Thanks to Vic Berger, NYPD finally arrests the very Proud Boys who mobbed and beat a couple antifa protesters outside a New York Republicans event featuring speaker Gavin McInnes, who was booked specifically to reenact the 1960 murder of a Japanese socialist leader. Lot goin on. We have various facebook reactions to this including: "Proud Boys suck. They're probably GAY"; "Gavin McInnes is just doing fascism to get popular"; and "Vic Berger is just being a tough guy behind his video editing software." Also: we dissect the extremely cringe NPC meme, via the lens of a NYT article, and the commenters dumb enough to think it's funny and good.
Like you know how you hear things by like sending out sound waves from your ear and then it bounces back from the speaker?
Like the way that... Is that bats?
No, well, they emit high-pitched frequencies from their mouths.
But no, I'm talking about like, you know how the way that you see the world as light comes out of your eye and it bounces off objects?
Yes.
And that's how you see it?
Or at least that's my understanding of 14th century science.
Yeah.
Well, it's the same thing with hearing.
Like, you have to check that the speakers are working by, like, listening at the speaker, you know?
And you, like, I pushed sound out, but I didn't hear it.
You jerk your head.
Yeah.
Okay, it's working.
It's good, it's good.
Okay.
We ready?
Yeah.
Wouldn't it be like a perpetual echo feedback?
Yeah, that's why I have migraines.
It'd be maddening.
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So there's like a lot of things that we could have talked about this week.
A lot of like late breaking news.
The Trump administration has of course considered erasing trans people from existence, denying them any sort of federal protections whatsoever, which is obviously a huge deal.
That happened in like the last two days and it's a real big bummer.
It's disgusting.
Yeah.
There's also the migrant caravan.
We've previously addressed the issue of migration a lot on this show.
I'm sure it would be much more of the same.
Insanely violent and genocidal language from the right directed at people who are extremely desperate looking for a better life.
Yeah.
Who should just die by virtue of that fact.
Again, it would be covering the same vile racism.
Don't worry, you're still going to get your vile racism.
Don't worry about that.
Yeah, so we decided to cover a subject, a couple subjects, but the first one is something that Like, I personally find very fascinating, which are the Proud Boys.
This is, of course, a self-described group of Western chauvinists.
People who claim to be proud to have conquered society, created society, settled North America.
Like, these are the people who are leaning into the sort of, uh, what's the phrase?
The conquest.
Yeah.
They're saying like, listen, native people, you may have had a hot line.
I made it a hot song.
It's, you know, there's, there's a couple of types of right-wing reaction to the idea that, oh, you know, uh, America was founded on genocide and slavery.
And a couple of those right-wing reactions are like, Oh, well, no, actually white people are the ones who stopped doing slavery.
Yeah, yeah.
Which is a favorite, favorite explanation of mine.
Slavery would have never stopped if white people didn't stop it.
Yeah, it's like that joke that's like, oh, saved your life, I was gonna push you out in front of traffic, and then I didn't.
Except there's like a long line of people you have already pushed in front of traffic and killed, and then you don't push the next person and expect to be rewarded for that.
Which is an even gnarlier mindfuck.
Hey, who stopped pushing people in front of traffic?
I know you just watched them all die with your own eyes, but guess what?
You're alive.
You get to tell the tale.
Right.
Of how I saved you.
And it's only our education system that allows you to learn about my past genocide.
Yeah.
And then the other brand of, another brand of right-wing Rhetoric on the subject of colonization is, oh no, we were just migrants.
We were also immigrants.
We were also, yeah.
And that's where you get the whole like, I was looking for a better life.
Yeah.
Irish, Irish American identity, Italian American identity.
You get that sort of German American identity.
No, we weren't colonizers.
We were German immigrants, you know, et cetera.
And then you got these guys who are just like, no, we did America and it was great.
We fucking crushed it.
Yeah.
It's just really interesting how many defenders the Proud Boys have.
I mean, I guess most of them are probably Proud Boys themselves.
They have a lot of people who make fun of them, which is good.
They're not racist.
They're just a boys club.
They're just a bunch of fellas.
They're openly racist.
They're proud of being racist.
That's what the Proud in Proud Boys stands for.
Basically what happened over the weekend, last weekend, was founder of Proud Boys and Vice Magazine, Gavin McGinnis, spoke at a Metropolitan Republicans Club event.
He was invited to speak there.
This is, like, not some fringe group of Republicans.
This is, like, the elite of the Republican Party in New York City, which is just funny.
Might as well just be a Democrat.
You know, you're gonna get a lot of the same thing.
Yeah, I mean... In New York City.
In New York City, yeah.
They invited him to speak, which is in and of itself a joke.
This dude is half troll, half open, wearing screwdriver shirts on TV.
We'll get into his comments, but he's a provocateur.
He's a Milo.
He's a Milo.
Exactly.
He's a cis Milo.
Yeah.
Which is even the corny version.
So... Once this... We'll get into what happened, why he spoke, what he was there speaking for.
Because that's a mindfuck, too.
But... Once... You know, there were protesters, of course.
And once this let out... Proud Boys just started roaming the streets, looking to fight.
Yeah, just ready for it.
Looking for stuff to be proud of.
I also think it's funny, you know, like, the idea of being proud that somebody who kind of looked like you settled America, like, you know, hundreds of years ago.
Yeah, along with taking credit for something you don't deserve at all.
I wasn't even alive when slavery was around, but also like I'm proud of my ancestors for settling this country.
I'm also proud of my ancestors for starting it.
Yeah.
So, uh, Proud Boys led out of this, this event and then just like started beating the shit out of people essentially.
And a few of them were like live streaming it themselves.
Like just openly talking about how they wanted to instigate violence.
Yeah, they were like, I just want to start some shit.
I just want to go at it, you know.
Like filming the left-wing protesters and saying, man, I want to go instigate something, but the cops are here.
Yeah.
It's funny because they're recording it and incriminating themselves.
Not that Andy's going to come with that, but they were doing that.
And so, they ended up finding a couple people from Antifa who threw a plastic bottle at them and so 30 of them ran up on 2 of them and beat the crap out of them.
Which, I mean...
Brave of those guys to do, to throw the bottle.
I mean, throw something harder next time.
Yeah, make an impact.
Yeah, because that's definitely going to happen.
And it's all on camera, them kicking their heads while they're down and slamming, just a mob of them.
At some point, one of the Proud Boys says, like, hey, you're outnumbered.
Like, we're going to mob rule you.
Yeah.
Which fucking sucks.
And so, Vic Berger, this is like, I posted this on the Facebook.
Our timeline is extremely weird right now.
Yeah.
Trump being president.
Everything that's been going, Mike Pence even being vice president is extremely weird.
Yeah.
Just everything that's been happening for the last two years is very bizarre.
Fuck, it's been that long.
Yeah, but one of the better parts of how bizarre this timeline is, is Vic Berger Weird video editor becoming like an anti-fascist activist.
Yeah, just kind of by proxy but nailing it.
And doing it really well, yeah.
He had run-ins with the Proud Boys last year to the point where one of them showed up on his doorstep, rang his doorbell, and like threatened him in his own home.
So he's familiar with them, and he's still posting videos and editing videos, editing beautiful compilations of all the wild shit that Gavin McInnes has said.
They're really well done.
And one of his recent videos actually went pretty viral and he posted it to Twitter and it's got like over a million views on Twitter.
He captions it, Vic Berger captions it.
You might know Vic Berger, he's the guy who like edited the debate videos with like the air horn, like the dance hall air horn and like, you know, Jeb Bush is a mess.
Like those videos and the Ted Cruz videos where Ted Cruz like eats his own booger.
Yeah, he's like hilarious.
Yeah.
But you know, political satire.
But like, gets a little heavy here.
Gets real heavy here.
Gets gnarly.
He captions a video.
Please share this video.
People need to understand how dangerous Gavin McInnes and his gang, the Proud Boys, are.
Notify his employers at CRTV and at Fox News.
Maybe we can prevent him from getting someone else killed.
It's a reference to the Charlottesville incident.
He works, he has a show on CRTV.
Yeah, which is wild.
After shoving a dildo up his own ass to own the libs on his previous show.
On camera, that's there.
If you want to go find it.
Yeah.
He shoves a butt plug up there and poops it out on camera as like, uh, to like own gay people or something.
Yeah, it's like saying like you're not even that tough, right?
It was his whole angle.
I don't know.
Well, it's some angle.
It's a good angle on that.
I mean, like, that's cool.
Like, butt play is tight, but I mean, Don't make it all weird.
Don't make it all weird.
It's like the least sexual butt play I've ever seen.
Yeah, it's really not hot.
No, it's not.
So, I have some quotes here from the video that Vic edited together.
These are all quotes from Gavin McGinnis.
Says, can you call for violence generally?
Because I am.
The way he delivers that line is so fucking smug.
He's like, oh, you don't think you can?
Because I'm doing it right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, anyways.
It's very provocative.
I know I'm like triggered by it.
Yeah, super.
I'm just really extremely annoyed.
Yeah.
Fighting solves everything.
We need more violence from the Trump people.
Trump supporters, choke a motherfucker.
Choke a bitch.
Choke a... T-word slur for trans person.
Get your fingers around the windpipe.
So, like, graphic descriptions of killing trans people, killing left-wing people.
Get a fucking gun.
Get ready to blow someone's fucking head off.
Get in trouble.
Get arrested.
Get fired.
They can't kill us all.
I love that one because it's the most privileged shit I've ever heard.
No, go ahead.
Go get fired.
Yeah.
Go get fired.
Like, can you imagine being like, oh, I can go get fired.
I'll be fine.
Well, you didn't found a magazine that turned into an HBO show?
That's true.
No, I did not, unfortunately.
What I did is... That was your first mistake.
I helped start a podcast and then I got fired.
You can go listen to previous episodes for that rough patch.
I like the responses to this statement, because a bunch of people were like, no, we could kill you all.
There's not that many.
There's not that many Proud Boys.
We've done the math.
I've seen the Fred Perry sales, and that shirt is not doing very well.
He also, what else did he say that was...
There was another segment, I don't remember.
Okay, so the reason he was speaking at this event, at this Republican event, I have here a quote from the New York Times about this scene.
And this was a paragraph in the middle of the story from the New York Times reporting on sort of the violence after the incident, or the violence after the speech.
The speech was nominally meant to commemorate the 1960 murder of a Japanese socialist by an ultra-nationalist assassin, but Mr. McGinnis peppered it with mocking attacks on leftists, lesbians, and people in the Black Lives Matter movement.
It's so casually referenced, like commemorating this moment's not already gnarly enough.
Yeah.
They don't even delve into that.
Yeah.
I mean, he just went there to recreate the bombing of an abortion doctor's house, but he also said some real cheeky stuff during it.
He also got real spicy.
He turned it into a weirdly political event.
The speech was nominally meant to commemorate the 1960 murder of a Japanese socialist.
Nominally.
Ostensibly.
It was just supposed to be the respectable act of recreating a politically motivated murder on camera.
Which is so bizarre that they're like putting this Japanese nationalist on a pedestal.
Yeah, a lot of people are.
Somebody I know has that Japanese nationalist as their profile picture, and I didn't know what it was a reference to until this story.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's gnarly.
Yeah.
We'll talk about that after the show.
I was just like, oh, it's just some dorky looking dude from the 1960s.
Nope, it's this guy, this ultra-nationalist who assassinated a socialist leader in Japan.
That's interesting.
Yeah, so anyway, the main... I'm like, yeah, the street violence, the street political violence is a story.
It's important to report on.
But the fact that the mainstream of the New York City Republicans reenacted the murder of a socialist at their event, it wasn't even at a party, it wasn't like a sideshow of some other event, this was a main piece of their event.
It was planned.
Yeah.
That's the story, and the New York Times here glosses over that like, well that's just history.
Yeah, that just happened.
Like imagine, oh, the um...
Yes, the Japanese Imperialism Club re-enacted Pearl Harbor and then they got real weird after that.
Yeah, the Japanese Aviation Club decided to... Yeah, that's fucking crazy.
Yeah, so... It's interesting that nobody thought any sort of violence was going to happen.
And so, uh, another, the newest wrinkle in this story is because of Vic Berger's video, basically, and because of Fox News's insane coverage of the story.
Let me, let me put that up right here.
Fox News covered this story, not with the already Pussyfooting around the right wing, the sort of right wing establishment doing something crazy.
Instead of reporting on, oh the Proud Boys, this was the main story, they reported Antifa attacks again.
Swords and vandalism at New York GOP office.
Wait, Antifa brought swords?
Yeah, that's the guy with the beard and the glasses, surrounded by police, holding a sword, a broadsword, in the middle of the street?
I think at some point they even referenced it being a katana.
Okay, so if you're not looking at the YouTube...
Gavin McGinnis stepped out of his car, surrounded by cops, and brandished the sword that he used to reenact the murder of the Japanese Socialist.
Yeah.
And like rattled it, literally rattling his saber at the protesters.
And Fox News reported that he was Antifa.
Yep.
This dude who's been on Fox News.
Yeah, this pundant on Fox News.
Who literally was a regular on Red Eye.
That's how I found out who Gavin McGinnis was.
That's how I found out Gavin McGinnis was a fucking awful human being.
When I first saw Gavin McGinnis on Red Eye, which is a terrible show that nobody should watch.
It's the ultimate weird intersection between alt-right and boomer comedy from the Early 2010s or late 2000s.
Gavin McGinnis was always on there and they billed him as the co-founder of Vice.
I was like, is this guy doing a bit?
Like, he seems so wild.
And the fact that he was a co-founder of Vice, which I knew was a magazine all about drugs and sex and punk music.
It's like, this is a bit, right?
They were generally progressive.
Vice was.
Vice was, yeah.
But his statements were all, like, ultra mad dad reactionary, but he delivered them with a straight face and without getting mad.
I was like, he's joking, right?
This is like a caricature of, like, you know, your friend's cop dad.
We fucking wish.
Yeah, no, so anyway.
Vice has done a really good job of separating them from him.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
Just like refusing to acknowledge that their co-founder also co-founded or founded the Proud Boys.
Founded the gang.
So anyway, there was a lot of reaction to Fox News misreporting this insanely nationalistic fascist event.
As Antifa strikes again, Antifa's at it again.
They made him brandish a sword.
In the street.
So, uh, Vic Berger made this video.
A lot of other people reacted very negatively to, like, the coverage of it.
And because of that, NYPD was like, all right, fine.
I guess we'll investigate this look into it.
I guess we'll investigate the multiple angles of people getting beaten up on the street.
And Gavin McGinnis headline New York Times founder of proud boys says he's arranging surrender of men in brawl.
And, like, the thumbnail for this article is fucking hilarious.
I don't know.
I have a really specific way of describing Gavin's face in this thumbnail.
I'm looking forward to it.
It's Donkey Kong Country 3.
There's a boss level where you have to fight this, like, squid snail thing who's, like, peeking out of a waterfall.
And his eye stalks peek through the waterfall and his mouth peeks through the waterfall and he spits water at you and you have to like bop him on the eyeballs and then his eyeballs get all googly.
That's what his eyes look like and that's what his mouth looks like.
I'm looking up Donkey Kong Snail Boss just in case.
You don't have to.
It's already done, so... Just take my word.
He just looks googly-eyed with his lips, like, puckered out.
And it's a very interesting thumbnail.
Holy shit!
Can I see it, what you pulled up?
Yeah!
Hold on, I think I can make this happen.
Yeah, send it to me somehow.
Text it to me.
Well, I can do this too, for the people.
Oh, you're just gonna put it up to the camera?
yeah just fucking nailed it I swear to god I didn't check to see if I was crazy or not You just played a lot of Donkey Kong when you were a kid.
And it's funny because the picture you pulled up is looking in the same direction.
It's perfect.
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Alright, so a lot of people were sharing a meme that is an admittedly funny meme that is Gavin McGinnis or some Proud Boys quote that is like, we will never surrender Western civilization.
Juxtaposed next to this headline, founder of Proud Boys says he's arranging surrender of men in bra.
I like that the terminology is interesting and that's the word he chose.
Yeah, and it's funny, oh they're such cowards, they're such sellouts to the cops or whatever, like he snitched on his buddies, and I think that's funny, and I acknowledge that there's a joke there, but no, he just knows nothing's gonna happen to them because the cops like them.
Yeah, the cops are into them.
The justice system likes them.
Yeah.
Like, they'll get what?
Probation, maybe?
No, they're going- nothing.
They're going to get nothing.
Yes.
They're going to go through the formal actions of walking in and walking out.
That's all they're going to do.
I mean, in the videos, the interaction with the cops, the fucking Proud Boys are such bootlickers.
Like, oh, I'm sorry, sir.
I'm sorry, sir.
Sir, sir, I'm sorry, sir.
I didn't mean to touch you, sir.
Well, that's the good thing about being white, is you can just white it up around cops.
True, true.
But, I mean, cops saw this stuff happen and didn't do anything about it.
Yeah, nothing.
Imagine a Black Lives Matter activist getting out of a car next to two cops, right next to two cops, and whipping out a sword and raising it into the air like Excalibur.
That would be a dead person.
Yeah.
That person would be dead.
And then the cop would have to sit in court and say, well he pulled out a sword.
And then that cop would be free.
The cop wouldn't even have to say that.
They'd play the video and the cop would go... Have you seen their reach?
They have reach.
Okay, what do we have next here?
Let's get into comments here.
So these are comments under the Vic Berger post about how his video had gone viral, like a raw story.
That's what I was quoting from earlier when I quoted Gavin McGinnis.
The raw story did a rundown of the Vic Berger video.
Vic shared it, shared that article, and there were just some interesting reactions to it.
Very interesting reactions in the comments section.
Oscar says, uh, maybe he's not driven by ideology.
So he's talking about Gavin McGinnis.
Maybe he's not driven by ideology, whether it be left or right wing.
Okay, so that's the first sentence, but we need to stop there.
This is right-wing ideology.
I mean, even if whatever you're about to say next questions the good faith of his performative politics or whatever, it's still right-wing.
It's still right-wing ideology, yeah.
And he would say that.
It's also like, well, I think this is just alluding to fascism.
Who knows whether it's left or right-wing?
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Maybe it's just a big experiment.
That's not me joking, that's the next sentence.
Maybe it's just a big experiment.
Or it's as simple as making a lot of money by taking on this character and creating a platform.
So this is just like generic like media speak.
Also, not knowing Gavin McGinnis' history, and if he would have just done the exact opposite, and gone the opposite way ideology-wise, he would be making much more money from his very successful company, Vice.
Well, I don't... I haven't looked into it, but I've read, like, in passing, read conflicting things where he had to give up.
I was just wondering if he still got revenue from Vice while still being able to be like this right-wing shithead.
Yeah, but what I'm saying though is if he would have just gone really left for a performance, he would have made more money.
No, totally.
Yeah.
I was just wondering if he still got revenue from Vice while still being able to be like this right-wing shithead.
I don't think so.
Okay.
Fame the...
Okay, so...
Or it's as simple as making a lot of money by taking on this character and creating a platform.
Fame these days seems to be a measure of success.
Sad as it is.
I mean, yeah.
Like, fame is pretty much a measure of success.
What are you talking about?
We live in a society where teachers only make $30,000 a year, but fascist mobs in the street committing political violence, god, they make like $80,000 a year.
You know, honestly, like, we wear NFL player shirts and we buy their trading cards.
Why aren't we, why aren't there cop trading cards?
You know, I want some cop cards.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe if we tried to collect all the education, what would the stats be like with, with cop cards?
Oh, Oh no.
Yeah.
It would just be like a, you know, a amount of arrest and then it would be broke down by race.
I mean, they'd probably be pretty similar.
Like, um, Instead of, uh, runs batted in, it would be people.
People, yeah.
Uh, yeah.
No, I love this.
Like, you just witnessed, like, calls for right-wing violence, you saw right-wing violence, and your takeaway is, God, yeah, and don't get me started on the Kardashians.
Yeah.
And don't, don't make this about, you know, this is only because he's famous.
Well, the whole thing is like, God, it's just so sad the lengths that people will go to to be famous.
Fame these days seems to be a measure of success.
I think always been a measure?
The whole time.
Alright, let's move on.
David Bowden says about Gavin McGinnis, he talks tough while he hides behind a microphone.
Fucking coward.
He's not a proud boy.
He's a good boy.
Look at his profile picture.
It's a puppy.
It's a puppo.
in this comment section replies, - He's not a proud boy, he's a good boy.
Look at his profile pic. - Oh, he's got a doggo. - It's a puppy, it's a pupo, it's a doggo. - Ryan Kramer replies, "You mean Vic, right?
"Because Gavin is constantly in the streets, "in the middle of these things." Yeah, I saw him behind those cops stepping out of his, like, escort.
Stepping out of his car with a driver in it.
Yeah.
Very, very tough.
You mean Vic, right?
Because Gavin is constantly in the streets, in the middle of these things.
But yeah, he's the one pretending to be tough, not the keyboard warrior.
I like how he says that, you know, Vic's pretending to be tough, where my favorite quote from the Gavin McGinnis monologue, little thing, is he says, he goes, I've even killed people in my dreams.
He talks about how tough his dreams are.
That's how powerful my gun is?
He says, yeah, I've even killed people in my dreams.
That's how powerful my gun is.
That's how cool my gun is.
No, I think he says awesome.
I think he says that's how awesome my gun is.
Yeah, that's how awesome.
My gun is so awesome that the fictional one I dream also can kill people.
Have you ever had that dream where you're just trying to shoot an antifa and it just does not work?
Yeah, the bullet moves really slow.
And they're just casually ducking out of the way, whipping you with dreadlocks.
Yeah, and they're saying whose streets are streets, but it's backwards.
They're throwing Molotov cocktails in reverse.
Is it because of Fucked Up Dream, you're saying?
Yeah.
It's like a Lynchian.
Yeah.
No, I like this.
David Bowden's like, oh, he's hiding behind a microphone.
He's trying to be tough behind a microphone.
And Ryan Kramer's like, oh, you mean Vic Berger, right?
Because there's nothing more tough than editing video.
Vic Berger's obviously trying to out-man Gavin McGinnis by using Adobe After Effects.
I mean, he's not wrong.
I'm talking to O'Myke right now, but have him make a compilation?
I don't know.
I couldn't do it.
Yeah, you gotta get that T-count up before you can edit a video.
Well, I have been on like a nofap streak of hours now, so.
Oh shit.
As long as I keep it up, I'll be making edits in no time.
Your videos are gonna be so manic.
Okay, final comment on the Vic Berger post.
Matt Clampett Apparently his real last name says, and don't do this folks, but Matt Clampett tries to own the Proud Boys here.
Proud Boys, a safe space for closeted homosexual white males.
You ever see like a club that's based entirely around like toxic masculinity and sort of performative uh performative masculinity and like a an appreciation of male violence and think god those guys must be gay that's the gayest that is so it's like Matt I know you like want to be on the team like I know you want to do the thing but you're fucking missing the whole boat like you're blowing it here.
I was you know I wouldn't say benefit of the doubt but I was willing to say like oh Matt's like most like It's good that he's against the Proud Boys.
It's bad that he chooses to own the Proud Boys by calling them gay.
Yeah.
But maybe it's like the way that that's just been ingrained in everybody who grew up in the 80s and 90s like gay.
Oh, I don't mean gay gay.
No, that's not how I mean it.
I don't mean homosexual homosexual.
I don't mean homosexual.
I mean like happy.
You know, when I was a kid, homosexual meant happy.
And then there were a few people who replied to him like, uh, no.
Hey dude, that's not how it goes.
Including Dean, who I think listens to this show, so shout out Dean.
Shout out Dean.
But the comment that I have here is from Andrea, who says, honestly, calling homophobes closeted gays is itself homophobic rhetoric.
Gay people aren't self-hating and violent.
That is a messed up narrative.
Are you gay?
I'm gay.
You sure about this shitty statement?
This is straight people shit right here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Proud Boys is extremely straight.
Extremely straight.
To the point where they would look you in the eyes and say, we're extremely straight.
Their whole, the group is based around being straight.
Yeah.
And about having a wife who knows her place.
Yep.
Like that's what it's about.
And the joke about Oh, anyone who's that homophobic must be gay.
It's not accurate.
Yeah.
That joke sucks.
It's not a good joke.
No.
So Andrea rightfully calls him out, like, hey, there's a lot of fucked up stuff about this group.
Don't call them gay?
Yeah, don't put that on us.
You have so much other stuff to criticize.
Yeah, let's focus on the other things.
Like they're so not gay, they're not even gonna masturbate.
Yeah.
Like that's part of the the group ethos.
Yeah.
And then Matt replies, and this is where just like...
It's really bad.
Matt replies to Andrea.
Andrea.
Oh, go cry some more.
Did I offend you?
Good.
And yes, I am sure about this perfectly true statement.
Go back to your safe space now, little girl.
Wow.
What are you making fun of the Proud Boys for?
Yeah, you just want to be one.
You are very proud of being a boy.
You're literally mad because Fred Perry's cost a lot.
That's why you're mad.
You failed at changing my opinion.
You only made it funnier.
I'm not trying to comfort any group, so spare me the emotions, quote, this is straight people right here.
Hmm, what if I were to say this is gay people right here?
You did.
Literally just did.
That's what you did, that's why you got this response.
You'd have a mental breakdown, or maybe you should just like reply to your comment addressing how idiotic it is.
In a very easy way, like in a very accessible way.
Y'all want acceptance, so like, gay people want acceptance so bad, and then you do stuff that makes me hate gay people.
Yeah.
Y'all want acceptance, but are unable to accept others.
Like the Proud Boys?
Yeah.
Who is she supposed to be accepting here?
Listen, like, if you don't... Accept people that don't accept you so we can accept you.
You don't accept the Proud Boys either, dude.
Yeah.
What are you fucking talking about?
So cry society a fucking river.
Honestly, no one cares.
Go dance under a rainbow.
Which is the pettiest, lamest, homophobic little jab.
So lame.
You know how lesbians are known for dancing a lot?
That's like a stereotype about lesbians.
Well, they are the strongest during the rain.
They are the most efficient when wet.
You know how lesbians love prancing and mincing around?
Yeah, absolutely.
Like, I think that's what he's going for?
That's exactly why they started using gay that way.
And then Matt Clampett replies to his own comment, again, Andrea, you're a hypocrite, just FYI, quote, don't throw all gays in a box, end quote.
That's not what she said at all.
Nope.
Followed by, quote, this is straight people's shit, so shut the entire hell up, little girl.
That sentence.
Can you imagine someone saying that out loud to somebody else?
She shut the entire hell up, little girl.
Yeah.
Which is not the right verbiage, but exactly what Matt's doing.
"Ugh, my feelings can't process this, therefore I need to hate you now for making me feel this way.
You are oppressing me." Which is not the right verbiage, but exactly what Matt's doing.
Andrea said something really...
Yeah.
You know, made a good point.
And then Matt snapped.
Matt is continuing to snap.
Matt replies again to his own comment.
Andrea, cat got your tongue?
You had so much to say before you can't respond like a grown-up?
Yeah.
I love that.
Hey, hey, I showed you my entire ass.
Why don't you respond?
Show me more.
You want me to spread it for you?
Please respond.
Thanks for proving my point, kiddo.
Woman proves man's point by refusing to reply to 12 paragraph screed.
I hate that mentality.
Kiddo?
That's the word.
You say kiddo, you're done.
Nobody's on your side.
I'm not respecting you at all.
Don't say don't do that.
Don't say kiddo.
It's a bad look.
Thanks for proving my point, kiddo.
By refusing to engage, you have lost the debate that I'm having.
With myself now.
This is, uh, yeah.
This is how gay people debate.
And now you're openly accepting that you are in fact the homophobe.
What are you doing here?
What are you fucking doing?
Oh my god.
They scream discrimination, cry when they don't get it, call you the same hateful names, like straight, that triggered them, all while pretending to be these perfect beautiful little rainbow rays.
Dude is so mad.
So mad.
So mad.
Fuming.
LOL.
Yeah, okay.
You are all just as fucked up in the head as anyone else.
Yeah I wonder why.
Maybe because people just start yelling at them for no reason.
Shout out to Andrea for just like leaving this dude on read.
Or maybe even unread.
Like, I hope that Matt had several more responses than Andrea just wrote, like, lol at the end.
Your fucking last name is Clampett, dude.
You're asking for it.
Oh, uh, yeah.
It totally exposes himself for the... for, like, being a homophobe.
And maybe he was like, no, they're not homophobes.
I'm a homophobe, and trust me, as a homophobe, I know they are for sure not homophobes.
Right, right, right.
Um... yeah.
Maybe he's like, no these are usually clearly gay, I would never get a haircut.
Okay and we have our last, this is actually our last comment on the Vic Berger post which is a picture of Vic Berger himself with a small edit Which is black dots for eyes, and a reverse L-shaped nose, like a very simple carrot nose, and a line for a mouth.
And this has a laugh react and some likes, and you're like, okay, I don't get it.
Yeah, I'm a little lost here.
It's not funny.
Somebody drew a stick figure smiley face over Vic Berger's face.
Looks a bit like the Crash Test Dummies.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
And you're like, okay, like, um, I don't understand this at all because I don't spend my time in right wing cesspools like Alex and Tony.
I've never been that deep on the internet.
But no, of course I understood this.
This is the NPC meme.
And this is very funny.
It's the meme that's sweeping the internet right now.
Uh, and it's like, God, just the most poignant and, um, I don't know, hard-hitting meme of the last 10 years, at least, since Iken has cheeseburger.
It's causing waves in the right, to say the least.
It's such a phenomenon, the NPC meme, that New York Times was forced to report on it.
Let me just describe what the NPC meme is, for anybody who's not familiar.
NPC stands for non-playable character, which is a reference to gamer culture.
It's a reference to vidya games, or as everybody in the comments section will remind the New York Times, actually NPCs originated with Dungeons and Dragons.
Oh that was like the number one comment and it's like before electronics we had to roll dice yeah and it's like oh okay so like all these right-wing reactionary types spreading the idea of leftists as NPCs are surely are referencing uh Dungeons and Dragons and not every other video game in existence or every video game in existence Get it right, this is nerdier than you're saying it is.
Basically the premise, uh, so a non-playable character is, uh, you know, what it sounds like.
It's a character in a video game, a simplistic character in a video game that you cannot play as.
That is just directed by the computer's, uh, not AI, but the computer's coding.
To interact with you as the main character with simplistic responses or predetermined actions and reactions and the idea here is that all liberals and all leftists are actually just NPCs and they're very simple computer algorithms that produce canned phrases like abolish ICE and
Prophet is theft or Trump is racist.
Or black lives matter.
Or black lives matter.
Or believe her.
You ever notice how the left wing has slogans?
Yeah.
You ever notice that?
Weird.
That, like, everybody in the party or everybody on that side of the political compass isn't, like, generating their own slogans all the time?
Uh... Sporadically at every moment?
They're just mad because they are programmable.
They make sense.
They're not like the right or they're like, blood and soil.
I'm like, what the fuck does that mean?
What are you saying?
We're like, Black Lives Matter.
Oh, okay.
I get what that means.
Okay.
That makes sense.
But that sounds, that does sound too algorithmic.
Like this is, um, It's a meme that I saw, like, it's an older meme.
It's been around for a month or two.
And it's something that, like, I didn't want to cover on the show because I thought it was boring.
I thought it, like, didn't have legs.
Turns out.
Well, that's because it's usually cut off at the midsection.
Right.
It's just the bust.
Yeah.
No, people love it.
People on the right think they have discovered the, like, Font of satire by saying, hey, a political ideology has like a platform.
Yeah.
You ever noticed how, how they're like abolished prisons?
It's weird.
It's like they have a format to fall in.
They're all saying it.
Anytime you're like, prison is good.
They're like, no, they should be abolished.
It's like they're programmed.
Yeah.
It's like, you know that when you, when you bump into it, it's going to make a noise.
Right.
And, This is like their pet project.
This is like they think it's very triggering because A. It is dehumanizing, but it's dehumanizing in like the most juvenile way.
It's dehumanizing in the way that you think like as a 15 year old you're sort of like The special protagonist in a world full of robots who don't see the truth and you're the only one who sees through the bullshit.
Look at those people.
Ascribing to fashion.
Look at those people who listen to what's popular on the radio.
They don't think for themselves.
It's not even that complex.
It's like, all these losers think that Zelda is the character you're playing as.
They don't even know.
It's Link!
It's Link.
It's a different person entirely.
But it's adult now.
This meme is literally...
You're all sheep.
That's what this meme is.
Like, I'm the one that's not sheep.
The meme isn't, oh, the left or oh, Democrats think they're all special snowflakes when they're not.
The meme is, I'm the only one who is a special snowflake.
I am not the cookie cutter.
I am freeform.
It's like... It's literally Homer Simpson falling asleep with a cigar in his mouth saying, everyone is stupid except me.
I would never have a canned phrase like cuck or SJW.
Or snowflake.
I think for myself.
I come up with a brand new word every time I speak.
This is just like seriously people who don't understand how communities work, don't understand how politics work.
It's like, you know, culture.
Oh, you think the right doesn't have culture?
Think again, sweetheart.
Look at these sweet memes.
Yeah.
A meme is literally a shared idea.
A shared idea that resonates with other people.
People other than yourself.
And this meme is all about how, God, these people just like sharing the same idea.
Look at this meme and feel unique.
Incredible, incredible stuff.
And they think, as we'll get into the comment section, they think it's brilliant.
They think it's like revolutionary.
So, here's an example.
What level NPC are you?
Level 1.
Parrot's narratives.
And it's like a slate of CNN commentators all with the NPC meme face drawn on them.
Breaking.
Orange man racist.
Orange man bad.
So like, if you don't like Trump, you couldn't possibly dislike him for valid reasons.
It's only because it's like the cool thing to do.
You're following the bandwagon.
And all of this is like, they're admitting that they're in the minority, also?
Like, of opinion?
Yeah.
Well, I think they're saying that they're in the minority of the elitists that have a platform of the media.
Right.
In this particular situation.
But yeah, the whole meme, you're right, the whole base of the meme is saying that, yeah.
That they're the special ones, yeah.
No, yeah, it's totally like a Hot Topic shirt.
For Kekistani edgelords and Ben Shapiro logic nerds.
You laugh at me because I'm different, but I laugh at you because you're all NPCs.
Because you don't really get it.
You're still a fool.
Level two removes Trump friends for safe space.
And it's just, I don't know.
It's just, it's just all bullshit.
I don't want to get into.
I kind of wish level two was higher because like, I wish a lot of people would stop apologizing for apologists.
Like, it says, you know, remove Trump friends from safe space, but no, so many people let these motherfuckers ride still.
Like, so many people- Well, you shouldn't let politics get in the- get, like, interfere with your politics.
No, but I think- so- I was just joking, I wasn't being serious.
Okay, I was really worried there.
So, for instance, one of the local city council races, this guy Brian Seegers is running, and he's by all accounts a whatever, but he also endorses Sean Flynn, who is the guy running for Congress, who is a racist.
Yeah.
So therefore, in my mind, I'm like, cool.
Dead.
Fuck.
I don't care about you anymore.
I can't fuck with you anymore.
But so many people are like, no, it's okay.
There's other cool things, which he does do.
But all that's out the window once you endorse a racist.
Totally.
Yeah, and that shouldn't be that hard, but unfortunately, people do have a hard time with that, so this should be not level 2, this should be level 10.
Totally.
Another one of these dumb shit NPC memes is a bunch of NPCs surrounding Kanye West wearing a MAGA hat, smiling broadly, With a American flag heart in his chest.
So it's like actually his heart is an American flag.
And like the NPCs have like a pussy hat on and the Democrats logo and like a communist logo and Antifa and CNN.
And now they all hang out.
They all hang out, and then the next panel is the Antifa one, plunging his hand through Kanye West's chest to rip out the American flag heart.
Yep.
And then now Kanye West has turned into the gray, uh, you know, the gray goo of the NPC humanoids.
And the caption says, Orange man bad.
Group think good.
You know how it's such biting satire when the people in your satire say groupthink good?
Yep.
You know how people who are guilty of groupthink always say groupthink good?
When you're trying to reach a broad audience and you go for that?
You're trying to cause groupthink?
You know how when you're so devoid of any sort of imagination or any idea of what the left is actually saying that you're like, BAD THOUGHTS GOOD.
Yeah, exactly.
You know?
And I also like the idea that, yeah, they're ripping out his American flag heart.
Shouldn't they be ripping out, like, his galaxy brain?
Yeah!
Right?
Because the whole idea is, like, oh, leftists, they don't use their brain, they're just, like, programmed, or they run on emotion, or something like that, but literally, like, it's his American flag heart.
Like, somebody messed up when they made this meme.
The whole thing is great, because the face he's making while his heart's getting ripped out is, like, not even that bad.
It's like what?
There's other faces where like, he has some gnarly good looking faces.
He's being gallant.
Yeah.
And the face is like, he's making this face.
He's like, ah, ah.
That's it.
It's like, really?
Really?
You're going to rip my heart out?
Yeah.
You're going to do me like that?
Yeah.
So this is the New York Times article.
What is NPC, the pro-Trump Internet's new favorite insult?
Twitter has barred hundreds of right-wing accounts for posing as soulless, quote, non-playable liberal activists.
And then there's like a collage of all the Twitter accounts that have gotten blocked and The avatars for these Twitter accounts are the NPC meme dressed up in various ways.
With a beard, with a receding hairline, and frizzy hair.
That's like a Jewish stereotype right there.
There's Antifa NPCs, and rainbow hair NPCs, and everything else.
These NPC accounts' names are, you know, very funny.
Like, one of them says, actual human, but actual is misspelled.
So it's like that joke, like, where an alien's trying to pose as a human, but they don't understand English, so they, like, misspell human or whatever.
Except you're referencing a computer that's been programmed, which would know basic English.
Because it's been programmed with English.
It's really fucking bad satire.
So close, but they really fucking missed the whole thing.
It's really cringy satire.
So anyway, these accounts were basically flagged for like...
Spreading false election news, like on what day the election actually happened.
You know, they're like, go vote on November 7th.
We need to get Drumpf and these fascists, these fascist centrist Republicans out of office.
And so, you know, Twitter has a policy where if you post, if you knowingly post false election information, you can be banned or whatever.
They finally learned.
and they removed 1500 of these accounts and so this is like this is it's like a step beyond so it's the NPC meme is based on how the left is perceived by the right and we could we could get into how Mindless, the right wing is, but it would be stating the obvious.
We already know these things, yeah.
It would be stating the obvious that, A, any political movement has slogans and everybody, it's just a fact of the human condition that you're conditioned to latch on to phrases that you already are familiar with.
They're defined by a hat that has a phrase on it.
That's like their crowning thing.
I mean, chanting lock her up?
Yeah.
So it's, it's, it's too absurd to even talk about.
Um, but basically this has become a step further where they're not even like satirizing social justice warriors online.
They're creating fake accounts of social justice warriors that they then, or fake accounts of NPCs that they then
fool themselves into confirming the quote fact that hey look at this NPC on here they're acting like an NPC yep it's it's wild because like these weren't reaching anybody that was going to affect no like like no no leftist was like oh shit this uh gray bane mask wearing person uh is telling me some facts and let me listen to it and uh the article was just basically about
The origin of the NPC meme and it addressed a lot of the like, aren't I giving the trolls the platform that they want by covering this?
And it's like, well, there's like thousands of them already operating online, so they're already achieving this.
It's happening.
Yeah.
But the comment section of the New York Times is very interesting.
I only have a couple of comments here.
But 4chan and Reddit definitely infiltrated this comment section.
For sure.
But the New York Times themselves responded in a very interesting way.
So, Juan from Goshen, New York says, The fact that you have to explain the dangers of the NPC meme to your triggered readers is exactly why the NPC meme has taken off.
So, like I said, I'm not going to read the article.
The article is not about the dangers of the NPC meme.
No, it's about that it happened.
Yeah, just that it happened.
That's it.
And how rotten the psyche of the right-wing internet is.
I love how leftists always believe is some mass 4chan conspiracy or Russian bot for why this meme is going viral.
No, it going viral because it perfectly sums up the left of today.
Yeah, someone's like, oh look at this, uh, look at this obscure reference.
This perfectly sums up the left.
I feel, I feel at home now.
Yeah, look at this thousand comment thread on Reddit where they explicitly plan to create these accounts on Twitter and post false information about the election and God, you guys are just so triggered.
So triggered to report on this.
The fact you can poll a group of conservatives or libertarians and ask for their opinion of today's top issues and even though they agree on most issues.
What?
There will be some disagreement on some issues.
Yeah?
For example, some conservatives are socially liberal and are pro-choice.
No, it's very few.
That was like my like dumb Catholic ass when I was like 18.
I was like the opposite of that.
I was like, no, listen, like I like love homosexuals, but I think that maybe, you know, we should let the babies live.
A, pro-life is one of the tenets of the Republican Party.
One female Republican voted against Kavanaugh on the basis of the accusations against him, but also on the basis of Roe v. Wade.
Whereas two Democrats voted for Kavanaugh.
Totally cool with that.
There's much more leeway on the Democratic side for being pro-life than there is on the Republican side for being pro-choice.
It's not a thing.
Now, are there Republicans who are pro-choice?
Yeah.
Are there liberals who aren't pro-choice?
Yeah.
It's called being in a fucking political party.
It's called people having different opinions.
I love this explanation.
I love this meme.
I love this idea because they sum it up here.
If you look at the right, we're all free-thinking individuals with a rich inner life who have our own thoughts and opinions and are never persuaded by media and are never subject to peer pressure.
Whereas liberals, all of you have the same idea and none of you are different.
It's like, what are you taught?
It's so childish.
But they're almost like, you guys listen to the news.
We listen to Q.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
We think outside the box.
I'm, you watch CNN, whereas I am in a group of 500,000 for QAnon.
Yeah, exactly.
But it's just such like a, such a simple, naive, like, I, I really feel weird talking about this because it is so basic.
Yeah.
It is so weirdly on the face of it flawed, like a flawed idea, like, I'm the only good one.
I'm the only person who actually thinks before I speak.
Yeah.
Everybody else is just an automaton.
Like this is an old philosophical idea.
This is an extremely old, stale idea.
I read somewhere that I'm unique.
I read this idea that tells me that my idea is original.
Well that reinforces the suspicion I have that I'm actually like a secret wizard just waiting to get my letter from Hogwarts.
It probably got lost in the mail.
Yeah, okay.
For example, some conservatives are socially liberal and are pro-choice.
Not with the left!
They're like the Borg from Star Trek.
All of the same mind on all the same issues, especially SJW.
No originality or personality.
This probably the best internet meme of all time!
It should be celebrated!
Don't hate!
This should be celebrated.
This is art.
This is super depressing for me.
This is such a bummer.
And this has 36 upvotes.
That's brutal.
In the New York Times comment section.
Which is known for its elitism.
What's wild about this is that I feel like Juan saw this being shared somewhere.
saw this article being shared no that's that's what i mean when i say it was infiltrated by reddit or 4chan there's definitely several posts about their little meme experiment being reported on in the new york times and so of course they flooded this comment yeah so say like yeah he had to find it shared because there's no way he would be on the new york times because he doesn't think like sheep Right.
Totally.
Totally.
Why is he even here?
Why is he lowering himself by commenting on the New York Times?
So GS replies, or comments rather, anyone who would try to vote on the wrong day because they read it on Twitter should be barred from voting for life.
And this has 34 upvotes, And has also been highlighted by the New York Times as a New York Times pick for the comments section.
And I don't think that the New York Times is being, like, hilarious or, you know, satire.
They're saying, oh, this is a good point.
Oh, they're saying it's got 36 recommended.
Let's run this one.
It's a good one.
Anyone who votes on the wrong day should be stripped of their right to vote.
Anybody who was given misinformation... You know how, like, felons can't vote?
That's not far enough.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, I got news for you, GS.
Aikman does not disqualify you from breaking the law.
So it's not their fault either.
Right.
Uh, another comment that I saw was like, anyone who gets their news from Twitter or Facebook, uh, I don't know, is dumb or whatever.
Like, I can't remember how it ended, but it was basically like, you know, it's too dumb to exist.
I get my news from paper.
Like I still get a subscription.
Only people who are subscribed to the New York Times, uh, paper edition should be allowed to vote.
Yeah, I wish.
Like, it shouldn't be land-owning males, but it should be like New York Times physical copies.
And I'm not talking about Sunday-only subscriptions.
No.
None of that bullshit.
None of that fluffy bullshit.
Yeah, I know you just read the comics.
I'm talking about some cuddy-ass Wednesday things, you know?
You can keep the style section.
Why would the New York Times elevate this comment?
Weird thing, yeah.
It's crazy.
okay so in one of the facebook groups i'm part of uh it's called uh what level of woke is this and like Ostensibly it's there to make fun of people who think they're woke but aren't, but actually it's full of right-wing pieces of shit who just make fun of gay people all the time.
Like, oh, they think they're woke because they experienced racism?
What a fucking loser.
Or they got yelled at in the bathroom and they think they have a right to go into the bathroom that they identify with?
What level of woke is that?
So it's a really bad group.
It's one of the worst groups I'm in on Facebook.
But um, they're constantly posting obviously fake stuff to rile themselves up The right wing is in this group.
And so they posted a tweet from Nigel Peterson Collinsworth Which is an interesting set of initials, if you think about it.
White men, this is how the tweet goes.
White men, if a hashtag POC, which is totally how the left talks, they hashtag POC.
If a hashtag POC is talking, you shut up.
Black hands clapping.
Not just black hands, but black hands.
The darkest black.
Like the darkest one available.
And the avatar for this person is a shock white face with red hair doing, um, how should I describe this face?
Oh yeah, it's the stereotypical soy face.
Yeah, that's exactly what that is.
It's the soy face meme of a guy who smiles for a picture by opening his mouth in wide surprise.
Oh, I just got a Nintendo Switch!
That's what this face is.
So, not suspect at all.
No.
Not suspect that the avatar is the literal soy face meme, or that the name is Nigel Peterson Collinsworth, or that the hands clapping are black, or that hashtag POC.
If a woman is talking, you shut up, hand clap.
If a member of LGBTQIAAP Plus is talking, you shut up, clap.
You know, you know how we use that LGBTQIAAP plus.
You know how you do the plus after already acknowledging all the letters that are in that?
If a refugee is talking, you shut up.
Clap.
Basically, you should never be speaking unless spoken to.
And stay home from the polls 11-6-18.
Uh, did you see what I did there?
Did you see what I did there?
Tricked him.
Got him.
You might be like, why did they post the correct information?
Why did they post the correct date?
Unless they're literally trying to trigger white people into voting.
Yeah, because this is the one where they're actually trying to get them to stay home.
Yeah, it's...
Hey white people, we're gonna genocide you and you better not vote on 11-6 at your local polling place which you can find by going to us.polls.us.gov.
So obvious, so obvious.
And no, this is an example of the white hating left who want you to stay home from the polls on 11-6-18 and do not vote for Drumpf who loves freedom, which we hate.
It's like when you're trying to get a kid to eat something and you start eating it and you're like, oh this is awful, you don't want any of this.
But you're clearly enjoying it.
I'm just going to eat all of this.
You don't want any of this.
You don't want any of this.
I mean it's covered in candy, which we know you hated as a kid.
And by eating it you actually gain superpowers and the ability to fly.
And we know you don't want to do that.
And so in this comment section, which was just filled with right-wing people being like, God, the left is fucking crazy.
We should kill them.
They should be dead now.
Ella Nagel says, y'all doubt my pettiness, but I would legit vote for the opposite of whatever this waffle is supporting out of pure spite and you can't stop me.
Yeah, so totally.
Whatever this caricature would be voting for, could it possibly be the mainstream Democrat?
Yeah, there's no way.
Whoever this wild person is voting for, I would vote for the opposite if it were me.
The next post was them posting, I'm voting for this, this, this, this, and this.
Yeah, and you better all vote for this.
Yeah.
It's just like how I went to a coffee shop recently and my local tea party, because Redlands has a fucking active tea party, gave me a pamphlet of their voting.
You know, who they're voting for, what they're voting for.
And I accepted it because I'm like, cool, I'm gonna do the opposite.
And that's exactly what I'm doing.
It's the opposite of that exact leaflet.
Annabelle Hull says, that kind of pettiness is how I ended up how I am politically.
who like see somebody they don't like and they're like well I'm gonna change the dem the makeup of my government yep because I hate this person Annabelle Hull says that kind of pettiness is how I ended up how I am politically like I disagree with Lena Dunham simply because she's Lena Dunham and now I'm right-wing well oh that's not pathetic at all all Also, yeah, I don't know, there's a lot going on there.
Don't put her on us, either.
And then Nathaniel LL Hollom says, I feel both of these comments in my core.
I do too, but not the way you are.
The left is nothing but pre-programmed react bots who call everything they don't like racist and base all of their politics as like a response to real real thinking Americans but I saw Lena Dunham's stand-up and now I'm right-wing.
Not only that but I'm saying I'm petty I'm saying out loud, I'm so petty.
I'm saying my politics are based purely on spite, and because I don't like whatever you're saying.
Yeah.
Because you're the one who's saying it.
Listen, you might have a script, but I'm purely reactionary.
And, yeah, like I said two weeks ago, when I first saw the NPC meme, uh, I was like, when I think of an NPC, like the joke that I think of as a non-playable character in a video game, it's just like a boring person like somebody who's not fleshed out as a person uh and has no like inner life and just you know tends the garden all day or whatever you know somebody in farmville or something like that i don't think of like
A reaction bot, or whatever they're trying to imply.
Because if I did think that, that would apply to, I don't know, reactionary politics?
Politics that are based purely in spite or against the progress being made?
Yeah.
Socially and economically?
They had to make it something that they really think they're not.
You know, so they're not calling him reactionary.
They're calling him boring and baseless, yeah.
But they are exactly that, too.
Yeah, it's real silly, real petty.
And I was looking at Annabelle, who's the anti-Lena Dunham one, I was looking at her Facebook, and yeah, I guess I believe that she would fall for this obvious Like, bait Twitter post.
Because, like, she also shared some obviously fake candid video of somebody recording, like, a spicy Latina and her white boyfriend, where the girlfriend is, like, slapping the boyfriend at dinner and, like, ripping the paper out of his hand.
But it's clearly like an Instagram video?
yeah like bullying her boyfriend and like shared this video with like we need to stop accepting this as reality you cannot touch your your boyfriend like this and it's like no one this is the worst this is the worst acting i've ever seen in my life not real yeah and then yeah at the end of the video she's like oh i love you but i still love you it's like like the camera person would be in view of the couple Yeah.
They would have seen it the whole time.
They would have... Have some sort of critical thinking skills.
Like, just think... Every... Listener.
Every time you see a video online... I shouldn't have to tell you.
I hope I don't have to tell you this.
Every time you see a video online, think to yourself, could this be fake?
You should start from the supposition that every video you see is staged.
Including this video you're watching right now.
Yes, well this is staged.
Exactly.
We've practiced this episode several times.
This is the fifth take?
Yeah.
So yeah.
Another comment on this.
On this about how white men should kill themselves.
All white men.
Which is how on the left we talk about white men.
Yeah, they should all die.
Rob Swarner says, Sincerely, a triple parentheses fellow white male.
So this isn't... Yeah, they're using this wrong, right?
No.
They're using it right?
They're using it right because they don't get that it's a right-wing person tweeting this.
But they're using it right in the sense... Oh my god, yeah they are.
They're using it right in the sense that there's like a right-wing meme going on about how People calling out white men for their racism on Twitter.
Turns out all those people calling out white men are actually Jews pretending to be white, calling out other white men.
It's like a very, very popular, like, oh, Jews are Jews are the reason for, you know, white genocide.
And they're pretending.
Hello, fellow white man.
Yeah.
We should all kill ourselves.
Right.
Oh, it turns out he's got like corkscrew sideburns.
Yeah.
You know.
But I love this comment because it's like, yes, there is somebody faking this tweet and it's you.
It's you!
How do you know about that but don't know about this other thing going on?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Could be just a desire to not look into anything.
Could've just taken a week off 4chan.
And so, uh, last thing I want to talk about, uh, on this subject is, yeah, just the antisemitism, uh, that goes along with every right-wing meme.
Like, if any right-wing meme that exists longer than a couple hours, uh, is going to have, like, a, uh, antisemitic version of it, um, and that's this one.
So, uh, This is, uh, two corresponding NPCs arguing with each other.
Uh, the one on the left says, hashtag, resist dumpf.
The one on the right says, hashtag, lock her up.
So like, acknowledging that, hey, uh, political ideologies have platforms and have things they want to accomplish.
Wow.
What fucking normies and losers and, and, and bots.
Um, But no, next panel is both of these NPCs are getting signals from a different source, which is controlling them.
Third panel, is the happy merchant, the Jewish caricature, Controlling both of the bots against each other and there's a sign that says NPC control room on both of the Jewish caricatures who are controlling each of the opposing sides.
This is some galaxy brain shit right here.
There's a couple things about it.
I mean, there's like three things about this that are really interesting to me.
The first one just being, obviously, that somebody is playing as a non-playable character.
That's true.
Yeah, they're controlling a non-playable character.
The Jew is controlling a non-playable character, which defeats the whole intent of the meme.
That's what the Jew magic is.
Well, I mean, they own the banks, but they also, like, own, like, all the, like, like, uh, Activision and stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, second of all, uh, the meme is like, Oh, the Drumpf guy is getting mad at the Lock Her Up guy for having an opposing opinion, but I'm, like, on another level, and I'm getting mad at them for getting mad at each other.
Yeah, yeah.
That's wild.
You know they're pitting us against each other, right?
Like, you know how when, uh, The opposite party threatens to imprison the leader of your party, and you have that knee-jerk, baked-in reaction of disliking that?
You should really think longer.
Yeah, you're being controlled there.
That's a real sheepish response.
Yeah.
And just, I don't know, like what's the alternative?
Like, go farther right?
What is this meme saying?
Like, go even farther right into anti-Semitism, I think.
Look, Lock Her Up is not enough.
We have to do more than Lock Her Up.
Okay, that's the end of the episode.
This is a bullshit meme.
I hate it.
Watch out for it.
It's coming for you.
I hate it because it's so fucking boring.
It's so lame.
Just like totally misunderstanding like basic communication among... It's very simple.
And it's also just like this weird like magical thinking of I'm the only person with individual thoughts.
I'm the only individual.
I'm the only person who had this idea that I read somewhere.
Yeah so uh good stuff um I wanted to close out the show with something more positive which is uh I was in Long Beach last night uh seeing some friends and we went to a bar that happened to also be hosting a punk show which was a very happy coincidence and uh I got to see the opening act which was um a really fucking good uh punk band called Yawn with two A's so like
Y-A-A-W-N.
A queer, noisy, weird sounding punk band that I loved.
They spoke about getting accosted in a restroom because of their their gender presentation they had a song about getting talked over by people who don't know your experience and I think they know better than you, and that song is called Cayete, and it's a great song.
I think that's probably the one I'm going to play at the end of this episode.
Shout out to them, Yawn, Y-A-A-W-N, my first time seeing them.
A very, very pleasant surprise.
So we'll end the episode with Cayete.
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Here is Yawn.
Totally, I'm hearing you.
I think what you mean is... No.
No, listen Jessica, it's okay.
I got this, okay?
I think what she's trying to say here is... If you let me finish!
