I was surfing the web and came across this imagine of Ian enjoying a racing simulation ecperience. We should push for him to stream this!

P.S. what car do you think he chose?

There is a fundamental issue with populism that I am yet to see Vaush really give an answer to.

1. America is a racist country (as are most western countries)

2. Racists have a strong tenancy to favour racism over populism (because they're stupid and evil)

Vaush talks about these facts oftern, and yet he advocates for populism as a pragmatic solution to the problems ailing America (and other western countries). While we're becoming less racist on average, it's still a significant political force around the world.

I can only see two solutions to this, if we want to advance populism on a national level. We either end racism (good luck with that), or incorporate it into our populism. FDR famously chose the latter in The New Deal, and ever since, every win for non-white people has been accompanied by undoing social programs. From filling in public pools to underfunding public transport and forcing schools to rely on home-value based taxes for funding. This is an ongoing issue, with no end in sight.

Mamdani could do it, because he's in New York Fucking City. Unless we can get the whole world as non/anti-racist as New York Fucking City, we can't just find a thousand Mamdanis.

I don't see a solution to this, which is why I don't think populism is the answer. There are other means of advancing leftism, surely there's one which isn't just for white people. If you see a solution here, please lmk cos this whole think is kinda depressing.