Where I stand issue by issue. I've been seeing a few people saying they're not sure what I'm about politically as a reader-supported writer I try to be as transparent about such things as possible to let any would-be patrons know what they're getting into So here's my position on a bunch of different issues if anyone's curious Ideology I've always called myself a socialist lately a lot of people have been calling me a communist which I don't mind either Really, I just support shoving things as far to the left as possible until we've created a healthy and harmonious world and Moved from competition based systems to systems in which we collaborate with each other and with our ecosystem for the good of everyone That's my ideological preference But I'm not arrogant enough to believe I personally know what's best for everyone So more than anything what I want is a world where we're not being manipulated and deceived about what's going on So that we can figure out the best course for our species as a collective That's why first and foremost ahead of my own ideological preferences. I support government transparency democratized information free speech and the end of mass scale manipulation and propaganda Once everything's out in the light and our perception is no longer being obfuscated and distorted by the powerful I personally believe we'll find our way towards something resembling socialism But I hold that belief with an open palm Politics I Believe the closer you get to the nexus of power the more worthless electoral politics becomes Because more and more effort goes into manipulating the electoral process to protect the interests of status quo power US presidential elections are completely fake and even the elections for lower level positions like senators and representatives are Aggressively manipulated in the most powerful country on earth I don't personally think we're likely to see big meaningful changes in the West until the people force change to happen by direct action And that's not going to occur as long as everyone's being successfully manipulated into accepting the status quo by mass scale propaganda That's why I write about propaganda so much. I see it as the ultimate obstacle to the revolutionary changes. We desperately need war and militarism I See the empire-like power structure centralized around the United States as the greatest source of conflict and dysfunction in the world today All the largest international conflicts of our day ultimately boil down to the US Empire trying to secure planetary domination and weaker nations resisting it in some way This campaign to secure planetary hegemony is placing our world at greater and greater risk of nuclear war as it sees the Empire Engaging in increasingly confrontational standoffs with Russia and China. I Therefore see ending the US Empire and neutering its global war machine as a matter of existential importance for humanity Environment I believe environmental collapse and nuclear war are the two greatest existential threats to our species and both are breathing down our necks. I Think global warming is real and caused by human activity But I also think it's suspicious that that debate consumes so much oxygen when there's so much other evidence that the biosphere is dying Ocean desertification deforestation vanishing wildlife plummeting insect populations, etc Obviously there are rich and powerful people who will be looking to ride their various agendas on top of humanity's shift from fossil fuels To other energy systems, but that doesn't mean climate change isn't real It would be strange if they weren't doing that That just means we need to pry the fingers of the powerful from the steering wheel of our civilization Not that drastic changes aren't needed to how we live on this planet Religion I was raised Roman Catholic, but now despised the church I'm critical of all religion and 99% of what people call spirituality, but that 1% of authentic spirituality Just might be what ends up saving humanity. I View authentic spirituality not as any set of beliefs But as a sincere investigation of our own experience into the nature of consciousness self mind and perception The discoveries this investigation turns up can be deeply transformative and could solve all the world's problems if realized at mass scale Civil rights I Think protecting the rights of the individual protects the health of the collective It's always going to be the outspoken fringe stirs who first notice something's wrong about where we're at or where we're headed So you need to make sure there's space for them to speak and be heard Because nobody can be trusted to determine what speech is valid and true It needs to be legal to the furthest extent the collective can tolerate without harm The freer people are to think speak act and live however, they want undisturbed the healthier our society is This means freeing them from having their minds manipulated by the powerful as noted above The collective is also within its rights to stop an individual from harming them If someone's using wealth and power as a weapon to exploit and abuse people for instance Then their wealth and power can rightfully be taken away in the same way a mass shooter's weapon can be taken away to protect the collective Social justice issues I oppose racism sexism homophobia transphobia and discrimination against disempowered groups of all sorts These are real problems that do need to be solved as humanity winds its way into the future. We can't just ignore them. I Do get frustrated at times with the way these issues consume all the political oxygen in the room without leaving any space for far more Urgent matters like the looming threat of nuclear war and I do think it's a bit Ridiculous that in our current political environment being a racist is regarded as far more outrageous and offensive than being a warmonger But I do understand that's just the nature of the mainstream political framework People are being presented with where we're encouraged to argue as hotly as possible over culture war issues that don't threaten the powerful at all So we don't start turning that heat onto issues like war ecocide and oligarchy feminism I'm a pretty hardcore feminist with a lot of ideas on the subject that I think are interesting and worthy But I don't bother because I always get a bunch of furious men with mommy issues screaming at me for days There are more important things to write about right now. Anyway COVID-19 I've annoyed a lot of people with how I've refused to take a position on some COVID related issues like masks and lockdowns and the Lab leak versus zoonotic origin debate, but I don't really care I can't be an expert on all issues and the amount of scientific research I'd need to pour into COVID to take a confident stand on disputed scientific points would leave me with no time to talk about anything else There are literally hundreds of other commentators who've spent years talking about COVID from any angle You could possibly want if you want commentary on COVID.  I feel solid on Beyond that I feel perfectly comfortable with my agnosticism on such things Especially now that the lockdowns are long over while we hurdle toward nuclear armageddon Israel Palestine Israel is an apartheid state whose existence can only be maintained by non-stop violence both inside and outside its borders a nation that can't exist without continuous war is like a house that can't exist without continuous construction if Your house is perpetually buzzing with power tools and construction workers because if the construction stops it will collapse Eventually, you're going to start thinking you maybe shouldn't have built your house there in the first place Julian Assange support crypto currencies in different cashlessness central bank digital currencies oppose UFOs intensely skeptical 9-11. There's nothing I'd put past these assholes JFK assassination see 9-11 This or that indie media figure People are always asking me what I think of various indie media figures But I don't have time to form opinions about other common indie commentators let alone write about them If I see them saying something useful, I'll highlight it if I don't I don't that's as far as my interest generally goes right-wingers I Read and follow right-wing libertarians for their anti-war commentary and I welcome people from any ideology to read and follow me But over the years I've become aware that there's a lot less useful anti-war sentiment on the right than I used to hope there was The so-called populist right mostly just opposes us aggressions toward Russia so they can prepare for aggressions toward China and Few put nearly as much energy into opposing Russia brinkmanship as they do into shrieking about trans people and woke-ism For the most part today's rightists are the same stuffy conservative bigoted militarists They've always been no matter how hard they try to rebrand themselves as populist these days Progressives Over the years I've found that most people who identify as progressive and support Bernie Sanders and AOC have a lot less in Common with me than I used to think they did Most are just Empire loyalists who hope the Empire gives them health care one day They don't oppose the Empire. They just quibble over a few of the details about how the Empire should be run US intelligence agencies smash them into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the winds


What's going on, Infinite Fam? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button and turn on your post notification bell. Leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a whack. For a chance to win a shout out in the next video. That is right guys. So today we're gonna be doing a video that we've kind of done before. We did it on TikTok and then we uploaded it as like a short, but it did cause a lot of controversy in the comments on TikTok. So we kind of wanted to bring it to YouTube and we kind of just want to get your guys input. So for every scenario, Janiece points out. You have 10, how many 10, right? Yeah, I have 10. 10 scenarios. For every scenario she points out, I'm gonna say if it's cheating or not cheating, I want you guys to do the same down below in the comments section. Say the scenario, you know, scenario one, cheating, not cheating, you guys are gonna do it with me. So without further ado, are you ready? I'm ready, are you? I'm ready, but I feel like this is gonna turn into like somewhat of an argument, but I don't know. It always happens, but that's the point of these videos, so we're gonna see. Let's do it guys. So scenario number one. Looking at another girl's butt. That's not cheating. That's not cheating. That is not cheating. I don't think it is either. Like we'll be out in public and I'll be like, dude, you got a bad, you made me look. We'll be looking together, we'll be looking together. We'll be like, yo, babe, you saw that? I'll be like, yeah, I saw that. Next one is your partner texts someone and hides it from you. Oh, is the other person like, let's say, like if I, is it a girl for me? Like. Yeah. Nah, that's not cheating. Is not cheating? That's not cheating. How's it not cheating? Because what if I'm setting up a surprise for you or something? Like what if I'm hitting up your best friend and I'm hiding the text messages because I'm trying to surprise you with something. That's the only scenario I would feel like it's not cheating and I was going to say that too. But if it's any other scenario, I think it's cheating. Nah, yeah, you shouldn't.  Why are you hiding? Like be bold about it, you know what I mean? Nah, yeah, yeah. If you're hiding it, that's just suspicious. At that point, it might be leading to cheating. Exactly. For the scenario I pointed out, that's not going to be cheating. Yeah, because it's happened to us before. Remember? When? Remember for your birthday? When? We told them about it for the story time. When? Now it's texting your friend. You don't remember nothing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I was taking forever to come home and the surprise was right. Yeah, I remember that scenario. Goodness gracious. All right, anyway. Let's remember it, let's come on. I see that. Next one is your partner going to a strip club without you. Nah, that's not cheating. I don't think it's cheating, but it's just like I would be upset because- Why? Because I want to go too. Okay, but if I go by myself, you're going to say, oh, that's cheating? I don't know why you want to go by yourself for. What you trying to do without me there? What if I'm with the guys and we having a guys night or whatever and then they'll be like, yo, let's hit up the strip club and I'll be like, all right, let's go to strip club. That's different, but I'm saying like in the scenario when you're going by yourself and you're like- But what's in the strip club by themselves? A lot of guys. A lot of guys do. There's a lot of guys out there that do that. They got to be lonely then. I mean, I guess it'll be fun, but I like to go with somebody at least one of my boys or something. Well, why not me? If you want to come, come. I don't care, come. I don't like that situation. It's not cheating, it's not cheating. It's not cheating, but it's not a cute situation either. You're not supposed to, legally, you're not supposed to do anything at the club anyway. So if you're doing what you got to do at the club, just watching, that's not cheating. It's not cheating, but at the same time, it's like, I would want to be there too. You know what I mean? All right, well, if you can make it, you can make it. Anyway, next one is sleeping in bed with someone else, but you don't touch. You don't touch. I'm sleeping with somebody else. Do we have clothes on? Yes, but it's an opposite sex. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and say that it's not cheating. Wow. Technically, it's not. All right, Nenna, you want to tend to me? Like, way to squeeze your way in. Um, no, that's not cheating. I didn't do anything. I was literally just sleeping next to the person. I did nothing that was cheating. Why would you sleep next to the person of the opposite sex? I don't know. You gave me this scenario. I'm just saying, I'm not cheating because I didn't do anything. Okay, so if I were to be sleeping with another guy in the same bed, you wouldn't care? Obviously I'd be upset, but it's not cheating. It's not cheating, though. It's not cheating, but that's a really, like, you're, you know what I mean? You know what I'm doing, though. That's what I'm saying. Okay, but if you gave me this scenario, you have to do this. Okay, I'm doing it. Am I cheating? No, I'm not cheating. Okay, whatever. That is not cheating. I personally feel like that's kind of cheating a little bit because why are you going to put yourself in a situation where you're going to sleep in the same bed with somebody else? You put me in that scenario. I'm just saying, like, in general, if that happens. Why would that? We can wait too deep into this. That is not cheating. I did not do anything. Next one is kissing someone on the cheek of the opposite sex that's not a family relative. No, because I'll go up to one of your friends and be like, oh, how you doing? How you been? Well, like, that's just like how I greet people sometimes. That's like normal. That's a greeting. No, what if it's like a random girl or whatever? If it's a random girl, I ain't getting near you. I'm not touching you. Exactly. I don't know where you've been. So I think, I don't know. I don't know. That's just weird. Like, I feel like that's not cheating. But why are you kissing some girl on the cheek for? That's a greeting. That's how people greet each other. No, that's different. That's different than.  You're making eye contact. I'm just saying, like, See, you're taking this way too extra. Like, I'm not. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just. This is why the controversy begins because it be getting crazy. I'm just saying, like, a lot of things can happen with these scenarios. You know what I mean? Like, say you're going from one of these, right? One of these.  Uh-uh. At that point. I've seen that. At that point, it's still not cheating because I didn't kiss her. She kissed me. It's not cheating, but why put yourself in that situation? It's all greeting. That's what I mean. Like, you know what I mean? Oh, you're turning this into something crazy. I'm not. I'm just saying all of the possibilities. I'm saying the possibilities. Yeah, but you're flipping these scenarios into something else that's way bigger. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. For something that's just like what I'm saying, okay, fine, not cheating, but it can become cheating with certain situations. That's all I'm saying. Nene, you're like in a playful mood. Here you go. Go get it. Anyway, next one. Sliding into someone else's DMs. That's not cheating. What? That's not cheating. It's not. How is it not cheating? Because what if I slide in there for a good reason? What if I hit up this girl that does like some type of like service or she provides some type of product that I'm like, y'all, I mean. Sliding into someone DMs means. All right. So you're meaning am I flirting with a girl by sliding into DMs? Yes, that's cheating. I'm flirting with a girl at that point. Okay. Thank you. Next, simple. See, okay. I'll be trying to keep it simple. You don't be keeping it simple. All right, whatever. Next one is telling someone else you have feelings towards them. See, that's a tricky one. I'm going to go ahead and say that's not cheating. Wow. That is not cheating. I'm going to go ahead and say that because technically I did nothing just vent my feelings. I didn't touch you.  I didn't flirt with you or anything. I simply just told you how I felt about you and that's it. Oh, okay. How is it cheating? How is it cheating? Because if you're already thinking about another girl and saying you have feelings for another girl, then that's obviously cheating. Is that what you wrote down telling someone else you have feelings towards them? Yes. I mean, it's not cheating. You just, you're falling for another girl at that point, man. It's not cheating. As long as you break up with this girl, like that you're with her already. See, now we're talking. Now we're talking. Okay. There we go. But if you're constantly with someone and you're telling somebody else that you feel some type of weight towards them, that's cheating. Yeah, that's cheating. And that's trifling. Okay. Next one is owning a dating app. No, that's not cheating. That's not cheating either. Like, okay, you have a dating app if you're not using it or whatever. Well, I mean, you're going to be using it if you have it. That's why you downloaded it. I'm saying it's not cheating though. How is it not cheating? Well, see, this is where it's tricky, man. No, no, no. I'm going to go ahead and... No, it's not cheating because it's the same as the last scenario because think about it. I didn't do anything that involved cheating yet. I'm simply looking for another person. Yeah. So that means it's coming. Yeah. No, it's not because what if I break up with you there? Then I go out with that new girl that I found the dating app. That's still sus. You know what I mean? That's like a great cheating. There's a lot of stuff in here that's sus, but it's not cheating. I don't like your answers to some of these. I'm just keeping it real. All right. Liking other girls' bikini pics on IG. See, I'm not... It's not cheating. It's not cheating, but it does show that you like what you see. Yeah, it's showing that you have interest in other women. Yeah. Like other women get your attention. It's not cheating though, but it's kind of like the same as us looking at other girls' butts when we're out in public.  And like, I feel like guys who do that try to hide it from their girls. You know what I mean? I know something. I know someone. I know someone too. All right, all right. Next, next. Moving on. All right. And the last one is keeping your ex's nudes. Keeping the... See, because they are nudes, I'm going to 100% say, yes, this is cheating. I'm 100% going to say that because if it were just pictures of you and your ex in your phone, that's different.  But if you got your ex's nudes, I know dang well you're probably looking at them. So I'm going to go ahead and say that's cheating because you clearly liken what you see because you kept these pictures for so long. That is the only scenario I'm going to say that is cheating without an action being done. All right, that's it. That's all we got. That was all 10? Mm-hmm. All right, so guys, again, if you guys got to rewind, go back and just do it with me. Was it cheating or was it not cheating? I answered every question straight up and that was 100% my genuine answer. Yeah, and then I feel like we should do a series of these because we do this a lot on TikTok and a lot of people enjoy it. So if you guys enjoy it, let us know. Bro, the comments be crazy. And he'll ask me questions next time. 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