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We All Know It's Happening
This week we're using the recent Boeing whistleblowers saga as a springboard to talk about a wider problem - the unholy alliance of capital and the state, and how much "freedom" we actually have to tell the truth.
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Why Biden's New Bill Is So Terrifying
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Why You'll Never Achieve The American Dream
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Is The US Headed Towards Fascism?
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“Yeah Capitalism Is Bad…But What Can We Do?”
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Perhaps the most common comment I get is some version of "yeah capitalism is bad, but what can we do about it?" I figured it was about time I made a dedicated video to answer that question. Let's read a little theory! If you'd like to help make Second Thought 100% grassroots funded, consider becoming a patron on Patreon. All patrons get early access to every video, plus access to our patrons-on...
The Real Reason The US Wants To Ban TikTok
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How The Media Controls The Masses
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Support the channel and get 50% off your first month of Means TV! Visit means.tv/ and enter code SECONDTHOUGHT at checkout How The Media Controls The Masses - Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every other Friday! Additional Resources: First Thought Crash Course ua-cam.com/video/mE5o4TUZtxk/v-deo.html The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé www.simonandschuster.com/...
The Most Dangerous Thing In The Western Hemisphere
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The Most Dangerous Thing In The Western Hemisphere - Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every other Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Letter from Birmingham Jail www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf Malcolm X speech (contains section on liberals) www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=3619 Harris Poll on MLK www...
Second Thought Is Now On Means TV.
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What Happens When Evil Wins?
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Over the last five months, we've seen an unprecedented escalation in violence in Gaza. Most people I know feel like they're going crazy. We're all seeing the same footage, but no matter how angry we all get and how much we try to change public opinion, nothing seems to come of it. So...what can we do? Has evil won? What Happens When Evil Wins? - Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: bit.ly/2nFsvTS New...
Capitalism Might Just K*ll Us All
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The last mass extinction occurred 66 million years ago with the dinosaurs. The extinction rate we're seeing today is unprecedented since that time all those millions of years ago. How exactly is capitalism accelerating this problem, and what can we do about it? How Capitalism Is Causing A Sixth Mass Extinction - Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every other Friday! Check o...
Why Are So Many People Quitting YouTube?
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Are We The Baddies?
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As uncomfortable as it may be to find flaws in your home country, wherever that may be, it's an important part of being an informed citizen. While it's good to call the US out on individual failures, it's becoming increasingly important to help people understand that the US *as a whole* is the problem. In this episode, we'll take a brief stroll through the bloody history of the US empire and an...
Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024
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As the new year approaches, now's as good a time as any to reflect on what's important and how we get there. Maybe 2024 is the year you realize you're a socialist! Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024 - Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every other Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Covid wealth transfer www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/richest-1percent-amassed-almost-two-thir...
How Capitalism Ruined American Education
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We're all familiar with PragerU. The billionaire-funded conservative media outlet has become a household name with their easily digestible 5-minute propaganda videos. But now they've got their sights set on American schools. Come learn about how PragerU weasels its way into your child's classroom, and what the future of American education could look like. American Education vs The Far Right - S...
Are We Living Through The End Of An Empire?
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Are We Living Through The End Of An Empire?
Project 2025: The New Fascist Playbook
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Project 2025: The New Fascist Playbook
The Growing Threat Of Christian Nationalism
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The Growing Threat Of Christian Nationalism
We Need To Talk About "Authoritarianism"
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We Need To Talk About "Authoritarianism"
What Happens to Rich People Under Socialism?
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What Happens to Rich People Under Socialism?
Why The Government Has Infinite Money
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Why The Government Has Infinite Money
Why The Political Compass Sucks...And What's Better
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Why The Political Compass Sucks...And What's Better
Why Managers Exist (It's Not Why You Think)
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Why Managers Exist (It's Not Why You Think)
America's Forgotten Socialist History
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America's Forgotten Socialist History
The Secret Marxist Conspiracy
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The Secret Marxist Conspiracy
This Is Why You're Poor
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This Is Why You're Poor
Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?
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Why Is There So Much Right-Wing Media?
Green Energy Is Cheaper…So Why Aren’t We Using It?
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Green Energy Is Cheaper…So Why Aren’t We Using It?
How Capitalism Causes Loneliness
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How Capitalism Causes Loneliness
The Myth Of Capitalist Peace
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The Myth Of Capitalist Peace

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Killermike2178
    @Killermike2178 15 годин тому

    The Democrats are playing the good cop to the GOP's bad cop. Both good cop and bad cop work for the same exact corrupt police department (two-party system), both working together to achieve the same goal: extract more information (inalienable rights) out of suspects (the American public) to the benefit of the hands that feed them (bourgeoisie).

  • @marcopolio111
    @marcopolio111 15 годин тому

    Long live Israel 🇮🇱

  • @panekoekopjema
    @panekoekopjema 16 годин тому

    Here we go gain... ☦

  • @benrudolph5582
    @benrudolph5582 16 годин тому

    Rather funny that your ad revenue is coming from "Hoover Institute" which is fear mongering about socialism. Gods forbid freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and episteme data of history.

  • @nattalete
    @nattalete 18 годин тому

    What is to stop a party from having two candidates in an election? Parties having two candidates might be able to kill the benefits of ranked choice voting.

  • @standoughope
    @standoughope 19 годин тому

    Even if the founding fathers meant our nation to be a Christian theocracy I'd still seek to amend that notion... in fact, I would make it my 1st Amendment.

  • @cr7_fan144
    @cr7_fan144 19 годин тому

    Now the military budget of usa is 2.08 trillion dollars but nasa budget is only around 25 billion😢

  • @LeroyYue
    @LeroyYue 19 годин тому

    It will be great to see your research to explain the system in China, and it's pros and cons

  • @blacklyfe6881
    @blacklyfe6881 20 годин тому

    I love socialism.

  • @Danleesixdoublefive321
    @Danleesixdoublefive321 20 годин тому

    But it’s better than China where I am from. People here also have more sports and things to look forward to. Meat and eggs are cheaper in US too considering the wages

  • @donaldyanson8144
    @donaldyanson8144 21 годину тому

    People in China are not killed by the police they're taken to a re-education camp where they are tortured to death but I doubt very seriously you'll find any statistics on that

  • @donaldyanson8144
    @donaldyanson8144 21 годину тому

    Don't forget what Stalin did to the Russian people or Hitler did to the Jews or what Mao did to the Chinese people

  • @victorianmelody46
    @victorianmelody46 21 годину тому

    As I read this I realize how insane it is. Every college student should read this and then vote. It's all lunatic extremist christian beliefs of a far far right authoritarian sect/cult. It sounds like a fire and brimstone Baptist preacher and scares me now as bad as it did when I was forced to go to church as a child.🤔

  • @Illumignostic
    @Illumignostic 21 годину тому

    This video is mostly on point. The one glaring issue is that Barnay wasn’t exactly wrong. Democracy, were every voice is equal, is obviously insane. Giving dumb and insane people the power to choose world leaders is indefensible. It could only make sense in a nation of well educated, enlightened people.

  • @e.and.f
    @e.and.f 22 години тому

    I'm here trying to help my neighborhood gas station/convenience store unionize. Its a wal mart owned corporate Murphy's. It's so f'd, always sketchy crackheads outside. Usually just have a single person working. Super unsafe. Gas station/convenience stores are one of the most dangerous jobs in the us. Because of these greedy corpos. Let's try to hold them accountable.

  • @pratikbudhathoki1419
    @pratikbudhathoki1419 22 години тому

    I get what he is saying but it feels like no don't buy those fossil fuel chugging vehicles but buy our electric vehicles ( electricity which is generated by fossil fuel chugging generators ) i agree with him that the right is getting unregulated power over media but if thats the case why should i not question the leftist medias integrity.I think it won't be wrong to say right or left if they wish that you believe them blindly and protest against the other they are probably wrong themselves aswell. He tried to convince me how the right is setting a narrative of us vs them and we need to panic while at the same time he says the right are taking over we need to panic (well not panic but at least we need to push back against them)

  • @abrahamcastellanos3281
    @abrahamcastellanos3281 22 години тому

    Worthy information, interesting and completed analysis.

  • @donaldyanson8144
    @donaldyanson8144 23 години тому

    Man, people really need to read the Bible and comprehend the words that are written in there before you start making stupid proclamations if you read some of the history the papers and ideas of the founding fathers they were opposed to religion having any power or authority equal to the government but in order to create a fair just an equal Society you have the right to practice religion are not practice religion if you choose toTHE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS ARGUABLY THE MOST UNPLEASANT CHARACTER IN ALL FICTION: JEALOUS AND PROUD OF IT; A PETTY, UNJUST, UNFORGIVING CONTROL-FREAK; A VINDICTIVE, BLOODTHIRSTY ETHNIC CLEANSER; A MISOGYNISTIC, HOMOPHOBIC, RACIST, INFANTICIDAL, GENOCIDAL, FILICIDAL, PESTILENTIAL, MEGALOMANIACAL, SADOMASOCHISTIC, CAPRICIOUSLY MALEVOLENT BULLY. - RICHARD DAWKINS LIBQUOTES.COM

  • @gendalfgray7889
    @gendalfgray7889 23 години тому

    As if communism-marxism going to solve anything. History shows the opposite.

  • @alvintx90
    @alvintx90 23 години тому

    This guy is trash

  • @donaldyanson8144
    @donaldyanson8144 День тому

    Whether it's a heterosexual male molesting an adolescent girl or a homosexual male molesting an adolescent boy or an adult female molesting an adolescent this Behavior is morally reprehensible in the eyes of the vast majority straight or gay you can't just go against cultural norms taboos flip everything upside down wear your ideology on your sleeve and dare opposing points of view to knock it off some pushback is to be expected for every action there is an equal or greater reaction me personally I am not homophobic or a racist I don't hate anyone unless they give me a good reason to when you start messing with the children though you are f****** up

  • @Mikecunt-js7zc
    @Mikecunt-js7zc День тому

    If you go on playstation buy the yearly subscription, youll notice on lots of games theres a time limit on how long you have a license to play the game, theyve been doing this already and nobody cares or notices it

  • @ronh7424
    @ronh7424 День тому

    Which Country that is in the running for Global Hegemony is more benevolent or has "nicer" intelligence agencies? This is just the real world.

  • @joshawafrith4797
    @joshawafrith4797 День тому

    can you adress canadas housing crisis as its really bad with some homes housing 14 people to 3 bedrooms

  • @julniemier5837
    @julniemier5837 День тому

    The Fascism you discuss is, practically speaking, indistinguishable from Franco-ism and NAZI-ism. I think you feel the f word sounds more evil than some more general autocratic word. In reality, what Cuba, Iran and Russia has, is not codified into much of a constitution, never mind a court system to interpret and define such a code. Thus these are not very different from the right wing nations that you seem more fascinated with.

  • @MrStark-up6fi
    @MrStark-up6fi День тому

    The world is not safe

  • @quietspark8703
    @quietspark8703 День тому

    Rome didn't have nukes, the US does. That becomes very dangerous in combination with an imagine moral superiority.

  • @carlix8035
    @carlix8035 День тому

    Capitalism WILL end at some point. It has to. If the world gets to the point of fully implanting AGI and automation systems, a new way of life has to arise from it. Capitalism can only work when there’s high demand of scarcities. We’re gradually entering a world of full digital abundance. The percentage of human usefulness will shrink more and more as the years go by. Within 100 yrs this world will be a very different place. Whether it be because of another world war or losing the race against pollution and climate change…. or AGI & beyond dominating civilisations. Whatever happens, it feels like the end of…. something is nearing. I would actually say the end of capitalism would be the best outcome for the world. We need to unify as a species but not in a capitalist environment. It doesn’t work and it’s unfair. Why? Because people at the top cheat, lie and capitalise off of other’s misfortunes and crappy circumstances. It’s been this way for 1000’s of years, but now it’s on an industrial level. I don’t know whether to pity the future generations or envy them at this point.

  • @overengineer7691
    @overengineer7691 День тому

    The CIA does not give a lick about capitalism. they merely want to remain at the top of the pyramid of crime

  • @quietspark8703
    @quietspark8703 День тому

    Imposing morality is 1000% NOT Christian in any way shape or form and using Christianity as a guise to grab power is despicable. Evangelicals are useful idiots unfortunately.

  • @nurlansultangaleyev3255
    @nurlansultangaleyev3255 День тому

    I am from Kazakhstan and born in 2000, I remember how poorly my family lived, and dad said it was much worse in 90s, he lost a lot of money because of 2008 crisis, but he worked a lot and just in 5 years we moved to capital of our country, we bought a cool home, we was able to afford a lot of expensive stuff and it all was not be possible without shock therapy. So please stop thinking that socialism is good, no it is bad, it cant go over crisis and collapse when faces the first one.

  • @nicholaskoenig3106
    @nicholaskoenig3106 День тому

    This was (and is) so spot on. I am embarassed to be American't...😅😅😅

  • @clarktrinst
    @clarktrinst День тому

    There are many that will disagree with me, but the core root of the problem is with inadequate education. As long as the powers that be can keep the common people stupid and ignorant they will rule. "Trickle down economics", give the rich more wealth and you the lower classes will benefit....you had to be really stupid to believe that.

  • @Raypoota
    @Raypoota День тому

    New World Order 🌎🌎🌍🌎🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌍🌎🌎 God bless America and Israel and NATO.❤❤❤❤

  • @Blinix2
    @Blinix2 День тому

    Theres a famous phrase on mexico that goes like "Poor Mexico, soo far from god yet soo close to the United States" . One example was NAFTA, lying about "free" trade, the heavily subsidized farming industry in the states devastated the farming industry here soo much that it was one of the primary reasons an armed movement started in the south of the country that continues to this day.

  • @victorialeif9266
    @victorialeif9266 День тому

    Moderates are the keepers of the status quo. They tend to come from the professional class, and raised in the nicer neighborhoods. They are well educated, and well connected. Why would they want anything to change?

  • @WildmanTrading
    @WildmanTrading День тому

    It really is just a dream now.

  • @phobiaanimations
    @phobiaanimations День тому

    I'm so scared. What do we do...

  • @timmigrant6597
    @timmigrant6597 День тому

    Its not 3 times less, which would mean losing $348,000 yr, but rather 1/3 or one-third. That said, assuming they invest themselves is naiive. There are great investment firms that will charge you 1% of your account value annually, but require a minimum of 3 to 5 million. Such firms, from 1993-2023, averaged net returns of 12% after tax. So $1 million turns into $28 million in 30 years. Pelosi is 84. Her husband owns an real estate and investment firm. They live in San Francisco. Its highly likely she had at least $5 million in 1990 at age 54, and had advice from her husband - Apple isnt that far from home.

  • @BrainlessSM
    @BrainlessSM День тому

    youtube is making these vids age restricted D:

  • @the_boi_4203
    @the_boi_4203 День тому

    One of my favorite movies back from then, The Lego Movie, literally depicts a fucking anti-capitalist revolution by the working class, and that movie his highly praised. yet when we voice our opinion on occasions of this exact scenario in reality, we are bashed relentlessly.

  • @sstarklite2181
    @sstarklite2181 День тому

    I started out saying that USA has started over 50 wars since WW2, but then I read that it was over 80 wars so I’ve been saying over 80 wars, to violently force every attempt at an alternative system to fail, killing millions worldwide. They’re killed by capitalists. See ROGUE STATE by Wm Blum and many others at THIRD WORLD TRAVELER. I heard one CIA guy asked a coworker what he’s been doing, and the guy said “I’ve been killing people.” Capitalists obviously thought no one would ever find out. Capitalists think it’s right to give all the money to a few rich people, leaving billions to starve to death worldwide, 130,000,00 every year. God has always wanted equality, Acts 2:44, but capitalists said that means equal opportunity. Acts 2:44: they sold their properties [for renters] and had all things common, so everyone had all their needs met. USA recently was the only nation that voted against saying that food is a human right.

  • @iuppiter
    @iuppiter День тому

    Why is so much of your content age-restricted?

  • @casie1124
    @casie1124 День тому

    Okay I'll agree that project 2025 is shit but the acting as if our constitution doesn't have value or relevance anymore is equally terrifying. And let's not think that you can compare a 21 year old founding fathers to a 21 year old modern man. The level of responsibility a man assumed by 21 back then was much more than a man of 21 today. That alone leads to a level of life experience that made them more mature. Besides that it's not just founding fathers that accomplished great things at a young age. Many historical figures that we look up to accomplished great things young. People tend to be more idealistic when they're young. This lends to young people having revolutionary ideas that can change the world. Our modern infantilization of young people prevents progress in many ways. Perhaps after reading my rant about the worthiness of young adults you're assuming I am one. thus the assertion young people are incapable has made me defensive. You'd be wrong my daughter is 20 my son is 17...I'm old lol. In summary project 2025 is straight shit but the constitution and founders still have value. We don't idealized them bc we're a young nation. The fact that other countries change theirs on a whim isn't something to be aspired to. Our constitution doesn't give us our rights. It states our rights our inherent and inalienable. Our constitution is a restraining order on our government to protect our rights and freedoms. Ps don't ever refer to the men who not only fought and died for the freedom we enjoy but risked the lives and liberty of their wives, children, other family and their property as frat boys. They deserve a seas worth more respect than a run of the mill frat boy who wouldn't even sacrifice a night of drinking for their fellow countrymen

  • @MightyGamer-dy4lo
    @MightyGamer-dy4lo День тому

    God will save us from Boeing. He will spread liberalism and socialism, and make everyone kind. America is not the most free country on earth. Norway is. But Norway would be better under a Gandhist, anarcho communist where everyone is compassionate

  • @John-eq8cu
    @John-eq8cu День тому

    My take on the whole project is that it is a conservative wish list and would be difficult or impossible to implement. Most of it requires an act of Congress and that's just not going to happen for extremely contentious policies like these. As for the other dictatorial aspirations, how come they possibly succeed when it's clearly against the constitution? The project is revolting and alarming but i'm not worried about it.

  • @MightyGamer-dy4lo
    @MightyGamer-dy4lo День тому

    Peace is good

  • @GudJonnyCakes
    @GudJonnyCakes День тому

    The American dream died when boomers became so complacent what are the government was being run and didn't think about their children or their children's children when they enacted laws in the 70s 80s 90s and 2000s Boomers should have put their foot down when they try to implement credit scores in the 90s and 80s but no they are so complacent

  • @number2and3
    @number2and3 День тому

    BLM was not good, achieved nothing, and will be remembered by the founder silently moving into a gated community and illegally using millions of dollars for personal. No intelligent coherent thought went through it and the blacks just looted with a free pass because they were bored during Covid 19.... Nothing like the intellectuals of the past. Nothing....

  • @xxcelr8rs
    @xxcelr8rs День тому

    NPR will have nothing to rant about 24/7 with out weird sex and race blah blah blah.