It’s Not Left or Right, It’s Up or Down
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In our latest video essay, Chelsea dives into America's confusing obsession with the rich. We're living in a second Gilded Age, and suffice it to say: it's not going well!
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00:00:00 Intro
00:03:10 Ad break
00:15:05 Robber barons & the history of rich vs. poor
00:25:22 Why do we love to simp for rich people?
00:36:02 Our incredibly lame new robber barons
00:44:40 The dark side of “philanthropy”
00:49:38 Let's get some class consciousness going in the chat
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I just KNOW this will be a banger
comrade TFD lez goooo
YES YES YES YES YES you hit the nail in the coffin. ⚰️
Ooh, girl, I can’t wait. Look like you ’bout to get some genuine class consciousness!
That title came from the moana 2 song!!! (Not sure if the saying is older than that tho lol)
thank you so much for this important video!
Our pleasure!
-C
Remember, Good People: the word “villain” was derived from the older “villein”, meaning “a free person who lives on the land; a villager”, by the French aristocracy and used to associate not-being-a-lord with criminality.
Or Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, or Oprah…
Look at all the Democratic donors, it’s in both camps 🏕 the difference in Trump is that he’s more open and transparent with his actions 🎬
This isn’t new, we just get to see how the sausage is made.
We also get to have some new input as to what is in the sausage USAID 🤔
Yep! Hence the title lol
it’s not left or right, it’s the Gary Stevenson movement vs the rich billionaires 🪐
A good and informative video essay. Ty!
this video is doing gods work. thank you !
It’s the adult version super heroes except thy are real.
Best premier live chat to participate in.
Thank you! <3
“The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.” — Noam Chomsky
The “what about x billionaire” is more rarely Bill Gates, often it’s Selena Gomez or Taylor Swift, that I see anyway