A Philosopher Reacts: PragerU, Bill Burr, Elon Musk, and Warhammer

During our Holiday Mega Stream, we showed Michael some recent KZbin videos with no preparation to test his ability to offer some philosophical interpretations. This is the result of that experiment. Michael reacts to Bill Burr talking about Luigi Mangione, PragerU talking about comedy and culture, Silicon Valley philosophy, and more!
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[@gavindavis3640]

Here for the warhammer content.

[@sirloin869]

but, yeah: that, too...

[@jcspoon573]

The problem with satire is if ppl don't recognize it as satire, instead of mocking the subject, you've promoted the subject (re: Fight Club, Full Metal Jacket, Starship Troopers). I don't blame the author/director, but it is something to be careful about.

[@mr.pavone9719]

Warhammer 40k is old news. PRAISE BE TO SPACE KING

[@poormanchemist]

HAHA FR

[@WaltzingUndead]

​@@jcspoon573How is Full Metal Jacket satire?

[@swampskater]

Snopes literally labeled the Babylon Bee article as “satire”. It’s manufactured outrage.

[@cindygauthier8567]

Not to mention they’ve fact checked many, many Onion articles over the years

[@serversurfer6169]

Probably because conservatives don't understand satire, so they unironically spread it as truth. 😜

[@TwoTonTaft]

I wish the right's victim fetish could become real, just for one day, so they'd know what it actually feels like

[@andrewsprague4566]

I'm wondering if they went back and changed it and this is why they created the label. It didn't used to exist, so if these guys complained about it is that why they added it.

[@jcspoon573]

​@@andrewsprague4566No, they'd already used the label prior.

[@vroitwyrd]

"The truth can be offensive!" ~ "Why you fact check me, bro?! It's just satire!"

[@cheetopendejo6660]

to quote stephen frye (who may be quoting himself): "youre offended? so fucking what?"

[@MrCactuar13]

tmw "facts don't care about your feelings" bros are the same people who cry fact checking is censorship

[@cedrickulacz8468]

​@@MrCactuar13 I shit you not I've seen a conservative ex friend whinge that fact checking is conservative censorship.

[@zerikane]

Literally the ideological version of "What are you gonna do...shoot me?" We have no gun yet they are already wounded.

[@CAP198462]

MAGA response mad libs. Dude he (trump) was only joking about [verb]ing [proper noun]. Lol learn the difference Lib, he pwned you.

[@tylerlambert8953]

I commented to early! The emperor is NOT Margert Thatcher. That would be the Orc Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. MAGURUK THRAKA - MARGERET THRATCHER.

[@Tp_hedgelinghog]

Yeah the Orks sound very Thatcher too

[@13579zod]

I've heard conflicting statements about Thraka being named after Thatcher. Andy Chambers has said repeatedly when asked that the named emerged from he and his friends roleplaying orcs from Lord of The Rings in the 80's. Of course this could just be him dodging the question, but I think its been long enough that if Thraka was named to mock Thatcher, whatever backlash Chambers or Games Workshop could face would be minimal at best.

[@SIZModig]

Why limit yourself to just one reference?

[@vokkera6995]

Of course how did I not see it

[@13579zod]

@@SIZModigBecause Chambers created the character and I’d consider his statement the only one that matters.

[@prodigal_southerner]

So Luigi's mistake was not forming a group.

[@G27pat]

You NEED shareholders as well, at that point they shouldn't care.

[@videogamers100]

the babylon bee is to satire what Jeffery Dahmer was to the art of cookery.

[@userMB1]

7:37 _"It's one of the ways the left is killing satire by turning reality into a parody of itself"._ My eyes are now blind by this enormous amount of projection

[@navinvent]

@@userMB1 yeah, reality is not a parody of itself, reality is just different from right wing fantasy.

[@navinvent]

Im a molecular biologist, and i have good education, am able, but once a guy pulled a gun on me, and yelled at me asking me to go back to Mexico, till a white lady talked him down , this was a week after jan 6th. Yes, I had a class, education, and able bodied privilege, but that didn't preclude me from experiencing racism, harm and alienation. Am I still better off than in certain ways compared to the kids in the farming town I used to visit, yes. But also none of those kids would get a gun pulled on them because they "looked" suspicious. That is the point.

[@ezekielduran4386]

You are not better... More productive member of society or perhaps less harmful societal member sure. But just because you behave in a manner they may not doesn't make you better... It makes you a little more of a better neighbor but doesn't make you better. A lot of the people in your town may have little options to advance once they understand what life is about. Heck there are people who don't get their heads on straight until mid thirties but does that mean that they were a worse person at 25... No. It just means they weren't at the level of understanding that some rise to in shorter time spans. Heck I see men in their sixties that dont understand how to conduct themselves in a manner cohesive to their fellow man and I would have been considered more responsible or socially aware before I was 10. Yet I'm 31 unemployed although I dedicated so much to education before education started for myself. I could read small books before I was in pre school, and read at an eleventh grade level in 2nd grade. At the same age i could calculate square roots at age 6, I dedicated myself to my education but because of two teachers lost motivation to try because they were insulted by my need to be correct and display my knowledge and really treated me poorly for having a broader knowledge base than they did. I smoked a little pot in my youth but I liked school. I liked learning and could score the highest grades in any class if they actually cared about retention of knowledge. But because homework was ,70 percent of the grade and I hated redundant homework that didn't help myself once I already completed 10% of it because I knew the material I'd stop doing homework. I'd get Ds and nearly Fs in classes but I'd know the material better than anyone in the class... It's be... Anyway I'm 31 unemployed and I'm just a minor amount of legal trouble due to arguments with my parents recently. Having lived at their house after many setbacks financially am I a worse person because I've turned to drugs after a life of working my ass off to be a model class citizen yet have never made more than minimum wage? No. I could discuss scientific or mathematical principles with experts in their field and not miss a beat. I'd still have as coherent of understanding how to behave as a citizen if I'm high as a kite, whereas a police officer that's sober has less emotional control than I while on drugs or moderately drunk. Once I'm too drunk I do start to act up a bit but no more than anyone else would when they are sober... Anyway my point in this is nobody is better than anyone dude. Some people are not as great as others because they are indecent. But that's their actions. Your actions don't make you better than your fellow citizens however your fellow citizens can be people who are not as great or decent or even terrible members of society. But at any point I believe they can come to an understanding of their wrongs and thereby be as good as someone else. And that's the key we are only as good as others not better. We can be more harmful or more uncooperative, but we can't be superior to anyone at any point because no matter what we are just humans trying to live and let live. The ones who don't follow that second portion are the ones who lower themselves to being harmful to others, but being productive and wanting to should be normal not raised above as superior.

[@uwc]

​@@ezekielduran4386 I think the commenter meant to type "better off than", with no intended judgement of inherent worth. Based on my reading, I think they would agree with everything you said in your comment (and you with their intent).

[@ezekielduran4386]

@@uwc Well that's my fault then. I'm very literal and that's an error in my rush to critique something I am personally adamant about. You see I myself am half Mexican/Hispanic or Native American. My father and his family spoke Spanish in the home in southern Colorado and that side of my family shares culture/customs of Latin American, but our ancestors were allowed to stay in Colorado and be Americans whenever the land was forfeited by Mexico following their military surrender to the USA and the border moved to near where it is today. But although they spoke Spanish in the home my father is extremely fluent and proficient in both languages as are his siblings. But the point of my saying this is that compared to my mother's Caucasian side of my family I'm much closer with my father's side due to sheer distance as well as the moral behaviors of one another. My mother has siblings who always looked down upon her and my father and still do in many ways and aren't as caring or sympathetic nor generous as my father's side of the family who are no where near what would be considered the American ideal. Yet it's baffling as to why for myself. They care... They are more considerate and charitable although they aren't as financially well equipped to be charitable. They have had legal troubles sure from that Machismo culture but in adulthood they have all adapted and been just as normal and as passionate an American citizen as the "White" or "Real American" side of my family. It's absurd that race is still this major issue when there are people like myself who don't even consider a person's race. Since I was young there have been family reunions that I attended where you would see people who could have the look of someone who was white black brown or even some who looked oriental. I had two people who looked completely different that would tuck me into bed at night and the same goes for the two brothers I shared the house with. I have two half brothers from my father that are full Hispanic in their bloodline and yet one of them whiter than my half white dark skinned brother. Race was never something I saw. My youngest childhood friend was last name of gomez until his father went to prison and he went to his mother's name which was Buchanan although she's Filipino. And I live in an area very deprived of any social diversity so it was either white or Hispanic people. I remember one time in Denver a bum was asking for money at a McDonald's I was entering and I said sorry I don't have cash I only have my debit card which was a fact. He followed me inside and asked if I was being racist which was stupid as hell because I exited my fathers truck with my father and although the bum was "black" my dad's skin tone was nearly identical to his... How did he not see us walking in together? Or is it only racist when you are doing it against their race? Which begs another critical issue I have to address... If there were any race war, all sides would be leary of me and I'd have no side! I look too white to be one of the Mexicans yet I'd not side with the oppressors side in any conflict. And it would most definitely be white caucasian people who would be the ones oppressing others in this country, because it is that way. So if that were to occur I'd be the most likely candidate to not even survive a day... It's so absurd when you look at the face of it. Europeans colonized the globe and now their lineage and future progeny are in a state where they say how can you blame us for helping others? It's not helping when you look at what was done objectively for hundreds of years and is still ongoing today. The video is key on something that is totally contradictory in nature yet occurs in the real world. People who want to keep others beneath themselves call out actions they themselves are guilty of doing and when it's their actions they try justification through completely non logical reasoning. It's a headache and a life ache to be honest. It's something that brings much conflict to me internally and in society. I have people come up to me and say those damn Mexicans this or that without understanding that they are speaking with someone who is half Mexican by every metric except that my Mexican ancestors never left Mexico. Mexico left them and so my great and even great great parents who had grandparents that were Mexican were not themselves Mexican because the boundaries we arbitrarily use to distinguish one set of people from another changed. Sorry I rant a lot on this issue because it's something I'm torn up on from the inside, as well as pressured into beliefs on the outside, that I'll never align with strictly due to where I was born and the way my fellow neighbors look at the world. It's an internal war for some and that's where many don't get it. Everyone else wants to be against others whereas I'm forced to be against myself or another party when I shouldn't have to be against anyone!

[@carlos_herrera]

'White Cultural Marxism understander' is my favorite type of right winger

[@Nope-bl3ig]

I read that “PragerU, Bill Burr, Elon Musk, Warhammer” in the title to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire.

[@davidportmore9784]

I thought it was an activation phrase for a sleeper cell

[@jsquire1331]

I wanna see more Michael reacting to crazy WH40k stuff. That universe is wild, and while subversive and intentionally satirical, also has some problematic issues with it's fan base and media literacy.

[@weatheranddarkness]

Well there are more books in the cannon than I read books in ten years. And the video games apparently make no effort to maintain the satirical aspect. I think they kinda did it to themselves

[@cindygauthier8567]

@@weatheranddarkness It really waffles between “POWER ARMOUR COOL” and “Living in an oppressive, theocratic fascist society would actually REALLY suck because EVERYONE is just meat for the meat grinder of endless war.” At least with more of the Xenos factions, they tend to be more consistent about pointing out why their flavour of oppressive society actually sucks to live under

[@vokkera6995]

@@cindygauthier8567the problem with having however many different authors writing over decades lol

[@philipschorr5145]

​@@vokkera6995also of surviving through the 2000s where any sense of levity and unseriousness had to be drained from anything that hoped to be survived.

[@Theodorehunt97]

@@weatheranddarknessI think something is to be said for the fact it doesn’t look at the camera and say “see, this is obvious.” It’s a filter, and I don’t think satire has to be obvious

[@alanfike]

"Wokeness is the end of comedy" from Elon Musk is like myself saying that "brushing your teeth is the end of the Olympic high jump" and we'll all be talking at the same level of experience in the areas mentioned. For the record, I know next to nothing about the Olympic high jump.

[@CaidhMor]

The Babylon Bee seems like even more than just complaining that "woke can't joke", they're subtly undermining the idea of fact-checking as a whole.

[@The_Glasses_Character]

I would donate to “What is the Left”

[@MrMMochizuki]

I looked the 2+2=4 thing. The quote "of course math is neutral because 2+2=4" was used as an example of statements revealing covert racism insofar as it is a denial or downplaying of potential bias in math education. Kinda in the same category as "IQ tests objectively measure your inherent intelligence."

[@a88aiello]

Bablon Bee gets called fake news because they make no effort to present themselves as satire. They post false stories as if they are true but fail to acknowledge that it is supposed to be a joke, they are hoping people think it is real.

[@TheLegPumpkin]

I'll do it quickly: Praegar U is Awful, Bill Burr is Awesome, Elon Musk is Awful, Warhammer is 40k levels of Awesome

[@alimidoriya4679]

Thanks❤, was so happy to see Warhammer 40k in wisecrack

[@MatsMonsen]

I desperately want a Michael Burns / Arbitor Ian collab now

[@nakenmil]

Arbitor Ian is probably the best 40k loreguy to do that, he's so chill and knows how silly the setting is on its face.

[@MatsMonsen]

@@nakenmil Absolutely agreed. Been listening so much to him that when I read WH40k books I pretty much hear his voice in my head :D

[@Taco0718]

By the Emperor! Wisecrack learning of 40k!

[@Leahcimmichael]

05:11 the creature that is Henry Kissinger had a peace prize Wisecrack live studio world tour when?

[@WisecrackEDU]

just ask and we'll do it!

[@matildatheoboldt2261]

*was 🎉

[@DarrenNoFun]

I don't know what they're on about, when my former satire site got fact checked by Snopes, it was a career high. Seeing Snopes say "hey... Northerners aren't using skittles to sand their roads, despite snow removal budget skyrocketing

[@TheRealCeeJai]

1:40 I disagree. I think the difference is between acute violence and sustained violence. We're fine with several people being killed in wars that last for years, but we shy away or feel guilty for approving of one person getting killed. (This also applies to systemic violence as it is sustained.) It also creates a kind of cognitive dissonance for most people, as we're taught killing people is bad, but when someone really bad or representative of a bad system gets killed, we don't feel like it's particularly wrong.

[@TJ-vo3rv]

Bit of both I think. I'd also argue that our monkey-brains like to latch on to cause-and-effect relations; it is easy to know who to blame when we see someone shoot another person on camera. Guy A killed Guy B. But when the perpetrator is a vague, expansive system operated and steered by myriad disconnected individuals...it is a lot harder to point a finger for grandma dying when she didn't get her medication approved by insurance. In those instances, it is a lot easier to just go with "it is what it is," rather than tackle the monumental task of figuring out that whole...mess, more-or-less.

[@weatheranddarkness]

The old truism "one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic" doesn't ring true for nothing.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

25:35 agreed. There is a fixation on race, from conservatives. And the true left calls them out.

[@joshseltenright]

Wisecrack and Warhammer, my worlds just collided

[@DirtyMuzzie]

Skulls for the skull throne? 🥺❤

[@hopelessnekromantik]

​@@DirtyMuzzieiron within, iron without

[@DirtyMuzzie]

@@hopelessnekromantik *WWWAAAAAHGGHHHHH*

[@seermayton-el3488]

When worlds collide 🤖

[@JFDavis-lq1bp]

The Emperor protects

[@petar4onachev]

Can you do a whole series on the Philosophy of Warhammer 40k? It seems to be super popular with the Henry Cavill news and Space Marine 2 lately.

[@DraconicImperator]

I looked up the "maths is racist" and one of the first hits was a Scientific American article that, past the headline talking about sexism and patriarchy, was about how the field thinks its nature is so pure and free of bias (because the whole subject is numbers) that women - particularly BIPOC women - repeatedly get dismissed of their abilities at conferences. "You're only getting celebrated because you are Black/a woman. Not because you actually accomplished something" In short, math itself is not racist. The perception that girls suck at math just refuses to go away.

[@geoffdewitt6845]

This Babylon Bee piece is made funnier by the fact that GK Chesterton was in favor of widely distributing economic modes of production (distributism).

[@christopher1307]

Ever have someone make a bad joke and then try to explain it as if the reason you didn't laugh was because you just didn't get it? Evidently, Babylon Bee released a whole video doing that. Ironically, this defense of supposed comic genius is unintentionally hilarious.

[@colonelweird]

The thing I noticed most about those PragerU clips is how they are continuing to repeat the same old things they've been saying for a decade. By now, people on the left/liberal side must have produced hundreds of videos, podcasts, articles, and books explaining concepts like white privilege, gender identity, and intersectionality in the simplest terms possible, but PragerU ignores all of it. They don't try to refute these arguments; they just ignore them and pretend to be surprised and outraged by the absurdity of their own hyperbolic versions of those ideas. But I guess I can't blame them -- It's much easier to win an argument when you get to create both sides of the debate.

[@trunkage]

The Arbiter Ian crossover Ive been looking for....

[@hellcat.countess]

I mentally guffawed at "C.S. Lewis kinda mid." 😂

[@TahoeNevada]

Warhammer 40K is basically Dune without the Spice

[@ArbitorIan]

IT ME! Wow, remember when i had hair and talked slower?

[@ichthys4147]

Babylon Bee, you cant say it’s hard to do something you were already bad at

[@amonggaming3822]

12:09 for those interested in the warhammer stuff

[@sparklemotion42]

Producer Henry needs more editorial power to inject Warhammer content into Wisecrack. Beyond my personal interest in having my worlds collide, I am very interested to learn more about the philosophical implications of both the setting itself, and how the increasing mainstreamification of the IP will affect the culture it is a part of. Praise the Omnissiah for the technolgical gifts that allow this discourse to emanate from the data slate i hold before me.

[@mandraqe]

I really want to see this, too. I think there's an interesting dance going on between 40k and real life. I used to looooovvvvvee 40k, but I can't hang around with it much anymore. The themes are too close to reality, and the people who are getting into it these days are hard to talk to. Not the kind I'm (supposing we) are used to them being difficult because they're socially awkward. The kind where we don't share values because they don't have any.

[@sparklemotion42]

@mandraqe thanks for your reply. Maybe it's because I'm a relative newbie to the universe myself (got convinced to dip my toes in 8th ed), but I actually like seeing more people enter the hobby. If anything, being in the spotlight has meant driving out some of the worst elements (GW making "you will not be missed" statements, anti-harassment rules for events, femstodes, etc). And more people mean that it's easier to find groups (whether online or IRL) where I don't have to wonder whether the dude who likes to joke about purging the xenos really wishes he could do the same to the migrants next door. In the past "social awkwardness" was used as a shield to deflect against criticism of crappy beliefs/behaviors, and it's good that that doesn't fly anymore.

[@mandraqe]

@sparklemotion42 I'm not against new people coming in. In a lot of my experience, new people were coming in because they wanted to overcome their social awkwardness and build friendships with people who also liked to nerd out about pushing plastic toy soldiers across a table. Lore conversations could be really complex and nuanced. It seemed like there was an influx of people who... bought into the in-game imperial propaganda unironically. To be fair, I dipped out around mid 9th because it was getting to me. Maybe it's getting better, and all gaming groups are highly local, so your group mileage may vary. I do still talk to some of my buddies from the gaming scene pretty regularly, and getting into more niche games helps.

[@asmith1ofmany]

A bit of Dredd too

[@shanesullivan460]

I wanna visit the factory that's hiring toddlers as forklift operators. That place sounds like a blast.

[@AmbitiousNoodle]

Snidely remarking, “why you like kids so much?” was my favorite line in this video. That off the cuff reaction was so genuine as to be hilarious. Michael, please keep being you!

[@Sol-0T-hn5ro]

Omfg my American brother (and brothers and sisters in the rest of the channel) The thumbnail blew me away, like the video. Thank you for feeding a rapidly calcifying 45yo brain, with style. Happy new year

[@hankmorgan3371]

A deep or dumb Warhammer 40K video would be interesting. ArbitorIan has a great video on how successful the 40k satire is.

[@adamtapparo2168]

What are the odds that the literal month I become obsessed with 40k, everyone else is suddenly talking about it?

[@WolvesHart79]

Blew up with normies because of Spacemarine 2...been a fan and playing GW games since the 80s. You young'uns always thinking you found some novel new thing. ;)

[@adamtapparo2168]

@@WolvesHart79I’m 35, not sure if that makes me a young’un or not. I’ve been interested in the universe for a while but didn’t know how to get into it. My friend who is a big fan just told me to read the Horus heresy a month ago and away we went

[@mowgli6345]

Hey Michael, I think it's worth doing a deep dive on the role of violence in society using the framework of Johan Galtung's definitions of direct (war, murder, etc.), structural (systems to harm and cause suffering) and cultural violence (attitudes and values that justify violence.) You touched on it a bit about how people fail to conceptualize structural violence as violence because there are bureaucratic degrees of separation. It could be helpful for people who are reconciling the contradiction of celebrating murder and empathizing with the plight of the working class. I personally think we should avoid viewing violence as a solution, but rather a symptom, and it's worth investigating the root causes of the symptoms, or they will only persist or exacerbate. Especially if resistance is met with violent suppression or retribution from the established order.

[@JFDavis-lq1bp]

I'm a simple man. I see Warhammer and I click.

[@themadmanchannel9036]

5:07 Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Verizon 1973; The award from then on is itself a joke.

[@MisterDragon]

The tragedy of 40K is that many people seem to not realise that its satire. The 40K community genuinely has/had a significant problem with openly racist/fascist or even nazi fans unironically praising the imperium. GW had to multiple times directly adress the controversy. I remember the fallout around the black ultramarine or more recently the female custodes. In both cases there was legitimate criticism about how GW handled the rollout but that was drowned out and conflated by the overwhelming tidal wave of racism or misogynism. Arguably making the imperium more inclusive runs counter to how horrifying it is supposed to be but certain vocal minorities in the real life fan base can be horrifying enough.

[@LordGrantius]

I support Wisecrack and enjoy their videos, but Michael how have you NOT heard that math is eurocentric and supports white supremacy? A google search quickly shows examples - for example, while not a part of Ontarios Ministry of Education, the president of the Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association, did a presentation where they showed a slide giving examples of white supremacy in math education including "of course math is neutral, because 2+2=4". It may not be widespread, it may not be super serious, and it absolutely is out of context - but it is something that exists

[@marscentral]

I can imagine C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton would take that guy apart. Since you mentioned his death, C.S. Lewis died the day president Kennedy was assassinated.

[@mattwatson9419]

I've been reading Jacques Berlinerblau's How to Be Secular, and I understand secularism as a political philosophy that maintains social order and protects nonreligious AND religious thought (though not always it's expression if it's at odds with the law, which should not be endorsing the establishment of any religion). I wouldn't describe The Imperium of Man (from what I know, at least) as secular. Atheism does not equate to secularism, although many hardline atheists touting secularism as shield against religion may make secularism appear as if it were antithetical to religion, although it is not. Good book so far.

[@nathaniellindner313]

Right - most global north nations today are secular, in that they mostly don't care what faith you have. Older Imperium would be comparable to the USSR during its various anti-clerical periods, in which the state very much cares what faith you have and it had better be "-". The term I've generally heard for that sort of state is "state atheism" which, you know, yeah, that's a pretty cut and dry accurate description.

[@brandchan]

I love the dude is like I discovered someone name "Buffy St. Maria" is Italian. 😂😂😂

[@OLD.GREASE]

20:40 Am I the only one who noticed the "goal digger" thing on that guy's desk?

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

Conservatives think saying their conservatism sarcastically is satire. 😮‍💨

[@Philbert-s2c]

That pack aren't "Conservatives."

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

​@@Philbert-s2c some strain of right wing douchebag. Same difference.

[@TheKiroshi]

​@@Philbert-s2c -- they absolutely are? Like they fall directly in line with every other conservative pundit. Conservative politics are just that

[@weatheranddarkness]

"sarcastically"

[@TheEverFreeKing]

I'm sorry you're not smart enough to get the joke and it went over your head beta.

[@damianarvizu1095]

Wait… 40k was referenced on Prager U?!?

[@Boombocks_Studio]

Never thought I'd get 40k content on Wisecrack, love to see the combo!

[@JBBost]

Ork army, checking in

[@Cain__m]

Loved the vid. Happy New Year tae us awe

[@davidgaskin5417]

Jodie Hunter, a professor in Mathematics Education at the Institute of Education at Massey University:- "...instead focus on how we can address the practices inherent in historical forms of institutionalised racism related to colonisation. In the context of mathematics classrooms, this means examining how cultural and cognitive imperialism represented in classroom interactions and the curriculum perpetuate inequality.”

[@authorlynndavis]

Yall. Yall. Yall. Dude was literally crying because the BBs readers took the satire article seriously, which led to the snopes article. Which is like 2 paragraphs that say "lol, their readers thought it was serious yall "

[@danielmikula1375]

The point of the Babylon Bee segment was their justification that the Babylon Bee isn't funny because comedy is too hard.

[@LeninMcDonalds]

Wait what what what new wisecrack vid dropped

[@más-g7z]

The 'math is racist' claim was actually indeed made by a professor. There are several articles about it, not just from the one cited by Prager

[@dionmcgee5610]

Leftist extremists are no less crazy than right wing extremists. I saw the math story too. Hardly surprising. For extremists- a mind is a terrible thing to use.

[@HavartiCamembert]

"I'm being victimized because all these people are claiming to be victims (from my perspective)!"

[@w.p.h.7843]

That old guy's argument was essentially, "rich people can't experience racism or sexism..." Is that the extent of "intellectual conversation" that the Right has going?

[@serversurfer6169]

Even better, a successful minority proves that racism has never been a problem. 🙄

[@tuntemon]

Babylon Bee doing a video for PragerU sounds like an Onion article!

[@TheRealCeeJai]

25:00 I hate this argument. People like this really think economic gain and stability is the only measure of success or whether things are generally OK for someone. These are the same kind of people who see a celebrity off themselves and can't comprehend why someone so popular and successful could be depressed at all.

[@sarahcox1197]

In regards to the Babylon Bee, they WISH. South Park is the original humor/satire turned reality, and they're actually brilliantly funny.

[@TwoTonTaft]

10:15 this is what SMBC called "The a KZbin Comment Paradox" Basically it's this: "If i tell nothing but the truth, people will be offended. Therefore, if I'm offending people, what I'm saying MUST be Truth"

[@1kblades]

11:35 "why do you like kids so much" 😂😂😂😂

[@harsha1306]

The warhammer bit was super interesting. But really the dunking on pragerU is what I'm here for

[@YawaruSan]

We killed satire, let’s go!

[@camkretz]

I’ve consumed warhammer lore for a long time now but I’ve gotten into the tabletop recently and it seems like a lot of the community is very resistant to change, and still complain about the model size which was changed years ago. I think it’s interesting wondering how many people think warhammer is cool because of the authoritarian imperium and the xenophobic super soldiers alone. I think the lore is amazing as long as you remember the world is awful and should be a warning to us but you can still enjoy it in the moment, I just hope most of the community understands it as well. All this being said in person the warhammer community is friendly and accepting like few hobbys are and I’m glad to be a part of it, again online trolls infect online communities but oh well.

[@defenestrator1210]

The term we use in international relations is Structural Violence. It’s a very useful concept

[@MmKayUltra1]

6:31 : how do we go a step beyond reality Me: well you could say that a obvious nominee for an award wins instead of is nominated. You could say that sales plummit when they maintain.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

Sales didn't even go down, sales of tops went up while bottoms remained the same. 😅

[@Vicioussama]

I find it funny people claim violence isn't the answer when, yea, it very much is for corporations and government and, yes, the people

[@chloedavis2082]

Saw Philosopher Reacts and immediately clicked!!

[@MrBelles104]

Comparing protests to riots is a serious problem, to equate them is destructive. The idea that such violence would be awarded with a symbol of peace could be used satirically to point out a problem with glorying violence, so I would say it was satire, not the funniest, but I see the message.

[@uss-rylanor]

Is that right?.....40K on a Wisecrack video????

[@Itomon]

those prageru segments were very unsettling

[@KrytoRift]

The imperium worships sigmar i believe

[@gabrielmarciu69]

3:23 That really caught me off guard lmao

[@NoahStephens]

What I like most about Bill Burr is he’s never full of shit

[@craigswanson8026]

Emma Goldman’s “The Philosophy of Political Violence” is essential reading. ✊🏼🏴✊🏼

[@lanegeorgeton8266]

So many times I’ve laughed at and made racist jokes. Also called out racist tropes . Made statements seemingly to counter racism, that actually professed it. Called racism and sexism out. Learning is the goal. White guy from America obviously

[@kevinlearner40]

'Philosopher' is polite way of saying 'unemployed'

[@jackmaikranz5463]

Hey can you do a deeper video into postmodern and liberation theology with the likes of Charles taylor? I think its interesting since Heidegger and Nietzsche have a Christian upbringing that had a big impact on their philosophy. Seems prevalent in a time of Christian Nationalism!

[@lebreadbox]

Ah Warhammer 40k.

[@wayfa13]

as a vegan, one can see the violence in the system, but it needed a mindset change or willing realization.

[@SIZModig]

You guys need to deep dive into Warhammer satire, I'm here for it.

[@TwoTonTaft]

With the Prager U "the left makes everything about race because we say the left does it" guy, i think "To people accustomed to privilege (either systemic or classist), equality feels like oppression" applies pretty well. They're angry and confused because other groups are being allowed to gain access to areas of society traditionally reserved for white cishet Christian men

[@TwoTonTaft]

24:35 Of all the things that didn't happen, this happened the didn'test

[@sheleavitt06]

I remember the thing about Michelle Obama🙋🏻‍♀️ Ok so she was in a store shopping and a short white woman needed help getting something (I think it was laundry detergent) from a high shelf. The woman saw Michelle and that she was tall and ask for some help. Michelle was very gracious and helped the woman and went on with her shopping. Later the news asked the woman did she know that she had just asked the First Lady for help and this poor woman was dumb struck and like “wait who did you say that was. Oh dear I didn’t recognize her I just saw that she was tall and I needed help getting the thing from the tall shelf🫢.” Now some tried to spin this as a race thing because the WHITE woman felt entitled to help from the nearest BLACK woman and didn’t even really look at her face and notice that she was the First Lady. This is not what the random woman ment to do and it wasn’t how Michelle Obama took it either. They were random strangers helping out their fellow creatures. Hope that answers your question.

[@AvinashTavares]

Gandhi wasn't given a noble peace prize

[@lanegeorgeton8266]

Forklift boy suffers. So his suffering is paramount. No one else that doesn’t suffer as him must be Cosplaying

[@onegirlarmy4401]

The Babylon Bee was funny when the satire was pointed at their own audience. They were a Christian joke site that made fun of Christians, their pop culture, celebrities, etc. It was niche, but it made fun of everyone in the community. It wasn't one side taking pock shots at the other. There wasn't an agenda to it. The articles were shared around and debated for their points among their audience. It's not the same Bee as it was then because its owned by someone else.

[@amberallen7809]

I just finished watching season 2 of Squid Game, and without spoilers, I'd say the shift in thought from the good of the collective to the good of the individual, and what that's doing to us, as well as our apathy towards systemic violence, are the biggest things it makes a comment on.

[@jameslooker4791]

What does it actually take to nominate someone for a Nobel Peace Prize? I remember hearing as a punchline that nominations for these sort of awards are open to the public.

[@henrikhumle7255]

The humor segment is really interesting, because on one hand he says that no one should fact-check anything he says, because it's all jokes and goofs. On the other hand, he immediately follows that up by saying that satire and humor is a "vehicle for truth-delivery" (awkward phrasing, but okay), which obviously implies that all of his jokes aren't actually jokes. You're not joking, nor satirizing, if you're just telling the truth. So which is it? Should they be free to satirize whatever they want, or are they not actually doing satire, because everything they say is actually meant to be taken as fact?

[@nimrodgolan1390]

dude, I would love to see more videos on Warhammer 40K. also, Margaret thatcher isn't a giant space demon...she's an ork warboss!

[@eOlRaNcH1]

Violence is the illegal use of force. Force can kill it does not make it violence. Most people do not die because of violence or force but lack of ressourcesin the form of care, food or treatment. This in essence has nothing to do with violence. Lack or ressources and use of force are both in the domain of consequences and ethics, but are not synonymous.

[@sonicgoo1121]

Wait, that guy teaches? The guy who talks in anecdotes rather than data? The guy who states what other people are thinking as fact like he's some sort of mind reader? Sic transit gloria mundi.

[@klutterkicker]

It occurs to me that very often when egregious acts of denying healthcare coverage to people hits the news, the insurance company rolls their decision back for that individual case and goes basically "oops mistakes happen." This kind of PR correction makes it very difficult for people to see the health insurance industry as committing systematic violence. Of course, there are countless instances that never make the news, and are never corrected. I don't think we as a society are okay with systematic violence, but it's deliberately hidden from our view and made to confuse us. Likewise when the state commits violence, it's accompanied by massive propaganda campaigns.

[@Rusty_Raven_]

As a forklift driver i just want to say that forklift drivers of a high skill and license can make as much as 30$/hr.... bold of him to assume people who drive machinery are all under paid and victims..... just adding info to these proceedings 😅