Abandoning counter-revolutionary SLIME and adopting Maupin-thought!

hello it's me thought soap the clean boy who likes clean things i make a lot of videos 52 a year to be precise that's not including videos on scaredy cats or the newly formed mega slime entertainment zone not counting streams or bonus videos or whatever if i met my full obligation of videos this forthcoming year i would produce 469 nice videos where i'm always talking and shooting off my big mouth you can imagine that sometimes this makes some people wonderfully impotently angry at me i made a video like three years ago about ancaps and to this day i get new response videos that incoherently try to dispute it without addressing any of the points i made i've had many end cap stalkers because of that video which i don't understand because as my video is more popular than any of the videos which responded to it by their logic and the laws of the market it is therefore the superior video they should be thanking me typically i don't respond to these responses because that that's pointless come on i say the things i think and i'm happy to give others the last word i'm not going to get sucked into some back and forth with some weirdo online i'm not going to give them my attention they can say whatever they want about me they can think they won that's fine it's not like anything they're saying is interesting enough to respond to but then last week i made a video where i made fun of caleb maupin and jody braar as the latter said all sorts of wild transphobic shit and then the former nodded along gormlessly now i'll be honest i hadn't heard of either of these dinguses until i saw a clip from this interview tweeted by the serbs i thought it made a compelling case for the argument i wanted to make about how class reductionism divides the working class and the more i looked into it the more perfect of an example it became because it turns out caleb is always palling around with alexander dugan the nazbol guy the guy who made nas balls more on that later and so what better example of class reductionism can we find than a fascist sympathizing shitlord using the pretense of class to justify bigotry against a marginalized group predominantly composed of working-class people and i thought you know he'll probably have something to say about this but i did not expect the form his response would take and it has delighted me beyond my wildest expectations like bad empanada and the surfs before me links to their responses in the description i had to go over this video because it's quite frankly too funny to ignore hey folks so it's recently come to my attention that a certain internet pseudo-leftist personality who calls himself thoughtslime has decided to target jyoti braar a prominent communist leader and myself um the reason he's decided to go after us is because he disapproves of something that joti brah said in an interview i did with her nine months ago ah yes i targeted them with my insidious disagreement with their point of view i put a target on his back by disagreeing with the words that someone else said now this is not the first time that someone has tried to paint me as a bigot who advocates further oppression of the transgender community however i've always given a pretty clear answer when directly asked about the issue take a listen to what happened when bosch tried to gotcha me and paint me as a transphobe in our recent debate about tankies and their role in the left do you feel about transgender people if i might ask i think the way that they're treated is awful bullying hate crimes it's despicable the way people you know have been separated from their families kicked out of their households you know i mean i i feel nothing but empathy for people that are transgender and face all the hate and discrimination on that basis but you agree that gender reassignment surgery is a valid way of um of of addressing their you know a gender dysphoria in many cases an adult chooses to do that that's their business it has nothing to do with me okay well hate crimes discrimination bullying is something that any progressive would oppose i i i'm with you on that yeah what about china nice try vosh sneakily trying to get him with a gotcha like that this is the oldest trick in the book here's how this works is is this how you get people you ask a question right then what you do is you listen patiently as they respond and kind of just nod and indicate that the answer is better than they expected and then right that's when the trap is sprung and you just move on to another subject you gotta wake up pretty early in the morning to trick caleb with that kind of good faith discussion the thing is i've always understood the transgender issue to be an issue of human rights transgender people are victims of hate crimes very frequently by bigots who somehow feel threatened by their very existence transgender people have difficulty finding jobs because of discrimination and employment transgender people uh often face being kicked out of their households because their families reject them and don't accept them not only have i always taken this position but i've been quite active around it before i was a journalist when i was an activist on many occasions i took to the streets of new york city to march for trans rights and now you'll notice that the clip which this thought slime individual objected to was not about whether transgender people should be beaten up and killed wasn't about whether they should face discrimination and hiring wasn't about whether their families should reject them wasn't about any of that it was about transgender ideology and honestly i do not know enough about this topic i am not well informed enough about the issue of transgender ideology uh to make a comment on it hey caleb i don't recall calling you a transphobe in my video i did take issue with the transphobic argument someone else made in a video you published i never meant to insinuate you were a transphobe i just think you're sympathetic to the arguments transphobes make because you sat and listened and offered no resistance and also you're probably a transphobe but too cowardly to admit it what do you think is the justification of those human rights abuses where do you think that comes from why is it do you think caleb that people discriminate against trans people since by your own admission you're not educated on the subject let me explain it to you it comes from the unscientific insistence that people are somehow not the gender they identify with our view is and it's not about people we're not against a trans person it's the ideology that's being pushed on people that says you are what you think you are this is the root cause of the human rights abuses you care so deeply about trans people are excluded from gendered bathrooms on this basis the trump administration is keeping them out of homeless shelters on this basis despite the fact that the trans community is disproportionately homeless because people kick them out of their homes on this basis transpanic murders are committed on this basis and some of the murderers are acquitted on this basis it's good that you're willing to stand up and fight for trans rights but if your allyship does not extend to considering trans men to be men trans women to be women and non-binary people being valid then you're just going to bat for the root cause of the oppression you're fighting the symptoms of people are who they say they are people understand the reality of their own relationship with gender better than others do you refer to this as simply transgender ideology insinuates that trans people are indoctrinating people that they're deliberately confusing the issue to suit some sinister agenda that is in fact the claim that jody brawler made that i took issue with the claim that you made no effort to dispute or even question the likes of mr thought slime try to portray it as if you must be a supporter of imperialism if you are to advocate against the oppression of transgender people and furthermore all who defend anti-imperialist and existing socialist states are somehow advocates of harming transgender people yeah man that's definitely what i think caleb i love imperialism big fan of imperialism around here but hypothetically wouldn't it be embarrassing for you if in the very video you're responding to i expressly said you had to fight imperialism in order to stand for trans rights and i think that would look a little something like this capitalism is built on white supremacy it's built on patriarchy it's built on cis heteronormativity on ableism on settler colonialism on imperialism it's an interlocking and mutually reinforcing system we don't get to pick and choose you either fight the whole thing or you're fighting none of it you're giving quarter to it fucking got him i fucking got him everybody who was the first prominent transgender activist in us history it was leslie feinberg leslie feinberg was a leader of the workers world party and leslie feinberg was a tanki she was a defender of cuba a defender of north korea a defender of the soviet union in china she spoke in defense of the islamic republic of iran she spoke in defense of many governments around the world and she viewed the transgender struggle as a struggle that was involved with tearing down u.s imperialism so couple things boy caleb once again it'd just be so embarrassing for you if i said that exact thing in my video the one that you were right now responding to leslie feinberg was by no means the first american prominent transgender activist the term transgender is relatively modern she may well have been the first activist to self-identify using that term i don't know but there were many trans activists in the united states before her including its stonewall where the modern lgbtq rights movement was born that being said leslie absolutely deserves recognition for her work which i would never try to take away from her i never said and wouldn't say that all marxists or all marxist leninists are transphobes because i don't believe that i do believe jodie brar is not because she's a marxist leninist but rather because of all of the transphobic shit she said out loud using her mouth now i'm not a marxist leninist myself and i tend to actually disagree with a lot of marxist leninist positions but i'd be willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of marxist leninists would be likewise disgusted by miss brower's comments which i don't think reflect the popular ml position now i don't know whether what jyoti braar said about the ideology being promoted by many transgender activists today is correct or not i simply don't have the knowledge i've heard people from both sides of the issue talk and they they both say things that are very persuasive i just don't know enough about it however however even if jyoti braar were to be dead wrong about this issue even if everything she said was completely wrong that would not take away from the fact that jyoti braar is an amazing heroic anti-imperialist activist seems like you kind of do know though seems like you know you do you do agree with her otherwise you wouldn't be so mad that i responded to it and that would make your your unwillingness to admit that and kind of throw her under the bus in this matter kind of cowardly having a good opinion or doing good work in one area does not absolve you of your other shitty opinions you get that right like i never said jodie brauer's human scum incapable of ever thinking anything good or doing anything worthwhile ever i said she got the trans issue wrong because of how she said the words out loud that were wrong in fact my whole point was about class reductionism how various vectors of oppression get collapsed and ignored to focus on a myopic view of class and now you're arguing that she can't have a bad take about this vector of oppression because she has such good class takes that's too perfect for words you've proven my point caleb you little cutie is it possible that great revolutionary activists who do great important amazing work to oppose capitalism and imperialism can also make mistakes yes it is but not according to mr thought slime if you say one thing that he disagrees with not about human rights but rather about ideology you're a nazbol that's what he referred to me as and not only are you wrong but you deserve to be beaten up that's basically what he's arguing here he would have myself someone who has been very outspoken and opposing all forms of oppression he would have joty brahr a prominent leader of communist activists and a woman of color in the united kingdom attacked as red browns and nazbulls huh no no no no that's a complete misrepresentation that's not why i called you a nos bowl it's because you're always powering around with dugan the nozzle guy after this i come out of a left background but i saw uh donald trump speak and there were many times that he spoke and i applauded i heard him talk about how you know there's this elite that is not loyal to the united states these international bankers i called jodie brauer no such thing i have no evidence that she's a nozbel aside from her agreeing to do an interview with you which doesn't reflect well in her in that matter let me back up here if you're not familiar with nozbels let me show you the noswell flag hey does that set off any alarm bells in your mind that make you think of anything how about this one that look familiar does that make you think of anything does that make you think of any group in history nozbels are nazis with a soviet aesthetic i could go into detail about the bizarre philosophy that undergirds this but it's nonsense made up to justify sneaking fast shit into leftist spaces it bills itself as a synthesis of fascism and socialism which means that it's just fascism but they say bourgeois and proletariat more here's caleb giving a speech about how the left is a culture of weakness you know anything that is perceived of his weakness or or disempowering that's worshipped and anything that is conceived of his strength or showing pride in oneself or building up one's strength that's attacked and that said well that's fascist why who's that jaunty little creep right next to him who's nodding along why it's alexander dugan because they're at a nozbe conference so that's why i called you that caleb because you are that thing very demonstrably but for full contacts let's play the clip where i called for violence against them and discuss whether or not i went too far okay my my producer is giving me word that i i didn't actually say that that's just a thing he made up and then said that i said now i need you to fasten your seat belts folks for the next clip because things are about to go off the friggin rails pretty hard this understanding that i have that sometimes people can take very good progressive views on some issues while being problematic and very wrong on others doesn't simply apply to communists i have been widely attacked because i will defend and uphold the role played by the black minister louis farrakhan minister louis farrakhan of the nation of islam is not a communist and there are things that he has said about jewish people and about the lgbt community that i vehemently disagree with caleb you just got mad that i called you an osmol and then to defend yourself you stand a vicious anti-semite if you wanted to make the point that otherwise worthwhile figures could have bad social views or be incidentally bigoted in some way that doesn't really reflect the totality of their work even if you wanted to specifically go with anti-semitism as your example you could have picked karl marx dude karl marx made a few anti-semitic remarks but i think most people would agree it's he's still a pretty worthwhile leftist thinker farrakhan hasn't made a few anti-semitic remarks he's a holocaust denier and he says that satanic jews control the world and the government he puts jews at the center of black oppression you can't divorce his views from his anti-semitism you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to him but of course caleb thinks farrakhan is great because unlike c.i.a funded trotskyists he supported gaddafi that in 2011 when nato bombs were falling and libya faced a bombing and an onslaught at the hands of u.s imperialism the trotskyites were cheering for that intervention why oh gaddafi's a dictator gaddafi's a stalinist gaddafi's an imperialist but here is what minister louis farrakhan not a communist said why do you hate gaddafi does he share the wealth of libya with the poor now gaddafi is a complicated historical figure he did a lot of good things for libya he got people health care and education and all sorts of social benefits on the other hand and content warning there will be some discussion of sexual assault and hate crimes coming up so skip to the time code here to avoid that he also had a dungeon where he took abducted citizens to rape and torture them there are pictures of it since i know caleb will attempt to pretend that's just the cia rumor he also had gay people publicly flogged and he crushed dissent of any kind with public executions and if i were to pick a world leader for whom support was non-negotiable as a socialist i probably wouldn't go with the guy who was worth 200 billion us dollars at the time of his death we're only a third of the way through folks that just let that sink in because it's it gets weirder from here just just watch this is him explaining how he seems to understand the class struggle the fact that a small handful of rich ghouls owns most of the money and will all die of starvation and exposure if we don't get some of it even though we're producing more than we need and throwing away almost half of everything at a time when that overproduction is poised to make our planet uninhabitable just so that the already unfathomably rich ghouls can have a computer readout that says that their wealth increased by 0.0001 percent and the only way that you can get the means of your survival is by throwing yourself into perpetual and worsening exploitation forever need to worry about making a living and surviving the forthcoming end of the world while the aforementioned handful of rich ghouls don't so according to mr thought slime the problem with capitalism isn't that in the pursuit of profits capitalists are organizing the economy irrationally and that even though the levels of productivity are rising people are getting further and further into poverty the problem with capitalism is that there's just too many resources being used there's [Music] what caleb my sweet sweet summer child this is such a willful misreading of what i said too many people in the world we all have too much stuff our over producing that's called malthusianism and malthusianism is an idea that karl marx thoroughly refuted mr thought slime should read theories of surplus value and read how karl marx completely refuted this ideology that there are limited resources in the world and that we're headed towards some kind of apocalypse unless we can drastically reduce the human population and get rid of useless eaters i in fact don't think that the world is overpopulated i don't think the issue is that people are using too many resources i very consciously chose the word overproduction not over consumption and that's an indisputable facet of how modern neoliberal industry is fucking over everyone things like huge stockpiles of food being thrown away rather than feeding the hungry fast fashion manufactured obsolescence single-use plastics these are just facts of modern capitalist production caleb my point was never that the world is overpopulated or that we had to get rid of useless eaters i mentioned overproduction in a rant about how the economy is organized to suit bourgeois interests the overproduction i'm talking about doesn't feed people it in fact detracts from our ability to feed people that's the problem he's just putting words in my mouth here because he can't actually refute the substance of anything i've said he has to take me out of context while also showing his audience my words in context just word to the wise my dude you're editing this if you wanted to make up lies about me you could just cut out the parts where i demonstrate those lies aren't true it's it's simply amazing but watching this video forces me to ask some more questions about mr thought slime his beliefs and his motivations take a look at this part mean a black dude might be equally exploited working at a burger king together say you're working at burger king your coworker comes to you because they know you're a big time left though big time workers rights kind of person and they're like hey i think i might be trans and i want to start to transition but i'm really afraid that if i do i'll lose my job hmm burger king now i really doubt that mr thought slime has ever worked in fast food well you got me there caleb i've i've never worked fast food but hypothetically caleb wouldn't it be embarrassing for you if i had worked fast food and several other shitty minimum wage jobs and the video right before the video you were responding to was about that and if within the first few seconds of that video i mentioned working in fast food specifically for several years i've had many shitty jobs throughout the years and sometimes i like to make videos about them and this is one of those videos if you've been following this small series you'll remember that i worked for a canadian coffee chain called tim hortons i also worked at a pizza hut in a gas station that later was no longer a pizza hut in a gas station however i did work in fast food when i was a college student one summer during my college years i actually worked at a sandwich shop that was fast food in cleveland area near the college i went to and i'll kayla don't you think it'd just be humiliating for you if rather than touring working-class life for one summer in college i in fact worked in such jobs for over a decade to survive wouldn't that embarrass you wouldn't that make you look like a real asshole caleb intuits that i've never worked in fast food for me saying the word burger in a funny way that's his evidence from that he can draw a conclusion hmm burger king he is a professional journalist everyone the thing is it's a joke i like to put jokes in my video so that they're fun to watch instead of just ranting into a webcam for half an hour getting matter and madder at a version of my opponent i made up say you're working at burger king your co-worker comes to you because they know you're a big time left though big time workers rights kind of person and they're like hey i think i might be trans and i want to start to transition but i'm really afraid that if i do i'll lose my job hmm and i'll tell you one thing the last thing that i ever did when i was working assembling hamburgers and running the fryer at a fast food place was to talk to my co-workers about their gender identity uh we weren't sitting there and having group therapy and talking about discrimination or how we felt about our gender identities we were being driven to work harder and harder and harder i see you you did learn to edit me out of context you're getting there buddy the example i was giving there was of a situation where someone might build solidarity in the workplace and how your sneering condescension to workers would not do that when i worked at those kind of jobs we often had deep probing conversations like we weren't allowed to we weren't supposed to but when you're a vaguely sociable human being other people just kind of open up to you if you spend hours a day with them about their home lives their love life their sexuality all just kind of came up maybe no one discussed those things with you because you seem like a real asshole who wouldn't listen or treat them with respect if they did which is why in the example i gave that you very cleverly edited to disguise that fact i said that the solution to the problem was to build solidarity behold the viewing globe say you're working at burger king your co-worker comes to you because they know you're a big time left though big time workers rights kind of person and they're like hey i think i might be trans and i want to start to transition but i'm really afraid that if i do i'll lose my job which of the following responses is more likely to get that person involved in the struggle against capitalism a i'll support you however i can as workers we have to stick together because our bosses will seek to divide us i'll do whatever it takes to protect your rights how can i help or be no you're delusional you're oppressed in this job and that's the one thing that matters read marx according to this pseudo leftist milieu if you talk about working people if you talk about class struggle if you rant against the billionaires and bankers and monopolists that rule the world you're a fascist according to them working class is a fascist buzzword according to them working families is somehow a discriminatory phrase yep yeah you got me again caleb but hypothetically wouldn't it be embarrassing for you liberals will use the term class reductionism to just mean like someone who talks about class and that's bullshit and that's not what it is when i use the term class reductionist i'm not necessarily calling anyone a bigot i'm not saying you're a bad person or a bad leftist necessarily i think it's a thing that anyone can just do sometimes myself included for them socialism is about the individuality of artists and middle class intellectuals and them standing up against the mob of inferior rabble who don't go to nyu to learn about these abstract gender theories that you must immediately agree with or else you're the equivalent of adolf hitler caleb i went to memorial university of newfoundland because the tuition was the cheapest there and it was all i could afford at the time i didn't study abstract gender theory but i did live in constant fear that people would discover my secret longing to express a different gender than the one i was assigned at birth because that's this isn't actually an abstract issue for me it's it is for you and and not me so there's that okay get ready get ready everyone because if you gave me a million years i'd never think of an ending this dip shitted just just observe i think the best way to understand the difference between this individual and myself is simply to look at the name that he gave himself thought slime and the image in the background of his video mr thought slime has this image of slime green gross slime pouring out of a sewer behind him the whole time he is speaking working people are trying to get rid of slime they're trying to get rid of dirt they don't like the fact that you know the infrastructure of the united states is falling apart that our roads and bridges are in decay that our water is being contaminated with lead that opioids and drugs are taking the lives of working people in big numbers that there's hopelessness and despair among working people that so much poverty is taking place they don't like that working people want to get to a better life and that is the difference folks there's a reason that the cia at the same time it was covertly funding trotskyites and anti-communist leftists with its congress for cultural freedom program also covertly funded the work of jackson pollock and tried to marginalize the school of art known as social realism so many countries have broken free from capitalism and when they've done it they haven't tried to make their countries more slimy and gross they haven't put up paintings of abstract art and jackson pollock instead they have built some of the most beautiful cities some of the most beautiful subway systems the most beautiful gardens that you've ever seen working people are trying to get out of the slime first of all i take great umbrage with you saying that the slime behind me is disgusting it's not people often say that they want to eat the slime i don't blame them it looks like ecto cooler it looks delicious how dare you you know what fine if that's what it takes to get through to you fine i'll conform to the same bourgeois respectability standard that you think is working class for some reason mr caleb malpin would have you believe that to argue with someone you simply have to invent a position that they could hold and then argue with that well i disagree i think it's better to argue with the positions that a person actually holds which is why i always state my positions clearly i believe that trans men are men trans women or women non-binary people are valid i don't consider this to be an abstract ideological position but rather the basis for the material oppression of trans and gender non-conforming people mr maupin seems unwilling to state his position on the subject and i have a suspicion as to why that is he believes that if he obscures the issue makes it out to be some inscrutable ideological position that he couldn't possibly hope to untangle without some liberal college education you'll let him off the hook surely though you do understand that you caleb are the gender you feel that you are surely you understand how insulting and hurtful it would be if everyone else decided you were a woman and treated you as such this isn't a highfalutin idea it's about as simple as it gets but even if i were to accept his excuse that he's simply uneducated on the subject and thus does not want to comment why then did he platform miss brower's comments on the subject in the first place knowing that many as he said would consider them to be hate speech you also talked about you know being accused of hate speech and i've noticed increasingly there is a lot less tolerance for different views in left circles i mean just everything you've said here would be grounds to get you banned from various left-wing conventions or gatherings i mean you know someone could even i've even heard people advocate violence against people who who state such things and why would he not look into why that is if this is a matter of simply being uneducated why didn't he educate himself further before defending what miss bharara said defending her points while making clear that he has no position on the subject himself is in my opinion cowardly and this points to the key ideological difference between someone like mr caleb malpin and myself i don't believe you can draw a neat little line between bigoted ideology and the material results of that ideology i'm sure mr maupin will have all sorts of ridiculous claims in how he chooses to respond to this video but if he is to be honest in this discussion he must be pressed to answer one specific question are trans women women are trans men men are non-binary people valid unless he can answer in the affirmative he is upholding the bigoted and oppressive view that holds back trans workers and can't meaningfully be said to be an advocate of the working class without putting an asterisk next to the term hello and welcome to the eyeball zone here in the eyeball zone the eyeballs cleanse and here in the eyeball zone the eyeballs cleanse and lord oculon casts a long shadow from cradle to grave over small leftist content creators who need eyeballs on their work folks no fucking around this time let's go with the meat and potatoes discussion of gender from david j bradley where he talks about how masculinity came to be in crisis what that means how it affects dudes and non-dudes alike and how gendered expectations can feed directly into toxic masculinity it goes into judith butler's performative gender theory which i touched on in the previous video but didn't really go into detail about because i was rushing do you have a small leftist project you'd like to see featured here in the eyeball zone send me no more than one email to thoughtslime editor at gmail.com with pertinent information like your pronouns and perhaps you will be trapped here in the eyeball zone well thanks for watching another kooky old video of mine everybody what a character this caleb i bet he's gonna have something to say about this but i'd wanna do what a doofus if you like this video you know press the like button or whatever i don't even care you know whatever uh subscribe also not that it's a big deal to me not that i like you or anything why am i doing it this way if you like the video why not press that like button it's easy to do it's good for you you can also subscribe here for new videos every friday at 12pm eastern standard time if you'd like more videos from me why not check out youtube.com scaredycatstv where i talk about horror movies or youtube.com mega slime entertainment zone where i play video games you can also watch me on live streams every 8 pm 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Published: Fri Jul 24 2020