We may not agree with all of your conclusions, but man you did your research, you watched the show and you had us rolling. 😂 Thank you for your thorough analysis and review.
This is pretty righteous, I like this sort of balls. It's either totally toxically unhinged or genuinely an earnest expression of goodwill that's commendable.. but it took balls either way. Also Mormon culture is a lot of things but you can't say it doesn't produce some strangely likeable and down to earth, but educated and shrewd libertarian i ID conservatives
One of my best childhood friends is working on her masters in library science. (For reference we graduated high school AND college almost 30 years ago ❤)
When you're putting together a kids' animated show, having a snobbish, catty rich girl as a secondary character has to be on your check-list. Having an uncommon hair colour, like a redhead, is a bonus. That said, I do dig the (admittedly rather basic) animation. The writing, however, leaves much to be desired.
Based on the clips of him explaining his beliefs, I think an American Girl book is a few comprehensive and philosophical levels above what he can safely tackle.
A teacher equally distributes pencils to the classes that the Tuttle twins are in. Grandma Gabby busts through a window landing on the teacher. The twins: Grandma! What are you doing? GG: No one teaches my grandkids socialism!
As it should be. There should be no bias in a public library. All sides should be represented. Mein Kampf should be there along with Marx. If we erase the worst parts of history, it can be repeated.
@@justkiddin84 Marx was a philosopher who wrote books and letters all day, what are you comparing him to Hitler for? I know the Red Scare never ended in America, but seeing Marx' economical and political theory as "dangerous literature" on par with the dull anti-semitic drivel of the greatest butcher of the 20th century is as insane as comparing Darwin to the writings of ISIS.
@@justkiddin84 This mostly does not apply to statues however, as their only purpose when not commemorating events is to glorify events or people. Hint hint, nudge nudge.
So this guy funded his libertarian propaganda with crowdsourcing? Couldn't he just pull himself up by his bootstraps and work hard to earn the money himself instead of taking handouts?
exactly what I thought, no effing way the dude said "give me money and I'll teach your kids how it is bad to give money to people who need it. Pleease I really need it"
@@justinle998 No it isn't. The whole (stupid) concept behind bootstrapping is literally not needing other people's contributions to succeed. It's a stupid ideology for people who don't understand how reality works.
Honestly, while it's hardly the most offensive warping of history The Tuttle Twins attempts, the idea that Calvin Coolidge--who not only lived through the Spanish Flu but was governor of Massachusetts during it--would be opposed to COVID precautions is baffling. Great work, King James! Your sacrifice of brain cells was not in vain.
According to the coolidge* foundation: Closures of public spaces, just as we are seeing today, were common in 1918. Movie theaters, dance-halls, and “other unnecessary places of public assembly” were ordered to close in and around Boston. Many churches and schools were also closed until the epidemic had passed. * he didn't merit a library ;-)
There seems to be a trend of American conservatives dumbing down adult topics like economics, religion, and guns and trying to make kids' shows about them, utterly failing to impart any understandable lesson and instead giving them slogans without any clear logic behind them. It's almost like they want to pack children's heads full of empty rhetoric about these issues before they're capable of understanding them so that when they encounter them in high school and college, they'll be too prejudiced to learn about complex issues with any sort of nuance.
That's a very common tactic from cults / high-control religions / restrictive political views to keep adult people in a constant state of adolescence. Makes them much easier to control.
I'll never understand how these people can say they love hands-off government and deregulation AND at the same time want the government to ban abortion and healthcare and trans people and everything they kind of dislike. (Also I enjoyed your exmo jokes)
The cognitive-dissonance that comes with their major brands and off-brands of religious "belief", I'd wager. But this is Fundie Fridays, so I guess we all saw that coming. Fundies gonna fund, I suppose.
It seems like they want a nation tailor made, for them exclusively, and to hell with everyone else. If you happen to be ill, homeless, living in poverty, or vulnerable in any other way, you're seen as expendable.
They really should just mind their own beeswax when it comes to what other people do. I did skim some episode where the Tuttle Twins were pretty much telling a bunch of starving school children that they shouldn't make the Indiana Jones explorer boy to give up his candy stash because "Everyone requires food, shelter, water but not everyone is entitled to the laborers that provide that stuff."
They want the government to control everyone else, but not stop them from abusing their children and plundering wealth. You see, rules exist to apply only to people they deem lesser.
I love how conservative/libertarian children's media is so obsessed with owning the libs or whatever that they almost always end up spurning lessons that are universally taught to children regardless of political/religious/etc background. So you end up with lessons like "sharing is bad," "you should be suspicious of people who are different than you," "some people are more equal than others," etc.
@@DiegoBPiqueridk man "love everyone" and "it is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle" make me think Jesus was a tiny bit red.
Me as a 17 year old, discovering libertarian bros for the first time: “wait, so you’re just like …….. conservatives who smoke weed??” Edit: because it’s two months later and people are still commenting on this telling me I’m wrong. You’re right, my comment was a simplification. Y’all are much worse.
The first few libertarians who I met supported gay marriage(because they thought restricting marriage was a government overreach), so my first time was “wait are these conservative who smoke weed and like the gays” 😂
One time I was talking with my conservative dad about the plight of venezuela. I told him that us sanctions are the cause. He then said that “they deserved it”. Worst sentiment I have ever heard. Never let them tell you that they care about the lives of Latin Americans, they clearly don’t.
They always talk about Venezuela while ignoring the many horrid capitalist failures(that we had many many hands in) in LatAm. This also explains how so many libertarians become altright racists, there can't be anything wrong with capitalism, there must be something wrong with the people.
Well you and your father are both incorrect. Sanctions came after the Venezuelan government moved away from democracy. Also the prime move in their economic troubles was betting everything on oil prices and then oil prices dropped. However now they have suffered a massive exodus so even if oil prices go up it will take many years for their economy to recover. A lot of American leftists have made clowns of themselves opining in Venezuela. Therefore, I suggest you talk to actual Venezuelans.
@xibalbalon8668 Including Americans raising cattle in the Amazon jungle, displacing the indigenous people and shooting at Brazilian government agents.
I think part of that attitude arises from the protection of Nazi’s by the Venezuelan government after (and during) WWII. For real. The CIA had to clean out some ‘rats nests’ down there. (Known now through FOIA). Left folks with a bad view of the country. Not fair to the citizens there, who were under a brutal dictatorship, but….
Just a teensy lil nitpick: The vote was for complete legalization of marijuana (in Utah), not just medical. I voted for this. The Mormons intervened, completely overstepping the popular vote (to no one's surprise), and now it's just medical use. There were also conflicts of interest involved, such as one state legislative being heavily tied to the medical marijuana industry. Mormons see Utah as completely their domain.
Mormons as an institution have a long-standing persecution narrative... and unfathomable amounts of power and wealth, which they either just hoard in a giant "financial black hole" or use exclusively to harm people in the name of their fanatical cult beliefs. If this is persecution and repression, maybe they weren't suppressed enough.
@@Gustoberg I've heard Utah referred to as a theocracy on more than one occasion. My wife has semi-jokingly referred to it as the Theocratic Republic of Utah. The Mormon church is heavily involved in running the state, to the point that I'm surprised when I find out a politician from Utah isn't mormon.
I will never forget this analogy I once read about libertarians; "Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
Somewhat related is this John Rogers quote: "There are two novels that’ll change a bookish 14-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings & Atlas Shrugged. One's a childish fantasy that engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to handle reality. The other’s about orcs."
That's a terrible fucking analogy. Cats are one of the most efficient predators on the planet. Hell the system they live in actively weakens them cause humans like to breed their pets to make them prettier while at the same time usually giving them birth defects and making them weaker. Who came up with this analogy? Have they never met a goddamn cat before? I don't even care about libertarianism I'm just appalled at such a shit analogy 💀
I’m so hype for this video. I’m a Youth Librarian and I had a patron request that we replace the books I bought about the fight for racial justice in America, indigenous rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and a biography anthology called Queer Heroes with Tuttle Twins books.
I'm in Texas and it makes me ill what Greg Abbott is doing to the school libraries here. I feel like he will not stop there. I love my library. It meant so much to me growing up and still today. When you don't have a lot of money, you can always find fun there for your kids. It's also the only refuge for homeless people so I'm sure they will all be turned into detention centers soon. 😢
@@nina.robbs565 propaganda is a part of history and an important part of research and understanding of history as well, I don't like stuff like the tuttle twins being in libraries either but it is just as fair as having any children's book teaching about gay families, something a conservative could genuinely feel is as damaging as we feel the tuttle twins are, alas. part of having a public service is having that service open to /anybody/. my sister's a public librarian (as opposed to a school librarian) at the research desk and a good part of that job is learning to not outwardly judge what someone needs to find. you don't know what a person searching out any book is doing with it. For example, King James using his library to be able to read these awful books without giving any money directly to the author, so he is able to more accurately let us, a wider audience, know how bad they are! Perfectly good reason why it might be good for a library to have propaganda among its shelves as well. one of the few things libertarians do have right is the government shouldn't be able to tell us what things are and aren't acceptable to ponder, hence libraries having whatever books they can have that people want to read.
I fully believe if these kids were real they’d grow up to absolutely hate each other. Emily probably would go to college and get “libralized” and learn to care about other people, while Ethan would sink further and further into his family’s teaching that everyone else’s problems are their own fault, nothing matters, and you should never help people. Emily would still show up to holidays and family gatherings despite her belief system being opposed to everything her family stands for and there would always be a horrible fight between the twins. Not speaking from experience or many friends I’ve seen live that out, of course 🙂
Been watching my cousin go through this exact situation since Covid except her parents said “don’t come back” when she moved out that year after the 10th screaming match with her dad since quarantine started. 🙃
Homeschool moms can be the worst. (And I say that as a homeschool mom, but not one of the crazy ones 😂. Ok, I may be crazy, but I’m not MAGA crazy 😂😂😂😂😂)
@@jahbern There's a big difference between moms who homeschool and "homeschool moms" lol The former are the ones giving their kids a good fact based education that prepares them to be successful adults, the later are the ones using weird conspiracy and religious propaganda disguised as educational curriculum.
@@jahbernthank you for being one of the pleasant ones. I think every library has their one awesome homeschool family. Some of my fave kiddo programming attendees were homeschoolers. There is so much potential, if ya do it right.
plot twist granny doesn't believe any of it and this is just a drawn-out scam for her to continuously refill her knowledge juice so she can keep going back in time to hook up with her conservative lovers
Additional/ Alternative Idea her mashine isn't even an actual time mashine but instead allows you to travel into the colective imagination of consevatives/libertarians
It’s bizarre for me too. Like I’ve seen some of them talk abt how “killing babies” wasn’t a “personal freedom” but like- by your own ideology it _is_ . The “baby” is inside you and it does not have the right to _be_ there without your permission, so if we’re really taking libertarianism to the extreme, you’d should have the right to yeetus that fetus at ANY stage. But it’s wrong because- “killing babies”? We have the right to shoot random people that step foot on our property but removing a fetus is where we draw the line??? I hate these hypocrites so much.
Left libs and the US Libertarian party are pro choice. Left libs tend to believe that taxes should be used only for public services, and that the govt should bugger off about things that consenting adults choose to do with their bodies and private property
Libertarianism is full of contradictions. The biggest of which is that they always take advantage of the things they say are bad, if it's in their favour. The only people who can hold such a contradictory ideology for very long are people who can circumvent cognitive dissonance. In this way, it's the perfect ideology for people who want to feel like they never do anything wrong, and other people are all lazy. You never have to think about other people's problems or how your decisions affect them. A lot of rich people hold this view for that very reason because the way they get their money is incredibly exploitative. Most people don't want to feel like they're evil, so Libertarianism absolves them of that. America has a lot of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, so it makes sense there would be a bunch.
Cuban woman here who just got back from finally being able to go to Cuba and learn about my heritage and I could go on forever about everything you said.
I wish that a disabled grandma with a suped up mobility aid was the lead in ANY other show. So curious if the show tries to tackle why you should let disabled and/or elderly people perish actually, because anything else is socialism 🙃. also super ironic the parents own a coffee shop when the author of the source material is mormon.
"Your right to reproduce is not under threat," he says... As important as it is to the conversation, let's put abortion care to the side for now. Disabled folks, prisoners, and refugees have all had their right to reproduce curbed by the US government, both historically and recently. Non-consenting folks have been forcibly sterilized even in the last couple of years in border control camps. California only banned sterilization in state prisons in 2014, due to the testimony of some very brave women who were sterilized without their consent. I'm not an American, but I did have a hysterectomy in my mid-20s. It was medically necessary, and it was MY CHOICE. I can't even imagine going through that without consenting, especially if I had wanted children.
Yeah, but those aren't desirable able-bodied white people, which is why they screech about "trans people transing and sterilizing your kids!!1!" instead. Dang, if only there was a word (or 14) for that contrast.
It’s possible to care about more than one issue at once? Why should we put abortions to the side? What about the disabled folks, prisoners, and refugees who also need access to this healthcare? What year did your country make these changes?
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10I don’t think she meant put aside abortion rights in terms of advocacy - just in terms of what her comment would focus on. Earlier in the video we saw someone saying that it was disingenuous to say that reproductive rights were under threat as he felt that women were free to have as many children as they liked. I think this commentor is addressing that notion in particular to indicate that - even if you were not moved by the advocacy for abortion access that there are other ways in which reproductive rights have been challenged including forced sterilization. She’s not saying that we can only advocate for one part of the issue or another, but that this area is a blind spot for a lot of supposedly pro-life advocates.
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 Of course it is possible to care about multiple things at once, and of course abortion care needs continuing advocacy - especially with American PACs funding both international and domestic anti-abortion lobbying. As AVspectre explained, I was zeroing in on a specific claim about the "right to reproduce" to refute it, and that does not take away from the importance of other aspects of reproductive care.
America secretly sterilized thousands of lower income women from the 70s to the 90s, all without their consent, a lot of them black and Hispanic. Of course you'll won't hear conservatives talk about that
The writing feels like it's trying to capture that "Gravity Falls" style of humor. The twins are essentially a gender-swapped Dipper and Mabel, and Grandma Gabby is their Grunkle Stan's unhinged personality mixed with Ford's knack for technology. Honestly? If it weren't pushing a gross political/economic agenda and didn't try to retell history, I feel like it could've been decent. Not _great_ by any means, but... decent.
@@lalas181Irony there is Aminty and Pacifica’s respective abusive parents are flat out capitalists who either sold out to a interdimensional entity for generations (the Northwest) or is a straight up war profiter (Ophelia Blight).
I kinda have to agree. Just listening to this video, I kept finding myself thinking “huh, you know, this show may not be perfect, but it seems cute enough and right up my alley” and then he brings up the political agenda and I’m like “oh, right, yeah. Gross libertarian/conservative propaganda. Goddammit it was so close.”
Can we also talk about how the liberal and liberal leaning (but don't worry she sees the light by the end of the episode) characters are both smart girls? I don't think this is an accident. It's a Libertarian show, but also please brainwash your girls into the "right thinking" young. Otherwise who will they become?
And lets not forget to teach the boys to never listen to the overly emotional and irrational girls. Smart girls can't be trusted, though they mean well. Poor things just need some guidance since their weak soft feminine side can't handle cold hard logic.
I used to be Libertarian. I thought that the free market would fix flaws better than government and that healthcare in the United States would be better and more affordable if we got government out of it, and that Cuba and North Korea were examples of how government fails. And I liked that Libertarians were in favor of drug decriminalization, gay marriage, and legalizing sex work. But Libertarians don't see systemic problems as real issues, like how they think that we don't need laws against hate crimes or discrimination because the free market will weed out the racists on its own. Despite claiming to not be Republicans, Libertarians seems to enjoy it when Republicans do terrible things because at least it owns the liberals. Also, let's be real, Libertarians are insufferable to talk to or be around.
Besides, shouldn't libertarians want decriminalization of things instead of legalization? Do people not understand what words mean or they just cling onto some and think that's enough?
@@mikehat7652 Legalizing sex work definitely a tenet of their beliefs. I guess that religious Libertarians wouldn't be as loud about that. Penn and Teller are proud Libertarian atheists. They used to have a show on Showtime called "Bullshit" and they did a whole episode about how prostitution should be legal. Maybe the reason you haven't heard this from Libertarians is that they're often louder about other things.
@@lilthepill777 I don't think that North Korea is an example of why the United States should continue to not have single-payer healthcare. I don't think that it's helpful for conservatives to bring up countries like North Korea any time we have a conversation about creating more taxpayer-funded safety nets. And like James said, with countries like Cuba and Venezuela and North Korea, it's not just socialism that caused the state of affairs they're in now. American intervention is a big reason why they're where they are today.
As a public librarian: Thank you James for supporting and using your local library! Also don’t forget to return the books you checked out so they don’t have to spend more resources replacing those awful books. 💙
my ex-fundie dad inspired me to become libertarian during the beginning of his mid-life crisis. i liked that they supported gay marriage and weed decriminalization, and there used to be a signifigant population of them who supported abortion. but now they’re turning more socially conservative, which completely goes against their “dont tread on me narrative“, and after leaving the ideology im started to see cracks in the original foundation itself. their inherent anti-union beliefs are the most distasteful to me, probably because of my appalachian heritage
How could a "real" libertarian be anti union? (Answer: because right wing libertarianism is inherently ideologically incoherent: it's "I want things my way and you can't do anything" without contemplating how you would compel everyone else to cooperate with that.) Even Adam Smith wrote that it was odd how producers were allowed to collude on prices (in the guild system) but if workers tried to collude on wages, that was illegal. He clearly found it morally and logically unsupportable. I think Republicans switched to Ayn Rand because someone made the mistake of actually *reading* Smith. Republicans prefer to put words in Smith's mouth and claim he was a proponent of their version of "laissez faire capitalism."
true! and even ayn rand was an atheist who called religion stupid, so they’ll never be able to find someone who completely matches their beliefs verbatim
@@francisnopantses1108Unions decrease the ability the rich have to abuse people. Libertarians have alays asupported rich people's rights to abuse their power and influence, so they are firmly anti-union
Instead of lowering the wages of the toy designer wages to raise others, the CEO could IDK, use some of his gross profit margins of the company to raise company wages.
BLASPHEMY!!!! FOR SHAME!!! The ghosts of Saint Ronald Reagan and Saint Ayn Rand shall surely visit thee (along with a diminutive Cuban Abuela) to show you the error of your ways. /S
@@Karinah1414 right? And to say that pro-choice is a manipulation of language when no, we literally want you to have any choice that you and your doctor deem best including the choice to have children if you want to. They don't seem to realize or care that a government that can force you to have children can also force you NOT to have them if it serves their end goal.
@@susanstephan7689It's always good to remember that there are groups of people who have had their rights to reproduce restricted, mostly disabled people, but some black folks in the USA have been subjected to forced sterilizations, some as recent as the 2000s
I absolutely love when people say, “reproductive rights” instead of murder. I don’t know about you President Snow, but I’m not in favor of killing small children.
I taught Pangur to come give me cuddles when I patted my chest. Now he climbs on me and slaps my chest when he wants cuddles. If I don't hold him he slaps my face. He does sit up like a gopher when he wants treats, though. It was the first trick I taught him.
@irradiated_woman8016 yes, and he's the smartest and naughtiest cat I have ever come across. He's named after a 9th century Irish poem about a cat named Pangur. My other two cats are ragdolls, very sweet, gentle and placid, but not very smart. Pangur drives me nuts with his constant demands and behaviour, but he also understands over a dozen hand signals. He's the Russian x domestic in my pfp.
@@angelawossname what an absolute mensch, and so handsome! I also have three :D two middle-aged grey Siamese littermates-George and Mischa-who are both wicked smart and chatty. Otis is the baby at 2, cow-print shorthair, and a bit simple and uncoordinated. He's the one I got sitting up for pets-exciting given his... Challenges. Lol.
57:00 woah woah woah, did grandma just mention Patents? A government enforced restriction on people replicating useful tools? That doesn't sound very libertarian of her.
"To understand why the governments shouldn't print money, you must first understand inflation, which is the 34th rule of economics. For more information, google 'inflation rule 34'."
I am thrilled for this episode. I’m a secular mom who homeschools. My mom gifted us the TT books years ago. They are PLAIN AWFUL. Aside the problematic seeds in them and the centering of only white characters, the narrative quality is SO bad. Connor Boyack is *not* a childrens author. He could have atleast outsourced the writing to anyone with an ounce of skill for narrative writing. Those books are as dry as old bread. Even if they had great messaging I couldn’t subject my kids to them past the first book
Hi! I'm a secular mom too. Although my daughter is only a month old, my partner and I have already agreed that we'd like to homeschool her for various reasons. Just curious, what brands/products do you recommend for effective schooling without the religious and political propaganda? Seems like all the resources for homeschooling that I have found are very much marketed to religious folks and conservatives.
@@MoonMamaCreationsim homeschooled although I'm not familiar with how curriculum is chosen I can point you to some stuff! The group I homeschool with is Christian but at least thankfully at the high school level there's secular sources used too, I'll list some stuff I remember using in another reply
@@MoonMamaCreationsmost of the stuff I've used were Canadian based so keep that in mind. Evan-moor, chalkboard publishing, and Nelson are ones I can definitely vouch for. I'd also definitely recommend checking out any local teachers stores near you and puruse the selection of materials they have, that's where most of mine was bought!
@@MoonMamaCreations I highly recommend Curiosity Chronicles. It's a global history from a secular (truly secular) view, that addresses religion in their cultural contexts, highlights some amazing people around the globe, and makes connections that Eurocentric texts fail to make. It's fun & approachable, though some people hate the conversation format (you can ignore it, or pass the book, or listen to the audio. my kid LOVES the audio and I can't stand Ted's voice, but he's learning so that's what matters). The workbook has enough variety to keep the kids engaged (don't do everything each chapter, just pick a few activities).
@@MoonMamaCreationsHey I'm a secular homeschool mom as well. It's actually not too hard to find secular stuff if you know where to look, and there are several FB groups for secular homeschool families to share resources. There's an increasing number of people who are homeschooling because the public schools are too conservative, teaching whitewashed history, not accepting of LGBTQ+ students, etc so it's only becoming easier. For science we use either public school resources or Real Science Odyssey. Social Studies we use Woke History, DK Eyewitness books, Smithsonian books, documentaries, etc. For math we use Megageex and coloringsquared in elementary and Math-U-See afterward. For English we use Reading for All Learners, Evan-Moor, SuperGrammar, public school resources, and Complete Curriculum.
Whenever I see people my age (millennials) complaining about how boring learning history was growing up I always roll my eyes because there was a HUGE amount of awesome historical fiction coming out when we were kids. It was the heydey of American Girl, Magic Tree House, and Dear America-history was ACTIVELY being made more fun and accessible to kids. Even if your teacher was shitty, there was a ton at cool stuff at the library! Historical fiction is still one of the most popular kids book genres, and we have even better (and more diverse) stuff now! All he's doing is revealing that he's never had ANY curiosity about history besides confirming his own views.
now, tell me if I'm wrong on this, but between this and Prager U's Leo and Layla, I can't help but wonder if there's a trend where right leaning historical fiction/material like to do time travel to essentially have puppets of real people talk directly to the characters and audience, while more neutral or left leaning works will either avoid any time travel, or aim for a more spectator/voyeristic approach to it. watching things happen without the cast directly getting involved. This is mostly coming from some vague memories of those shows so I'm just wondering if I'm correct on that assumption.
Shout out Rebecca the American Girl, still think about you getting concussed with a rock at the labor march. Also lemonade and hanging out with yr cousin on the fire escape
@@Ehibika I personally don't know any American cartoons that do the same thing as the Tuttle Twins (created by exclusively conservative streaming platform, for the sake of teaching kids a conservative worldview and idea of history in order to "counteract mainstream progressive culture") from a left-wing perspective, but I do know a lot of popular childrens' shows and comic books from the USSR and DDR did include time travel in order to teach kids about history in an interesting way. Though it seems the American left understandably has a different attitude to history in general. If there would be a time-travelling childrens' show created by and for American progressives, it would probably rather focus on labor history or joining John Brown in his rebellion than meet the Founding Fathers.
As a Homeschoolin' Mama of 3 in Alabama? One of the aspects of WHY I chose this learning journey with my kiddos is to keep them AWAY from rubbish like this! Just Sayin'....not all Homeschoolers are Fundie! LOL Thank you for another great video! I always look forward to Fridays and watching the two of you share your thoughts on the topics of the day or the past. Take care and be well.
Yeah, with the school system in Alabama, homeschooling isn't just for fundies anymore. I wonder if it is actually kind of flipped on its head down there with fundies sending kids to public schools and sane people taking on the task of homeschooling?
Had the same thought that "Wow, I'm shocked they 'went woke' and made the kids mixed race in the cartoon" But as soon as you said the grandmother was Cuban...
Such a great point, James, that I think a lot of people deliberately miss: It wasn't the course content of college that made me more open minded (I went to music school at a time when there was hardly even a mention of women composers, for example.), it was meeting people who were different from me, listening to their stories, and caring about them as fellow human beings that brought about a change. It was discovering that the people my church was preaching against weren't who my church told me they were.
Even as someone who's been fairly left-leaning most of my life, there's something so different about just understanding on paper that minorities deserve rights versus actually getting to meet people who have vastly different lives than you. It makes you realize biases you didn't know you were holding onto or just issues you'd never had to personally consider.
As a library employee, thank you! Libraries are awesome. They are the best run departments in government (especially for how underfunded they are). The insane amount of services libraries offer shocked me! Some states even let you borrow passes to state parks from your library! Or some libraries have maker spaces with cool equipment you can use to make stuff. I interned at a college library that lent out graphing calculators! Like seriously if you need something or have a question, go to your library.
As a Cuban/Spanish American, thank you so much for explaining what really happened to my family's home country. I know all too well how easy it is for many of our elder generation Cubans to blame socialism and liberals for what happened to Cuba. They often forget that the American Government tried to colonize Cuba after we broke away from Spain. I wish more of the elder Cubans and Americans understood what really happened but I also understand that they have lived with the trauma of the Revolution and how it has been passed on to generations, including mine and younger. It also explains why so many go the Republican/Libertarian path, even though those groups have harmed us more than they helped.
@@92JazzQueenWhen you're asked to compare Cuba pre-revolution to post-revolution, it's to help gauge how much you actually know about the subject matter. That you would not only fail to answer the question, but insist that asking the question is doing "apologetics for authoritarianism", is proof that you know nothing. When a dictator comes to power by staging a coup twice, suspends the country's constitution, stagnates the country's economy by funneling the resources to foreign investors, and quells dissent by censoring the news and hosting public executions, that's Authoritarianism. The only reason you don't know about that, of course, is because Fulgencio Batista wasn't a communist.
Keeping the tuttle twins books intentionally past due to protect children has the same energy as the time I took a copy of Atlas Shrugged from a little free library box just to take it out of circulation
its funny how they portray gandhi because he actually was a socialist albeit a non marxist variant of it influenced by hinduism but many indian right wingers partially blame him for why india was somewhat nominally socialist for most of the 20th century
You know, I never realized that libertarianism leaned so conservative. It was always explained to me as my right to be a gun toting lesbian weed farmer who can drink raw milk in an abortion clinic without the government telling me no. I didn't realize it was more economically based.
Are we not just gonna address that the jazzy has duct tape on it. Meaning Grandpa couldn't actually afford repair or replacement. That.... dun dun dun... the government could've actual provided.
I always thought libertarians would be pro choice since it’s less gov control over your life and body, but when they aren’t, it really reveals that they’re just conservatives with a thin veneer. Also, Hawaiian here, we have a pretty visible Mormon population here and even a BYU campus. Despite being, ya know, Mormons, they did a lot of work preserving native Hawaiian lineage records and run the Polynesian cultural center. Still a red flag personally to be a Mormon but fun facts.
They literally do. They don't care about preserving the culture or religions of other people, but they DO care a lot about ancestry and lineage since it's necessary for them to get baptized for those who were "unfortunate" enough to have died without the gospel.
Your comment is actually why it bothers me tht you and countless uninformed others get to vote. Economics should be made compulsory for this reason and the social issues you can figure out on your own
I’m a high school senior, and I’ve been homeschooled since kindergarten. I am enrolled into a Christian co-op and they have a whole elective class this year for younger kids based off of the Tuttle Twins. I’ve been curious as to what it was teaching, (I read a couple of the books in my day and honestly I was more confused than anything) and yeah… people are actually buying this curriculum.
Great video!! I’m a librarian and your hype for our public libraries made me smile! I’m turning a blind eye to those “lost” books 😉 (Rest of you tho… no, no. Libraries are for everyone, even the libertarians who begrudgingly pass through our doors, haha)
Because the show creators are uncreative ghouls who understand the long history of stealing/appropriating art from POC for fun and profit. They truly are the Elvises of children's propaganda.
@@colleenfrederick9590They're not really inventing the wheel here, but nobody else is, either. Their mean girl's similar to Amaryllis, the big bad of High Guardian Spice.
Because it is. There's not a crumb of originality to be had in their art or message. The bits that are likeable tug at your sense of nostalgia just enough to draw you in. It's insidious.
I'm 16 and homeschooled and my parents are incredibly conservative. They bought me most of the books in the Tuttle Twins series last year in attempt to incorporate it into my schoolwork, despite the many times I told them I did not want them, and got mad at me for not reading them because they "spent so much money on them". I managed to flip through a couple of the books before completely giving up due to how dull they were and how obvious it was that they were only trying to spread their gross ideals to children in a way that just felt empty and devoid of any personality or memorability. The art style was plain, the dialogue was uninteresting, and obviously the messages were just plain trash. Plus, the questionnaires at the end only made it worse. At least the show actually seemed more creative, but it really shouldn't exist at all. Still disappointed that my parents spent money on a book series that will only collect dust in a forgotten corner somewhere in my closet.
I'm really sorry for your situation. Your parents clearly don't respect your intelligence at all if they're giving you dumb books meant for CHILDREN, not teenagers.
Hi, I'm a library worker and I've enjoyed your channel for a while. Thanks for shouting out your local library! Also for talking about this... thing. I've seen Tuttle Twins books circulating an awful lot in the library where I work, and I didn't know too much about them (though I definitely got "huh, this is weird propaganda" vibes from reading the summaries) and now that I know what it is... well, I can't say I'm a fan. Hope your library doesn't hit you with too many late fees for keeping the books too long. Honestly, if it was me, I'd waive the fees entirely--you're doing a great service, lol
Thank you for covering this. A frightening number of supposedly "secular" homeschoolers recommend this show/curriculum as if it is somehow accurate or even neutral, when it's very clearly excessively inaccurate rightwing propaganda.
Sadly many libertarians are also non-religious or are anti-religious. You don't need religion to be a greedy, selfish, self-centered dingus. But to be fair (and balanced), religion does help.
@@randomcdude4430 Religion tends to help any position and perspective, really. You just see it used by greedy dinguses because greedy dinguses tend to be the ones in power.
When I was in college a professor told me that Libertarian is just code for "I'm a Republican but I like weed" and I have yet to have that disproven if not literally then in spirit.
Even one is one too many! I’m tired of these freaks on “reality” television making Christianity and things like homeschooling a total joke. 1. There ARE good, loving, non judgmental Christians who really do love others. And 2. There ARE legit homeschoolers who are taught well, and go onto reputable universities.
@@mj6962 I totally agree with you. Reality television showcases people who make a mockery out of Christianity and homeschooling. People see them and think all Christians are bigots and hate mongers. Everyone is welcomed at my church with love and acceptance. No judgement. My sister home schools. If I find out something or someone sinister is behind a home schooling platform, I warn her about it.
It was produced purely as a grift to get money from Mormon schools. I think it's not unlikely for them to scam enough people out of their money to get some profit. They never wanted to make art or even anything entertaining. It was about profit from pandering to fundementalist ideology from the absolute inception.
Hey, if you want a more fun book series for kids that teaches history, look into horrible histories - books and show are funny and gross in the way kids love!
My Dad gave the whole series to my kids for Christmas last year 😭 He keeps asking if my oldest (8 at the time) read them yet to learn “real history” and about “the economy”. No Dad. I’ve hid them far, far away. An American Girl doll with the books would have been better 🥲
My brother went libertarian in high school, and I read a couple of his books because it sounded appealing at first. And then I realized both of the (of course) men who wrote the books were pro-forced birth, and I was like: I see, freedom for thee but not for me. Eff libertarianism.
Connor trying to pretend that the right to abstain from participating isnt apart of any types of rights makes me somewhat understand how conservatives tend to give me vibes of like. Only understanding enough about human rights to know that it applies to them, no one else though somehow. EDIT: to be exact that they try to conflate as many things together as possible. Reproductive rights and the right to consent to sex *on your own terms* are seperate but conservatives conflate them. The right to get married into a monogamous heterosexual marriage & have bio kids and the right to *marry anyone whom you love and loves you back* are seperate but conservatives tend to conflate the two when it comes to gay marriage rights. Fucking hate that.
Just over an hour into the video and it has dawned on me that these are not the same as those Prager U kids that also visit historic figures. Terrifying that there’s more than one of these shows… Excellent job as always, James! Thanks for subjecting yourself to this garbage for our entertainment and education.
Of course there is. You remember how those conservative groups and politicians love that one Hiltler quote about "[he who controls the children, controls the future]" or whatever (I only loosely know the quote from news stories about politicians saying it at rallies and Moms for Liberty printing it in their news letter). I mean the people who attended American Nazi party or American Bund rallies before WWII didn't just disappear and now their grandkids are saying the quiet part out loud.
This would be a fun show to do a drinking game to. "take a shot every time they misrepresent social democracy" "take a shot every time they make equality and rights seem like bad things"
Older, selfish genius relative who takes their grandkids on interdimensional adventures through using a green juice? Grandma Gabby is just Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty... This is not a favorable comparison to be clear
Thank you for covering this. My libertarian cousin and his wife homeschool their kids (well, the wife actually does) with the Ron Paul curriculum (I shit you not), and they use Tuttle Twins books as part of their curriculum. I knew the Tuttle Twins were bonkers, but I had no idea how much so. Also, I had no idea there was a TV adaptation!
I'm a second-gen Cuban-American on my mom's side. Unlike most Cubans in the US, my Cuban family made it to the NYC metro area. They arrived before the revolution, so my family came not because of Fidel, but because they hated Batista. So I'm a leftist and my family is left-leaning. NYC-metro Cubans are left-leaning in general, but we're often grouped together with our Florida counterparts since of course most are in Florida. My mom grew up in northern NJ, but her family briefly lived in Miami (because her parents missed Cuba's climate) and her dad had to hide the fact he was a Castroist because of all the anti-Fidel people in Miami. She hated the weather and moved back to the Northeast. That aside, their thing on how communism "ruined" Cuba is very much one sided, and I agree that Americans should stop criticizing Cuba when we're the ones that backed awful people like Batista and then a massive embargo against the island because we were mad the guy we wanted to rule was overthrown by the common people who were fed up that foreigners owned majority of arable land while the majority starved. Their thing completely ignores why the Cuban Revolution happened. The only people who benefited from Batista were the elite and Americans. And before him, the US effectively controlled Cuban politics since Cuba's independence, like with the Platt Amendment that allowed the US to intervene whenever.
I attend the largest state ran college in Utah, and literally this week libertas had a table set up in one of the main halls. I distinctly remember it because I remember thinking "hmm that looks like a table that is trying to trap you into debating with them about their "agenda"". I guess I was right lol. It had a red table cloth with the libertas logo on it and then I kid you not a CARDBOARD sign written on it with marker that said something along the lines of "want to have conversations about intellectual topics?" It kind of gave me the ick
Grandma should travel back in time to discover why all the great ancient civilizations & thinkers evolved in warm climates near major bodies of water. Improvement & invention are luxuries for those who are having their basic needs met. This can’t happen in survival mode. Food, water, basic shelter are NEEDS. The McMansion the builder is peddling & that coffee shop are wants. Also, Mormons drink coffee?
I appreciate the jokes for ex mormons lmao ✌️ also it’s so wild to me when you two cover mormon topics because these are people that I’ve met or I know people who have met them, they’re my neighbors, they’re my community and it’s so wild to be here watching this. 😅
So stoked to see Tariq shouted out. I struggled to choose only one of his videos to add to my teacher education playlist that I make teachers getting their licenses and new teachers watch ❤
We may not agree with all of your conclusions, but man you did your research, you watched the show and you had us rolling. 😂 Thank you for your thorough analysis and review.
Welcome to the channel and thanks for being such good sports!
Let's get a Fundie Fridays Tuttle Twins collab!
This is pretty righteous, I like this sort of balls. It's either totally toxically unhinged or genuinely an earnest expression of goodwill that's commendable.. but it took balls either way.
Also Mormon culture is a lot of things but you can't say it doesn't produce some strangely likeable and down to earth, but educated and shrewd libertarian i
ID conservatives
Lawson Bates could NEVER.
King James is so powerful he even charmed the tuttle twins in question...
as a library worker i genuinely really appreciate you shouting out libraries and emphasizing their importance!!
Thank you for being a library worker
One of my best childhood friends is working on her masters in library science. (For reference we graduated high school AND college almost 30 years ago ❤)
@@jahbern that’s awesome!! good luck to her 😊
Me too. My great grandmother, grandmother, and mother were all librarians and I used to work as a library aide. We love libraries in our family lol. 💜
As a library worker, I agree, and approve of the keeping of these crappy books.
Ok but Karin's "Beware of Dog and Capitalism" sign? If it wasn't so sincere it would be PEAK camp
I want one of those.
I came for the link to that decal and the “no step on sneak” one.
When you're putting together a kids' animated show, having a snobbish, catty rich girl as a secondary character has to be on your check-list. Having an uncommon hair colour, like a redhead, is a bonus.
That said, I do dig the (admittedly rather basic) animation. The writing, however, leaves much to be desired.
That and the Angry Eyes of Marx lol
😂❤
Connor: I think there should be fun and interesting books about history!
The American Girl Books: are we a joke to you Connor?
American girl books and made for TV movies were a staple of my childhood
Based on the clips of him explaining his beliefs, I think an American Girl book is a few comprehensive and philosophical levels above what he can safely tackle.
The Liberty Kids Cartoon: oh fr? On god? Just like that?
@@HausOfRatbagyup, and there's some of them that are **gasps, feigns shock** pro-union?!?
@@OneSadSouljahcame here to stan liberties kids
A teacher equally distributes pencils to the classes that the Tuttle twins are in.
Grandma Gabby busts through a window landing on the teacher.
The twins: Grandma! What are you doing?
GG: No one teaches my grandkids socialism!
😂😂😂
I love how the local tax supported library was so helpful in researching a libertarian propaganda group
😂 I lost it at that part
As it should be. There should be no bias in a public library. All sides should be represented. Mein Kampf should be there along with Marx. If we erase the worst parts of history, it can be repeated.
@@frankmancini also lost it (and loved it)
@@justkiddin84 Marx was a philosopher who wrote books and letters all day, what are you comparing him to Hitler for? I know the Red Scare never ended in America, but seeing Marx' economical and political theory as "dangerous literature" on par with the dull anti-semitic drivel of the greatest butcher of the 20th century is as insane as comparing Darwin to the writings of ISIS.
@@justkiddin84 This mostly does not apply to statues however, as their only purpose when not commemorating events is to glorify events or people.
Hint hint, nudge nudge.
So this guy funded his libertarian propaganda with crowdsourcing? Couldn't he just pull himself up by his bootstraps and work hard to earn the money himself instead of taking handouts?
Truly living a Rand-like life.
exactly what I thought, no effing way the dude said "give me money and I'll teach your kids how it is bad to give money to people who need it. Pleease I really need it"
@@justinle998 No it isn't. The whole (stupid) concept behind bootstrapping is literally not needing other people's contributions to succeed. It's a stupid ideology for people who don't understand how reality works.
Seams pretty communist to me
They had to do that with one of the Atlas Shrugged movies too.
Honestly, while it's hardly the most offensive warping of history The Tuttle Twins attempts, the idea that Calvin Coolidge--who not only lived through the Spanish Flu but was governor of Massachusetts during it--would be opposed to COVID precautions is baffling.
Great work, King James! Your sacrifice of brain cells was not in vain.
Makes sense. It’s makes no sense.
According to the coolidge* foundation:
Closures of public spaces, just as we are seeing today, were common in 1918. Movie theaters, dance-halls, and “other unnecessary places of public assembly” were ordered to close in and around Boston. Many churches and schools were also closed until the epidemic had passed.
* he didn't merit a library ;-)
@@LeafHuntress which makes this video(the episode of the show) Egerious
@@noahbossier1131an early member of the Roman royals? Or egregious?
@@justkiddin84 typo it was egerious
There seems to be a trend of American conservatives dumbing down adult topics like economics, religion, and guns and trying to make kids' shows about them, utterly failing to impart any understandable lesson and instead giving them slogans without any clear logic behind them. It's almost like they want to pack children's heads full of empty rhetoric about these issues before they're capable of understanding them so that when they encounter them in high school and college, they'll be too prejudiced to learn about complex issues with any sort of nuance.
"The woke left keeps indoctrinating our kids with propaganda!" they say in response to kids being told that trans people exist.
That's a very common tactic from cults / high-control religions / restrictive political views to keep adult people in a constant state of adolescence. Makes them much easier to control.
@@lady8jane Authoritarianism and being deathly afraid of people actually learning or understanding anything. Name a more iconic duo, eh?
Damn, you nailed it! Incredibly well put.
Whoop! There it is!
I'll never understand how these people can say they love hands-off government and deregulation AND at the same time want the government to ban abortion and healthcare and trans people and everything they kind of dislike. (Also I enjoyed your exmo jokes)
Conservatives have never had a consistent ideology.
The cognitive-dissonance that comes with their major brands and off-brands of religious "belief", I'd wager.
But this is Fundie Fridays, so I guess we all saw that coming.
Fundies gonna fund, I suppose.
It seems like they want a nation tailor made, for them exclusively, and to hell with everyone else. If you happen to be ill, homeless, living in poverty, or vulnerable in any other way, you're seen as expendable.
They really should just mind their own beeswax when it comes to what other people do.
I did skim some episode where the Tuttle Twins were pretty much telling a bunch of starving school children that they shouldn't make the Indiana Jones explorer boy to give up his candy stash because "Everyone requires food, shelter, water but not everyone is entitled to the laborers that provide that stuff."
They want the government to control everyone else, but not stop them from abusing their children and plundering wealth. You see, rules exist to apply only to people they deem lesser.
I love how conservative/libertarian children's media is so obsessed with owning the libs or whatever that they almost always end up spurning lessons that are universally taught to children regardless of political/religious/etc background. So you end up with lessons like "sharing is bad," "you should be suspicious of people who are different than you," "some people are more equal than others," etc.
Well, these folks are attacking ministers teaching the Sermon on the Mount for pushing a liberal agenda.🙄 Sigh.
@bingchungusJesus wasn’t a socialist but this people would definitely label him that if they really paid attention to the gospel
@@DiegoBPiquerAmen Did I do that correctly?
@@DiegoBPiqueridk man "love everyone" and "it is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle" make me think Jesus was a tiny bit red.
@@froglegstastebestsalted that's really why he got crucified. the romans were historically bitter enemies of the communists
"Rights aren't the same as needs" is such a horrifying quote, and I can't believe it's in a kid's show
They aren't the same thing though...
I hope people see how valuable your opinion is after they realize you can't understand the difference between needs and rights.
@@dustinabcShouldn’t certain needs be rights?
@@dustinabc Many needs are rights... like food and water.
@@avlaenamnell6994neither of those things are considered rights in America.
Me as a 17 year old, discovering libertarian bros for the first time: “wait, so you’re just like …….. conservatives who smoke weed??”
Edit: because it’s two months later and people are still commenting on this telling me I’m wrong. You’re right, my comment was a simplification. Y’all are much worse.
The first few libertarians who I met supported gay marriage(because they thought restricting marriage was a government overreach), so my first time was “wait are these conservative who smoke weed and like the gays” 😂
Whether the ‘right’ or ‘libertarian’ part of their ideology comes first depends entirely on what the subject is
THATS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING
@@Izzy_jamin 2006, the libertarians were just homophobic r@cist rich kids who did drugs, no support for gay (or even interracial) marriage
Conservatives who smoke weed and have very questionable views on age of consent. So basically conservatives.
One time I was talking with my conservative dad about the plight of venezuela. I told him that us sanctions are the cause. He then said that “they deserved it”. Worst sentiment I have ever heard. Never let them tell you that they care about the lives of Latin Americans, they clearly don’t.
They always talk about Venezuela while ignoring the many horrid capitalist failures(that we had many many hands in) in LatAm. This also explains how so many libertarians become altright racists, there can't be anything wrong with capitalism, there must be something wrong with the people.
Well you and your father are both incorrect. Sanctions came after the Venezuelan government moved away from democracy. Also the prime move in their economic troubles was betting everything on oil prices and then oil prices dropped. However now they have suffered a massive exodus so even if oil prices go up it will take many years for their economy to recover.
A lot of American leftists have made clowns of themselves opining in Venezuela. Therefore, I suggest you talk to actual Venezuelans.
@xibalbalon8668 Including Americans raising cattle in the Amazon jungle, displacing the indigenous people and shooting at Brazilian government agents.
I've heard this a disturbing number of times.
I think part of that attitude arises from the protection of Nazi’s by the Venezuelan government after (and during) WWII. For real. The CIA had to clean out some ‘rats nests’ down there. (Known now through FOIA). Left folks with a bad view of the country. Not fair to the citizens there, who were under a brutal dictatorship, but….
Just a teensy lil nitpick: The vote was for complete legalization of marijuana (in Utah), not just medical. I voted for this. The Mormons intervened, completely overstepping the popular vote (to no one's surprise), and now it's just medical use. There were also conflicts of interest involved, such as one state legislative being heavily tied to the medical marijuana industry.
Mormons see Utah as completely their domain.
"Mormons see Utah as completely their domain."
No wonder it's such a shithole...
Mormons as an institution have a long-standing persecution narrative... and unfathomable amounts of power and wealth, which they either just hoard in a giant "financial black hole" or use exclusively to harm people in the name of their fanatical cult beliefs.
If this is persecution and repression, maybe they weren't suppressed enough.
w... what? can they just do this? Can a religious entity just ignore all the votes and say no? So much for separation of church and state huh?
@@Gustoberg I've heard Utah referred to as a theocracy on more than one occasion. My wife has semi-jokingly referred to it as the Theocratic Republic of Utah. The Mormon church is heavily involved in running the state, to the point that I'm surprised when I find out a politician from Utah isn't mormon.
@@Gustoberglook up Mormon history. Utah was basically founded as Mormon Land.
I will never forget this analogy I once read about libertarians;
"Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
hey now, my cat is sweet, caring, and intelligent, don't you dare compare her to those cretins!
That’s an insult to cats
Somewhat related is this John Rogers quote: "There are two novels that’ll change a bookish 14-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings & Atlas Shrugged. One's a childish fantasy that engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to handle reality. The other’s about orcs."
That's a terrible fucking analogy. Cats are one of the most efficient predators on the planet. Hell the system they live in actively weakens them cause humans like to breed their pets to make them prettier while at the same time usually giving them birth defects and making them weaker. Who came up with this analogy? Have they never met a goddamn cat before? I don't even care about libertarianism I'm just appalled at such a shit analogy 💀
I could say the same about any political affiliation lol
I’m so hype for this video. I’m a Youth Librarian and I had a patron request that we replace the books I bought about the fight for racial justice in America, indigenous rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and a biography anthology called Queer Heroes with Tuttle Twins books.
I'm in Texas and it makes me ill what Greg Abbott is doing to the school libraries here. I feel like he will not stop there. I love my library. It meant so much to me growing up and still today. When you don't have a lot of money, you can always find fun there for your kids.
It's also the only refuge for homeless people so I'm sure they will all be turned into detention centers soon. 😢
NOOOO WHAT!!!! This stuff makes me sick. Also that’s awesome your a librarian!!!
I hope yo also have these awful books. It’s not a good thing to be biased in any way in a library.
@@justkiddin84it's perfectly fine to not carry factually incorrect propaganda in a building meant for education??
@@nina.robbs565 propaganda is a part of history and an important part of research and understanding of history as well, I don't like stuff like the tuttle twins being in libraries either but it is just as fair as having any children's book teaching about gay families, something a conservative could genuinely feel is as damaging as we feel the tuttle twins are, alas.
part of having a public service is having that service open to /anybody/. my sister's a public librarian (as opposed to a school librarian) at the research desk and a good part of that job is learning to not outwardly judge what someone needs to find. you don't know what a person searching out any book is doing with it. For example, King James using his library to be able to read these awful books without giving any money directly to the author, so he is able to more accurately let us, a wider audience, know how bad they are! Perfectly good reason why it might be good for a library to have propaganda among its shelves as well.
one of the few things libertarians do have right is the government shouldn't be able to tell us what things are and aren't acceptable to ponder, hence libraries having whatever books they can have that people want to read.
I fully believe if these kids were real they’d grow up to absolutely hate each other. Emily probably would go to college and get “libralized” and learn to care about other people, while Ethan would sink further and further into his family’s teaching that everyone else’s problems are their own fault, nothing matters, and you should never help people. Emily would still show up to holidays and family gatherings despite her belief system being opposed to everything her family stands for and there would always be a horrible fight between the twins.
Not speaking from experience or many friends I’ve seen live that out, of course 🙂
Been watching my cousin go through this exact situation since Covid except her parents said “don’t come back” when she moved out that year after the 10th screaming match with her dad since quarantine started. 🙃
Ethan would 100% grow up and wind up in jail for doing their universe's equivalent of Jan 6th, probably after being identified by Emily in news clips.
He’d definitely be one of them dudes in his mid 20’s with a patchy beard and a baseball hat permanently covering a balding head
Tbh that kinda seems to happen in many families with conservative/Republican ideologies
I have seen a lot be iberals and they abuse the concept of care to be the worst.
I'm so excited. I had a Christian homeschool mom big mad at me because I said the Tuttle Twin books were badly written libertarian schlock. 😂
Homeschool moms can be the worst. (And I say that as a homeschool mom, but not one of the crazy ones 😂. Ok, I may be crazy, but I’m not MAGA crazy 😂😂😂😂😂)
@@jahbern There's a big difference between moms who homeschool and "homeschool moms" lol The former are the ones giving their kids a good fact based education that prepares them to be successful adults, the later are the ones using weird conspiracy and religious propaganda disguised as educational curriculum.
Schlock is a great word for them
@@jahbernthank you for being one of the pleasant ones. I think every library has their one awesome homeschool family. Some of my fave kiddo programming attendees were homeschoolers. There is so much potential, if ya do it right.
Well 90% of wht the tuttle twins say is factual. So thts crazy you call facts badly written. Unless you mean the lack of objectiveness?
plot twist granny doesn't believe any of it and this is just a drawn-out scam for her to continuously refill her knowledge juice so she can keep going back in time to hook up with her conservative lovers
Additional/ Alternative Idea her mashine isn't even an actual time mashine but instead allows you to travel into the colective imagination of consevatives/libertarians
@tomlinz5892 we are watching her hallucinations while she is stuck into a retirement home drooling for dementia.
That actually sounds like a better show!😂👍❤️
I never understood how libertarians justify being against abortion, and even more being FOR government regulation of allowing abortion.
It’s bizarre for me too. Like I’ve seen some of them talk abt how “killing babies” wasn’t a “personal freedom” but like- by your own ideology it _is_ . The “baby” is inside you and it does not have the right to _be_ there without your permission, so if we’re really taking libertarianism to the extreme, you’d should have the right to yeetus that fetus at ANY stage. But it’s wrong because- “killing babies”? We have the right to shoot random people that step foot on our property but removing a fetus is where we draw the line???
I hate these hypocrites so much.
@@averyspecificdragon8780 I'd argue that my body is my property and I get to defend it against invaders. Even small, potentially cute ones. lol
It’s completely contradictory and it was the thing that made me go “oh, these guys are full of shit.”
Left libs and the US Libertarian party are pro choice. Left libs tend to believe that taxes should be used only for public services, and that the govt should bugger off about things that consenting adults choose to do with their bodies and private property
Libertarianism is full of contradictions. The biggest of which is that they always take advantage of the things they say are bad, if it's in their favour.
The only people who can hold such a contradictory ideology for very long are people who can circumvent cognitive dissonance.
In this way, it's the perfect ideology for people who want to feel like they never do anything wrong, and other people are all lazy. You never have to think about other people's problems or how your decisions affect them.
A lot of rich people hold this view for that very reason because the way they get their money is incredibly exploitative. Most people don't want to feel like they're evil, so Libertarianism absolves them of that.
America has a lot of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, so it makes sense there would be a bunch.
Cuban woman here who just got back from finally being able to go to Cuba and learn about my heritage and I could go on forever about everything you said.
I wish that a disabled grandma with a suped up mobility aid was the lead in ANY other show. So curious if the show tries to tackle why you should let disabled and/or elderly people perish actually, because anything else is socialism 🙃.
also super ironic the parents own a coffee shop when the author of the source material is mormon.
Big City Greens has a Gramma with a prosthetic leg and the economic theme is "poor farmer family vs evil grocery store conglomerate"
@@gwendolynstata3775 hell yeahcthanks for the recommendation!
Right? A saucy grandma who's slept with every interesting dude in history actually sounds hella funny.
They probably have a Postum menu in the shop LOL!
Funny enough Canada s doing that.
"Your right to reproduce is not under threat," he says...
As important as it is to the conversation, let's put abortion care to the side for now. Disabled folks, prisoners, and refugees have all had their right to reproduce curbed by the US government, both historically and recently. Non-consenting folks have been forcibly sterilized even in the last couple of years in border control camps. California only banned sterilization in state prisons in 2014, due to the testimony of some very brave women who were sterilized without their consent.
I'm not an American, but I did have a hysterectomy in my mid-20s. It was medically necessary, and it was MY CHOICE. I can't even imagine going through that without consenting, especially if I had wanted children.
Yeah, but those aren't desirable able-bodied white people, which is why they screech about "trans people transing and sterilizing your kids!!1!" instead. Dang, if only there was a word (or 14) for that contrast.
It’s possible to care about more than one issue at once? Why should we put abortions to the side? What about the disabled folks, prisoners, and refugees who also need access to this healthcare? What year did your country make these changes?
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10I don’t think she meant put aside abortion rights in terms of advocacy - just in terms of what her comment would focus on.
Earlier in the video we saw someone saying that it was disingenuous to say that reproductive rights were under threat as he felt that women were free to have as many children as they liked.
I think this commentor is addressing that notion in particular to indicate that - even if you were not moved by the advocacy for abortion access that there are other ways in which reproductive rights have been challenged including forced sterilization.
She’s not saying that we can only advocate for one part of the issue or another, but that this area is a blind spot for a lot of supposedly pro-life advocates.
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 Of course it is possible to care about multiple things at once, and of course abortion care needs continuing advocacy - especially with American PACs funding both international and domestic anti-abortion lobbying.
As AVspectre explained, I was zeroing in on a specific claim about the "right to reproduce" to refute it, and that does not take away from the importance of other aspects of reproductive care.
America secretly sterilized thousands of lower income women from the 70s to the 90s, all without their consent, a lot of them black and Hispanic. Of course you'll won't hear conservatives talk about that
The writing feels like it's trying to capture that "Gravity Falls" style of humor. The twins are essentially a gender-swapped Dipper and Mabel, and Grandma Gabby is their Grunkle Stan's unhinged personality mixed with Ford's knack for technology. Honestly? If it weren't pushing a gross political/economic agenda and didn't try to retell history, I feel like it could've been decent. Not _great_ by any means, but... decent.
Tbh that Korinne character is giving me a mix of "Amity Blight but straight" vibes and Dollar Store Pacifica Northwest vibes.
@@lalas181Irony there is Aminty and Pacifica’s respective abusive parents are flat out capitalists who either sold out to a interdimensional entity for generations (the Northwest) or is a straight up war profiter (Ophelia Blight).
@@lalas181 Ah, but they also flipped Mabel's gender, so in a way, it'd still be gay if she and Boy!Mabel started dating
Says the same crowd who push agendas in modern cartoons.
I kinda have to agree. Just listening to this video, I kept finding myself thinking “huh, you know, this show may not be perfect, but it seems cute enough and right up my alley” and then he brings up the political agenda and I’m like “oh, right, yeah. Gross libertarian/conservative propaganda. Goddammit it was so close.”
Can we also talk about how the liberal and liberal leaning (but don't worry she sees the light by the end of the episode) characters are both smart girls? I don't think this is an accident. It's a Libertarian show, but also please brainwash your girls into the "right thinking" young. Otherwise who will they become?
And lets not forget to teach the boys to never listen to the overly emotional and irrational girls. Smart girls can't be trusted, though they mean well. Poor things just need some guidance since their weak soft feminine side can't handle cold hard logic.
*gasp* they might become their own people and we cannot have that.
/S jic
Women must be controlled & kept in their place. 🧙♀️
reminds me of what happened to me at that age 😞
I used to be Libertarian. I thought that the free market would fix flaws better than government and that healthcare in the United States would be better and more affordable if we got government out of it, and that Cuba and North Korea were examples of how government fails. And I liked that Libertarians were in favor of drug decriminalization, gay marriage, and legalizing sex work. But Libertarians don't see systemic problems as real issues, like how they think that we don't need laws against hate crimes or discrimination because the free market will weed out the racists on its own. Despite claiming to not be Republicans, Libertarians seems to enjoy it when Republicans do terrible things because at least it owns the liberals. Also, let's be real, Libertarians are insufferable to talk to or be around.
Lmao never met or even heard a whisper of single a libertarian that was in support of sex work decriminalization, but go off ig
Besides, shouldn't libertarians want decriminalization of things instead of legalization? Do people not understand what words mean or they just cling onto some and think that's enough?
@@mikehat7652 Legalizing sex work definitely a tenet of their beliefs. I guess that religious Libertarians wouldn't be as loud about that. Penn and Teller are proud Libertarian atheists. They used to have a show on Showtime called "Bullshit" and they did a whole episode about how prostitution should be legal.
Maybe the reason you haven't heard this from Libertarians is that they're often louder about other things.
you no longer think north korea is an example of how government fails?
@@lilthepill777 I don't think that North Korea is an example of why the United States should continue to not have single-payer healthcare. I don't think that it's helpful for conservatives to bring up countries like North Korea any time we have a conversation about creating more taxpayer-funded safety nets. And like James said, with countries like Cuba and Venezuela and North Korea, it's not just socialism that caused the state of affairs they're in now. American intervention is a big reason why they're where they are today.
As a public librarian: Thank you James for supporting and using your local library! Also don’t forget to return the books you checked out so they don’t have to spend more resources replacing those awful books. 💙
my ex-fundie dad inspired me to become libertarian during the beginning of his mid-life crisis. i liked that they supported gay marriage and weed decriminalization, and there used to be a signifigant population of them who supported abortion. but now they’re turning more socially conservative, which completely goes against their “dont tread on me narrative“, and after leaving the ideology im started to see cracks in the original foundation itself. their inherent anti-union beliefs are the most distasteful to me, probably because of my appalachian heritage
How could a "real" libertarian be anti union? (Answer: because right wing libertarianism is inherently ideologically incoherent: it's "I want things my way and you can't do anything" without contemplating how you would compel everyone else to cooperate with that.)
Even Adam Smith wrote that it was odd how producers were allowed to collude on prices (in the guild system) but if workers tried to collude on wages, that was illegal. He clearly found it morally and logically unsupportable.
I think Republicans switched to Ayn Rand because someone made the mistake of actually *reading* Smith. Republicans prefer to put words in Smith's mouth and claim he was a proponent of their version of "laissez faire capitalism."
And a lot on the right probably don't like how much he hates landlords. Which, neither did Winston Churchill and Mao Zedong.
true! and even ayn rand was an atheist who called religion stupid, so they’ll never be able to find someone who completely matches their beliefs verbatim
@@francisnopantses1108Unions decrease the ability the rich have to abuse people. Libertarians have alays asupported rich people's rights to abuse their power and influence, so they are firmly anti-union
It's so wild that right libertarians hate unions. Unions are literally the only way for stateless capitalism to even somewhat function
Instead of lowering the wages of the toy designer wages to raise others, the CEO could IDK, use some of his gross profit margins of the company to raise company wages.
BLASPHEMY!!!! FOR SHAME!!!
The ghosts of Saint Ronald Reagan and Saint Ayn Rand shall surely visit thee (along with a diminutive Cuban Abuela) to show you the error of your ways. /S
Imagine thinking reproductive rights are “nonsense”.
And it's just about your right to reproduce and not your right to choose to reproduce
@@Karinah1414 right? And to say that pro-choice is a manipulation of language when no, we literally want you to have any choice that you and your doctor deem best including the choice to have children if you want to. They don't seem to realize or care that a government that can force you to have children can also force you NOT to have them if it serves their end goal.
@@susanstephan7689It's always good to remember that there are groups of people who have had their rights to reproduce restricted, mostly disabled people, but some black folks in the USA have been subjected to forced sterilizations, some as recent as the 2000s
@@MakiPcr If it makes you feel any better, the US government now just funds gender transition surgeries instead of sterilization.
I absolutely love when people say, “reproductive rights” instead of murder. I don’t know about you President Snow, but I’m not in favor of killing small children.
I recently taught one of my cats to sit up like a gopher when he wants pets and it is obscenely cute.
I taught Pangur to come give me cuddles when I patted my chest. Now he climbs on me and slaps my chest when he wants cuddles. If I don't hold him he slaps my face. He does sit up like a gopher when he wants treats, though. It was the first trick I taught him.
@@angelawossname Thank you I love it. Is Pangur also a cat?
@irradiated_woman8016 yes, and he's the smartest and naughtiest cat I have ever come across. He's named after a 9th century Irish poem about a cat named Pangur. My other two cats are ragdolls, very sweet, gentle and placid, but not very smart. Pangur drives me nuts with his constant demands and behaviour, but he also understands over a dozen hand signals. He's the Russian x domestic in my pfp.
@@angelawossname what an absolute mensch, and so handsome! I also have three :D two middle-aged grey Siamese littermates-George and Mischa-who are both wicked smart and chatty. Otis is the baby at 2, cow-print shorthair, and a bit simple and uncoordinated. He's the one I got sitting up for pets-exciting given his... Challenges. Lol.
@@irradiated_woman8016 Siamese cats have amazing personalities! Otis sounds incredibly adorable. Our ragdolls are called Oberon and Artemis.
57:00 woah woah woah, did grandma just mention Patents? A government enforced restriction on people replicating useful tools? That doesn't sound very libertarian of her.
Imagine being a libertarian parent who gets their propaganda at the library and not seeing anything contradictory about that
As soon as I heard “the inflation monster” I thought, “no, that’s an AO3 tag” and my mind could not recover from there. Great work as always 🙌🏼
"To understand why the governments shouldn't print money, you must first understand inflation, which is the 34th rule of economics. For more information, google 'inflation rule 34'."
Don't forget that libraries have apps now where you can check out books from the comfort of your own home!
I am thrilled for this episode. I’m a secular mom who homeschools. My mom gifted us the TT books years ago. They are PLAIN AWFUL. Aside the problematic seeds in them and the centering of only white characters, the narrative quality is SO bad. Connor Boyack is *not* a childrens author. He could have atleast outsourced the writing to anyone with an ounce of skill for narrative writing. Those books are as dry as old bread. Even if they had great messaging I couldn’t subject my kids to them past the first book
Hi! I'm a secular mom too. Although my daughter is only a month old, my partner and I have already agreed that we'd like to homeschool her for various reasons. Just curious, what brands/products do you recommend for effective schooling without the religious and political propaganda? Seems like all the resources for homeschooling that I have found are very much marketed to religious folks and conservatives.
@@MoonMamaCreationsim homeschooled although I'm not familiar with how curriculum is chosen I can point you to some stuff! The group I homeschool with is Christian but at least thankfully at the high school level there's secular sources used too, I'll list some stuff I remember using in another reply
@@MoonMamaCreationsmost of the stuff I've used were Canadian based so keep that in mind. Evan-moor, chalkboard publishing, and Nelson are ones I can definitely vouch for. I'd also definitely recommend checking out any local teachers stores near you and puruse the selection of materials they have, that's where most of mine was bought!
@@MoonMamaCreations I highly recommend Curiosity Chronicles. It's a global history from a secular (truly secular) view, that addresses religion in their cultural contexts, highlights some amazing people around the globe, and makes connections that Eurocentric texts fail to make. It's fun & approachable, though some people hate the conversation format (you can ignore it, or pass the book, or listen to the audio. my kid LOVES the audio and I can't stand Ted's voice, but he's learning so that's what matters). The workbook has enough variety to keep the kids engaged (don't do everything each chapter, just pick a few activities).
@@MoonMamaCreationsHey I'm a secular homeschool mom as well. It's actually not too hard to find secular stuff if you know where to look, and there are several FB groups for secular homeschool families to share resources. There's an increasing number of people who are homeschooling because the public schools are too conservative, teaching whitewashed history, not accepting of LGBTQ+ students, etc so it's only becoming easier.
For science we use either public school resources or Real Science Odyssey. Social Studies we use Woke History, DK Eyewitness books, Smithsonian books, documentaries, etc. For math we use Megageex and coloringsquared in elementary and Math-U-See afterward. For English we use Reading for All Learners, Evan-Moor, SuperGrammar, public school resources, and Complete Curriculum.
“…could not read the room if Ayn Rand wrote it.”
100/100 line 🎉
As a librarian, thanks for supporting your local library!
Local libraries are pretty awesome
Whenever I see people my age (millennials) complaining about how boring learning history was growing up I always roll my eyes because there was a HUGE amount of awesome historical fiction coming out when we were kids. It was the heydey of American Girl, Magic Tree House, and Dear America-history was ACTIVELY being made more fun and accessible to kids. Even if your teacher was shitty, there was a ton at cool stuff at the library! Historical fiction is still one of the most popular kids book genres, and we have even better (and more diverse) stuff now! All he's doing is revealing that he's never had ANY curiosity about history besides confirming his own views.
now, tell me if I'm wrong on this, but between this and Prager U's Leo and Layla, I can't help but wonder if there's a trend where right leaning historical fiction/material like to do time travel to essentially have puppets of real people talk directly to the characters and audience, while more neutral or left leaning works will either avoid any time travel, or aim for a more spectator/voyeristic approach to it. watching things happen without the cast directly getting involved.
This is mostly coming from some vague memories of those shows so I'm just wondering if I'm correct on that assumption.
Magic Tree House was my favorite book series growing up and really got me into history, it’s so good
Shout out Rebecca the American Girl, still think about you getting concussed with a rock at the labor march. Also lemonade and hanging out with yr cousin on the fire escape
@@Ehibika I personally don't know any American cartoons that do the same thing as the Tuttle Twins (created by exclusively conservative streaming platform, for the sake of teaching kids a conservative worldview and idea of history in order to "counteract mainstream progressive culture") from a left-wing perspective, but I do know a lot of popular childrens' shows and comic books from the USSR and DDR did include time travel in order to teach kids about history in an interesting way.
Though it seems the American left understandably has a different attitude to history in general. If there would be a time-travelling childrens' show created by and for American progressives, it would probably rather focus on labor history or joining John Brown in his rebellion than meet the Founding Fathers.
Does no one remember Liberty's Kids?? They had a character voiced by Aaron Carter and ten year old me was obsessed
One of my dearest friends, who happens to be Mormon, and who never has a bad thing to say about anyone, called Boyack an "evil Mormon."
Oh shit, you know it's serious when Mormons can't find a way to say things nicely, especially about one of their own
As a Homeschoolin' Mama of 3 in Alabama? One of the aspects of WHY I chose this learning journey with my kiddos is to keep them AWAY from rubbish like this! Just Sayin'....not all Homeschoolers are Fundie! LOL Thank you for another great video! I always look forward to Fridays and watching the two of you share your thoughts on the topics of the day or the past. Take care and be well.
Yeah, with the school system in Alabama, homeschooling isn't just for fundies anymore. I wonder if it is actually kind of flipped on its head down there with fundies sending kids to public schools and sane people taking on the task of homeschooling?
Had the same thought that "Wow, I'm shocked they 'went woke' and made the kids mixed race in the cartoon"
But as soon as you said the grandmother was Cuban...
Lmaooo I was like oh of course.
Yep
as a mexican, just know... it's alwayssss the cubans lmfao
Yep
Such a great point, James, that I think a lot of people deliberately miss: It wasn't the course content of college that made me more open minded (I went to music school at a time when there was hardly even a mention of women composers, for example.), it was meeting people who were different from me, listening to their stories, and caring about them as fellow human beings that brought about a change. It was discovering that the people my church was preaching against weren't who my church told me they were.
Even as someone who's been fairly left-leaning most of my life, there's something so different about just understanding on paper that minorities deserve rights versus actually getting to meet people who have vastly different lives than you. It makes you realize biases you didn't know you were holding onto or just issues you'd never had to personally consider.
I can't wait for that TTRPG episode to interest kids in playing some themselves and falling into the GAYEST FRIEND CIRCLE THEY WILL EVER HAVE.
What is bro yapping about
As a library employee, thank you! Libraries are awesome. They are the best run departments in government (especially for how underfunded they are). The insane amount of services libraries offer shocked me! Some states even let you borrow passes to state parks from your library! Or some libraries have maker spaces with cool equipment you can use to make stuff. I interned at a college library that lent out graphing calculators! Like seriously if you need something or have a question, go to your library.
As a Cuban/Spanish American, thank you so much for explaining what really happened to my family's home country. I know all too well how easy it is for many of our elder generation Cubans to blame socialism and liberals for what happened to Cuba. They often forget that the American Government tried to colonize Cuba after we broke away from Spain. I wish more of the elder Cubans and Americans understood what really happened but I also understand that they have lived with the trauma of the Revolution and how it has been passed on to generations, including mine and younger.
It also explains why so many go the Republican/Libertarian path, even though those groups have harmed us more than they helped.
So you guys can't admit your side can ruin things
@@92JazzQueen Please explain what you mean.
@@92JazzQueencompare how the cubans lived pre-revolution to now and tell me how socialism "ruined" Cuba
@@pliskin101 you guys are apologist for authoritarianism
@@92JazzQueenWhen you're asked to compare Cuba pre-revolution to post-revolution, it's to help gauge how much you actually know about the subject matter. That you would not only fail to answer the question, but insist that asking the question is doing "apologetics for authoritarianism", is proof that you know nothing.
When a dictator comes to power by staging a coup twice, suspends the country's constitution, stagnates the country's economy by funneling the resources to foreign investors, and quells dissent by censoring the news and hosting public executions, that's Authoritarianism. The only reason you don't know about that, of course, is because Fulgencio Batista wasn't a communist.
Keeping the tuttle twins books intentionally past due to protect children has the same energy as the time I took a copy of Atlas Shrugged from a little free library box just to take it out of circulation
Sorry, but we were doing it first with the pride month books.😉
@@thegreatdanton9203wait bro has 15 comments on this one video ICANT
@@thegreatdanton9203 either you didn't fully understand the comment or you have a strange idea of what protecting children means
My Idea of protecting children is to keep the filth out of the Library.
@@thegreatdanton9203 becoming a library janitor has nothing to do with pride month
its funny how they portray gandhi because he actually was a socialist albeit a non marxist variant of it influenced by hinduism but many indian right wingers partially blame him for why india was somewhat nominally socialist for most of the 20th century
You know, I never realized that libertarianism leaned so conservative. It was always explained to me as my right to be a gun toting lesbian weed farmer who can drink raw milk in an abortion clinic without the government telling me no. I didn't realize it was more economically based.
The movement has been co-opted but American Libertarianism is free-market based but freedom is (or should be) the number one tenant
I'm guessing this isn't about Capt. Tuttle, late of the US Armed Forces, M*A*S*H 4077, Korea? (it's a classic episode, very much worth watching!)
😂😂😂 I remember it!
there's a little Tuttle left in all of us. In fact, you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.
@@lindatheheathen you are my hero!
@@l.a.gothro3999 😂 who could forget that auburn hair, those hazel eyes….
Are we not just gonna address that the jazzy has duct tape on it. Meaning Grandpa couldn't actually afford repair or replacement. That.... dun dun dun... the government could've actual provided.
Nah, she needs to earn it by working until she's dead.
Apparently she is rich, but just cheap.
Gosh, you need to watch this show. You totally looked past the point they were trying to make.🤣
I always thought libertarians would be pro choice since it’s less gov control over your life and body, but when they aren’t, it really reveals that they’re just conservatives with a thin veneer.
Also, Hawaiian here, we have a pretty visible Mormon population here and even a BYU campus. Despite being, ya know, Mormons, they did a lot of work preserving native Hawaiian lineage records and run the Polynesian cultural center. Still a red flag personally to be a Mormon but fun facts.
They probably believe the indigenous people are another lost tribe of Israel.
They literally do.
They don't care about preserving the culture or religions of other people, but they DO care a lot about ancestry and lineage since it's necessary for them to get baptized for those who were "unfortunate" enough to have died without the gospel.
Lol I must say tht it's interesting how people struggle to differentiate between social and economic policy and then think it's contradictory.
Your comment is actually why it bothers me tht you and countless uninformed others get to vote. Economics should be made compulsory for this reason and the social issues you can figure out on your own
I’m a high school senior, and I’ve been homeschooled since kindergarten. I am enrolled into a Christian co-op and they have a whole elective class this year for younger kids based off of the Tuttle Twins. I’ve been curious as to what it was teaching, (I read a couple of the books in my day and honestly I was more confused than anything) and yeah… people are actually buying this curriculum.
Great video!! I’m a librarian and your hype for our public libraries made me smile! I’m turning a blind eye to those “lost” books 😉 (Rest of you tho… no, no. Libraries are for everyone, even the libertarians who begrudgingly pass through our doors, haha)
Why is Grandma Gabby's aesthetic giving watered-down Proud Family tho...🤔🤔
I was getting proud family too. Karinne gave me like lacienaga plus other mean or bossy character
Because the show creators are uncreative ghouls who understand the long history of stealing/appropriating art from POC for fun and profit. They truly are the Elvises of children's propaganda.
Can't really copyright the concept of an old black lady with glasses.
@@colleenfrederick9590They're not really inventing the wheel here, but nobody else is, either. Their mean girl's similar to Amaryllis, the big bad of High Guardian Spice.
Because it is. There's not a crumb of originality to be had in their art or message. The bits that are likeable tug at your sense of nostalgia just enough to draw you in. It's insidious.
I'm 16 and homeschooled and my parents are incredibly conservative. They bought me most of the books in the Tuttle Twins series last year in attempt to incorporate it into my schoolwork, despite the many times I told them I did not want them, and got mad at me for not reading them because they "spent so much money on them". I managed to flip through a couple of the books before completely giving up due to how dull they were and how obvious it was that they were only trying to spread their gross ideals to children in a way that just felt empty and devoid of any personality or memorability. The art style was plain, the dialogue was uninteresting, and obviously the messages were just plain trash. Plus, the questionnaires at the end only made it worse. At least the show actually seemed more creative, but it really shouldn't exist at all. Still disappointed that my parents spent money on a book series that will only collect dust in a forgotten corner somewhere in my closet.
Hang on, kiddo. Just a few more years and you can go to college and have a plausible excuse to not go home for about 9 months of the year.
Keep fighting, trooper
hey now, i'm sure they also make good kindling or even toiletpaper in a real emergency
I'm really sorry for your situation. Your parents clearly don't respect your intelligence at all if they're giving you dumb books meant for CHILDREN, not teenagers.
Hi, I'm a library worker and I've enjoyed your channel for a while. Thanks for shouting out your local library! Also for talking about this... thing. I've seen Tuttle Twins books circulating an awful lot in the library where I work, and I didn't know too much about them (though I definitely got "huh, this is weird propaganda" vibes from reading the summaries) and now that I know what it is... well, I can't say I'm a fan. Hope your library doesn't hit you with too many late fees for keeping the books too long. Honestly, if it was me, I'd waive the fees entirely--you're doing a great service, lol
"the universe is imploding!"
"how can the free market save us this time!?" has to be the most unintentionally funny line ever
I'm desperate to know what the answer was
@@amoureux6502 they died in the imploding universe. The free market could not save them
@@Frognungunthe good ending.
Thank you for covering this. A frightening number of supposedly "secular" homeschoolers recommend this show/curriculum as if it is somehow accurate or even neutral, when it's very clearly excessively inaccurate rightwing propaganda.
Sadly many libertarians are also non-religious or are anti-religious. You don't need religion to be a greedy, selfish, self-centered dingus. But to be fair (and balanced), religion does help.
@@randomcdude4430 Religion tends to help any position and perspective, really. You just see it used by greedy dinguses because greedy dinguses tend to be the ones in power.
As a Corinne who’s never encountered a fictional character with my name- I never thought it’d have to go down this way
Ever read Flowers in the Attic? The mom's name is Corinne.
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High or Black Hole High, has a Corinne. It's about a science class so they're all pretty smart. It's a Canadian show.
@@ShinobiSoraoo i love that show! children’s (usually canadian) TV shows from the late 90s-early 2000s are a favorite niche genre of mine 😅
OH THIS JUST TAPPED INTO SOME DARK RECESS OF MY MIND. I completely forgot about this show!!
There was a girl called Corrine in an old sci-fi show called Strange Days at Blake Holsey High.
When I was in college a professor told me that Libertarian is just code for "I'm a Republican but I like weed" and I have yet to have that disproven if not literally then in spirit.
A lot of libertarian theory and propaganda feels like it was written on weed, so that checks.
Aren't there already enough terrible homeschooling programs without adding another?
Even one is one too many! I’m tired of these freaks on “reality” television making Christianity and things like homeschooling a total joke. 1. There ARE good, loving, non judgmental Christians who really do love others. And 2. There ARE legit homeschoolers who are taught well, and go onto reputable universities.
@@mj6962 I totally agree with you. Reality television showcases people who make a mockery out of Christianity and homeschooling. People see them and think all Christians are bigots and hate mongers. Everyone is welcomed at my church with love and acceptance. No judgement. My sister home schools. If I find out something or someone sinister is behind a home schooling platform, I warn her about it.
Ok but the free market being the downfall of this stupid show will be absolutely hilarious and you can bet the writers won’t see the irony.
It was produced purely as a grift to get money from Mormon schools.
I think it's not unlikely for them to scam enough people out of their money to get some profit.
They never wanted to make art or even anything entertaining.
It was about profit from pandering to fundementalist ideology from the absolute inception.
13:52 - Omg, the way you delivered the asinine phrase "I'm an outlaw beekeeper" just made my entire morning! 😂
As a librarian for a public library, thank you for the shoutout and support, King James!
Hey, if you want a more fun book series for kids that teaches history, look into horrible histories - books and show are funny and gross in the way kids love!
I love HH (the books and seasons 1-5 of the show, that casting was inspired, and they still work together)
My Dad gave the whole series to my kids for Christmas last year 😭 He keeps asking if my oldest (8 at the time) read them yet to learn “real history” and about “the economy”. No Dad. I’ve hid them far, far away. An American Girl doll with the books would have been better 🥲
oh god he sounds like my grandpa I feel so old
I can’t get Bill Nye’s book at my county library or mid continent but your library had the Tuttle twins? That’s disappointing.
But is it surprising?🤷♀️
Wait, so… We have a right to life but not a right to food, water, shelter, or medical care? I’m having trouble with the math on that one.
"This guy could not read the room if Ayn Rand wrote it." GOLD!! PURE COMEDY GOLD!
My brother went libertarian in high school, and I read a couple of his books because it sounded appealing at first. And then I realized both of the (of course) men who wrote the books were pro-forced birth, and I was like: I see, freedom for thee but not for me.
Eff libertarianism.
Check out the libertarian thread on the something awful forum if you want a good laugh at the shenanigans of free market cultists.
What " forced birth"? Do babies just show up in your uterus and the mean old politicians make you have them? Take some responsibility.
I think "Tuttle" is a reference to Tuttle, a "heroic entrepeneural plumber" in the 1985 dystopian comedy film "Brazil".
Connor trying to pretend that the right to abstain from participating isnt apart of any types of rights makes me somewhat understand how conservatives tend to give me vibes of like. Only understanding enough about human rights to know that it applies to them, no one else though somehow.
EDIT: to be exact that they try to conflate as many things together as possible. Reproductive rights and the right to consent to sex *on your own terms* are seperate but conservatives conflate them.
The right to get married into a monogamous heterosexual marriage & have bio kids and the right to *marry anyone whom you love and loves you back* are seperate but conservatives tend to conflate the two when it comes to gay marriage rights.
Fucking hate that.
Bruce was making me think of trump
Just over an hour into the video and it has dawned on me that these are not the same as those Prager U kids that also visit historic figures. Terrifying that there’s more than one of these shows…
Excellent job as always, James! Thanks for subjecting yourself to this garbage for our entertainment and education.
Oh no, there’s a homeschool curriculum?? It’s like they’re trying to fill a wisdom booklet void 😰🤮
Of course there is. You remember how those conservative groups and politicians love that one Hiltler quote about "[he who controls the children, controls the future]" or whatever (I only loosely know the quote from news stories about politicians saying it at rallies and Moms for Liberty printing it in their news letter). I mean the people who attended American Nazi party or American Bund rallies before WWII didn't just disappear and now their grandkids are saying the quiet part out loud.
Accidentally stumbled onto a Facebook short for the Tuttle twins. One of the comments unironically said “eugenics can be a good thing”
Oh god the Leviathan Sheeple-tron fight made me think "Of In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker and now I need a hug. Great video!!
I’ve done deep dives into some hellish nightmares but you have my condolences for subjecting yourself to this.
This would be a fun show to do a drinking game to. "take a shot every time they misrepresent social democracy" "take a shot every time they make equality and rights seem like bad things"
Sooo..... you want to die of alcohol poisoning in under 30 minutes?
Older, selfish genius relative who takes their grandkids on interdimensional adventures through using a green juice? Grandma Gabby is just Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty... This is not a favorable comparison to be clear
Makes sense
In Utah cannabis is not legal. We voted yes, make it legal, then the Utah Senate said Lol, just kidding and backtracked and changed the bill
Thank you for covering this. My libertarian cousin and his wife homeschool their kids (well, the wife actually does) with the Ron Paul curriculum (I shit you not), and they use Tuttle Twins books as part of their curriculum. I knew the Tuttle Twins were bonkers, but I had no idea how much so. Also, I had no idea there was a TV adaptation!
A rare day where I can actually watch this when it premieres!
from an employee of the public library, thank you for using your local library!!! 💖💖💖
the tuttle twins went to atlantis because they really don't want you to look up "underwater libertarian city"
Would you kindly...
@@arglebargle23fnord I think it's Rapture from Bioshock
I'm a second-gen Cuban-American on my mom's side. Unlike most Cubans in the US, my Cuban family made it to the NYC metro area. They arrived before the revolution, so my family came not because of Fidel, but because they hated Batista. So I'm a leftist and my family is left-leaning. NYC-metro Cubans are left-leaning in general, but we're often grouped together with our Florida counterparts since of course most are in Florida. My mom grew up in northern NJ, but her family briefly lived in Miami (because her parents missed Cuba's climate) and her dad had to hide the fact he was a Castroist because of all the anti-Fidel people in Miami. She hated the weather and moved back to the Northeast.
That aside, their thing on how communism "ruined" Cuba is very much one sided, and I agree that Americans should stop criticizing Cuba when we're the ones that backed awful people like Batista and then a massive embargo against the island because we were mad the guy we wanted to rule was overthrown by the common people who were fed up that foreigners owned majority of arable land while the majority starved. Their thing completely ignores why the Cuban Revolution happened. The only people who benefited from Batista were the elite and Americans. And before him, the US effectively controlled Cuban politics since Cuba's independence, like with the Platt Amendment that allowed the US to intervene whenever.
I attend the largest state ran college in Utah, and literally this week libertas had a table set up in one of the main halls. I distinctly remember it because I remember thinking "hmm that looks like a table that is trying to trap you into debating with them about their "agenda"". I guess I was right lol. It had a red table cloth with the libertas logo on it and then I kid you not a CARDBOARD sign written on it with marker that said something along the lines of "want to have conversations about intellectual topics?" It kind of gave me the ick
Grandma should travel back in time to discover why all the great ancient civilizations & thinkers evolved in warm climates near major bodies of water. Improvement & invention are luxuries for those who are having their basic needs met. This can’t happen in survival mode. Food, water, basic shelter are NEEDS. The McMansion the builder is peddling & that coffee shop are wants. Also, Mormons drink coffee?
As someone who works in a public library, “subsidized leftist hellscape” is such a fun description
I appreciate the jokes for ex mormons lmao ✌️ also it’s so wild to me when you two cover mormon topics because these are people that I’ve met or I know people who have met them, they’re my neighbors, they’re my community and it’s so wild to be here watching this. 😅
The uncanny valley, hyper-realistic animation cuts started with Ren & Stimpy in 1991, not Spongebob (unless they started even earlier than R&S).
as a cuban american why is one of the few animated shows featuring cuban american characters about libertarianism 😭 like come on
“libertarians are just conservatives who like weed, and don’t like age of consent laws”
0:04 If this was a parody it would be the greatest parody ever... so it's basically the children's cartoon version of The Room.
The illustration reminds me of a soulless, joyless version of the rainbow magic series
Helloooo Jennonites, Hi Rev Jen @Fundie Fridays and @James Fundie Fridays !!!
I love Jen, but damn do I love getting a James episode
So stoked to see Tariq shouted out. I struggled to choose only one of his videos to add to my teacher education playlist that I make teachers getting their licenses and new teachers watch ❤
Peak UA-camr moment when you're like "nah you guys get it, have a great night!" Thank you for all the in depth work James! That was a lot!