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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers - loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on KZbin. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news - the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on KZbin, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do - even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks - who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago - the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king - the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best - the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all - class issues,” he said on a recent episode.
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[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Ban fascism not books

[@Canoby]

But how're demagogues like DeSantis supposed to get elected then?

[@julesdalli9716]

"But without fascism, we can't possibly eradicate WOKEISM!"

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

@@ClaytonW2080 fine. Ban fascist policies.

[@smitty1647]

Can't ban fascism without banning fascist books

[@fortheloveofnoise]

We can't bam our own government silly

[@glenchapman3899]

I recall seeing video of a young child at a school book ban meeting. Got up and said "Never have people banning books ever ended up on the right side of history"

[@tansywelsh1636]

You think we should have learned from history so as not to repeat it.

[@oraach]

@@tansywelsh1636 Question? did we even read that history? or we have allowed a set of people to tell us what is in those books.... humanity is doomed if we can't learn from history.

[@georgesheffield1580]

Nor have Dictators

[@Zett76]

I agree, mostly. To be fair: the original, uncommented version of "Mein Kampf" IS banned in my country (Austria), too. Sooo... sometimes, not so bad an idea.

[@KeenanRobinson-q7i]

And that child was albert einstein

[@janetpingrey7155]

When I was younger and worked in a library, we had a woman bring in a book, throw it on the desk and proclaim loudly that she had had to read the book three times to CIRCLE in RED every bad word, totally defacing the book. "How can you have such filth in this library ? I had to read it three times to get all the filth marked." I laughed as my boss looked over the book, but then I have the sense of humor of a seventh grade boy. He charged her for defacing the book...btw, it was one of those steamy, Fabio cover romance novels. He also confiscated her library card and banned her from using the library. You don't like a book, don't read it.

[@lw3764]

"I did hours of research on pornography! Hours I tell you! It's filthy!"😂

[@cocolyndon4604]

She was getting off on the book. I wouldn't have been able to contain my laughter. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidwilliams1086]

I assume kids couldn't borrow the book in question?

[@davidwilliams1086]

​@@cocolyndon4604 for some reason she wanted to make a stink and tried to out a book meant for lonely women. Kind of sad.

[@CKLee-rs4kl]

Love it! I bet she was outraged ... outraged that her life was so ordinary; like all real people.

[@KeithNeilson]

"Those who burn books will, in the end, burn people" - Heinrich Heine (19th century Germany)

[@Lfg117]

⬆️ This ⬆️

[@conniegrant939]

The so- called Christians did it in the past in the name of their so- called religion called Christianity. They started this book banning so why not their Bible too.

[@michaeld4861]

When Trump refused to say what his favorite bible verse was it wasn't because he couldn't think of one, it was because his favorite was the one where Lott gets it on with his own daughters.

[@edene.4870]

You give him too much credit. It would be his favourite part if he knew of its existence. He hasn't read a single page of that book. Willing to bet that he couldn't even cite the ten commandments, let alone any one bible verse.

[@apctoolfrk]

@@edene.4870yep! He’s never opened one a day in his life. He didn’t answer the question because he wasn’t capable of answering it

[@CCR971]

He's never read it. He was hawking bibles at Easter but never set foot in a church. Evangelicals are deranged hypocrites. They wonder why their "faith" is being attacked? Conflating Trump with Jesus is blasphemy. If there was a hell, they'd all have first class tickets.

[@jiubboatman9352]

He can't use the uplifting ones because they tend to be inclusive. And the other stuff tends to support his position but is hateful and immoral. Also, he would probably prefer the verse saying; saving the young girls that have not known a man for yourselves (numbers 31:18).

[@JohnRoberts-cy3ww]

2 Corinthians

[@TOPDadAlpha]

Being a Florida resident year round... One thing most people don't realize that most of DeSantis laws that he signed have been overturned in court. That rarely gets reported

[@Pomeray8]

I was happy to visit Tampa Bay and St Pete's to see rainbow flags all over on a recent visit for the first time since 2007. I went "he didn't win!"

[@derekrequiem4359]

Ronald is too busy doing victory laps after he signs the laws, but the bigger problem is the media's failure to report this. All you hear from them is "omg ronny is passing all these laws!!!!1!!!" and nothing about them getting struck down in courts.

[@bovinityleak2066]

He is a loser. If he would have waited he would def be the president one day. Thank you for your stupidity ron cuz you saved the country from your nasty self.

[@titansboytc]

The only way I found out his laws being overturned is from Reddit and from another KZbinr who happens to live in Florida

[@teresawww]

Good to know!

[@MovieEggman]

There’s nothing Conservatives hate more than the power of knowledge.

[@mlthornton1]

Huh?

[@mlthornton1]

@cheeririnaldo435 these are both meaningless fortune cookie slogans.

[@john-brady]

Because knowledge is power. Better to keep the populace in a state of stupidity -or at the very least, ignorance. Then they can be herded like sheep - but to what end and at what costs to personal freedoms? This is one of the tools of Fascism…

[@kaakrepwhatever]

This is why they are trying to eliminate public schools.

[@tja3495]

@@mlthornton1 WRONG.

[@alessioleporati1478]

It wasn’t a troll, he was using the law exactly how it was intended.

[@levidezern3190]

Exactly

[@michaelstiller2282]

Yeah. He got like a hidden bias while speaking about the crap coming out of Florida.

[@nobrainsnoheadache2434]

Of course it was a troll, I think you misunderstand the word. The man used the law to make the writers of it look stupid, he turned their own words against them. He was not using it as intended, either; for he had no desire to ban books in order to 'protect' anyone; he just wanted to show the world what can happen if you elect a fascist theocracy.

[@floridamarinemom1749]

@@nobrainsnoheadache2434 Actually this guy might want to ban the Bible. He hasn't just done this with the book ban. He actually went to the city commisioners meetings and gave a satanic sermon or whatever they are called because the city commissioners allowed a religious sermon to be given at the beginning of every meeting and they couldn't tell him no when they allowed other religions. They wound up stopping the sermons (I know it's called something else but don't know the name) from being given at the meetings. There is video of him giving the sermon.

[@mimcduffee86]

​@nobrainsnoheadache2434 It's always hilarious when someone tries to say other people don't know a word means, and provide clear evidence that they themselves have no idea what the word means. You also get bonus points for being thought police.

[@poppopdadski7559]

Here's a crazy idea. Teach your kids how to think..not what to think.

[@mlthornton1]

It's not crazy, it's also not yours.

[@poppopdadski7559]

@@mlthornton1 sorry, I'll spit it out. 😂

[@rs72098]

Ok, then if they question Evolution, or LGBTQ, that is critical thinking correct? Or should they accept Evolution and transgenderism without listening to any of the counter-arguments??

[@mlthornton1]

@@rs72098 my guess is they will say that counter-mainstream ideas like these are dangerous and could cost lives. That way they can exclude the ideas they don't care for, even without justification.

[@poppopdadski7559]

@@rs72098 no, not at all. But those arguments are stupid and, hopefully they will be intelligent enough to see that. It doesn't always work, thusly, what scholars call "dumdasses"

[@southendbos]

I loved it when he threatened to fine the cruise lines for their vaccine requirement, and they said they wouldn't service Florida. He folded.

[@tja3495]

👍 Good for the cruise lines!!

[@barrywassel3899]

Ron is a complete putz. (Look it up Ron .... oh yeah, you probably banned the dictionary !)

[@timdowney6721]

Republicans worship gold, be it in calves or other shapes.

[@Moonlight_Tide]

That's because he's weak. They all are unless they have numbers. None of them have any real backbone.

[@southendbos]

@@Moonlight_Tide Its all about the money. He'd lose a ton of tax revenue. Money first.

[@johnrborowski]

Christian morality has infected North American politics for too long

[@daveydesjarlais8838]

Christian Morality was how the first colonizers and their descendants justified attempting genocide on my people and hundreds of others.

[@allegory6393]

These crazies have nothing to do with Christian (or other) morality. They simply manipulate, by appealing to the most illiterate and raw anger and despair, a lost and apathetic peoples. Nothing of what is standard Christian morality survives in their preaching drivel. They pick and choose the most punitive passages from the Old Testament (a book that in other Christian denominations does not play a prominent role) and some crazy prose from the Book of Revelation, and armed with those highly selective passages they go after whoever they consider to be their 'enemy'.

[@placebojesus5652]

I don’t consider these people real Christians. And I know, “no true Scotsman” fallacy. But still, I stick by what I said. These people resemble the Antichrist in many ways more than the actual Christ. I think it’s foolish to pretend these people are the best embodiment of Christianity.

[@castajc82]

100 percent and most Christian’s haven’t read the Bible form cover to cover.

[@davidjavids2431]

CHRISTIANITY WAS FORGED ONTO POPULATIONS BY MURDEROUS RAMPAGE FOLLOW OR DIE AND GENOCIDE. WORSHIPING CESAR BORGIA AS A SAVIOR

[@PlanAhead-d5b]

If he knew the Bible and paid attention, he would have known this is what happens to the Bible every time. Brilliant!

[@DEMIA-eo4dd]

This nation is not mentioned in the Bible if u knew anything u would that u would also know it's a fake religion that a bunch of crazy people called the Romans spread with blood and steel sorry all of history says ur sky mage is fake but he is I was raised Cristian it's all brainwashing

[@williamclark1244]

We all know he's never read it!

[@7heRedBaron]

Shows how much of it he’s read.

[@LOwens-xf8yo]

Xian believe the Bible, but they aren’t actually required to read it. In fact, reading it all the way through is often a direct path to atheism.

[@Zett76]

@@LOwens-xf8yo "reading it all the way through is often a direct path to atheism." :) I remember having my first questions with seven or eight, like "no, really, how did that "Ark" work?? Were there insects on it? What did the lions eat?"... *g*

[@Kevo6492]

“This law was meant for Moms for Liberty, not for liberals or leftists to prove a point!”

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Moms for Threesomes 😂

[@URFTBOUND4LIFE]

​@@mytruecrimelibraryI see what you did there

[@OvarosX]

Funny thing about banning books and free speech it comes for everyone, the Bible is also lewd and violent the two things Ron was trying to ban from schools!

[@ThirtyYearstoolate]

@@mytruecrimelibrary I use that app.

[@Canoby]

@@mytruecrimelibrary Best part is if she were not a socially backwards prude, no one would care. Hell she'd be getting a thumbs up

[@wiesejay]

Ron DeFascist is a perfect example of why clowns are scary

[@JamesDavy2009]

"A clown is my friend. A clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement. A clown is not a big spider." -Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff

[@larryc1616]

A typical Florida man...

[@Southernguy41]

I don’t like the guy for a couple of reasons, but how is Ron a fascist? Give me an example.

[@meredithheath5272]

Ron Defascist - very accurate.

[@jimwing.2178]

@@Southernguy41 The Disney kerfuffle is an obvious example of DeSantis's fascism; one of many. Stop being a troll; you are insufficiently clever to be entertaining.

[@toddglover1121]

Ron DeSantis banning books is like Hitler burning books.💙🇺🇸

[@amidal1946]

Can a atheist proof Hitler was bad if there's no morals ? Cry more

[@conniegrant939]

He’s RACIST

[@johnmcleodvii]

My mother lived through Hitler. And, yes, she fully agrees.

[@toddglover1121]

@@johnmcleodvii may God bless your mother and you, my friend.

[@serjarmen]

Lol that atheist is a hero

[@sawtooth808]

He definitely gets the highest of fives

[@Pescasaurus]

🫡

[@frocco7125]

Teaching kids that they'll go to hell and God will make them suffer forever if they misbehave is child abuse. That shit traumatizes kids with constant anxiety.

[@hamie63_m]

Lol I love it. I'm not an atheist yet I believe the bible is a collection of stories and I dont mind it in schools. It just shouldn't be used in school to teach a religion.

[@Southernguy41]

@@hamie63_mI’m sure you have no problem with the Koran in schools, right? 🙄

[@Bobsaget121]

Funny to watch him fail but this is honestly a big relief

[@sharonsmith5804]

What drugs are you on?

[@fairywingsonroses]

Someone did an audit of all of the book bans in Utah and found that the vast majority were instigated by only 6 people. Some of the books on the list weren't even available in school libraries to begin with (proof that no one even did their research), and it cost the state and schools tens of thousands of dollars in education funds. These 6 people are wasting our time and money, and we're just letting them do it. So sad.

[@CCR971]

Correction, Republicans are letting them do it.

[@2adamast]

Desantis is slowing them down. Not sure if the bible has anything to do with all this, takes them 5 seconds to say your offense is noted but we keep the bible.

[@TheFman2010]

About twenty years ago, my children went to a school in the U.A.E. where books were heavily censored. Because the country was Muslim, children's books were heavily blacked out. All the words for "pig" were blacked out in The Three Little Pigs. Anytime "wine" was in a book, it was blacked out and replaced with "orange juice." Instead of growing up with innocence, children were growing up with ignorance. Such a sad situation!

[@thenutella8846]

Which is insane btw, the religion bans the consumption of pork and alcohol it's not telling the followers to pretend they don't exist, but the U.A.E is authoritarian so the upper echelons will invent something to rally against just so their citizens don't ask the real questions. That behavior is what we're headed towards if guys like DeSantis get their way.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Muslims consider the pig unclean because of what they eat among other reasons. They eat carrion including humans and they're coprophages. It would not surprise me if the Arabic word for pig is considered a swear word.

[@kangaroo.66]

Back in the 70's they didn't give a sh!t. What was in the library in schools. And I was in 7th grade.

[@persimmontea6383]

I lived in a Muslim country and nobody had ever heard of the invention of movable type as a breakthrough in technology. Apparently, this is because the first book printed with this earth shaking technology change was the Gutenberg Bible.

[@pro-choicemom]

That explains why there is rarely any innovation nor cultural influence coming from theocratic radical countries. They will NEVER prosper while living in ignorance.

[@desynchonosisdragon9108]

And almost all of those books were banned because of like seven people.

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

Seven Snow White divorcees.

[@ChantaleLaplante]

Something similar happened in Utah, a parent complained about the Bible so they banned it... for like a few hours until the governor just said like "no, this one doesn't count!" and unbanned it 😒

[@JasperBaron-z1d]

How about the book of Mormon?

[@derekrequiem4359]

"Rules for thee, but not for me"

[@LeoLynch-yg7vo]

Which just goes to show that it was never about protecting children from obscene materials.

[@whyamihereweirdo9912]

@@JasperBaron-z1dThey added the BOM too but the Gov stepped in 🤦🏼‍♀️ I was soo disappointed 👿👿

[@zakkizer2490]

The Mormon Church has a pretty good stranglehold on the Utah state legislature, I’ve heard it called a de facto theocracy

[@kevinmeyer422]

"Make Florida Gilead in 2024!" - Ron DeSantis

[@brucehicks5817]

He might have to battle Greg Abbott for that title.

[@ekrenz5268]

He’s curling up into his little white boots tonight

[@bookgirlny8511]

Those BOOTS! 👢 👢

[@-YogSothoth]

He sleeps with heels on, dreaming to be a big boy

[@dazurathefirst8456]

Forgot to mention that they're heeled to make him seem taller 😜

[@derekrequiem4359]

He's gonna want an extra serving of pudding to calm him down.

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

In those boots he thinks he's Nancy Sinatra, and he's gonna "walk all over" our very goddamn Human and Civil Rights, this fascist fool.

[@wmpmacm]

Ban DeSantis not books.

[@Kevin01SH]

Residents of Florida, get out and vote

[@warriorwaitress7690]

Yay for malicious compliance! As an atheist myself, I have no issue with having The Bible in a public school, but ONLY if the curricula include studies of all the major religious texts.

[@beanstheclown]

As a Christian myself, I think a good working knowledge of major world religions past and present is absolutely critical. You can't understand history or literature if you are unfamiliar with the religious context that surrounds them and the religion I happen to prescribe to is not the only one influential enough to study.

[@ayoutuber1280]

Yeah because I am sure the Arab world does the same...

[@agilemind6241]

@@ayoutuber1280 Yes, because a horrible theocratic dictatorship that executes dissidents is what America should aspire to be.

[@catprog]

I am not that strict. If the bible is in the library then so should the other regligious texts. Only if the bible is part of the curricula should the other religious texts also be part of the curricula .

[@talk2minie]

​@@ayoutuber1280 if you consider the Arab world a model not to follow, then why do you want to be like them?

[@RDHardy79]

Props to that student. I tried to get the bible put in the Fiction section of our school library and almost got expelled over it. It was in Non-fiction. Which was insane to me. Its very clearly fictional.

[@nikm5628]

Sue that school district, take it to the federal level seeing as that was a constitutional violation on their part

[@juvedoo99]

@@nikm5628yup

[@Jorora]

@@nikm5628It should at least be in a “religious books” section if they don’t want to offend. They’re being unsecular and offending other religious groups by doing it the current way too.

[@HegemonicMarxism]

The right tried to cancel you

[@plutotech]

​@@nikm5628 you playing for a lawyer?

[@kevinmeyer422]

Yea, banning books is pretty dumb when people can see anything and everything that they can think of on the internet.

[@Magdalena8008s]

Well that's the next step. Or hand in hand. They are already trying to ban websites.

[@mlthornton1]

Not all kids have cell phones, nor should they

[@mlthornton1]

@@Magdalena8008s are you in support of 10 year old boys watching p0rnhub?

[@balla2172]

​@mlthornton1 define kids remember it's a prek-12 out of the 1600 kids in my kiddos district id say less than 20 in highschool don't have phones

[@mlthornton1]

​@@balla2172 I think you're missing the point. It's like saying murder shouldn't be illegal because people that really want to are just going to do it anyway. Consensus doesnt make it right. In fact, I would say is that the few kids without phones are better off.

[@mintman325]

I live in clay county. I count my stars that I wasn’t raised here. I really feel bad for the children in school. Luckily I have a flag pole, I fly several flags in support of LGBTQ people. My neighbor has left me anonymous letters saying my flags are disgusting. I feel I’m doing my job.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Ignore the Karen neighbour or report her to your postmaster general. I'm pretty sure it's illegal in the States for people who are not postal workers to leave things in your mailbox.

[@publicguy1664]

He just passed a law that bans localities from enacting heat protections and cost of living adjustments for workers.

[@lizharrington2213]

Could OSHA get involved regarding the heat protection?

[@mochynddu723]

Malicious Compliance. Gotta love it.

[@jirehguy]

Was the title supposed to say Book Ban instead of Book Bank lmao?

[@Marcosss-7-years-ago]

Yup, i had to double check my keyboard if k was next to n😂

[@casualthurs3243]

There was a “tump” misspell in an earlier video too lol

[@UberHeroMystic]

Bro I got all my books in the safety deposit box. 🤣

[@jkishhabi]

Blame it on Salem 🐈‍⬛🐾❤

[@warriorwaitress7690]

​@@jkishhabi Or Stinky!

[@AdilAmeerPutin]

Someone got the bible banned in Utah county school district last year.

[@OfficialSeth]

I think it got reinstated almost immediately though.

[@dreaminez472]

As a Californian I admit my state and governor have a lot of problems. That said, thank god it's not Florida.

[@stogiewulf4999]

This is not a Troll-reponse. This is a legit response to this ridiculous bill.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Totally.

[@KeithGreenan-d9e]

I live in fla.and it's depressing to have a hard right winger governor.

[@sharonsmith5804]

Then move to NEW TO A DEMOCRAT STATE.

[@KeithGreenan-d9e]

@@sharonsmith5804 I am unable to move. People aIways say love it or leave

[@tallahasseelassie4223]

Florida resident here: That's certainly the truth.

[@KeithGreenan-d9e]

@@sharonsmith5804 you are as deep as spit on a doornob

[@noosphericaltarzan]

I wonder if Florida would ban a children's book about a tyrannical prince who decided to oppress a little mouse and learned the golden rule instead.

[@Remedy462]

Yes because they would say that unfairly represents the rich and powerful as monsters and the lowly peasant as righteous and fair.

[@jdavis9092]

😂😂😂 I see whatcha did there... 😉😂

[@wilcee238]

Ron DeSantis is what would result if a scientist crossed Napoleon Bonaparte with Napoleon Dynamite.

[@ocek2744]

Add in Moe from the three stooges and you got the likeness 100%.

[@noosphericaltarzan]

You didn't have to do Napoleon Dynamite like that.

[@SpectacularDisaster]

Napolean Dynamite didn't wear heels

[@badnewsBH]

Epic Rap Battles of History!

[@wesleystreet]

Napoleon Dynamite would never torture people in Guantanamo.

[@MrClayster72]

When has any group responsible for banning books been on the right side of history?

[@larryx314]

Atheism isn't a religion it's a personal relationship with REALITY

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

Ugh. How many times do I have to tell you, everyone interprets reality differintly.

[@larryx314]

@@TheMilitantMazdakite you've told me that several times LMAO. You can interpret reality any way you want but that don't make it real genius Lol. Oh and you spelled differently wrong Lol

[@danieldickson8591]

You do realize how little of reality we're able to even perceive, let alone understand. Science is based on the best theories we have at the time to fit what we can observe, but those theories are routinely overturned when new data is discovered. Science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God, but denying Its existence is as much an act of faith as asserting it.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

@@danieldickson8591 Thank you!

[@larryx314]

@@TheMilitantMazdakite what are you thanking him for ,what he wrote down was pure dribble Lol

[@r4ydify]

It’s about time we separate church and state! 🤔

[@JamesDavy2009]

Start with removing God from the Pledge of Allegiance, the $1 bill and the courtroom oath.

[@iamwell5654]

How can I forget. I have kids in school in north Florida. Many MATH books were banned for referencing black mathematicians

[@kimwit1307]

Say what now??

[@jimbob9407]

I can make up bs too…

[@JamesDavy2009]

You guys want to stop teaching the Pythagorean Theorem because it was invented my Muslims? Or stop teaching the concept of zero because it was invented by Indians? Here's an idea: ban Hindu-Arabic numerals entirely because minorities invented them. 🙃

[@siukong]

Truly pathetic ...

[@lizharrington2213]

Very Scary.

[@stevenpike7857]

DeSantis says, "that's performative. That's political." Dont' gaslight us DeSantis, that is exactly what all this legislation is. It's legislation to appeal to people's base emotions, rather than focus on the hard problems regular Floridians face, like housing costs, insurance costs, and electric costs going up... all which he did after receiving bribes from these industries to relax laws regulating them.

[@butterfly21375]

Time for Florida residence to vote all the Republican's out from State Office and Washington DC. STOP wasting your tax payer's money on their lies.

[@joehackney1376]

Strange how Nazis and Communists think the same way. Which is DeSantis???

[@amidal1946]

Cry more

[@tomheringer]

I’m glad you said that. I call Conservatives Commo/Nazis. Because they are alike. Nazi is eliminating enemies on a massive scale. Communism is a few at a time. The politics of Conservatives is right out of the communist manifesto. Great understanding of these Traitors.

[@pauls9034]

LOL "DeFuture." I live in Florida, and I saw his collapse coming from a mile away.

[@kyleh6984]

I wouldn’t object to Bibles being in school libraries. If a kid wants to read it on their own, fine. I object to students being required to read it as a class assignment. If you want your kids to be subjected to religious indoctrination, fine. Send them to a private religious orientation school. But keep religious instruction out of public schools.

[@Mr.Morden]

7:21 The first thing you do as a kid when you learn about dictionaries is to look up the bad words. Or was that just me?

[@aprilfrank6620]

Reminder of looking up men in underwear, in the Sears catalog

[@rs72098]

Meh, that's more when you become a teenager, get bored, and are with your friends.

[@DanaOtken]

I think the first word I ever went to a dictionary to look up was 'paradox'. Was 5. Never looked up the bad words, probably because when my parents realized I was going to be reading material intended for adults at a very early age, they made sure I read a sex ed book so I understood the difference between reality and the fiction I'd be running across. I was more bored with the bad words than intrigued.

[@michellereed3272]

Gee, a book ban backfired. How do conservatives not see that coming?

[@JamesDavy2009]

Conservatives are blind to logic and common sense. Every sane person knows that. 🙃

[@johnsweazy358]

Freedom to a Republican means the freedom to restrict other people’s freedom!

[@JamesDavy2009]

Just like the Puritans that fled England to become the Pilgrims-they hated that the King wanted to take away their right to persecute.

[@bookgirlny8511]

Sweet lil “And Tango Makes Three” about the two male penguins is STILL banned in Escambia.

[@donnynavarro3309]

I have been reading the Bible and I haven't yet finish Genesis. Let me tell ya, there's a surprising amount of sex and some masturbation. By the book ban's own definition, the Bible has to be prohibited as well.

[@josephgodfrey8468]

When books are banned...they often become BESTSELLERS.

[@zach7]

I'm so tired of people going hey that's political when they are politicians themselves like everything they do is political it's pretty fucking annoying

[@Poemi10304]

Those are Nosy Neighbors who aren't only menaces to their own neighbors, but to the whole country!

[@lawrencebaer1291]

A little secret, they are completely clueless on the Bible because they don't read their own good book.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

They read the children version, without all that genocide, murder and rape.

[@rs72098]

​@@ExtremeMadnessXThere's one genocide against the Amalekites, which was a retaliation after they attacked Jews who just fled from Egypt. The rest were against tribes of Nephilim, which were mixtures of humans and angels. Any rapes would be punished by death. If you're referring to the women who were captured in war and taken as wives, they likely had to give consent.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@@rs72098 That's some apologetic bullshit right there...

[@kuromyou7969]

​@@rs72098you sure about that? Deuteronomy 22:28-29. Victims have to marry their r*pist. That doesn't sound like death for the perpetrator. 🤔

[@theprincesbride]

DeSantis: “No, not that book!!!” 🤣😂🤣😂

[@mirandadewey9998]

My mother had me reading by three and had a great philosophy. She encouraged me to ask questions on anything i didnt understand and let me read anything i wanted because of it. She would talk to me as a person and i was reading jane eyrw, rebbecca and the hobbit by 4th grade. She even stood up to my principal and was able to prove my reading comprehension. My only issue was not understanding the few bits of german. I could fifure out the french bits! Kids are smarter than we think and often thrive on learning skills and gaining knowledge.

[@benetton6617]

Thank you for the report.

[@MarijnvdSterre]

Primary schools should be devoid of all religious texts.

[@robertb.australia.8801]

Kids can get their religion from home by their parents, keep it out of public schools.

[@mlthornton1]

Do you feel the same way about sex-related texts? If not, why?

[@JessesanMan]

​@@mlthornton1 Because sex is real

[@OneEyeShadow]

​@@mlthornton1no, books shouldn't be able to talk about things such as marriages or mothers or fathers as they imply someone had sex. It's gross. It's unnatural.

[@MarijnvdSterre]

@@mlthornton1 Depends on what you mean by that. If you are talking about graphic descriptions in fictional work, I would say so. But sex-related? Do you mean relationships, fathers, mothers etc? Because that would be a bit silly to argue imo. The big difference is that one is observably real, and the other (real or not) is based on faith. Combined that with the fact that young children are not yet able to distinguish between reality and fiction. And you should know why I think it is a bad idea to have faith based texts that are treated like it has the same (or higher) truthfulness as observable reality.

[@bradleyouambo1371]

Why does a person with no kids in the school district get to challenge any books? I don’t understand that logic.

[@BB-rh2ml]

Logic?? MAGA?? They do not go together.

[@wuxin5847]

free country - or are you another conservative who hates freedom -

[@ChaChaSlide_69]

Why does a person with no kids in a school district have to pay taxes to educate someone else's kids? I don't understand that logic. (See how that works)

[@bradleyouambo1371]

@@ChaChaSlide_69 I do. That’s valid point when you extrapolate out that we should care about the education of our future which do believe in. So then I’d just say I think the policy isn’t workable as drafted and the revision described still seems like too much to me.

[@BB-rh2ml]

@@ChaChaSlide_69 Because in society our tax money goes towards lots of things that we have no say in. Do you get to tell the fire department what they can eat at the fire hall? Do you get to object to the books that a police station has in their break room? Why does a person without a car have to pay taxes to maintain a highway?

[@jeanneratterman]

I just finished watching MR BATES AND THE POST OFFICE on PBS, about fighting big corps’ dishonest greed powered engineering regardless of how it affects those whom they abused. It is a great David v Goliath story that exhibits how bent things can be and which must be stopped. The heros of the film were afraid, but they knew they were innocent and they were angry and they stood up and fought back. It is fight we all face in these bizarre times. Never give up. 💪

[@balla2172]

There is one lasy from florida who has had books banned in hundreds of books across the nation

[@bobthebear1246]

First of all, "The Bible" shouldn't even BE in our public schools at all whatsoever. HELLOOO...Separation Of Church And State, anyone??? Secondly, Ron DeSatan needs to be banned from this state.

[@wuxin5847]

all books should be in the school library - this protecting kids stuff is nonsense - every one pretends that kids are these innocent little angels - but kids are the worse - kids are full of hatred and violence - so stop with this bs

[@MrAranton]

@@wuxin5847 No library (school or otherwise) can contain "all books. A school library should focus on books that support or expand on the curriculum and/or advance children's education in other an age appropriate way. In order be effecient with the budget, a school library should also focus on books their students might find hard to access by other means (a good book on calculus or programming can easily cost more than 100$). If there's some money and space left after that's cared for, use the surplus to get some books children might read for fun. The separation of church and state says that publically funded schools are not supposed to establish any religion. Which means: Religion has no place on their curriculum. There are organisations that give away printed copies of the bible for free - which makes the bible the most easily accessible book. On top of that: The people who are the loudest about making sure the bible exists in school libraries, tend to own more bibles per capita than others. So their children don't need the school library to have access to the bible. They have at least one at home they could pick up any time.

[@416nWild]

DeSantis: i hate books, disney and the working class

[@piku5637]

Normalize co-operatives and lⒶbour unions. Workers make the world run, workers should run the world.🌏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[@RobbyLakeMusic]

❤

[@RobbyLakeMusic]

I subscribed to your channel

[@Gotostep2]

🤘

[@neetpride5919]

They won't be normalized if they're not profitable. Figure out how to make a worker co-op that generates revenue more aggressively than standard corporations. Start collectively bribing politicians, exploit consumers as much as possible, etc. That's the only way worker co-ops will realistically take off. You can't just keep begging people in KZbin comments or even publishing heavily massaged studies. How about a worker co-op for an investment bank? The Wall Street Bets guys on Reddit came pretty damn close.

[@donnavorce8856]

Convince enough people to make decisions in their best interests. When unions come into the conversation, so many people become afraid. Status quo made that a thing.

[@billieeisenhower406]

atheist gigachad

[@slickshewz]

As someone that lives in Florida, while desantis likes to claim the state didn't have any lockdowns or mask mandates at a state level, literally every major county in the state imposed them. Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Orange, etc...they all had them. And even after the counties lifted them, nearly every retailer imposed their own mandates. you couldn't go almost anywhere indoors in the state without a mask, into 2021.

[@Steelmage99]

People who ban books to avoid acceptance and thinking are not afraid of books. They are afraid of acceptance and thinking.

[@bendyrland7213]

Thankfully some of these harmful laws are being challenged and reversed. I hipe the trend continues.

[@MrJurgenman]

Just like the dude who showed up to a book burning with a box of bibles lol

[@bettertoaster]

The Bible should be banned in every school.

[@steveo7006]

Don't forget that one of the founds of "Moms For Liberty", the group responsible for most of the Florida books that are banned, liked to have three-ways with her husband and another woman who later accused them of rape. The hypocrisy is strong in that tribe.

[@saundreayoung9171]

Thank you for this update👍🏾

[@evadd2]

How much violence, war and persecution occurs in the name of that book. Start with those if you're going to ban something.

[@JamesDavy2009]

The same book led to witch hunts throughout the Dark Ages, inquisitions that torture people who won't convert to their team, persecution of scientists (like Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin and Kepler) for disproving their narrative, et-fucking-cetera.

[@thesun6211]

IOW, the DeSantis position is that "it's not the (inherently political) legislation that's political, but politicized use of the process that legislation created," because "Liberal activists" or something? 😂

[@ethanstroup7394]

"Laughs in atheism"

[@theprogressingdrummer1631]

How could they have not seen this coming?

[@tofu_golem]

They banned Maus, but not Mein Kampf.

[@dallasgraf6442]

As a Christian i say good.

[@andreassinats6432]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[@gibsonclan1able]

The five scariest words you can hear on the evening news are (Today, a man in florida…)

[@JR-pr8jb]

I've taught "Bible As Literature" college courses, and (surprise!) there's no way The Bible can avoid being banned under Desantis's fascist GOP criteria. In all fairness, no evangelical parents would ever let their kids know everything in the Holy Book.

[@BigRalphSmith]

We have to keep the most dangerous thing that exists out of the hands of kids; IDEAS.

[@Laroc57]

Three levels of government and church not one of them

[@thesouthernherper9980]

Any outspoken atheist would have brought that up. You don’t have to be an extreme advocate to understand that the Bible shouldn’t be allowed in schools under any circumstances. The only way the Bible should be allowed is if all other religious books have the same coverage. Let’s see how far that gets.

[@rs72098]

No because other texts DID NOT HAVE AS MUCH INFLUENCE ON THE HISTORY OF AMERICA and the culture of America. Plain and simple. That's like we saying we should teach all languages outside of English because we want to be inclusive.

[@thesouthernherper9980]

@@rs72098 If you can’t have inclusivity and education for most religions then you don’t have it in schools period. Also, Mormonism was founded in America; I have never seen both the Bible and the Book of Mormon in the same room. You teach mythology/theology as a whole, not by indoctrination.

[@MrAranton]

@@rs72098 The influence on the History of America is irrelevant. Either religion should be on the curriculum - in which case the fundamentals of all religions should be taught, in which case the school library should contain the sacred texts of all religions - or religion should not be on the curriculum in which case none of their texts should be in the library either. Also: The world extends beyond America. People should have at least a fundamental grasp of the entire world's history when they finish school - which includes the influence Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and all the other religions had on the histories of the places they were or still are dominant. Foreign languages aren't taught "to be inclusive", they're taught because learning a foreign language greatly extends one's horizon, which goes very far in achieving the core goal of education: Replacing an empty mind with an open one. For that reason everyone should be fluent in at least one foreign language after they graduate from school.

[@denikawhite]

@@rs72098 schools actually do teach other languages. spanish, french, german were the most common offerings.

[@neetpride5919]

Love it when Kyle covers secular stuff and drug law

[@Hopefulgoingforward]

Thanks!

[@Eniral441]

I watched a story about schools around the country who were setting up parent book clubs for parents to sit around reading the books from the school libraries. When they read them themselves and talked about them, they banned 1-2% of the books that were recommended to be banned before the book clubs.

[@TurtleTimeVoiceOvers]

Kyle, I think it’s meant to read: “Book Ban,” rather than _Book Bank._ A book bank would be awesome!

[@TMendocino]

Progressives need to play their game!

[@TYTARMY]

Book ban... not book bank

[@sheltonbailey6548]

Thanks for another great video.

[@derekrequiem4359]

Ronny really didn't think that one through, did he? 😂

[@paigemcloughlin4905]

As an LGBTQ kid in the 1970s my first source of education on Homosexuality was the American Heritage Dictionary 1975 edition.

[@DirtPoorWargamer]

It's kind of funny these people think that kids are still reading Also: Tell me you're a holier-than-thou Christian who's never read a Bible, without telling me you're a holier-than-thou Christian who's never read a Bible.

[@allanwilmath8226]

I'm sorry but the bible is not a good book I would say is much worse than Playboy, in fact. You won't find hte violence, genocide, sexism, ect in Playboy that you do in the Bible. The Bible really should not be in grade schools, ledgitimately because it's inappropriate.

[@LancesArmorStriking]

If even a single issue of Playboy had incestuous rape in it, it would be immediately pulled from all bookstores. Yet Lot's daughters get him drunk and r*** him in a cave with the approval of God, and it's a revered holy book. This explains a lot of how Israelis right now think. If this is their native culture...

[@NA-vz9ko]

Right? The worst you could argue against Playboy is that it promotes the exploitation of women and institutes unrealistic body standards. The Bible Promotes multiple forms of chattel slavery!!! F**k that book and the evil it spawned.

[@desertsunman5880]

Well stated! Keep up the great work!💙🙋‍♂️

[@nitajean9885]

Have they tried telling the kids to" just say no" to the gay? It cleared up our drug problem in a jiffy...

[@robo08ify]

He said with heavy sarcasm! 😆

[@dorcia]

FUCK YES!!! Go Athiest!!!!