Amy Coney Barrett | Philosophy Tube ft. LegalEagle

[@miricobladetail9670]

Everyone stop freaking out about the horses. It's just a costume, horses don't exist they can't hurt you.

[@Deoxys911]

Horses are a hoax invented by the Chinese.

[@nerdywolverine8640]

Goodbye horses,,,,, you dont exist at all!

[@ryanlocke1117]

I'd hate to live in the same world as horses ☹

[@kalehsaar]

what horses are you even talking about?

[@frechjo]

Exactly, just like birds or Finland.

[@billyjackson1767]

Slavesblood O'Hoolihan isn't a fair name for a founding father. They'd never allow an irishman into the halls of power

[@wsollers1]

The 8 Irishmen that signed the declaration of independence sigh...

[@emmalinesheahan4788]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@GoikOShea]

@@wsollers1 One of them might have been gaelic

[@Abitheartist]

*hercules mulligan enters the chat*

[@kmaher1424]

Only one Catholic of Irish descent signed the Declaration. That was Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who could not be ignored because his family owned half of Maryland. Hercules Mulligan played an interesting role, an early influence on Hamilton and a spy during the Revolution. But he was a tailor, not a man of influence.

[@j.s.m.5351]

Every time a British person slags off James Corden, an angel gets its wings.

[@kneazle3603]

“Britain’s loss is America’s loss”

[@andrewgutierrez4841]

"Slags off" is the most British thing I've heard in a while

[@SpencerCJ]

He betrayed us.

[@euansmith3699]

That explains why The Seraphim have four wings each.

[@max2000warrior]

@@kneazle3603 I genuinely feel bad for Stewart Lee.

[@Controlled_Khaos]

It's literally scary hearing you ask "Will those precedents stand?" in reference to Roe and Casey, knowing the answer is now "NO"

[@luisandrade2254]

Life always wins in the end

[@numinousnihil3804]

Saying that with no real idea of what your ideology forces on people being made to have children doesn’t make you a good guy. Life ain’t that simple. Also, ‘life’ takes on a different meaning when you remove the religious idea of a soul. Not even universally religious in concept or meaning either. Very specific to only certain forms of Christianity. This ruling is literally the imposition of a specific religious interpretation of life on the rest of the public. A ruling that then justifies sometimes endangering and other times burdening the lives of women who might not be able to take care of the kids in a society that is very strongly against any "entitlements" to help the women take care of children being forced into the world. Whole thing is a joke. A very bad one from people who very rarely have to deal with the consequences.

[@nadas9395]

I was thinking exactly that. Sitting here talking to my screen, "Nope. That's gone. That too." It sucks

[@luisandrade2254]

@@nadas9395 good it was a terrible precedent

[@numinousnihil3804]

@@luisandrade2254 Glad you can respond to substance with substance. Hope you vote to help these women take care of the kids they are being forced to have. The healthcare for the mothers too.

[@eleanorschille-hudson4338]

I can't get over how LegalEagle looks like a Pixar animation of a lawyer

[@odile8701]

OMG, he’s totally a perfect cartoon lawyer right out of central casting. When you want them to be the good guy.

[@bowlsallbroken]

"We need to cast a lawyer... A good guy lawyer... You know, chiseled jaw and all that, not a sleazebag lawyer..."

[@olegsbalaclava1051]

He's handsome so you know he'd be the twist villain.

[@ethanmagnuson2988]

WHY ARE HIS HANDS SO BIG

[@eZU4nQsWN9pAGsU38aHj]

@@ethanmagnuson2988 he's the anti-trump that's why

[@JamesRoyceDawson]

Hbomberguy is going to be very confused by this video. It's full of blank frames where I think horses would be... if they existed that is.

[@Hazel-xl8in]

callback

[@Shinimusha]

I'd say the whole video has more of an hbomb vibe in general... which I like! Normally it seems like an arms race between nat and him, but this time it's against Harris style of humor.

[@crazywoollady9325]

Goodbye horses

[@melissab2557]

HORSES DO NOT EXIST!!

[@Tenchigumi]

@@melissab2557 and hail Sobek

[@mathieuleader8601]

Originalist justice portrayed as a horse personifies one of my favourite proverbs "You can lead a horse to water but cannot make him drink,"

[@fafo867]

could u help me out here. i do not really understand

[@eliasalbarracin5549]

@@fafo867 I think what he means is that no matter how much information and data you present someone, even if you think it's absolutely in your favor, the final decision is not up to you. It is ultimately their decision on how they decide to interpret the information out there.

[@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758]

@@eliasalbarracin5549 hm not sure I really understand, can you explain some more?

[@ganginfr4923]

@@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 you can lead someone to a conclusion, true or not, with all the evidence and rhetoric you want, but you cannot force that person to believe what you are saying is true. they have to make that decision themselves. edit: im a moron. a fool. ive been played.

[@Autists-Guide]

@@ganginfr4923 Nope. Still need more information. ;)

[@ZZ-sb8os]

When I was imprisoned for the oh-so-evil act of being in possession of a few grams of cannabis, let me assure you, the law didn't just feel strange and absurd, it felt vile.

[@erikstone2321]

Kamala Harris sentence you? Ugh she’s an awful excuse for a human being isn’t she?!

[@RM-yw6xe]

Come up to Canada... leave the guns at home and I'll roll you a J.

[@redactedredacted6656]

If I had a nickel for every time LeagleEagle had a cameo in a lefttube video that strongly feature animal metaphors/humans with animal behaviour I'd have two nickels ,which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice,.

[@thenthderivative]

If you left your hypothetical animal nickels alone together, I wonder if they'd breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.

[@Axius27]

@@thenthderivative I hope not, it'll collapse the economy

[@thenthderivative]

​@@Axius27 If breeding nickels don't collapse the economy, Wall Street will just come up with something equally stupid. I say let the nickels fuck.

[@kwcl176]

@@thenthderivative reading this might be my favorite moment of 2020

[@kjj26k]

What was the other time? I feel like I need to have seen that to understand this conversation.

[@fern5505]

*There’s a horse loose in the supreme court*

[@thundergozon6439]

*The horse of originalism*

[@ursamagickmt672]

You can smell it, right?

[@jospinner1183]

Here's hoping we get a new horse-catcher?

[@folksy1813]

Theres a horse in this house theres a horse in this house

[@chada4806]

Godammit the fact that we ALL know the context.

[@alexonline2340]

i lost it at the beginning when he said, "the script is clear, i'm just gonna have to apply the original meaning of the text even as the facts change and it becomes outdated." the foreshadowing!!!

[@benl2140]

Well, the good news is that he doesn't even have to change what's in his script. He can just keep the text the same but claim that it means something different now.

[@fandomcringebucket]

@@benl2140 *she

[@sudarshanseshadri5504]

@@fandomcringebucket i mean the comment was made a year ago and also pre transition so this reply is pretty stupid

[@ink7761]

Realised that when she did the evil ACB voice, she wasn't putting on a voice, she was taking one off.

[@arandomcomment1092]

Timestamp?

[@bree77749]

@@arandomcomment1092 30:00

[@OkamiSykan]

Came down to the comments looking for this. Rewatching Abi's old videos is wild.

[@sholaadesina3044]

i literally came to the comments to see if it wasn't just me thinking that!

[@MarkSiefert]

She does do a pretty good Frieza.

[@ashleighwoolridge7326]

Olly, thank you so much for this video. As an American, I appreciate your view point since you do come from a different world. I think we get so stuck within our little world that we forget how to take a step back and look at the whole issue. This also helped clarify some of my personal confusion with what is happening. My husband and I discovered your channel about 3 months ago. The first episode we watched was the one on Suicide and Mental Health. I will never be able to fully express my gratitude for that video. Not only did it help my husband better understand what I go through, it helped me finally feel comfortable talking about my battle with suicidal thoughts and feelings. We now watch at least one video a week and discuss the topic. This year has been very depressing. Watching your videos has helped us battle that depression and bring regular joy into our lives. Plus, we have both learned so much!

[@jospinner1183]

I agree with this. The current zeitgeist of the US is so bonkers that it helps to get an outside view to help remind us that none of this lunacy is normal. And on another note, you're very much not alone on the depression front. Olly's mental health videos are truly excellent.

[@Dwamak]

As far as understand, US supreme court is like an ancient priesthood, appointed for life, interpreting the vague writings/teachings of their mythology.

[@prkp7248]

You started to see patern that lead very famous lawyer Carl Schmidt (conservatist and "most important lawyer of nazi germany" but it is not important for this text) to establish school of idea about constitution law that is called "political theology" that insist that every basic institution of the constitution law, every basic rule of constitutional law is fundamentally just secularized religious principle. I give you example that will give light to what this mean - in continental school of law, we have something called "fiction of rational legislator" that insist that every lawyer should interpret every law act as something logic and something that was created in order to achive something. Schmidt would said, in accordance with "political theology" that "rational legislator" as we call him (even if we knoe that just fiction) is just secularized concept of Gods infinite wisdom, that create only rational and logical law. The other clear example of "secularized religious teaching" is the importance of "human dignity" in constitutional law. Modern concept of human dignity of every person, that can't be removed from anyone, can be traced directly to catholic idea of personalism.

[@jaxs616]

*mind blown*

[@woooweee]

That's certainly philosophy tubes understanding, unfortunately for him, its entirely wrong. Rekieta Media "The Philosophy of Being Wrong - a Video Review"

[@error.418]

@@woooweee Not gonna watch 4 hours of a child ranting from Minnesota.

[@davidarnold2456]

Tocqueville also made this joke, due to the fact that American common law is not easily understandable (arguably less so than French Civil law and its sister systems), American lawyers do form a weird (and as a law student I think unhealthy) caste.

[@Akaraut]

Due to a printing error, Americans now have the right to arm bears

[@absolutezero951]

The real intention of the second amendment 🙏🙏🙏 originalists eat your heart out

[@theblandcharlie822]

I have the right to be hugged, I have the right to bear arms, and thus bear hugs

[@TahtahmesDiary]

I usually have a serious pet peeves against my fellow citizens chanting "USA", yet you just made me wanna stand & salute as a patriot which is equally as pathetic and hilarious. 🤦🏾‍♀️😂

[@WillowTDog]

My parents had a window sticker thing that said that from donating to an environmental charity in the 90s. Bizarre memory. :)

[@DragonWinter36]

Pretty sure the Polish did that in WW2

[@redactedname247]

Realizing now that Legal Eagle and Adam Conover were probably aware of Abigail long before us given their guest appearances. More plaudits for them for being good friends.

[@madelinevandongen1192]

Yeah, it's interesting going back over the last year's videos with this new context.

[@miloformiles]

*Last two years, Abigail said she has everything legal sorted out and that probably includes a GRC which takes two years of 'living in your gender' to get.

[@addisonkennedy7111]

@@miloformiles she hasn't gotten a GRC yet

[@addisonkennedy7111]

@Lilith does stuff She mentioned it in the Trash future podcast, I do appreciate your point though

[@addisonkennedy7111]

@Lilith does stuff There's a few actually, you should definitely check out kill james bond :))

[@SpiriBethLove]

My professor of social psychology once told us that people outside of a group perceive the members of the group to be far more intrinsically linked to the group than they actually are. I used to think, for example, my granny was 'superreligious' because she went to church several times a week and had the whole Jesus and Mary-themed interior design going on. As a teenager though, I asked her why she believed all that stuff and she answered that she actually didn't really care much for the scripture or the priest. She just really liked having a community to be a part of. Makes ya think about the intentionality of actions.

[@okuno54]

@@fuckamericanidiot Don't quit your day job to join the Psychic Friends Network.

[@DanThePropMan]

@@fuckamericanidiot I think they know what their professor taught them better than you do.

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Most religious people are like that too, especially here in my mostly Catholic/Christian country, and known for social culture.

[@TheCalebMoline]

@Elisabeth Goethals if I had a penny for every time an evangelical told me I am progressive “because” I am gay, I’d have soooo many pennies. In reality, I’m progressive because I’ve invested years in learning how to think critically and logically, evaluate the credibility of sources, and regularly challenge my own heuristics and social conditioning. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@cheesecakelasagna]

@Kyle Richard I believe that. Especially since I live in a mostly Catholic/Christian country, people really be operating their beliefs based on societal tradition. They value sense of community and usually stay within the belief system their community operates in.

[@kingwilson2399]

KZbin assumes I’m straight, cis, white, and republican. I only watch the leftists and I keep getting right wing flavored ads. This is a nightmare.

[@bethanyfromm7267]

are personal ads turned on? if they’re not it goes by location. i live in a conservative town and get Trump ads all the time :/

[@DGollp]

Gotta think positive: Every Ad wasted on you is less exposure to more gullible folks.

[@iloveprivacy8167]

If you have to see an ad, then an ad for something you have no interest in whatsoever is a win - no temptation to pull your wallet out.

[@ClearAsCrystal823]

@@DGollp Is there a limited number of each ad?

[@rodney2x48]

@@bethanyfromm7267 I live in Puerto Rico and get unskippable Trump campaign ads. I fucking hate it.

[@davidtarnawski9904]

"America is not Britain. ...we've come to accept that now." LMAO

[@gracebates3336]

We're going the other way with Brexit.

[@disastermidi1990]

@@gracebates3336 Brentrance

[@AK-jl2wm]

@@disastermidi1990 stoP i love it

[@fishiex4891]

this video aged like... well it just aged. my heart is breaking for all the americans affected by the overruling of roe v wade

[@georgiannallegar5720]

Hopefully they regret it in November. Voters may turn things around if democrats get the number of seats needed to codify abortion into law

[@enderriderone5180]

@@georgiannallegar5720 i wish they'd do something like that, unfortunately i don't know how much I'm holding my breath for it

[@It-b-Blair]

We have to make it a fiscal incentive for the corporations for any change in the USA right now… 😣

[@cristocastillo710]

Please explain what the over turning of roe and also Casey did… because I’m still a bit lost

[@fishiex4891]

@@cristocastillo710 roe was a decision by the us supreme court protecting the rights to people having abortions, so that none of the states could pass a state-wide law against it. casey provided a system for restrictions of abortions so long as they don't provide an "undue burden" (it was still something that was used to discourage people from getting abortions though as far as i know) with those overruled, states can now effectively make abortions illegal in their perimeters. there were states that tried to make abortions as inaccessible as possible before but with roe overturned they've made it a straight up felony in many places. they're just denying healthcare in the typical american way at this point. the penalties for it in states like alabama are the same or even worse than those for sexual violence which just makes me sick.

[@zacharybutler5944]

Abby over here lookin' like Brian David Gilbert's British cousin Briain Davey Gilberthe

[@oldvlognewtricks]

Brian David Gilbert in England = Brian Gilbert

[@SquishyHo]

Ok, we now need an Olly-BDG collab.

[@pipperoni8567]

@@SquishyHo +

[@pinethetree]

Yes. But doesn't BDG have equinophobia?

[@skippykay599]

He’s actually quoted BDG a few times in his streams

[@lincolnjohn8227]

There's no way to prove that Amy Coney Barret ISN'T really Lord Frieza in disguise Olly. Checkmate.

[@trashcatlinol]

I've certainly never seen them in the same room together.

[@WredFawks]

Yeeting a destructo disk?

[@abababababa8]

I remain agnostic as to the existence of Lord Frieza.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

@@abababababa8 *when Amy Coney Barret see’s Roe v Wade* “Garsp! Who are you supposed to beh?”

[@takanara7]

You cant prove it's false so it's definitely true.

[@blep8563]

strong "caligula appointing his horse to a government position" energy

[@steener3334]

You weren’t the only one who was surprised the horse was named Bucephalus instead of Incitatus.

[@patrickgibsonmusic]

@@steener3334 Bucephalus was Alexander The Great's horse if my memory of Horrible Histories serves me right

[@peccantis]

That just makes it better, because the story goes, Bucephalus was untameable until young Alexander came along and noticed the beastie was afraid of shadows, and adjusted his approach to accommodate that.

[@johndododoe1411]

Did Caligula actually appoint his horse as a nominative consul, or did he merely threaten to do so?

[@Jamandabop]

Seeing people edit their comments to change the pronouns and name they used for Abby on a video before she came out is so wholesome. Edit: Came back a year later and people are arguing about the definition of "wholesome." Never change, internet.

[@wilsonedwards8189]

Using "Wholesome" here is cultural appropriation.

[@wormthirtyfour]

@@wilsonedwards8189 what does this even mean

[@wilsonedwards8189]

@@wormthirtyfour Using "wholesome" here is cultural appropriation.

[@unlikelysalmon786]

@@wilsonedwards8189 Ah is this a wholesome 100 big chungus Reddit moment joke, where wholesome can't be used on KZbin because it's not Reddit?

[@rhyderrek6155]

@@wilsonedwards8189 no it’s not. No one people have a cultural stranglehold on wholesomeness,. It’s not dreadlocks.

[@mostlyharmless6x9]

Abby's Australian accent is so weird bc she's trying to sound working class but her british tinge makes it come off like an oddly posh bogan

[@keters159]

That feels strangely right for the character as a youtube personality, acting like they came from modest means but actually grew up rich

[@ValkyrieTiara]

Me, an American: "There's more than one Australian accent?" 😮

[@DizzyOdd]

@@ValkyrieTiara ok so I'm in Ireland, and you have no idea how hard I laughed at this comment. If you can imagine trash bag Floridian being compared to D.C. Socialite... maybe you'd understand. Even whatever state you're in, rural sounds different to city, right? And Broke-inner-city sounds different to private school gated community, within that city. Like, I know you know this, but I'm tipsy and therefore, this is hilarious

[@oliverhunter4427]

He should study the accent of friendlyjordies

[@12onin_Gypsy]

Like dazza the concretor at the races.

[@crazywoollady9325]

"Thomas Washington? I think you mean George Jefferson" Best line ever honestly

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

Fun Fact: George Jefferson was a character from an American television show called All on the family

[@lordbuddybear]

A not so great line was "Barrett is a devout Catholic". Well, that's a euphemism, she's in a cult with crazy speaking in tongues and women submitting to men. I think it is legitimate not wanting to have someone with behaviour and worldviews like that as your Supreme Court Judge

[@jospinner1183]

@@lordbuddybear _Theoretically_ the Court is supposed to simply interpret the law as intended, and not to apply any additional religious or cultural viewpoints. In reality, 6 of the 9 justices are Catholic. Of these 5 were nominated by Republicans in a concerted effort overturn Roe v Wade. In addition, there are two Jewish justices and 1 Protestant. As far as I know, there haven't been any atheist or nonreligious justices ever. Yet we represent a good 20% of the US population. Hmm.

[@llamaliammm]

Whats the joke?

[@crazywoollady9325]

@@llamaliammm Their actual names are George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (two of the US's founding fathers)

[@hayez3915]

Everyday I walk outside my home here in the American South, David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans” reverberates through out the confines of my mind; this includes a fear of myself.

[@rini6]

It’s becoming more and more prescient.

[@jasonMontalvo1]

Johnny is an American.

[@ro_the_lion]

I think about that song so often these days it's scary. Do we know the version in this video, though?

[@pahbody5336]

@@ro_the_lion in the subtitles Olly specified that it's a version arranged for the show by Nina Richards You might find a bigger cut of it somewhere around his social media? Maybe on Nina's? I gave you the general direction, anyway

[@klisterklister2367]

lovecraft ghostwrote this

[@magicalgirl1296]

As an American I am endlessly entertained by Abby's recounting of American history and governmental systems.

[@TheNeoVid]

At least we know she won't intentionally undermine the Constitution, because that would require knowing what it says. Seriously, finding out she couldn't name the five freedoms in the First Amendment while applying for the job of interpreting the Constitution seems like it should have been an auto disqualification.

[@sleepythemis]

A sweet and immediate karma for bragging about her notepad. lmao It killed me to see people say "she was under a lot of pressure" like... if she can't take the pressure of the job interview, maybe she can't take the pressure of the job?

[@Cujo2447]

@@sleepythemis *Yeeeeah*... The USA is going to be an interesting place to live for the next 25 or so years. I need to migrate back to Europe, the land of my ancestors.

[@Theroha]

The last two Court appointees have been terrifying. One acted like a petulant teenager when it was suggested that he shouldn't get the job, and the other doesn't know the law she's supposed to be defending. Set aside the debates on abortion and gay rights. There is no clearer indication that the Republican party is aiming for a theocratic dictatorship than the fact that these two failed the job interview and still got pushed through.

[@bbqseitan7106]

The only thing she had to say was “I will, to the best of my ability, be a hack for the Right Wing” And then bam! Job

[@OpiatesAndTits]

For someone obsessed with originalism that was a pretty good oopsie.

[@choerim]

Didn't think I'd be seeing Oscar Wilde as a youtuber in 2020 but here we are (love the hair)

[@ASocialCommentary]

I said Robert Smith but I think you're spot on 😂

[@Rose-qw7if]

What is a fellow orbit doing on this side of KZbin? I thought I was the only one.

[@choerim]

@@Rose-qw7if Watching loona theories for a few years gives you big brain energy, that's how I got here 😂

[@odile8701]

Ya know, it’s funny. I never really considered it, but if Wilde was around these days; he’d totally be a KZbinr. And his channel would be epic as shit.

[@wendyleeconnelly2939]

I definitely thought I'd be seeing it but wondered why not earlier

[@soccerruben1]

''But I'm afraid there's a point at which trying to be neutral becomes hiding the facts.'' *PREACH!*

[@mylesjeffers6148]

All right wing people ever. Sometimes the facts are even hidden from their own brains

[@appa609]

Yeah this is a classic case of equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome. What neutrality should mean is you present all the facts and their respective certainties, and you calculate how consistent each idea is with the data. What neutrality seems to mean in media is you present facts and their certainties in just such a way that each hypothesis is equally supported.

[@saltypork101]

Louder for the BBC in the back...

[@JohnSmith-hr3yv]

@@mylesjeffers6148 What did he mean by this?

[@IsYitzach]

@@saltypork101 BBC can't hear over noise of Fox, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, and maybe 5 other American broadcasters who can't figure out neutrality and/or reality. BBC at least has a firm grasp on reality.

[@mothmustardseed1858]

And here I am a year later dealing with the consequences of her appointment, and the fact that a man who tried to OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY put her in office.

[@Backinblackbunny009]

Lol, what democracy? At least if the dump truck was put back in office by is chuds we wouldn't have to listen to the elite lie to our faces that this shtihole is actually a democracy and the mass suffering of so many is just "the will of the people"

[@erikstone2321]

Please stop lying!!!

[@freewilly1193]

​@@erikstone2321 how about you stop lying?

[@charlieparker5346]

Therapist: Supreme Amy doesn't exist, she can't hurt you Supreme Amy: 👄👁️👄

[@fenestrapain]

Heavy sigh

[@bog4543]

fenestra heavier sigh

[@whydowelivejusttosuffer7704]

Instructions weren't clear, A Bear has my arms.

[@DarkorthAurelius]

Hey, you have no right to arm bears! Your 2nd amendment is to be interpreted as "the right to be hugged by a large hairy homosexual man"

[@nemo9540]

or it could have meant that they have the right to shave their arms.

[@blokcomNativeFaces]

This must be the KZbin useful idiots section, a collection of progs who are passionately willing to put themselves into slavery with shill philosophers leading the way. No?

[@MF-R]

I had a similar issue due to the lack of clarity; I now have the arms of a bear. Typing this with my claws was hell.

[@MF-R]

@@blokcomNativeFaces Dafuq you talking about?

[@Pandaemoni]

LegalEagle is doing collaborations with everyone I watch recently. KZbin is beginning to feel like "LegalEagleTube ft. You".

[@criticalthought7527]

And that's a good thing, IMHO.

[@TheSlasherJunkie]

I legit never would’ve expected Devyn to be a LeftTuber, but here we are. Homeboy got radicalized by Trump. Maybe acceleration can work?

[@odile8701]

@@TheSlasherJunkie Trump tends to have that effect on people....for better, and for worse.

[@BaldingClamydia]

Right! I just watched Cody's Showdy movie yesterday, and he's in it. So is Ollie!

[@sealogic4552]

@@TheSlasherJunkie I don’t know that I’d necessarily call Dev a lefttuber but he’s definitely got strong opinions on laws and justice

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

My favorite part of originalism is that its adherents assume they are time-travelling mind readers capable of synthesizing the consensus of deliberative bodies comprised of dozens of people while simultaneously divining the metaphysically true interpretation that should be adopted for whatever provisions may have been agreed to specifically _because_ of their ambiguity.

[@saine-grey]

Independent of whether or not originalism is good or not, we do have a number of documents from the drafters of the constitution called the federalist papers that talk about their specific intent on a lot of the wording of what they wrote. There are also plenty of surviving newspapers and documents from the time period, it's not like it was so long ago it's ancient history. It's not like originalists are completely guessing at what their intentions were when they wrote the constitution.

[@jackbarman7063]

There is also the problem of the subject that we are trying to identify the meaning and intent of. How narrowly or broadly are we supposed to apply the words and principles in the law. The legislature may have written a (vaguely worded) law to only protect one group of people that they saw as vulnerable, so by one originalist interpretation that group is the only one that the law protects. But that same legislature may have thought that group needed special protection because they weren’t being treated equally and passed that law because they thought promoting and furthering equal treatment and protection for people who are vulnerable was important. So another originalist interpretation of the same law and text would extend those protections to other groups as well. Don’t even get me started on how broadly or narrowly “history and tradition” is supposed to be understood or even why that’s part of the test in the first place for substantive due process.

[@ThalerMan92]

If the Supreme Court is truly Supreme, where is the guac, ground beef and sour cream?

[@anthonym4996]

It's Supreme Court, not Court Supreme, lol

[@dalstein3708]

And why are there 9 of 'em, when we all know that the Supremes consists of 3 gals?

[@economicist2011]

The ground beef is all there, as would be expected of an 89¢ original court. It's just sour cream and tomatoes which would make it Supreme.

[@BATCHARRO]

Guac made a guy who died over 200 years ago sad is why.

[@chazpruchnicki9316]

We'll need to wait for Jeb! Only he can bring Guac to the court.

[@chuckmcnamara6284]

Imagine if America only had tens of thousands of people in prison...

[@aidancanoli]

"YeAh ExActLy wHaT i WaNt! NeVeR bEiNg AbLe To LeAvE tHe HoUsE wItH aLl ThOsE pReDaToRs WaLkInG tHe StReEtS"

[@Liloldliz]

@@aidancanoli the predators: one stoner, one shoplifter, three guys who "fit the description" and a protester with pepper spray still in their eyes from last week

[@xavierpeacock291]

Like one prison?

[@JPG.01]

Germany, a country with an ~80 million population had 67.100 people in prison in 2015. So a country with 3+ times as big a population can have hundreds of thousands and it would be ok. With higher criminality, that number could go up to the millions and still be justifyable.

[@guilhermemarques9438]

@@JPG.01 It's still the highest proportion in the world with 2.121.600 people imprisoned (February 2020 data). More than any other country which would include at least some counted impoverished and at war countries. Still justifiable?

[@TubbiesMaggoo]

Ok "im afraid of Americans" by David Bowie and Trent Reznor was a great choice

[@narvuntien]

I have been arguing with some MAGA Americans on twitter (originally about Climate change but its spun off from there) and to be honestly, I truly am afraid of Americans now

[@briannawaldorf8485]

narvuntien I’m an American and I’m afraid of Americans

[@doubtful_seer]

@@briannawaldorf8485 same

[@vinny5638]

Most americans are afraid of americans, we know the powder keg we sit on & pray someone doesn't catch a spark.

[@commentsiguess1263]

@@narvuntien As an American, same.

[@vilma20]

using bowie's "i'm afraid of americans" as the background music during the title card... i see you, abi

[@IceGoldDev]

Anna Chronis? ANACHRONIST SHE'S A TIME TRAVELLER

[@tgreaux5027]

Mind = Blown. lol

[@VapeKidJr]

Also Chrono = time

[@NephRainbows]

Also, Greek or Cypriot origins, guys, not everything is timey wimey. But then again, horse

[@intraum]

@@VapeKidJr yeah, that's why anachronist means that lol

[@TheCarbonatedMan]

Something something anachronistic something...

[@jasonchicago7276]

"Choosing a method of constitutional interpretation is also choosing a method for how people will experience the law." And that, ladies and gentlemen is the crux of this whole video. A brilliant, insightful line.

[@dukeofdenver]

Ironically, that's a good case for originalism. It's the safest bet to prevent the perverse consequences of the above quote

[@Cage532]

LegalEagle is getting around KZbin but then again I guess questions about US law have trending for some reason these last few weeks.

[@bachpham6862]

Surely there is not a certain US event that is going to happen in the upcoming time frames causing all these sudden interest in US laws.

[@sarahgordis]

@@bachpham6862 That reason is obviously the details of copyright to alpha/omega/beta wolf hetero erotic novel writing, duh

[@robertnett9793]

@@bachpham6862 No... sorry. I am drawing blanks here. No clue what possible could happen in the next days, that would such an inconcievable rise in interest in US laws. Allthough I have to say I was in a coma the last 4 years. In a remote forest. Under a rock. On an island near point nemo. With no WiFi.

[@yourchaoticadhdfriend3523]

@@sarahgordis I mean, I guess?

[@bachpham6862]

@@sarahgordis Ah, yes. This would explain why LegalEagle, just hot off Lindsey Ellis' video, is collab-ing with another KZbinr to provide his legal expertise.

[@SATOhara3173]

So did you like, map out all the scenes you'd need to eat haggis in and film them back to back or are you eating cold haggis

[@corbiecrow9738]

Doesn't matter either way, haggis sucks so cold or hot doesn't matter (spoken as a person who had to eat it for school lunches on burns night every year...maybe that was cause our school lunches were shit though)

[@gethinblake4826]

@@corbiecrow9738 how dare you attack the good name of haggis so! This is a violent assault on the very concept of good food taste. I am appalled!

[@catarinacampos690]

@@corbiecrow9738 I ate them both at burn supper in school and out of class. I wouldn’t go out of my way to get some but they do taste much better outside of school

[@corbiecrow9738]

@@catarinacampos690 fair enough maybe I'll try some though I am really picky so tbh I prolly won't change my mind to drastically

[@dysmissme7343]

😂😂

[@Flashpoint86]

And people wonder why the youth has become so disaffected with politics. WE ARE RULED BY HORSES! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

[@TenEnvelopes]

Literally, the suggested video to the right of this comment is Philosophy Tube's "Why Does Britain Still Have a Queen?" featuring Olly astride a horse.

[@cryofpaine]

Unfortunately they're only half horses. I'll let you figure out which half.

[@elyukayee123]

Crap. They're loose in hospitals now.

[@samshapira8295]

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

[@pjmeis5226]

THERES A HORSE! IN A HOSPITAL!

[@p0ssumfruitbat]

While the Drivel accent is ... mixed, Olly somehow nails saying arsehole every time, and honestly that's all you need to get through Australian society

[@bibijinnie7184]

You’re looking very Oscar Wilde lately, it’s fantastic

[@maggielauzon4057]

I get that vibe from him too...That and the singer from the cure...and something of a swashbuckler too. His costume wardrobe must look like the backstage of the Pavillion Theatre.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Except without the antisemitism, so that’s good

[@no_peace]

Looking younger every day also

[@johnswanson802]

I was thinking Robert Smith tbh

[@JackieTheCatfox]

Turns out there was a reason for that. Completely unrelated to Oscar Wilde, but a reason.

[@anon6056]

"They poisoned the environment... I live in the environment" YES I LOVE YOU I wish I could hear a judge talk like this in a real court also I love the Australian representation Your Australian accent is really good by the way

[@pacingandmuttering5106]

Jokes on John Mulaney, the whole STAFF of the hospital are horses!

[@Fluffkitscripts]

Don’t worry, us Americans are EXTREMELY acquainted with the story of our founding, to the point where we’re constantly arguing about the technical definition of child indoctrination. Considering the way we act on the internet, I’m certain most of you have absorbed it by osmosis.

[@BATCHARRO]

It was ana argument about paying tea taxes then Paul Walker broke the bell of liberty, then they all remembered an A La Mode.

[@Mimi-cq4bg]

I watched an episode of repo wars (I was injured and bored dont judge me) and I watched 4 Americans stumped, because they couldn't figure out whether the civil war or the revolutionary war came first. I would argue the details are not as well known as you hope.

[@izellets7361]

"Shift that fat ass, Harry, but slowly, or you'll swamp the damned boat." I am no historian, but I often get the feeling that what you are acquainted with is just that. A story. As in nationalist propaganda. Not that we don't do that in my country (France). I mean, they still teach that we ultimately won WWII despite losing it twice lol.

[@z-beeblebrox]

"to the point where we’re constantly arguing about the technical definition of child indoctrination." Damn that's sly

[@happinesstan]

It has always been the intention of elements within the US, to influence the global culture. And whilst I have no doubt that the majority do it with the best of intentions, it leaves the door open to malignant minds. It's the very same problem that we now face in regard to social media.

[@LordRenegrade]

Ugh stupid misread. The Second Amendment is about ARMING BEARS. Not having firearms, or arms of bears. You see, a nation cannot defend itself without a Bear Army. That's why the Soviets were so dangerous - their symbol was the bear, and their vodka-powered Bear Army was immensely dangerous. Also a navy comprised of sharks with frikkin' laser beams on their heads is good too. A Laser-Shark Navy to defend your shores is epic.

[@masterpuni7371]

No in Russia w have dogs the size of bears. Bear dogs.

[@BigMamaDaveX]

🐻 PER-R-R-R-KELE!!

[@dhwyll]

Not "arming bears" but the weapons that those of the Ursidae family would use. Not the weapons of humans, not the weapons of horses. The weapons that bears use to wage war.

[@wyattwahlgren8883]

Hold on... Did you get that from a card game?

[@stormcrowlegendary3512]

Jokes on you, the word bear was a reference to fat guys, especially gay ones. That is why we won the Cold War. The Russians substituted actual bears and it wasn't fiscally sustainable.

[@98Clank98]

when the horse started its nightmarish hell whinnies i found myself just whispering at the screen 'Abigail, what the fuck, are you good?' and honestly the answer doesn't even have to be yes

[@SophisticatedBanjo]

LegalEagle is the crossover king of KZbin, essentially undisputed at this point.

[@evalinanegus4608]

Crossover meme King

[@timothymclean]

Maybe we should start calculating KZbinrs' LegalEagle Number.

[@iammrbeat]

I love the jabs against Great Man Theory.

[@WitherRakdos]

Just wanna say, huge fan of your content, especially your video on the electoral college

[@awenwraig]

i luv u mister breast pleas give me one hunderd milion brasil dolers

[@karlo125]

I never thought I Will see you here

[@joemacdermott2371]

Dolar pls

[@jackbentley2069]

Give me money Mr. Beast

[@RayAtchley]

Legal eagle in a philosophy tube video is something I never knew I needed.

[@jospinner1183]

@James F. Yeah, he was in Lindsay's video about that lunatic erotica author. It's delightful and highly recommended, including the follow-up where the author attempted to issue a DMCA takedown for Lindsay's video about misuse of DMCA takedowns.

[@wolight]

@James F. And he did a collab with Hbomberguy but that was a while ago

[@gunsandkithes6900]

@@wolight i wanted to say dat! ;-;

[@pineapplesocks8603]

Ya but after the collab with adam conover anything is posdible

[@piedpiper1185]

@@wolight He also did one with Dr. Mike recently, too.

[@SequoiaAlexander]

Love hearing a bit of Abby's voice come out when you do a voice for Amy Coney Barrett's thoughts. ☺ Came here after you mentioned this video in the anniversary stream as one where you just went for it thinking the channel was over, and I love the feeling of freedom you show here!

[@thatgal9329]

This video is peak-PhilosophyTube for me. The way you combine theatrical aesthetics and symbolism with education is one of the things I've always loved about this channel.

[@lukahutinski9075]

The arsonist stuff was preety much peak performance for me

[@jaqssmith1666]

is cherrypicking a case (the one about the 300 dollar medical claim) part of why you like this channel? a case that failed for obvious reasons (failure to state a claim), the court told the plaintif the issue and how to fix it (refile but state a claim this time), the idiot appealed instead of refiling, and finally Barrett and 2 other appellant judges said "yeah you needed to state a claim" and this happened because when she was directed to the appropriate agency to make her complaint, she just waited six months and sued. and even after her filing was rejected for failing to state a claim she still had one and a half years to refile a propper complaint.... that would be dismissed anyway because she decided not to go to the appropriate department to make her complaint. this case has nothing to do with either ACB or originalism, but everthing to do with following proper procedure.

[@PhilosophyTube]

Thanks, I'm quite pleased with how it came together!

[@ryan1840]

@@jaqssmith1666 i don't think "follow this byzantine, several month bureaucratic procedure to get your $332" is as strong an argument as you think it is.

[@Not_that_Brian_Jones]

"Thomas Washington? I think you mean George Jefferson." XD

[@moscanaveia]

The casual playful disregard of the importance pegged upon these late, elderly slaver chaps is amid the finest flavours this video has delivered

[@phantasmagore7991]

as a non american it took me like 5 minutes to realize why it didn't sound right

[@moscanaveia]

Even better, I suppose is LegalEagle joining in on the pun. I love it when people from the USA decry their whole foundation myth as the sham that it actually is.

[@alisaurus4224]

Movin’ on up

[@zimmerwald1915]

TFW you realize a fictional petty-minded small businessman would design a better state than the one we've got.

[@Kat-Kobold]

"Based and haggispilled" is my new phrase whenever Scotland does a good.

[@appa609]

I bet this is going to mean something pretty different in 2-3 years

[@roseheimbichner7296]

Dr. Eggman! Long time no see!

[@Kat-Kobold]

Oh also Oli's hair in this video is like mine but good

[@truebornseeker9767]

*realises that you can hear abby’s actual voice come through, especially after the drivel segment* thats why she was so good at the girly voice.... *SHE WAS A GIRL ALL ALOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG*

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

(sings to the tune of the song) IT WAS ABAGAIL ALL ALONG

[@Rycluse]

I just scrolled down to the comments to mention the exact same thing. It must have been hard to keep up the act for so long

[@nob1130]

What is Abagail btw? Woman or a man?

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

@@nob1130 woman

[@voidify3]

@@nob1130 she's a trans woman; by the time of this video she had been transitioning in secret for some time but was still closeted for the youtube channel

[@derlumpenhund]

I like how calling it "the Trump regime" has slowly ceased to be ironical

[@andrewmartin2321]

i almost can’t remember the word “administration”

[@ahmedamine24]

@@andrewmartin2321 Administration means looking after an estate on someone's behalf. The Public Administration is supposed to look after the Commonwealth of the public. The US Admin has pointedly not been doing that under DJT, POTUS#45. They have been doing a lot of regimenting, though.

[@sealogic4552]

I don’t

[@andrewmartin2321]

@@sealogic4552 valid and same

[@xXRickTrolledXx]

I read it as “bionicle”

[@soharbennett4487]

PhilosophyTube, looking at the camera, dead serious: “I don’t like the Democrats, I don’t like Obama either” -Pause- “I like haggis” I’m dead 😂😂😂

[@stephaniel2850]

Honestly, I was just like "preeeach, Olly, PREACH!" It drives me bananas how right wingers can't seem to grasp that the actual left does not like the Democrats or Obama either, so bless Olly for making that very clear ^__^ (as a vegetarian and 99% vegan, though, I can't get behind the haggis haha)

[@Akira-ss6cm]

@@stephaniel2850 agreed, lot of democrats, myself included, aren't really democrats. The democratic party just comes closer to what a growing number of people actually want, and take it as a compromise, hence the rift that's starting to emerge between establishment democrats, and more progressive ones like Warren and Sanders.

[@saltypork101]

​@@stephaniel2850 I've had vegan haggis. It's pretty nice.

[@laurenbastin8849]

@@Akira-ss6cm problem is right now the Democrats won’t actually cater to progressives, so it’s basically just the Republican Party dressed up with a modicum of civility and marginally less bigoted

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

@@laurenbastin8849 Not really.

[@huburgalula4031]

*There's some horse in this house, there's some horse in this house.*

[@diego_wagner]

Careful now! Big-brain Ben Shabino's gonna rant about you very stiffly for a cringey nine minutes now!

[@nelu2371]

@Rebecca Mason Im compelled to give you all my posessions for this

[@agoatinthecircus125]

This video is so special to me. The David Bowie song, the horse judge, horses in general as a symbol of borderline insane burocratic structures of power that serve the few, ACTUAL HORSES as tools of suppression of riots, what's not to love? Edit to add: THE WAY SHE TURNS TOWARDS THE CAMERA AFTER INTRODUCING DR. BUCEPHALUS

[@robertwinslade3104]

Depicting a judge as a horse here really made me realise that, hundreds of years from now, history books may look back on Trump the way we look back on Caligula 🤣

[@eduardo_carvajal]

you said Trump, i say it will be the political system in the coutries of this world.

[@TenEnvelopes]

Oh, I've seen him as a modern-day Caligula for ages.

[@mostlyharmless6x9]

If we survive global warming long enough to be able to look back...

[@robertwinslade3104]

@@mostlyharmless6x9 sad but true 😢

[@EM-vw7im]

Ok, I dont like trump either(or Biden) but comparing trump to ancient (and not so ancient) dictators and despots is a stretch. Trump isn't Hitler or Nero or Caligula or anyone like that and he wouldn't become that had he been relected or if he runs again in 2024. That's just fear mongering. Same way the right says Biden and the left is going to turn the US into some facsimile of Venezuela/Cuba

[@QuestionableKenz]

The Stanislavsky idea: If you pretend that you believe something all the time, it is no different than actually believing it

[@k_a_y_l_e_e]

which is where i think kelly ann conway went astray. she went into her job thinking is was "just a job" and then got in _really_ over her head to the point where, while she was really good at her job, she became one of the most hated persons in the usa. for example.

[@foodiusmaximus]

@@k_a_y_l_e_e huh. Kelly Ann exists. I forget about that.

[@ericafleming5197]

@@foodiusmaximus I thought she was just an SNL character

[@rhemacreel1339]

something I found myself saying earlier today. It's true

[@TheMrVengeance]

Yes, this is the same reasoning for when Olly talked about anti-fascsism, and how to decide who is a fascist. It doesn't matter if you truly believe fascist ideas, if you're constantly "ironically" acting like you do and spread those ideas "for the memes", it's really no different than _actually_ believing them.

[@bigfootoncomputer357]

Ollie, first off loved the video! Second, this is gonna be the most pedantic thing you have probably ever gotten a comment about. (God I hope) but Country Roads by John Denver is actually about WESTERN Virginia and not the state of West Virginia. The Blue Ridge Mountains very marginally pass through the state and John Denver actually had never been there when he recorded the song! He just used West Virginia because it sounded better for the lyrics. Anyway, there's some music history. Hope everyone's day is well. Sincerely, A West Virginian burdened with stupid facts

[@pj9615]

Josh Stewart, you sir, are my soul brother.

[@willaroberts134]

THAT is hilarious if true that John Denver had never been there

[@Missdreavus1]

As a Virginian, I can confirm. I get very aggravated when I see "Visit West Virginia" advertisements that use that song.

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

I can remember what you’re describing from Parkersburg South High and raising the stakes a bit I was a Dane in Parkersburg and furthermore a Greenlandic kind of Dane. No matter how hard I tried being funny about that entire ordeal it was a very educational experience every day to say the least.

[@arigadatred5395]

Also regardless he wasn't from _either_ Virginia, he was from New Mexico (I think), but, well, it just doesn't fit the meter very well does it. "Country roads, take me home to the place I belong! New Mexico, desert ma... mo? Take me home, country roads." See what I mean? Also he's dead so he probably doesn't care either way.

[@Laecy]

Upside to being bi: finding a new youtuber and thinking “Holy crap that person’s gorgeous!” Seeing comments congratulating them on their transition . . . Thinking, “awesome, good for them. Also, holy crap that person’s gorgeous.”

[@justcallmenoah5743]

Absolutely for real.

[@narnigrin]

Yeah, holy shit this is a mood.

[@dianamiller3307]

Same

[@Amazing_missB]

Straight cis woman here and I agree that she was and is still gorgeous

[@literally4891]

i started crying because abagial thorn is so fucking beautiful

[@gudmundursteinar]

My basic issue with originalism is that the Originalist, like the Religious Fundamentalist, sees his or her own biases reflected back to them from the document God/Founding Fathers happen to agree with my own personal biases.. every time.

[@AntheaRutherford]

Also: the Originalists never seem to be capable of properly reading 18th century English.

[@jospinner1183]

I can't take Originalists seriously because they're always deferring to precedent over gun rights instead of the text of the Constitution. And this is despite the Second Amendment being pretty clear on the only situations that apply to "bearing arms."

[@fakechuck7659]

@@jospinner1183 Completely agree with this. I am all for gun ownership, but you have to be particularly disingenuous to think that it arbitrarily gives individuals the rights to own any and all "arms". A "well-regulated militia" was always a State-operated and State-funded aggregation of citizens who were trained and supplied by the individual states to contrast a federally operated military. The meaning of "well-regulated" is this operation by the State government whereby citizens are trained and maintained. The Constitution does not prohibit gun ownership, so naturally (because anything not prohibited by the Constitution is left to state laws) it would have been legal for citizens to own any firearms. However, the Constitution only explicitly protects this ownership within the context of a "well-regulated militia" operated by the States. This would imply that any number of regulations against firearms would be perfectly legal when left to States to decide, and there is no federally guaranteed right to own firearms. Many conservatives take take the position that any gun regulations are infringement on their rights, and my argument is always some flavor of trying to argue that preventing children from buying guns is un-Constitutional under their parameters. The foundation is absurd and onerous, but almost certainly immobile in any conceivable future.

[@TheGIANTgonads]

@@fakechuck7659 The problem is not their understanding of the constitution. It's that they like guns, have invested time and money into guns, and will perform Olympic levels of mental gymnastics to avoid the things they like being taken away from them.

[@gudmundursteinar]

@@AntheaRutherford Agreed. "Well-Regulated Militia" means " a militia consisting of regulars" has nothing to do with gun safety.

[@LudicGamer]

The horse whinny slowly fading into a police siren during the intro was genius.

[@morales8697]

It's Colt Corona

[@dreamerdoes_is_love8986]

And then having it in the outro after the last question was whole ass vibe asf mood.

[@AwesomeEpicnes]

@@morales8697 ooo ooo o ok o oko look inibb look ok kolokok ooo o ok lol look ooo ooo o ok lol ok ok ok okok look ok k lol

[@AwesomeEpicnes]

@@dreamerdoes_is_love8986 jobb

[@AwesomeEpicnes]

In. O

[@RufusTheBaptist]

John Mulaney: There’s a horse loose in a hospital! Olly: There’s a horse loose in the Supreme Court!

[@polarys79]

When he referenced the derraged horse at the beginning of the video, I was sure there was gonna be a reference to the John Mulaney skit.

[@Cruizinelli12]

I thought he was going with the Trojan horse metaphor at first. You know, Amy coney Barrett being the republicans’ way to destroy the American constitution from within the highest courts...

[@omershaik6374]

it's a reference to a Kafka short story- "the new advocate", which talks about a new judge who is Bucephalus- alexander the great's horse. it very much shows Kafka's uncomfortableness with the law and how it was made.

[@RufusTheBaptist]

@@omershaik6374 Holy shit, guess we have to cancel John Mulaney. Stealing jokes off 20th century Czech authors is not cool, man...

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

I thought it was just a Tomska reference.

[@DustSoilStudio]

watching this after watching Abigail's coming out video and im realizing how much really went into keeping her secret until she was ready to come out.

[@NicoFitz]

As a trans man i noticed her specific stances to attempt to conceal her breasts during the Drivel segment. I was relating a little too hard tbh

[@taylorthomas4987]

Legal Eagle is really getting around these days, so many collabs, it's kinda cool if you ignore that the main reason is the impending collapse of the US legal system.

[@WillowTDog]

Lol.

[@DavidJamesHenry]

LegalEagle is collaborating with everyone and I love him for that

[@CaffeineAndMylanta]

Where else has he been? Just discovered him.

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

@@CaffeineAndMylanta I think he recently collabed with Lindsey Ellis too, right?

[@SpoopySquid]

@Megan Rivera and Extra Credits

[@CaffeineAndMylanta]

@@K_i_t_t_y84 @snoopysquid thanks friends

[@faceyfacefaceface]

@@CaffeineAndMylanta hbomb, though I think hbomb was on his channel.

[@goshdarnspiffy]

Great work, as always, but "Slavesblood O'hoolahan" I'm w h e e z i n g

[@ahmedamine24]

Missed opportunity for a Houyhnhnm joke, I say.

[@joelfry4982]

You can't sue the state.

[@charminglychelsea5250]

I'm an American watching this after the leaked Supreme Court Ruling came out. This aged so well. Abby is amazing.

[@SlowChemicalXV]

First time watching Philosophy Tube. Drawn in by Mr. Legal Eagle, and I was captivated. Got yourself a new sub

[@PhilosophyTube]

hey cool, welcome!

[@adfaklsdjf]

Same all around, first time, legaleagle, subbed

[@adfaklsdjf]

I'm a little scared, though, about what ideas this channel might make me confront

[@gavmandragon8443]

One of us

[@tamarirekhviashvili4142]

This was also the first video that I watched by him! Now I watch a bunch of left youtubers. It’s insane since 3 years ago I was right leaning.

[@joshhickman77]

I too am concerned about how many people think James Corden is funny.

[@svevo]

sure, may I point out though that that might not be our greatest concern right now?

[@barborasmetankova]

@@svevo Agreed, but RE James Corden, you have to consider that whether or not you find his talk show funny, he definitely IS a funny theatre actor. Have you had the chance to see One Man, Two Guvnors as a part of National theatre live (it was also here on youtube)? If you have the chance, definitely recommend. It's hilarious!!

[@svevo]

@@barborasmetankova thanks for the recommendation, I'm watching it right now

[@travcollier]

I like that Ollie chose to aim that gibe at James Corden... Not because I don't like Corden, but because Corden very much seems like the sort of person who would find randomly being insulted in a KZbin video about Barrett and judicial philosophy rather amusing.

[@EzioHanitore]

I thought he was good in that Doctor Who episode but yeah he generally sucks

[@Jeice555]

Uh, Frieza couldn't be racist. He has children of every color. Just look at the Ginyu Force!

[@Sednethal]

"You can be racist against a race that doesn't exist" - DBZA Frieza.

[@wizzzer1337]

Frieza adopting children of every race and turns them into his child soldier makes him extra racist, that's actually a texbook colonialist strategy.

[@dakotaatkinson9361]

i mean to be fair he hated Saiyans who were literally a planet robbing supercorp based in the business of mass genocide. it was a hitler vs stalin situation

[@yonatanbeer3475]

@@wizzzer1337 I can't stop laughing at this

[@STIR-FRIED-SUBWAY-RAT]

TOKUSENTAI TOKUSENTAI

[@מעין-צ9ג]

Ok but like how am I just noticing you look like you were transitioning here already lmao you were hudung it well tho I'm so happy you came out

[@corinnelucy8165]

God yeah as a bisexual stan I was just living for the more androgynous look and not even thinking any further

[@casey3889]

I noticed her face looked softer/more feminine quite a bit ago but I just thought she started doing a really good skincare routine gdsgkl

[@מעין-צ9ג]

@@casey3889 yeah she looked better but I didn't know my trans friend said her skin looks too soft to not be on estrogen lol

[@מעין-צ9ג]

Chloe if you see this I'm sorry for commenting this and referring to yiu as,my trans friend ily

[@FullSlack]

I thought I was being patriotic while I've been stock-piling bear arms all these years, turns out I'm just bad at interpreting texts.

[@B_Skizzle]

Wait, you mean I _wasn't_ supposed to supply the local grizzlies with rifles in hopes that they’d start their own Bearshevik revolution?

[@tremisanthrope]

I interpreted as bare arms and haven’t worn sleeves in 30 years.

[@vincentmuyo]

The Libertarian take: "That explains Grafton! You've been fomenting communism among bears"

[@Loalrikowki]

Slavesblood O'Hoolihan is the Sir Not Appearing In This Film of Hamilton.

[@merv6650]

As someone who lives in Turkey, this is too advanced level of a discussion subject for us. We need to have some kind of a law first.

[@nean55]

lol

[@jovankacelikovic2148]

another turkish citizen here! i wish i was dead

[@shortforsophie]

Dual Turkish and Canadian citizen. I haven’t been back since 2012, and things were already *so* bad... honestly I feel like it gets more and more unrecognizable every year. It breaks my heart. Atatürk would be furious.

[@jl4571]

Funny because this is like the third grade level explanation and it’s still not even very good.

[@cometmoon4485]

@@shortforsophie Mustafar Kemal would be too stone cold drunk off his ass to feel any emotion particularly strongly.

[@wonderbreadtoast]

I was fully jumpscared by Abigail’s voice at 30:00 lmao, we love good vocal training

[@nicklarocco4178]

"The government of today has no business telling us how to live our lives, because the government of 200 years ago already did that!"

[@nicklarocco4178]

@Jack McCabe You know that's a quote from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia?

[@tonystark8757]

What if racists came back and became the majority desiring to "reinterpret" the 14th amendment? Still gonna make fun of how stupid adhering to original intent is? Originalism protects everyone left and right from the whims of populism, you oppose it at your own peril. And besides, isn't Trump's movement "right wing populism"? Do you really want his populist movement reinterpreting the constitution to what he thinks it should be?

[@colinjacob8072]

@@tonystark8757 but doesn't originalism pass the buck by simply rephrasing the question rather than answering it? From "what do those words mean?" to "what did those words mean?" We can't help but to see the past through the lens of our lives. We don't have the original minds that wrote the words, so we must argue what they meant then. If we have to argue the meaning anyway, why not argue what they mean today?

[@theunsophisticatedplatypus4685]

@@colinjacob8072 because law doesn’t care about feelings, it cares about facts. The world is not rose tinted glasses. I do something the opposite of looking at history through my eyes. I try to imagine how I would see it if I was there and had to deal with those hardships. I’m not brave enough to go to war, nor fit for working in an office with indoor smoking. But I don’t have to because others did. And for that I’m grateful.

[@tonystark8757]

@@colinjacob8072 Say we have an amendment that says "no smoking weed." 200 years later, maybe some people argue that it should be read as no smoking dandelions instead. Then we look at the author of it. Legislative writers in most cases elaborate elsewhere on their own meaning of specific high profile pieces, and in this case he might have said elsewhere "Weed refers to Cannabis and any mind-altering product from said plant," or perhaps his entire campaign for said amendment was "stop pot smoking from ruining our kids minds!" And the like. If we honestly looked at the historical context, it would be extremely hard to argue that the author would not have meant Cannabis. "But we can't be suuuuuure" does not seem like a strong argument in comparison, you could apply that same logic to try and argue that the Great Wall of China should be taught in schools as a line of china from a pottery shop, since how do we know for sure what the words mean if we didn't make the name?

[@MsAdlerHolmes]

Quick trick from an Aussie: "fedge-ruh-list". Real talk though: better Australian accent than any non-Aussie actor I ever heard.

[@lucydecker6276]

Right? Olly's Aussie accent is getting better with every Drivel.

[@exprime8872]

I reckon most of the stuff that holds him back is that he's opening his mouth too much. I've done a few accent classes for acting work and when you learn other accents as an Australian you usually have to open your mouth more because none of our vowel sounds live near the front of our mouth, if that makes sense haha

[@Personal_Chizo]

"The inner machinations of -my mind- the Australian accent and its Rs are an enigma."

[@Liloldliz]

@@exprime8872 well yeah. the longer your mouth is open the more flies get in. that's just science

[@Liloldliz]

fedge-ruh-luss. we don't put the "t" on the end of the word, it's too hot for that shit

[@morgoth_bauglir]

Abby's hair started as short curls and has now become a poofy cloud. I fear the day we see its final form

[@Windsofchange99]

The thirst trap must go on.....

[@morgoth_bauglir]

@@Windsofchange99 idk if it's working man, it just gives me the urge to squish it

[@AntheaRutherford]

Loving both it and the eyeliner.

[@ilexdiapason]

i will no longer be asexual if he continues to allow it to cloudify

[@hectorrobertocontrerasmiranda]

@@ilexdiapason does that mean you are a nimbussexual?

[@8Rincewind]

She really likes using David Bowie in her videos ♥️

[@nerfherder1986]

I mean, if you don't like David Bowie there's something wrong with you

[@macabrecitrus2127]

Hell yeah 👨‍🎤

[@megatennepster3833]

James A Janisse would agree. I always forget how to spell his last name.

[@jacklandismusic]

This video made me uncomfortably aware that haggis is technically a pudding, which is a word I generally associate with Jell-O chocolate pudding, and not with...animal guts and oats.

[@there_is_no_switch]

You didn’t consider the original meaning of pudding in your response.

[@itstotesmelirn1725]

lmfaoo jello has animal bones in it 🙂🖐🏼

[@daemonspudguy]

@@itstotesmelirn1725 no. It's collagen, which is different.

[@StonerBaer]

Pudding, in the U.K., can also refer to a Dessert, as it stands, lol Many different ways of interpreting the definition, and all the more nauseating~

[@someoldytaccount]

@@daemonspudguy It's often just everything from hides to bones with collagen still attached. They don't put focus on separating it all out because it's already a mess once the meat has been taken off. The bones are boiled and then crushed down.

[@pipolwes000]

"West Virginia may be unconstitutional" seems like a brand new sentence

[@AcolytesOfHorror]

as a former west virginian: a brand new sentence for a very old truth

[@SometimesCompitent]

It must have been said in 1871 when there was a Supreme Court case about it or else there couldn’t have been a Supreme Court case about it.

[@alexandersmith6140]

Who else has noticed that originalism is basically a magnificent stalling tactic against progressive legal change, which can be further stalled by certain interests controlling the legislative and/or executive branches? "There's a democratic process for changing the law" just buys one particular group of people a boatload of time to control that democratic process and mire that process with other shit so that the democratic law-changing process is further gummed up.

[@alejandrogarcia3227]

He didnt do a very good job of explaining the philosophy... Stalling tactic assumes theyre adding more barriers to stop change. The constitution explicitly says who's in charge of passing laws for thr people.... Which is not SCOTUS. A huge issue is people do not hold their representatives accountable, and try to go around for the change they want... IE executive orders, judge interpretations that add things not in thr constitution.

[@alexandersmith6140]

@@alejandrogarcia3227 I thought he did an excellent, reasonably neutral-POV explanation (until he said it wasn't neutral-POV) in which he explicitly mentioned all the things you've mentioned too. But my comment was not about Originalism according to the merits of its own logic. My comment was about the application of Originalism, and in what ways and with what intents Originalist philosophy is applied. We can discuss Originalism according to how admirably anal it gets about the U.S. constitution, but that doesn't discount that the U.S. constitution was not intended to be only a legal exercise but a document to aid in running a country, and if Originalism is impeding running the country in its application, then regardless of its own fidelity to text, it's not accurately executing the constitution - its using its debatable specificities against its own overall agreed-upon intent.

[@alejandrogarcia3227]

@@alexandersmith6140 thats kind of the point... The constitution isn't an aid for thr country it's the root that all laws passed on based. So because of that, it is important to debate the meanings of the word and everything. This is why as i said before that the legislative branch has to do its duty and represent the people's interests. As far as the opinion of whether the philosophy isn't accurately applying the constitution is up for interpretation. Because according to originalism you're barking up the wrong tree.

[@alexandersmith6140]

@@alejandrogarcia3227 I cannot understand how you think "the root that all laws that are passed are based on" is not "an aid for the country." And clearly, as Thorn noted in the video, the legislative branch isn't doing a great job at representing "the people's" interests.

[@NaumRusomarov]

@@alejandrogarcia3227 Most of originalism is absurd nonsense. Its biggest opponents are those who practice it. In 2013, the supreme court struck down parts of the voting rights act as unconstitutional because it was no longer "responsive to current conditions", i.e., there was no more racism. The voting rights act was an actual piece of legislation introducted in 1965 as a way to guarantee the 14th and 15th amendments in places that had a long history of voter suppression. The next day after the court's decision, bunch of places put up new barriers to vote, which primarily target the poor, minorities and people of color. Originalism my fucking ass. These idiots are pissing on everyone and telling us that it's raining.

[@aubreetanner9543]

My heart literally started racing when "I'm afraid of Americans" came on. That was INCREDIBLE!!

[@Wheatselz]

I kind of like it when Robert Smith from the Cure talks about politics

[@plushy9849]

I got more Marc Bolan.

[@NinaChristensen]

I was thinking Dylan Moran. :D

[@teslobo]

Olly: "And America is not Britain..." Me: "...yet!" Olly: "We've come to accept that now." Me: "Ah. Yes. Yes we have"

[@ololo518]

But do you really want it now?

[@nilspochat8665]

Well, english is not the language of the US legally. La révolution cajun est en marche!!

[@aidancanoli]

@@ololo518 oH yeAh iTs GoNe to ShIt Yes bruh i want buckingham palace plz and thank you

[@ololo518]

@@aidancanoli Oh... So you're an American that wants to be Brit, not the other way around! That makes sense.

[@aidancanoli]

@@ololo518 lolol no i'm not even saying that i'm just sayin buckingham palace alone is dope of course ppl want London. The rest tho.... lol im kidding

[@Beatinz11]

"Thomas Washington?! Uhhhh, I *think* you mean George Jefferson" I lol'd

[@rosebudtv4660]

Ha ha ha it is funny because he does not know their names, I guess it must make his argument stronger in an educational video.

[@Beatinz11]

@@rosebudtv4660 does that single joke undo any of the arguments? Please give examples if so

[@fartpimpson3843]

@@rosebudtv4660 you missed the further joke. They swapped the first names of two presidents which creates the name of a television character

[@corbiecrow9738]

@@Beatinz11 I think he's referencing hbomb tho not sure

[@Kalmlikeabomb84]

"I live in the environment" The mind our generation was waiting for.

[@Joffy]

An american woman suing the U.S Government due to a bad private service that is also healthcare is literally the most american thing ever.

[@jsnsk101]

well it was medicare, so it was free government healthcare of a sort

[@lemon93]

@@jsnsk101 nope the first claim she made was to Medicare and she had to go somewhere else. This was explained in the video

[@trikitrikitriki]

@@jsnsk101 Medicare isn't free. And I don't mean that in a taxes sense.

[@sagecolvard9644]

* Accidentally* suing the U.S. Government.

[@jaynestrange]

Between this and the "Experts" video, I think Olly is becoming some sort of goth wizard.

[@SpoopySquid]

His video on witchcraft was actually foreshadowing

[@gateauxq4604]

Also Satan, arguably his gothest character (with the cutest kissing snake uwu)

[@seanocd]

He's got a modern Robert Smith look going in this one. Edit: Like a modernised 80's Smith, not the 2020 Smith horror show.

[@airshow406]

As an American this Ian N Drivel guy really speaks to me.

[@TheLaughingDove]

As an Australian who's visited America I suspect yall just like aussies lol

[@raskov75]

@@TheLaughingDove Am I dumb for wondering if this is supposed to be FriendlyJordies?

[@dungandonuts]

@@raskov75 I was thinking exactly the same thing!

[@Wrathful2000]

I love FriendlyJordies so much...