00:00:07.000Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Thursday.
00:00:11.000We have a lot to talk about, lots to get into tonight.
00:00:14.000Big featured, well, okay, actually, it's not really news, but our big featured story tonight is about a brand new article in MSN, I think, or NBC, some like not even relevant news source.
00:00:31.000Big feature stories about the new atheists who are panicking about the rise of Christian nationalism.
00:00:40.000And we've talked a lot on this show this year about Christian nationalism and how it's reshaping the Republican Party.
00:00:48.000This is the natural trajectory and logical conclusion of conservatism.
00:00:53.000And we saw all night on Tuesday Christian nationalists coming to power or renewing their.
00:01:01.000Nomination or their seat in the House, governorship, wherever.
00:01:07.000And this is a trend which has not gone unnoticed by the left.
00:01:12.000And it seems like the left is freaking out.
00:01:14.000Big article this week about how atheists have to rally together to stop Christian nationalism.
00:01:22.000There was an article this week, I think, in MSN from a Muslim, ex Muslim author, now an atheist, who says that atheists are going to need to get together to form a new.
00:01:35.000Positive movement in opposition to Christian nationalism.
00:01:40.000And he says that what that's going to look like is they're going to form book clubs and they're going to get together and meditate and they're going to form something like an anti religion in order to compete with religion.
00:01:54.000And they've recognized that atheism leads to nihilism and nihilism is barren and empty and there's no engagement.
00:02:03.000So they said, well, we need to come up with a religion that's based on no religion.
00:02:09.000We need to come up with every religious equivalent or analog, but with atheism.
00:02:15.000So we need an atheist church and an atheist book and an atheist get together and prayer and so on.
00:02:22.000And so now, and I don't know how far that's going to go, if that's going to get any legs, now they're saying that politics is going to have to explicitly become a battle between Christianity and atheism, which in a sense is what it always was.
00:02:38.000So we'll talk about that very interesting article.
00:02:55.000We'll also be talking tonight about Ron DeSantis, who today fired a state attorney who refused to enforce state laws banning and prohibiting abortion as well as sex change surgeries for children, which is pretty cool.
00:03:11.000Apparently, there was some liberal state prosecutor.
00:03:16.000Who said that he swore an oath to the state constitution and it would be unconstitutional to charge parents for transitioning their kids into a different gender with surgery?
00:03:28.000And, you know, however you want to call it, I know every time I say what it is, people say, that's not what we're supposed to call it, whatever.
00:03:37.000You know, the law in Florida says you can't cut off your kids' balls if they think that they're a girl.
00:03:42.000And this state's attorney said, well, I'm not going to charge him for that.
00:07:52.000And sometimes I go on there and I look at it, and I was looking at it today, and it's just so disappointing because it is, this is not a platform that is going to compete with Twitter.
00:08:06.000And that continues to be the number one most pressing issue for us and for dissident people and conservatives generally is social media censorship.
00:08:20.000I've been saying that for as long as I've been doing this show.
00:08:36.000Since 2017, I've been saying this five years.
00:08:40.000I said the number one short term problem is tech censorship.
00:08:45.000Number two, in the medium term, is the staffing of the Trump administration.
00:08:51.000And in a way, that actually continues to be a problem because when we look at 2024, and the possibility of a second Trump term, or whoever will come next, or even staffing anything for that matter congressional offices, state political offices.
00:10:47.000That's what Twitter is a micro blogging platform.
00:10:51.000You can make micro blog posts on a timeline, and you can follow, and eventually there will be a direct message feature.
00:11:01.000And anyway, they're implementing all the technical aspects of Twitter onto True Social, and it looks like Twitter, and it feels like Twitter, and it works like Twitter.
00:11:10.000But the value of Twitter, what it means to meaningfully be Twitter or any social media, Facebook, YouTube, any of it, the value of the platform is not in the technical features.
00:11:21.000The value of the platform is not in what it technically allows you to do, which is in the case of YouTube to post a video, or in the case of Twitter to post a 240 character message, or in the case of Facebook to do the variety of things that Facebook allows you to do.
00:11:37.000The value of any platform is only very, very, in a very limited way.
00:11:47.000The real value of the platform is in the audience.
00:11:51.000It's the content, and the content is created and consumed by the people.
00:11:56.000And so the real value of Twitter is its 300 million users, and in particular, its influencers.
00:12:03.000It's the 90% of those 300 million people that are on the platform consuming the content, and it's the 1 to 10% of influencers and content creators on the site that are making the content.
00:12:18.000Constitutes most of the value of the platform.
00:12:22.000Because almost anybody could go out there and create a rudimentary website with a good look and a good feel where you can post messages.
00:12:33.000Just one problem nobody's going to see them.
00:12:36.000Just one problem the best people making the best posts are not on there.
00:12:42.000And they're not on there because no one is there to see them.
00:12:45.000So, consequently, all these alternatives have a problem, which is they're not replacing Twitter, they're not creating the value of Twitter.
00:12:53.000True Social and Getter and other platforms like this, they're not recreating, and in that way, they're not meaningfully replacing the network effect that Twitter has.
00:13:04.000And you can't blame them, it's not really their fault.
00:13:07.000But in the case of True Social in particular, I'm on the app and I'm looking at it, and it starts with the name.
00:13:12.000It's like Truth Social, and the truth part of the brand is supposed to be a nod to the First Amendment or the characterization of conservatives as fake news or something.
00:13:27.000And the point is, the branding is political.
00:13:30.000And then you look at the promoted pages, and it's Babylon B and Sean Hannity and Dinesh D'Souza.
00:13:37.000And all the content creators are political.
00:13:42.000And all the engagement, all the replies, political.
00:13:46.000And right wing political content is a fraction of a fraction of the kind of content and user base that you'll get on any other mainstream platform.
00:13:56.000And so, you know, I'm on there today, and I'd like to build my following there, but.
00:14:01.000By the same token, I realize that it's only a partial solution.
00:14:06.000There's only one way to beat tech censorship, and that is you got to control Twitter privately or publicly.
00:14:20.000The only solution, and by solution, I mean with any kind of finality, with any kind of conclusive way, the only proper, complete solution is to control the major platforms.
00:14:36.000Creating alternatives, I don't think works.
00:14:40.000I think that trying to participate in a limited way on the major platforms, again, it's only going to get so far.
00:14:48.000The only lasting solution to tech censorship in a digital society, and by that I mean a society where social media is increasingly indispensable to getting along in the modern world, and so much of life happens on the digital platforms where there's a monopoly effect, the only solution to that issue is.
00:15:10.000Is for the government to control them and the government to implement favorable governance on those platforms, or for a private owner to control them and for private hands to implement favorable rules.
00:15:26.000That's, in my estimation, that's the only solution.
00:15:29.000So it's going to come from Elon Musk or it's going to come from Donald Trump.
00:15:34.000But those are the two ways that social media censorship is going to be fixed.
00:15:39.000Either Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter and bring us back on.
00:15:44.000Or the government is going to buy Twitter, or the government will regulate Twitter and force Twitter to allow everybody back on.
00:15:52.000And the same goes for YouTube and Facebook.
00:15:54.000And for that reason, it probably makes it more attractive for government to take over because there's no scenario where private hands will acquire Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and all of them.
00:16:12.000Twitter's the cheapest one, and it's $43 billion, and that's one of them.
00:16:16.000I don't think a private entity will be able to acquire all or any other additional platforms and implement those kinds of rules.
00:16:25.000So, anyway, you know, I said the other day, I want to go on True Social on a stream and I want to build up my following, but like I'm on the platform today and I'm just looking at it's Dinesh, it's Babylon B, it's all this stuff, and I'm just shaking my head.
00:17:11.000That's why they're not going to get it right.
00:17:13.000It's because the people behind Truth and Getter fundamentally don't understand social media.
00:17:21.000Cozy is the best, that's why Cozy is the best alternative yet.
00:17:27.000Because we recreated the technical and the graphical attributes of the streaming platforms, but we also brought content.
00:17:37.000We also brought content and an existing user base onto the platform.
00:17:42.000But even still, streaming is one that has a little bit more of a benefit because live streaming is something that is particularly restrictive compared to Twitter.
00:17:52.000Twitter is the least restrictive out of any of the platforms.
00:17:56.000Conversely, the streaming platforms are the most restrictive.
00:17:59.000And so that is what makes this enterprise maybe the best suited.
00:18:04.000That's what makes the alternative tech pathway the most viable for streaming as opposed to microblogging.
00:18:18.000But we're sort of in the same boat as the rest.
00:18:49.000And I'm going to try to do some additional streams next week.
00:18:52.000Although I might be a little bit busy, so it might be next weekend.
00:18:55.000But we're going to dive into our news here.
00:18:58.000Our first story tonight is about Ron DeSantis who fired a state prosecutor.
00:19:03.000And it's not a huge story by any stretch.
00:19:07.000I mean, I don't really care, but it is a positive development, I guess.
00:19:13.000And, you know, I'm sure we can extrapolate something out of this.
00:19:17.000So this is a story it says The state attorney, Governor Ron DeSantis, suspended on Thursday morning, put ideology over the rule of law.
00:19:26.000Said the Florida Republican to Fox News.
00:19:29.000DeSantis suspended Andrew Warren after the state attorney pledged not to charge abortion patients or their doctors for illegally terminating pregnancies.
00:19:39.000Warren made the vow in June, days before a state law banning abortion after 15 weeks was set to take effect.
00:19:46.000DeSantis told Fox News in an exclusive interview We have the individual here from Hillsborough County say and signed letters that there are certain laws he just won't enforce and prosecute.
00:19:59.000State's attorneys have put their ideology over the rule of law and are not satisfying their oath of office.
00:20:04.000DeSantis said during a press conference that Warren repeatedly refused to enforce laws the legislature passed.
00:20:11.000Cracking down on child sex change surgeries and abortion restrictions.
00:20:16.000Warren tweeted last month The 15 week ban is unconstitutional on its face.
00:20:21.000Tallahassee knew it when it passed the bill, hoping judges will ignore the privacy right in the Florida Constitution.
00:20:28.000I put my hand on the Bible and swore to defend the U.S. and Florida constitutions.
00:20:33.000Florida's Constitution has a privacy right that clearly covers abortion, while Tallahassee tries to circumvent the law.
00:20:41.000I will uphold the law and protect our freedom.
00:20:44.000DeSantis, as part of his suspension order, appointed Hillsborough County Court Judge Susan Lopez to replace Warren.
00:20:52.000Florida Democrats denounced the decision, calling DeSantis a wannabe dictator.
00:20:57.000The Commissioner of Agriculture said, This is outrageous and dangerous.
00:21:01.000DeSantis said, I think that some of these prosecutors that have a very militant agenda in terms of ideology have been able to get away with a lot in other states.
00:21:12.000We have had prosecutors around this country that think they can pick and choose which laws to enforce.
00:21:17.000Warren may have thought, because they get away with it in L.A., they get away with it in Baltimore, that he could do this in Florida.
00:22:37.000Now, some people compare Ron DeSantis to Christian nationalists like Marjorie Taylor Greene or America Firsters like Donald Trump.
00:22:45.000But if National Review and Bill Kristol don't support Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene because Of their core ideology, but they do support DeSantis, I think that says a lot about the depth of the convictions of Ron DeSantis, which is to say that his actions that may seem rooted in an ideology which we support, maybe that's only in appearance,
00:23:11.000maybe that's only on a superficial level and in a way that doesn't fundamentally offend people that disagree with that ideology.
00:23:21.000So, anyway, so I'm Suspicious of Ron DeSantis.
00:23:28.000I don't think that he should be the leader of the Republican Party.
00:23:31.000I don't want him to be the nominee in 24.
00:23:34.000But I will say this consistently, he demonstrates what is going to be required in the future and how conservatives are going to be able to change the society.
00:23:45.000The answer for right wing people lies in government.
00:23:50.000The government is the most powerful institution in the Western world.
00:23:55.000The state has the power to reshape society.
00:24:00.000And right wing people are always frustrated wondering.
00:24:03.000How are we going to take on this ambitious task of changing everything about our country that we don't like?
00:24:13.000The state makes the laws, and the laws control what happens in the country.
00:24:19.000And so you'd be surprised at the kind of latitude that a dedicated, committed, aggressive government will have in changing the way that society works.
00:24:29.000And it does that by changing the laws, changing the enforcement of the laws, and changing the incentive structures in the society.
00:24:38.000And so you see, time and again, Ron DeSantis will, in cases like this, push laws through the state legislature and then, in a dedicated way, enforce them.
00:24:50.000And when the laws are not being enforced, or when state or non state actors go against the law, he uses the law to punish them.
00:26:27.000They're on the books, they apply, they're totally actionable, but maybe they've gone out of fashion or out of style, or the bureaucrats in charge of enforcing them don't care for them.
00:26:37.000And so it's almost as if they don't exist.
00:26:41.000And in this case, Ron DeSantis found that guy and fired him.
00:26:45.000And everybody said, oh, he's a dictator.
00:26:50.000Now that guy's not in charge of enforcing the law.
00:26:53.000And he replaced that guy with somebody who will enforce the law.
00:26:56.000And I don't know this judge, Lopez, that replaced him, but presumably this is somebody who, conservative or not conservative, she is being guided by the law, not her own ideology, liberal or conservative.
00:27:12.000And this is not the first time he's done this.
00:27:13.000He did this against Disney when Disney was protesting the Don't Say Gay bill in Florida.
00:27:19.000He said that he would revoke Disney's special protections, and then there was a major change in management in the Disney company.
00:27:26.000And he went against the cruise industry.
00:27:28.000When the state of Florida banned mandates for vaccines and the cruise industry resisted, Ron DeSantis threatened to crush the cruise industry and force them to submit.
00:28:12.000They can't pack up and move to Massachusetts.
00:28:15.000It gets cold in the winter in Massachusetts.
00:28:18.000That's where their assets are within the jurisdiction of the state of Florida.
00:28:22.000And so Ron DeSantis says, insofar as you're within my legal jurisdiction, you play by my rules.
00:28:29.000And insofar as you've got your assets here, you really don't have a choice.
00:28:34.000And so we can exert pressure and influence on the policies, not just of the state, which you could say are limited in America compared to other more authoritarian states, but you could say that we can also change the policies indirectly in the private sector.
00:28:51.000And between public and private organizations, that governs a lot of human activity.
00:28:58.000And so you could say that insofar as right wing people control jurisdictions, legal jurisdictions, with the right.
00:29:08.000And with enough people and with enough initiative and dedication, you can fundamentally change a society.
00:29:16.000If you can change the decisions that are made by the government as well as the private institutions within a jurisdiction, you can change on a fundamental level everything that happens.
00:29:29.000And that's really how conservatives have to start thinking.
00:29:31.000You have to start from the end and work your way back.
00:29:35.000Too often, conservatives start from the beginning and maybe they don't even have an end game in mind.
00:30:11.000Vaccines to be available, but just not mandated.
00:30:14.000Or people can wear masks, but just don't make me wear one.
00:30:17.000Or you can have the gay pride parade, but just not in my neighborhood.
00:30:22.000Or gay people could get married, but in the privacy of their own homes or whatever.
00:30:26.000People could get abortions in some cases, but only in certain cases.
00:30:31.000Or they'll just have a completely, or they'll just say, well, we just want to be left alone.
00:30:36.000We just kind of want to go on our farm and do our own thing.
00:30:41.000And even the most dedicated people, even the people that are the most entrenched in politics.
00:30:45.000Will say things like, You're never going to deport every illegal immigrant here.
00:30:49.000You're never going to cut off all immigration.
00:30:51.000You're never going to do X, Y, and Z. That's not practical.
00:30:55.000And so they don't even really have an idea of what they want.
00:30:58.000They don't even have an idea of where they're going.
00:31:00.000They don't know what the destination is.
00:31:02.000How do you chart a path to the destination if you don't know what the destination is?
00:31:06.000It's just broadly like, Well, we want to go in this direction.
00:31:11.000Well, that's fine if you're trying to go it towards something simple, but if you're trying to achieve something complicated, There's a little bit more specificity required.
00:31:21.000Also, people think about the kinds of ambitious things they want, and even if they have a better idea, like we do, and say, well, we want a border wall, and we want to renegotiate NAFTA, and we want a Christian society, and these kinds of things.
00:31:37.000Well, they're starting from the beginning, and they'll say, I don't know how we'll ever achieve that.
00:31:43.000I look around at politicians, and I look at the current power structure, and it just seems so impossible and difficult and complex.
00:31:52.000I don't even know where to begin, people say.
00:31:57.000I don't even know where to begin to solve these problems.
00:32:01.000And that mindset is a big part of the problem.
00:32:05.000Because the question is not thinking about necessarily where we start by thinking about the beginning, but thinking about how we start when you consider where we want to go.
00:32:15.000And so, what I mean by that is if you consider that what we want in the society, as an example, is no abortions.
00:33:18.000Because of the sexual revolution, because they're not married, because they got a sex education that talked about contraceptives instead of abstinence.
00:33:26.000And you work your way backwards and think well, how can we change the legal framework around abortion?
00:33:33.000How can we change fundamental attitudes around abortion?
00:33:36.000And then you get to some real concrete things like well, we need to ban abortion.
00:33:42.000And maybe in order to change attitudes about God and about sex and abortion, we need to change education and we need to change the media.
00:34:09.000Well, you can empower the church, or you can empower Christians in the communities, or you can get the right teachers or the right principals or administrators who are going to make a curriculum like that.
00:34:21.000And then by working backwards from where you want to go, you can start to chart a path from where you need to begin.
00:34:28.000And all this is to say, Ron DeSantis has the right idea in using state power to begin changing fundamentally the way the society is by changing the laws.
00:34:39.000And using the laws to bully private companies to change how things work outside directly of the purview of the law.
00:34:50.000And so, although I don't think that Ron DeSantis, in his heart of hearts, is like us, I don't think that he's a fundamentally Catholic, America First, Christian nationalist type of a guy, he does understand to the extent I think that it benefits him politically that victory is tangible and victory comes from government.
00:35:13.000And government policies and measures come from government action.
00:35:19.000Taking over government, putting competent people in place, and having them use their power to take action.
00:35:26.000And this is, on a technical level, in a very general way, the manifesto for how we're going to change society.
00:35:35.000If we can get a governor like Ron DeSantis in every Republican state from Idaho to Florida, if we can get Republican state legislators in every Republican government from Idaho to Florida, and we fill up The state governments and the state bureaucracy in every state, from Idaho to Florida, with people like that, and they're competent, we can change the state constitutions in every state.
00:36:02.000We can change the laws accordingly in every state.
00:36:05.000We can use the discretionary power of the governors in every state and fill up the courts and so on to create the framework for the kind of society that we want to live in.
00:36:17.000And that obviously has limits with the federal government.
00:36:19.000We have one shot to do that in the federal government, and I think that will be in 2024.
00:36:24.000But whether we are able to do that or we're not able to do that, either way, the future of the right wing movement is to use our human capital, fill up the institutions where the seat of power is, where the throne is, and then from the throne, change the society.
00:38:33.000And the thing is about people, it's dynamic.
00:38:37.000People are always creating more people.
00:38:40.000And so there are babies being born now, and there are babies being born yesterday, and there are babies being born 100 years ago and 200 years ago.
00:38:47.000And society is the transmission of ideas and cultures and customs and all these kinds of things from one generation to the next.
00:38:58.000We, as activists in our time, need to get in control of the state.
00:39:05.000And begin to get in the middle of that process and control that process, and that is how societal change occurs.
00:39:13.000Get in the middle and control that process of transmitting the society from one generation to the next.
00:39:20.000Right now, the society that's being transmitted through the generations happens in the schools, happens from the parents, happens from entertainment and media.
00:39:31.000And the way that we're going to change society is by changing people.
00:39:35.000And the way that we change people is by changing the institutions around them.
00:39:39.000And the way that we do that, the only way to do that is through.
00:39:47.000And Ron DeSantis, I don't know if he understands it on a deep level like that.
00:39:53.000I don't know if he thoroughly understands it like that, but his actions demonstrate that principle.
00:40:01.000And so if we can create in all of these states a jurisdiction that begins to produce the kind of society that we want, the country will increasingly become, the jurisdictions under the control of those leaders will increasingly become.
00:40:58.000You got to come and get half loaf today and come back for the other half the next day.
00:41:03.000And this is protracted negotiations that never go anywhere.
00:41:07.000No, eventually we just need to get complete control and complete sovereignty and build the political machine to produce that and then begin to overturn everything, fire everybody, change all the laws, change the constitution.
00:41:22.000And then begin to create a legal framework in a jurisdiction with the incentives directly and indirectly, excuse me, that produce the behaviors that we want to see.
00:41:46.000Tell them they could stop paying taxes after they have four kids.
00:41:50.000If you want people to get married, reduce their tax burden if they get married.
00:41:55.000If you want Children and people that have Christian values inculcate them with Christian values when they get into preschool when they're four years old, and then when they're five, six, and drought grade school, and the rest.
00:42:10.000And so, there are ways that we can change the society, but it begins with getting together competent people working together to target particular institutions that wield the power that will be able to change human behavior on a massive level.
00:43:42.000And I think that's the shape that it's going to take elsewhere if we're going to have any kind of success.
00:43:47.000Otherwise, insofar as the left controls the power and particularly the government, they control the incentive structures, they control the money, they control the laws, the cops, the guns, the military.
00:44:00.000And so they will control the kinds of behaviors from the people, they'll control the transmission of a society from one generation to the next.
00:44:08.000And it's futile as long as that's the arrangement.
00:44:24.000I don't think he's the end all be all.
00:44:26.000But I think that he is teaching Republicans, regardless of what you think about him and his trajectory, he is teaching Republicans what we need to do and what constitutes a victory.
00:44:40.000If we had a Ron DeSantis in every state for the next 20 years, Every state that has a Republican state government, which is 25, 26, or 27 of them, if we had a Ron DeSantis in every state from Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas,
00:44:56.000all the way down to Texas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, you name it, and if we could form some kind of confederacy of those states, then you get the kind of resources and you get the kind of power that you need to fundamentally turn things around.
00:45:11.000And I think that's the only way that we're going to push back in any meaningful way.
00:45:21.000I want to talk about this other article about new atheism.
00:45:25.000And like I said, this is not really even news.
00:45:27.000It's really more just an opinion piece that was published this week, and people were talking about it.
00:45:33.000And like I said, this was published in MSN by an ex Muslim writer, and I'll read it to you.
00:45:39.000But it talks about Christian nationalism on the rise.
00:45:42.000And the piece is kind of a white pill because they really are freaking out about Christian nationalism in a way that.
00:45:50.000Other things are not really scaring them.
00:45:53.000Nobody is really panicking on the left about like populism.
00:45:58.000Nobody's panicking about Andrew Yang or, you know, anything like that, any of this third position type stuff.
00:46:06.000But they panicked about Trump and they're panicking about Christian nationalism.
00:46:12.000And they even seem, it almost seems to be more on their radar than it is on the mainstream right.
00:46:18.000Like, I feel as though Christian nationalism.
00:46:21.000And those kinds of ideas promulgated by MTG and Gosar and me and Torba and others, it seems like that's more on the radar of the left and MSNBC and CNN than it is even for Fox News, or maybe they don't want to talk about it.
00:46:39.000And so that's a white pill in itself, that they're freaking out.
00:46:42.000And there's this big article in MSN this week from this ex Muslim, and he's talking about how Christianity is resurgent and it's manifesting in the overturn of Roe versus Wade.
00:46:53.000The opposition to LGBT and particularly the trans issues, and people like Greg Youngkin being elected in Virginia, or some of the actions DeSantis is taking in Florida.
00:47:04.000And there's this article, and it talks about how the atheists need to get together and come up with an answer to that.
00:47:11.000And this is about what he thinks that answer is.
00:47:15.000And it says, There are two pressing crises tied to the state of religion in America today.
00:47:21.000A new style of atheism can help answer both of them.
00:47:24.000The first crisis is rooted in an excess of religion.
00:47:28.000Christian theocracy is not a far off specter, but an emerging reality in America.
00:47:33.000Fueled by a radically reactionary Supreme Court that is two thirds Catholic, Thomas Jefferson's already dilapidated and graffitied wall of separation between church and state is crumbling.
00:47:44.000Scholars of the religious right are also sounding alarms over the emergence of Christian nationalism, a QAnon adult authoritarian political movement whose champions breached the U.S. Capitol and prayed on the Senate floor on January 6, 2021.
00:48:00.000The second crisis is tied, ironically, to the decline of religion.
00:48:05.000The religious right is securing more power in courts and legislatures and becoming more influential within right wing culture.
00:48:14.000Instead, there's been an accelerating American drift away from organized religion and most often toward nothing in particular.
00:48:22.000A rapidly increasing share of Americans are detaching from religious communities that provide purpose and forums for moral contemplation and not necessarily finding anything in their stead.
00:48:32.000They're dropping out of church, and survey data suggests they're disproportionately.
00:48:38.000Likely to be checked out from civic life.
00:48:40.000Their trajectory is tracked with a broader, decades long trend of secular life defined by plunging social trust, faith in institutions, and participation in civil society.
00:48:50.000So he's saying that Christian nationalists are taking over the government and people are becoming more atheist, but atheist people are not participating in government.
00:49:00.000So he's saying that it's being eaten away at from both ends, essentially.
00:49:05.000He says, My belief is that an energetic, organized atheist movement.
00:49:09.000Which I propose calling communitarian atheism would provide an effective way to guard against the twin crises of intensifying religious extremism on one end and the atomizing social consequences of a plunge in conventional religiosity on the other.
00:49:27.000An organized atheist community can help agitate for and finance a secularist equivalent of the Federalist Society.
00:49:34.000Atheists who consciously believe in their worldview have a particularly urgent interest in helping to lead a legal and political movement to protect against theocracy.
00:49:43.000At the same time, atheism can address the social and spiritual vacuum emerging in the wake of the slow death of mainstream organized religion.
00:49:53.000This requires learning from religion, not indiscriminately attacking it.
00:49:58.000By putting together study groups, communities for secular meditation, and elucidating the meaning and joy of atheism without spewing venom toward all religion, atheists can build spaces for religion skeptical people to find purpose.
00:50:13.000Think about ethics, form community, and consider more carefully how to build a better society.
00:50:20.000Atheists excel at critiquing religion and should continue to do so, but we flounder when it comes to thinking about how to meet human needs that are rarely supported by systems of secular life.
00:50:31.000Religion seeks to answer why we exist and what ethical and social obligations attend existence and creates rich, evocative institutions and rituals around these questions.
00:50:44.000Not just view their lives as defined in negative terms by the absence of God, but in positive terms about the world as we believe it exists.
00:50:52.000That means less time attacking religion and more time forming an attractive, inclusive, affirmative, or rather alternative to it.
00:51:00.000Atheists should create deliberate communities, and this can take many forms.
00:51:04.000Study groups for pursuing the great questions of existence by reading works of literature, philosophy, and even religious texts.
00:51:12.000Atheists should form secular meditation groups or explore something else that allows for contemplation if it's not their cup of tea.
00:51:20.000Organized atheists have an extraordinary opportunity to welcome nothing in particulars into a big tent.
00:51:27.000Roughly 10% of the U.S. adult population identifies as atheist or agnostic.
00:51:33.000But, quote, nothing in particulars constitute about 20%.
00:51:37.000The nothing in particulars cite questioning a lot of religious teachings as the biggest reason they leave formal religious affiliation and say that their dislike of positions taken by churches on social and political issues is the second biggest reason.
00:51:51.000Moreover, experts describe the increasingly intensifying political valence of Christianity as right wing as a significant source of alienation for people who become nothing in particular.
00:52:04.000And so, what he's talking about, he's talking about people that when they're asked in a survey, what religion are you, they don't say atheist, they say, oh, nothing in particular.
00:52:14.000And I read this article, and I actually talked about this in my speech at American Renaissance back in 2018.
00:52:23.000And I said that we're going to win, and we're going to win because we believe in Jesus Christ on the cross, and they believe in nothing.
00:52:33.000I said, so Generation Z is the answer to the boomer question, the new.
00:52:37.000More right wing, more religious, Generation Z is going to be the answer and the solution and is ultimately going to be the source of the victory because they possess the will to win.
00:52:51.000And it really doesn't matter how many are on the other side or what they have, they don't have the will.
00:53:46.000And so there's a level of seriousness and there's a level of duty and obligation that comes with those things, which allows us to suffer more.
00:53:55.000It allows us, or rather, we have a power of belief which is greater and therefore a determination which is greater.
00:54:04.000And that's compared to the very casual beliefs of the new generation of left wing people or liberals or secular people.
00:54:13.000They're dissimilar because left wing people don't believe in anything more than this world.
00:54:18.000And so the level of intensity and the level of seriousness is necessarily less.
00:54:23.000They're more attached to the world and they're more attached to the things in the world.
00:54:29.000And what's more, there's no objectivity, there's no source of commonality between them.
00:54:35.000They don't even believe that our shared experience is something that we have in common.
00:54:40.000They believe that truth, ethics, political views, Even sensations and experiences are completely subjective.
00:54:48.000They think that there is no objective world, that everybody only has their subjective experience of it and subjective experience of qualia and sensations and perceptions.
00:55:01.000And so the question then becomes between these two sides, one side that believes in God, who gives them commandments and gives them a law with authority that will judge their actions after they die, and that they can die and still succeed, that their God died and still succeeded.
00:55:22.000Versus a group of people fundamentally attached to the world, clinging to the world, clinging to their lives, attached to things in the world, and also completely segregated because they're subjective, because they believe in a subjectivist world.
00:55:40.000And that is what this article, I think this article is kind of foreshadows what we're going to see in the future.
00:55:48.000I said this back in 2018, and even my conversations recently with Destiny are very similar.
00:55:56.000I think the first time that I talked to Destiny this year, I forget which panel it was on, but I talked to him this year.
00:56:03.000I haven't talked to him in a long time.
00:56:06.000And in our older conversations back in 2018 and 2019, we argued about race and we argued about religion, or rather, not so much about religion, we argued about politics.
00:56:18.000We argued about immigration and the Hart Cellar Act, and we argued about the elites and who's running the country and things like that.
00:56:27.000This year, we had a conversation about religion.
00:56:30.000And I told Destiny, I said, I think the reason you're not on board with us fundamentally is because you're an atheist.
00:56:51.000And he said, well, he's not even really interested in those questions.
00:56:54.000He thinks it's a waste of time to ponder our existence and things like that.
00:56:59.000And he has said on his stream, when he talks about our movement, when he talks about the Groypers in America First, he says that we have a structural advantage because we believe in something.
00:57:09.000He doesn't believe in religion, but he concedes that our religion gives us purpose, gives us direction, gives us fulfillment in a way that they don't have that.
00:57:23.000They don't have anything objectively that they can rally around and give themselves to and feel like they're part of something bigger.
00:57:30.000He said, and that's the source of their weakness, and they need to strive to come up with a surrogate.
00:57:35.000They need to strive to come up with some kind of artificial alternative to religion to have the effects of religion.
00:57:45.000The effects of religion are people willing to die and people finding meaning and people coming together.
00:57:50.000And he wants those effects with some kind of atheist political alternative.
00:57:57.000And if you remember that conversation, if you remember his commentary on that, It echoes what I said four years ago.
00:58:04.000It echoes what was said in this piece.
00:58:08.000And to me, this is why Christian nationalism is the future of the right.
00:58:14.000Not just because it's true, it's because it's true that it has these sort of practical effects, which will give us our victory.
00:58:23.000It's true because when you read this article and you think about sort of the logical conclusion, when you take it through and not think about, The current state of affairs and the immediate future state of affairs.
00:58:37.000When you think about human action and human behaviors and the ideas that people have and the consequences of the ideas they have, when you take it to its logical conclusion, the Christians will beat the atheists every time.
00:58:52.000That's one of the reasons why they fear it.
00:58:54.000That's why people that aren't very thoughtful on the left fear it.
00:58:58.000It's because, on some level, deep down, they understand what this writer is trying to articulate, which is that.
00:59:07.000If Christians are getting together and we're worshiping God and saying we're going to die for God and we're going to fight for God and we believe in these laws and we all agree and we're all getting together and we're getting more powerful and we're going to give our lives to our struggle and infiltrate the institutions and make you do what we think is right.
00:59:21.000And on the other side, they're kind of like jerking off and playing video games and making porn on OnlyFans and they're just kind of going to work and throwing parties and traveling and their commitment is kind of performative or casual or it's put on, it's contrived in some way.
00:59:39.000They understand that it doesn't matter how many people are on either side.
00:59:43.000It doesn't matter the structures surrounding them.
00:59:46.000The people that are fighting and dying and talking about blood and sacrifice and those kinds of things are going to beat the people that are smoking pot and just kind of hanging out and having a free-for-all all the time.
01:00:06.000We need to come up with our own religion.
01:00:09.000The problem is, you can't build a religion self consciously.
01:00:16.000They're facing the same problem that our ancestors faced, the same problem that Nietzsche talked about, fundamentally, the problem of modernity, which is that all of the meaning of life has been washed away, that the gods and the races and the nations and the ideologies are all kind of over.
01:01:03.000People that have that attitude are not going to defeat people from history, they're not going to defeat people that still have those things.
01:01:10.000You can't self consciously go out there and create an idea and say, We're going to die for this idea that we know that we created so we could have a reason to die.
01:01:23.000We created some idea to worship for the sake of worshiping an idea so we could have particular effects.
01:01:30.000Well, the problem is everybody knows that.
01:01:33.000The problem is that once the sort of veil is lifted, it doesn't come back down.
01:01:40.000And so saying, Well, we're going to create all the.
01:01:43.000Habits of religion, we're going to get together and meditate and read books like the religious people do, and we're going to create societies like the religious people do in the hopes that we could achieve the effects.
01:01:53.000Everybody knows they're doing it, gathering around, rallying around for a fundamentally contrived purpose.
01:02:02.000And that consciousness, that self consciousness, you can't separate it from what they're doing.
01:02:08.000And so, as a consequence, it doesn't work.
01:02:12.000The people that are fighting and dying for God are fighting and dying because God is real, and they know God is real.
01:02:18.000And they're not doing it because they need a reason to fight and die.
01:02:39.000And that's why, in the end, no matter how long it takes, no matter how many mistakes are made, no matter how many losses there are or casualties, no matter what the asymmetry is on one side versus the other, you could get this country down to 100,000 Christians.
01:02:54.000And given a long enough time, they would prevail in the end.
01:02:59.000They would prevail just like Catholicism prevailed in Poland over communism.
01:03:04.000Just like Christianity prevailed over the Roman Empire in the first millennium, Christianity will, given enough time, prevail over even the current hegemonic world powers because Christians have the power of belief and they have the power of faith and hope, which atheists will never have.
01:03:26.000And this is why they're panicking and they write about this stuff.
01:03:29.000And even this guy knows it's insufficient.
01:03:31.000He's writing this and saying, well, you know, hey, I'm just spitballing here, but we need a new atheism.
01:03:36.000We need to act like the religious people.
01:03:41.000The answer to Christianity, the answer to the power of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, is they're going to get together in a circle and talk about Plato's Republic.
01:04:45.000That's why they're trying desperately to write up, okay, new plan, copy religion, new plan, religion, but without the God and without church.
01:05:03.000If you're asking people to go and sit in pews and just kind of like read stuff and kneel around and there's no God there, you know, that just kind of sucks.
01:05:12.000Honestly, I don't know who would be going to church if God wasn't there.
01:06:53.000And conservatism, without God specifically, an explicitly political conservative disposition says, no, no, don't do that because we need to preserve other things so we could live long.
01:07:08.000And then there's, hey, listen here, Sonny, there's value in things in themselves.
01:07:12.000You know, when I was your age, it just comes across as crusty, lame.
01:08:12.000It's a huge white pill because, again, it's this theme which you've seen, and it's growing louder and louder over the past five years, which is that this is fundamentally going to take the shape of a battle between good and evil.
01:08:26.000And that's between Catholicism and everything else.
01:08:30.000That's going to be between God and the angels and the devil and our created worldly nature.
01:26:16.000They decided what he, the jury delivered their verdict today on what he would owe $4 million, which is a lot of money, but he can afford that.
01:32:58.000At least in the old days, you had a classical educational tradition and you had real philosophers and a lot of them even were religious too.
01:33:10.000And what is an atheist club going to look like exactly?
01:33:13.000It's going to be like a Rick and Morty Reddit meetup.
01:49:20.000So that's why I got banned in 2020 from YouTube.
01:49:23.000I don't understand how that doesn't wake people up the fact that misinformation can, like, why can they decide what information is good and bad?
01:49:32.000Why do we let these corporations decide what hate speech is?
01:49:37.000And that's what I tell people because it's like, I'm right wing.
01:49:40.000I have a lot of controversial opinions.
01:49:42.000But I'm like, at the end of the day, I don't think anybody benefits from having companies and billionaires decide what's true and what isn't true.
01:50:54.000She leaves the White House, and then she gets put on the board of Boeing, which is one of the biggest companies that sells planes and missiles to the military.
01:51:15.000But you have a better career like that.
01:51:18.000And it should be obvious enough the fact that if you don't trust the government, then you have to go make your own platform and you get banned.
01:51:23.000And the people who echo the liberal agenda stay and make all the money possible.
01:51:30.000And that's what sucks so much years ago, the internet was like the Wild West, and you could say anything.
01:51:37.000And people like Alex Jones would blow up all the time.
01:51:39.000And now they just pick who gets to blow up.
01:51:42.000And if you're not, if you don't agree with their politics about Trump or BLM or vaccines or even things that aren't even that political, then you're just done.
01:52:10.000What do you think is actually going on?
01:52:11.000So, I've been talking a lot about the spiritual warfare, and I'm trying to wake people up to how they're trying to feminize men and masculinize women.
01:52:18.000And it's an intentional thing from the top.
01:52:19.000That's why everybody has their gender pronouns.
01:52:21.000They're making up new genders every single day.
01:52:23.000They're trying to weaken us, and they're trying to make being a man and being funny and just not giving a fuck.
01:52:27.000They're trying to make that toxic and problematic.
01:52:29.000You probably heard all the same words incel.
01:52:31.000They just label you with all this bullshit.
01:52:33.000And I've been talking a lot about my stream, how I have privilege not being a white man, because you're here with the suit on, and you look like a politician with your.
01:52:40.000The headset and the headphones, and you get censored.
01:52:43.000Like, they get to label you all right and a Trump supporter way easier than me.
01:52:47.000Like, I'm here, you know, getting sturdy on stream.
01:52:50.000So, I get to, I get, I'm kind of privileged in a sense where it's harder to silence me.
01:53:08.000Like, you know, me and my friend used to talk about stop speeding.
01:53:12.000He would go on the stream, or Aiden Ross for that matter.
01:53:14.000They get to go on stream and they get to say, Aiden Ross would bring on all these rappers and they would say the most quote unquote homophobic things and get away with it because they're black.
01:53:23.000And if I had said those things, they'd ban me for being a homophobe, you know, racist right winger or whatever.
01:53:30.000Yeah, so there's obviously double standards.
01:53:33.000And the thing is, you're totally right about the spiritual battle it's good versus evil.
01:53:47.000Like, I'm on Cozy, and our platform on Cozy is people praying the rosary, it's gaming, it's political stuff, people don't give a shit.
01:53:54.000You go on Twitch and it's softcore porn and gambling.
01:53:57.000And this is just like stealing the virility and the souls of young people, getting them addicted to these like slot machine online gambling sites, getting them addicted to OnlyFans, getting them addicted to hot tub, jacuzzi streams, shit like that.
01:54:31.000And it's just sad because they really promote that, and guys have a false idea about how women act.
01:54:36.000And I've been reacting to a lot of this channel.
01:54:37.000You should check out It's Complicated.
01:54:38.000It's a complicated channel on YouTube if you haven't seen it because it just breaks down how delusional all these American women are.
01:54:44.000All these American women worship celebrities, they worship Cardi B, Kim Kardashian, Meg Thee Stallion, and they're just trained to turn into thoughts who don't have any unique personality.
01:54:55.000They don't think they have to improve, they think they're perfect.
01:54:57.000And people call me a misogynist because I bring it up, but I'm really trying to talk about the brainwashing.
01:55:01.000All these women worship celebrities and they don't really realize why.
01:55:04.000They're on Instagram and TikTok all day and it's fucking up their heads and they make no sense and it's an intentional thing that they're doing to make men weaker.
01:55:12.000Because if women make no sense, then who are we going to have kids with?
01:55:15.000Who are we going to be in relationships with?
01:55:17.000Most of the guys who end up fighting and killing each other, it's over a girl.
01:55:21.000They're messing with both the men and the women and the men follow the women because the women, you know, they're the ones that get to select for who's going to reproduce and who gets the sex.
01:56:02.000I just put out a big thing on Telegram about Andrew Tate and like, Anytime you get a guy like that who's going to say what's true about women, they always blow up.
01:56:11.000Anytime somebody's out there who's charismatic and for whatever reason doesn't get censored and says the truth about men and women, they blow up.
01:56:18.000And that's because people are so starved.
01:56:50.000So people like this, we need to start linking up with each other.
01:56:52.000And like, I'm glad that you have this platform like here because when they inevitably ban me, I'm going to start streaming on this platform.
01:56:57.000Chat, you got to go over to Cozy TV when I do get banned.
01:57:00.000But it's going to become stronger than the censorship.
01:57:03.000And there's really a movement happening because it's like the amount of men who are getting weaker and weaker.
01:58:30.000Yeah, the time is now to link up, support the stuff that we know is good for our souls, good for our bodies, and reject the cancel culture bullshit.
01:58:43.000You know, people try to cancel me all the time.
01:58:45.000They say, make up things about me, take the shit that I say out of context, gets me in trouble in court, gets me in trouble with the law sometimes.
01:58:53.000Yeah, I can't really talk about it, but I'm in this Sybil thing right now.
01:58:59.000And let's just say I say a lot of controversial stuff on my show because I'm a guy.
01:59:02.000And you know, when you're with the bros, you just say whatever.
01:59:06.000And you say controversial stuff and you say stuff that, you know, might come across as insensitive, but sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's true.
01:59:15.000And they use everything against me to just make me look bad and, you know, damage my life.
01:59:20.000But people need to start to rise up because soon.
01:59:24.000Nobody's going to have the right to say anything.
01:59:26.000If you don't stand up for the people that say the things that they're going to cancel for now, in the future, nobody's going to have a right to say anything at all.
01:59:33.000We're all just going to be robots controlled by advertisers and Twitter and YouTube and the ADL.
01:59:39.000So, yeah, the time is now to start rising up.
01:59:47.000I linked up with all these crypto millionaires who made it out of the matrix, and they pretty much just validated everything I believed about what's going on.
01:59:55.000I always say, I tell my chat all the time that the elites are all like touching kids on an island.
02:00:57.000You know, if you really start to peel back the layers there, there was a lot of messed up stuff.
02:01:01.000He had people from finance, British royal family, members of the government, people, Hollywood celebrities, and he had them all compromised because he had pictures and videos of them doing very illegal, messed up things.
02:01:12.000And we have a government that's basically run on blackmail.
02:01:16.000Nobody looked into that because it turned into some Reddit slogan where they said, Epstein didn't kill himself.
02:02:14.000I don't want them to try to cancel me, but they control all the money in the world.
02:02:20.000Are they behind the scenes on most of these issues?
02:02:23.000Well, you know, I'm a guy that I talk about that a lot on my show, and that's a big part of why I've been like canceled.
02:02:30.000And here's the thing you know, you got to be careful about it because you could definitely go too far and say some things that aren't true.
02:02:39.000That's what you have to understand on some level is that you have things like the Republican Jewish Congress, you have the World Jewish Congress, you've got Jewish federations all across the country.
02:02:49.000They're very organized politically, they're organized on college campuses where they have their own Jewish.
02:02:54.000Campus life, they're organized in the Republican and Democrat Party, they're organized for all kinds of things, and they use these organizations.
02:03:03.000The thing is, Jews earn a lot of money, they're very educated, they use their connectedness to each other and their organizations to exert influence.
02:03:11.000And so, you know, they're not the only ones that influence society.
02:03:14.000There's lots of institutions and groups that influence society, but they're one of them.
02:03:18.000And so, you look at the Biden administration, and his cabinet is full of Jewish people.
02:03:22.000You look at big tech and legacy media, and the people that run them, It's full of Jewish people.
02:04:36.000But, you know, it's not to say that I think, you know, Hispanics and blacks are dumb, but just in terms of averages, their IQs are distributed a different way.
02:05:01.000There's a very famous one where they took a black child and he was adopted by a white couple and a white child adopted by a black couple.
02:05:10.000And so they did the study with all these twins and it turned out, or the adopted kids, and it turned out that the IQs didn't really change much being in a so called white environment or black environment.
02:05:36.000There's a lot of theories that say, like, well, white people had to develop a certain kind of mindset because they had winter.
02:05:44.000In Europe, they had tough winters, and so they had to save things for the winter and kind of like, you know, they had to store meat and store food because in the winter they couldn't hunt and they couldn't harvest.
02:05:55.000Whereas in Africa, this is just one theory.
02:05:58.000In Africa, they had summer all year long.
02:05:59.000They're in the equator, you know, so they didn't have to save for the winter, and that's something that leads to a different kind of cognitive development.
02:06:06.000All this is to say is that the races have differences.
02:06:09.000Like, there's black people aren't just a different color, they're different.
02:06:13.000And white people aren't just a different color, they're different.
02:06:15.000That's not to say people are better or worse, but just that they have different attributes.
02:06:20.000So, do you think maybe the IQ test is.
02:06:24.000Wasn't the IQ test made by white people?
02:06:26.000Is that a fair way to judge intelligence?
02:08:49.000Yeah, probably mostly, but you'd be surprised.
02:08:51.000I mean, there's actually some people who accuse me of having a non white audience.
02:08:57.000Like in our circles, there are people that are like, Actually, I hate people, and they're like, oh, Nick's audience is all, you know, because I do actually have a lot of black people that go to my conferences, a lot of Hispanics that go to my conferences, because I love all people.
02:09:48.000Jared Kushner's Jewish, and his building is at 666 Fifth Avenue.
02:09:54.000That's literally his address 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York.
02:09:58.000And so you get guys like Jared Kushner and all these other bad influences around him, and they wore him down, and they fundamentally changed him.
02:10:05.000And so I still think he's independent.
02:10:07.000I still think he's a brilliant guy, but.
02:10:10.000He's just not the same as he was in 16.
02:11:18.000Because if voting is a scam, then how did Trump get elected?
02:11:22.000I think that there's always cheating in the vote.
02:11:25.000And I think that they really stepped it up.
02:11:26.000Because here's the thing I think that they count the votes, but what happened after, well, and I don't want to get your YouTube channel banned, but I'll just say this.
02:12:36.000We joke around a lot about that because he did a debate about race and crime and talked about the connection between crime and race as opposed to IQ and race.
02:12:45.000And PewDiePie is a little bit based too, I think.
02:12:48.000Would you consider yourself a white supremacist?
02:13:25.000There's no equality between individuals, and there's no equality between groups.
02:13:29.000But we are all equal in the sense that we are created by God.
02:13:33.000So, I'm not a white supremacist, but I think equality is just a myth in the real world, in fact.
02:13:39.000We got to stop using the word red pill because people on Twitter and the bots get really confused when you say red pill and they think it's just like a pickup scam.
02:13:47.000So, you can keep saying it, but I'm saying overall for the message of this, for the good versus evil thing that's going on, red pill limits it and people think that it's just about picking up women and picking up bitches for the most part.
02:13:56.000But I keep saying this in the stream, the idea of the red pill in the Matrix was that it's like waking you up to the truth.
02:14:02.000So, when I talk about women and shit like that, it's bigger than just like.
02:14:06.000Red pill is not just about picking up girls.
02:14:07.000It's about the brainwashing that's going on.
02:14:09.000It's about how most people are asleep.
02:14:12.000Yeah, well, the red pill in The Matrix was about the fact that we were in a created world.
02:14:17.000You know, in The Matrix, the red pill, they took it and they woke up and they realized that what they thought was the world was not really the world, that there was a fake reality being created around them.
02:14:29.000And what we say, we say, Red pill, that is what we're all living through right now because everything that we see is filtered through the media.
02:14:38.000Everything that we see is on TikTok, it's on the news media, it's on Twitter, and all of that is controlled by algorithms, and all that is controlled by the companies that make those things or the advertisers that pay for it.
02:14:49.000And so everything that we see is in the same way, like a created reality.
02:14:53.000So much of our assumptions and beliefs are based on things that we saw on TV and movies.
02:14:57.000You don't have to think very far to think like most of your assumptions, if you think really deeply about them, came from something you saw on television or in a movie or on TikTok.
02:15:07.000Oh, this works this way because of a character in a show, because I saw this in a movie.
02:15:11.000And those things were made by other people.
02:15:14.000And so it's almost like when you look in your phone or TV, you're looking into a created world.
02:15:17.000And so when you say red pilled, it's like you realize that there's this giant conspiracy to create a fake reality around you to change your fundamental assumptions and your behaviors.
02:15:28.000And being red pilled means realizing that all of the media is a big lie.
02:18:03.000You know, you're not going to see it talked about on Fox News or NBC when it's talking about like Pelosi and Biden and all this, but everybody realizes that a shift is happening in the culture.
02:18:14.000I feel like people are becoming more awakened to the truth.
02:18:16.000And this is all because of the internet.
02:18:19.000If you look up a guy named Marshall McLuhan, he wrote a lot about the media.
02:18:22.000And he would talk about how media can be hot or cold and kind of how it changes the velocity of society.
02:18:28.000The internet is a flaming hot medium that is going to change how information is distributed, it completely changes how we interact with each other.
02:18:37.000And it's something that, especially with the introduction of cryptography and cryptocurrency, as well as Web3 and how it's affecting politics, it's going to fundamentally change how society works.
02:18:49.000So, we entered into a certain kind of a period, I would say, in the late 80s, early 90s, and that is rapidly ending in the late 2010s and in the early 2020s.
02:18:58.000So, we're fundamentally probably by 2024, 2025, things are really going to flip upside down in a big way.
02:19:07.000What's your prediction for the monkey?
02:21:04.000Here's the thing I go on there and it's like, you know, I have very controversial views, so I don't wanna go on there and just start blasting red pills or anything.
02:21:15.000He clearly was a little bit offended about the race and IQ deal, but it's true, but that's the truth.
02:21:20.000And you know that, so he's gonna do that and then he's gonna get blasted.
02:21:26.000You know that that is gonna be all over Twitter.
02:22:20.000It kind of ties in with the rest of the show pretty cleanly.
02:22:24.000But yeah, I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.
02:22:26.000We're going to send him an invitation link and get him on the platform.
02:22:30.000And I told him, I said, hopefully, he could stay on YouTube.
02:22:34.000Because, you know, you really, YouTube is really good.
02:22:37.000I mean, YouTube, in a sense, being able to take advantage of the 2 billion users that are on YouTube, it's a huge deal.
02:22:45.000But obviously, everybody's being forced off.
02:22:47.000I think everybody'd like to be there, but then you get pushed off, and Cozy's an excellent alternative.
02:22:52.000So, but I do hope we get, you know, it would be probably better for him to, if everybody could be on YouTube, but it'll be pretty sweet if we could get him on Cozy and have a real content renaissance here.
02:24:28.000I create content for a niche audience.
02:24:32.000But even like normies that are just gamers and just trying to like, you know, flirt with girls or whatever, even they're getting red pilled about girls, about Jews, about all this stuff.
02:29:08.000I'm this savant over here, I make the content, but it's you geniuses that go out there and you ask the questions in the Griper War, you make the TikToks on TikTok, you guys, super chat.
02:29:21.000Sneako to tell him to watch America first.
02:29:23.000So let's get some 07s, the Crypto, Zoomer, and Chicken.
02:31:23.000And when it's being introduced to children, and also when people are using it habitually or otherwise, it's completely destructive to a moral and a normal and a healthy sexuality.
02:31:33.000So, yeah, it's got to go, and the people making it got to go.
02:34:39.000My most unpopular take is that God is not necessary to moral objectivity, and that a material universe is not inherently licentious or hedonic.
02:34:47.000I understand how religion begets morality, but not why.
02:36:20.000A lot of people are in rebellion, not necessarily because of what it is, but because of like their kind of relationship to it mentally.
02:36:30.000And so you think about like church or Christianity, there's the thing in itself, and then there's sort of like how it, like what it means in a very abstract way for people.
02:36:40.000And for some people, it means like their parents or like, A certain kind of like moralizing and a certain kind of person.
02:38:11.000Then you discover what Catholicism is and what Christianity really is.
02:38:16.000And you realize that it's the opposite of stodgy and old.
02:38:20.000You realize it's transcendental and it's otherworldly.
02:38:23.000And you realize that it's not a dead end, everything else is a dead end.
02:38:27.000That's the only thing that leads you anywhere.
02:38:30.000So I think that's why a lot of people are resistant to it.
02:38:34.000It's sort of like a band they haven't heard, or it's like a TV show they haven't watched.
02:38:38.000You know, some people are like, they just refuse to listen to a certain kind of music, or refuse to watch a movie, or they refuse to try a certain kind of food.
02:38:48.000And you're like, you know, come on, just try it, you know, but they've got a certain preconception.
02:38:52.000I think for a lot of people, that's what it is.
02:38:54.000There are some people that know what it is and reject it for other reasons, but I think a lot of people, it's just like a branding problem, honestly.
02:41:19.000After a long day of pushing Trump propaganda on Twitter, I cash in my crypto bounty from Nick for my Aryan schizo edit with a clip of his show going viral.
02:41:27.000You're awarded one Bitcoin for your 1 billion view TikTok.