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"Hi. You may have noticed a new crop of influencers like The Nelk Boys and Bryce Hall taking over online spaces. Today we’re looking at who these people are and how MAGA influencers garnered so much... well, influence."



"The extremely partisan and vindictive crime president, looking to wet his thick beak as sloppily as possible, is now lording over every social media platform, which now happens to be one of the primary ways in which Americans get their information, the youth of which specifically following individual influencers, who may or may not be getting paid by political operatives working directly for that president to put out misinformation."

(My only minor quibble with that italicized quote from Cody Johnston there is that he used the world "misinformation" when he clearly should have used "disinformation.")

This is just dystopian shit. All of it.

It's frustrating and sad and horrible and disgusting that MAGA has been around long enough for there to be a "next generation" of anything related to it.

Also, I'd just like to state, yet again, that I loathe the entire concept of "influencers" in general. The only consolation for me is that I'd never heard of any of those "next generation" MAGA assholes, prior to this video. But then, there were a whole lot of mentions in this video of the current/old generation of MAGA assholes, too.
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"Hi. On today's episode, FYPod's Cameron Kasky joins three young, spry, Gen Z-adjacent hosts to discuss why 18-to-21-year-old men have swung so hard for Trump and what can be done about it. They also talk through the extremely boring-but-important dismantling of government infrastructure and marvel at Tim Pool's really good and incisive question at a recent White House briefing."



Two things:

First, they should have Cameron Kasky on their show again, if possible. He seemed cool.

Second, every time they said Buttigieg, the auto-captioning translated that as "Buddha Judge," which was fairly amusing.
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"Hi. Now that Trump is president... again... we're going to look at how he and his party are always focused on problems that aren't really problems (DEI, immigrants, and censorship) instead of problems that are (climate-enhanced wildfires, oligarchy, and actual censorship)."



One of the comments under the video: "So is this sense of unreality what Germans circa 1933 felt?" I would say... maybe? Probably. The difference is that we should have goddamn known better, this time. Doubly so, given that we've already endured a hellish four years with Trump as the President of the United States of America before the current, likely way more hellish four years still to come of Trump as the President of the United States of America. It's not going to be great, and we're going to be trying to repair the damage caused by 2025-2029, for much, much longer than just those four years, like how we're still trying to repair the damage caused by 2017-2021 even now. Well, some of us are trying to repair the damage, anyway. Too many of us are actively, maliciously trying to cause the world to burn (both figuratively and literally).

So anyway, yeah, this is an almost hour long video pointing out all the finding out that's happening as a result of all the fucking around that happened in November 2024.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell with Donald Trump forever, as usual.

(Beware: Warmbo is in the video. Not a lot, but still... a little bit of Warmbo goes a very, very long way.)
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"Hi. Former president Donald Trump is bad. He is a criminal, a sex pest, a racist, and a wannabe dictator. He was a bad president and is a bad person. And he might be the president again? Really? Are we.... are we really maybe doing this again?"



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"Hi. Today, we will teach Jordan Peterson how the GOP turned climate science into a 'debate' with two sides, and show him what we can do to mitigate the worst outcomes. Are you paying attention, Jordan?!"



Follow up to part one, of course.

You know what? By the end of this video, I was starting to think that maybe it wasn't entirely about Jordan Peterson, or even mostly about Jordan Peterson, or even slightly about Jordan Peterson, except for the occasional reminder that Jordan Peterson is, in fact, a person who exists, who also happens to be a stupid fucking idiot and/or a stupid fucking liar.

At least there was no threatpromise of a third part to this series that was specifically and only about Jordan Peterson. I do think there might be more SMN videos on the topic of climate change[1] in the future, though, oddly enough. Weird, that.

[1] - Or "global warming," if you prefer, since it was apparently the Republicans/Conservatives/GQP who mandated the change from talking about "global warming" to talking about "climate change," because "global warming" scares and enrages them (and also because they are dumbshit liars), rather than the Democrats/Liberals/Not Reality Deniers making the change because talking about "global warming" "wasn't working" or whatever dumbshit lies the former have been telling about the latter for the past two or three decades now. Doesn't (much) matter what it's called, though; it's still a thing that definitely exists and is absolutely happening now, regardless.
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"Hi. Climate change is real. We all know that. But, Jordan Peterson does not. Today, let's go through the science and see if we can convince him."



This was way more a "climate change for dummies (and maybe even super dummies like Jordan Peterson)" video than it was just a video specifically about clowning all over Jordan Peterson, bukkake-style. That said, there was still an awful lot of clown dunk involved. Also weird little finger puppets for some reason? *shrug* Still better than Warmbo, at least.

And yeah, there will be a part two of this, as stated both by the title and in the video itself. I expect about the same ratio of explanation of climate change versus Jordan Peterson clown dunking in that one as well.
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The political Right (e.g. the GQP/Republicans/conservatives and their non-US counterparts) has irrefutably proven itself to be the bane of existence, and this is only one of a myriad examples of why that is the case.
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"John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, why it could be much worse than his first term, and what Trump has in common with a hamster."



To Donald Trump and to anyone and everyone still supporting Donald Trump, I have only one thing to say to you:


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Link to comic.
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"Hi. For Part Two, we're looking at outspoken, celebrity Democrats. Do they put their money (votes) where their mouths (mouths) are?"



The gist: loudmouth Democrat congresspeople are, for the most part, pretty much demonstrably not as horrifically terrible as their loudmouth Trumpublican congressasshole colleagues are. Big shock there. Oh and Gavin Newsom, for some reason, even though he's not a member of US Congress. Also Joe Biden, I guess, at least for a little bit?
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"Hi. Let's look at some of the loudest, most perpetually online GOP politicians, and see if they're actually doing things that help their constituents. Next week we'll do the Democrats!"



I guess this video was only talking about people currently in Congress, because Donald Trump didn't dominate the entire video like he probably would have otherwise. Trump did get mentioned a few times and had a tiny bit of focus at the end, but it otherwise wasn't about him, despite the fact that he is the epitome of a "loud, celebrity politician."

Also, be warned: *weary sigh* Warmbo is in this, for some reason. And given how this episode ended, the next episode might be really skit heavy, assuming they try to have "continuity" or whatever.

<sarcastic monotone> Great. </sarcastic monotone>
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"Hi. The theme of today's episode is incremental change. To end 2023, we're celebrating some things that are good, and some things that are just slightly less bad in the worlds of science, labor, health, money (fake), and the environment."
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"Hi. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is not just a weirdo – he's also a scary little freak pushing an anti-democratic, Christian nationalist agenda."



I didn't need to watch a Some More News video to come to that same conclusion (though I used the phrase "nightmare trashfire shitweasel" instead of "scary little freak"), but it's nice that there is a Some More News video that says that stuff (and much more), too.
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"Hi. Conservatives sure want Americans to have more children, but they don't seem to like children at all or want to support them in society! In today's episode, we look at the many challenges Americans face if they want to become parents, and the questions one has to answer to make such a decision."
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For reference: [Glass Him]

Despite that and what is implied by the title of the above embedded video, it seems like Woolie and Pat here are generally supportive of Bill Willingham's attempt to make Fables public domain. If anyone deserves to be "glassed" here, it would be Detective Comics Comics.

Given that pretty much every character in Fables was already public domain to start with, though... *shrug*

Anyway, this is like if, say, Walt Disney, before he died, had had a falling out with the company he created that went on to become... you know... Disney, and then said "Fuck it, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and Goofy and the rest are public domain now." (Or, perhaps more accurately and precisely, "Fuck it, Snow White and Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and all those other public domain stories that we turned into huge, proprietary 'Disney' franchises are public domain now.")

(EDIT)

On the other hand, as I just learned today, Bill Willingham is, apparently, a huge climate change-denying, anti-trans, anti-abortion, probably anti-a-whole-lot-of-other-stuff-too, former Breitbart writer and just an overall RWNJ shithead. So, tangentially speaking, while I do agree with him that copyright laws are broken and that DC Comics is pretty shit in many ways, he definitely deserves to be "glassed" (figuratively speaking, if not literally) for the RWNJ bullshit, at the very least.

*weary sigh*

On the bright side, though, now that he's made Fables public domain (assuming he is successful in his endeavor to do so and DC doesn't kibosh the whole thing somehow), that means that anyone can now write a climate change-supporting, pro-trans, pro-abortion, anti-RWNJ-bullshit Fables story, and there ain't a damn thing he can do about it. So, that's nice, I suppose.

(/EDIT)
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"Hi. It's Republican primary debate season! Ungghhhh.......... sfhkjsahvj...
Anyway, here's a look at some of the giant weirdos who think they can beat Trump and BE Trump and not inspire their political party to want to hang them."



(Warning: this video features not just one Warmbo, but two Warmbos. *weary sigh* And yet, either or both of those Warmbos literally would still make a better POTUS than any of the supposed humans discussed in this video.)

Truly, the fact that anyone would even want to be "the next Trump" is just depressingly mind-boggling (and also mind-bogglingly depressing) to me.

Yeah, keep right on riding that Trump Train, you disingenuous ghouls. Honestly, I hadn't even heard of half of these assclowns before watching that video, and now I'm just kind of almost wishing that I hadn't watched the video so that I could have continued on with my life without having heard of those assclowns. When Chris fucking Christie[1], of all people, is apparently the """""best""""" of that whole bunch, that just demonstrates how egregiously shitty and terrible that whole bunch is.

Also, I just have to say that "The end result of decades of dog whistling finally calling the dog," has to be one of the most succinct and apropos descriptions of the GQP, of Donald Trump, and of Trump's effect on the GQP that I've heard in a while.

[1] - I.e. Chris goddamned Christie, the man whose pretty much only redeeming virtue whatsoever is the fact that he is apparently the only candidate with a willingness to unequivocally denounce Trump for the con man, charlatan, and blatant, brazen criminal that Trump most certainly is (out here in objective reality, at least), unlike all the rest of those intolerably ludicrous shitbirds. And yet, as the video helpfully points out, Christie is still a raging dog turd in far too many other ways.
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"James Lindsay thinks he's scoring points by LOLing about something being only 94 degrees. It seems like he doesn't know what wet bulb temperature is?"



Cody's right. I'd never heard of this James Lindsay dickcheese before. Or if I had, then I'd blessedly forgotten about him. Either way, I guess he'll be added to the list alongside other such middle-finger worthy dickcheeses like Fucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Tim Pool, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, etc. Seriously, why do conservatives/Republicans always seem to be so aggravatingly, militantly proud of their abject ignorance?

But anyway, as amusing as it almost always is to listen to some dim bulb saying dim bulb things getting verbally beaten down for it by guys like Cody Johnston, more important than that, I learned what wet-bulb temperature is today, which is also something I'd never heard of before. And, indeed, a wet-bulb temperature of 94°F (~34.4°C) is apparently really bad. According to Wikipedia there: "A reading of 35 °C (95 °F) – equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) – is considered the theoretical human survivability limit for up to six hours of exposure."

So, even if for no other reason, I'm glad I watched that short video, even though I typically loathe Youtube "shorts."
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I am presenting this article as is, with almost no commentary on it. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I also don't necessarily disagree with it, either. I just find it interesting, no more and no less. Make of it what you will.

I suppose that I would probably fall under the "We deserve getting hit by an asteroid" bit, which I see less as misanthropy and more as poetic justice. That doesn't mean that I think we shouldn't take steps to prevent "unaligned superintelligent AI" from becoming a thing, though. (And, with that statement, I guess I just got myself into the queue to be tortured forever by Roko's basilisk. *eye roll*)

Just to note, I haven't seen Don't Look Up that is referenced heavily in this article, but now I think I might want to.
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"Op-ed: Planetary impacts, escalating financial costs, and labor exploitation all factor."

See also: "'Thirsty' AI: Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Reactor's Cooling Tower, Study Finds"

If there are reasons to slow down on all the crazy fast AI development we've been seeing lately, these would be the ones, rather than any arcane, esoteric, (and, frankly, ludicrous) "the AI is too real" or "humanity isn't ready" reasons that I've seen other people putting forward. Granted, this stuff applies to crypto/blockchain/NFT bullshit just as much as (if not even more than) AI development, but still. Hell, they're good reasons to pause and take a critical look at any similar technology.
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Yeah. It was above 80°F here yesterday. That's not normal.

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