I watch exclusively left-leaning content but I still get bombarded with right wing ads for Daily Wire, Fox News, etc. It doesn't matter how many of them I tell youtube to stop showing me, or how many I report for pushing hate-filled and outright fallacious content. They've got a massive pool of resources that lets them overcome the algorithm for ads. That's how it always has been and always will be; the far right has obscene amounts of resources to push their garbage while complaining about being the underdog truth-speakers constantly threatened by the mainstream media (you CAN'T get more "mainstream" than Fox News) and the "liberal/woke/progressive/socialist/communist/ agenda." Even if all you view is leftist content, you can't escape the disgusting anti-humanist garbage enabled by the far right's deep pockets.

I am also proud of your 'proud to be boring' stance. You listen to people who feel unheard and literally save them from falling off the edge of sanity.

Yeah, a few years ago, I was an apolitical person that was recommended a lot of Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder videos. Probably didn’t identify myself as a conservative back then, but seeing how the right-wing ecosystem has developed today, I’m glad that I got out of it. I still watch these commentators of course, but I just use it to inform myself of what their beliefs are, nothing more. The MJR are doing a very valuable service.

this is one of those discussions that really made me miss Michael Brooks. He would've been dropping knowledge and analysis bombs left and right, and would've injected some of his Dave Rubin comedy gold when the caller mentioned him

When he said that the algorithm pushes right wing content, he’s 100% not kidding. About a month ago I was looking for a *bread recipe* and the 6th video was from The Daily Wire, about Ben Shapiro’s take on Uvalde (no one asked for that & in that moment I certainly didn’t). KZfaq has such a strong incentive to make sure right wing videos like that to get clicks. They will push it on anyone!

I was also on the alt-right pipeline before finding TMR. I don’t even remember how I found them, I just remember loving Sam’s straight forward and kind of “boring lecture” style.

I would like to second this caller’s statements. I’m a Minnesotan as well, and MR ended up popping up in my feed as an opposition opinion to my KZfaq algorithm’s constant recommendations of Jordan B Peterson. I’m still coming to grips with just how engrained my cognitive dissonance and bias was. I feel like my life and my mental health have improved dramatically. So, I also would like to thank you all at the Majority Report🥳

It's hilarious. In the Trump video when HE calls some of us fascists, he ALSO has a backdrop of servicemen. Wonder where all the Republicans were during that period. 🤔🤡

I just can't get enough of these "TMR saved me" stories. I found your channel the same way. My poison was JP but the algorithm threw in a video of Michael Brooks mocking him, and I was cured!

I honestly love nothing more than to hear these stories of young men being saved from alt right pipelines. Seriously. I’m so concerned about men in this country but young men especially… and how many of them are being funneled down these weird pipelines. And it makes me kind of hopeful to hear when someone is “saved.” So thank you Sam, Emma and everyone else on board for doing what you do! ✌🏻

At 56, I’m a viewer from the unpopulated age group and I’m born in the same year as Sam. I don’t get why more people my age don’t watch this type of thing. It’s imperative to stay informed AND to have good values.

I feel sorry for those that found the show in the past 2 years. They didn't get to experience Michael Brooks live. 😔 God he was so smart and sharp. The back and forth dynamic between him, Sam, Jamie, and the rest of the crew.

HRC made a huge mistake when she apologized for her “Deplorables” comment instead of explaining it and doubling down on it.

Right in 2015 at the end of the prez campaign I got on a bit MR and Dore bent on the algorithm. I was never in danger of falling for the wrong side, but being properly informed is invaluable. Thanks Sam and crew RIP Michael

Honestly you did the same for me. The right is very good at making you scared of things you shouldn't be scared of .

I like Dark Brandon. Its working, and especially among younger folks who we need to motivate to vote in the midterms.

Sam saved me back in high school. He’s the man.

I almost went down that right-wing rabbit hole, though surprisingly, KZfaq was barely involved in that, though it did serve well in pulling me out. Before, I was...well, I consider it to be center-right, in that I espoused quite a few of the conservative talking points, but I hated "pro-lifers" and wanted universal healthcare (the latter, I was completely open to the form it could take). As far as KZfaq went, about all I saw was PragerU, and I was falling for the same bait and traps that most do at first, the whole, "Okay, this sounds sensible" and all of that (no Shapiro, Walsh, or Peterson, though - even then, I could tell that they were full of sh^t). The worst aspects of me then was that I had dipped my toes, if not my whole feet, into Christian Nationalism - I was never as loud or obnoxious or generally hateful as they blatantly are today, but I was at the starting line for that. What started pulling me away from that was, ironically or not, my work experience. I had bought into that bootstraps BS, and doing work that I loved at a place and for bosses that I _HATED_ put the first cracks in that. Five years at that place, three of which were just filled with ever-growing levels of abuse, would play the biggest role in breaking those conservative and especially Christian Nationalist leanings I had. Watching videos that showed how my position was only a dime a dozen enhanced that breakage. If my work experience was a water cutter, then the left YT videos were the sand that was added to the water to speed up the cutting. After that experience, I was left jobless and adrift for a while, until I ended up with Amazon (desperate times, okay). My two years there ground what remained of my previous five years into complete annihilation, and it was during this time that I started delving into leftist KZfaq, or at the very least I had double-checked those PragerU videos I saw and realized how much they were BSing me. I do not remember which channels I started with when going more left. I only know that by the end of my two years at Amazon, I had committed to more-or-less all of the biggest left channels then: TYT, Ring of Fire, Secular Talk, Jimmy Dore (back when he at least SOUNDED like a leftist - I noped the f^^^ out when he started going anti-vax), and TMR (though I do remember TMR being the last one I got into then). It has expanded further since with A Blue Dot in Texas, Beau of the Fifth Column, More Perfect Union, and the like. Lately, it has been TMR and Beau that have been serving me well, especially whenever my MAGA relatives tried to give one of their talking points (and no offense to you, TMR, but I got and still get more mileage out of them with Beau - I guess his image helps). Regardless, as much as I am ashamed to have almost been set up to become a MAGAtard, I am grateful that it was nipped in the bud, and TMR certainly played a role in that.

Shows like TMR saved me as well. It all started with a few leftist buddies and now I’m a full blown progressive.

Closest I ever came to the right was when I flirted with Libertarianism in my early 20’s, but I quickly realized how ridiculous it was. I think I was afraid to strongly pick a side, and said I was moderate, but really I’m on the Left. Nothing in the middle or right resonates with my values

huge props to this kid for being able to challenge himself and his beliefs, it’s genuinely refreshing to hear when former conservatives have an “aha” moment like this and to know that some of these people are not beyond reach

it's actually REALLY crazy how strongly KZfaq pushes users towards the "alt right pipeline." sometimes i'll watch someone like Sam or David Pakman do a short piece on some insane clip from a Tim Pool show or whatever, and search for and watch some of the source video (on Tim Pool's channel or wherever it may be) just for the amusement factor that watching right-wing brain melt unfold in real time often brings - and *immediately* my KZfaq recommendations fill up with more Tim Pool, Steven Crowder, The Critical Drinker, I mean it just FLOODS my recommendations. Meanwhile, while KZfaq has several years of my consumption patterns to work off of, I rarely get anything left-wing oriented that isn't from someone I'm already subscribed to (and that's only like 6 channels.)

No matter where you were on the algorithm, KZfaq eased you into right wing shit. Went from Bernie stuff to Black Pigeon Speaks and Stefan Molyneaux. Wild man

Yeah definitely good to hear the shout out for 3Arrows, he has done some brilliant work on analysis of dismantling USA and it's fascist convergence with Germany in 1930's. As a expat Brit living in Australia, i watched it go through a re-run of thatcher years i had already been through happening in Australia in real-time, and watching the USA is like watching history repeat all over again to an even darker European time and people in other countries can see it, but the level of denial-ism and the direct effect of USA style anti left rhetoric is piercing through even the sanest of countries at the moment, i see people everyday popping that red pill and echoing the anti left ignorance of the USA, it's frightening.

Lmaooooo bro I love how Ben is even tinier in the thumbnail than in person.

The H3 and Sam Collab got me to become a leftist. I used to be a "centrist" very right wing leaning. Sams a real genuine guy and believes where he says. I've never seen him lie to try and prove a point. Thats also for the rest of the crew too 😊

I’m one of these as well… as embarrassing as that is Edit: This is the first and hopefully only time I ever comment an “edit” on a comment, but I said the above prior to scrolling through the comment section. I am VERY far from alone in this. Majority Report has saved so many young men like myself it feels good to know I’m not just the dumb kid in the room.

One of the greatest thing about MR is that they never say a right wing talking point or pander to the right, while grifters like Hackson and Dimmy Jore claim to be appealing to the right, yet their viewers never leave the right. I wonder why that is 🤔.

I found MR through Dr. Richard Wolff videos, specifically his appearances on TMBS. RIP Michael.

Emma’s observation about how MR works as someone who has worked at other independent media is really wonderful. The fact that she’s seen how others do it and how MR avoids the issues it creates just makes me love MR more.

Micheal Brooks did the same for me. His international class consciousness was everything I needed to see how myopic folks like Jimmy Dore are & how twofaced Glenn Greenwald was..

I started seeing through Trump because of Covid after supporting him since prior to the election. Kyle Kullinski, Sam Seder, David Pakman, Michael Brooks, Mike Figueredo. A few others who deserve a mention. I thank you all for giving me a left wing perspective because for years I had that perspective crafted in whatever way the right wing wanted.

I am loving to recommend to this lovely caller to also get to Beau of the fifth column on yt. In the comments last night some of us Beau community waved to each other, it made me so happy! Welcome Minnesota to the left tube!

My journey to watching The Majority Report was by way of The Young Turks, I watch The Young Turks when I want to get pissed off (which is increasingly less and less of the time) but I watch The Majority Report a lot more now, it is more grounded and less sensationalist than The Young Turks, but also Sam, Emma, and the other hosts aren’t too serious to laugh and make jokes and grifters’ expense, which is always a good time.

Good discussion. I agree with the caller, I’m a formerly apolitical normie who just wants what I was told as a kid to be realistic in this country, the “American dream”. I listened to George Carlin a lot in the Late 90s/00s, and while I believed him, I thought he was a little bit over the top with how bad it could get. I loved GC and think he’s one of the best thinkers of my lifetime , I now listen to bits I’ve heard many times before and it makes me appreciate how ahead of his time he was. I’ve been making the same argument about being anti-nihilistic , and it’s finally turned around, it was really ugly a few months ago. Time will tell but giving up is not an option

I've had KZfaq still recommend Steven Crowder and Matt Walsh to me, luckily you can tell it to never show that content again.

I praise RM brown for bringing me out of the dark. Didn’t see anything wrong with Ben shapiano and Tim Foolin’ , then RM got my arse with facts

Some self-reflection about where you came from, why you do what you do, and where you want to go is good once in awhile. Keep up the good work, MR crew.

You are so damn humble Sam and crew! Thanks for everything!

3 ARROWS Glad they menyioned that channel. Great content!!

Hearing calls like this gives me hope. I used to be a conservative (mostly because of my dad) but the left wing channels on KZfaq really helped me get out of that shit. Now my family keeps me at arms length but oh well..

I'm also one of those viewers of TMR that stumbled onto it by sifting through the algorithm feed. I don't credit Sam, Emma and the rest with my enlightenment but they absolutely get the credit for broadening my intelligence and sense of humanity. Those two qualities don't exist on the right. 🙏

As someone in that younger age bracket, very appreciative of the show. I had discovered you through HasanAbi, if that clues you in on my age, and have been pretty consistently listening or watching the show. Not every video, of course, but I always come back to you when I need some solace or understanding of the world around me that isn't purely rage inducing. It also gives me hope that there are people older than myself that care as deeply for the world and wish to see more progress as I do. So, thank you. I really mean it.

Always proud to point people in yalls direction when they need info or news sources Appreciate y’all always keeping it realistic and grounded and not chasing the other nonsense

I recently moved back to the USA after 20+ years abroad and MR has definitely helped me not get too doomy about the current version of the USA we are living in.

This show got me off a reactionary phase I wasn't even aware I was going through at the time. I'd got caught up, somehow, in JBP's bollox about the C16 bill in Canada, and kinda fell for it, I'm ashamed to say. And I'm a lifelong leftie -- and I was also in my early 50s at the time. So I should have known better. But catching one of your vids on him straightened out how wrongheaded I was. So thanks for that, cos who knows what other shite I'd have been gullible enough to swallow, once you stare into that particular latrine of thought. As Nietzsche so nearly said, 'if you gaze into the latrine, the latrine also gazes into you.'

The trick: Know how to research. Know how to cross-reference sources. Don't trust open source references that can be edited by ANYONE. Don't believe anything you're told until you've verified it to the absolute best of your ability, and that goes for the stuff you believe, as well as the stuff you don't believe. If you didnt learn critical thinking at high school, go to uni and take a "useless" degree in humanities. You will be taught how to do it.

Thankfully the pipeline didn't have a particularly strong grip on me -- their inability to honestly describe class issues without vaguely blaming elites never sat right, it was never a good enough explanation as to why I and many others born into intergenerational poverty (and being white) were not being 'helped' by these people whatsoever, and they just wanted to point fingers. This is why they oppose even talking about class issues. And that is why everyone who watches these people needs to question it.

The balance of this video, after the caller was amazing. I love you all, Emma, Sam, Matt, etc. I wish I could make your voice louder.

Came in for the funny videos (my first was Shapiro and Andrew Neal lol) but definitely got hooked on the format and how direct and no nonsense y’all were quickly. Definitely learn more watching y’all than anyone else producing this type of content. Love to the whole crew

MR has been instrumental in helping me find the tools to go out and further educate myself and become more engaged in my community and politics in general, I will be forever grateful for that

Yes KZfaq does throw right wing crap at us. It took me years to finally get them to stop sending me all the Daily Wire shows. I was writing to them every effing day. Although lately I’m getting Dan Bonginos ads. It never ends. I watch TMR, Young Turks, Democracy Now, Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finklestein, Pakman, Rational National etc… yet I often need to type names into the search window even though those are the channels I always watch. Just depraved.

OMG I thought this right wing algorithm thing happened only to me😆 I was afraid to talk to other people about this

Daddy Seder the saviour! 🙏

This was a beautiful segment... big love to the Majority Report crew x

If rightwingers would switch off their crazy conservative media and listen to NPR for just a couple of weeks, a lot of their insanity would dissipate.

This is so true! I’ve been thinking this for years… like screw FB, KZfaq is far worse. I’m on the far left of the political spectrum and KZfaq will not stop pushing right-wing content my way. I make a conscious effort not to click in it and it still will not stop.

I’m 65 and love you guys!

I think I discovered MR almost 4 years ago when that "fake IRS scam caller" video popped up on my recommendations. That video now has more than 3M views. Goes to show that opening up the ven diagram of topics covered - outside of politics - can help game the algorithm and snare in people who otherwise wouldn't have tuned in. (Not that I'm suggesting MR do that. Just that it's interesting to note.)

Been with this show for years. Before you even hit 500k. Glad to be apart of it

Imagine Trump calling other people fascist... hah, that'll never get old.

Huge MR fan here. You guys gotta upgrade the Wi-Fi in the office

Thanks!

Excellent segment! Thank you for all you do. Keep up the good work.

Sam is one the OGs of left media, so he has a lot of clout in terms of being trustworthy. If you listen to an old show he's pretty much the same guy he is today. I don't always agree with him, but I do go to MR first when there's a political story that interests me.

I get what he was saying by “proud to be boring”, but it’s pretty refreshing to have a small political window that’s not just shoveling shit down your ears and into your brain for profit. Call me bland.

that self reflective segment at the end was fantastic and very much needed

I first started watching you guys through Pakman, who I only just discovered during the Biden/Trump election. There was something about his approach to covering the election that I found to be very refreshing. But eventually that led me to you guys and I’ve been watching ever since. Also, I loved hearing the shoutout for Three Arrows. Channels like his and Shaun’s (the guy who made the video about Jimmy Dore’s COVID lies) are what started to get me into the more left-leaning side of KZfaq which I didn’t even know existed at the time. I can’t recommend their content highly enough. Also want to say that Three Arrows has another KZfaq channel called The Iron Dice. He uses it more as a podcast channel, and he has an excellent series about Weimar Germany which is still ongoing. Very engaging stuff, couldn’t recommend it highly enough if you’re into historical podcasts.

Damn... What a brilliant clip! Superb!!!

I think I discovered the MR like 2009? 2010? I remember it was during the Obama years and I've been a big fan ever since. Sam's a real genuine dude and the show has been amazing for a long time.

Sam’s comments at around 19:35 about how Trump claimed to “just get it done” reminds me of this item from Umberto Eco: A Practical List for Identifying Fascists “The cult of action for action’s sale. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”” This perfectly describes the party of Trump.

It doesnt matter how many times I click "stop seeing ad" I still get a TON of Daily Wire ads. It's wild

I found TMR when they were a part of those few shows in the "TYT Network" back in the early 2010s. Of course I initially was pulled in with TYT (when it had people like Dave Rubin and Jimmy Dore on their roster for some reason), but quickly felt like I "outgrew" that specific format of sophomoric moderate-progressive posturing in general. So I bounced around to other shows within that network; Midweek Politics (now the David Pakman Show), Secular Talk and whatever else was there. I didn't pick TMR right away because aesthetically it was an eyesore, lol. Long before Pakman was able to "steal" TMR's panels. It looked like something that you'd see on public access back in the late 80s or early 90s or whatever. But eventually I landed on this channel. And I think I just happened to find a random Matt _Binder_ & Mike _Brooks_ (M&M) Monday or something, and the level of intelligence while still being absolutely fkng hilarious, on top of Binder's legendary infectious laugh, had me hooked. Out of all of the above mentioned shows though, I still don't mind Kyle's, but his whole schtick got kind of old with me quick. As he's gotten older and matured, he's mellowed out a bit, but what annoyed me about his whole personality and posturing before, I feel definitely serves a purpose when it comes to reaching people similar to the caller in this clip. I think having people like Kyle on Joe Rogan's show is absolutely essential. And although I don't really watch Pakman too much anymore, having him on Rogan serves it's purpose in a similar way even though he's more of a "centrist-lib-progressive" figure imho. But something about TMR... There's just substance there. And I do feel that *that's* why Rogan would never have Sam on. We all have known for years that Rogan has been cosplaying as some kind of centrist independent bro, when he's low-key been known as the "Gateway to the far right" the whole time. Someone like Sam completely shatters the entire worldview he pretends to not have, but oftentimes can't help projecting. Kyle's whole disposition resonates with Rogan's audience and possibly himself. Pakman is more of a lib figure who is kind of looked at as a "safe" kind of personality. People like Bernie and Dr. West are both just phenomenal at articulating progressive ideology in a way that resonates with conservatives, on top of being insanely popular public figures. Ben Burgis was on, but was relegated to mostly complaining about *cAnCeL CuLtUrE.* Something that Rogan's audience of MMA dudebros perpetually whine about for like... no reason whatsoever. Anyway, we all give TYT a lot of shit, but fact of the matter is that for people like me it was an important stepping stone and introductory point for progressive politics. Both liberals and progressives can resonate with it. It was interesting seeing Ana become even more progressive the more her and Michael Brooks became friends and that whole journey. Yet, TMR is where it's at. It helped me find my voice and effectively be able to articulate my beliefs in a way that can make people understand. The first half interviews are unmatched in my opinion, and half of my bookshelf consists of books authored by many of those guests. Anyway, if you made it to the end of this, enjoy your day and no matter what you're going through in life, you're worth the world. *RIP MJB* ✌🏾✊🏾🙏🏾🖤♥️🖤♥️

Constantly letting you tube know to stop putting conspiracy, and Maga nonsense, in my feed.

Hollah from MN here

I liked when young men were dealing with Mario Bros pipelines instead of breed a psychopath pipelines that are available today.

Hugs 4 all

Fantastic clip guys. Well done Sam and MR peeps.

I'm also on the team of this guy, back in 2016-2017 I was mostly watching anti sjw videos and that led to Peterson, Shapiro and Crowder content, and I found myself making the dumbest statements to the people around me, over the year, I saw them getting dismantled and realised they don't really debate the opposition but more less informed people who can't debate or converse with them, so they would always look good and that's when I discovered Sam and realized how ridiculous all of their points are and I finally feel sane again

MR pulled me out of a terrible IDW hole. From there I finally got exposed to content that countered that awful garbage.

I agree with the overall sentiment I'm seeing in the comments here, MR is an incredibly valuable show and I love how informative it is. I was never in the right wing camp, I was a liberal, but starting to watch MR after my friend recommended it gave me a resource to become much more well informed on history and current events, because I had still always felt liberal media wasn't giving me the whole picture because certain things just still didn't make sense, and that also helped me understand how much right wing and reactionary thought is laundered in liberal ideology too. I'm forever grateful to this show for putting me on a path to greater learning and understanding and ultimately greater empathy, and I'm always so glad when I see other people being helped by it and learning from it too!

Can relate to this.

Same here guys, thanks for the info everyday! Literally love you guys!

I almost was flushed down the alt-right toilet as well. The algorithm started showing me Crowder, Shapiro, and Peterson when I was mostly apolitical. I'm glad I seeked out differing opinions because I don't know what would have happened if I let my self get swept away. After seeing you strike fear into the heart of Crowder with the bait and switch with Ethan, I became a regular listener to TMR. Thank you for everything you guys do!

“Let’s be clear” - Sam Seder

I still have to select "do not recommend this channel" once a week for right wing slop. I just assume it's because of reaction content i watch here. Was once an angsty Christopher Hitchens watcher before finding Michael Brooks.

If it wasn't for you, our only option would be TYT so thanks! You are especially needed as a bulwark against all forms of general right wing nonsense

Awesome 👏 love to see it

Love you guys but just FYI something weird was going on with ur audio in ur vids today…😣 At first I assumed it was just happening on my end but then I started hearing it in more of ur vids so I rewound to see whether the distortions would repeat & were actually part of the upload, and realized they are. Haven’t seen any other comments about it either so I just wanted to mention it in case you guys weren’t aware. Anyway, keep up the good work and doing what you do in providing us with sane commentary on our increasingly insane world 🥴🤘😝

I want to thank Sam for shaming my calves and saving me from a life of chicken legs.

Well done.

I first came on KZfaq because I had some concerns about the religion I was raised in and I couldn’t let anyone in my real life know because they practice shunning. So I came with a fake name and found lots of former members who had gone through what I was going through. It gave me what I needed to make my own decisions, so I’m grateful for the platform. But it also led me down another path. I was still more comfortable with conservative stuff so I was drawn to Ben Shapiro type content which led me to more extreme views. Finally I just couldn’t stand the constant hate on women. It made me so depressed. Destiny was the first person I heard make good points against the conservatives, then Hasan and finally I’ve stated watching Sam. I feel a lot more sane and balanced now. So, thank you.

That has been my point during the entire Biden presidency. Hes not going far enough with his policies, but he's giving everyone a taste on what government can do for everyday Americans, and he's pushing the Overton window further left with demand side economic rhetoric.

Getting Emma on as a host FINISHED this dream team. Been following for years but only subbed about a year ago.

I think people who watch TMR get into more discussions and debates with people than any other crowd , and they love it .

Climate change absolutely affects geopolitics, thank you for bringing this up! The collapse of the bronze age (around 1150BCE) is an area of historical research gaining a lot more attention recently because the primary hypothesis posits that climate change in western Europe and the Mediterranean created a refugee crisis that resulted in conflicts so intense they ended civilizations. They call these refugees the "sea people" and many sources tend to categorize them as invading warlike people but odds are they were displaced bands and clans from the western Mediterranean who's sudden appearance in cities and empires disrupted social orders and eventually caused total collapse. It is possible that these people were organized and intent on takeover, but even with that idea in mind, it's still possible that scarcity of recourse and the loss of culturally significant land drive groups of people to extreme measures to ensure the survival of their clans and cultures. This is what history can teach us and how it can help us understand the world today and prepare for the future.

KZfaq is constantly trying to show me right-wing propaganda. I haven’t even given them a reason to advertise to me.

Great thumbnail. Does Jordan Peterson have a ventriloquist act now?

Great call!

I agree as well. I believe that the Republicans have lost their pudding.