He's not American, so he might've had a different view on things. The view of many pro business not-quite-Americans is of this place as a land of promise and opportunity. It's why so many immigrate in hoping them or their children can make a good life, when they're really just convenient labor for the ruling class. Still a stale af take though.
If he was from anywhere other than Canada, sure. But as a Canadian? America is paper thin but extremely loud. Being next door and seeing Americans come up here for medication costs and America using us for their entertainment? We Canadians get all of Americas media but without the propaganda from the top of our government down forcing American supremacy. For Canadians it is easy as hell to see through the American dream nonsense. ESPECIALLY when you consider the running joke in Canada for decades is that our favorite national pass time is saying how were not the Americans. Not like we ever really liked the US up here.
Note I said "pro business," which probably checks out for someone who's formed connections with multiple tech businesses over the years. When you're around people who believe something like that, it often seeps into your way of understanding the world. Now that the neoliberal house of cards is collapsing, Linus is realizing that the tech business community themselves were the biggest believers in the lie.
Yea idk listening to the clip it's probably not a new idea of his, just thought the cover was kinda funny
Anyways, he literally says in the clip that the American dream (of at least middle class prosperity) was mostly real for the baby boomer generation so I don't really know why they titled it that
Next LinusMediaGroup video is titled "I'm turning my company into a worker-owned cooperative", and the thumbnail is Linus standing in front of a red star on a black background. In the intro of the video, he says this:
You know the cliché: socialism doesn't work. Everyone is telling you it'll lead to starvation, because of the holodomor. But after I did the bare minimum of actual research that did not involve any far-right think-tanks, it turns out the holodomor was caused by the Ukrainians not wanting to suck it up to Stalin, and then Stalin doing a bit of a revenge, instead of "planned economy" and a lack of "infinite growth". So I did even more research, it turns out, just like the right has its more quote mark "libertarian" counterpart, socialism, at least originally, was a very libertarian movement, it's just the definition was changed by both Stalinist regimes, and those far-right think-tanks. And it's actually awesome when implemented correctly! You know what else is awesome? Our sponsor squarespace.
Anyone who keeps bringing up “allegations” against Linus is huffing too many of Steve’s farts. Dude can’t even bother to actually bring facts to the table, and has made shitting on Linus his entire personality and channel money maker.
I'm referring primarily to the Rossmann allegations. He accuses him of only caring about his image, and low and behold he doesnt respond (because it would hurt his image).
Also, I do not give a fuck if Linus wants to accuse Steve of having poor journalistic integrity after he repeatedly reported on interviews Steve has done without so much as a credit.
Just because Steve didn't kneel down and suck Linus off does not make him a poor journalist. What Linus did is theft, and GN not reaching out for comment in advance does not change this.