If I was at a gathering of people, and someone I was talking to described themselves as a “classic liberal.” My first thought would be, “this person is an asshole douche.” I mean, of course, who the hell describes themselves as a “classic liberal” other than a giant douche? But let them explain themselves, let them explain why they describe themselves as such. After a while, you realize that they’re libertarian, which is fine, be who you are, but this specific person is just too fucking dumb to know what they hell they are talking about. I’m talking about Dave Rubin of course.
Dave Rubin is a man who said Jesus was knew Muslims, and on MLK day he tells his audience that MLK would be conservative by today’s standards. Not that Democrats of today would be Republicans of yesterday. He’s a man who calls himself a “classic liberal” and thanks Yaron Brook’s for helping him “see the light”, and the life of the individual.
The Young Turks would disagree as to why Dave Rubin left., and I’d have to agree with them. As their video shows, he doesn’t question Milo Yiannopoulus when he says something that is anti-Semitic in the Rubin clip they play.
Yaron Brook’s is a big Ayn Rand fan, and so is Dave Rubin. Ayn Rand’s philosophy as described by herself; “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” I think her quote to a large extent does represent a lot of our culture (civilization), and we can see how that’s impacting the natural world.
With a philosophy of narcissism and “productivity” (be a robot worker bitch!), one has to ask as a West Point asked her during a speech; “what about the Indians?”
Don’t worry, she has a rationale::
“Any white person who brings the elements of civilization had the right to take over this continent,” Ayn Rand proclaimed, “and it is great that some people did, and discovered here what they couldn’t do anywhere else in the world and what the Indians, if there are any racist Indians today, do not believe to this day: respect for individual rights.” Kill the Indians and take their stuff, because they don’t believe in individual rights, but is that true? Is it not possible to have a culture of sharing that can be tied to other customs that allows have individual agency?
The first accounts we have of people of the old world meeting those from the new, were Christopher Columbus, and priest Bartolome de las Casas, meeting the Arawaks of the Bahama Islands.
Christopher Columbus:
“They.. brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks bells. They willingly traded everything they owned.. They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane.. They would make fine servants.. With fifty men could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we we want.” 'A People's History of the United States' Page 1.
In other words, we can take them, make them be productive (slaves) for us, because were are the worthy (civilized).
Bartolome de las Casas, who was able to observe the Arawaks in a way other than what they can do for him, and prove Ayn Rand wrong:
“Marriage laws are non-existent: men and women alike choose their mates and leave them as they please, without offense, jealousy or anger. They multiply in great abundance; pregnant women work to the last minute and give birth almost painlessly; up the next day, they bathe in the river and are as clean and healthy as before giving birth. If they tire of their men, they give themselves abortions with herbs that force stillbirths, covering their shameful parts with leaves or cotton cloth; although on the whole, Indian men and women look upon total nakedness with as much casualness as we look upon a man’s head or at a his hands.” 'A People's History of the United States' Page 5.
In 2015, Dave Rubin asked if “Facing Down Islam” was too much for Obama to bare; “Barack Obama appears to have been so scarred from the unfortunate loss of his Muslim father at a young age that he can't recognize, nor admit, the real and present danger of the intolerant, violent jihadi ideology and its deep roots in the core of Islam. It seems to be almost an infantile mantra: Islam not bad ... Islam not bad ... Islam not bad!”
Rubin is so wrong and such a shit head, I’m embarrassed for him. Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan, order bombings and drone strikes through out the Middle East. Obama was so down for going after radical Islam, he droned an American citizen, and his son! Who wasn’t affiliated in a terrorist group, just the son of Anwar al-Awlaki.
Like Rubin’s inability to accurately observe historical events, so too did Ayn Rand. As Thomas Frank writes in ‘Pity the Billionaire’:
“To it’s present-day fans, it is a work of amazing prescience, the story of the over-regulating, liberty-smothering Obama administration told more than fifty years before it actually happened. For me, it is the political flimflam of our times wrapped up in on big package: the manifesto of the traders and deregulators who cause the economic disaster, embraced without a glimmer of awareness by the protest movement that the disaster stirred up.”
'Pity the Billionaire' Page 143.
Dave Rubin being a fan of Ayn Rand’s makes perfect sense. Dave Rubin claims that the left is the problem with society even though the right has the political power, goes hand in hand with Ayn’s Rand inability to see the world and history as it was, but rather in the Upside Down alternative dimension like that of Stranger Things.
Dave Rubin is a douchebag. He’s a douchebag that he call’s himself a “classical liberal.” He’s a douchebag for having racists like Katie Hopkins on his show, but doesn’t question them, instead says the left is the one that’s racist. As democracy faces a dark hour in our nation’s history, as climate change affects us and the world. I would say that Dave Rubin manipulates his audience the same way ExxonMobil does people about climate change, but Rubin is too stupid and lazy to do that…
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