Replatform A Conference Fighting the Virus with David Ragsdale
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In this episode, we are joined by David Ragsdaledale, CEO and Co-Founder of Defeat the Mandates, to discuss the current state of the Wokeism movement, the current crisis of faith in the media, and the future of the movement itself.
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keep wondering is when are we going to be able to talk about like what the science has actually said
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about special case post special k good news good news so they know there is there's always a lag
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right and so the google gods who who control a lot of what we can talk about on your show
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on this channel there's probably going to be a a lag but today in the journal of medical ethics
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there was this peer-reviewed paper and i'll send it to you by these six dutch researchers that looked
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into the scapegoating did not take the interventions and their conclusions were it was misinformation
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to scapegoat them because the pandemic risks were overstated and the efficacy of the intervention
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was also overstated yeah number two the media created this misinformation three the disinformation
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is incredibly harmful and the fourth thing they looked at who was doing the scapegoating
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and by and large it was liberals and they looked at it by ideology and that people on the right were
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not scapegoating even if they had had the intervention they refused to scapegoat but
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liberals were the ones who are doing that so i you know we have a lot of liberals in our movement
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and it's been very difficult i think for them and i feel for them but there's something about
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this like all-encompassing liberalism that we are told we live under and it doesn't really appear
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to be the thing itself well it's interesting that you say that i'm actually interested to see if
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this video gets flagged some way or something like that because i don't know if we're allowed
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to say this yet like i i genuinely don't know that's not the only study that shows that we were there
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it's actually been a number of pretty good studies that just do not agree with the mainstream narrative
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always follow the advice of the medical experts as acknowledged by the alphabet corporation
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and their subsidiaries would you like to know more hello everyone we're super excited to be joined
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today by david ragsdale he is the ceo of replatform and he's also the chief operating officer of defeat
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operations director operations director basically basically but yeah you do so you do ops and defeat
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the mandates and we we met you as you were organizing the replatform conference which is going to be
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happening in vegas in april well no in march march of next year of 2024 we're super excited for that
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because we're we're intrigued like we we have been through all these different angles approaching
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different like sort of alternative economies alternative cultures all like ways around the
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mainstream because of course the pandemic had sort of been like a crisis of faith moment that that
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was like the death knell on top of i think the crisis of faith that happened in 2016 so like when trump was
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first elected i think a lot of people were like wait a second like i was prompt like it was it was it
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was very clear that like hillary clinton was going to win and that things were going to be a certain way
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and then like that completely went off the rails and then and then also like there was just this crisis
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of faith in the media after that and then of course with the pandemic that happened again it's like wait you
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told us that masks weren't important and then he told us that they were important and then it turned
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out that they didn't do anything at all unless they were fitted in 95s so anyway we feel like this has
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been a growing movement but also it's so fragmented it's so confusing i don't like people know where to
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go so we really want to talk about that i mean among other things so before we go further i do want to i
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mean i think the history of the conference is also really useful to our audience in understanding what
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it's about so it was originally the when you reached out to us about it the alternative economies
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or parallel economies with the idea being that as this sort of memetic virus that we talk about
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it's much more than wokeism it's like this broad thing that's in almost every major company right now
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becomes wider if you are immune to it the system spits you out and makes it very hard to work
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and so the primary way to compete with the system is through parallel economies or parallel information
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networks or parallel all sorts of things like this and then as the conference evolved sort of the way
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that i describe it to people when i pitch it to people is i'm like it's trying to become like a
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what's the name i'm looking here like comic-con except instead of launching marvel movies it's where
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they launch the movies that the mainstream media is going to freak out about yeah so originally so
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when we were making defeat the mandates our first rally at the lincoln memorial in january of 2021
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we were debanked right and that was sort of a debanked debate talk about that so we we actually
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had good relations with the biden administration they approved our our permit to be on the lincoln
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memorial within hours and i think they were probably bending over backwards because the mandates were
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really heavy and hot at that time obviously so they were probably trying to create a space you know
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what i mean yeah and so we had no problem with the federal government they were you know like here
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take the lincoln memorial and we'll give you this and we'll give you that so it was pretty easy to
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physically organize defeat the mandates and remember we did it a year after that january 2021 incident
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so we were nervous because we were aiming for january 2022 and we're like oh is this going to be a
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problem and it turned out not to be but it was apparently a problem and i won't go into details
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or name names with our bank and so we were debanked and we were obviously doing nothing illegal nothing
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hateful nothing violent we had democrats republicans independents but we lost our banking we also lost a
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bunch of b2b services our mass email you know so we were always okay wait did someone try to cancel you
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was this like someone just spamming yeah we were we were deplatformed and it wasn't just like a social
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media thing a lot of different b2b services that you know my background i work at live nation on the
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festivals team you use when you're making an event you use a lot of these services especially now and
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this is something that that i've increasingly noticed when i talk to people where they've genuinely been
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removed from all the platforms they're removed from like major platforms one of the the core reasons
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is they're talking about i guess what i'll call for this podcast so we don't get in trouble it was during
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the special case here the the the big k and everyone during that period is is is where there was a huge
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waves of debanking deplatforming everything like that in demonstrated to was the people in positions of
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power was in our society when they felt that they could and whenever they tried to ban somebody
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with anything like this they're like we're saving lives so that's what they'll always go to is
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we're saving lives we're saving lives this is when they say oh this person's being you know whatever
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ex-phobic they'll say they're inciting you know attacks against the person they're inciting whatever
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but the evidence for that has always been fairly slim historically speaking november 20th was the
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transgender day of remembrance where we're supposed to remember the tragic deaths of trans people
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the white house press secretary gave us a hard number of this year's trans victims in the united states
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today on transgender day of remembrance we grieve the 26 transgender americans who were killed
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this year year after year we see that these victims are disproportionately black women and women of
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color no one should face violence live in fear or be discriminated against simply for being
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themselves yeah uh 26 in a nation of 330 million people where approximately one percent of them are
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trans 26 of them were murder victims that's a murder rate of 0.0007 percent considering that in
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2022 there were approximately 21 000 homicide cases in the states with that 330 million population the
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napkin math comes out to the general murder rate of america being i think 0.006 percent these are both
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incredibly tiny so literally who cares but trans people do seem to have a much smaller chance of
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being murdered rachel richards a conservative trans youtuber put out a video titled who's killing black
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transgender woman in it she points out that black trans women comprise 66 percent of the 202 cases of
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fatal violence against trans people in the united states from 2013 to 2020 the article she quotes
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ties the surge of black trans victimization to the rise of white supremacy and the far right in america
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but rachel digs up the individual cases and discovers the vast majority of the murderers of
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these black trans women are actually black men all that being said the williams institute did state that
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trans people are four times more likely than cis people to experience violent victimization not
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including murder like rape sexual assault or aggravated assault the numbers are 86.2 trans
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victimizations per 1 000 people versus 21.7 cis victimizations and so as as a result of not
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really having evidence that these people are actually inciting violence when special k happened
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everyone then was in this movement internally felt like now we can actually say they're killing
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people now we can actually say that this is leading and so we saw the way that they planned to act
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always as soon as they felt they had the power to act in that way which was complete banning of people
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from any sort of communication network any sort of mainstream service i mean we saw this was the
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trucker protest as well in canada where they also have more control and the government's more controlled
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by the actual commie commies where they were debanking people who were associated with the
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trucker protest they were banning them from all media appearances and stuff like that and i think that
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this is where for people like us who may have been more towards like fence sitters who may have been i think
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generally people look at us and they're like your politics feels a little moderate and and why are
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you so hard on the right side now and it is because we saw what the left did the moment they felt like
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they had a little bit of authority and they went just full totalitarian um and and we are moving like
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if people think well this was a one-time thing if you look at what they're saying they want these special
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powers but they want them all the time for anything they declare to be a potential issue and they can
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declare anything to be a potential issue really as long as they can claim it's hurting people in some
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way and so this puts us in a position where it's like we are genuinely beginning to move to an
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autocratic framework without full state control which is really fascinating that they are able to
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because they have so many operatives in the major banks in the major you know social media platforms
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in the major distributors in the major news sites they can say let's throttle this individual even
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without doing it directly from the perspective of the government which is fascinating for me because
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we haven't seen this form of fascism before yeah so i mean and to give you to go back to one of your
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earlier questions and bring it in so we really have three differing groups of people right and so where
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i see that this started is this actually started with social conservatives during the gay marriage
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debate so you had prop eight right and a majority of californians in november of 2008 voted for obama by
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something like 20 points and also voted against gay marriage and yet the media and corporations were
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able to turn that so if california's voting a majority on election day to support traditional marriage as
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opposed to gay marriage it's not an extreme opinion but what happened is the media and more frightening
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corporations like tim cook at apple they turned that majority into a fringe minority even though they
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were the majority they said we don't want anyone who voted for prop eight to be an apple customer
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then what you had is the state of california kamala harris and as attorney general a few years later
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when they were working the case in courts to overturn it they released anyone who had donated
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to prop eight and people started getting fired up and down the state so if you had if you were not even
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if you were a mormon if you were a catholic they started targeting businesses that were owned by people
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who donate and it was harassment legal harassment and this was at the behest of the state of california
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and these corporations and these activist groups but no one talked about it at the time was happening
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you know people were like brendan ike is a great example he lost his job because he his company because
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he had donated to prop eight but because it was gay marriage and no one really wanted to get on the
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wrong side of that this whole wave of cancellations happened pre-woke right pre-fergus
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so i'm hearing about this is wild this is no i mean look it up brendan ike he's probably the most
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famous example someone who got canceled because of donating to prop eight and no one said anything
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and and even the conservatives kept quiet about it no one it was not like hey this is you know so
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when people talk about like woke and cancellation in ferguson my take on that is what we saw like
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the wokeness was it was very simply black democrats saying we want that same thing that to the democrat
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liberal establishment that you had just given the lgbt movement we want that we're a loyal constituency
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of the democrat party and we want that same thumb on the scale that same cancellation power
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that you just gave to lgbt americans we deserve that too so this wokeness it had been in the background
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for many years because you know there had been a real incarceration explosion among black male youth
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but democrats ignored it ignored it ignored it and finally after the whole gay marriage thing
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black democrats were like no you've just done this for another important group of yours you're now going
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to do it for us and so that's where we saw wokeness really explode on a lot of the racial issues but the
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the beginning of that was really directed towards social conservatives so that's a very long answer
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to say that's one of our core groups and they are actually the most patient they're the most calm
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because they've been in this for a while they've been denigrated hated on canceled for decades now
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and so our social conservative people in our movement are very patient people and they're not
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very surprised by stuff right they're used to it they're used to being against the world and and and
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it sort of aligns with a lot of their theology this world is not our home right then we have another
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group of people like your libertarians your ron paul types your crypto types and they've sort of since
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the great financial recession of 2008 and all that stuff they've been working on their alt finance
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crypto other things like that and then the third big group are democrats right your robert kennedy
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democrats ah okay big corporations are evil big pharma is especially evil i remember what big tobacco did in
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the 70s and 80s and we're a democrat but then they this group of people like your health freedom and
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hippic pharma people they were buying into what the media was saying about the other groups about the
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libertarians about social conservatives but what we and and a lot of them when trump got elected
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believed a lot of the stuff that the media and corporations were telling them about trump right
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but what happened is there was a convergence when the 2020 medical thing yeah i know you're on youtube
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so i want to be very careful i'll call it you know the medical i like that especially when special k
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happened yeah yeah so when that happened there was a real convergence of these groups and especially
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when the mandate started coming down and that really confused a lot of people in the health freedom
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movement because they had thought well it will be okay for me not to take this inter medical intervention
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that's experimental because trump did it so i'll be fine as it turned out the establishment turned on a
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dime and then started making them the enemy so a lot of these people who had never been really an enemy
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of the establishment in a way even though they were very anti big pharma now all of a sudden found
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themselves being in the same boat that social conservatives had been in for a very long time
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to be clear you know a lot of these people are like hippie types like like these are traditional
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and and i think you know the the story that you're saying here really rings true for me as individuals who
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on the outside like i do not think that the government should be legislating against gay marriage like i would
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you know stand that i think that it is wrong and it was a big shift in history the idea of let's begin
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to fire people let's begin to target people's livelihood for their political beliefs and for what if you have
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pointed out is a mainstream political belief it was obama's belief on election day of 20 2008 obama
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he didn't make his turn until right before the 2012 election right so it was but it was a but he was
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obviously lying about it and everyone knew that he was obviously like sure i'll go to saddleback church
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and to rick warren and tell him this but everyone know everyone really knows i'm lying and so it was even
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worse than that because to get elected they would say i have this position but really anyone who
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actually does hold that position needs to be targeted and again whatever your views on gay
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marriage are right just like whatever your views on this medical intervention are right it's the fact
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that government and corporations and the media colluded to cancel people to remove their livelihoods from
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them so i'm gonna push back here i don't think obama was lying i i think that the the right has made
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the mistake of buying into the left's propaganda and they fundamentally do not understand how homophobic
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and how racist the left is and has always been and that they believe this media narrative of homophobic
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racist right non-homophobic non-racist left and so they get confused when they look at the record and
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seeing things like obama standing against gay marriage i believe that marriage is between a man
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and a woman with respect to gay marriage i i do not support uh gay marriage in fact depending on how
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you look at it now you could split things a few ways here trump was the first u.s president to say
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that he supported gay marriage before becoming president that said he also at times said he didn't
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support gay marriage before becoming elected but he was the first to ever say that he did support it
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some of the time and they're like wait that that doesn't ring with what i have been told and it is
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because the media establishment is what is steering a lot of this and it is what is steering a lot of
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these waves in a way that is incongruous was where the winds are actually blowing within each political
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party what it is is you have a a fascist faction and a non-fascist faction now a faction that thinks
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that it should be able to control what people think and and and exercise any political will it wants to
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if people are not thinking and acting like members of their cultural group which is where i think things
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have stepped over the lines it was black lives matter i actually don't know if it was tied to the the
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thing that happened with the lgbt movement at all i i think that they had begun to build up a culture
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where it was okay to target people in this way like this just became normalized this is what we do to
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people we hate this is you know people we dislike we try to ruin their income streams and then they
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begin to target that within this this movement and the media had begun to become so far left even like
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mainstream conservative media outlets that it had gotten used to just like lying or covering up
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you know the mostly peaceful protest line right like oh here's the mostly peaceful protest and in in
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they had done this as you had said with the other movement and then they naturally did it with this
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movement because they just got so used to how much power they had and they got so used to the belief
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within the leftist media that there is a rightist media that's opposing them and that illusion
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i think has made them act in a way that is more totalitarian than they would if they actually
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tried to find this rightist media they're aware of and they realize that no this rightist media is
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actually like mostly banned from social platforms now and there really are not two sides to the
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spectrum there's this one side that controls most of the companies in the country most of the
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political apparatus in the country most of the media organizations in this country and then there's
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another side which is almost entirely silenced at this point that's interesting i look at you know
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i look i'm obviously very interested or influenced by evala and carlisle and you know i tend to think
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everything just is post hoc justification for whatever you're you know you have a political formula and
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you know my background i did classics and economics at claremont so i tend to look at these things like
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more like you know we've essentially been living under like a wig patronage system since queen anne's
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time elaborate and so it's it's just like you know if you look at like google the wig ascendancy
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and realize that we've essentially been living under that for several hundred years elaborate go deep i
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want to hear conspiracy theories i want to hear you know it just goes back to patronage and it just goes
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back to and if you look at conserve western conservatism it's just always been a a a a waiting room for
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losers and it's where anyone who the controlling liberal right it's and it's all factional management
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for the establishment so the liberal establishment which everyone in an english-speaking country essentially
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lives in and most western countries since world war ii live in too there's always going to be a loser and
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so you just be like okay loser you're now called a conservative go hang out there that's fascinating
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i gotta push back strong here and i think this is true and it's backed by the evidence which is if you
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look even just 25 years ago the conservative party had the large corporations on its side it was the party
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of money it was a party of success the party of people who had been economically successful
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and the large uh corporate institutions whereas the progressive institution had the academic
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institutions and the bureaucratic institutions what has changed is that now they're all on one side do
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you disagree with that i do yeah so if you go back i mean if you go back even you can go back to the
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80s you can go back to the 70s you can go back to the 60s 50s for right the american corporations have
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always been incredibly progressive institutions right a lot of american corporations were even
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it goes so far as to say we're even extremely supportive in many ways of the bolshevik revolution
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and lenin and stalin and trying to get in contracts with their i know we only hear about you know what ibm did
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in germany in the mid-century but more corporations were involved in the soviet union not only that but
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even if you go back to like let's go back to reagan's days what you'll see is yeah of course
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reagan was a democrat and he was a liberal in many ways right most ways and he was not about he didn't
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reform welfare he didn't even cut discretionary spending he was a supply setter and all that the
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reagan revolution and even thatcher was a liberal their whole point and they talked like oh we need
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to reduce the size of state none of that happened and they didn't actually believe in it their only
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their only mission in life was hey the way to pay for this is we cut taxes that was their only formula
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which is we actually like this big welfare as do corporations right corporations love the great
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society corporations all they didn't like were the high taxes and so in what you when you saw
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corporations becoming close and they were never close on the social issues even in the 80s corporations
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were donating to planned parenthood and going in the newspapers and saying well i wish the republican
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parties was a little more you know liberal socially fiscally conservative right they were they were trying
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to spin that for decades and you know this whole notion that these corporations it is true that these
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corporations have been getting increasing permission right to talk about things that they wouldn't
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normally have talked about but that's not a function necessarily of their politics it's a function of the
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taboo going away right so there's no longer a taboo for corporations to tell customers if you support
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this don't you dare come to my shop and that's what apple that's really interesting yeah this is a new
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thing yeah right that's what jim cook said he said if you support this don't come to my shop and the way
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that this comes back to like this parallel or freedom economy and we use both words interchangeably
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frankly a lot of people haven't heard the word parallel economy and that tends to be an elite
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word and what we're doing at our trade show and convention is we're bringing together what you
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might call like the normies in our three different groups yeah with some of the elites some of the
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great thinkers some of the doers and we're trying to see what happens if we bring them together
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right and we think a lot of joyful things are going to happen a lot of innovation and there's going to
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be some good feedback on both sides right because i think one of the problems in our anti-establishment
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movements is there's not always the best feedback loop between what our elites and we have our own elites
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right what we're doing what we're saying what we're messaging and then and then what the base what what
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it is that they actually need what it is that they're struggling with right so that's what we're trying to do
00:28:24.500
because we want to build like the parallel economy can be grifty right like if i see blood light
00:28:32.620
i'm going to be like oh okay i'm going to buy a bunch of unnamed beer at wholesale and i'm going
00:28:40.200
to buy a sticker that says not woke and i'm going to slap it on that beer i'm going to get on twitter
00:28:45.560
and i'm going to try to push it and and people are going to be like oh what about that non-woke beer
00:28:50.200
but it's like i don't know the quality i don't know the price i don't know where it came from
00:28:54.140
and that's a little grifty the our parallel economy has to be more than just like the veneer of
00:29:01.200
anti-woke marketing yeah yes well i definitely see this i mean i think this is what we saw was
00:29:06.360
like true social and stuff like that was the idea of it's an exclusionary marketplace rather than
00:29:12.820
like we'll we'll just create a marketplace for the people who have been kicked out of the other
00:29:16.780
marketplace and if you look at what we're trying to do as a collins institute we've taken a very
00:29:20.520
different approach when we launch it which is we want to create an educational system that is not
00:29:25.800
for people who are afraid to send their kids to the public school but that is inarguably better
00:29:30.260
than these existing institutions and i think that that's easier to do than the grifters would have
00:29:36.680
you believe because the existing institutions have become so racked with ideological purity wardens
00:29:43.720
and with bureaucratic bloat that it should not be difficult to create a product that out competes
00:29:50.960
them right you just have to really approach it that way and yeah and this is something that i like
00:29:57.160
that you're going into this conference fielding for and vetting for yeah and we have two so there are
00:30:06.120
two a little bit competing models of the parallel economy and we are not deciding on which one we're
00:30:13.020
going to feature both and it's based on something you said there's a access model where we want to
00:30:19.620
build like and i hate to use this because i've just attacked the whole wig model but it's called the
00:30:25.360
classical liberal model right where you're like hey i just want to buy a pair of jeans stop talking
00:30:32.540
to me about abortion or about mandates just sell me the stupid jeans right that's one model of the
00:30:39.680
parallel economy so it would be like access to all it's not promoting any values it's decentralized
00:30:46.740
usually it's not neutral but it doesn't promote anything more than the product itself right that's
00:30:55.360
one model there's also a second model which is very much values aligned where you're saying and and
00:31:02.240
this works better for some products and others for example a pro-life diaper company right the
00:31:08.120
ceo of public square michael seifert i'm not pronouncing it that way his wife came out with this
00:31:14.220
pro-life diaper company now to me a values that makes sense right that values alignment for that
00:31:23.120
product makes sense to me right it doesn't always make sense but on some things you have people
00:31:31.280
often social conservatives but not all we also see this in the health freedom movement where if you
00:31:38.820
did not take that intervention and you were attacked for it you are probably more likely to want to
00:31:47.000
purchase health goods and services from people who share your values on that issue right but on other
00:31:57.220
things like maybe some tech things and some financial things maybe you don't want values aligned you
00:32:04.680
actually want products or goods or services where it's all about neutrality of access right it's a
00:32:12.320
mixed bag and there's a lot of debate in the parallel economy about that and we're not taking a side on
00:32:20.080
that we're going to have people from both sides and there's probably going to be a lot of heated
00:32:23.960
discussion about it at the convention which makes it way more fun so yeah so one thing i'm actually
00:32:30.680
curious about when it comes to like people being shoved out of the the mainstream economy and sort
00:32:37.980
of forced into parallel economies personally i've only encountered two people who've told me about
00:32:44.440
how it's it's been and in each case they were specifically targeted by either one group or one person
00:32:52.040
and that one group or one person is the one responsible for like shopping them around and basically
00:32:57.700
sending this like form letter to all of their banks every new employer like every existing employer
00:33:02.960
you know this person did this this and this like these crimes against our culture you know how dare
00:33:07.860
you have them with you you must remove them and for example like well one of these people preempts
00:33:14.080
this and lets every new employer or contractor like no like you're going to get this letter from
00:33:18.400
this person just heads up and whereas like this other person another person we know this happened to just
00:33:23.320
like literally just removed himself so my impression is that often like it's this really weird situation
00:33:29.340
where like everyone on the receiving end of these messages who's part of woke or mainstream culture
00:33:34.640
is just going to comply but it's actually a very small number of people or actors in the world that
00:33:40.720
like will will take the time to remove these people when you got unbaked go broke like it's not
00:33:46.500
actually a big audience that they're appealing to it's just the perception of a big audience
00:33:50.200
which is that people who don't have jobs or are friends or other things going on have more time
00:33:56.460
to make a stink online however are you seeing this happen in different ways because i also think that
00:34:01.600
people should know a little bit more about like the mechanics of how this happens because i think this
00:34:05.780
is going to happen to more and more people people should know the signs to look out for know how to
00:34:09.740
preempt it or what to expect when you were unbanked for the lincoln memorial rally do you think it was one
00:34:17.140
group do you know who it was or do you think that the impetus actually came from banks and other
00:34:22.740
providers directly like from within them that's a good question so we were definitely the target of
00:34:31.700
i i you know i'm i think we were in the twitter files as defeat the mandates we were suspended several
00:34:39.080
times from under the old regime on twitter we were it was funny we it's a really mixed bag because i do
00:34:48.540
feel that on the one hand we were targeted by a lot of these twitter um covet doctors right where they got
00:34:58.380
a lot of prominence and they got a lot of very suspicious amplification and i'll just say that
00:35:04.580
during the 2020 medical global emergency right and so we were definitely targeted by them but and i
00:35:13.140
will say this and we weren't given a fair shake by the major media but in their own way i think we did
00:35:22.460
get a little bit lucky in that defeat we we presented ourselves in such a way as to make it very
00:35:31.540
difficult for like a new york times reporter to just hate on us like in everything we did we put like
00:35:38.720
everything like we have people from all parties we have people from all vaccination status we have
00:35:43.720
people from you know we we did do i think a good job of making it hard to be hated on and so
00:35:55.140
we got a lot of backhanded positive coverage from like the media which is odd right so yeah and this
00:36:05.240
so it's hard to say like and as a group we weren't targeted by like certain groups that now go around
00:36:15.120
telling elon they're targeting him we've never been targeted in that way but we did get debate so and
00:36:22.620
we weren't really told why and for us because of the period of time we were in we didn't have the
00:36:30.060
energy to like we just had to find a new bank we just had to we just had to roll with it and it's
00:36:36.280
just one of those things that we're like okay we're gonna note that that happened and again when we were
00:36:41.720
making we also produced the covet litigation conferences and when we did that a couple of
00:36:47.680
things happened as well with like these b2b services where we couldn't use like the best
00:36:53.780
option because we just because of the name of our conference we get kicked off like okay so this is
00:37:02.040
a lot of what you encountered too is what one could argue is like keyword based or trigger word based
00:37:07.940
de-platforming this is really fascinating to me as well because one thing i keep wondering is when
00:37:13.260
are we going to be able to talk about like what the science has actually said about special k's
00:37:17.180
post special k good news good news so they know there is there's always a lag right and so the google
00:37:25.340
gods who who control a lot of what we can talk about on your show on this channel there's probably
00:37:32.700
going to be a lag but today in the journal of medical ethics there was this peer-reviewed paper and
00:37:39.260
i'll send it to you by these six dutch researchers that looked into the scapegoating
00:37:44.880
of people who did not take the interventions and their conclusions were it was misinformation
00:37:51.680
to scapegoat them because the pandemic risks were overstated and the efficacy of the intervention
00:38:00.660
was also overstated yeah number two the media created this misinformation three the disinformation
00:38:10.520
is incredibly harmful and the fourth thing they looked at who was doing the scapegoating
00:38:16.740
and by and large it was liberals and they looked at it by ideology and that people on the right were
00:38:25.220
not scapegoating even if they had had the intervention they refused to scapegoat but
00:38:31.020
liberals were the ones who were doing that so i you know we have a lot of liberals in our movement
00:38:36.860
and it's been very difficult i think for them and i feel for them but there's something about
00:38:43.500
this like all-encompassing liberalism that we are told we live under and it doesn't really appear to
00:38:55.420
be the thing itself well it's interesting you say that i'm actually interested to see if this video
00:38:59.580
gets flagged some way or something like that because i don't know if we're allowed to say this
00:39:03.900
yet like i i genuinely don't know that's not the only study that shows that we were there it's actually
00:39:08.320
been a number of pretty good studies that just do not agree with the mainstream narrative and they
00:39:14.440
have been put out in mainstream publications like mainstream scientific publications but like for a
00:39:20.380
lot of this stuff like i don't know like we know a lot of stuff about special k that even isn't in
00:39:25.080
the media that one day i do want to be able to share because we have a lot of friends who are very
00:39:31.100
well connected in large pharmaceutical companies and very well connected in the testing that was being
00:39:35.780
done on this one of our best friends actually runs the mask lab at cambridge um or is it oxford i
00:39:41.000
don't know one of the one of these places it was done yeah well what if we say this always follow
00:39:45.860
the advice of the medical experts as acknowledged by the alphabet corporation and their subsidiaries
00:39:54.900
i agree yes i think that is what we need to do tells you to do well they're very good at determining
00:40:00.700
what's true and what's not true and you know how i know that they're good at determining this
00:40:04.020
because when they determine something's not true people stop saying it so why would that happen if
00:40:09.860
they weren't good at determining what's true and what's not true so no another thing that's really
00:40:14.220
interesting is you know you talk about progressive and i think we could have been thought of as
00:40:19.020
traditionally fairly progressive minded in a lot of our belief systems like you know i'm really pro
00:40:24.360
gay marriage i do not think that that the government should be getting involved in this but then i look
00:40:29.020
at where things have gone and like special k was the moment where i was like okay you guys i've sort
00:40:33.700
of lost track you're going like full totalitarian and then recently you know we've been talking to
00:40:39.260
our friends who are on the fence recently and they're like wait like they're just like pro hamas now
00:40:44.880
like are we are we fucking serious like i did not think they had gotten just like out there super
00:40:51.240
villain comically like at the at the front level like just evil evil like they're doing like pro
00:40:57.280
hamas protests where they're not like they're not like let's find peace yeah it's like yeah hamas is
00:41:03.100
in the right these people are colonizers let's kill them all um and i think for a lot of people that was
00:41:09.680
really shocking because they didn't realize you know and then there was the and a lot of people
00:41:13.820
um i i want to be clear i i think you know black people in american society do not get a fair shake
00:41:19.780
i i think that the police violence against these communities is horrible but i also think that the
00:41:24.560
statistics show that if you look at the black people in these
00:41:27.280
communities where this violence is taking place they do not think the solution the majority is to
00:41:32.100
defund police this is mostly a white movement and we were joking about having an episode where the
00:41:37.200
title was why do criminals want to defund the police but it's a problem because a lot of these
00:41:42.840
people who are who are pushing for this they have an antagonistic view towards police because
00:41:48.340
police have primarily and this is what's going to be the case if you are a middle or upper class
00:41:53.200
white person who regularly breaks you know laws in regards to things like drugs and stuff like that
00:41:58.920
your view and your relationship to the police is going to be primarily antagonistic whereas it's
00:42:04.220
often not in these poorer communities where they have in part an antagonistic relationship with the
00:42:11.040
police because the police do treat these communities unfairly but they also can reduce crime in these
00:42:16.160
communities and stuff like that and improve the the daily lives of citizens and so this is this is
00:42:21.980
i think for a lot of people they're like okay so like the criminals it's like a group of criminals who
00:42:27.220
want to defund the police and who are pro hamas and who when they gain the littlest bit of power
00:42:33.380
immediately started firing and deep banking like everyone who disagreed with them like am i really still
00:42:39.960
on the good guy side and i think that it's become increasingly unambiguous not that the republicans
00:42:46.360
are good guys at all but they're not like comically evil anymore and i think there were times in american
00:42:52.980
history where they were you know i i think if you look at like actions we took in in south america you
00:42:58.440
know under some republican leadership i think that that was pretty comically evil stuff that was done um
00:43:03.200
but no so on that front i actually have a question here for both of you yeah because you know there has
00:43:07.160
been this huge crisis of faith in government and institutions etc but this is like definitely not
00:43:12.860
the first time that government and institutions have have lied to us either knowingly or just not
00:43:19.700
really knowing what they were doing at the time and like did the best they could but misrepresented
00:43:23.500
things to the people but there wasn't the same like crisis of faith of like oh my gosh i i i can't trust
00:43:30.360
this anymore like for example at the university where malcolm went for undergrad in saint andrews like still
00:43:35.520
some of the old houses you can see metal has been clipped off of of like the fences outside old
00:43:40.700
houses and this was part of where we assume that this was cut off at a time when during world war ii
00:43:46.860
winston churchill had encouraged citizens to contribute metal like pots pans pieces of their fences for use in
00:43:54.120
the war effort and where did that go it was all dumped it wasn't actually used but winston churchill
00:43:59.180
had sort of decided like we need to give people an ability to like feel like they're contributing
00:44:04.080
well he also very famously did that because he wanted to punish stanley baldwin who had been the
00:44:11.440
prime minute two prime ministers before him and so he ruined his gates on purpose i'm gonna get i'm
00:44:18.100
gonna get baldwin's gates because baldwin was like excessively proud of the gates to his country house or
00:44:24.840
something oh my god was not you know there's a there's another side of churchill that's been a
00:44:31.480
hundred years gonna come out churchill wanted to get baldwin's gates the only way to do that was to
00:44:36.200
get everyone to do this nonsense thing where like oh we're gonna do these clippings and that's somehow
00:44:41.640
gonna help it was i wouldn't yeah i well i but see that's things but then like after that there wasn't
00:44:48.040
this whole like oh we can never trust the government again nobody hears the thing churchill was fighting
00:44:52.720
against actual nazis who were committing an actual genocide progressives now are like they have learned
00:44:59.740
they can just call anyone they disagree with a nazi while they are literally supporting a group that
00:45:06.480
stated aim is genocide of the same people the nazis tried to genocide wait wait i know i get that but
00:45:13.640
like let's talk about the great health scarer of the year 2020 like i think that a lot of the initial
00:45:19.480
like mandates and orders that were released were were like in good faith people were panicking they're
00:45:24.460
just like you know don't wear the mask you wear them like whatever like they just didn't know yet
00:45:28.860
and they were making a lot of decisions and not thinking through things fully and running around
00:45:32.940
like chickens with their heads cut off like this wasn't all in bad faith like i you know i'm definitely
00:45:36.600
going to you know do this to hurt these people no it wasn't bad faith but it was i have a little bit
00:45:41.420
of power now this is how i act when i feel i have a moral license to do all of the things i always
00:45:47.820
felt like doing bush did this to an extent after 9-11 so you think well but nobody know like back to
00:45:53.540
the churchill example there were social indulgence in that too like personal indulgence in that so
00:45:57.500
what's the difference they were fighting literal nazis like what is confusing about fighting nazis
00:46:05.800
nazis are there is no way that you can like remedy nazis there's no way if it's fighting nazis but
00:46:13.580
also like satisfying a personal agenda is that the worst thing in the entire world by the way you've
00:46:19.220
you've fallen off you i know i don't know my camera died for a second i'm going to replug it
00:46:23.840
i think i think i think like big picture i think i think our system is coming to itself by date and i
00:46:35.940
think people are realizing that and i think if you had to give a name to a system that we've lived under
00:46:43.040
for a long time we would have to call it liberalism and i think that what people are trying to do is
00:46:52.340
figure out what's going to come next and i think that people don't necessarily should for example
00:46:58.400
even within replatform the health free movement we have people who are like yeah you know i i'm allies
00:47:05.780
with social conservatives i want to build tools with them to build some new thing but i don't
00:47:12.320
necessarily want to live in the same new thing as them right and so it's like are we building out
00:47:19.340
these intentional communities or economies to accommodate what we think will be our tribe
00:47:27.900
so this is this is something i really want to elaborate on something you're talking about here
00:47:31.740
i think if you take all the politics out of this if you take all of this out of this and you just
00:47:36.040
look at for example the cost it takes to do simple things there's this great thing recently we're like
00:47:41.700
repainting the golden gate bridge and inflation adjusted dollars cost like
00:47:46.460
eight times more than building it okay i remembered this story really wrong it was
00:47:51.220
that putting nets under the golden gate bridge cost almost as much as building the golden great bridge
00:47:56.660
and here is a great video analyzing the truth of this report the u.s department of transportation
00:48:02.720
publishes a golden gate bridge fact sheet and it says that the golden gate bridge was constructed
00:48:08.780
using a 35 million dollar bond construction began in 1933 and was completed in 37 it was completed ahead of schedule
00:48:19.240
and 1.3 million dollars under budget so 33.7 which is 1.3 less than the 35 million dollar bond
00:48:29.240
that they raised from 1933 when they raised this bond adjusted for inflation to today's dollars is about
00:48:36.920
800 million dollars so we're pretty close to the tweets estimate and it seems like the time it took to
00:48:44.180
construct the bridge is right it took about four years now let's look at the nets reporting from a local
00:48:51.200
news source sf gate in the year 2008 says that the city government approved the nets and they expected the
00:48:59.240
netting to cost between 40 and 50 million dollars when they approved it reporting in the la times says that
00:49:06.860
the netting could cost up to 400 million dollars as of late last year and a local news article published
00:49:15.380
yesterday says that the net is currently 80 percent complete and on track to finish around this year
00:49:22.440
so the time estimate for the nets under the bridge is about right it started in 18 and it will hopefully
00:49:31.440
fingers crossed finished by the end of 23 the cost estimate is a possible cost the la times article
00:49:39.600
goes on to explain that the exact cost is going to be determined by a lawsuit that is currently just
00:49:45.900
getting started so who knows maybe it'll even be worse it is becoming and and this is something we have
00:49:52.640
the pragmatist guide on governance where we talk about the history of governance we talk about governance
00:49:56.800
theory and one of the things that we point out is that the longer and larger governments have been alive
00:50:02.280
similar to a long-lived or very large animal it will have cancers that form within it these are
00:50:08.160
parts of it that just are focused on self-replication and getting as much resources as they can get for
00:50:14.720
self-replication within our existing governance system these cancers are just riddling the entity
00:50:20.800
in biology the way that we get rid of this problem is we die and we have kids like it's a great system
00:50:30.320
it's beautiful you know you don't need to stay healthy forever if you can die and have kids and i think that
00:50:36.400
if you just project forwards cost increases whether it's on building things whether it's on infrastructure
00:50:42.700
whether it's on like academic systems like research if you look at the amount of money it costs per like
00:50:48.380
research thing it has gone up astronomically i'm talking like 200 times or something and then you
00:50:54.220
look at a lot of the things our society revolves around like our power plants right like a lot of
00:50:58.220
people know this a lot of the nuclear power plants that power our country almost all of them are over
00:51:02.140
50 years old over half a century old we no longer have the capacity to replace these things due to how much
00:51:10.940
it would cost to build new nuclear power plants under current regulations that means that as we
00:51:17.580
decommission these which god knows we're probably going to as leftists decommission things they can't
00:51:22.620
rebuild we have no way to replace them as power sources that means rolling blackouts that means so
00:51:28.940
for so much of this you're looking at a system where outside of political reasons outside of overreach
00:51:35.340
reasons is inevitably going to collapse and it's even worse than that and i'll give you one little
00:51:41.420
example there was i think last week this article about there's like three or four ammunition
00:51:46.940
factories in america i don't know if it was the new york or the new york times or washington post
00:51:52.380
went into one of them in pennsylvania or something and it's run down and everyone who's working on it
00:51:58.620
looks like they're there has to be over than older than 50 half the lights are out and that's one of
00:52:05.900
our four ammunition plants in america that produces ammunition that is needed by the ukraine to fight an
00:52:13.260
actual war right but here's the worst part about it that itself wouldn't be so bad but we've actually
00:52:21.420
been governed by neoconservatives for for 30 years for over 30 years for almost 40 years who who've
00:52:30.620
entirely run this country on endless war who we spend gosh knows how much on the military every year
00:52:38.860
so this is their thing even on their thing that they say this is our thing war we need war we need
00:52:45.340
more money for war we have to always be about war and we can't produce ammunition and the four one of
00:52:52.300
four factories we have looks like a dump so even on their own things the people who are running our systems
00:53:01.260
they can't eat this is why they get so frantic and so hysterical and so lockdown mandate censorship
00:53:09.180
because they can't even implement their own priorities effectively and this is what's going
00:53:15.980
on with taiwan as well like you know we genuinely cannot produce the semiconductors of the advanced
00:53:22.780
quality at the level we need that's coming out of taiwan right now i think that your average american
00:53:28.220
citizen does not understand how much their lifestyle relies on taiwan if they're living their lifestyle
00:53:36.140
on the internet or online or with bitcoin or with like like all of the advanced technology that we're
00:53:42.780
using relies on a system that is clearly unsustainable and about to collapse yeah so that's what we have
00:53:51.260
to that's what we have to build something different and that's why we have to have like our our really
00:53:57.500
super elite intellectuals who are into this and we have to have the normie people and we have to have
00:54:04.380
the cheesy people and we have to have the health freedom people and the social conservatives and the
00:54:09.020
libertarians and we have to bring them together because we may not all end up in the same tribe when
00:54:13.980
this thing shakes out but we can we can build tools together and this is why investing in parallel economies
00:54:20.700
makes a lot of sense now if you are an investor and you're thinking like well this parallel economy thing
00:54:24.860
nothing has come of it yet yes nothing has come of it yet that's the point when it happens it will
00:54:32.540
happen slowly then all of a sudden and the people who built their houses there ideologically like our
00:54:39.820
little ideological you you can look at like people are like well you're othering yourself from the
00:54:43.900
system why would you take this risk and it's because we see things as intergenerational and i know where to
00:54:48.300
invest i know that either us or our children will be rewarded for the ideological camp that we are
00:54:55.180
building on the side that's obviously going to win when the other system collapses so be ready for that
00:55:01.900
and be ready to remember what the other side did to you yeah i mean
00:55:07.020
in in the ex to the extent that one should always be cautious about wolves and foxes especially when
00:55:17.900
they come to dressed as sheep one should always be weary and look at past behavior as potential
00:55:24.540
you know a guide to future behavior but at the same time again even for people who are like
00:55:31.740
okay so a lot of people very oddly i think but they do they do not react well to the word ideology
00:55:43.660
or any variation of it ideological what you know what i mean for whatever reason they're they've been
00:55:50.060
trained to think of that as a bad word right and so same with political if it's interesting how those
00:55:57.820
two words are bad words even though we live in such a system but it is what it is but again
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all the only ideology you need to have to be in the parallel economy as a decision maker an investor
00:56:13.580
consumer an entrepreneur is we should start building tools because this this mainstream thing looks a
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little shaky that's it that's the only ideology you have to have the ideology of i can
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see what's happening yeah well and i think that this is also really interesting i mean we talk
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about hucksters any economy any new thing like this is going to attract hucksters i think this is another
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thing we've done some things about it a lot of people can be very confused as to why people think
00:56:39.500
crypto and web 3 has so much value it is because it is one of the potential places the parallel economy
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might emerge from but it isn't the only potential place and it's useful to and i i don't even think
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it's the most likely potential place where it's going to emerge from but but for people who can
00:56:57.420
invest in things it is the easiest to invest in place where it might come from and so with your
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conference hopefully you begin to create new nexuses of where it could come from that i'm excited to see
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and this this has been fantastic to chat with you and we're really excited to be speaking at this
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conference yeah we really look forward to your panel and your keynotes and it's gonna be a great time
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we're gonna have a lot of fun most of all you know it i love this well and it's it's going to
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happen and it's a great place i mean charter cities this is also why we're really involved
00:57:27.660
in charter cities that's an example of like where a parallel economy could happen these are cities
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that basically have their own governing structure and are separate from existing governances so there's
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so much to talk about in regards to parallel economies and i'm really excited for where it goes
00:57:39.820
and i think that when people look at a space they can say that space is full of scam artists
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therefore it's not the future and i would say look historically wherever you have seen a cluster
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of scam artists in the past it has been the future look at the dot-com bust right it's like
00:57:58.220
the dot-com business with a bunch of scam artists and then it busted and everyone like
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you see that's proof that the internet is full of and nothing's ever
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going to come of this thing con artists may be con artists but they have good taste exactly
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that's such a good way of putting it dirty rotten scoundrels they had excellent days
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have a spectacular day yeah and we will see you in vegas in uh god it's march in march it's so
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what are the exact dates so people can register yeah oh well and also like what is just go to the
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website replatformvegas.com perfect good and is registration open yep good okay cool well then if any
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of you guys are coming we'll see you there and i want to be clear this episode is not an endorsement
00:58:43.100
of any naughty or cancelable opinions we do not we do not think naughty things on this show no we
00:58:50.220
think sexually deviant things which are not naughty anymore yes those are all okay but yeah we're
00:58:55.500
sexual deviants we're just we're no no yeah nothing else that's fine all right have a good one thank you
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so much if you want to check out this conference the promo code based all capital well i don't know
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if it's capital sensitive but based all capital at least will get you 10 off both tickets and exhibiting
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so you know always want to save you guys money where i can