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Do you have any other other thoughts on that, by the way?
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Um other thoughts?
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Let's see.
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Okay, you're blocking my camera.
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Hello.
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Hello, I'm here.
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I'm here.
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I'm down here.
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Hey, guys.
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It's me behind the refuse fascism thing.
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Welcome back to another episode of Slightly Offensive.
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Just in case you're wondering why we're recording on this microphone, it's because somebody poured water on our camera last episode and broke it.
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So if you want to support us some way on PayPal or Patreon, shoot us some cash below and help out the cause.
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We're here at Protest Culture, where we're protesting against something that we're mad about.
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Now, Kavanaugh got confirmed yesterday, so you would wonder what are we protesting against.
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At this point, it appears that we are now protesting for the liberation of women, because everyone knows in the United States, women aren't free.
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Let's see what the protesters are saying.
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This side says there should have been a full investigation, you misogynistic, feckless liars.
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I believe every branch of the government has now been compromised and can be argued that it is not legitimate.
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They don't have a mandate to govern.
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Basically what we're noticing is that there are about five signs up here.
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Go ahead and zoom in here.
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We've got about five signs.
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So this one says women are bitches, ho is.
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Got a nice spelling correction there.
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H-O-Apostrophe, S.
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So their ho-is.
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Who particularly is this protest about?
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About the sexual arrangement, no.
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About who?
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I don't know who.
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Now what we have here is another poster that says, Me Too versus Kavanaugh.
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Believe women, believe survivors.
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My question is, if there's an assault between two lesbians, which woman do you believe?
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This is an intersectional group.
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This is representative of the people that live in this country, and the people who are in power do not represent this.
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Okay, so obviously there's a lot of different people around the country other than just people in California, which some would say the current government does reflect.
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What do you think about that?
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I spent the summer in Florida and I've spoken to these people.
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I've had to intervene in conflicts and public spaces where people of color were being attacked.
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Why are you guys talking about us?
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Yeah.
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Can you explain?
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Oh, because you guys weren't here in support of this march.
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Is that correct?
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We're not for it or against it.
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We just want to talk to people who are for it.
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Gotcha.
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Can we just ask you a couple questions?
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Do you support Trump?
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Do I support Trump?
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I mean, I support our country, Democratic and president.
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Do you support Trump?
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I support our president.
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And I've supported Obama, too, so.
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But you support Trump?
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Yeah, of course.
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Why, of course?
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Because he's the president.
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Why would I want him to fail?
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That would be like wanting the captain of a plane to crash.
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Like, he's in control of the country.
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So if I don't try to support him the best I can, then I'm hoping our country crashes.
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Not necessarily.
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I mean, the ideal of what Certainty is supposed to be is actually kind of good, where it's like limited government, a lot of personal freedom, you keep the money in your paycheck because you don't want it to go to somebody else.
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I mean, those ideas aren't that bad with themselves, but really, they never really played out.
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It doesn't matter as much as we know who's being sexually assaulted as the idea of fighting against the patriarchy that's the most important.
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What does this mean?
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Many of us who have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace are both...
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I think the first one, you know?
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The first sounds more...
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It makes more sense to me, you know?
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So here's the key thing.
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I did what you did right now, where they started going, creepy guys, go home, fascists.
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And I just stayed looking like this and just didn't acknowledge them.
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And then it died down because we didn't feed back and feed them.
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And then also another trip when that happens to you, it's a big group.
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No one really knows what's going on.
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So they start saying, fascists go home.
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They don't know who they're talking about.
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So you just turn and you point to the guy next to you and you go, fascists, go home, fascists go home.
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Just blame it on them.
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And then, you know, it's mom mentality.
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It's really easy.
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And then don't, you know, don't freak out too much.
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Control your energy, stay calm, and eventually it fizzles out or it'll escalate worse and they'll attack you.
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Other than having some very nice wit and a good pair of shades, I don't know what it is about me they're afraid of.
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Maybe it's that I speak the truth.
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What could we do then to make things better in the here and now?
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Well, I mean, like, you know, if you want my honest opinion, I can just, you know, go ahead and give y'all what you really want to hear is that I think we're moving towards communism.
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And I think, or socialism, whichever comes first.
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You would be surprised, actually.
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People that are like fall left-wing do not give me the same answers.
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People are pretty, kind of like the right-wing, people are a pretty varying degree.
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So this is the first I've heard that today.
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Really?
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Yes.
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I'm surprised.
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But I think, you know, moving towards socialism and communism is going to solve a lot of the problems that I think we have as a country.
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So why do we only want to talk to people who believe what we believe?
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That's all I'm trying to understand.
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Like, why do people not ever want to talk to people who don't think the same way as them?
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And that's an honest question, that's not even like a...
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It's a waste of time, it's a waste of time.
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But why is a man telling a woman what she can or can't do?
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Like, is this a woman's woman's thing?
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So you're mansplaining and like controlling a woman.
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But I understand.
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I'm trying to give a woman a platform and you're trying to shut up a woman.
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And they're not here to try to be swayed by an argument.
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They're not here, you know, looking for an honest and open discussion.
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That is not the purpose.
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Who are we?
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But obviously, you have full autonomy to do whatever you want to do.
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I'm a man.
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Yeah, yeah, okay.
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Thank you as a man for letting a woman know that she's allowed to speak.
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That was good of you.
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At a woman's march, too.
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That was good.
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The whole purpose is to let people know exactly what you are.
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But I'm done talking with you.
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You're up on the stage.
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All right.
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Gotta get out.
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Gotta get in out.
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Gotta go.
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Well, basically, I consider Trump really an anomaly because.
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I mean, the reason why Trump became a viable candidate is because both parties failed.
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And to me, Trump represents the dying of the Republican Party, the final death of the Republican Party, but I think he's going to win a second term because the Democratic Party is still pretty shitty and we still have the old guard.
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Where has communism worked?
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Where has communism worked?
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Like in ways that you would think it would be good also for our country.
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I mean, it hasn't.
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I think Obama was bad, but I would take a third term of Obama over five seconds of Trump.
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That's a fair answer.
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That's a fair answer.
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Appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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That's awesome.
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Do you have any other thoughts on that, by the way?
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Other thoughts?
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Let's see.
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Okay, you're blocking my camera.
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Hello.
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Hello, I'm here.
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I'm here.
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I'm down here.
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Hey, guys.
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It's me behind the refuse fascism thing.
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What's up, man?
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Cool.
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Thank you.
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Socialism, on the other hand, has worked for a lot of people.
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Now, what we have here is another sign, which is beautiful.
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It says, women in LGBTQ Liberation Now, unites, smash, bigotry, and patriarchy.
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So we've sort of, this is a new one.
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There's like a woman with a beard, I think, in there.
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And, you know, this is pretty cool.
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See, what we're going to see, we also have our typical to the right, our Trump Pence Must Go sign.
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So you said that communism or socialism would help.
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So are you talking about like a traditional communism, traditional socialism, or some sort of a hybrid?
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Well, I would think it would come in steps, right?
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So I think socialism would be the natural, like a Bernie Sanders type of socialism.
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And it would kind of, you know, spiral from there.
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Not in a bad way in my opinion, but it would spiral towards communism after we implemented a kind of Bernie Sanders type socialism.
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What do we do about Justice Kavanaugh now that he is already in office?
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We either need to stack the court so a progressive majority is there, or we need to do everything we can to investigate him and then eventually impeach him.
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The likelihood of that, of course, is very, very slim, but if we get every young person out to vote in November and in every subsequent election thereafter, we can surely take this country back.
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Right, that'll be tough, but it's possible.
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Well, look at all these young people here.
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Again, like, I just think Trump is really entirely different beasts.
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I see him as totalitarianism.
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He's not really about personal freedom at all.
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Where has pure or traditional socialism worked where governments have not also had capitalistic tendencies or capitalistic influence in their economic models?
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Capitalistic tendencies.
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Like, I'm talking about there's some countries in Europe that are not traditional or true socialist.
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So you're basically asking me, what's a non-European country?
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Where like an actual like full form of socialism, kind of like Cambodia or somewhere like, like, where has it actually worked?
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I mean, I would argue that it's worked pretty well in Cuba.
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Hey, I got something to tell you.
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Yeah.
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I've been working on an invention called Awesome Recycling.
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It reduces global warming and gives earthquake and fireproof homes.
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I've submitted it to two presidents, Obama and Trump.
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And Trump's son, because it develops energy.
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Donald Trump Jr.
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Yeah.
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I get the same thing all the way around.
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I got brought all the way down here from Montana to meet with NASA and then couldn't get into the gate.
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All right?
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These people don't want to help America.
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They just want to keep America down.
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Who are these people?
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Our government.
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What I've noticed is that it's basically like almost like a fair of like trying to decide which sign we want to use as the front for our next protest.
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And I'm really enjoying this because look at this.
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No, there's not even four.
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There's six posters.
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Look at that.
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Me too, Survivor's March.
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That was from another.
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They're reusing signs.
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And they're all over here.
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I mean, look at this.
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But hey, you know what?
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You guys vote.
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Which sign do you think looks the best?
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Which sign do you think wants to win the competition at this week's victim fair?
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And let me know which one you would want to see at the front of your next march in Los Angeles in the comments below.
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What is it that you're hoping to do through your channel?
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You said you kind of jab at the right wing, right, or right-wing policies?
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I would say I go all in on it.
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The most recent anti-prop video I did, they're all, so far I've only done satire on Prager U. If you guys know who that is.
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Prager U?
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Yeah, Prager U.
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This is actually Will Witt, their guy's, this is his mic.
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I borrowed it from him.
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Interesting.
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It's kind of funny, you're speaking into a...
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I hope he hears this then.
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He will hear it!
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I hope he hears it and looks at my channel and I don't know.
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We'll see what happens.
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He might take over all my videos.
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We'll see.
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No, he's good.
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He doesn't have a lot of power.
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Catch you later, man.
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See you guys around.
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Bye, guys.
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Bye, Refuse Fascism.
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Bye, guys.
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Do you know that your sign has a typo?
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It says Ho Is, H-O-Apostrophies.
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My buddy you guys were in movement for it.
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Yes, it's there.
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You misspelled your sign.
