Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator and lawyer, has been criticized for his views on transgender people, same-sex couples raising children, and the rise of “conspiracy”. He has been criticized for his views on the rise of conspiracy theories, such as the bioweapons conspiracy and the rise of the Great Reset conspiracy.
Shakiporo’s views are classically religious-conservative, suggesting that transgender people suffer from a “mental disorder”. He opposes same-sex couples raising children and has made controversial comments about trans swimmer Lia Thomas’ bid to overturn a ban preventing her from swimming. In a recent interview with Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan, Shapiro discussed the rise of “conspiracy” and the potential dangers of promoting false information online.
In addition to his political views, Shapiro has also been a vocal critic of far-right commentator Candace Owens, who has been known to share conspiracy theories. She publicly clashed with Shapiro on X in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks.
Shapiro, Dan Bongino, and Steven Crowder are among the most popular hosts on Apple’s Top 100 list over the past year, indicating their popularity. Owens has been a controversial figure in right-wing media, known for sharing conspiracy theories and publicly clashing with Shapiro on X.
In May, Shapiro’s website The Daily Wire had more Facebook engagement on its articles than The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post. He has also been accused of trying to suppress dissenting voices by believing all vaccines are bad, which is a psyop to squash dissenting voices.
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I’m so glad nobody is buying this or buying with Ben saying. I just read the comments. I’m going to move on to a different podcast. I’m done with this one. Ben Shapiro has become tedious. Go listen to Megyn Kelly with guest Rob schneider. You won’t believe the brain on him. All of us are shocked at his level of awareness. You can see it in the comment section. He is a Savage Nelson Savage but on an incredibly hard intellectual level for anyone. All of us that watched the podcast were incredibly surprised AND pleased!!
The problem is that there is a conspiracy without coordination. Different groups see what they can do to support the agenda that they have decided to support and take independent action. The media sees what the administration is pushing and disseminates information that supports it. Academia provides intellectual “facts” that justifies the agenda. Judicial entities threaten those who disagree or oppose the agenda. All without the need for what we would consider conspiratorial activities
He doesn’t dabble in conspiracies because he actually believes actual truth is still far more valuable hence why he doesn’t bear false witness against it nor does he pander towards those who do! Ben Shapiro is a legit voice that people should be listening to while at the same time actually hearing what he’s actually saying!
Readily, admittedly I am not a cognitive comparison to Ben Shapiro. His argument is that the “enemy”, if undefined and indefinitely guilty opposing forces means he has no course of action in response. I argue that an enemy unfocused is better acknowledged as such so when they are close and clear we will be ready.
A clever fella acting no knowledge on a matter just simply isn’t the facts, he knows enough no doubt, but he is firm on his place and what he discusses, if he wanted to find out alot more than most, a fella like this only need lift a phone amd speak to friends in places…. but he wouldn’t, he stirs no pots among those in the upper echelons of the puppet masters….
Not a person or group, but many people groups with aligned goals, unspoken agreements, and a willingness to either accept or adapt methods. Mob mentality and human nature. I doubt any group of human being could purposely be aligned for decades. Someone will almost always either go against the wishes of a cabal or rebel against the methods used and speak out. You fight this by education, and teaching people to think for themselves again. Imperfect yes but ultimately better for humanity as a whole.
I’ve been perusal for reasons to support the idea that Ben has been compromised. Maybe he is bending his speech around subjects to maintain a large group of advertisers. The other reason is Ben might be the gatekeeper on the right side. I like Ben but lately I’ve been skeptical of his speech and intentions
I really think Eric Weinstein is very intelligent however you can be so intelligent, your intellignce exposed your stupidity. Eric talks out both sides of his mouth an sometimes contradicts himself. Eric is a legend in his own mind. Though I like him he is his own worst enemy, wants his cake and eat it as well.
How about this, we’re so old we miss our pre colour television, pre computer, pre pager/cellular/smart phone, pre MSM/Hollywood propaganda, pre internet/social media/podcaster, pre woke, pre climate change cult, pre radical left anything goes Godless liberalism world and lives. We do not require an internet search engine, podcaster, activist, politician, academic/scientist trying to sell us their opinions etc. The world was be lightyears better then.
Seems disingenuous saying that the media as almost a whole agree on politics, when in fact the corporations determine the content of the media they present. Talking heads and journalists are not in control, an executive class fronting for an owner class are behind the curtain. BEN- you are smart enough to know this extremely simple FACT that is not only transparent, but literally the structure of the economic system.
We know who “they” are. Start with the powerful NGO’s and transnationals that influence, run and control big media, the major industries, governments and politicians of the west, and the intel community of the 5i’s (eyes) and state department, as well as international banks, the Fed, national banks etc. not hard to name. Look Atlantic counsel board w 7 CIA/intel directors who ran the burisma scandal in order privatize Ukrainian energy for western oligarchs. They influenced the state department l, DC AND EUROPE with the oil and gas industry hanging on their every word. They covered for Biden corruption to protect the $20 billion spent for Exxon, shell etc. they even helped organize a coup to destroy Ukraine’s government and shell innocents living in the region w all the energy resources. This one example applies to most every issue, country, scandal. Ben romanticizes the academic propaganda he was force fed and learned so studiously. Ben’s hedging after getting exposed over and over—wrong on Trump, wrong on Russia gate, wrong on Covid, Covid vax & masking, wrong on Ukraine, wrong in Rittenhouse, wrong on lab leak—his wife’s clearly one of those doctors Casey means describes as having an elite education cation but learned nothing about healing and nutrition and anything beyond the revenue generating pills and procedures owned by massive neo-fascist globalist corporations. “My wife’s a doctor meh”. At least now, he says “I’m not saying there are no conspiracies” 😂😂 yeah because you’ve been exposed a fool over and over.
While this may have been a fun little thought exercise, it’s obviously somewhat moot due to the how obvious shadowy behavior exists. We all see it in one place or another whether that’s Hollywood, healthcare, D.C., etc. We should all be parsing out and talking about presumed shadowy behavior. The more you talk about it, the more it reveals itself
it’s hard to know who really has the power. i think the answer is that evil is more often a thing of ignorance than it is malevolence. could there be billionaires who can buy people out? of course are they the reason why houses are expensive? maybe are they the reason why transing the kids is a thing? No. i think all the issues are much more complex than billionaire use money to make people evil.
Ben has the same problem I think many of us have. The Electoral Process was once a good thing and we don’t want to believe it’s been corrupted. It’s not just Mailbags of Socialist Party Votes (that’s right, stop calling them Democrats) but Voting Tabulating Machines OFFLINE on Election Day with SELECTED Ballots put through days later. If you haven’t gotten the message that it now takes weeks for Election Results, then I can’t help you.
Sometimes emergent behavior can appear to be a conspiracy. Large conspiracies are almost to pull off because infighting eventually makes them unsustainable. Emergent behavior (an ant colony is a good example) is that the combined actions of thousands or millions have an overall behavior buy no individual actually has control . They can be more dangerous, because unlike a hierarchical conspiracy, there is no ‘head’ to cut off.
Ben is wrong about so many premises here. Alex jones does get like 90 percent of things right. He just words it in a way that always sounds super crazy like “gay frogs” for example. Also there is evidence of boxes of ballots. The claims didn’t just come out of thin air, but were made because of article evidence.
People who talk faster than a Mexican radio announcer i.e. Ben Shapiro and Destiny are not worthy of my attention. They are not interested to speak at a pace that shows that they truly want me to understand what they’re saying, therefore I don’t care what they’re saying. It’s funny when Ren speaks like a speed freak, not when speed freaks speak like a speed freak…
Hey, I. just remembered that Spock was (was? Is? what “Spock”? there’s no one named Spock who’s ever existed ~ even Nimoy wasn’t Spock- he was Leonard Nimoy. Wait, but this “Leonard Nimoy” “i ” type of is simply a Homo sapien named Lenny. He had a pal called Sguiggy. They both perked out on two ladies from Milwaukee named Laverne & Shirley. Oh shit, don’t start going down a ‘70’s TV rabbit hole, it’ll wind up going full circle nostalgia, and befI know it, i’ll be stuck in Arnold’s shake shack, in a Weezer article. Which is something that happened in the 90’s. It always goes back to the pre internet 1990’s. Rent was cheap back in those days, and I didn’t turn 33 until 2000- the year all the dorks freaked out about y2k. Hey- my “name” starts with a “K”. Wait~~) Spock was actually half human AND half vulcan. And Capitan Kirk was 100% William Shatner. Bill Shatner is friends with Henry Rollins, whose “real” last name is “Warfield”, or something, so I guess it’s ok for me to ditch “Anderson” and switch to Morrison. Anyway, Happy Keith Morris Day! It’s Always & Forever on August the 30. (eth) Hey, the other Capitan is Manny Machado- Go Padres- and the other other Captain Kirk is a guy from Arizona named Charlie, and he likes the D-Backs! Boooooo!!!! That’s alright, I’m on the bigger Team. The Team That Will Get Trump and JD Elected in 2024. hooray!!!!!!!! (california, however, might take a few more years to turn around ~~~ it CAN be done)🇺🇸🏴🇺🇸🏴🦅🐍
Ben Shapiro should have known that there was substantial evidence that disputed the story line about COVID and that his parents probably were not in much danger. There were people trying to spread the facts so where was Ben????? Perhaps Ben should watch the CSPAN article of Fauci speaking in Oct 2019 stating that it would take 10 years of testing of mRNA based vaccines before they would know they were safe to use. I feel Ben was making excuses for his poor judgement on the issue
In international relations, the liberal international order (LIO), known as rules-based order (RBO), describes a set of global, rule-based, structured relationships based on political liberalism, economic liberalism and liberal internationalism since the late 1940s. More specifically, it entails international cooperation through multilateral institutions (like the United Nations, World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund) and is constituted by human equality (freedom, rule of law and human rights), open markets, security cooperation, promotion of liberal democracy, and monetary cooperation. The order was established in the aftermath of World War II, largely led by the United States. Political ideology of many left, progressives.
I love Chris, but he’s completely missed the mark here. The criticism doesn’t stem from changing one’s mind based on new evidence. Tucker Carlson is a great example of this, having changed his mind on US military adventurism, the drug war, etc and gained credibility for it. The criticism comes when your initial takes/ gut instincts are CONSISTENTLY bad. We don’t look to people like Chris and Ben for perfect opinions, but consistently good instincts. Trusting the Coof vaccine and suggesting the 2020 election was on the up and up are clearly bad takes
You guys are laughable. You want to come across as intellects, but say things like “the explanations you give (for conspiracies) are out there in front” and then seconds later “that happens to be a TRUTH” without providing evidence. The other “tells” are your product placement and the speed at which BS spews. Pro Tip: Never use english to cover up your meaning. Speak clearly, concisely and comprehensively and you will add value instead of distracting from understanding.
Sorry Ben. I think you’re a little off on this one. Just quick: Changing one’s mind on policy. Of course it is allowed. Problem Ben is loud. You may say you are sorry and point out where you are wrong. Politicians have no such contrition. This appears to be more to assuage and get votes than enacting true change. Example: Harris visits the border. Fauci on Covid. The list goes on. C’mon Ben. You are better than this.
If you have a whole group of people, of a similar ideology, you don’t need for there to be a “conspiracy” all you need is for them to do – and then collectively they achieve their objectives. Every now and then they get together e.g., the WEF, to compare ideas but in reality to get a gauge so they are all moving in the same direction… And Chris is correct – they know that we know and just do it; a challenge to prove it. is not “unfalsifiable” – that (Ben) is an extreme. These people make mistakes e.g., Claus fingered Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern as WEF acolytes… you have acolytes when there is something to be faithful too…
As George Carlin pointed out “You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities and fraternities, they’re on the same boards of directors, they’re on the same country clubs, they have like-interests. They don’t need to call a meeting; they know what is good for THEM, and they are getting it. And there used to be seven oil companies. There are now three. It will soon be two. The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice: there are two political parties, there are a handful of insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers. But if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors because you have the ILLUSION, you have the ILLUSION of choice. You don’t get the real important choices. No freedom of choice. Now apply that to Europe . That’s where we are at. Ben is being a tool.
Basing decisions on data is certainly the best. But sometimes, if you’re knowledgeable about how systems work, when information comes out that seems to run counter to how the system normally behaves you can easily step back and say, “This doesn’t seem right, so I’m not going to do X, Y, and Z until I’m shown ‘exactly’ how that information came about.” In terms of the two specific cases mentioned here, covid vaccines and election results, the claims made by people saying this is all above board and great were outside the bounds of normality.
Ok, so we went from theory about Donald trump to a circle jerk over Ben’s awesomeness. Chris,, i especially loved perusal you follow his prompts like a puppy and then attempting to appear intelligent by throwing vague insults at “stupid people’. Congrats, I helped pay your bills by perusal this short. Your very welcome. I feel the need to do charity from time to time. Never perusal you again, not that you will care, but maybe some will read this comment and follow suit.
I can’t even watch Ben Shapiro anymore. Even the sound of his voice has become off putting. He lost my respect back during Covid and everything I’ve seen since then reinforces that. And he got entirely irritating with the whole Candace drama. I don’t respect or trust him, I think he is an arrogant lier. Because of this, I am very on the fence about the Daily Wire. I still like a couple people there but I don’t think I’ll be renewing my DW subscription.
I can’t find any evidence that mr. Shapiro is worthy of any respect more than just the respect I give every human being. A number of people seem to think he’s some kind of a great thinker. I’m not seeing it. And, of course, there is his Sam Harris moment where he’s having his argument with the British journalist who is NOT arguing with him. Harris will never live down his triggernometry, “screw democracy, let’s get trump” moment, and Shapiro will never live down his “only one person is fighting here” moment.
What they’re not considered is this: One, unfortunately we are rarely afforded complete evidence related to things that are inarguably happening. Two, those things that are happening are causing massive damage to the health and stability of our country Three, when all evidence isn’t available but the subject it concerns is of immense and urgent importance where if action is only taken with all evidence being accessible we stand to lose while standing by… you go with what’s most likely the case… in other words the odds. When several key locations in the 2020 election suddenly found between 115K and 145K votes between midnight and 3am all for Biden when they are unsorted or arranged is a statistical impossibility. So that means the lot of those votes are probably manufactured illegally in some way and should not have counted. They made the difference in the election. Being simply reactive and not proactive… and dependant on all evidence is a luxury that will find us suddenly in a one party nation permanently at the mercy of liberals, Democrats, and yes the deep state or globalist new world order. 🧐🧐🧐
The international community has, regrettably, proven its impotence, if not its irresponsibility, in the face of these dangers. It is clear that the sovereignty of the people, the foundation of most political regimes, does not encourage leaders to devote sufficient attention to crises that occur in the antipodes, or to concern themselves with long-term challenges, given the frequency of and circumstances surrounding electoral cycles. These contradictions are not temporary, as they are integral to our world’s democratic modus operandi. In truth, existing multilateral bodies do not possess the direct democratic legitimacy needed to formulate binding norms. At the same time, nobody can imagine the construction of a society based on the principle of a planetary nation-state. In order to overcome this difficulty without betraying our values, the sole available solution is to rethink the very principles of global governance. This process must take place under the auspices of the only body with the legitimacy to deal with global challenges: the United Nations. Such an exercise can only be undertaken by persons who have exercised high political, academic, or economic offices, have a clear view of world affairs and who, free from electoral constraints, are able to think beyond the interests of their own generation, country or social group. Towards world governance Appeal by the Collegium International, Geneva, 20th January 2014 Draft translation of the French original
Who’s running the government right now Ben? I really want to know as well. How do we find this out? We all know what happened back then, we all watched it unfold. How do we know who these shadows are? Please help us!!! We all saw that COVID should have never caused lockdowns for even a week. What is going on man? What is going on?
Focus on evidence-based belief before coming to any conclusions! A hypothesis based on unfalsifiable, unverifiable claims is inherently flawed thiniking and self-justifying! Wow Ben, you’re sounding more like an atheist espousing such common sense logic. How can you say such things on one hand and still cling to your religious mythology as absolute truth on the other? Apply the same logical reasoning to all areas of your life Ben, then your arguments won’t reflect such contradiction.
Ben is operating from a purely transactional perspective. He views many of these subjects from the point of view of a business. And no matter how much this may appeal to you, conspiracy theories are not transactions upon which credits are bandied about for the sake of who is right and who is wrong, thus, who’s more credible or more deserving of your viewing dollars. That is the canard the established repeatedly attempt to impose upon the uninitiated, while simultaneously making up shit as they go along. No, the entire point, like any dialogue, is to discover what is possible, with lower probability “causes” being put aside for the probable. The trouble with Ben’s transactional approach, is he is less likely to participate until it is in his best interest to. A fact that, in its own way, makes him less credible. In other words, the efficiency of the free market of ideas is diminished, while he has been “freed” to fight another day. Anybody whos participated in a brainstorming session regularly for a living understands this. Leave your ego, youre personal interests, at the door. And, be prepared to take on the counter from the least auspicious of places. We are not in need of those who are 99% right. We are in need of 100% authenticity. A sincere approach to uncovering the truth, no matter how far astray you may find yourself at times. Else, the vast pool of good ideas will wander off with the bad. Or, instead of us benefiting from this new printing press of ours, it will be they who exploit, repackage and sell it back to us in the form of AI.
“Rules-based international order” is explained simply as a euphemism for a collective interest of powerful people across the globe to keep their power and increase their wealth by any means necessary – and their largest threat would be a political figure who defies everything they stand for (essentially wasn’t part of the club). Call it a conspiracy or don’t, but collective interests tend to conspire in a variety of ways because, well, that’s how humans are. Regarding the biased and largely manufactured mainstream media, while it’s tough to measure as a phenomenon, there is no doubt they conspire. Just look at the corporate enterprises that have created giant syndicated local news networks who propagate all the same bullshit. If you follow the money, it tends to land in the same pot, or at least neighborhood. The media is absolutely fake. Ben seems to be quibbling over semantics here. He knows collective interests conspire, as they always have, but he’s running a growing media empire of his own, so he’s got the play this version of himself.
Both Weinstein bros are far too addicted to intellectual daydreaming. I don’t agree with Shapiro on many things but we are full agreement here. Eric Weinstein LOVES the sound of his own voice first and foremost. He needs to be cutting edge which ends him up in this far out thinking that can’t be disproven. So you have to hear him out. I don’t waste my time with all that. It’s frighteningly similar to the woke mechanic, as Shapiro subtly points out
Yeah you know George Carlin might have said the best you don’t really need a conspiracy when you have a bunch of people going to the same schools working in the same line of business and looking at the same goals and same aspirations it doesn’t need to be said it just aligns with each other’s thoughts Listen to How smart George Carlin actually was people he was telling you about this s*** 40 years ago cast great and all Thomas 20 years ago but George was telling us 40 years ago exactly what’s f**** going on today😢😢😢😢
Ben is such a debate bro. If we could just print out a list of names then they wouldn’t be “shadowy” now would they Ben? Just because there isn’t a document that says “btw this list of names actually runs the world” doesn’t mean that there aren’t people with influence who pull strings. Not to mention there are plenty of names to list off, but Ben would just scoff and call you a “conspiracy theorist” Also, pretending like there is an international elite class who tries to drive societies in a specific direction is not the same as simply saying “systemic racism” or what ever dismissive nonsense that was…. People like Ben get on my nerves because they will willfully ignore the reality in front of their faces to avoid being labeled as “fringe” or “conspiracy theorist”… especially when the only people who would be labeling him that are people who already hate him and call him names anyway. It’s childish.
They don’t need to conspire. It’s pretty obvious. Both Eric and Ben over think this. But I agree with Ben in that we should be going after specifics so effective actions can be made instead of just constantly yelling at the ski because lefties don’t listen to anyone that can’t help them feel morally superior. They truly dismiss any criticism, especially if it is about their character and integrity. But they won’t change at all though by going after specifics either. Andrew Cuomo is a fine example of that.
I used to like Ben, but anymore I could do without him. He is a shill for uppity conservatism and always comes from a perspective that he is smarter and better. Don’t get me wrong, the dude is incredibly smart, but he is also strategic. Everything he does is to cater to a specific demographic. I call it arrogant conservatism or champagne conservatism. He doesn’t like to speculate because he sees that as beneath him, and if you step out of line with his vision, it is bye bye for you. Just ask Candace.
Basically, Shapiro was being nice to you. The fact that you even talk about it makes him question your assumptions-far fetched assumptions The most successful argument comes from the person who questions the one who makes the gossip instead of talking about the gossip. Next time grill the rule brotherhood guy on his motives and his reasons and especially his extra long pauses.
As a former software executive, I can assure you that there are groups looking to obtain and maintain control of resources(people, money, armies) and they have a strategy. Whether they’re able to execute on the strategy is a different subject, but I can assure you that the strategy exists and you’re being naive if you think it doesn’t. Eric’s point is that this is happening and those groups were surprised when Trump won in 2016 and it threw a wrench into the works because he didn’t play along like the other winners have in the past. Eric goes on to suggest that they won’t let that happen again and he’s probably right.
I’m not always a fan of Ben, but here I’m in absolute agreement with him. It has become way too fashionable to view every single unexplained phenomenon as a ‘conspiracy’ and then to uncritically accept that conspiracy. I feel like this is usually a pretty good indication for a lack of critical thinking skills
And while Ben Shapiro was trying to make up his mind on COVID, businesses were destroyed, people’s reputations were ruined, and the closure of schools did educational and psychological damage that we are only beginning to measure was done to a generation of children. But he’s sorry about all that so it’s all good.
Actually his assertion is seriously naive, the powerful get together and decide how things will work out, and sometimes when they disagree then unfortunate things happen like they did in 1914 … a family disagrement set the scene for the next centuary, there’s not even a family anymore, just massively wealthy people who have no connections to each other, why wouldn’t the dictators think they have an opportunity.
There was no lack information of how coronaviruses and vaccines operate. The only new thing there was the particular type of the coronavirus, but it could not and did not change the overall process and result. There was sufficient data to predict 99% prevention of the spread by a vaccine is impossible before the vaccines against COVID were even created.
Shapiro says that being unwavering on your principles is different than wavering on data. I agree. What he fails to recognize is that when people see evidence of biases and deceit that lead them to question the data (not make claims), should not be condemned, which is a thing he did. He needs to recognize when skeptics deserve support for their skepticism.
Not sure if Chris is really this naive or he’s just trying to keep his content monetized. He’s obviously not a halfwit but he seems to be an eternal optimist who disregards any possibility of darkness and subversion in the human mind. He won’t do well in the coming tribulations if he can’t except reality.
The problem with Ben’s argument is that, assuming that the evidence exists, it will take 50 years to declassify it. That’s also assuming that it gets declassified in the end at all, which often is not the case. There have been various whistleblowers in government agencies over time, but how many times did they result in anything more than an impotent televised spectacle of congressional committee hearings? No government agency is going to act in a hostile manner toward another government agency if the end result is the undermining of the bureaucratic superstructure, so good luck finding acceptable evidence.
I appreciate Ben trying to not be ‘conspiratorial’, but he is being fairly obtuse about the whole thing. He described a conspiracy ( i.e. the algorithms – the gov’t directing agencies to manipulate what people can see or search for) but since the players and comms can be identified and hearings were held, it is not a conspiracy?
Aka he’s not going to look into shady shit until it’s all over the place. Reminds me of cops saying they won’t come out to check on someone threatening violence until he actually beats the person up. Or if you think there could be a possibility of chemical dumping wouldn’t you want to investigate before the water is poisoned not after …? Or do we need to have our children end up in the hospital before it’s worth investigating
This guy still believes that Oswald acted alone, and that the President and Congress are actually running the show. And as for you Chris, you were way too easy on him; where were the tough questions on what he said about those of us who exercised our freedom of choice in regards to the covid vaccine? In my eyes, it was despicable.
So Ben will accept that all of these individual instances all happen to be working for a specific common ideological goal…. But to say that groups of people went out of their way to prevent Trump from getting into office is a bridge too far? Even though all of the individual instance he listed are literally all mini conspiracies in and of themselves?
Not conspiratorial forces. All you have to do is follow the money, so big food (see dietary guidelines), big pharma in tandem with those centralized medicene who both they and military industrial complex use as their drug dealer (see COVID), big tech a handful of v. powerful companies we don’t need to name who keep large parts of the population addicted and docile, climate change activists and the whole renewables sector and those secreted within and without governmental organizations who maintain the facade and control grant funding, research etc. without outlining the unsustainable and dangerous nature of much renewable technology, (see wind turbines, server farms, photovoltaic cells). They are sustained by the central paradigms that have made large swathes of population sick and drug dependent whether through food, technology and leftist, anti-family, anti-life, anti-nature, anti-tradition post-modernist ideologies. Eh have I mentioned the media and entertainment industry.. hm wonder who most of them are funded by.
He’s lost me at 0.29 because petulantly making impatient demands for others to identify the psychopathic elites and the powers that shouldn’t be BY NAME – to a guy in a small hat, might just be the most asinine thing anyone can do in this context. Just ask your financiers squeaky boy. 🙄 Enough already with this nonsense. Peace
I can appreciate Ben not wanting to avoid tilting at windmills and exacerbate a situation where the enemy is hidden from sight. But I do know things he is choosing to ignore. There is an organization that has been pushing for the one world order for a very very long time. I am not really sure why they are so enamored by it, but they are. In the ’50s they were building up communism is Russia because it made it easy to control the masses and build a USSR. in 1960, a defector that valued individualism over the collective, told the long game plan to take down the USA. He talked in terms of generations being 15 years. The plan was again explained by a defecting KGB agent in the mid ’80s. What they both describe as the end game, is exactly what we are seeing now with all the WOKE stuff; the alphabet people; the BLM movement; Covid 19 and all the rest. The tool they are using is financial. They own/control Blackrock and Vanguard. Blackrock and Vanguard own each other to muddy the water and obviate ownership. They own controlling shares is almost every financial institution on the planet. They own and control of most media and entertainment outlets it dictate what is fed to the people. They control war finances, intrest rates, the stock market, and practically everything. This information is totally verifyable. The next step is to downgrade the USA dollar and end it’s reign as the world stable currency so it can be replaced with a trackable bit coin. Then they control everyone and everything.
i agree that you shouldn’t just draw conclusions but i think its healthy to be skeptical and try to put the pieces of the puzzle together and make some hypothesis based on that instead of having tunell vision, especially when most of these conspiracies actually turn out to be true when enough time pass by and the incentive to hide it isn’t as great anymore
It’s so annoying. We on the left always had our criticism against the WEF, especially here in Switzerland, where we had demonstrations and blockades because the WEF (especially after around 2000) was seen as elitest, neoliberal and ultra-capitalist, with some ecological and social topics sprinkled in to come across slightly less annyoing. We always had those criticisms and will always have them. But then the right sweeps in with their conspiracy nonsense and search for a boogeyman in Klaus Schwab (the guy looks like Dr. Evil and speaks German, bingo!) and completely undermine any valid criticism. Now it’s just memes and conspiracies in a pool of right wing demagoguery.
I worked with a far-righter some years ago and he was absolutely convinced that resources were infinite, and I do think that particular idea is a fundamental necessity to supporting economic systems that must see continued growth to survive. It was kind of funny in a grim way perusal them twist into pretzels attempting to explain how finite resources are a conspiracy theory but not quite figuring out what benefits that “lie” would actually net.
Who own all the brands? Capitalists. Who elect the world leaders? Capitalists. Who craft policies that are beneficial to them but not others? Capitalists. Who control the markets? Capitalists. Who are in charge of all the money flow, i.e. stock exchange and banking? Capitalists. (This is copied and pasted from my other comments) With all of those in mind, Ben’s big intellectual brain somehow decides to pin all the blame on leftists, who are notoriously anti-capitalism.
44:05 Actually for the majority of time people had a “credit” with each vendor that they used You bought groceries on credit and then paid at the end of the month. Banks standardized that as credit against your bank account. Rich people often would run up massive bills at stores and stores would go out of business when the rich person turned out to be just living on credit and lost everything
I have a professor at college who constantly brings up Schwaab/ the WEF and rambles on on how bad it is that we’re abandoning fossil fueled cars and how they want to take away all of our individual rights. He is also an ultra conservative christian so I guess he shares the belief that there is no global warming and our ressources are infinite because “god created them for us”.
He was pretty close to the oil/coal thing. The earth will still make both, but it will be very slow, but it will be drastically less due to humans. The low oxygen bogs needed for coal to form have been colonized and terraformed by humans to a point where it isn’t possible to form naturally. Oil, on the other hand, is still being formed in the oceans. Algae is falling to the ocean floor, and being buried as it always has. Southern Louisiana and the Everglades are going to be full of oil in 100 million years due to the environment
Kinda feels like Ben’s caught on that trying to maintain the Boy Genius aesthetic well in to his 30s was starting to come off as a little sad, but wants to ease in to whatever branding comes afterwards gradually so it feels like more of a natural progression and not something that’s had an entire marketing team focus group within an inch of it’s life.
As someone who knows a lot of people who work as fishermen or in the fishing industry, the people who work there are perhaps the most clueless about the finite nature of what brings them work. They don’t seem to understand that if you fish everything you loose it all forever. They say they understand, but every time the government restricts the fishing quotas they will complain and tell you that it isn’t necessary. Capitalism corrupts absolutely if you let it.
Back in 2009, my high school science teacher told us that we’d already used about a third of the world’s crude oil supply since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and that oil had taken millions of years to ferment underground or whatever. I dread to think how much more of the world’s supply is gone another 15 years later
The coal we get comes from the carbiniforus erra. meaning coal forming. The key was the development of the first trees. At the time, bactaria and other reducers could not metabolize the dead wood. So it accumelated to the coal fields today. When bactaria devlepoed the ability to digest trees, coal formation stopped.
People who plan on trading gold or silver in the apocalypse, who will want it? In a non market economy what intrinsic value does gold have? Its a shiny rock that has no real use outside of electronics and preventing oxidizing of other metals by coating them in it (if only there was another way to prevent rust!).
This is a silly thought I just had but someone should write a book about how the left would want things to be. It could be like a novel about people perhaps teen to make it YA having to rebuild after some post apocalyptic event like plague the right wing failed to deal with and through out the book the people who are trying to build something better than what came before take leftist ideas. You would have to cover the clear promotion of such ideas with a good story, characters and plot so it doesn’t get itself banned in all the red states. It sound silly I know but still I think done right it could be a fun and educational read. Also the rest of us could finally under stand what the he’ll you political junkie leftists vision of this country is.
Ben Shabibo tells us he reads the Torah and yet the Torah says over and over not to oppress people just because the judges will side with you. Arguing for the “morality” of paying poverty wages because shareholders are more important is pretty special. “Livable wages” is a simple calculation: 3-4x rent for a 2 bedroom apartment in the area of the business. Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. – Isaiah 58:3
One day, Shapiro will accidentally end up in a room with an actual economist or political scientist who will eventually find a moment between Ben’s Gish Galloping to ask “well, what exactly do you mean when you say socialism, then?”, at which point Shapiro will run away crying as he had on that legendary BBC interview.
Another note on credit cards is that even if you always pay them off they charge service fees to the vendors, which ultimately increase the price of goods whether you have a credit card or not. Its a hidden cost but its a cost of the credit system; similar to how you don’t think about the part of income tax that your employer pays but it does effect how much companies pay. The fact that so much is paid for on credit essentially adds a sales tax that goes to banks even if they don’t collect debt servicing fees.
i told my mum Ben Shabibo has been well known as a shill for years now and is also cringe after she bought up attack helicopter tier arguments unprompted at dinner one time and she said i was being too partisan and that i was triggered, and then tried telling me about the effects of soy… and now she doesnt like talking to me. worth it though.
Skyscrapers are an important technology for large walkable cities. Without skyscrapers, we won’t have high-density urban centres, we’ll have medium-density urban spill. This is likely to bring with it negative social changes. OTOH, even though there won’t be skyscrapers as we know them without steel, even plain old wood construction can relatively easily reach around eight-floor buildings, plus or minus a bit, and new fancy plastics or advances in graphene chemistry might be able to improve on that, even if graphene-based steel-less skyscrapers are unlikely. (But then again, in our history, most of plastics science was developed on the basis of coal tar chemistry. Bakelite, now obsolete, is the main exception.)
not even 6 and a half minutes into this and i am already losing my mind.. reading more of that Friedman’s quote (from 1970’s NYT article) there’s no wonder why Benny boy likes him: “The discussions of the “social responsibilities of business” are notable for their analytical looseness and lack of rigor. What does it mean to say that “business” has responsibilities? Only people can have responsibilities. A corporation is an artificial person and in this sense may have artificial responsibilities, but “business” as a whole cannot be said to have responsibilities, even in this vague sense. The first step toward clarity in examining the doctrine of the social responsibility of business is to ask precisely what it implies for whom.” No wonder i never liked him lmaoo he sounds pretentious as hell.. but it also reminds me of Benny’s attempt at “arguing” with the political compass on “If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations” question where he argued that there’s no difference between the interests of the corporations and the interests of the humanity..
On the subject of limited resources, that’s why my personal hypothesis for the Great Filter is that most planets either lack the resources to achieve colonization of space, or exhaust the resources required before achieving it, and I think it’s likely that’s what will happen to us. Rather than some cataclysm that destroys human civilization, we’ll slowly exhaust more and more resources required to maintain our current level of technology, and eventually revert to earlier technology, over a long enough period of time eventually reverting to stone tools as even accessible iron and copper is exhausted.
Voosh, Cuba basically couldn’t buy American or European cars when they were the best (before Japan became the best automakers), so an entire industry maintaining and replicating pre-war cars appeared. As a result, Cuba has become a bit of an automotive time capsule. The pastel colors are period-correct for the old-style cars. I think Top Gear USA did an episode about them after the Obama administration ended some of the trade ban. Pretty interesting.
The thing Vaush was saying at 29 minutes is the excuse my family gives for why climate change isn’t real. They first say that there’s always been a natural changing in temperature throughout the millennia (ignoring the fact that the claim is that this natural process is going faster and at a rate that the environment can’t adapt to). Second, they say that God takes care of the world and would not let it be destroyed before he wants it to (but what are they going to say if they have to make these claims to non-Christians? I don’t think they care enough or know enough people to have to do that).
This is mostly anecdotal and vibes based, so I could be wrong, but it feels like who a lot of these “but now pay later” things target are young, middle class people. People who aren’t necessarily rich, but grew up in a stable enough situation where they never had to really think about what they would do if they didn’t have enough money to buy food or pay rent, and are on their own for the first time. My parents told me that back in the 80’s when they were going to collage, credit card companies would set up tables in the quad to sign people up, and they had a few friends who got into a lot of debt because they just didn’t understand how quickly it could get out of hand. Obviously these things are going to hurt people who are struggling because they don’t have many other options, but it also goes after people who don’t have that real fear of not having enough money yet. The downside to having a bigger middle class is that when more people grow up without having to worry about poverty, they don’t learn to fear running out of money, and that leaves them more vulnerable to things like that.
Europeans used to think that extinction wasn’t possible because God created all creatures and wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen until the mid 1800s so I am not so sure about the assertion that viewing resources as infinite is necessarily a modern concept. It’s probably worse today and we justify it in different ways, but the concept isint new.
Simple way to explain the credit economy. The bulk of most families net worth is in the value of their home if the are lucky enough to own their own. but most people who own their own home don’t even own it outright, they have a mortgage, that if they fail to pay, will give the bank ownership of that home. The bulk of the wealth of the American middle class exists as credit.
Spending habits: vaush is correct and its important to understand that the rate of purchase is wildly different than it used to be. Folks would do very well if they simply slowed down their rates of purchase. Story: a credit card company tried to sell me a credit card with the line ‘what are you going to do if you have a financial emergency?’ Reply, ‘just do without. Make do.’ They did not like that answer. Don’t be a shitty person, don’t try and fill your emotional void holes with material things. Make a friend or a lover instead, or go out and help other people.
Sears & Roebuck in 1916 initiated, and continued until sometime in the 1970s, a profit sharing plan with employees. I think employee stock ownership peaked at about 25% in 1968, so it was never a matter of actual governance by the workers. It did incentivize productivity that profited the big shareholders. I think a parallel culture of giving the workers more freedom to prioritize customer service (instead of the often silly sales-promotion notions of managers) contributed, while it lasted, to customer satisfaction that brought return business and new customers informed by experienced ones. I think it’s fair to say the results (achieved in other firms as well) were for workers and consumers better than trends from the 1980s to the present. The continued profitable operation of a firm was of course itself better for many investors than the industrial destruction that profited the rising class of corporate raiders. In capitalism, though, it’s not numbers of individuals but piles of money that set policy.
I definitely know a bunch of people who won’t make the claim that resources are infinite, but assert that we’ll just always be able to innovate new resources and new methods to procure them. It reeks to me of cope because the people who make these statements almost universally oppose renewable energy at an ideological level and also constantly bitch about the price of gas and electricity.
I don’t get why V hates the idea of Stakeholder capitalism. It’s like, the USA and the EU are both capitalism systems, but there’s a lot more consumer protection in the EU and I’d rather be a lower to middle class worker in most EU states than in the US and not only for healthcare. The downplay is especially odd as this seems like the economic version of “I’d rather have a fully left wing government, but vote for Dems because the GOP are monsters” which he always advocates for. Sure, prefer full socialism if it’s on the cards, but until that comes along I’d like to have something better than “kill the planet as fast as possible to maximise quarterly shareholder value. Also, there’s a whole lot of very specific US Race-history arguments against a system proposed by a German for worldwide effect. Also also, the idea of investing in gold isn’t meant to be for when the world economy collapses (although I guess insane people think so), it’s just that gold often rises in price while the stockmarket is down, so it can be used as a hedge.
It’s hilarious to me how all these pro-capitalist bootlickers keep spouting off about how under socialism, we’ll own nothing, and like it. Meanwhile, at Totally-Not-Ultracapitalist-Ubisoft: “So uh, we need like, more money. How about we just move all our IPs to Games-as-a-Service model, cause gamers should be happy with not owning anything.”