I think Tucker would say of your airplane anecdote, "why should air travel becoming cheaper and more accessible have necessarily resulted in a decline in service? Shouldn't we have been able to make it cheaper while maintaining (and expecting) the same level of service as was available in the past?"
Yeah I feel like people who act Tucker was being stupid in any capacity weren't paying attention. He maybe had one or two daft points about the shopping trolleys and things like that but generally his point was sound.
It's people like Jon Stewart doing what they do and taking someone out of context when they try and have a bit of nuance but almost everybody is doing that these days and it pisses me off. The reason I rant about Jon Stewart in particular is because he fucking crusaded against that back when Bush was in power now he's completely flipped the script.
The good news is, nobody watches Fox News anymore, so he can't use that old hat and I suspect Jon Stewart is way more out of touch with what's been happening to television and his format isn't going to fly online and he's going to absolutely tank as people realise how petty he's gotten and he is not the centrist crusader he paints himself out to be. It does actually make me feel sorry for people he's gone after because for all I know I've potentially fallen for a lot of shit back in the day with the way they always deceptively show this stuff to their own audiences and I'm not above admitting that. I certainly wouldn't have the breadth of views and perspectives I have now had I gone brainless and joined the normie crowd watching late night shows constantly.
I think what the actual issue is that the average Russian annual income is like 4x less than the average US income, so the prices aren’t gonna be the same regardless
This is true, but people really need to look at the maths on other stuff aside from food and it makes me hate my own country so much. Callum of the lotus eaters has his own channel where he visits Russia. Their gas among other things is cheap as fuck, you can do this sort of maths as well in European countries depending on where you go if it's not a silly overpriced tourist hotspot some of it was surprising for me.
I also hated how Poland seems to allegedly have this rule around car insurance purely being based around the value of the car, how quaint. Which means the car insurance companies can't jack up the prices to the ridiculous degrees I see in my own country.
I wasn’t talking about Tuckers shopping trip - I got what he was saying there in reference to how the people have food and it’s plentiful so our sanctions and war aren’t doing squat.
I was talking about his Moscow subway video and his “why can’t we have nice things?” take.
You think people dressed nice merely because air travel was expensive or that only rich people dressed nice? Yeah, no. It’s a break down in civility and what’s expected of the people.
One reason they can have ornate subways in Russia is because anyone who dissents gets disappeared and that’s what Jon Stewart is saying here - you have to allow vandalism for freedom. But both those points are extreme takes. Ultimately the reason is that you have a proud people who care about their united history and any attack on public property is an attack on themselves and this goes back to my point about how people dress in public.
Why do you have to allow vandalism for "freedom"? Why can't you just harshly punish vandals while leaving normal people who don't vandalize alone?
And if that is "freedom", doesn't that also include the freedom to stop vandals? But when people exercise that freedom they get "disappeared" (see David Penny as the most recent example).
And of course if you vandalize the "wrong" thing (like that Church of Satan statue, or the people who do burnouts on the rainbow crosswalks) you get prosecuted too, so you don't really have the freedom to vandalize either. You just have the "freedom" to vandalize whatever the State doesn't mind you vandalizing, which isn't really "freedom" but pretty much the same as it is in any "dictatorial" regime.
Right - that’s why I said Stewart’s take is stupid.
But there’s a deeper point here. While it’s true that fear of punishment is one reason people obey laws, the reality is that people honor the laws as part of being in a civil society along with shared experiences and a sense of community.
That’s why, for the longest time, we could have large stores filled with goods out in the open and shoplifting was unheard of.
Nowadays the left has trashed the culture so much that stores are not only locking things up but abandoning whole cities, partially because of lack of law enforcement but because we have an entire culture of sloth and entitlement.
What was stupid about Tucker's take?
I think Tucker would say of your airplane anecdote, "why should air travel becoming cheaper and more accessible have necessarily resulted in a decline in service? Shouldn't we have been able to make it cheaper while maintaining (and expecting) the same level of service as was available in the past?"
Yeah I feel like people who act Tucker was being stupid in any capacity weren't paying attention. He maybe had one or two daft points about the shopping trolleys and things like that but generally his point was sound.
It's people like Jon Stewart doing what they do and taking someone out of context when they try and have a bit of nuance but almost everybody is doing that these days and it pisses me off. The reason I rant about Jon Stewart in particular is because he fucking crusaded against that back when Bush was in power now he's completely flipped the script.
The good news is, nobody watches Fox News anymore, so he can't use that old hat and I suspect Jon Stewart is way more out of touch with what's been happening to television and his format isn't going to fly online and he's going to absolutely tank as people realise how petty he's gotten and he is not the centrist crusader he paints himself out to be. It does actually make me feel sorry for people he's gone after because for all I know I've potentially fallen for a lot of shit back in the day with the way they always deceptively show this stuff to their own audiences and I'm not above admitting that. I certainly wouldn't have the breadth of views and perspectives I have now had I gone brainless and joined the normie crowd watching late night shows constantly.
I think what the actual issue is that the average Russian annual income is like 4x less than the average US income, so the prices aren’t gonna be the same regardless
This is true, but people really need to look at the maths on other stuff aside from food and it makes me hate my own country so much. Callum of the lotus eaters has his own channel where he visits Russia. Their gas among other things is cheap as fuck, you can do this sort of maths as well in European countries depending on where you go if it's not a silly overpriced tourist hotspot some of it was surprising for me.
I also hated how Poland seems to allegedly have this rule around car insurance purely being based around the value of the car, how quaint. Which means the car insurance companies can't jack up the prices to the ridiculous degrees I see in my own country.
I wasn’t talking about Tuckers shopping trip - I got what he was saying there in reference to how the people have food and it’s plentiful so our sanctions and war aren’t doing squat.
I was talking about his Moscow subway video and his “why can’t we have nice things?” take.
You think people dressed nice merely because air travel was expensive or that only rich people dressed nice? Yeah, no. It’s a break down in civility and what’s expected of the people.
One reason they can have ornate subways in Russia is because anyone who dissents gets disappeared and that’s what Jon Stewart is saying here - you have to allow vandalism for freedom. But both those points are extreme takes. Ultimately the reason is that you have a proud people who care about their united history and any attack on public property is an attack on themselves and this goes back to my point about how people dress in public.
Why do you have to allow vandalism for "freedom"? Why can't you just harshly punish vandals while leaving normal people who don't vandalize alone?
And if that is "freedom", doesn't that also include the freedom to stop vandals? But when people exercise that freedom they get "disappeared" (see David Penny as the most recent example).
And of course if you vandalize the "wrong" thing (like that Church of Satan statue, or the people who do burnouts on the rainbow crosswalks) you get prosecuted too, so you don't really have the freedom to vandalize either. You just have the "freedom" to vandalize whatever the State doesn't mind you vandalizing, which isn't really "freedom" but pretty much the same as it is in any "dictatorial" regime.
Right - that’s why I said Stewart’s take is stupid.
But there’s a deeper point here. While it’s true that fear of punishment is one reason people obey laws, the reality is that people honor the laws as part of being in a civil society along with shared experiences and a sense of community.
That’s why, for the longest time, we could have large stores filled with goods out in the open and shoplifting was unheard of.
Nowadays the left has trashed the culture so much that stores are not only locking things up but abandoning whole cities, partially because of lack of law enforcement but because we have an entire culture of sloth and entitlement.