24 yo ruroid trans woman from Missouri here, and the mission is clear: save up enough to move somewhere better. The question is where.

Should I work on moving out of the country? To a blue city in the US? And if the latter, what are some good cities to consider?

Thanks!

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Looks like the local school board chose to criminalize CHL licenses on their property.

I know Vaush hasn't done a firearm segment in a long time, perhaps now we'll get a new one?

I hate to be incredibly reductionist about this, but after watching the man-on-the-street interviews and Vaush asking about what to do, my first thought went to Lottocracy. The more that can be implemented the more people will be put in positions where they have to use different reasoning faculties than assessing whether they “like the thought” of something or not by virtue of exposure to information from experts.

The other two knobs are getting money out of politics (already popular), and getting former MAGA members more engaged to act as socially palatable missionaries that can cut through some of the fog. If Talrico in Texas or Hamilton in Kansas win or even grabs a portion of what we could call MAGA that’s a sign it could work.

That being said, Limbaugh and Fox worked decades to build what is there and we can be under no illusion that anything other than a catastrophe (God forbid) would cause the process to take less than decades hence.

I’m sure I’m not the first to be curious what he’d look like.

As per title, I don't remember if segment was posted on main channel or second one.

It was hidden camera following some embarrassing chud from trump admin, it was less that a year ago, please help, they put trombone track under the whole thing and vaush was losing his shit, that the trombone sound is following him around.

People in chat talk as if they're not a luddite currently. Go outside, learn a craft and learn how to be fucking human again. Jesus

I find the instant rice I usually use is too sticky

I want to preface this with the fact that I play WoW Retail at close to the top level, last tier we were raiding World Last, I had almost 3600 M+ score, and I’m on track to topping that this tier. I’ve been playing since Vanilla but endgame since Wrath. But I wanted to address the myth of horizontal progression being an ideal in a game like WoW.

Ever since its inception WoW has had powerful cantrip effects that n its gear, most of these on the form of tier sets. These are things that change how you play your character, and are typically something that the devs have to carefully balance around, and this isn’t easy, especially with complex interactions.

For example in Dragonflights second raid tier Windwalker Monks s tier bonus did multiplicative more damage if a particular debuff was on a mob, but there was a bug. Any monk could apply this debuff as it was tied to an ability that was class universal. The set caused a follow up ability to deal 200% more damage. Well the way it was coded it was multiplicative. So if 20 instances of the debuff were there it was 200% applied 20 times. This meant 20 monks could kill the hardest bosses on the hardest difficulty in under 10 seconds.

Now that is just one example, but it’s a standout one. Yes it was fixed, however that’s the tightrope. Beyond that having access to all tiersets or all trinkets means class or character reworks are near impossible. A lot of, if not all, of the Legion weapon on use abilities have been removed from the game, meaning that a number of the tiersets, trinkets, and legendaries just don’t do anything. In a world where they still apply that’s wasted gear. Outside of very small power gains or situational improvements there’s no reason to do the content.

Then you have the fact that WoW is, for our intents, a mathmatically known game, meaning players and theory crafters already kind of know what is numerically the best options in most situations. This means unless new content offers a reason for you to engage with it the difficulty is in execution, not in tight dps checks, one of the things that makes WoW fun. Barely killing a boss before enrage is the most satisfying feeling in the game, very close is limping across with a handful of people alive at the very end.

By adding horizontal progression you effectively run the risk of immortalizing powerful yet uninteresting, or worse, powerful and frustrating, items. For example Devastation Evokers in Liberation of Undermine were at the peak of their relative power, they ran three on use items, 2 trinkets and a weapon. This was frustrating to say the least because you couldn’t use them at the same time, it was a rolling application so you’d need to weave them together in such a way to optimize with cooldowns. Or, during the first tier of Midnight an extremely powerful stat stick made its return with a Mythic+ dungeon that every melee wanted to use. The problem is it was a two second channel you had to be stationary for.

Finally I want to take it one level further the reason you have “current content” as being relevant is it gives player groups unified content to run together, meaning besides clearing the content player power upgrades all come from the same place, not 80. So if a new player joins they still want to do the same content to get their best upgrades as everyone else. This creates a unified and purpose driven community, rather than a splintered one where mages really want to run a specific raid, but no one else cares. So why would a tank want to waste their time if there is nothing for them.

I can go into more, and I can even address some of the perceived positives of horizontal progression, but a game like WoW at its core is opposed to it. I’m not sure how Guild Wars 2 does it, but I know how Destiny 2 does and it just wouldn’t work.

"Culture is dead. Everything is a pale imitation of what once was" says the guy who spent a full segment on 2 remakes he plans on playing. We are currently in the busiest most diverse video game release season of all time. The man proceeds to rag on a incredibly fun book series for being cringe/lowbrow minutes after slobbering all over WoW forever.

The whole "old man yelling at cloud" routine Vaush does when talking about everything is getting very very tiring. There is still great art out there. In fact I would argue there has never been a better time to be playing video games. Go play valheim instead of putting half your waking hours into another Blizzard skinner box or the 7th remake of the same game.

Vaush is right "the point of a critic is not to be right, it's to have an interesting perspective". Unfortunately "everything sucks now" is neither right nor interesting.

I forget which video this was (I mostly watch Vaush for his media/gaming takes/old debates), but I think it was in a recent video where Vaush was talking about criminality (might be the Jacob Geller video).

Anyway, in the video the point that Vaush makes is this:

Point 1: Crime is usually a result of social problems/inequities. That when you have things like poverty and income inequality, or social attitudes that encourage rape (rape culture), etc, then crime will tend to follow those conditions. Which is, you know, the standard leftist/progressive take.

BUT ALSO

Point 2: He makes a point about how many criminals are genuinely terrible or shitty people. He made a point about how "Guys don't kid yourself. You can just get murdered on the subway. These people will rob and kill you and think nothing of it because they don't really think of you as a person."

Which I thought that progressives weren't allowed to say. It was SO god-damn refreshing to hear this take, where leftists will wring their hands and act like every single robber, or murder is actually a really decent person at heart, and if only it weren't for systemic racism or capitalism than they would NEVER have done something so vile. So you know what, if you're mad at this person for killing your brother you should *really* be mad at capitalism for racism for making them do this thing. Pfft.

I don't see any contradiction between point 1 and point 2. The fact that these larger scale tendencies says nothing about the individual morality or character of the people committing crimes. And frankly I think most people would understand this clearly if they applied this same logic to sex crimes.

Yes we live in a rape culture that encourages sexual predation of non-male people, where hell many boys will be raised without even knowing what rape is. But still, every feminist (me included) will agree implicitly that rapists deserve scorn and hatred. If Geller's past crime had of been that he robbed someone, and viciously beat them while doing so, I honestly don't believe that the response would be the same. They'd pull out the "Oh poverty and capitalism is at fault, not Geller. We need to allow for rehabilitation" card.

While I endorse the leftist idea of "people tend to act according to societal frameworks and messaging," I hate what is often an unspoken conclusion of "therefore, people don't really make moral choices that they are responsible for."

This actually touches on something I've always found difficult about politics, since way before I even know what left/right was. And that was that you kinda have to adopt a weird 'double consciousnesses.' That when you consider things at a policy level, you have to think and advocate for things that seem to contradict what you would personally do in an individual, one on one sense. And what I think I like about Vaush is how he walks this line, and has done so for a long time.

You can see it in how he's pro-social security and pro workers rights, but he's also very fine with telling people that they should and do need to work hard. Other progressives will call him a "bootstrapper" for this, but that's disingenuous. It is both correct that

1: We need institutions and norms that ensure everyone can live a life of freedom and dignity

and 2: People should work hard and be rewarded for that work.

This is probably why reactionary politics are so powerful. It's even in the name. Reactionary politics are when your politics are based only on the individual, vibes based reaction to one on one circumstances, and when you ignore the broader empirical reality that you can only access through things like careful analysis.

I found Vaush's channel primarily through his videos on autism, neurodivergency, the pandemic frying everyone's brains, and trying to convince his chatters to be less anti-social. I think the most recent example would be the video on the discourse around bringing an iced latte to a job interview. Admittedly sometimes I kinda feel called out because I don't really have a social life, wish I did, and I kinda just end up hanging out in livestreamer chats a lot. Ultimately I do agree with Vaush's takes on the importance of a social contract and not using neurodivergency as a crutch.

The past year I've been trying to push myself to not be holed up in my room on the weekends and go out and do things. I no longer feel any anxiety talking or chatting with complete strangers and I've gained a lot of confidence and self esteem in that regard, but I'm still struggling with the "making friends" part, and I wish I had more of a support network or at least some close friends. Some examples of things I tried:

-I do like going to cons a lot, and I've tried going to "speed friending" panels and mixers but a lot of the time the other people there are still just glued to their phones.

-Tried pushing myself to voice chat in discord and online games more but end up with a lot of people that are really non-talkative or just stay muted

-Tried organizing DnD games with strangers but everybody kept perpetually cancelling and didn't really seem interested in trying to be friends outside of playing DnD itself.

So, I've been able to learn how to mingle and socialize with strangers better and I have much less social anxiety in that regard however...to put it bluntly, I feel like the more I try to make friends I just keep attracting or running into the type of "learned helplessness" asocial chatters that Vaush tries to help, and I'm not sure what to try differently to improve my social life.

The new movie is a bleak and quite straightforward snapshot of our current moment and a seemingly likely and realistic prediction of our future. The absurd and destructive behavior of our elites, our hastening of climate change, and our powerlessness to prevent what's coming are all themes which couldn't help but remind me of the average Vaush stream. I mean that in the kindest way. Even if he doesn't like it, he will certainly feel validated after watching it.

Like a lot of us, I’ve been thinking about what can be rebuilt long before V-man put the Democratic paradox into an official segment. On the flip-side, setting the poll-test as an explicit barrier to suffrage runs the risk of Jim-Crow somehow returning. As a basic proposal, I’d like to introduce the first draft of what I call the Adhocratic Method:

1) Apply Mandatory voting for any position that needs to be filled to every member of said jurisdiction, especially within any organizations internal structure (Village, town, guild, city, worker soviet, military unit, civil department, etc.)

2) If there is not standardized exam for merit available (Citizenship Tests, ASVAB, SAT, LSAT, MKAT, GaoKao, Social Credit Score, Voir Dire for jury selection, etc.) Have each member of the sample population write a question to crowdsource an exam.

3) Weigh every individual’s vote based on the test score, and select candidates for the single-winner ballot based on the top scorers. Upper-single-digit number of candidates is ideal (6 to 9 or 10). Must be a Condorcet method such as Copeland/Llull or Ranked Pairs.

4) In the case parliamentary systems, can even generate effective political parties. Unicameral Cubed-Root legislature is ideal. Bring top scorers (anywhere between 1% of population and cubed root) into general isolation, allow various policies to be rough-drafted by free association, and have each individual sign their respective party/policy charter.

5) Clip each and every signature from up-to-the-top-10 (by number of signatories) respective charters, and group each set to respective charters to determine party candidates for PM by Sortition. Repeat all steps 1-5 as needed, especially Condorcet Components. For more information on these methods, especially pairing Pairwise voting with sortition, refer to /r/EndFPTP.

6) With the policy charters first and foremost as the “candidates” being voted on, a multi-winner form of Ranked-Pairs should be easy enough to derive, aka Ranked-Shares.

7) Streamlining the nomination and election process to steps 1-6 is the ideal way to separate money from politics, and therefore subject the market to the civil state.

8) Ideal superstructure for application and development is a Triarchy of government branches: Executive (defense and enforcement,) Legislative (comprehensive,) and Judicial (epistemological basis, including both empirical, primitive and theological.)

9) Application of this method to the executive branch is inspired by various elections of officers among historical examples such as Xenophon in the Anabasis, Bernadotte in the French Revolution, Nestor Makhnov in the Russian Civil War, and various Pirate captains in the respective golden age.

10) The most crucial dependent variable, or adjustable parameter, is for a balance between internal and external participants, depending on the institution in question (constituency, jurisdiction, patients, clients, customers, etc.)

11) The secondary goal is to prevent Model Collapse from a lack of sufficient data or outward awareness.

In a sense, the Adhocratic Method determines leadership by who is the best teacher.

Obviously this is a work in progress, and as such I really hope it inspires discourse on how things can be reconstructed from scratch.

Recently, Vaush has argued for the necessity of literacy tests as a way to "save democracy". In theory, it would push the "stupid" (read: Trumpist) voters out of the voter rolls, while allowing the good old educated Democrats to Win..

Obviously, there's issues with this. Literacy tests would disproportionately impact less educated black communities, even "non-biased" tests. To add onto this, it could also restrict the voting of poorer left-wing voters, who we want to be able to hear the voices of (unlike the right wing voters).

Not to mention, this will never be implemented in the way Vaush wants, and is only a "bandaid" measure (what if some regular neolib convinces middle class and upper middle class people?) to...

... Well, to the real problem at the heart of the whole thing:

WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE WE OPPOSE TO BE IN POWER

So, why not go further? Why not, instead of advocating for a literacy test, instead advocate for banning certain ideologies from even running? After all, thats what the literacy test is a proxy for!

Why hold this pretense of democratic principles when we clearly want more than to simply "defend democracy" (don't tell me most of us also wouldn't support preventing neolibs from winning, even if this neolib doesn't really threaten democracy)?

For about 8 months, Vaush has been putting more and more arguments which indeed get him closer to supporting a vanguard party, or at least a "tutelage". I feel like insisting on measures with a democratic pretense just obscures where we all know things will be going towards ideologically for Vaush.

And the simple electoral pluralistic democratic road paved with compromise seems less and less likelyvto succeed for the "socialist movement" now that Mamdani has... Let's say, "ignored" the movement that pushed him to power (he said he won't fire Tisch for crying out loud! The bare minimum!). It seems clearer and clearer to me that a united political party made up of the most advanced part of the socialist movement, united behind an invariant program, is the most likely to succeed in our aims. Of course, im not the first to advocate for this. Marx did also:

"Although the German workers cannot come to power and achieve the realization of their class interests without passing through a protracted revolutionary development [...] But they themselves must contribute most to their final victory, by informing themselves of their own class interests, by taking up their independent political position as soon as possible, by not allowing themselves to be misled by the hypocritical phrases of the democratic petty bourgeoisie into doubting for one minute the necessity of an independently organized party of the proletariat. Their battle-cry must be: The Permanent Revolution." -Karl Marx

"Insofar as millions of families live under conditions of existence that separate their mode of life, their interests, and their culture from those of the other classes, and put them in hostile opposition to the latter, they form a class. Insofar as there is merely a local interconnection among these small-holding peasants, and the identity of their interests forms no community, no national bond, and no political organization among them, they do not constitute a class. They are therefore incapable of asserting their class interest in their own name, whether through a parliament or a convention." -Marx on the peasantry. Without a party, there is no "true class".

If we want the working class to win, we need an INDEPENDENT party.

I only watch Vaush through YouTube videos, both on main channel and vaush pit. I remember watching this video where he talked about the need to be uncomfortable sometimes. A specific example I remember was about room temperature, accepting a bit of hot/cold instead of trying to adjust it constantly.

I went through my history and recent videos on the channel and I can't seem to find it, does anyone remember the title or something? (It MIGHT be an older one, since YouTube sometimes suggests me old clips)

The video is a bit old, but I think it proves the same point. I don't know what goes on in their mind when Trump mentions China, and they don't even know what China is or where it is.

Im tired of american progressive streamers glazing this asshole.

The reason for the french left is so weak is because of him, his toxic and narcisistic personality. He has spent so much energy going after young people in his own movement that he see as competition and instead promoted the most stupid and toxic individuals.

There is nothing democratic about how he runs his party, hes an authoritarian with en enormous ego.

He is no Mamdami, please stop the rubbish. I get it he is the most anti israel, but c mon.

Does anyone know the video or stream where Vaush said libertarianism was co-opted by racists to undermine good race relations using economics?

I feel like vaush has gotton so appocalyptic in his predictions and so down on the world lately that he is difficult to watch. I tune in and every stream its just the world is dying its all over everything is going down hill and all thats good abput the world is ending

Then I go back to my regular life and everything is much brighter, people are happy and friendly and my job is nice and my work helping to build windfarms is going well and I feel i'm plating my small part in a positive change for the world, or atleast slowing a negitive one.

But them I watch vaush and get called a servile little cuck to the oligarchs because I guess im not buying enough Afgan tiles and I use the internet sometimes. I just feel like its nit worth watching someone who is just going to insult his audience with such ferocity every stream and make out like theres nothing meaningful left. He doesn't even give us anything we could do to help the world anymore he just comes in and dispairs for 3 hours then plays a videogame