[18+] Ben Shapiro's Book Is Beyond Disturbing - True Allegiance Review

This book provides a legitimately disturbing insight into the sick mind of Ben Shapiro.
0:00 Intro
4:22 Prologue
12:08 Plot/character summary
13:30 Brett
30:47 Prescott
41:35 Soledad
46:31 Levon
56:33 The Mexican Question
59:48 Summary
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[@Raw774]

“The bridge groaned again.” Suddenly the bridge is the only relatable character in this book.

[@chimchu3232]

Hahaha right

[@monoolho]

True. Listening to Adam's voice I felt like it. When I paused and read the words, I got a different vibe, something along the lines of "w-what are you doing, step-vertical tower and guitar-like-snapping suspension cables?!"

[@MensHominis]

@@monoolho - _not gonna lie, you had us in the first half._ 😂 (I mean, I was expecting you to claim that the passage only sounded weird when read by Adam.)

[@joshuadsouza9428]

lol

[@RobinCawthorne]

lol

[@docchoc2407]

So basically Ben Ten Shapiro so far - try for an art (music, drama, painting) with good intent - fail and drop in said art - get into politics by being loud and shouty - insist he is the solution for all of the countries "problems" - release a book that is full of hateful beliefs and poorly written ...i don't like where this is going edit: oh my god stop replying, we get it!

[@docchoc2407]

also Adam loosing his shit so much he not only changed accent and tone he even dropped the f slur (in speaking as ben ten), godamn

[@amandalitster7713]

Good point

[@Thrlta]

And an emotionally unavailable father, let's not overlook that.

[@BOBMAN1980]

That is an eerily accurate assessment. Damn. . . . . . . !

[@willjackson6522]

Mein Shapiro

[@orionbarnes1733]

I don't like stomping on kids' dreams, but can we all take a moment to be glad he didn't achieve his goal of getting into the supreme court?

[@thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279]

Fu*k yes. Dodged a small nuke there.

[@xenophobiac4570]

To be fair, driving past a tavern doesn’t count as passing the bar.

[@chloewebb5526]

"6'3 in his bare feet" is a distinction only made by a man who is acutely aware of how much taller his shoes make him look. Like, I know this guy has more pairs of platforms than I have heels lmfao

[@thelazy0ne]

It has been already agreed in the comments that Ben was typing with one hand all the male character descriptions.

[@anisioc.3426]

Maybe it’s just a foot fetish?

[@bruh____784]

@@anisioc.3426 Only god and Ben know that at this point tbh

[@AlwaysANemesis]

@@bruh____784 And maybe his wife. She's a doctor, you know.

[@sciencecompliance235]

Basketball players, too. How do you know Ben wasn't on the varsity basketball team? XD XD XD

[@nanda_]

Ben's physical description of women: "beautiful". Ben's physical description men: "He was 6'7 and held 330 pounds in his pants. He had big bulky arms and a chest that looked like an armor that could bear a thousand bullets. He had a thick beard and a sea-deep voice that sounded like the howl of metal gears scratching against each other. His jaw was cut in a perfect 90° angle, almost as sharp as his piercing eyes. His smile..."

[@pranavghantasala6808]

@Mike Mo Oh yeah I heard she's a doctor or something

[@randomgamer239]

Sus

[@carolyntalbot947]

Curious...

[@voinekku]

That doesn't surprise me at all, considering his stance on gay rights. "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself” -Herman Hesse (poet and an author in the late 19th century)

[@tacotator2358]

you're physical description of women: what's a woman?

[@MrMyers758]

I'm surprised how detailed Ben's description of men are considering he was typing with one hand.

[@diosupremo4928]

great comment! thank you for this

[@weirdcreature9928]

Guess he has a very active imagination and impressive hand-eye coordination. I mean he is a good violinist

[@beebo7071]

“-and two hundred and fifteen pounds in his underwear” The horniness is off the charts

[@anindahalder7062]

@@beebo7071 , Aio, there is no other interpretation of this at all. Lmao.

[@Bixten33]

lololol

[@BE-ew2pt]

As a white person who went to a 75% Black high school, this book makes me cringe-laugh my socks off. You can just tell he was a coddled, racist private school kid.

[@saveusmilkboy]

OMG, are you saying you were NOT mercilessly beaten up by Yard just for existing? I am incredibly shocked. It is just not like Ben to talk out of his ass...

[@kennyl4699]

I am a white person who also went to a 50% black high school, nobody *ever* assaulted me for my race.

[@TomyPesantes]

Yeah 😂, like Ben I was bullied by kids in my school for my race, but it's not because they were black, nope it's cause they were just dumb kids saying dumb kid stuff. Yeah he definitely got coddled and never had to face a bully it seems 😂😂.

[@adammiller9029]

Likewise! He also words it so strangley 'heavily black'. Nononono my friend, people who know English would say "Majority black", 'heavily black' sounds like you just learned how to write yesterday. Also this notion that there is some kid in the school who no body knows their name is absurd. The teacher doesn't have a roster? Parents just enrolled the kid as "??????" in what reality is it even possible for a kid to be in a school and the other kids to not know his name. If he wanted to write a realistic character in a poor school in a rough neighborhood, what you would write is "No one dared to called him anything else, last kid that did landed himself head first in a trashcan." Its just.... so hilariously out of touch of reality.

[@davidradtke160]

I mean honestly I had more issues as a white guy in Hawaii then the mostly black school on the mainland. Black kids mostly just made fun of me for being bad at dancing and dressing lame, I got in fights with other white kids at the school really.

[@Chaotic_Jackal]

Ben writes the United States like it’s supposed to be the Galactic Empire from Star Wars without any of the self awareness that they where the bad guys of the story.

[@iMajoraGaming]

there are a *lot* of right-wingers and fascists that unironically do not care that the OT was a morality play with a plain good/evil dichotomy, and they wholly, genuinely fawn over the Empire and if prodded will write screeds about the Rebels being terrorists who were "the REAL bad guys." it would absolutely not shock me if Ben was one of those people who unironically talk about how genociding the Geonosians, Wookkie slavery, destroying Alderaan, were all good, actually, and for the "greater good." which is why they made the nazi allegory even more blatant in the sequels.

[@calebdaniels1987]

I mean, the Empire was written specifically to be an allegory for the United States.

[@darealsherlock8026]

@@calebdaniels1987 Coooool, never knew about this before.

[@skeleex]

@@calebdaniels1987 It was the Romans not the US

[@berdwatcher5125]

@@skeleex i thought it was the nazis.

[@Juniversal]

Imagine unironically being fine with civilian casualties in war but calling yourself pro-life

[@Juniversal]

@@SgtShnackendale The idea of being staunchly anti abortion to the degree you support abortion bans on the basis of morality while being dismissive of civilian war casualties (which would include men, woman, children AND unborn fetuses) is some grade A cognitive dissonance. Their morality and faux outrage only extends to unborn fetuses (well unless you're an unborn fetus in a war torn country that is. Then dying as a result of a US drone strike is acceptable). The hypocrisy is ridiculous

[@_SpamMe]

I always feel like modern conservatism is basically defined by how hypocritical you can be. If they were some sort of all-life-is-sacred hippies and argued that life began a bit earlier than science was perhaps comfortable with, and would take a wholistic approach to it that included for example capital punishment, police violence, war, but also possibly less directly related things like animal welfare or strong health care systems, well, I'd hope that I could respect that. It'd be a consistent view on life. Instead it's just "those few weeks matter and then they can all go die in a ditch for all I care".

[@Juniversal]

@@_SpamMe Conservatives are FAR less principled than those on the left. Conservative principles are like a bright, shiny, fashion accessory. Purely superficial, loud and gaudy, but easily lost.

[@mallninja9805]

And then _they_ call _you_ a murder apologist when you point out the irony to them 🤣🤣🤣

[@HungPham-hm9yk]

Nah! Brown people's life is not life according to Ben!

[@Pancakegr8]

“Benjamin Shapiro is 12 years old” 12 years later “Benjamin Shapiro is 12 years old”

[@eazy8579]

He’s 40 iirc, but still a 12 year old

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

35 year old child prodigy

[@granudisimo]

@@crimsonlanceman7882 Literally the smartest boy alive.

[@Wm7forthewin]

As a person who was 12 years old a year ago, i can say this is true.

[@noppynorthside215]

12 yrs old season 2

[@andrewcamden]

The particularly disgusting thing to me is how he insincerely pretends to care about the poor, oppressed Muslim women while saying in the very next breath that he thinks it's perfectly OK to kill them because "one American soldier is worth more than an Afghan civilian."

[@dodgedemonsrtx]

He's right

[@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463]

@@dodgedemonsrtx *Insert John Cena “Are you sure about that” meme.*

[@dodgedemonsrtx]

@@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463 yes

[@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028]

@@dodgedemonsrtx very well, why?

[@Malthusia]

@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 And he was never seen again

[@andreasmetzger7619]

"One American soldier is wirth far more than an afghan civilian" Reminds me of a certain army that killed a handful of civilians for each fallen soldier in a certain world war...

[@Fred_the_1996]

how does he not see the hypocrisy...

[@johnpapoutsakis6871]

As a Greek, having the knowledge of the many massacres that the Germs did in WW2, this disgusts me.

[@Emile9186]

The sexual tension between Ben Shapiro and almost everyone of his male characters is ASTRONOMICAL

[@holographicmeatloaf1596]

I can bearly listen to it

[@saranouvelles8910]

This is great! Thank you :)

[@tacotator2358]

while you are sitting here not being able to define what a woman is because otherwise your fellow fascist friends will consider you transphobic.

[@AndyDavor19]

I think he has a crush on muscular men, most probably black. There's no other explanation.

[@edgarcardiff7874]

@@AndyDavor19 t-thughunter

[@Duskets]

“A beautiful young woman, about 17.” Huh, maybe Ben is a Libertarian after all

[@blackalien6873]

I was like....wtf?!

[@seapeajones]

Bwahahahahahaha God, this comment section has been GOLD

[@phosspatharios9680]

Come to think of it, rightwing Libertarians advocate for a medieval social order, and in the Middle Ages, some places had, um, different concepts of childhood and adulthood. So at least Shapiro is being consistent in one thing.

[@tatiana-bi5fq]

😳😳😳😳😳

[@BallistikKitty]

He was seriously so close to having it sound OK and he missed, there could've been one thing in the book not terribly inappropriate and he bloody missed it.

[@cabbage6279]

As a US soldier, Ben's depiction of the military is the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life. I don't know if he's ever seen a soldier of any army in his life

[@matthewl3002]

Thank you for your service. 👍

[@archangel9363]

Between his chicken-hawk tendencies and utter contempt for too many people that don't fall in a very specific location in his thousand-layer Venn diagram, Ben would mock a serviceman having trigger discipline around civvies before shaking hands with one.

[@d3vitron779]

At least in the navy it’s like 90% technicians and operators. None of that macho shit

[@bravocharlie639]

Anticipate Ben getting plenty more attention. Why? Because two of the toughest talking guys you kept hearing so much about made sure they sat out the War while "stationed in Hollywood". Now before I give you their names, plenty of Actors in Hollywood signed up. One of them became a highly decorated Bomber Pilot, others did their combat service admirably like so many other Americans. Clark Gable (for example) joined but was held in Reserve (never saw Combat). The majority of American men were held in Reserve for WW2 (the men who saw Combat had been "tested" and were experienced). My father was a Combat Veteran of WW2. They are less talkative about War. Nothing to prove and not much to share with others. War against a capable enemy isn't romantic. The 2 idiots constantly in the national spotlight and adored (and television would remind you to adore them if you didn't) were John Wayne and Ronald Reagan. Both of them never shut up about "the glory of War". Neither got anywhere near one. That's why television is going to make sure that you hear more from Ben, it doesn't matter that he is a scumbag, it didn't before.

[@TheDarthbinky]

Yeah I'm an Army veteran too and Bret Hawthorne is the worst kind of Mary Sue nonsense. For one, lots of generals have reached that rank by age 40. Douglas MacArthur was a brigadier general at age 28. Unless Ben means the very specific rank of "general", which is commonly called a "four star general" because the rank insignia is... spoiler... four silver stars. But even if that's what he means, it's still stupid. Being a bad ass murder machine doesn't get you promoted to general, successfully serving in various staff positions and a healthy dose of politics does. Officers above the rank of captain are rarely anywhere near combat, and flag officers especially so. The last general to die in combat was in 2014 when an allied but disgruntled Afghan soldier opened fire on a US base in Kabul; prior to that, it was an admiral dying in a helicopter crash in Vietnam. Generals and admirals don't fight, period. Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated soldiers in US history, who earned the Medal of Honor for saving his men by jumping on a burning tank and using its pintle machine gun to shoot a much larger force of Germans, allowing his men to escape... yeah, that guy... he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant (one of the lowest ranks of officer) and pulled off the line, never seeing combat again (well, until Hollywood convinced him to make a flurry of movies about his experiences, which exacerbated his PTSD and led him to severe alcoholism....). So Bret Hawthorne is more of a bad ass than one of the most bad ass soldiers in US history? Mmmmkay....

[@fabrizioart1928]

I love how he can write a based left leaning speech so accurately while thinking to himself "yeah, this is SO obviously terrible."

[@fanboy50]

It really does get back to the whole idea that the Democrats would actually be pretty cool if even half the stuff the American right believes about them were true.

[@Vanq22114]

Like, I would vote for that man. I agree with him. His policies make sense. Slay, king.

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

How is it even possible that Ben can write this speech, make it genuinely good and left-leaning, think to himself "This is garbage on purpose" and call it a day? Prescott sounds like a great left-leaning president. He sounds like he cares. He sounds like he understands inflation and wealth inequality. Also I just have to ask, how badly did the previous administration screw up to a point where America has a 25% unemployment rate and elects a left-leaning president? That's like 2008 on steroids.

[@eliassvensson5257]

It sounds sometimes that Ben is left leaning and only pretending to be right

[@fabrizioart1928]

@@eliassvensson5257 nah I don't think so. At least not that explicitly. Best case scenario it's "subconsciously knowing he's wrong" situation, lmao

[@linussandstrom7166]

Ben's come far. He used to be a child prodigy, now he's just a child.

[@theotimenk]

And a fucked up one

[@lesvalernipi9871]

Excellent!

[@tylermacdonald8924]

You can tell he was pressured to preform very well early on and never had the chance to mature and now lives through his fantasies.

[@sansenoy]

Beautiful

[@kewlkidsklub4207]

Na dude he just had an affluent beginning. I mean graduating by 16 isn't that hard when u can get as much tutoring as you want, I could graduate a year early very easily but instead I'm choosing to take just 1 class in grade 12 and just work so I can save up for uni. His writing just proves how stupid he is and how he was never really this boy genius

[@ZachariahWest]

Making your hero a domestic terrorist while portraying foreign terrorists as brutal mindless savages takes some next level cognitive dissonance

[@nanda_]

Even worse, portraying any regular black or brown civilian in such a manner, being them foreing or not.

[@Kurotarosama]

Hey man he was a child prodigy, thats why hes next level.

[@Egooist.]

Without any _cognition_ , there's also no _cognitive dissonance_ for Benjamin Aaron S.

[@stephenhartley2853]

its probably those fat sacks of cash he gets handed by rich wierdos.

[@naomistarlight6178]

Because it isn't terrorism or violence that these people hate. It's us (the left) and our existence. Such that they will do violence to us whenever they think it is possible to get away with.

[@aAtom596]

When you are a "gifted kid" like me, you have two generic possible outcomes: You realize that your capabilities have been overhyped for your entire life and get self confidence issues (me), or you become an overconfident loser who just comes off as stupid to everyone else (Ben Shapiro).

[@epicbruhmoment6985]

Ben Shapiro really gave a cop an anime moment where he believed in the Heart of the Gun to murder a child.

[@dodojesus4529]

Its a really stupid insane and weird moment. Immagine whats going on in that kids fucking head, "haha imma get shot by that cracker...this is a great plan"

[@epicbruhmoment6985]

@dodo jesus Shapiro really said "what would a black kid have to say to me for me to be OK with killing them?"

[@dodojesus4529]

@@epicbruhmoment6985 and not one second was "wasted" thinking about why someone would say that. Also if true shapitos requirements for killing somebody are insanely low

[@ja-vishaara]

"Terrorism is bad unless it's done by people I agree with" -Ben Shapiro

[@LeviForWaifu]

Oy Vey

[@jylobo1112]

Thank you for that comment

[@jaketaylor3901]

Terrorism is bad unless it's terrorizing people I'm racist towards!!

[@smegmalasagna]

@@jaketaylor3901 Religion has nothing to do with race. You are looking for the word xenophobia.

[@JordanBeagle]

All authoritarians seems to have that double think

[@ill_prophet4843]

Say you’re scared of black people without saying you’re scared of black people:

[@jacavanheesch4593]

he didnt want to shoot the kid but he just would not stop being black i had no choice

[@stylis666]

@@jacavanheesch4593 LMAO I'm thinking you read the book and you just quoted it directly :p

[@jacavanheesch4593]

@@stylis666 it probably was something like that lol

[@peao010109]

Those darn african american men will take our women!

[@albinoobama3988]

"people"

[@citominati]

I am german. Just imagine someone in germany would write that book with the same pariotism and same story just based in germany... oh boy... America is so fucked up

[@moho2763]

Or imagine a us-iraqi wrote it about his country and the bad guys are us army while the good guys are Ahmed the freedom fighter and Aisha the mother who lost her son and blows up a us army vehicle, though it would be easier to understand as these people are literally being killed and occupied by a foreign power lol I mean there is no justification for what Ben wrote except Americans have inherently more rights and naturally privileged to take what they need

[@matyasfukk3270]

Yeah. What about a russian or a Chinese version? It would definitely be an instant ban in like 75% of the world

[@testificles240]

mein kampf? ja, ne... bens kampf wohl eher, ggn seine latente homoerotischen neigungen.

[@chuntguntley8771]

This will be the first time Germany Attacks the US for fascism. Enjoy it, you get really good movies out of it.

[@btsmartx]

@@testificles240 most underrated comment

[@rickastleyrule3497]

ben shapiro seems like the type of guy who peaked in 7th grade and then his brain ceased to develop

[@MegrelMamba]

So average redditor?

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

Ouch. I feel this so badly. Things have been going downhill for me since I graduated high school

[@adrian2992]

​@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 But you're not a racist snob with a napoleon complex with nothing to show for except being famous for comfirming idiotic beliefs. I mean prbbly, Idk.

[@ArturHedlund]

Fuck man this is me.

[@o_o-lj1ym]

It’s a common phenomenon for kids who are told they are gifted. It gets to their head and they stop learning.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

I love how Ben says he couldn't be a Hollywood screenwriter because he was a conservative but anyone who reads his writing can see it's because he's terrible at writing.

[@nanda_]

It's even funnier to think this is the guy who preaches about personal responsibility and your results being exclusively a consequence of your own actions. To him, prejudice could never be a valid reason for you not to get a job or become professionally unaccomplished at a certain industry, UNLESS you're a conservative!

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

@@nanda_ Exactly! The ability for conservatives to drone on and on about personal responsibility and then turn around and play the victim is astonishing. It makes no sense, a homeless person starving on the street should pick themselves up by the bootstraps, but poor millionaire Ben Shapiro is the victim of Hollywood bias through no fault of his own. He's funded by oil billionaires, people have been able to find success in Hollywood with no money at all, but this guy can't make it happen? It's pathetic, he pretends systemic problems don't exist but abdicates all responsibility for his clear lack of talent in an industry that is less and less accepting of mediocrity.

[@shealupkes]

he'd be fantastic at writing mcu movies

[@fungo6631]

Hollywood is pandering to China, so even conservatism isn't a problem.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

@@fungo6631 Yeah, but that's a financially motivated decision by executives, it has nothin to do with values. It's a moot point anyway, Clint Eastwood is a staunch conservative and he is an incredibly acclaimed director who gets Oscar nominations. He's probably not as insane of a conservative as Ben but the main difference is that he's talented.

[@pk-pingas7528]

I think Ben just wants a huge, tall, muscular man to cuddle him.

[@AkariNeko3131]

*bear of a man

[@cgosto64]

In fairness, who doesnt?

[@mrtrailesafety]

Shapiro had to settle for Dan Crenshaw

[@fennecky3764]

Who wouldn’t , *huff*

[@xantherinekyle221]

tbh when I first heard of Ben, and did a google search, I actually thought he's gay. Lol.

[@BryanJohnson4891]

“Ben is a short american conservative” Best description I’ve ever heard.

[@allergy5634]

As a short guy, I would like to request not being lumped in the same box as Ben Shapiro

[@BryanJohnson4891]

@@allergy5634 You are tall at heart

[@allergy5634]

@@BryanJohnson4891 your comment makes me feel a little happier. Thank you.

[@idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472]

Ben doesn't even conserve anything other than israel

[@Doilem]

As a Jew, I'd like people to know that Ben is disliked by the VAST majority of us. His views on Arabs do not represent my or the views of any other Jews I know. Just wanted to put this out there.

[@foehammersbane3076]

proof that being a “child genius/prodigy” doesn’t make you a smarter or morally superior person.

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

I wonder how much of Ben’s current struggle to relate to people and be a moral human being is related to being a former “gifted child.”

[@stylis666]

It does evidently put you at risk of never growing beyond the egocentric phase that most 3 year olds start to grow out of unless they're brought up in a religion or are mentally or physically abused in other ways. Bennie never grew up physically, but he also never grew up mentally; he just learned more manipulation tactics.

[@BeKindToBirds]

@@stylis666 Sussed him right out

[@seribelz]

'please Abby c'mon take me out of the oven this is not funny'

[@WolfHagenSdW]

Some people stop at beeing a child prodigee. They where once told that they are very clever buddys, and then stopped learning.

[@ladyvanda]

“Ben Shapiro is a short American conservative” Best bio ever.

[@kasroa]

Hey nice profile pic

[@Benjamin_Kraft]

As a somewhat vertically challenged man myself, I loved that intro lol

[@younishmani5560]

He is a dumb short American conservative. As an aspiring writer and someone who has read hundreds of novels I can tell that his writing is terrible. Just from the grammar. Even though I have never studied English and I am an Arabic dude living in a country that mainly speaks a mix of french and Arabic. This dude has the worst writing philosophy as well.

[@munis002]

Salam bro are you Algerian / Tunisian / moroccan My mom is moroccan and dad is malay

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Someone sounds envious. Or maybe about to have a Pelosi-level meltdown!

[@private755]

He really described that bridge thing like someone who has never seen violence whatsoever or even felt real fear. Inspiring.

[@uberbosst]

It sounds like something out of a Final Destination movie ilmao

[@niteshade5783]

He described like a whimsical snake!

[@ron-paulsartre]

aside from clearly being afraid of black people

[@azravalencia4577]

@@uberbosst i mean its literally Final Destination scene but written lmao.

[@cyberdaemonfive]

ZA WARUDO!!!

[@jakesnake1793]

I’d buy an audio book of this narrated by Adam if they include his laughs and side comments.

[@milkwater1204]

In the future this book will have many, many footnotes

[@whyamihere-be7hg]

I’d buy it if it was narrated by Ben Shapiro himself in his squeaky high pitched voice

[@alfonschoubek2984]

@@whyamihere-be7hg He's a girl hidden in the body of a male dwarf.

[@justamanofculture12]

Count me in

[@aawaggav4681]

@@milkwater1204 hey mate, want some almond pancakes 🥞???

[@God_gundam36]

"Enemy civilians" Fucking hell

[@godzillaworks4585]

The most terse comment I've ever seen

[@i10i60]

Truly, it gives us a glimpse into Benjamin's disturbing thought process.

[@deisk2707]

"Enemy's Civilians" what do you think?

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

Ben retroactively justifying the 9/11 attacks.

[@billhanna8838]

@@gaiusjuliuspleaser Yep "OFFICE FIRES LOL

[@TheCloudhopper]

There is a LOT of homoerotic fascination with big masculine bears in this book.

[@charadreemurr8673]

Ben Shapiro is a furry confirmed?

[@commentarysheep]

@@charadreemurr8673 Ben Shapiro is writing his own tragicomedy at this point. A guy from a supposedly Jewish family is spewing Neo-Nazi hate and is secretly a gay furry? *HOW IRONIC!* And this is why I hate any kind of fascism or Nazism just as much as communism. Extremist political views never worked, still don't work and will continue to never work in the future, all while causing immense pain for those who live in such authoritarian systems. I had to get brainwashed by these far-right thinktanks two years ago via geek culture controversies (the critical failures of Cats and The Last of Us 2, for example, that alt-right KZbinrs overblew out of their true proportions just because of their uber-conservative "Eww, furry and gay bad!" agenda) to come to this painful conclusion.

[@michaelwright1295]

@@commentarysheep authoritarianism🤢

[@commentarysheep]

@@michaelwright1295 Same. Authoritarianism bad. Authoritarianism makes me puke.

[@rejectedyorkie4570]

Ben Shapiro isn’t a National Socialist, he’s a Globalist Capitalist. He said race isn’t important and supports mass immigration. (Unless it’s Israel because he’s a Jewish Supremacist)

[@ausar4148]

I love how Ben writes the most paranoid police officer ever, he literally sees a kid chilling on the street, thinks he sees something in his pants, the kid breaks twitches and the cop immediately pulls out his gun. And to top it all off, the guy even looks around to make sure nobody will see what he is about to do. And even then, why does the officer care so much about this random kid insulting him?

[@snakehead214]

and then all of the people come out of the shadows and none of them wanted to safe the kid. They all just waited, valuing the outcome of the media outrage more than the life of kid from their neighborhood. Thats the realism-cherry on top of the whole chapter lmao

[@austinmontalvo3273]

I like that flirting is just Ben's same argument cadence: "Let's say, for the sake of argument, I do drive everyone else out of this shop? And then lets also say, I am the last man on earth. Would that not mean... " etc etc

[@sciencecompliance235]

Oh my god I heard this in his voice please make it stop!!!!

[@royalhydra9790]

@@sciencecompliance235 I think I know a really good way to help. *Have you heard of the Bite of 87?*

[@bthsr7113]

@@royalhydra9790 Except the writer of FNAF is also a crazy conservattive.

[@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046]

​@@bthsr7113for people like you that never forgives nor forgets he left Security Breach and that may have caused to have that god awful launch that in my opinion was worst than CP2077's

[@thelakisleaf5503]

The amount of times men are described as bears makes me think Ben has a type lmao

[@RrRr-or5tw]

I think that’s just who he wishes he was

[@Graknorke]

Yeah it's not a sex thing it's a jealousy thing. Ben thinks he's unmasculine and is obsessed with his idea of masculinity.

[@nromk]

Oh maybe that's who he wants to become... Maybe he should workout instead of writing or talking or thinking.

[@nerkvititate]

My boi shaperio wants some burly muscle man full of testosterone covered in body hair

[@SofaKingShit]

Couldnt even bear reading his shit.

[@dandaropa]

Ben Shapiro is like one of those “Peaked in high school” guys… except he peaked when he was 12

[@xanderalexander2545]

To be fair if he graduated at 16 the at 12 he would probably be a freshmen meaning he both peaked at 12 in highschool

[@emmalinekim9822]

he peaked in middle school... in more than one way. he's the height of a 7th grader.

[@grass7864]

🤣

[@Dracogame]

@@xanderalexander2545 Graduating early is not really that impressive, you just need a family that can exercise the right influence, and anybody can graduate, doesn't really change if you are 16 or 18.

[@xanderalexander2545]

@@Dracogame I'm not saying that it is

[@katedart707]

I grew up close to Detroit. There are absolutely dangerous and dilapidated neighborhoods, but the way conservatives talk about it like it's a post apocalyptic hellscape is so ridiculous. Over half a million people still live and work there. There's sports stadiums, concert venues, parks, shopping districts, farmers markets etc. It isn't a "forgotten" city, it's been through a lot but it very much still alive.

[@nikolababic3588]

Ben Shapiro is kind of guy that will say that genocide is ok. Than you would ask him so holocaust was ok and he will than go into rage.

[@rileymclaughlin4831]

"It's bad when it happens to MY people." IMO there are two kinds of Jews: those who say "never again" and mean "to us", versus those who say "never again" and mean "to anybody, ever".

[@TheZackofSpades]

Ben probably wouldn’t have as much anger towards the world if he had a Big, Strong, Bear of a Man to give him the love and support he desires.

[@InstaNoodIes]

He has a perpetually dry wife (who is a doctor btw) though

[@bodofriedli3172]

I think he has a Daddy-issue

[@Turkolini]

He loves big strong bear of men

[@KarlSnarks]

@@Turkolini I never imagined having something in common with Shabibo ;)

[@kornellbrown3802]

LMFAO

[@r0conscious]

I guess him focusing on studying, violin and chess as a kid didn't really help him grow emotionally

[@curious_one1156]

Everything was made for him, to the extent that he never found his own direction. This comes from his family background.

[@r0conscious]

@@curious_one1156 that sounds quite sad actually

[@darkladyvanstar8194]

classical music has this profound effect on me where it makes me sentimental and almost hold my breath as i listen to it, appreciating the beauty of it. i assume it's all lost on ben shapiro whose soul is just an empty void.

[@thesprawl2361]

I do hope that his classmates were unkind to him. I know if I'd gone to school with him I'd have extracted an almost endless supply of joy from the daily act of making his life a living hell.

[@thesprawl2361]

@@darkladyvanstar8194 He clearly has absolutely no artistic sensitivities whatsoever. The way he writes is excruciatingly literal and devoid of any subtlety, complexity, nuance, grace. It's just turgid descriptive prose, like a chimp learned to type while watching The Day After Tomorrow.

[@cherrypopscile3385]

I can tell the exact situation Ben was trying to emulate with that O'Sullivan bit. If I remember correctly, a child was threatening people in a fake gun (It had the orange tip removed so it looked like an actual gun) in a park. A cop showed up, the kid pointed the gun at him, and the cop shot him. It was a tragedy. Ben took this, and made it into some evil kid with devil eyes looking at him.

[@smrtfasizmu7242]

Not quite. He was playing with a fake gun in the park, a busy body across the street called 911 to report a black child playing with a fake gun (literally told the cops she thought it was fake). The responding officer rolled up in his car and immediately shot the poor kid dead without saying a word to him

[@ciphergacha9100]

Jesus fuck that’s evil

[@marseldagistani1989]

@@smrtfasizmu7242 So standard procedure. Shot now ask questions never

[@vanMrMann]

“Mom I want Ayn Rand” “We have Ayn Rand at home” *Ayn Rand at home:*

[@xenophobiac4570]

Well, Dollar Tree clearance rack Ayn Rand in all fairness.

[@sobersplash6172]

the guy literally tried to justify a police officer killing a black child because the child was "threatening his life" by being rude and insulting the kid didn't even pull out the gun, he's just standing there disobeying the officer and being rude, and the officer is *that fucking terrified* to the point that he describes the _8 year old_ as some soulless monster that'll kill him if he doesn't kill the kid first how racist do you have to be to actually think this

[@MistaFadora]

might have skipped over it, can u time stamp it?

[@sobersplash6172]

@@MistaFadora 49:48 is the part where it starts

[@Hannah_Em]

And then the big tough police officer was so scared of the 8 year old he just murdered for being rude to him and having something in a pocket, that he has to sit down on the curb and have a little cry Awww, diddums, did wanton murder make you feel all sad? :'c

[@Hannah_Em]

@HolgerDanske14 You're defending a fundamentally unlikeable fictional cop for killing a deeply and catastrophically unrealistic 8 y/o kid character on the flimsiest of pretences in a shitty book written by a trash right wing provocateur. Maybe it's time to re-evaluate your priorities a little?

[@sobersplash6172]

@HolgerDanske14 I didn't expect to see the cop here

[@teifan6674]

"There had to be thirty thousand cars on this bridge, all moving two miles per hour" You know what would help with that? *A t r a i n*

[@yn4485]

this is my first comment on youtube in my life and this comment is underrated as hell

[@teifan6674]

@@yn4485 I'm honored to be someone else's first comment inspiration

[@samhamsord7942]

choo choooo

[@hlonelaqothelo4076]

🚇I love trains🚉

[@revolutionstudios5052]

@@hlonelaqothelo4076 "I like trains." [gets rammed by a locomotive]

[@jloiben12]

To be fair to Ben, he was legitimately good at the violin. Unfortunately, that is also when he peaked

[@costelinha1867]

He should have sticked to the violin.

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Interesting how Ben Shapiro had enough space in the closet to write an entire book

[@souliosis1022]

"Full of gigantic rippling muscly dudes" Shapiro is clearly a fan of jojo

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

HOLLY MOLLY IS THAT A MOTHERF***ING JOJO’S REFERENCE ???!!!!

[@_drnova1064]

I doubt Shapiro knows what anime even is.

[@default2591]

JoJo is the one thing both liberals and conservatives wouldn't hate

[@_-_sinexus_-_]

@@default2591 that is very acurate for some bizzare reason

[@gudamdiddler1064]

@@_-_sinexus_-_ A JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE

[@TheRyderShotgunn]

ben shapiro describing a large white man: so strong, so muscular, so manly ben shapiro describing a large black man: destined for a lifetime of prison

[@Helperbot-2000]

"What do you mean racist, im just telling the truth"

[@lauraanderson8785]

"She opened her mouth to scream and realized that she was already screaming so hard, no sound was emerging" I've never read a sentence with this little sense. How did she open her mouth just now if it was screaming already? In what world are loud screams soundless?

[@russellfisher1303]

In defense of Ben (may the nine forgive me) it is possible to exert so much force from your lungs that your voice box can’t compensate. Like losing your voice.

[@lauraanderson8785]

@@russellfisher1303 Oh, I didn't know that, but y'know I'll bet all my savings that Ben didn't know either. If he's ever going to make any sense, it's gotta be accidental

[@o_o-lj1ym]

“Facts and logic” my arse

[@granudisimo]

"She but opened her mouth to scream only to find herself too scared, for the muscles in her throat to transform her terrified exhalation in an audible fashion; turns out you don't need to be asleep for the paralysis demon to get a hold on you; just frightened enough for your mind to try and escape into the dream world to fruitlessly break free from an inescapable situation of Kafkaesque inevitability proportions" Ben Shapiro is such a moron than the slightly above average writing skill by a non English native speaker like me, is enough to blow his shit out of the water, which is not all that hard, that being my point.

[@kirabad-artist6532]

Scream integer overflow

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

The dialogue between the blacks child and the police was unrealistic as hell. For the record. We black folk don’t really use the epithet honky.

[@TheSamuelCish]

"He wasn't one of the Irish kids, and he wasn't one of the Italian kids." Well now the overt racism makes sense. This book is set in the 1920s.

[@RjeanUrah]

🤣

[@halvarmc671]

Honestly, you could go up to the 1960s and 70s with that.

[@sarthak.roy013]

I was also hoping that the next line would be "and he wasn't one of them wise guys as well"!

[@colatf2]

He sat with the black kids and got a black eye?!?! In what scenario would that happen? Maybe him being blatantly racist?? This shit is so dumb

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

@@colatf2 Ben just assumes every single black person is extremely tribalistic lol

[@damothehuman2025]

Love how he's against abortions but all for civilian deaths in other countries 😂

[@poole4684]

And in this country💀

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

That's most pro "life" people out there for you. They only really care for lives only if they're in the womb, and that they don't care if they die a few days later, or later in life.

[@sidoniegabrielle269]

lol i wonder can i call a fetus a necessary civilian casualty. or maybe say it was threatening me on my own property? it is a person after all

[@InfamousX1000]

@@sidoniegabrielle269 just because your opposition’s view is absurd, it doesn’t make yours any less - some guy probably

[@user-ke1gn3ql1g]

@@poole4684 depends on the color

[@ScottyWiard]

Prescott’s speech at 37:00 is totally based. Ben clearly knows the truth, but actively rejects it-frames it as a bad thing. Nothing that he had Prescott say was wrong.

[@thiccchungo1041]

Prescott’s speech made me feel patriotic af

[@cianbuckley7120]

As a social democrat, that speech contributed to Prescott being my favourite character. Granted, his competition includes General Murders Civilians, Ms. Domestic Terrorist, and Officer Shoots Children

[@shai17altamiranoanco77]

Some wattpad 13 girl's fanfics have way more concistency than this bs

[@HeIsAnAli]

My Immortal?

[@angusmarch1066]

"His goal is to be the first orthodox rabbi to sit on the supreme court." The thought of Ben Shapiro on the Supreme Court is nightmare fuel.

[@panoptikon42]

The thought of him as a Rabbi is equally bad.

[@ahdog8]

Ben Shapiro writing the court opinion be like: "let's say, hypothetically, the defendant committed the crime the plaintiff accused him of, right? Then, logically, it would follow that the defendant would get prison for life."

[@jmitterii2]

@@ahdog8 You didn't add explosions of cars and some anecdotal side story about cuddling with a big hair muscular dude.... at which time he would call for a quick recess to relieve... compose... himself before finishing.

[@ScooterDoge]

.50 cal

[@bsqwahlE]

SCOTUS already fuels nightmares.

[@davidcarias4407]

Wow... he really said "One American soldier is worth far more than an Afghan civilian" That sounds like something out of The Onion

[@mcloons3891]

Something similar was in one of their videos, actually

[@Zzz-hr5mo]

@@mcloons3891 yeah it is one of the “autistic reporter michael faulk” vids

[@RyanTosh]

American Soldier: Signed up to fight in wars, has accepted that they might die doing their job Afghan civilian: Lives in big scary dangerous country OhHhH NoOoOo

[@JanAndhisfiets]

With the zionist project in mind. Yea

[@woollypidgeon1948]

"The equivalent of 5 Americans died in Afghanistan"

[@v0lt4r1s]

Honestly a lot of Ben's descriptions of Brett make me think that Ben might just be a closeted gay man trying to hide it by being a terrible person.

[@LilBrownieD]

i want to know more about ben's parents. seems like he was extremely sheltered, prejudiced, raised to lack empathy, and have unrealistically high expectations of himrself and others

[@edotori091]

Probably the academic equivalent of stage parents.

[@deltahalo241]

What I love about the bridge collapse scene is that no-one seems to think to abandon their vehicles and run off the bridge, guess American car culture is _really_ strong

[@sushislicer3742]

but muh V8

[@Helperbot-2000]

Lmao true

[@nhinged]

Also she knows the exact car's name she looking at

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@nhinged thats not exactly weird, flash a picture with an old Volvo in the background for a millisec and ill notice it instantly, now its weird however that the name of the car was mentioned at all with no other plot point atributed to it

[@nhinged]

@@Helperbot-2000 he said he writes as third person omniscient later so guess it works technically.

[@yasspanda2559]

Suddenly I don't feel like the worst writer to ever walk on Earth's surface

[@darkladyvanstar8194]

If one ever despairs at how horrid their writing it...they must remember: they are not ben shapiro.

[@stefanherald7480]

yeah, just like how yandere simulator makes me feel like I may be at least average at programming.

[@aneeya9387]

Lmao same

[@aneeya9387]

His writing sounds like a bad wattpad fetish story lol

[@riccardo9953]

guess I'm third then

[@rickastleyrule3497]

its amazing how little he understands about war

[@atefhassan3588]

Shapiro right?

[@rickastleyrule3497]

@@atefhassan3588 ye

[@apex107lrp]

It's amazing how little he understands...period. Bloody hell...

[@kompatybilijny9348]

You know, I have quite a big problem when I attempt to write racism, because I tend to overthink basically everything I write and frequently end up in a situation where I can't force myself to write a character taking an action that is illogical from their perspective (meaning according to their current knowledge). And racist behaviour always fail to be convincing (to me) enough to justify writing it, so I end up in a loop where I desperately try to come up with new reasons for racism and end up debunking all of them, then giving up and writing something from those rejected ideas. Then I read it again and it just comes across as a comically cartoonish villainy to me. I know people often don't act logically, or think everything through, but it's almost painful to write. Those few quips of BS narration actually provide an interesting insight - apparently some people really think in such cartoonish terms, against all odds.

[@testificles240]

yep thats the point... if it hurts you to write it, you wrote your adersary well enough to hurt yourself.... well done, if you want... throw a passage or 2 at me, i got time =)

[@kompatybilijny9348]

@@testificles240 I think a lot would get lost in translation. I do not write in english

[@andrewb4999]

The thing about being a child prodigy is that it’s only impressive when you’re still a child.

[@biocapsule7311]

Likely all his mental capacity went into what made him a 'prodigy', leaving nothing else for further development.

[@ckorp666]

turning ur child into a prodigy is abuse

[@Warsie]

@@ckorp666 I mean it happens arguably naturally but a lot of the extra attention comes from those lucky enough to not have shitty parents or a good position. It's part of why the Americans developed gifted programs in 1950s (that and a source of engineers and scientists for the cold war) There's like reports on like high IQ people who flounder beyond a certain point.

[@ckorp666]

@@Warsie i chose my words carefully, if a kid gravitates towards music and falls in love, thats way different than going "MY CHILD IS GOING TO BE MOZART" and forcing them into becoming an object for you to brag about. kinda tangential, but i was in gifted classes starting in elementary and ended up dropping out of high school entirely lol

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

omg this is perfect 😂 Ben described and roasted in one sentence. RIP

[@offdeck8588]

Shapiro calling himself a libertarian is like calling a Maoist an anarchist

[@CuttySobz]

"He also calls himself a libertarian which we all know just means right wing fascist" said the guy in the video... Which is the same thing as Ben Shapiro saying "He calls himself muslim which we all know just means he's a violent terrorist" Idiotic fools think leaning heavily to one side will somehow outweigh the other but only when we rise above this bipartisan BS will we be able to see the real unbiased truth without stupid a holes on both sides acting like know it all political science majors....

[@fantikawerner8029]

Its like all these left wing authoritarians calling themselves liberals. I feel like this channel has a heavy bias. The left is at least just as bad, in my Person opinion as a leftist turned centrist, a lot worse.

[@GTAVictor9128]

It's like North Korea calling itself a "Democratic People's Republic".

[@GuinessOriginal]

Maknho was a good anarchist, very interesting guy. No statues to him in Ukraine though, they’re all of Bandera instead for some reason

[@klassehkhornate9636]

@@GuinessOriginal they mean like mao Zedong

[@Jegrygerfede]

I just came back to watch this video again and I noticed I had disliked it. I love your channel and this just shows how my world views have changed drastically in just one year. I escaped the alt right and I’m extremely proud of my self.

[@Escap1st7]

Did you watch it before disliking it? Did you LIKE this book, actually? I have questions..

[@melaniey.5596]

As someone who escaped the anti-SJW rabbit hole, you have my solidarity (in my case it was because I believed in the strawman version of the SJW they presented to me for outrage porn). I’m glad when I see accounts of other people who tell about how they changed for the better and learned more too! And become trainpilled I assume ;)

[@josephpostma1787]

@Keyan Cent What was your largest recent Ideological change?

[@Menorahdude]

@@melaniey.5596 This post did not age well.

[@deepbasu9619]

Yes. Come live with us in fully automated gay space luxury communism

[@ThatRoadrunner]

I absolutely loved this book! With the rising gas prices, it made for excellent kindling.

[@richardlooch2109]

really? the book cost a couple of gallons worth a gas.

[@xenophobiac4570]

I have standard for what goes in my wood stove; that paper, a waste as it is, would just clog the flue. I feel bad for the trees that were needlessly cut down to make this drivel.

[@LPVince94]

Child prodigy as in "Daddy paid a lot of money to give me a headstart over my contemporaries".

[@kugelblitzingularity304]

I mean, graduating at 16 is impressive nonetheless, but it's all downhill from there.

[@LPVince94]

​@@kugelblitzingularity304 I respect your opinion. But raise you all the possibilities Ben was handed simply by being born into a well off family. How many families could afford private tutors for their child? How many families could pull the strings necessary to pave the path for their children to the point where they can just get their first work published coming straigth from college? Ben is so very obviously average and the perfect example of just how much of an empty promise the so called American meritocracy truly is.

[@ScarceCastle2]

@@kugelblitzingularity304 I mean it may or may not be. K-12 education can't really be skipped without the parents negotiating hard with the school district and shit, or without some really special circumstances. I finished high school when I was 16 because of differences between the Australian and American academic years - am I a child prodigy whiz kid super genius? No I'm fuckin dumb dude, it was a fluke of the system. But idk maybe Ben just was that smart and then managed to whittle it all away through the years or some shit, who knows.

[@nikkovalidor4890]

pretty much everyone here agrees adult ben is bad but he actually was a music prodigy as a kid. or would you also assume other musically talented kids only got there because of their parents money?

[@ScarceCastle2]

@@nikkovalidor4890 ah yes. kids, well known for having disposable income to buy instruments and pay for private lessons.

[@enomiellanidrac9137]

"His book is full of big, muscular men..." Is this a Jojo reference?

[@fitzwaren]

To be fair, everything can be a Jojo reference if you search far enough

[@enomiellanidrac9137]

@@fitzwaren Good point

[@Rahhelthethird]

Basically the entirety of the Arnold Classics is a Jojo reference. They even do the poses.

[@charadreemurr8673]

Jojo had racism AND Nazis in it. And war crimes.

[@Yumemaru.]

@@enomiellanidrac9137 yes.

[@CLaw-tb5gg]

As soon as I saw “Work Freedom” I literally said “oh god he didn’t” out loud

[@georgyekimov4577]

lackily no phasing yet

[@xenophobiac4570]

Well, Ben not so Sharpiro is a Capo after all. He’ll sell out anyone for the right price and if the wind’s blowing the right way. I just didn’t think he’d directly translate and transcribe “Arbeit Macht Frei” and be serious and in the open about it.

[@namedhuman5870]

The good news is, there is an audiobook. Shame Bennyboy didn't read it himself. His squeal would really bring the characters to life

[@GorgeDawes]

If you were to play it at 0.5x speed then he might sound like an actual human adult.

[@zeelyweely1590]

This feels like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance with roughly 200% more racism and 100% more chromosomes.

[@edwardzita3479]

F*** you, I was drinking tea while reading that comment. Now I have to clean my desk lmao

[@BasedPeter]

Ben Shapiro mod instead of Armstrong WHEN??

[@daniwolfplayz3599]

metal gear rising is an actual masterpiece what are you talking about

[@lucasduque8289]

What about the nanomachiens, son?

[@joshuasimons7883]

The Memes, Jack

[@cindycrawfordspetcum7085]

he writes like a fifth grader who wants to sound smart which reaffirms my belief that his maturity peeked at that violin performance.

[@jurtra9090]

LOL

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

'there, im better than most of society, i can stop trying now, this was peak ben shapiro'

[@nuclearbomb9483]

@@mimszanadunstedt441 Ben Shapiro is a redditor

[@blubase06]

He writes like a 12-year-old that just had a English class about personification, similes, metaphors, and adjectives. It's like that scene in Ratatouille where the dude tosses anything and everything into the pot because no one is looking and makes the soup horrible.

[@enriktigasna]

I'm pretty sure he's Neurodivergent. He kinda fits the criteria for Asperger's. So he's not immature, just ND. Daily Wire is just his excuse to infodump his special interest, Politics

[@tavitafish]

The prologue is what we in creative writing call "way too fucking much, chill with the adjectives"

[@spicelesse4178]

Yeah it was like the Christmas Carol on steroids

[@JOCAeNUNO]

Him being racist and being "ok" with war crimes and killing indiscriminately by american soldiers AND calling the afghans "bad guys" got my blood BOILING! War doesnt have a "good or bad" its always more complicated

[@JoshSweetvale]

The side that rapes civilians is the bad guys.

[@doomerdoomson912]

Looks like the child prodigy wasn’t prodigious enough to leave his child phase 😂

[@birgaripadam7112]

That's one of the best burn I ever see

[@minitanksandchairs]

Yeah, child prodigy at 14, no so much at 15

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

33 year old child prodigy

[@philchickenfingers1190]

Too bad none of your leftist hero’s can even touch him in a debate

[@minitanksandchairs]

@@philchickenfingers1190 😂

[@terriblereading7586]

The "failed artist" to "right-wing idiot" Pipeline. Nothing alarming has ever come this way, right?

[@rivulet5417]

😳

[@dogperson4436]

Uuuufffff

[@joshuabenson2568]

What’s also coinciding is that Mr H-Man was also a child prodigy. Makes it even more hilarious.

[@dogperson4436]

@@joshuabenson2568 ohhh so ben thinks he's following the footsteps of his ancestors??

[@greatape8019]

As an artist this is scary

[@phyjcb]

"America means more than being born here. It means believing certain things." That summarizes very well Ben Shapiro's freedom of speech.

[@benjaminbradley385]

It baffles me that Ben wrote that the cop couldn’t see exactly what the kid had in his pants because the light wasn’t right, so the cop decides to put the flashlight away and grab the gun?🤨

[@ultravajlet]

i love how Ben frames the ambassador as evil for causing civilian casualties like 5 minutes after he talked about how good civilian casualties are

[@Bustermachine]

Personal favorite was him apparently envying the legacies of Roosevelt and Johnson for their wars rather than . . . y'know, their efforts to secure civil prosperity for their nation. Edit : Also the little bit about how big and manly his 'Youngest General in the US Military Ever!' is . . . Looks at Shapiro's claim to fame . . .

[@Ezasur]

Nonono, you've got it all wrong, it was a WHITE civilian, so it is obvi it is wrong! (trying my best on imitating bs "writer" voices in my head)

[@BrianS1981]

Ah, but the ambassador caused a white woman to die. Replacement theory for the win! [/s]

[@edoardoferretti5493]

Man the ambassador caused AMERICAN civilian casualties. Because it's not about what's done, it's who does it which makes the difference in shapiro's schizophrenical view

[@Daemon4]

i mean tbf it was 14 years not 5 minutes edit i just reached the part of the book where he says it again my bad for being stupid lmao

[@ericferguson9989]

Mein Kampf rewritten as the worst Tom Clancy fan art ever.

[@curious_one1156]

Lol

[@whenurefree]

😂😂

[@commentarysheep]

*fanfic Written fan art is called fan fiction.

[@error_4004]

Amazing comparison 🤣

[@sleepymarauder4178]

Nice

[@lauracoleman8796]

Putting aside the indisputable fact that Ben Shapiro is a terrible writer in a way that would be laughably comical and easily dismissed were his message not so pernicious, two thoughts immediately came to my mind when Adam got to the part about the kid and the gun: 1. Based off of how Ben describes the kid and how he writes his dialogue, I can’t help but wonder if he had recently seen the movie “Magnolia” just prior to sitting down to write this passage and thought to himself, “hey, why not just rewrite the Tamir Rice case as if he were the kid from that movie, I’m sure that’s closer to how it happened in real life anyway”, and 2. Given that Ben had earlier described the kid as wearing a Simpsons t-shirt and goes on to provide what I’m sure he thought was a “profound” visual of the bullet’s entry point emerging from the child’s wounded chest as “the blood seeped through Homer Simpson’s face”, I couldn’t help but read the officer’s murmur of “Ohgodohgodohgodohgod” as “Oh-go-DOH-go-DOH-go-DOH-god”. Maybe that’s just me, though.

[@presleynotalt5530]

Brett is the kind of man Shapiro wishes he could be 💀💀💀💀

[@lykortos4827]

As a scholar of ancient international law, I find Shapiro's attitude towards civilians just horrific. It is colder than some writers over 2000 years ago. Yikes.

[@johnuferbach9166]

2000 years ago some people were surprisingly civil^^

[@RoyalFusilier]

"Bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak, so that I should rule …. and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind." "Um, *actually,* King Hamuwhatever, the weak should fear the strong. That's just ancient wisdom. Another left-winger DESTROYED."

[@lykortos4827]

@@RoyalFusilier I can imagine Shapiro, in his voice, saying something like that. Thanks for the laugh.

[@suezuccati304]

Being cold = being rational, that's just how it works, "fax don't care about your feelings"

[@user-eq9xs5fz9u]

@@suezuccati304 Rationally speaking, your live worth less than anyone else

[@Doombacon]

The way Ben talks about tall strong men just oozes repressed sexual urges. I'm 6'3" and people have in the past described me as "a bear of a man". I wonder how uncomfortable I could make Ben if I started flirting with him in public.

[@pgecko2493]

😳

[@user-ce1cu5my4j]

Are you ripped tho? 6'3 is nothing if you're basically a skeleton.

[@cakecinema9385]

@@user-ce1cu5my4j consider Ben is so small a penguin could dom him.

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

@@user-ce1cu5my4j if they've been called a "bear of a man" more than once, do some critical thinking and guess if they are skinny.

[@user-ce1cu5my4j]

@@JimJamTheAdmin hmmmmmm, it's odd that i missed that part, but i see now.

[@etzool]

As others have hinted at, cherry-picking passages -- not even lines, but entire passages -- from this book, you could create a great deal of very convincing liberal speech material. This man-child is a great example of the fact that being exceptional at middle school does not directly or necessarily translate into becoming an intelligent adult.

[@Rev_Oir]

I didn't even realize how badly I missed snarky Europeans until I heard this guy. Subscribed.

[@noradrenalin8062]

Holy Hell, this reads like an edgy teen trying to cram "American Sniper" and "Atlas Shrugged" in to one akward story.

[@patximartel]

1 story? Is like a fucking anthology, everything is so inarticulated and the connexions are so poor.

[@Jop3lius]

This reminded me of my 6th grade story about American soldiers facing trained monkeys in jungle that would dig their eyes out with spoons, i feel bad for the teacher for having to read it.

[@Dong_Harvey]

@@Jop3lius yeah, but that sounds awesome

[@saturnianrings3920]

Worse than me on wattpad at age 11. Even the fanfic writers blow him out of the water. But tbh, their pretty good. Sometimes.

[@Jop3lius]

@Some Weeb sounds hot

[@julsie3195]

"... a beautiful young woman, about seventeen..." No Ben, that's what we call a "girl", i.e., a minor.

[@lukebruce5234]

minor in like 2% of the world, legal in thee remaining 98%

[@julsie3195]

@@lukebruce5234 No, the legal age of majority is 18 in over 50% of countries in the world. Previous reply got deleted because I listed links to sources and I guess that got removed for spam? Sources were UNICEF and the Wikipedia definition for the word "Adult".

[@julsie3195]

@@lukebruce5234 No it's not wrong. Legal age of majority and age of consent are two different things. Legal age of majority refers to when a nation recognizes a citizen as an adult, usually referring to when that citizen can vote, sign legally binding documents/contracts, etc. And for over half the nations in the world, that age is 18. Age of consent doesn't mean what age an individual is seen as an adult.

[@awkwardnerd.]

@@lukebruce5234 man that's creepy

[@lukebruce5234]

@@julsie3195 Minor may refer to: Minor (law), a person under the age of certain legal activities. A person who has not reached the age of majority When talking about dating and relationships minor refers to someone below the age of consent not below the age of legal drinking or driving.

[@mckymcobvious3043]

51:23 irl the 10 year old who was shot by police playing with a brightly colored toy gun wasn't given the chance to react at ALL, the cops opened fire split seconds after arriving at the PARK he was hanging out in.

[@molybdomancer195]

One fault of his writing in that opening section is there are too many facts embedded it. Who worries about how tall bridge towers are when they are falling down on top of you?

[@DecidedlyNinja]

In my headcanon, when Brett tried to befriend some of the black kids, he opened with the N-word. Explains the outcome.

[@spandansaha168]

N-word? You mean ninja?

[@msaag5490]

@@spandansaha168 Yes, because somehow Ben Shapiro will write that the black kids are also anti-Japanese/Asian because who knows anymore.

[@just_matt214]

That's not headcanon, that's what Ben did irl.

[@smith2354]

Probably said it with a hard r as well

[@GRANOLA77]

Lol I instantly think of the Rush Hour scene where Jackie Chan’s character ignorantly says “what’s up my nigga” to a black dude at a bar and the guy was pissed. However there he only said it because Tucker (Chris Tucker who’s black on case no one knew) said to do exactly what I do 😂😂😂

[@itchychalupa2704]

I wish Ben kept with the violin, the world would’ve been a better place

[@CrniWuk]

Today he plays the smallest violin in the world for conservatives.

[@dimasakbar7668]

If only horrible peoples stick with their artistic pursuit...like that shicklgruber dude

[@itchychalupa2704]

@@dimasakbar7668 lol I had to look that up. That schicklgruber was a really talented artist wasn’t he? Such a shame.

[@dimasakbar7668]

@@itchychalupa2704 lol, i did that since his other common name are painted not with pigment but with.. .... anyway if only he was born now in this day and age he would make great polygonal background CGI artist, or even CAD designer, unlike the old days where one must learn how to use charcoal to line the flabby parts of posing human to be considered artist. Imagine how many live saved (or at least end up in different scenario).

[@zhiyuanchen6211]

I listened to him playing Schindler's List for about a minute. It's not good at all.

[@FinnProp]

Ben has that self hating closet gay vibe.

[@darthtoaster6368]

He's married and has kids

[@FinnProp]

@@darthtoaster6368 Sounds about right.

[@akairohoshi1872]

Ben Shapiro is literally the only person I ever felt genuine hatred for.

[@chuckmcgill8862]

I feel you..

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Why? You shouldn't hate people. It's bad for your health too.

[@justanotherjohn5905]

​@@user-gu9yq5sj7c Said who? And why not?

[@WildSeven19]

"Heavily black" is just one of those jarring phrases that says a lot about the person using it. "The school was fucking what?!"

[@maxgrozema1093]

Ben doesn't know how to spell majority

[@possessed_squash]

"Black people, everywhere!"

[@firerabbit2659]

When I hear "heavily black" I just imagine vantablack. lol

[@hankboog462]

Even if that point were relevant why not just say "attended by many black students" (note: im white, if this isn't actually better or there's something even better let me know)

[@johnynoway9127]

when i think of Heavy Black i csn either imagine FAT Blackvpeople or Black like shadow black not a speck of brown color or any other color just white eye sockets and everything else black so they can melt into the shadows

[@Jake-ms9dr]

I love how the man accidentally wrote a really convincing and realistic democratic speech

[@TheTdroid]

I'd like to see Shapiro try to debunk that speech. It shatters his political position effortlessly and, contrasted with just about everything else in the book, in pretty good language.

[@blackalien6873]

In my wet dreams. The Dems, including Obama, serve the ruling class.

[@aaalucasaalucas8788]

game of thrones s8 be like

[@user-bv7zo6vd4m]

that's the president i would want, and i'm not even american

[@kjl3080]

How does someone even _do_ that

[@robertparks6115]

I've made similar mistakes when I began writing. The overuse of simile and metaphor and over describing unimportant things are signs of a new author. It's easy to clown this and I encourage it. Criticism is what saves writers from getting their head stuck up their own arse

[@maddiepaige715]

Doesn't help much if the writer in question already had his head so far up his own ass that he can see daylight between his teeth. :p

[@annalieff-saxby568]

I've read Ayn Rand, I've read - well, I read half of - The Turner Diaries, but this Shapiro book takes the biscuit. Why are right-wingers such dreadful writers? I think it must be their complete lack of empathy, something *essential* for a writer. If you don't care, or feel, for your characters, how can a reader do so? The worst part of finishing a story, to me, is having to say goodbye to "my people".