Tim Pool - 'journalist' who claims to be a sensible centrist & sucks Sargon of Akkad's wiener; Afraid of the Milkshake ANTIFAs

[JamesWebbSlinger]

Wanted to give the second episode of The Culture War a watch to see if it was as terrible as the first outing.
So, I went through, both it & the IRL episode.
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Spoiler: Katherine Brodsky v. Ashley St. Claire Culture War Episode

Tim had Katherine Brodsky, a writer for several publications & one of the liberals pushed towards conservatives, debate with Ashley St. Claire, a comedian.

Went a fair bit better than the Emma Vigeland v. Sean, with less opprobrium cast about amongst the participants.
Tim still involved himself in the debate a fair bit more than I would have liked.

Clip Collection:
-Ashley asks if Katherine is offended, as a woman, by Dylan Mulvaney's behaviour:

-Ashley asks Katherine what does she mean by "anti-woke":

-A good summary of the argumentation by Katherine, "both-siding", which is typical of the liberal abandoned by the Left, who remains critical of the Right in vague terms:

-Tim blames Sarah Silverman & professors for making him say "Civil War" all the time::

-Godwin's Law appears to be a staple of The Culture War. Katherine attempts to rebut Tim's anti-war stance by citing his potential unwillingness to fight Nazi Germany & the Holocaust:

-Some unintentionally perfect comedic timing, wherein Tim describes how cans are lined with plastics that can disrupt your endocrine system, while Katherine takes a big sip from a can:

Bonus Bits:
-Speaking of unintentional comedy, Tim is using bottled air meant for re-oxygenating sports players to breathe better. Visually reminded me of Spaceballs:

-Tim Pool is not to blame for constantly getting hopped up on Civil War talk...He learned it from you:

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Spoiler: Alex Stein & Ashley St. Claire Timcast IRL Episode

For the IRL episode, Tim had Alex Stein, as well as Ashley St. Claire, as the guest.
Hannah & Ian co-hosted the episode. Hannah did not pipe in too much, pry because of the crowded panel.

*The panel talks being offered the chance to enter the "Metaverse" to live a perfect life, segues into dream talk: 5:59-9:20
*The panel discusses the DeSantis ad lambasting Trump's support for LGBT versus DeSantis opposing it, broader 2024 talk: 18:19-35:05
*The panel talks Pornhub blocking access to Virginia, after the state legislature passed a law requiring verification before accessing pornography sites: 38:43-51:29
*The panel talks about SSRI prescriptions, bad doctors, what you "have a right to" in regards to medical care: 1:08:30-1:48:50

Clip Collection:
-With Paris burning, alien ships possibly being recovered by the U.S. government, you can count on the serious people of the serious show that is Timcast IRL to talk about...Musk v. Zuckerberg:

-Tim argues how the Elites are going for reverse psychology, eliminating urbanites with abortions & castrating their children:

-Tim will not become a politician, nor will Ian, thank goodness:

-Tim gives me a blast from the past, talking about black plastic-wrapped pornographic magazines being one of the few ways to access that content, aside from back alley shops, extremely slow dialup, & Pay Per View. Insane how much can change in so short a time...:

-Alex & the panel discuss issues with doctors just prescribing SSRIs without proper vetting of other possible causes of depression (e.g. birth control). Tim says if your doctor does that, just find another doctor, citing Joe Rogan & ivermectin. Ashley pushes back, saying it is not that easy:

-By Tim's own logic, he is to blame for all those construction teams failing to complete his coffee shop, despite deriding them for failing to to the job he hired them to do, in previous episodes:

-How does Tim do it? Making Alex Stein sound like the more sane one in the exchange:

-Pain medicine for a suffering cancer patient? "NO!", says the Pool, you have no right to it! I get the philosophical concept, but it just seems contrarianism on Tim's part, at this point:

Bonus Bits:
-Taking so much time to clip Timcast on a weekend, summarised:

I kid, I have fun with it.

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[Retink Retunk]

-How does Tim do it? Making Alex Stein sound like the sane one:

Both Alex and Tim are kind of retarded on this topic but Tim more so.

Socializing healthcare is a massively stupid idea if your problem is corruption that creates artificial price floors in the first place like Alex is talking about because the same people who would control the socialization of the system are the same people who created the fucked prices to begin with with their regulation.

Tim's take is just retarded "man up bro, move to Mexico and live in a gunt shack."

The real solution would be to allow people to bring in medicine from other countries and providers if they so choose, as you can get a lot of medications for cheap but you can't import them legally as when you try to buy them, your account will be flagged for ordering illegal substances. I've tried out of curiosity before for something I was taking as it was significantly less expensive elsewhere. Now maybe there's a risk in taking drugs made by Romanian Witch Doctors but sometimes it's that or going bankrupt and people should have the right to make that choice for themselves.

That and probably making drugs become generic a lot sooner so that others can take a shot at manufacturing them domestically if they think they can compete.

 

[JamesWebbSlinger]

Both Alex and Tim are kind of retarded on this topic but Tim more so.

Socializing healthcare is a massively stupid idea if your problem is corruption that creates artificial price floors in the first place like Alex is talking about because the same people who would control the socialization of the system are the same people who created the fucked prices to begin with with their regulation.

Tim's take is just retarded "man up bro, move to Mexico and live in a gunt shack."

The real solution would be to allow people to bring in medicine from other countries and providers if they so choose, as you can get a lot of medications for cheap but you can't import them legally as when you try to buy them, your account will be flagged for ordering illegal substances. I've tried out of curiosity before for something I was taking as it was significantly less expensive elsewhere. Now maybe there's a risk in taking drugs made by Romanian Witch Doctors but sometimes it's that or going bankrupt and people should have the right to make that choice for themselves.

That and probably making drugs become generic a lot sooner so that others can take a shot at manufacturing them domestically if they think they can compete.

Aye, made a slight adjustment to that description to make Alex Stein the "more sane one".

Tim may be getting high off his own supply of bottled oxygen, out in the woods & living off super-chats, with the position he took.

Having worked in healthcare, in a few different places, I can assure you, "universal healthcare" is not all it is cracked up to be.
The inability of the United States to allow competition from European, or Japanese, medicine producers is a big bit of that argument for reducing drug prices.
Even supposed "progressives", like U.S. Senator Corey Booker cited lacklustre standards in foreign production of medicine, despite the E.U. having more stringent regulations than the United States.
Apropos of nothing, Corey Booker's home state of New Jersey happens to be a major headquarters for quite a few American drug companies, & his campaign received outsized donations from them, to boot.

*Update*
I was a titch worried about Ian with the cat passing away soon, so checked on his Twitter. &...Ian is still Ian. I cannot tell if this is in jest, or serious:

(Archive)

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

This video video is mostly about TYT but he talks about Tim Pool a little bit.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Both Alex and Tim are kind of retarded on this topic but Tim more so.

Socializing healthcare is a massively stupid idea if your problem is corruption that creates artificial price floors in the first place like Alex is talking about because the same people who would control the socialization of the system are the same people who created the fucked prices to begin with with their regulation.

Tim's take is just retarded "man up bro, move to Mexico and live in a gunt shack."

The real solution would be to allow people to bring in medicine from other countries and providers if they so choose, as you can get a lot of medications for cheap but you can't import them legally as when you try to buy them, your account will be flagged for ordering illegal substances. I've tried out of curiosity before for something I was taking as it was significantly less expensive elsewhere. Now maybe there's a risk in taking drugs made by Romanian Witch Doctors but sometimes it's that or going bankrupt and people should have the right to make that choice for themselves.

That and probably making drugs become generic a lot sooner so that others can take a shot at manufacturing them domestically if they think they can compete.

Socialized medicine is the peak of stupidity. Sure I pay for my own insurance, but I get my meds quick and seen quickly as well; I'm not dying on a wait list.

Also agree on importing other countries medicine if their standards are high. If it's good its good. You're creating artificial scarcity otherwise

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Socialized medicine is the peak of stupidity. Sure I pay for my own insurance, but I get my meds quick and seen quickly as well; I'm not dying on a wait list.

Also agree on importing other countries medicine if their standards are high. If it's good its good. You're creating artificial scarcity otherwise

The sheer stupidity of the US medical system with its vast amount of over-regulation and the forcing of hospitals to provide care for illegal immigrants such that the cost for everyone else is inflated as a result is a testament to just how successful profit models are that it's STILL leagues better than any of the one payer systems.

Then again, what's worse? The profit model grooming kids into chopping their dicks off so they never quit needing medical care or a single payer system grooming kids into accepting assisted suicide because it's cheaper than providing actual treatment for their ailments?

Nevermind, all of its fucked. Modern medicine is an alter to baal and I'm tired of arguing which flavor of blasphemy I'd like abusing me.

 

[Philly Phunk Machine]

The inability of the United States to allow competition from European, or Japanese, medicine producers is a big bit of that argument for reducing drug prices.

I'd imagine having a good chunk of pharmaceuticals produced in China to fulfill American consumers influences this as well.

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Tim skipped videos again today. No update in his community tab.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Tim skipped videos again today. No update in his community tab.

It's not like he can report on the French riots because of Youtube. He can't report on the Russia-Ukraine war because of Youtube. Humble Kiwi farmers are more journalist than Tim Pool.

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

It's not like he can report on the French riots because of Youtube. He can't report on the Russia-Ukraine war because of Youtube. Humble Kiwi farmers are more journalist than Tim Pool.

Yeah but we are more journalist than  everybody.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Yeah but we are more journalist than  everybody.

Except James O'Keefe.

 

[Retink Retunk]

Except James O'Keefe.

Reason can be pretty good, they actually covered the KF censorship back in the day pretty reasonably in an article, and do some nice shit about policy

They're libertarian too, but in a sane way.

 

[Blacklight]

The sheer stupidity of the US medical system with its vast amount of over-regulation and the forcing of hospitals to provide care for illegal immigrants such that the cost for everyone else is inflated as a result is a testament to just how successful profit models are that it's STILL leagues better than any of the one payer systems.

Then again, what's worse? The profit model grooming kids into chopping their dicks off so they never quit needing medical care or a single payer system grooming kids into accepting assisted suicide because it's cheaper than providing actual treatment for their ailments?

Nevermind, all of its fucked. Modern medicine is an alter to baal and I'm tired of arguing which flavor of blasphemy I'd like abusing me.

The sheer overregulation of everything in the US is retarded. Last year when the baby formula shortage was a thing, we had countries willing to offer to sell their stuff to us. The reason they couldn't at first? A stupid ass regulation from the FDA saying that the ingredient list wasn't in the proper order. Not that the stuff inside was bad, but the way they listed it on the side of the fucking packaging wasn't up to snuff.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Tim skipped videos again today. No update in his community tab.

What a lazy fuck. He's taking a 4-5 day weekend I guess.
Too afraid to talk about Russia and Ukraine.
Too afraid to talk about France.
What a washup he is. Just keep talking about hot topic troon issues Tim and ignoring actual important news.

This is your life now Tim. This is the great media presence you have established yourself as. Same shit as with Vice but now your master is youtube. Despite all your huffing and puffing and shirt tugging you fall in line.

Socialized medicine is the peak of stupidity. Sure I pay for my own insurance, but I get my meds quick and seen quickly as well; I'm not dying on a wait list.

Also agree on importing other countries medicine if their standards are high. If it's good its good. You're creating artificial scarcity otherwise

I've had godawful wait times with an insurance providers, but I will say. Out of pocket is so fast.
I walked into an office the next day paid out of pocket and got the medicine and treatment I needed before the week was over.

My insurance wanted me to wait 4 months to see an asshole just to see if I should get tested for what I thought I had.
Granted, this was during COOF COOF times - so everything was fucked up. But man I can't believe how quick out of pocket was. It was worth it too, because it saved me months of being in misery and honestly? The price wasn't that bad when you factor in time.

 

[JamesWebbSlinger]

Since Tim is taking a "well-earned" break from making videos, I am taking one from clipping said videos.

The sheer overregulation of everything in the US is retarded. Last year when the baby formula shortage was a thing, we had countries willing to offer to sell their stuff to us. The reason they couldn't at first? A stupid ass regulation from the FDA saying that the ingredient list wasn't in the proper order. Not that the stuff inside was bad, but the way they listed it on the side of the fucking packaging wasn't up to snuff.

The biggest joke about why there was a shortage from the off was the U.S. Food & Drug Administration closed down one of the major producers of baby formula, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, due to the presence of a bacteria deadly to young children on-site. The FDA asked/pressured Abbott to close the plant, & complete cleaning & verification. This is all well & good, as no one wants to be remembered as the bloke that said "Keep the machines rolling, no matter how many infant corpses pile up!" Unfortunately, while Abbott did agree to the terms which were not a specific closure order, the FDA failed to account for the outsized control Abbott had on the baby formula market & seemingly never stayed on top of when to end the warning over Abbott's potentially contaminated formula.

& Abbott is no saint, in this either. Via the low bids it could make for the Women, Infants, & Children (WIC) program, which provides formula to low-income pregnant women & new mothers, Abbott had gained a near monopoly over the American baby formula market (Article Archive). This federal program, via the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), provides to almost half of America's pregnant women & newborns, & Abbott took advantage of that.

Once the shortage became a reality, both the FDA & Abbott began lobbing allegations at one another (Archive Article) over whom was to blame. In reality it was both, the FDA failed to account for potential shortages, & Abbott for gaming the system to monopolise it.

Too afraid to talk about Russia and Ukraine.
Too afraid to talk about France.

I am rather glad he has not taken up talking about Ukraine, or France, considering his woefully limited foreign policy knowledge...I can only endure so many uninformed takes.

I've had godawful wait times with an insurance providers, but I will say. Out of pocket is so fast.
I walked into an office the next day paid out of pocket and got the medicine and treatment I needed before the week was over.

My insurance wanted me to wait 4 months to see an asshole just to see if I should get tested for what I thought I had.
Granted, this was during COOF COOF times - so everything was fucked up. But man I can't believe how quick out of pocket was. It was worth it too, because it saved me months of being in misery and honestly? The price wasn't that bad when you factor in time.

This is one of the big drawbacks of the American insurance system, it is requires patients to have what the insurer considers "absolute" proof of a condition before directing someone to specialist treatment, unless it is an immediate & life-threatening emergency. After that, it shall grant approval for coverage. A long list of prerequisites & verification must be completed, even if your primary care doctor wants you to go for a specific treatment plan.

While this does prevent overburdening a potentially limited pool of specialised care givers filtering through cases sent their way by every Tom, Dick, & Hypochondriac, it is more to prevent the insurance paying out more than it absolutely has to, in the circumstance.

Here is a visualisation, to help:

 

[Retink Retunk]

no one wants to be remembered as the bloke that said "Keep the machines rolling, no matter how many infant corpses pile up!"

Planned Parenthood disagrees with that assertion.

Also, isn't baby formula as an industry a bit shitty? From what I heard Nestle and others would give out free samples of formula to new mothers who could easily breast feed that would last just long enough so that their bodies would stop producing the necessary amounts of milk making them dependent on formula?

 

[anustart76]

What a lazy fuck. He's taking a 4-5 day weekend I guess.

He's taking the July 4th holiday off as a long weekend. I can't really call him lazy for that.

This is one of the big drawbacks of the American insurance system, it is requires patients to have what the insurer considers "absolute" proof of a condition before directing someone to specialist treatment, unless it is an immediate & life-threatening emergency. After that, it shall grant approval for coverage. A long list of prerequisites & verification must be completed, even if your primary care doctor wants you to go for a specific treatment plan.

While this does prevent overburdening a potentially limited pool of specialised care givers filtering through cases sent their way by every Tom, Dick, & Hypochondriac, it is more to prevent the insurance paying out more than it absolutely has to, in the circumstance.

Here is a visualisation, to help:

Our healthcare industry is an absolute mess because of how the insurance providers, big pharma, and hospital corporations have effectively taken over the system. Obamacare was effectively a gift to the insurance industry with the individual mandate that forced everyone to buy health insurance. It could be massively improved by forcing insurance companies to compete nationally instead of state-by-state, and allowing people to buy medicine, etc from foreign countries. Of course, our politicians are owned by the corporations, so I don't expect much.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

The sheer overregulation of everything in the US is retarded. Last year when the baby formula shortage was a thing, we had countries willing to offer to sell their stuff to us. The reason they couldn't at first? A stupid ass regulation from the FDA saying that the ingredient list wasn't in the proper order. Not that the stuff inside was bad, but the way they listed it on the side of the fucking packaging wasn't up to snuff.

The purpose of a lot of regulations these days are to establish and enforce monopolies or oligopolies. Which is precisely what happened. Lots of lobbying went into that regulation and they’re not about to start breaking precedent now.

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Tim continues his weird trend of gay-bashing during Bud Light videos.

"No one wants to buy it, you'll be made fun of!"
"I'll keep it family friendly but Bud Light is being portrayed as the LGBT friendly beer and they put out videos of men 'grunting'."
"Grunting is not typically associated with a man sitting down drinking a beer, it's associated with...well I'll keep it family friendly."

It's not like I'm offended or anything but it's very weird how Dylan Mulvaney has just flipped some kind of switch in this man where he is desperate to mock and belittle gay men specifically for being gay all the time now.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

It's not like I'm offended or anything but it's very weird how Dylan Mulvaney has just flipped some kind of switch in this man where he is desperate to mock and belittle gay men specifically for being gay all the time now.

The common man has for years been oppressed by perceived social norms, in this case the ability to call someone acting like a faggot a faggot. We can get it out of our system by calling Dylan what he is, but Tim can't because he'll lose his revenue source so he's forced to forever circle the topic without a sense of completion. Many sad, very cases.