of Muslims, act on religion.
But, most people, like you, can't even heard that.
Ppl like you will lead us to today's England
Why are anti gay types always so fascinated with like, very extreme gay sex acts? I feel like homophobes think about and encounter fisting more often than like, most gay men do.
Also, your mileage may vary based on what ads you get on UA-cam, immediately after Chris' horrible homophobic screed I got served an ad for a cutsey crochet kit called "The Woobles" so that was a fun palate cleanser.
my husband gave me one of those kits for xmas and I’ve been wanting to do a livestream of it
RIGHT? Always seems like they're solely obsessed with the weirdest shit, such as the standing 69 double-blow that only really works when it's two dudes. Ok, FINE, I _am_ a little jealous that I can't do that. I find symmetry very pleasing.
Legit there are more het kinks than others…. As a young teen in the early 2k’s I remember stumbling on…. Some intense stuff…. Apparently the bald man wanted to go back in head first, and the lady was at least willing to try 😂😂😂 let alone other bdsm… and I’m sorry, did that cult guy never hear of the rusty trombone? In high school that was always seen as het… no wonder these people are so mad, their bedroom is so vanilla they’re tired of it.
I think often of that Onion news show segment about the RNC and gay prostitutes in that regard (look it up it’s a gem)
“The average well-adjusted gay man has no interest in…”
Ever read any transcripts of 16th century witch trials? They often sound the same way, with the inquisitors plainly projecting their lurid fantasies of forbidden sex onto the poor victim - who, being tortured beyond endurance, of course confesses to all of it.
8:01 this guy is getting so into it. You cannot convince me he isn’t turning himself on
Internalised homophobia is a thing
He doesn't so much seem upset about the actions of gay men, more so confused and upset he can't stop thinking about it 😅
Dude seems oddly specific and detailed about what they are doing to each other, like he has given it a suspiciously large amount of thought.
"I've taken time to do a little research to know what homosexuals do in the privacy of their bedroom..."
I don't think even gay men think about gay sex as much as he does
You can tell he's, "Done a little research," on the topic.
The other thing that kinda bothers me about "people whose political leanings are hard to pin down" is that they're often mistaken- mostly by the folks who believe in that "ideal, mythical center", as "centrists"- because they're hard to pin down.
They did the same thing with Trump- "I like him because he's NOT a politician!". And yeah, of course they have little interest in picking apart all the granules that make up the person's behavior and evaluate them each on their own.
Calling them "cultists" feels like it would also kinda fail to raise alarm in the same way calling fascists "fascist" does these days.
And saying "hard to pin down" is often just another way of describing "they're so uninformed/speaking in so many bumper sticker slogans that they clearly don't know anything about anything". I've never met anyone described like that who had an actual clue about anything, least of all anyone described like that that I'd ever personally support in any fashion.
Wanna shout out the Conspirituality podcast (Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker) for talking about weird constellations of belief
Saying that centrists mistake people for centrists who have openly radical views is an eyebrow-raising claim. More likely I think that the US mainstream media, which frames everything as Democrats vs Republicans and is increasingly careless with their analysis and opinions, erroneously calls people like Gabbard and 2016 Trump centrists (and that can do a lot of damage when voters don't get the full picture).
I think it's one of those phrases that can have a lot of interpretations, depending on the listener. Like, I can see someone having a personal ideology that draws from across the spectrum. However, another interpretation is as you said - they haven't really looked too much into what their ideology is and so they lack the words for it. In doing so, other people start to paint them as whatever those other people want or need them to be.
@@RevShifty I don't think Trump was 'hard to pin down.' He was a lifelong con artist, and with the whole "Central Park 5" he's basically a total racist who refuses to admit that he was wrong even after they were all exonerated.
25 years ago, me and a group of friends got caught by the Krishnas in Glasgow, they asked us what we did at college and we said we were musicians. The Krishna dude thought we said "magicians" and started on about how much he loved magic. Needless to say we all played along for our entertainment
When she was relevant she made a 9/11 speech which was the most unhinged racist jingoism you'd ever see, yet you had weirdos defending that speech saying that having a perpetual war on terror until the muslim threat is eliminated from the world is anti-war somehow.
Because that's who 70% of Americans are. The absolute worst.
Ugh, it’s embarrassing that for a time I supported Gabbard in the run up to the 2020 election. The night I listened to her make excuses for Iran when they blew up innocent people on an airliner I went out to my car and scrapped the Gabbard stickers off and was done with her.
Same
To be fair, it's kind of stupid to have those kinds of stickers on your car. Anyways. Literally nobody can read them and nobody fucking cares. Literally it has never changed anybody's mind in all of the history forever and ever. At best. All you're doing is making your car a Target a far-right extremist.
I fell for her fake populism back in 2019, and deluded myself into thinking she could be moved from her more reactionary stances. Oh, she moved all right.
I think she's a fantastic example of how hollow populism works. Note, though, that the more she talked, the less people on "the left" liked her... so she just flipped over to the right without a second though. I was also fooled by the filtered rhetoric she put out, and counted her among my "runner up" candidates (still supported Bernie though). After her subsequent heel turn, I learned an important lesson about being skeptical.
Imagine if she'd gotten enough traction to actually be the Democratic candidate. I don't think she ever believed a single progressive-sounding thing she ever said. She was ready to lie her far-right views directly into the White House! Kinda chilling when you think about it. I could imagine her giving the nod to Russia (and tacit support) during the Ukraine invasion and asking Israel "why stop at 2000 pound bombs?" once the Gaza genocide started.
For a while there, it was easy to fall for. Didn't take very long for me to start getting weird feelings from her, though
Gabbard strikes me a someone who doesn't really possess any strong intrinsic viewpoints but rather just drifts algorithmically wherever she can find the most popular support.
Exactly.
My experience with them was this one guy that use to hang in front of the student union in college. He always carried a bunch of books and would ask if you wanted a “free book”. As you looked at his selection, he would tell you about meetings and as soon as you picked a book he would ask for a donation. If you said you didn’t have any money, he would take the book back.
That happened to me once in college. I told my friend and he got so pissed that he went over there to ask for my five dollars back. When the guy said no, my friend took all of his books and ran away. One of the coolest dudes I've ever met... I hope he's doing well
At least the Muslims and Christians I see in the city give away their books for free and just tell you where their church or mosque is located if you wanna drop by.
My reaction when I heard it was founded in the 1970's: "Oooooooh Nooooooo!!"
Hare Krishna Vs Drunk Scottish Atheists sounds like a great premise for a comic book.
True, but what I really want is the musical. 😁
I had Gabbard pegged during the debates in 2020. She started spouting "America First" BS during the first debate and I just knew she was garbage.
A socialist movement that isn't international isn't socialist.
@@Malidala You could almost describe it as... National Socialism
She still managed to call out Copmala's BS on stage. How humiliating coming from her of all persons...
i too hate when my politicians say they’re gonna put my country first 😡, id actually much prefer if they ran on america last
@@scottielebeau943 "America First" was a slogan cooked up by the KKK and The American Bund in the 30s to push Jim Crow and antisemitism. So you can stuff your sarcasm that you think is oh so clever right up your ass.
How do Hare Krishna's have any members? I mean, even in India? Spices in food are literally everywhere.
By generally being pretty predatory. I've been handed goofy Krishna literature at least a dozen times over the years, usually at concerts, where they're intentionally looking for disaffected young people to con. Most of my friends have similar stories, and we've joked about their apparent ever-presence a lot over the years.
@RevShifty I have to say I've been missold what they are by mainstream media. I didn't realise they were just another weirdo cult attaching on the aesthetics of another faith without really committing to the true beliefs of that faith
I think at least the no onion and no garlic thing is not super uncommon in India because of Jainism (the idea is eating roots/bulbs kills the plant and they want to minimize harm)
@erobin93 must be exclusive to Jainism because I eat Indian food and prepare it often, and garlic and onions are common ingredients
@@lloroshastar6347 nope. there are some Hindus who refrain from eating onions and garlic because they are believed to make your mind slower and therefore hinder spiritual growth.
homophobes are legitimately more obsessed with gay sex than a lot of gay people. (source: me. don't get me wrong, that's some _fun_ stuff. my entire personality and political worldview isn't built around yelling about it to other people though, that's weird)
The concept of making passionate love to a fun sized twink is infact one of lifes greatest joys but i wouldent go posting all day about it on social media like conservitives do about the very same thing
love how your vids seem super casual and the way you talk to us is but not in a bad way since its full of facts and research that im sockd due the lack of audience you've got, i love you woman, i love your vids please keep doind this.
I called Tulsi Gabbard The Manchurian Candidate the first time I read about her in 2016. Her playing footsies with Assad was just inexplicable to me. Her pro-Putin views were and are very alarming. It's interesting to find out she was born in an authoritarian religious cult.
@@prieten49 But it's not the last bit surprising. It usually takes a good deal of effort to be professionally stupid for so long, and that effort usually starts in childhood.
your fervent anti Russian attitude is very alarming and the kind of thing that might provoke a nuclear war. you are in an authoritarian cult too, you just don't recognize it.
No garlic? That's a front for Draculas.
They can’t eat garlic…are we sure they aren’t vampires?
They might be super-vampires, they can't even eat onions, or chocolate.
jainism
The amounts of arguments I had with the "populist lefties" over this lady years back, I mean, these people were hard down, claiming Tulsi was this new Bernie Sanders type figure. Boy, she's pretty much validated every criticism I and others in various comment sections and what a few progressive content creators were making about her to a T, which is impressive
Bernie isn't even a leftist. Lol He's an Independent who votes with Dem centrists most of the time.
@@gnostic268 Correct, he would be considered fairly moderate on the world stage.
Most of those people swung to Trump. Deeply unprincipled lot.
@@gnostic268 Yep, but under this two party system where any third party option is either just another derivative of the GOP like the People's Party or that goofball party idea Yang was talking, or a scam like the Green Party, his only option would be to vote with Republicans. He'd just be a Republican then.
Thanks for laying all this out. I've never gotten such a deep understanding of Gabbard's cult membership.
I am not sure. I try to use my own mind for critical thinking. To me I need to research more. Too much propaganda out there.
@@simonebest6013Rob Prysner did a 2 part podcast on Tulsi and the cult
@@chokinonashes61 That is not research. What you are doing us merely confirming your bias. Imagine going to Tucker Carlson to give you a view of who Obama is.
I went to a Tulsi “rally” in Los Angeles back in 2018. I was enthusiastically curious about the Bernie-adjacent anti-war upstart. I was kinda shocked and weirded out by all these middle aged white dude Hare Krishna there… Tulsi showed up late and was very hungover lol - it was her bday the night before and she went a little too hard. When I got a picture with her I thought she smelled like deodorant and booze.
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I would like to openly apologize to Gabby Giffords, who I unconsciously confused with Tulsi Gabbard on several occasions, before learning just how bonkers my confusion was…I kept thinking, “How is this Mark Kelly’s wife?” I feel very dumb. Sorry, Ms. Giffords, I meant no offense.
To be fair, Kellyanne and George Conway are still somehow married
@badwolf9956 after the stuff her daughter revealed about her, I despise that woman...Well, I despised her before that, but still.
Agree on not understanding how her and Conway are still married, though. Has to be out of spite.
@@badwolf9956 According to wikipedia they got divorced in 2023.
My folks are counterculture hippies of the 1960s variety, growing up they warned me about the local Hare Krishnas because they knew people who’d signed up and then were * denied access into the housing * because they hadn’t sold enough books.
That was when I was pretty little so the child abuse didn’t come up as such. But that’s all to say: It’s a cult
I remember people being furious at me when I (a gay) said that Tulsi being homophobic was a dealbreaker to me (a gay) I’m glad we are talking about this more now that maybe some of those folks realize that homophobia isn’t some small minor issue that can be ignored.
I like how Butler's lack of cognitive bandwidth to understand the idea of gay sex leads him to the conclusion "no one will understand this so theyre gonna force it on us". True genius brain
Can we talk about how Krishna’s friend Arjuna is literally trans in the Mahabharata?
@@doodlebug1820 Trans people are all over Hindu theology. And have been for literally thousands of years already. Most of the groups I first mention when loudly arguing with transphobes are from that part of the world, because they still exist there. And everywhere else India would set foot, so basically a large chunk of the planet.
@@RevShifty It's certainly true in Bali. Which has caused problems with the more fundamentalist of Indonesia's Muslims.
sure theyre degenerate as funk , no wonder why....
@@Brother-h5z whatever he took on the appearance of a woman for a whole year
@@brucetucker4847 no it hasn’t lol we don’t care 😂
The difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.....Frank Zappa
Wasn’t Zappa a CIA asset?
That's a new one for me, and a good, apt contrast. The one I'm used to hearing is that the difference between a cult and a religion is 2,000 years.
Thank you for this. I kept hearing people say "Tulsi Gabbard is a nutcase" without context and now I know why!
Maybe one of the most bizarre politicians out there trajectory wise
Less so if you simply see it as purely instrumental.
I fell for her schtick in 2016. Good thing I'm not a lemming who follows politicians off a cliff.
That whole lemming thing was fabricated by some documentarians working for Disney. Rebecca should do a video on that. ;-)
I didn’t know much about Tulsi Gabbard when her star was rising last election cycle, but I instantly knew she was BS when she praised Project Veritas.
In partial defence of the Hare Krishnas, not eating meat is good, especially for the cow. And not gambling is sensible, in a morally neutral way. But you obviously don't need any of the other stuff to achieve those good bits.
I never liked her even when she was pretending to be a progressive. A lot of what she talked about during the Democratic primaries was nonsense.
She's hot trash through and through, and always has been. That's why she fits in so well with the rest of that brain dead sideshow.
She was always fake and failed every single actually progressive litmus test, like healthcare. The only people who got swindled were those who had no real principles other than a vague, easily coopted rejection of "authority".
I'm like that with a lot of rhinos pretending to be Conservative, like Adam Kinzinger, I can tell they are frauds.
I absolutely hate Tulsi Gabbard. She is so dishonest and phony.
Can you name one non-phony politician?
@@siwiecministro1994 Bernie Sanders for one. He may not be right but he is definitely honest. There are actually a lot of good people in politics, we just don't hear from them very often.
@@mkklassicmk3895 I don't think so. He is not that honest. Remember primaries? "I like Joe Biden, Joe is a firend of mine". He knew that he will not be allowed to win, so from the very beginning he prepared his voters to vote for "Joe".
@@siwiecministro1994 That isn't him being dishonest that is just you being cynical. Bernie went on the Late Show and told people his healthcare bill was gonna raise their taxes, that is a level of honesty that is basically unheard of in politics.
@@mkklassicmk3895 This was dishonest, because people counted on him. He channeled this energy that was behind him into "dead political system" (as, I think, Chris Hedges called it).
If it had gone both ways - like Biden saying how he loves Bernie - perhaps it wouldn't look so bad.
A small correction: ISKCON aren’t the only Hindu movement to worship one deity, that’s very common among Hindus. ISKCON are gaudiya vaishnava which means they focus on singing in worship believe that is sufficient to reach enlightenment in this age - this is the main distinction between them and mainstream Hinduism. I also don’t know where you’re getting this about spices etc, I’ve been fed by the Krishna’s a lot when I was nearly homeless and the food was always incredible. Good video either way
same, no interest in the religion, but hare krishna food is so yummy and fulfilling.
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[Frowns in Unitarian Universalist]
Since it's the first comment (thereby increasing the chances of Rebecca seeing this) I should clarify that I'm joking and I'm a big fan.
I saw it and I chuckled!
Man I remember getting a campaigner for Gabbard knocking on our door a few years back. They had actually met her briefly! They had a whole spiel about how great she is but when I asked them if they were gonna vote for her they made such a D: face and gave a forced "yep!"
That just makes me think of the people Elon Musk kidnapped and trafficked to force them to do door knocking for Trump. I really wonder what an interaction with them would be like, probably not dissimilar.
Bahahaha that’s a great trick
The way that guy talks about anuses omg 🤣 😂😂😂
Lots of Hindus avoid onion and garlic, and their food is delicious. A Hindu co-worker who observes this practice once made chana masala for a potluck and it was exquisite; savoury and umami. I’m not allium-free person, but it doesn’t necessarily mean a lifetime of bland food.
The reason a lot of Indians avoid onion and garlic is that it involves killing the entire plant by pulling it up by the roots. Jainism is the same way. It's about harm reduction.
Thank you! So many commenters on here outing themselves as only using 3 ingredients to spice their food and utterly unable to imagine well spiced food without them.
I wondered what her deal was, but not being a Hawaiian, I had my own fish to fry. Thanks for the education!
"Free snacks" you say? Sure, I have some time.
Yeah but they have no salt, sugar, or cacao. Still interested?
@@benoithudson7235 Probably -- I have issues.
on the bright side, REM rocks
She seems to be a sunny monster.
Just a note, the USA derived ISKON cult is not representative of all Indian Hindu Vishnu / Krishna based culinary traditions. Very yummy brownies both chocolate-y and blessed-y by Krishna are enjoyed in India.
Thank you for summarizing this so incredibly well. As a not-American trying to keep up in January 2025 and understand the 424 moving parts, I found this incredibly helpful. Many thanks!
The people in charge don't understand it so don't sweat it to much.
*Michael Scott yelling* THANK YOU
A Hare Krishna walks into a skeptics conference…😂
Sounds like the start of a bad joke.
Tulsi gives me the creeps. I don't know why. Maybe that's subjective bias just like homophobia, but it's just what it is.
It’s probably the fact she has one of those incredibly disingenuous con artist from a movie smiles and speaking cadences. Like I could see her trying to sell me some stolen, almost broken items at higher than msrp
Exactly. How do people not see the res flags flapping in the wind around her face?
Bc she is clearly a russians agent. Traitor. Like most clearest way of all trump cabinet
She’s a fraud with a scary fake smile and dead eyes. Many people were feeling weird about her even before she started making her BS arguments.
Gabbard is in TWO cults.
Thanks!
I was like, "I hadn't heard of those guys since I lived in Glasgow." And then you mentioned meeting them in Glasgow! I've never heard about them in any of the other places I've lived so maybe they're Glasgow-centric.
No, they at least attempt to get a foothold around major college campuses. they had a temple in Austin in the 80s. I never went, but I swear some vegetarians told me they served great food. But how? IDK. I think their brains didn't get enough protein or had a caloric deficit or something.
I am a bit shocked at the HK's poor food. India has all the tastiest vegetarian food. Why not use this as a selling point?
Sikh gurdwaras all offer free food (caring for their community is a core tenet of their religion), and it's always super delicious. And always vegetarian, for that matter, because they want everyone to be able to eat with them. And they don't offer food in the hopes of gaining converts, so that's always a plus IMO.
Agreed. I trust my own palate over Rebecca’s drunken, limited western palate. The attack on food that Rebecca is simply not used to being described as tasteless trash is actually very racist.
@@AshiqD1955she was talking about Glaswegian Hare Krishna and their food . Mixing up religion and race is pernicious. She also asked to be told about what she was eating , if the signifiers did not match content.
@@francesconicoletti2547no one's "mixing up" anything, if you can't understand why that still rubs people the wrong way you have no business commenting here. lmfao
edit: especially from a white lady who does the whole "meehh im bad at pronounciation" bit at the start. "he won't see this, but you know who will," etc.
kinda weird to play defense for her so hard !
@@AshiqD1955 A friend of mine, now dead I’m sorry to say, was a frequent traveller to India and very much in to yoga, so visited a lot of retreats and monasteries. At several of these he said he found the food,not at all or barely seasoned, to initially be very bland but got used to it after a while. As to your remark ’drunken, limited western palate’ you just outed yourself as an a-hole without any respect for other cultures and other cuisines, behaving exactly the way you don’t want others to behave against you.
For as much as he hated it, Chris seemed to know a lot about gay sex....
I know that this is a random comment and you might never see this. But you are the glue that keeps this world from loosing all sanity, and I thank you for that. Also the red hair and space shuttle poster is epic, space nerds are the best.
She should run for president 2028
I still can't believe that she is still allowed to be an officer in the Army Reserves and good Soldiers are required to render her respect and obedience. Good thing I'm retired from the military because I couldn't do it.
The one thing you gotta say about the HKs is their temples have a really good South Indian vegetarian kitchen attached. Ofc the workers there are massively underpaid
She shouldn't be able to be given a security clearance but I am sure there will be firings until she gets one.
She's a Lieutenant Colonel. 😂
@@pennylane176 Cool, doesn't mean she should handle national secrets or have a clearance.
@@DahVoozel She already has security clearance. She's had it for at least 4 years. You guys are next level....
@@DahVoozel You can't become an officer if you can't get at least a secret clearance. Of course that's way below what we're talking about for her new prospective job.
@@brucetucker4847 She also probably should have had her commission reviewed after meeting with allies of an adversarial nation without prior authorization or disclosure.
Fun fact, when a brownie was developed that had no chocolate, there was the huge case of everyone vs non-choc, which resulted in them renaming their square to the blondie.
Back in 2016, all the anacaps were pointing at her as the "anti-war progressive" we all needed and many of us asked, "Then why is she talking to the guy dropping barrel-bombs on his own population?" and then we'd argue about Assad's war crimes and then we all remembered we're arguing with anacaps and left those Facebook groups because they were obviously compromised.
you probably used fake information about gas attacks to make those arguments too. and when you say his own population you probably mean the ISIS terrorists we funded that were tryng to take over his country. you are compromised.
Shoutouts to Unitarian Universalism for being 100-ish years old and not being a cullt!
I’m not religious but my late wife grew up a Southern Baptist. Just for fun I toook the family to a Unitarian service. Upon entering we were greeted by an old lady at a table who spotted us as visitors. She asked me to put on a name tag and I said “Do I have too?” She replied; “ This is a Unitarian church, you don’t HAVE to do anything.”
My Hare Krishna experience was a guy on the street handing out books. This was when I was young and not savvy to these things, so I listened to what the guy had to say. I ended up agreeing to take a few books. He gave me three different books, but when I wouldn’t give him a donation, he literally grabbed two of them back out of my hand.
Once I got home and looked at the book it started reasonably enough, but then it took a huge logical leap and read something like “and therefore the best use of your time is to chant ‘hare Krishna hare Krishna, hare rama, hare rama’ over and over” at which point the book went straight in the bin.
I really wish I was a fly on her wall when Assad was ousted.
I bet it would have been hilarious to see her reaction.
That Chris reveal was so fucking funny.
Let's be honest... all religions started as cults.
Some just got better at hiding it.
Exactly. All religions founded by charismatic individuals would be called cults were they newly founded today; as the saying goes, the difference between a cult and a religion is 2,000 years. To my mind, a cult is simply a religion that the person calling it a cult doesn't like.
I just got off the call with my colleagues that handle the bits we need for chemical analysis.
Tubes, reagents, dishes, washes, etc.
The type of testing equipment that make sure you wake up in the morning.
You know, mycotoxin free medicines, botulism free food, heavy metal free fruit etc.
Trying to coordinate with industry, regulation and academia. And these clowns keep clowning.
I'm tired chief.
this crap show is hitting from every angle.
BuT dRaG qUeEnS...
I'm pretty certain that conservatism is a mental illness, most especially the sideshow conservatism of the last ~40 years. Almost every single regulation everywhere was brought on by lives lost or large numbers of people suffering in the first place, so there's no universe where the blanket deregulation circus makes any sense in context.
Been waiting for someone to cover this. Mahalos! 🤙🤓🌺
I once asked my dad (who insists he's not a Republican) if there were any Democrats he liked and after thinking a few minutes he Said Tulsi Gabbard. A few months later she switched to Republican.
That’s actually hilarious
like there is a big difference.
Great video!
The QAA pod made a two-parter about her, episodes 211 and 212, also a great listen
The QAnon Anonymous Podcast did a good dive into her past. It's a good listen.
I hate how deep crank magnetism usually runs. Almost as much as I hate the fact that conspiracy nuts aren't laughed at and mocked so relentlessly that they hide their absurd beliefs anymore.
@RevShifty All of us pro-reality folks have just gotten tired of playing chess with a pigeon.
The cranks won by wearing us all down.
The talk in SC is that Heather Mace is going hard in on her transphobia is because she's about to run for governor.
I would like an apology from every Democrat who called me a misogynist for "not trusting her" unconditionally as a progressive in 2017.
For balance, they can also add in one for calling me classist for hating JD Vance back then.
I am a woman and I hated her guts as soon as I heard her open her mouth in 2016.
She's an idiot. That was my whole reason for loathing her. She's stupid.
@@gonzoengineering4894and anyone who wasn't an idiot knew JD Vance was cosplaying white trash
She's a case study in political shape-shifting
Congrats on the 200K subs! ❤
The late/great, Michael Brooks, was ahead of the curb on figuring out that she was definitely a wolf in sheep’s clothing.. Circa 2016/2017, I loved Tulsi, but late 2017 was when I started watching/listening to Majority Report, which lead me to become a huge fan of TMBS (Michael’s podcast), where I’m pretty sure he was the first person in left media to go after Tulsi as a fraud and opportunist. TMBS was where I first got exposed to that cult past, and though I really did want to believe she left that in the past, her cozying up more and more to the right over the years has made that doubtful…
Anyway, I don’t really care if the cult thing is where all this is coming from. She’s clearly an opportunist, and so she can’t be trusted. Also, it’s just the case that you can be anti-war, and have some overlap with more progressive ideas, and be a reactionary. I know such people, I’m still friends with more than one such person… but sure, I definitely buy that the cult past is still in the present in so far as it governs how she thinks. Whatever the case, I cannot stand her opportunism, and don’t think she can ever be trusted.
For me, back in 2016 it was Parker Molloy who was pointing out Gabbard’s homophobia and her ties to Hindu nationalism. I campaigned for Bernie in 2016 and 2020 but have always hatted Gabbard.
My first microprocessor (in 1977) was a Motorola MC6800 so I'm kind of familiar with defying orthodox thinking, but at a certain point you just come to the conclusion that you signed up with the wrong team.
The most insidious cult leaders are those capable of outward acts of extreme kindness and compassion but with a select few show their true colors as malicious and vindictive bullies.
I wonder why I often get PragerU ads when watching your videos… Lol.
I agree, if you are going to offer someone a brownie, and it doesn't have chocolate in it... You are legally required to say it's not really a brownie.
I had been wondering why she was so weird for years now! It all makes sense now
Ever notice her clothing choices. She seems to only own pants suits in solid colors. She also seems kind of robotic... like she never laughs or emotes and vocally she's very monotone and expressionless.
Very glad to hear you got the true Glasgow experience - go for lunch, get trashed, tell some strangers who won't leave you alone that they're numpties and exit unceremoniously.
Holy crap he's got a LOT of thoughts about anuses doesn't he?
you should get along then, in recent years liberal American policies have concerned the anus and the use made of it by famous and less famous gays and transgenders
Congratulations on 200(1)k subscribers! You deserve it!
So I can blame Bernie for liking this person for a hot minute? Thanks, I needed that! Also Bernie... You're still The Man. Everybody gets fooled from time to time. I know I was.
Bernie should have done his due diligence, but he did not, as usual.
Bernie also had to walk back his support of Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez.
@@astrowuff At least he did it instead of pulling a Noam Chomsky and trying to send it down the memory hole.
Thanks again Rebecca. ❤❤❤
I caught her at her absolute peak. She was rhetorically for medicare for all and anti war, so I donated a dollar to help her get on the debate stage lol. Only downhill since, and farther down that I could have ever imagined.
Now you want your dollar back. I know I would.
It was part of the reason I was upset when Sanders endorsed her
Still feel stupid for donating $5 to her 2016 campaign.
I was taken in by Gabbard way back in 2016 - I think what really did it for me was her declaration of support for Bernie Sanders, which resulted in her pretty much being expelled from the DNC/Hillary machine. The Hillbots hated her and Bernie, she seemed Progressive, and as for her past - I reasoned that people do grow and change with time. She was young, pretty, and "hip".
Boy was I ever fooled. I think many of us were and it was heartbreaking to see we'd all been duped afterward.
the only good thing about the iskcon in india is the great food they have. but i'm not surprised it wasn't good in the west. But the inskcon is so petty they make you pay for the temple food, something that is usually free in most large temple complexes. edit: the no ginger no garlic no onion rule is common in many hindu sects plus among the jains (these things are roots/underground so they necessitate the kiling of the crop for your food. jains don't typically consume potatoes and other root veggies either for the same reason)
I enjoyed the ISKCON food in Evanston, Illinois back in the day. But it was all Indian recipes, no brownies.
Swami Donald is not something I ever thought of, until now.
Thanks for calling out Hare Krishna! There aren't many critical UA-cam videos on them unfortunately. Maybe Hare Krishnas aren't as homophobic as people who are members of the Science of Identity cult. But as someone whose cousin is in Hare Krishna, I can assure you, yes, there's still a lot of homophobia, transphobia and misogyny there. And a ridiculous amount of sex negativity.
It's ironic because in Hindu myth Krishna is a great lover, who revels with women (the gopis of cattle-herding communities), even married ones, who absolutely adore him. He's a pleasure-loving god, so it's strange that some of his worshippers would eschew the same kinds of pastimes he pursues in the myths.
You really dug deep on the research and presentation. I laughed when I finally saw where you were going with this.
i laughed when i realized she wasn't going to mention being pro gcide, oh wait she is pretending Assad was some "white supremacist". she doesnt mention the US under democrats funding ISIS and Al Quaida to overthrow him, and faked gas attacks in Douma.