Call for Q&A Questions!
Added 2025-12-08 19:15:40 +0000 UTCHard to believe we're about to say goodbye to 2025! I'm working on a little end of the year video where I'll ask the audience for feedback on the channel, thumbnails and titles, topics, etc. I'm also planning on doing another Q&A! This episode is slated for release December 19th, so if you have any questions you'd like me to answer in the video, drop them in the comments sometime before then! I'll try to get to as many as I can, you all asked so many good ones last time ❤️
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As always, thank you so much for what you do. I was wondering, what's an intelligent and balanced response when someone comes at you with a mind full of the propaganda we've heard our entire lives about socialism being a "bad" thing?
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2025-12-14 19:31:54 +0000 UTCHi, I came to the US from another country and your videos helped me a lot in understanding this society. Thanks for the Q&A, I have some questions that probably sound strange but they are all something I've been thinking about on the US society. (1) I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the college admission system of the US, or more generally, how the US selects who to run the country (social backgrounds, characters, values, etc). I have a vague idea that the unique college admission process in the US is one of the ways the US stabilizes the type of society (capitalistic) it is. I'm personally familiar with college admissions where everything is determined by exams. However, I learned that in the US, you have to do a ton of extracurricular activities, write (disingenuous) personal essay, and the exams are too easy to be differentiating. Further, the criteria they use to admit students are very opaque with things like "character". (And I do feel that the "character" of students in selective schools seems not diverse. Maybe this is just because of my small sample size, but I feel that they are racially diverse, but not in terms of values. Maybe this is related to the prevalent "leadership" requirement.) My interest in this also comes from the situation where there seem to be a lot of people opposing Israel, but pretty much all the ones in power support it. This makes me realize that the people in power in the US (corporate owners, politicians) come from a similar cultural background. In other words, even though there are conflicts on the surface, they are ultimately the same group of people sharing similar interests. Combining this with legacy admissions… I'm wondering if some arguments can be made. Besides, I don't quite understand why they all support Israel in the first place, though. (2) Do you think there would be a shift toward socialist policies for the US in the future? Do you think the younger generation sympathizes more with socialist ideas? I find it hard to imagine a bottom-up revolution in the US. If the US were to go towards socialism, I guess it would be a very gradual top-down process? (3) This one is not that related to politics so I probably shouldn't write this but it's just one observation I have about the US that I've been thinking and I'm wondering if you have any thoughts. Basically, recently in the US and throughout the western world, I see a lot of movement to censor and control the Internet more for the "safety of children". I generally noticed that the US wants far more control over its children. I know at least in some areas it's customary to install spy software in children's devices. Also, there are many cases where kids make obvious jokes (typically death-related) but get punishment even more than actual violence. It shows in many other places e.g. arts where children are far more portrayed as being protected rather than being the main driving character. I'm just thinking if this overprotection of children shows something fundamental about US social form, because I think you can get a lot of understanding about a culture by looking at how the children grew up.
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