“Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
There are a few hilarious deep dives into libertarian attempts at nation building and most of them are either out and out grifts or about as through through as if you asked group of ten year olds to make their own country.
True! I guess the libertarian philosophy says, "without government, capitalism will happen naturally because of Adam Smith's invisible hand," while anarchists are like "lol no it won't"
As the adoptive mom of a medically complex child who’s a wheelchair user and relies on Medicaid, I would hesitate to share these books with her with she’s old enough for them because I’d never want her to think people like her aren’t worth being cared for with our taxes. Total libertarianism is a very privileged position that life has shown me just doesn’t work without causing a lot of suffering for the disabled community, people who may not be able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” but who are intrinsically valuable and for whom I happily pay my taxes.
Agreed! I haven't seen Connor mention disabled people. I think a lot of people in his position stay willfully ignorant because they want their worldview to fit into a neat, simplified box
When they bother to mention people with disabilities, it's usually to say that charity organizations will magically spring up to care for them. They will pretend this actually worked in the past and ignore all the people who died because they couldn't get help and lived in inhumane conditions.
Usually when you bring up people who need Medicaid who are disabled they get angry or defensive. Essentially they don't think about what good taxes do and try to live a privileged life where they don't have to think about those things. I wish the best for you and your child
@@sonic8005 thank you! Yes, disabled people are outliers, but there are SO many of them that it’s not like just one person would be out of luck without disability benefits. It’s a larger portion of our population than people realize!
@@hopelyle2408 Honestly learned about a lot of the things that are done for disabled people back in high school when I studied law, but also when I was a peer tutor. That being said, I do have the unfortunate ability as a non-libertarian to care and consider other people's needs.
“Heads empty, no personalities and doing anything that the older generations tell them to do” sounds very much like books targeted to parents or grandparents to buy for their young kids or grandkids.
How do you think the children feel about that kinda thing? If I was told this, I’d have tuned it right out because I wouldn’t have anything to connect with or enjoy.
On your question about how long it would take Classically Abby to get through Bioshock before realizing that Andrew Ryan is the villain, Abby has actually played Bioshock before and apparently she likes it. She specifically said that the problems in Rapture would be fixed with "more conservatism" which is absolutely hysterical LOL.
@@knuckl6972Three possibilities 1) Zero media literacy skills. It's why you see lots of right-wingers glorifying movies like Fight Club despite the films satirising their specific world view 2) Reactionaries can't fathom the concept of liking something that doesn't share their values, so in order to justify their enjoyment of something. This works with (1) because unless a character looks directly at the camera and says "This is satire, you are not supposed to agree with what is happening right now", they can conveniently ignore obvious subtext or even text and focus only on the cool moments 3) Reactionary grifters know their ideas are not popular but know their audience desperately needs to believe otherwise, and so they latch on to whatever the popular thing is at the moment and pretend it actually supports them. It's why you had dweebs like Pim Tool making videos about why Squid Game was pro-capitalist. Their audience laps it up because of (1) & (2)
That book reminds me of the episode of Parks and Rec where Ron teaches some random kid about libertarianism and then the kid fails his homework assignment
Libertarians in America are manufactured by the Koche brothers. They were created with the specific political ideology of corporate fascism. So they are different than regular fascists but the distinction is very small.
i went to high school with a close family friend of the kochs and i can confirm they are genuinely singlehandedly responsible for this scourge and they know exactly what they're doing and why. they're fucking evil
Honestly, these Right to Life people should be all in on universal health care. Because if everybody has a right to life, they also have a right to life-sustaining measures, which is what health care is. And this right does not end where the money does.
I actually would like a video about Angel Studios who are behind the Tuttle Twins cartoon. Especially the weird stuff surrounding Sound of Freedom to the upcoming "anime" Gabriel and the Guardians.
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Great. Fundie Fridays have already done a video about them which lead to their own Tuttle Twins deep dive. But I do think your perspective on Angel Studios could provide some additional insight.
My husband is a political scientist, so I have had conversations on political topics more than the average bear. (More than the average human, too!) Libertarians seem to fall into one of a small handful of types. 1) The Idealist: Everyone would do the right thing if they were just left to it. These folks tend to be young and naive, and when they finally have to deal with the real world, become disillusioned in the most tragic of ways. 2) The opportunist: These are the folks that already have wealth and/or power. A system with less rules would benefit them because they are already starting on 3rd base. 3) The useful idiot: These folks think they could be in the same league as the opportunists if only they had less constraints. The reality is they would buy the promises of those in power and never understand why they aren't succeeding. And libertarian governments fail. They tried it in Van Ormy, TX. There is an article about it in the Texas Observer from July 31, 2017, by James McCandless titled "The Rise and Fall of the 'Freest Little City in Texas'".
I genuinely mean this as a compliment… the fact that you are child free and know what Paw Patrol is just shows me how invested you are in your young audience (for your books, that is). You probably care more about the well-being of children in general than the dude who wrote this book, Jordan Peterson, and all the other unwoke moralists do combined. My kids LOVED Paw Patrol and we actually had a conversation about whether or not Ryder was treating the pups fairly once when my daughter asked me why the dogs always listen to Ryder no matter what.
aw hahaha thanks! i haven't really seen much paw patrol, but it looks like a cute show and i'm always partial to dog characters. and i hear a lot of kids talking about how much they enjoy it
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS This is extremely tangential, but if you're actually looking for good children's media, Disney was on a roll recently with heavily serialized shows. Tangled the Series, Amphibia, and the Owl House. Although be warned if you're showing it to Braxleighynne that Tangled and the Owl House support the liberal woke agenda by having l*sbians. (Lumity is legitimately just the only healthy enemies to lovers couple I've seen, sorry Catadora fans, Cass from Tangled the Series is heavily queer coded, and Rapunzel winds up picking up a lot of queer coding by proximity)
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS You’re welcome! 💗 Paw Patrol is cute.. it’s no Bluey, but it’s not bad to watch, and yes it’s very popular with younger kiddos! I am thankful that mine are getting older now, as they’ve introduced me to my two new favorite shows in general.. Amphibia & Star Vs the Forces of Evil. I guess I’m getting back into my cartoon era now! 🤣
There's something to be said that, with characters named Ethan and Emily Tuttle, their name their neighbor friend comes up with for a theoretical criminal is his neighbor "Mrs. Lopez" and her crooked-cop uncle.
I feel like the author inadverdantly showed his hand of thinking all kids are dumb and need to be told explicitly what to think. Girl Tuttle not knowing that laws exsist is something I could believe if she was, like, 4 years old. Instead, they're at an age where they are writing reports and yet both twins have to be told, "Stealing is bad, m'kay." I think some of these propagandist writers forget is: kids are smarter than we give them credit. They make connections and think in a unque and flexible way. You're right that IF he had wanted to make a book for 3rd graders that explained The Law in a nuanced way, he could have. Instead, he said, "What if I vague posted about this author I think the general public is too stupid to have heard about and put pictures to it."
If the multiverse is real, then somewhere there's a universe where Joe Rogan's just this guy that runs a channel giving advice about home maintenance, explaining building codes and analysing why buildings fail, and it's brilliant. Unfortunately, that's not the universe we live in.
ARE YA READY, KIDS? AYE AYE, CAPTAIN! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! EVISCERATE THE PROLETARIAT! OOOOOHH.... wait no. That's not what... how do you even know what that means? What the actual fuck are you learning in school?
Okay but "wombs into tombs" is objectively the best phrase I've heard all week. Edit: "Smacked in the face with God's monster dong" has definitely usurped the wombs quote. This was a good day for funny.
Honestly a lot of "government regulations", especially those arround building codes and food are rules written in blood. In most cases, the rules are written that way because people have died or been seriously harmed. Libertarians that think that the free market should police all these things have obviously not studied history as well as they should
Considering that a lot of the shitty propaganda doesn’t look appealing to kids at all, I’d say so. They focus so much on sending a message that they neglect to make something kids will actually want to read or watch.
I get The Epoch Times shitty anti trans "documentary" and PragerU. It feels like being personally attacked every time my ad breaks play. Although, I wouldn't mind a savage takedown of that stupid Epoch Times "documentary". It would at least feel like a little vindication, and would heal my soul after all the psychic damage it's done.
I remember kid shows from when i was about 10 having storylines kinda similar to this. At least as far as: kid gets assigned an essay to write about some vague topic, goes out and finds information about topic. But i remember them like putting the main character into the situation they were researching, not just doe-eyed idiots. And those episodes always ended with the kid sitting down to write their paper or getting a paper back from their teacher with a "nice work" or something. As someone who has always loved to read, even as young as 9, I would have given up on this book in like two pages because its lazy and thinks its audience is complete idiots. And i would be furious at whoever told me to read this. And at age 9, I was going to a private Christian school!
right?! they could've had the kids go on an adventure of some sort to have to learn the lesson for the paper for themselves. but instead they just ... listen to an old man lecturing them?!?!?
joke's on benathan shabibo because i spend an excessively huge percentage of my free time listening to/watching content that is by definition, political. like i do this to the extent that it's fully detrimental to my mental health but because my brain is Quirky i get stuck in these horrible hyperfixations on things that fundamentally upset and/or anger me. but because WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY where my very existence as a queer afab person is questioned as if it's a moral or ethical judgment, I DO NOT GET A FUCKING CHOICE whether i engage or not, simply because i am terrified that if i sit and do nothing (even if all i do is make myself more aware of whats happening in my country politically because that's all my broken brain can handle doing) then one day i will waken to find that all of my rights and personhood have been stripped from me. edit: specifically to savy if she ever reads this but i just wanted to say i appreciate what you do so much and while I'm not living my boss babe life enough rn to donate monetarily, i will always spend my time watching your content ❤
The art on the Tuttle Twins show, before the show I mean, looks like an offbrand Rainbow Magic. The "Rainbow Magic At Home". How dare they copy from nostalgic books.
The Tuttle Twins books are asked for by the same out of touch boomer grandparents that come into the bookstore I work at looking for the Rush Revere books by Rush Limbaugh.
Is the teacher going to be offended when she sees that these kids have learnt that wisdom includes that her salary is the result of plunder? 😂 So many zingers again. I never want to be a writer more than when I listen to you talking about and analysing books 💜
As someone who has a father that identifies as a Libertarian, though thankfully not one who seems particularly bothered by queer people or abortion, my basic problem with Libertarianism as a philosophy is just how defeatist it feels to me. Their attitude towards any societal problem seems to be, there is nothing you can do. There's no point in taxing the rich because they'll just find another tax shelter somewhere else. There's no point to gun regulation because criminals will just buy guns illegally. Trying to make someone follow vaccine mandates and other doctor's recommendations is futile because some people just won't do it. The attitude seems to be that an action isn't worth doing if you can't guarantee the outcome you want and I can't accept that.
I assume the basically every literary decision that Conor made was based on pandering to parents. Making the main characters boy girl twins, invoking God but not religion (that way he could pander to both Mormons and Evangelical Christians) and basically giving the book a very weak plot with no conflict and all the kids do is respectfully listening to their elders
The thing that libertarians forget is the oldest system found in all “civilizations” is taxation/tribute. Like all of them need and required the redistribution of tax to built civilization /cities
The books are 💯 aimed at lds homeschool parents (source I homeschool in Utah 😂) and the “raw” products mentioned are absolutely raw milk which has a lot of laws which is why he wouldn’t allow kids to sell it. 🙃
Savy!!!!! I love seeing your growth through your videos! Keep these videos coming! :D These dangerous people need to be exposed. I understand the need for books not to be banned but it is scary to think that books like this are allowed around children while those about acceptance and critical thinking are censored.
when you were talking about the tuttle twins food truck book and said "is this about two trucks-" my brain immediately autofilled it with "having sex?"
How old are the Tuttle Twins? The art style makes them look like high schoolers. If they are supposed to be in grammar/elementary/grade school, the artist failed.
It's not lazy, it's insidious. They are twins who are always together so HOME SCHOOL kids don't think it's weird to ALWAYS be together and ONLY with people who think like you do.
As a triplet, the trope of twins or triplets who don’t have separate personalities and act exactly the same drives me crazy! Not doing that is one of the reasons I love the Ducktales reboot
hi savy. i dont have anything to add cuz havent watched da whole video but i love ur videos i say YIPPEE!! when a new one comes out. i like to eat my dinner to them
Had a "debate" with someone the other day about why we shouldn't be getting rid of public schools. The libertarian/religious definitely don't want an educated populace, because then they are less easily exploited.
I would love to see you review a couple more of the books! I've heard that the one about the federal reserve throws in some anti-Semitism on top of this dumpster fire, but haven't seen anyone read the book and confirm it yet (i really don't want to buy it myself just to satisfy my curiosity)
I totally just watched the Fundie Fridays Twins video. I love how you actually give good advice on how they can improve their books. Also, still not being notified of new videos. I know that's not your fault, but WTF UA-cam?
If youre gonna shove your politics down kids' throat, at least have the decency to coat your propaganda in something that would ACTUALLY BE ENTERTAINING TO KIDS, like fantasy adventures or giant robot fights or some shit.
If you're going to talk about how libertarianism you've got to look at the Free Town Project, the town that was overtaken by libertarians, and then overrun by bears. Turns out publicly funded institutions whose job it is to do things like create coordinated efforts to handle a bear incursion into a local town are important, as are regulations requiring bear-proof garbage bins and preventing people from *feeding donuts to the wild bears that wander into their yard,* you know, just because they want to.
Thank you for covering this!! Is it true that they've come out with textbooks as well, or am I just assuming that the fundies I saw homeschooling with Tuttle Twins books would actually do something like buy a textbook?
I'm surprised they haven't released 'The Tuttle Twins Learn About the Age of Consent', you'd think that would be the perfect book for their libertarian audience
I’m pretty sure that Charlie Brown never had to pick up the yard after Snoopy. Since Snoopy’s doghouse had a pool table and an Andrew Wyeth painting, it would make sense for it to have a beagle sized bathroom as well.
What I loved most about your reviews is that you always try to be open-minded toward the media you’re reviewing even if you don’t agree with it. You manage to be critical without being overly condescending. That’s at least one plus your review has over the Fundie Fridays review.
As far as libertarianism (in the limited American sense) appealing to “book-smart” types, I think a lot depends on what you’re reading. I’m severely bookish, yet I’m essentially an anarcho-socialist greenie at heart. It also depends on values you were raised with, family and culture, and lots of outside influences along the way. We are all those things plus whatever our unique body chemistry/spirit/whatever brings to the mix.
Arguing against taxes, because that reduces the amount of money you spend on charity is baffling. Why not all contribute to a common pot, and then decide together how to divide it up among the wants and needs in the group? I kind of think that Bastiat had a point that taxes are theft in a non-democratic historical context. But the US is founded from the principle that the taxed have a say in how the taxes are spent. I wonder how this author thinks of tithing? (Eds: spelling)
Oooh now I need to go check out said Star Wars Toys to see what she's talking about. My kids love Star Wars. I wanna see if they'd like them. They only ever want the 4" action figures with mobile joints.
if i was presented with this book as a kid, i think i would have assumed that this is how you were "supposed" to think and stuck with it until my views were challenged, but that's probably only because i'm (probably) autistic
I’m technically a left or social libertarian. Left-libertarian: a political philosophy and type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality.
Re: not having public schools, I'm sure libertarian absolutists think that should fall under philanthropy too. The untaxed wealthy will choose to donate money for scholarships for all those who can't afford to pay tuition, or will fund free schools that aren't paid for by taxes.
My description of 99% of libertarians is: A man who doesn't realise that if the utopia he's fighting for comes about, he'll end up being a slave. It's a measure of Bastiat's (proper pronunciation: Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel) derived libertarianism from Adam Smith, who was in real life and in his writings much closer to Marx than Thatcher.
I really don't under the love affair American Libertarians have with Bastiat. Bastiat is of the French Liberal School. Albeit, they would claim that the law should protect private property, they also tend to favor helping the poor as well. Even Bastiat was in favor of the state having some resources to assist unfortunate people affected by changing conditions. They also saw a role for the government to support philanthropy, which libertarian The entire Austrian school kind of took a corrupted view of these guys. In fact, Bastiat would have had some very harsh critics of Friedrich Hayek for kind of trying to be over his own humanity and being against the French system of mutual aid funds of the time. The first thing to mention is Bastiat was also an official in the lower house in 1848 as what the French calls a Liberal Republican. As an elected official he was against jailing people for unpaid debt, and against reduction of taxes on salt, but for banning political clubs. Not really a libertarian, now, ain't it? Libertarians would complain that Bastiat wanted higher taxes... If you put Bastiat in context of France at the time, his critics make some sense, but he wouldn't agree with Today's American libertarian.
I think a lot of ideas around laws for conservatives, is that laws are lines on ground, where crossing them means a God(cop/government) has a flaming arrow of judgment drawn(loaded gun) to smight anyone who walk over said line. Where laws are meant to be sturdy walls made to discourage harmful behavior, whit a stern but understanding security man to take you back out the front gates while explaining why where you where is dangerous and/or potentaly harmful to yourself or others. Teach, don't punish, that is how you help a person become better.
::scrolling down the recommended videos:: Man, I've either seen all these already or they're things I'll watch later. Hm...this sucks... ::sees this video:: HOLY FUCK YES THANK GOD I FOUND SOMETHING TO WATCH!!!
45:15 I’m a Mormon, and a lot of this feels out of place to me. Yes, we believe that some of our rights come from God, but not all of them. As for the state religion thing, one of our holy texts has a passage that says “We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.” It would be a direct violation of our beliefs to mandate that anyone be forced to share them or worship in the same manner we do. It’s essential to our belief system that the state is not entangled with religion (at least on paper, although the early government of Utah certainly doesn’t square well with that). His obsession with free market capitalism also feels really weird from my perspective. It’s not that he’s taking a stance that contradicts my religion, it just feels incongruous. I find it baffling that anyone can believe that we will one day live under the “law of consecration” (basically godly communism), but that providing social programs and ensuring that basic protections exist is a bad thing. We literally believe that a world without greed will eventually exist, and that in that time, wealth distribution will happen. We believe it’s actually already happened for a short while on a couple of occasions in localized areas. Also, the greed that is so implicit in so much of libertarianism feels like it flies in the face of Christianity to me. Christ taught his followers to give to the poor and needy, to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry. He said that “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” It’s just really weird to have Christians who are so reticent to things like social programs when the above is what Christ taught.
When I heard of the Tuttle Twins, I thought it was something teaching kids libertarian principles in a way they can relate to. I didn’t realize it was just lecturing kids about government
Thanks! I've got 21 official American Girl dolls (most bought in my late 20s, haha) and a whole collection of antique dolls, other doll lines like rainbow high, and more. I'm definitely a toy & model collector. So is my husband. You should see the rest of our house 😂 it's all shelves with toys & models on display
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS ive caught glimpses iof your collection n the background and your taste is great from what i can make out. Ive always thought there has be a drama-filled online collector community focused on American Girl, and i just havent found it yet.
33:51 (ish) At least according to Wikipedia, it's bahs-TYAH. Although if you want to piss off the French, you can also pronounce it bahs-TSYAH and say you're from Québec
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Same here (with Chicago). I just taught myself to do a Québecois accent, both because I feel like I'm way more likely to need French because of going to Canada than going to France, and because it *is* kinda fun to joke about pissing off France. So for example, I'm used to the word for "ten" being [dzɪs], not [dis]
Actually, god didn't give us the ability to tell right from wrong, according to the story from their own "can't be wrong totally 100% correct" book we had to break the rules to get that ability. So there
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“Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
Well, cats can recognize and beg when they need food from you.
There are a few hilarious deep dives into libertarian attempts at nation building and most of them are either out and out grifts or about as through through as if you asked group of ten year olds to make their own country.
My cat appreciates it's food way more then libertarians.
My cat appreciates me, how dare you
The mention of cats reminds me of Robert A Heinlein who was old school libertarian and science fiction.
The important distinction between anarchists and libertarians is that anarchists are anti-capitalism
True! I guess the libertarian philosophy says, "without government, capitalism will happen naturally because of Adam Smith's invisible hand," while anarchists are like "lol no it won't"
"An"caps aren't going to like this comment, but not even they can deny their love for the boot of capital.
libertarians the type of people to say Lex Luthor is the good guy
@@erin1569 an-caps - yes that's the term! connor seems fairly aligned with them
Anarchy is about the elimination of hierarchies, of course it’s not going to allow the inherent hierarchies of capitalism.
"That's why schools collapse on kids in foreign couintries sometimes"
Yeah let's pretend it hasn't happened in the US too.
true, definitely happens in the US too
My high school is literally built over a giant sinkhole
As the adoptive mom of a medically complex child who’s a wheelchair user and relies on Medicaid, I would hesitate to share these books with her with she’s old enough for them because I’d never want her to think people like her aren’t worth being cared for with our taxes. Total libertarianism is a very privileged position that life has shown me just doesn’t work without causing a lot of suffering for the disabled community, people who may not be able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” but who are intrinsically valuable and for whom I happily pay my taxes.
Agreed! I haven't seen Connor mention disabled people. I think a lot of people in his position stay willfully ignorant because they want their worldview to fit into a neat, simplified box
When they bother to mention people with disabilities, it's usually to say that charity organizations will magically spring up to care for them. They will pretend this actually worked in the past and ignore all the people who died because they couldn't get help and lived in inhumane conditions.
Usually when you bring up people who need Medicaid who are disabled they get angry or defensive.
Essentially they don't think about what good taxes do and try to live a privileged life where they don't have to think about those things.
I wish the best for you and your child
@@sonic8005 thank you! Yes, disabled people are outliers, but there are SO many of them that it’s not like just one person would be out of luck without disability benefits. It’s a larger portion of our population than people realize!
@@hopelyle2408 Honestly learned about a lot of the things that are done for disabled people back in high school when I studied law, but also when I was a peer tutor. That being said, I do have the unfortunate ability as a non-libertarian to care and consider other people's needs.
“Heads empty, no personalities and doing anything that the older generations tell them to do” sounds very much like books targeted to parents or grandparents to buy for their young kids or grandkids.
Yeah it's definitely sus
How do you think the children feel about that kinda thing? If I was told this,
I’d have tuned it right out because I wouldn’t have anything to connect with or enjoy.
On your question about how long it would take Classically Abby to get through Bioshock before realizing that Andrew Ryan is the villain, Abby has actually played Bioshock before and apparently she likes it. She specifically said that the problems in Rapture would be fixed with "more conservatism" which is absolutely hysterical LOL.
How could that be anyone's takeaway from that game
@@knuckl6972Three possibilities
1) Zero media literacy skills. It's why you see lots of right-wingers glorifying movies like Fight Club despite the films satirising their specific world view
2) Reactionaries can't fathom the concept of liking something that doesn't share their values, so in order to justify their enjoyment of something.
This works with (1) because unless a character looks directly at the camera and says "This is satire, you are not supposed to agree with what is happening right now", they can conveniently ignore obvious subtext or even text and focus only on the cool moments
3) Reactionary grifters know their ideas are not popular but know their audience desperately needs to believe otherwise, and so they latch on to whatever the popular thing is at the moment and pretend it actually supports them.
It's why you had dweebs like Pim Tool making videos about why Squid Game was pro-capitalist.
Their audience laps it up because of (1) & (2)
Wow, that woman is a self-parody at this point.
That book reminds me of the episode of Parks and Rec where Ron teaches some random kid about libertarianism and then the kid fails his homework assignment
"why does the government matter?" "it doesn't."
Libertarians in America are manufactured by the Koche brothers. They were created with the specific political ideology of corporate fascism. So they are different than regular fascists but the distinction is very small.
i went to high school with a close family friend of the kochs and i can confirm they are genuinely singlehandedly responsible for this scourge and they know exactly what they're doing and why. they're fucking evil
I’m not gonna lie, I read that as “librarians” at first and was about to say “the hell is your problem with librarians?”
Honestly, these Right to Life people should be all in on universal health care. Because if everybody has a right to life, they also have a right to life-sustaining measures, which is what health care is. And this right does not end where the money does.
I actually would like a video about Angel Studios who are behind the Tuttle Twins cartoon. Especially the weird stuff surrounding Sound of Freedom to the upcoming "anime" Gabriel and the Guardians.
i'll look into it!
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Great. Fundie Fridays have already done a video about them which lead to their own Tuttle Twins deep dive. But I do think your perspective on Angel Studios could provide some additional insight.
The cartoon’s like Rick and Morty, but if Rick was wearing a red hat the entire time.
Not going to lie: I actually think Gabriel and the Guardians looks cool. Not sure what that says about me.
Dang, I just spent way too long going through their website. I would love a deep dive on them!
My husband is a political scientist, so I have had conversations on political topics more than the average bear. (More than the average human, too!) Libertarians seem to fall into one of a small handful of types.
1) The Idealist: Everyone would do the right thing if they were just left to it. These folks tend to be young and naive, and when they finally have to deal with the real world, become disillusioned in the most tragic of ways.
2) The opportunist: These are the folks that already have wealth and/or power. A system with less rules would benefit them because they are already starting on 3rd base.
3) The useful idiot: These folks think they could be in the same league as the opportunists if only they had less constraints. The reality is they would buy the promises of those in power and never understand why they aren't succeeding.
And libertarian governments fail. They tried it in Van Ormy, TX. There is an article about it in the Texas Observer from July 31, 2017, by James McCandless titled "The Rise and Fall of the 'Freest Little City in Texas'".
I genuinely mean this as a compliment… the fact that you are child free and know what Paw Patrol is just shows me how invested you are in your young audience (for your books, that is). You probably care more about the well-being of children in general than the dude who wrote this book, Jordan Peterson, and all the other unwoke moralists do combined. My kids LOVED Paw Patrol and we actually had a conversation about whether or not Ryder was treating the pups fairly once when my daughter asked me why the dogs always listen to Ryder no matter what.
aw hahaha thanks! i haven't really seen much paw patrol, but it looks like a cute show and i'm always partial to dog characters. and i hear a lot of kids talking about how much they enjoy it
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS This is extremely tangential, but if you're actually looking for good children's media, Disney was on a roll recently with heavily serialized shows. Tangled the Series, Amphibia, and the Owl House. Although be warned if you're showing it to Braxleighynne that Tangled and the Owl House support the liberal woke agenda by having l*sbians. (Lumity is legitimately just the only healthy enemies to lovers couple I've seen, sorry Catadora fans, Cass from Tangled the Series is heavily queer coded, and Rapunzel winds up picking up a lot of queer coding by proximity)
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS You’re welcome! 💗 Paw Patrol is cute.. it’s no Bluey, but it’s not bad to watch, and yes it’s very popular with younger kiddos!
I am thankful that mine are getting older now, as they’ve introduced me to my two new favorite shows in general.. Amphibia & Star Vs the Forces of Evil. I guess I’m getting back into my cartoon era now! 🤣
Unless you’re teaching children about many different forms of thinking and ideas. It’s not philosophy it’s indoctrination
yup, agreed!
There's something to be said that, with characters named Ethan and Emily Tuttle, their name their neighbor friend comes up with for a theoretical criminal is his neighbor "Mrs. Lopez" and her crooked-cop uncle.
I feel like the author inadverdantly showed his hand of thinking all kids are dumb and need to be told explicitly what to think. Girl Tuttle not knowing that laws exsist is something I could believe if she was, like, 4 years old. Instead, they're at an age where they are writing reports and yet both twins have to be told, "Stealing is bad, m'kay."
I think some of these propagandist writers forget is: kids are smarter than we give them credit. They make connections and think in a unque and flexible way. You're right that IF he had wanted to make a book for 3rd graders that explained The Law in a nuanced way, he could have. Instead, he said, "What if I vague posted about this author I think the general public is too stupid to have heard about and put pictures to it."
Woahhh it’s like Joe Rogan’s whole persona dropped and he started speaking sound logic and facts that I can completely respect
I think when the guy was speaking about something he had direct knowledge and experience with, he couldn’t let that 💩 slide
It's almost like Rogan knows exactly what he's advocating for but while his conscience gets in the way
If the multiverse is real, then somewhere there's a universe where Joe Rogan's just this guy that runs a channel giving advice about home maintenance, explaining building codes and analysing why buildings fail, and it's brilliant.
Unfortunately, that's not the universe we live in.
@@wendyheatherwood that sounds really wholesome
I do want Savy to write that book from the end. Just change the tomatoes to apples and the kids to siblings with different names.
LOL i could but i still think the book would suck
ARE YA READY, KIDS?
AYE AYE, CAPTAIN!
I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
EVISCERATE THE PROLETARIAT!
OOOOOHH.... wait no. That's not what... how do you even know what that means? What the actual fuck are you learning in school?
😂😂😂😂 your comments are always best
Okay but "wombs into tombs" is objectively the best phrase I've heard all week.
Edit: "Smacked in the face with God's monster dong" has definitely usurped the wombs quote. This was a good day for funny.
eminem's been real quiet since connor boyack dropped that line
Honestly a lot of "government regulations", especially those arround building codes and food are rules written in blood. In most cases, the rules are written that way because people have died or been seriously harmed. Libertarians that think that the free market should police all these things have obviously not studied history as well as they should
Loving every Savy Eviscerates Bad Writing ep! At least shittily executed propaganda will hook fewer kids, so yay?
we can hope LOL
Considering that a lot of the shitty propaganda doesn’t look appealing to kids at all, I’d say so. They focus so much on sending a message that they neglect to make something kids will actually want to read or watch.
I’ve been getting ads for the Tuttle Twins on UA-cam 😫😫😫😫
I keep getting them on the site I use to watch adventure time.
Even the titles of the episodes are awful
i got premium youtube a few months ago so i've been spared LOL
LOL sorry@@Amandoop
Same.
I get The Epoch Times shitty anti trans "documentary" and PragerU. It feels like being personally attacked every time my ad breaks play. Although, I wouldn't mind a savage takedown of that stupid Epoch Times "documentary". It would at least feel like a little vindication, and would heal my soul after all the psychic damage it's done.
I remember kid shows from when i was about 10 having storylines kinda similar to this. At least as far as: kid gets assigned an essay to write about some vague topic, goes out and finds information about topic. But i remember them like putting the main character into the situation they were researching, not just doe-eyed idiots. And those episodes always ended with the kid sitting down to write their paper or getting a paper back from their teacher with a "nice work" or something.
As someone who has always loved to read, even as young as 9, I would have given up on this book in like two pages because its lazy and thinks its audience is complete idiots. And i would be furious at whoever told me to read this. And at age 9, I was going to a private Christian school!
right?! they could've had the kids go on an adventure of some sort to have to learn the lesson for the paper for themselves. but instead they just ... listen to an old man lecturing them?!?!?
Almost clicked off when I learned it didn’t have music or princesses or dinosaurs. You’re lucky I lurves you Savy
Sorry to disappoint 😂
They say taxation is theft. I say the actual theft is capitalism.
It’s profit. Profit is theft.
joke's on benathan shabibo because i spend an excessively huge percentage of my free time listening to/watching content that is by definition, political. like i do this to the extent that it's fully detrimental to my mental health but because my brain is Quirky i get stuck in these horrible hyperfixations on things that fundamentally upset and/or anger me.
but because WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY where my very existence as a queer afab person is questioned as if it's a moral or ethical judgment, I DO NOT GET A FUCKING CHOICE whether i engage or not, simply because i am terrified that if i sit and do nothing (even if all i do is make myself more aware of whats happening in my country politically because that's all my broken brain can handle doing) then one day i will waken to find that all of my rights and personhood have been stripped from me.
edit: specifically to savy if she ever reads this but i just wanted to say i appreciate what you do so much and while I'm not living my boss babe life enough rn to donate monetarily, i will always spend my time watching your content ❤
Love the stop motion you’ve been doing lately!
The art on the Tuttle Twins show, before the show I mean, looks like an offbrand Rainbow Magic. The "Rainbow Magic At Home". How dare they copy from nostalgic books.
The Tuttle Twins books are asked for by the same out of touch boomer grandparents that come into the bookstore I work at looking for the Rush Revere books by Rush Limbaugh.
Literally saw a UA-cam ad for a *free tuttle twins book* give away same day you dropped the video.
Yup.
Is the teacher going to be offended when she sees that these kids have learnt that wisdom includes that her salary is the result of plunder? 😂
So many zingers again. I never want to be a writer more than when I listen to you talking about and analysing books 💜
As someone who has a father that identifies as a Libertarian, though thankfully not one who seems particularly bothered by queer people or abortion, my basic problem with Libertarianism as a philosophy is just how defeatist it feels to me. Their attitude towards any societal problem seems to be, there is nothing you can do. There's no point in taxing the rich because they'll just find another tax shelter somewhere else. There's no point to gun regulation because criminals will just buy guns illegally. Trying to make someone follow vaccine mandates and other doctor's recommendations is futile because some people just won't do it. The attitude seems to be that an action isn't worth doing if you can't guarantee the outcome you want and I can't accept that.
I assume the basically every literary decision that Conor made was based on pandering to parents. Making the main characters boy girl twins, invoking God but not religion (that way he could pander to both Mormons and Evangelical Christians) and basically giving the book a very weak plot with no conflict and all the kids do is respectfully listening to their elders
The thing that libertarians forget is the oldest system found in all “civilizations” is taxation/tribute. Like all of them need and required the redistribution of tax to built civilization /cities
I did not have agreeing with Joe Rogan on my bingo card.
The books are 💯 aimed at lds homeschool parents (source I homeschool in Utah 😂) and the “raw” products mentioned are absolutely raw milk which has a lot of laws which is why he wouldn’t allow kids to sell it. 🙃
Im obsessed with how well you explain everything!!!
aw thank you!
i would never go to a food truck again if they had no regulations at all.
Yeah, I’d be like:
“You’re telling me this wasn’t held to any health standards at all? Pass.”
Savy!!!!! I love seeing your growth through your videos! Keep these videos coming! :D These dangerous people need to be exposed. I understand the need for books not to be banned but it is scary to think that books like this are allowed around children while those about acceptance and critical thinking are censored.
I love the stop-motion American Girl segments so much!
when you were talking about the tuttle twins food truck book and said "is this about two trucks-" my brain immediately autofilled it with "having sex?"
How old are the Tuttle Twins? The art style makes them look like high schoolers. If they are supposed to be in grammar/elementary/grade school, the artist failed.
they're 9. yet they talk like they're 3 and look like they're 16. soooo
It's not lazy, it's insidious. They are twins who are always together so HOME SCHOOL kids don't think it's weird to ALWAYS be together and ONLY with people who think like you do.
"Jenny Nicholson's recent video." Is 5 years recent? lol
it was recent to me because i only watched it recently LOL. so that was a misspeak on my part
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS lol, that makes sense
I'm assuming Fred is Connor's self insert.
Checks out - he is the annoying grown man just lecturing children on individualism 😂
the doll running the book group looks like melissa joan hart 💀
As a triplet, the trope of twins or triplets who don’t have separate personalities and act exactly the same drives me crazy! Not doing that is one of the reasons I love the Ducktales reboot
hi savy. i dont have anything to add cuz havent watched da whole video but i love ur videos i say YIPPEE!! when a new one comes out. i like to eat my dinner to them
thanks!
Had a "debate" with someone the other day about why we shouldn't be getting rid of public schools. The libertarian/religious definitely don't want an educated populace, because then they are less easily exploited.
I would love to see you review a couple more of the books! I've heard that the one about the federal reserve throws in some anti-Semitism on top of this dumpster fire, but haven't seen anyone read the book and confirm it yet (i really don't want to buy it myself just to satisfy my curiosity)
I totally just watched the Fundie Fridays Twins video.
I love how you actually give good advice on how they can improve their books.
Also, still not being notified of new videos. I know that's not your fault, but WTF UA-cam?
If youre gonna shove your politics down kids' throat, at least have the decency to coat your propaganda in something that would ACTUALLY BE ENTERTAINING TO KIDS, like fantasy adventures or giant robot fights or some shit.
You're getting better at the stop motion skit motions, great job on the video Savy!
The Tuttle twins sound
Ike they make Rod and Todd Flanders seem interesting.
If you're going to talk about how libertarianism you've got to look at the Free Town Project, the town that was overtaken by libertarians, and then overrun by bears. Turns out publicly funded institutions whose job it is to do things like create coordinated efforts to handle a bear incursion into a local town are important, as are regulations requiring bear-proof garbage bins and preventing people from *feeding donuts to the wild bears that wander into their yard,* you know, just because they want to.
Grafton, NH. All I'm gonna say.
BEN AND ARTHUR.
I died. I love you, Savy.
it's iconic cinematic literature
Thank you for covering this!! Is it true that they've come out with textbooks as well, or am I just assuming that the fundies I saw homeschooling with Tuttle Twins books would actually do something like buy a textbook?
I'm surprised they haven't released 'The Tuttle Twins Learn About the Age of Consent', you'd think that would be the perfect book for their libertarian audience
I’m pretty sure that Charlie Brown never had to pick up the yard after Snoopy. Since Snoopy’s doghouse had a pool table and an Andrew Wyeth painting, it would make sense for it to have a beagle sized bathroom as well.
I like your doll skits. ❤
What I loved most about your reviews is that you always try to be open-minded toward the media you’re reviewing even if you don’t agree with it. You manage to be critical without being overly condescending. That’s at least one plus your review has over the Fundie Fridays review.
Thanks! I appreciate that, and I'm so glad you liked it! I think fundie Fridays did a great job with that too though!
As far as libertarianism (in the limited American sense) appealing to “book-smart” types, I think a lot depends on what you’re reading. I’m severely bookish, yet I’m essentially an anarcho-socialist greenie at heart.
It also depends on values you were raised with, family and culture, and lots of outside influences along the way. We are all those things plus whatever our unique body chemistry/spirit/whatever brings to the mix.
Arguing against taxes, because that reduces the amount of money you spend on charity is baffling. Why not all contribute to a common pot, and then decide together how to divide it up among the wants and needs in the group? I kind of think that Bastiat had a point that taxes are theft in a non-democratic historical context. But the US is founded from the principle that the taxed have a say in how the taxes are spent. I wonder how this author thinks of tithing? (Eds: spelling)
Oooh now I need to go check out said Star Wars Toys to see what she's talking about. My kids love Star Wars. I wanna see if they'd like them. They only ever want the 4" action figures with mobile joints.
it's actually a video from 5 years ago. great video, highly recommend it. i said "recent" because i'd watched it recently and my brain was fuzzy lol
Yeah I'm really sad that Jenny in almost a year.
if i was presented with this book as a kid, i think i would have assumed that this is how you were "supposed" to think and stuck with it until my views were challenged, but that's probably only because i'm (probably) autistic
I’m technically a left or social libertarian.
Left-libertarian: a political philosophy and type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality.
The Libertas kids can't hold a candle to the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers.
Re: not having public schools, I'm sure libertarian absolutists think that should fall under philanthropy too. The untaxed wealthy will choose to donate money for scholarships for all those who can't afford to pay tuition, or will fund free schools that aren't paid for by taxes.
My description of 99% of libertarians is: A man who doesn't realise that if the utopia he's fighting for comes about, he'll end up being a slave.
It's a measure of Bastiat's (proper pronunciation: Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel) derived libertarianism from Adam Smith, who was in real life and in his writings much closer to Marx than Thatcher.
Another Friday, another cool Savy video to watch.
I once tweeted about it and all I got was hate!
45:20 I saw a video about the book and a lot of bad reviews were from Libertarians that didn’t like the religious aspect of the book.
I really don't under the love affair American Libertarians have with Bastiat. Bastiat is of the French Liberal School. Albeit, they would claim that the law should protect private property, they also tend to favor helping the poor as well. Even Bastiat was in favor of the state having some resources to assist unfortunate people affected by changing conditions. They also saw a role for the government to support philanthropy, which libertarian
The entire Austrian school kind of took a corrupted view of these guys. In fact, Bastiat would have had some very harsh critics of Friedrich Hayek for kind of trying to be over his own humanity and being against the French system of mutual aid funds of the time.
The first thing to mention is Bastiat was also an official in the lower house in 1848 as what the French calls a Liberal Republican.
As an elected official he was against jailing people for unpaid debt, and against reduction of taxes on salt, but for banning political clubs. Not really a libertarian, now, ain't it? Libertarians would complain that Bastiat wanted higher taxes...
If you put Bastiat in context of France at the time, his critics make some sense, but he wouldn't agree with Today's American libertarian.
More, please!
9:50 No, no, it's just that we wanted a block of flats, not an abattoir.
Yesss to the Jenny Nicholson clip! GOATs supporting GOATs ❤
she's hilarious
10:40 Holy shit, I agree with Joe Brogan on something.
when he's not trying to grift, he sometimes has valuable things to say. it's a shame he's pandered too much to the bro pseudoscience world
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS yeah, those valuable points are rare punctuation marks on long paragraphs of absurd, awful positions and claims lol
11:30 Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point😅
FF shoutout! 🥰
Road to Surfdom. Amazing.
The doll segments just reminds me how much I miss The Most Popular Girls in School -_-
Libertarians: Bodily autonomy begins at the Y chromosome.
I think a lot of ideas around laws for conservatives, is that laws are lines on ground, where crossing them means a God(cop/government) has a flaming arrow of judgment drawn(loaded gun) to smight anyone who walk over said line. Where laws are meant to be sturdy walls made to discourage harmful behavior, whit a stern but understanding security man to take you back out the front gates while explaining why where you where is dangerous and/or potentaly harmful to yourself or others. Teach, don't punish, that is how you help a person become better.
Some are Born
Boring...
Some Achieve Boredom...
Yet...
Far More have Boring
Thrust Upon Them!!!
::scrolling down the recommended videos:: Man, I've either seen all these already or they're things I'll watch later. Hm...this sucks...
::sees this video:: HOLY FUCK YES THANK GOD I FOUND SOMETHING TO WATCH!!!
Legalized Plunder is what the term was - it’s very evocative.
45:15 I’m a Mormon, and a lot of this feels out of place to me. Yes, we believe that some of our rights come from God, but not all of them. As for the state religion thing, one of our holy texts has a passage that says “We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.” It would be a direct violation of our beliefs to mandate that anyone be forced to share them or worship in the same manner we do. It’s essential to our belief system that the state is not entangled with religion (at least on paper, although the early government of Utah certainly doesn’t square well with that).
His obsession with free market capitalism also feels really weird from my perspective. It’s not that he’s taking a stance that contradicts my religion, it just feels incongruous. I find it baffling that anyone can believe that we will one day live under the “law of consecration” (basically godly communism), but that providing social programs and ensuring that basic protections exist is a bad thing. We literally believe that a world without greed will eventually exist, and that in that time, wealth distribution will happen. We believe it’s actually already happened for a short while on a couple of occasions in localized areas. Also, the greed that is so implicit in so much of libertarianism feels like it flies in the face of Christianity to me. Christ taught his followers to give to the poor and needy, to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry. He said that “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” It’s just really weird to have Christians who are so reticent to things like social programs when the above is what Christ taught.
Oh man I’m excited about this one, the Facebook homeschool moms LOVE these books. 🫠
HOW DO THEY KEEP THEIR KIDS' ATTENTION WITH THEM?! they're sooooo boring!
When I heard of the Tuttle Twins, I thought it was something teaching kids libertarian principles in a way they can relate to. I didn’t realize it was just lecturing kids about government
Pretty sure life, liberty, and property was John Locke’s thing
Fun fact in our school district they separate the twins so they’re not competing against each other
Nah if a kid asks me for wisdom I'm snatching Pillars of The Earth 😂 I wanna get them interested in fictional medieval towns and church building 😅❤
you.. have a lot of American Girl dolls.
Thanks! I've got 21 official American Girl dolls (most bought in my late 20s, haha) and a whole collection of antique dolls, other doll lines like rainbow high, and more. I'm definitely a toy & model collector. So is my husband. You should see the rest of our house 😂 it's all shelves with toys & models on display
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS ive caught glimpses iof your collection n the background and your taste is great from what i can make out. Ive always thought there has be a drama-filled online collector community focused on American Girl, and i just havent found it yet.
33:51 (ish) At least according to Wikipedia, it's bahs-TYAH. Although if you want to piss off the French, you can also pronounce it bahs-TSYAH and say you're from Québec
😂😂😂 well i'm from Chicago and here we say ... However I pronounced it 😂
@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Same here (with Chicago). I just taught myself to do a Québecois accent, both because I feel like I'm way more likely to need French because of going to Canada than going to France, and because it *is* kinda fun to joke about pissing off France. So for example, I'm used to the word for "ten" being [dzɪs], not [dis]
Lol, wasn't expecting a based Rogan clip
Stop motion! Cool!
This sounds like the type of book that would lead to kids regecting libretariaism.
Actually, god didn't give us the ability to tell right from wrong, according to the story from their own "can't be wrong totally 100% correct" book we had to break the rules to get that ability. So there