you're so fucking deep, man

Song makes a good point.

Well, the pyramids were pork-barrel public works projects, but I'm sure a lot of the contractors and subcontractors "kept their overhead low" if you know what I mean.











(I mean they used slave labor)

So I haven't watched the real video yet, but I dinstinctly recall Vox and Stefan doing a video, not more than a few months ago, talking about why capitalism DOESN'T work. For those of you who've watched the latest: do Vox and Stefan address this flip?

IIRC, Vox's critique of capitalism stemmed from election-season antipathy towards Hillary's free trade policies. Vox's conclusion was basically that we need a good socialist strongman like Trump to step in, lock down the borders, and mercantile the hell out of our already-heavily-cronied "capitalist" system. Stefan himself even went so far as to repeatedly troll libertarians and an-caps over them "not getting it". Yay nationalism, yay statism, freedom is slavery, slavery is freedom.

But now suddenly capitalism "works" again?

I know Stef will say whatever the hell he believes can get him views, and will argue any position that he thinks will go over well with his now-largely SQW subscriber base. The "inconsistencies" (ha!) of Stef's positions over time are a part of his charm, and it's sort of fun to watch as he tries to both have his cake and eat it too - roping his largely mouthbreathing new audience back into Old Stef territory with equal parts New Stef rhetoric and sophistry. BUT, usually, when Stef is with a respected guest, he and his guest stay fairly consistent from show to show. Has Vox decided to declare war on Eurasia, too?

I voted this down in the hopper by accident (mis-click). I wish we had a system where you could change your vote.

I know two or three people that gave away their DVD box set due to acid trauma.

What a show..