Based Camp - Feminists Won the Culture War but Lost At Life

00:00:00.000 Nina Sarkisian was driving the anti-gamer gate faction.

00:00:03.200 Well, recently she had a birthday party where she married herself.

00:00:08.940 Oh dear.

00:00:09.980 I think we undervalue how much humans who live good lives are rewarded within their lives for those decisions.

00:00:20.260 And that I think we focus too much on rewards that happen posthumously, like heaven, hell, people who are choosing these ultra progressive life paths.

00:00:30.000 You don't need to wait till they're dead to be laughing at them.

00:00:33.420 Wait until they're 35. 0.59

00:00:34.720 Okay.

00:00:35.060 It could be worse.

00:00:38.220 At least you're not Anthony Birch.

00:00:42.460 It could be worse.

00:00:46.160 At least you're not Anthony Birch.

00:00:48.400 Would you like to know more?

00:00:49.740 Something very naughty.

00:00:51.780 Well, I should have been working through lunch.

00:00:53.420 Instead of creating new NDC accounts on Lufthansa's Spark platform for all of our agents, which I did on a delayed basis, I instead read Susie Weiss's new article in the Free Press called-

00:01:07.420 Ooh, what's it on?

00:01:08.860 Hercule Durkle is the new way to self-care ourselves to death.

00:01:12.740 And it is about an ongoing trend predominated by women related to this concept of self-care, also highly related to what is referred to as bed rot or bed rowing or soft living, which is basically quiet quitting as well.

00:01:30.740 It's related to that, which is basically just about giving up, indulging in your feelings, not working hard, doing the bare minimum, and in doing whatever you do that makes you feel good is justified and right.

00:01:47.000 And it was an interesting article.

00:01:48.660 I hadn't heard of this.

00:01:49.380 Is it an ancient Scottish thing or a modern Scottish thing?

00:01:50.960 Hercule Durkle is a Scottish term for like hunkering down in your bed and kind of being cozy.

00:01:57.780 There are other northern European-

00:01:58.740 I never heard of this when I was in Scotland.

00:02:00.800 Just so people know, I got my undergraduate degree in Scotland and lived there for four years.

00:02:03.780 Yeah, but like there are no Scottish people in St. Andrews.

00:02:07.620 A very few, because it's really hard to get into that university.

00:02:10.600 There are two thirds, I think.

00:02:12.080 Yeah, okay.

00:02:13.300 Oh yeah, because there's a lot of English people.

00:02:14.660 Yeah, I think it's about the third Scottish when I went there, at least.

00:02:16.680 Just so people know, it's now the top-rated university in the UK, higher than Oxford and Cambridge.

00:02:21.560 Thank you, man.

00:02:23.020 And yeah, really cool.

00:02:24.620 Also a great university.

00:02:25.580 But I think this is very related to the topic that we're about to discuss, which is that feminists have won the culture war, but they've lost it life. 0.99

00:02:33.800 And I mean, I'm reading this article and I'm thinking, okay, so-

00:02:37.560 I think it's actually wider than that.

00:02:39.380 So I'm going to expand the topic of this episode to include another one that I wanted to do.

00:02:44.240 Okay. 0.96

00:02:44.580 Which was really made clear to me about why leftists are so miserable.

00:02:51.020 When I was in another recent episode where we were talking about, and I was appreciating you, and I was going through old Facebook posts, you had mentioned that I had made our life like the end scene from Gladiator.

00:03:02.200 Where this is their heaven, you know, he goes to a farm where he grows food, and he has beautiful fields, and he has a kid and a wife, and they play together.

00:03:12.520 Is Rome worth one good man's life?

00:03:32.680 We believed it once.

00:03:37.800 Make us believe it again.

00:03:39.120 Right?

00:03:40.200 And that, historically speaking, this would have been considered heaven.

00:03:46.540 The life that we live every day today would have been considered heaven.

00:03:51.600 And yet leftists would consider it this almost impossible toil, because we wake up every day with meaning and believe we have to work.

00:04:00.580 And I think it's not appreciating.

00:04:01.900 They're like, but my life is harder than my parents'.

00:04:03.800 I don't get things as easily as my parents got things.

00:04:06.780 I don't have to, you know, plan as much.

00:04:09.120 I don't, I have to sacrifice more.

00:04:11.080 And it's like, yes.

00:04:13.460 And then you have, like, your great-great-grandparents, like, looking on at horror, and you in this infinitely privileged state, you know, not constantly struggling to survive, being like, well, things are marginally harder than the previous generation.

00:04:29.180 My grocery bills are high.

00:04:31.280 And it's shown something to me that really horrifies me about where the left has gone, which is that people who live life in a pursuit of pleasure will never know peace.

00:04:46.020 Because they don't have things that really matter in life that they strive for.

00:04:53.340 And they can be like, well, the right doesn't either.

00:04:55.500 And I'm like, you do not listen to, like, rightist music.

00:04:58.720 You know, one of our favorite songs is By Dirt, for example.

00:05:01.360 If you haven't seen it, go watch it.

00:05:02.680 It's a great song.

00:05:03.760 It makes me cry every time.

00:05:05.680 It makes you cry every time?

00:05:07.240 It really does, though.

00:05:08.120 Yeah, it's a great song.

00:05:09.700 But it's a great example of, like, coalition of rightist values that are being taught to people, which is very similar to these, you know, Roman-like values.

00:05:21.020 The goal is to have your plot of land that you get after the military service, and then you spend your life raising a family there, and that time with them.

00:05:30.180 That's not punishment.

00:05:31.100 Like, in leftist memes, because I love following, I'm following, like, all of the Facebook groups for, like, the antinatalists and stuff like that.

00:05:38.260 Here's one of the memes from the group with a stork delivering a guy a baby, and him looking sad and saying, no, I ordered a lifetime of doing whatever I want. 0.70

00:05:47.500 And it's like, can you imagine any poverty higher than just doing whatever you want whenever you want to do it?

00:05:55.900 Any hell greater than a life lived in search of personal indulgence, because in the end, that never satisfies anyone.

00:06:04.880 They have literally created Tantalus' punishment for themselves.

00:06:09.360 For those who forget Tantalus' punishment, it was whenever he would reach down to sip water, the water would recede from him,

00:06:15.900 and whenever he would lift up to grab a fruit, the fruit branches would pull away from him.

00:06:20.540 And that's what looking for satisfaction in pleasure is like.

00:06:26.020 When you reach from it, it pulls away from you.

00:06:28.360 It's the antithesis of satisfaction.

00:06:31.060 The guy's like, oh, kids, what a burden.

00:06:32.860 I don't get to travel the world anymore.

00:06:35.140 I don't get to, you know...

00:06:36.960 Bro, have you even traveled?

00:06:38.640 I mean, oh, man.

00:06:40.920 Every time I leave the house now, like, at this age, I'm like, I used to like traveling when I was younger,

00:06:45.680 but now I just want to be back home with the kids.

00:06:47.380 It's such a hit of life quality whenever we travel now.

00:06:50.540 Yes!

00:06:51.740 Back on the farm, right?

00:06:53.660 And so this is really interesting to me when I view it in a culture war perspective.

00:07:00.020 And where this was really elevated for me and where I really began to pay attention to this was the fate of Anita Sarkeesian.

00:07:12.100 So people who don't know Anita Sarkeesian, because I had to remind someone of this.

00:07:16.600 I was like, do you know her?

00:07:17.340 Because I found a fact about her that really shocked me recently.

00:07:20.400 And I don't know anyone.

00:07:21.440 So during Gamergate 1, now we're in Gamergate 2, Electric Boogaloo.

00:07:26.600 Our episode on that just went live today, which I absolutely love.

00:07:29.840 But Gamergate 1, Anita Sarkeesian was really driving the anti-Gamergate faction. 1.00

00:07:35.340 And she ran a podcast called Feminist Frequency, and she ran a number of YouTube things where she would just lie all the time. 0.97

00:07:44.820 I mean, leftists always do this.

00:07:45.860 One of my favorites was she had video clips from a game where the character was piling corpses of hookers who he had killed.

00:07:56.740 But this wasn't, like, part of the game.

00:07:59.360 This was something that was like, it was like a Grand Theft Auto or something.

00:08:02.700 This is something she had chosen to do with her character, film, and then whine about. 0.52

00:08:09.220 And Gamergate 1 was a really interesting moment because it was like when the left fully began to embody, like, what before would have been the extremist, like, Christian parent.

00:08:22.180 Like, ah, video games are horrible, they're from the devil, and they're hurting my kids, and we need to get rid of all games, and all sexy tracer butt, and every character who looks remotely arousing to men, and everything, everything must be made clean and nice.

00:08:40.080 And she had taken over this perspective, but did it in a very lefty sort of a fashion. 0.86

00:08:45.060 Well, recently, she had a birthday party where she married herself.

00:08:50.980 Oh, dear.

00:08:52.180 And it made me realize something.

00:08:57.960 That I think we undervalue how much humans who strive and successfully live good lives are rewarded within their lives for those decisions.

00:09:09.740 And that I think we focus too much on rewards that happen posthumously, like heaven, hell, stuff like that.

00:09:19.840 You know, like, the Westboro Baptist Church, apparently, they used to tell, even with glee to reporters, oh, well, you're going to go to hell, and you'll be burning in hell, and I'll be laughing then.

00:09:28.280 And I'm like, to those of our young viewers, people who are choosing these ultra-progressive life paths, you don't need to wait until they're dead to be laughing at them.

00:09:38.600 Wait until they're 35, okay?

00:09:40.660 And they marry themselves.

00:09:41.720 This is something that we've seen in the data since Pew started recording statistics on happiness differences between progressives and conservatives, with progressives showing markedly lower rates of happiness on average.

00:09:54.080 But what's really interesting is it's something that has become markedly worse recently, specifically as the data relates to mental health.

00:10:01.720 So I'm going to quote summarize an article here titled, How to Understand the Wellbeing Gap Between Liberals and Conservatives, by Malsa Al-Ghabri.

00:10:11.940 In a recent essay for Social Science and Medicine Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbron and her co-authors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens.

00:10:26.940 The gap was present in all years observed in the study, 2005-18, but it grew significantly starting in 2012.

00:10:35.280 However, as depressive affect unilaterally spiked among liberals, three years later, conservatives also began reporting increases in depression, although that rise tapered off relatively quickly, while the increase among liberals continued.

00:10:48.960 Liberal girls tended to be significantly more depressed than boys, particularly after 2011.

00:10:53.440 However, ideological differences swamped gender differences.

00:10:57.220 Indeed, liberal boys were significantly more likely to report depression than conservatives of either gender.

00:11:02.920 The authors also found the more educated a teens family was, and here I should note educated isn't how smart they were, but how long they spent in the ultra-progressive brainwashing institutions,

00:11:13.720 the more likely the young people were to be depressed, and the more dramatic their rise in depression was after 2012.

00:11:22.380 So, what we're seeing here is the actual and real harm that is being done to people and their children by these progressive brainwashing factories,

00:11:34.980 and that this harm is increasing over time.

00:11:38.060 This is not a steady state.

00:11:39.320 As progressives become more extreme, as the system is falling off the rails, people are being hurt more and more and more.

00:11:46.200 But, I want to talk about some of the ideas they were promoting and why it obviously led to this, and sort of how hollow this is.

00:11:54.520 The marrying of herself is an affirmation of self-love, which we have always promoted as being a terrible idea on this show.

00:12:02.140 Loving yourself for who you are right now is a terrible thing.

00:12:05.760 If you want to admire yourself, admire yourself for who you have the potential to become.

00:12:11.160 This is the same with your partner.

00:12:12.480 You should never, ever be buried to somebody who loves you for who you are.

00:12:17.480 Oh, my gosh.

00:12:19.520 And that's what so many of these movements are about, quiet quitting and hercule-durcule,

00:12:24.940 which is just being cozy in bed much longer than you're supposed to be,

00:12:28.100 and spending all your time in bed, and quiet quitting.

00:12:31.840 It's in soft life, too, or soft living.

00:12:35.080 All of this is accepting yourself for who you are, and even making yourself worse,

00:12:40.700 and then liking that even more.

00:12:43.200 It's hard for me to wrap my head around it.

00:12:46.040 So, I'm going to read you a quote from Anita Sarkeesian that was posted in 2016.

00:12:50.540 So, many of you have even been older than that.

00:12:51.880 So, this gives you an idea of what she was talking about long before her life path led her to this sad outcome.

00:12:59.860 Having stories that center women encourages us to see women as people who are important to their own lives

00:13:07.460 and intrinsic humanity, rather than defining them in relationship to men.

00:13:12.920 So, she wanted a world where women's importance was who they were in and of themselves. 1.00

00:13:21.880 And this teaching hurts young girls because it leads them to view men oppositionally

00:13:29.660 instead of the way that all, you know, successful cultures do historically.

00:13:34.040 It's to view women and men as a team, okay?

00:13:37.200 We work together.

00:13:40.880 And this is also one of the problems with the red pill movement. 0.99

00:13:43.520 You know, a lot of these red pillers who went out there and were just sex, sex, sex, 1.00

00:13:47.060 some of them got out of it, and they ended up finding partners, 0.83

00:13:49.100 and now they recant their old ways, like good long-term partners.

00:13:52.160 Like, the guy who wrote the game, I think, actually did this.

00:13:55.300 I think he's in a monogamous marriage now?

00:13:57.320 I'll look this up and do a post-update on this.

00:13:59.980 Yep.

00:14:00.440 Neil Strauss is now in a monogamous marriage with a kid and regrets that lifestyle,

00:14:06.580 as does almost everyone who pursues it.

00:14:08.840 It, it's as bad, like, this ultra red pill lifestyle is as bad and as unsatisfying as 1.00

00:14:16.660 the ultra lefty lifestyle.

00:14:18.660 It is a hell that people impose upon themselves because they are living lives without honor

00:14:25.220 and not for something greater than themselves.

00:14:28.120 When you live a life only for yourself, you don't get that Gladiator send-off. 0.99

00:14:33.020 Everyone's like, well, that was, that was a stupid waste of everyone's time when you die. 0.97

00:14:37.640 But he's like, yeah, everything I said there was a terrible idea. 0.99

00:14:40.260 Don't do that.

00:14:41.140 I tried it.

00:14:42.200 It's not that it doesn't work in terms of getting sex.

00:14:44.260 It's just that that life isn't satisfying.

00:14:46.880 But she never learned that.

00:14:48.840 She spent her entire life in search of self-glorification and gratification.

00:14:55.600 And people can say, oh, that's so sinful.

00:14:58.640 But it's not sinful.

00:15:00.640 Like, so many of these sins that are passed to us by old religious traditions aren't sins

00:15:06.420 because, you know, some, you know, arbitrary God is jealous of where we're putting our attention.

00:15:14.080 They're sins because they destroy yourself.

00:15:16.820 They destroy your own soul.

00:15:18.140 They destroy your own potentiality, your own place in this world.

00:15:21.320 And then they lead you into the sad cry fest where for a birthday, like, we don't even celebrate our birthdays anymore, Simone.

00:15:30.120 The idea of celebrating, like, why, why would we?

00:15:33.220 You might mention and I'll like, I don't know, what, like, what do you get on a birthday?

00:15:37.580 Like a massage or something?

00:15:38.580 We certainly don't care about, like.

00:15:39.840 We exchange gifts and we'll try to make the other person's favorite meal.

00:15:45.360 That's kind of it.

00:15:46.200 But that's normal for adults, isn't it?

00:15:48.840 Yeah, but this is because our every day, and this is something you've mentioned recently to me, is almost as good as life can be.

00:15:58.660 Yeah, it really, I don't know how to make it better.

00:16:03.300 Yeah.

00:16:05.840 But I'd love your thoughts on this because you were in this sort of feminist culture early on when you were younger. 1.00

00:16:10.900 I think you certainly would have identified as a feminist in college. 1.00

00:16:13.160 And I was certainly encouraged to engage in self-care and all of it made me mentally weaker and worse.

00:16:21.400 So I think the problem people don't think about enough is when you don't have something bigger to worry about, all the tiniest things make you worried.

00:16:32.160 So if your focus in life is not on something like your career or running the world or whatever it might be, right, raising a family, then it's going to be on, oh, I don't know if I can take a shower today.

00:16:48.120 Or I'm so nervous about leaving the house to go put mail in the mailbox.

00:16:52.740 And I think that everyone can relate to the fact that everyone fills up their day with the same general.

00:17:02.180 And obviously, like, if you're in a war scene or if you are subject to huge amounts of stress or you're sick, it's different.

00:17:10.100 But on average, everyone fills their lives with the same amount of stress and with concern and with thought and work.

00:17:19.680 But when you the president of the United States isn't necessarily working that much harder or that much busier or whatever than someone who is at home doing absolutely nothing.

00:17:31.720 Like a housewife who's an empty nester who has absolutely nothing to do. 1.00

00:17:34.960 So both of them are like, oh, man, like, that's just I have to do this and I have to do that and then I have to get this.

00:17:40.040 And they're all worrying about things constantly.

00:17:42.140 But the housewife empty nester at home is worrying about her own anxiety levels and what she's going to eat next and how she's going to make yoga class work and how she's going to deal with that woman that she hates so much at the checkout line. 1.00

00:17:53.380 Whereas the president is worried about, oh, gosh, how should I do the drone attack? 0.93

00:17:57.860 Should I not kill the people? 1.00

00:17:59.340 Should I kill the people? 1.00

00:18:00.500 And then how do I deal with this press nightmare? 1.00

00:18:02.780 But it's it all fills the same cup.

00:18:04.860 We're not that different in the end. 0.98

00:18:06.980 And what I worry so much about this, this female empowerment being turned into self-care is that people are now throwing away these beautiful chalices that have so much potential and just taking these dumb little paper cups and filling them with absolute piss. 1.00

00:18:21.220 And that is their lives now. 0.97

00:18:23.000 And it's a paper cup of piss instead of a chalice of holy water.

00:18:27.720 Yeah.

00:18:28.040 And they're just sitting there drinking it.

00:18:30.020 No.

00:18:30.280 And that is the truth.

00:18:31.500 I think the key of what causes this is the mantra of self-care, the mantra that my life should be dedicated to me being comfortable with my existence.

00:18:40.560 And when you elevate your own self-acceptance to the highest level of importance within life and then secondarily society's acceptance of you, everything you do matters so little.

00:18:53.320 Because you know that everything you do is for personal affirmation as opposed to a thing of higher value.

00:18:59.540 You have created an ideological system which is appealing to people in the moment, but that intrinsically cannot provide any meaningful satisfaction.

00:19:10.460 Because you always know personally the full amount of satisfaction that has been delivered from your pursuits.

00:19:20.280 And we've talked about this in other videos, but it's a very important concept.

00:19:23.040 When you dedicate yourself to any form of hedonism, hedonism we don't just mean general, like any form of like maximizing your own emotional subset, you know and experience the full value of everything you do.

00:19:35.620 And you realize how trivial that value is and you begin to hate yourself more and more and more and more and more of what you do becomes a delusional hamster wheel of trying to make your life feel like it has value.

00:19:51.000 And you end up then as you preach this, destroying the lives around you.

00:19:56.200 A great example of this was Anita Sarkeesian is Anthony Dirk.

00:20:00.220 You Could Be Anthony Dirk has got to be one of my favorite songs on the internet.

00:20:06.480 I'll play a little clip of it here, but you guys really need to check it out.

00:20:09.440 It is a great song about a male feminist who was left by his wife after they were in an open marriage for another guy who she was banging instead of him and took his Wii U.

00:20:21.940 It could be worse, at least you're not Anthony Burge.

00:20:27.940 It could be worse, at least you're not Anthony Burge.

00:20:35.360 Be the head radical, a game studio, enjoy an open relationship with your wife.

00:20:42.860 End up divorced with her taking your Wii U.

00:20:46.580 They don't rhyme, but if those things apply, you might be Anthony Burge.

00:20:53.540 You might be Anthony Burge.

00:20:55.940 If you're ever feeling sad, just remember, at least you're not Anthony Burge.

00:21:00.960 A message from V the Musical.

00:21:02.420 And he is one of his prized possessions with a framed letter from Anita Sarkeesian saying something like, you are more tolerable than most men.

00:21:11.480 And it's like, gosh, part of me wants to feel pity for him, but I know the toxicity of his ideology and feeling pity for these ultra leftists, I think is equivalent to feeling pity for Nazis and stuff like that.

00:21:28.160 Because they believe their cultural beliefs to be superior to other people, and they want to eradicate cultural diversity from this world and diversity from this world and eradicate people who they see as being savages. 0.72

00:21:42.920 It's half child, half animal.

00:21:45.400 They really are the modern example of imperialist culture.

00:21:49.280 And it is sickening to me, anyone who allows this to invade their mind.

00:21:56.020 But we are fortunate in that this very ideology, this very toxic ideology ends up destroying them.

00:22:04.200 And then when these women hit like 45 and they're no longer able to use their sexuality to get ahead, which is what Gamergate 1 was about. 1.00

00:22:11.380 It was about women using their sexuality to get ahead in the workplace. 1.00

00:22:15.020 And then, you know, sleeping with potential people they were interviewing and stuff like that, and then acting as if that was totally okay and they didn't have an unfair advantage.

00:22:23.660 But once they can no longer use that, because they blinded themselves to these advantages they had, and that's what Gamergate 1 was, was.

00:22:30.060 It was women in the game media community taking soldering iron to their own eyes to not see how much their own sexuality was benefiting them. 1.00

00:22:40.520 Because they didn't see that, they didn't see how much they would suffer when they lost their attractiveness.

00:22:49.200 They didn't see how irrelevant and discarded they would immediately become from the perspective of the very community they thought they were building.

00:22:59.000 Because this community was completely built around their sexual value.

00:23:03.940 And it's so funny that that is what modern feminism became, is elevating and hiding that women were using their sexual value to cheese their careers. 0.81

00:23:15.560 And now that they can't do that anymore, they have nothing left.

00:23:19.320 And they're living these lives of abject sadness that is so far removed from this, you know, heaven at the end of Gladiator.

00:23:26.300 Yeah, but also what's sad about this, and you can deride them all you want, is they were told they were doing the right thing, they were doing the ethical thing, they were very, very deeply misled, and they're ultimately the ones being heard.

00:23:42.160 I don't take a, they were told they were doing the right thing, they should have applied critical thought, and they didn't.

00:23:47.640 Humans, they, now this is going to be very hard for you to understand, but most humans do not do this naturally, and you do.

00:23:57.200 Either, I think it's a mixture, when you look back at your genetic heritage, you come from a long line of people who question norms and the status quo.

00:24:05.940 But then on top of that, a lot of things happen to you throughout your life that confirmed the fact that you cannot and should not trust anyone.

00:24:12.480 So, you are in a very rare circumstance where both dispositionally and in terms of your education, you have been told to question and to not trust.

00:24:22.100 The vast majority of people are not like that, either dispositionally or in terms of how they've been taught to succeed in the world.

00:24:29.640 And most people are rewarded for going along with the rest of society and punished severely for not.

00:24:40.500 You still even are punished severely for deviating from people's preferred views.

00:24:46.480 And it can still hurt you.

00:24:48.220 It just, you've learned enough in life and you personally probably just couldn't wrap your head around thinking differently.

00:24:54.420 But, no, I mean, we're determinists, right?

00:25:00.740 We think that people are kind of sort of stuck in their mechanical futures through a mechanistic view of the world.

00:25:08.680 But, I mean, so it is their fault, but it's not their fault, it's their fault.

00:25:13.780 Does that make sense?

00:25:14.920 Yeah, so to word this another way, because a lot of people can be like, well, that's so uncaring.

00:25:18.980 Look, if someone is like a child murderer and they're like, yeah, but I was graped as a kid and that's why I'm a child murderer.

00:25:26.820 I'm like, yeah.

00:25:27.400 Yeah, or my parents were murderous. 0.98

00:25:30.020 Yeah, or my parents were abusive to me and were like, okay, well, you might have inherited this, but I hate you in the same way I hate your parents. 0.97

00:25:36.100 Yeah, and you are still dangerous to society and not doing good things. 0.90

00:25:41.020 Well, no, but I also think deserving of punishment.

00:25:43.960 I think that Anita Sarkeesian is deserving of the terrible life she lives.

00:25:47.980 She earned it from her lack of personal industry and she, you know, it's called a bonfire of the vanities for a reason. 1.00

00:25:56.800 People burn in a bonfire of their own vanity.

00:25:59.900 And this is something that we as a society used to communicate and accept and the feminists didn't know this. 1.00

00:26:05.400 And they did win the short-term culture war, right?

00:26:07.980 Like they got the positions of power in society, but they lost themselves.

00:26:12.820 They spent their own existences because they were fighting for an ideology that was fundamentally evil.

00:26:20.000 It was an ideology that believed itself to be naturally superior to all other ideologies.

00:26:25.160 They believed it had a manifest destiny to erase all cultural diversity in the world to be the only ideology.

00:26:31.420 And they're like, no.

00:26:31.940 And I'm like, okay, but you do want to spread your ideology to Africa.

00:26:36.220 You do want to spread your ideology to East Asia.

00:26:38.860 When they're like, yeah, but like only the good parts.

00:26:42.580 And I'm like, yeah, but the good parts to you is literally your entire world perspective.

00:26:48.080 You'll let them keep their holidays, but that's about it.

00:26:52.100 And they're like, well, we're really saving them.

00:26:54.580 We're saving them from savagery.

00:26:56.280 And it's like, yeah, that's what imperialists have always thought. 1.00

00:27:00.140 You are disgusting human beings. 0.96

00:27:03.200 And at least the imperialism of the old days brought prosperity to the areas that it colonized, which it did. 0.98

00:27:10.560 Just objectively did.

00:27:11.880 Yeah, whereas this culture seems to shred prosperity, which is really sad.

00:27:16.400 But this new prosperity saps regions of their industrial productivity.

00:27:22.180 You mean this new movement saps the regions of prosperity?

00:27:24.520 Well, no, it's this new iteration of the same movement.

00:27:26.840 I mean, it is European imperialism.

00:27:29.040 It is a movement that comes from the European cultural value sets and sees itself as naturally superior to other groups.

00:27:36.060 It is the secular imperialism that drove Europe that has been reformed as what we now call progressivism and wokeism.

00:27:48.240 And yeah, it is interesting to me to see this, but it's a little satisfying.

00:27:53.540 And I think when you contextualize this, when you show your kids this and you're like, look, these people are like marrying themselves and this is not a happy outcome.

00:28:02.000 You know, they are, they're going to die with like 60 cats and then the cats are going to eat their corpse because.

00:28:10.320 Well, that's sustainable, isn't it?

00:28:11.920 And that would cut down on things that they love the most, don't love them and just see them as a carry on source of food.

00:28:17.960 And for people, what was that about?

00:28:21.340 It's the Tibetan sky burial of single progressive women. 0.98

00:28:25.540 Yeah.

00:28:25.840 I, you know, let's just make it a thing.

00:28:27.580 Let's make it cool.

00:28:29.020 We need you to have that.

00:28:30.080 That would be a good t-shirt.

00:28:32.060 Progressive, progressive feminist Tibetan sky burial. 0.99

00:28:35.120 And it's a woman being eaten by her cats.

00:28:37.360 If we ever get really big, we can, we can make a little shirt about that.

00:28:41.360 The progressive sky burial.

00:28:42.920 Oh gosh, but no, I mean, it's, it's sad.

00:28:47.140 It's sad, but it is just, and they won the short-term cultural battle, but long-term, I mean, I really think GamerGate's where things begin to turn around as we talked about in the other video.

00:28:59.820 And we'll do another video at some point on GamerGate really exposes the left's core weakness and GamerGate 2 does as well.

00:29:08.620 It exposes how you can finally beat progressivism.

00:29:12.720 Yeah, I mean, I think the important thing is that when our daughters are old enough, we just need to show them that the outcomes are probably not in line with what they want.

00:29:26.640 And we have no problem with them adopting whatever values they want after they have weighed and measured the evidence and everything they've learned.

00:29:34.660 But I think focusing our kids around outcomes instead of ideologies is key in just making sure that they make better decisions.

00:29:45.380 Yeah, I really hope so.

00:29:46.480 I hope that we're able to protect them because I do worry for them.

00:29:50.440 Going into this world, there's going to be a lot of people, especially if we continue to gain public notoriety, who in the same way they did with Elon's kids are going to specifically target our kids.

00:29:59.060 Yeah, well, Torsten is just going to scream about rocks to them because that's all he cares about.

00:30:04.540 So it'll be okay.

00:30:06.800 It's going to be okay.

00:30:07.460 No, I know our kids dispositionally, and they are our kids.

00:30:10.620 Yeah, they're not.

00:30:11.400 I do not think they are going to be, they're going to find these arguments particularly alluring.

00:30:16.080 Yeah, it's all good.

00:30:19.060 I love you, and I love our kids.

00:30:21.340 Oh, that would be a fun thing.

00:30:22.820 I really want to begin to bring our kids into these podcasts as soon as they're cognizant enough to do it.

00:30:26.960 And I think that I'd really love them to troll progressives who are trying to brainwash them, like goad them along, and then we can bring in these conversations into our podcast so people can see it.

00:30:38.420 Because I know that this is going to happen.

00:30:39.760 As the movement begins to spiral down, as they all realize they've destroyed their lives, they're going to increasingly and aggressively target the children of people like us to try to bring them down as well.

00:30:51.120 And the more that we can bring attention to how intentional this action is, and how pathetic these individuals are, and how pathetic their lives are, I think it's really important in terms of framing for the next generation that they shouldn't go this path.

00:31:08.460 Agreed. 0.51

00:31:10.940 Anyway, I love you, Simone.

00:31:12.760 Do you have any final thoughts on feminism or your contextualization of it in a modern context?

00:31:17.280 I just don't think feminism is what it is. 1.00

00:31:25.700 It's like that line from The Princess Bride.

00:31:28.300 I don't think that means what you think it means.

00:31:31.380 Whatever.

00:31:31.780 I'm not quoting it right, but that's kind of just what it is.

00:31:34.540 I think that's a great way to put it.

00:31:36.120 It's a movement that when you ask those members, they say, we want equality.

00:31:39.420 And I go, then why are none of your key members fighting for equality?

00:31:42.560 Why do they laugh at men? 1.00

00:31:43.960 Why do they say men should die?

00:31:45.380 But also, feminism should create good outcomes for women. 1.00

00:31:48.780 And I'm not seeing that happening, really.

00:31:52.300 No, it ruins women's lives. 1.00

00:31:54.600 Yeah.

00:31:55.180 So that's my final thought, is that it is a misleading term, like so many misleading terms.

00:32:03.100 Well, I love you, and I want our daughters to have great lives.

00:32:06.420 And I think that couples modeling unhappy and loving relationships where both partners are treated with respect is the true thing that you should be doing if you really care about the future of women. 0.88

00:32:22.400 And not marrying yourself at a sad birthday party.

00:32:28.520 Maybe it was a great birthday party.

00:32:30.840 And marrying yourself as a single person is, it makes a lot of sense because when you actually think about weddings and marriages, they're really just for the women. 0.78

00:32:38.800 So I don't know why women just don't marry themselves when they want something indulgent. 1.00

00:32:45.140 And then actual marriages are more just about, oh, let's create a favorably positioned strategic alliance. 0.99

00:32:50.700 That's a very sexist thing to say, Simone.

00:32:53.660 How much planning did you do in our wedding?

00:32:56.660 I mean.

00:32:57.080 I love you to death, Simone.

00:32:58.920 Our wedding was great, and you did a great job putting it together.

00:33:02.200 Thank you.

00:33:03.140 But as you know, like, it's a woman thing. 1.00

00:33:06.040 So maybe we should just decouple weddings from marriage.

00:33:12.180 I don't know.

00:33:14.240 I have a good one.

00:33:15.320 Me too.

00:33:16.740 Oh, if you want to check out our Discord server, here is the link.

00:33:19.840 Some of our fans have been asking for it, and one of them put one together for us.

00:33:24.400 So check it out.

00:33:25.540 Oh, and the link will also be in the description.

Based Camp - March 26, 2024

Feminists Won the Culture War but Lost At Life

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