Howdy folks

I honestly became a patreon to check is Shaun is still alive. xD Happy to hear you are back!

Lex

Hey, completely unrelated but I didn't know where to ask. I'm planning to raise my pledge and I'd like to know if changing the currency to Pounds helps you. That's all :)

Matze

This article is gross and sad, so I'm sorry to share it with you, but it was posted today and it's on topic, so I thought I would share anyway https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/09/trumans-terrible-choice-75-years-ago

Looking forward to watching the video! Thank you Shaun

Heck yea

What's Therapy

Good luck. Thank you for the pic.

A Goblin

Lol chill year for you Shaun. I'm jelly. This year for me is FUUUUCKED

Soi Born

"2020 has been a fairly chill year so far" I'm glad at least you're doing well :)

gibbon.jpg thank you Shaun

Help Lucy Yeet Her Meat @ givealittle

I'll be interested in seeing how you handle the bombings. It is, in my experience, one of the few issues where BS arguments on the left even remotely approch the order of magnitude of the BS flowing in from the right, so it will be interesting to see how (or if) you walk that tightrope.

Jesse Berg

I can't wait for the video. The mainstream view of those bombings is abysmal. "Yeah it was terrible but it had to be done" yeah, bullshit. Anyway love your work, and wanna say you should swap out the skull for the monkey

Zachery Gregg

Hey Shaun, just wanted to say your videos are hugely appreciated x

Jiminy Sminters

I live under a rock. Nothing happening here.

gridsleep

thank you mister skull.

kendall

oooh, I'm looking forward to it and I'm sure there is a lot to cover :/ I hope it doesn't contribute to more burnout, the subject being what it is. best of luck with it!

alexis

Yes! I've wanted you or someone like you to cover this topic for a long while. There are so many weird arguments and cases of history written by the victors regarding this. Looking forward to it!

Håkon Kleppe Normann

For me, your essay on The Bell Curve bought you the year. Stay healthy!

WH

Return to monke

BradfordGuberland

This will be a great video for Americans like me. Our self understanding should be based on the truth. In this time of wider discussions of abolition of the Police depts in our cities and towns and of the US Mil, I go back and forth. Some things, getting rid of the songs flags and uniforms most of the lethal weaponry, I think would be unqualified goods. Cutting the budgets 30-50% with the understanding that it will go much lower in the future as needed, good. I wonder though how much of the problem is inside of all of us from living in this silly place and will be with us in a diminished way even if we dissolve the political/social/economic institutions entirely, the name America, the stars and stripes, etc and start over regionally or whatever people want, each institution from scratch based on truth and justice. I want to do that sometimes reading history and listening to my compatriots today. But Marxism as I understand it was at least in part a popularization of materialism. I think I'm more of a Spinozist but none of that stuff ultimately matters. Names and ideas are combinations of sounds that would mean the same thing if they referred to the same things like how we are able to translate books written in one language into another. At any rate materialism to me means not worrying so much about songs and flags and focusing on what we are actually doing and it's lived out impact on ourselves and others. I think getting history revised or understood for the first time is a big big part of shifting what America means to people from a commercial for the marines or even the NFL game to be more on the biggest ways we have ever directly impacted other people and what those actions say about who we were then. Thank you for your forthcoming video and for all of your work.

im looking forward to it!

My wife and I are huge fans and very appreciative of the work you put into your videos. It is very apparent from the smooth delivery and deep research that many, many, MANY hours go into each video. Thank you for all you do!

Take your time Shaun! We love you and your mental health is the most important thing! Also that’s a cute gibbon 🤗