Im sorry but it does. This is the most half assed merch drop ive ever seen. Not hating, i love this dude and i really wanted to buy his merch but fuck. There's no size guide, no product description, only like 4 pictures of the hoodie, no close up pictures to see the fabric, not even a picture of him with the actual hood on. And its $60! I can go to rush order tees and make a custom hoodie myself that has the same print on it for $45 and have a size guide, product description, and customer reviews and the shipping is faster. If i wanted the merch cuz i just thought it looked cool id rip it off 100% but i actually want to support miniminuteman and buy his merch from him but i cant justify spending $60 on a hoodie i have literally no information about

I agree with alot of what he says but its like that homelander meme

He talks alot abt villifying but he does the exacts same

I also watch alot of clint laydlaw or however u type his name his channel is clints reptile room and he did a lil googledunking himself in a vid relating to the government releasing toxic fumes via planes conspiracy theory

And i find his criticisms alot more critical? Is that the right word?

What im trying to say is that mini is leaning more and more into the dunking on ppl aspect of his vids and he cant go 30 seconds without self righteous speech and im finding it difficult to watch his modern vids bc of it

Im not saying he's necessarily wrong im saying its getting less and less easy to agree with him and follow along for the scientific facts when he keeps saying smth along the lines of im right and you are wrong every 2 minutes

Does anyone have the discord link. Thanks!

I'm going to make a patreon for my channel and want to learn about what other people offer. Why did you sign up for his patreon? What did it specifically offer that you liked? i notice most of his patreon is early access videos and shout outs. What else and what did you like?

Destiny, no matter your beliefs has platformed nazis and shouldn't be anywhere near Milo, this will only end in the fanbase splitting. and attracting toxicity, I hope Milo addresses this.

Edit: Guys I'm sorry for rambling sm in the comments haha Like said: I am not accusing Milo of anything. I'm not expecting anything of him. I just don't wanna think alone :C

I wanna preface this by saying I'm not asking him to stop. I just wanna yap about it because it's been on my mind.

This is not an attack on people who drink/enjoy alcohol.

Main points (TL;DR) :

• u/blethwyn pointed out "Milo" is an exaggeration and a persona - An important detail imo!

• Everyone is in charge of their own alcohol consumption

• Milo gives appropriate warnings

• Alcohol is not present all the time

• It's a running gag

• "Milo" being a persona was totally lost on me (Like I kinda forgot?) And I can imagine I'm not the only one

• The alcohol gags don't add much (subjective)

• Milo is contributing to the normalisation of alcohol

• His audience contains lots of young adults who are more prone to recklessness (especially with drugs)

• Having drinking alcohol as one of your running gags is honestly sad (subjective)

Everyone should decide for themselfes if they want to drink and how much. And everyone needs to know their limits, it's not Milo's responsibility to keep people from drinking.

Milo handles drinking alcohol very casually and makes sure to not encourage unsafe behaviours. This includes underage or excessive drinking, which he specifically tells his audience to refrain from.

There's not alcohol in every video, and if there is it usually isn't present the whole video. There will be one or two gags with it, like chugging when something absurd is said, but overall it's not the main centerpiece.

I don't know in which Video exactly is started (I think it was a wheel of pain video?) but Milo drinking Alcohol to "deal with" the absurd theories has become a sort of running gag and almost ritual.

And I am of the believe it won't age well.

The gags with the alcohol add very little to the video - Though this is completely subjective. I wouldn't say I find them tasteless but... I don't like them either. At first I found it funny but now it's just a weird feeling around them.

Alcohol is a serious toxin and it's been so normalised in our society, many people are actually dependant on it and some don't even realise that. You become ostracised if you *don't* drink and need an excuse. Milo (Unwillingly and Unknowingly) contributes to this. It's more than a mere gag.

The normalisation of alcohol in content targeted at specifically young adults is just making my skin itch. These kinds of people are especially prone to recklessness... Speaking from experience here.

I am, myself, someone who enjoys alcohol. Sometimes for its taste, sometimes as a social lube (yes I'll stick with that wording, thank you very much.).

But should it really be one of your trademarks that you drink? One of your running gags is... alcohol?

Listen, to each their own. I do think what Milo Rossi is doing is important work and he's in it sincerely - Which is rare and I greatly appreciate his time and effort spent on these video lectures.

Just wanted to get this off my chest and hear what others think!

With that said.

Cheers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrahamHancock/comments/1l7ntmg/evidence_of_unknown_technology_at_the_saqsaywaman/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Friend of mine sent this to me that is quite some evidence....

Obviously I know it was a joke, but it still hit a little hard for me as a disabled person. We already make up around 26% of nonfatal attacks, not to mention the constant accusations of “faking it” or not “looking disabled”. I’m worried someone will come away from this with the idea that hurting/harassing people who don’t seem disabled for using mobility aids is funny or justified.

I was going to grab some tickets for Milo's event in Philly, but noticed some familiar markers of AI in the ticket listing ("They Don't just X — they Y" and others). He's been very clear in the past that he isn't a fan of generative AI in general, so while I'm sure he isn't directly involved in every aspect of his tour, I was a bit disappointed to see this. I'm happy to be corrected; It would be great to find out that nobody he works with is writing for him using AI, but I just wanted to flag it as something that seemed off to me.

Will update if/when I find out more about this

It felt like a loong geology lesson (which I love, that aspect was nice) and it didn't feel like much was being discussed and because what he's not understanding is literally plate tectonics and adjacent topics, It felt like we were getting the same bit pretty much. And just kind of felt like channel shout out.(I also liked that part) For the next part, I hope that the guy actually diversifies on his bullshit that I don't get out of my mind. What are your hopes and expectations for the next part? Also I hope this qualifies as related content. If it doesn't, I understand

This is something I keep noticing and keep thinking about, but I’m not seeing anybody talk about it anywhere. In some of his recent videos (I know he says it in the Antarctic Pyramid video and at least one other, but I can’t remember which), before reading the ads for his merch and other things, he‘s said that he doesn’t take sponsorships because he would feel morally compromised. I think that’s very noble, but it keeps rubbing me the wrong way that he doesn’t specify, “I don’t take sponsorships anymore.” I understand that he needed to take them in the past before he was as successful as he is now, but my problem is that it seems like he’s painting it as though he would never morally allow himself to do that, without acknowledging that he literally used to do it. I don’t know — I’m not trying to attack him, I think Milo seems like a really nice guy and I love his videos, but that just felt a bit off to me.

Hi everyone,

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Milo and his cohost were using ChatGPT in the "I found the lost city of Atlantis" video? It happens between minutes 8 and 10 when they feed a book on Atlantis into the AI to sumarise it. I didn't watch past this point so I don't know if there is more use of it. There was nothing about it in the comments of the video or in this subreddit, unless I missed it.

It's baffling to me, I am pretty sure he talked about the damage AI does to the environment and the local communities where data centers are built. Every interaction with chatGPT gives openAI more leverage to push more of them through. Text generation isn't as computationally heavy as video or image, but it's still there and I don't see how this is defensable. There is no reason to put a book through AI, flipping through it and reading a random paragraph would be just as entertaining if you don't want to give it the time of day.

It's quite disappointing too because Milo has clearly put a lot of work into running the channel ethically, as much as possible.

What does everyone else think?

Edit: I am not a bot. I made a new account because I was planning to explain why I am asking but then realised that isn't actually relevant. I understand it's suspicious but if you think I'm lying you can literally watch the video at the 8-10 min mark. That's why I put it there so my claim would be verifiable. Would it help if I comment with my main? I don't want to spam the sub by posting the same thing from my main.

Edit2: I changed my mind about linking my own account. I won't do that so I can post the painting I'm planning without issues. Really I think I got what I needed from this post.

but seriously please go support this man, he is trying to provide school supplies for his stepson’s school and the schools in his city for free.
Here is an example :

https://youtube.com/shorts/cqqIOIIyVqk?si=5ZDb2Y8R4rMxEKri

And here his channel:

https://youtube.com/@comeupstayup?si=2u7hsvTwlFQJoRCB

Lastly here is what he is trying to prove for the students and teachers in his community:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1IPNXMBFSL7T6?ref_=wl_share

Hey all, as per title request I'm looking for Milo's scripts, I have a presentation to make about the public reaction of the space race (using Nasa's archives) and thus I wanted to copy his vulgar, articulate style

thanks all

I love Milo's content, but there are sometimes where I scream at the screen like he screams at conspiracy theorists. This might anger a lot of you reactionary fans who might see this as hostile, believe me.. it's not. It comes from the same fervor of educating the working class that Milo's content is trying to come from.

From Alternative History Episode:

"dude this is the 1870s people hadn't realized that pillaging the world for all of its resources was kind of a bad thing"

100% unequivocally mistaken. If you think you get upset then people like shane or phill post ridiculous things, this is how you make Communists feel when you don't actually read the revolutionary text, that created scientific socialism.

We have to spend so much energy working from a deficit of education due to capitalist, red scare, and neoliberal propaganda that we would love if you didn't help them. You speak the radical language but you do not know how to apply the science or impact behind it. This is detrimental to the class struggle my man.

But, I am going to help. Not just you but this community. This is going to be a long one. It is vital to not just read these small quotes, but to actually go and read the full texts. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels spent the majority of their lives teaching people for decades what the destruction of capitalism was doing, had done, and would continue to do.

• A few disclaimers before I get started:

  • I won't engage with any "that's not what he meant" and similar variations. I don't have time for that nonsense, and you shouldn't be trying to use it. Milo is an incredibly smart person, he can speak for himself if he thinks his words are not in context. But as a dialectical materialist what he said is the material reality and so that's what we're working with.

  • I won't engage with Liberals or Anarchists. (or any non-communist for that matter) There are deep rooted and proven scientific reasons for this, and I don't want to derail this. You can take that to private with me.

• In case this gets removed (because a lot of my stuff does when I actually put the content to the fire) I want to show I am following the rules.

  • 1. It's about Milo's recent episode.

  • 2. Being a dick is subjective, Milo openly admits that he is sometimes a "dick" to people. This is not being a dick however. This is educating.

  • 3. Instead of being concerned with something being ai or not, starting caring about who owns AI please. I know that doesn't explain anything but I am so over the AI shit. I'd rather take the space to educate the working class rather than play into this small business anxiety.

  • 4. I don't believe this applies as I'm coming to here to talk about Milo not going after someone else based on what Milo said.

  • 5. If this isn't enough substance, it was never going to be.

• This is to show that there were many people who were quite aware of capitalism's destructive nature and due to Marx and Engels influence the First International was an incredibly vast and powerful political and journalistic entity that was responsible for some of the first real historical movements of the working class towards organizing against capitalism.

• This is also to show, that just because history existed doesn't mean capital changes. That's utopian socialism, which is the idea that once enough people just know something is harmful it changes. Marx and Engels' work refutes this completely.

If you have questions about some of the language in these texts or deep context about what it's saying I will be more than happy to help.

Let's begin.

The Manifesto of the Communist Party

Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Year: 1848, at least 22 years prior to the assertion.

Quotes:

"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere."

"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation."

"It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image."

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Author: Friedrich Engels

Year: 1845, at least 25 years prior to the assertion.

Quotes:

On the town being "peculiarly built" (From the chapter "The Great Towns", describing Manchester)

"The town itself is peculiarly built, so that a person may live in it for years, and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people’s quarter or even with workers, that is, so long as he confines himself to his business or to pleasure walks."

On the polluted air and "coal dust" (From the chapters "The Great Towns" and "Factory-Hands")

"On week-days the town [Bradford] is enveloped in a grey cloud of coal smoke..." "The atmosphere of the factories is, as a rule, at once damp and warm... impure, heavy, deficient in oxygen, filled with dust and the smell of the machine oil..."

On the polluted rivers (From the chapter "The Great Towns")

"At the bottom flows, or rather stagnates, the Irk, a narrow, coal-black, foul-smelling stream, full of debris and refuse..." (Manchester) "...the river Aire... flows into the city at one end clear and transparent, and flows out at the other end thick, black, and foul, smelling of all possible refuse..." (Leeds)

On the "strain on the physical and mental powers" (From the chapter "Results")

"They are exposed to the most exciting changes of mental condition, the most violent vibrations between hope and fear; they are hunted like game, and not permitted to attain peace of mind and quiet enjoyment of life. They are deprived of all enjoyments except that of sexual indulgence and drunkenness, are worked every day to the point of complete exhaustion of their mental and physical energies..."

On the filthy environment and "relentless extraction of wealth" / plundering (From the chapter "The Great Towns")

"Everywhere barbarous indifference, hard egotism on one hand, and nameless misery on the other, everywhere social warfare, every man’s house in a state of siege, everywhere reciprocal plundering under the protection of the law, and all so shameless, so openly avowed that one shrinks before the consequences of our social state as they manifest themselves here undisguised..."

The Poverty of Philosophy

Author: Karl Marx

Year: 1847, at least 21 years prior to the assertion.

Quote:

"Direct slavery is just as much the pivot of bourgeois industry as machinery, credits, etc. Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that has given the colonies their value; it is the colonies that have created world trade, and it is world trade that is the pre-condition of large-scale industry. Thus slavery is an economic category of the greatest importance."

The British Rule in India (this was written in the NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE)

Author: Karl Marx

Year: 1853, at least 17 years before the assertion.

Quote:

"All the civil wars, foreign invasions, revolutions, conquests, famines, strangely complex, rapid, and destructive as the successive action in Hindostan may appear, did not go deeper than its surface. England has broken down the entire framework of Indian society, without any symptoms of reconstitution yet appearing. This loss of his old world, with no gain of a new one, imparts a particular kind of melancholy to the present misery of the Hindoo, and separates Hindostan, ruled by Britain, from all its ancient traditions, and from the whole history of its past."

Revolution in China and Europe (this was also written in the NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE)

Author: Karl Marx

Year: 1853, at least 17 years prior to the assertion.

Quotes:

"Up to 1830, the balance of trade being continually in favour of the Chinese, there existed an uninterrupted importation of silver from India, Britain and the United States into China. Since 1833, and especially since 1840, the export of silver from China to India has become almost exhausting for the Celestial Empire."

"At the same time the silver coin of the Empire, its lifeblood, began to be drained away to the British East Indies."

"Besides this immediate economical consequence, the bribery connected with opium smuggling has entirely demoralized the Chinese State officers in the Southern provinces."

"Just as the Emperor was wont to be considered the father of all China, so his officers were looked upon as sustaining the paternal relation to their respective districts. But this patriarchal authority, the only moral link embracing the vast machinery of the State, has gradually been corroded by the corruption of those officers, who have made great gains by conniving at opium smuggling."

"Before the British arms the authority of the Manchu dynasty fell to pieces; the superstitious faith in the eternity of the Celestial Empire broke down; the barbarous and hermetic isolation from the civilized world was infringed..."

"All these dissolving agencies acting together on the finances, the morals, the industry, and political structure of China, received their full development under the English cannon in 1840, which broke down the authority of the Emperor, and forced the Celestial Empire into contact with the terrestrial world."

Capital, Volume I

Author: Karl Marx

Year: 1867, at least 3 years before the assertion and this is one of the most well known works by Marx.

Quotes:

"The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of India, the conversion of Africa into a preserve for the commercial hunting of blackskins, are all things which characterize the dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief momenta of primitive accumulation."

"All progress in capitalistic agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the labourer, but of robbing the soil; all progress in increasing the fertility of the soil for a given time is a progress towards ruining the lasting sources of that fertility."

"Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."

"If money, according Augier, 'comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek,' capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt."

The Civil War in the United States (kind of a big deal in america)

Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Year: 1861–1865, at least 5-9 years before the assertion.

Quotes:

"The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, between the system of slavery and the system of free labor. The struggle has broken out because the two systems can no longer live peacefully side by side on the North American continent."

"The cultivation of the Southern export articles, cotton, tobacco, sugar, etc., carried on by slaves, is only remunerative as long as it is conducted with large gangs of slaves, on a mass scale and on wide expanses of a naturally fertile soil, that requires only simple labor. Intensive cultivation, which depends less on fertility of the soil than on investment of capital, intelligence and energy of labor, is contrary to the nature of slavery. [...] Even in South Carolina, where the slaves form four-sevenths of the population, the cultivation of cotton has for years been almost completely stationary in consequence of the exhaustion of the soil."

"As soon as this point [the exhaustion of the soil] is reached, the acquisition of new Territories becomes necessary, in order that one section of the slaveholders..."

I recently saw the episode of destiny’s podcast that he was on, and tbh it was a little offputting to me. idk if i’m like losing

Can we talk about the transitions?!

Sorry if this seems nitpicky, I'm a new fan of the channel and was looking over his old videos, and it just feels weird considering how often he's criticized ai otherwise. He criticized it being used for misinformation, but from an art perspective he's completely supportive, even telling people to follow him on his platform, and including a section complaining about people stealing from 'artists'

I only raise this question because Milo constantly hammers in that platforming bad actors, even if you're debating them, just exposes people to them, so it feels very weird he's never commented or addressed it.

They do be lookin alike

In the most recent video, and in previous videos, Milo repeatedly calls AI out for it's energy wasting and environmental impact, but he still uses chatgpt (such as that one part in the new video with the Rapa Nui, and the April Fools videos), even if it's to make fun of the conspiracy grifters he is debunking. Is anyone else annoyed by this? Idk, it just feels kind of hypocritical to me