you can't reason with these people

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[Quossum]

These people aren’t, “I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face”— They’re full on, “Actually, it’s GREAT that leopards are eating faces! Bring on the leopards!”

[hayden_duvall]

The fact that you always say what you feel with no pandering to either audience or commercial expectations is a superpower.

[hurricanechelsea]

It's so nice to watch finance-related videos that don't try to gaslight me. Thank you.

[alice_atari]

I can’t explain this enough - I worked in manufacturing. Automation killed the era of lower skilled manufacturing. The US is the number 2 manufacturing economy on the planet, manufacturing didn’t disappear. The JOBS disappeared because you can run a factory with less people than a Walmart. You have a small number of more highly skilled workers for the most part. You still have some machine operators and so on, but you don’t have one guy bolting in the same 3 bolts on the assembly line.

Just like you only need a few percent of people working on farms to feed the nation, you only need a relatively small percent in factories to make goods for everyone.

Rather than this BS we need service jobs to pay more. That’s all it is.

[Illyriamars]

I know I’m only echoing the other comments here but sincerely, thank you so much for these periodic impromptu videos. They’re keeping me (loosely) tethered to sanity amidst the nightmare.

[michellethomas]

I have been grieving since 2016 and probably before. Thanks for sharing, I am a licensed therapist in California and the things you are saying are very valid.

[ealusaid]

This is the first time I've ever been tempted to tell a stranger on social media "you're so right bestie" but you're so right bestie. Thank you for being so smart and so angry about this.

[hannamadethis]

try sharing a home with people like this. its truly one of the most upsetting things ive ever experienced. to watch your parents’ brains slowly leak out of their skull. my mom rarely looks up from her phone, she constantly has an earbud in her ear listening to these lunatics making podcasts in their basement. im grieving my parents and they ARE NOT DEAD. it’s horrifying.

[annatomlinson]

Most Democrats in congress aren't actually economically populist -- this is so important to understand. And this is where our movement needs to go

[RobbieB]

About a third of Americans still think they are fighting the civil war. I don't know how you even begin to reason with those people

[andrewkelly]

"it feels like its been 5 years but its been fifty five days." Same, dude. Same.

[kjmav]

I am livid. Not only re: the Market, but the totalitarianism we are moving toward. The people imprisoned without due process. The crops rotting in the fields. The lonely, homebound old people waiting for their cheerful Meals on Wheels visitor who will never come. I am livid. And heartbroken.

[malpractice]

“Working themselves into all kinds of pretzels of cognitive dissonance to support things that are directly harmful to them”
Thank you for putting so wonderfully the stupid behaviour I have been trying to explain for a long time. I will for sure use this in the future.

[MissDani]

Canadian here. I love your channel so much, and I appreciate how raw you are. The majority of us feel like the USA has kicked us in the gut. It’s extremely sad.

[stupedcraig]

Those that made Bernie impossible, made Trump inevitable

[MulberryDays]

when you said, "the country i see walking around the streets of New York, " it really drove home to me how many people never see that place. never *will* see that place, can't afford to see that place. if they're lucky, they visit it and get a confused snapshot through a tourist's lens.

i wish i could afford to live in New York, or Seattle, or San Francisco, or Boston. i've been lucky to be able to see some of those places as more than a tourist, at least.

but most people in this country can't afford to access *most of their own country.* and that makes it so much easier to lie to them about what is happening in any of those places.

[christine.zaluke]

We share a country with a huge group of people that are extremely emotionally unhealthy, and as a result, have an extremely harsh and unforgiving worldview. Completely out of touch with reality. They are not living a happy life, no matter how "happy" they seem to have Trump in office. I know because two of them are my parents, and even trying to talk to them about how I'm worried for my husband who is an immigrant, they couldn't even hear that. Couldn't even validate the feelings of their own daughter because it's too threatening to their worldview. People like this are sending us into a very dark time. All we can do is try to be there to protect each other.

[Wayne]

Starting with just 55k two months ago and reaching 290k today feels incredible. LizzyTDM, your guidance and insights have been instrumental in this journey, and I’m deeply thankful for your support and knowledge.”

[sharky]

I feel like I'm going insane, everyone keeps saying "the tariffs make no sense" but they make perfect sense if your goal is to cause the economic strife and instability that fascism thrives on. If no one can afford to live beyond the bare minimum they can't afford to go protest, vote, etc. These policies and rhetoric mirror the past so well with the ideas the right pedals whether it be economic self-sufficiency in the form of isolationism, or this idea of suffering before a national rebirth. They aren't trying to do anything good for the economy, they don't care about that, they want people to suffer so that they can maintain power.

[Rosie-wwtt]

I haven't expressed this much to those around me, but I'm really freaking scared. I was entering college when COVID started, I grew up in poverty, I was so sure that going to school and entering the workforce would be my way out. And the year I enter it all my loved ones and their livelihoods are in jeapordy and threatened, not just economically, but socially, and literally. It's really hard to be hopeful when all you've experienced is this instability. It all feels very inescapable. I've been watching the financial diet since high school and it's helped me understand so much. Sorry to be a bummer lol, I'm very grateful for these videos