Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. Sam, please remove Michael Brooks. This is your show I'm here to listen to you, not him.
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  2. You guys are inappropriate and gross. The book is ridiculous but the way you mock and sneer and the insinuations you make are a real turn off even to people on the left. Brooks is the worst offender and the fact that he thinks he's funny only makes it worse.
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  3. We desperately need Medicare for all. We need to push for it, it's a priority. It should be the first priority along with feeding people and housing them. There are political realities though and pushing in the wrong way will result in more delay. Not acknowledging that is an error. That doesn't mean that we should continue to accept the system as it is, we should change it. Not slowly, not incrementally but real change. However, this has to actually happen and screaming and cursing at people and pushing for things that won't happen will set us back further. No one wants to hear about political realities, but they exist. AOC is getting things done, she's pushing and accomplishing things and taking a tremendous amount of heat and ugliness while doing it. Attacking her is disgusting and yes, probably misogynistic also. Real change is harder and more complicated than a guy shouting curses at other people on zoom. Even through the frustration and the rage at how horrifically unfair and wrong the system is, getting things done requires navigating that system.
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  4. Is she wrong though? substantively, is she right or is she wrong? If she's right and you don't want her to bring it up because he was a friend, then that's wrong.
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  5. Someone please, please tell Seder to stop with the end of video shtick. It's grating, cringe-inducing and people turn it off. The content is often good but that bit is truly awful.
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  6.  @jimmithyjr273  Why do you think a guy strutting around and shouting and cursing is the equivalent of having balls?
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  7. It is deplorable behavior but the problem is inciting rage and hatred and dehumanizing them. In this video he talks again again about destroying them and about how they deserve hatred and rage, that's always going to be a first step towards violence and it is as unacceptable as the things they are saying.
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  8.  @stupidkitty84  I get so tired of internet idiots voicing opinions that are unwarranted. I have donated $257 to the Sanders campaign. I make phone calls and I canvas in the Seattle area on his behalf. I've spent over 100 hours volunteering. I voted for Sanders in my state primary in 2016 and for him here this month sending my early ballot in. You have no idea what I mean, you're twisting it because you're a small ugly troll. I don't know what the content of their conversation was, and Warren has a history of being honest and never lying. So does Bernie. In this kind of situation I'm going to assume that there was a misunderstanding in the absence of additional information and you would do well to do the same. Take your stupid memes and idiotic ideas elsewhere. I get that "concern troll" is the current thing that small-minded idiots like you enjoy throwing around. It does not, however, apply to me. I'm not concerned, I'm going to look at the evidence and make a judgment on that. The fact that you see what she says as snide speaks to your stupidity and sexism, not to anything else. Do not bother addressing me in response with anything other than courtesy. Do you volunteer for the Sanders campaign? Do you donate money? Have you given more than 100 hours of your time? No, I don't think you have because you're an Internet troll who gets off attacking people who are actually doing the work. Edit: To anyone reading this who feels that I got too heated, too angry. You might be right but it is very difficult to hold your temper when someone accuses you of something that is unwarranted and incorrect. He isn't the first one and I'm sure he won't be the last.
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  9.  @Mrlazerpoint  I'm not surprised at the two responses. The disparaging comments seem to be consistent with your preferred sense of humor, attacking anyone who disagrees even if done in a fairly mild and respectful manner. Take a step back and ask what message that sends. You watch this channel suggesting that you are ostensibly left leaning. I am too. The difference between us is that I think and try to adhere to the values you proclaim as yours. It's not okay to suggest that Peterson covets his daughter. Sexual so-called humor of this nature isn't funny, it's stupid and intentionally offensive. There is plenty about Peterson and his daughter to criticize, there is no need for the snickering sniggering innuendo. When you come across something you disagree with, why do you default to a personal attacks? With respect to your comment, I'm quite grown, grown enough to be able to make jokes about Peterson, who is utterly ridiculous and a bad faith actor, without suggesting that he wants his daughter. This kind of humor weakens the point and it makes us look ugly. Why would you assume that I wasn't grown or that I needed to grow up? Because I said something you disagreed with? Do you see the problem with this approach? When you react the way you did, you portray the left as narrow and intolerant. Anyone disagreeing is to be attacked. The other guy below you was even more direct. He simply said "f you." If I found something funny and you disagreed I might be interested in understanding why. After understanding it I would be free to reconsider or agree to disagree. It doesn't make me hopeful to encounter reactions like yours. We (correctly) view the majority of those on the right as intolerant and narrow minded, unwilling to think and grow. It's disheartening in the extreme to find the same behavior on our side.
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  10. The comments were made 15 years ago. Is everything you said when you were young and dumb something you'd stand behind today?
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  11. +Daniel Kindh I know but it's still ineffective if people find it annoying.
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  12.  @spell105  He chimes in too often, he always tries to take things over. I find his snarky asides more irritating than helpful. I don't find him funny at all, I understand that some people do and they are welcome to watch his show. I would prefer to have a good deal less of him.
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  13. Come on, don't be assholes. Don't make jokes. I'm at the end of the video and you're making jokes about her showing up in a bikini and announcing that he's dead and that's not funny. Jordan Peterson and his daughter are grifters and terrible people but still, don't celebrate their misfortunes. Let's at least try to be better than that.
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  14.  @hanneloreclemenson1228  You're not, don't let the trolls get to you. The people saying hurtful things are doing it in order to make you feel bad. That tells you everything you need to know. Anyone who would mock someone because they sounded a little nervous or stressed at the start of a conversation does so to feel superior. When this is what a person does in order to feel superior we have to try to feel compassion. These people are easily manipulated into voting for anyone who will tell them how much better they are. One of the other commenters wrote a longer breakdown above showing how Bernie's policies are in line with some of the better places to live in the world. Unfortunately those who most need to read it and think about the underlying policies, won't.
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  15.  @daviddaniel7750  I know that, but I thought we were supposed to be the good guys? If we are inciting the same kind of hatred and anger, in what way are we offering a better alternative? Understand, I detest Fox and everything it stands for but dehumanizing and inciting hatred doesn't seem to be the right path. If they throw red meat to their supporters, and we criticize that, why are we doing the same thing?
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  16. Then he should have educated him rather than mocked him. This is low-hanging fruit and it was a missed opportunity. Having the whole choir in the background laugh and chimed in just makes it ugly. There was absolutely no need to handle it this way. It's not like this kid is older or powerful, when you encounter someone who is young and ignorant you plant the seeds of knowledge and good will, you don't cause them to dig in more deeply.
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  17.  @CarlyonProduction  Please stuff it. This is sexism and hypocrisy at their finest. If she were to disclose the details of the conversation, you would complain about how she is talking about private things in public. If she doesn't talk about them, if she respects his privacy then she's manipulative. Have the common decency to look at your own motives. You don't like her, you don't want her as president, you don't want her as the nominee because? Why, the idea of a woman bothers you? Right, a woman is fine just not this one. Or that one. Nope, not the other one either, her voice annoys me! You're fine with a woman you're just not okay with specific. You have different standards for her than you do for a man. Have the decency to acknowledge it. I've given several hundred dollars to Sanders and I am a volunteer for his campaign but I'm going to call bullshit where I see it. And I absolutely see it in your response.
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  18.  @stupidkitty84  I am militantly indifferent to what you believe or do not believe. You are not a true blue Bernie supporter if you are bashing Elizabeth Warren on the internet. Sanders does not want people to idolize him or lionize him. Not me, us. And Warren is, in substantial part, on the same side we are. Neither should you be giving money you can't afford. If you are indeed a single working mother of three kids with health issues (and I will do you the courtesy of believing you, something that you have not afforded me) you need your money for the care of yourself and your children. We don't want people to donate what they can't afford. My background? I'm also a woman and an attorney. I understand health issues, I won't go into why but I've had a long hard fight and I'll continue to have that battle. You attacked me without knowing anything about me. This is how our side tears itself apart. I like Elizabeth Warren. I respect the journey she's made. She grew up Republican and changed her beliefs because of the unfairness she saw. She has worked hard for others and she has done that work with honesty and honor. She has long been a friend and supporter of Sanders. I would have worked for her campaign if Bernie hadn't been in it. She has a long-standing reputation as decent and honest and that is why I am not going to attack her or assume that she was lying. Not without additional evidence. By the same token neither am I going to assume that Bernie is lying because I don't believe that he is. Where does that leave me? With a misunderstanding of some kind. Life is complicated and things are often misunderstood. I do not believe that Sanders would have said that a woman is not electable as president. At the same time I'm not sure that a woman is electable this year in this country with all of the sexism, stupidity and ugliness that is running rampant. The point is that we were not there, and given that both of these people have reputations for honesty I'm going to assume that it was a misunderstanding and not that either person is willfully lying. If you had asked me why I concluded this rather than attacking me as a "concern troll" you would have gotten an entirely different response. Why am I a Sanders' supporter first? Because Bernie has stood for these ideas for 50 years. Because I have lived in other countries where people have healthcare and I believe it is a necessity, a human right. Because it makes me furious that a handful of people have more wealth than half the population of the country, that corporations have a fiduciary responsibility first to their shareholders and not to their employees or to the greater society at large. That this fiduciary responsibility results in people being paid so little that they end up on food stamps even while working a full-time job. There is so much unfairness that we have to fix. Deaths of despair are at their highest ever, our suicide rate is at its highest since World War II. I could go on for a long time as to the reasons I support Sanders and his platform. That support though does not mandate my attacking someone else who is substantially on the same side. If you need me to attack Elizabeth Warren to prove that I am on Bernie Sanders' side then I would question your understanding of what it means to be a Sanders' supporter. I'm trying to find a way through this after you have gone out of your way to attack me. I am angry at how the media has portrayed Bernie, there are a lot of things that make me angry and that I find frustrating, but that does not lead me to attack Elizabeth Warren in the ugly and often sexist ways that she is attacked. Edit: I did not sign off on her claims with regard to his supporters. I do not think it is his responsibility. At the same time there is a strain of sexism in the attacks on her that I find abhorrent. Question someone on the substance of their beliefs, disagree with them because of those beliefs and because of the actions that they take. Calling someone a concern troll and all of the ugliness and sneering that goes on is part of the problem. People will never be persuaded to think or to question their beliefs if they are attacked. I know where the anger comes from, I often feel the same way and sometimes it gets the better of me, as it did in my first response to you.
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  19.  @Isaac-un4cn  I don't want to attack people. I understand that the woman who attacked me is a single mother of three, has health issues and is struggling - that would make anyone angry and trigger happy. I also get that there are "concern trolls" out there. I wish though that we had a little more patience for each other. Elizabeth Warren has a reputation for honesty. So do Bernie Sanders. In the absence of additional information I'm going to assume he said something like "it will be difficult for a woman to be elected this year (due to the rabid nature of Trump and his followers)" and she took it to mean something broader. Elizabeth Warren is on the same bus. We are on the same side. It is wrong, in an excess of devotion, to demand that we disassemble her in order to show support for him. Thank you for responding, sometimes it feels lonely to go against the tide.
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  20. I don't understand what you mean. are you saying that they are engaging in character assassination with regard to Medicare for all? I didn't see that, and if I missed it please explain. It seemed to me that aren't against Medicare for all, they're for it. It is how Dore talks to people and how he interacts that seems to be the problem. When he sucks up the air as someone said, when he positions himself as representing the left while not caring about getting things done. The purity test that he can't pass himself. I'm open to understanding what you meant, I apologize if I misunderstood your comment.
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  21.  @pezpeculiar9557  You did a great job with your comment, unfortunately those arguing against you aren't going to read it and don't care. They don't operate from facts, they typically don't care about what is just or unjust. They want to feel that they are superior to others and anyone who can tell them that they are will get their vote.
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  22. There was an article in the New York Times a few days ago about the Delta variant. Someone wrote a comment about how destroying ourselves and destroying the earth didn't make sense and something about more than one jabs and another jab. It was difficult to determine what he meant other than not liking masking or vaccines. Later on it was clarified, the individual was against both. He would not get vaccinated and was unwilling to wear a mask. My position on this is that if you are willing to remove yourself from society, you can refuse to get vaccinated and/or mask up. If you're willing to take the risk yourself and you do not put anyone else at risk then you do indeed have the freedom to decide. But you would have to remove yourself from society for the duration and If you did get sick, forego care or pay for it yourself. If you decide to not remove yourself and go into public unvaccinated and unmasked and then cause someone else to get sick, there is an argument for depraved indifference charges. In this situation it must be proven not that the individual intended to cause harm, but that he did not care if he did. There is no affirmative intent to cause harm, but instead an absence of care with the knowledge that the absence can have deadly consequences. If you are unvaccinated among others, there is a good chance you will encounter people with diminished immune systems. You don't intend to make them sick but you don't care if you do. In our political climate charges of this nature would probably not be brought, but they should be.
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  23.  @wyattb.5085  Unfortunately the values that they hold are held by a large contingent of our population. To say that the things that they believe belong to a small percentage of Americans is an error. There are the older people, there are the middle aged people, and there are those living in the heartland who do not subscribe to liberal ideals. That is a large plurality of the population. And I know that he added that caveat, but the violence and the heat in his words belied the caveat. And it is throwing red meat to the base here to talk about destroying and defeating people with that much anger in your voice. Look, I hold these people in distaste and I detest what they stand for but I know that there are reasons for their beliefs, and I try to have compassion for them even while I work against what they believe in. If you look at some of the comments here there's one guy who's talking about waiting for violence. I don't want us to do that, I want us to be decent and to work for a better world while guarding carefully against damaging ourselves and others.
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  24.  @willyoung859  They do matter. Did you see me say that he's a grifter and a terrible person? That's not the point. Do you think it's right to be as ugly as we can be? How are we different then? We can say he's a terrible person, that he's responsible for a lot of pain and misery. We can and should hold him responsible for that. That's a more serious and real consequence than making ugly jokes that celebrate misfortune. Do you disagree?
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  25.  @wvu05  He mocked him is probably more correct. Why would you engage in this kind of wholesale mockery of somebody who is clearly ignorant? This isn't the powerful person, this is an ignorant angry kid. it was a missed opportunity to plant the seeds of knowledge. That would have been the right thing to do but instead they had to just go for the laugh and mock the kid and cause him to dig his heels in more deeply and solidify his ignorance and stupidity.
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  26.  @DragonMaiden77  I keep trying to respond to your comment and each time I get so irritated that my response becomes heated. The idea that someone would change their views because they've been humiliated is ridiculous. No one changes their mind because a group of people with whom they disagree mocks them and laughs at them. If you think anyone does, you are lacking basic understanding of human nature and psychology. I think the underlying issue is the second thing that you said, that you do not have patience or compassion because there are too many racists out there. Yes, there are. What is your plan then for changing their minds? The kid is racist, yes. What is your point? That because he is a racist, because this kid has absorbed stupidity from those around him, that he is therefore garbage and should be thrown out? That because of this he deserves whatever ugliness you want to throw at him? I'm trying very hard to be patient with you, and you carry around at least one viewpoint that is wrong and misguided. We don't crucify people who have absorbed erroneous viewpoints. We educate them. This isn't a seventy-five-year-old, this is a kid who will grow up, get married, have children and live in a community. If you want to change the world and make it a better place you have to educate people, not cause them to double down on their stupidity. I don't think it was in Sam's power to change this kid's mind in one conversation. But he could have planted the seeds. Instead we have half an hour of laughter and mockery that most of his audience enjoyed, but which has the effect of pushing the kid further to the right. And before you criticize me, I am not suggesting that we do not fight these people. We fight them in every way we can to make the world a better place. But where there are opportunities to change hearts and minds, we do that. We don't sit back smug in our superiority and mock them because all that does is turn people away from us with the net result of worsening the situation. The half an hour of laughter isn't worth it.
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  27.  @zapabeefart3755  thank you for making that response, it's saved me having to do it
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  28.  @Isaac-un4cn  This is what bothers me. For some of these folks she can't win. No matter what she does they will criticize her. If she shares the details of a conversation, it's wrong, if she doesn't share the details she's manipulative. This is exactly what she's talking about and I agree with her. It isn't going to cause me to not vote for Bernie but I can acknowledge a problem on our side. It exists and it needs to be addressed. I would have loved to have seen a Sanders Warren ticket.
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  29.  @xXRickTrolledXx  Fabricates? How does it feel to finally have an excuse to voice all of the dislike and distaste you've had for her? Does it feel good? Were you under the impression that you were successfully lying to anyone other than yourself? It's fascinating that in this country where women are allegedly far more equal than anywhere else, so much putrid sexism still exists. Arab countries have had female leaders. Israel has had a woman leader. The various European and Scandinavian nations have. But here? Here, you find people piously mouthing platitudes about how they will vote for a woman (although they never actually do so) but the moment an opportunity arises she's "fabricating" or manipulative or any other rotten sexist trope. It never occurs to you that they could have misunderstood each other? Bernie might have said that he thought this year a woman was not be electable and that could have been taken more broadly than he intended. And If he did say it he wasn't wrong. The majority of trump supporters will not vote for a woman. Neither, to be honest, would you. How do I know this? I know it because of the way your mind works, how you have fallen back on the ugliest of stereotypes with the slightest of excuses and your lack of awareness.
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  30.  @az-tl3mh  I agree with you. I'm a Sanders supporter and a woman. I volunteer for his campaign and I donate money. I still get attacked here when I suggest that we shouldn't assume that Warren is a scheming manipulative liar. Someone told me that I'm not a "true blue Bernie supporter" because I disagreed. I understand the anger. I feel that same anger myself. But I also recognize that Elizabeth Warren is on our side in large part. We aren't helping our cause if we assume the worst and attack her.
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  31.  @nura6889  Thank you for your kind words. I just got done responding to someone who was informing me that Elizabeth Warren is a fake progressive. I often don't know if the people posting these kinds of things are bots or trolls or genuinely believe it. We are turning on each other and attacking each other and giving no leeway or credit for good intentions. People should reserve their rage and anger for Trump and for those who genuinely want to do harm. Right now my main focus is on trying to prevent Biden from becoming the nominee, while he would be better than Trump (It's hard to imagine someone worse) a Biden presidency would worsen the conditions that led to Trump being elected in the first place.
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  32.  @stoneman472  The response I left for the other guy could have been written for you too. Apparently it's a very bad thing to tell internet dudes that their sense of humor is disparaging or ugly. Grow up. There is a veritable universe of things to validly attack where Peterson is concerned. There is no need to engage in sniggering innuendo with regard to his daughter. Not only is there no need to do it, it weakens the left and gives ammunition to the right. If he'd made a joke about how Peterson was exploiting his daughter by showing her in a bikini to appeal to his base and what the hell is that - it would have been stronger. And hell yes, I'm a liberal among other things. Why is that a problem for you?
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  33. What's with the ugly nickname? And before you go there, no, I'm not a fan of Kamala Harris but I'm even less happy with the unnecessarily ugly comments here. You want to criticize Trump and those idiots but then engage in exactly the same kind of behavior? You think this makes you better or superior in any way? It does not.
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  34. "We're not going to let Kamala Harris cut America's meat!" I thought this was a joke at first because the things he's saying Biden and Harris want to do are so reasonable. Let's see, change America's diet so that we don't destroy the planet and so that less Americans die every year of diabetes and cancer, check. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? It's more their supporters who die of these diseases. Even his audience isn't sure how to react at first. "Huh that sounds reasonable, are we supposed to be against it? Oh, right boo boo!" Really funny. He is so bad at this it is legitimately surprising. Harris was not my first choice. Nor was she my second or third but I understand why Biden went with her. She is reassuring to all of those people who are afraid of the left. They can look at her and see someone who is very much a centrist and not an AOC or Bernie. But at the same time she is black and it is a milestone that is long overdue. I just didn't want it to be someone who is center, or center right. I wanted somebody who would fight for healthcare for all, someone who would understand the healthcare is a human right not a privilege for those who are lucky enough to be born to a wealthy family. There are a lot of things that are understood in other countries that are still subject to debate here. people like Biden and Harris are not left, they are closer to right of center anywhere else. Anyway, for the meantime let's save the country. I know many of you agree with me and are angry and want to sit this out. Please don't do it. We will have our turn, it's coming and in the meanwhile let's not allow the most vulnerable among us to suffer because we're angry with the democratic party.
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  35. Walk where? Not vote? Let Trump be elected again? That attitude is what caused us to get Trump in the first place.
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  36. Just calm down? What the hell is that? That on its own causes me to really dislike her now. It was condescending and inappropriate. Men should never speak to women that way, likewise women should not speak to men that way either regardless of their relative rank status or power.
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  37. For the love of God. Please please stop with the stupid bit at the end of every video. It is genuinely cringe-inducing and it doesn't get you more subscribers. It makes people want to turn the videos off before the end. Someone please tell Sam Seder that this is an issue and to address it.
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  38. Okay, no. Sam you need to get rid of Michael Brooks. Personally I dislike Susan Collins very much but the idea that Brooks will sit there and mock her voice when she speaks that way because of a disability is disgusting. I have never liked him and now I loathe him. It doesn't matter what you think of Susan Collins as a politician. What matters is behaving with a modicum of decency and he does not. before anyone responds and says that she deserves it, no one deserves a disability no one deserves to be made fun of on that basis. There is plenty to say about her that is accurate and correct without descending into making fun of the way she sounds. We don't like it when they do this we shouldn't do it ever.
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  39. You're right, it is juvenile. What is more juvenile is Michael Brooks cackling incessantly in the background. I detest Meghan McCain but if anyone could make me feel an iota of sympathy for her it's Brooks. I don't understand this approach. who benefits from the mockery? Moreover, in particular with Brooks the ugly sexist tinge is once again in full evidence.
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  40. That's an interesting observation. I find the opposite to be true. He's irritating and smug and thinks he's much funnier than he actually is. I think that he detracts from Sam's show. I understand that he has his own YouTube show now and it is my hope for him that it is successful and that he stays far away from this one.
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  41. Oh hey, what a clever dude you are! Idiot.
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  42.  @datniggami7  This is a problem. You want to engage in violence, you want an excuse for violence. In what way are you any better than they are? You have the self-awareness to know that you're ready for it and you want to use it as an excuse to vent all of the rage and frustration that you feel.
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  43.  @daviddaniel7750  it worries me that you've gotten five upvotes. I know exactly what fox followers think, but you being willing to meet them on that field is concerning. What is a solution in your view? We just all fight and blow everything up and engage in an orgy of violence? What exactly does that do to solve the real problems that we have in front of all of us? I find them contemptible and detestable in their views but they are human beings and there are reasons for them thinking the way they do. I struggle to maintain compassion sometimes but I keep struggling because I know there are reasons. If you were of their generation you would probably think the same way and I would try to have compassion for you too.
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  44.  @grayforester  I didn't know he had passed away. I'm very sorry. We do need a political response that will overwhelm the right, I agree completely. I didn't like some of the things Michael said or how he said them but now in light of his passing that is trivial. I'm sorry for his loss, the loss to his family and the left community.
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  45. I wish Michael would talk a whole lot less.
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  46.  @GodEnderX  You are going through a lot of hoops there to make a point that I don't think is relevant to what I said. You said you don't like my analogy but I didn't make one. Perhaps it was a typo or you meant something else? Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD is not "aids" of the lungs. If someone you are answering doesn't know something basic like this they can look it up. I'm very sorry about your father, COPD is difficult for the person suffering and for their family. Your bender analogy doesn't apply to the situation. Should people have compassion for you? Of course they should. But we have to avoid confusing compassion and excusing bad behavior. If you went on a drug bender that would harm you. Peterson has harmed other people, not just himself. What he has done is far worse than going on a bender. If you went on a drug bender because you were upset about your father being sick, I would have compassion for your situation but it would not excuse actions and bad behavior. For your analogy to apply you would have to do something bad to others while on that bender, let's say you robbed a lot of people to get money for the drugs. I would still have compassion for you and I would want to understand what caused you to do the things that you did. That would have bearing on the punishment. When someone commits a crime their state of mind is relevant. But again, it isn't the point I was making. I did not say that we should excuse Jordan Peterson for the damaging things he has done. I did not say we should forgive him for the harm he has caused. I think you misunderstood something but I understand why. When I say that the jokes are ugly and should not be made I am not forgiving Peterson nor am I excusing any of the things he has done simply because he is sick. We can have compassion for his situation without in any way viewing him as likable or forgiving the harm he has caused to others. Getting sick doesn't erase that or negate it. The jokes are wrong because they are ugly. When we mock people this way, the way Michael Brooks frequently does, it taps into the ugliness that lives in us. He does it to encourage the audience to laugh at someone else's expense. This is actually a complicated thing to talk about, it involves psychology and the nature of who we are as people. There is an effect that happens when you laugh at someone else's misfortune again and again and that effect is detrimental to us. When you are led to view others as not worthy of any human compassion, as "other" over time you become more and more callous. The endpoint of that is obvious. That kind of mocking laughter is contagious, it invites the audience to push their better nature away and have a communal sneer at the person who is in that moment the enemy. I abhor Jordan Peterson. He is intellectually dishonest, a grifter and has caused a lot of harm. The fact that he is sick doesn't change any of that. I put time and effort into convincing people not to buy his books or watch his videos. I have conversations with people about him and I try to explain how he uses psychology and twists it to support his ideology. I lost a good friend to Jordan Peterson's way of thinking. Trust me, I am not excusing or forgiving anything. Having compassion for someone as a human being, saying that ugly "humor" harms all of us is not forgiving or excusing. We harm ourselves when we give in to the urge to degrade others.
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  47.  @frenchtoasty17  Generally we don't. Would you read my longer response if you want a thorough answer? Thanks!
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  48. Please edit these videos
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  49. This is unkind. It's low-hanging fruit, there's no need to make a mockery of this kid. It's clear that he's very young and doesn't know what he's talking about, why not educate him instead of mocking him? By mocking him you assure that he'll double down and dig his heels in. He's so young, you can hear it in his voice, this is a missed opportunity to educate somebody and plant the seeds of a better view point. Poorly done and disappointing. The group in the back laughing and egging each other on, to make the kid feel even worse adds to it. If this were an adult who had power and knowledge and had these viewpoints that would be different, but mocking some ignorant kid rather than trying to turn him around is disappointing and sad. I know that my comment is late, this video was in my queue today. It just goes on and on though, why would you call him a dumb fuck and mock him incessantly and then put it up on YouTube? This was really a missed opportunity. The incessant laughing of the choir in the background is distasteful. Who is this video intended for? Is it intended to show everyone how Sam and company can take apart some uneducated kid? Why is that the goal?
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  50.  @AntiFaGoat  That isn't helpful or clever. The goal should be educating people and helping them to see what is really going on. Being punitive to somebody who is young and stupid only serves to make them dig their heels in. If that's your goal, then you've achieved it but I think it's a pretty stupid goal.
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  51.  @wvu05  I understand what you're saying but it's clear that it's a young kid. And having the whole group laugh and make fun of him is just going to solidify his views. You're not going to get someone to think if you mock them and humiliate them. What's the point of posting the video? Look at us look how funny we are look how we tear apart this young idiot. Why is that a good thing? It really is low-hanging fruit and I expect better from Sam, not necessarily the rest of them.
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  52.  @annamari7863  thank you, I felt like I was arguing into the void.
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  53.  @18skeltor  This was 3 years ago, I had to scroll through the entirety of the comments to remember what it was in regard to! I like Sam, I think he is a decent person and well intentioned. I found this video frustrating because you don't change anyone by mocking them. I'm not perfect, I've mocked people and I have been unkind. Probably too often. It just struck me that someone like that kid, who is still so young is the person you want to try to persuade, someone you won't persuade immediately but who might benefit from the seeds of thought being planted. That's the person you want to treat with a degree of decency and kindness so that they don't double down on their mistaken beliefs. I understand that it would be a stress reducer to have a fun time laughing but this video struck me as ugly. A crew of people sitting back laughing and mocking someone who absorbed erroneous beliefs from their environment. If we want a decent society, if we want even a chance at persuading people this is not the way to go about it. As for your comment about following them? This was years ago. Obviously I didn't do that nor would I. Moreover, you have absolutely no clue as to whether their mind can be changed. The fact that you are so certain that it's not possible puts you in the same camp as they are. One of ignorance and harm. There are plenty of people whose minds are changed over time. Of course it doesn't happen from one conversation, no one thinks it would. The point I was making that apparently eluded you was that rather than plant the seeds, and I hope you understand what that means, they chose to mock him. You don't persuade someone from one conversation but you can create room for questioning. If you think a reasonably intelligent person has no chance whatsoever of ever questioning the things they believe, why are you here? What's the point in anything? That is patently untrue and stupidly nihilistic. It's work to meet someone where they are and to try to offer them information that would allow them to question the things they believe. It's hard work and it can be both thankless and frustrating. It's work that I'm not doing right now because I'm not being particularly patient with you. I get irritated when people on our side, loosely defined, don't understand that we do harm when we cause people to double down.
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  54. MD are you? Do you call all of the older women who are out of touch dinosaurs? What about the older men? What about your parents or your grandparents? Do you roll your eyes at them and think of them in this way? Do you agree with the guy above who said that her face looks like something drawn on a scrotum? Did that make you giggle, do you find it funny? No. There's a lot of sexism in this and it needs to stop. Nancy Pelosi should retire. She does not represent the values of the vast majority of people in this country. There is a real problem with the fact that she became so wealthy while performing the role of a public servant. There are real issues here. Why do you and so many like you content yourselves with taking potshots at her age and appearance? Would you want to be dismissed on the basis of your age and have your appearance mocked? Do you think that this kind of hatefulness feeds anything positive? I will continue to do whatever I can to persuade people to vote out people like Nancy Pelosi. I will do whatever I can to get progressives into government. I feel as strongly about this as you do, possibly more for reasons I won't go into here. But it is so disheartening and disturbing to see those with whom I share many important beliefs and positions sitting here indulging their worst impulses.
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  55.  Z'Q  Nope, sorry. Your sarcasm notwithstanding - she isn't a liar. Calm yourself. It is reasonable to say that in THIS year with Trump and his rabid base a woman would have a lot of difficulty getting elected. He has a reputation for truthfulness. So does she. Why are you in such an ugly rush to crucify her? What is the problem that you have? You want to cannibalize those who are on our side out of an abundance of ideological purity? Bad idea. He believes a woman can be elected - possibly not this year. She has had a disgustingly difficult time. Try some empathy - how would it be to be her? How would it feel to be smart and able and to run up against sexism time and time again? Watch the interview with Chris Matthews and his disbelief that a woman should be, you know, believed. This is something women deal with every day. Imagine how that would feel and how RAW you'd be after years of it - and then if you do that, you'll see how she might have misunderstood something. Get a hold of yourself and your own sexism in rushing to judgement. Christ. You all want to crucify people on OUR SIDE for some perceived failing rather than directing your energy towards those who really are a threat. Your Last Mohican comment told everyone reading exactly where you stand. Seriously, go to hell with that - when you jump on the Trump train to insult Warren you show yourself to be the lowest of the low and not worth my or anyone else's time.
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  56.  @stoneman472  I can be more direct. You're a condescending ass and not half as bright as you think you are. And that is probably generous. You thrive on trying to get under other's skin. You don't represent anyone or any beliefs - you're here solely to feed your need to troll. You could as easily be on the right. Grow up.
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  57.  @vanessamw1140  Thank you for this response. I've seen the same thing and it's chilling. It won't push me to the other side because their beliefs are antithetical to who I am but it does make me feel a lot of frustration and sadness. If you say something about it you're accused of moralizing, if you don't then you are quietly acquiescing to it.
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  58.  @steik6414  I wasn't reacting to the majority of the video. As a general matter Brooks frequently goes too far and that's why I said something. He panders to the uglier side of his audience by making these kinds of jokes. You called it moralizing. What should do, quietly acquiesce to it, be silent? The whole point of the left is to limit suffering, to make the world a better place for more people. Not to be snide or ugly or celebrate the death of another person. It's not that he made a joke, it's how he courts that ugliness and encourages it. He almost always goes just that bit too far. I understand that it is for the benefit of his audience but what that feeds in his audience is also what I am objecting to.
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  59.  @komlat253  You're right. But after being cursed at, mocked and told to f off you'll have to forgive me if I get a little acerbic. I tried to answer and explain twice and had more abuse thrown in my direction. I wrote a genuine response to the person I later became sharp with. There was no response to that only more of the "f off, hahaha, lib clutching pearls" rubbish. I agree that as a general matter it is much better to be civil and try to engage in a conversation with as open a mind as we can muster.
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  60.  @theelectricant98  I'm aware of how he got his money and I am as far from a fan of his as you can get. Some of his general advice has helped a certain type of mostly white, mostly millennial male. The problem is that it is often a gateway to the alt right. It would be really interesting to talk about that and from my perspective he is clearly a bad actor. He is very much for a traditional hierarchy. I've read some of his work, I've watched some of his videos, and it would be difficult to find someone with whom I disagree more. But that said, let's attack the substance. I was objecting to the unnecessarily ugly innuendo, to the smirking and sniggering. The fact that I find someone intensely dislikable doesn't mean that I would celebrate misfortune befalling them or think it right to smear dirt on their son or daughter. If this book was put out by him and he okayed his daughter being on the cover in a bikini, there is so much we can say about that but there is a line and Brooks crossed it.
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  61.  @theelectricant98  The grift yes, the rest of it not so much. Of course we should point out how absurd he is, the nature of the grift, all of it. I was objecting to the other part, to the suggestions that he lusts after his daughter and the smirking celebration of that masked as edgy humor. With respect to the so-called diet, apparently there is a small segment of the population who do benefit from eating this way. I read that this could be because their gut is so messed up that it functions as a reboot, an extreme elimination diet that allows their gut to heal. I wouldn't advocate it in the absence of a nutritionist suggesting it for a short period of time.
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  62.  @steik6414  Moralizing is by definition a negative. It is "the action of commenting on issues of right and wrong, typically with an unfounded air of superiority." There is no unfounded air of superiority here. It is worrisome that you need me to tell you why it is wrong for a comedian or presenter or whatever you want to call Brooks to engage in smirking sniggering jokes about someone lusting after their daughter. It is concerning that this is something that would now be called moralizing. There are values that should be understood to be universal. Why do you want to encourage the worst of human nature? Brooks has a platform, he is looked up to that plenty of the people who come to this channel. That gives him a responsibility. If he makes jokes people absorb that humor and it becomes part of their view of what is correct and right. It is more than a tacit acceptance, it is encouragement. I am surprised and astonished that this has to be explained. Why not ask me next why it is wrong to steal or rape or murder? It's okay to cast ugly aspersions on someone, to call that out is now, in your view, moralizing. What comes next on this slippery slope? Are you going to tell me that it is moralizing to say that it is wrong to smash someone's head in with a bat? Will you tell me that there are some situations where it is okay? Of course it hurts the left's values. We, most of us, stand for the proposition that it is better to reduce suffering and misery. To try to live our lives as thoughtful decent human beings. If someone is a bad actor, call them out on substance. To sit back and snigger over so-called edgy humor that panders to the ugliest impulses harms us. And it opens us up to the accusation of hypocrisy when we call out the other side for similar behavior.
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  63.  @steik6414  Your argument is disingenuous and you aren't addressing the issue - you are sidelining it and minimizing it. I wasn't sure if this was because you genuinely didn't understand but at this point I'm fairly sure that you do. Your choice of language is the giveaway and the fact that you aren't addressing any of the points I've been making. I can't help you with that but I can decide to not participate any further and I am making that decision. You are free to continue to argue that it's just fine and funny to make jokes about an individual lusting after his daughter, that there is no harm in, that it's all for the lols, and funny. You can persuade yourself, as you have already done, that this is a valid position and that you "are afraid" you don't understand the issue. You aren't being truthful. I know that and so do you. It is not a valid position to take. You also seem to think that your language is subtle - please trust me, it is not. Nor is "absurd" of me to "allow" (allow?) people to vote in elections but to prefer that they not be exposed to a constant barrage of ugly jokes that are demeaning and damaging. It's absurd that you claim to not understand the difference. I'm going to guess that you're okay with rape jokes too. Hey, why not, it's funny, right? Holocaust jokes okay with you? By your metric why would they be a problem? Everything is fair game, it's only a "joke" - it doesn't do any harm, right? Wrong. It does tremendous harm. It is beyond the scope of a comment to try to educate you on the many ways in which this does harm. And I suspect that you already know some of them but are engaging in pretense for some reason. People are formed and charged by the things they are exposed to. So called edgy humor about a man lusting after his daughter is distasteful and offensive, it isn't funny - you want to deride Peterson? There is so much about the man that is awful - take something valid and make jokes about it - do not make puerile smirking jokes about him wanting to screw his daughter. It cheapens the discourse and over time damages those who come back for more. Is one stupid offensive joke a problem? Not necessarily. A constant barrage of it is an issue. Ask yourself where the line is - where your slippery slope takes you. I don't think that you will because your comments aren't made in good faith.
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  64. I wonder if his slowness of speech and sluggish thinking are residual effects of covid. He uses the word "like" a lot and does not inspire confidence. It's worth remembering that chiropractors are not medical doctors. This is not to say that they don't have something useful to offer nor is it to suggest that there aren't plenty of medical doctors who practice medicine poorly, but it is worth bearing in mind.
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  65. Boomers? Bernie is a boomer. Every boomer I know is voting for Bernie Sanders in their state primary. I was listening to a podcast this morning from the New York times and the woman who was talking about not being able to vote for Bernie was in her 30s or 40s, not a boomer at all.
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  66.  @brentshowers741  You're saying that a boomer state of mind is an old state of mind? Are we talking people in their '50s or '70s? Because the hippie movement is the boomers. Those people embodied forward thinking. I guess I'm just questioning the idea that boomers are a group of people who are old and responsible for all of the bad things. Among my acquaintances almost every boomer voted for Hillary after wanting to vote for Sanders. It was the millennial cohort that got disgusted and stayed home, engaged in protest votes or voted for Trump in an attempt to blow the system up and hasten big changes. Gen X here btw.
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  67.  @TheYakisobaNoodle  Anyone who uses the term dumb fuck to another person for voicing an opinion is showing themselves to be exactly that. You are doing our cause no good by revealing to others that we are exactly the same - crude, unthoughtful and lacking in the ability to show discernment and judgment.
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  68. No, Sam. In this case I think you're wrong. I am no fan of Meghan McCain's, she's irritating and far too privileged and not but she does have a point. Speaking as another Jewish person, someone who has studied their history and the Holocaust, we know that the use of hypnotized in this context is suspect and should never have been said. I'm not sure if Ilhan Omar is actively anti-Semitic, she does have a history of saying things that suggest it. The right wing hypocrisy notwithstanding it's important to acknowledge that there are serious issues with the things that Omar has said. Maybe it was a coincidence that she used a term that mirrors things used against Jews at the time of the Holocaust, but in the absence of anything additional I'm not going to give her the benefit of the doubt. I am going to reserve judgment while fighting my instinct to find her distasteful. She said some things that by any reasonable standard were objectionable and potentially dangerous, and these were the things for public consumption. Like you, I support Israel although not the right wing government. Anti-Semitism is on the rise for that reason it's important to be very careful, there are plenty of people who confuse Jew and Israeli and are happy to have an excuse to exercise their not so latent anti-semitism. I would really like it if the other folks who present this with Sam would stop the background cackling. You want to make fun of people who are ridiculous, that's one thing but the background laughter makes you seem like a bunch of teens snickering at someone. It's unappealing and distasteful. Overt mockery should be used sparingly.
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  69. Please get rid of Michael Brooks. Let him have his own show and do his own thing but please don't have him heading up segments here. He is cringe-inducing, snarky in an ugly way that doesn't have an underpinning of decency and in general just distasteful to watch. I hover over the unsubscribe button every time I mistakenly click on a video where it is all him.
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  70. I understand why this is so funny but it's deeply terrifying. Both parties have neglected education, we now have a population that lacks critical thinking to an unprecedented extent. That these people believe right-wing propaganda even in the presence of so much proof to the contrary is a deeper problem than the pandemic for the long term. How do we move forward as a country? I'm going to sleep, this is too depressing to think about.
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  71. Wait what? Did Brooks just say that Jewish girls are whiny and that it's true, and that's okay? I was watching Sam's face and he didn't seem too comfortable with that. This is what we mean when anti-Semitism is discussed, the latent form of it seems to live in pretty much everyone and it doesn't take much to have it come out. A similar joke about a different group would never fly, you could never make a joke about some alleged negative quality that black or Arab or Hispanic women are supposed to have. I find this guy so very distasteful. I'm glad he has his own show now maybe he will show up here less. He adds nothing and detracts significantly from the show.
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  72.  @danielbenitez4120  that's not a response. What are you trying to say?
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  73. The cackling in the background is consistently irritating. I'm not sure why the show does this, is it meant to cue us to laugh? For the most part I enjoy Sam Sedar but the Greek choir in the background would benefit from being toned down.
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  74. Just stop it. Just stop calling them disgusting time and time again, you know what you're doing, you have to be aware that it is a dog whistle for your supporters. You show a grossly overweight unappealing white woman, and older white man and you call them disgusting, you talk about destroying them, you incite anger and rage. I hear you carefully walking it back, I hear you saying on a political and power level after you have said destroy them and destroy them and destroy them and they are disgusting, you know what you're doing and it is as bad as what they are doing. They are ignorant, they are afraid, and they are terribly uneducated. What is your excuse for inciting rage against them? What is your excuse for the pious self-satisfied virtue that you are displaying? Let's be very clear, I am 100% on our side politically, but this display is abhorrent as theirs is. It's very easy to incite rage by showing an obese person eating in a diner and not showing sympathy for undocumented immigrants. If you have to garner support by mocking someone and tearing them down viciously by referring time and time again to their appearance, then you lack substance and decency. Attack their positions, not their persons. When you do this you turn people off and if you don't, if the people you are throwing red meat to enjoy it, don't you understand how easily they can be turned? Inciting rage and hatred is never the better way forward. You are so steeped in self-satisfied rage and what you believe to be justified hatred that you don't see these people as human. If you hate them so much how are you different from Trump and his ilk? Dehumanizing people is always going to be a first step towards violence. You've taken this much too far and you are absolutely in the wrong for doing so.
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  75. Why do you pick on Meghan McCain so much? Granted, she is offensive and her views are terrible but that's the case for many people on the right. She is an easy target. I think that's what bothers me, she's a woman, she's overweight, you enjoy mocking her and I guess the audience likes it. These are all reasons for me to not find it particularly attractive.
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  76. Does Sam ever do videos without the chorus of sycophants cackling behind him and chiming in? Because for the most part I enjoy watching him but everytime they add something or laugh off camera it is eye roll inducing.
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  77. I just heard Sam's co-presenter say that if the virus kills people in red states, she referred to it as the "chud belt" it would be a silver lining. I had to play it a couple of times to be sure I'd heard correctly. I'm not protesting this to be morally or ethically clean. I'm bringing it up because a human being doesn't view the potential deaths of millions of people as a benefit under any circumstances. I understand the anger even the rage because I frequently feel it too but the vast majority of people living there are ignorant not actively evil. Wishing them dead or making jokes contemplating their deaths with a kind of macabre relish is ugly and makes us darker. Don't make jokes like that. It's not funny or edgy and it hands ammunition to people on the right that we do not need to give them. Worse it makes me wonder about my place on the left. Do we really consider the potential deaths of uneducated, ignorant people as a silver lining? When I think about that I feel anger and sorrow. No matter how much we disagree with the majority of people in those states, they are human beings. They have children, families, loved ones, hopes and dreams. They've been poorly served by the educational system in this country. There are reasons for the way they think and those reasons are what we should fight. When I'm confronted with a Trump supporter stomping and spewing hatred, I lack patience and get angry but I would not make a joke, at least I hope it was a joke, that their potential deaths to this pandemic would be a silver lining.
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  78. Well said and thank you!
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  79. Please don't have a split screen with Michael Brooks. I enjoy watching you and listening to you most of the time but Brooks is a liability. The snark and smug self-assurance that he brings to the screen do not help you and are irritating to watch.
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  80. Why the mockery? The whole cackling gallery is irritating. It feels like a group of sycophants feeding each other and egging each other on. I detest Bill O'Reilly but this video doesn't invite me in. I think it's correct to be critical of our side when we engage in stupidity, and these videos that appear in my feed, with a bunch of people laughing, cackling, mocking someone on the other side are distasteful. He's right about the phone issue, it is annoying to be behind someone holding up a phone or an iPad at a concert. I'm at least 30 years younger than he is and I agree with him on this, don't you?
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  81. It is that outrageous. There's no need for the cynical interpretation. You can hear the real emotion in his voice. Take the win. Take the allies when they appear, don't look for ways to diminish their support. And for the guy on the right, Scarborough did not suggest that the insurrectionists should be shot in the face. Don't intentionally misinterpret. It's becoming such that when Sam isn't around the quality of the show goes down. What Scarborough said was that if they had been black or Muslim they would have been shot in the face. He was not advocating for shooting them, he was pointing out that if they had not been white Trump supporters they would have been shot. And he's right. It's good that someone like Joe Scarborough recognizes the double standard and racism in our society. It's a win when more conservative white people can see that there is a problem.
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  82. Hey Sam, can you let the guy, the comedian who thinks he is so very funny, do his own thing on his own new show? Because he's not funny, he is irritating and it detracts from your show. Thanks.
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  83.  @jamesdavis5729  I appreciate your response. I thought I was going to get attacked for it, but I really enjoy Sam's content most of the time, the other guy not so much. I'm likewise not a big fan of the whole Greek chorus thing where everyone chimes in and cackles in the background.
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  84.  @jamesdavis5729  Thank you for the subtle correction. I'm not sure why I said Greek choir, it's chorus as you said.
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