Feb. 26, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Somebody says, something that's been on my mind over the past few days has been the sheer ungratefulness of Europe. | |
| They constantly crap on us for, of all things, having a militaristic society. | |
| But then when we even float the idea of not being Europe's primary defense force, they freak out about how it's our duty. | |
| They depend on us in so many ways, yet talk down to us. | |
| It only makes me want to abandon them more. | |
| Well, the American subsidy of the European social welfare state has been one of the greatest disasters in human history, and I'm not... | |
| To me, that's not even hyperbole in any way, shape, or form. | |
| It'd be one of the greatest disasters because it has removed them from fiscal reality. | |
| It has removed the control of the people over their government, and it has allowed them to tinker around in massive, ridiculously expensive social programs to the detriment and possibly even to the survival of their cultures as a whole. | |
| So this is absolutely terrible. | |
| But I understand that free money is a debt. | |
| It's a drug. | |
| Free money is a drug that's pretty hard to let go of. | |
| And so I understand the sort of kicking and resisting and so on. | |
| But, you know, the amazing thing about the modern world, the amazing thing about the modern world, at least I would say over the last two years or so, is that the guilt and manipulation has stopped working. | |
| It doesn't work anymore. | |
| It's wild. | |
| Because the counterexamples are so wild. | |
| Like, so people complaining about Kash Patel and Dan Bongino being head and assistant head of the FBI. Well, are they really qualified? | |
| It's like, well, there was that bald guy in the dress who kept stealing women's luggages at airports. | |
| And Pete Buttigieg was not particularly qualified and so on, right? | |
| So it all is just so transparently manipulated. | |
| All of the people who were saying, but all of these government workers, where are they going to get their jobs? | |
| And then, of course, people just play back stuff like, well, you know, if you're a manufacturer and you lose your job because of the Green New Deal, you can just get a green job. | |
| Or you go even further back, just learn to code, right? | |
| Because that was one of the funniest things. | |
| I talked about this in a show the other day, but it's one of the funniest things, really, that has happened in the modern world, in the sort of, obviously, Dr. Strangelove Black Humor Department. | |
| Is all of the reporters who just said, well, just learn to code to all of the people losing their manufacturing jobs. | |
| But then when the reporters' jobs were threatened and people tweeted at them that they should just learn to code, they often would report that as targeted harassment and be highly offended that their own advice was bouncing back on them. | |
| And of course, it's easier for a reporter to learn to code than a guy who's been working with his hands. | |
| For 30 years to learn to code. | |
| Because, you know, you already have a computer manipulating abstract symbols. | |
| None of this stuff is working. | |
| And this is really powerful. | |
| It's really powerful that none of these manipulations, it's partly social media and also partly just the accumulation of hypocrisy is so inescapable now. | |
| But it is a wild thing to see. | |
| I don't know. | |
| It's sort of like, I don't know if you've ever been in a relationship. | |
| Let's make it personal, right? | |
| Let's make it personal. | |
| I don't know if you've ever been in a relationship where one day you're just looking at someone who's like, and another thing, or just nagging or whatever it is, complaining and bitching and moaning, and you're just like, I don't believe you. | |
| Like, it just, bing! | |
| There's a silver cord that just snaps, right? | |
| There's a silver cord that just snaps, and then you just don't believe people anymore. | |
| They go from like, okay, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got a good point, to just bing! | |
| No credibility. | |
| You're a complete manipulator. | |
| Everything you say is a lie, even the punctuation. | |
| Right? | |
| So, I don't know if you've had that experience. | |
| I've had it a few times in my life where I just look at someone and I say, my God, you never tell the truth. | |
| Everything is a manipulation. | |
| Everything is gaslighting. | |
| Everything is a maneuver. | |
| There's nothing real, nothing authentic, nothing genuine. | |
| And it's usually when you catch people in blatant moral contradictions. | |
| And so, that has really been the most amazingly healthy thing. | |
| That has happened as a whole. |
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