Conservative Nonfiction Nonsense

I'm taking a break from reading fiction to delve into the murky waters of conservative nonfiction. These books were mostly chosen at random, so I didn't expect them to tie together so easily. But it turns out most of these books are all the same. Just to varying degrees of quality, from bad to worse.
I move through everything a bit quickly in this video, so I'm not sure I gave the arguments quite enough time to breathe, but if people like this video, I might track down another nonfiction book and really dig into it.
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www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/...
www.mediamatters.org/tucker-c...
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www.reuters.com/article/idUSN...
www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...
www.motherjones.com/politics/...
www.vice.com/en/article/3kxga...
www.ajc.com/news/republican-p...
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[@racewiththefalcons1]

Imagine coming from a wealthy family with both parents working in Hollywood and still failing as a screenwriter.

[@devonstart2758]

given some of the shit movies that come out and actually get made, and shit tvs shows, i mean you gotta be a pretty terrible screen writer.

[@singhatar0912]

Lmfaoooo

[@EYTPS]

That's gotta be a special level of fail

[@Jrez]

Yeah Hollywood is, more often than not, more your connections than your talent.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

@@devonstart2758 Have you read Shapiro's one and only fiction novel? If his output as a screenwriter was on that level of quality, he shouldn't even be allowed to "write" for home movies.

[@speakergreene8269]

"Non-fiction" is being real generous here, Jose.

[@theomegajuice8660]

"Alleged" non-fiction at best

[@GamingDreamer]

Like that Obama movie by Fox News so Realistic

[@IMPOTUSx2]

firewood is more appropriate.

[@ItHadToBeSaid]

But at least "nonsense" is highly appropriate for anything written by a conservative

[@FandangoJon]

I was just thinking "man, there's a few words that are doing some heavy lifting"!

[@Vinzaf]

"Killing the Killers.. finally, someone stopped them." I've been cracking up over this line for ten minutes now. Jesus, what an understated joke.

[@Tommy-5684]

i quite liked the Killing jeasus one

[@a_diamond]

Glad I'm not the only one laughing at those 😉

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

@@Tommy-5684 *Roman walks by crucifixion site* *Jesus perks up his head and waves* *Roman waves back* *Roman stops, rubs eyes, then looks back* Now CUT that out!

[@weast4421]

💀

[@iriszeldaana]

me today, april 15th 2022: man im glad we killed jesus. hopefully he stays dead EDIT 4/17/22: GUYS YOULL NEVER BELIEVE THIS

[@sametimesfour8024]

Ben Shapiro: Facts don’t care about your feelings. Also Ben: Sure America did some bad stuff but just ignore all of that because it makes people feel uncomfortable.

[@Tropicoboy]

It happened ok, we can't keep bringing up stuff from the founding . Forgive and move on is a thing and if we keep bringing up this stuff it just breeds more hate. I don't condone the shit they did with slaves which btw ( all the people in favour of keeping slavery durring the founding were Democrats of the time ) moving on and working to better are comunities and its citizens is how you heal not by giving reperation like ( money ) which wont heal trauma.

[@KazeShikamaru]

@@Tropicoboy What is the point of history if you want people to move on?

[@Tropicoboy]

@@KazeShikamaru what the point of reperations if we don't move on then they continously want reperation because we haven't moved on??

[@a.g.m8790]

@@Tropicoboy “they” You exposed yourself up w/ that

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

@@Tropicoboy so don’t teach US history then? What are you suggesting?

[@cheesemonger6378]

The american flag “ban” at that school is like if someone saw a bottle flipping ban and went off on a tirade about how the democrats are trying to dehydrate our children

[@amyholder9049]

Sounds like something conservatives will do

[@ddjsoyenby]

ikr.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

Don't you recall the Trumpist assertion a few months ago that Joe Biden wanted to take away our steaks and hamburgers?

[@MrTVintro]

Don't give them ideas.

[@MrTVintro]

@@KingoftheJuice18 Also the complete fool who claimed Biden was pushing "plant based beer"

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

"Being trans doesn't disqualify someone from being a hateful conspiracy theorist." See, e.g. Caitlyn Jenner

[@nukiradio]

Conspiracy theorists come from disposition, rather than anatomy or social circumstance

[@ddjsoyenby]

yes.

[@alexthespacemonkey5926]

A crazy is a crazy, no matter what the person is

[@Wildfan-sg3fh]

Or Blair White.

[@deimosb1697]

Also kalvin garrah

[@thecthuloser876]

The Disintegrationists would make a name for a anarcho-punk band.

[@somerandomgoblin2583]

IT WOULD!!

[@sophiaveronsky]

For real

[@cam4636]

First album: OLIGARHY

[@3baxcb]

Probably. A band needs to patent that word so Ben can't use it again without paying royalties.

[@christiankettlewell]

Of course Ben would include “slavery is prohibited in any form” without including “except as punishment”

[@vylbird8014]

Or mentioning that by the time America finally passed that amendment, every country in Europe had already abolished slavery domestically. Though not in their colonies. America, the Land of the Free, was behind the trend.

[@Scyllax]

Everyone should. It is the reason USA’s prison population equals Red China’s with one-quarter of the inhabitants. Prisons are our “peculiar institution” of the last 150 years.

[@warlordofbritannia]

@@vylbird8014 France realized having slaves in an ostensibly Free, Egalitarian, Fraternal society was an inherent contradiction, and abolished it almost immediately after the Revolution started America took four score and nine years, plus a civil war

[@muratqitaku56]

@@warlordofbritannia lol say that to haitians

[@warlordofbritannia]

@@muratqitaku56 Haiti was an interesting case, to say the least-you had the newly freed slaves, the freed people of color, the rich whites and the militant poor whites…the National Assembly did in fact abolish slavery, but that (plus Spanish and British would-be conquerors) opened up its own can of worms which led to the Haitian Revolution Long story short: the abolition of slavery was part of the Haitian Revolution, and fear that slavery might be forcibly reimposed was a contributing factor to that same event

[@eggman37]

The irony of Ben using the term unionist... The IRONY

[@adrenalinevan]

He means it like those terrorists in ulster

[@weezersthebluealbum9479]

@@adrenalinevan Irish nationalism is the only good nationalism.

[@jasondaveries9716]

COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

[@AB-uf1et]

Wait till he finds out the Republicans in Ireland are totally different to the Republicans in the USA

[@RagnarLodbrok1]

His fans must have been upset, and afraid that Benny had taken the side of good old Uncle Billy Sherman.

[@SteveJubs]

When this man added a Y to fill the spot of the missing letter in “oligarh” I literally screamed.

[@JanusKastin]

I was expecting him to say something like "the letter they left out was C, for Christianity", which would have been a cockamamy argument, but it would have been thematically consistent. But nope, I gave him too much credit.

[@coltonwesley4460]

At first I thought he had recognized the mistake and was going to try to come up with some way to fix it-NOPE. NOPE. "The missing letter, of course, is Y!" The absolute confidence with which he said it. I absolutely lost it.

[@johannageisel5390]

@@JanusKastin The C actually stands for "Completely Crazy", which is what his little blackboard excercize is, but he is not intelligent enough to be aware of it.

[@Purplefoxsoul]

@@JanusKastin I thought it was gonna be like, "And they don't want us to C/See it!"

[@mch4131]

I actually lost it that's amazing unintentional comedy

[@mo0nkid]

Bill O'Reilly has so many "kill the [blank]" books that I'm starting to think he's the one doing the killing 😬

[@redbomberx354]

You might be on to something 🤔

[@Skip_Sandwich_DX]

I really wanted him to do a bathroom reader called "Killing Time"

[@barbzblueribbon]

Well he's been killing his own brain cells for decades now, that should count as expertise.

[@TribuneAquila]

He keeps writing confessions and yet hes never been prosecuted!

[@binman8605]

Well, he has a lot more time on his hands because he got a multi-million dollar payout by being fired for years of harassment.

[@unbeatablesniper16]

"Don't burn this book" Okay, I'll just wipe my ass with it then.

[@MysteryGeek2006]

BREAKING NEWS: FLORIDA MAN GETS PAPER CUT ON HIS BUM FROM USING A BOOK AS TOLIET PAPER

[@julieporter7805]

I'm an anti book banning and burning advocate. Books like this should be read and exposed for the crap that they are! But I can't resist one joke: Sorry Dave, I am very susceptible to reverse psychology!🔥

[@joshraid1550]

That’s a good way to get hemorrhoids.

[@daelen.cclark]

That’s unfair to your ass.

[@lerui2820]

*promptly exert my 2nd amendment

[@emilynelson5985]

Sure ‘Mr.Brightside’ gets overused but ‘Hot Fuss’ is an iconic album. I really must object to anyone advocating that we kill the killers.

[@OkSharkey]

these killers are coming out of their cage and I am NOT doing fine

[@samus598]

Please shut up, please shut up, yeah

[@sholem_bond]

"Mr. Brightside" is taken for granted

[@mariaquiet6211]

@@sholem_bond it's a great song but karaoke has killed it for me

[@weezersthebluealbum9479]

Smile Like You Mean It is an absolute blast, much better than Mr Brightside, but that's maybe because I haven't heard it in every club or party I go to.

[@Bennick323]

When I was a kid, my grandfather pretty much forced me to read Bill O'Reilly's "Kids are Americans Too." At the beginning of every chapter was a heinous pro-America rap. *Insert Buscemi "how do you do, fellow kids" meme here* Probably had the opposite effect on me than he wanted.

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

What's more right wing than forcing children to read books written by sexual predators?

[@JoseBird]

If I had found this book in my library, you would have heard me rap every single one of those chapters.

[@OkSharkey]

@@JoseBird is this also a promise and do you have a po box

[@twonumber22]

The same thing happened to me but with the Bible. I read it and was like "what the *fuck* is wrong with my parents?" lol Are they really this stupid? (yes, apparently)

[@fernandomiranda7433]

@@JoseBird You are going to get so many copies sent to you now because of this comment. I expect to see your rap video here soon

[@redflags6583]

"... as if children are being molded into boulders and rainbows." My 6-year old son, Brock, after helping him start his rock collection:

[@autobotstarscream765]

"Nothing beats a jelly-filled doughnut!"

[@elizabethsmith7224]

Oh ohhh can I be the rainbow I love how pretty it is??@

[@6390346]

​@@autobotstarscream765 But can he turn a frying pan into a drying pan?

[@alexv3372]

Is he into Pokémon?

[@taranullius9221]

The "oligarhy" bit was pure gold and I never would have experienced it were it not for you. You're doing God's work my son.

[@nukiradio]

It's like something from "the simpsons"

[@48917032]

@@nukiradio "I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!"

[@twat3789]

When he started talking about a missing letter I thought “oh he’s going to write something beginning with c like capitalism or something” and then he wrote y and I lost it

[@commandercorl1544]

@@twat3789 Exactly! I was like "You're missing the c!" and when he said he'd fix it I was relieved. Moments later I nearly died of wheezing with laughter.

[@lerui2820]

I wasn't paying attention to the screen when he went off about Obama, had to playback that clip. Did he not rehearse that bit before the show? Either it is improv which shows how little care goes into the presentation or he's plain simply an idiot.

[@chrismills7703]

Glenn Beck: "Oligarh... one letter is missing." Me: "Oh good, at least he knows its missing a c" Glenn Beck: "Its missing a y!"

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

His infinite stupidity kept him from the opportunity to add the word 'communist'. I bet that has been keeping him awake every night since he realized his mistake.😂

[@Nirual86]

I mean for Oligarchy he's literally half right. Or I should say not noticing he's missing another letter if the least of his problems with that whole mess.

[@Laezar1]

yeah I was expecting a great reveal of an extra word that'd tie it all together but nah he's just stupid. It's not hard too... just add "communist" and you're golden. (also would be hilarious to see him associate communism and oligarchy but that has never stopped conservatives =p)

[@KasaresStern]

*Continuation* Me: My mother: Dear, are you alright? Me: My mother: Are you listening to me? Me: Y? Why? WHY INDEED?! WHYYYYYYY????

[@KingBobXVI]

@@Nirual86 - it's part of the right-wing strategy of projection - we _do_ live in an oligarchy, but it's largely captured by right-wing special interests, which he likes, so to draw attention from it he has to act like it's not a thing and that "the left" is trying to force an oligarchy on us instead. He gets to scare his base about the left all while using them as a smokescreen for what his "side" is already doing.

[@latrodectahespara2728]

"Killing Jesus [quietly] thatdoesn'twork--" Gold

[@DrZaius3141]

"Killing Jesus, Part 2. - This time, I'm camping the respawn point."

[@devonstart2758]

i dunno, that book would be all about hating jewish people. that would probably be a big seller in those circles

[@awhahoo]

@@DrZaius3141 Report DrZaius3141 Spawn killing

[@smaakjeks]

@@DrZaius3141 *Jesus waiting in lobby:* Oh man, they really debuffed miracles after the scientific method patch...

[@boxofcereal]

Seeing a grown ass man in his mid to late 40s say “woke trolls” completely unironically will never not be funny

[@tom-a-hawk3955]

Common mistake here to assign a man in his mid to late 40s as a ‘grown ass man’ by default :D

[@TheUberBadnik]

The whole argument brought up by Shapiro about Westward expansion infuriates me. 1: Tribes are all different just like how Europeans were all different. Not all European nations were in an active state of conquest. The California tribes had centuries of peace, the Sioux solved their disputes with counting coup and rarely ever actually fought one another, the Cree had years of peace with the confederacy. Not every tribe was like the Aztecs or Europeans where they were in an active state of conquest. Because while we did have the concept of territory, we didn't have the concept of owning land, there's a huge difference. Owning a piece of land means that you OWN it, no one else is allowed their without your permission. Having a general territory means that while you know that's your ancestral homeland, you also know that you can't own the trees or rivers or other peoples in your territory. Most of us Northern tribes lived well with that system until the Europeans came and we had to assert our dominance as the protectors and maintainers of the land so that way Europeans wouldn't come in and turn it into a plantation where they mow down all the trees, displace the animals, and rob the soil of it's vast nutrients with their crops. The land was built by the First Nations, through burning, strategic placement of crops, and and rotations, it made the land fertile, it made the forest floors clean, and created a symbiotic cycle that was greatly disturbed once Europeans created permanent settlements. 2. Yes, there were tribes who tried to assert that they OWNED the land, but just like Europeans, we are a vast and diverse peoples with different beliefs. If we were given more time to evolve by ourselves then it would have been likely that other empires would've rose up from small tribes as the influence from the Aztecs moved up. But even though there were tribes who tried to conquer, this appeal to normality that Ben Shapiro is doing doesn't take away the fact that it didn't give the colonizers the right to raid camps while the men were gone so they could kill the defenseless women, children, and old people. It doesn't give them the right to erase the cultures that were there for centuries, and that doesn't mean that the effects from that time hasn't spread down the generations to cause our current lack of growth. They got our ancestors addicted to alcohol so they could use it to control them. They would have natives do cheap labor and only pay them with alcohol. They gave us the worst pieces of land and told us to try to make something out of it, and then the moment we do find an oil spot or strategic resources they immediately try to seize the land. If by some .000000001% chance Ben happens to read this, lemme ask you a question. We've seen your feelings about Palestine because you believe that to be the Jewish homeland, I'm not taking sides here, but do you look back on the past takeovers and think "Aw yeah, that was fine, it was OK of them to murder and likely pillage and rape thousands of my people, it happened ALL the time"? Now, imagine that some country like Britain who had the territory before it was given over to your people create a "prosperous" society for everybody but the Jews and other minorities who live there. They actively try to get rid of your faith and people, put you in barely habitable pieces of land, and the moment you guys finally find a resource you can use to make money, they seize it and then tell you guys to do better. To forget your culture and integrate with the British Palestine identity, because the flag of British Palestine is true and represents all of the best parts of the British Palestine way and life. You would be infuriated, so what makes manifest destiny any different from what happened with Israel? How, with being descended from a group of peoples who have gone through much of the same colonization and suffering, can you sit their with a straight face and write in your book that it was just all normal, that the "prosperous" ends somehow justify the the cruel and horrible means that got you there.

[@Coolgravy]

This was beautifully put. Whenever I learn about history I come out, at best, frustrated (at worst, in tears, but whatever). It always boggles my mind that people will justify genocide. Then act like it's easy to overcome centuries of systematic oppression. Like, dude, did we not read the same book? Were you not paying attention? Hello?

[@BarackLesnar]

🙌

[@miless544]

TLDR

[@grmpEqweer]

Very well said. Ben Shapiro is a hypocrite, flaming all the way to the bank.🤮

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@Coolgravy , Religious Apologetics "if god says we should commit genocide, then it was just and those people deserved it."

[@Akumasama]

"Hello, I'm the conservative reviewer. I torture myself so you don't have to." Thanks for your hard work.

[@Perroden]

Ya facts logic and morals... so terrible and bad.

[@trotskyeraumpicareta4178]

"No, the Ottoman Empire was not Imperialist. Indeed, it fought and won against the Byzantine EMPIRE, how could they be in favor of Imperial domination?", Rubin about the Ottomans

[@torcaace]

Me being Greek and also currently reading a book which mentions the Ottoman reaction to the ideals of the French Revolution and the fact that there are other forms of government other than monarchy (their reactions were funny because they couldn't understand them so they thought them as "infidel heretic atheist vile texts that prompt mob rule"):😐

[@autobotstarscream765]

Nah, that would require calling Muslims good guys and Christians bad guys. 😂

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@torcaace I think they _did_ understand them and saw them as threats to the sacred order of Bronze Age Theomonarchy.

[@GreekHouseEffect]

Nationalist Turks unironicallly say shit like these

[@randcall5933]

Empires have fought each other quite a bit throughout history. How to say you know nothing about history in other words. Dave Rubin - Cliff's Notes for people trying to fail a class.

[@hubrism4861]

I cannot deal with Tucker Carlson's expression. He has always the look of someone the hasn't got a clue of what is happening.

[@devonstart2758]

he looks like hes taking a painful dump

[@earthwingbomber]

Well, he hasn't got a clue of what is happening!

[@escapism-by-proxy5338]

I believe there's a quote by John Oliver about how TC looks like "if the word 'Thud' somehow grew a body"

[@48917032]

He is pretending to be dumb because of rampant anti-intellectualism among his followers. They literally feel that the most clueless one is the most trustworthy one.

[@torcaace]

live tucker reaction

[@uzaiyaro]

This joke from Adam Something really sums it up for me: Ben Shapiro’s idea of closing the wealth gap is rolling up to a ghetto in his Bentley and telling all the poor people to go start a business or something.

[@unknownuser3926]

Saying there is a "natural order" to things was literally the #1 most common justification for slavery, genocides and eugenics, and saying that any (read:racial) groups overall net successfulness is based on how smart, crafty, adaptive etc. as a way to explain racial disparities is also straight out of the unapologetic racist's handbook, but obfuscated just enough that conservatives can just say "nuh uh" when their intended meaning is brought up.

[@unibyte5175]

The whole 'natural order' argument has always been nothing more than an intellectually lazy cop-out a bigot uses when it hurts their brain to fathom a real reason for their bigotry, in my estimation.

[@christopherreichle6670]

I mean there is a natural order to things: either you live, or you die. Mother nature may be a mother, but one of the cruelest kind where your death is more valuable to her than you living because you dying means the strong still live

[@jackdispennett744]

Just because a trope or an idea is misused doesn't mean its wrong. Just because people have used the idea of a "natural order" to propound all kinds of inane bigotries doesn't mean that there isn't a natural order, just as the fact that people have used "objective morality" to promote racism or misogyny doesn't mean that objective morality doesn't exist.

[@MPostma72]

@@jackdispennett744 Please show me an atom of objective morality.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

@@jackdispennett744 Humans rose to the top of the food chain against the "natural order". We are where we are because of technology and culture. We are in a constant struggle to keep our natural instincts in check with rational thinking. More often than not, following our natural instincts gets us killed. By the "natural order" of things, we're lion chow.

[@Occam31]

My psychotic, right wing grandparents have given me so many of these terrible books over the years. They really seem to think that if I just read a few books by Bill O’Riley or other similar hacks I’d see the “light” and I’d suddenly renounce my leftist worldview and embrace theirs. It didn’t work.

[@skaarphy5797]

"Lies and the lying liars who tell them" seems like the perfect revenge gift come next Christmas.

[@freelectron2029]

no. only growing up will do that....enjoy the ride to reality.

[@tinoesroho]

@@freelectron2029 [holds up a mirror] i don't take advice from 14 year-olds pretending to be adults

[@freelectron2029]

@@tinoesroho says the guy with a cartoon avatar...... funny how insecure people show us there insecurities through there criticisms of others.

[@a.t.3192]

I imagine they probably pushed you further left lol

[@matthewmcneany]

The reason you get more books from right wing authors than left wing ones: Writing a book is hard unless you do no research.

[@troubledwaters7441]

yup. I was going to comment this exactly.

[@goodboiadvsp3297]

The difference between being long-winded and informative

[@paulkenjerski5137]

Not really. Writing a book is easier if you do your research and understand how to write a book. Yes it is challenging at first but once you find your flow its great.

[@tuesdaygrey1032]

I feel like it isn't the absence of books from the left wing; it's kid that some right wing pundits make fools out of themselves in a way that gathers more attention than a more composed book from the left. A misguided person rambling about what they believe is easier and more fun to pick apart than a straightforward, research based book.

[@TouringWolf42]

@@paulkenjerski5137 It's easy to do that if you write fiction. But non-fiction is much more difficult because it does requiere a level of research.

[@kingmalcolm8695]

I frequently hear conservatives blather that, if a Right isn't listed in the Constitution, then it doesn't exist. Apparently they don't know about the 9th Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

[@cam4636]

I mean, usually the only part of the Constitution they know is the 2nd Amendment in the form of private gun owners fighting the good fight against anyone who might possibly look at them funny, or at least, what they consider to be looking at them funny

[@gabrielcote8211]

Either they're extremely disingenuous or extremely stupid.

[@SorowFame]

@@gabrielcote8211 why not both?

[@TheDarthbinky]

This comment hits especially hard since the Dobbs ruling a few weeks ago. Apparently the conservative response to pointing out that the 9th Amendment exists is that it (in this case, abortion) wasn't considered a right in 1789 so it doesn't count as one now. Apparently, rights are only rights if they were already considered rights in 1789. Ignoring that abortion was totally legal and pretty common until the late 1800s when Christian moralists started seizing the narrative and forcing their beliefs on everyone.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Please, they didn’t read beyond the one used for an argument

[@CEWThree]

Man, I'm getting pretty worried about the OLIGARHY.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Killing The Oligarchy by Bill O'Reilly Chapter 27: The Rich Were Eaten With Barbecue Sauce

[@davitdavid7165]

When he said there was a letter left, i got suprised when he revealed the Y.

[@stuartrowland4818]

@@davitdavid7165 revieled. 🤦‍♂️

[@Borealis109]

@@stuartrowland4818 I can't tell if this is a joke, there's nothing you are referencing I don't think, but the word you provided is someone putting on a veil again, davitdavid used the right revealed Edit: Upon researching it (googling it once) the word "revieled" isn't even a word, it doesn't mean what I thought it did because it doesn't mean anything, in conclusion, davitdavid used the right revealed, although I'm pretty sure no one will read this or they already knew or both

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@autobotstarscream765Damn, I wish! We couldn’t be had fried Zuckerberg! Though that’d probably taste sh’t, but it won’t be as sh’t as he would’ve been in life!

[@mojotheaverage]

Historian here: there is no arc to history, it isn't a contiguous story of a march of progress. What Shapiro is espousing is whig history, a post war neo liberal lense to view history which argues that history is story of the progress towards a better world, I.e. a capitalist one. It is a historical philosophy that has been widely rejected by modern historians as eurocentric and, frankly, ahistorical Adendum: this is literally what you learn month one of year one a decent history degree. That says a lot about how little these conservatives actually understand about history

[@mikaelste-marie1275]

Yeah , student of history too, I cringe at the description of history by Benny

[@mojotheaverage]

@@mikaelste-marie1275 it's such basic historiography that it's literally painful for even an undergrad student to hear someone make a statement like that

[@mikaelste-marie1275]

@@mojotheaverage I think most conservative didn't step a foot in a history class. Especially when you see the Texas law who whitewash US history.

[@autobotstarscream765]

It sounds like their interpretation of a quote from their favorite quote mine, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice."

[@devonstart2758]

@@mikaelste-marie1275 yes, they took a "america is great" class.

[@jordanetherington1922]

The "Natives commonly engaged in intertribal warfare" argument is so flimsy on it's face as a response to what the government did to them. Like...yeah but *you* still stole their land and enacted a genocide. Just because they did bad things (that cultures all over the world also did. Like look how often Europeans have fought each other throughout history) does not excuse someone else doing a bad thing as well. It would be like if you murdered someone and then said "Well in my defense, they cheated on their taxes!"

[@EYTPS]

This is why kids show taught us that "Two wrongs don't make a right"

[@Snacks256]

"Intertribal warfare," as if this doesn't describe the history of every land. Some modern countries didn't even exist in their current form until the past 200 years. And of course sidesteps that colonists murdered _their own native allies._ Is that how war works to all of the people who think the native peoples were "conquered?" You just turn on people you have treaties with at any time, massacre them, and say "this is mine now?"

[@MrZauberelefant]

@@Snacks256 You can even make the point that without driving the natives into other natives' lands, there wouldn't have been intertribal warfare on that level.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

An equivalent argument is that France and Britain fought each other so I'm justified in taking over Europe.

[@casualtaco2154]

I’m a little late but at one point I heard someone say that while it (the trail of tears and genocide) wasn’t justified, the natives were scalping and R*ping just as much as the Americans, and we shouldn’t treat them as innocent or something along those lines

[@benh2339]

I'm so glad the "A" in "Oligarchy" stands for "Acorn" I never would have seen that coming to be honest

[@stelkin]

"Killing the killers. Finally someone stopped them." I appreciate you and your very soothing humor delivery.

[@TheDizzieC]

It should be noted that the O'Reilly books are always Co-authored by someone else. So you have a genuine expert on the subject that the book is about. O'Reilly is essentially acting as an editor who supplants his own ideology into the true historic narrative the co-author wrote. I think that's part of the reason O'Reilly books have more sustaining power on the NYT.

[@coroanmon10023]

That and O'Reilly has been around longer than people like Shapiro.

[@phangkuanhoong7967]

still a great waste of paper.

[@TheDizzieC]

@@phangkuanhoong7967 agreed.

[@ddjsoyenby]

yea.

[@Kaanfight]

That’s the unfortunate thing: the history in them isn’t terrible but the opinions shoehorned in are pretty problematic.

[@carlosdlguerra]

OMFG that "oligarhy" was so good, i've never watched that glenn beck show, but if you wanted to define the man by a single clip it would be that

[@soggybogwitch]

Consider yourself lucky. It used to air right when I was getting home from school, and my mom would watch it Every. Day.

[@soggybogwitch]

Although, it did push me away from conservatism more effectively than any efforts of my purportedly "atheist," "Marxist" public education. So there's that.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@soggybogwitch Glenn Beck: Recruiter of the Revolution 😂

[@AlternateAlternative]

I just went to Barnes and Noble yesterday and was pretty annoyed they had a whole section for this in the front

[@schmlif8839]

and conservatives claim they're the censored ones, the only political literature sold is either these types of books or neoliberal equivalents. Oh and if you're lucky maybe an overpriced copy of the communist manifesto.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Oh, God. No wonder book stores are dying.

[@crj1357]

Actually that's a no no in our stores whoever did that should not be. All of the books up front are usually our new and best selling along the New York Times, there are occasionally display tables but they should be diverse

[@randcall5933]

K-martification and paying 20 yr booksellers 12.50 is more the reason. The display mentioned is a symptom not a cause.

[@randcall5933]

Not 20 year old booksellers but ones who have been there 20 years. Or had been, the last few years they've lost most of them replaced with people paid 9.00/hr. Also Amazon.

[@ar2042]

"In defense of internment"..Yiikes

[@fpedrosa2076]

That title made me want to take a shower.

[@markwilliams2620]

Michelle Malkin is a prime example of the vicious, hate-filled person you become when you spend your life blaming the "other" for perceived ills.

[@DeadHandtheSurvivor]

Up next in the line up for the "Lets write books with my shitty hot takes!" series! "In Defense of Union Busting"!

[@Spyno41]

I can't wait for these books to be put in the Comedy section in the future.

[@LexYeen]

[perturbed library nerd noises]

[@nukiradio]

At this point, I'm convinced the NYT just posts these books to show everyone what conservative "Novels" look like.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

That would imply that these idiotic screeds are funny.

[@SCHRODINGERS_WHORE]

They are all gonna end up in a thrift store trash can 🤣🤣🤣

[@ianalexander7267]

Not going to lie, “Addicted to outrage” sounds like a kick ass name for a metal band.

[@3baxcb]

Make it a progressive metal band just to see right-wing pundits create a moral panic worthy of a 1980s swindler.

[@Perroden]

@@3baxcb yall freak out over the dumbest in consequential shit. You have zero room to talk.

[@3baxcb]

@@Perroden You're so very wrong.

[@Perroden]

@@3baxcb land of lakes butter, uncle Ben's rice, aunt gemima syrup, red skins just to name a few.

[@3baxcb]

@Perroden Times change. If you're selling consumer products, using dated stereotypes on the packaging won't cut it anymore.

[@Robotdad474]

I died at 18:00 , he had me believing that he knew the C was missing that whole time, he completely sucker punched me with Y 😂

[@seamussmyth1928]

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

[@lancebiggerstaff2660]

Can we get a gfm for Jose's inevitable therapy bills? This much crazy is going to have deletorius affects

[@chillpillsfornil]

I think he might be a secret masochist

[@mattslater2603]

@@chillpillsfornil secret masochists ftw!

[@justingerald]

It's funny that they call that Social Darwinism, since it's basically Eugenics... and (one of the) main originators of eugenics was Darwin's cousin (though there's no evidence Darwin agreed with him). But they don't like to call things eugenics, even though a LOT of their nonsense is eugenics.

[@BassGoThump]

Are you talking about Planned Parenthood predominately in poor areas? What eugenics are you referring to?

[@nukiradio]

@@BassGoThump he's probably referring to preference for able bodied, neurotypical people... not sure though

[@ognjensijak989]

@@BassGoThump about the notion that poor people are poor because they were naturally destined to be poor. Planned parenthood being in those areas is simply supply and demand of a free market.

[@BassGoThump]

@@ognjensijak989 Planned Parenthood is supported by taxes. Absolutely nothing to do with a free market. They advertise in poor communities. There are NO and have NEVER been Planned Parenthood billboards in my community. I know what they are doing, it is obvious.

[@xevious1538]

@@BassGoThump No one is forcing anyone to go get abortions, and abortions are not funded by taxes. People in poverty will tend to get abortions because they can't afford to raise a kid. The alternative to that is having no where to get abortions, so you have to do deadly underground abortions or be forced to raise a kid that isn't wanted and will suffer immensely, it will also further lock the family into poverty and decrease social mobility. We already have enough unwanted unloved children in this world already, pro lifers care about the child being born, not what life they are going to live.

[@sansaaaaa202]

ben: "America is about and was always about the gradual realization of those beautiful promises, rights, and institutions for all americans." lgbt+ people: "great, then can we have access to some of that?" ben: "ew no"

[@Cecilpedia]

LGBT+ people, people of color, religious minorities, women, disabled people, immigrants, poor people, the list goes on. According to good ol Benny, America is the land of the free only if you're an able-bodied, neurotypical, cisgender, white, heterosexual, non-asexual/non-aromantic, fundamentalist religious man who grew up filthy rich

[@3dartxsi]

Glenn Beck: spells 'OLIGARH' "There is one letter missing" Me:"yeah, a C" Glenn Beck: puts a 'Y' on the board Me:...

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

Glenn needs to go back to primary school, aka Elementary school

[@PeterHowe228]

While America did play a big role in defeating Nazi Germany, their battle would have been far harder if Nazi Germany wasn't fighting a two front war against Russia who had some of the highest casualties of any nation in the conflict. During World War Two Stalin wasn't seen as the enemy but rather a very convenient ally drawing German soldiers to the eastern front so the allies could take back territory from the west.

[@homosexplosion]

This! Also would like to add the African front to the list, since many native african volunteers gave their lives to fight against nazi colonization, even while still being colonies of other countries during it...they dont even get to be mentioned as their own nations let alone 'saviors' against fascism. many Latin american countries also sent soldiers to fight on Europe, and they also don't get that much attention like, idk, Canada and Australia volunteers do :/. The list goes on of course. It sucks how many non-anglophone nations took part in fighting fascism and yet don't get praise for it..

[@PeterHowe228]

@@homosexplosion Yes, I was aware of the others. One of the my favourite details is that many allied messages were coded in First Nations languages which is a tremendous example of winning through diversity.

[@swiftfox7725]

@@HomoErectusIsAFunnyName Looking at the US's main contributions in the European Theater (Lend-Lease, Battle of the Atlantic, Liberations of France and Italy, etc.,), I think "big part" is an accurate description. A stretch would be claiming we saved the day, which is wrong and insulting to the other Allies.

[@Serching4JerryGarcia]

The United States contributed to the effort by providing the technology, resources, and logistics. The British provided the Intelligence and the Soviets provided man power on the eastern front. The United States' involvement was crucial since Britain was pretty much alone against Germany aside from a few pockets of resistance fighters from France. The US also provided the loans and finances to rebuild European infrastructure and it's economies.

[@johnnymcjohnson1373]

@@HomoErectusIsAFunnyName the only reason for that is because the soviets favored quantity over quality. If they sent actual trained soldiers rather than a bunch of normal citizens into battle, the casualties wouldn’t have been as high.

[@MissMadeleineSwann]

Not gonna lie, I'd love to have a kid I can mold into a rainbow

[@JackgarPrime]

Like....physically? With your hands?

[@MissMadeleineSwann]

@@JackgarPrime I dunno, maybe my mind? I didn't think it through tbh

[@genieglasslamp5028]

@@JackgarPrime Yes. Sounds like a nice art project.

[@MissMadeleineSwann]

@Bahan Simerkh it was a surreal joke, calm down

[@briandesormeau2643]

@Bahan Simerkh "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." Haven't you heard? The Left is in charge of the schools & universities and they are molding the minds of America's youth, making them hate the divinely inspired magnificence which is America.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

"Boulders & Rainbows" sounds like an obscure 1970s prog-folk EP from Finland.

[@ryshow9118]

Excellent 👍🏽

[@Cecilpedia]

I bet they have a killer fiddle player

[@Samson16667]

What Jose says at 8:27 to 9:17 is such a simple and yet profound statement because this is how most Conservatives think. "You are poor because your lazy and stupid and I am rich cause I'm hardworking and smart" that is Basically what I hear ALL the time from conservatives.

[@JoshSweetvale]

To be fair to Conservatives, their entire constituency is lazy and stupid.

[@evanb4189]

I think demographics can explain why conservatives "write" more books. I think older people are just more used to reading. It is such a waste of money though, Rubin's book just sounds like 5 hours of his show dictated and reformatted.

[@natalikronwald6177]

Also it takes a lot of money/wealth and/or free time to write a book. So no surprise that especially wealthy and old ppl write books. They can simply afford it

[@captain531]

@@natalikronwald6177 that's assuming any of these aren't just ghostwritten

[@theomegajuice8660]

Actually the research suggests that younger people are more likely to have read a book in the past year compared to older people. (80% for 18-29 and 67% for 65+) The average number of books read doesn't vary that much either (a mean average of 12 for 18-29 and 13 for 65+ but median of 5 and 3 respectively)

[@captain531]

@@theomegajuice8660 Is that accounting for books college age kids have to read for a class? If you're 65+ it's almost certainly a choice to read, but not always for 18 year olds.

[@natalikronwald6177]

@@captain531 Nah you need money for ghostwriting, so that’s also something that requires wealth

[@draconomicon6543]

"America has always been exceptional! The paragon of freedom and rights for the whole world!" "You can't be mad at America for trampling on rights and freedoms for centuries! Everyone was doing it. We were just the same as everyone else." Hmm.

[@Viscidsquare040]

“Convincing citizens that some people will have to sacrifice their existing rights in order for others to have new ones” sounds exactly like what Ben Shapiro and other conservatives do. Fearmongering that certain minorities gaining rights will cause their audience to lose rights.

[@SnakeMan448]

Or demanding that minorities surrender their rights to happiness and safety so that bigots can be as awful as possible.

[@butt317]

A good way to know what the right is doing is to look at what they accuse other people of doing. Constant projection with them

[@ernimuja6991]

@@butt317 I've been hanging around right wing circles and what's funny is that they accuse you of that as well. Of projection I mean. I don't know what going on here, but both right and left accuse the other of exactly the same thing. It's jarring.

[@rhaeven]

@@ernimuja6991 left and right are both groups of humans and will act as such. the difference is one of the ideologies is broadly good and the other is mostly awful

[@ernimuja6991]

@@rhaeven I used to think the same. Especially when I was in the echochamber of leftist youtubers. I used to think that right wing people are just awful and some were ok. After talking with them for a while you come to realize their position. But it's ok, I know that where you're probably standing right now I am speaking Chinese to you for how much you can understand. If you want to be the good change you want to see in the world then do the world a favor. Get off your high horse and assume other people are right and try to see the world through their eyes. I promise you won't change your opinions, I didn't, however you lose this "I am good and they're evil".

[@unrenewable]

My dad has a bunch of Bill O'Reilly's "Killing [insert figure's name]" books. I didn't even realize they were by some conservative pundit. Now I'm wondering if they're complaining about the left or whatever other bogeyman pundits talk about.

[@Kaanfight]

They have a bit of whitewashing but they’re ghostwritten by an actual historian, so they’re not terrible but can be rather surface level

[@andrewb5149]

I read killing Jesus when I was in about 6 grade years ago, I don't remember it being all that horrible with its takes but it didn't have great information looking back mainly relying on the new testament for "history". I also don't remember any real anti left agenda but it was year and years ago.

[@autobotstarscream765]

The fact you didn't realize it says something _nice_ about the books. 😇

[@unrenewable]

@@autobotstarscream765 Does it? I never actually read them; I just knew the titles.

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

I think they have an algorithm to write these by now

[@herzberd]

Tech news in 2025: New AI trained to write conservative best sellers fills 18 chapters with screaming about communist gender neutral bathrooms, repeats “AAAAAAAAAA” for 100 pages, then deletes itself

[@3baxcb]

​@herzberd That wouldn't actually require intelligence to do, much less Artificial Intelligence. Those kind of books just sound like mouldy word salads to me and I'm sure Jose might say that could be an understatement.

[@LolaSebastian]

This was *so* insightful. “Best to just disengage” indeed.

[@zplayer182]

"The unionists and the disintegrationists" I know our boi Shabibo prays at the altar of Atlas, but come on - only 'two groups of people' in America? Ben, just copy the words of your saint Ayn: "the looters" and "the non-looters" We know you're just trying to write Atlas Shrugged fan fictions

[@kaoko111]

Right wingers tend to watch things into binaries. You either are with them or against them, You either love America or hate it, You either love guns or hate it. This is no accident, maintaining this binary set into people makes easier for them to control their followers cause under that premise since what they believe is "good" then anything they don't believe is "bad".

[@JoshSweetvale]

"Non-looters" - Saying 'the *builders'* would imply actual physical work having value. And any untermensch beast of burden can do _that._ ...Seriously that woman had too much meth.

[@GeneralBolas]

"That is our fault. But that is not America's fault. America was always great, even if she was never perfect." A more clear example of Double-Think cannot be found.

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

As The Grand Archpriest of The Church of the Algorithm, I bless this video with a comment.

[@mikaelste-marie1275]

Thank you my father for your bless comment on this video.

[@xiii.5331]

Just trust the Kirby who copied Jason. ;-)

[@chaosvii]

This day is a special day for Al Gore’s rhythm 👏

[@ethandew1768]

Same bro

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

Another self-contradictory mess by Ben "sell your houses to Aquaman" Shapiro. How typical.

[@3baxcb]

That's an insult to Aquaman. Ben is more of a supervillain's 3rd or 4th disposable henchmen.

[@peterinbrat]

The NYT puts little daggers by the "Best Sellers" where book sales were padded by corporate buying in bulk. This is also why you can often find the same books in the discount bin six month later.

[@will2003michael2003]

“What causes poverty” as a static is a very interesting question. “What causes wealth” as a static is different answer.

[@MrNovakid]

These books are not to be tossed aside lightly... They are to be launched with great force!

[@benh2339]

real talk though the joke that "oligarh is only missing one letter; Y," is so fucking hilarious. Like what a masterful subversion. That's some Michael Scott shit right there.

[@Donteatacowman]

I'm listening, not seeing covers, so I heard "addicted to outrage," and I'm like, hang on, that seems to directly address the topic at hand and might be a valid socio- and then you said "glenn beck" and I was like. never mind

[@oldstatueface6317]

"He's just a bad writer and a shallow thinker." I'd argue that to be a conservative you either have to be a shallow thinker or a sociopath, perhaps both.

[@alejandrochalco6893]

This is the most based statement in the history of mankind

[@arturoaguilar6002]

@@alejandrochalco6893 Using shallow terms as "based" only proves his point.

[@alejandrochalco6893]

@@arturoaguilar6002 your statements is poorly written and deeply pretentious.

[@HunterBloodHunterBlood]

Again the left says men can get pregnant and there are more than two genders. It isn’t about who is, “smarter” it’s about who’s , “dumber”

[@alejandrochalco6893]

@@HunterBloodHunterBlood What? I highly doubt anyone has ever said that, but even if they have you know we are not a hive mind right?

[@jujuplayboy]

I wonder how many people who bought those books have actually read it to the end. Seems like they just buy the books because they know the name of the writer for being someone they kind of "agree" with on mass medias.

[@roberteriksen6434]

That's the thing, conservatives don't read, so it's a pretty common practice for the pundits to write books their dad's buy up. All it costs then is the creation and shipping of the books, and voila, the pundits looks legitimized when they become bestsellers for NY Times.

[@Kropothead]

They tend not to be big on reading. It’s just a chance to display that brand loyalty. Virtue signal to the other protofash.

[@rhaeven]

these are books that you buy to take selfies with to post to your GREATAWAKENINGSTOPTHESTEAL facebook group, then never touch again

[@BenjaminBattington]

Bruh that Glenn Beck OLIGARHY clip I'm oscillating wildly between "He MUST be a deep cover troll" and "You literally couldn't script something that funny."

[@madjangler]

The population density point always puzzled me. Isn’t that including huge amounts of unpopulated land right along with whatever lands the natives had settled? I mean, yeah, I bet if you took the whole population of the States at the time and spread them across the continent, you’d get pretty low density then, too.

[@aralornwolf3140]

Well... depends on when you take the consensus. US population increased by 14m (26% increase) between 1870 and 1880. However... it's not a good point. Yukon is Canada's most populated (by density) Territory at 0.1 people per square KM. The other two are listed, officially, at 0.0 people per square KM. However, 1.9 Million Square Miles of land was given to settlers (after being given to the native)... so... Yeah. Population Density is a "cop out" for Ben... he's just using it to give them a "valid" reason to take the land, and to kill the natives.

[@vylbird8014]

Was that population density before or after the mostly-but-not-entirely-accidental germ warfare? The European settlers heading west found the land mostly empty because the natives were hit severely by imported diseases. The combination of smallpox, measles and simple flu killed nine-tenths of the native population, leaving towns emptied and fields abandoned, and making any organised military resistance impossible. Once the Europeans realised what was happening, they occasionally tried to help the diseases spread in advance, as an efficient way of removing the native population. America is not the only country built upon genocide, but it is the biggest.

[@gaelanmccann6686]

Shapiro is just trying to invoke the doctrine of "terra nullius" used to justify taking land from Aboriginal Australians by the British Empire. But since terra nullius is now recognised as a self-serving, racist fiction Shapiro had to use his intellectual dark web mega brain to find a different way to say that the people inhabiting a land didn't deserve to have it and needed to make way for the "proper" inhabitants

[@ernimuja6991]

Let's say everyone in France dies. Literally everyone is dead. Who has claim to the land? Germany? England? What if Brazil colonized it? Now you may make some arguments about European land, so someone from Europe should have it. However I think that's a really arbitrary claim and if Brazil took it, I would not make that much fuss about it either. That's literally what happened in America. Lands were just empty. The real crime was when the settled tribes were pushed and killed. Even they knew it was wrong back then and we know it is wrong now.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@ernimuja6991 , They (US Government) gave the natives nearly ~2m square miles of land... until they decided to take it all.

[@TheDarthbinky]

FYI Beck isn't just a Christian, he's a Mormon. And Mormons tend to be (generalizing here, because obviously not all are) very nationalist and conservative. The youtuber Knowing Better once described Mormonism as "American Exceptionalism as a religion" and I can't think of a better way to describe it.

[@Cecilpedia]

If you look at the history of Mormonism, things get WILD. Quite a few sects think that North America is the "true" Canaan/promised land, and according to writings by the religion's two main founders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, North American indigenous people were descended from the "original" tribes of Judah and their sins QUITE LITERALLY darkened their skin as the mark of Cain

[@MarquisdeSuave]

I think the fun part about Ben Shapiro is the horror he must feel when he sees yesterday's model of himself in the form of guys like Dinesh D'Souza and realizes this is his future and it's only a few years away.

[@autobotstarscream765]

So who's the new cute young model?

[@UncomfortableShoes]

I always wonder about people like Shapiro and if they actually believe their own nonsense. If they do, and they spend 20 years warning people about that socialist revolution that’s just around the counter. When it never happens do they realize how painfully wrong they were?

[@june9914]

@@UncomfortableShoes they’re just going two double down till the day they drop dead

[@UncomfortableShoes]

@@june9914 sadly, you’re probably right. Failures will warp into success.

[@rhaeven]

@@UncomfortableShoes one of the ways that cults deal with prophecies not coming true is to assert that their actions prevented the apocalypse. that's one of the most successful elements of the QAnon cult, all of the Winning is being done behind the curtain, the people they want dead are already executed and replaced with doubles to ease the sheeple into reality slowly, etc. unfalsifiable claims.

[@emilyrln]

*The Dave Rubin Story: How to Own Yourself in Three Easy Steps* Conclusive proof that José is a tree: all the shade he's throwing 😎

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

So… stuck in the role of reading conservative “literature”?

[@emilyrln]

@@Aaa-vp6ugA terrible fate, to be sure. Let us hope that he can uproot himself and travel to more fulfilling soil.

[@bearowl4101]

Your description of the ideology in conservative books reminded me a lot of a description of fascism. "X country is great but Y group is ruining/has ruined it so we need to go back in time to the good old days when Z group was in control."

[@Hegelmaus81]

Never underestimate the influence Mormon cosmology has had/has on Beck, especially with respect to Beck's teleological, Manichean vision of America as God's favored instrument to bring about the Second Coming. Knowing Better has a great video on how Mormonism is essentially American Exceptionalism reified into a religion.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Beck literally advertised it by pushing W. Clean Skousen so much.

[@deusexmachina101]

"Killing Jesus, that doesn't work." That came out of nowhere and I almost did a spit take.

[@Phished123]

José, did you make eye contact with the librarian when you checked those books out or did you just look down at the ground and mutter "its for a video..." ??

[@americanbookdragon]

There are libraries with self-checkouts.

[@PurpleFlush]

I work at a used bookstore in Louisiana and we get these "nonfiction" conservative books all the time. We get so many in that we have to mark them down for a dollar. Ive seen those Bill O Reilly books hundreds of times. Hell we chuck em in the dumpster because no one wants to buy them anymore and the over stock is taking up space from better books. To me every conservative nonfiction book is a fad that comes and goes depending on the public discourse of the day.

[@autobotstarscream765]

A dumpster!? Haven't you heard of recycling? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHPddZuQaN-Hi6c

[@PurpleFlush]

@@autobotstarscream765 The owner is too cheap to pay for it, or makes excuses to not do it.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@PurpleFlush So basically the kind of person that keeps mindlessly stocking up on more pop Conservative books than the shop can hold in the first place? Why am I not surprised?

[@bigbawlzlebowski8886]

@@autobotstarscream765 sister worked at a Dollar tree. And they made her throw all the old toys that they couldn't sell instead of giving them away.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@bigbawlzlebowski8886 Which is pathetic considering thrift stores exist, aren't there supposed to be tax incentives to donate rather than destroy?

[@sohrb]

"killing jesus" "that doesn't work"🤣

[@Zeelonious]

These type of books should have their own type of genre, conservative-fiction

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Fantasy usually goes alongside Sci-Fi in the Libraries I've been to.

[@3baxcb]

So fiction so badly pretentious that it makes L. Ron Hubbard's fiction look like it was written by George Orwell.

[@LezbeOswald]

Glenn Beck's complete confidence while misspelling "oligarchy", in a section he had to have written and practiced beforehand, on live national television is so fucking funny

[@Sarah-oj7bh]

Glenn Beck: OLIGARH -there's a letter missing me: oh, so you did that on purpose. I wonder what the c stands for. Communism maybe? Is that the big reveal, that Obama is a communist? Beck: OLIGARHY 10/10 you can't make that shit up

[@starmanda88]

I did a spit take on that reveal. Absolutely brilliant.

[@Elitekross]

I still own a hardcover glen beck book i used to read in high school. Thank god im a gay communist trans now

[@cranberrysos]

#winning #tigerblood

[@DinfarManshad]

Lmao

[@tackyshirtscollector]

Every. Time. I hear Rubin's quotes I can't stop myself to make eyeroll.

[@ineptwizzard]

This is definitely the earliest I've been on a video. Looking forward to seeing it.

[@TheMysteryDriver]

Why comment before watching it?

[@the93rdturd21]

"Don't burn this book" is an actual banger title fascism aside

[@rustyjames6131]

Props to you. I'd be way too embarrassed to check these out of a library.

[@GoatyCultist]

I used to work at a library a year back and we had many if these books on our shelves. Even in a fairly conservative part of town, they didn't move much. (I'm pretty sure the only books any of our conservative patrons read were John Grisham and Tom Clancy.)

[@astaga3626]

Okay. I need a full version of that intro. actually fire

[@JoseBird]

It's available to download for patrons!

[@silverXnoise]

“The United States in anti-imperialist.” The Monroe Doctrine certainly pushed back on European imperialism, but only because the US was claiming dibs on everything in Central and South America.

[@evanbarth7173]

Dave Rubin: “DON’T BURN THIS BOOK!” Me, an intellectual; ‘Kay. (Freezes it) Dave Rubin: :o

[@raynegallaher7661]

Hot take: burning individual books or piles of books is actually a symbol of free speech, not the opposite. You're simply using your freedom of expression to burn things, just like flags, to express that you believe the ideas they stand for are abhorrent. Burning books like "don't burn this book" is actually not censorship, because the information within is preserved and you don't plan on burning *literally every copy of the book*. As long as you don't want to completely destroy the ability for anyone to read a book, like the Nazis were doing with their burning of documents that went against the regime, and you're not confiscating the books, it is morally completely fine. However, despite my defense, I still don't think we should burn right wing books. Buying them to burn is supporting their creation, just as stupid as the Nike shoe thing. And just like the Nike shoe thing, the smart thing to do isn't to destroy the object you hate. The smart thing to do is damage the value of them in the free market, which is most easily done by explaining why they are bad and shouldn't be bought to the masses, and by ensuring that they are easy to obtain without paying the original creators of the product, mainly by selling or giving them away second-hand, the lower your price, the worse the value proposition of buying 1st party becomes. Therefore burning these books, however you came to possess them, isn't the most actual harm you can cause to their writers, it is merely a symbolic gesture.

[@andrewnovak1390]

I agree, but it's not just that you're giving the author money, but that optically the burning of books will forever be associated with nazis and authoritarianism. So even if you're a regular citizen, burning a book that's worth burning, it makes you look really bad

[@thatjillgirl]

Oh I definitely would never waste money on these books just to burn them (which, as you say, just sends money back to the authors). However, someday when my parents die, their collection of these absolute trash books is definitely getting the axe.

[@anmolt3840051]

A better symbolic gesture would be to order one of those books, then immediately return it and then leave a dogshit review of the book on Amazon as a "certified buyer"

[@danieldorn2927]

You are just inducing more tribalism, entrenching both sides. We need to get over the division, burning books and flags wont help. What does that symbolism bring anyway? What do you expect? You wont change peoples minds that way. They will be less likely to debate with you, and in the end communicate with you. And without communication you cant solve the problems that you want to be solved.

[@danieldorn2927]

@@andrewnovak1390 And looks is the only thing that a book burning does bring. Nothing else. You wont persuade the other side to join a conversation to figure out compromises that will lead to solve problems. All you do is further divide the country. Do you support LGBT? What would you think if someone burns an LGBT flag? You wouldnt want to talk with them about issues right? Have empathy and understand how other people feel.

[@miaomiaochan]

I see a conservative "non-fiction" book, I flip it over or put other books in front. It's not much, but preventing even one of them from getting into someone's hands would be a victory in my book.

[@MrNickace]

It's crazy how Rubin puts "the age of unreason" on the cover and then goes on to say "AMERICA IS THE GOAT IF YOU'RE TRIGGERED STOP READING" without a shred of self-reflection

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

I actually saw a copy of Death Of America in an overseas bookstore. I don’t know why I was looking for Heartstopper in there

[@MaryMaryBon]

As a trans person I am very proud of the fact Ben considers me one of the mains steps to helping destroy america, honestly couldn't recieve a better compliment. But also it's quite interesting to hear you go through the political stuff proposed honestly, for Ben it's pretty in line with typical conservative or old liberal rhetoric, with the whole personal responsibility and such and hyperfocused on the myth of the American Dream, that hard work is what defines people rather than the circumstances they live in sometimes trapping them from ever being able to move up. As a polsci student I do find it nice to hear what they rationalise, and also what they presume to be so...correct they don't even explain their thinking behind it. It's a the best way to get a cohesive look at least as to how these conservative pundits rationalise their ideology, even if it isn't y'know, entirely sensical or reflective of reality.

[@williamousley9794]

My jaw dropped when I heard “In Defense of Internment.” Jesus Christ

[@PuppetsByPalmieri]

Just started watching your videos starting with the Roseanne ones and I’m really enjoying your content. Thanks for what you do and keep up the good work!

[@CalmEnergy2125]

18:14 was genuinely so funny to me, the whole time i thought he made a mistake and forgot the c and was trying to come up with a way to fix it or was going for some clever final word fakeout or smth then hits you with the "the one thats missing is Y". comedy fucking gold

[@jandrashriker5861]

José I love your voice man. It's so soothing.

[@NothingHumanisAlientoMe]

*3 Conservative Nonfiction Classics* "The Clash of Civilizations" Samuel P Huntington "The abolition of britain" Peter hitchens "How to be a Conservative" Roger Scruton An excellent download of the "moderate" right-wing psyche, to know our opponents, they must be understood.

[@cx2897]

those are pretty good tho

[@NothingHumanisAlientoMe]

@@cx2897 ...Shh man... They might actually read them.

[@NothingHumanisAlientoMe]

@bideo gaems That sounds a bit... Spooky

[@lolamby1]

And yet I'd rather read Shapiro's shallow (and almost-certainly ghostwritten) attempt at evincing a consistent political theory than hear the same thing in his voice.

[@rhaeven]

I'd find it impossible to read without just hearing his voice in my head

[@Cecilpedia]

Nah, I'd hear him narrating it and fly into a blind rage like a deranged chimpanzee

[@mikeyatkins8583]

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