00:00:00.160Greetings, Laddingtons. Today I want to talk a bit about Patreon, Sargon of Akkad, Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin.
00:00:08.040And of course also about the fact that Subscribestar is back in business.
00:00:12.520So for those of you who do not know what I'm talking about, in December last year, so a month ago,
00:00:20.560Sargon of Akkad got kicked off Patreon for saying a bad word in another person's livestream.
00:00:28.820A very silly thing he got banned for, but it is what it is.
00:00:34.280Now I will say the following before commenting upon these three individuals, and that is that I do like Sargon of Akkad.
00:00:41.420I think he does brilliant work in exposing leftist hypocrisy, etc.
00:00:48.000Now Dave Rubin and Jordan B. Peterson, I can't say all too much about.
00:00:52.580Jordan Peterson does some good things, but he has a tendency to counter-signal people who get too close to the truth.
00:00:59.920So Jordan Peterson, not quite a true friend, but he still does some good work.
00:01:05.080Anyway, the reason I mention these people is because they took the decision of leaving Patreon after Patreon kicked Sargon of Akkad.
00:01:13.320But no, I will say this, that I am on Patreon, and I've never had a problem with Patreon,
00:01:18.820and I've chosen to stay there because I'm hardly in a situation where I can, you know, do something like that to score some political points.
00:01:26.320I have a lot of things to take care of now, especially with a baby incoming, so I don't have the luxury to play with money in that sort of way.
00:01:35.180But I understand completely that Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin did this because they obviously don't want to be next.
00:01:42.400Now, in regards to Patreon, some people say that Jack Conte, who is the CEO of Patreon, he is against free speech and everything like that.
00:01:52.980I think he is very pro-free speech, but he has to play ball with the people who are higher up than him in the hierarchy.
00:01:59.800And he understands that Patreon is a problem for the powers-to-be, because the powers-to-be do not want independent content creators to be able to be financed by the public.
00:02:13.140That's a ridiculously stupid idea for the powers-to-be.
00:02:18.460You have leftist journalists who are mocking independent journalists and content creators, saying,
00:02:23.960Oh, you are using these services, and in Sweden we have something called Swish as well, which means that you can very easily pay people or send donations, etc.
00:02:33.960Now, these leftist journalists, they are mocking people who do this Swish journalism because, oh, you don't have a real job, you don't have a real employment, etc.
00:02:43.660But the hilarious thing here is that the journalists in the mainstream media, they're there for one simple reason, and that is that they have gone through life like this, never taking any hard battles themselves.
00:02:54.400Just said the right thing to the right person at the right time, and, you know, just sold their integrity completely to whatever the powers-to-be wants to hear.
00:03:04.320So then they have a well-paying position within a newspaper or within, you know, whatever media outlet it might be.
00:03:10.900And the fun thing here, too, is that these big media outlets, in Sweden at least, they do get paid by the state as a support.
00:03:19.580So it is extremely silly of them to try to score some points against other people.
00:03:23.920Who does journalism or create content without this sort of support?
00:03:28.580And that is also why Patreon is very hated and Swish too hated by these leftists, because they see that other people can get the funding to present an alternative worldview,
00:03:40.160because they obviously, they get, they have the big money behind them.
00:03:43.840The mainstream media have a lot of big money behind them, so they don't need to count on, you know, crowdfunding or anything like that.
00:03:50.660So Patreon and crowdfunding is a problem in the eyes of the established powers, so to speak.
00:03:58.120So for me, I obviously support anyone who is trying to facilitate freedom of speech, who's trying to facilitate payments to people who promote, you know, politically incorrect opinions.
00:04:10.920And for me personally, this is extremely important.
00:04:13.680If you think that I can get a regular job with my name in Sweden, of all places, at this moment in time, you're playing wrong.
00:04:43.300And Sargon Avakad, he has completely switched to Subscribestar now.
00:04:48.120And I have signed up for an account there too, so if you want to get access to my weekly training summary, you can do so there as well.
00:04:57.640I will keep posting on Patreon, and I would definitely appreciate if you, who are already a Patreon, stay on Patreon, so I have a bit more robust system, so I don't have everything in one place.
00:05:08.620So, if you are already a Patreon, please stay there.
00:05:12.360If you do want to support me, but you don't want to do it on Patreon, you can sign up on Subscribestar.
00:05:18.080And I don't see this as a donation, I see this as, you know, you get access to the training notes, and also, obviously, that you contribute to the Metapolitical Cause here on YouTube.
00:05:29.860So, with that said, the big battle of 2019 is freedom of speech.