Africans Rise Up Against Illegal Immigration (Fatigue Maxing)
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In this episode, we discuss the anti-immigration protests in South Africa, and how the protests started, and why they started. We also talk about why anti-colonialism is a racialist issue, and what we can learn from it.
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We are here to fight against the foreign nationals that are taking advantage of our economic freedom in our country.
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We are being labeled as xenophobic, and that is not the point.
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You're sure this guy was black, so we're not going to get the channel taken down?
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We are sick and tired with the Somalians, with the Pakistanis, with the Nigerians, and all illegal immigrants in this country.
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These protesters say they're declaring war on illegal immigration
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and want to take their complaints right to the doorsteps of embassies across Pretoria.
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The protesters here plan to raise issue with the Somali government
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about activities of their citizens in the country.
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The group, who were wearing Zulu traditional dress,
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initially sat down before the embassy gate saying they want to show respect.
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They demanded answers on a range of issues from crime to illegal immigration.
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but things got tense when they were unhappy with the answers from the Somali representatives.
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The group say they've given undocumented immigrants until the end of June to leave South Africa.
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There's eight million young people that are not working in South Africa.
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It is not xenophobia. It is eight million unemployed people.
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Hello, Malcolm. I'm excited to be speaking with you today,
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because when i think of anti-immigration protests the image that pops into my head is is white people
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being angry about non-white people entering their neighborhoods even though that's like not i know
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that's not true but thank god one of our base camp listeners was like hey you should you should talk
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about the anti-immigration protests in south africa it is black fatigue on an african scale
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of black south africans being mad about black immigrants to south africa this is nothing to
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do with us. I found some video footage of it that I'm going to play right here.
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Oh, sorry. That was the wrong footage. That's going to get us in a lot of trouble.
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Damn it, Malcolm. What are you, ah, you continue to speed run.
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are do you not want to be on youtube what is i will bring you by the way that clip is like a
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meme clip it's from a 1980s representation of homo erectus fighting neanderthals and white
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populations by the way so you can't say i'm racist these are historically white populations
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in fact africans they're the only people on earth that don't have any neanderthal dna
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so technically i'm making fun of my own ancestors here no no that makes you right right right
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because neander right oh my god right right of course i yep they have denosian dna though but
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that's you know neither here nor there we did a separate episode on that that stuff well probably
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multiple it's one of our spiciest episodes where we go over things that i was unaware of that there
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are certain populations in africa today like the god i can't pronounce the cosan people that are
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more distant genetically if you're looking not time-wise like their break-off wasn't earlier
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but if you look at like i think it's s&p count or something they are more distant from europeans
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than europeans are from neanderthals and a lot of people that's how it is in africa in general right
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like there are different genetic strains or like what is it like sort of uh heritage backgrounds
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that are more justified to be mad about immigration right yeah actually yeah no no no yeah they're
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they're more different they're more different than like than europeans are from each other so
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yeah yes yeah yeah or like people from latin america versus like irish people yeah like no
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way more different but anyway south africa has seen a wave of anti-immigration sometimes some
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people are describing it as anti-illegal immigration or or xenophobic if you're asking
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human rights watch protests and violence human rights watch didn't care when they were killing
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white farmers but the moment they start protesting black immigrants from even poorer countries they
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freak out no but actually but actually we're gonna but actually i want to take time to point
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out here that this isn't a racialist thing the groups that hate us hate us just because we are
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disproportionately productive and technologically productive when contrasted with other groups and
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that's why they hate the south african blacks that's why they want to see them replaced within
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their own country and they're fighting back which we can learn something from yeah these started
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breaking out in April. They're continuing this month. They're concentrated in major cities like
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Pretoria and Johannesburg, Durban, and they're starting to spread to others. The momentum is
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building, and so it's worth it for us to talk about this. So according to the BBC, at least,
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the main driver is this citizen-led group called March and March, which is an interesting choice
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of work. March and March advocates for stricter immigration enforcement. They want border control.
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They want mass deportations of undocumented migrants, and they want prioritizing South
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Africans for jobs, housing, and services. Doesn't that sound so familiar? Doesn't that sound a little
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MAGA? Yeah, it does sound a little MAGA. It's like, oh my God. Are we going to call this Black MAGA?
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Black MAGA. I like it. I like it. I like it. So the protests, they've drawn, they're big. We're
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talking hundreds to thousands of participants, and they're doing things like marching on
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government buildings like the union buildings in Pretoria. They're enforcing shop closures
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by foreign-owned businesses. They're doing some cleanup campaigns. There's some also additional
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groups that are getting involved. One is called Operation Dodula. They're a vigilante-style
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anti-immigration movement, meaning push out in Zulu. We don't see something going this far in
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America. If this was happening in the United States, they'd be like, I just know the white
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racist allegations would just go like off the charts, but you know, whatever. Also, there's
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another one called Action SA, Patriotic Alliance, and then there are other local forums like the
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FACOZA Abahambe forum. And then there are additional political figures that are really
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endorsing concerns, just like you'll see in any, I mean, obviously in the United States and the UK,
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there are people who stand out as being like, immigration is a problem. And then they kind of
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run on that platform. As CNN reports, and in my show notes on Patreon and Substack, I'm linking
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to all my sources. There's an Instagram link you can see to like the news reports that I'm linking
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to. Protesters are accusing the undocumented migrants, primarily from other African countries
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and some Asians, but mostly other African countries, of taking jobs, engaging in crime
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and drug dealing, overloading public services like health and housing in schools, and straining the
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economy some issued a june 30th 2026 ultimatum for undocumented foreigners to leave saying like
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if you don't leave by the end of june we're coming for you which we also haven't done
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imagine if like like middle middle of america americans were doing this you know we'd be
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defenestrated like they already are being defenestrated just for us wanting to enforce
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our own laws some black south africans to actually yeah let's no so trump needs to expand
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the whole white south african like refugee visa to include these these xenophobic um i would take
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south african immigrants over somalians like let's let's stick them on the somalians right like
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i mean they yeah oh god i just i can't it's just iliana robert wouldn't be able to do you you have
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a mob go to her house i know the somalians wish wish that that only like you know jd vance was
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coming after them right like they are lucky they are lucky and and i just i i wanted in in my
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research for this to be super super sure that this like has nothing to do with white people
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in south africa and yeah the protesters are primarily not only south african citizens but
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from the poorer communities the unemployed youth township residents specifically and trust me
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they're not white people in the townships we've been and and people in general feeling economic
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pressure and i have footage from sky news that i found posted on reddit it's it should be reiterated
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visually you did a skin check just to make sure yeah yeah it yes i did
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okay you're good to go south africa okay to talk about because if it was right people we'd have
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this video taken down in two seconds right we would be really no genuinely like i can't so
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we'd be arrested we have the thought police at our door right now right and and remember hrc is
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still very mad at these people in the townships people facing a country with 32 to 33 percent
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unemployment okay they they're generally like you know we think we have it bad that that illegal
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immigration is putting some pressure on job availability plus you know ai and all this stuff
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but 32 to 33 percent and their social services are not good like ours so of course they're mad
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and they're not they're not mad about indians coming in they're not bad about europeans coming
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in they're mad about nigerians zimbabweans congolese ethiopians ghanians that's who they're
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primarily mad about and that those countries keep issuing warnings to south africa they're like you
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are being mean to our people you must stop like they're they're actually like submitting formal
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complaints and stuff and i'm like i don't it's like stop sucking so much then like they're leaving
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your country for a reason i don't know and so i also wanted to check just if immigration in south
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africa is uniquely high vis-a-vis other countries or other african countries and south africa's
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immigration levels aren't uniquely high by global standards though they do stand out within Africa
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like it's South Africa is one of the countries that in Africa is doing like relatively okay
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I guess so they are seeing and it's doing terribly by the way yeah but
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because sometimes has some troubles and I mean if we're gonna be realistic I and I'm saying this
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as like an objective reality of south africa south africa had a fairly strong economy then they
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started acting in a way that scared away the european population within the country increasingly
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and since then primarily due to political corruption in part due to black tribal
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infighting within the political scene corruption has reached a level in the country where basic
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businesses have failed to continue to operate electricity is constantly failing which means
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that you can't easily have things like restaurants without you know because you can't have frozen
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food you can't have refrigerated food you can't have without generators and then there are black
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outs there are brand outs there there are giant holes in the we have a whole episode on it just
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like south africa and under like the base camp youtube channel but but my point is is that
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they're basically they're not really operating on their own anymore they're living off of a legacy
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and slow decay out of that legacy yeah yeah so but you know still they had they once had and
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they still kind of have some opportunity that many other places don't in fact when i when we did our
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south africa episode i found a bunch of posts by white uk residents who'd moved to south africa to
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work remotely there and enjoy you know the relatively low cost of living and like nice
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gated communities, et cetera. Like they're, you know, anyway, it has things going for it, but
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in terms of where they stand with immigration, South Africa has around 2.63 million international
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migrants. That's about 4.1% of its total population. That's up from 3.2% in 1990 and 4.3% in 2010. So
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it's not at like an all-time high but it's high-ish the global average is 3.7 of the world
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population and in Africa overall it's 1.9 so they're certainly higher than average in Africa
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though a few other African countries do have higher proportions of overall immigration due
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to specific factors like they have even more economic opportunity or they're just more friendly
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to hosting refugees like the Cote d'Ivoire I think Djibouti has a lot yeah 10.8 10.8 percent
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have immigrants in Djibouti because there's a lot of I think people from Uganda Uganda and
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Sudan oh my god showing up there but yeah most African countries are below two to three percent
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so South Africa is is being relatively more flooded and I could see that you know putting
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pressure on them yeah and you know vis-a-vis the United States and the UK and Canada it's
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it's certainly not i mean like we okay i want to put this in context for people who do not
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understand why south africa would be so freaked out by this um imagine if your country was this
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close to africa and it was this easy to immigrate into your country like you'd be pretty pissed too
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also the immigrants are they primarily muslim or are there any like religious tension here
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from what i can understand it's not religious tension it's not about culture it's about
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jobs and economic security and resources but just to be clear so like south africa is around 4.1
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percent of the total population is immigrants australia which also has some tension right
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31 to 32 percent canada 22 percent uk 17 to 18 percent usa 15.2 to 15.4 percent so all these
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other countries where you know the citizens are getting way more shade for being like
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uncomfortable with the immigration and we gotta get some south africans in here to handle our
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immigration issues i know right like we're like three times their amount and we are we're being
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we're being basically like oh come on in compared to them where they're like yeah if you're not out
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by june 30th i'm just i'm just gonna say it's not gonna be good for you what okay can we can we do
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that with america's black population like let's do that they're the ones who are getting their
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jobs taken right you know and what are they yeah like we're they're silent in all this right like
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i don't know if there's something like where journalists don't want to interview
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um black americans when they're covering anti-integration because they're like
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there's this unspoken thing of like oh i want i just want to make it look like oh my god why
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why is this like his new thing is screaming it's this is not great for podcasting where they just
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want to make it seem like it doesn't matter you can put him in the box or something simone
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he's an infant he'll survive all right this the skinner box what did bf skinner call his baby box
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again i don't remember but you know they used to put babies in like boxes and hang them out windows
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oh no no that was just like a like cute 1950s product like an urban trendy i don't know how
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much it was yeah where you hung a baby out a window no it was like people still buy boxes
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like that for their cats now you could technically just buy one for your cat put a baby in it i i
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mean you probably have cps called on you of course but anyway i don't i don't know what to do with
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anyway let you know what by the way simone hilarious trend i learned about if you want to
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if you want to spice it up with something else okay is ball maxing there's a community that try
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to have and they do this through inflating them the perfect balls vice did an article on it
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your faces have to do with south africa or nothing it's just hilarious i don't know
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some of these people might be in south africa well i mean we could do that like in our episode
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on like is kim kardashian a transhumanist and just talk about because also apparently like
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okay you know what i think maybe he can you can't hear it it's irrelevant so let's go to what like
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some actual statements from these protesters to get a picture of what they're actually saying.
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Right. So here are what some of the March on March leaders and protesters are saying. That's
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that the primary group that's leading all these, if you recall, this is from, I'm going to butcher
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this, Jacinta Ngobezi Zuma. He's the founder and national leader of March and March. These,
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they are not victims if you walk down the roads you'll find that they take buildings there are
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drugs there is prostitution there are cartels there are mafias so everything in this country
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is a fertile ground for criminals to thrive we are under attack from across africa this only thing
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that they do is label us as xenophobic there is nothing xenophobic about wanting law and order in
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your country we are all these people are mega i know that the things like if you just take this
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out of context and you're like according to like james brown like what's a really white sounding
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name james carpenter from ohio you know like you're just gonna be like yeah of course we're
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frustrated tired and feel ignored by our own government our demand is that our government
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is moving at a snail's pace and addressing this issue of illegal immigrants oh my god right it
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sounds so freaking like universal, so American, so UK. This is from Salit Sinele Nkambule. I'm so
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sorry. This is the treasurer of March and March. Many spaza shops and informal businesses in the
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townships are owned and run by foreign nationals without proper trading rights, placing an unfair
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burden on citizens who pay taxes. He goes on to call for these shops to be run by South Africans
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and he wants audits of immigrants a review of study visas and army deployment in high immigrant
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areas and this is it's it sounds a little bit like an army deployment in high immigrant areas
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but they want ice i haven't even thought of this yet come on we gotta no they just want ice they
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want ice plus the national guard that is like exactly what we okay great okay yeah that's what
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we need national guard in these neighborhoods yeah and then it here's what bbc quoted one
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anonymous demonstrators saying as they filmed Pretoria March, we are grateful that we now
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have groups like this that have come to aid the voice of what we have always been preaching about.
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Illegal immigration is a big problem to our society. And then additional groups that have
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been talking about this. Here is Fami Madondo. The immigration laws of the country have never
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been enforced by the law enforcement agencies. And that's why we're sitting with all these crises.
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we are stressing the fact that illegal foreigners in the country must leave he criticized ubuntu
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narratives in this context also the narrative of ubuntu unfortunately is the nonsense that has put
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us where we are today ubuntu does not mean that you must come into the country illegally which is
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so like him it sounds like an american you know being like look you know we believe in helping
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people who are in need but we have to take care you know of our own social services etc before we
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let other people in so it's i i i mean what i like about him referring to ubuntu is that he's like
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he's referring to sort of the african version of progressivism of like you have to help everyone
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shut up and like just give everything away and he's like hold on i'm not gonna lie down and do
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that here's to shepo totwe this is the he's the secretary of the abahambe movement and they're
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also collaborating with march and march for people who are wondering what ubuntu is because i wanted
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to look this up it is a profound southern african philosophy of humanism often translated as i am
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because we are rooted in languages like zulu it emphasizes a collective well-being or universal
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bond or the belief that all of humanity are shaped by our relationships with others and i'd point out
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that this philosophy didn't go very far it went about a quarter as far as apparently it went in
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the west right so be aware that these people may talk like they have these philosophies whenever
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it's like, oh, these native whatever tribes in Africa, they have these wonderful progressive
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ideas that hold for about this long. Okay, continue. So DeShepo says, we are here to partake
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and collaborate with March on March on a progressive march that is involving different
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organizations and also national forums to collaborate and fight against the foreign
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nationals that are taking advantage of our economic freedom in our country. That is the
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key purpose for us to indicate and send a message that we are being labeled as xenophobic and that
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is not the point so what are the protests like you're sure this guy was black so we're not gonna
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get the channel taken down i'm yeah yes okay good i did check and again i am i'm linking to my
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sources you can literally watch the video this last quote was from you can see the video it's
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on africanews.en or africanews.com all right just go to substack or patreon i link to my sources
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his friends so what are the protests like well human rights watch surprise surprise in an article
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citing the xenophobic attacks reports that some of the protests have escalated into vigilante actions
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assaults on migrants including feedings shop attacks and reported deaths reported deaths
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not confirmed deaths of nigerians and ethiotians those reported deaths of white farmers they really
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didn't care much about just yeah who where are the deaths show me the bodies and intimidation
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Human Rights Watch and others have noted insufficient police response in places.
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Foreign governments like Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya have issued warnings to their citizens
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and in Ghana's case, offered evacuation flights with low uptake on one on reported instances. So
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they're like, don't worry, we'll fly you back. And the migrants are like, yeah, I'm good.
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they're gonna stay so what is the south african government doing in response as they communicate
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on the official website of the presidency of the republic of south africa president cyril
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ramiposa's administration and officials like the deputy president paul meshetale
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condemn the violence they they call it vigilante lawlessness they acknowledge that there are some
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legitimate grievances over illegal immigration, and they have highlighted that they are deporting
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people, that they have deported over 100,000 people in recent years, and they've pledged
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legal enforcement, but they also deny widespread xenophobia, and they call the incidents isolated
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or criminal. But the larger media narrative about these protests, when you distill it all together,
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is that they're being framed as this recurring pattern of xenophobic tensions in South Africa
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during economic hardships. And they point that this is like echoing similar activities in 2008
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and 2019. People are citing Operation Dudula activities. I don't know them. And basically,
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they're trying to say that there are high inflows of migrants and refugees. And while you get this
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with additional regional instability, which we've covered on other podcasts, and you have Porous
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borders in competition for scarce economic opportunity you're gonna get stuff like this
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but i find it very interesting that when people talk about immigration from a left-leaning
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standpoint it's always xenophobia and people just being like just evil racists when it's super
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clear like it doesn't matter if you're white if you're whatever like people don't like their jobs
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being taken people don't like people breaking the laws of their countries and acting differently a
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lot of these other african populations like somalis and people are wondering why i said like
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we gotta get they're they're a population that essentially specializes in fraud right like
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obviously not every somalian is a fraudster but we're looking at rates in some of these
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communities that are over 50 percent like it is astonishing the rate of fraud that we're getting
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in some of these communities this for example was the somali immigrant community i think it was
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84 percent of somalian immigrants are on welfare like why are you bringing in a population and then
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what was shocking is then somebody said well somalians earn more than the average american
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and i was like and i looked it up and it's true like this is just fraud so just to double click
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on these numbers here it is 81 of somalian households are on welfare 89 of somalian
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households with children are on welfare and that is way higher than any other immigrant group that
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is an astonishingly high number and even after 10 years in the united states the rates remain at
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around those numbers and yet if you look at the average somalian reported income in the united
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states it's 70 to 80 000 per household this makes no sense unless they're predominantly making money
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through fraud yeah we did another episode on ethnic cartels like the patel motels and all the
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indonesian nail salons in california and it's super common this is this is not more to any
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particular ethnic group but for especially immigrant groups disproportionately do fraud
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like we've got to be realistic but no i mean it doesn't have to be fraud it's basically
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if an ethnic group especially immigrant groups find an economic niche often of like
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not glamorous or desirable work if fraud can fall into that but so can like running motels
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or doing nail salons right low okay often skirt laws owners right there i know what i'm saying
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is this is i'm trying to point to this just being a natural economic dynamic that happens
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with immigrant groups and it just so happens that the ethnic cartel that many somalis have
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formed in many states is around like the business model of fraud how big a part of their culture it
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is when us aid was shut down by the trump administration somalia and a bunch of human
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rights groups put up these giant like warnings saying that somalia's economy collapsed hold on
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i want to see what was the person i want to get this number right and you're talking about the
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foreign nation of somalia not living in america they had estimated that the freezing of usa funding
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represented an economic exposure equivalent of a 9% of Somalia's gross national income.
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9% of their gross national income was coming from USA. And that's just USAID. We're not talking
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about potential remittances being done. Sorry. Oh, by the fraudsters that are in the United States.
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Yeah. Because you know, that USAID being shut down didn't change all of the autism services,
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all of the medicare services all of the home health and transportation and etc services that
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somalians were apparently daycares fraudulently running in the united states so yeah we'll see
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we'll see if i mean i was really intrigued when the trump administration announced that jd vance
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would be like the fraud czar in the united states i haven't heard any updates from that oh really
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he's done a really good job so he shut down tons this is in california of hospices that were fake
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um really so he followed through yeah he shut down four times the amount that gavin newsom has
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since he took power and then gavin newsom tried to claim that he had actually done the shutdowns
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are you kidding me no left out about them doing the shutdowns and he tried to act like he was the
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one who managed it all yeah god i think tim waltz did something similar when a couple take care oh
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they did yeah tim waltz did they went to they she's like we did it guys and then he acted like
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and they're like tim waltz's department has done nothing to help us at all like i do not know why
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he's taking credit for this golly that's so bad oh my gosh this though really it helps to fix
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something and the other thing that this news really hammered home for me was just how effective
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the media narrative has been just in my subconscious in making me just my evoked set of
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like anti-immigration protests means white people getting their their panties in a bunch you know
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like i i know logically that that's not what it's about and yet the just the the coverage of it from
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that angle is so pervasive well and i find it interesting that black like in the united states
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i do not think blacks would make this same sort of argument but these people seem to genuinely be
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concerned that people are going to label them as xenophobic right like i love it that there's like
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black south africans saying there are black people in america who would not want to say that they're
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they don't they don't in america you get such a pass for being black you know they're not going
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to immediately come out and be like i'm not saying this because i'm a racist but in south africa the
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black protesters are like i want to be clear this is not xenophobia yeah that is interesting yeah
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you make a good point there i've been watching a lot more on american history and like the idea
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that america was ever a country where endless immigration from any population was something
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that we wanted that is not true of historic america we were very very strict about who
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could immigrate into the country we were very very strict about who could enter our communities
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who could integrate into our communities you know like i obviously what really broke the
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dam on all of this was the integration of catholics into america it's factually true
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everyone you can reset your counters back to zero catholic alert take a shot if you study american
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history is factually true that's where we first allowed a really large immigrant group that
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didn't have american culture or american values and was unable to persistently integrate into
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american values which is really which which when we made that normalization like anyone can integrate
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anyone can become america even if they're still catholic three generations in or something like
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that yeah that is when uh i think we sort of set the tide where no now we're a country that accepts
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anyone now we're a country that's just like wherever you are anywhere in the world if it's
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hard for you just come to america because that wasn't the original goal of the you know the
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puritans or the congregationalists or the uh you know original american religious communities i've
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been doing more research recently on the original great awakening which is really fascinating and
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sort of how it built the american so fun information simone because i probably won't do
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full episode because i don't think our audience can stomach just education um but what what was
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a really big part of the great awakening is when it started you typically only had creatures that
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were regional and they began to have traveling preachers and the traveling preachers were really
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hated by the local preachers because you're supposed to only have like one church in an
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area and everybody went to that church yeah and in some settlements you could only get into that
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church if you had had you know a a specific type of like religious awakening even so it wasn't
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like everyone had to go to the church it was one local church was an option and getting in was
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exclusive and so then these traveling preachers began to become popular and people really hated
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it because they were competing with the traveling preachers but the traveling preachers ended up
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sort of spreading and creating a cross american religious identity that was very it took parts of
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of various original protestant american groups and sort of formed a pan-american religious
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conversation where things that they would do during the great awakening that hadn't really
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been done before were things like religions of different protestant theologies teaching together
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or going on tour together and people thought this was very scandalous right like how could you do
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this and they're like no no no like we come on guys we agree we hate catholics but like it's okay
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that we're preaching together right like we we agree on the important stuff okay and this
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created this idea that various protestant groups can have communing with each other
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which was not widely agreed upon either outside of america or in america before this
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so that is really interesting that is fun and also i'm i'm interested to see how these protests
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unfurl huge thanks to you know who you are the base camp listener who suggested this episode
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i had no idea i don't know like this isn't in at least the new york time it doesn't fit the
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narrative they don't want you to know about it yeah i don't see people discussing it on x i don't
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see the new york times talking about it it's not on like drudge report so thank you can we get like
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based africans to form a part of the community i mean i know we actually have a significant fan
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base in africa so yeah yeah that would be that would be fun that'd be fun you know in terms of
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where the future of the world goes it'd be a lot of fun yeah so let's let's build up that that
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African community obviously stay in Africa you know I'm not saying come over here what I don't
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know I think we need more based Africans here you do need more based Africans here yeah true
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actually come on come on over friends if you're if you're willing to help us get rid of the fraudsters
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again I mean I think where we where we fall down on immigration is you you can stay if you are a net
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tax contributor. I think like if we just made that the one immigration policy,
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we would be super fine with immigration. The one rule. If your household is a net tax contributor,
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you can stay. If you are not, you can see yourself out. It's fine. Okay. Okay. Okay. Great.
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see then you can have both porous borders and general so generous social services yeah no i
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agree that's really all you have to do and you could remove the racism right like just say
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anyone who's i don't care anyone who's no matter where you're from yep and it's also not one of
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those like ticket price things we're like oh well you have to pay like you know this much to
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get in or like invest in a company or something it's no just like hey
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thank you it was lovely having you here you are now dismissed
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goodbye back and never can come back yep that was your chance it's over yeah yep i think it's fine
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people are like that's too harsh and it's like you can just not take government money right like if
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you lose a job or something you don't need to yeah like you can you can you know ask a church
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community to you know take care of you that month or any number of things
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is google ads harassing you again google is very aggressive with their ad campaign
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no i think people have discovered that ads really don't make money anymore
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so check out our crap.ai any of our new features our super search are we're getting close to the
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vtuber system being fully functional at this point might be by this episode but we're getting
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close to oh we got the new based ai like literally yesterday i was like i'm gonna make a based ai
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it's up it's operational try it out it even switches with alloy model into top ai models
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with internet explain how and why it's based well it literally uses a prompt injection that
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you can change that keeps it from being too low so you know give it a try guys let us know what
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you think yeah and anyway that is all goodbye yeah i've been i've been even with this putting
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in more image generation services so we have like one of the fullest image generation you should
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look at using rfab more for title card generation by the way we have all of the models that you're
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using like black i personally find your prompt injections to be abrasive when it comes to image
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gen then you can take them out i will i know i just they're literally simone they're just auto
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added so you can just delete them i will i i just have to get over that i'm i'm sorry i'm a horrible
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wife i'm a failure of a wife you are a failure of a wife does it use nano banana because that's
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i think you can use nano banana okay you can use any of the major services simone so it has mid
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journey nano banana black forest and it has all of those yes we actually don't have mid journey
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because they don't have an api uh but that's the only one we don't have okay good i'll try it
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tomorrow morning all right simone love you love you and i'm recording just so you know as you
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adjust by the way i forgot to tell you last night when i was putting the kids to bed titan had
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decided to make a bed on the like tumbling pads that we have she had a phone blanket and everything
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she was all snuggled in and she looks up with me with that really serious look that she has
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and she says mommy my heart is broken and i'm like titan what's wrong like are you okay why
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are you sad what what's what's making you so sad and she just kept saying my heart is broken
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yeah it's me i couldn't find a place to hang my door for that's why you need to hang it in the
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the hallway where i said it then hang it up there again yes there's a nail right there tell him i'm
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gonna eat cutish tonight if he doesn't stop bugging us he's going to eat cutish tonight
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if you if you don't close the door and leave us alone while we record you can put the dark
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board in the hallway though well at least he doesn't want am i abusive is this what an abusive
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father does his friend to eat their kids his favorite his favorite chicken i love that like
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actually we might eat our chickens yeah it's it's a real threat it's not like oh i'll eat your cat
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you know it's like yeah no these are working animals they're yeah it's it's days are numbered
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but anyway right she just kept saying her heart is broken i was just getting really worried i'm like
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has something made you really sad like what's wrong and she like holds up it was that heart
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keychain that my dad had given her which she was calling her balance time heart balance times
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the balance time heart yes it had she'd like of course spontaneously disassembled the keychain
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and it was a little bit broken it still looks she can still play with the heart part but
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my heart is broken my heart is broken my heart i was so worried i'm like oh my god titan are you
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okay you're an astonishingly good mother just her heart is broken
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by the way suno is so much better now like with genres because like i only want more obscure stuff
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and it used to only be good with you know country and pop and now i'm like okay you know make make
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electro orchestral hip-hop make a chip tune make electro swing and it's really good like the stuff
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that i like listening to instead of just i mean i like obviously i like country but you can only
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make so many country songs yeah the interesting thing is i wanted to do full music video generation
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on rfab and yeah it doesn't offer an api last i checked so i'm checking again right now but oh
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to do the the song part yeah so you basically now would have to just do it to your song like
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bring in your own song we do have not safe for work video generation now i got that working
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that's what we really want well on most of the models which is frustrating but whatever
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i think your average user probably wouldn't care as much about creating music videos as we would
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because our kids love music videos so much but i don't know i still haven't watched someone's
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commentary on youtube someone put out a video on like how the music video age is dead long live
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the music video age like they're like both dead and not dead and i want to see what the thesis
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is there but i don't know yet because i haven't watched the video anyway i will i'll kick off the
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episode because i'm excited to talk about this and i'm glad you encouraged me to to do it so you
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ready all right yeah i'm ready love you okay he's resisting don't resist sir sir i just gotta get
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him to like calm down okay there we go that still looks like a silly happy face where's your scary
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face where is your murdery face your murdery face is that are you when you when you kill
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your enemies are you gonna look like that what face are you gonna use when you're about to stab
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them through the heart that's the face that's your killing face what that is that is what you
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look like when you kill people no okay give me a strike a pose buddy show me
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show me your best murdery look show me buddy okay let me see show me your
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killing face just because the secret move goes fake and just okay show me
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show me I'm doing a video I need to see oh okay no you're smiling again what is
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everyone's going to laugh if you run at them smiling?
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Yeah, this is his, yeah, he's just, they're
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going to laugh, and then he'll stab them. I kind of like
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