Comments by "" (@snowcat9308) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. It's almost like he's lying on the internet for money!
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  2.  @enudretheinsult  Well the enemies of the 20s (and presumably the 30s) will be using conventional armies that needn't hide behind the civilian population they're supposed to be protecting. Though, given Russia's (or China's, for that matter) behavior (at literally any point in history), I wouldn't put it past either of them.
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  3. I wish we had more conservatives like you. It'd be so much easier to get along :(
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  4. Brandon u slay so hard 💪💪✨️✨️👏
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  5. Our government support may be iffy, but at least some of our people still want to see liberal democracy win. Please don't give up, and PLEASE don't die.
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  6. LMAO I love the implication that "advanced" societies all have gay super-soldiers where their homosexuality actively improves their combat effectiveness. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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  7. DAMN dude. You clearly hit a nerve, cuz the bots are out in DROVES on this one.
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  8.  @KingTrump2028  Ah yes, because admonishing the alt-right is Russophobic. Really helping your image here brother :D
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  9. I call little spoon.
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  10. Her whole thing is spreading lies and disinformation about LGBT people. Y'know, like the implication that gay people weaken our military.
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  11.  @onerimeuse  I wish more people were eagle-eyed like you. It seems that the very people who decried the atrocities of the Soviet Union are more than happy to let us experience the same under the banner of the Russian Federation.
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  12. Even if that's true, that doesn't explain why a Haitian immigrant, with a job and the security of living in the United States, would go out of their way to hunt and kill a dog when they could go buy a burger for 5 bucks.
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  13.  @chuch541  I mean the whole thing that binds America together is the idea that different cultures can get along under one flag. Appalachia. New England. The Deep South. The Midwest. The West Coast. All of these are culturally distinct areas of the United States, each with their own rich and interesting history. And despite this, we still cooperate (to the extent at which we can in [current year]).
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  14. What is with this weird rehearsed line coming from all of you like it's some sort of pre-set option in a dialogue tree? She is manipulating you with leading rhetoric in the captions that posts along with those videos, like the one accompanying the subject of this video. Come on dude read between the lines, please.
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  15. Which is more embarrassing: Pulling trash out of barbed wire for two weeks, or being known as a rat forever?
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  16. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans seem to be on board with electing the person who will bring this document to fruition.
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  17. This comment goes hard, but unfortunately Chaya Raichik is making a difference. That's why covering her misinformation matters so much.
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  18. I think "Would you just shut up man" went pretty hard tbh
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  19. How is it unbecoming? Is doing any dance unbecoming? Chaya is implying that gay men make our military weak. That IS homophobic, and also like one of the number one propaganda talking points of our enemies.
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  20. This is genuinely how I understood geopolitics when I was six years old. Which is to say, this shouldn't be described as an "understanding" of.... well.. anything, actually. Russia can't make meaningful gains against a country that is fighting with our RESERVE/OLD/SURPLUS GEAR. How do you think they would fair against cutting-edge stealth aircraft and never-ending saturation attacks because we literally have INFINITY BULLETS. Like, I don't think you understand just how utterly outclassed Russia is here, dude. I mean feel free to join the Russian military and stand under a HIMARS. Go see for yourself what two trillion dollars of spending does to a military.
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  21. People who think sending aid to Ukraine is wasteful must also clearly have a problem with giving police departments armored vehicles. Because lowering upkeep costs is... wasteful?
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  22. I defy you to tell me what exactly is wrong with this sailor doing a "gay" dance.
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  23. If you think "anti-LGBT" and "anti-pedo" are the same thing, your opinion is not worth hearing :3
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  24. She asked, to her conservative audience, a leading question about whether "this" (sailor doing a gay dance) showed strength in our military. The implicit answer to this question is "no", of course. You're inability to identify her rhetoric says all it needs to about what you believe, and how you would respond to her question if you were asked. :/
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  25. Culture war. The conservatives have to moral panic about something, or their voterbase would literally have nothing to vote on.
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  26. All she did was post the TikTok and ask a leading question that suggests, to her conservative audience, that gay people make our military weaker. That's all she did man!!
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  27. It's so insane seeing all the people in the comments whining about recruitment rates, when those same people seem to be pretty keen on excluding like 20% of our population from serving in the military.
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  28. Ryan, "maintain a biblically based, social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family," is a dogwhistle for the elimination of gay marriage and no-fault divorce. The "Biblically-based marriages" people like these are advocating for are not the soft and fuzzy kind that modern western Christians engage in.
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  29. It's a weird tradition thing. In a formal context, it is expected that you refer to people by the highest title that person has held at any point--past or present. It's why you see veterans referred to by their ranks, even though they are no longer serving the military. It's a matter of respect! Now, while I think Donald Trump isn't worthy of any respect, disrespecting him at the beginning of the video would probably turn away a lot of the people Ryan is trying to convince.
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  30. One, being gay is not politics. Making gay people feel welcome in the army is also not politics. Using an all-gender bathroom is... fine? Why is that an issue? And seriously, why are you taking people who give you shit for "working for the gay army" seriously? You have the privilege of serving the most powerful military on this planet. There's absolutely nothing for you to feel embarrassed about. That's not to say there aren't problems that need fixing, but being "the gay army" definitely isn't one of them.
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  31. By implying things in the captions. Yknow, like implying that this video of a guy doing a gay dance doesn't show strength or confidence in the military. If you can't see her obvious subtext, then there's no way you're old enough to vote in November.
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  32. You know it's not just "reposting videos" dude. People read and respond to the captions, especially when they are framed in a leading way (gay = bad so our military is bad because this dude is acting "gay"). Suggesting that gay people weaken the military is misinformation. Because they don't. If you can't see that, it's not his fault that you believe a wrong thing.
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  33. Oh those poor little right wing babies! Forced to take money from our literal enemy to knowingly spread lies and destabilize America!
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  34. Is that because of the icky gays, or because we just spent 2 decades fighting an extremely unpopular war in a desert that no one cares about for effectively no reason because the government we were trying to prop up had no motivation to actually exist for more than 3 seconds on its own? Nah, it's definitely the gays. We should start listening to great leaders and thinkers like Vladimir Putin and Xi Xinping, right? We should just submit to our enemies right now. No fight, no discussion. Just give up!
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  35. Subtext matters. By asking if the sailor in that video showed strength or confidence in our military, she was implying to her conservative audience that it didn't (and that our military is "gay", blah blah blah). You are either too naive to recognize that, or too dishonest to admit that was her intention. Also... what? Can you clarify what you meant by "preschool teachers", "bragging about", "how they indoctrinate", "toddlers", and "LGBTQ ideology"? Literally none of that made any sense.
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  36. "Nuh uh! It's the LEFT who are the liars!!!" (after watching a video detailing the process of how a hostile foreign government was able to project its awful backward ideas into American minds)
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  37. When did Ryan say that? This is just more insane cope from someone who can't play along with others because of his iron-age morality.
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  38. Any mental gymnastics to avoid admitting that you believe lies, right? It can't possibly be our enemies lying about the country that they are actively invading. It has to be a "CIA/FBI honeypot" (for what? beats me!), or they were just tooooootally innocent!
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  39. NO STOP
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  40. Wow that's a lot of yapping to say "b-but the US is bad too! That means Russia should be allowed to lie to us!!". 1.) "The American Government" is not the western boogeyman you should fear, but the corporations who control it. Why didn't the invasion of the Middle East benefit us? Because it was never meant to. It was meant to benefit the ultra-wealthy oil tycoons who have their thumbs in the American pie. 2.) It doesn't matter what the US government has done wrong, it does not excuse Russia intentionally lying to us. Especially when Russia is trying to DESTORY us with those lies.
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  41. Elon is buddy-buddy with a lot of goons on the far right. This isn't out-of-character at all for him.
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  42. Soldiers can't goof off and make a video of it? Surely you feel the same about literally every other instance of soldiers goofing off in uniform on the internet, right? Or does it only "embarrass the uniform" because he's acting like a GIIIIIRLLL (and girls are GROOOOSSSSSS).
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  43. no, chaya raichik is just a bad person
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  44. You're right! State media would NEEEEEEEVER spread misinformation to manipulate a large group of people--domestic or foreign. Nuh uh never!
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  45. Ah yes, you should rely on your gut when the aggregate of all human knowledge is a five-second search away. Last week, we sent them $125 MILLION worth of supplies, ammunition, and other war-fighting goods. Why would we punish Ukraine for trying to get the upper hand in the war?
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  46. Stonks was never a funny meme, and that should immediately discredit you. What part of the first amendment has Ryan violated? What did he saw that was wrong?
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  47. No man, she just lies. What "craziness" and "hypocrisy" has she pointed out?
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  48. What is "coco-banana'ism" exactly? A sailor doing a funny dance? A book tangentially mentioning homosexuality in a high school library? Subtext matters. By asking if the sailor in that video showed strength or confidence in our military, she was implying to her conservative audience that it didn't (and that our military is "gay", blah blah blah). You are either too naive to recognize that, or too dishonest to admit that was her intention.
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  49. 1.) Name some. 2.) Good? Russia has been shaping public opinion in America for DECADES. We shouldn't just lie down and take it.
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  50. Gay and trans people are part of America, and--as long as our society continues to move towards equality for us--we will continue to serve in the military. Don't like it? Go join Russia's military.
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  51. No dude, not everyone who dispells obvious lies that are obviously destroying our nation are CIA plants.
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  52.  @user-oo8xp2rf1k  Well.. yeah. If someone is lying about being trans, then don't put them in a cell with other women? Or better yet, just keep prisons divided based on sex, since violent prisoners are exponentially more likely to rape someone than an average person. But can you actually give me an example of a "trans" rapist raping a woman? The UK is kind of known for its transphobia, especially Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism. Im not accusing you of being transphobic, but the hypothetical you just described sounds straight outta the TERF playbook. It definitely makes me wonder where you're getting your information from.
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  53.  @angelcabeza6464  According to Wikipedia, "There were 2,459 United States military deaths in the War in Afghanistan." According to the same article, more than 50,000 died on the opposing side, although this number is an estimate and fails to specify the makeup of the 50,000 dead. In fairness, the Afghan army lost upwards of 65,000, though largely in part due to poor training and morale. So... the actual terrorist group killed more of its own people than they lost. But I guess killing tens of thousands of your own citizens is okay to Allah if you're doing it to spread your archaic religion or something.
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  54. No, seriously. When did Ryan say that homophobes shouldn't have a voice? (And yes, being "offended by homosexuality" (you poor thing ;c) is homophobia.)
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  55. I feel like people would be less willing to (incorrectly) accuse Israel of doing war crimes if they weren't actually doing war crimes in Gaza.
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  56. "The act specified that service members who disclose that they are homosexual or engage in homosexual conduct should be separated (discharged) except when a service member's conduct was 'for the purpose of avoiding or terminating military service' or when it 'would not be in the best interest of the armed forces'." Time and time again, it has been demonstrated that forcing gay people to suppress their sexual orientation has a negative impact on their mental health (and their ability to work, consequently). As a gay person, I would much prefer a military that didn't care about my sexual orientation to one that would discharge me if I spoke of it.
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  57.  @conchfritters01  Good! Then people can read my comment instead of uncritically consuming what he had to say.
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  58. ​ @lonniemaurer6959  And you're not even real. Are you from Aurora or Springfield??? Pick one.
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  59. the war on drugs is bad, mkay?
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  60.  4-Methylaminorex  That position genuinely makes my brain hurt, but fuck it man whatever gets you to vote blue.
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  61. ​ @hankhill3446  If you're worried about women being assaulted in an all-gender bathroom, I feel like that's a problem with military culture. You should probably address the problem, instead of treating its symptoms. Also, what do you mean by "administrative woke army class"? You looked like you were going to give an example, but then you just told a story about how getting rainbow dust on your uniform is bad, so you had to take a longer walk to work? I don't want to outright dismiss that claim, but it looks like you lost your train of thought half way through the first part of your original comment. As @ppgurl420 said, being gay isn't political. It's become politicized. LGBT inclusion should not be political, it should be the default. I didn't choose to pick up the LGBT banner and join the LGBT party. My biology and life experiences shaped my orientation, in the same way that yours shaped yours.
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  62.  @hankhill3446  I disagree. If the only complaint is that it's "inappropriate", so what? You get naked around dudes all the time? Can you not control yourself around your naked female colleagues? (I'm using a general "you" here, obviously. Not trying to accuse you of being ravenously horny lol) If by "woke events", you're referring to celebrations of Pride, I completely disagree with you. I understand you believe that it's a sin (or something to that tune, since you mentioned your religious beliefs), but Pride is actually pretty important. I used to think it was kind of redundant, given that most people seem(ed) to be cool with gay/trans people. However, I've come to realize how important Pride is to people who don't have the support of their friends and/or family. And, especially in a profession that typically attracts more conservative people (like, I dunno, the military), there's a lot of value in making gay people feel welcomed when they otherwise might not be. Can you please elaborate upon what you mean by "these policies", and explain to me why you feel diversity training is a bad thing? And finally, to answer your question: The purpose of a military is to defend the country that owns it, and to project the power and interests of that country onto other countries. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. And, I might add, a military does this much better when its members feel valued and like part of the team.
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  63. In a good way, I hope?
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  64. No, really. What was her point, then? She clearly implied that gay people make our military look weak.
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  65.  @mansquatch2260  She implied that gay people make our military weak. If you need me to lay that out to you in a comment, then there's a lot more we need to discuss before we start the herculean task of teaching you what subtext is.
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  66.  @teslapilot5755  Hey guys I found the JROTC dude. Right, so you would also argue that the videos of soldiers goofing off in foxholes or shooting balloons out of expended Javelin launchers should also be reprimanded? I'd like to take you in good faith, but the more I see literally this exact same comment almost word-for-word, the more it strikes me as a post-hoc justification for feeling icky about gay people. Soldiers aren't statues dude. Come on, you know that.
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  67.  @Joe-pc3hs  No they don't. They post content (often cut out of context) with leading captions that tell the viewer how they should feel. Stop coping please
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  68.  @Joe-pc3hs  She asked "Do you think videos like this show strength and confidence in our military?" This is a leading question meant to imply that the video does NOT show strength or confidence in our military. She put this comment insinuating that our military is weak over the video of a guy doing a feminine dance. The implication she is making here is that gay people weaken our military (or, at the least, people who act "gay"). This is a homophobic assertion. You have understand that politics are nuanced. Liberalism is the status quo, here in the west, so reactionaries (racists/homophobes/etc) need to disguise their intentions to avoid being cancelled/ridiculed/etc. This is what the concept of a "dogwhistle" refers to. A message that is literally innocuous on its own, but has a hidden meaning to a given in-group. These messages can be interpreted as harmless when the person is given the benefit of the doubt, but take on a different meaning to the group that was supposed to receive the message. If you'd like, I can give you a few examples if you don't want to look them up on your own time.
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  69.  @randir14  Typical of musk that he would do this, and Ryan may have missed the mark on this one. Have you EVER seen that misinformation thingy under any post before? I sure as hell haven't, and there are untold volumes of misinformation on Twitter. It's really weird that they'd be so aggressive with this, instead of letting it remain obscure.
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  70. You know it's not just "reposting videos" dude. People read and respond to the captions, especially when they are framed in a leading way (gay = bad so our military is bad because this dude is acting "gay"). Suggesting that gay people weaken the military is misinformation. Because they don't. If you can't see that, it's not his fault that you believe a wrong thing.
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  71. Nope! Ryan is just living in the 21st century with the rest of us. Good luck with the 12th century, though!
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  72. Right. There's absolutely nothing being implied to Raichik's conservative target audience when she asks how "strong and confident" gay people make our military look. But sure, we should just divorce all of her posts from the greater context of her channel, and address each post in good faith, because Raichik is such a good faith actor after all.
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  73. Looks like you've been sold a false bill of goods
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  74. Right, so the caption implying that gay people make our military look like shit isn't making fun of anyone?
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  75. If people don't want to join the military because one dude made a TikTok where he did a "gay" dance, then they probably don't care about defending American values (i.e., the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness). They would sooner set down their AR and trade it for an AK.
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  76. LMAO the "illegal immigrant ruining free speech on twitter" is rhetoric I WILL be using in the future
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  77. Do you plan on doing a video like this (not a short) about the Crimean bridge attack? I know you made a community post about it and I wanna see the video :o
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  78.  @HDSME  Dude I totally believe you
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  79. It means a lot for you to make a video like this, but it means SO MUCH MORE for you to be actively down in the comments, battling homophobic members of your audience with us. Thank you so, so much. You make young gay people like me feel like we're WANTED in the military, especially when WE want to defend our country, too.
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  80. If you're a Neo-Con, you might find better company with Liberals that you would with MAGA cons.
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  81. I would just love for you to give us an example of Chaya's "unbiased" and "reasonable" commentary, so that we can all laugh you out of the comment section. Chaya literally manipulates you into fearing transness and trans people so that you keep voting red.
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  82.  @anotherguy9402  It's adorable that you dodged my question. What do you want me to say? CNN and MSNBC? I know the mainstream media can't be trusted, but Fox News also counts as mainstream media. But that doesn't mean that I just uncritically accept everything I see on the internet. If I hear something that doesn't sound right (and even some things that do), I use the search engine that is sitting right in front of me to do more research. Also, what are you even talking about? Are you referring to the much-sought-after "trans agenda"? What the "trans"es plot behind closed doors? Oooo I bet they were talking about "trans"ing the kids!
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  83.  @anotherguy9402  It's not a pedantic question. I want to know what you understand to be "unbiased" and "reasonable". And looking back at your original comment, I noticed you made a huge mistake. Gay and trans people aren't part of a "political group". No more than being straight somehow makes you part of a political group. These are characteristics that we (as in gay AND straight AND trans AND cis people) cannot change.
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  84.  @anotherguy9402  What points? "Oh I knew trans people and they told me what they REALLY want (refused to elaborate??)"? "I'm right because I said so" is literally all I'm hearing from you.
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  85. He has a YouTube channel about military stuff. If you can't recognize the difference between military nerd stuff and the actual promotion of war, I think you might find something more agreeable in one of Matt Walsh's articles on video games.
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  86. Yeah seriously what? All these tough guy "ex-soldiers" can't seem to recall the extremely gay sense of humor the army has always had.
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  87. If you're our enemy, maybe. If Modi remains in power, inevitably. But if you pivot west? You'll be cheering when you see one of our cities come floating up to your shoreline! :D
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  88. Being gay in the army during WWII must've been another thing entirely. What a king 💪
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  89. I think being more openly accepting towards a large portion of your army is probably going to lead to higher combat effectiveness. But SURELY there isn't ANY OTHER REASON that could be leading to a decline in recruitment. Y'know, like: an increasing mistrust in our government, wealth inequality, and the war(s) in the Middle East completely demolishing the credibility of our military as a force for good?
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  90. this is your brain on early-iron-age morality
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  91. Good thing our military reflects the people it protects.
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  92. All you people ever do is nebulously refer to "THE DEI" and "THE WOKE" without ever actually committing to any data. Can you please give me one concrete example of our STANDARDS being sacrificed for the sake of DEI. Not some weird correlative relationship or graph wizardry. I want you, mister conservative, to actually show me the United States Military lowering its standards for the sake of diversity.
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  93. I think it's important to understand that Ryan is able to find the truth in situations like these. And often times, he doesn't need a 3-digit subscription to a cutting-edge proprietary cybersecurity tool. Finding the truth is as simple as using your search engine and following sources to their conclusion. It's not always easy, but there's no reason to be depressed about a 'post-truth' society when you still have your search engine. Hope is not lost!
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  94. These freaking LIBS will lose their MARBLES when you tell them that. Thanks for speaking TRUTH to POWER.
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  95.  @rider4440  (its sarcasm, exaggerating the ridiculousness of the idea that combat effectiveness correlates with sexual orientation)
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  96.  @rider4440  I've fallen for some, myself. It's hard to distinguish truth from satire when you're so politically in-the-weeds and you've seen so much.
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  97. No, Ivan, this video is about the REPUBLICAN party. Biden is on the DEMOCRATIC party. I understand that not every Russian understands American politics that well, so I'm here if you have any questions about what real democracy looks like! :D
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  98.  @richardfroste4548  Y'know "Richard Froste", your profile is awfully baren for a guy who has been on this platform for almost 10 years. Very bot-like of you, comrade. You see, comrade, it's about 3:30 in the afternoon for me, an American living on the East Coast. You posted this comment about seven hours ago, which would be about 8am. However, 8am EST is actually the middle of the day in Moscow! 3pm, in fact! Now, you could just be an early bird, but I somehow find it hard to believe that you were posting misinformation in Ryan's comments at 8am on a Wednesday. No, it's more likely that you also posted this comment at 3:30pm... in Moscow. I look forward to your reply tomorrow at 8 am, tovarisch! Slava Rossyia!
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  99.  @richardfroste4548  What does "put the bowl down" mean? I've literally never heard any english speaker say that.
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  100. I encourage anyone reading this exchange to Google "put the bowl down" and try your best to find anything that comes close to meaning what Froste said in his comment.
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  101.  @richardfroste4548  Name any US state that isn't Texas without Googling it.
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  102. While true, it would be a disaster if France just "air-dropped" that money into Haiti right now. We need a stable government in Haiti before something like that can happen.
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  103. So the "age of majority" (the legal age of adulthood) is 18 in every state in the US except for Nebraska, Georgia, and Alabama, where it is 19.
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  104. Weird disclaimer but alright
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  105. RYAN. Europeans are not the world's only colonizers, but they are the ones that matter TODAY in [current year]. I'm not asking you to be guilty about being white or European, but the Islamic Golden Age ended like 700 years ago. Referring to Muslims as "colonizers" today would be completely pointless, because that doesn't meaningfully address their status in [current year].
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  106. Ryan, I'm not sure the intention of this image is to come across as "official". It strikes me as just a neat-looking graphic that simplifies the important parts of Project 2025.
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  107. In this case, a grifter is appealing to emotion by way of politics to steal people's hard-earned cash and cover up his mistakes. Oh and Libs of TikTok boosted it because it's a conservative disinformation channel, much like the rest of the trash on what remains of Twitter's defiled corpse.
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  108.  @Iron_Wyvern  Why all this doomer defeatism? You know as well as I do that the United States is nowhere NEAR fighting at its full capacity. What war are we losing against goat herders?
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  109. God damn it even army truckers in Vietnam still sound like truckers 😭😭
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  110. I think they should provide funding for the housing, but there's something uniquely dystopian about housing blocks owned by the local mega-corporation.
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  111. So this video is problematic on its own? How? Also, do you know what an implication is? Like, "imply"? Have you ever been introduced to the concept of a "rhetorical question"?
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  112.  @user-vg6sg7kh1q  I'm still so confused... Do you like LibsOfTikTok or not? Your language is a little unclear.
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  113. How do you know he was an immigrant?
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  114.  @CJDunehew1  NewsMax spreads disinformation. The issue isn't that we disagree. The issue is that you're being lied to, and those lies have a negative impact on your judgement. Especially when you think you're trying to improve the nation we all live in.
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  115. Never underestimate a Pennsylvanian's urge to dig tunnels.
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  116. Weird analogy but okay
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  117. Good public transportation and walkable cities are just better for the human condition.
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  118. Of course! Everyone knows that Haitians are the only natural predators of Canadian geese! 😊
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  119. War Thunder taught me to shoot the side, just below the turret ring.
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  120. He illegally used the money that people donated to him FOR HIS CAMPAIGN to pay hush money to a woman he cheated on his wife with. Why is this your guy?
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  121. Population decline is not a concern for us, and even if it was, we could fix it without prohibiting the existence of homosexuality. Also, why do you care what our enemies think? Are you a Chinese or Russian sympathizer? No? Then laugh at them when they whine because the "gay" military is leveling their cities.
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  122. But the GOP is the party that LOVES America (while consistently selling out to her enemies and spreading their lies)!
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  123. Yawn. Your comment is incorrect.
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  124. This is the most insane cope ever. Trump said Aurora had been completely taken over by that prison gang, when it was a few properties (which is still bad, but nothing out of the ordinary for a literal gang). These lies were addressed by the government of Aurora less than 3 days after Trump told those lies on national TV. Whoever started that lie is trying to play into your racial biases to fear monger you into voting for Trump. No, there is no "great replacement" going on. No, immigrants are not taking over our country. No, Venezuelan gangs are not taking over entire cities. No, Haitians are not eating peoples' pets. Maybe take your own advice and stop perpetuating rumors you can't substantiate.
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  125. Dude drop cybersecurity and go develop a game right now cuz this system sounds like it would make AI so much more fun to fight in PvE games like this
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  126. Subtext, dude. You need to read in between the lines. When she reposts a video of a sailor acting "gay", and then asks a leading question about how "strong and confident" our military looks, that's rhetoric. She is implying that his behavior makes our military look weak. You clearly agree, because you seemed to have looked past the idea that her rhetorical question has more than one answer.
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  127.  @noneyaratman714  What focus on "inherent traits"? Oh no, we've dedicated a few hours out of one day in the entire year to celebrate the 10% of our military that, for literal centuries, we made feel extremely unwelcome and unappreciated, despite the fact that they worked and bled just as hard as the next guy. Please show me evidence that "the WOKE" or "the DEI" is tangibly having an impact on our military's performance, and NOT other factors (i.e., declining trust in our government, a population leaning towards anti-war, declining trust in our military, and/or other factors with more nuance than "THE WOKE LIBTARDS ARE RUINING THE THING I LIKE").
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  128.  @noneyaratman714  If you see guys acting gay (not even being gay) in the military, and you take exception to that, that's a YOU problem buddy. Time to put on your big boy shoes and play nice with others.
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  129.  @noneyaratman714  Soldiers are not statues who stand at parade rest and reflect upon their experiences when they have free time. Are you really gonna upset like this over every video of a soldier goofing off instead of digging a trench or dusting a closet? Come on, dude. The only reason people are up in arms about this, and not other instances of "unprofessional behavior", is because a man was doing a feminine dance, which people interpret as acting gay. And of course, because homophobia and transphobia seem to be the moral panic of choice for the GOP nowadays, Chaya Raichik is able to reach a ton of people with her homophobic message. (If you disagree with the nature of Raichik's post, please refer to my first reply.) Who promotes people based on sexual orientation/race/gender/etc (instead of merit)? Can you demonstrate an instance of this? Can you answer literally anything I tell you, or are you going to keep skipping to the next point while I slowly corner you?
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  130.  @noneyaratman714  Not sure what that means, but I took a look! You can imagine my shock and awe when I found that the most powerful militaries in the world let LGBT people serve, while weaker militaries didn't.
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  131.  @noneyaratman714  Are we talking about the same part of history? Like, I'm talking about current year, and I guess you're somewhere in the middle of the 19th Century? Can you point to the British Empire on any map made after the year of our lord 2020?
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  132. Ryan, Russia would not be motivated to spread negative disinformation about the GOP, because the GOP is currently how they are influencing American politics.
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  133. True! Pisses me off more when I see people on my own side spreading mis/disinformation. If nothing else, it makes it look like we need to lie to convince people, which is about as far from the truth as you could get.
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  134. Be careful what kind of media you consume. Ask yourself why you think it's okay for conservatives to intentionally signal boost obviously far right accounts (End Wokeness, Libs of TikTok, etc). Not saying that is--for sure--what's happening here. I'm asking why you think that would be okay if it did happen.
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  135.  @NorthernVirginiaTaxProfessor  Maybe, but I don't really consume mainstream media. My understanding comes from the people I've spoken to, who--for the most part--seem to be of the "MAGA bible fundamentalist" category.
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  136. Right, and because there's "no proof they haven't eaten pets", we should just take Trump at his word anyways?
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  137.  @jer1014t2th  "Do you think videos like this show strength and confidence in our military?" This was the question that was asked. This was not a question about our enemies, because it would make no sense for our enemy to be "confident in our military". She was referring to the military's image to our own people. Again, by asking this leading question to her conservative audience, the obvious answer the audience is meant to respond with is "no". The implication is simple: "Gay"/feminine men are making our military weak. (If you want a longer version of this explanation, it's just above your most recent comment.) This is transparently what she is saying. Any apologism for this comes from ignorance or dishonesty. Which are you?
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  138. ​ @jer1014t2th  ​ Why should we care what our enemies think about our military? Putin underestimated UKRAINE and now he's in a drawn-out attritional conflict. Imagine the absolute steamrolling that would take place if Putin underestimated the US Military. Besides, it's pretty obvious that the whole "gay people make our military weak" stuff is transparent propaganda that Putin doesn't believe for a second. I'm sure plenty of his followers do, and I know his propaganda appeals to plenty of conservative Americans. However, we should be more worried about the presence of his propaganda (and people like Chaya spreading that misinformation) than we should about how icky Russians think gay sailors are. I'm not saying that we shouldn't worry about the conduct of our military AT ALL. But that's not the conversation Chaya was trying to start, and it has nothing to do with the video of a soldier goofing off (plenty more of which exist online).
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  139.  @jer1014t2th  No one in their right mind will try and make geopolitical moves because they think America's military is a little gay. Our enemies are more worried about our military budget and our nuclear arsenal. What, do you think a babushka in Siberia disapproving of how "gay" the US military is will deal a crushing blow to our geopolitical status? We should be concerned about the conduct of our own military, but how is doing a silly dance "poor conduct"? It looks gay? Boo hoo. Let our enemies cope about how "weak" we are while F-35s hover undetected in their back yards and CIA satellites figure out what brand of shoe they're wearing. This is not the conversation Chaya is trying to initiate with this post. Once again I ask you, are you ignorant of this, or dishonestly covering for her bigotry?
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  140. Sure thing user with a completely blank account that's almost a year old! I think I'll just uncritically accept whatever you say!
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  141.  @DuncanHall-c8s  Who are the "federales"? The federal government? You mean... the one that was controlled by Donald Trump in 2020, when he was still the President of the United States? Stop talking nonsense, no one is listening.
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  142. Woah! Some guy on a boat in the middle of the ocean having enough free time to record a 30-second TikTok video? Surely this has never been done before in the history of the US Military.
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  143.  @caring-assoul_  Do you even know what Liberalism is? Are you even an American?
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  144. Maybe don't commit crimes?
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  145. Bro says we shouldn't criticize Donald Trump for spreading racist lies on national television and then cites a YouTube video. Please sort yourself out before the election.
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  146. dont you have a literal asteroid to catch
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  147. Please don't do this kind of format when you are discussing important subjects like these. If you're talking about personal or casual things, this is a fine format. However, it's kind of distracting when you're so winded and running into leaf blowers and stuff. Pls n thx
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  148. Is it not EXTREMELY suspicious that Twitter seems to be so aggressive about this? They nuked the account that posted it and gave any post talking about the "misinformation" thing, which I've NEVER seen them do. We've seen actual misinformation go completely untouched by Twitter, but they seem to be really into this one for some reason. Knowing Elon, I'm not too sure that this is fake.
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  149.  @SomeKiwi  "The ban may have been engineered through other means which would force Twitter/X to address the post when they'd rather ignore it" I don't understand this. The account that posted the information was banned within two hours of doing so. There was never any "address" made about the post, aside from the misinfo box that we've never seen before on any other posts--including posts with demonstrable misinformation. I don't think we can know for certain, but we have plenty of context clues. It's not like Elon is known for being bipartisan. He regularly engages with the far right, and even reposted JQ stuff.
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  150.  @sheldoniusRex  ​ 1.) Rhetorical questions are just that: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is defined as "language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content." Raichik did not ask the question sincerely or meaningfully. By asking that rhetorical question, juxtaposed to a male mariner doing a feminine dance, she implied that "No, this video does NOT show strength or confidence in our military." If you cannot understand subtext, then there's nowhere this conversation can go. 2.) Boo hoo. Cry me a river. It doesn't matter what this sailor does in his free time (especially in the privacy of a bedroom). The most important thing to the United States military (or any military worth its own weight in salt) is this: Can it kill? If yes, good! If no, seek employment elsewhere. I'd be very interested to hear you qualify what you believe is "degeneracy", or hear you explain who you think the "managers in Washington" are. Extra credit if you can do the former without referring to the Bible, and the latter without referring to (((THE JEWS))). Bonus point.) Why do you care what our enemies think? I, for one, invite them--at their earliest convenience--to test their hypothesis and prove to the world just how "weak" the greatest military power on Earth really is.
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  151. Mmm... probably not because they're pushing "someone's agenda", because sometimes there are good agendas worth pushing. It's much simpler than that. Their doctrine requires them to harm people who have done no harm, themselves.
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  152. Stop it please; this is the worst way to defend against this issue. Just expose the lies for being lies, or someone might respond like this: It literally does not matter in the slightest if it's subjectively okay for Haitians to eat cats and dogs or not (which, as far as I could find, it's not). If someone killed and ate your cat or dog, you would still be losing a cherished member of your family. If you owned a pig and I turned him into bacon, you would have every right to HATE me. The problem isn't "oh they're eating cats and dogs", it's "oh they're eating peoples pets". WHICH, TO BE 100% CLEAR, IS NOT HAPPENING.
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  153. Chaya's posting? Yes. That's why she needs to be fought tooth and nail on every platform, as with all disinformation.
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  154. It's a well known fact that the chemicals in Marine MREs (crayons) will change your psychology and make you gay. So sad!
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  155. "I've seen videos" is quite possibly the most ironclad defense someone can make when they have a search engine within "New Tab"ing distance.
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  156. No one is going to hunt your pet and eat it when they can go buy a burger for 5 dollars.
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  157. A dude in the military acting like a girl is conduct unbecoming? Maybe in a ceremonial setting, but only because that behavior isn't professional. Do you expect soldiers to act like statues all the time? You don't seem to be outright homophobic (unlike other commenters), so I'm not trying to be hostile with you. But, what is unbecoming about that TikTok? Was it just him doing a silly dance?
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  158.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  LOL
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  159. Yeah Trump famously hates the military industrial complex which is why he put money into Raytheon stocks before he ordered missile strikes on hostile Middle Eastern countries.
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  160. What? Libs of TikTok spreading misinformation? Nah they would never do that!!
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  161. You also code-switch, unless you're hanging around the same group of people 24/7 and never leaving your house. And yeah, politicians lie, but this politician isn't trying to radically reshape our government for the worst soooo
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  162.  @turinturambar8622  1.) You talk to your family different than you talk to your friends. You talk to your friends different than how you talk to your coworkers. You aren't the only one who does this, so blaming Kamala for this is an insane double-standard you have because you already don't like her. Stop pretending this isn't post-hoc reasoning. 2.) If you think a center-left pro-Israel anti-Immigration Liberal is "the most radical candidate in recent history", you are cooked. I recommend that you challenge the propaganda you've been fed by whatever podcast you listen to and read the Wikipedia page on Project 2025. Or don't, and live the rest of your days in your bubble of solipsism where the entire world is out to get you, and a ruling-class billionaire is the only one who can save you.
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  163. 7:24 Come on dude, you are so much better than whataboutism. Obviously the girl in the TikTok seeing Jewish people and immediately thinking of the Israeli-Palestine shit is terminally online and has had her brain rotted by doom-scrolling, but I feel like the "well Muslims colonized too!!!" is like the worst response to this. Netanyahu's government is factually settling Palestinian land (the parts that the international community agreed wouldn't be settled) in the same way that the Americans settled Native American land during our Manifest Destiny (on a smaller scale, but done similarly with similar goals and consequences). Israel IS doing a genocide. This isn't about "oh well the Muslims are just as bad as the Jews, man!", this is about one culture attempting to ERASE another. Still love your content though, and disagreeing with the people I regularly watch once in a while is kind of refreshing, because it means I don't live in an echo chamber (i hope)!
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  164. I think this is more about fact checking Trump's lies honestly.
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  165. AIPAC influences all American politics, because they're a group of religious nuts who are ACTIVELY trying to fulfill a doomsday prophecy.
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  166. YOUR MIC ISN'T AWFUL YESSSS TYYYY
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  167. GET A BETTER MIC OMGGGGGG
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  168.  @REB4444  What is a "DEI candidate"? Someone who isn't straight, white, or cis? Are non-straight, non-white, non-cis people automatically less combat effective and their straight, white, cis counterparts? Do you have any evidence that suggests that DEI is actually affecting our military's effectiveness? I ask these questions because they are questions I had to ask myself within the past few years. Are you getting actual evidence that suggests that DEI is having a negative impact on our military, or is it just vibes-based hypotheticals and "what ifs" being put out by your preferred news source?
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  169.  @fortunefair  Ah yes, soviet journalists are the bastions of truth! Don't you know? They literally called their newspaper "Pravda" or "Truth"!
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  170. What would you say qualifies as "shoving their beliefs down the throats of others"?
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  171.  @battleburger  "All of that shit should stay below the radar"? What "shit"? Being gay? Why should it be kept below the radar?
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  172.  @battleburger  ....Doing your job? Getting along with co-workers? Respecting your superiors, especially in a military context? What part about doing a silly dance in your free time is improper at work? Are you suggesting that being gay, in and of itself, is improper workplace behavior? I don't think so, but I also have no idea what you mean to imply if not that.
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  173.  @battleburger  You still haven't said anything about your "All that gay shit should stay below the radar" comment. What did you mean by that?
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  174.  @battleburger  This is a 76-page document written in 10-point font. Can you please point me specifically to the part you are referring to? And again, can you clarify what you meant when you said "All that gay shit should stay below the radar"? I keep pressing this, because I'm not entirely convinced that your motivations are exclusively about decorum. Please prove me wrong.
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  175. He's bad at rhetoric? Also, this is a weird hill to die on, and isn't a whole lot better than the "ripe and fertile" bit. When I was 16, I had literally no clue what I wanted to do with my life. I'm 22, and I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. I don't think, even with parental consent, that 16-year-olds have the experience and capacity to make an informed decision about marriage. Minors should, under no circumstances, be allowed to marry. Honestly, I don't think a person should even start thinking about marriage until they're 25, but that's more of a "what you should/shouldn't do" thing rather than what I think should actually be law.
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  176.  @egan1292  What foreign adversaries would want to spread negative misinformation about a GOP representative? I made a comment about this elsewhere on this video, but the GOP and Putin's administration are both explicitly fighting on the same side of the culture war, and Putin often uses the GOP to influence American politics (look no further than their position on Ukraine). It may very well be a blind spot for me, but what foreign powers are trying to covertly push a pro-left sentiment in America? The Dutch?
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  177. Ah yes personal anecdotes. I think you should only trust them if they confirm what you already believe, though. That's how you get the most out of being lied to.
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  178.  @herbankidd  Uh.. no? Making sure you're correct is also part of journalism. If someone told you a lie and you put it in the news, you would be a bad journalist for platforming their lies.
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  179.  @herbankidd  Okay instead of talking past each other, can you at least point me in a direction where I can find these videos, if they do actually exist?
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  180.  @herbankidd  So what, do I just look up "personal account of Haitians eating pets" and click the first thing that comes up on the Daily Wire's website? Or are you more of a Stormfront guy? How am I supposed to address your beliefs when you don't give me the sources? Using credible media is an important part of collecting information. If you don't think your media sources are credible, why are you defending your belief that those things actually happened?
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  181. I hope we see you in four years 😅
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  182. Ryan, you of all people should understand when someone is using coded language to avoid being correctly accused of what they are saying.
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  183. Trump is only interested in money and status. If signal-boosting our literal enemies gets him there, he certainly doesn't mind. That much is clear.
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  184. How? Like, to all of what you just said. How did Ryan behave like Chaya? How did he behave worse than her? How is he claiming to be better than other people? He's certainly better than Raichik, in the sense that he isn't hung up over who people rail in their free time.
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  185. forgot the oxford comma after "Discipline" in the video title <3
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  186. The Patriotic kind
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  187. 5:50 BRO LMFAO YOU ARE TALKING SO MUCH SHIT AND BEING SO COOL ABOUT IT LOOOOOOOL
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  188. That sounds insanely specific, so probably not. I'm sure you can find studies showing the positive effects of not forcing 20% of the people around you to hide (and feel bad about) a fundamental part of who they are, though. Are you asking this neutrally, or are you suggesting that being openly homosexual might lead to inappropriate relationships between sailors on a vessel? (Sorry for the odd wording; I'm trying to dodge the censor.)
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  189. I'm willing to bet that the biggest reason has to do with our involvement in the middle east. No one wants to fight for a military that just transparently fought a war to fill the pockets of a few oil tycoons.
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