The Existential Agony of Watching Michael Knowles Take a Political Compass Test

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[@jakethebaker6946]

"Our race is superior to other races:" Knowles: "Well, hmmmm, let's consider this for a minute..."

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

Well I mean if you win a 1 mile race instead of a 40 foot race you would be weaker right?

[@at5203]

"Well what do they mean by race? Do they mean a car race like NASCAR? Or maybe they mean the human race, in which case yes, I agree, we are superior to fish. I have once again proved how bad this test is with my superior intellect"

[@dvidSAS]

@@user-xz4du3es5p lets be honest the 5 meter dash is statistically less successful then the 20 meter in measuring endurance not to say that the 5 meter is worse it’s just... different

[@carolinaandy5059]

@Chocolatemoose 9 idk why but for some reason I just honed in on your pfp and it unironically looks like both the ultimate symbol of communism and facism.

[@jakethebaker6946]

@@carolinaandy5059 lib socialism

[@reasonableperson6259]

"Are black people human?" Michael : Well, hypothetically speaking...

[@nemesiszer0708]

“What a stupid question, I am of Sicilian heritage”

[@Alex-hj1vk]

😭😭🤣🤣

[@nikkidevitz]

@Tyler Hackner i think they know that what they are saying is racist, they just kind of convince themselves that they aren't.

[@victoroa1974]

"Well, in an abstract kind of way we could say that... "

[@evolvingegomaniac8350]

Vaush asks David Pakman that same question in this interview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boW5Y2V5dpljaas&ab_channel=KyleHopper

[@fivetwoeighty7012]

“School buses should be green, not yellow” Michael: This is a stupid question, school buses are yellow, disagree.

[@rickrolld1367]

"Homeless people should be given free food and free shelter" Michael: This is a stupid question, homeless people should just work harder, strongly disagree

[@TheQueen-sw4th]

@@rickrolld1367 He'd also say that it would make them lazy and will never work

[@Velvetx4cove]

@@rickrolld1367 Michael: "This is a stupid question, homeless people should just work harder to receive a promotion, strongly disagree."

[@vidyagaems4063]

@@Velvetx4cove Homeless into homesomewhat

[@soulplexis]

"The holocaust shouldn't have happened" Michael: this is a stupid question, strongly disagree

[@robertwang2830]

"Don't trust the government. Also my country can do no wrong. Also free market is good. Also the free market is bad if it involves globalism. Also I don't believe in international laws. Also other countries are illegally subsidizing their industries. " Jesus this man is a living Jreg video.

[@ethandew1768]

Ikr

[@huldanoren951]

Atleast Jreg makes sense

[@frocco7125]

LMAO

[@user-qr2yr4ni4x]

And that why I hate capitalism because it leads to globalism therefore making it degenerate, economical nationalism is the only solution.

[@ybyby3rdday]

He doesn't say my country can do no wrong. He's saying he supports what his country stands for and the people in it. But he doesn't blindly trust the govt. No American does

[@handarule]

Michael Knowles took a "which Hogwarts house are you" quiz and got the Third Reich

[@William-Morey-Baker]

Ahh, shit... Good stuff... Lol

[@catofthecastle1681]

Great one!

[@123sleepygamer]

That literally made me laugh out loud

[@justcarterr]

Yea everyone I disagree with is a nazi

[@miguelpereira9859]

@@justcarterr The guy's political compass test showed him pretty damn close to the Nazi category tho

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

"I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong. I agree" *MY FASCISM DETECTOR IS THROUGH THE ROOF!*

[@Ringoshiiro]

Starbound!

[@ugly9498]

People who shout fascists every second minute are the same ones who get offended when people overuse communist

[@Blake-ux6gm]

@Will Meslin Kinda a weird and aggressive non sequitur there my guy

[@psionicdongpunch]

@@ugly9498 cope lol

[@kam1034]

@@ugly9498 can always count on an authrighter to have the dumbest takes

[@shoople]

"is hitler bad" "you see, we have to examine what this leftist quiz is trying to get me to say here"

[@Anthony_MD]

“How can your country be wrong?” And that is Nationalism in a nutshell

[@nexio8324]

"Is genocide bad?" The very phraseology...

[@comradecherrypie9363]

😂😅

[@deoxyribomorph99]

The phraseology of this phrased phrase is very poor phrasing

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

@@deoxyribomorph99 LMAO

[@DGollp]

"Well, that depends on what you mean by genocide? Like complete anihilation from the face of the earth or just targeted murders of racial minorities? So as a general rule I might wanna say yes, but there is a lot to discuss there."

[@NotCthulhu]

"Well, Palestine exists, so no" - Ben Shapiro's honest cousin, Jen Bashpiro

[@achatun1547]

"How can your country be wrong" As a german that is a VERY weird thing to hear.

[@lieli_tash2777]

as an israeli it is a weird thing to hear to 👀

[@MadmanZachary]

@@lieli_tash2777 as an American it’s a weird thing to hear.......

[@davitdavid7165]

Lets just agree thats stupid,no matter the country.

[@Pink_pr1ncess]

As an Alien, that is VERY weird. Even for me

[@jannecapelle_art]

SAME WHAT THE HELL LMAO hes so confident about the stupid shit hes saying, i almost feel bad for him

[@f-35alightningii79]

Imagine failing a personality quiz.

[@cookiecola5852]

Might just get a rope and pull him to an asylum

[@rompevuevitos222]

Guess what that means

[@Zack-vi7is]

"Are you a racist?" Knowles: "see this is a tricky question here"

[@rattmcpossum]

“Is racism murder and rape bad?” Him: “this SNEAKY QUESTION trying to make me look bad when I answer no

[@comeradedoggo3880]

The questioner must be a lib

[@Htiy]

Which *radical* leftist wrote this question 🙄

[@cameronstith7145]

Micheal: What a dumb question! Strongly disagree

[@ananousous]

@@Htiy Probably that Authoritarian Bernie Sanders

[@stevesteve88]

@finalgeneration what

[@Marcela-tx7gh]

Karl Marx: 2 + 2 = 4 Michael Knowles: STRONGLY DISAGREE

[@danielkhan1]

Well the very phraseology frames 2+2 as 4 as a fact rather than a hypothetical. It is purposefully phrased so when answered differently, I turn out to be the bad guy. Well, consider this. Karl Marx is obviously not an authority on the matter, but I read an Ayn Rand book that said 2+2=5. Obviously math is just an abstract concept, so I'm gonna go with 5 here.

[@meep2k]

um actually the answer is five so i'm going to hard agree

[@lilsaam]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5nOoJiwZc6bn7M

[@lilsaam]

@@ElectrusBoom socialism is when women and black people are in movies and tv shows

[@lilsaam]

​@@ElectrusBoom socilism is when they ban ppl from twitter for saying the n word

[@djdhsjjwkefkw]

“All people deserve equal rights.” Michael Knowles: Well, this is a stupid question….

[@quandariousgooch2163]

Akshually he regects the premise of the queshtion.

[@djdhsjjwkefkw]

@@quandariousgooch2163 Yesss..

[@brokensilence3268]

"I could no more renounce my country than I could renounce my own family." I mean, people can renounce their families.

[@generalerica4123]

Not to these people. Family and allegiance to the nation state are paramount to people like Knowles. So much so that it would never ever occur to them that these are renounceable.

[@spitfirexo1646]

@@generalerica4123 Unless that family is left-wing or lgbt or poor, etc, then they cant get rid of them fast enough

[@nataschajordan6053]

also people can renounce their countries - theres even a law for that its called treason lol ^^

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@nataschajordan6053It's only treason if you sabotage it in some way

[@lotanowo]

This really boils down to some unhealthy attachment anxieties developed in their childhood.

[@tvremote9394]

"I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong" >agree strike one, you're out

[@whodis2053]

Amazing that he literally said “how can my country ever actually be wrong” and then compared the state to his family

[@buriednameless965]

@@whodis2053 And of course he subscribes to that dumbshit narrative that you always have to support and put up with what people do just because they're related to you

[@lumpypillowguy542]

@@whodis2053 somewhere, Hitler's ghost just laughed

[@fraudulentfem7322]

Not just an out, that's an ejectable offense

[@GJPolitics]

Honestly there are some questions on the quiz that you literally HAVE to either agree or disagree and its just crazy when someone doesn't 😂

[@Alex-cw3rz]

this dudes a Christian, so he follows Jesus's teaching, yet believes in an eye for an eye and in retribution rather than forgiveness... No wonder this guy is contradicting himself constantly

[@wraithwrecker_]

Yeah, as a christian, this was agonizing. He constantly tried to "Adam and Eve" his way through the test which makes no sense at all. All he knows how to do is tie things back to the bible in the least historically literate way possible.

[@ducati4prez]

He's catholic

[@beanieguitarguy4070]

@@ducati4prez Catholicism is a branch of Christianity.

[@ducati4prez]

@@beanieguitarguy4070 yeah i was just pointing it out lol

[@conchronic]

@@ducati4prez I bet the pope is pissing him off lately.

[@ToruKun1]

Here's the preface from the beginning of the Political Compass Test on the official site: "Before taking the test: Please note that this isn’t a survey, and these aren’t questions. They’re propositions. To question the logic of individual ones that irritate you is to miss the point. Some propositions are extreme, and some are moderate. That’s how we can show you whether you lean towards extremism or moderation on the Compass. Your responses should not be overthought. Some of them are intentionally vague. Their purpose is to trigger reactions in the mind, measuring feelings and prejudices rather than detailed opinions on policy." Michael Knows-Less and Beebo Shapeebo: [literally do the exact opposite of what the preface tells them because they are Big-Brained 5Head Boys]

[@djdhsjjwkefkw]

bruh lol

[@lilysnape6520]

This reminds me of the ''Wahl-o-mat'' we have here in Germany. Before nearly every election it goes online with the parties that are able to be voted for and the questions are based on the programs of the parties and often the group behind the ''wahl-o-mat'' asks the parties also these questsions to get their standpoint. Then you take that quiz like this - Just spontaneus without overthinking the question even while you are able to click on a button that explains the idea behind the question. In the end you see how the viewpoints of the different parties agree with your own. It's not meant to be taken as serious.

[@rompevuevitos222]

If only we didn't have over 30 minutes of him proving he doesn't have any reading comprehension.

[@amyheath6324]

“Is racism bad?” I reject the premise of the question, but if I haaaaaaaaaad to answer

[@jamesdawson2906]

I’d say very slightly disagree - Knowles, probably

[@djdhsjjwkefkw]

Knowless: “I clicked strongly disagree because I am not racist, and I am good, therefore it is not bad”

[@TheGunboat]

Take a shot every time Michael: -Doesn’t understand what a hypothetical question is -Argues with an imaginary strawman -Says injustices are ok because they have already happened -Offers a roundabout explanation for the easiest moral questions and still answers mildly Follow these rules, and hopefully you will have died 3 minutes into this video and will have spared yourself the suffering

[@lennertvdboom]

And... I'm drunk

[@CephalicMiasma4]

-Invokes a socialist jew who turned the other cheek and despised rich people as support for authoritarian capitalist nationalism

[@lanewise9378]

- Quotes the bible

[@toericabaker]

Good breakdown of his rhetorical strats

[@alexb8433]

I don’t want to die from alcohol poisoning

[@PayondeAwsome]

"My race is superior to other races." Michael: See now this is a tricky question...

[@freckleheckler6311]

It’s true. Facts don’t care about your feelings. We are sewpeerior to others. We are experts in every single field.

[@TheFreepie]

@@freckleheckler6311 trust me if you watch Michael Knowles there's no way you are part of the master race, nothing more degenerate than falling victim to the conservative culture war victim narrative

[@caoilfhionndunbar]

yes, of course mine is. NASCAR is far better then the Indi 500, fight me

[@CarlosAnarchoVega]

“Muh whyte superioriteh”

[@ZephLodwick]

I guess you could say that white people are better adapted to live in cold climates, but from a Darwinian perspective, there's no such thing as 'superior' in a general sense. There's just being adapted to a certain environment. And anyway, we don't live in the Stone Age anymore. Most physical differences between peoples are irrelevant outside of sports.

[@devforfun5618]

"from each according to their ability means nobody works" so they aren't working according to their abilities, are they ?

[@verycoolguy3457]

Lmao what

[@kevinflynn4649]

God do I hate the "You can't be moral without religion" idea.

[@roberttheeternal978]

Hell, I feel like most religious people are super immoral

[@didncozosksma4466]

Saying this as a religious person, one of the best things to happen was the separation of church and state, I hate when people use religion as a stone to stand on to push their politics upon others, and then say they're in the right because they believe in a God.

[@cookiecola5852]

Alot of religious people belive they be punished by their god if they do wrong, without their belive they might just been world worst and cruel cult Its like they comedy on themself without the realization🎉

[@thunderspark1536]

​@@cookiecola5852 Indeed, like why is saying you need a sky daddy threatening to send you to burn for wthernity the reason you are a good person instead of, well, being good to help others?

[@littlemoth4956]

@@mschell8022 Tf is a right wing liberal

[@sol5139]

"how can your country ever be wrong?" *me a german* 👁👄👁

[@ish4638]

*me a brit* 🤔

[@austin5944]

Me an American 😵

[@QueertyUCR]

ikr? Only a lunatic accepts whatever their country does. In Argentina people with any amount of native blood aren't shown on tv or magazines, like at all, even though they're all over the place. But the other day I was watching a netflix show from Scandinavia with actual POC in it and was like this country is just hopeless I don't even want to be a part of it lol

[@patrickanderson62]

Me an American with a basic understanding of history 👀👄

[@samuelgaskell6424]

it’s the years of pledging to the magic price of cloth since kindergarden influencing him.

[@datboi3747]

“Best presidents of our recent history” “Ronald Reagan” Straight to fucking hell

[@danieldaw1778]

Ronald Reagan is old school Republican Jesus, straight up. How else could one look at the fucking avalanche of bullshit effecting modern America that can be laid directly at his feet and call him the greatest president?

[@caoilfhionndunbar]

@@danieldaw1778 BuT ReAgAnOmIcS

[@Goliath5100]

@@danieldaw1778 Because they willfully put blinders on and blame the problems on everything else. My mom does it all the time

[@CarlosAnarchoVega]

@@danieldaw1778 crazy things is, these people will be saying that same stuff bout Don Trump

[@nonamed56]

@@danieldaw1778 like what?

[@man-tk8mh]

drinking game: take a shot everytime michael misses the point of the entire fucking quiz

[@Nimish204]

Damn you, I nearly died of alcohol poisoning

[@Wil_does_stuff]

wonderful game, unfortunately, i am in the hospital with alcohol poisoning

[@S.D.323]

i died and went to hell

[@proctorritter5176]

I have a theory that Michael was rejected by a goth girl with lots of piercings and tattoos in 10th grade, and this started his “I’m not on the far right, but…” character arc

[@arby327]

Canon to the grifter lore

[@proctorritter5176]

@@arby327 true, but the upcoming “I don’t think Black people are evil, just fatherless and lazy, so I’m not a racist” prequel DLC may alter this lore a little bit

[@Envy_May]

or a goth boy.

[@mish375]

Or he was rejected by a black woman and thus began on his racist downward slide.

[@mileslong7103]

Knowles is literally the Walmart Christian Shapiro.

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

Christian here. Don't relate that ghoul to us

[@carlostaffanelly418]

@@alessiodelcastillo1613 I'm Christian too, and i would also call him a christian shapiro, but only because shapiro is jewish

[@dnddmdb642]

He's like a hallmark movie version of Shapiro.

[@ColtsMan2005]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j37bc3abZsarh5o

[@SuperHuscarl]

Nah, he's more like the Dollar store brand Shapiro

[@dnddmdb642]

Calling weed a "foreign lib thing" is like saying it is popular with "jazz musicians".

[@nukiradio]

And RnB singers *cough*

[@beanieguitarguy4070]

@@nukiradio Somebody’s been smoking the Jazzy leaf.

[@hollandscottthomas]

@@beanieguitarguy4070 Yazz Cabbage

[@keyan1219]

The funny thing is in china weed has thousands of years BC But then again they’re those foreigners with those weird eyes so I guess they don’t really count

[@thequester7634]

Wait what's wrong with jazz musicians?

[@ignitionfrn2223]

3:45 - Economy should serve the people or the corporations 5:35 - Blind Patriotism 6:20 - Nationalism 6:40 - Supremacy Bait 8:10 - Enemy of my enemy = friend 8:20 - Militarism 8:50 - Information becoming entertainment 9:45 - Class division >country division 10:15 - Controlling inflation > controlling unemployement 11:45 - Regulation of corporations 12:25 - Marx Quote 14:05 - Commodification of water 15:00 - Commodification of land 16:15 - Anti Billionaires 18:20 - Protectionism 18:25 - Shareholders > Workers 19:45 - Tax the rich(too much) ? 22:05 - Pay to health 23:10 - Regulation of corporations n°2 23:25 - Free market but... 23:35 - No regulation 25:05 - Ab0rtion 25:10 - Question the authority 26:45 - Eye for an eye 27:30 - No funding the arts if they can't function commercially 28:35 - No classroom attendance compulsory 28:40 - Ethnocentrism 31:05 - Parental spanking 31:20 - Defying the parents 31:30 - Marijuana 32:55 - Education(nation of workers) 33:00 - Ugenics 33:50 - Disciplinarian parenting 34:30 - Multiculturalism 35:00 - Bucks = works 35:10 - Avoid the problem>facing the problem 35:35 - No immigrant integration 35:40 - Corporations are good 36:55 - No funding broadcasting media 37:25 - Counter terrorism 37:30 - One party state 38:00 - Surveillance state 38:10 - Death penalty 40:15 - Social hierarchy 40:25 - Abstract art isn't art 42:00 - Punishement > rehabilitation 42:35 - Rehabilitiation is for wusses 43:05 - Businessman & manufacturer > artist & writer 43:25 - Stay in the kitchen 45:40 - Environementalism 46:10 - Trust the establishment 46:55 - Astrology 48:45 - Moral=/=religion 51:10 - Charity > Social security 54:30 - Born unlucky 55:00 - Religion in education 57:05 - Sex outside marriage 57:10 - Gay adoption 1:00:30 - Legalisation of pr0n0 1:01:50 - Get off my bedroom 1:03:00- Gay , born that way ? 1:07:15- Talking too much about s3x 1:11:15- Conclusion

[@codemonster8443]

Good job man.

[@CJODell12]

And don’t forget blaming the left for EVERYTHING bad.

[@elliesahaydak1503]

You put wayyyy too much effort into this lmao

[@nibui8295]

Appreciate the effort 👍

[@Name-dl3uq]

"Is Torture bad?" Michael Knowles: I disagree with the premise of the question.

[@kiwi_2_official]

actually since this is the political compass it would be "Torture is bad"

[@lukas4112]

"Marijuana shouldn't be introduced into our culture" ...but it already is... Making it legal doesn't change that.

[@ZephLodwick]

That is certainly a dog-whistle about not letting Mexicans into the country.

[@kirbysthiccthighs]

@@ZephLodwick without a doubt

[@axollot]

It's such a part of humanity our endocrine system is an endocannabinoid system. It uses cannabis and cannabinoids for the body's natural ability to regulate it's own chemicals.

[@amariongabriele9354]

@@kirbysthiccthighs And probably making sure black people stay locked up.

[@spookysomeone]

@@amariongabriele9354 true

[@kx7500]

*“should everyone be treated equally regardless of race or sexuality?”* STRONGLY DI- ooohohooo you almost got me there you sneaky quiz.

[@katiebayliss9887]

@Hawaii Groypster what?

[@Jay-uh6wq]

@@katiebayliss9887 this guy's account was made two days ago and he's commenting no to every similar comment. He's just a grifter kid.

[@katiebayliss9887]

@@Jay-uh6wq uh lmao not surprised

[@khazarhay]

All men ... are NOT created equal! Some are born swifter afoot, some with greater beauty, some are born into poverty and others born sick and feeble. Both in birth and upbringing, in sheer scope of ability every human is inherently different; Yes that is why people discriminate against one another, which is why there is struggle, competition and the unfaltering march of progress. Inequality is not wrong, equality is. so for that reason i must strongly disagree

[@katiebayliss9887]

@@khazarhay oh baby, you tryna justify classism. Don’t do that

[@LordLoocker]

Test: "Murdering people is wrong." Knowles: "Well I think the way the test is using "murdering" here is to mean like "economic growth through capitalist means" is wrong and so obviously I disagree with that."

[@ahuman3393]

“I am a racist” “Now this is tricky because racism exists and I *gets smugger* have a race. Now based on that and the existence of other races means im gonna have to put strongly agree but I wish they’d worded that better”

[@cheddercheesed3375]

Our race has superior qualities. “This is a tricky question”. I’m fuckin dying

[@freckleheckler6311]

@;; m&m 's it’s true though. We DO have seepeerior qualities.

[@freckleheckler6311]

@Time Thyme no. It is NOT an “undisputed” fact. Just like black peoples Dominance in speed competition isn’t “societal” and afterwards “undisputed”

[@brycemanasco5473]

The tricky part is hitting agree on camera

[@vanmello1680]

@@freckleheckler6311 Stay malding degenerate 💙

[@themoralagent]

@Time Thyme good on you for calling them out mate

[@Nightshade_98]

"People have an inherent desire to work and be employed." 5 mins later "If we give people what they need to survive they won't work!"

[@crishealingvtuber8626]

Capitalist logic.

[@nukiradio]

@@crishealingvtuber8626 wow, you had a little typo there. You typed capitalist logic, when you meant to say *MISSING* logic!

[@zeggsy0554]

@@nukiradio I don't understand. You typed the same thing twice. ??? HA! GOTTEM *dab*

[@biskitboi2476]

Michael Knowles "I'm not a fan of corporal punishment" is the same Michael Knowles who said " I LOVE the death penalty"

[@zarki-games]

"Do you hate black people?" "Lol, I don't know, what does this question even mean? Is it talking about gang violence? Yeah, I don't like gang violence. Hmm..."

[@nokiot9]

😂 Fkin right? Like it’s a pretty straight forward question

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

Calls himself a Catholic Is ok with blindly supporting his country whether it is right or wrong even though that's exactly what God condemns

[@dudedaniel1127]

Well if you call God a country then supporting your country no matter what, is something the Bible supports

[@myglasseskeepslipping]

Listen... you think Catholics read the Bible???

[@calebchometa1382]

@@myglasseskeepslipping more than baptists probably

[@agees924]

American Catholics are a different breed. 🥴

[@carolyntalbot947]

@@myglasseskeepslipping 😄💯

[@jakethebaker6946]

These are the fabled "libertarians"

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

The fabled "libertarian" who somehow managed to get himself into the Authoritarian Right quadrant.

[@jakethebaker6946]

@Jacob Wood That is correct. Take a look at this quote: www.goodreads.com/quotes/3194162-one-gratifying-aspect-of-our-rise-to-some-prominence-is

[@sethrussell6393]

@@jakethebaker6946 So it used to just mean anarchists, but now it's a bunch of people who are fine with most authoritarianism, as long as they don't have to pay taxes and can have weed?

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

@Jacob Wood he speaks correctly, libertarianism was a socialist thing until the 1960s with Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, and Hayek and all them bastards. ecology.iww.org/node/3951

[@jakethebaker6946]

@@sethrussell6393 yup

[@The8BitPianist]

I thought "existential agony" was clickbait. I was wrong.

[@GabiGhita]

Pro tip: Sneak the bottled water question in a conversation and you'll know instantly whether the person you're talking to is a psychopath.

[@RobertEdwinHouse9]

"Is our race superior to other races?" Well lets say hypothetically

[@gec-tree8035]

Dutch you have a plan comrade

[@Ramstaandy]

"The very phraseology of the question"

[@iggsolo]

I think Knowles makes a VERY STRONG argument that, at least, his isn't

[@khazarhay]

Well lets say hypothetically all men ... are NOT created equal! Some are born swifter afoot, some with greater beauty, some are born into poverty and others born sick and feeble. Both in birth and upbringing, in sheer scope of ability every human is inherently different; Yes that is why people discriminate against one another, which is why there is struggle, competition and the unfaltering march of progress. Inequality is not wrong, equality is that is way i completely agree

[@bryansanchez6352]

@@khazarhay huh?!?!

[@saumyasrivastava6093]

I like how he just ignores the words "consenting adults" because of how much he doesn't understand them

[@ipodtouch495]

Conservatives: "We believe in limited Government and individual freedom." Also conservatives: "WE MUST REGULATE YOUR GENITALS"

[@dylanbarnes9015]

@@ipodtouch495 actually that isn’t what he says. He said being gay was immoral and against his religious views, not that it should be illegal. So he isn’t regulating anyone’s genitals

[@miguelpereira9859]

@@dylanbarnes9015 True it's important to not generate more confusion over these topics

[@ipodtouch495]

@@dylanbarnes9015 I was referring to his stance on abortion.

[@angelman906]

@@dylanbarnes9015 POLITICAL COMPASS, this test is how you would want the government to be like, so yes he does want being gay to be banned.

[@andrewjones162]

“Here come the rape police” I think you mean the normal police

[@drewskt1]

Conservatives: "Trans Women aren't Women, CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE"

[@tubulartom666]

Legally corporations are considered persons so they have the same rights and protections as actual people. Pretty wild concept.

[@sydhamelin1265]

"You'd have to really screw up to get right authoritarian." Knowles: "I always support my country no matter what." There we go.

[@CarlosAnarchoVega]

@@katyungodly Supreme Leader President Prime Minister Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen of the Republic Of Wadiya.

[@louie3216]

Knowles: “There’s no such thing as international law so I agree with military action.” Even better

[@shirotahan6520]

That's how you tell a story with 3 sentences.

[@ryankelly8074]

"how can your country be wrong". And people take this guy seriously?

[@Xpistos510]

*"no matter what"* is the problem here.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

"how can your country be wrong" uh SLAVERY???

[@blackknightjack3850]

My first instinct was the Holocaust. I think on some level he knows that blind faith in the nation state is stupid which is why he had to effectively try and say "HiTlEr WaS nOt GeRmAnY"

[@Romanticoutlaw]

@@blackknightjack3850 god no kidding. He conveniently misses that germany permitted hitler to thrive, it's not like the man just popped into existence one day fully formed like athena and took over the country

[@luispaiva9619]

Are you speaking hypothetically? 😂

[@clayfoster8234]

Former conservative here. The trope with the pilgrims is cherry picked from the writings of William bradford. Basically it boils down to the very first year they had agreed to live communally, sharing their harvests and work, etc. and for several reasons it was a disastrous year. After which they adopted laze fare capitalism (as intended all along) and it was a great year. So of course movement conservatives have jumped on that correlation despite the causation being speculative AT BEST!

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

I had no idea, thank you. I could tell Michael Knowles must have been referencing something he read, because it made no sense to me.

[@mediterraneanmint89]

I Like how he says he likes water being a commodity because “we have so many options for drinking water” like your option to drink 7.0 pH natural spring water over some inferior water is more important than ensuring everyone has access to clean drinking water. I’m not entirely opposed to water as a commodity but that’s a really stupid fucking response. When water becomes scarce, people like him will be hoarding bottles of Evian while a portion of the world dies of dehydration.

[@toatrika2443]

This segment was all circles of hell combined

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

Fr

[@thek2despot426]

... plus a couple more we didn't even know were there. I'm pretty sure I saw him invent some new ones along the way too.

[@SquiddyHiggenbottom]

...except lust. Knowles is an industrial-strength ladybit drying apparatus 😂

[@espeon871]

@@SquiddyHiggenbottom It’s really mean of him to take away his friend Ben’s position as the master of lady droughts. Poor Ben, imagine having a sister and friend who’s actively trying to take away your achievements. His sister is trying to be genderbent Ben and Michael stole his ladybit drying king status.

[@klip8726]

There's a special pain to watching Michael Knowles. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Wouldn't wish it on Michael Knowles himself.

[@AnimeFan9833]

I felt that pain at first but after hearing him answer some more questions, that pain became so overwhelming that it turned into numbness. Now it's like watching a clown trip over a banana peel again and again.

[@GiovannaCardoso]

Right? He says his ridiculous stupid takes with such certainty that it’s very cringe.

[@sayidah9585]

the immediate contradictions to his own points as well. it’s extremely disappointing i must say.

[@vantahawk2834]

Don't worry, he will never _truly_ be able to watch himself. He lacks the self-awareness for it.

[@GlitzPixie]

the pain is in knowing some people take this clown show seriously, like, he's not even remotely ideologically consistent and still manages to influence people

[@louie3216]

I lost it at “this is a tricky question” in reference to the superior race question and when he just clicked “disagree”

[@S.D.323]

I mean some races could have superior qualities to others and racism would still be entirely evil and immoral so it doesnt really matter either way

[@octavioavila6548]

Some races have higher cognitive ability than others on average. Therefore, there exist characteristics of a race that are superior to the same characteristic in another race. The answer to that question has to be “Strongly agree” on scientific grounds

[@pythondrink]

​@@octavioavila6548yes, certain groups of ppl tend to do better in certain things. The moment you however say one race is superior to another, you're gone out of science and making a value judgement. Also, that value judgement is silly coz it's extremely reductive.

[@missinglegs]

This guy is like chatgpt, he's never once considered his position in terms of how they interact with each other, he just heard them and repeats them over and over

[@MadHeart-rw9xh]

"Inflation is just some abstract idea," 15 minutes later "Stock traders do lots of stuff, like add liquidity to markets!"

[@normtrooper4392]

That was so infuriating

[@EzraFieldsofStrawberry]

If I piss on Knowles, am I adding liquidity to his market?

[@MadHeart-rw9xh]

@@EzraFieldsofStrawberry If anything, that's the most tangible way to do it

[@nicolaim4275]

@Hakim Habib Abstract ideas can be measured.

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

@@nicolaim4275 But they're still abstract, because they're not concrete; not physical, right ? ANd even if that measurability was all of three us' (Him, you and I) common definition of "abstraction", then he'd still contradict himself

[@The0Stroy]

"Marihuana is a new thing" Stoned Scythians in 4th century BC: Wat?

[@GogiRegion]

Ah yes, a plant that’s been around forever is a new invention as opposed to alcohol products that we all know are pulled directly from nature.

[@nukiradio]

The dissonance there was spectacular. He called an actual plant, that he would have to claim God created, was a "foreign new lib thing". His brain yaws so hard I don't know how it stays in the air.

[@kloakekloaker1020]

@@GogiRegion alcohols history is just as long as cannabis, wine for instance has been cultivated since 5000 bc., not to mention things like psychedelics like magic mushrooms or peyote where use could predate civilization. Sry I'm a plant/crafts geek I don't like it when ppl shit on alcoholic beverages like beer or wine and create these weird hierarchies of drug usage. Marijuana isn't a part of European culture like wine is, that's more of an India, central Asia thing.

[@piesmuggler7268]

lib plants brother

[@shanecoleman5309]

@@kloakekloaker1020 on another note, some of the oldest texts we have in any language are ancient Sumerian brewing recipes. Alcohol production is literally as old as civilisation.

[@malonee]

"How can your country be wrong?" Me: *sweats profusely in North Korean*

[@malonee]

@@0bviouslyDave these vpns have come a long way

[@Ajsopranosrubberdux]

Just sweat in American

[@cookiecola5852]

Knowless: Well hypotetically speaking North Korea is only half a country so I tried my best🤣😂🤣

[@dr.veronica6155]

Funny how whenever he knows his answer will make him look bad, it's suddenly a "dumb question".

[@gusostby4554]

“Do you agree with the Nazi’s intentions in World War 2?” Knowles: “Well the way this question is phrased suggests...”

[@user-gh1vc9kb4e]

No. 11 on the 25-point program of National Socialism is the abolition of unearned income, such as rent collected on a residence by a landlord. If you're a communist, then this is one of several instances of common ground between you and the Nazis.

[@bonkmeabeab3563]

@@user-gh1vc9kb4e leftists believe that everyone should get enough to survive, that income everyone gets to live is unearned. nazis dont want that, if you dont work, you die. I just read all 25 points, there is not a single one i agree with lmao and id consider myself an anarchist communist. maybe if youre talking about tankies then sure, they share some things with nazis because theyre also authoritarians. nazis and leftists dont have anything in common except for universal healthcare.

[@user-gh1vc9kb4e]

@@bonkmeabeab3563 I'm so relieved to hear that you do not desire to abolish absentee ownership, such as when a landlord leases a house to a tenant. If "an-coms" like yourself are becoming more libertarian in your viewpoints, then I welcome that reformation.

[@roxef]

@@user-gh1vc9kb4e Nazis were anti-communists, so if you are an anti-communist, you have some common ground with the Nazis. Nazis wanted a strong military, so if you're a Republican, you have some common ground with the Nazis. Hitler was allegedly a vegetarian, so if you're a vegetarian, you have some common ground with the Nazis. Classical liberals used violence to overthrow monarchies, and communists use violence to overthrow capitalism, so if you are a classical liberal, you have some common ground with the communists. Capitalists oppose monarchy and communists oppose monarchy, so if you're a capitalist, you have some common ground with the communists. Communists are pro gun ownership, so if you're a conservative, you have some common ground with the communists.

[@gusostby4554]

Yo I wasn’t trying to actually start a discussion about Nazis I just thought the way he kept responding to these questions was ridiculous lmao.

[@kyoungt14]

The worst thing about Micheal Knowles in this video is that he was being completely brain dead while also acting really smug whenever he would answer anything

[@bryntendo]

I hate that. People who are too stupid to realise how stupid they are, so they think anyone saying something else is actually the stupid one

[@kyoungt14]

@@bryntendo Yeah I agree with that. Now that I think about it, I just realize the Michael Knowles political compass video is a great example of the Dunning Kruger Effect.

[@alexxxO_O]

@NotGonnaTell MyName It's not infuriating, it's hilarious.

[@alexxxO_O]

@NotGonnaTell MyName Sir, I have a little seedling of vitriol for these individuals. You know what is good praxis? Making them know you find their very existence funny to some degree. Make no mistake, I am aware of the consequences of individuals like Ben Shapiro & Micheal Knowles, I just find their cadence hilarious. They are like children but they fail to grow up.

[@alexxxO_O]

@NotGonnaTell MyName What's the point of NOT laughing in their face? You enjoy yourself, they are degraded for their axiomatically fucked views.

[@Wulfspyder]

I hear they tried to make Knowles the smartest person in a room but when they had everyone else leave, the universe resented the concept so much that he was forcefully teleported elsewhere.

[@cbfilms2444]

"Nationalism is a fucking disease" is the funniest thing I've heard so far today

[@thenameismary4874]

I mean it's completely true to be fair

[@arthurmorgan1550]

The auth-rights never say strongly disagree on the question about their race being superior. Kinda sus.

[@adamsmith1573]

@@louisblack8474 lmao it's always medbay

[@notadoll17]

Arthur is based

[@Pink_pr1ncess]

@@notadoll17 It’s kinda sad that he’s dead now

[@notadoll17]

@@Pink_pr1ncess yeah :(

[@rickenman9844]

Matt Walsh straight up answered "strongly agree"

[@chelsgo8675]

Knowles probably unironically agrees with the meme: “Are you racist?” “No.” “Do you think poor people should be able to eat?” “Yes.” “Then I declare you a communism!”

[@Ahov]

I lost 80% of my neurons listening to this guy

[@seandavidr]

"How can your country be wrong?" "Hello I'm 1930's Japan."

[@DDub04]

Michael Knowles is the only person who can fail the Political Compass Test.

[@kwesi7994]

Steven Crowder: Allow me to introduce myself

[@Zephur0s]

Blaire White: fakes the whole test

[@crypt5129]

Ben Shapiro:

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

How the hell is he so stereotypical? I'm sure as a leftist I'd be way more anarchist than many but I wouldn't fall into Ur fascist cultural pitfalls

[@thenameismary4874]

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Anarchy gives way to fascism and doesn't do anything sustainable

[@gianluca3425]

Funny how he disagree with "all authority should be questioned" then proceeds to question even scientist and their research saying that you should wear a mask.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

He literally questioned the relevancy of EVERY question given on this test, and yet says one shouldnt question whats given to them in real life.

[@moose6784]

He didn't say no authority should ever be questioned, he said all authority should not always be questioned. Obviously he just thinks that "the science" doesn't fall within the authority that should not be questioned.

[@fireworksfordinner]

"Did you grow the cow? To cut? To make the salambi??" Is what I will be writing on protest signs from now on.

[@user-rn2wy7fi7u]

Marx: states a fact Knowles: STRONGLY DISAGREE Hitler: our race has many superior qualities Knowles: hmmmm, well you see

[@Perskan.]

Marx: states a fact yeah i dont know about that

[@DumbJockQuaterback]

@@Perskan. Pwned

[@aa-bc2qi]

Michael Knowles’s Sicilian skin got destroyed in this debate

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

I'm surprised he doesn't have Mafia brethren

[@gusostby4554]

💀

[@Ragnell123]

“This question is very dumb if I change the question.”

[@magnum1118]

I have taken this test three times over the years. Once during my (private Christain) high school days, once towards the end of college, and once a couple years ago. I am happy to say my results have become further and further left every time.

[@timesink8947]

I come back to this video about once a month just to hear Vaush say "I just want to call him a statist and throw him in a garbage chute" again. Always cracks me up. Great video.

[@The_Wokest]

Where has SociaIism Worked? I need an example to win an argument with a Conservative, can you please help me?

[@LimeyLassen]

@@The_WokestThe New Deal.

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@The_Wokest We'd have to find a socialist country that hasn't been sabotaged by the US or that wasn't a dictator using it as cover for their actual goals. OR look at any socialistic measure like power lines, dams and roads...

[@jaspercaro6666]

Michael Know Less

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

Excellent

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

*HA* goteeeemm!

[@eccentriastes6273]

You did it. You win the comments.

[@retentiveguy7624]

No Michael knowles nothing

[@lydiafayre9806]

Bravo

[@1997lordofdoom]

This guy tries to play 4D chess with almost every single question lmao.

[@weatheranddarkness]

meanwhile the questions are literally just "what do you think of this thing that some people say?"

[@cassanateli]

Chess requires a basic understanding of the game though

[@princecaspian03]

Man, I love it when Vaush just goes feral after Knowles says he doesn’t understand. Just mhmm *chefs kiss*

[@katthemischievous2167]

"Barack obama forces me to give my sandwich to the homeless person" Ya, and you have 100 other sandwiches sitting behind you that will go bad, but you think since theyre yours, you should be able to let them all spoil

[@largeegothegreat3645]

question says "killing jews is Poggers" Michael Knowles: well you see this question is worded really poorly

[@nargacuga05]

“Corporations are people too” ummmm, no, they ain’t

[@nukiradio]

Hnah! I had brunch with twitter yesterday. Xey were a really kind entity!

[@spacecase8888]

I'll believe corporations are people when they can be sentenced to the death penalty for their crimes. If you can't be sent to the electric chair, you're not a person.

[@TheBdjx]

@@spacecase8888 Based

[@agees924]

spacecase8888 Thank you! Thom Hartmann actually did a video on that too, a massive electrical company admitted to killing a bunch of people because they were cutting corners with how they installed wiring. If you killed 10 people you’d at least go to jail for life, maybe get the death penalty. But corporations can pay a little fine at the most and continue on like nothing happened.

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

They are only made up of people

[@jayjaythejetplane5390]

This has somehow become my comfort youtube video that I rewatch at least once every three days

[@ZeroKage69]

I have my youtube queue filled with like 20 videos from vaush and this video is on the list a couple times because I like to play it multiple times a day. Along with the canadian nazi that said kleeks lol. He says cliques correctly and then he starts saying kleeks i dont understand lol.

[@henryb1721]

Vaush screaming at his monitor is like a warm blanket

[@godzillaworks4585]

@@ZeroKage69 honestly I prefer the former (kleek) pronunciation

[@nickbrooks3054]

@@ZeroKage69 Isn't cliques pronounced 'kleeks', though? That's how I've always pronounced it.

[@Necroskull388]

26:17 Math students in university actually spend their entire study questioning the most basic aspects of the accepted mathematical canon. That's how you learn to accept it as truth with confidence. Theorem, proof, theorem, proof. Nothing is taken for granted.

[@seanhubbard6033]

oh I was definitely questioning it but not in the way you describe

[@lilsaam]

question: black and white people are equal michael: *so* *i* *think* *at* *the* *heart* *of* *this* *question* is refering to culture and whether cultures are equal. we have to air on the side that this is a badly written question clearly from a leftis point of view so I guess I'd have to say disagree on this one.

[@jorgua3250]

pov: michael is afraid of the urban population

[@ifensler]

Aren't you the same people who say black people are too dumb to get an ID?😂😂

[@vanmello1680]

@@ifensler i can see my reflection on your brain

[@selfishcapitalist3523]

No, we are all unequal. Infact, same person is unequal at different points in time.

[@sidwislff6184]

You look weird

[@C3H5N3O9]

"How can your country be wrong" Kim Jong Un: *I like this man*

[@ChrisTian-cy7eu]

Yeah north korea had a bad run since its foundation in 1945, but it is my country. What should i do about it. Greetings from the Gulag.

[@conorflynn6666]

How can your country be wrong. Adolf Hitler is like this man

[@TypOnomIcon]

I don't think he's actually stupid. There's some pretty impressive mental gymnastics that he employs to justify his answers. He's not dumb, he knows exactly what he's doing.

[@anthonytitone]

For someone who hates abstract art he really found a way to deconstruct every single question into an abstract expressionist piece

[@trevor5666]

Imagine giving Bernie Sanders and Attila the Hun as examples of Left and Right authoritarianism, rather than.... Stalin and Hitler??

[@Xiphactinus]

Well, actually, that’s praxis.

[@supergamer5121]

Cause Stalin is dead, and they want to tie Soviet Union to Bernie and just disprove what he says is bad simply by him “being like the Soviet Union which was bad”. And for Hitler, as Vaush said, because they are pushing the lie that Hitler was secretly a leftist and there is a global conspiracy from Marxist educated historians to pin Nazism on the right when in reality it is on the left. If they acknowledged Hitler being auth-right, it would end their lie.

[@kelva1304]

@@supergamer5121 I had to argue with someone a few weeks ago who was saying that fascism and socialism are basically the same thing ("it's right there in the name!"), and inherently left. Guy was going on about Aristotle and had an extraordinary vocabulary too, which in theory should be one of the signs of above average intellect, but clearly not in this case.

[@TheNaturalnuke]

@@kelva1304 intellect =/= wisdom, being able to use the words does not mean understanding the words

[@drippeeboye607]

@@TheNaturalnuke less understanding the words and more like not understanding his own ideals, when you argue with someone you'll be able to tell by the end of the conversation who had the better argument simply because bad arguments almost always poke holes into themselves. Contradiction is very strong because when you cant keep to 1 linear truth then your entire argument becomes a lie

[@veles1415]

“This guy is a compass... That always points wrong”. I will definitely borrow this.

[@CarlosAnarchoVega]

“You'd best be coming up with a new plan, and it better not be relying on that Compass. The whole crew knows it ain't worked since you was saved from the gallows.” “My compass...is unique." "'Unique' here having the meaning of 'broken'.

[@seanwhitehall4652]

36:39 for anyone interested

[@WrecklessEating]

This dude lives in a different reality.

[@sparkofcuriousity]

Yes he does, but what's scary is that he wants to make his reality everyone's reality. And he and others like him are successfully inching their way to make their insane reality "the reality"!

[@sparkofcuriousity]

@@moshinrafsanjani7379 yes, i agree.

[@chana5302]

Wanna know why his last name is Knowles? *cause he knows less*

[@frocco7125]

"Everything I don't like is a cultish religion, but actual religion is fact."

[@supermutantsam1160]

“I subscribe to a religion, but I will also use religion as a derogatory term for any belief I don’t like.” -every religious conservative pundit

[@Colddirector]

@@supermutantsam1160 Seriously, the way they try to compare leftist policy to religion is always so bizarre - it always sounds to me like "ha ha you're just as stupid as us :)"

[@Alberto-ny7kf]

@@coreyander286 lmao imagine actually believing in all that shit

[@samuelgaskell6424]

“The left is a CULT!!” *goes back to praying at a plus sign*

[@pantasaron9253]

I understood those questions better than him when I took the test in 8th grade and English isn't even my first language

[@wahhat]

I can’t imagine anyone understanding them worse XDD

[@aidengoosemorey3499]

I took this test in sixth grade and I understood them easily lol

[@someperson7733]

SAAAAAMMMMEEEE

[@georgefabars7218]

Teacher: what's 2+2? Michael: That's a tricky question seeing how-

[@June_The_Goon]

that's the guy who said the eradicating thing, right? Right.

[@josephdickinson5183]

He said the idea not the people

[@June_The_Goon]

@@josephdickinson5183 Oh yeah, and if he said "eradicate Jewism" it would definitely have fucking slid right through, innit?

[@bothi00]

​@@josephdickinson5183"we don't have a problem with Jews, we just have a problem with Judaism and international jewry" lmao

[@post-modernneo-marxist8102]

I love how he takes every weird question, interprets it in the weirdest way, uses it to awkwardly pivot to an even weirder question and then blames the test for being weird.

[@johngr1747]

The test is actually wierd as hell but he makes it even wierder!

[@natej1026]

Michael is the literal embodiment of the wojack sitting on a throne of his own brain meme.

[@derekellis4170]

How to describe someone with a noun: Edit: I just remembered that similes and metaphors exist why am I so dumb

[@youngturkey203]

Michael knowles is a psuedo intellectual

[@nickelliott5182]

@@youngturkey203 Michael Knowless

[@ethanwilliamson782]

@@nickelliott5182 it’s such a simple joke but I just fucking love it

[@max.cr33p]

we have to stop allowing these below-average intelligence, middle aged men to have a platform just because edgy teenagers want a father figure in their lives

[@abouelkhees]

Brain : Hey, you asleep? Me : Yeah, shut up!! Brain : *Vaushe screaming : CONSENTING ADULTS **

[@ProfLakitax]

This explains the eradicate transgenderism speech perfectly.