Ignacio "Iggy" Scaldros (vtuber)

Alas, I am returned, to be granted audience once more. Semi-regular streams will be returning, IRL commitments like work allowing. Also there will be background noise sometimes because I'm sharing my apartment with someone. You have been warned. LNX below

@McSwayne2000 @johnkonrad So what I'm hearing is that there's no need for us to continue being in NATO Your terms are acceptable. I see you as a parasite, you apparently see us as a liability. Let's just agree to go our separate ways. Good luck.

@johnkonrad Hahahahaha! European ‘culture’ existed before you lot were even a country, you ignorant Yankee pig!! NATO without the US is a bigger, stronger more equipped military than the US. That’s a fact. Moron.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

Shit like this is what results in people becoming utterly disillusioned with Republics/Democracies, and leads them to crave the brutal efficiency of monarchies and dictatorships The President can ice cartels, terrorists and foreign regimes SCOTUS can't determine what a woman is

@skibidiquasar I do not want to go back to the way things were when the next presidency happens. We've been shown that the government CAN be somewhat effective and work for the people. You can't put that monkey back in the barrel in our lifetimes.

The executive branch can kidnap a head of state, extract downed pilots via building airstrips under fire, and send men to the moon, all within four months. The legislature hasn't passed a regular budget in 15 years and the judiciary is arguing over whether citizenship exists.

@foidbabyalien @nekaishi deserve it. What's going on in Germany is a political policy that's only possible because it's reflective of a culture that hates men on an endemic and pervasive level that permeates every corner of the West, and the fact that you can't see that is rather telling. (2/2)

@foidbabyalien @nekaishi This cultural rot also permeates America Men lead in suicide, only men can be drafted, their victimization in SA is ignored or mocked, no fault divorce in general, and that's not even getting into the fact that EEO/EOA has been ignored for White men because we just don't (1/2)

Ah yes, is this that "Male Privilege" I've been hearing about my entire life? The one where we're forced to die protecting women and children? Where suicides are overwhelmingly men? Where men bear all the responsibility and accountability for society—even for things they've never done? And for no reward. In fact, they get punished: ridiculed, emasculated, hated, villainized, and spat on... just for being men Yeah, male privilege is really at its peak right now Equality, am I right? Let's just enslave and kill all the men so we can live lavishly and destroy our countries for all of our children 🍷✨

@foidbabyalien @nekaishi Right, because the cultural problem that caused this policy decision is limited only to Germany. Absolutely.

@ThePyromancer @nekaishi You’re not even German this doesn’t even affect you lmao

He is risen.

@Grummz Well. I suppose it's a good thing I already had no expectations

The Mass Effect TV show from Amazon is now officially f*cked.

I'm not going to lie. I haven't laughed this hard in a minute. twitch.tv/iggytheincubus…

An entire generation of men was repeatedly told "gender is a social construct" only for them to have the rug pulled out from under them because of their gender which the law has evidently decided is very much not a social construct. And then you ask what's radicalizing them.

And like that, the galaxy has been lit aflame. Total Thermophile Victory I will see you next time.

Reminder that the primary accusers during the Salem witch trials were women who would do things like pretend to be possessed in court just to get another women they didn't like killed.

imagine witnessing a finale this perfect and thinking we need a sequel written by Stephen Colbert

Stellaris time. Worlds will burn, and we shall light the flame (Thermophile, Fire Cult, Scorched World Heralds, Reanimators) twitch.tv/iggytheincubus

Stellaris stream soon.

@No_solicitors Working on it

@ThePyromancer Now burn out the other stars

Apocalyptically Aesthetic. Behold, the Galactic Crucible

Stellaris time. Live fire training to try and learn how to manage a damn economy twitch.tv/iggytheincubus