Monday, January 11, 2021

another dose of Styx

I realize that most of you don't bother watching the YouTube videos I upload because you're not on YouTube Premium, so you see a ton of ads every 30 seconds when you do try to watch an embedded video.  I understand that that's obnoxious, and probably sometime this year, I'll be making the move away from YouTube to alt-tech video sites like BitChute, DailyMotion, Rumble, etc., where "throttling" and "algorithmic" shenanigans that erode and stifle free speech are a nonissue.  I might even unsubscribe from the YouTube Premium service and save myself ten bucks a month.  I admit that that'll be a hard move to make:  YouTube, for all its faults, is an amazing kaleidoscope of user-created content, much of it having nothing to do with politics at all.  That said, I'm going to keep embedding Styx and Tim Pool videos for the next little while, so bear with me.  If you'd rather I just put up summaries of these videos, let me know in the comments.  That's a lot more work for me, but if enough people prefer a Cliff's Notes version of a video to the video itself, then who am I to say no?

Styx is on another tear; this is the most animated and agitated I've seen him, and part of the reason may be that his predictions of a Trump victory (cautious predictions, mind you) ended up dying a horrible death.  No one anticipated the level of brazen electoral cheating by the left, but now that the left has revealed itself, this makes it easier to formulate solutions to the leftist problem—namely, making elections trustworthy again.

In the following video, Styx argues that there is no middle ground:  you're either for free speech, or you're a fascist.  (And Styx, at least, uses the term fascist correctly.)  Styx also echoes something I've said:  if you're going to go after someone for their words, then castigate them only when their words are clear and beyond interpretation.  What the left does, when it accuses Trump of inciting violence or of being racist, is to interpret Trump's words and actions a certain way.  They read all sorts of invalid subtext into Trump's rhetoric, thereby creating a host of straw men.  As Styx scoffs, interpretation is inside your head—"It's your fucking problem."  Unless Trump objectively, recordably says, "Whites are the master race," then you have no evidence Trump is racist.  Tom Arnold has claimed for years that he has audio of Trump using racist slurs, but he's never produced said audio because it doesn't exist.  Did Trump, in his recent speech, actually goad the crowd into storming the Capitol?  Not at all.  In fact, he ended up calling for people to go home in peace—something that Twitter suppressed because it was somehow "hate speech."  These are the fucked-up, Orwellian times we live in:  black is white, up is down, freedom is slavery, and advocating liberty is fascism.  

Anyway, here's Styx:

In this next video, Styx predicts January 20 is going to "suck bad":

And in this final video, Styx argues that Trump should sue everyone for defamation:

That last thought won't come to much, I'm afraid.  Trump could try suing people, but given how leftists constantly escape justice (are Bill and Hillary in jail for their crimes? have Schumer, Schiff, Waters, the Squad, and Pelosi been strung up by the angry masses? has Romney paid for his disloyalty?), what's the use?  The left won the culture war, and it dominates most of the nation's crucial institutions, including large portions of the federal government.  And whatever isn't dominated by the left is being held in trust by unreliable, cowardly Republicans with no true loyalty to the chief executive.  The whole situation is lamentable.  It'd be funny if it weren't so damn sad.



4 comments:

John Mac said...

I don't often watch the videos, but it's more of an attention span thing with me. I do enjoy some of the shorter ones though. So from a lazy man's perspective, you doing a summary like you did here is a good thing, but I'd be ashamed to ask you to do so.

I was just wondering the other day though how long it will be before Pool and Styx get de-platformed by YouTube. After all, anything that goes against the leftist narrative is hate speech and we can't have that now, can we?

What had me shaking my head this morning was the Dems plan to impeach Trump for incitement. One of the examples is telling his supporters to "fight for your rights". Nope, we can't have that!

Kevin Kim said...

You can always watch the videos at 1.75X speed if attention span is the issue.

As for impeachment... I think that's going to evoke a much nastier response from the right. The left has shown the way: political violence is legitimate.

Daniel said...

I'm a lifelong leftie, but always eager to hear what the other side thinks. (Not a fan of deplatforming, for instance.) Definitely appreciate the video summaries! (Special request for Tim Pool too)

Kevin Kim said...

Daniel,

Open-mindedness (or at least tolerance) is appreciated. Thank you. To be clear, and to be frank, I'm perfectly OK if you think my head is up my ass, politically speaking. As I've written before, it's a measure of adulthood to be able to differ fundamentally in worldviews and still be able to sit down to a meal or a beer together without killing each other. We live in a world where people disagree, and diversity of thought is a form of diversity. The way I see it, two people can each see the other as utterly wrong, misguided, etc., and still be friends. Such disagreement arguably makes the friendship more interesting! Think about friends with utterly different religious points of view.

I've also written about how, when I rant about the left, I'm not targeting the cool-headed, open-minded contingent. So if I call left-liberals "retards" on this blog, I'm not talking about the likes of you or Tim Pool.