r/VaushV

So my mental health has been taken a downward trajectory lately and a contributing factor has been my YouTube/news intake. Definitely understand Vaush’s perspective and agree with it but it’s hard to dispute that it can feel very doom and gloom. My gf got me into a habit of replacing 1 doom scrolling channel with one she suggests. I chose vaush and replaced him with Neil the seal, a loveable elephant seal from Tasmania and I have to say it is an improvement for my mental health. I hope to come back when shit is alittle more positive in the world

Rule 4 note: Vaush has talked multiple times about how bad Schumer is and has also said multiple times that he likes AOC more than a lot of other Dems. Therefore I argue that AOC's future political career IS relevant to Vaush's content, and that you should not censor this post.

There's kind of a risk vs reward going on here where I think it'd be far more likely for her to get elected to Schumer's seat (and she'd hold that position for longer), while getting elected as president would be far more difficult (look at the last two female presidents we tried to make happen). Yes I know that AOC is far better than Hillary or Kamala, but I'm still not convinced it would work. I also kinda think that we need a stronger congress to protect us from future Trumps. I also have no idea who'd become the senate minority leader (or maybe majority leader if we're lucky) if AOC ousted Schumer.

I could also see her getting into the senate for a while and then going for president once climate change has gotten worse and medical expensive have gotten even more unaffordable.

We want back from old Vuuuush:

RESEARCH, like shared documents with sources we all can use

We don’t want back:

Debates with online grifters and attention wh*res who just want their gotcha moments, who sound like a poor version of Ben Shapiro (literally Destiny during his debate with Vaush, it was impossible to listen to him) and wannabe conservative talking heads who need more followers on their Twitter accounts.

No one believes in anything, everyone is lying about their positions, every outrageous thing they say is a well-planned provocation which is only supposed to make to some stupid shorts, no one is doing research or is interested in deep philosophical or sociological ideas and they only flex in front of their audiences using words like “deontology” after reading about it for twenty minutes on Wikipedia. So there is no point in talking to online debate bros. It’s not 2019 anymore, debates are dead and so is any possibility of having a civil discussion with The Death Cult. Or liberals, because at this point we all should know that there are NO liberals anymore. Besides Vaush, obviously.

Thats really it.

I started watching vaush during the beginning of the pandemic. Recently, out of pure boredom, I tried watching some of his old debate videos and It took me some crazy Herculean effort to push through. I feel like as he’s grown so much as a person and as an online figure, trying to go back and watch videos he put out before 2023 is just, in the nicest way possible, insufferable.

Originally I thought maybe it’s just because I started watching him when I was in 8th (Yeah Ik I’m weird for that) and I’ve just grown up alongside Vaush’s personal development? Am I the only one who thinks old Vaush is insufferable? Is every other Vaush viewer as insufferable as old Vaush?

TLDR; I hate vaush, fuck vaush type shit

Behold, the terrifying authoritarian socialist! The rot in the democratic party, eating it from the inside out!!

Just popped into my head after Voosh's coverage of the msm's framing of the DSA. The utter derangement they project onto what is, most of the time, not even particularly radical is insane.

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I'm mostly joking, I love beans too. BUT if you guys are struggling incorporating legumes into your diet, lentils are a lot easier to cook. This doesn't make a difference if you just eat canned, but cooking from dried is better and would highly recommend it. The main reason I prefer cooking lentils is because you don't need to soak them, and the cooking time is at most 25 min, depending on the type.

They are also arguably easier to incorporate into a sauce because of their size. A meal I make a lot is basically a bolognese pasta dish but with lentils instead of meat. It tastes amazing and is very healthy for you.

I think if yall knew how great it is to eat lentils it would help more of you move towards being vegan or vegetarian. Try it out. Instead of your next meal having meat, try lentils instead.

I've always been pretty openly left wing, I've held my nose and voted labour when I had to but I've always wanted a real left alternative here in the UK.

Talking to most working class people the big divide between politically active leftists involved in Politics and the average working class person is immigration and social attitudes or LGBT, feminism racial justice etc.

I've always been the "sensible shitlib" arguing in favour of immigration, social justice etc and I've just seen working people getting more and more hostile to both immigration and asylum seekers. Most of the anti immigration stuff is a mix of racism and material conditions driving the working poor and new arrivals left fighting for access to council housing, school places and anger over large hospital waiting times etc.

I've always been particularly proud of our asylum record, I'm mixed race and I've had family affected in Syria who needed asylum and I know how important it is for the most vulnerable. I work within the asylum system and I'm also on a volunteer board that helps with asylum advice in my free time.

Most of the tabloid fear mongering around asylum is just brazen fear mongering shite. But over the last 6 years or so I've become do blackpilled with both the abuse within the system itself and also the public's reaction to it.

The amount of middle class people from the Carribbean I've had to deal with recently claiming asylum, alleging domestic abuse because scummy lawyers are taking fees and advising them on how to abuse our claims process which does offer domestic abuse survivors asylum in specific situations.

They do this so we'll get say 6000 claims a year all of a sudden claiming to be fleeing severe domestic abuse for st Lucia, then we crack down on the loophole. Then we will get 7000 middle class sri Lankans claiming to be escaping LGBT persecution using the exact same three sentence claim to us they've been told to memorize.

It's the pure selfishness of lots of these people, most of them are richer than the average British person, they are well educated, they are the American equivalent of the obnoxious upper middle class white snob. The cynical manipulation if they are dealing with a white person instead of a POC immune to their slandering they will immediately claim racism and further stall proceedings.

Meanwhile the actually oppressed and downtrodden, the genuinely vulnerable are waiting for years in many cases because we've got such a backlog to deal with.

If this stuff is making me feel extremely irritated I can't even explain to you how irritated it's making the people living on some council estate where half the newly alloted houses are people granted residency from Sudan claiming to be homosexuals fleeing persecution who then successfully apply to bring their wives and four children over.

There's a general mood here even amongst migrants and children of migrants like me and it's not really a problem with illegals who mostly come here and work hard or skilled workers it's this ballooning number of grifters who are cynically taking advantage of the relatively liberal institutions of the UK and then immediately starting small businesses and getting access to social housing and competing with the genuinely impoverished of this country.

Reform are going to win and the working class is getting more and more reactionary and half of their anger is just racism whipped up by the media but half of it is rightful anger at grifting self enriching psychopaths using the UK as a playground.

I've had to grant asylum to hundreds of people I know are faking and who are more well off than me yet I can't prove their claim fraudulent. And there's many more that are simply living here on a continuous backlog who then immediately start underhand money lending operations to genuine asylum seekers and exploiting them using funds from their well off life back home.

Meanwhile me half British half Pakistani university education can't afford a mortgage and not poor enough for social housing so me my wife and child are squeezed into a tiny box we pay 1600 a month for and I have to commute two hours to work in the morning. No places for my kid at a good school so he's forced into a shit school.

I'm not anti immigration or anti asylum but I just feel a genuine bitterness knowing I'm basically being ground down my entire life to just exist yet I'm going through the humiliation ritual of giving an obviously rich woman from st Lucia and her kids residency on bogus grounds who will immediately be housed in a three bedroom property in London that my kid will never get to live in. And then I know the general mood is so bad when the white angry mob starts social unrest when anger truly spills over the rich lady and her kids will fly back to st Lucia and I and my family will take the brunt of what will come.

Then we get to criminal justice and I'm sorry but if I see one more news story of an Afghan man raping an 11 year old and recieving 8 years and being told he can't be deported because he will face hardship for being separated from his family I'm going to assume British leftists defending the system simply want to see me and my family killed by the British public I can't even imagine a better way to turn the white British population into alt right psychos.

I don't want to become a reactionary as I get older. I don't want to become hopeless as my and my families future here but it just feels like whatever this current system is, it's just designed to create right wing backlash that end up in total chaos for people like us.

And I can't even talk about this around white leftists friends because of the obvious connotation of "moaning about asylum seekers and immigrant crime and mind bogglingly light sentencing.".

But POC on the left are talking about this to each other and even Novara media types are starting to broach it online. I justaune needed to vent. Fuck my life.