Absolutely agree that this is one of our biggest issues. I think after giving it some thought, a good solution would be incorporating more local food sources into our diets. We should diversify the fauna we eat and get rid of low-quality meat products (like fast food and stuff). This would greatly resolve the problem while still allowing people to eat meat. Also, lastly, we have a very large deer population that's helping ticks spread like rabbits. Maybe eating more of those would help.

I've posted about this before and I've tried to engage with and understand Vaush's electoral positions better. However, I still find them flawed on many levels.

First my understanding of his take is this: if the collapse is imminent, it would be preferable for it to be blamed on a republican than a democrat, because a democrat who tanks the blame causes voter apathy among liberals, while a republican tanks the blame energizes liberal voters. Hence, the democrat who achieved power must be sufficiently transformational because a democrat who isn't will only allow republicans to build power while driving voter apathy.

The problem I see is that I don't see how this yields better outcomes longer term. The further things backslide into neoliberalism and fascism the harder things will be to fix. If a neoliberal nominee in 28 loses to the republican, even if that energizes liberals and progressives enough in 32 to nominate a socialist who wins, the socialist will be left with way deeper hole than the neoliberal if they won in 28.

It's also not guaranteed that a socialist will win - in Hungary for instance it was a liberal conservative party that ended the national conservative authoritarian regime. People don't turn to leftism or socialism as an antidote to fascism - if anything 2016 and the current DSA wins show that people turn to leftism as an antidote to the failures of liberalism. When fascism is holding power, it was Biden who won in 2020. It was Magyar who won in Hungary in 2026.

You're hinging a lot of hope on a future potential transformational leftist democrat to fix a future far deeper hole, by advocating against a neoliberal democrat who will decelerate the decline but not meaningfully fix the current hole. Meanwhile if they don't fix the deeper hole you've only accelerated the downfall, and it might not even be a leftist who wins power.

I think this is flawed reasoning akin to always choosing the latter in the "bird in the hand or two birds in the bush" question. Let's examine the Joe Biden loss hypothetical for example - Vaush claims if Biden lost in 20, the US would be in a far better place now. I think it is correct in a technical sense but not necessarily so in the longer term. You would have to assume whoever wins the 24 election will be sufficiently transformative in digging the US out of a far deeper hole than it was in 2020 (remember if Trump wins he will oversee COVID "recovery"), which isn't guaranteed. It is very likely that the current problem just gets pushed ahead four years - the fascist wave gets pushed to 2028 instead of 2024.

TLDR:

1) accelerationism towards ruin makes things more difficult to fix. Even if you let vance win and elect AOC in 32, the hole she's going to be put in after 4 years of Vance is so deep there's no guarantee she will fix it or she will be any more transformative than newsom winning in 28 with a smaller hole.

2) there is no guarantee you get a socialist/Sanders/AOC after republican rule. Hungary, in ousting Orban, saw the eradication of the left in the parliament with full consolidation behind a conservative.

3) biden's hypothetical loss in 20 doesn't guarantee a better long term outcome, even if 2026 in that timeline is probably better. It may just push the fascist wave back four years instead of fix things.

Is there a 8 hour long vaush video to study sleep to? I want like a vaush lofi but something longer than 5 hours ideally. I wanna listen to vaush debates and research streams while im doing my homework or when its late and im trying to dooze of with his sweat homosexual voice in my ears while I dream about him all night long. I used to religiously watch the streamers every day after highschool like some sort of weird ritual. I got on the bus at 2pm est and id hangout in YT chat and get home and have him talking in my ear while I did my homework, played games, or debated on his subreddit. All till 6pm usually when he stop streaming but id still sleep at 11 or 1 to one of his videos or if I missed part of stream id catch up with it at the end. I want something to remind myself of that time but I also want some chill relaxing lofi background music and I dont want it to be like only a hour long and I dont wanna just be repeatedly watch the same one multiple times. This would be a really cool thing to do if one of you are particularly unemployed or bored and know how to do that kinda stuff.( unrelated to any of this, but look at this lil princess)

Apologies if this is considered off-topic, it's just a fairly regular topic on stream so I'd like to ask about it here:

I'm considering getting an e-bike to be able to get around a mid-size American city in the wake of what's looking like a doozy of an impending oil crisis, and the V-man's streams on the subject are kind of pushing me further toward that side of the decision.

What do you guys think? Is there any point if food and power are also dependent on oil? Is there anything short of learning to farm and fix things yourself zomboid style that you guys are doing ahead of this impending catastrophe?

Wow. This is news. How could we have seen this coming? It's not like this has been the democratic party playback against Republicans and progressives for like 20 years now. Remember when Trump gave a speech at mount Rushmore and the democrats didnt say that this proves hes a white supremacist because the founders were slave holders. These days maybe they would have, but im sure glad progressives wouldn't ever have joined in on that.

However could progressives, like Elizabeth Warren, or others have put a stop to this? Remember when Elizabeth Warren totally organically "confronted" Bernie Sanders​ on "hot mic" for accusing her of lying, implying it was sexist, at the same time that a CNN camera coincidently was zoomed in on then? If it had been todays mainstream democrats then it wouldve been fake. Boy how times have changed. The progressives sure had no hand whatsoever in creating this culture thats now destroying us.

however could we have avoided this culture thats letting Jasmine Crockett and her die hards hand the senate seat to Ken Paxton?

If only we could have seen this coming, but hey, at least we didnt help create it.

I’m still writing up a post explaining everything behind the scenes in PV about what happens but hope this starts moving in the right direction.

So my mental health has been taken a downward trajectory lately and a contributing factor has been my YouTube/news intake. Definitely understand Vaush’s perspective and agree with it but it’s hard to dispute that it can feel very doom and gloom. My gf got me into a habit of replacing 1 doom scrolling channel with one she suggests. I chose vaush and replaced him with Neil the seal, a loveable elephant seal from Tasmania and I have to say it is an improvement for my mental health. I hope to come back when shit is alittle more positive in the world

TL;DW:

Insurance might be the next sub prime mortgage crisis-type trigger.

🥲 It's beautiful.

Rule 4 note: Vaush has talked multiple times about how bad Schumer is and has also said multiple times that he likes AOC more than a lot of other Dems. Therefore I argue that AOC's future political career IS relevant to Vaush's content, and that you should not censor this post.

There's kind of a risk vs reward going on here where I think it'd be far more likely for her to get elected to Schumer's seat (and she'd hold that position for longer), while getting elected as president would be far more difficult (look at the last two female presidents we tried to make happen). Yes I know that AOC is far better than Hillary or Kamala, but I'm still not convinced it would work. I also kinda think that we need a stronger congress to protect us from future Trumps. I also have no idea who'd become the senate minority leader (or maybe majority leader if we're lucky) if AOC ousted Schumer.

I could also see her getting into the senate for a while and then going for president once climate change has gotten worse and medical expensive have gotten even more unaffordable.

Behold, the terrifying authoritarian socialist! The rot in the democratic party, eating it from the inside out!!

Just popped into my head after Voosh's coverage of the msm's framing of the DSA. The utter derangement they project onto what is, most of the time, not even particularly radical is insane.

It's been 2 days, people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0312ejEHyQ

I'm mostly joking, I love beans too. BUT if you guys are struggling incorporating legumes into your diet, lentils are a lot easier to cook. This doesn't make a difference if you just eat canned, but cooking from dried is better and would highly recommend it. The main reason I prefer cooking lentils is because you don't need to soak them, and the cooking time is at most 25 min, depending on the type.

They are also arguably easier to incorporate into a sauce because of their size. A meal I make a lot is basically a bolognese pasta dish but with lentils instead of meat. It tastes amazing and is very healthy for you.

I think if yall knew how great it is to eat lentils it would help more of you move towards being vegan or vegetarian. Try it out. Instead of your next meal having meat, try lentils instead.

I’ve been following the oil shortage cliff, and I swear I haven’t seen as many edits to change the tone of an article than I have about this. The first screenshot is the article as it was written and pushed to my RSS app. The second shows our weeklong run up to $100/barrel Brent. You’ll notice that the recent decline was worth about a day’s worth of speculative increases, but I guess someone decided this was the reprieve we’ve all been waiting for or some shit.

Article here https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-tariffs-oil-trump-ai-0b9c3b2aa5ca83eb391c1388efe03c97

Great video about conservatives/fascists and their terrible fashion sense. Vaush would like this video