Elon Musk is unbanning everyone, Donald Trump is unbanned, Project Veritas is back, Marjorie Taylor Greene is back. But you know who's not back? Alex Jones. We talk about the pros and the cons of this and more on this week's Pop Culture Crisis.
00:01:02.000But Elon Musk's refusal to reinstate Alex Jones is making him look like a hypocrite, and I know Elon understands this, so I kinda can't believe him when he says, oh, it's cause I have no mercy for people who exploit children in this way for fame or whatever.
00:01:19.000Alex Jones was banned for making fun of Oliver Darcy.
00:01:21.000He wasn't banned for saying anything about kids or anything like that, so what's Elon talking about?
00:01:28.000There's a whole bunch of news to break down as it pertains to Twitter.
00:01:32.000Then, of course, we have over in Arizona, the Attorney General is launching an investigation into election irregularities, and the assistant AG is refusing to certify the election.
00:01:41.000I have no idea what YouTube thinks of that.
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00:02:31.000Joining us today to talk about all of this and more is Darren Beattie.
00:02:39.000I'm the founder-editor of a great news site called revolver.news, which has just published a really bombshell piece on the next FTX scandal, which I hope we'll have a chance to talk about.
00:02:59.000And I'll also mention the last episode we had you on was our biggest episode we ever did for a while, until we had Joe Rogan and Alex Jones at the same time.
00:03:08.000But like, come on, having those two guys at the same time, that shouldn't count.
00:03:13.000Having you as a single guest and getting, it was like 2.4 million views or something.
00:03:28.000Because we had like 300k, so I think it's like, if you were to add the YouTube views from the day plus Rumble, it would be 200k more than the AJ Rogan episode.
00:05:14.000Elon Musk is just, you think he's going through a list and then just like looking at why they were banned and like okay we'll unban them and like who's this and like unban them.
00:05:22.000But the graveyard of suspended accounts is just so large that there's no way to know who's never gonna come back.
00:05:29.000Well, we're waiting for Sargon, Carl Benjamin, to be unbanned.
00:06:38.000And as you know, the system will use any opportunity it can get to file another case against Trump.
00:06:46.000There are already three or four in the works.
00:06:48.000So it's complicated business with Trump.
00:06:51.000He wants to, and if we subscribe to the modification of Occam's razor that Elon propounded on Twitter, namely that the most entertaining outcome is the most likely, I think we can all expect Trump to be on there and many more colorful figures to come.
00:07:12.000We need to pull this meme from Elon Musk.
00:07:14.000He tweeted, and lead us not into temptation, and it is the meme of the woman showing her private parts to the monk, and the monk is refusing to look.
00:07:23.000The monk, of course, is Donald Trump, and the woman's derriere is Twitter.
00:07:40.000She quoted this and then wrote, this is rape culture.
00:07:44.000A billionaire promoting rape culture on his platform, and then I was just like, men not wanting to have sex with women who want to is rape now?
00:09:08.000I think he has to if he's running, if he's going to be running a successful presidential campaign because there's no other way to get out in front, to get your message across, but most importantly also protect yourself against the incoming attacks and slanders and all the fake news media bullcrap along with the DOJ indictments.
00:09:26.000There's no better way to protect yourself than in the court of public day.
00:09:29.000Uh, and, and, and that of course means using Twitter.
00:09:49.000Donald Trump tweets a sentence with a link to Truth Social which contains the paragraph.
00:09:56.000So that way, he's still getting his idea on Twitter, he's maximizing his audience, but he's actually helping Truth Social grow.
00:10:02.000I think that's the best thing to do because more competition in this space is good, and if he can build another community, then we never have to worry about monopolistic censorship.
00:10:12.000From what I read, Truth Social has a six-hour exclusivity window.
00:10:17.000And therefore Trump must post on, this is what I read, it could be wrong, but Trump must post on Truth Social, then six hours later he could post the same thing on another social media platform.
00:10:28.000And there's exceptions to the rule, like fundraising, so he can post on Twitter according to some of the mainstream media sources out there and their kind of larger agreement with Truth Social.
00:10:37.000But at the end of the day, I mean, is he prioritizing money in his platform over this platform?
00:10:44.000And will this kind of outcome be in his benefit?
00:11:08.000Elon's probably trying to steal back that Oh, the users that went over to it?
00:11:13.000Yeah, I think Elon saw this as a business opportunity.
00:11:15.000He probably was just like, look how many people they've kicked off the platform.
00:11:19.000They're losing money because they're bad at business.
00:11:21.000I can come in, post some spicy memes, everyone will start screaming and spitting and yelling, they'll all come back, and then we'll go public again in a few years.
00:14:12.000Have you guys ever... He's outside the door right there.
00:14:14.000Have you ever heard the stories about how, like, someone on their deathbed all of a sudden will become, like, lucid and energized, and they'll sit up and start talking and be totally normal, and you'll be like, oh, they're getting healthy, and then they just die.
00:14:28.000Like, people who are, like, dying and, like, laying on their bed will just one day get up and be like, I'm feeling better, I'd like to see my family.
00:14:34.000And then the family will come in, they'll all talk and laugh, and then all of a sudden the person will just, like, like, croak.
00:14:39.000Like, it's the body mustering up the last bit of energy to make your final, you know, finish your business and say your goodbyes.
00:14:49.000We're all like, yay, we feel invigorated again, like it's 2015, 2016, and then the replies flip over and the words start getting jumbled, the tweets stop appearing, and then it's gone.
00:15:00.000But it definitely doesn't feel like 2016.
00:15:03.000And then the microchip goes inside of your head without you even noticing it, without your consent, and then bada bing, bada boom, you're connected to the new WeChat of the United States.
00:16:16.000They're tweeting, like, not only was Trump reinstated, but I found that I was following him, and I've never followed him, and I have to unfollow him.
00:16:22.000And it's like, dude, you followed him.
00:16:58.000My favorite was CBS News saying that they're going to be leaving temporarily because of security concerns and then coming back and then still everyone saying, we don't care.
00:17:14.000They came right back just a few days afterwards, a few hours afterwards, and it's like, oh yeah, we're still looking, we're monitoring the situation.
00:17:22.000The thing is, none of these people can really leave, and that's why it's not the last kind of death croak of Twitter, because nothing on the planet has been able to replicate the network effects that Twitter has.
00:17:36.000It's just too valuable to too many Major stakeholders in the system.
00:17:41.000Just recently you had Elon, who by the way, I think he is maybe the first major captain of industry to mock the ADL since the ADL's inception.
00:19:47.000It's function as a global public square is unique and it has network effects that are also unique.
00:19:55.000And for that reason, a lot of stakeholders are going to do everything they can to prevent Elon from going the direction he seems to be going.
00:20:04.000He needs to exercise a lot of caution.
00:20:08.000He needs to approach things with finesse.
00:20:10.000And I would say so far, he's done about as well as we could reasonably expect him to do, given what the stakes are and given what he's up against.
00:20:18.000Yeah, there's a couple hiccups that he deserves to be criticized on legitimately, but you do make a good point, because where else could you see the president of the ADL go after Elon Musk and Elon Musk respond saying, hey, stop defaming me?
00:20:33.000Where else could you see Kanye West say, shalom, right?
00:20:38.000This hive mind, this online reality is amazing, and the people quitting it, there's a reason they're coming back.
00:20:45.000All these people, all these actors, hey, I'm quitting Twitter.
00:20:48.000Hey, I'm still quitting Twitter, but I want to make one more post and another post.
00:20:51.000And this is again something very similar to what we saw with Neil Young with Spotify.
00:20:56.000This is the same thing we saw with all these celebrities saying that they're going to be moving to Canada.
00:21:03.000And we have to understand, these threats are empty, and they need to be called out as ridiculous, because Twitter is where it's at right now.
00:21:09.000It's fun, it's entertaining, and it's where I'm at.
00:21:46.000But I think if you sat down with him and talked to him, you'd understand him, right?
00:21:50.000He's not like this caricature of a guy marching around with a hood and a tiki torch or anything like that.
00:21:54.000But these people want to say that Libs of TikTok, for instance, by simply tweeting out, I'm sorry, retweeting videos posted by people publicly, she's murdering them.
00:22:08.000So there's this viral tweet, I comment on it, where they're like, you know, Libs of TikTok has murdered hundreds of LGBT people by sharing these videos.
00:22:17.000And it's like, bro, the videos are public.
00:22:19.000Literature Doctor isn't doing anything!
00:22:20.000If that's their standard, and people have to abide by those kind of psychotic individuals, they're scared to speak out.
00:22:28.000Now, Elon comes in and says, have fun guys, and what are we seeing?
00:22:32.000Spicy memes, jokes, trolling, and fun.
00:22:55.000But yeah, the whole thing about Libs of TikTok killing people that they have this new term that a lot of these kind of midwit mediocrities with master's degrees are talking about, called stochastic terrorism.
00:23:09.000And it's it's really such a joke concept, but it effectively means that You can't criticize anyone because of the possibility that the criticism would be out there in the ether and some crazy person might attack some kind of affiliated group and then of course you're responsible.
00:23:28.000So it's the latest of many censorship predicates.
00:23:33.000And then the woman behind the libs of TikTok, what's her name?
00:26:31.000Okay, look, I can respect all of the good things he's done, the people he's unbanned, and I will accept the win.
00:26:36.000What I will not accept is... I will say it this way.
00:26:40.000It is not victory for the people that we are living beneath the whims of a billionaire.
00:26:44.000What is a victory for the people is a clear set of rules, policies, and procedures so we can all fairly understand the rules of the platform.
00:26:55.000If you come out and tell me the rule is free speech, I say, you got it, boss.
00:26:59.000If you come out and say the rule is, you can't say this, that, or otherwise, I'll say, okay, well, that's dumb, but you got it, boss.
00:27:04.000If you come out and tell me the rules are A, but then, oh, by the way, I have special rules for other people.
00:27:10.000Well, then your your rules are garbage and completely meaningless.
00:27:13.000Now, that's really happening is you're unbanning people you like.
00:27:17.000Well, that's a very interesting point.
00:27:20.000But what do you say to this is that what if in practice, in terms of how things cash out,
00:27:28.000it's actually maximizes free speech on Twitter to have an arbitrary system rather than to
00:27:36.000a system that follows prescribed rules.
00:27:39.000Because you'd have to think, what kind of prescribed rules can he get away with?
00:27:43.000He could say what he said before, which is that the law of the land in terms of speech will govern speech policy on Twitter, which in the U.S.
00:27:57.000So let's say, let's ask where the line is.
00:28:00.000Insulting a reporter, is that a bannable offense?
00:28:02.000Is that, is that, is that in need of flexibility?
00:28:06.000I think they would all need flexibility, but I think it's easier to think in terms of who would be let back on versus kind of neutral principles that are kind of applied retroactively.
00:28:20.000In practice, he can get away with more if he pursues the arbitrary approach.
00:28:25.000In terms of maximizing free speech on Twitter.
00:28:28.000And he's giving himself a legal argument here because he's outright saying that for this personal reason he will not be reinstating Alex Jones.
00:28:35.000I absolutely feel and sympathize with Elon over this feeling of losing his son.
00:28:43.000I mean, it's a horrifying thing to have to experience and I can respect and understand that.
00:28:47.000I just don't know what it has to do with Alex Jones insulting a reporter.
00:28:50.000Now, if we're going to argue there needs to be some flexibility, sure, but some things are within the bounds of the Overton window and fine.
00:28:58.000Now, if you're arguing that there's harassment, and what constitutes harassment, okay, now we're dealing with something more difficult.
00:29:03.000Well, I'm saying more that, at this stage at least, in practice, his assessment—and he could very well be right on this—is that he can't get away with allowing Alex Jones on.
00:29:13.000And he is probably imprudent, and I think he probably stepped over the line in attacking Jones the way he did, but the reality is probably he couldn't get Jones on.
00:29:23.000And that's the cost of doing all the other stuff that he's done.
00:29:47.000But he did specifically address Alex, then said he's not going to unban him because he did a thing six years prior to his Twitter ban that offends Elon.
00:30:05.000And by doing so, if he does ban you, you can't sue him for breach of contract because he's clearly operating on a whim.
00:30:12.000I'm happy he's at least telling us where his flawed decision is coming from, because it's an illogical decision that shows you that there's no pathway to redemption, and he's using emotional trauma in order to justify this larger banning for something that Alex Jones has already apologized for, something that Alex Jones is being fined 1.5 billion dollars for, something that of course cost Alex Jones almost everything, but at the end of the day here, if we're going to be punishing people for Using children for their own political gain or fame?
00:30:44.000My original response to this was, hey Elon Musk, have you heard of Barack Obama?
00:30:49.000The guy who dropped a bomb every 20 minutes for 8 years?
00:30:53.000The guy who extra-judiciously assassinated a 16-year-old American citizen?
00:31:00.000If we're going to be punishing people for hurting children, we might as well ban the President of the United States!
00:32:42.000Don't say you believe in free speech when you don't.
00:32:43.000Because if the assumption is that, perhaps, he's playing a game of 4D chess, 3D chess, and then he should not have addressed the issue at all.
00:32:52.000Because if your argument is he has to to play the game, that means he's virtue signaling.
00:32:57.000I don't care for virtue signaling, I don't care for being lied to, and I don't care for petty—I shouldn't say it that way—but I don't care for personalized arguments as to why certain people are below the standards.
00:33:28.000I'm just trying to put myself in Elon's shoes.
00:33:31.000And I'm thinking, as much as we want a kind of neutral principled standard such that we can say, well, if you do this, what about this, which is, you know, how fairness operates.
00:33:41.000But in terms of The result, the kind of consequentialist view of it, is that he can actually probably maximize free speech more if he does virtue signal a little bit, at least in these early stages.
00:33:55.000There was something infuriating about Jack Dorsey and Vijay Agade lying to your face when you were like, hey, why was this person banned and why wasn't this person?
00:34:06.000When you'd say something like, hey, look, here's an Antifa account advocating for instructing violence and they go, oh well it's a mistake.
00:34:14.000And then they still won't take it down.
00:34:16.000When they tell you, we're working on it, there will be a path to redemption,
00:34:19.000I hear what you're saying, we're gonna try and fix it.
00:34:22.000It's frustrating because you know they're lying to you.
00:34:25.000It's even worse when it's a billionaire who just says, too bad.
00:34:29.000Like, it's one thing to be like, I can hold on to that 1% hope that Jack Dorsey means it
00:34:36.000when he says, we're gonna find a way to get people back on the platform,
00:35:08.000If you care about children and children being heard now, We should be going after him, but he's not.
00:35:12.000And having this kind of made-up scenario where you say, he's okay, but he's not good, based off your own emotional trauma, is not something that gives me a lot of hope in this platform moving forward.
00:35:23.000So we all agree that the First Amendment should be the ultimate standard?
00:36:24.000The Supreme Court just said, as we interpret what the First Amendment is supposed to mean, we've carved out an exception.
00:36:29.000The Founding Fathers didn't carve out an exception.
00:36:31.000So there's an interesting argument there because if we do agree that incitement to violence is criminal and not free speech, what happens if Congress or the Supreme Court, what happens if the Supreme Court, for instance, rules that actually hate speech is incitement because of stochastic terrorism?
00:36:49.000Are we going to continue to allow the courts to decide that there are more, larger and larger limits to speech?
00:36:54.000So I don't know that, ultimately... So you're saying the First Amendment standard is not good enough because it's subject to future kind of modifications from the Supreme Court's sort of interpretive development?
00:37:08.000Because the First Amendment could be argued to mean you can incite to violence.
00:37:17.000In the future, the Supreme Court may rule that doxing someone is not free expression.
00:37:22.000It's actually an attack against or something, it's a violation of someone's privacy and thus criminal.
00:37:29.000It would be interesting if Congress ruled that posting someone's private information, this may be a court that has, a case that has to be adjudicated actually, if Congress tries passing a law saying posting someone's private home details or private information, phone number, contact, etc.
00:37:46.000Without their permission constitutes a crime.
00:37:49.000The Supreme Court's going to have to determine whether or not that violates free speech, because posting someone's address doesn't really express your political opinion or views.
00:37:56.000And that's an argument some people make about what free speech is.
00:37:59.000Anyway, I don't want to make it overly complicated.
00:38:02.000The First Amendment is an easy thing to say, but we really do need bullet point breakdown of what is okay and what isn't.
00:38:08.000Gab, for instance, I believe bans doxing.
00:38:16.000I don't think you should be allowed to post someone's private details.
00:38:19.000I don't think there should be permanent bans for these things, however, because, you know, I argued this to Jack Dorsey, there are people who commit murder and they get out in 25 years.
00:38:46.000There's, you know, terrorist organizations that are on there openly using the platform without any kind of problems when Twitter, a couple years ago, was looking at, of course, right-wing talking points that they needed to censor and take down.
00:38:58.000It's crazy, because this is a very important issue, and we can't underplay it, because yes, I mean, we got to celebrate our victories.
00:39:05.000Elon did incredible things on banning a lot of important people that were punished for their political speech, but if you're going to continue the punishment based on your own kind of made-up standards, that's something that doesn't give me hope.
00:39:19.000That's something that I think a lot of people should be skeptical of, and I think that's something that a lot of people should be criticizing him on, because obviously it doesn't stand with any kind of virtue.
00:39:43.000Please use features like mute or block if you don't like people, but stop reporting, otherwise I'll start banning people who keep reporting for nothing.
00:39:50.000I'm trying to keep things running with so many new people, and it's such a waste of time to hear whatever you don't like.
00:39:56.000Otherwise, go waste Elon's time, not mine.
00:39:59.000Elon Musk tweeted, please hall monitors, go on someone else's platform.
00:40:05.000It was Nate Silver who said that he thinks Mastodon is a honeypot for the hall monitor types.
00:40:10.000All of these people on Twitter who report everything and won't shut up!
00:40:14.000are leaving and going to Mastodon and all Spider-Man meme pointing at each other and we're all having a good time.
00:40:20.000It's like there's a party going on and they left.
00:40:40.000Because they've now streamlined the process for reporting child exploitation materials, which I have been waiting for them to do for so long because they made it unnecessarily difficult.
00:40:51.000You had to go through on the desktop version and go through a longer process to do that.
00:41:13.000I mean, before, the moderators were just acting like demagogues about, you know... If you were having a conversation with someone and you weren't being academic enough in your language, then you would get banned, pretty much.
00:41:37.000Since the Beginning of the election month or whatever like October and then we're getting into November all of my videos pertaining to election issues have been demonetized for fake reasons and It's it costs a lot of money it really does like getting getting you know when you when you know I cut down the amount of videos I do I went from what was I doing like six to three and
00:42:25.000And being like, the polls are in, and they say this, that, and then I gotta call Google, and then they're like, whoops, that was an accident, let's fix it for you.
00:42:32.000And I'm like, who are you employing, who's lying on all of, they're clearly leftists.
00:42:38.000Well, it happens to every one of my videos, but I have no one to call.
00:42:44.000It's absolutely insane what's happening on my YouTube channel.
00:42:47.000But to answer your question, there's also a lot of third-party companies, usually a lot of international workers that get hired to do a lot of this moderation.
00:42:55.000Some of the moderation is done in-house, but a lot of it is done through, of course, other private companies in Africa, in Asia, where, of course, the labor there is a lot cheaper.
00:43:04.000And this has been documented many times, even with Project Veritas.
00:43:07.000Project Veritas even released an expose talking about how Twitter employees were paid to view at everything, including private messages, people's posts, how Twitter engineers were there to, of course, implement shadow banning.
00:43:19.000This is Project Veritas talking to Twitter engineers that were bragging about having Trump's private DM messages and were threatening to release them.
00:43:29.000Again, when we look at that content moderation, when we look at the destruction of speech, we have so much power by so many few individuals that absolutely use it and abuse it for the worst sinister political purposes.
00:43:40.000And if you dare to speak outside of the established narratives, you're going to get punished.
00:43:46.000And that's exactly what's happening to my YouTube channel in such an extensive way.
00:43:49.000There's another dimension of demonetization that is very relevant to Elon's predicament with Twitter, and that is the latest scam of brand safety, which is basically like a mafia shakedown.
00:44:04.000Because in some cases they have third world imports, in some cases they just have regular people.
00:44:12.000But What they do is they basically tell these advertising agencies, they say, you know, your advertisement with this site is really inappropriate for your brand.
00:44:38.000The basic framework hasn't changed, but they sell it as brand safety, meaning your brand is in danger if you don't do exactly what we say and stop advertising with this website that we don't like and we object to, no matter how much money it's making you and no matter how much the audience actually likes the content on that website.
00:45:00.000That's exactly the type of shakedown that's happening on Twitter now.
00:45:04.000And I bet you that our good friend Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL is hard at work making sure that these potential advertisers and current advertisers are sufficiently intimidated.
00:45:17.000But it happens on a smaller scale too, to a wide range of sites that distribute content that the regime finds objectionable.
00:45:47.000I don't want to give her attention by saying her name, but we can talk about her.
00:45:53.000But this woman, and I think it's the same person, went after a weather network.
00:46:02.000There's a cable channel that does nothing but weather and this leftist woman started like tweeting about it and she's well like a lot of these amount of followers her friends in media write up her stories and then she's actually getting advertisers to pull off a weather reporting station and it's like the only thing on the screen is it says like weather it's like raining in Texas. Like, but the sad thing is, the sad thing
00:46:28.000is how easily so many people cave because usually their liaison, their point of contact at
00:46:33.000these companies is like some 20 something woman who is ideologically aligned. And even
00:46:39.000if not, all these unsophisticated people need to hear is the phrase conspiracy theory or, you know,
00:47:16.000They're saying, oh, the brands who are advertising mid-rolls on YouTube can't rely on whether the YouTube channels they're advertised next to reflect their brand values.
00:47:28.000And I always thought that was ridiculous on its face because YouTube channels, including this one, are brands, they're companies in and of themselves, and they deserve to, you know, have advertisers that align with their values, right?
00:47:41.000But let's not forget, at the end of the day, advertisers have a choice to not advertise with certain creators.
00:47:47.000You could go, as an advertiser, and you could go into the Google settings and say, I don't like Alex Jones.
00:49:00.000So, until law enforcement, the solution, and it's why they wanted to fund the police, partly why, law enforcement needs to stop these people, and we need to develop some kind of system, and it's tough, I know it is, the easiest example is storefronts in Berkeley will put up all the leftist signs in their window because they know if someone throws a brick through their window, the cops can't do anything about it.
00:49:24.000The cop's gonna be like, well, We'll write down the license plate, and if we see it, we'll let you know.
00:49:30.000But if you've got something like a bike, your bike's gone.
00:49:33.000If you've got something like a moped, your moped is gone.
00:49:37.000It gets stolen, the cops show up and say, what do you want us to do about it?
00:49:39.000So if you piss off the far left, who are psychotic, violent individuals, and they start harassing your neighbor, the cops are going to be like, what do you want us to do about it?
00:49:54.000Dave Rubin is never going to march to Twitter HQ to complain about the censorship.
00:49:57.000He's never going to march with a bunch of classical liberals carrying torches to YouTube HQ to say no more censorship.
00:50:03.000He's going to go and he's going to complain about it, and that's all he's going to do.
00:50:06.000Antifa will literally throw up with crowbars and beat the crap out of people.
00:50:10.000That terrifies them, so they say, I know who to avoid and who to cater to.
00:50:15.000So these big brands, when they hear that far leftists are attacking them, they immediately say, guys, red alert, do whatever they say, and they'll go away.
00:50:23.000Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how Elon Musk kind of navigates this very changing media advertising landscape, because right now, just a couple of minutes ago, he's promising Twitter being a good video platform that's going to offer, quote, according to Elon Musk, higher compensation for creators than YouTube.
00:50:42.000So this is something that Elon Musk just tweeted a couple moments ago, responding to Mr. Beast.
00:50:47.000How is he going to be doing that, specifically with so many advertisers boycotting him?
00:50:53.000And also, by and large, advertisers are pulling back, naturally, not because of cancer culture, but because of the way that the economy is just being absolutely screwed over right now.
00:51:03.000Just how poorly it's doing right now, compared to everything else.
00:51:54.000Apparently, Rekito Law was, like, literally during the show, so... Yeah, no, just right now, people are saying, uh, that, uh, that they're back.
00:52:21.000There's a tough question about, do we give Elon the $8?
00:52:27.000I'm leaning towards yes, because I said if he freed the political prisoners, I would sign up, because I want the features, it's all good stuff, and I want to see Twitter succeed.
00:54:52.000Yeah, because it's like whenever they unban you, it slowly comes back.
00:54:55.000Rick Kada only has a couple thousand followers, but they're slowly getting back.
00:54:59.000A lot of people were saying that when Trump was back, people weren't allowed to follow him, but that usually was happened when people were reinstated.
00:55:06.000It took a while until all their followers and everything kind of came back to normal.
00:55:10.000I wonder if he's going to unban people who evaded suspension and made new counts, like over and over again.
00:55:16.000It's been like five years, I think, since Sargon got banned, right?
00:56:33.000And it said that it's not a before and after.
00:56:36.000It's just the comms team versus the engineering team, which also made me laugh because, once again, it shows a very clear difference between males and females on the issue.
00:57:05.000And then the picture of all the guys being like, we're staying until 2am to do hard work.
00:57:09.000Yeah, my response to this tweet was, the women on the left better learn to code automatically.
00:57:16.000And you do see a big, clear kind of difference.
00:57:19.000And obviously, there are different teams.
00:57:20.000And to answer your question, Mary, specifically, the misinformation team is gone, but the moderation team is still there.
00:57:27.000So there are a lot of people who have different kind of Political belief systems that are aligned usually with their genders.
00:57:35.000We saw and their kind of relationships.
00:57:38.000We saw during these latest midterms that one of the biggest voting blocks that voted for the Democrats were women that didn't have a partner.
00:57:47.000And those were people that came out and voted more than they previously have before.
00:57:52.000So clearly there is a big kind of political shift in difference between these two pictures as well, and I think it's pretty clear to see the difference demonstrated.
00:58:01.000You can't leave these chicks to their own devices, clearly.
00:59:27.000I don't know, it's funny because we did a segment on this, and the Young Turks did a segment mocking me, saying like, you know, I said, of the women that probably don't want- I can't remember exactly what I said, but I said there are probably some women somewhere who say they want to work but don't.
00:59:42.000And I was like, very vague with it, and I was like, they're gonna be unhappy if they don't have families.
00:59:46.000And then Young Turks did this huge segment where they were like, Tim Pool thinks women want to be stay-at-home wives or whatever, and I'm like, yo, Gallup says they do!
01:00:28.000Just a quick observation about this picture now that I'm looking at it.
01:00:33.000It really, it represents a different dimension, according to which Musk is challenging the system.
01:00:39.000Because there's the free speech dimension we're talking about, but also like when you really think about how major corporations are structured, It's actually borderline illegal to have a corporation that's set up to maximize efficiency and output.
01:01:03.000But it goes to show, on one hand, you can look at the left side of the picture and say, probably useless.
01:01:08.000It's maybe a, you know, the project It's the project manager massacre, you could call it.
01:01:16.000But on the other hand, there are so many useless people that companies are somewhat obliged to hire in order to shield themselves from a whole range of legal liabilities that have been sort of built into the nexus between the corporate economic structure and the legal structure.
01:01:38.000And so there's this weird sort of phantom utility to having all of this dead weight in a
01:01:46.000company simply as legal protection and political protection from precisely these third-party
01:01:55.000NGO ADL-type rackets that exist to shake down your company.
01:02:04.000And a lot of people, a lot of these people don't work.
01:02:07.000They're like, oh yeah, we're going for our morning mimosas and then we're going to support the African-American owned business, the vegan restaurant downstairs that caters for us.
01:02:17.000All the caterers are supposed to be there for us, but the office is empty.
01:02:50.000And on the left, it's a woman who's talking about going to her little booth and getting smoothies and eating her charcuterie boards and having her wines and living a yucky lifestyle and having her little meditation booth.
01:03:06.000The world on the left is only possible because of the world on the right.
01:03:44.000Having come from a life where I've had, look at that, wine dispenser, a red wine dispenser for a plastic cup while these guys work in the oil rig.
01:04:29.000Yeah, Tesla specifically, but this is probably also going to be the same policy in California because in California it's probably mandated by law.
01:04:38.000Women's ability to create and sustain life definitely makes them weaker in the workforce and you either have policies like that or you're gonna hire women less.
01:04:51.000You wonder also how much, what function these project managers' types are really serving.
01:04:57.000There's the sort of legal shield, and there's also the morale question.
01:05:01.000You know, maybe they're just kind of giving those guys on the right side of the picture something to look at after a hard four-hour coding session.
01:05:55.000The way I was describing it earlier is that the most important role, in my opinion, is the stay-at-home mom, or stay-at-home dad if the dad's doing it, but the person who's actually protecting and taking care of the family.
01:06:07.000Because if a guy were to go out and fight a bear with his own hands and take it down, the question is, for what purpose?
01:06:15.000If he has no family, he has no one to protect, so what's the point of fighting the bear?
01:06:18.000If he's able to just take care of himself, he can eat badger, rabbit, and whatever else.
01:06:23.000He wouldn't be able to actually eat the bear.
01:06:25.000So the great conquests of the man who's going out and working hard is only for the family, and if there's no one there to actually help protect his family, then what's the point?
01:06:33.000Raising the family is the most important job you could have in our society, or who else is going to be raising them?
01:07:09.000They want people that don't get to raise their children, so the indoctrination centers get to raise them.
01:07:15.000So the big social tech media platforms get to raise them.
01:07:18.000So the televisions, the boob tubes, get to raise them.
01:07:21.000And when, of course, you have children raised by the state, you have Better sheep.
01:07:25.000And that's, of course, what they're also looking for, in my opinion.
01:07:27.000Better that you don't have children at all, though.
01:07:30.000You're just the last of your line of progeny.
01:07:33.000I disagree, especially with the upcoming population collapse that's going to be coming and destroying and wrecking havoc on civilization, which Elon Musk also talks about as well.
01:08:07.000The only reason I have a cell phone right now that can pull up videos and do all this crazy stuff is because there's tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who know how to do each and every one of these little things to make it, right?
01:08:19.000There's a person who mines the raw materials, the rare earths, the metals.
01:08:23.000There's a company that makes the glass.
01:08:25.000It's not like Apple makes it or Android makes it.
01:08:28.000Then there's a company that makes the chips.
01:08:29.000There's a company that makes the cameras.
01:08:31.000It all comes together into this device.
01:08:33.000If the glass company ceases to exist, touchscreens are gone.
01:08:40.000If the rare earths are gone, well now we gotta source them from somewhere else, we can't get that.
01:08:44.000If we lose access to these specialty positions, I'll tell you, if there's a population collapse, we will lose more than people realize because it is only because of the massive population that we're able to have such highly refined and powerful tools.
01:08:59.000Specialties, as there's more and more people, there's finer and finer specialties.
01:10:14.000The medical implications are also going to be very vast, because there's not going to be enough young people to take care of the old people.
01:10:20.000There's going to be so many horrible effects, especially when it comes to the larger economic system, which is going to collapse, especially with the lack of people, since, of course, economies grow with people.
01:10:31.000Less people, less growth, bigger collapse.
01:10:34.000Japan is a good test for all of this because, first of all, Japan is one of the lowest,
01:11:10.000Well, China is also doing something very similar.
01:11:12.000They have very weird robots that we can't talk about on the show that I brought up before that everyone here knows about.
01:11:18.000But China also is facing a huge population of machines.
01:11:21.000There are these Boston Dynamics robots.
01:11:24.000They're terrifying, and I've been on good authority that actually there's an ulterior motive there, is that actually the Boston Dynamics robots are secretly programmed for a future in which it is a state law that everybody has to watch Alex Friedman videos.
01:11:59.000What happens is, the Boston Dynamic Robot shows up at your house and then a screen comes out of its head and Lex Fridman... Have you seen this?
01:12:51.000how these phenomena occur. Maybe he's just such a great charismatic interviewer that it's just
01:12:59.000manifestly obvious why he would, you know, be elevated to such a station with so many
01:13:06.000interesting guests. Maybe there are other factors, but I definitely think it's,
01:13:11.000you know, I really think the Boston Dynamic robots, they're made to enforce it.
01:13:18.000Maybe there's going to be a SCOTUS decision, just like the Obamacare, they can force you to buy health insurance, they can force you to watch the Fridman videos.
01:13:26.000There are all sorts of possibilities in the future.
01:13:28.000I always get recommended to him all the time, and I'm like, no, I just don't want to.
01:14:21.000Their parents are telling them, hey, you should save up money and own a home.
01:14:24.000That's not possible for the average person nowadays with the salaries that they're having, with how much the price of real estate has increased.
01:14:51.000Do we have time to talk about your article?
01:14:56.000Like Tim said, there's been a lot of talk about Tether for a long time, but this piece that's up on my news site revolver.news is generating a lot of buzz in the crypto world and otherwise, and I'll just lay out the basic data points and people can kind of decide for themselves.
01:15:32.000It's never been fully or properly audited in its entire existence, which is weird given that its whole value is based on the fact that it allegedly has these reserves.
01:15:43.000And then if you look at the cast of characters behind Tether, one of them is a washed up child Disney actor called Brock Pierce, Who was involved in all sorts of things.
01:15:56.000A weird sort of underage sex scandal that he got embroiled in.
01:16:00.000He was apprehended by Interpol in Spain.
01:16:03.000There is allegedly child pornography and all this stuff involved in the apprehension.
01:16:11.000And then he turns up as the founder of this major cryptocurrency, which is a stablecoin, which has never been audited, which defies the U.S.
01:16:23.000Treasury in various respects, and which just happens to be the official cryptocurrency of several U.S.-backed rebel groups Geopolitically, including the Rohingya rebel groups in Myanmar.
01:16:38.000And so the thesis adduced in this piece suggests that there could be an historical antecedent to the function that Tether may fulfill, and that is the BCCI bank, which is this bank set up by the CIA to facilitate all kinds of money laundering operations and so forth.
01:17:02.000But the cast of characters is really remarkable here.
01:17:06.000Of course, there is a Jeffrey Epstein connection, and so I encourage everyone to go and look at it.
01:17:11.000And for crypto enthusiasts and experts, I welcome feedback.
01:17:16.000Are we barking up the wrong tree or not?
01:17:19.000But so far, I've received extremely positive feedback from the crypto community in terms of Tether being a highly questionable proposition.
01:17:28.000The issue with so many cryptocurrencies, they're clearly scams.
01:17:31.000And there's that Alameda woman, Bankman Freed's girlfriend, who I think she said something like, crypto is just scams or something.
01:17:39.000She's like, it's all scams and something else or whatever, and like drugs or something.
01:17:43.000Crypto is, I think, mostly scams, but that's not to disrespect crypto itself.
01:17:50.000Everything's pretty much a scam these days.
01:17:53.000The issue is that there are people who are using crypto to scam, but there are absolutely amazing and legitimate cryptocurrencies and the technology itself is incredible.
01:18:02.000So, we have this story from Bloomberg.
01:18:35.000And SBF was also given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the House committee members that are investigating him.
01:18:41.000I don't see this going anywhere except for a potential false flag being used here in order to bring in more regulations, bring in more control of what essentially would be a decentralized cryptocurrency, but now is going to be hyper focused to be a central bank digital currency.
01:18:56.000That, of course, is going to be a part of the Great Reset and Build Back Better agenda, which they've been calling for for a very long time.
01:19:02.000And this is the way this is the false flag that they're going to I don't know, though.
01:19:06.000I feel like this stuff is shaking confidence in crypto.
01:19:10.000Well, if they want people to adopt a reserve crypto, this is not the way to do it.
01:19:13.000A federal reserve cryptocurrency, a digital dollar, is essentially what they want.
01:19:17.000They don't want everyone just on Bitcoin.
01:19:20.000They don't want everyone on decentralized platforms.
01:19:22.000They want everyone on their platforms so they could say, hey, cryptocurrency was bad because it was reckless and they had scams.
01:19:28.000We have a bigger scam here, the US dollar for you, that's going to be Getting the good principles from it, and we're not going to be doing the bad principles, even though we really have all the bad ones.
01:19:37.000Make every transaction you ever have publicly available.
01:19:43.000Track, trace everything, automatically take money out of accounts, like a social credit score system like they have in China.
01:19:50.000So this is essentially the endgame here, and central bank digital currencies are something that's being rolled out with the New York Federal Reserve just a couple days ago.
01:19:57.000And we're seeing this with the G20 just announcing that they're going to have an international health passport that they're going to implement all over the world.
01:20:05.000So when we look at, you know, the scams in our society, there's a lot of them.
01:20:08.000FTX is just scratching the surface to all the bigger scams out there.
01:20:12.000And just including perhaps Tether, and just as an addendum, Alameda, the hedge fund set
01:20:22.000up by Sam Bankman Freed that's associated with the FTX scandal, they were the major
01:21:05.000Can you expand on that just a little bit?
01:21:06.000Because I think that's an important history lesson that we should kind of revisit, especially when it comes to understanding the larger kind of— Right.
01:21:13.000the larger intelligence agencies and their involvement with the big banks and how they
01:21:17.000actually work together to screw you over.
01:21:28.000And if there's an historical antecedent that serves an important function, you can pretty
01:21:33.000much bet that it still exists in some modified version.
01:21:38.000And so the fact that the BCCI existed in the 70s and 80s, which is a bank set up by a Pakistani allegedly, but it was probably set up by an intelligence agency.
01:21:49.000And it, you know, major scam, it screwed over its many of its depositors, it had a lot of shady figures, drug Cartels, arms dealers, all kinds of shady folks working through it, operating through it.
01:22:04.000And then the question was, why was this manifest, obvious scam allowed to function for so long, uninterrupted?
01:22:14.000Well, it's because the CIA was in on it and the primary beneficiary of it.
01:22:19.000And so that gets to the sort of crypto thing.
01:22:22.000It's like some scams are allowed to exist because they're the scam of the most valuable player, so to speak.
01:22:32.000And in a kind of darkly ironic twist that may in fact end up being the saving grace of Tether and crypto more broadly is that there are too many major scams wrapped up into it that it's essentially too big to fail, at least on a medium timeline.
01:22:49.000Me and Tim were talking about this earlier today.
01:22:51.000If there was a way to destroy cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin and decentralized currencies, what would they be doing differently than what they're doing right now?
01:23:00.000And I think it also provided a huge potential, and it still might in many aspects, of allowing people to have a lot of freedom.
01:23:06.000Barack Obama called Bitcoin the ability of human beings to have Swiss bank accounts inside of their own pockets.
01:23:12.000I think that that's a power that threatens a lot of people, and I think what we're seeing with FTX, what we're seeing with SBF is a deliberate destruction of that power.
01:23:30.000So like, there are two different things.
01:23:31.000There's the, I guess, and I don't mean this derisively, there's the nerd money kind of function of Bitcoin, which is like, you have your own keys, you do all this, but it's a pain in the ass and people don't really want to do it.
01:23:45.000But the scalable version of Bitcoin, um is replete with all of these scams and again maybe it's it's not going to fall down precisely because the scams are too valuable in the in the in the specific case of Tether potentially being the new BCCI.
01:24:04.000It's literally the official cryptocurrency of the Rohingya rebel group in Myanmar which is bizarre that a rebel group would have an official cryptocurrency but that's the case.
01:24:15.000It's beloved by the Syrian, the Sunni moderates in Syria that John McCain loves so much.
01:24:23.000It's beloved by cartels, which of course the US intelligence agencies don't have any relationship with.
01:24:29.000Yeah, it's not like they helped them get their start in Mexico with that secret police unit that they were training down there.
01:24:44.000It's not like we had the Iran-Contra scandal that was laundering weapons and heroin and cocaine into the country and guns and weapons, you know?
01:24:51.000It's funny because you ever see that meme where it's like, Okay, so look, I know the CIA was doing bad stuff in the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s, the 2010s, but nothing's changed.
01:25:12.000And you know, the way this country is going, there's that viral video of the dude in Arizona with the dreads and he's like yelling about box number three in Arizona and all that stuff.
01:25:24.000And I'm just like, I'm watching that video and I'm thinking, the average person in this country does not like what the intelligence agencies are doing.
01:25:32.000So who are they serving but themselves?
01:25:34.000Now, maybe these people have the idea, like, well, they don't know what's good for them.
01:25:38.000Okay, well, dude, like, that defies the core of what this country is supposed to be.
01:25:41.000It's supposed to be dangerous freedom, not peaceful slavery.
01:25:45.000Just you, as an intelligence officer or whatever, deciding, you know what's best for us!
01:25:50.000And clearly, all of this luxury has been bad for us.
01:25:54.000It's created a whole generation of gluttonous morons.
01:25:57.000So maybe, maybe we need things to be a little bit less luxurious, and people need to go out and chop some lumber to heat their homes.
01:26:03.000Maybe all of this luxury is making weak people, which makes everything worse for everybody, and all we get is a bunch of whiny complainers, and, um, what do the young people call them?
01:27:11.000More centralization as far as what's happening with cryptocurrencies, what's happening with social media platforms being in the hands of less and less people, and media outlets being in the control of less and less people as well.
01:27:53.000Maybe the regime is simply incompatible with that level of free speech at scale.
01:27:59.000Maybe no regime is compatible, but certainly ours isn't given how How ridiculous and ultimately untenable it is.
01:28:08.000And so when they say that, you know, Elon Musk is a national security threat, free speech is a national security threat, I think that's true in quite a literal sense, is that if people are allowed to speak freely on the whole host of things that I'm not even able to mention now, that is I don't think the regime can really survive it.
01:28:31.000And so it's an existential issue from their point of view.
01:28:34.000And that kind of illustrates the stakes associated with what Elon Musk is doing.
01:28:58.000But it's like, people just assume outright that there's never a reason for controlling information.
01:29:03.000Of course there is, like, in war and things like that.
01:29:06.000To your point, the intelligence agencies probably do think that, you know, we're in a constant state of conflict and we need to be able to control information if we're going to win.
01:29:14.000But that conflicts with what this country is supposed to be.
01:29:39.000Well, you know, there's a logical approach to this, specifically when it comes to saying, hey, there's all these troops moving in this direction going here.
01:29:47.000Obviously, you can't allow that kind of information during warfare because it's going to give the enemy the upper hand.
01:29:53.000It's not even... But treason doesn't fall under free speech.
01:29:58.000It's that someone might be like, I work at a steel mill and they just, some crazy thing happened where the alarm went off today.
01:30:04.000That's the kind of thing they don't, they, loose lipsync ships wasn't just about telling people where our military was, some people didn't know that.
01:30:10.000It was about giving up information on what you were doing to people who shouldn't know about it.
01:30:25.000We do have a lot of policies that we could definitely criticize the United States for, which we should have criticized, which criticism could have prevented, but that didn't happen because of that censorship effort as well.
01:30:39.000Well, I think censorship and information control are necessary to any type of regime.
01:30:47.000I think the important issue is if the noble lie is necessary in some degree, as you know, the famous thing from the Republic, The problem is that we become the ignoble lie.
01:31:04.000And it's less that, oh, we want a total free for all free speech.
01:31:09.000It's that fundamentally what America has come to represent, what I call the globalist American empire, is really the wokeness, or whatever you want to call it, really is basically the de facto official religion, the de facto official ideology of the United States.
01:31:29.000And once it's seeped that deeply into the marrow of the body politic, then anything that's set up to sustain the security of it ultimately just reinforces that ideology.
01:32:00.000I mean, it's becoming more and more clear every day.
01:32:02.000Peter Boghossian was talking about it years ago, and now we can see it clearer than ever.
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01:32:32.000Follow Sargon of Akkad on Twitter, because he's back after, like, five years.
01:32:38.000And it's Sargon underscore of underscore Akkad, A-K-K-A-D.
01:32:43.000Or just go to my Twitter, at Timcast, and I tweeted out that he's back, and you can follow him there.
01:32:46.000He's probably sleeping, because he's in the UK, but I'm really excited.
01:32:49.000Jordan Peterson tweeted something like, surprised to see you here Sargon, so we're all excited that Carl Benjamin's back on Twitter, so give him a follow.
01:33:47.000Yeah, I just watched a part of his Lotus Eaters program.
01:33:49.000He did a thing about millennials and Gen Z stuff, and it was like the old Sargon, where he was just talking to and sitting down and chatting, which was cool to see.
01:34:46.000I know the thing you've inspired me to do, and I look forward to your order.
01:34:51.000You know what we're thinking of doing is, uh, I tweeted out a piece of land in West Virginia, it's like 180 acres, and I was like, this could be the Ligma Johnson Woodland Preservation.
01:34:59.000We could actually, like, allocate plots of ownership, you know, and you get a little card.
01:35:08.000It's interesting because like the price per square foot's actually not that expensive.
01:35:12.000And then you could, you're not really a lure, we wouldn't do that, but you'd have like, you know, we could create a public park and then it would be owned by the people who own the square footage and that could be a lot of people.
01:35:37.000You'll find out eventually, I don't know.
01:35:38.000What if we just, like, all of these programs, like, go to a star-buying company and then just buy as many stars as possible and name them all Ligma Johnson?
01:35:46.000And they'll start giving them numbers like Ligma Johnson, 9C31.
01:36:37.000We are going to be giving out those, as well as the post-its from Milo I mentioned.
01:36:43.000We're bogged up because of the holiday, so a lot of people are already heading out, getting ready for Thanksgiving, some people have to travel.
01:36:50.000I'm not even sure if we're gonna be able to do our Wednesday show, because everyone's traveling to Thanksgiving dinner, nobody wants to drive on Thanksgiving morning, so... We'll just have to figure it out, but that also means that, like, no one's gonna be here, so this is just one of those weeks where very little ends up happening.
01:39:26.000I mean, he's accusing Alex Jones of weaponizing the death and trauma of children and their families, yet he himself is using his own trauma of the death of his child as a bludgeon.
01:39:39.000Well, I guess—you know, I understand what he's saying, right?
01:39:42.000He's like, Alex Jones exploited this, he suffered it.
01:40:03.000I made a point early where I was like, if a guy's gonna go fight a bear and kill him with his own hands by like punching him in the throat and holding his arm causing the bear to choke and then killing it, I didn't literally mean someone would do that.
01:40:15.000My point was that A man is not going to defeat a bear with his bare hands.
01:40:19.000Like, there are some stories of it happening, but it's never like a grizzly or anything.
01:40:24.000I'm talking about, the point I was trying to make is, the grand story of the man, of David versus Goliath, is pointless if there's no family.
01:40:31.000Like, a dude does not need to kill the emperor stag of the forest that weighs hundreds of, you know, thousands of pounds or whatever, because what is he going to do with it?
01:40:40.000He's going to be like, well, it's dead.
01:40:41.000No, the conquest is always in support or saving of someone else.
01:40:47.000He might be revitalized to code for another few hours if there's an attractive woman working in the HR department.
01:41:41.000Like, we know that humans do things for other humans.
01:41:43.000This is the way, that's cool actually.
01:41:46.000Reading the story, like a kid got hit by a car, and the mom, she's like 5'5", she like lifts the car up, and like tears her muscles, but she doesn't care.
01:41:58.000I remember watching a story about a guy who got crushed by a boulder, and then he lifted the boulder off of him, and it was like, it was like 700, I don't know how heavy it was, but doing so tore his muscles.
01:42:09.000He like put so much strain into doing it, and they were saying like, your muscles actually have five times more lifting capacity, but they destroy themselves in doing it.
01:44:03.000This is why we shifted focus to doing TimCast memberships for the company, because you've got activists trying to take your ads away, and because YouTube's trying to take your ads away.
01:44:14.000So I also, this is a thing too, I've picked up, I started doing established titles as sponsorship on the TimCast channel, I normally don't do ad reads on, because they're demonetizing everything.
01:44:26.000So I'm like, okay, let's play that game, demonetize Shadowband, whatever, people who wanna watch my content are gonna watch it, I'll sell my own ad if you're not going to run ads against it.
01:45:07.000However, I do think something interesting is happening in terms of all these layoffs because we're seeing a bunch of ad buyers say that they're cutting down on sponsorships and marketing firms are saying there's less money to go around.
01:45:20.000So the reporting that I heard is that next year there's going to be a major economic downturn.
01:46:08.000They're the ones who did the website where, when you wanted to buy ammo, it asked you if you voted for Joe Biden, and if you put yes, it kicks you out of the website.
01:46:15.000I think it sent you to, like... His gun control page or something.
01:46:25.000FireBurnsPeople says, went to start watching TimCastIRL tonight and was not in my subscription tab or on the channel page found, found it on my home page under the live tab.
01:47:19.000No, it's nothing against Lex, but there were conversations that our friend Susan of YouTube was having, and basically people were criticizing her for not doing a full-on ban of Ben Shapiro.
01:47:36.000And her defense of that was saying that we've run a lot of studies on it, and they've shown that Ben Shapiro is actually a very effective stopping point.
01:47:47.000That is to say, he serves a very important de-radicalization function.
01:47:53.000And for that reason, I think there's a real utility to the Susan Wozniacki, whatever, WoJackie, Wojcinski, WoJack Susan.
01:48:06.000But there's a real utility to the censors to say that, look, these people are an off-ramp.
01:48:15.000They'll go and they'll watch Lex Fridman.
01:48:18.000And in many cases, And again, nothing against these people personally, but there is a kind of fool's trade whereby a certain type of talking head will earn your trust by saying controversial things like, boys have penises and girls have vaginas.
01:48:36.000And in exchange for that trust, will shove down orthodoxies on everything else down your throat.
01:48:42.000And that is a very important de-radicalization effort, and there's a whole cluster of people who may fit that description.
01:48:49.000And I think it's fair to say that the Lex phenomenon may be adjacent to to all of that. Or Ben Shapiro, you know, telling people to
01:49:23.000I've heard, I'm not going to say for a fact, but I've heard on good authority, Shapiro has a great relationship with Zuckerberg, and they've had the great relationship for a long time.
01:49:32.000And again, it's there's a utility to having Ben Shapiro, who's very reliable on the key things, being basically as right wing as you can be, and not punished by the algorithms.
01:49:45.000There's utility to that in terms of how the larger conversation is controlled.
01:49:48.000Well, speaking of that, we've got Chris Toast who says, Show is hidden from my feed on both Android and desktop.
01:49:55.000Then we have, uh, what is this right here?
01:49:58.000Sergeant Wolf says, Hey Tim and crew, I figured I'd chat and let you know that the show is not in my feed, not on my home screen or subscribed uploaded feed.
01:50:06.000Had to go to the channel and find it there.
01:50:16.000Post it to Twitter where you're allowed to make jokes again.
01:50:20.000And hopefully, the hope I have is that if enough people who watch this video share the URL every time it goes live, no amount of censorship will stop a natural phenomenon of people saying, check this show out.
01:50:32.000Because clearly they're trying to stop us.
01:50:35.000You know, part of me is like, oh, you know what, if we finally get banned, I can go take my van down by the river and just go fishing.
01:50:57.000The reason why these changes are happening is because we have not stopped pushing back and demanding free speech, calling out the lies in the machine, and they wish we would just roll over.
01:51:09.000But I say the same thing of Steven Crowder.
01:51:11.000You know, they keep giving him strikes on YouTube, watch his show on Rumble, watch Lotus Eaters, watch The Quartering, and then just share all the content.
01:51:20.000It's the most powerful thing you can do.
01:51:21.000They can't censor it if everyone just keeps sharing.
01:51:58.000Yeah, you should be able to message the company that you bought it from and they'll send you a tracking number.
01:52:02.000You should, if you have any problems, also if you have any, sometimes, you know, rarely this happens, I get a message, someone saying that the graphics weren't that well, you could get a new t-shirt right away after emailing the company that of course did all the processing.
01:52:14.000So if you have any problems with quality or shipping, reach out to either Teespring or another company we work with and they usually solve all your problems right away.
01:52:23.000Ian Kinney says Kanye was hanging out with Milo Yiannopoulos, said he's running for president in 2024, and Milo will be his campaign manager.
01:53:43.000He's being, you know, I believe he's being genuine.
01:53:46.000There's several instances where Ian has brought up very bad points, and also where he's brought up very good points.
01:53:51.000When we were talking about the lockdowns and stuff, and why we didn't think the government should be able to lock things down, he said, what about an airborne Ebola?
01:53:59.000And I was like, okay, like, let's entertain, like, let's talk about that, because we're all very much opposed to government lockdowns, but then, and then we sort those things through.
01:54:06.000If we all just agree with each other, your ideas aren't strengthened.
01:54:10.000Like, you actually need someone to contradict, even if it's not always a good argument.
01:54:15.000But the other thing too is, well, I guess that's it.
01:54:36.000So to give us an opportunity to explain it, because when we started this show, I assumed most people would not have the deep political knowledge that we do.
01:54:54.000Because the assumption is if Ian, who's not overtly political, doesn't know, there's a lot of people at home who don't, and we want to make it more accessible.
01:55:00.000But again, Ian and those semantic arguments.
01:55:07.000We did a live show, and then, you know, we had, like, Ian was there, we were jamming, and then someone asked something about Ian, and then I said, you know, Ian comes up with really great points often, we often disagree, but those semantic arguments, and then everyone in the crowd started clapping and cheering, and Ian was laughing.
01:55:24.000I probably disagree with Ian about 99% of things.
01:55:28.000Yeah, but everyone in the chat knows Ian rolls 20s.
01:55:39.000Like typically liberals, like I'm not saying Ian's a liberal, but liberals are like anti-death penalty, pro-choice, but Ian's pro-choice and pro-death penalty.
01:55:54.000Fair Frozen says, the men are covered in hydraulic mud, a liquid prepared with soil, water, and glycol and other aggregates used to inject into the drill.
01:56:03.000It acts as a barrier between gas escaping from the well tap.
01:58:57.000It's like more like old Dutch because we didn't get influence from like the Spanish taking over Holland and then, you know, creating the masculine feminine in Dutch now.
01:59:18.000I've been saying for a while that the reason YouTube probably tolerates us more than other shows is because they view us as a de-radicalization force or something.
01:59:28.000Or the way I put it is, YouTube wants to ban the right.
01:59:33.000But they know that if they do, the right will go somewhere else.
01:59:36.000So they need to allow certain channels to stay on the platform, so that if they ban half of them, the users will stay.
01:59:44.000And then they force them into this particular ideological bubble.