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Oct. 8, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| We got new information about that leftist who got killed in New York City, and there's a lot to add to it, because there's some corrections that I wanna make, and some points I wanna make. | ||
| We watched the video, of course, uncensored, of how it all went down. | ||
| And, uh, Andy Ngo has this tweet, which I will bring up for you. | ||
| And, uh, let me... | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Alright, where are we at? | ||
| So, Andy No tweets, The police do not protect you, AKABBLM. | ||
| Ryan Carson's girlfriend, Claudia V. Morales, is a cop-hating BLM activist. | ||
| She was at a BLM riot in Boston 2020, blaming police for violence when they tried to arrest rioters. | ||
| There's rumors going around, I don't know if these are true, that she refused to give a description to the police of the murderer, and they are now looking for this guy. | ||
| What I want to add is last night I said, you know, this lady did not know basic first aid. | ||
| And she just stood there and watched her boyfriend die, which is true. | ||
| But there are a lot of questions that have arisen due to the money she's making. | ||
| And, you know, I got questions. | ||
| I got questions. | ||
| Apparently she's raised $54,000 already. | ||
| Here's the full video, right? | ||
| We're not actually playing, I'm just gonna describe it, right? | ||
| These two people are sitting on a bus facing businesses, not the street, at 4 a.m. | ||
| This woman has her hands in her face and is looking down, and this guy is also looking down. | ||
| At no point do either of them look up at the guy who's walking past. | ||
| They get up from the bus bench and begin walking away. | ||
| The argument, or the story being told by a lot of people, is that they're waiting for a bus. | ||
| They clearly were not waiting for a bus. | ||
| They had just got back from a wedding. | ||
| I wonder if they were breaking up. | ||
| That's why they're sitting on a bench at four in the morning, and she's got her hands over her face, and they weren't really waiting for a bus. | ||
| I wonder if what really happened was that they were, like, uh, sitting, you know, they're getting back from the wedding, they're talking, and they say, we need to talk, and they end up sitting outside having a long conversation, or something like that happened. | ||
| I don't know for sure. | ||
| But, they get up from the bus stop, and start walking towards this guy. | ||
| After he gets stabbed, she does nothing. | ||
| I kinda don't think she cared about the guy. | ||
| She doesn't act surprised. It would explain some of the actions happening right now and I think | ||
| you know we definitely need more context to exactly what was happening here. I think I want | ||
| to hear her side of the story but the camera, the surveillance footage does say a lot. I think it's | ||
| fair to assume that they were probably you know drunk, that they had some alcohol, that they | ||
| weren't kind of coherent. | ||
| It's four o'clock in the morning. | ||
| They could be just also exhausted and tired after partying and hammered and drunk and just having their hands in their face after traveling, you know, from Long Island, which is a long trek from New York City. | ||
| People are sharing a picture where, allegedly her, in front of a license plate that says K. Marks. | ||
| So Andy Ngo posted this video, but this is the censored version, of course. | ||
| And, uh... I just think the whole thing's really strange. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Right now, she's fundraising off of this, and the question is, why? | ||
| Why is the girlfriend fundraising for this? | ||
| They're like, oh, to deal with the hardship. | ||
| It's like, I kind of just think these people are evil and she's making money off of it. | ||
| Well, she raised $60,000 and in her GoFundMe, she says that she wants to take the money so she doesn't have to work, so she could grieve. | ||
| Fucking shit, dude. | ||
| Again, I don't know exactly what's going on here. | ||
| I think we can interpret things in many different ways, but this is, you know, a big incident that I think a lot of people are using politically. | ||
| There's still a tragedy here. | ||
| I think it deserves to be called out, but I think we're still connecting the dots here to the larger meaning of all of this, other than the political ramifications. | ||
| Also, for the record, Seamus just ran away with his tail between his legs. | ||
| He was a total coward. | ||
| If you put his camera on, you could see that he When I found out that she raised all this money, I was immediately like, she doesn't give a shit about this guy. | ||
| and staying away from any kind of debate or real serious conversation since he is not a proper adult. | ||
| When I found out that she raised all this money, I was immediately like, | ||
| she ain't give a shit about this guy. She's just like, ooh, I can make money off this. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's hard to say, because you could always, you know, interpret the worst, you could always interpret the best, but let's do the steel man and the straw man argument here. | ||
| You know, let's do the best case scenario and the worst case scenario. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Her boyfriend was stabbed and killed in front of her, and then she goes on the internet and says, please donate money to me so I don't have to work anymore. | ||
| want to do them any favors, right? If you want to do them any kind of legitimacy | ||
| and you want to connect the dots in a favorable way, you could say they were | ||
| hammered, they were drunk, they were disoriented, they didn't know what was | ||
| going on. She was in shock after seeing Knife. After having her | ||
| boyfriend stabbed and having a guy spit at her and cursed at her, she probably | ||
| is dealing with a lot of trauma. Again, I'm just saying, hey, if we're gonna | ||
| be connecting the dots here... | ||
| I'm just saying, let's give them the best benefit of the doubt, and then let's give them the worst benefit of the doubt. | ||
| The best benefit of the doubt is not that she knew he was stabbed. | ||
| The best benefit of the doubt is that she did not know he was stabbed, and that's why she's not freaking out. | ||
| And that's likely what happened. | ||
| Most people don't know. | ||
| I bet she doesn't even know he's holding a knife. | ||
| He's holding a six-inch blade in his right hand. | ||
| It took me a couple times to notice that it was a knife. | ||
| And when he slams into him several times, she didn't know he got stabbed. | ||
| You can almost see the shock after she, after she, at, like, there's almost a moment if you wait for it, like, when she looks. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Let's go face the mic, my friend. | ||
| Oh, sorry. | ||
| You almost, like, right there, it's like she suddenly gets a realization of the severity of the injury. | ||
| She thought he was punched. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| Because these people are such pampered, fucking, pathetic babies. | ||
| I'm sorry, dude. | ||
| Look, what really triggers me about this is that I have been in many high-risk situations in my life where fucking idiots have nearly gotten me killed. | ||
| When I see shit like this, I just get really, really pissed off. | ||
| I get really, really pissed off. | ||
| Now, this guy got stabbed in the heart. | ||
| She ain't saving him. | ||
| That's what I want to correct. | ||
| I said the other day that he may have had a sucking chest wound, and it's so crazy because she could have saved his life if she just had heard one sentence from a first aid training course, but the police said the knife went to his heart. | ||
| He's dead. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| The crazy thing about it, though, is everything they did wrong, every fucking thing they did wrong, and this video just infuriates me. | ||
| I, uh, I've told these stories before, and there's only a small handful of these stories. | ||
| I'm in Ferguson. | ||
| And, uh, I'm with a friend of mine, he's a reporter, he covers conflict, we both do, when we hear gunshots. | ||
| We hear shots being fired from relatively far away, and you hear the... ...zipping over our head, we hit the deck immediately. | ||
| And there's a journalist just standing there, ignoring it, and then the other reporter's like, GET THE FUCK DOWN NOW! | ||
| Motherfuckers, dude! | ||
| And then there was another moment where, uh, a second time at Ferguson when they announced that Darren Wilson was, uh, acquitted. | ||
| Gunshots ring out instantly. | ||
| Bang! | ||
| I'm on the ground. | ||
| I look to my right. | ||
| My filmer's on the ground. | ||
| And there's an ABC News producer looking around going, those fireworks? | ||
| Now that stuff never put me at risk, but it's infuriating to see that, because I know that if that dude gets shot, I'm the one who's got to stand up with active gunshots and try and save this motherfucker's life. | ||
| But I've actually been in circumstances like when I was in Venezuela, when a crowd of people started screaming and running for dear life from the National Guard, who were armed and had been reportedly shooting at students earlier, And when I told these guys, go now, west, and I start running perpendicular to where the National Guard and where the protests are, they stood there like fucking morons. | ||
| And after I took cover, they walk over like, what's happening? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| So situational awareness. | ||
| It's just... A lot of people don't have that. | ||
| A lot of people panic. | ||
| A lot of people freak out. | ||
| It's fight or flight sometimes, but mostly it's people just being like, what the fuck, shitting their pants. | ||
| I'll tell you what, man. | ||
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| I grew up on the south side of Chicago. | ||
| Haha, I know, everyone's heard it. | ||
| I'm getting off of 290 onto Independence with my brother, when for no fucking reason, a guy points a gun out of his car and shoots at us. | ||
| That's Chicago. | ||
| So I get in- I- I get in- in- in- in rides every so often when I'm in Chicago with these- these, you know, yuppie western suburb skateboarder guys. | ||
| And oh, they get so bent out of shape when we're in Chicago and someone cuts them off or brake checks them and they start screaming and flipping people off. | ||
| And I always get super pissed. | ||
| I- Shut your fucking mouth right now, dude. | ||
| You don't know what you are getting yourself into when you flick off the wrong person. | ||
| You, being emotionally satisfied with your middle finger, could trigger some fucking lunatic to pull out a gun and put a bullet in your head for no fucking reason. | ||
| On the south side of Chicago, you insult someone, they kill you. | ||
| That's why there's so much death. | ||
| But these people who are pampered and grew up in these cushy areas don't get it. | ||
| Now to be fair, I also had friends in the western suburbs who are the exact opposite. | ||
| And, you know, I'm driving through the west side of Chicago on my way to the skate park, and I had one friend who was, like, hyperventilating in panic, and I'm like, dude, calm down. | ||
| Like, yes, I totally get how bad it could be. | ||
| But here's what I see with this. | ||
| The reason why I'm really pissed off. | ||
| For one, my personal experience is that people who have put me at risk give me a personal bias. | ||
| But the reason we are seeing high crime, the reason why there's a story about a father of three being shot in the head and killed, I'm sorry dude. | ||
| This dude's dead. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| It's sad. | ||
| But this guy was an activist and advocate defending criminals and advocating for policies that get people killed. | ||
| And I just can't stand it. | ||
| When I do everything right, and I'm like, I'm not even talking about war zones, because I know my capabilities, I know my limitations. | ||
| When it came to the conflict stuff I would cover, I'd say, if it goes full-scale war, I'm gone before that happens, because I don't have the skills or abilities for that. | ||
| You've got to get someone with actual military experience to cover these stories. | ||
| I'm in urban conflict. | ||
| When Egypt went full revolution, I said, next day, we're gone. | ||
| They're shutting down bridges, they're locking people up, and they're murdering people. | ||
| I can't do that. | ||
| But I try to do things right to make sure that I'm not putting anybody else at risk. | ||
| But the people in these cities, Who are too stupid to realize someone just got stabbed several times in the chest and just stands there saying, get him, get him. | ||
| And then she doesn't even call the police because she hates the police. | ||
| They are putting everyone at New York at risk. | ||
| They are causing these mass exoduses from these cities. | ||
| They are making the problem of crime worse. | ||
| They are making you, good law-abiding citizen who does everything right to keep your family safe, they are putting you at risk. | ||
| That's why I'm pissed off. | ||
| There's a Daily Mail article and screenshot of it going around talking about how this Ryan Carson guy would, quote, feel sorry for violent teenager who stabbed them to death and think of him as victim of a broken system, says friends. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And that's a crazy headline. | ||
| And my gut reaction to all of this Processing all of this is fucking hell, man. | ||
| I feel sad for an individual like this. | ||
| I feel they are so far gone in so many different ways, where I'm kind of left asking myself, can they be helped? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| They are the facilitators of the crisis, and I just... | ||
| I-I-I-I can't have sympathy for these people who are, you know, pouring gasoline. | ||
| I-I watch a video where a guy throws a gas can onto a fire and it explodes and bur- and he bursts into flames, and I'm like, that sucks, man. | ||
| I wish it didn't happen, but like... | ||
| What do you think was going to happen when you throw a gas can into a fire? | ||
| Look, at a certain point we have to recognize that we as a society cannot save everyone's life. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| If the turkey wants to look up at the sky during a rainstorm and swallow all the water and die, that's not really true. | ||
| They don't really do that. | ||
| But for all the turkeys that perhaps one day saw the rain and looked up and held their mouths open and drowned, well, Now there's no more of the turkeys that do that, I guess. | ||
| The point is, we keep trying to save people who are mentally deficient. | ||
| Conservatives do this. | ||
| I don't consider myself conservative, but this is a point I bring up to many of them, as you're like, you're desperately trying to save the lives of people who hate you and are so stupid, they're like lemmings walking off a cliff. | ||
| And the conservatives are like, yes, because we value human life. | ||
| And I'm like, okay, well, you realize the problem is twofold. | ||
| Psychopaths who are setting fire to the system, and conservatives desperately trying to save their lives. | ||
| I don't know what else to tell you, man. | ||
| I'm not making a prescriptive statement here. | ||
| I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't do. | ||
| I'm saying if you preserve the lives of people who are setting fire to your house, you will have more house fires. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Mike, do you think there's any saving these people, or do you think they're lost causes? | ||
| You know, it's getting so systemic now, this... | ||
| This type of story, I mean, I almost remember when it became a novel occurrence and like, whoa, they really believe, they've really drunk their own, you know, sort of, I don't know, LSD mixed drink. | ||
| Fentanyl mixed drink. | ||
| You know, and now I feel like I see these type of stories every week and You know, there's almost no amount... I wonder if they don't see the surveillance videos in their own news ecosystem to even understand the scale at which these types of things are happening. | ||
| By the way, this criminal's still not been arrested yet, right? | ||
| I mean, this guy's irises are locked on to the surveillance. | ||
| I mean, why do we have Big Daddy National Security State scanning us at the airport? | ||
| If the only one thing I could think of, if someone is literally on camera committing first, you know, second-degree murder, I mean, you could argue it's crime, passion, whatever, but this is like this is a daily occurrence and the rates at which people | ||
| don't get caught or punished for this is part and parcel of this like anarcho-tyranny system | ||
| where you have a justice department that it makes you feel helpless but then there's so many other | ||
| illegitimacies about our system currently that you know you almost wonder if there are sort | ||
| of paramilitary elements about this. | ||
| I mean, I'll give you an example. | ||
| I was in D.C. | ||
| the other day, and I hadn't been back in a long time. | ||
| A long time. | ||
| And I was walking around the White House area, and I'd forgotten that the main square had its name changed to Black Lives Matter Plaza. | ||
| And, you know, and this is one block from the White House, 16th Street, you know, versus 17th Street there. | ||
| And, you know, we all know what happened like that that summer and some of the strangeness of that with there being no prosecutions. | ||
| In fact, them getting paid by several city counties as well as major Chamber of Commerce companies for doing what they did. | ||
| And then I'm walking through the plaza over the signage, and I see the next thing on the block is AFL-CIO. | ||
| And the next thing is the American Federation of Labor Union. | ||
| I'm looking at this and I'm like, wait, okay, hold on a second. | ||
| This is like, the block literally adjacent to the White House is all left-wing street paramilitary groups and their hubs. | ||
| And I remember myself getting jumped on the way to the White House when I worked there. | ||
| And there was nothing, you know, there were secret service agents if you were able to cross the street. | ||
| But that was it, and this is the White House. | ||
| You know, at the time I was on the phone, the person thought I'd gotten killed. | ||
| They can't even protect you. | ||
| But that's the thing, that was the Trump administration. | ||
| You don't see these rent-a-riot things popping up around the Biden administration. | ||
| And I had this distinct feeling, sorry I'll make this shorter, but I had this weird feeling when I was walking around D.C. | ||
| this week, when I came to it, where I thought, Oh my god, imagine a populist Republican like Trump winning power again and you are literally under street paramilitary siege on the block adjoining you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, so, so, I have a question, I guess, is what I'm thinking about. | ||
| Mike. | ||
| If, uh, you were standing outside of a house, and a guy walks past you with a can of gasoline, and he says that he's gonna go in there and burn that house to the ground, and you know, and so you're like, hold on, so you walk up to the, you walk up to the, you know, the window, and you look inside, and there's this guy dumping gasoline all over the place, and there's another guy. | ||
| A leftist activist standing there watching him do it with a shocked look on his face, shaking his head, and then the activist goes, do you need any matches? | ||
| And the guy's like, actually, yeah, I do. | ||
| And he goes, here you go. | ||
| And the guy walks to the door, lights the match, sets the house on fire with the activist still inside, who then begins screaming for help. | ||
| Do you run inside to help the activist? | ||
| Do I run inside the screaming? | ||
| Run inside the burning building because there's an activist inside screaming, an activist who had supplied the matches to the arsonist. | ||
| Good question. | ||
| Because my view on this is, if you are in, say, like, let's say you're in, like, a crowded place. | ||
| And, uh, you know, there's a riot. | ||
| And someone gets shot. | ||
| And you know you're probably the only one who can save that person's life. | ||
| But that person did, you know, helped facilitate the shooter, instigated the fight, screamed at him and swore, and started it. | ||
| Do you say to yourself, you know what, I'm going to run full speed out of this and stay away from it and let them deal with it? | ||
| Or do you say, I have to save this person's life even though they did cause this? | ||
| I think for me I've come to the point where after actually experiencing a lot of this, I was always so angry because I felt an obligation to keep the people around me safe, even if I didn't know them, especially in these conflict situations. | ||
| And then I got to a point where I was just like, I cannot get myself killed because the chicken ran full speed into the car's grill. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| The person stood in the highway screaming and running towards a vehicle, and what am I supposed to do? | ||
| Run out and try and stop them? | ||
| If it's an innocent person who was caught in an accident, yeah, but... | ||
| Yeah, this is tough because, you know, in this case, there's something so terrifying about it, to me, because you look at that and you look at the obvious mistakes that were made, as you mentioned, in terms of situational awareness, and you want to say, I wouldn't do that in that situation. | ||
| I would be more on the ball. | ||
| I'd be more on my feet. | ||
| And you're probably right. | ||
| You probably, and I don't mean you, I mean like me when I saw that video. | ||
| I thought I wouldn't have done that. | ||
| I wouldn't have said chill. | ||
| I wouldn't have, you know, I would have, you know, escorted my girl across the street. | ||
| I would have read the situation better. | ||
| I wouldn't have put my hand out that way. | ||
| I maybe would have, you know, tried to, you know, something else. | ||
| And then The terror of actually being in it, and maybe even if you did the right thing, you still get stabbed through the heart. | ||
| The guy still gets away with murder. | ||
| Like, I could see a situation where you, you know, you dot your I's and you cross your T's and just... What this is now is a systemic thing that we have with the philosophy on crime, with the philosophy on law enforcement, with the underpinnings of, you know, this guy's philosophy that is more what I focus on when I see the video. | ||
| Even if police were strengthened and funded, these things still happen. | ||
| You know, Luke's got a sign saying I'd rather have a gun in my hand than a cop on the phone. | ||
| And so the reason why things like this are substantially less likely to happen to, say, any one of us here is we're more likely to have guns at the time. | ||
| And typically do. | ||
| So, first of all, you know, I go through this video and I watched like a deep analysis explaining what happened and it's just like, this soft, delicate man of liberal sensibilities had zero situational awareness. | ||
| And it is remarkable to me. | ||
| I cannot fathom The degree to which he was not paying attention. | ||
| Me? | ||
| I'm just not like that. | ||
| I'll tell you a story. | ||
| I'm at Wilson Skatepark in Chicago, and I'm sitting by the Kidney Bowl. | ||
| It's the big pool section where people are skating the vert stuff. | ||
| And I see on the highway the giant Red Bull can. | ||
| off in the distance. | ||
| And I get up and I walk into the parking lot, and sure enough, the Red Bull can, car pulls right up, | ||
| and I say, I'll take a Red Bull. | ||
| And then, as the lady hands me two Red Bulls, the entire park comes running out. | ||
| Like, in my life, I'm just like, I've always been paying attention, | ||
| and I think maybe it's because I grew up in, you know, in a dangerous place. You have to. | ||
| And then I see people like this, who are really dumb, | ||
| really ignorant, burn down the system all around us, | ||
| make our lives more dangerous, put our children, our friends, our families at risk. | ||
| And you watch this video and he doesn't look, not one time. | ||
| He walks towards the crazy guy shoving things. | ||
| He would have thought he was a victim of a broken system, says the Daily Mail, which is exactly what he did. | ||
| He saw this young, this kid's 18, knocking things over and screaming, and he probably was like, do you need help, man? | ||
| And pissed the kid off. | ||
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He said that. | |
| No, I'm saying he probably said something like that. | ||
| Because then the kid goes, what the fuck are you looking at? | ||
| I will kill you right now, motherfucker. | ||
| This is the kind of guy who walks up to a deranged psychopath and thinks he just needs a social worker. | ||
| You know what the quickest way to antagonize someone is? | ||
| Ask them if something's wrong. | ||
| You see a crazy guy in the street, look him in the eyes, say something wrong, man, and they have just found a target for their anger. | ||
| You don't make eye contact, you back away. | ||
| First of all, dude should have been paying attention. | ||
| If he did, they wouldn't have got up and started walking towards a dude who was smashing shit. | ||
| As soon as they saw him knock shit over, they should have just quietly turned around, and then he could have just started walking. | ||
| Pay attention to the shadows, pay attention to what he hears. | ||
| If he hears footsteps behind him or the guy's yelling, he can turn around, tell his girlfriend, start going now. | ||
| Walk. | ||
| Now. | ||
| Turn around, and slowly back away in a defensive position, and say nothing, and just slowly back the fuck away. | ||
| Instead, he engages with him, shoves him, fights him, and doesn't even know there's a bench next to him, and then trips over it, smacks his face on it, falls over, and is murdered. | ||
| Anyway, we should go to callers. | ||
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Fucked. | |
| Alright. | ||
| Let's do that. | ||
| Um... I need to speak to... them last. | ||
| So yeah, let's talk to El Mirachi. | ||
| Uh, how are you today? | ||
| today. What about this? Yeah, now I can hear you. | ||
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Hey, how's it going? | |
| Pretty good. | ||
| Yourself? | ||
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I'm good. | |
| Um, let me, uh, pull up my question real quick. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Take your time. | ||
| No worries. | ||
| Not too much time. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Um, for, for Tim, what does he think about starting a pod learning foundation type organization where I think it's a great idea. | ||
| I wouldn't know how to do it. | ||
| That definitely seems like a project for James Lindsay though. | ||
| Well, at the very least, James Lindsay would know better than I would when it comes to education and stuff like that. | ||
| But yeah, I think one thing that we'd probably need to build when we're talking about homeschooling and pods is Private pod learning. | ||
| I think there's a, look, you want a business idea? | ||
| You want to be rich? | ||
| I love all these dudes who are like, I'm going to teach you how to get rich quick, man. | ||
| And you know, I was watching, I was reading this article in the Daily Mail from a woman. | ||
| She was like a millionaire by 28. | ||
| And here's how she did it. | ||
| And then it's like, she's talking about all the entrepreneurial things she did. | ||
| The other women are just like saying they do porn and stuff. | ||
| But there's a business opportunity right now to create private pod schools. | ||
| You make a website, you make business cards, you put up flyers, you buy ads online, get some nice production quality, and you find some teachers, or if you're a teacher yourself, and say, sign up for our pod classes today, where the teacher comes to, you know, you and your friends will get together, and then they have a private tutoring session for all the kids together, and that's a big business opportunity right now. | ||
| I think you'd make yourself a millionaire. | ||
| Download an app, or I should say, make an app called like PodLearner, where you can | ||
| effectively scroll through tutors and teachers, and they can explain their values and the | ||
| things they teach, and it's like Uber for teaching for your kids. | ||
| Boom, there you go. | ||
| Uber for everything. | ||
| I like that idea. | ||
| Dana Martin is working on some very interesting projects that are very similar to this. | ||
| Check her out. | ||
| I think you would be very happy to see what she's doing. | ||
| She's one of the biggest advocates of homeschooling, but also radical homeschooling. | ||
| She does it in a very interesting way. | ||
| It might not work for everyone, but I think those concepts are worth kind of looking into and delving into as of course she deals with a lot of the hippy dippy stuff that I think is important to kind of look at. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
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Was that good? | |
| I hope that was a sufficient answer. | ||
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Yeah, that was great. | |
| One thing I wanted to add about it, too, is adding a feature of kind of like an area search, kind of like what Public School has, which I think would be pretty cool to have on there. | ||
| I mean, honestly, Public School could easily just add that function. | ||
| Michael Seifert's going to be here tomorrow. | ||
| I'll ask him. | ||
| They do all businesses. | ||
| You know, I wonder to what degree they could add this kind of search. | ||
| If they really want to be, like, the anti-Amazon, then services should be a big component. | ||
| And being able to search, I mean, that right there I think will take Public Square to the next level. | ||
| If you can load up the app and be like, I need a masseuse, I need a teacher, I need a car mechanic, and then you can find, like, that's huge, man. | ||
| If you need a trade done, right now, we're struggling with, like, how do we find contractors? | ||
| How do we find an electrician? | ||
| And so we're going through word of mouth and Google. | ||
| Dude, if I could just pull up on Public Square and type, like, search, what do you need? | ||
| Service, electrician, and then it gives me a list of people in my area and they're all like, we love America, I'll be like, based. | ||
| Yeah, based thumbtack. | ||
| Yeah, and then you could be like, tutoring, schooling. | ||
| I mean, I don't know if that makes... I think if Public Square is going to be anti-Amazon and be that big, that should be a component. | ||
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| But yeah, man. | ||
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Right on, was that good? | |
| Yeah, awesome answer. | ||
| I wanted to add real quick, Tim, you're the biggest role model in my life, and you're the reason why I've turned my life around. | ||
| And Seamus, quit stealing spoons, because you're still my favorite. | ||
| Goodbye, everybody. | ||
| Yes, Seamus, stop stealing! | ||
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| You thief! | ||
| You robber! | ||
| Seamus is just totally zoned out. | ||
| He's having headphones on? | ||
| Yeah, he can't hear anything. | ||
| He's looking at us and smiling. | ||
| He pooped himself. | ||
| He totally pooped himself, and he's scared. | ||
| He's a coward. | ||
| Can't even defend his own lineage and family. | ||
| He's probably just watching Simpsons reruns right now. | ||
| Shameful Seamus. | ||
| Alright, next up. | ||
| Alright, Endil, you are with us. | ||
| How are you today? | ||
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Hey there, can you hear me alright? | |
| Yeah, loud and clear. | ||
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Fantastic, thank you for taking my call. | |
| I've got a question for Mr. Benz. | ||
| So one of the biggest stories, biggest developments in online freedom, certainly from a public perspective at least, has been Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. | ||
| And so in the wake of that, there's been a debate about what Elon Musk's true intentions are. | ||
| Some people think he's legitimate. | ||
| Some people think he has an ulterior motive or he's like secretly working for someone or whatever. | ||
| It seems that to me, especially with some of his recent things that he's been tweeting and retweeting, I kind of think that maybe he's for real. | ||
| I want to ask, with your experience, what do you think? | ||
| What do you think about Elon? | ||
| Yeah, well, it's something very similar to you. | ||
| I wrote a piece right when he announced the acquisition with my sort of hope for him, but some of the skepticism about being able... We have seen many warriors in this arena with initially noble intentions, Let me back up for a second. | ||
| The obvious, I don't know if you said this explicitly, but there have been, there's obvious analogies of the X the Everything app to this sort of Weibo, China, I think at one point, I hope I'm not misquoting this, but I think at one point there was a reference to Musk saying something like, oh, China has this thing which is super convenient, it's everything in one app, why doesn't the United States have something like that? | ||
| It's very easy to draw a straight line between that and something like digital ID and a sort of China-style state control over the interlinkage between communications and commerce that China has because Weibo is their everything app. | ||
| That being said, the... Musk's ability to withstand the pain box, to borrow a Darren Beattie term, has been remarkable at almost every turn, and where it has not, you can understand how there may be a long-term strategy with some forms of compromise. | ||
| And if I have the space to flesh it out, I'll... Yeah, so... | ||
| So right away, the first thing that he did was get rid of this ad council and a lot of the entanglements that organizations like the ADL and some related activist groups had at the company. Now, ADL struck back and cost Twitter about | ||
| 65% of their advertisers, just like they had cost Facebook two years earlier $60 | ||
| billion in ad revenue, together with a bunch of State Department-funded NGOs, to bring a | ||
| double-digit billionaire, Zuckerberg, There's the question of whether triple digits may be enough to withstand that coordinated civil society encirclement tactic. | ||
| But in addition to doing that, you've had, I mean, just take what happened a week ago. | ||
| Aaron Rodricks, who was the head of this election disinformation unit, you know, they called it election integrity, but it was just election censorship. | ||
| The guy had made statements totally backing government-run censorship out of CISA at DHS. | ||
| The guy was deeply connected to a CIA censorship network which has been in place at basically all platforms and have been protected because they're instruments of the national security state in terms of who this person was and where he was drawing recruits from. | ||
| And I could see that being a hard call to get rid of that because this was a network tied to intelligence. | ||
| Musk caught flak from all the mainstream media when this guy got fired. | ||
| In fact, even the EU Commission weighed in and said, you know, the firing of this election integrity team is one more reason why X needs to be subjected to the Digital Services Act on disinformation and brought in to make sure that they're censoring the appropriate material. | ||
| But, like, Musk could have opted not to do those things, and, you know, conservatives or centrists or center-left, you know, reasonable liberals would still be on X. I think that he's He's made compromises with Linda Yaccarino in terms of bringing her in. | ||
| I think that there are things that are being done to court back advertisers, which are in opposition to the tenets of free speech. | ||
| And I think actually building that infrastructure on ad money is like building a castle on sand. | ||
| But on the whole, I have not yet seen someone in the tech space who has been this brave. | ||
| And people were up against far less than what Musk is. | ||
| Was that good, Endel? | ||
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Yeah, no, that's fantastic. | |
| Anything else to add? | ||
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Yeah, actually, if Elon Musk turns out to be for real, if all the pain he's going through turns out to be real, that's incredibly inspiring. | |
| I don't know, if you could wish upon a star and have a free agent software developer do anything, build anything to impact the current environment, what would that be? | ||
| Speech neutral. | ||
| I would have that person actually take things out rather than... I would have that person look at the code on all of the, you know, database of words related to brand safety and hate speech and misdisc and malinformation. | ||
| You know, one of the big tasks in front of the company right now at the technological level to take on censorship is that There was such an enormous Jenga tower built within the code itself of all the different trust and safety fillers of all the different targeted communities and all their little proxy words representing them. | ||
| Everything from elections, public health, to energy, to immigration, to abortion. | ||
| I mean, regardless of what you feel about those as substantive issues, the fact is, you know, a software engineer can kill an entire idea with a couple lines of code And the discourse is rigged, the public square is slanted on one side of every one of these issues because of the work of these programmers. | ||
| Now they make their own decisions, they were following the social science and the corporate people, but we need smart, talented software engineers who can read that code and can understand the way it's It's entire architecture is constructed into really peel back those layers to get back to a system of political neutrality and social neutrality that was the hallmark of the early internet. | ||
| Right on, man. | ||
| Well, great question, Endel. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
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Fantastic. | |
| Thank you very much guys. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| I want to give a shout out to TechWolf because I saw this post. | ||
| It says, can someone explain to Tim that muscle memory isn't actually memory stored in muscles? | ||
| I love that because I don't know why anyone would assume that's what I was saying, but let me break it down for you. | ||
| If you program Kung Fu into your head, your ligaments will not be able to stretch to perform the maneuvers. | ||
| Yes, you have to be able to grow, develop your muscles, and stretch your body to be able to do most of these moves. | ||
| Most people don't have the muscles, nor the flexibility, to pull off even a cartwheel. | ||
| So if you program into your brain the memory and knowledge of how to do a thing that your body can't flex enough to do, it won't happen. | ||
| That's just it. | ||
| I can remember in my mind how to laser flip, but holy fuck, I could not laser flip last week. | ||
| But that's so crazy. | ||
| I know in my brain exactly how to do it. | ||
| I remember everything. | ||
| I used to do it when I was younger. | ||
| Can't do it anymore. | ||
| How does that happen? | ||
| I didn't forget. | ||
| I may be misremembering, but I think there's a funny Bill Burr joke around watching somebody do a dunk from the foul line and saying, oh, you know, why didn't I think of that? | ||
| Yeah, so, it's a combination of things, right? | ||
| You plug someone in, uh, what is this? | ||
| Well, the guy doubting muscle memory has never done intense physical training before. | ||
| I suppose, I suppose. | ||
| Your muscles break down, and they rebuild themselves stronger, and in specific ways that target the things you are trying to do. | ||
| Skateboarders' center of gravities shift lower because they exercise their legs more than their upper body, creating heavier legs, whereas the typical person's legs make up one-third of their weight. | ||
| For a lot of skateboarders, their legs are half their weight because they're exercising these muscles and not their upper body. | ||
| So their upper body stays small and their legs get heavier, but a lower center of gravity improves balance. | ||
| You can't just memorize that. | ||
| You can't program how to do these things. | ||
| But let's jump to the next scholar. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| Gemfire, what is up? | ||
| How are you today? | ||
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I am doing good. | |
| How are you guys? | ||
| Doing great. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Doing well, I guess. | ||
| Doing well. | ||
| Yeah, that's proper. | ||
| But I'm great. | ||
| I feel great. | ||
| It's like a half dad joke. | ||
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Thanks for taking the time, guys. | |
| My question is mostly for Mike, but the whole panel can answer. | ||
| How do we as viewers and consumers on the Internet help in the censorship war beyond just watching and interacting with those that go against the grain? | ||
| Is there more that we can do than just interacting when we don't have money to give? | ||
| Yeah, well, first I would say don't undersell the power of just interacting. | ||
| Oftentimes, what's available strategically isn't possible until enough people are interacting that your elected representatives get the opportunity to be heroes for a large number of people because it's on the tip of everyone's tongues. | ||
| Oftentimes, just talking about it is what provides the baseline. | ||
| I'll give you an example. | ||
| talk for many years about the importance of understanding censorship not as an act but as an industry which is to say that rather than looking at censorship as being the act that a you know that somebody at facebook does at the at a at the very end of a of a funnel understand the economics of of the universities, the NGOs, the foundations, the private sector mercenary firms, the media literacy and fact-checker programs, and the government departments, which are providing funding in 12 different departments right now, over a hundred million over the past year, subsidizing a censorship industry with 200,000 censorship jobs that would not exist without that funding, and the capacity to carry out the censorship | ||
| is something that can be targeted in a way that is sometimes more effective than trying to, you know, long-arm influence over some mechanical Turk scrolling through, you know, content flagged, you know, at a minimum wage job in a factory in Bangladesh. | ||
| And what I'm trying to say by that, though, is it It takes a lot of work and a lot of talking to get enough people to understand the industry and the market of the censorship industry and all the different actors and players involved. | ||
| And that requires people constantly talking about it so that when you use a phrase like that, it's not some foreign concept. | ||
| So there's a linguistic fluency that has to be developed. | ||
| There's a sort of news attention to the stories. | ||
| They have to be shared. | ||
| They have to be shared with friends and family. | ||
| You have to lend your spirit energy to that. | ||
| But at the same time, there's a multi-front offensive on this. | ||
| There's a Supreme Court case right now which could deliver a knockout blow, potentially, to multiple government agencies' ability to participate in the censorship. | ||
| market and actions there's There's multiple congressional investigations. | ||
| There's there's media events like the Twitter files and in an improved literacy within a lot of conservative news about some of these institutions that were only little known before some of them like the Stanford Aaron Observatory or the global disinformation index and in a coterie of many many others, but I wouldn't undersell if you are not Well-resourced. | ||
| If you are not well-connected, if you don't have the sort of commanding assets of somebody who can make a material difference through doubles and triples and home run swings as an analogy, don't undersell relentlessly batting for singles in terms of amplifying things. | ||
| You would be surprised with what one year of just small ball, doing your little part, when enough people start doing that, the minnows start to look a lot bigger than the shark. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
| Anything else to add, Gemfire? | ||
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No, that was really good. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| Yeah, fantastic. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Alright, next up. | ||
| Patriot with a zero. | ||
| Patriot with a zero. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
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Ah, questions, questions, we got. | |
| So my questions, they actually span from last night's show to this night, and I think they're pressing it to today. | ||
| But I don't know if you guys seen this at the vote for the ousting of McCarthy, but what are your thoughts on the representative from North Dakota, Kelly Armstrong, his sleazy attack on Matt Gaetz for being at the Democrat podium? | ||
| I think it was planned to push him over there and then make him look like that was not credible and traitorous by siding with the Dems. | ||
| I don't like Republicans. | ||
| Fuck them. | ||
| Me either. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Not a big fan. | |
| But I see what you're saying. | ||
| They're trying to play this tribal game. | ||
| Newt Gingrich is. | ||
| He's anti-Republican. | ||
| It makes me laugh. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| Oh, I wish I could vote for him twice. | ||
| Okay, we don't like you, dude. | ||
| The reason why this is happening is because we're sick of these people and there's enough of us who are not so much Democrat Republican, but anti-establishment. | ||
| So they can say whatever the fuck they want. | ||
| They can smear him. | ||
| I'm just, I'm over it. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Matt Gaetz is the congressional Molotov cocktail to Donald Trump's presidential Molotov cocktail. | ||
| Yeah, that's a good way. | ||
| That's a good analogy. | ||
| And he's a badass. | ||
| Or speaker. | ||
| Speaker mode. | ||
| If Trump ends up being speaker before he's president. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Yeah, it's weird how everyone calls us Republicans all the time because we're not Democrats. | ||
| Just not true. | ||
| Anyways, anything else to add, my friend? | ||
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Yeah, I had another thing for Luke. | |
| This actually goes to something you said last night. | ||
| Do you know that if there's no government, people will form groups to protect themselves, their families, and their property, and order it in a collective manner to defend against every group? | ||
| I see what you're doing here. | ||
| I'm catching on. | ||
| I'm catching on. | ||
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I'm with you, brother. | |
| I understand about having a small government. | ||
| I understand. | ||
| So you got to understand what the leftists do with their ideology and the progress that they have made comes because they're willing to ask for a lot more and they're willing to of course compromise along the way. | ||
| I think we as People on the opposite side of that. | ||
| I think the Republicans have been cucked so fucking badly. | ||
| They're so fucking pathetic. | ||
| They don't know what to ask for. | ||
| They're disillusioned. | ||
| I think we should be asking for everything. | ||
| We can make concessions along the way, but I think the biggest solution that's going to come through all the bullshit that we're facing is decentralization. | ||
| So obviously, anarchy to me is the end goal. | ||
| No government. | ||
| Will we ever achieve that? | ||
| Is that reasonable? | ||
| Is that something that's actually going to happen? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| But I think we should still ask for more and push the goalposts a lot further down the field than, of course, what these other soft-handed, soft-ass, pussy-ass, bitch Republicans are fucking doing, saying, hey guys, please, we're just going to implement your policies 10 years after you guys do it. | ||
| And they're fucking ridiculous. | ||
| They're fucking stupid. | ||
| We need to go in the other direction. | ||
| Very fast, very quickly. | ||
| The best direction to head in is anarchy, is total freedom, is no government. | ||
| Is it going to happen? | ||
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No. | |
| Is it realistic? | ||
| No, but let's fucking copy what the fuck these assholes are doing and let's do it better. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If the left keeps saying like, we want, they're not literally saying we want communism. | ||
| They're going, we want this policy, which is communist. | ||
| And then when the Republicans come in, they go, okay, well, how about we give you socialism instead? | ||
| And they go, okay. | ||
| How about the right comes out and says, we want to abolish the ATF outright, and we want to... Here's what we do. | ||
| Republican... See, you know, if I was in Congress, I'd be doing all sorts of crazy-ass bullshit. | ||
| File a, you know, get a bill and committee and whatever, and I know it probably won't even go to the floor, but this is why you need to win the speakership. | ||
| You need to get someone in there who will do it. | ||
| And the proposal is... | ||
| Government universal gun ownership funded by the government. | ||
| We would fund the creation of the gun distribution, you know, the Department of Gun Services, the DGS, where anyone at the age of 16 can, after completing gun safety courses, get their government-issued handgun and or rifle. | ||
| You could choose one. | ||
| You're gonna choose a handgun? | ||
| Actually, no, I think it's probably better if you're 16, you complete the course, you get an AR-15 with a 30-round mag and a box of ammo, and then if you're 18, you only have to just walk in, and there's no requirements other than you're only allowed to get one. | ||
| The point of this is, when the Democrats lose their minds and freak out, then the Republicans will go, okay, okay, okay, fine. | ||
| How about we just Instead of giving people the guns, we remove the restrictions on 30-round magazines, etc. | ||
| No, Tim, Tim, you're totally wrong. | ||
| I totally disagree with you. | ||
| Nuclear weapons at your local FFL. | ||
| That's what I want. | ||
| That's what I demand right now. | ||
| Miniature nuclear... Exactly. | ||
| Give me the fucking nukes! | ||
| Give me the bioweapons! | ||
| I want fucking all of that shit right now! | ||
| Send it to my FFL. | ||
| My point is, if Republicans come out and say, we want universal gun ownership, Look at what happens when Democrats are like, we want universal healthcare and stuff. | ||
| They get a compromise bill that Republicans, they get Obamacare, Republicans won't repeal it. | ||
| Okay, Republicans, how about you advocate for universal gun ownership and create the Department of Gun Services where anyone can just walk in and get one free gun, and you know, one free, one free AR-15, and then when they're like, no, we won't do that, guns are bad, we say, okay, okay, fine, fine, we won't give them out for free, we'll just create the Department of Gun Services where people can buy guns with no restrictions. | ||
| I want fucking lightsabers. | ||
| I want laser weapons. | ||
| I want fucking tungsten rods in the fucking sky that could obliterate- I want all of it, okay? | ||
| You can't- You as an individual won't be able to have the rods from God. | ||
| Elon, maybe. | ||
| You never know. | ||
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Did I answer your question effectively enough? | |
| Learning from ear to ear. | ||
| That's exactly what people need to hear. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Right on, man. | ||
| Well, thanks for calling in. | ||
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Hey, thank you guys. | |
| Last, but not least. | ||
| Cheers man. | ||
| Alright and uh... | ||
| Last but not least. | ||
| Definitely not least. | ||
| Roman909, uh, what's 909 to reference to? | ||
| Or is it a reference to awards? | ||
| California area? | ||
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Um... | |
| Maybe. I was thinking. | ||
| Are you a dirty commie-fornian? | ||
| Or is that Washington? | ||
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Ironically enough, I actually did come from California, but my family left because we don't, we aren't commies. | |
| It's great talking to you guys. | ||
| I've been a big fan since, I think, 2020, Tim. | ||
| California, San Bernardino. | ||
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Yep. | |
| It's great talking to you guys. | ||
| Um... | ||
| It's... | ||
| I've been a big fan since I think 2020, Tim. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| It's nice to hear everyone else in here watching this show, | ||
| like I said, for a while. | ||
| So, my question is... With the potential aggressive nature of Brits... | ||
| What are all the panel's thoughts on NATO becoming a federation? | ||
| Is this a likely or practical counter against BRICS? | ||
| It would be a terrible idea, and it would result in global destabilization, I'd imagine, and probably World War III. | ||
| I get the point, though, and it's an interesting idea. | ||
| The problem is, it would destroy the laws and the constitution of the United States. | ||
| And you'd get people in this country just losing their minds. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Can you flesh that out a little, a little more? | ||
| I mean, when you say a federation, I mean, there's, there's an implication, but I want to make sure I'm not like drawing. | ||
| I mean, you're, you're basically talking about sort of like a governance super state of comprised of NATO countries, but it's sort of federated at a regional level. | ||
| I mean, what? | ||
| Like a new world order? | ||
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Um, America established a new world order and we pretty much dominate the globe. | |
| Um, there is no changing the world order without the rest of the world burning with it at this point. | ||
| Um, this wouldn't bring a new world order. | ||
| This would basically be borderline. | ||
| Yeah, it's a federated states. | ||
| So like each state can do their own internal thing, but on the federal level, everyone gets | ||
| together on the same economic or military policies. | ||
| Well, okay, can I just jump in real quick, because I think I was confused by the question, because I don't see... | ||
| I'm not making an opinion for or against NATO when I say this. | ||
| I don't see a difference between the current construction of NATO and what you're talking about. | ||
| You understand that even to join NATO, you need to go through market reforms. | ||
| You need to change your political system with a bunch of democracy reforms. | ||
| You need to basically fit yourself into a cookie cutter slot of the existing NATO structure. | ||
| And if you understand how our own sort of military works and our own intelligence and State Department is organized, It is very much like, you know, like the, we are a transatlantic empire. | ||
| Like we are not, you know, uh, the, the, the, you can call us nominally sovereign, uh, but we don't do things unless it's, we have the transatlantic consensus, even if we need to mold that through UK and Brussels partners with, with more satellite NATO countries. | ||
| But the fact is, is like NATO is already very much a federation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Oh no, what I mean is closer governance. | |
| I mean, yeah, I completely agree with what you're saying already. | ||
| That's why I'm saying, and I believe in that idea, that it should be closer, because that's realistically what we're going to end up doing in the next 300 years, or the rest of the world burns. | ||
| Are you uh, it's yeah, I just I'm trying to understand if you're maybe look thinking of it more like the | ||
| European union of some sort or if I'm maybe in misunderstanding | ||
| Uh, it's in like more more coordinated more coordinated decisions. I'm just trying to understand what you mean | ||
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because it already making Like | |
| Like making like being the ability to actually make laws And having a central government or like sort of like a | ||
| central government and a central military That's like the basic requirements to be a federation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| To hit that phase. | ||
| You think that's required to take on bricks? | ||
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Uh, to, yeah, to counter BRICS. | |
| I mean, it would, basically, there wouldn't be really much of a way for BRICS to challenge it at that point. | ||
| Militarily, though. | ||
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Militarily, economically, and, I mean, the only thing they would have on us is population, that's about it. | |
| Well, I think that's what the point was about the distinction between NATO and the EU. | ||
| Because, you know, yeah, but yeah. | ||
| No, I was just saying to come closer to the mic. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| No, I mean, look, I mean, China's rise is not a military story. | ||
| I mean, they have defensive capacities, primarily in the South China Sea and the ability to be a sort of porcupine that you don't want to necessarily, you know, engage with because of their You know, they have offensive strike capabilities, but they're not like a military base. | ||
| It's not like the U.S. | ||
| with 800 military bases everywhere. | ||
| They rely on economic soft power for their rise. | ||
| In a dirty way, NATO actually does influence the economies through using the muscle of the national security state. | ||
| I'm not sure if more of that is necessarily a great recipe for the sort of civil liberties freedom thing we're trying to cook up here. | ||
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Oh, no, no, no, no. | |
| There's one last thing I wanted to say before I let you guys discuss this amongst yourselves. | ||
| One of the things I would definitely support in the constitution, and the only way I would like it if in this system, is that the only way to run or vote is if you've done some form of civic duty. | ||
| Whether it be military, you first responder 24 hours of community service, or have passed a civic test. | ||
| Or, yeah, like, have I said in the medical field? | ||
| Yeah, like in the medical field. | ||
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Or like any of those things are important to the state and community. | |
| I get that, but sociopaths lie all the time and will go through the motions to get the qualifications. | ||
| The issue is, are the people actually invested in this? | ||
| That's why I think it makes more sense to require the people to have done some service in order to vote for a person. | ||
| For me, personally, I think you have to be an animal if you want to be a politician, and I think we should vote in our favorite animals, and I think they would do a way better job than our politicians. | ||
| That's probably true, and it's like, my attitude is kinda like, I'm not an anarchist, I think there's some government that's good, but the reality is our politicians are balls, bullshit, suck-ass, they're trash, and a dog would do better by doing nothing. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's anarchy, baby. | ||
| But I do think that there's some good functions of government in terms of border security, national defense, and interstate conflict resolution through the Supreme Court and things like that. | ||
| The problem is, politicians are corrupt assholes, and if we replaced Congress with a bunch of golden retrievers, congressional approval rating would hit 100%, and there would be less problems. | ||
| Dude, I mean, just imagine that. | ||
| Yeah, I would love that. | ||
| Everybody would love Congress overnight. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, right on, man. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| It's getting late. | ||
| Gotta get back to it. | ||
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The military could be German- No, not at all. | |
| Appreciate the call. | ||
| Cheers. | ||
| Hope you're well. | ||
| Likewise. | ||
| There's much to be done. | ||
| Tomorrow is Thursday. | ||
| Friday is the show. | ||
| It's gonna be amazing, and we're really excited to have Matt Gaetz. | ||
| We were excited to have him in the first place, but now that he's basically the most badass politician | ||
| in this country, I'm just like, holy shit, I can't believe we got Matt Gaetz. | ||
| Off his profile. | ||
| Big fan, and it was really cool that we had him on just like in the past week when he was talking about this | ||
| and explaining to us, cause he gets it. | ||
| He tweeted out a video from me, you know, furiously ranting saying, I get it. | ||
| And I'm like, bro, you're doing the work, man. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Mike, thanks for hanging out. | ||
| It's been a blast. | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And for everybody who's a member, if you're listening right now and the members only, join the Discord and hang out with everybody because they're doing a bunch of awesome stuff. | ||
| There's more content being produced in the Discord. | ||
| So if you are a member, that utility is there for you. | ||
| And, you know, join up, hang out, produce culture. | ||
| That's the whole point. |
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