The right is in big trouble when a nitwit who doesn't shower, has a "dead rat alarm clock" and panicked about Mamdani introducing "Arabic numerals" in schools, is one of its most prominent commentators.
I used to watch him back when I was playing WOW and he is not a bad guy and makes a lot more sense than someone like Hassan for instance and for all his money he lives a very down to earth life.
Him and Joe Rogan are a good ways to see how the average guy leans. It is a much better way to predict elections than this forum or reddit or a poll.
Eh, I don't know. This is a guy who said that genocide in Gaza is deserved (which he later withdrew), because... they don't allow people to be homosexual.
Whether or not you support genocide in Gaza, that is the dumbest reason I've heard for it. It's the "Democrats are the real neo-Leninist transphobes" meme. That should be an argument leftists make for it.
Him and Joe Rogan are a good ways to see how the average guy leans. It is a much better way to predict elections than this forum or reddit or a poll.
I think we need to allow more people to change their mind. He was also for cancel culture to a limited extent and now seems to be very much on the right.
I've seen people change their mind on Gaza a lot and we should encourage people to do that.
The left can dig a comment from 10 years ago and cancel someone and no matter what they say there is no forgiveness. The last thing we need on the right is that toxic behaviour.
I've seen people change their mind on Gaza a lot and we should encourage people to do that.
Me included, and I completely agree with you. That's why I did mention that he took it back.
I'm not criticizing him for his former opinions on Gaza. It's the mindset. "This culture deserves to be eradicated because it doesn't allow people to be gay." coming from the so called right. When I saw him say that, I was just thinking how far the 'right' has sunk to say this sort of thing.
I also wasn't impressed that he backed both Iran and Venezuela. But as you say, things are quite bad.
Like I said, he did take it back, but I was talking about the motivation. Surely, you as a Christian conservative should not be supportive of "this culture should be destroyed because they don't allow people to be gay".
It's not shocking, he said in his video about Trump defunding Harvard (I believe) that his values and opinions align with Socialists and he would be a socialist (he also sperged that his chat joked about him being a National Socialist) but he doesn't agree with their methods to obtain and secure power
But not because of any analysis, of course, only because "Israel bad". May be a good heuristic, but a lot of people were cheering on the repellent actions.
Of course, Israel itself decided to conduct itself in a way to lose the world's sympathy, for however little that is worth. That was the "we can do and say whatever we want" moment.
He pisses the right people off. Also, I bet he knew the 'Arabic numberal' thing, given the fact that he has a fact-checking editor that keeps him out of trouble.
While that's always a good sign, and I've used that argument myself for sure, I agree with AoV; it's not always good enough. There are people who piss the right people off, who are absolute monsters. That's not Asmon, to be clear, but just an example.
For me, pissing the right people off should be a secondary bonus, not the core argument. You do good work and piss the right people off? Awesome. And, to some extent, that is Asmon. But, as some people have pointed out, he also has some big failings. I don't hate the dude - I actually think he's pretty likeable - but he's definitely got some issues.
That is one of the issue. A lot of those liberals that got mad over the Iraq war are now Conservatives - including myself. One of the reasons why what is going on with Iran now and Venezuela sucks hard. There is literally no anti-war party.
Even though I had read Walt and Mearsheimer, I did not even consider that a real possibility until I saw the Ted Cruz interview. It's hard to believe that the tail would be wagging an elephant this hard.
I don't dislike Asmon, but he does have some character traits I really don't appreciate.
Foremost, he doesn't do his research, but speaks with absolute authority or confidence. So he'll react to things where he doesn't have the full context or story, and then present himself as something approaching an expert. It's a pretty infuriating pattern.
When he's right, he's right; I think he has decent instincts, and his ideology seems relatively "based" outside of some blind spots. But he's inconsistent, and since he goes off halfcocked, when he gets it wrong, he can get it very wrong. And, most frustrating, just gets it wrong for incredibly simple and avoidable reasons...the aforementioned not doing any research. He just reacts. Which is fine, if he also wasn't taken as some sort of "thought leader." Which isn't his fault, but it's just weird.
Also, I hate to see all these people I to some extent like dive headfirst into the 'I'm ignoring history and past statements, US interventionism is great and necessary now (because Daddy Trump.)' Just like with October 7th reactions, and just like with Iran reactions, Venezuela/Iran 2 is making me lose some respect for people I like.
I fear the 'breakfast question' has even more dire answers than I had feared, and even people who talk about the breakfast question often fail the test themselves. Which is wild.
Also, no matter how you feel about this ICE shooting, I really hate the bloodthirstiness some people on "my side" are exhibiting. I heard it put well, I think by Daryl Cooper (who sadly also missed some obvious stuff and got things wrong for no reason), that this was a 'can, not should' shooting. i.e. the lady probably crossed enough lines so the agent will have a decent defense for pulling the trigger...but doesn't mean that's what was called for in that situation.
Kind of what I've been saying; she takes most of the blame for putting herself in that situation, and behaving like a lunatic, but doesn't mean I like the outcome, and doesn't mean the agent behaved perfectly. And, sadly, I think both sides wanted this. The left to prove their point, the right/admin so they can point to the riots and get more support for increased crackdowns. It's also just fucking midterms nonsense.
Lastly, because I realize this is another essay, but this is an interesting point I haven't seen anyone make. Most people are talking about self defense, but I do see some talking about duty to protect as well. People keep talking about duty to protect when it comes to killing Americans. 'He had to pull the trigger, or she would have driven off and killed someone else. You can't let her leave the scene.' But, if she actually had been driving right at a pedestrian, that agent has no duty to stop the car and save the pedestrian, if he fears for his own life. People can't have it both ways. There is no duty to protect, so he had no obligation to stop her from leaving the scene. They had her plate...they had her "partner," so she wasn't going to escape justice either. We can talk self defense, that's certainly valid, but the idea that he had to stop her from leaving is just not correct.
Again, she takes most of the blame for doing what she did, but the whole thing was avoidable from all angles and, to my point, I don't like to see people cheering this on. Or even overly justifying it, even if it was justifiable. While law and order is very important, we do also have to be wary of further normalizing the killing of Americans, even retarded ones. They want a federal policy force; they almost officially got it under Biden, and they're doing something similar under Trump. This will come back around and target us, too. No matter how you all feel about this crazy leftist, a lot of the people pulling the 'law and order' strings hate us as well.
I mean, I do think I covered that. She fucked around and found out, I've said that since the beginning. That's undeniable, except to the lunatic leftists.
It still could have been handled differently and, as I said, I think both sides wanted this, sadly. I support deportations - and want more of them - but the way ICE has been going about it has been intentionally provocative. I think they wanted this to come to a head.
be wary of further normalizing the killing of Americans
You mean self-defense? We shouldn't normalize defending ourselves when our lives are threatened? This is the type of thinking that turns your country into Canada.
I've defended plenty of police killings, including this one. I don't think whether or not we as a people are okay with police killing our own citizens is the measure of whether or not we become like Canada, though.
Also, it's worth pointing out Canada is more authoritarian, even if it might not get to physical might as frequently. More trust in government is how you become Canada, not avoiding becoming them.
Yeah, we could say the death of George Floyd was tragic and avoidable too, but we don't. And that's not just because we don't believe Chauvin really caused his death. It's also because we knew Floyd was an awful person and we know the cops were doing their job the best they can.
Believing that ICE agents, who are required to face dangerous situations and people who want to kill them on a daily basis (to a much greater extent than an average cop I might add) should be given a little slack doesn't really put us in a position of being tyrannized by a police state. It doesn't even really require us to believe or trust anything the government says, because we already have the video evidence to see exactly what happened during and before the incident.
I don't see much in the way of "bloodthirstiness" from the right on this. At most a tiny fraction of the cheering the left does EVERY time someone on our side is injured or killed.
You are correct in that he isn't obliged to protect potential victims from her erratic driving, but that has nothing to do with this case. She drove at him & he has a right to self-defense.
We can blather on and on about should he be walking there? Should he have tried to run before shooting? Should he have shot the tire to stop her? (Yes, people are actually saying this & not being sarcastic!) But that's armchair quarterback thinking. Fine as speculation but does nothing to change the facts. He made a split second decision, as was his right.
I think sending the National Guard to escort ICE is a proper response to the organized & escalating violence the left is attacking agents with every single day now. Allowing them this much leeway has only made things worse. Time to crack down hard & the Blue State police have been ordered to do nothing. Even if they did? The Soros DAs and Dem judges will set them free. Exactly like the BLT riots.
I don't see much in the way of "bloodthirstiness" from the right on this.
I've seen a fair few people equating fucking around and finding out with 'bitch had it coming LOL.'
At most a tiny fraction of the cheering the left does EVERY time someone on our side is injured or killed.
But, yes, very true. The right correctly pointing out that this woman was an absolute moron is not the same as the left cheering on, for example, the Kirk killing.
She drove at him & he has a right to self-defense.
Correct, and I said as much. I still think ICE was looking for a fight though. I won't do the whole 'he was already next to her when he fired' bit, because it fails to take reflexes into account, and the first shot did go through the front windshield, albeit at an angle.
I think he may have bene looking for trouble, but that he also reacted in defensive instinct.
Part of my point is they should have been trained to not get in that position because, as I've said, the left was looking for this sort of incident. ICE should have prioritized not handing it to them. 'Defend yourself if needed, but try not to get into a position where you need to' should have been the operating procedure. And doesn't seem it was.
That's what I mean about this being avoidable. I'm not saying this wasn't a self defensive shoot.
We can blather on and on about should he be walking there? Should he have tried to run before shooting?
It's not blathering, in my opinion, when the obvious and predictable outcome to him shooting her is leftist retards burning the state to the ground.
Should he have shot the tire to stop her? (Yes, people are actually saying this & not being sarcastic!)
You clearly already know that, based one the second half...but, yeah, what a bunch of retards. What a joke.
I think sending the National Guard to escort ICE is a proper response to the organized & escalating violence the left is attacking agents with every single day now.
I don't know enough about what it is exactly ICE is hoping to accomplish, and I'm hesitant with further federal involvement...but, yeah, something to that effect seems sensible, if they can avoid incidents like this.
Allowing them this much leeway has only made things worse.
Yup. But, again, I think the inept response also made things worse. We're getting the worst of both worlds; they let these leftists run roughshod...and then killed a woman and sparked off further retardation.
It's not blathering, in my opinion, when the obvious and predictable outcome to him shooting her is leftist retards burning the state to the ground.
Sorry if that came off "heavy". I'm referring to the endless wordage that has no meaning at all coming from the Media. They know no more than you or I, but continue to flap their gums like they have Tourette's.
I also pointed out (maybe not here?) that he was escaping from an openly hostile wife. He was de-escalating which is good. Unfortunately that meant he had to walk in front of the car. :/
It is messy, but one side is paid LEO and the other is deranged paid domestic terrorists. I know who I'm going to support.
I fear the 'breakfast question' has even more dire answers than I had feared, and even people who talk about the breakfast question often fail the test themselves. Which is wild.
Hadn't heard of that, but this is a common problem I do have with some people. I literally have to ask "I know that you did have breakfast, but how would you feel if you hadn't" because otherwise the answer is invariable.
Also, no matter how you feel about this ICE shooting, I really hate the bloodthirstiness some people on "my side" are exhibiting.
Here's what I don't understand. It's almost as if people think that it does them or their side some good to cheer this or be bloodthirsty. And sure, many leftists did cheer or react blasé to Ashli Babbitt.
But the fact that they do something stupid doesn't mean that the right should. Cheering Babbitt did them absolutely no good, and it galvanized the right for years. Even if you don't have a problem with the immorality, would you not at least try to be strategic?
I see a lot of leftists concluding "they want us dead" due to this reaction. Of course they ignore the specifics, like we do when it suits us, possibly because they think that people support her being shot because she is a leftist. Serves them right, now they know how the right fells? Of course, they'll become ever more implacable and try ever harder to fight you now, so "making libs angry" isn't much of an accomplishment.
I heard it put well, I think by Daryl Cooper (who sadly also missed some obvious stuff and got things wrong for no reason), that this was a 'can, not should' shooting. i.e. the lady probably crossed enough lines so the agent will have a decent defense for pulling the trigger...but doesn't mean that's what was called for in that situation.
Opinion is basically polarized around support/opposition to ICE. I'm in Europe where it's unthinkable to shoot under this circumstance, so to me, it looked bad (and people didn't like that because it's such a shibboleth). I do understand the shooting - e.g. even if he wasn't in her path, he may have thought that he was. But I have other questions: shooting the driver in a moving vehicle seems very dangerous, what if there was a kid in the path. And why is the administration immediately denouncing the woman as a domestic terrorist, rather than the usual "tragic event, we'll investigate thoroughly"? That made me doubt the 'official story' more than my own lying eyes.
I like how Darryl Cooper is obviously a very humane guy, but he's constantly called an evil nutsi. To be honest, I'm not interested in his history - I prefer historians for that - but his takes on current affairs I think are very good.
And, sadly, I think both sides wanted this. The left to prove their point, the right/admin so they can point to the riots and get more support for increased crackdowns.
I think this is bad for the admin (just calculation, not only because I'm black-pilled). I think this has galvanized the left to oppose far more than any disorder will provide a justification for an increased crackdown. I've seen videos of people getting away with psycho behavior, so obviously they're not doing much of anything.
Lastly, because I realize this is another essay
And yet always worth reading.
People keep talking about duty to protect when it comes to killing Americans. 'He had to pull the trigger, or she would have driven off and killed someone else.
I don't understand that at all. It's not as if she was driving like a maniac at 200 km/h, she was trying to get away from the ICE officers. Wouldn't shooting her increase the chance of an out of control vehicle hitting someone? Frankly, that part is what disturbed me the most about the whole affair. What if there was a kid between her and where her car smahed into that other car?
They had her plate...they had her "partner," so she wasn't going to escape justice either. We can talk self defense, that's certainly valid, but the idea that he had to stop her from leaving is just not correct.
Yup.
While law and order is very important, we do also have to be wary of further normalizing the killing of Americans
Any abuse of power that you justify for others, will eventually come back for yourself. They justified Ashli Babbitt, even though she was unarmed, and now they're saying that you cannot ever shoot an unarmed woman (a car aimed at you is arguably a weapon, but whether it was used like that is controversial) when it's their ox being gored.
No matter how you all feel about this crazy leftist, a lot of the people pulling the 'law and order' strings hate us as well.
The most maddening thing about MAGA cheering for Venezuela. Those deep state goons who want that hate you more than Maduro.
Even if you don't have a problem with the immorality, would you not at least try to be strategic?
Right? Not to say I'm correct about everything, but you can easily straddle the line on this; she did fuck around and find out, and a sane person wouldn't have done that...it should also still be sad that a woman lost her life. And we should be asking if there was a way to avoid that.
I like how Darryl Cooper is obviously a very humane guy, but he's constantly called an evil nutsi. To be honest, I'm not interested in his history - I prefer historians for that - but his takes on current affairs I think are very good.
Do you listen to Provoked, his podcast with Scott Horton? It's pretty good, and it's interesting to see them bounce off each other. I like both the guys, and think they're both operating in good faith, so it's interesting when they clash sometimes. Scott failed the 'nationalism' question on one ep, and I was much more on Darryl's side.
As to history, I haven't heard too much but, among other ones, do find his series on WW2 fascinating. That first episode about WW1 is absolutely horrific, in both the best and worst way. Trench warfare ain't nothing to scoff at. And Ernst Junger was an absolute boss.
I think this is bad for the admin
Probably. Still feels like they wanted it, or were too stupid to avoid it, though. No matter who you think is at fault in this particular incident...it's not an unpredictable outcome. I was talking about ICE killing someone and leftists burning cities months ago.
And yet always worth reading.
Thanks, but I should learn to be more concise...
They justified Ashli Babbitt, even though she was unarmed, and now they're saying that you cannot ever shoot an unarmed woman
Because they don't have standards or integrity, and live in their own reality.
(a car aimed at you is arguably a weapon, but whether it was used like that is controversial) when it's their ox being gored.
It was used like that, or at least presented such a danger. I don't think, and never did think, that she intentionally tried to run the agent over. It's also not relevant to his reaction, though.
As to cars as weapons, they absolutely can be, and sometimes are. Ironically, it was Tucker himself who had a great bit about all the 'unarmed blacks gunned down by police,' and he did a breakdown, pointing out how they were almost all armed in one way or another; I think one officer was even pinned between two vehicles when he fired. That was classified as him killing an unarmed person. That's just insane.
The most maddening thing about MAGA cheering for Venezuela. Those deep state goons who want that hate you more than Maduro.
It's not even MAGA at this point, that's what's really sad. MAGA is dead. It's a skinsuit operated by Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and Laura Loomer now. A bunch of Never Trumpers somehow convinced Trump and MAGA that they are Core MAGA, and everyone else is a traitor.
Right? Not to say I'm correct about everything, but you can easily straddle the line on this; she did fuck around and find out, and a sane person wouldn't have done that...it should also still be sad that a woman lost her life. And we should be asking if there was a way to avoid that.
It's not that hard either. I agree that she FAFO, but a lot of people use that phrase in a celebratory manner, as if: yay, we finally got one of theirs.
Do you listen to Provoked, his podcast with Scott Horton? It's pretty good, and it's interesting to see them bounce off each other. I like both the guys, and think they're both operating in good faith, so it's interesting when they clash sometimes. Scott failed the 'nationalism' question on one ep, and I was much more on Darryl's side.
I do. It's quite good, and it's a shame that it's weekly. With all of Trump's clown wars, it would need to be daily to keep track of developments.
I mentioned him before I listened to the lastest Provoked. What's interesting is that what he said was almost identical to my own thoughts. Except for his claim that it's exactly like Charlie Kirk, but I still admire his ability to call out his own tribe forcefully. He also had the exact same reaction to the admin calling her a domestic terrrorist and making judgments almost immediately. What a nazi! When I grow up, I want to be a nazi too.
As to history, I haven't heard too much but, among other ones, do find his series on WW2 fascinating. That first episode about WW1 is absolutely horrific, in both the best and worst way. Trench warfare ain't nothing to scoff at. And Ernst Junger was an absolute boss.
I said it when a leftist Rome-history podcaster was discussed, and shockingly, people here actually agreed with it. Probably because I was saying it about someone who was on the left. But I would rather get my history from the source rather than through the telephone-game of a podcaster who isn't a historian.
Probably. Still feels like they wanted it, or were too stupid to avoid it, though. No matter who you think is at fault in this particular incident...it's not an unpredictable outcome. I was talking about ICE killing someone and leftists burning cities months ago.
For now, it seems that they're not burning cities, probably because Trump is a bit less of a joke this time around. BTW, we were discussing his first term. Allowing your country to be burned down, and then saying "well, they were Democrat areas anyway" to justify your inaction was a big no-no to me.
Because they don't have standards or integrity, and live in their own reality.
I see the same on the right. Maybe not quite as bad. But they spent years attacking cancel culture and censorship at universities, only to do that for Israel. I opposed that when I was supporting Israel. It seems the GOP establishment supports it to protect Israel, and people here because "some deportations of foreigners are better than none". Not sure that's worth sacrificing free speech rights over for Israel...
It was used like that, or at least presented such a danger. I don't think, and never did think, that she intentionally tried to run the agent over. It's also not relevant to his reaction, though.
I'd say that if she had tried, then there shouldn't even be any question: of course he should have shot her in that case. So in that sense, it is relevant. I think you mean: even if she didn't try, that doesn't automatically make him wrong, and I also agree with that.
As to cars as weapons, they absolutely can be, and sometimes are. Ironically, it was Tucker himself who had a great bit about all the 'unarmed blacks gunned down by police,' and he did a breakdown, pointing out how they were almost all armed in one way or another; I think one officer was even pinned between two vehicles when he fired. That was classified as him killing an unarmed person. That's just insane.
It is insane. I just said that because I didn't want anyone driving a car ever to be equated with someone wielding a deadly weapon. Obviously, if you're using it like that, it's different.
It's not even MAGA at this point, that's what's really sad. MAGA is dead. It's a skinsuit operated by Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and Laura Loomer now. A bunch of Never Trumpers somehow convinced Trump and MAGA that they are Core MAGA, and everyone else is a traitor.
The thing is, how have they commandeered what Trump does, and how do they manage to convince the MAGA base. It's not fully a cult, as someone correctly pointed out to me (Iran, Epstein), but it sure looks like a cult when people go from "no regime change" to "yay regime change" over the course of a week.
He was trolling with the Arabic numerals thing. And I don't think anyone takes asmon seriously as an intellectual or anything, but the streamer world is infected with commies and asmon has garnered a big audience by being the only large streamer with some sense. I only ever watch clips, Ill never understand watching full streams, but from what I see we could do worse
He absolutely was trolling, it was crystal clear in that video I saw of it. He stops, makes a (subtle) funny face and says the funny lines in 'deadpan'. He also made a video mocking the people who thought he was being serious too, iirc.
I too just watch the clips. They're entertaining for sure. I doubt I'll ever watch a whole stream, even as background noise.
The right is in big trouble when a nitwit who doesn't shower, has a "dead rat alarm clock" and panicked about Mamdani introducing "Arabic numerals" in schools, is one of its most prominent commentators.
I used to watch him back when I was playing WOW and he is not a bad guy and makes a lot more sense than someone like Hassan for instance and for all his money he lives a very down to earth life.
Him and Joe Rogan are a good ways to see how the average guy leans. It is a much better way to predict elections than this forum or reddit or a poll.
Leftists : ''we need a Left-wing Joe Rogan!''
They had one. His name was Joe Rogan. They went so far woke that Joe Rogan ended-up ''far right'' withtout moving.
Eh, I don't know. This is a guy who said that genocide in Gaza is deserved (which he later withdrew), because... they don't allow people to be homosexual.
Whether or not you support genocide in Gaza, that is the dumbest reason I've heard for it. It's the "Democrats are the real neo-Leninist transphobes" meme. That should be an argument leftists make for it.
Probably than Reddit or this place.
I think we need to allow more people to change their mind. He was also for cancel culture to a limited extent and now seems to be very much on the right.
I've seen people change their mind on Gaza a lot and we should encourage people to do that.
The left can dig a comment from 10 years ago and cancel someone and no matter what they say there is no forgiveness. The last thing we need on the right is that toxic behaviour.
Me included, and I completely agree with you. That's why I did mention that he took it back.
I'm not criticizing him for his former opinions on Gaza. It's the mindset. "This culture deserves to be eradicated because it doesn't allow people to be gay." coming from the so called right. When I saw him say that, I was just thinking how far the 'right' has sunk to say this sort of thing.
I also wasn't impressed that he backed both Iran and Venezuela. But as you say, things are quite bad.
Well there's no genocide in Gaza(yet). So it's irrelevant
Of course there is. And he said it outright.
Like I said, he did take it back, but I was talking about the motivation. Surely, you as a Christian conservative should not be supportive of "this culture should be destroyed because they don't allow people to be gay".
It's not shocking, he said in his video about Trump defunding Harvard (I believe) that his values and opinions align with Socialists and he would be a socialist (he also sperged that his chat joked about him being a National Socialist) but he doesn't agree with their methods to obtain and secure power
You can be a socialist without supporting trannydom.
As tiny as this place is, it was ahead of the curve of what the post 10/7 discussion would look like.
But not because of any analysis, of course, only because "Israel bad". May be a good heuristic, but a lot of people were cheering on the repellent actions.
Of course, Israel itself decided to conduct itself in a way to lose the world's sympathy, for however little that is worth. That was the "we can do and say whatever we want" moment.
He pisses the right people off. Also, I bet he knew the 'Arabic numberal' thing, given the fact that he has a fact-checking editor that keeps him out of trouble.
While that's always a good sign, and I've used that argument myself for sure, I agree with AoV; it's not always good enough. There are people who piss the right people off, who are absolute monsters. That's not Asmon, to be clear, but just an example.
For me, pissing the right people off should be a secondary bonus, not the core argument. You do good work and piss the right people off? Awesome. And, to some extent, that is Asmon. But, as some people have pointed out, he also has some big failings. I don't hate the dude - I actually think he's pretty likeable - but he's definitely got some issues.
He has terrible taste in movies. That's for sure.
There are limits to "lolz liberals mad" as politics. Liberals got very mad over the Iraq War. Turns out, they were right.
There are also limits to pretending to be retarded as politics, if that is what he was doing.
That is one of the issue. A lot of those liberals that got mad over the Iraq war are now Conservatives - including myself. One of the reasons why what is going on with Iran now and Venezuela sucks hard. There is literally no anti-war party.
They were right to oppose the war but wrong about why it was happening. It wasn't a war for oil. It was a war for mohel.
Even though I had read Walt and Mearsheimer, I did not even consider that a real possibility until I saw the Ted Cruz interview. It's hard to believe that the tail would be wagging an elephant this hard.
The Iraqi war was several layers of dumb.
I don't dislike Asmon, but he does have some character traits I really don't appreciate.
Foremost, he doesn't do his research, but speaks with absolute authority or confidence. So he'll react to things where he doesn't have the full context or story, and then present himself as something approaching an expert. It's a pretty infuriating pattern.
When he's right, he's right; I think he has decent instincts, and his ideology seems relatively "based" outside of some blind spots. But he's inconsistent, and since he goes off halfcocked, when he gets it wrong, he can get it very wrong. And, most frustrating, just gets it wrong for incredibly simple and avoidable reasons...the aforementioned not doing any research. He just reacts. Which is fine, if he also wasn't taken as some sort of "thought leader." Which isn't his fault, but it's just weird.
Also, I hate to see all these people I to some extent like dive headfirst into the 'I'm ignoring history and past statements, US interventionism is great and necessary now (because Daddy Trump.)' Just like with October 7th reactions, and just like with Iran reactions, Venezuela/Iran 2 is making me lose some respect for people I like.
I fear the 'breakfast question' has even more dire answers than I had feared, and even people who talk about the breakfast question often fail the test themselves. Which is wild.
Also, no matter how you feel about this ICE shooting, I really hate the bloodthirstiness some people on "my side" are exhibiting. I heard it put well, I think by Daryl Cooper (who sadly also missed some obvious stuff and got things wrong for no reason), that this was a 'can, not should' shooting. i.e. the lady probably crossed enough lines so the agent will have a decent defense for pulling the trigger...but doesn't mean that's what was called for in that situation.
Kind of what I've been saying; she takes most of the blame for putting herself in that situation, and behaving like a lunatic, but doesn't mean I like the outcome, and doesn't mean the agent behaved perfectly. And, sadly, I think both sides wanted this. The left to prove their point, the right/admin so they can point to the riots and get more support for increased crackdowns. It's also just fucking midterms nonsense.
Lastly, because I realize this is another essay, but this is an interesting point I haven't seen anyone make. Most people are talking about self defense, but I do see some talking about duty to protect as well. People keep talking about duty to protect when it comes to killing Americans. 'He had to pull the trigger, or she would have driven off and killed someone else. You can't let her leave the scene.' But, if she actually had been driving right at a pedestrian, that agent has no duty to stop the car and save the pedestrian, if he fears for his own life. People can't have it both ways. There is no duty to protect, so he had no obligation to stop her from leaving the scene. They had her plate...they had her "partner," so she wasn't going to escape justice either. We can talk self defense, that's certainly valid, but the idea that he had to stop her from leaving is just not correct.
Again, she takes most of the blame for doing what she did, but the whole thing was avoidable from all angles and, to my point, I don't like to see people cheering this on. Or even overly justifying it, even if it was justifiable. While law and order is very important, we do also have to be wary of further normalizing the killing of Americans, even retarded ones. They want a federal policy force; they almost officially got it under Biden, and they're doing something similar under Trump. This will come back around and target us, too. No matter how you all feel about this crazy leftist, a lot of the people pulling the 'law and order' strings hate us as well.
It was avoidable by not hitting someone with a fucking car
I mean, I do think I covered that. She fucked around and found out, I've said that since the beginning. That's undeniable, except to the lunatic leftists.
It still could have been handled differently and, as I said, I think both sides wanted this, sadly. I support deportations - and want more of them - but the way ICE has been going about it has been intentionally provocative. I think they wanted this to come to a head.
You mean self-defense? We shouldn't normalize defending ourselves when our lives are threatened? This is the type of thinking that turns your country into Canada.
Don't turn your country into Canada! I know! I have to live here.
If you so much as hold a gun with an intruder inside your house? Unless he has a gun too, YOU are going to jail.
I've defended plenty of police killings, including this one. I don't think whether or not we as a people are okay with police killing our own citizens is the measure of whether or not we become like Canada, though.
Also, it's worth pointing out Canada is more authoritarian, even if it might not get to physical might as frequently. More trust in government is how you become Canada, not avoiding becoming them.
Yeah, we could say the death of George Floyd was tragic and avoidable too, but we don't. And that's not just because we don't believe Chauvin really caused his death. It's also because we knew Floyd was an awful person and we know the cops were doing their job the best they can.
Believing that ICE agents, who are required to face dangerous situations and people who want to kill them on a daily basis (to a much greater extent than an average cop I might add) should be given a little slack doesn't really put us in a position of being tyrannized by a police state. It doesn't even really require us to believe or trust anything the government says, because we already have the video evidence to see exactly what happened during and before the incident.
I don't see much in the way of "bloodthirstiness" from the right on this. At most a tiny fraction of the cheering the left does EVERY time someone on our side is injured or killed.
You are correct in that he isn't obliged to protect potential victims from her erratic driving, but that has nothing to do with this case. She drove at him & he has a right to self-defense.
We can blather on and on about should he be walking there? Should he have tried to run before shooting? Should he have shot the tire to stop her? (Yes, people are actually saying this & not being sarcastic!) But that's armchair quarterback thinking. Fine as speculation but does nothing to change the facts. He made a split second decision, as was his right.
I think sending the National Guard to escort ICE is a proper response to the organized & escalating violence the left is attacking agents with every single day now. Allowing them this much leeway has only made things worse. Time to crack down hard & the Blue State police have been ordered to do nothing. Even if they did? The Soros DAs and Dem judges will set them free. Exactly like the BLT riots.
I've seen a fair few people equating fucking around and finding out with 'bitch had it coming LOL.'
But, yes, very true. The right correctly pointing out that this woman was an absolute moron is not the same as the left cheering on, for example, the Kirk killing.
Correct, and I said as much. I still think ICE was looking for a fight though. I won't do the whole 'he was already next to her when he fired' bit, because it fails to take reflexes into account, and the first shot did go through the front windshield, albeit at an angle.
I think he may have bene looking for trouble, but that he also reacted in defensive instinct.
Part of my point is they should have been trained to not get in that position because, as I've said, the left was looking for this sort of incident. ICE should have prioritized not handing it to them. 'Defend yourself if needed, but try not to get into a position where you need to' should have been the operating procedure. And doesn't seem it was.
That's what I mean about this being avoidable. I'm not saying this wasn't a self defensive shoot.
It's not blathering, in my opinion, when the obvious and predictable outcome to him shooting her is leftist retards burning the state to the ground.
You clearly already know that, based one the second half...but, yeah, what a bunch of retards. What a joke.
I don't know enough about what it is exactly ICE is hoping to accomplish, and I'm hesitant with further federal involvement...but, yeah, something to that effect seems sensible, if they can avoid incidents like this.
Yup. But, again, I think the inept response also made things worse. We're getting the worst of both worlds; they let these leftists run roughshod...and then killed a woman and sparked off further retardation.
It's a messy situation all around.
Sorry if that came off "heavy". I'm referring to the endless wordage that has no meaning at all coming from the Media. They know no more than you or I, but continue to flap their gums like they have Tourette's.
I also pointed out (maybe not here?) that he was escaping from an openly hostile wife. He was de-escalating which is good. Unfortunately that meant he had to walk in front of the car. :/
It is messy, but one side is paid LEO and the other is deranged paid domestic terrorists. I know who I'm going to support.
Hadn't heard of that, but this is a common problem I do have with some people. I literally have to ask "I know that you did have breakfast, but how would you feel if you hadn't" because otherwise the answer is invariable.
Here's what I don't understand. It's almost as if people think that it does them or their side some good to cheer this or be bloodthirsty. And sure, many leftists did cheer or react blasé to Ashli Babbitt.
But the fact that they do something stupid doesn't mean that the right should. Cheering Babbitt did them absolutely no good, and it galvanized the right for years. Even if you don't have a problem with the immorality, would you not at least try to be strategic?
I see a lot of leftists concluding "they want us dead" due to this reaction. Of course they ignore the specifics, like we do when it suits us, possibly because they think that people support her being shot because she is a leftist. Serves them right, now they know how the right fells? Of course, they'll become ever more implacable and try ever harder to fight you now, so "making libs angry" isn't much of an accomplishment.
Opinion is basically polarized around support/opposition to ICE. I'm in Europe where it's unthinkable to shoot under this circumstance, so to me, it looked bad (and people didn't like that because it's such a shibboleth). I do understand the shooting - e.g. even if he wasn't in her path, he may have thought that he was. But I have other questions: shooting the driver in a moving vehicle seems very dangerous, what if there was a kid in the path. And why is the administration immediately denouncing the woman as a domestic terrorist, rather than the usual "tragic event, we'll investigate thoroughly"? That made me doubt the 'official story' more than my own lying eyes.
I like how Darryl Cooper is obviously a very humane guy, but he's constantly called an evil nutsi. To be honest, I'm not interested in his history - I prefer historians for that - but his takes on current affairs I think are very good.
I think this is bad for the admin (just calculation, not only because I'm black-pilled). I think this has galvanized the left to oppose far more than any disorder will provide a justification for an increased crackdown. I've seen videos of people getting away with psycho behavior, so obviously they're not doing much of anything.
And yet always worth reading.
I don't understand that at all. It's not as if she was driving like a maniac at 200 km/h, she was trying to get away from the ICE officers. Wouldn't shooting her increase the chance of an out of control vehicle hitting someone? Frankly, that part is what disturbed me the most about the whole affair. What if there was a kid between her and where her car smahed into that other car?
Yup.
Any abuse of power that you justify for others, will eventually come back for yourself. They justified Ashli Babbitt, even though she was unarmed, and now they're saying that you cannot ever shoot an unarmed woman (a car aimed at you is arguably a weapon, but whether it was used like that is controversial) when it's their ox being gored.
The most maddening thing about MAGA cheering for Venezuela. Those deep state goons who want that hate you more than Maduro.
He got hit by the car
Wasn't clear to me. Anyway, I wasn't taking a position on that, but this is a common anti-shooting argument.
Right? Not to say I'm correct about everything, but you can easily straddle the line on this; she did fuck around and find out, and a sane person wouldn't have done that...it should also still be sad that a woman lost her life. And we should be asking if there was a way to avoid that.
Do you listen to Provoked, his podcast with Scott Horton? It's pretty good, and it's interesting to see them bounce off each other. I like both the guys, and think they're both operating in good faith, so it's interesting when they clash sometimes. Scott failed the 'nationalism' question on one ep, and I was much more on Darryl's side.
As to history, I haven't heard too much but, among other ones, do find his series on WW2 fascinating. That first episode about WW1 is absolutely horrific, in both the best and worst way. Trench warfare ain't nothing to scoff at. And Ernst Junger was an absolute boss.
Probably. Still feels like they wanted it, or were too stupid to avoid it, though. No matter who you think is at fault in this particular incident...it's not an unpredictable outcome. I was talking about ICE killing someone and leftists burning cities months ago.
Thanks, but I should learn to be more concise...
Because they don't have standards or integrity, and live in their own reality.
It was used like that, or at least presented such a danger. I don't think, and never did think, that she intentionally tried to run the agent over. It's also not relevant to his reaction, though.
As to cars as weapons, they absolutely can be, and sometimes are. Ironically, it was Tucker himself who had a great bit about all the 'unarmed blacks gunned down by police,' and he did a breakdown, pointing out how they were almost all armed in one way or another; I think one officer was even pinned between two vehicles when he fired. That was classified as him killing an unarmed person. That's just insane.
It's not even MAGA at this point, that's what's really sad. MAGA is dead. It's a skinsuit operated by Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and Laura Loomer now. A bunch of Never Trumpers somehow convinced Trump and MAGA that they are Core MAGA, and everyone else is a traitor.
It's not that hard either. I agree that she FAFO, but a lot of people use that phrase in a celebratory manner, as if: yay, we finally got one of theirs.
I do. It's quite good, and it's a shame that it's weekly. With all of Trump's clown wars, it would need to be daily to keep track of developments.
I mentioned him before I listened to the lastest Provoked. What's interesting is that what he said was almost identical to my own thoughts. Except for his claim that it's exactly like Charlie Kirk, but I still admire his ability to call out his own tribe forcefully. He also had the exact same reaction to the admin calling her a domestic terrrorist and making judgments almost immediately. What a nazi! When I grow up, I want to be a nazi too.
I said it when a leftist Rome-history podcaster was discussed, and shockingly, people here actually agreed with it. Probably because I was saying it about someone who was on the left. But I would rather get my history from the source rather than through the telephone-game of a podcaster who isn't a historian.
For now, it seems that they're not burning cities, probably because Trump is a bit less of a joke this time around. BTW, we were discussing his first term. Allowing your country to be burned down, and then saying "well, they were Democrat areas anyway" to justify your inaction was a big no-no to me.
I see the same on the right. Maybe not quite as bad. But they spent years attacking cancel culture and censorship at universities, only to do that for Israel. I opposed that when I was supporting Israel. It seems the GOP establishment supports it to protect Israel, and people here because "some deportations of foreigners are better than none". Not sure that's worth sacrificing free speech rights over for Israel...
I'd say that if she had tried, then there shouldn't even be any question: of course he should have shot her in that case. So in that sense, it is relevant. I think you mean: even if she didn't try, that doesn't automatically make him wrong, and I also agree with that.
It is insane. I just said that because I didn't want anyone driving a car ever to be equated with someone wielding a deadly weapon. Obviously, if you're using it like that, it's different.
The thing is, how have they commandeered what Trump does, and how do they manage to convince the MAGA base. It's not fully a cult, as someone correctly pointed out to me (Iran, Epstein), but it sure looks like a cult when people go from "no regime change" to "yay regime change" over the course of a week.
i actually don't have to pretend that marxists trying to stop the government from removing foreigners from this country are my fellow citizens
He was trolling with the Arabic numerals thing. And I don't think anyone takes asmon seriously as an intellectual or anything, but the streamer world is infected with commies and asmon has garnered a big audience by being the only large streamer with some sense. I only ever watch clips, Ill never understand watching full streams, but from what I see we could do worse
He absolutely was trolling, it was crystal clear in that video I saw of it. He stops, makes a (subtle) funny face and says the funny lines in 'deadpan'. He also made a video mocking the people who thought he was being serious too, iirc.
I too just watch the clips. They're entertaining for sure. I doubt I'll ever watch a whole stream, even as background noise.
The Arabic numerals thing was an obvious gag tbf