I'm Mr. Beat. I teach history, produce videos, and make music, often at the same time.
My music account:
@theneedleroom
The Beat Goes On:
@thatbeatgoeson
I just released my best video yet. (in my opinion)
Most of my other videos are meh, but this one is not too shabby. I'm finally starting to get better at storytelling. Except for the ending. I never know how to end stories.
As Dwight Eisenhower came across the Nazi death camps in 1945, he predicted that someday people would deny the Holocaust ever happened, so he ordered all the camps filmed and photographed. Today, you can easily look up the photos and footage.
If we actually agree that we learn history to not repeat mistakes, the Disneynification of it needs to stop. Students need to see the dark and ugly side of history. It's good for them to feel uncomfortable. They should be shown horrifying things that they will never forget.
First of all, voting is a right. Second, I think we ought to seriously consider lowering the voting age. I had 16 and 17-year old students who knew the Constitution way better than most people older than 25 do, and nearly all of them paid taxes.
Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing a constitutional amendment that requiring citizens 18 to 24 to pass a civics test in order to vote - the same one immigrants take to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
Andrew Jackson is easily my favorite American president
...to learn about.
Here are some crazy facts about him.
(this is a thread so buckle up, buttercup)
Tom Scott and his videos have long been both influential and inspirational to me. He is one of the greatest Edutubers of all time. Not only that, he's an unassuming, incredibly generous human being.
Tom, we love you and may your next chapter be filled with happiness.🍾
Seems like I started a controversy about who was the greater villain for Americans:
Abraham Lincoln or Osama bin Laden
My essay on the sins of Lincoln (challenging Mrs Kravitz 6th grade civics class) is in the comments, but here's a side-by-side comparison:
I know we like to think of ourselves as "civilized," but I've seen far too many of y'all cheer on war crimes and genocide over the past 48 hours to convince me that we're not.
@GrantGHurst
When I went to college to become a teacher, I had no choice but to take out student loans. I couldn't afford college. It was too expensive. I didn't have any rich relatives to help me pay for it. But you can't get licensed as a teacher without a college degree.
Where is a kid more likely to get indoctrinated? At home, where they'll constantly hear the perspectives of one or two people (their parents)...or at a public school, where they'll occasionally hear the diverse perspectives of thousands of others?
Remember that horrible reality TV show that nearly everyone hated but felt forced to watch anyway? Well, it looks like it just got renewed for a second season.
This woman says that women should not be able to vote. Since voting is about sharing your opinion, I guess she's saying her own opinion shouldn't be shared.
Ok.
I'm cool with her opinion not being shared.
I was fine with extreme wealth inequality, low wages, high inflation, and crippling student loan and medical debt, but once they came for my gas stove THAT'S WHEN I GOT ANGRY. 😠
Think it's crazy that a former U.S. President might get arrested? In 1872, a SITTING U.S. President, Ulysses Grant, was arrested at the corner of M and 13th streets in Washington, D.C. for speeding...with his horse and buggy.
My videos getting age-restricted hurts my livelihood and my mental health. It's really wearing me down. I already don't have a sponsor for this video. Now I can't make money from it from ads. Now it won't get suggested via algorithms. It's just devastating and I'm sick of it.
Here are a few examples of things a lot of people on the internet are arrogantly and loudly against but can't define:
*mob rule
*critical race theory
*woke
*systemic racism
*fascism
*communism
*Marxism
*socialism
*capitalism
*neoconservatism
*neoliberalism
*equity
*postmodernism
Every two years, one million Japanese disappear. China’s population will halve by the end of the century. The median age in Italy has reached 48. Is humanity dying out? What is going on, and how bad is it? Find out in our latest video:
Stop conflating "elites" with "experts." Experts almost always are not part of the elite class. Experts dedicate most of their lives to one specific subject. They are often overworked and underpaid like the rest of us. In fact, nearly all of us are experts at something.…
@oneunderscore__
It's the equivalent of a person dropping a cigarette and starting a forest fire and then taking a selfie with the forest fire in the background with a big dumb smile on their face.