Early Access: I Hate Mondays

Reed

Holy shit this is amazing! So freaking accurate!

Ben Bariteau

I _cannot wait_ to share this with my friends. This is frankly incredible.

Ian Danskin

Yeah, I'm ambivalent as well. It's genuinely hard to find photos of "criminals with guns" that aren't stereotypes, but I think I'll look harder and swap it out for the final edit. As for getting false-flagged for swastikas... I think we'll have to take that chance.

I'm not sure how I feel when you use a picture of latinx criminals at 4:52 for "criminals". Also, do we have to worry about people flagging the content because of swastikas?

Mark Paglia

I am of course not surprised when you turn out another great video, but this one is truly stellar.

Kait Hatch

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Amazing. Thank you! The binaried view—and recognizing that this is a natural function of the brain because it helps us navigate the world. It would be really annoying to have to figure out what a chair is as opposed to a table every time we encounter each. But we can become aware of how our brains do this with people too. And that yes, this is a matter of shifting someone's paradigm that believes that their binary view is inherent, rather than a function of the brain making meaning of the vast amount of information it receives. Thank you for this, as ever. An amazing resource.

Lunar

Ian, if you'd like to have English subtitles the day you release the video, I'll be happy to do sync work given I get a hand on the transcript.

I like how three dimensional pie charts are bad at being pie charts, but somehow they communicate an idea of being a pie chart better

Jenlifer Fronester

This is the most excited I have been about one of your videos so far--my degree is in rhetoric and, to toot my own horn, I did rather well in the subject and am unusually skilled at considering perspectives other than my own. I was also raised conservative and evangelical and grew up around quite a few people who turned fascist (though, thankfully, not my parents--it is not an accident that I came out the way I did). You *still* manage to regularly present points on conservative and fascist thinking that have never occurred to me, even with the amount of time I have spent thinking about it, and that seriously impresses and excites me. I was never good at thinking this way, which is why I left pretty much immediately upon becoming an adult. (Side note: reading Bob Altemeyer's take on how traditionally "intelligent"--a term that signifies little of use but paints a picture--children handle being raised with right-authoritarian worldview made SO MUCH SENSE to me, and I am grateful to have been pointed at that book.) I always, always appreciate insight, and you consistently bring it. Thank you for the work you do.

AaronRobertoMusic

Also most excellent use of a clip from Bill and Ted.

AaronRobertoMusic

Most excellent work. And arguments I as an Australian am sick of having with gun toting muricans.

Ian Danskin

While I'm generally in favor of data, I feel like it's kinda redundant when this pattern of argument is so incredibly pervasive in conservative rhetoric?

Overall I like the video. Good work!

I think the comments on this one are going to be really interesting. I have some vague ideas about cancelling on the Left that I can't really articulate very well. I'm sure someone in the comments will bring up that point with real words. Hopefully will be a good discussion.

Good stuff, though I don't buy that binary thinking is either exclusive or more common/prevalent/virulent on the right than on the left. At least, not without hard data.

I think Guy from Payroll's Beard is fine the way it is, but his mouth should match the rest of the characters relative to the eyes/head. :)

Ian Danskin

ugh, but the UK is so much more visually interesting!

Sarah Hall

Great stuff! Love it! A fairly minor point, but you use a picture of the United Kingdom, but keep saying England. I hate to be that pedant, but you'll get pulled up on it in the comments, if you care about that sort of thing.