Jordan Peterson Has No Idea What Dave Rubin Is Talking About

[@TheCynicalCircle]

Dave Rubin has no idea what Dave Rubin is talking about.

[@BCFoolin]

If our grandparents most likely had it worse, why are we trying to make America great “again”?

[@darkeimp555]

this should be pinned, omg 😂

[@kingfrank01]

You, my friend, just posted the greatest comment in KZbin history!! Please accept this award with honor and I hope the responsibility is not too burdensom.

[@asare240]

That really made me think...

[@danettelamonicaDFSP]

Good point! Preach Truth Teller!

[@maxhorsford7800]

Damn beat me to it

[@adambirch6466]

Rubin blocked me on Twitter because my ideas battled his too hard.

[@hui975]

And what was that hardcore idea of yours?

[@tactical_philanthropy]

Recovery block

[@I_Get_Computers_Puting]

Me too on Instagram, Lol. I'm still trying to get him to block me on Twitter

[@realzachfluke1]

Just too many high level important ideas!

[@impermanencenoself5965]

Same

[@djfadestudioremix]

RIP Michael Brooks

[@lamin6]

God I miss that man.

[@dervinpoison666]

Yeah he was a legend I miss his takes

[@jpmartinferrum]

Hearing Sam make him laugh is evergreen. Wish I got to meet Michael, he influenced so many & gives people a vicarious lesson in being a great human being always. That includes laughing at Dave Rubin

[@jpmartinferrum]

It’s a heartwarming thing to see the Love for him

[@sinatra222]

Brooks was awful, he's probably burning in hell rn.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Dave's so right, like think about 1800s slave treatment vs 1600s slave better sanitation, better communal huts so they couldn't have been oppressed.

[@vladtheimgroyper9813]

Jordan Peterson: Marxists won't debate me. Richard Wolff offers a debate. JP: Marxists shouldn't get a platform, it's like giving one to a Nazi. Also JP: talks with Stefan Molyneux who talks alt right race realism.

[@squirmdwerm8856]

@BLAIR M Schirmer Hi. Dane here. Why do you say "sorry, Denmark"?. We are not marxists. At all. Btw, JP actually has debated Slavoj Zizek, who is a renowned marxist philosopher and psychologist. You can go watch the debate on JP's channel. Peterson even makes some concessions and backtracks a bit. He has this caricature perception of what Marxism is that I almost feel sorry for him.

[@marlock6573]

@BLAIR M Schirmer The kind who got famous for opining about a bunch of things that have absolutely nothing to do with his actual field of study or expertise.

[@cram3004]

What kinda dumbassery is this.... fuckin brain dead idiots who even think they're somehow more brilliant and serving in a gd comment section. Egotistical fucktards

[@cram3004]

@Vlad WRONG

[@cram3004]

@@squirmdwerm8856 do explain how he believes in a "caricature of what Marxism is"?? Wtf are you talking about, trying to be clever

[@Yotun-of-the-WWW]

According to Dave's logic he is not oppressed. He has an I-phone. He pulled it right out.

[@mrbadguysan]

Calling Rubin a dumpster fire is an insult to dumpster fires. At least a dumpster fire can keep you warm.

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

"If you ate today, you are not oppressed" - Marcus Verulius, slave merchant, circa 50 BCE

[@AJ-is5ut]

Nice hyperbole and false equalivancy. But that's what leftists do best. Lol

[@freezinhotroniz]

@@AJ-is5ut sorry your cognitively limited conservative brain cant pick up on the similarities

[@somebody3143]

Wait, hold your horses now. Having a CELL PHONE means that you can’t be oppressed!?!

[@bibisatanyahu9396]

Dave "Battlefield of ideas but I'll block you if you challenge me!" Rubin.

[@jameshamann465]

My grandparents faced lynching. Now I just face discrimination in the workplace for being trans. I must not be oppressed. I'll take my unlawful firing with a smile

[@apacheslim]

People like Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson use this argument because they measure success or happiness by material possessions. Not by more profound things such as a fulfilment at work and the quality of the relationships for example.

[@pauldavies6810]

Except they're completely bloody wrong! The audience they're talking to is almost entirely comprised of people who's parents and grandparents were absolutely more materially wealthy than they are now.

[@apacheslim]

deenman23 Hey at least they have an iphone though. Do you know how much better they have it than their grandparents that were getting lynched?

[@nathandrake5544]

In fairness to him Peterson emphatically does not believe that material possessions should be the measure of a good life. There are some interesting contradictions in his thinking.

[@femto4301]

Peterson does not follow the “materialism brings happiness” line of thinking at all

[@EricLing64]

"The slaves weren't oppressed because they didn't have to hunt and gather like cavemen." What a strange argument.

[@rust44]

Some homeless people have cellphones. I guess their lives are great.

[@Toppo2099]

Also the government gives out free cell phones lol. So his argument is shit regardless.

[@893loses]

Go to your local library and you'll find a lot of homeless people charging their cell phones, getting woken up by the staff because they're fucking exhausted.

[@karlmarxthebolshevikrabbi2536]

There are cellphones in Venezuela and North Korea. Therefore, no oppression.

[@VB-dp1vs]

When does Dave Rubin EVER make any sense? All he does is feed right wing talking points and blame the left for everything for that Koch cash

[@WikeddTung]

I gotta say, there's no smug condescension tastier than Sam Seder smug condescension when he's burning Dave Rubin. It's a thing of beauty. Go get 'em, Sam!

[@trentonmcclintock7836]

WikeddTung You should try some condescension that's actually earned sometime. you'll never be satisfied by seders brand again.

[@WikeddTung]

@@trentonmcclintock7836 I'm sure you -think- believe there's wit in there somewhere but you fail to impress. If you insist on replying (and you really shouldn't) try not to bore me. How's that for well-earned condescension?

[@thomasmackelly7685]

@@trentonmcclintock7836 is china a free society?

[@professionaldouchebag128]

Mr. Battlefield of ideas vs Lobster incel leader

[@indiahodgson3816]

by dave’s logic, someone living under jim crow is not oppressed because their grandparents had it worse bc they were slaves

[@kristianveijola3234]

Dave Rubin is so deep and intelligent. Noone can experience real oppression if they have a phone in their pocket. Amazing. Why didnt I think of that?

[@FleetaFleegalBuckFut]

The King of Incels × The Marketplace of Incels

[@hui975]

And an internet incel with an incel-dar! ^

[@arshanmostafavi9621]

Women in Saudi Arabia have cell phones too, I guess they're not oppressed .

[@sawilliams]

Arshan Mostafavi No, they’re oppressed because of Islam.

[@arja2317]

Who even needs to drive when you can just talk to friends on Coveryourfacebook?

[@imjustboredleavemealone9055]

@@sawilliams but by Dave's logic they are not opressed because of iPhones.

[@arshanmostafavi9621]

Saw W No, they're oppressed because of Saudi Arabia. Turkey,Malaysia,Indonesia , and many other Muslim countries do not oppress their women the way Saudi Arabia does.

[@josephgodslayer9961]

@@arshanmostafavi9621 but they have cellphones. How can they be opressed

[@ivan134]

Dave Rubin has no idea what Dave Rubin is talking about

[@robertstan298]

^

[@Goatchild90]

facts 😂😂😂

[@bengreen171]

I think Peterson's thinking "shit- is that what I sound like?"

[@Mad-wv6ol]

you want to hear something funny Jordan Peterson fan base call him the rose park of free speech 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@DrakeFellwing]

Gadgets don't remove oppression.

[@elitistdsaliberal1032]

If the right is so individualistic, why do they keep referring to the left as a collective as if we're all the same and think the same? This SJW hysteria is ridiculous.

[@scottwilliamson5804]

Hahahaha - Dave "the rube" Rubin (individual) calls the left (collective) collectivists ...... Elitist DSA Liberal (individual) responds by asking why the right (collective) always calls the left (collective) collectivists.... Sounds like Dave and Elitist DSA Liberal view the world very similarly

[@zachk5249]

Bc it's a response to the collectivist grouping you literally just used in your comment. Dummy. If you call all of us the right, why can't we call the people that all agree on everything like sheep the left?

[@scottwilliamson5804]

@@zachk5249 I'm conservative too - but this is not a winning argument... Logically speaking

[@engurland]

Does Dave ever get halfway through a monologue and think, "what the fuck am I talking about?"

[@Emajenus]

He overwhelms his own brain with his high quality important ideas.

[@mikeyoungblood1642]

If oppression is a hoax, then why doesn’t openly gay Dave Rubin move to Alabama or Mississippi?

[@thomasmackelly7685]

Strange that this gay guy chooses to live by the coast. He'd still have his phone in alabama right?

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

The funniest part is Dave actually thinks he's making a profound point whilst making a complete ass of himself.

[@NikkiBell10]

One set of my grandparents owned a business and were considered upper middle class, owned their own home while in their early 20s, and were both important members of their town. The other set of grandparents owned several acres of land, had a business at one point, and lived well. All four grandparents never went to college. I have TWO degrees and make way less than they ever did. I have no student loans. No debt. I just have a low paying teaching job. I'm considered lower class - living paycheck to paycheck.

[@IizUname]

Good for you for teaching our youth! Thank you! Teaching should be a coveted job in the United States, instead we pay them poorly and disrespect them.

[@KidNamedVashin]

They sit there and have literally the same conversation over and over again. Like wtf what is going on here? I'm convinced that Dave Rubin is a robot

[@oolacilesbotnet6564]

at this point I'm just surprised the right wing hasn't jettisoned him for all the second-hand embarrassment he brings to their cause but then I remember they've been hailing Sean Hannity for years and it all makes sense: the stupider you are the easier it becomes to spout nonsense proganda which doesn't make any sense at all because you have not an ounce of self-awareness.

[@thomasmackelly7685]

npc rubin

[@dannyjesse3655]

Should we have told black people demanding civil rights in the 60s "Do any of you have it worse than any of your [possibly enslaved] grandparents?"

[@poeenjoyer6514]

This was definitely a conservative talking point back then

[@Seekarr]

He's the sort of guy if he argued "If you have a cell phone, you are not oppressed." Then you brought up the point "Venezuelans have a lot of cell phones." His response would be "Typical left, arguing that Venezuela is NOT oppressed."

[@scoobertmcruppert2915]

Seekarr Nah, he’s not smart enough to turn it around like that.

[@hecivil1]

According to Rubin's logic, Martin Luther King Jr or Malcolm X shouldnt have advocated for racial equality in the U.S because they were better off than great great grandparents because great great grandparents were slaves. What a ridiculous argument.

[@DJEMBEMOTION]

Are you saying there is no flexibility in his logic?

[@yaserthe1]

OMG the Rubin bashing is sooo damn Hilarious , please dont ever stop it. The man deserve it as has no actual ideology, other than what his master Shapiro tells him.

[@tuffy135ify]

"The West" is a terrible attempt to say "White people countries". "West" is SUPPOSED to be measured West of the Prime Meridian until the Antimeridian...so basically just Spain, Portugal, part of the UK, parts of West Africa, the Americas and some Pacific Islands... Most of Europe and Australia is the East.

[@bernlin2000]

Good Lord: Yes Dave....I'm worse off than both my grandfathers, especially my maternal one. He had a great paying union job with amazing benefits. He retired at 55 years old and invested well enough to have a very high (likely 7 figure) net wealth. The kinds of union jobs he worked in the 60s and 70s don't exist today.

[@krypto96]

Rest in power Michael Brooks, I'm going to miss these dunking clips and your thoughtful commentary

[@elitistdsaliberal1032]

"Free market places of alt right ideas" -Dave Rubin.

[@rasjeff1]

I don't think that even Dave Rubin knows what Dave Rubin is talking about.

[@Mad-wv6ol]

lt was Ben Shapiro who told Dave lm not going to bake you a cake because your gay

[@RandomU5erName]

Jordan Peterson: Wow are my ideas really that stupid? Or is it just Dave?

[@ryan_806]

Both

[@barbiquearea]

More like Jordan Peterson: "And people thought my ideas were stupid"

[@johnsmith1474]

Jordan Peterson is oppressed by the sales guy at Men's Warehouse.

[@robertglass1698]

My grandfather dropped out of high school to take a job at a steel mill. He never had any debt and he recently passed away at the age of 89 to the respect of his community. I graduated from college with 50K debt and a degree that wasn't worth a job. So I had to get a masters degree and I will still be in debt for the foreseeable future. But hey, I have a phone in my pocket, so it's all good. Especially considering that the phone is siphoning off all of my behavioral information to be sold to tech giants and intelligence agencies. I could get rid of it, but my employer expects me to be available for contact so I need it. Hmmm. Honestly I'd take his life, except for the guilt I would feel about dropping the civic ball and allowing sociopaths to take over society while he enjoyed his life.

[@internetomatic]

this, exactly. "You have capitalist Big Brother in your pants, so you're fine." lmao the right wing isn't intellectually honest at all. It's heartbreaking that so many millions fall for this shit.

[@IizUname]

I. Agree.

[@IshtarNike]

Let's all imagine for a second that Dave Rubin is giving this talk in 1962. "Everyone in the room has indoor plumbing. Something our grandparents couldn't dream of. If you're black maybe your great grandparents were slaves. You have all this, and you think you're oppressed? How terrible of you. How truly truly ungrateful."

[@giresrowgh]

Black Brit even if you say it today ! My parents lived in a place, WHERE THERE WERE STILL NO FRIDGE , and PLUMBING FOR MOST citizenS!

[@jayncoclassic]

1800: if you have a well within walking distance you're not oppressed

[@MongoMike77]

Dave Rubin won't debate Sam because cellphones.

[@tonystark4292]

I bet Jordan Peterson regrets ever befriending Rubin.

[@bibisatanyahu9396]

@@Azrael.777 Autistic people can be really smart so that means nothing.

[@tpu55]

I pity the poor kids looking to *Dave Rubin* for advice ...

[@lennoxbaumbach390]

I suspect that most of his viewers are just delusional boomers, like it is the case with TPUSA. :D

[@matthewvicendese1896]

At my age, my grandparents owned their own home while raising 8 children. They only had one wage between them. My grandfather was a mechanic. I am a university educated teacher. I have 3 children and have given up on owning a home. I do have access to better technology and health care, can't say my life is any better though.

[@utubepunk]

@mayrana2 It's a big club & you ain't in it.

[@windfall]

That reddit dude is a fucking hero

[@johnbeal8395]

Has Dave Rubin ever made an argument without lumping the left into a giant straw man, putting words in our mouth?

[@mrlahey8855]

@@ned2315 LOL you just proved his point..

[@oolacilesbotnet6564]

@@ned2315 so much for the holy altar of the individualism you guys won't shut up about. what happened to judging every single person on their own individual merits?

[@MugRuith]

No.

[@professionaldouchebag128]

Dave "begrudgingly pro choice" Rubin

[@sprockkets]

"Hey people earn 2 dollars an hour to make this phone only cost $1000 for me so that Apple brass can earn 40 percent margins on hardware. So it's just a perceived oppression."

[@blackearl7891]

It's a stupid argument. If I lived better than my grandfather than so did my grandfather lived a better life than his grandfather. It doesnt negate the struggles either of them had. It's a call for ultimate complacency.

[@georgeboole3836]

The alt-right simultaneously likes to say no one is oppressed/you have it better than your grandparents, while at the SAME TIME, saying we need to MAGA and make it as good AGAIN as our grandparents had it. Honestly, feel like 70+ million Americans just like common sense and I fear it isn't "teachable".

[@Yotun-of-the-WWW]

Dave conveniently doesn't ask if those kids have it worse then their parents.

[@akhan5002]

Yup. Cause his whole claim fails then.

[@entertain7us148]

EXACTLY. He acts completely ignorant toward the fact that the economy grew post-WW2, which was when most of our parents entered the job market, and then he acts like the 2008 crisis never happened. yes i have it better than my grandparents, because my maternal grandparents lived during the Great Depression and my paternal grandparents lived in a rural Italian village during the rule of Mussolini. but no fucking way do I have it better than my parents, who, number 1, received a completely free education under Gough Whitlam's government, which was a window of about 8 years in the 70s. number 2, back then two teacher's salaries were enough to buy a house that is today worth almost 4 million dollars, whereas my generation can barely afford to rent a one bedroom apartment while studying and working full-time, and there have already been studies showing that we will be the first generation to not have a retirement plan nor be able to become homeowners - we'll have to rent our whole lives. See, this is the reality of millennial life in Australia. That's where I live, that's where Rubin's talking, and it's almost offensive to me that its SO obvious he did zero research on the issues facing the people he's talking to. He even paints these uni protests as deranged and unhinged, while the closest example I can think of is a student walkout scheduled for tomorrow at my uni, University of Sydney, aimed at pressuring action on climate change in preparation for this month's state election. That's the most reasonable student protest I can imagine, and it's our everyday reality. Rubin has somehow got his head stuck inside a fictional hellscape that Sargon pulled out of his ass back in 2014 or something.

[@themessiahcensored882]

My grandfather bought a house cash after working minimum wage for 5 years, I don't know anybody who has it that good.

[@ihavetoreturnsomevideotape8852]

Dave's market place of ideas only include far right and alt right talking points and conspiracy theories.

[@bkbland1626]

Not much of a market, eh?

[@enjoi0555]

Total and complete win for the marketplace of ideas

[@chilldude30]

"If the dial of ideas has been turned to low for the last few years, it's quickly moving into the hot position" - Dave Rubin

[@cosmosofinfinity]

Every day I get the shit kicked out of me, but it's okay because I have a cellphone. I am therefore not oppressed.

[@akhan5002]

Dave rubin doesn't know what Dave rubin is talking about

[@jajujajujjawa]

Dave: "Everyone pull out your phone. Hopefully, it's turned off am I right!" *Entire room of college students erupts into laughter* Dave: "Raise your hand if your current phone is better than the last phone you had" *Every hand in the room goes up* Dave: "Boom!! oppression solved"

[@DC_Prox]

My grandparents owned and ran a successful corner store for decades. I was homeless for 7 years in Calgary. I have neat gadgets, but they had it better than me in the big picture.

[@robspencer6452]

Our grandparents could buy a house on one income, didn't have crippling student debt and the wife could stay home and raise the kids instead of paying a shit ton on child care. There were factory jobs all over the place that people could work and make a living wage instead of having to get a degree, and again not be in horrid debt. Also, the interest rates were so much better, where your money would literally double just sitting in the bank for seven yrs.

[@imjustboredleavemealone9055]

"Phones represent freedom." -Dave Rubin

[@edward2962]

Dave just coughed up some random phrases he heard other people say, but he clearly hasn't put any though into what any of it might mean. That's why Jordan is giving him that look. Jordan will go on tangents, but Dave is barely coherent.

[@estebancomulet]

Dave is just waffling utter nonsense. Can't believe the comments under most of his videos or videos with him (such as on Club Random with Bill Maher) where people praise him for being able to have a civilised conversation, without resorting to insults. Totally overlooking he has absolutely nothing substantive to say about anything.

[@Empyre18]

When Dave first pulled out his phone, I ALMOST thought he was going to make a halfway compelling point about how almost all of us now walk around with a device that tracks us, records our personal data, and eavesdrops on our conversations, meaning that from a certain point of view, we are oppressed by no longer having true privacy. Then he finished his point, and...nope, it was dumb.

[@zahinkohestani9926]

Rest in peace bro. You will be missed.

[@thomasmackelly7685]

"Do you guys not have phones?" - rubin

[@StevieDamnit]

10:46 - Grifters who are conscious of their own grift...like Tim Pool?

[@proto7310]

ugghhh.. Tim is such a fake...i hate how some leftist take him seriously.Tims grade a hack....

[@StevieDamnit]

@@proto7310 So far, only the Progressive Voice has gone after him recently. His channel is growing even larger ever since he was on Rogan spewing his bullshit.

[@professionaldouchebag128]

His audience are pretty far right. He made a video about a teacher who was telling a Muslim women to go back to her country and while Tim didn't agree with that, his audience was cheering her on. It's sick

[@proto7310]

Stevie84s i like joe but why does he always invite so many reactionarys!it really pisses me off...

[@TalabAlSahra]

Dave Rubin “Do you have it better or worse than your grandparents?” Me: “Well, my grand parents had it better than their parents in terms of income inequality, job security, wages, unionization, only needing 1 breadwinner, affordable college. I have none of that, so no, none of us have it better than our grandparents.” Dave Rubin: *pulls out cell phone made in communist China by slave labor* “Aha!! But did they have THIS!!!!” Me: *throws up hands* “Whoops, you got me there Dave...”

[@lau_dhondt]

Dave Rubin, expert in nothing

[@BruceLeedar]

Dopey Dave is an expert in idiocy.

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

He's an expert at making me lose the will to live every time he opens his fucking mouth.

[@imjustboredleavemealone9055]

Lol Dave Rubin's Reddit is trolling him by telling him that KZbin is unsubscribing them from his channel and he believes it. Great win for the marketplace of ideas. 👍

[@Atombender]

"How can you be hungry if you have a microwave?" ~Dave Rubin

[@openmind2161]

Jordan Peterson has become a Prop for Dave Rubin

[@stoneman472]

The fact that JP is the smartest guy between the three of them is depressing

[@mrgaudy1954]

I don’t think JP is dumb, he’s just milking dumb people

[@Darwinvoyager]

He does have a lack of awareness that might suggest some kind of developmental disorder

[@lisagalley]

I’ve become a sucker for any MR ‘Dunk on Dave Rubin’ clips. They are guaranteed to deliver a smile every time.

[@SplotPublishing]

Rubin confusing privilege with liberty. Never heard of gilded cages.

[@lollard]

Thing is... Jordan Peterson, as absurdly wrong as he is about everything, is a relatively well-read well-educated guy. I really hope when he looks at Dave Rubin, he thinks to himself "These are the idiots the world has clumped me up with? What has happened to my life?" And yes, Dave: I'm doing worse than my grandparents. My grandparents could pay for college in its entirety with the wages of a summer job. The economy of the post-WWII era was the largest and longest lasting economic boom in U.S. history (ya'know, when the top marginal tax-rate was like 90%). Worker productivity has surged over the past few decades while wages have remained stagnant (our generation is working longer and harder hours and seeing none of the fruits of that labor). Climate change is eviscerating the planet as we speak. Our economy is still reeling from the effects of the Great Recession, many families needing to juggle multiple low-wage jobs just to barely keep up with the cost of living. The poverty rate is 4 points higher than it was in 1973. God, I could go on and on. The big problem Rubin fails to see is that, yes, technology has advanced rapidly, revolutionizing the way we connect and communicate, but that technology has not translated into less work. It was once believed that by this time, we'd be working like 10 hours a week because of how advanced technology would become. Instead, it appears that we're working more for lower pay. It's one of the most absurd contradictions of late-stage capitalism. What is the point of technology if it's not to make our lives easier? Capitalism relies on labor and has turned to generating countless "bullshit jobs" to keep the system functioning the way it does.

[@pauldavies6810]

Exactly. Having a few shiny trinkets (like.. Shock.. A CELLPHONE!) Doesn't change any of these basic economic facts, especially about worker productivity, which has skyrocketed over the last 30 years.

[@manwithnoname4062]

I think Dave's Reddit put up the debate Sam Seder billboard up

[@Zactastical]

I'm trying my best to see where these guys are coming from... All I'm getting is an endless stream of presumption and passive aggression.

[@Zactastical]

@@johnoneill7947 Yes sir.

[@joshuarussell733]

@@balkanrhapsody Dude, I don't agree with Z_Colo, but fuck you. What a fucking asinine reply

[@raquelalhaqab5994]

If you have toilet paper in the bathroom 🚽 you’re not oppressed. 😂

[@fathel9221]

And competition would start to kick in, drones would deliver toilet paper, Amazon and blah blah blah

[@tayyabpirzada146]

Water is superior to toilet paper for hygenic purposes. The West needs to catch up with the East in this regard.

[@raquelalhaqab5994]

Tayyab Pirzada yes I know that. I used to live in Egypt. Water is more sanitary in most instances. However that wasn’t the meaning of the comment. It was basically to say Republicans will say you’re entitled if you have the smallest thing and your not in abject poverty.

[@noneya1238]

@@tayyabpirzada146 And here we go with our superior phones and logic and we haven't been wiping our asses properly.

[@tayyabpirzada146]

@@noneya1238 Hahaha yes

[@farsight6680]

If only Rosa parks had a cellphone

[@byz88]

She was on a bus and years before that they didn't have buses therefore Rosa Parks wasn't oppressed, she was just entitled. - That's logic! Facts don't care about your feelings. OWNED LIBTARDS!

[@jared.video.youtube]

"How can you be opressed if you have a cell phone?" -Dave Rubin

[@tonystark4292]

Dave Rubin tweets at Jordan Peterson a lot. I think there is something between them or Dave has a crush idk.

[@dappermasquerade4299]

my grandmother was able to raise 2 children while going to school and buying a house on a single income, yes, she had it better than me for fucks sake

[@GODDLYNESS]

@Achilleskneel I would, in a fucking heartbeat. Technology is meaningless if the civilization we live in is a rampantly corrupt, unstable, and unsustainable.

[@jellosapiens7261]

"Michael cackling like a hyena in the background while Sam reads something" is one of my favorite MR tropes.

[@MugRuith]

I can see how some might like it. To me, it is a bit cringy and seemingly forced as if he felt his job depended on it.

[@cf453]

I'm guessing you have a hard time with social cues.

[@polythenepam5032]

I love when speakers pull out their smartphones to illustrate the point that everyone owns a smartphone. It’s always effective and dramatic.

Rubin said is 100% correct. This video is nonsense. He said he said that being free, the irruption of social media and constant contact with it creates an artificial sense of crisis and emotional response because you are showered with information designed to capture your attention via outraged. Both Left and Right have become polarize to an unbelievable degree because of it and living in an echo chamber dehumanizing their political opponent and that leads to extremism. His point is not only clear, but true. I find astonishing that this video makes sense to anyone, specially because it is a phenomenon to which science has a description and a known diagnosis.

[@ElReyEnAmarillo]

Rubin: It’s annoying how people are always competing to see who is the most oppressed! Also Rubin: Who’s been more oppressed, you or your grandparents!?

[@ElReyEnAmarillo]

The point is consistently ridiculous. To frame marginalized people in a way that makes it seem like they WANT to be oppressed/discriminated against is horrendous. People don’t revel in being treated badly. So to say that people are actually actively, gleefully competing to see who gets treated the worse is absurd. And then to say that even if it was a competition, other people have had it worse so your not allowed to complain, really shows Rubin’s inability to see people with problems as just that, people with problems. He only seems to be able to see them as competitors for attention.

[@SensoriaMaRia]

I'm here for the ALWAYS spot on impression of Mr. Peterson's Kermit the Frog-ish voice. Thank you!

[@bumpyinspace_]

“If you have an iPhone, you cannot be oppressed” - Dave Rubin

[@wagner9527]

Not in terms of income, perhaps

[@bumpyinspace_]

@@wagner9527 you can have an iPhone and still be dirt poor. Maybe someone gave it to you or you bought it on credit, we need to stop associating true wealth with material possessions.

[@wagner9527]

@@bumpyinspace_ Not so poor, speacially in Countries in develpoment with shit currencies a Iphone is equivalent to some minimum wages (I dont believe rich people deliver iphones neither), but the thing is, in the past generation people weren't able to afford an old Telephone, now their sons and grandchild carry computers in the pockets. It's the opposite, wealth is not about the zeros in your bank account but about your purchasing power. A mountain of cash in Venezuela worth nothing.

[@thetonebox]

​@@wagner9527 that's not wealth that's sedation doofus.

[@SodaIceberg]

My grandad could pay for a mortgage with just the income from working at a bakery

[@johnjohnson7597]

Rubin believes everyone's grandparents lived through the holocaust

[@AJ-is5ut]

Yeah, and democratic/leftists policies aren't going to make it like that again. Notice how much more expensive things are right now? Notice how Trumps economic and trade policies were over turned immediately ? It's a coincidence huh ? Save the pseudo economic analysis, it's obvious.

[@erinsloan1871]

"I get older, they stay the same straw man" XD

[@gloverelaxis]

lmao my grandparents were insanely rich, had riverfront property, owned a massive pub, spent most of their adult lives sailing around the Mediterranean. i'm on the dole and have $30AUD to feed myself until friday

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

You have an iphone and a big screen TV though, so it's all good

[@gloverelaxis]

@@cockoffgewgle4993 no TV and my phone is a 5 year old Android :(

[@danielvincent1153]

If solzhenitsyn had a smart phone he could have given the gulag camp a bad review on yelp, and then competition would start kicking in and the whole thing would sort itself out

[@MG-io9ll]

Daniel Vincent yea your just as oppressed as him buddy

[@YungBrendan]

I have phone, now my chains r set free

[@howardbiel1958]

My Grandpa had one job. He had two cars, a house, a wife and seven kids. I have two jobs and live in someone else's RV. I do complex math everyday and he put nails in wood.

[@Cpt.PickHard]

thats comedy gold

[@jokerwick]

Oppression is when you don't have a phone. The more you don't have a phone, the more oppressed you are.

[@erict.5678]

Dave Ruben seems like the kinda guy that would get an honorary Doctorate, and insist people refer to him as Doctor Ruben.