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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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[@crawdaddy2004]

The Right is at the point that saying “slavery was bad,” is too woke.

[@isaiahkayode6526]

Ironic when the word “Woke” is a slag term from African Americans how ironic how these clowns have gaslighted the word.

[@belkyhernandez8281]

Yup

[@Trumpforeever]

I think the guy that though It was a good idea to bring them here should be ripped outta his grave and pissed on.

[@AnonymousOmniscience]

🎶 GO BACK TO SLEEP 🎶

[@renlevy411]

​@@winston6369No, just 1861

[@crobinson2624]

Can’t we all just agree that slavery of any kind is wrong and shouldn’t be allowed? And this also includes wage slavery.

[@josephstalin839]

I agree if anything. I want to expand the horizon in history books beyond just a tunneled United States slavery because it just gives the impression the United States only did slavery uniquely. I want people to be informed that slavery existed all with the Earth LONG before the 13 coloines were even founded from Africa to the Middle East, Asia, etc. Mostly because I know people won't do their own research.

[@thesauceman8457]

Tom Cotton: It was a necessary evil Republicans: 👏

[@crobinson2624]

@@josephstalin839 perhaps the wealthy then are just like today in that they are cheap sons and daughters of whores who didn’t want to pay anyone a fair days pay for a fair days work and instead saw best just to enslave people.

[@tony16991]

There is nothing called wage slavery.

[@tylerharvey1707]

Republicans only care about money. Slaves make money for you so I don't see any world where a republican will genuinely say slavery is bad.

[@wilddynamine8017]

It’s crazy how uncharismatic DeSantis is, he’s tanking his own campaign before Trump even gets an opportunity

[@IResonateWithU]

Are you saying he's reading Eminem's playbook? 😂

[@abcxyz123]

Trump did do his best so far though, let's not deny the constant slapping lol. In fact, I'd Trump hadn't smacked him daily, maybe DeSantis would've been up there. Hard to believe now.

[@DomSchu]

@@abcxyz123 I think Desantis wanted to be VP initially but Trump wasn't into it.

[@TheRogueEmpire]

@@IResonateWithU what? eminem is still one of the top selling artists, trump and his cucks failed miserably at trying to cancel him. cope.

[@tylerharvey1707]

DeSatan is only popular in florida. He's too much a weirdo and too angry for the rest of the country to take him seriously

[@cattibingo]

"You may have spent your entire life doing hard manual labor but look how strong you are!"

[@travisboyle285]

And were never paid for it

[@dominicfucinari1942]

And so much for the party's concern about orthopedic health, what with the back problems they're artificially inflicting on people.

[@josh043p6]

I don't need to go see Oppemheimer. I'm already witnessing a bomb of a campaign with DeSantis

[@josephstalin839]

Now that movie was a beast. Very based moment right there.

[@sawtooth808]

I haven’t seen a campaign go up in flames like this since Buddhists were burning themselves in protest

[@maamiimii]

For context: Delta Sigma Theta is a black sorority so Kamala talking about this issue at their convention is understandable given the timing of this.

[@CosmiqPenguin]

I am glad this was pointed out.

[@matthewjury4385]

Delta sigma theta... DST... De SanTis... conspiracy theory?

[@eriklakeland3857]

Thanks, I laughed at that bit just because I’m not a big fan of Greek life and think the names sound silly. But that makes sense

[@jammzy2959]

​@eriklakeland3857 they are literally Greek letters...

[@eriklakeland3857]

@@jammzy2959 no shit but it still sounds lame, pretentious and rapey

[@ahfimiwonawun]

This has nothing to do with desantis and his cohorts being stupid. This is evil!

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

What? You are excusing the moron by just saying it's evil? He is responsible for his own actions.

[@Toywins]

You're absolutely right.

[@metranomic]

You're right, it has nothing to do with Desantis - he did not write the textbook in which slavery is mentioned 191 times and in one of those 191 cases it casually mentions that slaves did learn vital skills like metallurgy. Of course if you only listened to Kyle, you would assume that Desantis was the author of that book but he's really just a boogieman.

[@ahfimiwonawun]

@@metranomic , No one is under the impression that desantis wrote "the textbook". There's even a video clip where desantis speaks about the scholar involved in it. But he's the governor and had final say on the matter and he decided to institute this foolishness, which of course you agree with.

[@cw1274]

There have been scumbags, but every scumbag I’ve seen has had a bottom. Every time I think DeSantis has hit bottom, he mines his way into another chamber below it.

[@marlock6573]

Even don't even understand the rationale. The crazier and more bigoted he gets in the primary to outflank Trump is just making him more radioactive in the general.

[@OuterRimPride]

Up next, "how work in Auschwitz helped build character", "the bright side of Genghis Kahn's conquest: a genetically united Asia", and "the Soviets were on our side for a while!"

[@melissawilliamson8871]

The open racism is stunning. No more dog whistles.

[@jackeagleeye3453]

Yup, at this point they are out and open with it

[@nas84payne]

It’s not a debate that DeSantis and them are racist.

[@stephj9378]

Showing that our ancestors developed skills but continuing to enumerate every abuse, every negative is a good thing?? God's laws are strict . (Something Kyle and other race baters dont understand) Anyone, even in bad circumstances, can turn some of that poison into medicine.

[@t221000]

Even Chris Christie is dragging Ron for this. 😂😂

[@Spongebrain97]

What did he say?

[@1ronin907]

Chomsky has lost all credibility.

[@patchwurk6652]

@@1ronin907 I'll take non-sequitur for 500 Alex.

[@nas84payne]

@@patchwurk6652I was like, “Where the fuck Chomsky come from?!” 😄

[@soapmctavish1718]

Republicans: why do we get called racist Everyonelse : shit like this

[@josephstalin839]

So because one Republican dumbass did something bad all republicans have to suffer for it. Very bad standard to set. You make a sound like the democrats aren't racist themselves cough cough. They would the party of slavery bro. Nearly destroyed this country. People are ignorant of this, sadly.

[@MH-ro1lg]

This is fake news.

[@smallworldbigworld-yi3xw]

To be fair - this is one state and one politician. It's not to say that Republicans (and Democrats) aren't scum, but Florida's behaviors aren't necessary State X's.

[@elijacorta]

@@smallworldbigworld-yi3xwFlorida is a social and political experiment for other Republicans to see how far they can push their rhetoric and policies.

[@patchwurk6652]

@@smallworldbigworld-yi3xw You are correct. However, considering the GOP Leadership pimps this crap, Texas and Utah and Idaho are following along with Florida into the dipshit pile, I kinda think LGBT people and minorities have a very very VERY good reason to be afraid of Republicans. Sure, maybe that's not universally true. But these people Do Not Have The Luxury of fucking around and finding out. Because if they're Wrong, they're Fucked!

[@blackbird2380]

I had to unsubscribe from breaking points today. Saagar downplaying slavery and defending DeSantis crossed a line for me although not surprising given his history. I appreciated Krystal's push back but it was disgusting, i cant support them anymore.

[@ThatCreoleMan]

Saager is to Cavalier with his thoughts on slavery and right wing coverage of education policy…

[@alexferreira4235]

He was also clueless as to the pushback for Sounds of Freedom. He's a putz

[@ThatCreoleMan]

Was that today’s episode?

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

I have to watch that. I have a nag that I have to unsub my premium. Because that's just twisted.

[@dannygarland6366]

Saagar also has no idea what CRT really is. He just repeats the Right Wing fearmongering. Krystal never really pushes back on him. Even on the slavery thing, she barely nudged.

[@antsmasherjack]

DeSantis would probably argue "Those slaves got a free boat ride across the Atlantic. They should be grateful."

[@bobbun4369]

What a stupid comment... Its amazing the lvl of bs pushed by leftists

[@TheTdroid]

How long before DeSantis just comes out and says the n-word to try to save his campaign? I wouldn't be surprised at this point.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

I would laugh out loud

[@stevenvox6549]

It's more likely he will get Jason Aldean to sing a happy song about how good slavery was for blacks in this country, but they just don't get enough credit for it because of the leftists in the cities who burn U.S. flags. .

[@Acanthophis]

That's when things become really scary. Right now we are watching these clowns not use language they desperately want to use. The moment they start using that language we've lost. Right now they know there's a stigma to a white person saying N***, but when they start saying it in the open that's because the stigma has become weakened.

[@nas84payne]

Literally the only racist thing left for him to say, really.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

@@nas84payne And unlike Randy Marsh, who thought he was going to win 30 Grand in prize money in Wheel Of Fortune's bonus round, everyone will know the malice behind DeSantis' utterance.

[@krazyknva78]

At this point, an education in Florida means less than a $3 bill.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

I guess DeSantis thinks a competitive edge in the workforce is not worth boasting about, if he's willing to throw such a thing away.

[@crawdaddy2004]

2:43 You know what most slaves did “later in life” THEY WERE STILL SLAVES!

[@nintendofan1749]

I’m starting to think that General Sherman didn’t do enough during the civil war

[@wilcee238]

Lincoln screwed up

[@thegroove14]

How to torpedo your presidential campaign 101

[@greenlight9896]

DeSantis is done. He's fallen from grace and into the trash.

[@vsmith1688]

When did he ever have grace to fall from?

[@crobinson2624]

DeSantis was already in the trash, he’s just no longer sucking on Trumps nipple.

[@GrantPearson]

...into the dustbin of history.

[@craigbrowning9448]

WOPs Against Wokeness!

[@thesauceman8457]

@@vsmith1688Exactly. He used racist speech in his campaign against Andrew Gillum. Everyone who payed attention already knew what he was, much like Trump.

[@Occam31]

Come on black conservatives, please tell me how you’re not voting for the leopards to devour your entire face. 😂

[@rafters35]

Cause it's a freaking lie Kyle is vaush now

[@jgg6932]

​@@rafters35cope and seethe 🤣

[@joshuad7953]

Ok black man here…Neither a Democrat or a Republican nor did I vote trump or Biden But at the same time, don’t come at black conservatives when the head of the DNC and current President wrote the 92 crime bill, 88 crack laws and 94 crime bill…Mr Joe, father of mass incarceration, Biden Either way, F the DNC and RNC…Cornel West 2024!!!

[@alphagamma4582]

​@rafters35 can you provide evidence to enlighten us that are being lied to and instead should vote Republican?

[@josephstalin839]

Better than voting for the party that enslaved 12 million blacks for 400 years. Who act all "friendly" with us but still despise us. Yeah god no 👎

[@Che-e]

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." These people provide an endless supply. Good God.

[@yumeriagirl1231]

Dunning-kruger is alive and well here in Florida

[@hylomorpher]

That's a good quote, but I doubt that it applies to DeSantis. He isn't ignorant. He knows what he's doing (just not when it comes to running a presidential campaign 😂).

[@1ronin907]

Some people make the best out of the worst situations other people want to be the perpetual victim.

[@aaronhumphrey3514]

Gotta love when these scumbags are accidentally honest, lol.

[@nas84payne]

*purposely honest.

[@robertwhite3457]

How can a slave benefit from gaining a "personal skill" if they can't use that skill to benefit themselves? A slaves whole existence is meant for or to provide benefit to someone else who OWNS them.

[@nas84payne]

In the first place, it was wrong for them to even go through that to learn said skills. Fuck sake.

[@123rockfan]

Imagine saying the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart wasn’t as bad since she learned painting while in captivity

[@Jorge-np3tq]

I love that "fighting the woke with a goat" has become a kyleism on its own

[@JonathanB138]

I can't stop laughing from this!

[@jedison2441]

"Native Amercas Learn about Geography and got Exercise during Trail of Tears" Florida Education, in no way influnced by Ron DeSantis

[@peterroberts4415]

Not excusing DeSantis on this, but natives had African slaves too

[@MBAYoungboy]

@@peterroberts4415African Americans had African slaves too

[@jaycol21]

⁠@@MBAYoungboyA small percentage. Plus often, the slave that was “owned” was a relative. A husband would buy his wife out, or vice versa. Parents would buy the kids’ freedom

[@platoniczombie]

​@peterroberts4415 that doesn't make slavery okay. Just because other minority groups participate in subjugation doesn't make it right. Not saying you necessarily were saying that, but many people LOVE to use points like that to give things like slavery more credibility.

[@onangelwings462]

​@@jaycol21tell me you don't understand that blacks owned black slaves without telling me you don't understand 🤦‍♀️ They also sold their own people

[@josephbursese7801]

Florida basically calling slavery an unpaid internship

[@tiberseptim8434]

It’s absolutely insane this man was once considered the MODERATE, more sophisticated alternative to Trump.

[@elihan9]

Moderate is just a reactionary whose mask hasn't fallen off yet. Anyone saying they are or believe someone is a moderate, that person wants to hurt you in the basement rather than the street.

[@eragon78]

People only called him a moderate because he wasnt as outwardly brash as Trump was. When you actually looked at his policies, he was never a moderate. People are just dumb and judge politicians based on personality too much rather than actual policy.

[@internetual7350]

@@elihan9 Shit... That's a perfect description.

[@johnlewis9158]

So are we going to ignore the fact that Biden is probably thee most racist politician to have strutted their stuff on the political stage in the last half a century. Indeed this is the man who signed into law a crime bill that gave life sentences to small time street pushers. I also recall him saying i don't want my children growing up in racial jungle.

[@tiberseptim8434]

@@eragon78 that’s what I mean. He’s always been a huge POS, visible for all to see, but the media somehow didn’t call him out as the fascist he so clearly always was.

[@1020percent]

Their team of scholars who drafted that new criteria must have gotten inspiration from Uncle Ruckus. Please forgive me for laughing at the absurdity of the situation, if I don’t, I will just cry of a deep sadness.

[@fmbbeachbum8163]

They were fasc!sts.

[@jakestumm4101]

You mean Uncle Remus 😂

[@jcleaverchamberlinjr]

No relation

[@ereyes6718]

Looks like DeSantis will be left in the "dust bin of history".

[@michaelbrinkers1145]

If you mean a gig at Fox News, it's being set up......a new star is born.

[@Kazutoification]

This reminds me of a time where a student's assignment was to write down the pros and cons of U.S. slavery. For the cons, you had things like 'forced strenuous labor, r$p#, forced religion, forced s$x between slaves, stolen culture, no payments'. For the pros, the student wrote 'N/A'.

[@darlinesly9364]

I’m disgusted by the harm and total disservice to the education of the young students of Florida brought about by Ron DeSantis.

[@bobbun4369]

You should worry about your own..

[@insightfulhistorian1861]

​@@bobbun4369Ah, wearing your self-absorption on your sleeve. A healthy society cannot function unless we value and care for each other. But I can see that basic human concept is beyond your capability. You're one of those "I only care about MY kids" types. It's only a matter of time before a threat to other people's children becomes a threat to *your* children. This is elementary reason, but again you are a mental midget I have to explain it. 🙄

[@lberghaus]

@@bobbun4369we’re worried about people that Republicans harm.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

@@bobbun4369 You do realize the southeastern states have consistently held the worst records in education throughout virtually all of US history, right?

[@peterroberts4415]

I mean it's true that slaves learned tasks, but you know how else they could have learned tasks? Apprenticeships and jobs where they are PAID

[@smallworldbigworld-yi3xw]

Not just that, but how about all of skills and techniques that black persons from Africa taught their "owners", with no compensation for this schooling.

[@bisurker]

Not to mention after the slaves were freed the newly freedmen were forced in all kinds of crazy ways to go back to exactly what they were doing before, except it was probably even more brutal. Sharecropping, Convict Leasing, Black Codes. The channel "Knowing Better" made a phenominal video on the subject called: Neoslavery, the history you were never taught.

[@smallworldbigworld-yi3xw]

@@bisurker I wouldn't say it was more brutal, because it was better for a percentage of black people, who at least could "freely" find there was to a new place and there were pockets of the U.S. where the racial tensions were relatively minimal. But for the majority of black Americans, it was entirely similar. And, as I imagine you are already aware, more profitable for the ruling class, since the plantation owners and the railroads and so on no longer had to provide shelter and food (even if it was shabby shelter and minimal food).

[@giannaleng1897]

Paid and not tortured & raped

[@KendallChristiansonYT]

DeSantis 2024: "Slavery was based, actually."

[@merciless972]

"I'll never hit the griddy" DeSantis 2024

[@joshuad7953]

Question…What does that mean… “based” Don’t attack me please, I’m just old and don’t understand🤣

[@Toywins]

​@@joshuad7953it means that you are understanding, on the side of right, woke even. Based is a great thing to be.

[@TheNaldiin]

​@joshuad7953 good or true is probably the easiest swap. There's also connotations of a principled stance.

[@CarlosSamuel-ms9ee]

@joshuad7953 Used unironically, it means something profound or a fundamental truth, particularly if it runs contrary to the prevailing wisdom.

[@yumeriagirl1231]

I've been in Florida since 1989, I raised two daughters here oh, they are ages 25 and 29. Both have left the state of Florida, they prefer to have bodily autonomy. . . Fascist is as fascist does

[@joshurlay]

I cant wait when they include lessons on the holocaust that says that imprisoned Jews learned skills that assisted them in their lives after the holocaust.

[@Videos-um1rj]

i think they would have developed their skills anyway even if they hadn’t been kidnapped, families torn apart and forced to work for rich white plantation owners. if they had been left alone in their own country, allowing them to go about their day to day activities in peace, i’m sure they would have developed the skills needed for their communities. i’m a retired elementary school teacher and i can not imagine having to teach that to my students. one year i was teaching a black history lesson about harriett tubman. i explained to them that she helped to get over 300 people to freedom because they wanted to get away from their mean masters. about that time, my teacher’s assistant stood up and started telling the students that there were good masters who treated their slaves decently. they were never beaten or punished. they made sure they had plenty to eat, clothes, a day off to rest, etc. i stood there in shock. i was speechless. i had never heard anything like that about slavery. as she was saying this stuff, the look on her face and the tone in her voice, showed how passionate she was about what she was saying. after school i asked her why she was saying that. she told me that she was tired of hearing only the bad things about slavery. she then went on a tirade basically repeating herself. when i moved down here, i was told that many people from the deep south tend to still be fighting the civil war when it comes to northerners. she and her family were from the deep south and i was from the north. my principal was the same way. after hearing desantis spew out how beneficial it was to be slaves, i’m sure my assistant would be on board with his thinking.

[@remingtonjackson4363]

Kyle, just an FYI, the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is an important organization as a historically African American sorority, one of the Divine 9. I assume you did not know that and that is why you said it was a waste of time for VP Harris to attend.

[@weirdgrama1038]

This is your best show yet. Keep up your great work. I’m terrified things are going to slide back to how it was when I was a kid. You are doing a great job of educating Kyle.

[@morbidsearch]

I'm subscribing to you just because of your username

[@dominicfucinari1942]

DeSantis wanted to make all the horror stories about life from 4 decades before I look like I was born into a reality. He's a one-man threat to the human species' existence in the future.

[@mjlesq]

Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled

[@craigbrowning9448]

I assume none of the slave's ancestors had skills back in Africa?

[@KC73]

Guess he's not going for the black vote, or the educated vote, or the Judeo-Christian vote.

[@fire-4-effect]

Any teacher who taught this crap to my kid would be doing so at his or her OWN RISK!! This is dangerous, and it needs to be stopped NOW.

[@MrGuzmanra]

Skill: Avoid being whipped...

[@deborahpadmore864]

No you did not say it is a waste of time to go to a DST conference. SMH.

[@laurataylor8717]

I recently was commenting somewhere about how slaves were not allowed to learn how to read or write. Someone who apparently learned an alternate history said that is a lie we're taught to believe and that the slaves were very educated and only pretended to not know how to read and write. Because that makes sense. Some maybe, but in that period of history the illiteracy rate was high across the board, but especially among slaves, who were born into slavery and/or sold at a young age and put to work. Not a whole lot of school time there.

[@godofdestructiondiecast6756]

Ron DeSantis can pretty much cases chances goodbye running for president especially if he makes it to the general

[@metranomic]

Cases?

[@godofdestructiondiecast6756]

@@metranomic he's acting authoritarian autocrat

[@michaeld4861]

Republicans: "Slavery was actually great because of employment opportunities. In fact you should sign here and become a slave and never have to worry about having a job or paying rent again! It's almost socialism if you think about it. But not the bad kind obviously."

[@IResonateWithU]

Ron is trying to silence reparation talk. How better than to say "it wasnt all bad!"

[@wilcee238]

FACTS

[@rockstargirl213]

💯 This!

[@bobbun4369]

Lmao i love how you leftists have to misrepresent everything

[@IResonateWithU]

@bobbun4369 I'm dyin 😂 misrepresent? How bout you explain what the authentic reason for suddenly making this important? Because it's TRUE? We all know it's not. Not one slave would say,"it wasn't all bad. We got skills now." But I want to hear your take 😂

[@metranomic]

​@@IResonateWithUhow do you "silence" anyone through a textbook? Kyle is talking about a single line in a Florida textbook that mentions slavery negatively 190 times and in one single instance it mentions skills like metallurgy that benefited freed slaves. Of course the implication is that Kyle would prefer freed slaves to have no skills to feed themselves, in fact he would probably favour the know-nothing party line about returning slaves to their origin countries.

[@belkyhernandez8281]

As a minority, I cannot convey how constantly distressing this is.

[@bobbun4369]

The lefts need to misrepresent conservatives to be mad truly is disgusting

[@david1049]

If we taught real history in this country, I lot of folks would be walking with their heads down… there’s no justification for slavery

[@bladudemovies]

I missed that he was involved in the war crime torture ring! This dude is comic book villain energy.

[@user-vx9zi6bx9k]

Ohhhhh DUDE was a JAG lawyer and he responded to the prisoner's complaining about the criminal treatment they'd been MOST troubled by.... So.. Ron's Asshole self, would then relay each person's worst fear (or whatever torture the individual hated MOST) To the commanding officers of Gitmo.. Then- He'd Watched it where the person who had truly trusted him, could see him SMILING LAUGHING ETC as they're being COMPLETELY stricken by then with the MOST horrifying (again, to themselves!🤢) Assault on them.. Talk about the cruelest extent that one could be able to do.. He's not human. He was actually recognized by a few different guys who'd literally been mistreated by him in that exact scenario. So they came forward Thank God

[@lisaousley-ocain4441]

Gitmo Ron! Several prisoners recognized him and he asked “How?!” He supposedly signed off on rectally force feeding hunger strike prisoners. He said “I was just following orders.” 🦗 🦗 🦗

[@elihan9]

At this point, the question to people complaining about is "what are you going to do about DeSantis?" Seriously, what is the plan? Complaining is fine but people like DeSantis do not stop until someone destroys them.

[@nas84payne]

That’s the thing. No one does shit to these people. No accountability.

[@elihan9]

@nas84payne Which is why, at least at this point, anyone who complains is basically a virtue signaling whiner who either needs to step up and act or shut up. Hell, even calling desantis' office and going Les Gorsmen on him would be preferable than whining on Twitter.

[@gregoriancatmonk6904]

Just go into a middle school and get very specific....example " Tim the slave was taken from his home in Africa spent a month on a slave ship crammed in with three hundred other slaves, he was starved and had to live in the human waste in the slave pens, then when he got out and sold his master taught him how to pick cotton for 14+ hours a day and if he wasn't fast enough they beat, starved and whipped him teaching him to go faster. Then after working for decades and making his owner rich, his body couldn't do it anymore he was finally freed with a valuable skill....too bad he was too old and broken to use it to feed himself. But hey he got that skill."

[@wilcee238]

Don’t forget how they made their kids into slaves too.

[@firerunner35624]

The current billionaires use the same thought process to rationalize their minimum wage workers.

[@clownchaostime3024]

The boat ride was free. They were given a free cruise from Africa to America, land of the free. They were fed and had free medical care and given shelter. How ungrateful that after all those perks they want reparations...not to mention the trade they learned once they arrived here.

[@ash8207]

How any black American or any minority for that matter, can vote Republican is mind numbing. The racism is no longer a dog whistle, it's a loud bullhorn. SMH!

[@ArmaBiologica35]

Ahh yes. The kidnapper in chief thinks slavery is good...😂

[@kristianveijola3234]

So slavery was actually a job training program/internship? I dont think Florida students are getting the best education...lol.

[@bobbun4369]

Talk about misrepresenting the situation

[@shopkeep9710]

Reminds me of that joke, someones talking about black people singing the blues in the fields back in the day. The slave owners saying “sounds like theyre having fun out there”!

[@OuterRimPride]

"WE'RE JUST TELLING BOTH SIDES OK"

[@tylerhackner9731]

He just keeps flailing lol

[@Mr.Nobody653]

This will only tank Rons approval rating

[@HWolfe]

Ya think?😅😂

[@zs3810]

I grew up in rural Georgia. They taught us that slave owners took care of their slaves and Africans preferred to come here and be clothed, fed, etc. imagine

[@zs3810]

Senior year, 2011. US history class

[@Keijikrall]

The argument for Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that a ground war in japan would have mulched 15 million lives. Also, you could argue that those hundreds of thousands of lives saved billions because nukes got used ONCE on a populace and everyone agreed it was so obscenely evil that MAD happened instead of nuclear annihilation of the species. That one is actually extremely morally grey.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

Not really. The US military had several military targets prepared. The orders were given to destroy civilians. This was a sadistic act by the leaders of the US military.

[@justatiger6268]

Guess which skills were never taught to slaves... Teaching a slave to read and write would be severely punished.

[@cursive3807]

Totally true! My quadriplegic friend would have never learned to paint with his teeth if he hadn't had an injury 🫠🫠🫠

[@user-vx9zi6bx9k]

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[@McNubbys]

They know that the skills they would force them to learn, never benefited people who never gained freedom...

[@OnePunchLion]

You know it's bad when the first thing DeSantis says is 'I had nothing to do with it".

[@SL-cl9gt]

DeSantis is REALLY trying to win the Asian and Hispanic vote, isn’t he? Wow.

[@willmercier2852]

I feel like we're living in an onion article sometimes.

[@lebrandon6555]

Man this election year is finna be bonkers

[@michaelbrinkers1145]

And because Hollywood in on strike, we have few film fantasies to escape into. The GOP villains are too real. Not even the Barbie movie can help me shake off the filth of the Republicans.

[@burningsnow9870]

This election year might be the last ngl

[@shanna9579]

That delta sigma theta comment was really bad. That’s a very important organization for black women. It shows your lack of knowledge about black things. Love the show watch it everyday but that gave me a yikes feeling.

[@Thezuule1]

"Your name is Toby! Now get over here so I can teach you some valuable job skills!"

[@jamesbluntirules]

I'm glad you brought up the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That is the perfect comparison to how America (and the Western WWII era Allies, because we learn about it from the same perspective in Australia) view what we did as "moral" whereas, we view what enemy nations did as evil. The bombing of those two Japanese cities between 130,000 and 206,000 civilians were killed. Compared to only 20,000 soldiers. In Nagasaki which was the second city to be bombed, when the Allies knew the power of the Atomic bomb, only 150 soldiers were killed compared to between 60,000 and 80,000 civilians. We celebrate President Truman and the pilot of the Hiroshima bombing plane Paul Tibbets for ending the war against the Japanese, yet we rightfully condemn and put on trial for war crimes the Nazi leaders (including commander of the Luftwaffe Hermann Gőring), and sentenced to death for the systemic exterminating of Jewish people and other civilian enemies of the Nazi regime. How was the actions of the Allies, particularly the bombing of Nagasaki which was a targeted bombing of civilians, any better than the Nazi actions which were worthy of putting their leaders on trial and sentencing their leaders to death?

[@sullenskulls9709]

Slight tweak to the wording:- Slaves were forced to develop skills, that if they were ever granted their freedom, they could have used for personal benefit.

[@sunsetpalms1923]

DeSantis is so afraid of Trump he is crashing his own campaign, LOL.

[@bisurker]

Hey Ron! What happened after the slaves were freed? Did they get to use those skills they learned to better their lives? Or were they pretty much forced back into exactly what they were doing before? Ever heard of Vagrancy/ Loitering Laws? Sharecropping? Tresspass Laws? Convict Leasing? Sunset Laws? I think they teach about that stuff in AP African American Studies! 😂

[@nas84payne]

They act like slavery was the only way they could’ve learned those skills. Ffs, it’s so fucked up this has become a “well actually” debate about slavery. Something that has been settled fact across the board.

[@tothboy01]

The fascist tenet of "mythic past" kind of sounds like "mythic slavery", since Desantis is spreading the myth that slavery wasn't all that bad. It goes with his Nazi imagery ad.

[@salahaldin447]

It honestly reminds me of Sam Harris and how he would make arguments for the Iraq and Syrian invasion and say it's complicated but when it comes to isis or al quida the reason is simply Islam .

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

I was enslaved by my foster parent and the only skill I learned was how to use chopsticks to pick up dog poop since the rake was so unwieldy to use.

[@asdfasdf4924]

I'm sure the Florida Dept of Education is going to answer questions about this from the press

[@michaelbrinkers1145]

Yeah, but who wants to see a puppet show?

[@thelonecabbage7834]

Oh, I see now. It wasn't slavery so much as an "involuntary apprenticeship".

[@crookedsmile1971]

How could you have personal benefit when someone else owns you?...

[@CrescentUmbreon]

The excuses of a parasitic deciever: - "It's not so bad being a slave: look at the skills you'll learn!" - "So what if the only first-time jobs available don't pay a living wage? That's just to give beginners skills and force them to pick a more difficult job later!" - "Don't complain that we want you to do work for free. We're paying you in exposure!"

[@morgengabe1]

Americans must have forgotten that Slavery is also substantiated by taxation without representation. If everybody had the right to levy taxes nobody would have to get ripped off. If people can lobby for tax minimization, the laws don't work.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Desantis can go ahead and pick crops for free if he thinks it's such a useful skill to develop! He can do everything I tell him to do FOR FREE! he'll develop strong skills that may benefit him later! like SUBMISSION. Desaster and his ilk are playing with fire.

[@bobbun4369]

The lefts need to misrepresent conservatives truly is disgusting

[@marquise32]

Why is it that we never question the reporters?

[@miltz76]

Watching Ronnie talk, pure energy vampire.

[@craigbrowning9448]

It is possible that Antebellum Slave Owners (who paid for their slaves) treated their "Slightly Better" than the Post-Reconstruction Prison-Industrial Slaves.

[@mikemiller7377]

Kyle is on fire in this one. 👍

[@outcastmoth78kaminski4]

The True Power of LEARNING FROM HISTORY... is found in calling out your own mistakes, learning from them and then sharing that knowledge with those that come after you...

[@MaestroTrin]

Delta Sigma Theta is the second oldest black sorority. So, yes, it was important to speak there

[@SenatorJonesII]

His comment was from a space of complete ignorance. I cant believe that someone who would claim to be an ally to African Americans would say something so dumb.

[@CosmiqPenguin]

Yeah, that was a pretty obtuse thing to say given the content of this video

[@nicolajandersen8826]

That comment below the DeSantis video... Lol!

[@orangeyewglad]

This would be a very dark "Kyle out of context" episode around the 5 minute mark. lol

[@Ty_Neadik]

"That professor r4p3d me, but he also taught me calculus so It's OK", only in Florida.

[@bobbun4369]

What???

[@christaylor9095]

"I'm the Governor! The buck stops iver there." - Meatball Ron

[@jimb8847]

I was going to share this video with everyone on my phone contact list,but I am not interested in sharing the slightest bit negativity.

[@phillipwilliams2069]

Dear Ronny D, President Truman had a sign on his desk that said: "The buck stop here."