RadixJournal - LARPing with Reality

00:00:00.000 One of my biggest principles, as it is for anything international law in the UN, is that every country has the right to self-determination.

00:00:08.840 And this doesn't just go for Taiwan. This doesn't just go for Palestine. It's everywhere.

00:00:12.940 I support amending the Taiwan Relations Act to drop our strategic ambiguity towards defending the island militarily, not touching the one China policy outlined in the Shanghai communique.

00:00:24.340 Okay. So if Taiwan is invaded, I want to ensure that we've codified passive support to sell Taiwan weapons if Congress wills it, so Trump just can't overrule it or whoever the president is that's in Congress's hands, and that we can militarily step in to defend Taiwan with naval fleets for interception and selling weapons.

00:00:43.100 hassan is really concerned sorry it's a small video but you can see his eyes whoa bro whoa

00:00:54.880 is he gonna speak or is he speechless 0.57

00:00:58.540 he's just in his chat who watches this trash anyway let me fast forward a little bit 0.90

00:01:07.420 whoa bro whoa you like remember what he said you were 0.80

00:01:12.960 coming out with a further right of she says something about ukraine here as well

00:01:20.580 maybe i'll find in the transcript i have to make some phone calls well maybe not phone calls but

00:01:25.000 okay i how can anyone possibly watch us on i i i i do not understand it but anyway they were

00:01:38.680 really mad about that she also voiced strong support for ukraine and i noticed this so i i've

00:01:45.240 known about cat uh abugazale i believe is how is how her name is pronounced i think she goes by

00:01:54.780 kat abu and she spent a lot of her she is palestinian uh i guess she's got some bleach

00:02:02.400 going on there with the hair but it's fine um i i've noticed her on twitter she would like

00:02:09.180 watch tucker carlson and clip him for organizations she was sort of like a woke hipster in in many 0.66

00:02:16.180 ways and just did that she watched fox news so you don't have to or something like that

00:02:20.480 And there were a number of people doing this before 2024, I remember. So she kind of made a name for herself online. And then she tried to do the Mondami thing and run for Congress, and she lost. She lost to a centrist Democrat.

00:02:36.740 And I find this fascinating. So I was watching the reaction to this, and this was Ryan Grimm. So this is the way he spun this.

00:02:54.800 You cannot consolidate the progressive vote today while saber-rattling war with China. That era is over. Hassan was also very pissed. The notion that we would even passively support Taiwan and so on.

00:03:13.300 Now, this is what is very clear. Kate Abu lost to a to a man named Daniel Bliss, who is pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO and pro-Taiwan.

00:03:27.980 and was she was they were the same basically in the same lane on foreign policy so she clearly

00:03:37.500 did not lose due to pro-ukraine or pro-taiwan or pro-nato support she clearly did not now

00:03:46.000 you could say that her comments about supporting taiwan were just so demoralizing to all of the

00:03:53.140 democratic socialists in her area that they didn't vote for her they were just so pissed

00:03:58.600 well okay I'm not sure I buy that but just for the sake of argument let's assume that that is

00:04:06.060 true isn't this a very interesting line of demarcation that they all have that you can't

00:04:13.700 really be DSA if you're pro-Taiwan or pro-Ukraine or pro-NATO. And I don't know what to say about

00:04:24.020 all these figures, but again, I don't think they're genuine Marxist or communist. I don't

00:04:33.520 think Hassan has an ability to read in general, not to mention read Karl Marx, which is quite

00:04:42.200 difficult. I don't think any of these people are genuine Marxists, and I don't think they're

00:04:46.760 actual revolutionaries. I don't give them that credit. That would make them more interesting

00:04:51.360 that they actually are. But I do find them very, very interesting in the sense that people like

00:05:00.180 Hassan, Ryan Grimm, Chevalier, Momdami made similar comments about Russia and Ukraine.

00:05:07.400 They are all consistently anti-Europe and anti-West, and thus they are Russian assets, wittingly or unwittingly, and I don't think that should be forgotten, and among themselves, they do draw a line of demarcation.

00:05:28.260 Glenn Greenwald, who is, if it's possible, more personally despicable than Hassan Piker, was saying all this. Isn't it great that all these socialists won in New York? We'll have some more voices in Congress. I think one of them went to Congress that are anti-Ukraine war and so on.

00:05:48.280 So regardless of their economic policies, they are part of the Russian agenda, period, end of statement. And I think it's on that basis that they should be feared and opposed and so on.

00:06:07.820 I don't think they're going to turn the New York City into the Soviet Union. 0.84

00:06:12.540 I mean, I just don't think they have the power or wherewithal to do anything approaching that. 0.83

00:06:17.520 But they actually do apparently have some wherewithal in turning people against NATO and demoralizing NATO, which is Russia's number one objective.

00:06:31.020 So just a thought on that matter.

00:06:35.300 Felix, you can jump in.

00:06:37.820 Yeah, what I was going to what made me think about Ukraine is, you know, Ukraine and I guess Taiwan in the future is really this parchment paper.

00:06:52.920 i forgot how this like test is called it's a turn of phrase uh for an isolation yeah yeah litmus

00:07:01.240 test for an isolationist america only uh tard versus a more sensible position regardless of

00:07:10.040 right or left because if you think about it if you just if we just select for uh pro-ukrainianess

00:07:16.840 then the 28th presidential race is going to be between Newsom and Rubio,

00:07:23.960 which is a reasonable lineup.

00:07:26.260 Whereas if we go for anti-Ukraine, then it's going to be, what, Vance and,

00:07:31.020 I don't know, well, one of these people, maybe AOC.

00:07:36.180 AOC sort of leans a little more liberal white girl, but not completely, actually. 1.00

00:07:44.920 She's a functionalist. 0.99

00:07:46.040 That's the issue with AOC. If everybody will be pro-Ukraine, she will be pro-Ukraine. 0.89

00:07:50.520 But there's nothing actually holding her on to that position.

00:07:54.080 Yes. 0.91

00:07:55.060 And so, you know, it seems to me that like specifically in the case of Ukraine, because it is this kind of, you know, the most closest to white and black scenario. 0.73

00:08:06.700 I wouldn't, you know, I don't want to turn full NAFO and pro-Ukraine propaganda here, but it's still clear like Russia invaded all that stuff. 0.72

00:08:12.940 It's not as the case of Israel.

00:08:16.040 That Ukraine's your opinion on Ukraine is really the determining factor on everything like downstream from that.

00:08:25.760 And I think and, you know, to your comments about populism, there is this YouTube channel, the name of which I don't remember.

00:08:35.200 It was it's gaining popularity. It's this like kind of liberal YouTube channel.

00:08:39.780 He's trying to defend liberalism in this year, day and age.

00:08:44.820 And he was making a video on how liberals are too afraid of populism, and they're trying to distance themselves against it, even though – and the argument he makes is that, well, populists appeal to popular sentiments and the people.

00:08:58.920 And isn't liberalism an expression of the people we want?

00:09:02.500 Oh, this is popularism, which is –

00:09:04.960 Yeah, kind of.

00:09:06.120 Well, no, no, he didn't use these terms, but he was basically saying that, well, I mean, look, we both work for the people, so we should kind of approach populist terms.

00:09:14.240 And I think that Ukraine – the reason that I'm tying this in, it's exactly this issue that is, from a popular perspective, absolutely pointless.

00:09:24.840 Why would an average American need to spend money on – well, spend his tax dollars on Ukraine?

00:09:31.340 He needs to – unless he has a geopolitical opinion, that doesn't really make any sense.

00:09:36.260 But, like, if you do realize America's place in the world and you want to uphold it, then you would support it.

00:09:52.360 And that can be done only by elites.

00:09:54.340 And so liberals should, in fact, maintain this kind of technocratic distance from populists if they want to uphold the American empire and keep on being the good stewards, as you described them.

00:10:07.760 Yes, I think there is a problem. Again, just to reiterate, I don't think any of these people are actual Marxist, but I do think that they threaten the American empire in a serious fashion.

00:10:24.180 Now, again, what percentage of the Democratic Party are DSA? It's probably the same as, I mean, they're all card-carrying members, but it's probably very similar to like what percentage of the Republican Party were alt-right in that poll that came out 10 years ago are Nick Fuentes stans or Gripers or whatever.

00:10:46.200 It's probably something like 9% of the actual Democratic Party in the sense that they are a distinct minority.

00:10:55.180 But it's real and they can shift things.

00:10:59.340 And yeah, Newsom versus Rubio is a pro-Europe, pro-Pax Americana ticket.

00:11:06.440 And Vance versus AOC or Vance versus Momdami, I mean, who knows?

00:11:11.300 That would be crazy.

00:11:12.240 That's not.

00:11:12.900 That is a pro-Russia, pro-multipolar world, anti-West election.

00:11:22.180 It's something to think about.

00:11:24.200 it's also uh that uh um you know beyond that to me it's that liberals have always maintained this

00:11:38.000 uh kind of uh good play of tending both to the popular need to the needs of the masses

00:11:45.440 while maintaining a level of technocratic elitism the expertocracy that people started

00:11:51.120 complaining about by like covid years was a product of the liberal age and what i fear with

00:11:57.620 these like opening up to hassan opening up to just basic uh unideological mamdani-esque

00:12:05.380 socialism that's literally just about health care and nothing else is that it dilutes the

00:12:13.080 administrative class like how much of the democratic party is radically anti-ukraine as

00:12:18.700 you said nine percent but how much of the democratic party is just a functioneer that

00:12:23.320 would kind of switch over if the rest yeah like aoc yeah go with the flow basically yes yeah and

00:12:29.600 like the the reality is is that the ideological liberals the ideological neoliberals are aging

00:12:35.880 out and the new creed are well uh socialists and uh like or at least people that espouse themselves

00:12:42.640 as such and so i think that if there is going to be like a truly liberal future candidates

00:12:50.000 they should try to distance themselves from populists for the sake of america it will

00:12:54.900 hamper their election results of course it's better to you know just promise people everything

00:12:59.880 but uh it's i just don't like the openness with which democrats are starting to discuss it yes

00:13:08.500 uh mad max yeah uh i'm very worried about these kind of types i don't think it can really be

00:13:19.080 understated um destiny has he's covered this kind of issue a lot he's like the lone warrior of the

00:13:26.440 democratic party defending the left flank and you're right these people aren't intellectual

00:13:32.600 marxists their politics are literally just america bad west bad this is why they support

00:13:39.060 makes no sense why they have this ideology like ideology to uh support russia in china

00:13:47.640 it is literally just america bad and i understand that like okay these are like state elections

00:13:54.640 not a big deal but there there already are these kind of people in congress elan omar

00:14:01.100 voted against aid to ukraine there are already these kind of people and as the older generation

00:14:08.360 you know dies off we have like people of my age and younger very resentful about this life they

00:14:16.980 think that they were entitled to this like we were talking about earlier this 1950s life

00:14:21.480 that was just a blip and they're going to be very resentful and these kind of people are going to

00:14:27.380 get very popular and like we were saying a lot of a lot of the more left-ish Dems are very weak

00:14:36.640 they will go along with this kind of stuff so I'm very concerned you know maybe in 2028 it's

00:14:44.200 Newsom Rubio and that's a win and not so bad of a loss for our current politics but

00:14:52.620 the future i think is is going to get worse yeah and even the issues that they are

00:14:59.800 campaigning on like health care they have no feasible feasible solution to health care their

00:15:05.900 solution is like health care medical dental vision should all be free no premium no copay

00:15:14.120 no deductible that kind of system doesn't exist anywhere in the world like that would be the most

00:15:20.120 extreme this is the the bernie plan that is literally would be the most extreme health care

00:15:24.740 system ever in the world in history totally not possible so even these issues that they

00:15:32.580 campaign on they're not feasible they hate the west and yeah i i think people should be very

00:15:37.940 concerned about these types yeah 100 and also isn't unideological socialism kind of latin

00:15:45.640 i'm just throwing it out there but you know just uh if you think about it like the the other aspect

00:15:53.580 of the anti-ukraine ticket is that it will be literally the latin american meme election

00:15:59.220 where it is social is a socialist for free health care versus mega hitler yeah that's that's that's

00:16:07.680 what the the kind of america only ticket is it's a latin american ticket you might you could also

00:16:14.840 but maybe say it's last man socialism.

00:16:18.500 It's just like,

00:16:19.500 there's no idealism involved with it.

00:16:21.460 No,

00:16:21.700 no,

00:16:21.860 it's not transforming society.

00:16:24.840 It's,

00:16:25.060 you know,

00:16:26.060 it's,

00:16:27.000 it's like, 1.00

00:16:27.480 give me your shit. 1.00

00:16:28.400 That's all. 1.00

00:16:28.960 Yeah.

00:16:30.820 Subsidize my,

00:16:31.940 uh,

00:16:33.160 uh,

00:16:33.740 what is the thing this people are taking to,

00:16:38.080 uh,

00:16:38.360 lose weight?

00:16:43.460 Subsidized by it was free.

00:16:44.840 I nearly said Funko Pops

00:16:47.740 Funko Pops

00:16:50.620 Or La Boo Boo's 0.87

00:16:52.020 Might as well 0.99

RadixJournal - June 27, 2026

LARPing with Reality

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