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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
I think the last one we actually ran off was The Prong Song when he decided to rant during the BLM protests, tbh? Or was it Das Nazi?

If you dug up my posts from like 2004-2014ish you'd probably want to run me off, as would I, given that I've moved substantially left of American politics since then.

Given TRS' recent post history as I remember it, I actually was a bit surprised by that post and not sure if it was trolling for the lols or actually coming from the heart. I'm not going to bother digging in deeper though.

I will say, I'm totally not surprised by South Main Auto or RB, I got tired of their bullshit a while ago and unsubscribed.

I'm fairly certain Matt from sloppy mechanics leans right for reasons I won't get into but he has also done a pretty darn good job of keeping it non political from what I've seen (in fact, political content has actually been reduced recently) and I am alright with that. His wife Jaime posted that they're strongly in favor of the 2A in a YouTube comment section years ago, but only when asked and... I'm strongly pro 2A as well so that's not really an indication.

Edit: ok nevermind on that, they just moved the political and racist good ol boy bullshit channels to an area I can't see, then a few months later started discussing that fact in front of me. Was hopeful there for a minute.

kastein fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Sep 14, 2022

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
The Proud Ignorant Flag Waver set in Canada are ascendant as well.

And the UK.

Honestly I can't think of a place where stupid is not currently winning.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
You had me wondering what the hell I did there for a moment.

I wish I was even slightly surprised that someone in motorsport was like this.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
Tech or adventures is basically the only chance I'd have, and I don't have enough of either to keep a channel going. I mostly use YouTube for free video hosting. That being said, my lovely unedited cellphone footage of some lame 4 wheeling somehow went slightly viral on a jeep forum a few years back because I titled the video "Pat trying to destroy his RARE 5 SPEED ZJ" and oh man it got a bunch of hate-clicks, at least for me. 4900 views, totally unexpectedly, it was just some regular rear end weekend 4 wheeling and I titled it that because we all joked about how mad people got when they found out he was rock-bashing a 1 of 400 1994 factory 5 speed ZJ.

Somehow a totally unedited video of me demonstrating how to use tire spoons and break beads without a tire machine got 34k views.

None of these would actually grow a channel.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.

afen posted:

The chuddiest Youtube Creator is probably Keith Fenner, having the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of every video, and throwing in quips and remarks about the current government and president. He also talked about going away from Youtube when they were cracking down on the maga and right wing-stuff, but I guess there's no viewers on the other site?

I have never unsubscribed quicker from a channel than when he started doing that bullshit :lol:

It was a shame, he used to do some great videos, but around the time he got divorced and moved to his new shop, he started his flag and pledge of allegiance nonsense and I was all done.

He's in my state, too. We're such a blue state we are literally the only state to not vote for Nixon in his landslide reelection. The absolute bluest of blues and this weirdo dingleberry insists on renewing his magical skycloth cult vows on every fuckin video.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

I think he means I Do Cars is the kinda guy that would fit in well here.

If he is a AI Goon then drat, hi there, your videos are cool

Yeah I don't recognize any of his cars from here, so either he's not a goon or he's very good at partitioning his life. Either way, I've never seen him get political on either side of the fence nor have I noticed any bigotry, and his content is great, so I'm more than happy to just keep watching and let him not bring it up.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
He's a fuckin doofus who spent 5 figures building a 351 to go racing because he apparently didn't want to LS swap and then blew it up because he couldn't tune it as well as he thought he could, but my impression is he's good at repairing stock vehicles.

So take anything he says about performance builds with a grain of salt.

Haven't determined his politics, though.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
Just realized I forgot to mention, Doug from Little Victory Fab Co on YouTube is legitimately lefty and I told him he should come here to AI too. He builds high hp 4L80es in the greater Portland OR area and is currently aiming for a sub 9 second pass with his extremely brown (inside and out) LS swapped G body.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Nidhg00670000 posted:

Clarkson has gotten a pass in AI far past the line of many other idiots, and I'm not sure why.

EDIT: I'm not saying everyone should stop watching the man, everyone is free to make their own informed choice, I just find it weird how for example someone upthread didn't watch the latest Gymkhana because there's a Black Rifle Coffee sticker on the car, but Clarkson whos been an unrepentant shitbag for years still seem to be on most peoples "ok to watch" list.

I got very tired of the overdone cyber glitch transition nonsense long before I found out about the BRC sponsorship, so that one was easy, I just kept not watching it.

I also have been not watching Clarkson be a bellend ever since shortly after he got fired for punching a cook and I realized he wasn't just being a loudmouth for the camera, he actually was that far up his own rear end. So again, easy.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
My recycler actually clarified recently that they don't care if we recycle pizza boxes as long as we shake the crumbs out, since even if 100% of pizza boxes were recycled the amount of grease added to the recycling stream would not affect the quality of the paper produced. But I am still very amused that Elon was a shithead and released another shithead from Twitter jail, who then proceeded to lose an e-fight with Greta so badly that he put himself in real jail. While making a 2 minute long overwrought video about how he definitely didn't lose the e-fight.

Congrats fuckface, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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pastor of muppets posted:

Yeah I wouldn't say they're explicitly leftist, but their MO is basically 1. car culture is for everyone, 2. climate change is real and the car community needs to come to terms with that, and 3. transphobes will be banned on sight (one of their staff writers is a trans woman and they enforce this rule with gusto)

Oh wow, really? I had no idea, that's really cool. I actually just added David on FB a week or two ago after finding him in the cesspit comments section of one of my FSJ groups, lol.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
Holy hell what the gently caress

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Yeah if I did my math right the chance of getting unlucky at least once with 100 dice rolls at 1% each is uh. 63.4%.

Everyone thinks it won't happen to them because we suck at mental math involving very large and very small numbers.

But it will. Eventually. If thou fucketh around enough, eventually thou findeth out.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Ok Comboomer posted:

these guys suck eggs but also they are acting out because their world is dead and they have already lost the culture war

some vermin will continue to exploit that for financial and political gain, and they can all certainly do a lot of harm before then, and we must be vigilant and proactive to stop them

but also it’s also pretty difficult for me to get worked up about some sad old men on the internet who are so embittered and alone with their idiot opinions that they need the comfort of a “no, it’s society that’s full of poo poo” chud band to tell them that they aren’t the rear end in a top hat

I still remember when this was a culturally dominant viewpoint, and it isn’t now

DeSantis can ban as many books as he thinks will win him the presidency but the cat is long out of the bag on LGBTQ+ identities and they’re not going to put it back

As Kenshiro would say, they’re already dead. YouTube bands like this are the proof.

Bet people in Weimar Germany thought that in 1930, too

Nothing is guaranteed and assumptions like this are what leads to overconfidence.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Ok Comboomer posted:

but really, minus the internet (which is obviously a really big deal) our current reactionary landscape isn't dramatically that different from where poo poo was back in the Reagan days or the H Ross Perot days or the Waco Uprising days or the Oklahoma City Bombing days or the whole Bush 2 administration, Ben Shapiro isn't a dynamic leap forward from what Rush Limbaugh was doing before Satan finally took him, this crop of chuds has been doing its business pretty steadily since the Southern Strategy and Watergate, and they're the progeny of the reactionaries who bombed black churches and put posses together and made blacklists

better to look at political history in arcs spanning 30, 50, 100 years, not decades.That's how people actually live and vote and it reflects the shifting tides of public opinion on major things

You know what loving happened 100 years ago?

The foundations of the Nazi party were being laid.

I have been called out as Jewish by neonazis quite literally more this last year than I had been in my entire life previously, simply because of my last name.

And it went up by orders of magnitude from 2015 on. It's getting *really* bad now. GOP run states are basically banning women's healthcare, history, and the act of existing as an LGBT person.

You're failing an open book test bro. We know what is coming, and you're insisting it's not really that bad while the fire spreads. You are literally being the "this is fine" dog here and now.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Unless you are like AI poster Blooot who built a motorcyle engine hybrid Nissan Leaf that is just all sorts of WTF
Yo what the gently caress I need to step outside of my bookmarks list more often.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
It is? I must have unsubscribed and forgotten when he started being a Tory windbag instead of just a Tory

E: oh no, looks like I was still subscribed, they just haven't posted a new binky video in a year plus. Well that's rectified now

kastein fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Mar 5, 2023

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
If that dingleberry doesn't regularly say that "Democrats are the real Nazis and started the KKK and civil war" I will eat my own hat.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
hey y'all what's goin on in this thr-

oh

it's really too bad all the evidence for that dirtbag is gone from google, but at least he is also gone from here.

I wonder whose mustang that actually was that got mobbed by the pigs...

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
I have a Bernie sticker next to a "fine, Biden 2020. But this is BULLSHIT" sticker and it took my most deplorable neighbor like ten visits to notice it, which is pretty funny.

I'd love to not ever see people like that ever, but there are only like 10 houses on our 1+mile street and he keeps inviting himself over. I haven't seen him since then now that I think about it...

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
Even if you power an EV mostly off coal plants it still breaks even on carbon emissions before 100k miles because of the thermal efficiency of stationary coal plants being significantly higher than small mobile ICEs and the benefits of regenerative braking. So it's both exporting the pollution and reducing it at the same time.

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
I mean he's a machinist from Florida(?) so I have my suspicions but he's also been very very nonpolitical as far as I can tell, and I've been watching for years, so maybe I'm wrong.

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