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Which Conspiracy theories are true? How can you tell the difference between deranged nonsense and something that maybe, just maybe, might be true? In this video I go over a few reasonable methods to sort truth from propaganda and complete nonsense. Follow me on Twitter for channel updates and general bantz: https://twitter.com/MentisWave Additional sources: Grimes: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905 Big Tobacco: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/ MKultra https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf 00:00 Intro 01:30 Co Conspirators 02:40 Global Surveillance 04:15 Space is Fake 05:20 Profits! 05:43 Chemtrails 07:00 Big Tobacco 07:18 MK Ultra 08:14 Sophistry and media bias 11:10 War Propaganda 12:22 Gish Gallop 13:45 Flat Earth 14:51 Occam's Razor 15:50 Reptilians 17:04 CIA Hacking / Vault 7 Leak 18:07 Q-anon 20:25 Conclusion If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio License: https://whitebataudio.com/license-agreement/

Simple and concise explanation for why claiming communism has never been tried is extremely dishonest. Follow me on Twitter for channel updates and general bantz: https://twitter.com/MentisWave If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a

Trust the experts! Believe the science! It's the scientific consensus! My professor told me so, therefore it is true! It's well established knowledge! Appeal to Authority is valid if the Authority agrees with me! How dare you disagree with muh academic consensus! -Fumo https://cspicenter.org/reports/academicfreedom/ If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Follow me on Twitter for channel updates and general bantz: https://twitter.com/MentisWave Odysee Backup:https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Sol Aestas - Glitch Hop Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

Adam Something is the greatest breadtuber of all time. ;^) Additional Sources- Autonomous Cars: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aim/ https://www.reuters.com/article/testing-autonomous-idINKCN1QV27A https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338350341_Pedestrian-Autonomous_Vehicles_Interaction_Challenges_A_Survey_and_a_Solution_to_Pedestrian_Intent_Identification Libertarian right / Ancap reading list: https://i.imgur.com/iejfdUP.jpg Mises: https://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly-0 00:00 Intro 00:42 Ideological robots 06:13 The Actual Solution to Traffic? 12:35 RightLibs are Fasheests!!11 20:17 Muh Monopoliez 28:57 Anarcho Capitalism in practice 32:04 Anarcho Capitalism in practice 2 34:00 AnCom 37:11 Conclusion / Mistreatment of Ubersoy If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Follow me on Twitter for channel updates and general bantz: https://twitter.com/MentisWave Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Robot Disco Dance Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

People often suggest using state regulation to fix random perceived market failures, but the truth is this regulation usually just results in monopolies. The reason this happens is because fees imposed by regulations often raise the "Barrier to entry" for competition. This short explains why, using the video game industry as a hypothetical example. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Follow me on Twitter for channel updates and general bantz: https://twitter.com/MentisWave Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music by: Sagittarius V - The Night Licensed at: http://sagittariusvmusic.com

A common strawman against the libertarian right is that it disallows the existence of a social safety net. This video refutes such claims by looking into the past when Fraternal societies provided just that. Sometimes also known as "mutual aid societies" or "Fraternal benefit orders" are a type of "private club" that were very popular in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The reason for their popularity was because they provided mutual aid benefits for members that were very similar to the social programs we have today. People used to receive healthcare benefits, childcare, business aid, sick pay, and all sorts of social safety net features from these societies. And then, they started to die out. Why? Well, watch the video and discover a tale that has been largely ignored by modern historians. This video is part of a collaboration. Other channels that will have vids in this series: Cospaia (AngloLibertarian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2LbGlXSbRo&t=0s Zapatistas of Chiapas (Springtime of Nations): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b68JdRYBE4&t=0s LiquidZulu (Ancient Iceland): https://www.youtube.com/c/LiquidZulu PraxBen (Acadia): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyUa016YoiY3cExu1mYDU6g 00:00 Intro 01:25 The tale of Fraternal Societies 07:52 Selected Examples 11:20 The fall of mutual aid benefits 15:03 Modern private charity and the problems with state welfare 18:16 Conclusion If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Follow me on Twitter for channel updates and general bantz: https://twitter.com/MentisWave Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Thunderheads in the Distance Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

OK, I'll actually use twitter now. Recently hit 1k subs and figured using twitter would be a good way to post updates on whatever I'm working on, or just general twitter banter. Also, the absolute madlad actually did it. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Follow me on Twitter for channel updates and general bantz: https://twitter.com/MentisWave Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Follow Your Breath Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

A right leaning libertarian attends a Portland OR antifa protest. This video is basically just a 20~ minute unscripted blog/rant that doesn't really "refute" anything and is just my own opinion on the subject from the account of firsthand experience. It's very different from the content I usually make, and I may or may not make something like this ever again. I happen to be a right leaning libertarian who lives within driving distance of Portland OR, and decided to go downtown to witness the protests firsthand. Is Antifa a violent mob? Are the Proud boys literally NAWHTSEES? In this I give my own thoughts about these protests, and explain why I feel like they are going nowhere. They only hasten the divide between the left and right while damaging honest dialogue, and meanwhile certain breadtubers take advantage of the situation to sell their strawman. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup:https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Background Music: "Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio" Various.

Surplus Labor Value does not exist. It is a phantom born from the complex nature of value due to it being a subjective concept. This is a fun little video that uses Touhou Fumos to demonstrate why profits are a good thing and why without them we would have less incentive to work together. Profit is not theft. Surplus Labor Value is not a thing. This is one of the many reasons why socialism will never work. The rough draft of this video was originally cut from "HasanAbi is Unironically Clueless", as the surplus labor value argument is not unique to Hasan and I felt it deserved slightly more effort. The subject this video covers is actually quite complex and has been heavily simplified for the sake of telling a story. Check out the Mises Institute for a more in depth read on the subject if you like: https://mises.org/library/bread-mine-0 If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup:https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Bad Apple!! -instrumental- (darksynth/80s remix) Artist: Astrophysics License: None ( Artist permission, see description in main video ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgJr9MNyqOQ

HasanAbi is Unironically Clueless. There isn't really much else that needs to be said about it. Capitalism is when everything bad. Socialism is when everything good. Galaxy brain tier arguments. What a ride. 00:00 Intro 01:19 Fallacies of Relevance 02:13 Praxben 06:29 Jordan Peterson 12:23 Tim Pool and Squid Game 17:23 Leftist Racism 21:20 Kyle Rittenhouse 23:17 The "C" Word 25:11 Free Speech is racist? 28:02 Regurgitating DNC Propaganda 29:01 Government Spending 33:05 Hunter Biden 36:44 Critical Race Theory 39:00 Conclusion If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: To The Atmosphere Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

Lately President Joe Biden seems to be mumbling about "Putin's Price Hike", and how the inflation we are seeing, especially with Gas Prices, is the fault of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But is this really true, or is it just finger pointing and partisan propaganda to deflect blame for problems that the Biden administration has regularly failed to address in regards to their poor policy decisions? This video is about answering that question by taking a dive into what exactly inflation is and how we got into this mess. 00:00 Intro 01:10 Explaining Inflation 03:08 What's really driving inflation 06:00 The Oil Grift 11:00 Biden Doesn't get it 13:18 Will the war hurt inflation? 15:14 "Putin's Price Hike" If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Image Comes Down - Glitch Hop/Chill Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

There is a lot of heated discussion going on right now about the recent Russian invasion into Ukraine. Unfortunately, a lot of people are getting duped into a classic false dichotomy - this idea that you have to be either Pro Russia or Pro Ukraine. The reality is you can criticize both sides for their wrongdoings, while recognizing that the war is overall unnecessary. There are multiple alternative positions to take on this conflict that we can choose from that don't involve blind support. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Smooth_Moves_on_the_Street Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

Whataboutism is a form of tu quoque where someone asks "What about when you did X" to deflect from subject Y... or is it? Sadly, many people seem to believe that saying "whataboutism" is a magic word to excuse their hypocritical double standards, and thus the term has evolved into an accusation that people use to get away with being called out on their special pleading. So this is a short video that will hopefully shed some light on the true nature of the "tu quoque", and why simply pointing out a fallacy alone doesn't always make for a solid argument. Feel free to link this video as a response to people abusing the concept of whataboutism in this manner. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Background music used: "Atmospheric Sci-Fi Synthwave - Distant Planet" "Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio"

ContraPoints is a progressive philosopher who has some good takes, but mostly not so good takes. This video explores a common fallacy used by the cult of woke - The Progressive Slippery Slope, which they use to take something relatively innocent such as Pepe memes and perform mental gymnastics until they convince you that it will lead to thinking that is "problematic". Effectively creating an argument that is just a more subtle version of "Everyone that I don't like is literally Hitler". I go over some of her videos such as How to Spot a F@scist and JK Rowling to identify key examples of this type of reasoning and why it makes very little sense. 00:00 What is the Progressive Slippery Slope? ( Intro ) 02:59 How to Recognize a F@scist 08:58 What's wrong with Capitalism? 15:05 JK Rowling 20:04 "Indirect Bigotry" 25:46 Quick Examples ( MISC ) 30:31 Conclusion If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Background Music: "Tokyo Music Walker - Way Home" is under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3lL... Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/way-home-song

A state media proxy is when a private news organization reports in a manner similar to a state media organization, as a result of backroom deals and questionable connections. In the USA, multiple major media conglomerates often pretend to be unbiased and neutral towards the facts they claim to be reporting, while exchanging millions of dollars in Washington with political elites. This video details a portion of those backroom deals using publicly available data and how the media is connected to congress, which exposes how much of what Americans see on cable TV is not what it seems. The sad reality is that most US mainstream news is just state media by proxy. SOURCES: Most of the information used in this video can be found at- https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/ https://www.opensecrets.org/ https://search.wikileaks.org/?q=CNN If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Dark Versus Light - Alternative Metal By TeknoAXE - http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe CC 4.0 License

A common claim from the cult of woke is that racism should be defined as "Prejudice + Power", and therefore "Only white people can be racist". To showcase how foolish this argument is, here is how to refute it in less than a minute. TL;DR: If it's not based on individual circumstances, then the argument is guilty of a fallacy of averages. If it is based on the individual circumstance, then it's nonsensical as power is contextually subjective. The bankrupt idea that racism is somehow different depending on which identity group someone subjectively belongs to is self defeating, and only serves to create racial tensions. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Funk The Chilldown Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

The Gravel Institute started as a leftwing counter narrative to Prager U. Or at least, that's their claim. The reality is that The Gravel Institute largely focuses on pushing economic misinformation in favor of Marxist lies and outright nonsense. When the Gravel Institute states a statistic, and you check the source of that static, chances are pretty good that it's taken out of context. This video is a compilation of refutations to a selection of videos I feel best showcases their deception and overall poor reasoning. 00:00 Intro 01:13 "You Will Never be Rich" 04:15 Conservatives Created Cancel Culture 06:36 Is Big Government Really the Problem? 13:04 Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? 18:49 Why Bitcoin is a Scam 23:41 Is Capitalism Actually Reducing Poverty? 29:17 Conclusion If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Image Comes Down - Glitch Hop/Chill Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

A common argument you might see against Wikileaks and Julian Assange is that they are somehow a Russian agency, or arm of the Kremlin in some way. This is nothing more than a guilt by association fallacy made by making a mountain out of a molehill from irrelevant connections, some of which are only rumors at best. When you pull back the curtain you will find the same people and organizations making this false accusation to slander Wikileaks, are those whom Wikileaks has revealed to be corrupt. For more a more detailed explanation, check out this article on "Debunking All The Assange Smears" https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/20/debunking-all-the-assange-smears/ If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Mellow Aether - Downtempo/Chill Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

Scientific Journalism is a proposal by Julian Assange to drastically improve the standards, ethics, and overall quality of journalism by encouraging the use of primary sources being publicly available alongside news editorials. It is the basic concept behind what drives Wikileaks, and can be summarized in Assange's words: “Journalism should be more like science, As far as possible, facts should be verifiable.” By having research data behind an editorial available, readers can be assured that they are not reading propaganda as they can check and verify anything they do not agree with. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Odysee Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a Music: Mellow Aether - Downtempo/Chill Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

Wikipedia has an article about Gamergate. It's complete nonsense. The Gamergate controversy was a consumer backlash against dishonest media coverage, poor ethics in journalism, woke scolding, and cringe identity politics specifically focused on the gaming industry. It focused primarily on exposing Corruption, Collusion, and Censorship within these industries as its main goals. Unfortunately, as with many movements that expose the fraudulence and dishonesty of establishment media machines, the media decided to abuse their power and utilize tactics of yellow journalism and lies of omission to slander Gamergate as a "Harassment campaign." A hoax that is still believed by numerous people, as well as further pushed by ignorant Bread/Grift-tubers to this day. Because Wikipedia operates largely by repeating MSM narratives, their article stands as a major mark of misinformation and propaganda in regards to the Gamergate controversy. This video is focused on refuting it. Disclaimer: This video does not condone, and in fact this channel as a whole, strongly condemns the use of harassment and/or violence towards any individual or group. The purpose of this video is to show the Gamergate controversy from the side that the media did not cover, and expose the dishonesty in said coverage. 00:00 Intro 02:48 Feel free to skip to here if you already understand GG 09:17 Bad sources and Yellow Journalism 16:35 Circular reporting / "Citogenesis" 17:55 Further Evidence against the Narrative 18:52 How Wikipedia is flawed 21:50 Conclusion If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Additional information on GG: https://www.ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php?title=Main_Page Ody see Backup: https://odysee.com/@MentisWave:a

Establishment media sources such as MSNBC have made the claim that Critical race theory ( CRT ) is not being taught in K-12 classrooms. This claim is not only false, but it's also fairly easy to disprove as it's just a blatant case of using equivocation to try and trick the audience into buying false information. To put it simply, they are just calling it something other than CRT while teaching similar concepts. Not exactly an honest strategy that you would expect from people with nothing to hide. Trying something slightly different here and releasing a shorts video instead of a meme video in between more serious content. Links that provide proof that CRT is being taught in schools, or at least strongly considered: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-worst-examples-of-critical-race-theory-in-schools/ar-BB1g2M6l https://www.educationnext.org/1619-project-enters-american-classrooms-adding-new-sizzle-slavery-significant-cost/ https://www.truenewshub.com/dailywire/the-craziest-examples-of-critical-race-theory-in-schools/ https://www.educationviews.org/detroit-school-superintendent-our-curriculum-is-deeply-using-critical-race-theory/ https://mynorthwest.com/2937573/rantz-teacher-uses-science-class-to-call-white-middle-schoolers-privileged-oppressors/ https://epochacademy.thinkific.com/courses/critique-of-liberalism https://fwtx.com/news/to-teach-or-not-to-teach/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/yes-critical-race-theory-is-being-taught-in-public-schools/ar-AAM2t1V https://www.americanexperiment.org/critical-race-theory-is-in-second-draft-of-social-studies-standards-lets-count-the-ways/ https://christopherrufo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Parent-Guidebook.pdf If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... Music Used: 失望した by EVA https://joshlis.bandcamp.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 http://bit.ly/RFP_CClicense

This is the first episode of my refutations of "Breadtube", focusing on what I consider the top 8 most damaging arguments made by Vaush. These are refutations that are for the most part based on objective reasoning to explain the flaws and hypocrisy I see within his ideology. Some people might compare this to "Vaush is unironically evil" by Doomermedia, however I would like to state that I prefer people do not do this as the aim of this video is very different. Doomers video was more about Vaush's character flaws, ethical misgivings, and his tendency to spread misinformation from a fairly centrist position. This is more of a direct "Debunk" style video for many of his arguments and political positions from a LibRight perspective. Here are the chapters in case you just want to jump to a specific Vaush-ism and don't want to watch the whole video: 00:00 Intro 00:58 1. Coconut Island 04:00 2. False accusations of Fascism 07:20 3. Stock options and Tax Falsehoods( Elon Musk ) 10:40 4. Racial Colorblindness 13:38 5. Blaming Embargos for Socialist fail 16:53 6. "Conservatives hate the poor" 18:41 7. Labor Vouchers 21:45 8. Thomas Sowell and The Equity Fallacy If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Music: Lost in the Zen Room Artist: http://www.gab.ai/teknoaxe License: CC 4.0 Attribution

Good Morning America has done an interview with Gaige Grosskreutz. Or to be more accurate, conducted a shameless fact-free hit piece against Kyle Rittenhouse. The interview currently sits at an absurd ratio of 354 likes to over 23,000 dislikes, despite the alleged professional status of ABC. This poor ratio is fully deserved. It is in fact one of the most ridiculous examples of blatant propaganda and poor journalistic ethics we have seen this year. This video exposes the nonsense, factual inaccuracies, gaslighting, and shameless bias displayed by ABC during this interview. See the Rittenhouse shooting for yourself, make up your own mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iryQSpxSlrg If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Background Music: Please, Don't Forget Me by e s c p Artist: https://escp-music.bandcamp.com License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

CIA Memes and Corruption Compilation. The CIA Glows in the dark. Just meming here obviously nothing too serious. Although a few of these are screenshots of actual happenings. The next "serious" video will be featuring the start of a series on refuting common breadtuber arguments. I might do a short on CRT before releasing it too. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Background music: Cyberpunk Dark Synthwave - Unleash the Troops music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6nq7AAFBNY

Contradictory ideas are often accepted for the purpose of Utopian thinking. However, people who think in this dishonest way strangely cannot answer if Islam is Right about Women or not. Utopian thinking is often used fallaciously these days where people will craft ideal societies in their headcannon without bothering to check if the result actually makes any flippin' sense. In this video I explain the IIRAW meme in full, and how it can be used as a filter to detect contradictory ideas in the "cult of woke" mindset. This video is also to clear up misconceptions about IIRAW as people still get confused about what its intended purpose is. If you want to leave me a tip / support my content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A98N9SQZFZCNU Background Music: Contra Tyrannidem - Synthwave/Industrial - CC 4.0 Artist: TecknoAxe http://www.gab.com/teknoaxe A video from Second thought was referenced in this for the purpose of criticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hactcmhVS1w