Ben Shapiro Loves Spreading Idiotic Conspiracy Theories

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[@DarkExcalibur42]

*World Economic Forum:* "You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy." *Republicans:* "You'll own nothing, and WE'LL be happy (not you)."

[@greasy8394]

Yeah because you're supposed to work for what you got. And when you get it, you're supposed to own it and not live in a rental system as a slave.

[@nerag7459]

@@greasy8394 You are suposed to pretend that you will ever be able to afford what you want and you will never get it and live in the rental system forever.

[@RojirigoD]

In principle, it is an extrapolation of streaming-type services in other areas of life. In streaming, for example, people watch movies and no longer have DVDs or Blu-rays, and it is the service that ensures quality storage, which allows greater coverage, ease of access, fewer accessories and much lower costs. This is increasingly seen in other cases such as AWS, Amazon Web Service - many companies no longer own their servers, but rather pay for a service, saving costs, maintenance, etc. The idea behind the philosophy is the promotion of a service economy, at any time you can use a car, objects of all kinds that you do not own, whose maintenance, storage and others is managed by third parties, and with low costs and with great variety in easy way. This phrase does not imply that private property will be abolished or that people will be forced to give up their possessions. Rather, it is a projection of how consumption and ownership trends could evolve in the future. In principle I think it should be something mixed, for example for essential things like a House it is much better to "have" but for the rest, reducing costs, facilitating access, variety and seeing modern examples such as web services, consoles, expensive equipment, I don't see it as problematic.

[@BakaHoushi]

@@RojirigoDThis. The phrase comes from an essay that basically says "You won't own a car... because you'll be able to just ORDER a car to come and get you where you want so you won't need one." It's kind of stupid but it doesn't mean what conspiracy nutters think.

[@DarkExcalibur42]

@@BakaHoushi A car that comes and gets you is called a bus. I support public transit.

[@bigsundays9058]

In the conservative framework, the villains are shadowy unnamable figures operating behind the scenes, but also here is their publicly accessible website where they layout the entirety of their nefarious plans.

[@JulianH-co7qg]

They're very namable

[@Muninnnr]

My theory about this is that, since they themselves constantly engage in dog-whistling, they assume that everyone else does as well. And so those "nefarious plans" which, for a large part, sound fairly reasonable, are actually full of hidden meanings that they are able to see through with their very big brains.

[@user-gk9lg5sp4y]

Part of the conspiracy theory is that these nefarious elites have to, because reasons, put clues to their plans into the public sphere so they can laugh at the sleeping sheeple, who don't get it.

[@FelisImpurrator]

That's what conservatives themselves do (think dark money funding the GOP), so they project it onto everyone else.

[@RHLW]

Its like that "da vinci code" (or one of them) where theyre looking for the illuminati HQ and it turns out every statue in rome is pointing at it.

[@garywebb2432]

I LOVE HOW Ben is supposed to be this big intellectual titan yet consistently gets exposed and debunked lmaoo in fact best video Hasan ever made was his "Ben Shapiro is a hypocrite on Dave Ruben's show" video

[@tomlxyz]

He uses big words and talks long sentences, he must be an intellect

[@butameremortal9424]

Ben Shapiro 😮 is SUPPOSED to be an intellectual TITAN" 😂😂😂

[@user-gk9lg5sp4y]

But he talks really fast so he must be a smart boy.

[@WackadoodleMalarkey]

Definitely an Abnormal Titan

[@RHLW]

His wife is a doctor though (in case you hadnt heard).

[@inspectornl]

God I just love Ben saying 'top-down control and decisions' constantly in a negative tone, while his literal utopian society is a top down controlled government.

[@inkpenavengerYT]

Correction: His utopia is a society ruled, top-down, by CORPORATIONS with a government that exists exclusively to protect their profit interests over any other consideration.

[@julesdalli9716]

As well as top-down controlled corporations with minimal workers' rights.

[@derdurstbursch]

​@@inkpenavengerYT served with theocracy sprinkles

[@simoneidson21]

@@inkpenavengerYTBen Shapiro is a grifter. I do believe he is ideologically a right libertarian but knows fascism is on the rise so he thinks by pandering to them he’ll be spared the gas chamber

[@Echo81Rumple83]

he also sounds like Mandark from Dexter's Laboratory.

[@molodezhnaja]

It's so annoying. We on the left always had our criticism against the WEF, especially here in Switzerland, where we had demonstrations and blockades because the WEF (especially after around 2000) was seen as elitest, neoliberal and ultra-capitalist, with some ecological and social topics sprinkled in to come across slightly less annyoing. We always had those criticisms and will always have them. But then the right sweeps in with their conspiracy nonsense and search for a boogeyman in Klaus Schwab (the guy looks like Dr. Evil and speaks German, bingo!) and completely undermine any valid criticism. Now it's just memes and conspiracies in a pool of right wing demagoguery.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

But I'm being ironic, I don't like the all digital future of capital. I disagree with the WEF on principle alone not who is seen as the face of WEF Klaus hasn't even admitted that he was Jewish in fact it looks like he is Christian.​@@JulianH-co7qg

[@jefftonsman]

​@@JulianH-co7qgthey aren't

[@EW--fe2fv]

@@JulianH-co7qgyeah bro the lizard people exist, the Earth is actually flat, and the JQ is actually real, bro get off the internet and touch some grass

[@leftisthindrance]

@@JulianH-co7qgyou know things can be written as little as 2 months right? Not everyone writes at the same pace. Also during Covid many had more free time than ever before. So if he felt convicted enough to write during a period in which free time was plentiful I’m not surprised he wrote that book in 6 months

[@marcofelix5694]

@@JulianH-co7qgah yes, he wrote a book during Covid called the great reset and now we know Covid was planned🤡 ~things a dumbfuck says

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

And with a straight face Shapiro wonders why College Campuses don't want to hear him anymore..

[@hollowman9410]

Is that true?

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

​@@hollowman9410He keeps whining about being "Censored" but can't seem to figure out why.

[@sophiepooks2174]

@@user-em6ie2be7x What a shame there is no such thing as true "cancel culture" or real consequences/ being held accountable by the law for willfully spreading harmful misinformation for multi-millionaire liars like Ben.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

@@sophiepooks2174 Might wanna Tweet that to Shapiro.

[@bruh.seriously1]

​@sophiepooks2174 imagine being so scared of someone's opinion you need to ban speech... careful your swastika is showing

[@linguotgr]

I’ve said it before but it probably needs to be said again. Anyone trying to sell you gold, demonstrably believes that holding cash is better than holding gold. Because if they didn’t, they would be buying gold themselves, not selling it.

[@uncomfortabletruth3831]

It’s good to diversify, but yeh those selling gold are capitalizing pushing fear to low Q white American conservatives.

[@FloofMother]

Nooooo they’re being good samaritans by selling people their extra gold, because they can’t have their followers going bankrupt when economic collapse happen

[@elegantoddity8609]

From their perspective, it'd be like taking money...in exchange for less reliable money.

[@pogo575]

Not even. When the price of gold is considered low they runs ads telling you to sell your gold. When it's high they try to unload.

[@ThompsonFlash9999]

I don't like how nobody has pointed out that one of those biggest gold sellers on Trump speeches? Birch Gold. If that name don't ring a bell, Google the John Birch Society.

[@jacobjohnston3983]

I love how at no point in the entire video was religion or religious freedom mentioned in any way, but Ben casually throws in that the “new world order” threatens “your church.”

[@sookendestroy1]

Which church ben?

[@MegaManXPoweredUp]

​@@sookendestroy1Church's Chicken, obviously.

[@floppavevo5920]

​@@sookendestroy1 "The" Church

[@nerag7459]

@@sookendestroy1 Isn't he the pope of the Jews?

[@sookendestroy1]

@@nerag7459 I thought he was orthodox catholic? When you look hard enough they all end up being for some reason

[@majornougat5207]

As a European, listening to your explanation of the credit card incentives to go into debt sent me into orbit. How do any of you have the mental space to live when you have to keep track of all these predatory mechanisms?

[@fluidthought42]

Don't get me started on our credit score system. Explaining to a braindead American how some European countries offer perfect credit scores to newcomers instead of forcing you to work towards a perfect credit after decades of taking on debt was so fucking tedious.

[@julesdalli9716]

Thankfully I don't use them. I have a debit card that just subtracts whatever I spent from my account. No interest paid whatsoever.

[@LarsaXL]

No wonder they're so angry all the time.

[@matthewsanchez7953]

I worked with a far-righter some years ago and he was _absolutely_ convinced that resources were infinite, and I do think that particular idea is a fundamental necessity to supporting economic systems that must see continued growth to survive. It was kind of funny in a grim way watching them twist into pretzels attempting to explain how finite resources are a conspiracy theory but not quite figuring out what benefits that "lie" would actually net.

[@rfldss89]

the thing is that, on a human scale, most ressources, especially energy, are for all intents and purpose infinite. It's just that exploiting those ressources requires technology we don't have yet and maybe never will and it gets increasingly more energy-intensive to extract them (if we ever somehow use up all the iron contained within the earth's crust, there is more iron at the core, there's iron all around us in space, etc, it's just not feasible to go get it).

[@MPostma72]

@@rfldss89 Not really, iron is just a bad example, because it's quite common. Easily accessable oil and gasreserves for example, will run out in 50-60 years. Current known uranium reserves will be depleted by the end of the century. Nothing infinite about that.

[@fluidthought42]

​@@rfldss89 It's more accurately said that some limited resources, like oil, are basically nigh-inexhaustabls but the industry needed to extract it from harder and harder to reach places is going to cost our environment and living standards more and more. Look ay fracking for example and how it poisons ground water and causes all sorts of other havoc for the people living near fracking operations.

[@TheSpeep]

Well, infinite until brown people need some. Then suddenly theres a limit, isnt there?

[@julesdalli9716]

Funny how these supposedly infinite resources are becoming incredibly scare, and wars are being fought to access them (water and oil being good examples).

[@ephat329]

Ben is so transparently unoriginal that it’s just sad at this point

[@manishsahu6186]

"Ben is so trans"

[@julianbell9161]

@@manishsahu6186I mean how else do you explain Brett Cooper?

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

Trans Shapiro is my favourite Tumblr meme of all time 😄 " *FACTS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS* but I do uWu " 😂

[@richardarriaga6271]

Conservatives when Jesus says you will own nothing and be happy: *God will reward you with riches and that whole eye of a needle thing was totally not about wealth* Conservatives when some WEF guy says you will own nothing and be happy: *Satan! Satan!*

[@skorqion_art]

I know christians who got into this conspiracy shit, and it's so sad to see them betray the most basic christian principles

[@greasy8394]

That's because Jesus and Satan are both the same thing, just Lucifer shapeshifting in disguise.

[@JessesanMan]

@@greasy8394 World of Darkness lore

[@julesdalli9716]

Wait, you think conservatives actually know what Christianity stands for? You're giving them way too much credit.

[@lizekamtombe2223]

​@greasy8394 Jesus is obviously an agent of Satan that Jehova followers propagandaed to one of theirs. Who fights against the tyrrany of Jehova and tries to liberate humanity?

[@The8BitPianist]

The best thing that ever happened at the WEF was Rutger Bregman being invited and spending his entire time talking about the solution obviously being taxing the rich wayyy more. He said it was like "being at a firefighter conference and no one talks about water"

[@TheWinterscoming]

44:05 Actually for the majority of time people had a "credit" with each vendor that they used You bought groceries on credit and then paid at the end of the month. Banks standardized that as credit against your bank account. Rich people often would run up massive bills at stores and stores would go out of business when the rich person turned out to be just living on credit and lost everything

[@JulianH-co7qg]

Advertising gold in a conspiracy video seems something classic Ben Shapiro would do.

[@richardarriaga6271]

If only someone would lead a company for replicating gold as a waste product from fusion. I want gold to be so worthless, kids in North Korea are dressed in gold-spun fabric and eating gold flake with their porridge.

[@dubspool]

@@richardarriaga6271we need to start mining those asteroids that are millions of tons of gold

[@uncomfortabletruth3831]

Summing up Ben shitpiros argument, “Corporations should be ghouls, without concerns for consumers, labor or the environmental impacts of production. Profit shall be their only deity, and any other concern is heresy …”

[@whatsallthebrouhaha]

Not even. He loves it when they spread conservative culture war shit. Whether he thinks a corporations prime motive should be only be making money or influencing culture will switch every minute he spends talking about it

[@PakBallandSami]

*crazy/wacky conspiracy theories exists* conservatives: i will take your entire stock

[@bryanamaro1209]

Ohh but "the richest people in the world get their wealth by siphoning from workers below them." Is too crazy for them.

[@iang7244]

@@bryanamaro1209Right. Pizzagate is more believable than class warfare. Very odd.

[@NA-xb6xu]

​@@bryanamaro1209well, because it's not a conspiracy theory, it's a conspiracy fact

[@kari548]

@@bryanamaro1209Kinda funny. But from their pov eventually they'll be be rich person flaunting off infront of the poors. It only works because they love spite.

[@canamrock]

@@kari548 It's a split between the temporarily embarrassed millionaire crowd and the serfcuck mentality that some people are superior and the tools of government are oppressing the better world we'd get if the Good People were let to act fully freely.

[@theodorevibritannia7988]

Who own all the brands? Capitalists. Who elect the world leaders? Capitalists. Who craft policies that are beneficial to them but not others? Capitalists. Who control the markets? Capitalists. Who are in charge of all the money flow, i.e. stock exchange and banking? Capitalists. (This is copied and pasted from my other comments) With all of those in mind, Ben's big intellectual brain somehow decides to pin all the blame on leftists, who are notoriously anti-capitalism.

[@nerag7459]

Capitalism is the New Left

[@jingbot1071]

🎵WEEE DOOO, WEEE DOOO! 🎵

[@Joebob1119]

What's the ethnicity of said capitalists?

[@jingbot1071]

Depends on the country they're exploiting and their connection to the western imperial core.@@Joebob1119

[@thereisnospace]

@@Joebob1119 probably overwhelmingly white but there are capital owners in every country so pretty much every ethnicity is represented. But i guess your question is more rhetorical and you would like to give us the answer.

[@cassif19]

Ben's plagiarizing Jonny Harris' style so much I actually felt he was in his room for a moment there

[@joshuayung5158]

Sorry all the daily wire bedroom sets were reserved for Brett Cooper

[@ChrisLeeW00]

Imagine a competent billionaire investing in a self-sufficient food forest instead of a useless bunker.

[@AegixDrakan]

Or at LEAST a durable community, something!

[@nerag7459]

Come now, those bunkers are going to be great sources of supplies when everything goes to hell.

[@fluidthought42]

​@@nerag7459 It'll be a hell of a haul for the post-apocalyptic raider gang that disables the automatic turrets!

[@nerag7459]

@@fluidthought42 How do the auto turrets not shoot the security team?

[@fluidthought42]

@@nerag7459 Spoiler: they did! The last remaining security goon is just experiencing a psychotic break and that's why he keeps talking through the PA system as if he's talking to other humans and not an automated system that already slaughtered all other living inhabitants.

[@chasecampbell7268]

He was pretty close to the oil/coal thing. The earth will still make both, but it will be very slow, but it will be drastically less due to humans. The low oxygen bogs needed for coal to form have been colonized and terraformed by humans to a point where it isn't possible to form naturally. Oil, on the other hand, is still being formed in the oceans. Algae is falling to the ocean floor, and being buried as it always has. Southern Louisiana and the Everglades are going to be full of oil in 100 million years due to the environment

[@Hawkwood96]

I think it's a classic case of the tragedy of the commons. For every business that earnestly does its best to be ethical, there are 20+ who don't give a shit. So the world remains fucked even though there are earnestly good actors.

[@evelyncarr6421]

That isn't a tragedy of the commons. If anything it would be a tragedy of the privates. Additionally the tragedy of the commons is a myth used to justify the ceasing of commonly (communally) controlled land and other resources. In reality commons had many informal agreements between users that ensures they were preserved.

[@evelyncarr6421]

*seizing.

[@julesdalli9716]

And the ones who don't give a shit are probably more successful, given that they are more ruthless.

[@Crapworks]

That entire video just feels like Ben screaming "Look guys, Look!!! I'm one of the good ones!!!" to all the ppl in the DW audience who keep getting radicalized into antisemitism

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

I wonder sometimes how aware Ben is that no, _he's one of the bad ones!_ Conversely, the left needs to stop trying to knee-jerk cancel "Brother" Nathanael Kaplan _because everything he's been saying for decades is finally coming to a head in Gaza!_ He called out Hamas being a tool of Benny's over 20 years ago!

[@TheOblivionMan]

Kinda feels like Ben's caught on that trying to maintain the Boy Genius aesthetic well in to his 30s was starting to come off as a little sad, but wants to ease in to whatever branding comes afterwards gradually so it feels like more of a natural progression and not something that's had an entire marketing team focus group within an inch of it's life.

[@hadronoftheseus8829]

I think he's actually forty, or rapidly approaching it.

[@bobloblaw7030]

4 foot tall Ben "genocide rules" Shapiro

[@overlookers]

Ben "making my name in the den of antisemites doesn't put a target on my back- what? you're crazy" Shapiro

[@ThompsonFlash9999]

As a frame of reference, his infamous pickup truck photo? I can recreate it. Same truck, but mine has a 6" lift and is on 37" tires. I'm 5'10" And my arm is only at a slightly higher angle than his was on a factory height truck. If he's trying to defend his whole "I'm 5'9", I swear!" He shouldn't have used a reference point every redneck knows. A Dodge pickup. It's like our banana for scale. Yeah, yeah, big truck bad. Idc.

[@chaosundivided2525]

​@@ThompsonFlash9999the thing is, big truck actually *NOT* bad. Big truck good, *BUT* only in the environments where needed. Big truck is bad in the hands of city slickers and/or for general transportation in populated areas. tl;dr like every car on Earth, big trucks are useful tools, but like every tool on Earth, they have their uses

[@ThompsonFlash9999]

@@chaosundivided2525 well, yes and no, like let's be honest, 99% of people with a truck like mine could get away with a little Japanese mini truck. Those things will do 99% of what 99% of truck owners use them for. And if they were more affordable to import I would totally have one, just for the cool factor. My big truck at least is a regular cab, not one of these 4 door SUVs with 3' of external cargo room that people call trucks, but I could totally have not lifted it. I might struggle a wee little bit, but off-road tires are king more so than ground clearence, so I could probably still get all my firewood and stuff without the lift. But I like the lift. It looks cool. I won't try to justify it by saying I need the lift, I don't, almost no one does. I just like it. I could probably get away with a little 4 cylinder midsized ranger or s10 or Colorado, but then it would struggle more under heavier loads. It would still get it done, just what might have taken 2 trips in my truck might take 4 trips in and out of the woods in a smaller truck. But I like the sound of a HEMI through a nice dual exhaust.

[@HippoEnjoyer]

I read “genocide rules” in the same way the Bill Nye intro says “science rules”

[@stephennootens916]

Years of hearing horror stories about credit debt is the reason that I never got one. Some have suggested I should from time to time but I just couldn't get pass my fear of winding up somehow in massive debt.

[@VikingNewt]

yeah, and for some reason the capitalist system punishes me for saving what i can. will never have a CC and the bank KNOWS i can afford a mortgage. but the system wants me either paying rent or unaliving bankers.

[@VitalVampyr]

Get yourself one of those x% cashback credit cards and set a reminder to pay it off every week. You'll end up with more money if you don't change your spending habits.

[@VikingNewt]

i have severe adhd, and i've spent my entire life paying more for everything because of it. theres a reason i say no to debt. i honestly think everyone but employers should immediately default on any loans. i dream of a day when people can actually afford a house without it killing them and their family. @@VitalVampyr

[@stephennootens916]

@@VikingNewt see that is messed up. They want you hooked for life. I still remember my friend who had to break down and buy a new car. For years when he bought it was use cars that he could if need be fix but as he got too old he realized he was going to have to break down and buy new. Sine he swore he never do monthly payments he had round up the cold hard cash before he walked in and told them what he wanted.

[@yautl1]

Yeah after spending years paying off my student loans I resolved never to get into debt again and have refused to ever get a credit card. I _do_ use my debit card for most stuff but that's coming directly from my bank account so I can clearly follow it and see the immediate affects on my balance.

[@rararamara8698]

Ben Shapiro spreading idiocy?!?!1?! Well, in other news, water is wet.

[@sophiepooks2174]

Getting richer out of it every minute and many stooges still falling for Weasel Shabibos BS.

[@agilagilsen8714]

As someone who knows a lot of people who work as fishermen or in the fishing industry, the people who work there are perhaps the most clueless about the finite nature of what brings them work. They don’t seem to understand that if you fish everything you loose it all forever. They say they understand, but every time the government restricts the fishing quotas they will complain and tell you that it isn’t necessary. Capitalism corrupts absolutely if you let it.

[@floppavevo5920]

"Don't fish just magically appear out of special fish holes at the bottom of the ocean/lake?"

[@fluidthought42]

​@@floppavevo5920 "Fish fuck? That's the first I've heard of this."

[@julesdalli9716]

Capitalism is like a wild animal. If let out of its cage, it does nothing but wreak havoc.

[@mercyjokes2d696]

​@@fluidthought42yeah, never drink the water as fishes fuck in it lol!

[@KamamaMachnVydia]

Shareholder Capitalism is when you have a king who‘s only interested in himself. Stakeholder capitalism is when you have a „good“ king who is invested in himself and his people. Socialism is when you have democracy.

[@dyslexiccowoom3991]

Just for anyone who's curious, the first streetcar/ trolleys in America were opened in New York in 1832. I believe Britain had them prior to that, but I'm uncertain. It's amazing how much tech has been around much much longer than people would expect.

[@SuburbaniteUrbanite]

And then they were tore out by the people who then pushed cars. Weird how we think cars are the best, when we literally removed the original option.

[@bradleyhamilton2459]

Real quick note about D.C., the reason there aren't skyscrapers is because no building in D.C can be higher than the Washington Monument.

[@uncomfortabletruth3831]

Very interesting.

[@lemonreviews]

“Erm ackshully” 🤓 If you really care it’s because fire-fighting equipment at the time the act was signed genuinely couldn’t go that high. It’s actually the funniest thing I’ve ever heard

[@bradleyhamilton2459]

@@lemonreviews we're both correct

[@steelersguy74]

Isn’t it actually the Capitol building?

[@bradleyhamilton2459]

@@steelersguy74 it is not

[@FragmentJack]

It is new. Ben needs to lean into the conspiracy theory to make more money. The knock off Vox thing is cute.

[@Spencerwalker21]

It's not really new Ben did a fuck ton of conspiracies during Obamas term.

[@FloofMother]

God it’s so funny how unoriginal he is with it

[@FragmentJack]

@@Spencerwalker21, that’s true.

[@julesdalli9716]

His "I kind of agree with the fascists, but I also shill for the neo-lib capitalist class" routine can't last forever. Especially when he rallies against people like Joe Biden, who also aligns with those neo-liberal views (while probably disagreeing with Ben on something like climate change). The Tucker Carlson-watching branch of conservatives, want to be reminded that there is a cabal of progressive elites (in their mind, the Jews) seeking to destroy western civilization. And those people are buying into all this anti-WEF rhetoric. So, that is the rabbit hole Shapiro needs to throw himself down.

[@NeroWesten]

Ben Shapiro had been rebranding to appeal to younger audiences instead of the 70 year olds that are his demographic. Lots of KZbin “reaction shorts” of him just watching a video and smiling as a reaction. It’s cringe to the max

[@pixelgoat7317]

Aww, look at Ben trying to be like Second Thought! It's adorable!

[@kai_plays_khomus]

There's an NGO called "The Golden Tinfoil Head" in my country which is also the name of the annual award they give to batshit conspiracy ideologues - and they have merch including an _"NWO Staff"_ sweater I want so f☠️king desperatly.. 😅

[@nerag7459]

which country?

[@jj947]

Famous socialist Milton Friedman

[@Asaliuru]

AI model of Ben Shapiro did a great job in making of this video

[@TheWinterscoming]

People who plan on trading gold or silver in the apocalypse, who will want it? In a non market economy what intrinsic value does gold have? Its a shiny rock that has no real use outside of electronics and preventing oxidizing of other metals by coating them in it (if only there was another way to prevent rust!).

[@shadowdragon3521]

People prepping for an apocalypse don't buy gold, they buy food and supplies. I think most people who buy gold use it as an inflation hedge.

[@hel803]

Because are divisible, scarce, resistent to decay, beatiful, easy to transport, and easy to accumulate. That is why the first kind of money was metals like cooper, silver and gold.

[@vylbird8014]

It'd serve the same function it always has: A display of wealth. Flashing it around has always been a way for those with influence to demonstrate it.

[@Kevo6492]

I’ll be fine with the NWO just off those banger songs alone, especially when you compare it to an attempt at a 2000’s raunchy comedy that ends up more milquetoast than a Hallmark movie.

[@nerag7459]

Plus the song NWO by Ministry.

[@NoFuqinIdea]

I have a professor at college who constantly brings up Schwaab/ the WEF and rambles on on how bad it is that we're abandoning fossil fueled cars and how they want to take away all of our individual rights. He is also an ultra conservative christian so I guess he shares the belief that there is no global warming and our ressources are infinite because "god created them for us".

[@subcitizen2012]

Ben Shapiro pushing anti semitic conspiracy theory is peak Ben Shapiro.

[@Joebob1119]

Quite telling that you think saying "the billionaire elites want you to own nothing" is antisemetic

[@9TheMiddleMan9]

Vaush is going to have to put in overtime to make up for his horrible Italian food take...

[@zenmastakilla]

He's such a buffoon at times

[@classiclife7204]

Last night he was praising Doritos-dust-encrusted chicken nuggets from KFC. Food expert! 🤗😂

[@jefftonsman]

Cope

[@jefftonsman]

​@@zenmastakillacope about it

[@coaxill4059]

Honestly, the upheaval from the crowd made me embarrassed to be a part of it. My mom is a professional Italian chef who's written menus for a half dozen restaurants, all of which kept using them after she left. We eat phenomenal Italian food both modern and ancient, done authentically and done well. Everything Vaush said was objectively true. It is heavy, it is a little boring, and of any national cuisine on earth, it's easily the most overrated. And that's talking about real Italian food! Fast food versions are atrocious, with such massive quantities of dough and cheese that just looking at it makes me sick. Most people who say they love Italian food have never even tried it too. The last time I showed someone a real pizza, they said "what have you done to that poor pizza?" when the only weird thing about it was the presence of pesto and lack of mozz. Something common in Italy, but rare over here. You motherfuckers will defend absolutely inedible slop if it's at least 50% flavorless globby cheese. The same type of person that defends McDonalds and Taco Bell. It makes me genuinely wonder how many people have even tried cuisines they didn't grow up with. Eat it if you want to, but don't pretend you've got any place to lecture on taste.

[@Sabhoh]

“What’s his name?” “Klaus.” “Karl?” “Close enough, let’s roll…”

[@hailsagan8886]

Carl Schwab is an investment firm

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

@@hailsagan8886you mean Charles?

[@jingbot1071]

Klaus Urban was great in Dredd

[@Demagora]

The actual "Great Reset" is when the American dollar drops off the face of the earth, Benny Shabibo loses his bed made of money and has to get a real job.

[@stephennootens916]

This is a silly thought I just had but someone should write a book about how the left would want things to be. It could be like a novel about people -perhaps teen to make it YA- having to rebuild after some post apocalyptic event like plague the right wing failed to deal with and through out the book the people who are trying to build something better than what came before take leftist ideas. You would have to cover the clear promotion of such ideas with a good story, characters and plot so it doesn't get itself banned in all the red states. It sound silly I know but still I think done right it could be a fun and educational read. Also the rest of us could finally under stand what the he'll you political junkie leftists vision of this country is.

[@jackboot8432]

Ironically, should fascism triumph and no longer need camouflage, li'l Ben(zedrine) shall likely find himself being escorted at gunpoint to the edge of a mass grave: "Wait! Stop! There must be some mistake! I'm on your side!! Why are you doing this?!" "Three guesses - Jeeeew!" Rat-tat-tat, splat...

[@rickb2432]

I’m 65. Nearly everything I own that cost $100 or less that isn’t clothing or tools is just junk cluttering up our house. Even most of the stuff we have that cost over $100 is stuff our heirs will be throwing in a dumpster rather than fighting over.

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

Then get a head start and put it all on Poshmark or something! 😅 Then you can go on one of those nifty "round the world" cruises that go through all of Latin America and southeast Asia!

[@rickb2432]

@@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer way to miss the point.

[@saveusmilkboy]

One day, Shapiro will accidentally end up in a room with an actual economist or political scientist who will eventually find a moment between Ben's Gish Galloping to ask "well, what exactly do you mean when you say socialism, then?", at which point Shapiro will run away crying as he had on that legendary BBC interview.

[@ArgDu]

OK but can we agree that Klaus Schwab song goes hard? I'm going to be humming that all day.

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

Klaus missed his true calling as one of Germany's Great EDM DJs fersure

[@hope_canyon]

Back in 2009, my high school science teacher told us that we'd already used about a third of the world's crude oil supply since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and that oil had taken millions of years to ferment underground or whatever. I dread to think how much more of the world's supply is gone another 15 years later

[@vylbird8014]

Hard to say because improvements in extraction technology make it feasible to access oil that was previously thought to be uneconomical. There aren't many places left now where you can just dig a hole and have it spurt up. But we do have improved deep-water drilling technology, and oil shale processing. You don't set up giant off-shore drilling platforms if there is easily accessible oil on land nearby. You set up the giant off-shore drilling platforms because your father already emptied out the field on land.

[@tjomara3812]

I have trump supporting friends that say they don't want universal healthcare because Mexicans would then get it too. Pure sadism. And Vaush, thank you for your impartiality, insight and knowledge. You are a true thought leader. I appreciate your work.

[@mercyjokes2d696]

I'm in the UK and although there are problems with the NHS (especially with the lack of funding for Mental Health having the same parity as cancer treatments, even though with the early screening and treatments, MH illness can have a higher mortality rates), it makes me proud that the taxes I pay support everyone to access healthcare.

[@joelopez7459]

I have Trump supporting Mexicans that do the same thing....................also wait wtf you have Trumpy friends?

[@TheRealAb216]

I thought the great rest was the one time a year I turn my pc off and back on and the updates dont fuck everything.

[@GamePlayMetal]

It's insane how credit cards are ubiquitous in the US. I don't know a single person here in France who uses a credit card.

[@hadronoftheseus8829]

Never mind that, why can't we get a decent baguette anywhere? In Los Angeles we nave no real patisseries, and even more inexplicably, no tortilleras despite our proximity to Mexico.

[@mgerdes0331]

They filled in public pools and closed zoos and parks in the south after desegregation. The lengths racists go to for spite alone is ridiculous.

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

Is it worth noting that his initials are BS,? I wonder if he gets his shirts monogrammed

[@bkucenski]

Ben Shabibo tells us he reads the Torah and yet the Torah says over and over not to oppress people just because the judges will side with you. Arguing for the "morality" of paying poverty wages because shareholders are more important is pretty special. "Livable wages" is a simple calculation: 3-4x rent for a 2 bedroom apartment in the area of the business. Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. - Isaiah 58:3

[@WASDLeftClick]

Ah yes, thanks Chef Vaush. Eggs Benny Shapiro is just what I wanted for breakfast.

[@jingbot1071]

Don't eat those. Sure, they're kosher but they might give you a negative growth spurt.

[@MarkSoupial]

Hey Ben? WE ALREADY DON'T OWN ANYTHING AND ARE TOLD *BY YOU* TO BE HAPPY

[@eliasE989]

I remember it clearly when Ben Shapiro embarrassed himself in the WAP discourse.

[@knowledge3743]

Oh HELL YEAH shabibo content letsgooo

[@sophiepooks2174]

Sure, but ghouls like him are still laughing all the way to the bank.

[@soraneyorumi2017]

They tried to make Benny Boy more appealing by upgrading his Homosexuality Factor. However, fascists suck at fashion so he can't wear the sweater right

[@soraneyorumi2017]

Also Ben's doing an Antisemitism here, if you look at the very beginning of the description of Schwab, you'll see the clips how the do the whole antisemitic banker motif

[@alansmith4655]

Ben Shapiro the type of kid at school to tell the kids that smoking is bad for your teeth, only then to find himself upside down in a trash can.

[@MKotnis]

Ben Shapiro is the kind of kid to sell other kids cigarettes, and tell them that his dad is the CEO of a tobacco company and that cigarettes are actually great for your teeth

[@zacheryeckard3051]

The difference is that Tobacco *is* bad for your teeth, whereas Shapiro is wrong about everything.

[@schuyleresau982]

Another note on credit cards is that even if you always pay them off they charge service fees to the vendors, which ultimately increase the price of goods whether you have a credit card or not. Its a hidden cost but its a cost of the credit system; similar to how you don't think about the part of income tax that your employer pays but it does effect how much companies pay. The fact that so much is paid for on credit essentially adds a sales tax that goes to banks even if they don't collect debt servicing fees.

[@IgN5P]

Smart investors know that gold is obsolete in finance.

[@JessesanMan]

I could eat bugs, but only if you disguise it good enough. Basically the same as those Impossible veggie burgers, but technically still meat

[@JARV9701]

There's nothing more annoying than Shabibo's vocie, except for annoying chatters.

[@hegyak]

50:00 "Advertising has us working jobs, we don't like. To buy S@*&! you don't need." -Tyler Durden, Fight Club

[@johncoursey2582]

Imagine having such a smooth brain that you start panicking every time you hear a guy with a German accent. I honestly think people are afraid of this shit because they think there's an Indiana Jones villain involved.

[@almosthelpless9374]

Resist the 15 minute city! Build more parking lots!

[@bryanamaro1209]

This was a good segment. Quickly debunking capitalist narratives and following up with reasonable commentary on the capitalist hellscape we live in today. :3 based vooch

[@goldmandrummer]

Order matters. Eliminating credit cards would have to come after a LOT of other issues are fixed...

[@allot5530]

Does anyone remember when barcodes were the mark of the Beast

[@hailsagan8886]

Social security numbers b4 that

[@rileyfaelan]

Skyscrapers are an important technology for large walkable cities. Without skyscrapers, we won't have high-density urban centres, we'll have medium-density urban spill. This is likely to bring with it negative social changes. OTOH, even though there won't be skyscrapers as we know them without steel, even plain old wood construction can relatively easily reach around eight-floor buildings, plus or minus a bit, and new fancy plastics or advances in graphene chemistry might be able to improve on that, even if graphene-based steel-less skyscrapers are unlikely. (But then again, in our history, most of plastics science was developed on the basis of coal tar chemistry. Bakelite, now obsolete, is the main exception.)

[@brandonw.peebles4225]

Vaush is 100% right about all the credit card stuff except for the necessity of having one. You can get by just fine in life without a credit score and many people do it. The lack of an ownership economy is a HUGE issue and I see distributism to be a good method of solving many of those problems.

[@jonathanramsey]

36:26 in 1804 Britain began building streetcar systems (horse drawn). Cable cars in the U.S. began in 1880, that’s more like saying you’re in your 20s on your 28th birthday

[@Ricky-pr5wz]

19:35 Lazerpig moment

[@babygorilla4233]

Most important part.

[@djixi98]

not even 6 and a half minutes into this and i am already losing my mind.. reading more of that Friedman's quote (from 1970's NYT article) there's no wonder why Benny boy likes him: "The discussions of the “social responsibilities of business” are notable for their analytical looseness and lack of rigor. What does it mean to say that “business” has responsibilities? Only people can have responsibilities. A corporation is an artificial person and in this sense may have artificial responsibilities, but “business” as a whole cannot be said to have responsibilities, even in this vague sense. The first step toward clarity in examining the doctrine of the social responsibility of business is to ask precisely what it implies for whom." No wonder i never liked him lmaoo he sounds pretentious as hell.. but it also reminds me of Benny's attempt at "arguing" with the political compass on "If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations" question where he argued that there's no difference between the interests of the corporations and the interests of the humanity..

[@ReplicatorFifth]

“2 burgers per person per week” I have a burger MAYBE twice a month at most >.>

[@hypersztoss3731]

i told my mum Ben Shabibo has been well known as a shill for years now and is also cringe after she bought up attack helicopter tier arguments unprompted at dinner one time and she said i was being too partisan and that i was triggered, and then tried telling me about the effects of soy... and now she doesnt like talking to me. worth it though.

[@Abrin32]

The worst part of watching Vaush is that I will be compulsively stroking and picking at my beard and then he starts doing it and my mirror neurons go berserk.

[@Xaphnir]

On the subject of limited resources, that's why my personal hypothesis for the Great Filter is that most planets either lack the resources to achieve colonization of space, or exhaust the resources required before achieving it, and I think it's likely that's what will happen to us. Rather than some cataclysm that destroys human civilization, we'll slowly exhaust more and more resources required to maintain our current level of technology, and eventually revert to earlier technology, over a long enough period of time eventually reverting to stone tools as even accessible iron and copper is exhausted.

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

"This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper" -T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

[@peterwindhorst5775]

the highest point in dc by federal law is the statue atop the dome.

[@icook1723]

The coal we get comes from the carbiniforus erra. meaning coal forming. The key was the development of the first trees. At the time, bactaria and other reducers could not metabolize the dead wood. So it accumelated to the coal fields today. When bactaria devlepoed the ability to digest trees, coal formation stopped.

[@matthewdefilippis8700]

Europeans used to think that extinction wasn't possible because God created all creatures and wouldn't allow such a thing to happen until the mid 1800s so I am not so sure about the assertion that viewing resources as infinite is necessarily a modern concept. It's probably worse today and we justify it in different ways, but the concept isint new.

[@neverhowever3231]

lmfao that bit abt streetcars having always existed is literally a bjork song

[@deadfr0g]

22:22 *ha•bil•i•tate* _verb_ gerund or present participle: habilitating qualify for office, especially as a teacher in a German university. "Heisenberg had already habilitated at the University of Göttingen" (from Oxford Languages)

[@ratking1330]

I have a rice cooker from the 1960s and it still works perfectly.

[@PakBallandSami]

bro thinks he's johnny harris💀

[@ChillingTales12]

Who is bro?

[@PakBallandSami]

@@ChillingTales12 Ben Shapiro (hey it rhymed)

[@jeffreykoch4673]

Simple way to explain the credit economy. The bulk of most families net worth is in the value of their home if the are lucky enough to own their own. but most people who own their own home don't even own it outright, they have a mortgage, that if they fail to pay, will give the bank ownership of that home. The bulk of the wealth of the American middle class exists as credit.

[@hclnet]

What's Ben Shapiro mad about now? Oh the something something eat bugs own nothing bit? So he's just mad about "the jews" again for this episode? He really is running on empty.

[@edwardkozatek1951]

Ben Shapiro needs to actually go to a business class

[@Hannsfeld]

Ben Shapiro: "Not being absolute pricks to each other = UNADULTERATED SOCIALISM!!!!"

[@kieranchenier8011]

NO SHEN BAPIRO

[@nearby_emu4181]

besh saprion

[@poposterous236]

Pen Barristo

[@danielshuck7586]

I definitely know a bunch of people who won't make the claim that resources are infinite, but assert that we'll just always be able to innovate new resources and new methods to procure them. It reeks to me of cope because the people who make these statements almost universally oppose renewable energy at an ideological level and also constantly bitch about the price of gas and electricity.

[@Metaljacket420]

Ben really doing the "Oh hey, I didn't see you there."

[@kropotkinnie]

i'm brought a lotta joy when vaush covers ben. there's jus somethin extra special about these segments. tastes good on the ears

[@Ragnaraq1]

Why do people drag on greta? It just makes them look bad lol

[@graciegaston9536]

The thing Vaush was saying at 29 minutes is the excuse my family gives for why climate change isn’t real. They first say that there’s always been a natural changing in temperature throughout the millennia (ignoring the fact that the claim is that this natural process is going faster and at a rate that the environment can’t adapt to). Second, they say that God takes care of the world and would not let it be destroyed before he wants it to (but what are they going to say if they have to make these claims to non-Christians? I don’t think they care enough or know enough people to have to do that).

[@hypernova5249]

I'm waiting for Ben to say "But that's just a theory! A economic theory! Thanks for watching."

[@The8BitPianist]

"We have Jonny Harris at home" Jonny Harris at home: