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You can use Freetube, a Youtube client. It's pretty spiffy, but still under development.

Because they're cool. [Here's a video by a man who repairs and gets these old machines working again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLqY4MjlwVk&list=TLGGrKp1nkG7vn8yNTAzMjAyMQ). It's a lot of fun to watch.

You see how far back this stuff goes. You have to know what we were talking about in Western culture hundreds of years ago to know what's going on now. We've made these mistakes before and learned from them. That's why the Western canon is under attack like never before: it teaches us to avoid these mistakes and learn the wisdom of the ages. Unfortunately some people want to tear it all apart and start from Year Zero. This would be a monumental catastrophe.

Sigh. "The Left" does not denote the left side of the political compass. The term dates from the 1790s, when in the French revolutionary parliament the socialist representatives sat to the presiding officer’s left. The political compass started as one of those online personality tests that were so popular on the AOL-era internet.

Libertarians follow the philosophy of Ayn Rand, called Objectivism. This is a rejection of altruism, from what I understand. I never really studied it, honestly. They go a little too far, but sometimes have good ideas. School choice, for example. See, this whole "liberal" thing is a mess and you have to go back to the original meaning for it to make sense. Just means people should be left, for the most part, to make their own decisions, Including their own mistakes. A desire to stop people from making the "wrong" decisions is what modern leftism is about. It's why they censor so heavily. Please do give Haidt's talk a watch, it explains so much of what you're not clear on: https://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

>I've always been under the impression that liberalism was inherently to the left, too. Absolutely it's not. I totally get the confusions. I too incorrectly used the term for a long time. The political compass is for memes, it's not some kind of end-all be-all of political views. For example, people can be culturally conservative and fiscally liberal. What would you call the people who voted for Obama twice and Trump twice? It's just a two-axis scale. Lots of fun but please don't take it seriously. >In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an ascendant cultural outlook that may be termed the liberal outlook. It was best represented by the Scottish enlightenment, especially Adam Smith, and it flowed into a liberal era, which came to be represented politically by people like Richard Cobden, William Gladstone, and John Bright. The liberal outlook revolved around a number of central terms (in English-language discourse, the context of the semantic issue that concerns us). That's what liberal *actually* means. But its meaning has been screwed up lately because leftists appropriated it because it sounded noble. They used it up, trashed it, and now they have the new label progressive. The root of liberal is *liberty*. If you believe people should be able to do what they want to do, for the most part with the usual exceptions, then that's liberalism. If you tend toward the governmentalization of social affairs, then that's leftism. But leave that silly political compass behind. People are far more complicated than that. The biggest champions of free speech and liberal values in America right now are right wingers and classical liberals like Johnathan Haidt. Have you heard of Haidt? Fascinating man. Here's a quick TED talk by him that is right up your alley, please give it a click: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

No. The "political compass" is oversimplified and good for some fun, but not much else. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, you're liberal. No matter right/left/whatever. "I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it" is the founding statement of liberalism. Today you might use the phrase "classical liberal" to avoid confusion. >Liberals wanted to free people from domineering institutions so they could pursue their own happiness and goals. They also understood that free individuals are more productive, more charitable, more innovative, and more inclined to cooperate with others. The left hijacked the label liberal, something they have never been. After they ruined and destroyed the meaning they moved on to "progressive". Leftists hate liberals, just ask them. "Liberals get the bullet too" is a common catchphrase, referring to the executions they plan after their revolution succeeds. >We must stop using the word liberal to denote present-day statists. This should be easy since they themselves have largely abandoned the term in favor of “progressives.” Here's a scholarly movement that might explain better: http://liberalismunrelinquished.net They have an examples page with a bunch of links you can follow: https://liberalismunrelinquished.net/lu-discussions/

Left and liberal are different ideologies. How do you tell the difference between liberals and leftists? Easy. Liberals believe in freedom of speech. They might disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Leftists, on the other hand, freely use censorship as a weapon of first resort. Their own positions are so weak that if people are allowed to point out the many problems, they would collapse. Left or Liberal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIjMJBSnRE What is a Classical Liberal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsba-dNApvw

Either they'll be destroyed or come out of the other side much stronger. The right is being put under tremendous evolutionary pressures right now and it's make or break. Either we come out the other side or end up with our children turning us in to the NKVD for crimethink.