Based Camp - September 24, 2024
Antifa: Logistics & Particulars + An Interview With a Former Member
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1 hour and 14 minutes
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183.50398
Summary
In this episode, Simone and I discuss the existence of Antifa and what it means to be a part of it, and why it doesn't really exist. We also talk about what it really is, what it's like to be in Antifa, and how it relates to the alt-right.
Transcript
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Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. I decided to do something interesting
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for this episode. I was like, because I've noticed on a few of our videos, I've gone
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into a topic and I realized that our coverage of the topic is the most thorough coverage
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of a topic that I can find. And I decided to do the same thing with Antifa because it
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was just one of those things where I was like, I don't think anyone else has covered this.
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You do this with your books too. Keep in mind, whenever you write a book, it's typically
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because there's a subject that you don't feel is covered very well by anyone.
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Yeah. And so, I mean, I've heard of Antifa as a concept. This, out of all of my deep
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Wow. Are we going to join Antifa now? Is this the surprise?
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No, no, no. But the left is right. Remember there was that time when people on the left
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kept saying like Antifa is a conspiracy theory, Antifa doesn't exist. I don't know if you remember
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when this was like the mainstream talking point on the left where they were like,
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Antifa is made up. The right is attacking. They're making up this fictional evil organization
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to attack. And the organization isn't a representation of anything real. And if you
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talked about Antifa, you would be labeled as a conspiracy theorist. This was during Trump's
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first run where the concept of Antifa was seen as a conspiracy. And some people still hold to this
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line, but very few still do. Most people generally agree that Antifa is a real thing that exists.
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The problem is, is it's not. Unfortunately, like where my research sort of hit a wall to begin with
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is Antifa doesn't meaningfully exist. And yet it does meaningfully exist. So, and we have multiple members
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or people who follow this podcast or hang out in our discord who are former Antifa members,
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like reformed Antifa members. This video actually ends with about a 30 minute interview of one of
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these followers of ours who used to be in Antifa about what happens at Antifa meetings,
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the way Antifa organizes, and just the general logistics of Antifa operations.
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Would you like to know more? And so what I mean when I say Antifa doesn't really exist is
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twofold. One, there is no centralized Antifa organization. There is no group that has a,
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and two, there is no centralized Antifa ideology. Okay. So you don't get a membership card. There
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is no president. There's no nonprofit organization. There is no barrier to entry. Literally anyone can
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just say, I'm Antifa or I'm sort of anarchic. I am anonymous, et cetera. Yeah. Okay. Anyone,
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anyone, no, anonymous was quite different. There were some organized power hierarchies and there
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were where people can go. And there were like, it might be that anyone can technically claim to be
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anonymous, but there actually are individuals who are disproportionately in the actions of what we
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call anonymous. Within Antifa, there appears to be like, if I'm even just looking for like one famous,
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like important individual within Antifa, there's going to be much fewer of them. The flatness of
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the organizations is much, much bigger than it is with anonymous. But in addition to that, the discordant
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views and goals of the people who are within Antifa are hugely various as we're going to go over in just a
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second, all that Antifa really is. I, in fact, I would say Antifa is less of a unified idea than
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something like the alt-right, which is what Antifa really sort of emerged to mirror, but it went further
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than the alt-right ever did. And it represents what I would call a psychological technology or a
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specifically it's a technology that gives individuals a psychological license to do violence
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against moderates of the other side. So what it means when somebody says they're Antifa, like what
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fundamentally are they telling you? They're saying they believe that they have a psychological license
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and the moral justification to act upon a center right MAGA dad, the way they would treat a literal
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Nazi at a, at a concentration camp. Oh, I get it. Okay. Okay. So yeah. Antifa is to scary,
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violent political extremists as to borderline personality disorder is to cunt.
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I don't understand. Well, when someone says that they have borderline personality disorder,
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they're really saying they're just a cunt, right? It's true. I mean, it's true, but that's not really
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the point I'm making here. What I'm making here is what Antifa is and what is conveyed by the concept
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is I am allowed to treat half of America the way I would treat a concentration camp guard.
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That is, that is where punch a Nazi comes from. That's where all this comes from.
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And that's what I'm going to make in this episode is Antifa will say one thing. They will say,
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we fight against fascists, right? But then if you look at their actions, what they consider fascist is
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generic center right or even center left capitalist. Now, that's interesting. I was
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watching an interview between Lex Friedman and the guy who founded Young Turks, co-founded Young Turks,
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who was actually framing things very differently. He was saying that he was a capitalist. He was very
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in favor of capitalism or capitalism, but against corporatism, which we kind of 100% agree with.
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And I kind of wonder if that's true, if people who consider themselves far leftists actually favor
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capitalism and what they're against is corporatism. So what you're really saying is that they're against
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Okay. Just no. Just they like capitalism. So they're Marxist.
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You'll see really quickly how extremists they are. Okay.
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Okay. So first I'm going to give you how they frame themselves, right? So you can understand how
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Okay. So according to a member of a New York Antifa group, quote, and this is who they target,
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fascists, alt-right, white nationalists, et cetera. And the main focus is on, quote,
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groups and individuals which endorse or work directly or in alliance with white supremacists
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and white separatists. We try to be very clear and precise on how we use these terms, end quote.
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And so if you're looking at like what ideologies do Antifa members usually hold is generally
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anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and anti-state views. And they're generally
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left-wing ideologies. And they'll also do things like support, you know, LGBT rights and stuff like
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that in general, lefty urban monoculture causes. Like they're known for going to trans book readings
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to children with guns to try to intimidate whoever might show up at those. So let's get to an example
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of this. So you've heard like who they say that they're fighting, right? Now let's look at who they
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actually fight. During Berkeley protests on August 27th, 2017, an estimated 100 Antifa and anarchist
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protesters joined a crowd of 2,000 to 4,000 other protesters to confront a demonstration that had
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showed up for a say no to Marxism rally. So they, and this is the way these-
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So they're not Marxists. They hate capitalism and they hate Marxism.
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Oh, they were protesting the people who didn't want Marxism.
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So they say, and this is the psychological trip of Antifa. They say we're against fascists. They say
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we're against white nationalists. They say we're against Nazis. But what they actually end up
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attacking is people who are protesting against America becoming a Marxist country.
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Yeah. Because this whole thing, the definition you read earlier, where it was like, we're very,
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very, very specifically against white nationalists, anti-Semites. Like I'm hearing this and I'm
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thinking, okay, they're actually describing a group of maybe 800 people in the U.S. You know,
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They consider fascists as 50% or more of America. Probably 70% of Americans they consider fascists.
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And what do they think these fascists deserve? Like how does the psychological trick work?
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So this, it took place at the say no to Marxism rally. So this is just somebody arguing against
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an ideology that has literally killed more humans than any ideology in history.
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Like if, you know, if you look at like the great leap forward, just five years of communism killed
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arguably more people, depending on the stats you're looking at, than the entire American slave trade.
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Like that is absolutely insane, the scale of death that can be attributed to Marxism.
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But people say, oh, that's not real Marxism. Well, what do you think?
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They weren't trying? Like they were trying. It's just, it always devolves into this.
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This is why people are protesting it, right? I don't care how well you mean with anything.
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If you hurt children, if you put children in harm's way with your policies, then you're bad.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's why Marxists are bad because they put children in harm's way,
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but they're, they're not protesting equality. They're protesting what always happens when
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people try to achieve equality using this mechanism. But what did Antifa think people deserve?
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Okay. So this is one individual named Clayton attacked, and this was at the anti-Marx,
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the, the, just protesting Marxism. Clayton attacked people with a metal U-lock
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during the April 15th rally around the Civic Center Park. Court papers later revealed that
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Clayton struck at least seven people in the head, according to authorities. One person received a
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head latheration that required five staples to fix. Another was uninjured, but had a piece of
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helmet broken off. He broke a helmet. And a third was struck across the neck and back. So this guy was
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going in for the kill. Thank goodness the person was wearing a helmet. And I'll, and I'll have
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pictures of this, like this is bloody and horrifying. Why did he feel that he had the right to attack? And
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anti-Marxism is something that like 70% of Americans probably broadly agree with. Like this is mainstream,
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even moderate leftism. Why did he feel he had the right to do that? Because he had built an ideology
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that psychologically equated anyone who is not a Marxist as a Nazi. And that was the only way he
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could think of them. It strips the humanization of the mainstream other. And I would say, I actually
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don't have a problem with political violence against extremists. If they are the type of individual
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that is advocating for direct and actual, not like made up lefty violence where they're like words or
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violence, but like actual violence. Like I am okay with like actual political violence against somebody
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flying a Nazi flag or somebody flying an Antifa flag. I mean, they're in the same category of person. You know,
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your actual Nazi Nazi is willing to attack like center right individuals if they felt that they
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had the ability to get away with it. It's the same with Antifa. They're really equivalent groups.
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And the thing that's so funny about Antifa is Antifa does this thing that they call black shirting,
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where they go around in, in, in these black outfits where they say it so people can't tell their
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identity. There's lots of ways you could cover your identity. You know who the black shirts were?
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And I love that Antifa don't seem to be aware of this, or maybe they, they are and they just hide
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it. The black shirts were Mussolini's fascist troopers. The Nazis were copying with the brown
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shirts. They literally used gangs of people in black shirts who covered their faces to attack crowds.
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That is the slightly awkward fascists came to power.
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When Mussolini finally marched on Rome in 1922, he did so with an army of black shirts at his side.
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Black shirts were a paramilitary force who, as their name implies, wore black shirts.
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That's pretty on the nose. Mussolini used this army to evoke terror both domestically and abroad.
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From the earliest days of the fascist party in Italy, Mussolini's black shirts worked to get rid of
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any opposition. The black shirts motto was, mini frego, or I don't care. And points for honesty,
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Fear is a part of our tactics. It's our job to go out there and say,
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no, we're not going to allow you to spread these ideas.
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Organizations all across the country and all across the world.
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Black block or block is just what we wear. It's entirely black, simple, non-identifying clothing.
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Once the fascists went from being an urban phenomenon to a wider Italian force,
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they then went after peasant leaders in the countryside,
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showing aggression towards any potential challengers in villages, communities,
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When me and Brad first met, I didn't think we'd get along, but it turns out we kind of agree on
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everything. Your racial identity is the most important thing. Everything should be looked
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at through the lens of race. Jinx, you owe me a Coke. Damn.
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We both think minorities are a united group who think the same and act the same.
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And both the same. You don't want to lose your black card.
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Sorry, I don't know. I just think we should roll back discrimination
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law so we can hire based on race again. Jinx, now you owe me a Coke.
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White actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters.
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And if you think that this group isn't fascist, one of the things that I always point out is,
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you know, we've got to have some clips here from the woke versus racist thing,
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where the woke, like far left, has just become fascist.
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People might call this horseshoe theory, but they genuinely rank human beings on a scale of,
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you know, deserving human dignity based on their skin tone. They'll say we don't do this,
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but you even see it in mainstream policy, like in our state, and this is recommended by the CDC,
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that vaccines that they thought were saving people's lives, at least they assume this,
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were distributed not based just on need, but also based on how
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discriminated an ethnic group was historically. And of course they don't mean how really discriminated.
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I mean, obviously Jews would be pretty discriminated if that's what they were looking at.
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Black people should only shop at black businesses.
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I guess the only thing we really disagree about is I think white people are the root of all evil.
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But what did I tell you though, if we can narrow that down to a certain group of tiny
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hated white people, I think we can come to an understanding.
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Technically, I don't consider Jewish people white because-
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But we're still cool with interracial cucking, right?
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Yeah, as long as you pay for it. Sex work should be celebrated.
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What they mean is the lefty value hierarchy of which races matter and which races don't.
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Like which ones deserve human dignity, which don't.
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And now that the lefts have gone like anti-Jew. And they're like, no, we're not Jew.
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We're anti-Zionist. And I'm like, well, depending on the study you're looking at,
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it's like 89 to like 95% of Jews are Zionist. And it's like, of course they would believe that
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they need a state to be safe. Like look at their history. And if I was like, I'm not anti-Christian.
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I'm just anti those people who say Jesus was the son of God. It's like, well,
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I mean, that's a pretty big overlapping Venn diagram there, buddy. But so they now, you know,
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they, they, they, they, they now believe that humans should be sorted based on their ethnic group
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with some accorded more human dignity than others. And at the very top of this is the Jews. And, and,
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and I also love that, like, if you actually look like just mainstream Democrats are going so trashy
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now there, I, I, I, I love that. They're like, we are all about like election integrity when the
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rights like, yeah, but like, you know, that something probably happened, right? Like there's
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just too many fires at this point, you know, belief. And they're like, no, our party isn't
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anti-democratic. And I'm like, you literally canceled your own primaries. Like your party's
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leaders are just appointed by a committee of elites. Now they don't even talk to you and you didn't
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protest. Antifa didn't go to protest that Kamala was just dictatorially assorted.
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I haven't heard anything about Antifa recently, actually. Has there been any Antifa activity
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recently? We'll get into that in just a second, but I love that they're just like, voting is like
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now antithetical. Like this is a woman who, by the way, for people who claim to care about Black Lives
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Matter in one incident, the left thousands of black people. And she admitted this later because she did
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let them out, not telling them about a lab leak in the drug lab in jail who should have been freed
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so she could get the police commission support to win an election cycle. And then later the Supreme
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Court said that her prison system was a human rights violation and her department argued back,
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I'm sorry, we can't release anyone because we're using them right now for fire duty, for mandatory
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work, even though it would have been cheaper to hire them. Like she thinks like a fascist in every
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sense of the term. It is the party of fascism. Now, unironically, there was one person who's
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like, you can't argue that she's more fascist than Trump. And I'm like, you have to be so brainwashed,
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so brainwashed to not see this at this point. It is, it is, it is comical that you have black shirts
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out there going out and beating up peaceful protests, protesting Marxism. But I want to get
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further because there's a lot of lies about Antifa that go around. One is that Antifa has never been
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connected with anyone dying. This is just factually untrue. Michael Forrest Reynolds, 48,
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is considered the prime suspect in the August 2020 killing of 39-year-old Aaron J. Danielson,
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a right-wing activist who was shot in the demonstration in Portland. Oh. And yeah.
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So there's, there was one likely death that... Well, Reynald had described himself in a social
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media post as 100% Antifa and because Antifa is an opt-in organization, you know, obviously, yeah. And
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there have been some other instances we're going to get in where Antifa has definitely tried
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to kill people. They're just pretty incompetent, but they keep trying to kill people.
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It seems as though... I get the impression that at protests, some people just show up because they
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feel like, oh, it's that event format where I have license to vandalize things and hurt people.
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Oh, no, no. So Antifa is quite different from like, if you consider like the January 6th protesters or
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something like that. Like the negative actions that largely came out of that were like mistake,
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where if you look at Antifa, they're showing up at stuff with like Molotov cocktails.
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Yeah. But that's what I'm saying. The, the people who show up to protests,
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because they feel like that they want, they just want by default to vandalize and do family things.
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No, that's clearly not the case. There are some people...
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Do you think this is very politically motivated? They're not doing this because they want
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to hurt someone. And this is just a nice excuse to, because it's like a purge night.
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Trump supporters aren't bringing bombs to events. And that's what we're going to go over.
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No, but you're not, you're still not answering my question. What I'm saying is,
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does this not really have to do that much with a political motivation and more to do with just a
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No, that's the exact point I keep making. It literally doesn't have to do with that.
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If you wanted to wreak havoc and, and, and, and do violent stuff, you, most people,
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like most human beings, even if they have a background desire to do something like that,
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they believe that other humans have human dignity, right? Like you need a psychological
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tool that allows this a and B it's not like they're showing up to recreationally
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cause violence. If like the opportunity, like, I think that this is,
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this is the mis-narrative about Antifa that has been successfully distributed to the mainstream
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audience is that Antifa members go to events and sometimes things accidentally get heated.
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And we will go over evidence that that is obviously not what's happening. Okay.
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All right. So I'm going to go further into the history of Antifa in the United States
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of it here and stuff like that. So in the oldest group to use the term Antifa in the United States
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is Rose City Antifa in Portland, Oregon founded in 2007. So it's a fairly modern movement.
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They come from a German movement that has existed since the Nazi times, but this is factually
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inaccurate. The original movement that they claim to be descended from was shut down as the Nazis rose
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then integrated into the Nazi party. And so like, that's not, yeah, they're definitely not descended
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from that movie. There was a movement in Germany that started fairly recently, but not quite this
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recently that they could argue descended from. And then there's another movement in the US,
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which they could be descended from that we'll get to in a second. One of their biggest sort of things
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that they're known for is their attacks on the Charlotteville Unite the Right rally in August,
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2017, where they, and at the rally, there were genuinely white supremacists who went to the rally.
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No, this is the famous Tiki torch khakis and polo shirt rally, right?
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Yeah, but they were with some people. And this is the problem with the way the left works. They're like,
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if you're a free speech organization and you let one person with X ideology show up at your event,
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then we have a moral license to treat everyone at your event as if they hold that ideology.
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Where more for them, this is just because they know that if they're exposed to an ideology,
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they just immediately capitulate to it, which is why they don't let ideologies they don't like at
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their events, because they have much less like psychological and moral framing. This is something
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that you told me that really made this hit home for me. The reason why people on the right aren't
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afraid of having a Nazi like come to their event when they're not a Nazi, right, is because I'm not
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afraid of becoming a Nazi because a Nazi comes to my event. However, I think I might convince a Nazi
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to not be a Nazi anymore. Yeah, so all the better if they show up.
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Yeah, so you would want them to show up if you wanted less Nazis and you're not a Nazi.
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But if you hold a very weak psychological framework that you believe you only hold because the people
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around you hold it, then it's really dangerous to have a Nazi show up at your event. And I feel like
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that's where a lot of these leftist ideologies come from, is that there's some subconscious
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understanding of how close they are to just being Nazis, but they've changed a few words.
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Ask him about interracial dating. All I said is that black men who date white women have
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internalized racism, and white men that date ethnic women are fetishizing them.
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Guys against interracial dating now. Like, am I being pranked? Did Boomer put you up to this?
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Ugh, you know that taco place is white-owned? White people should be making white foods,
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like crap macaroni and cheese, no seasoning, not even salt. It's like he's a mind reader. I mean,
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I've been pushing for segregation forever, and my man does what? Again, gonna show that skit here.
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There was the Berkeley protests, which I mentioned there. There was the Inauguration Day protests
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that were associated with Antifa. These were in 2000. There was the Portland protests, where
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Antifa groups were involved in multiple clashes, like the Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys in Portland,
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Oregon. And Proud Boys are a very centrist group. Like, they're like, oh, the racist Proud Boys.
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I'm like, the group was a black guy running it? Like, what? You guys have so, like, lost the ship here
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at this point. Or, and this is... Lost the ship. You mean missed the boat?
00:23:20.340
Missed the boat. Okay. And then there's the ICE facility attack in 2019. And this is one of the
00:23:26.420
things I'm talking about, where William Van Sprenser, an Antifa agent, attacked an immigration
00:23:32.180
and customs enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Washington with a rifle and attempted to
00:23:37.460
ignite a propane tank before being killed by police. Oh my gosh.
00:23:40.820
So, like, they are looking... This isn't like, again, what I'm telling you, this isn't just
00:23:45.700
individuals who are out there and lose control of the situation. This is individuals who, due to
00:23:51.780
their dehumanization of mainstream Americans, are willing to, like, blow up buildings because
00:23:56.740
they don't care who gets hurt. They're just like, ah, well, chances are they're one of these non-human
00:24:01.700
Nazis, right? Now, for people who are wondering, the name Antifa and the logo of two flags represent
00:24:07.700
anarchism and communism, and they're derived from the German movement. Mark Berry, the author of
00:24:13.300
Antifa, the Anti-Fascist Handbook, credits Anti-Fascist Action, or ARA, as a precursor of
00:24:19.780
the modern Antifa groups in the United States. And I did some research on this group, and they are
00:24:23.700
very similar in what they were focused on and stuff like that. So, Antifa is most active right now in the
00:24:31.220
Pacific Northwest in Portland, Oregon. And they were primarily active from, like, 2016 to 2018.
00:24:39.540
And you might say, why don't we see much Antifa stuff happening right now? I think it's because
00:24:45.940
largely most of the people who are part of Antifa have had moments of, like, self-reflection and kind
00:24:50.900
of grown up. I mean, there's a reason, like, a number of our audience comes from this community.
00:24:54.740
I think going out and doing one of these actions, they had genuinely, like, the people involved in
00:25:00.260
Antifa genuinely thought that when they told people that they attacked somebody at an anti-Marxist
00:25:05.300
rally because they assumed that that person was a Nazi, that those people would be like, oh yeah,
00:25:09.700
good for you, you attacked a Nazi with a bike lock. Instead of, oh, you attacked random anti-Marxists
00:25:16.820
with a bike lock? Like, they thought that this psychological trick that was working in their mind
00:25:22.900
was going to work in the media, and it absolutely did not. It made them a great boogeyman for,
00:25:30.020
you know, most of online culture. The people who caught the bike lock attacker guy, because he was
00:25:34.900
going to get away with this, you know, the police weren't doing anything about this, was 4chan.
00:25:38.820
And there is a great video, I believe, by internet historian on this, where he goes into how they
00:25:45.620
found the guy, and it is a really interesting story. April 15th, lest we forget,
00:25:52.500
was one of the biggest PvP battles in recent history. Red Pill Alliance versus Antifa Horde.
00:25:59.620
Outside of the battlefield, GMs and mods stood around doing nothing.
00:26:03.620
Hey, how come you guys are hanging back? That would be a good question for the chief of police.
00:26:07.620
But then, a rogue comes forward. He pops out of stealth. Boom! Cheap shot. 900 critical damage,
00:26:15.540
and stun for 2 seconds. That's a nice mace. Check that out. Oh yeah, level 90 bike lock,
00:26:22.820
plus 40 strength with a 50% proc bleed enchant. The rogue uses vanish and slinks back into the crowd.
00:26:30.340
Sean is seriously hurt. He finds a priest in time, but he needs a trip to the hospital,
00:26:35.380
and several stitches. Jokes aside, this is assault with a deadly weapon. This guy should be... locked up.
00:26:45.060
I'm sorry. During the night, Pol was working busily. They saw what had happened,
00:26:49.940
and they were outraged by it. They unholstered their autism and aimed it squarely at the masked man.
00:26:56.900
The hunt was on. They broke down every bit of footage they could. They found this man,
00:27:02.740
who matched every detail. And then this footage surfaced, where his mask slipped off.
00:27:12.260
Bingo. Turns out he's a teacher's assistant at a local university, specialising in ethics and moral
00:27:21.540
philosophy. The state has a monopoly on how we consume a justice. So for now, he's just another
00:27:27.140
name to add to Pol's new Antifa database. Now, if we're talking again about the types of groups
00:27:33.860
that they end up attacking, right? And this is what I keep coming back to. So a group called the
00:27:39.380
Direct Action Alliance declared, quote, fascist plan to march through the streets, end quote,
00:27:44.820
and warned, quote, Nazis will march through Portland unopposed, end quote.
00:27:49.140
The alliance said it didn't object to the Muhammad Maltman GOP itself, but to, quote unquote,
00:27:55.140
fascists who plan to infiltrate its ranks. Yet it denounced marchers with, quote unquote,
00:27:59.940
Trump fads and, quote unquote, MAGA hats or red MAGA hats as fascists. So this is the way the
00:28:06.580
psychological trick works, right? So if you support Trump, you are fascist. So half of Americans at any
00:28:14.100
given time, roughly, fascist. Yeah. Oh, wow. And so how do they do this? Well, they really like to,
00:28:21.300
you know, they'll do things like gun clubs showing up at stuff. They'll do things like doxing.
00:28:25.140
They'll do things like mass reporting YouTube videos. They'll do things like, obviously,
00:28:30.180
direct acts of terrorism. Really anything they can get away was doing. An important thing to remember
00:28:35.940
about Antifa is their organization is very, very poor, which means that they're more just a
00:28:41.300
representation of a mindset than a representation of an action. Yeah. Almost like a social template,
00:28:47.620
which is interesting in that it can be very anti-fragile. Yeah. Now, an example, when I was
00:28:55.620
talking about like planned destructive acts, in 2020, protests in Portland, a federal courthouse
00:29:01.620
led to Antifa members undertaking a coordinated blockade of federal, state, and local enforcements
00:29:07.780
and an attempt to firebomb the courthouse. Oh, there are a significant number of law enforcement
00:29:13.060
and government personnel. Oh. So, okay. Organized firebombing of government buildings. That's pretty
00:29:20.580
big. Are they also responsible? I know that during the Black Lives Matter protest era, there were some
00:29:29.140
police buildings that were burned down, if memory serves. Was that Antifa or was that just
00:29:34.980
protestors going crazy? Well, I mean, dude, did the people, like, why did they think it was okay
00:29:39.700
to burn down a police department? And this is, I think, the better way to understand Antifa
00:29:44.660
is Antifa can be thought of as anyone who is dehumanizing, you know, a large group of people
00:29:50.260
like this, especially most Americans. So, for example, functionally, the all cops are bastard,
00:29:56.420
ACAB, is another form of Antifa. It's saying, I have a moral license to do whatever I want to any
00:30:02.820
police officer, to any police property. It's what Antifa represents is a moral license to treat normal
00:30:11.060
humans and average citizens the way you would treat the most extreme and dangerous individuals who maybe
00:30:18.820
ever existed that they have begun to align themselves with ideologically. They just use different words to
00:30:24.660
hide that from themselves. And I'd also say to the Trump quote, because I want to read the full
00:30:29.620
Trump quote here in response to Charlottesville, because it was a really well-thought-out, like,
00:30:36.260
well-structured quote, and everyone's always like, oh, the bad people on both sides, and it's like...
00:30:41.140
No, fine people on both sides. Equally bad people.
00:30:45.540
Yeah, there really were equally bad people on both sides.
00:30:48.340
So you had some very bad people in the group, but you also had people that were very fine
00:30:52.820
people on both sides. You had people in that group. And then later he goes on to say,
00:30:57.140
I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned
00:31:02.020
totally. But you had many people in the group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,
00:31:06.180
end quote. He also stated, quote, you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the
00:31:12.260
other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now,
00:31:16.820
end quote. Completely accurate. And this is the problem with the far left. They cannot see the
00:31:23.540
evil that has infiltrated their own ranks. And it's because when we talk about moral license,
00:31:28.100
that show that you told me about, that I'll play a clip from here, that's like a popular lefty show.
00:31:33.140
Three weeks ago, Henry Roberts raised $6 million in dark money to fund an off-the-books
00:31:39.780
guerrilla oppo operation. He asked me to run it.
00:31:44.580
Nobody seems to be willing to do what is necessary.
00:31:48.820
Whatever it takes. Democrats act like this is the 90s. And they're working under the old rules.
00:31:55.380
The new rules are these. Attack. Lie. Don't get caught.
00:32:00.900
Machiavelli wrote the prince for the rulers. Well, we're rewriting it for us.
00:32:06.260
It basically says we now have a moral license to lie, to cheat, to do whatever we want in these
00:32:12.980
election cycles because they have made up all of these things that Republicans are doing.
00:32:17.620
And this is one of the things that apparently has been a big shift for you is you're realizing
00:32:21.940
that all these things you believed about Republicans growing up as the far lefty
00:32:26.340
are actually more like aspirational lefty things and aren't true about the right at all.
00:32:31.300
We were talking this morning about how I think you grew up with this impression, too, that Republicans
00:32:40.180
had a truly amazing ground game at the local level, that when they could not win at the national
00:32:47.780
level for president, for example, they decided to invest really heavily in local politicians,
00:32:56.020
state reps, to a certain extent, members of the House and Senate just to really win those
00:33:02.260
local games and sort of control that level of policy, which is quite influential.
00:33:06.980
You can really shift the trajectory of our country just looking at local policies.
00:33:11.940
But that is it could not be more opposite the case when you actually look in practice,
00:33:19.700
at least now, at what's happening with the Democrat Party locally and with Republican
00:33:24.500
parties locally. Republican parties across the United States are, for the most part, not there.
00:33:32.100
And to whatever extent the Republican Party supports politicians, it is only a few flagship
00:33:38.020
federal level politicians. Everyone else is completely ignored. It is a very different
00:33:42.900
story at the local level among Democrats running. They are getting immense party support. They are
00:33:48.500
getting tons of funds and they're getting very different treatment. Just the Democrat Party is
00:33:55.380
together and it has the ground game. So it's completely the opposite picture, which really surprised me.
00:34:00.340
And that's just one example of things that... Well, I mean, I think a great second example that I
00:34:06.820
always see is, is Democrats these days really seem to believe the right to be like the anti-democratic
00:34:11.940
faction. They're like, oh, you know, look at the Jan 6 protests and stuff like that, right? Like that,
00:34:18.180
that was an anti-democratic thing when those people were there because they believed. And I, I literally,
00:34:26.740
like I live in a country where I can't say they believed this was evidence. That would make it
00:34:31.300
impossible for you to hear this. If I presented any evidence, you wouldn't be able to see it. The video
00:34:36.900
would immediately be taken down. So I, I say they believed without a shred of evidence, a shred of real
00:34:43.540
evidence. Okay. Because that's what I have to say in this environment that we live in, in this world of
00:34:48.980
thought police, that the election had been undemocratically stolen and that they were
00:34:55.460
protesting that. And the left pretend that this was them trying to steal an election when like,
00:35:04.580
there's been no reflection on, did they just do that? And if you're like, oh, the Democrats would
00:35:10.580
never do something like this. Keep in mind that just before the Jan 6 protests, you had the May 30th
00:35:16.820
protests, which was associated with Antifa and the BLM movement. And in it, protesters, uh,
00:35:24.020
sieged the white house leading to a temporary lockdown with over 60 secret service agents being
00:35:30.580
injured with president Trump being taken to an underground bunker for his safety, where there
00:35:36.020
was serious property damage, graffiti and vandalism and where the DC national guard was called to assist.
00:35:44.820
So it's wild that you hear about one of these events and people were put in jail for like five,
00:35:50.500
six years for one of these events. And the other one, just everyone's completely let off scot-free
00:35:55.140
and we pretend like it never happened. And it's just because of who controls our media.
00:35:58.020
If your response to this is these two protests are nothing alike because the Antifa members didn't
00:36:02.820
successfully break into the white house. The problem with this line of argument is that the Jan 6
00:36:07.780
protesters did not break into the Capitol building either. It was the law enforcement itself that
00:36:12.900
removed the barriers. So most of the people who are sitting in jail today for, quote unquote,
00:36:18.180
breaking into the Capitol building had no idea that there were ever any barriers there and was
00:36:23.220
just peacefully following a crowd of other protesters who were walking through the Capitol building.
00:36:29.060
There was no way for most of them to know that they were not allowed to be there. And I think when you
00:36:34.740
look at the actions of Antifa, you see that in part, what ended up damning the Jan 6 protesters is that
00:36:41.860
they were much more obviously a peaceful group. And so it made sense, for example, for the guards to
00:36:49.380
remove the barriers and let them in where the Antifa group, it was very obvious if they got into the
00:36:54.420
white house, people would start getting murdered.
00:36:56.100
Like, and this is one of those things that you actually have only really recently come around
00:37:01.460
on. And what, what caused you to come around on it? That was like, I just like, I can't.
00:37:06.420
There was nothing you could say that would convince me that there were election wiggles taking place.
00:37:13.300
And then obviously running for state rep in Pennsylvania, I've met with a lot of people
00:37:20.020
who've done a total, like huge, huge amount of local volunteering for the Republican Party and for
00:37:27.220
Republican candidates who've seen a lot of really weird things. Known Democrat operatives dumping large
00:37:34.580
numbers of mail-in ballots, ballot drop boxes on election day. In the United States, it's not,
00:37:41.860
you're not authorized to collect for people mail-in ballots. And you, you as a voter have to submit it
00:37:48.260
yourself, either mailing it in or dropping it yourself in a box, seeing really weird blips and
00:37:53.220
changes in votes. For example, in many local elections, they would see a Republican candidate
00:38:00.420
ahead by, you know, a significant number of points. And then instantly that lead just immediately flips
00:38:09.060
to the Democrat Party and exactly the same number of votes. Just, oh, what happened? Just a lot of weird
00:38:15.860
things like that. Well, I think it's, it's, it's, it's something that you just see over and over and
00:38:23.940
over again. But if you're a party that believes what, what was said in that show, the new rules are
00:38:29.780
these attack, lie, don't get caught. Machiavelli wrote the prince for the rulers. Well, we're rewriting
00:38:38.660
it for us. That we now have to lie, that we now have to cheat, that we now have to do whatever is
00:38:43.780
necessary to win. Well, and when you think about what happened with Trump derangement syndrome,
00:38:47.540
and it's really starting to settle in with me, there are a lot of people, even very competent,
00:38:52.740
smart, educated, rational people who have just concluded that a system under Trump is just so
00:39:00.820
unimaginably bad that almost anything is justified to ensure that he does not come into power again,
00:39:11.060
that, and, or that the system is so corrupt that if that's how the system's going to be,
00:39:17.540
then the only way for them to operate within it is to lie and cheat and steal. But they're kind
00:39:24.740
of defining corrupt as in I didn't win, which is not ideal. Yeah. I don't always control everything
00:39:31.460
is what corrupt is. And I think this is, it's, it's, it's, and when we talk about like anti-democratic,
00:39:37.220
I just genuinely can't believe that the mainstream democratic sentiment has become so anti-democratic
00:39:43.060
that they just stopped hosting their primaries and nobody f***ing cared. That is the weirdest thing
00:39:49.620
I have ever seen to the human embodiment of everything that BLM was protesting against. Like,
00:39:56.340
that is so weird. Oh, Kamala Harris being the human embodiment of that. Yeah. It represents putting
00:40:02.660
black people in prison for her own, you know, ability to win using prison labor, not releasing
00:40:09.140
people despite the Supreme court saying that they should be released, not, you know, letting police
00:40:14.820
off who had had a dangerous, like shooting cases. And then there was some government corruption cases
00:40:20.340
where she, you know, was very unfair and how she handled that where you have her running mate
00:40:26.580
being the guy who was arresting people in his state for leaving their houses during COVID and then
00:40:32.820
created a snitch line. So your neighbors could call on you leaving your house during COVID, like the
00:40:37.940
level of just embodiment of fascism that this now shows. And it's, and then there, and they just
00:40:47.140
completely fictionalized who they're fighting against. It's a complete fiction. Like the Republican
00:40:52.500
national convention doesn't even define marriage as a man and a woman in, in their, in their like
00:40:57.460
mainstream party positions anymore. Like that's the nannas that we're still pretending like this is
00:41:06.260
anything other than a genuinely fascist party and the party that's trying to save America for
00:41:12.580
descending into fascism. And I would think that we were delusional, but even other people in the space,
00:41:19.380
not necessarily beholden to any particular party have commented that in the debate, even that
00:41:25.780
recently took place, the most recent presidential. Oh, well, yeah, no, there's a suspicion of
00:41:32.660
colluding, but actually what people have been saying is that Kamala definitely comes across as the more
00:41:37.860
right-wing candidate. So that's interesting. I don't really know what to make of it. I had come into
00:41:44.740
this thinking that Antifa was more about anarchy and more about chaos and more about violence. It
00:41:50.500
doesn't come as a surprise to me that there isn't any formal, there's no organization with a tax
00:41:57.060
identification number that raises funds and has, you know, a meeting and membership cards that, you know,
00:42:03.700
but yeah, that, that it's actually very Marxist and that it's actually defining anyone.
00:42:10.740
I think what they are is they are the ground forces. They are the radicalized every man
00:42:17.940
who thinks it's okay to kill a random supporter of, of the right, right? Like any random Trump
00:42:24.020
supporter so that they can, you know, yes, we have a one party in this country that's controlled the
00:42:29.220
elites. They control almost every company in this country. They control almost every major source of
00:42:34.740
power in this country. They don't hold elections anymore. They just choose who's going to win their
00:42:39.940
primaries. They represent, you know, the, the, the mass incarceration of black people. They
00:42:46.260
represent the mass and corporate corporation. They create the maladies that then they use to radicalize
00:42:54.020
their own supporters to go and attack the people who are fighting against this elitist
00:43:01.780
of fascist system. And genuinely, this might be our last chance to stop them because it's,
00:43:07.940
it's becoming increasingly clear to me that they really just do not value elections anymore,
00:43:13.140
that voting is no longer one of the core values of the left. It's right. Think wrong thing. Like
00:43:19.140
that's it. There is that. And it, it, it scares me. It scares me to be in a country that is this close to
00:43:26.420
the edge. And all we need to do is win a few election cycles and outweigh them. They're not having
00:43:31.140
kids. They have tried to mass convert ours, but like, if you look at gen alpha sentiments,
00:43:36.100
they've already lost this game. You know, we just need to wait for them to come into the voting block.
00:43:40.420
And I will note for the conservatives who are confused and think gen alpha is because there's
00:43:46.500
still some like theocratic, like, you know, big business, a holdout conservatives before big
00:43:51.220
business went far left. And they think when gen alpha is going right, that the gen alpha is like
00:43:56.740
becoming like ortho bros or something. No, they're becoming the new right. They're right. Like we are
00:44:01.540
right. They're not right. Like you are right. They're like pro gay, right? They're like, you know,
00:44:07.540
they, they are, they are not the right of the old theocrat. They are the right of the genuinely
00:44:13.940
anti-fascist faction of the right. That's trying to stop this increasing takeover of our government
00:44:21.860
by this elitist faction, which is hiding information for people. Now, one thing I want
00:44:26.180
to make absolutely clear. So no one could misconstrue us as arguing this. There was definitely
00:44:31.940
no election fraud. None happened at all. Everything was above board. The people at January 6th were
00:44:40.820
monstrous terrorists who definitely arresting them and throwing them in jail was the right thing to do.
00:44:47.220
So I don't want any misunderstanding that I, I, I, I said, or I endorsed any other view. We were just
00:44:53.780
making hypothetical arguments that some people might make. Don't you agree, Simone? Yes.
00:44:59.940
It's all hypothetical that we're talking here. Like all of these like hypothetical people we're
00:45:04.340
talking about is just like how someone on the right might come to believe these things, not
00:45:09.300
that this is actually happening. Exactly. So I have an interview here with one of our fans who
00:45:16.740
was in Antifa. So I'm really excited to share this with you guys. I will say that there are audio
00:45:22.340
issues because audio is much louder than mine and I lack the technical competence to equalize this. I
00:45:27.700
have tried a number of different programs and it doesn't seem to be working. And because we publish daily,
00:45:31.940
I just have to bite the bullet on this one. So either you find the information interesting and you listen
00:45:36.900
to it or you can always just hop off. I mean, you've got the full episode already that we had
00:45:40.980
intended to publish. This is one of the downsides of hosting a daily show. You don't always have time
00:45:46.420
to fix every issue you run into. And if you're wondering what's your proof that this guy was in
00:45:50.580
Antifa, this guy has Antifa dates tattooed very visibly on his arm. That would be quite a thing to go
00:45:56.900
in to just pretend to have been a very dedicated member of Antifa. Hello, I am excited to be here with
00:46:02.500
a guest right now. So in the episode that you just heard, we talk about how Antifa is used more like
00:46:09.620
a moral license than a specific organization. However, that doesn't mean that specific organizations
00:46:16.900
that operate under the name Antifa do not do significant operations in cities and stuff like that.
00:46:24.420
And I thought to bring on one of our podcast listeners who used to be an Antifa member
00:46:30.660
and is now doing some work in terms of building the knowledge about what actually goes on with
00:46:36.020
them and stuff like that. And you have a podcast as well, which is...
00:46:39.780
Build Baby Build with Ty King. You can find it on YouTube, hopefully soon Truth as well.
00:46:46.420
Great. You know that's the Brian Kaplan book that just came out, right?
00:46:49.940
Oh, is that the name? Oh yeah, because when I type in Build Baby Build,
00:46:52.740
he's the other Build Baby Build that types up. Yeah, it's taken from an old Martin Luther King quote.
00:46:57.620
It's essentially, we shouldn't burn, baby, burn. We should build, baby, build. And essentially,
00:47:02.820
we need to stay away from riotous behavior and violence in my estimation, because it doesn't work.
00:47:08.580
It really doesn't. So what I am most interested in, and I know what I would mostly, and I think
00:47:13.540
most people would most like to know, is one, when people are going to like Antifa meetings,
00:47:18.500
for example, what is being talked about? How are they structured? How do they like communicate with
00:47:24.260
each other? There's varying degrees, right? Whenever I think of Antifa, I'm trying to break
00:47:29.300
this more nuanced over time, but I think of, so far, the wannabes versus the devotees. Think of
00:47:34.900
the devotees as your avowed communist, or those that are there for the war, they're there for the
00:47:39.620
action, they're there to get in the fight. Those are your devotees. They know kind of what comes with
00:47:44.100
the territory. The wannabes are kind of like your rainbow-haired trans kids that come in with the
00:47:48.980
Antifa flag, and they're there because they hate Nazis, they support certain policies, but they
00:47:54.740
don't really know what they're engaged with. So kind of in the same way Hamas uses Palestinians,
00:47:59.220
they're the human shields for the actual people within Antifa to operate. So more often than not,
00:48:05.060
they're the first ones that will be arrested. If action is called to by police and violence breaks
00:48:10.180
out on both sides, the wannabes will often be the first to get hit, tackled, punched, arrested.
00:48:15.780
So that way people within the devoted class can look and be like, see, this is what we told you,
00:48:20.660
this is happening. And as far as the meetings, I never got into any higher up structure to where
00:48:25.940
I could go to any higher up meetings. I know that that's a thing. I've heard whispers, but a lot of
00:48:30.580
it is on the ground coaching. It's you go into these environments and they groom you on, this is what you
00:48:36.500
say if the police come, this is what you say in certain instances. When you say these environments,
00:48:40.900
are these like sub groups that are happening at a, like a protest, or is it like you go to somebody's
00:48:51.540
Yes, yes, and yes. And particularly parties. So that's the thing. Is it so nuanced? Here in Eugene,
00:48:56.580
talking to people that I know down in Texas or on the East Coast, Oregon has become such a radically
00:49:01.620
indifferent environment to where post Antifa and Black Lives Matter, there really is a different
00:49:05.860
environment. Everyone here that I've been talking to lately is supporting the Trump assassination.
00:49:10.900
Everyone wants every Nazi killed and arrested. Everyone supports every trans ideology under the
00:49:15.540
sun. So the environment here in this town, in Eugene, Springfield, and in Portland particularly,
00:49:21.140
is everywhere you go, you talk about these things. So you don't really need one central rallying meetup
00:49:27.460
point. It's more about talking within your own circles, sending off texts, sending off whatever have
00:49:33.140
you. It's really as simple as you can meet someone in a bar, have a drink with them, and by the end of
00:49:38.500
that drink, you're exchanging information, you think you're on the same page, and this guy's telling
00:49:42.660
you, hey, be here Wednesday at three o'clock. I'll meet you there, and then we'll figure out things
00:49:46.660
from there. It is so broad and diverse in its tactics. And so it's really organic.
00:49:53.940
It's what Antifa is, is the radicalized mindset. And the radicalized mindset allows for an organizational
00:50:02.340
structure to organically develop through random meetings. I guess then my second question here
00:50:07.860
would be, do you believe that more of the socialization of the Antifa stuff happens at
00:50:16.340
in-person event or in like online message boards and stuff?
00:50:20.660
I would say online messaging boards, memes. You know, I don't know anyone in my generation,
00:50:25.060
I'm 27. There's like this weird thing to where everyone in my kind of age group, they'll say like
00:50:30.020
on an online meme speak, everything went downhill when Harambe died. You know, and everyone kind of
00:50:36.420
followed these different memes and thought patterns, and everybody was in coordination. The conservative
00:50:41.140
side was a little more fractured in doing what they would. But as far as like liberalism, far left
00:50:45.060
memes, everybody walked in lockstep. And if you didn't walk in lockstep, well, then you're not on my page
00:50:50.820
anymore. You're blocked. You don't get to be a part of the meme. You don't get to be a part of the
00:50:54.020
messaging cycle. It's kind of like how we had all the goodbye Joe Biden, good guy, Joe Biden memes.
00:50:58.180
And then less than a year later, oh, Joe Biden's running for president. That was one of the memes
00:51:02.420
that would be continually shared. And that's really what detracted from Black Lives Matter
00:51:06.100
and the original things with police violence and racial issues is there were like long structured,
00:51:10.660
detailed lists, and they had to meme it down and make it smaller and smaller and smaller to make
00:51:16.180
it digestible for quite crudely, any retard to digest, go out there and act on what they think they
00:51:20.740
want to act on. Yeah. Well, and one thing I've noticed, you know, whether it's Black Lives Matter
00:51:24.900
or what Antifa seems to broadly stand for is it's really seems much more focused, at least at the
00:51:30.580
ground level, on the things that they are against. And they don't really take specific policies of
00:51:35.940
things that they want to support, which leads to there being ideologically a pretty diverse group of
00:51:40.980
people who might be antagonistic towards each other if they actually talked about their goals.
00:51:45.780
How is that managed? It isn't. So that's one of the things that made me leave in 2020 is as things
00:51:51.620
began to heat up about the May 29th era, because for all those that don't know, Antifa did an
00:51:56.980
insurrection in D.C. before January 6th. And I wouldn't even consider January 6th an insurrection
00:52:02.020
so much as federal infiltration like they did with a lot of the Black Lives Matter protesters.
00:52:06.180
But I got a fun change. What was the original question? I'm sorry.
00:52:09.300
No, I was wondering how they dealt with like the different ideologies.
00:52:11.940
But yes, I want to know about May 29th. I don't know anything about May 29th. I was going to look
00:52:16.260
that up and add something about it. So I'd like to look up more myself because I was so I got this
00:52:22.340
tattoo on my wrist here. Right. And it's May 31st. I was drunk and I got the date wrong. I think it was
00:52:28.180
actually May 30th or something like that. So Antifa and Black Lives Matter went into D.C.
00:52:33.060
And I want to say it was like eight days, maybe of prolonged like protest, rightist behavior.
00:52:39.540
They stormed the White House. Trump got locked down in the bunker. And while that was happening
00:52:43.700
on the East Coast over here on the West Coast, people were cheering. So in our case, one of the
00:52:48.980
things that they did freaking out because of what was happening in D.C. is blue cities all across the
00:52:53.460
country began to institute COVID measures in an effort to back off the protesters. So they actually
00:52:59.460
set up a curfew at our Whole Foods that we have here in Eugene. And they said if you pass the Whole Foods,
00:53:03.700
you're within the perimeter zone. And then if you're on the outside, you know, you can't come in.
00:53:08.340
And then the people within the protest zone didn't get the text alerts. And then the people outside
00:53:11.940
did. But what that created was actually one of the moments that made me want to walk away from
00:53:16.980
Antifa out of many. But that was the night that I essentially kind of saw a battle going down in
00:53:21.700
the streets of Eugene. I saw kids get their heads caved in. I saw drones chasing after people.
00:53:26.180
Cars tried to run me and my friends over in the streets. We were hopping over backyards getting shot
00:53:30.100
at with rubber bullets and tear gas. And it all stemmed from May 29th. But they just want to have
00:53:35.860
us fixated on January 6th, January 6th, January 6th, January 6th. Well, the feds infiltrated January 6th
00:53:41.940
using people dressed as Antifa members and people on the far right. All the video footage under the
00:53:46.580
sun is out. And really, that's something that they did in Portland and in Eugene and in Springfield as
00:53:51.220
well. They practiced the tactics of January 6th on the Black Lives crowd and on the Antifa crowd.
00:53:56.740
And then they moved on to the conservative crowd because ultimately what they want to do is get one
00:54:00.500
side or another branded as a terrorist. So they can brand both sides as a terrorist and then they can
00:54:04.420
go after everybody under the sun. When in actuality, I think they need to look at Antifa like a gang.
00:54:10.260
That's really interesting. So can you, I don't want to push you to, to talk about anything you're
00:54:14.100
uncomfortable talking about, but can you talk a little bit about how you might think of them as a gang?
00:54:19.620
Yeah, it's all tribal. It's all colors. So I have this theory and it's a little crude, but I think it's a
00:54:26.420
theory that pans out. When I explain to people, they're kind of like, oh, but it's the wigger to
00:54:30.340
jihad theory. So it's no secret that we live in a country where the young white men specifically are
00:54:36.980
completely isolated. Young men in general, but young white men in particular. So when I was growing up,
00:54:42.500
I actually, I should be aware. I don't know if this generation knows the, the wig word. Like,
00:54:48.100
I think we might have audience members who might think you just said the N word because I don't think
00:54:52.420
anyone has used it in 10 years. Social community that, I mean, when I was in middle school or like
00:55:02.980
early middle school, like I dressed like this, you know, like it was white kids who wore like
00:55:07.380
sagging pants and lots of like rap music and tried to emulate members of like famous members of the
00:55:15.140
black community at the time. However, it mostly died out. Like we might do an episode on why,
00:55:27.140
like there's so little black cultural influence in America anymore, because it is interesting.
00:55:31.620
It used to be like a really dominant cultural force in America. And I think it mostly died back
00:55:38.500
due to the invention of the concept of cultural appropriation. Because if you tried to do that
00:55:42.900
today, people would say, well, you're culturally appropriating, but it was really, really,
00:55:47.140
really common for a period for people who are in Gen Z and are like, this wasn't a thing.
00:55:52.340
Anyway, continue. Yeah. Well, that's where the theory comes in. Right. Is I don't think that
00:55:56.020
cultural appropriation and the calling of it out necessarily stopped it. I think it shifted.
00:56:00.820
So you had all these young men who either felt disaffected because their family structures were falling
00:56:06.020
apart and there was stuff going on at home and they felt like they needed to take charge by putting on
00:56:10.820
this tough guy attire. Or, you know, you just had the little geeky white kid that needed a sense of
00:56:15.060
belonging, which I mean, in my case, I'm a juggalo. So that was me to a certain extent. I had my chains
00:56:19.460
and my baggy pants and doing all that, hanging out with my buddies, doing drugs and shit. Like,
00:56:23.620
it's a thing. But I think whenever gender came along that it just, it kind of became the next thing.
00:56:30.260
And I have a video breaking it down further, but, you know, we kind of go from wanting to emulate
00:56:35.860
black and then we go to metrosexuality where, you know, visually speaking, a lot of people are
00:56:40.260
wanting to kind of emulate being gay and all these different things of what's acceptable,
00:56:44.820
what's permissible. All these doors are being opened, but it's not about actually what's about
00:56:50.740
what's going on in the LGBT community or the African American community. Right. It's the clothes.
00:56:55.540
It's the look. It's the caricature. So you fast forward a couple of years. Well,
00:56:59.620
kids aren't Wiggers anymore. They're all turning trans. Well, these trans kids,
00:57:04.500
it's not just light and fluffy anymore. They're starting to act like they're into the gangster
00:57:09.140
culture. They're into the drugs. They're into the rap. They're becoming increasingly more violent
00:57:13.860
to where it's almost kind of replacing that. But in the sense that this gender ideology works as a
00:57:18.980
religious replacement, now that that's not working anymore, you notice how a lot of these trans
00:57:22.980
activists and a lot of these angry trans kids are now hopping over to jihad and Hamas support.
00:57:27.540
And now they're all wearing the scarves. And now they're all, it's, I feel like it's step by step by
00:57:33.220
I haven't seen that. So what's interesting is as they've moved to these more jihadist mindsets,
00:57:38.340
they don't signal it in online spaces in a way that conservatives can see as easily.
00:57:44.100
So I'm wondering if you could talk about like, is this, is this like pretty normalized among like the
00:57:48.660
trans activists right now who are in the Antifa movement, like the jihadity mindset, the like,
00:57:56.340
So all I can see, a lot of it's coming from external factors. I'm not really around any
00:58:01.620
Antifa, ex-Antifa members anymore. I just met one ex-Antifa member, which is a story we can get
00:58:06.020
to if you want. But separate from that, a lot of it's what we're seeing with online. Like you got
00:58:10.020
that little trans non-binary girl that's like, oh, it doesn't see gender. This is the Quran.
00:58:14.020
You're seeing this kind of explosion online from the LGBT community of queers for Palestine,
00:58:20.420
you know, radical insane stuff. You know, I was leaving work the other day. I work at downtown
00:58:24.180
Eugene and it was just all this project 2025 is a white conservative jihad. But then all,
00:58:32.500
but next to those same signs was like free Palestine and Gaza and all this shit simultaneously.
00:58:37.940
It's identity hopping. And these kids are so confused that what all of this has done over
00:58:42.740
black lives matter in Antifa, all the kids that are basically screaming for the death of the Jews
00:58:47.060
right now, whether they realize it or not, they were groomed for this. They were groomed to see
00:58:51.860
through the lens of oppressed versus oppressor. And they don't realize right now that they are playing
00:58:57.300
holy war and you can't convince these people that they're acting religious because so many people
00:59:01.700
here in particular, we have generations of kids who not even their parents or their grandparents
00:59:07.060
were religious. So when they start acting religious in themselves, they can't see it. And if you try to make that
00:59:12.660
comparison, they will flip out on you. Oh, interesting. Well, it's also interesting to see
00:59:17.700
what causes people to flip out because those are usually like evolved social triggers to prevent them
00:59:23.620
from engaging with ideas that might be threatening to their world perspective. So that also, you know,
00:59:28.900
has me believe that if they could recognize that it is, I mean, that's where the anger is coming from,
00:59:34.820
right? You don't get angry if somebody is making a totally, you know, pointless or not on point
00:59:42.020
accusation. So that's really interesting. And I, I have, I have noticed that jihad stuff. I should dig
00:59:46.580
into it more because like I hear about it and it seems to be happening at like their parties and stuff.
00:59:52.260
Okay. I guess here's another question I have. So you mentioned like people get activated by like
00:59:57.940
someone you meet and then they're like, Oh, be at this event on this time. Do you know the core
01:00:02.980
channels through which they are like activating or reaching people? Is it typically like you'd get
01:00:08.180
an email or a phone number, like a meme would start or like, how would people find out to be at an
01:00:13.700
event? I think it's all of the above and it's also convoluted. And the thing is social media offers
01:00:20.180
certain protections for certain political groups that want to organize. So I think any noted a story
01:00:25.540
on in about a year or two, it's where certain people can post about their organizing, organizing
01:00:29.860
protests, and then others can't. Some people can post about, you need to go counter this and
01:00:35.380
they'll have their stuff removed. And then the other side will feel like you need to go counter
01:00:38.500
this and then they'll have their stuff removed. I think social media is tinkering with this in
01:00:43.300
coordination with governments. I mean, we've seen the fascism for ourselves. We've seen the unholy
01:00:47.860
alliance of corporations and government and big business in the Biden administration while
01:00:51.860
everyone's been blinded because yay, Trump's gone. We don't have to pay attention. Now they've
01:00:55.300
been ramping it up and ramping it up and ramping it up. And a lot of this too, I, after this week,
01:01:01.300
I can say this solidly, a lot of this is criminal in nature. And it's not that the kids themselves
01:01:07.620
are a part of criminal elements. I believe that outside gangs and outside underworld organizations
01:01:12.580
are feeding off of this. They are sending people into the protests and into these groups.
01:01:17.780
And I believe that they are using children. I believe that they are using drug meals. And the way it
01:01:23.860
was explained to me in some of my investigations this week, when a riot is happening on this side
01:01:29.380
of Portland and all the police are here, what's going on over here? We don't, we don't think about
01:01:36.260
that. Right. Cause all the cameras are over here. All the people are over here.
01:01:41.460
A lot of this can be contextualized as, as malevolent. And I think that people just aren't really thinking
01:01:47.460
through that. It is only organic that criminal organizations would become involved in this.
01:01:51.860
If you have a group that can pull police presence to a specific area, and that group regularly
01:01:57.860
consumes drugs, illegal drugs that the criminal organizations already need to bring in. So
01:02:02.900
they're naturally going to have connections within those communities and the connections
01:02:07.140
are likely going to be high level within both communities. So let me explain what I mean here.
01:02:12.260
If for example, I'm an organization that's running, you know, cocaine or ecstasy or something like that.
01:02:17.380
And I was going to have somebody who was a distributor, you know, making money, distributing
01:02:20.980
that for me, who better to be a distributor than a high level member of a social organizing group.
01:02:27.780
Right. So it's very likely that important individuals within both groups would have a level of overlap.
01:02:34.820
And so that the groups would use these individuals to put people in specific locations to distract
01:02:42.820
police. And here's the thing, if you're running drugs, you know, like you're a cartel, you're going
01:02:48.340
to also be doing human trafficking. You're going to also be doing like all of the bad stuff comes
01:02:52.820
together. And so I think that there's sort of two sides of this is, I think that people may
01:03:00.100
be misunderstanding this as being more Machiavellian than it might really be. Not that you're,
01:03:05.940
it's not like evil people who are doing this, but does the person who ends up leading a Antifa group
01:03:14.260
where they often have parties where there's ecstasy and then becomes a distributor for a local
01:03:19.460
criminal syndicate. Does that person not care about Antifa's aims? No, they do care about Antifa's
01:03:25.140
aims, but does that person also get maybe extra money from the criminal organization? Does the criminal
01:03:30.980
organization have the capacity to maybe lay out bricks for them or lay out guns or do other things
01:03:36.260
like that that can make their job easier if they just move the date or let them know so that it
01:03:41.860
overlaps with a, and they may not know that this is what's happening that day, a human trafficking,
01:03:47.700
you know, move, big, big movement of supply can go on because that's actually kind of hard to do
01:03:52.740
when you're doing big human trafficking moves because typically they get sort of consolidated at safe
01:03:57.140
houses and then they need to move them, like distribute them to other safe houses.
01:04:00.500
Bit by bit by bit by bit rather than training them out essentially.
01:04:04.500
Yeah. So, so doing something like a riot can be very, very useful in terms of, of, of doing that.
01:04:10.980
And in terms of concentrating a customer base over a period of time. I mean, I bet you,
01:04:15.380
if you look at something like chop or Chaz, like the amount of money that was made by criminal
01:04:19.860
organizations while that was operational must've been astronomical.
01:04:23.060
Yeah. Like what was going on in those downtown buildings? They're surrounded by skyscrapers.
01:04:26.820
They took over police. What was going on behind the walls?
01:04:29.860
Cause we see people doing whippets and dancing and some people are going in and want to make
01:04:33.460
it seem silly. Others want to make it seem dark or others want to make it seem like there's
01:04:36.340
nothing going on. But, and the thing is, is a lot of their distributors worth you're thinking adults,
01:04:41.380
man, kids, they're using homeless kids. They are using the disaffected youth, the kids that are
01:04:49.780
running away from their families. Kids are easier to use. Kids are easier to manipulate. Kids are easier to get
01:04:55.540
rid of. Yeah. Well, and I also think that, that it's likely that you have, what's the word I'm
01:05:01.140
looking for here. Some of the kids are likely probably not also homeless. The best distributor
01:05:06.580
for these organizations are often rich kids. Um, because they have lots of people with lots of
01:05:12.100
money they can sell to for, you know, your elitist. And even if you're talking about older,
01:05:17.780
like the ideal distributor for them is the person who runs the Antifa network at a local rich college.
01:05:22.820
Um, like, and all this comes out of the U of O too. Like a lot of Antifa's top people and a lot of
01:05:28.180
people from there, it, a lot of it's U of O. I used to live like a block or two up the road.
01:05:32.980
Like I was at the central starting point for where a lot of the protest meetups would go.
01:05:37.620
And yeah, it's all college based. So much of it is, and the schools encourage it and they bow down to
01:05:46.500
them. And I mean, Eugene, so much of it, we're controlled by Chinese interest. I mean, Nike operates
01:05:53.700
out of Eugene and they use bigger slave labor. It's like, there's so many like foreign connections.
01:05:59.060
The West coast has become such a completely different country than the rest of America.
01:06:04.180
I'm realizing we don't really, we don't operate the same way other people do. It's a new culture.
01:06:10.820
There was a section here that I had to take out because they'd got too specific
01:06:14.660
in terms of the organized crime groups that Antifa is working with.
01:06:18.260
My, my, my intuition would be that it is not intrinsically that Chinese organized crime
01:06:24.980
is disproportionately in, in working with Antifa. It's just that it's probably whoever is the,
01:06:31.220
the largest and most organized local crime group is going to be the one that's going to
01:06:34.820
naturally work with them. And most crime groups have an ethnic component. I either, either like
01:06:39.540
Latin or black or Chinese, or probably the only one that Antifa isn't going to accidentally start
01:06:44.580
working with is one of the, you know, like Nazi or white, white criminal groups. But I mean,
01:06:48.260
who knows? One of my things about Antifa is I'm always shocked that they, did they,
01:06:52.740
when you were there, did they do the black shirt thing? The, I did.
01:06:56.580
So like, do they not know who the black shirts were historically? Like, so you might not know.
01:07:02.660
I know the brown shirts, but they know there's black shirts.
01:07:05.140
The brown shirts were Hitler's group, but he made them after the black shirts, which were Mussolini's
01:07:10.500
group. The very first fascists called their foot soldiers, the black shirt. Um, that is,
01:07:17.460
and then Hitler wanted to copy it, but he didn't want it to be exactly black shirts.
01:07:20.260
So he called them the brown shirts, but yeah, Mussolini's black shirts. Actually,
01:07:23.700
their, their famous phrase was something like, fuck around to find out. Okay.
01:07:26.900
I'm going to, ah, that's fucking familiar. Jesus. And this is, and I'm not laughing because
01:07:33.220
it's funny. It's I'm so I'm years disconnected from this, but it's like, I'm still learning
01:07:38.100
like the extent to which my behavior took me to the historical things that I was tinkering with that
01:07:43.300
I had no idea because like we used to write phone numbers on our arms of our contacts for if we got
01:07:50.020
arrested and that was to simulate the Jews. We would always talk about it. It's like the Holocaust.
01:07:54.100
Here we are with our numbers on our arms. Here I am with my husband's phone number on my arm and
01:07:58.180
you would look down and the goal was to like, make you subconsciously feel like you were facing the
01:08:02.900
same historical relevancy situation as them. That's really powerful. By the way, the, the,
01:08:07.780
the term I, I missed was mine, which means I don't care or like, I don't give a S is,
01:08:15.700
it's probably a better term. And that's the embodiment of Antifa. If you could sum it up
01:08:18.660
all in one slogan, I don't care or do what thou will. That's really what it boils down to.
01:08:24.500
Can you talk about, is there any other psychological tools or techniques you remember that helped you
01:08:29.140
think of other people as Nazis? The ISIS comparisons, you have rednecks coming in
01:08:33.780
with trucks and American flags. So a lot of people like to paint the symbolism of, well,
01:08:37.380
look at ISIS over there with their Toyotas and their ISIS flags. So whenever people would come in
01:08:42.420
rallying with the trucks, it would make you feel like that was going on. There's a lot of instances,
01:08:48.260
people will just go and they will just Hitler salute just to piss you off because they know you're a
01:08:53.860
dumbass and they know you're going to freak out. So they'll go on the other side of the hill and
01:08:56.820
they'll Nazi salute and that'll get people enraged. But for me, when I was going out majority of the
01:09:02.420
time I was drunk or high, I was on narcotics. I was on alcohol. I was impaired just like most
01:09:07.780
people in Antifa are because a lot of them are so dependent that it's at all times. Like,
01:09:12.260
why are they so confident? It's a chemical induced ego that drives their confidence in narcissism.
01:09:17.860
You can't talk, you can't talk sense into an alcoholic. You can't talk sense into a meth head.
01:09:22.900
You can't convince someone on ketamine that you know more than them.
01:09:25.380
Yeah. Well, and it also makes a lot of sense then. So, so I, I, I absolutely believe you're,
01:09:30.980
you're, you're, you're right there. And it would make sense that they would do that. And this is why,
01:09:34.900
you know, going to a protest to try to diffuse them, to try to talk with them in that environment
01:09:40.820
is probably a very bad idea. And instead focus on, you know, online conversations and stuff like
01:09:46.100
that. That makes a lot of sense. Now talking to conservatives though, they,
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because I had a jacket, it was black on the outside camel on the inside. So I would just flip it out.
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And I'd kind of play both sides. The com, the conservatives, they were there to talk.
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And that's just something I want to highlight there too, through all my time there, they're
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wanting to speak. They're wanting to pray with me. They're wanting to share stories and they're
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wanting to be like, Hey, this is wrong. That helped a lot. So if you do go to these events,
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you try to talk. Yeah. Cause I, I came to the right, you know, I wasn't like originally on the right.
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And the right is like really accepting, like way more than I would have anticipated. I would say
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though it's different depending on the type of right events that you're at, but one of the main
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types of right events, like the type that really likes Trump, they're like, everyone you talk to
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is just so excited to share their conspiracy theory with you. Yeah, it's fine. And there'll be all
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sorts of different counteracting conspiracies, but they're like, Oh dude, I got to bring you in
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on the conspiracy. And you might think it's interesting how like anti-government they are
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anti-authority. They are like, everything's this big conspiracy. And that's, and well,
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that, and that's the thing too, is like, that's actually how Antifa, at least, I mean,
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it started way back in the thirties, but in the modern day, from my perspective, going into it,
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those were the types of people in Antifa that drew me in like the occupied wall street people.
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They're like, Hey, do you know what's really going on in the middle East? Do you know what's really
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going on with UFOs? But as the federal government came in and all these outside forces came in and
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infiltrated Antifa, which I do believe they did just like they did the proud boys or any other group,
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they turned it into a spiritual trap to where they said, you can no longer question,
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you can no longer explore these things. And I mean, you look over on the right,
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right now. And all these people that I knew who are super religious, who hated, hated other
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religions growing up. Now they're sitting back like, huh, that's no different than my religion
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or huh. I want to know a little bit more about this. And they're like, kind of actually pulling
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together in a spiritual collective that I thought the left was going to do. Yeah. It's been very
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interesting to see the, well, yeah. I mean like, for example, like Andrew Tate's an effing Muslim.
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Like I always point this out to people. I always forget that.
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This dude's a Muslim and he's like the number one right wing speaker. But yeah, no, it's, it's,
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it's been really interesting how it's come to resemble. Yeah. All right. Well, this has gone
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longer. So we're going to have a stupidly long episode on Antifa. Now it looks like,
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but I appreciate your time and your channel is again for people checking.
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Yeah. Build, baby, build with Ty King. Okay, great. Uh, so named after that Brian
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Kaplan book, build, baby, build or a thing. Go check it out and have an absolutely spectacular
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day. Peace and love you guys. Appreciate you having me on. Anyway, I love you to death.
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video. I think it's a clown themed birthday party from your childhood. I don't know if it was yours or
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miles, but everyone gets clown face paint, but your parents got a person to come and face paint
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everyone. Maybe it was a friend. Everyone looks horrifying. There's this one girl who does not
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have any face paint on and who's clearly terrified of clowns. And there are clowns everywhere at this
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birthday party. And there's this amazing shot of her face. And someone asks her, do you want us to
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paint your face? And she's like, no, without being terrible to her as I was in other videos.
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No, this was not Madison, whoever she was. Sorry, Madison.
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I think it's these videos show how much parenting matters because none of our kids are like problem
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There are many moments in these home videos of your childhood where you are.
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Does it make you feel like you might actually be a pretty good at this mom thing?
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Because that's the template you're working from.
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They have the capacity for it, but I've never seen them be actually mean to another kid.
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Yeah, but toddlers are toddlers, you know, and kids don't like sharing toys that you can't expect
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perfection from a child. And if you got it, probably something is developmentally wrong with them.
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You know, perfection as defined by being a perfect gentleman. So, yeah.