Tim Pool Is A F-ing Moron

Tim Pool foresees a communist hellscape on the horizon as Chicago begins tackling food security,
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[@AgitpropPsyop]

“Libraries should serve a community purpose” *Tim, I think the purpose would become very clear if you ever decide to visit a library.*

[@jasonrollins8217]

But but that's where the keep the porn at.. Like books about blacks and gays and .... Books those things are not for the community Thier evil we need to burn them A book once hurt a child I saw it on the harry Potter documentary about liberal witches

[@AndrewClement]

Next week. Tim Pool: Schools should serve a purpose to the community.

[@j0j0dartiste21]

He probably thinks they are trans indoctrination centers that are hosting drag shows every morning

[@solomonverrico]

@@AndrewClement The not-at-all-stealth sequel to "Healthcare has no place in schools".

[@nyastalgiakitten]

​@@solomonverricomy school only has a nurse contracted once a week

[@williamdavidpitt9938]

I love how he creates a terror scenario of municipal groceries by recounting what Walmart does

[@hitthegoat]

Just like when they use pictures of McDonald’s with self service kiosks and say “this is what a $15 minimum wage gives you” despite the fact we don’t currently have a $15 minimum wage and said kiosks exist. Or like when they said “welcome to Biden’s America” during the riots happening under Trump’s watch

[@Kazutoification]

Damn, lol, good point.

[@one1blue]

And Amazon.

[@BlanBonco]

Walmart helps its employees get off government handouts..... oh wait

[@KaraZiasapiens]

As someone who grew up going to government-run stores on army bases, there was no difference between them and the civilian stores, other than being less expensive, and without sales tax.

[@jojo-gy9pp]

A carton of full flavor cigarettes for two dollars. We called them phlem flavor.

[@TheLisclark]

A lot of VA hospitals have PX mini shops in them, I volunteer to chauffeur for appointments just to get a peek and stock up on cheap candy or toilietries tax- free.

[@macersracers7459]

My dad was in the navy, no grocery store has ever compared to the commissary

[@kevinbaldwin7805]

Sounds like your saying the government shouldn't tax stores.

[@geraldtheoctopus1594]

​@@kevinbaldwin7805no, they're saying that the government should own stores which don't need to pay additional taxes because the whole cost of the goods goes to the government (like a tax).

[@elewis9180]

Not only is Tim Pool wrong, he grossly underestimates how desperately we need more coop groceries and the like in our cities generally.

[@miguelzurita3216]

If, still Sam Seder is on some serious cope of he thinks crime isn't the reason Target has left a bunch of cities

[@Honorbound43]

Tim pool is a shill for corporations, he isn’t just wrong he is purposefully doing this

[@dennisduncan7561]

Right, care to cite your sources mig?

[@Roaring2Thunder]

​@@dennisduncan7561yeah videos of people bum rushing grocery stores.

[@Dekubud]

For real. There is one in the area where I live and them having eggs for 2.40 every 3 weeks and veggies at 1.99/lb every now and then are saving me from having to eat nothing but dried and frozen food.

[@Shinius]

My favorite thing is walking conservatives through their own logic. "Businesses are supposed to make as much money as possible, right?" "Yep" "So if a business doesn't think it'll make money by placing a store at a certain location, they shouldn't do that, right?" "Yep" "So if all the stores decide to not sell in a certain place, the citizens in that place will be lacking those stores, right?" "Makes sense to me." "So, in order to help those citizens, the government is going to provide the services that the businesses refuse to do. Citizens get the services they need that the market logically will not fulfill." "THAT"S COMMUNISM AND BAD!"

[@strawberry641]

LITERALLY 😂

[@maybemablemaples2144]

Them: The Private sector will save us Private sector literally not doing that Them: Surprised Pikachu Face

[@gregrussell1787]

As correct as that may be you're missing THEIR logic. The left made some poor community feel entitled. They easily could work their way up but chose not to. So they get what they deserve if the grocery stores leave.

[@__-nd5qi]

The problem is they are using my tax dollars to fund that store and it’s not like they giving me the food for free when I’m paying for it

[@r.paulcooper5195]

you don't pay that much in taxes, c'mon @@__-nd5qi

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

"I can't believe cities are making sure people don't starve or made to travel incredibly far to get food because it's not profitable enough for private interests to do it... next they'll want to give people healthcare 🤢" - Tim Pool, trying his hardest to larp as a human.

[@barbiquearea]

Chicago's solution. Open a Save A Lot.

[@tugboat6940]

That was funny 😂

[@Terra_Lopez]

Ha ha, great points -- well said! 🥰

[@SickSkwerl]

​@barbiquearea the other solution - let them starve

[@musicaleuphoria8699]

​@SickSkwerl Basically the Ebenezer Scrooge move.

[@kaliver517]

"Capitalism failed Americans and any solution to fix it is communism." Thanks for the insight, Tim. As far as I'm concerned, the government can put grocery stores in every damned city and town in the country. Maybe we'd have some leverage against these food producers gouging us with incredibly inflated prices.

[@ShardDesu]

So... yeah, lets try democratic socialism, without the authoritarianism that wrecked it for China and Russia. If billionaires and multi-millionaires exist in the system, it failed completely. Capitalism clearly is a complete failure for the majority of people.

[@phuqizm1547]

Fuel costs is why food has gone up. You think the food just walks itself into the supermarket. Truckers have to move the produce and diesel ain't cheap. 7 dollars a gallon gas in commifornia

[@ShardDesu]

@@phuqizm1547 so what you’re saying is that the greedflation oil companies have applied to the cost of oil that has nothing to do with actual supply issues has caused food costs to also greedflate when corporations realized they could get away with it. Obviously you are correct and we should heavily penalize any system that rewards such predatory business practices with greater profit.

[@phuqizm1547]

@ShardDesu so the oil companies just decided to become greedy under Biden right? They weren't greedy before only now. A barrel of oil was trading negative in April 2020. Now it's around 100 dollars. Maybe if we didn't rely heavily on foreign oil we wouldn't be allowing Saudi Arabia to control production. Big pharma has made way more than big oil. The biggest transfer of wealth has occurred the last 2 years . Blackrock and Vanguard control over 80 percent of all assets. Since the Democrats hate big oil, they sure aren't doing a whole lot to prevent big oil from making a killing. First thing they need to do is get us back to being a major oil exporter like we were under Trump. Everytbing was better under Trump. Gas, food costs, rent , housing. It's almost as if they want us to own nothing and be happy.

[@grantduke318]

@@ShardDesu Maybe it has something to do with our current administration being strictly against fossil fuel industries, and their outlook of future cash flows; in addition to OPEC's dominate market share and its ability to strategically plan production rates to make US industries less profitable.

[@theferrit32]

Love the argument that the public grocery store will be terrible and inefficient and expensive and sell bad food, but it will also be so good that it will put all the private grocery stores out of business. The idea that public libraries are putting Barnes and Noble out of business is insane. He's just a dumb guy.

[@evangiles4403]

Yer his lobotomy only made his idiocy worse

[@RMForbes505]

Back in the late 70's I worked at a community cooperative grocery store. It was one of the best jobs I ever had. The prices were good and the customers felt invested in the store.

[@barbiquearea]

Was it one that operated in the Soviet Union?

[@wheressteve]

​@@barbiquearea nyet

[@avinashreji60]

@@barbiqueareahalf-wit

[@fahimp3]

@@wheressteve 😂🤣

[@ianh1504]

I worked at a co-op as my third job while i was homeless in the good ol' US of A! Helped keep me fed so I could be a good little worker at the other two jobs making money for big corporations while I couch surfed or slept in parks. Just the memory of it fills my heart with so much patriotism...

[@DK7783]

Barnes & Noble pushed out the local bookstores, Amazon pushed out B&N. Why isn’t Tim Poole looking to bring back the local bookstores? Why is he always for the poor corporations?

[@burningsnow9870]

Cause he's just corporate property. If he stops singing for them they'll just toss him out and replace him. He knows that. They wont hesitate to throw him to the wolves to squeeze what money he has back to them.

[@chrisrivera7215]

Tim's Ironclad Logic: "How dare the government provide a service in an area that doesn't have that service, but also they're gonna take options away from those who are without options. Therefore, do nothing so I can criticize how government doesn't do anything."😂

[@sarahcohen2222]

Random question but since the US already subsidizes agriculture and dairy industries on National and state levels, isn’t it just getting that food to people whose tax dollars already paid for it?

[@baby.nay.]

Thank you . I just came from living in California farm country, which not only is rampant with people in the KKK, but rampant with a bunch of people, thinking that any government hand out is a failure, but only if like you know, Black people are accepting it or something.

[@chitramitra6373]

Thank you, this is another great point!

[@vandal280]

"They're going to sell cheap plastic imitations of real products and undercut the businesses around them" you just described Amazon, Tim

[@biteofdog]

Yep. And Temu, Wish, Alibaba, Shein, and whatever other similar company cheap products come from.

[@tjenadonn6158]

And Wish, AliBaba, Temu, WalMart, Aldi, and the entire discount retail business model.

[@vandal280]

@@tjenadonn6158 True that. Amazon is an especially bad actor because they host the businesses on their platform, use algorithms to find out what's selling well, create a cheap imitation of those products, and then push their own versions to the top of the search results and bury the competition. It's disgusting. And of course Google is complicit because they are showing Temu and Walmart and Amazon results on their searches above everything else. You have to scroll and scroll to get passed all the bullshit and find other options.

[@BloodyBulletShellz]

that's literally just capitalism

[@grantduke318]

@@BloodyBulletShellz Is it? You could simply use Seder's own example of states like Pennsylvania that have state owned liquor stores... Studies show states with privatized liquor stores cost consumers $2.04 less on average purchases. Do you know why? Because government bureaucracies are less efficient than private businesses.

[@ianh1504]

"Theyre gonna be like aldi" Ok... the same aldi every suburban mom i know is madly, deeply in love with? Ok tim?

[@21stcenturyhiphop]

Bro, Aldi is LEGIT.

[@kurisu7885]

Aldi is awesome! Yes I don't find everything I want there but it's great! I was stoked when a new one opened in my town. Used to be a Staples. EDIT: I might sound sarcastic here but I'm serious. Aldi has some seriously good stuff. There are these peanut butter cups I found there, better than Reese', some really good cheese spread too.

[@andrewehyang]

This actually blew my mind when Sam said corporations are using crime as a convenient excuse to close underperforming stores when retail crime hasn’t increased significantly when compared to total sales percentage. Its true, many of the downtown areas are either low income that were in the process of gentrifying or exclusively zoned for retail and office space that didn’t rebound after covid, this shows how much pr and appeasing shareholders can twist the narrative.

[@ryanpeterson8319]

They’re not trying to compete with private businesses. They’re trying to supplement the failures of the economic structure

[@irshkashirkle]

There is 100% no chance that Tim pool actually ever saw those cans of beans and is just remembering what he saw in a cartoon as a child.

[@jasonrollins8217]

I also suddenly envisioned looney toons and the big can labeled beans on the cowboy sketches... And I do believe you are correct.. If you haven't noticed a lot of stories and fear comes from movies they once saw and no actual experience. We all remember Trump's rant on super cars prayer rugs, which was an exact scene he saw from a movie that played in the wh theater the day before

[@alexgordon6085]

When I was a kid in the 80's in Southern California, the local Ralph's had an entire aisle of generic yellow brand food that was exactly like what Tim is describing. That doesn't make him any less of a buffoon, but call him out on that stuff.

[@luna-p]

You say as a child, but I'd bet it was a cartoon he watched that morning while eating his name brand cereal-Os

[@irshkashirkle]

@alexgordon6085 even if he had seen them, he's still a buffoon for implying that plain packaging is somehow indicative of "corrupted" food, as though bright colorful packaging somehow adds to the nutritional value

[@jasonrollins8217]

@@irshkashirkle now now I'm the mind of a toddler or conservative who can tell them apart nowadays Bright colorful things seem more inviting and safe... Except rainbows for some reason they are scared of colors being portrayed in the entire spectrum... maybe it confuses them to much to know all colors can exist at once...

[@murtmurtmurt5808]

Had me rolling at "Sorry guys, I put it through the dipshit filter."

[@LoyalMatter]

I heard that Walmart and Target closed stores in Portland, Oregon over crime rates. Yet, there is a rumor from exemployees there were serious talks of starting unions for both stores.

[@solomonverrico]

I mean, does it really count as a rumor at this point? Both were in dire need of a union thirty years ago.

[@evangiles4403]

That would be the more likely reason

[@GoD_Quake]

LOL! The opening… “here is Tim Poole reacting without really knowing what he is talking about” That literally sums up every Tim Poole video EVER. 😂😂😂

[@kylejones8289]

The dumbest part of his argument to me is when he implies that grocery stores were hurt by lockdown policies during the pandemic. Grocery stores did very well during the pandemic. They were all considered essential services so they were not forced to shut down. Furthermore, people ate out less, so more groceries were purchased. This may be one of the dumbest arguments I have ever heard from a right winger.

[@ad34bballin]

Yeah I worked part time in my local supermarket in the smaller town I was living in at the time. And this was during the beginning of the pandemic until September when I got a different job. It was the only supermarket in about a 20 mile radius. It was consistently busy. And due to the supply chain, we were only getting limited shipments of everything, so people would be coming in to get what they could. We also had people come from around the state(New Hampshire) because their stores had similar supply issues. Them saying the stores were hurt is totally ridiculous. You’re totally correct.

[@tediekgb]

Right wingers are so dumb

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@trumpisthemessiah7017 lol that's a very fair point

[@baconcerberus]

Look at the shelves during covid. Toilet paper was sold out and the meat isle was practically empty.

[@PropagandaConsoomer]

People ate out more where I lived. Local small businesses though. They adapted quick and implemented covid measures

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

I’m a simple man. I see moron and Tim Pool in the same sentence, I click. 😋

[@mark7166]

How dare the government actually HELP people who need it!

[@clydecash5659]

I never even knew who Tim Pool was until I started watching this channel, so for me, this is like a Saturday morning cartoon and Tim Pool is the Doofensmirtz.

[@DRChupacabrah]

big Gargamel energy

[@jeweler1jcc]

As someone who lives in California, I can say that San Francisco is not collapsing at all. There is a reduction of brick and mortar stores in most communities because of online shopping. But it’s much easier to blame crime for this massive change instead of understanding the real reasons on these stores closing.

[@intheorigin0728]

Conservative logic: when things go well, it’s thanks to the market, when things go badly, it’s the fault of policies. They are perfectly ready to believe the space logic that policy causes crime, which causes the market to fail, but will never pause to consider the much more simple explanation that market failures cause crime. The market can never fail. The market can only be failed.

[@marcning918]

That's not by accident they always run cover for the way big business tries to reduce overhead at the expense of the local communities.

[@joelopez7459]

Malls are closing everywhere but i have to hear that stuff from people

[@SuzakuX]

@@joelopez7459 I literally haven't been in a mall since 2004.

[@irshkashirkle]

I live in the bay area as well, people back home ask me all the time about how dangerous it is 🤦‍♂️

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

"Communism is when the government does stuff, and the more the government does, the communister it is!" --Pim Tool

[@calibrating770]

communisinister...

[@DrWrapperband]

So the USA military is communist?

[@amycarpenter1484]

Stop! 😂😂😂

[@firefox1234ize]

Stop communisming me!😂

[@calibrating770]

Commie Cnuts are the most generous of lovers...so I've heard.

[@RaviPillalamarri]

"You know what's gonna happen? People will go about their day just buying food at the government run store, oblivious, OBLIVIOUS, to the fact that they're not creating any billionaires." - Tim Pool, probably

[@sonoftorin]

It figures that he stole a cat-he did choose “cat burglar” as his signature look. 😂😂😂

[@jayreedart]

Tim comes across as a guy that just hits buttons until he finds something that works.

[@calibrating770]

He will probarbly never be out of a job then ;o)

[@stevenkies802]

More like repeatedly hitting the same buttons even though it didn't work the last time.

[@Casmaniac]

If we could get a 1000 Tim Pools on typewriters, would they end up writing Shakespeare? lol

[@calibrating770]

@@Casmaniac What life expectancy does this particular lifeform have...? I'd need a number to make a calculated guess...;o)

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

You can just see the handle of what is probably a mall kiosk katana behind TP in the clip, all I need to know about this twit.

[@Lance-Oakland]

Here we have a story about people solving a problem in a way that benefits everyone and somehow Tim is selling it to his audience as impending doom.

[@marcning918]

It's his job to scare people about things that could potentially help them in their daily lives so they keep overpaying his advertising infrastructure.

[@jingbot1071]

@@Demotricus A big one, sadly. There's a lot of dumb people out there.

[@firefox1234ize]

His job is to tell bedtime stories.

[@theinvisiblewoman5709]

@@Demotricusyoung men who sadly didn’t get enough love and attention growing up making them overly susceptible to conspiracy

[@Ellieempress]

The right wing are corporate Christian fascists.

[@bulletsandbracelets4140]

Endlessly tired of my city being used by people who have no clue what they are talking about as a weapon against the political left. IL has been a politically divided state for decades, the crime isn't nearly as bad as people complain about, and maybe if more community programs like this were started we could actually start coming together to help these areas. Aggravating as heck. Really glad we got Brandon Johnson in there, I'm in the 'burbs so couldn't vote but I'm excited to see what he does! Hopefully he gets some good programs and changes in motion, it's been too long since a mayor was able to and we can't afford even more backsliding. Lightfoot destroyed enough of that trust when she wasn't able to deliver on much of anything to actually help the people of the city. Edit: The way he actively mocks the idea of people struggling to get access to groceries. Actually livid. Hate that this dude is respected and has an audience, he deserves neither.

[@TylertheCryeator]

"Libraries should serve a community purpose" tell me you've never been to a library without telling me you've never been to a library

[@afgyhujkj4765]

Imagine being mad that people are getting food. Absolutely bonkers.

[@barbiquearea]

He's not mad that people are getting food. I really doubt Tim Pool cares that black Chicagoans have to now get their groceries at Save A Lot because the big grocery chains like Walgreens have packed it up. In fact its the black residents of these very communities who seem more displeased with this new arrangement, and there was a big protest recently of black Chicagoans picketing outside of a Save A Lot store that opened in Englewood.

[@page8301]

I mean his name is Dim Fool so...

[@EpicAlcatraz99]

A government ran grocery store. Genuis. Tax the people to stock a business and then make em pay again to get anything out of it

[@EpicAlcatraz99]

Sam is conveniently avoiding why a city as rich as chicago has these "food deserts" lol

[@bro6568]

@@EpicAlcatraz99the people that live in that area don’t pay enough taxes for it to matter. It will definitely help those in that area.

[@drummerboycroy]

It is terrifying to imagine anybody listening to TP for anything other than comedic value. I cannot fathom attempting to talk to someone who takes this guy seriously.

[@beansnrice321]

If Tim's show is supposed to be comedy it must be because he is a joke.

[@Spider-Geek916]

LMAO, what, you don't think that the guy who predicted a 50-state landslide for the loser of the 2020 election would be a good source of wisdom? 😆😂🤣

[@pete_lind]

USDA report says between 2008 and 2018 in Kansas 105 grocery stores were closed , in 1/2 of the cases no new store was opened . 76 counties in US have not a single grocery store , 40 of those are in Texas 11, Nebraska 9, Georgia 7, Kansas 7 and North Dakota 6. Free market capitalism solves problem , really ? Does not look like it . Free market in US had 175 year to build cross country roads, did not manage to build a single one, federal government build 40 000 miles interstate roads in 40 years.

[@tsarzamancorpdna]

tim fans are slowly changing my mind on social Darwinism

[@leparfumdugrosboss4216]

Maybe they require TP for their bunghole.

[@tylershort1141]

Another thing that disproves Tim, military commissary. It's a federally ran grocery store that's a lot cheaper than out in town because they don't run a for profit racket. They have all the regular stuff you'd get anywhere else.

[@wyattlines7228]

Every time a capitalist explains why communism is bad and awful and evil, its just explaining capitalism.

[@abracadaverous]

They're claiming that they're closing a nearby Target due to theft, but that store is in an extremely stupid low-traffic, low-residence location.

[@joelopez7459]

with everything behind glass

[@christineherrmann205]

This makes me want to get my shots somewhere else. I hate lies.

[@julianmarsh8384]

This is the kind of country where the rich cannot ever get too much and the poor will always be portrayed as getting too much no matter how inadequate that turns out to be.

[@anonihme5142]

you’re jealous if you wanna tax billionaires 5 per cent more above a certain threshold. You’re jealous if you wanna be able to buy food around your house. You’re jealous if you want healthcare or be one day able to buy a house. but god forbid we call the people who have 10 times all that and want it 10 times more greedy…

[@tuckerbugeater]

tax the rich until there are rich no more!@@anonihme5142

[@slitheen3]

B-b-but those rich people worked SO hard to steal and hoard their resources away from everyone else! They EARNED it! Obviously since the poor people aren't stealing it back, they dont deserve it! /s

[@azzat-9046]

​@@anonihme5142pretty much. If you're not rich, you're jealous. If you're rich, you're a hypocrite lol

[@bugglemagnum6213]

@@anonihme5142 you literally can have healthcare whenever you want, just go tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt

[@banonKING]

You heard it from Tim... making sure everyone has healthy food to eat is "communism". Keep going Tim

[@danielguzman6934]

We need to nationalize all groceries stores, especially Walmart, Target, Costco, among other giants. The more employees a corporation has (like Amazon), the bigger the. Reason to nationalize it. It is weird how Tim Pool wasn’t able to provide any evidence to support his argument, but The Majority Report was able to find plenty of examples that disprove Tim’s argument.

[@Roaring2Thunder]

Right cause when goverments decided to take control of private businesses it always ended well for the countries...

[@glenagarrett4704]

I had a conversation with someone a few weeks ago, a high school graduate, who honestly didn't know that our taxes pay for things like roads, police, fire, ambulance services, public libraries, etc. Actual civics education needs to be emphasized and IMO started much earlier in school. It would help alleviate some of this nonsensical opposition to public services.

[@dominicpinchott7432]

Well, to be fair, taxes don't pay for ambulances in most of the country. Thankfully they don pay for ambulances in Chicago.

[@lootangshellhouse2506]

Lol imagine thinking that’s what your taxes pay for lmao look at your national debt look at how much u pay you print money into existence to pay for the service seems like you haven’t loooked at the numbers my guy

[@glenagarrett4704]

@@lootangshellhouse2506 Did I say they were the only things taxes pay for? Oh, and I'm not a guy.

[@glenagarrett4704]

@@dominicpinchott7432Taxes do pay for most operational funding for ambulance services. Insurance pays the rest, and if you're on Medicare or Disability, taxes certainly do pay for your ambulance services.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

I think you can just get away with not paying the ambulance and it goes away in some states

[@motorcycleboy9000]

Grocery stores nowadays aren't low-margin. They were when I was a kid, they were when my grandfather and uncles ran the stores, and the margin was 1-5%. After buying product, paying good employees, and keeping the lights and fridges on. Nowadays, the inflation of grocery prices are other markets following a Whole Foods model of 30-40% mark-up, none of which sees the employees or customers. UFCW Local 770 represent, UAW we with you, my brothers and sisters

[@anthonyl1506]

Food deserts in large cities exist because grocery stores in poverty stricken urban areas aren't profitable. So a government run not-for-profit store would seem to be a good solution to the problem. I was a manager for a large grocery store chain and the fact is crime does in fact hurt your margins. Organized retail crime rings will wipe out an entire shelf of things like baby formula, laundry detergent, meat counters, liquor ect all the time. Having those low margin items stolen constantly at large quantities can absolutely kill you margins. When you're running a store with a 5% margin and you shrink out 5% of your inventory every year than yes, you get closed down by corporate.

[@nicsuggitt176]

Nuanced take, the truth is usually somewhere in the grey.

[@thewrongsorcerer]

Sam makes a really good point about how sometimes convincing people that an issue is non-political (even if it is) makes them think a lot more rationally about it.

[@Whoeverheardof]

As someone who works at a public library- I definitely felt livid when Tim said libraries should “have a community purpose.” LITERALLY ALL WE DO IS SERVE THE COMMUNITY. We have all sorts of FREE RESOURCES AND FREE PROGRAMS and he will break our necks trying to help/appease ANYONE who wants or needs something. The title of this video couldn’t be more accurate. Tim needs to STFU.

[@whatsupinspace854]

He's probably thinking of the last time he was in a library as a child...or maybe he saw one on TV once. I expected the Internet to dry them up but libraries offer so many damn services now it's incredible.

[@nicholaselder2546]

Lol free, at the expense of tax payers. I guess bombs are free to in your logic.

[@bccbaron12]

Are you saying libraries don’t exist to undermine private book stores, and to implement robot-controlled communism???

[@theinvisiblewoman5709]

Libraries and librarians really are the best. In college, I borrowed most of my school books from the library, saved me hundreds of dollars! The library was also my sanctuary as a teen and my librarian always saved me the good stuff when new releases arrived hehe

[@michellemoore7829]

I'm sure he thinks libraries are indoctrination factories

[@DerAptrgangr]

"this isn't political. We're just trying to take care of our own" My lady, welcome to politics. What you said is deeply and radically political in today's climate.

[@IMatchoNation]

Broke: "You're on your own." Woke: "We take care of our own." Bespoke: "The means of production should be collectively own(ed)."

[@MrStyles784]

She knows that, but she recognizes that admitting it inherently means acknowledging that socialism is the superior system

[@firefox1234ize]

You could hear her brain frying…

[@andrejg4136]

People want political action without the distaste of politics. The "Powers that Be"s greatest scam was exactly that, making us desperate for action but abhorring every effective means for it (protest, government regulation, general community agitation), and wasting our time stewing in our own furor.

[@360tailslidfaceplant]

CORPORATE COMMUNISM

[@yvonne5784]

98% of food deserts are in Red states/counties. Look it up, I just did.

[@bethm6941]

In the late 1970's my family belonged to a food coop. It was a vegetarian coop. It thrived until theft & gentrification of the city rendered it unprofitable. Fruits, veggies & cheese were fresh & affordable.

[@Greatergood3]

imagine wearing a beanie while everyone knows why you're wearing one

[@LDrosophila]

I wonder what kind of bald he is?

[@ligma212]

​@@LDrosophilaprobably the still holding onto your hair type that is on the sides of his head but not the top. I can see it. May the gods reveal this to us in a slip of the beanie.

[@Spider-Geek916]

​@@LDrosophilaThe too-gutless-to-admit-it kind, LOL

[@tugboat6940]

I do this not not gonna lie, just with a basball hat instead. I'm not even bald, just starting to receded but I refuse to let anyone see that. You know bow ruthless women are? You seen the way they treat bald guys? Short guys? Guys with small dicks? Guys who are just ugly? They're fuckin vicious.

[@DerAptrgangr]

​@@ligma212videos are out there, if you look for them. He's very bald, and very undignified about it. 😂

[@timmceown7646]

As someone who works in a grocery store and did during the whole of Covid, I can guarantee you that Covid did nothing but help the grocery industry. They were one of the few businesses that flourished.

[@roc8179]

Especially with the initial fearmongering from idiots who didnt want to follow any protocols but also were yelling how its the end of civilization and there will be no food and just hoarding supplies out of fear.

[@grantduke318]

Yeah, because 20-30% average inflation on perishable goods is great for spoilage costs.

[@decibully1984]

There was a local grocer where I lived, with two locations. They got whatever PPP loan was supposed to go toward upping employee pay, and instead bought new coolers.

[@dennisduncan7561]

​@@grantduke318And what do you propose the people eat? over-processed sludge?

[@edp3202]

​@@decibully1984😂😂😂😮😮😮

[@JoshColletta]

Wait just a moment here. Beanie Boy here is only one year younger than myself; he's 37. Any childhood memories he would have of the grocery store would have been in the late 80's and early 90's. Now, I may be rather abnormal, but as a kid, I was FASCINATED by grocery stores and every aspect of their operation. If there had been unbranded cans in grocery stores at the time, I would have noticed it. There were no unbranded cans in grocery stores at the time. Store brands and cheap off-brands were very much a thing even back then. There WERE, and still ARE, however, unbranded items that get sent to local food banks and charities. I don't think Tim's remembering a grocery store at all. I think his family went to a local food bank. Or he's just full of shit. That's entirely possible, too.

[@evangiles4403]

I'd plumb for the latter

[@dyjaun94]

Was just in Chicago. How people find a grocery store (market, whatever you wanna call it) is wild. My friend lives there and there isn’t one near her that is feasible. It’s insane to be against more available markets there.

[@johnpeters9175]

Rich dude in rural compound has strong feelings about urban food issues. You truly could not find someone who's opinions are less relevant.

[@AndrewClement]

Isnt Tim from Chicago orginally?

[@Cobalt985]

@@AndrewClement Why does it matter where he's from? He does not experience the world in that way anymore. He is completely out of touch with current issues.

[@IncognitoSprax]

​@@AndrewClement The suburban side of Chicago

[@johnphelan4215]

Sort of like Catholic priests' opinions on birth control.

[@majorlazor5058]

Everything about Tim’s motivation behind this rant was exposed when he randomly brought up Oakland CA.

[@daneues94]

At what point can we hold these idiots criminally liable for reckless misinformation?

[@djangogeek]

One can dream

[@stud_ley]

I imagine the FCC might be able to enforce it. The new chairwoman supports Net Neutrality so hopefully more people can email that department about the problems with misinformation.

[@speclove1]

it should be now

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Timmy Pool pathetic fool

[@Takkiebos]

But guuuuyyys... he's just testing how much freeze peach he has by being a lying liar!

[@jasonpage2008]

Labelling didn't change because "people like branding"; labelling changed because regulations were created that required certain information to be printed for the consumer.

[@Valyssi]

Libraries: *exist since the invention of writing on a medium* Tim Pool: "and that's why you don't see Barnes and Nobles nowadays"

[@ArchlordZer0]

A person castigating the government for trying to feed a starving populace is something I would expect from a cartoon villain. Like, does Tim Pool's audience look in the mirror and think "Yeah, I'm one of the good guys?" How much more blatantly evil does Tim Pool have to be for people to recognize it?

[@galaxysmp8163]

You forget, Tim speaks to an audience already convinced that anything titled “Government help” is inherently evil. Another good old Reagan legacy.

[@markellzey1531]

The right views the poor as failures. That's why they have no qualms about how they treat them. Cruelty is the point. It's to scare the middle class so they keep working for slave wages.

[@jeremiahbarnes6313]

As a fist of the north star fan I strongly believe conservatives would oppose kenshiro at every step of the way.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yes seriously they think it's a huge Injustice if there's like a gay black character in a Disney film. But people can't afford to eat? Students need free lunches.. That's grocery store communism

[@fancykarlmarx]

He’s too stupid to be evil but his rhetoric is dangerous. One recent episode he called all modern sex education teachers “p-philes.”

[@darwinism8181]

I'm confused - the title says 'Tim Pool Is A Tim Pool' and I just don't get it?

[@wilcee238]

🤣

[@vvieites001]

Supposed to say is a Tim Fool

[@Spider-Geek916]

Nice....

[@andrewbrady6154]

I see what you did there !

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

​@@vvieites001I always say "Dim Fool". I know it sounds redundant, but I feel it necessary to add emphasis on just how stupid he is.

[@DanTheMailman330]

Tim is one step away from blaming soup kitchens for strangling Panera's market share in the hood...

[@KaraZiasapiens]

"I put it through the dipshit filter." 😂😂😂😂

[@morgielastname7364]

I love how Tim literally sets up the argument SUPPORTING the need for government run grocery stores in food deserts, then just uses a snarky tone as his only argument against it.

[@whatsupinspace854]

That's a *LOT* of right-wing content

[@j0j0dartiste21]

​@@whatsupinspace854the conservative rhetoric strategy of "saying something that is true but in a sarcastic tone"

[@jesterjay420]

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Biden is like JFK” speech rubbed off in all the wrong ways, apparently.

[@drakkenmensch]

Tim is a conservative. He thinks the government should NOT have any interference in capitalist business, UNLESS they are "woke" and then the governor should step in and that business must DO AS IT'S TOLD.

[@whatsupinspace854]

@@drakkenmensch fascist ideology: You're free to say and believe only the things I do

[@alfredindy8058]

Walmart did not cite theft and crime as their main reason for leaving Chicago. Not enough profit was their main reason for leaving.

[@seanrosenkranz5748]

they were losing profit bc everything was getting stolen. when people steal things and don’t pay for them then yes you lose profit😂😂

[@OhNotThat]

@@seanrosenkranz5748 Why are you putting words in walmart's mouth and defending a megacorp for free?

[@alfredindy8058]

@@seanrosenkranz5748 Walmart is closing 21 retail locations across the US this year, including four in Chicago, citing poor financial performance at each. Walmart has historically shied away from cities in part because of the higher real estate costs, though it has experimented with smaller format stores in cities, including Chicago. But its strength is suburban retail and its new focus is drawing in higher-income shoppers who, lucky for them, have moved to the suburbs

[@alfredindy8058]

@@seanrosenkranz5748 Don't forget - Tim Pool tried to shame us for cheering the Anderson Lee Aldrich beating. I guess beating the face in of a mass shooter, and cheering the person beating the criminal on, is shameful to Tim.

[@seanrosenkranz5748]

@@alfredindy8058 that’s probably true but the amount of things stolen HAS to contribute a pretty good amount to that poor financial performance

[@speedymemes8127]

We never had the intention of being socialist, it was just pure necessity!

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

Also, Barnes & Noble and bookstores like that drove independent bookstores out of business.

[@Revocdeb]

A key point that needs to be continually pointed out is government isn't COMPETING with private enterprises here. They're taking over where private enterprise failed and left.

[@Kazutoification]

Some people can only think about efficiency and profit, so they can't fathom public enterprises. Think of the people who want to privatize Medicare, the USPS, etc. This reminds me of when there was public transportation somewhere and a private enterprise thought it could run things like a business and make profit - of course, that idea failed and the government had to take up the reins again.

[@whatsup9260]

its even worst, they felt the profit did not meet their expectation ... they could have been 50% in and still said eff it.

[@heybeter9505]

And they’re also gonna fail because nobody wants to deal with a violent work environment

[@evangiles4403]

@@heybeter9505 Really your a putz

[@MrMarinus18]

I think they should make laws about that. Such as that there needs to be a store within a certain distance of people and that private corporations when within certain guidelines have priority. However if there are no takers then the government will do it but at any time a private company can take it over if they want to (and stay within the guidelines)

[@warcam2592]

It's crazy because Tim Pool thinks that all solutions to this problem are bad and communist, whether its govt owned stores, or programs establishing cost limits, or even forcing stores to operate. It seems that his solution is that the community deserves to suffer because they are poor

[@grantduke318]

But the problem that exist is manufactured by the ones you think that are going to solve it. Dem policies within Chicago haven't addressed the rampant crime. Charges get dropped, or get a slap on the wrist, and the criminals are back at it. Yes, Tim used a bad example from Cali in his video, but it only takes a short google search to find information on organized retail theft in Chicago. His solution is to let the community suffer that keeps voting in bad government, and rightfully so. The largest problem in this matter is the lack of accountability.. and the "solution" you and many others in this comment section are advocating for is less accountability. Surely whoever runs the state owned grocery store won't care about theft, because it isn't their money being lost, they'll just borrow more from the tax payers. You can see how this is a losing strategy, no? We need better governance in addressing problems where they start, not creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

[@heybeter9505]

Because everything the government has done is recent has worked jack shit

[@warlordofbritannia]

He’s unironic “communism is when government does things”

[@MrMarinus18]

America is radical in capitalism. Pretty much anything that's not "The rich should be able to do anything they want no matter the cost" is immediately dismissed.

[@jmc4975]

The definition of, "I'd rather have no food at all and starve to death, than government food and live"

[@TheeDavidDee]

Tim Pool is a mess

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The fact Timmy pretends he does this stuff for the poor, yet doesn't even know about food deserts

[@Zatzzo]

Government paying for roads = normal. Government making sure people don't starve = evil evil something...?

[@nicholaselder2546]

Only if your poor enough. If you can afford 20 bucks of groceries a week, apparently you fine.

[@SuzakuX]

How about the military? Not that I'd say it's an argument for efficient government spending but these freaks will never advocate defunding that.

[@solomonverrico]

They don't want the government to pay for the roads either, but they're the first to whine then their Infiniti hits a pot hole.

[@Kazutoification]

I think the main argument is that if the government *can* make sure people don't starve, then the government can also get people dependent on the government. In this line of thinking, if the government keeps the food on their table, then these people will be a lot less likely to hold the government accountable when the government acts in corrupt ways or puts out really bad legislation.

[@HyenaDandy]

Tim Pool's sheer classist bigotry in the fact that the first problem he can think of being "Generic branded groceries" is truly revealing.

[@mikehawk3152]

Helping people. The horror, the horror.

[@wilcee238]

Tim Pool is what happens when you mix Dunning-Kruger with Freddy Krueger..

[@OggyisCool]

Tim Pool the ultimate grifter.

[@EpicAlcatraz99]

Sam is the grift king.

[@dvhughesdesign]

@@EpicAlcatraz99 Cry more.

[@ligma212]

​@@EpicAlcatraz99"no u a" Good one. Cope harder

[@kennybachman35]

@@EpicAlcatraz99how so?

[@benmarris1807]

@@EpicAlcatraz99 girl, bye.

[@FallenGemini]

My parents are friends with the restaurant owner in Oakland. While it is true that it is closing because of it being robbed three times recently, what does it have to do with Chicago? It is also an expensive, fancy restaurant that the average restaurant goer on a budget doesn’t normally goes to.

[@mmarage1]

I am ashamed to admit that I used to watch Tim Pool and considered him a legitimate form of news. An important lesson, if they butcher articles, only read headlines, and go off on weird tangents with zero sources to back up what they're saying, chances are, they're full of it.

[@meatpopsicle6244]

Why does tim pool always look like he’s about ready to head out on a lobster boat?

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

If only he would, preferably never to return.

[@DrumondArt]

"Tim Pool Is A F-ing Moron" is one of the most factual video titles I've ever seen.

[@SuzakuX]

It should be the name of his youtube channel

[@MSCCA]

Should be "Tim Pool Is Still a F---ing Moron"

[@ericfelds6291]

I genuinely think he is the least intelligent human being to have ever been employed in an occupation that ostensibly suggests imparting wisdom. I think a lot of conservative pundits are perfectly intelligent just entirely morally bereft, Tim is actually just dim, low IQ, there’s no analysis it’s reading headlines and getting mad. I guess that’s what political analysis is for conservatives anyways.

[@smackfanxion]

Balding hits everyone differently. Some handle it better than others. Vsauce explains things. Asmongold bans members of his chat. Vin Diesel calls on the power of family. Tim Pool lies for money.

[@jacobkamuf8679]

“That’s bad, because of…” “Graphic design” Matt’s banter is S Tier

[@billy9497able]

Tim’s reaction to this would be hilarious if he wasn’t influential to millions of people.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Tbh I don’t think millions of people follow Tim Pool. His shows dont seem to get huge audiences. A few tens of thousands at most. Definitely not millions

[@dishonoredundead]

@@SarastistheSerpent Have you been in a coma for 5 years?

[@EpicAlcatraz99]

​@@SarastistheSerpentTim is huge.

[@stefanlvkc7986]

@@EpicAlcatraz99 Pretty sure you meant to say "Tim is a huge douche". You're welcome for the correction.

[@ligma212]

​@@EpicAlcatraz99tim pool simps shown up?

[@BBart1954]

When the city of Chicago sold the I90 toll road to a private company the toll charged went up exponentially.

[@ElaineLoyd]

Who buys groceries at Walgreens or the mall. Neither of those are grocery stores.

[@Simracer1990]

Does Tim Pool wear the beanie to keep his brain from leaking out?

[@juvedoo99]

Actually the beanie is a sentient being speaking through a shell that represents a person.

[@GregoryFiege]

It covers the brain slug

[@ronjames4151]

It's cuz he is bald and embarrassed just like trump. Most men who support those guys are very fragile

[@stefanlvkc7986]

He doesn't have a brain, so no. It's to announce his baldness and insecurity at the same time.

[@kurisu7885]

Nah, it leaked out a long time ago, the beanie is to hide how his head flattened with nothing in it.

[@OhNotThat]

Tim Pool's arguments only make sense to someone who already agrees with him, so they don't require any reasoning as to why exactly "government bad" and "government always fails". It's pure grifting and pandering, and to a extent "self filtering" because anyone who doesn't already agree with the unspoken and unproven premise that government only screws things up and never fixes anything he won't bother to really effectively argue for it just launch into a gish gallop of thousands of tiny little anecdotes, most of which, of course, are lies. So those people will leave the video and not bother watching or commenting, Tim's points don't even need to be coherent or make sense just "government bad, because it always is".

[@goofusmaximus1482]

His core audience are those whom blind obedience to right wing authority figures is their primary virtue.

[@Admiralty86]

Ya a firehouse of lies and mistruths and confusing anecdotes. Like a snowball rolling down a mountain of bullshit growing bigger and bigger.

[@ecyor0]

"You're not going to get 10 varieties of peanut butter-" YOU DONT NEED 10 VARIETIES OF PEANUT BUTTER. NO-ONE NEEDS 10 VARIETIES OF PEANUT BUTTER. SMOOTH AND CRUNCHY, TWO VARIETIES, MAYBE FOUR AT MOST IF YOU INCLUDE LOW FAT OPTIONS

[@zeemurks6626]

A: That's bad because of... B: Graphic design?! 😂😂

[@andyboom2004]

"Here's Tim Pool reacting without knowing what he is talking about" = EVERY second of Tim Pool's show

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

I agree with Tim. Libraries should provide a public service, like enabling access to educational resources so that fewer people end up listening to Tim Pool and thinking he’s making any kind of useful point.

[@jeffeastwood1051]

Let me get this right. You agreed with a guy who has literally no other experience except protesting, you tubing, and dropping out of school at age 14. How can Tim Poole be taken seriously on any subject concerning education when he hasnt had any? I wouldnt. His arguments are usually wrapped in something disingenuous.

[@rumfordc]

@@jeffeastwood1051 did you even read what he said?

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

@@jeffeastwood1051 ... bruh ... please visit a library

[@chrisevans1255]

@@PostingCringeOnMain Goldfish attention span. No-one reads past the first 100 characters anymore.

[@Uuglyasshellbo1]

@@chrisevans1255I still do on occasion😂

[@ryleighs9575]

I'm not actually convinced Tim knows what a library even is lol

[@catherinewilliams9680]

If I were a farmer in Southern Illinois, I would be all for this. It's one more future customer for my farm.

[@deathdealer312]

I'm no commie, I'm just a supporter of communityism

[@PlanetOfTheApes999]

Tim would rather see poor people starve.

[@kippwieland6464]

I wonder how many rubles are helping Pool maintain such popularity on line

[@bubstacrini8851]

Barny Rubles tried to unionize Mr Slate's quarry

[@mikecynic5167]

We have a city municipal liquor store here that collects a fuckton of tax revenue. It sat for years collecting money for the city. They decided to free that money up and it's paid for road construction and a massive new park with an amphitheater and a huge convention center people can rent for weddings and company gatherings which brings in even more for the city. It's gonna pay for itself in the next 10-15 years. I don't get why they can't do that with grocery stores.

[@ohhmg2130]

Tim knows nothing about anything he reacts to.

[@matthew1182]

Tim Pool is Ben Shapiro if he listened to Limp Bizkit unironically.

[@godofspacetime333]

Well if it were up to Democrats you’d only be able to listen to Firm Bizkit, so just think about that for a second.

[@solomonverrico]

Rage Against the Machine until they turned against 'murica. On day one.

[@Mike_Cosentino]

LMAO

[@alexandraw.4012]

Lmao! The fact that you have to pause the video after EVERY statement Pool makes? Does the guy get anything right? Now I just have Tim pool repeating the word "beans" in my head 😆 GOVERNMENT BEANS.

[@haraldisdead]

God, "the private beans will look prettier" is capitalism in a nutshell.

[@overanalyzed]

I lived in a food desert in Baltimore for 3 years. It's a serious problem you cannot understand until you experience it. It is soul-crushing.

[@nicholaselder2546]

Lol don't live in desert. Sounds like you need a moving van not a sandwich.

[@justinmillette9110]

@@nicholaselder2546 A dead giveaway that a person is a heartless, soulless conservative is when they hear about a systemic problem that hurts thousands and thousands of people, and they only offer simple individualistic solutions that can't scale up. It's unclear how many people live in this Baltimore food desert that was described, but it could be thousands or tens of thousands of people. Do you really think that the best solution is for ALL of them to move out, thus leaving the local infrastructure there underutilised, and relocating to other areas, thus making the local infrastructure there overutilised? Or are you engaging in sophistry, and you don't actually care if people are stuck in food deserts?

[@xtinkerbellax3]

Do you honestly think this is sound advice or even advice at all? @@nicholaselder2546

[@adhararadhara4173]

​@@nicholaselder2546 🤡

[@orphaotheseeker2770]

​@@nicholaselder2546Why do conservatives never have solutions to problems?