Based Camp - Russia Astroturfed BLM & We Have Proof

00:00:00.000 so of their top 10 accounts five only targeted at black people 0.96

00:00:05.260 that is insane that is not at all like the impression i was i was given 0.78

00:00:11.740 like in general right this is not the narrative that we are told and then you have me going

00:00:17.800 through this i'm like wait this is all in like senate committee reports and stuff like that

00:00:21.780 like that russia was behind black lives matter like what so crazy and you could be like well 0.67

00:00:29.860 russia wasn't everything behind black lives matter and i'd say okay maybe they weren't but they were 1.00

00:00:35.900 more behind black lives matter than they ever were behind trump and that's really important

00:00:41.960 to the narrative that's out there right now oh yeah wow this what the charlotte rallies

00:00:50.200 the charlotte rallies this is the good people on both sides yes this is the people on both sides

00:00:55.900 one trump was praising russian operatives on that one when he was praising the democrats because

00:01:02.400 that's who the russian operatives helped on that one it's a lot of people would you like to know more

00:01:07.720 hello simone i am excited to be here with you today so sometimes i'll be doing an episode and i'll be

00:01:13.940 just like fact checking something and then i'll notice some statistics and some numbers or i'm like

00:01:18.800 wait this can't be real and then i start going down a rabbit hole and the rabbit hole i went down

00:01:25.980 this time and what's weird about this rabbit hole is this is all outlined clear as day and like senate

00:01:32.860 reports and everything like that which we'll be going over and yet i haven't heard this as a

00:01:39.200 mainstream position on the right and you guys can be like oh no x blew this up long ago or whatever

00:01:44.920 but the russian collusion operation the ira like the thing that was russiagate the democrats said

00:01:53.780 got donald trump elected it was significantly more involved with the astroturfing and creation of the

00:02:02.600 blm movement than trump's election what and this is both well documented and incredibly well attested

00:02:12.780 and yet it is like not part of the popular imagination at all that can't be because we

00:02:18.060 would have heard something about that no right at least from conservatives it's not as though

00:02:24.260 conservatives don't have a voice anywhere and we listen to a lot of conservative influencers and

00:02:30.200 well not media outlets but but influencers yeah but yeah so my thought as like a concern and the weird

00:02:36.400 thing about this is this information is not new it's been out there for a while and i'm not here

00:02:40.540 saying because this is the perception i had historically it was like historically the perception

00:02:44.720 i had is that the the ira helped both sides in that particular election cycle they helped the you

00:02:53.300 know there were many instances in which two sides of a protest were both organized by the ira by russia

00:02:59.740 basically does the ira stand for i don't know what it stands for i don't speak russian anyway so the ira

00:03:06.860 and and so i was like and the reason why it appeared to people as if the ira was more pro trump than pro

00:03:15.420 clinton was solely because it believed trump to be the spoiler candidate and bernie to be the spoiler

00:03:22.640 candidate so if you're unaware the ira was actually incredibly pro bernie they worked really hard to

00:03:28.000 help bernie in the primaries i didn't know that either okay well so the so my sort of perception was

00:03:34.660 is it was probably about 50 republican stuff 50 democrat stuff and then of the republican stuff

00:03:42.240 it might have looked like it was more trump just because they saw him as the spoiler candidate

00:03:45.700 if you actually go into the documentation that is not the case it is significantly more democrat stuff

00:03:55.520 and it is significantly black lives matter focused stuff and it was black lives matter focused stuff

00:04:01.360 and we'll go into the timeline right as the movement was beginning to get big and what you

00:04:06.140 also might not know about is the height of ira or the second height of ira interference because there

00:04:12.620 were two spikes spikes one was during the election cycle and after the election was had so it wasn't

00:04:19.380 2016 or 2020 but the second was actually at the height of the blm movement they they went back in

00:04:27.320 with more fake stuff so we're going to be going over all of this how they astroturf the movement

00:04:32.640 and what's important to know before i go any further than this because it really disgusts me when i see

00:04:37.800 rightus fall for this nonsense is they act like russia is our friend because russia realizes that like the

00:04:48.600 alphabet soup crowd is like toxic to a society and that you know you know there might be problems with 1.00

00:04:55.640 secularization and they're like look they recognize all of these things therefore they're on our side

00:05:01.100 and it's like no when you go to sleep every night they're injecting that into your neck in hopes that

00:05:06.660 you die horribly like they are as almost as existential an enemy we can have like china does hit us with like 1.00

00:05:18.080 china does try to like mess up the u.s like they like come in and are like don't trust your government 1.00

00:05:22.660 evil evil evil evil evil evil evil don't trust your government but that doesn't work on americans

00:05:30.480 because americans are like yeah we don't really trust our government yeah we never did yeah like 0.96

00:05:36.180 china sucks at psyops in america right outside of tiktok which has done amazingly well in scrambling 0.95

00:05:42.400 a lot of people's brains incredibly well yes but russia gets it you know russia will come in 0.99

00:05:47.320 and they'll be like don't you know the black lives matter but we'll go into how they did this

00:05:52.160 think darling think there must be something really rotten we can do today i'm thinking but the worst i

00:05:59.340 come up with is trying to convince americans george floyd was a wholesome dude so just like you darling

00:06:06.280 always trying to help others get a little more pain out of life and that's why they're incredibly

00:06:10.960 dangerous and we should not think of them or treat them as an ally like there might be like individual

00:06:17.160 russians who can be cool and friends and everything like that but the country itself is is working

00:06:23.520 oppositionally to us and and i'd also say that the republicans the like quote-unquote republican

00:06:29.420 influencers who like side whiz and i think you're seeing this increasingly increasingly countries like

00:06:35.820 russia and qatar and iran i'm going to be talking about tucker carlson and which is here they're not

00:06:43.340 really on our side right like these countries hate us and they want to destroy our civilization

00:06:49.740 and when you glaze them you are saying oh i won't work with people on my own side who are trying to

00:06:57.380 preserve the civilization because of minor ideological differences but i will work with people who are

00:07:02.840 actively injecting this stuff who are actively creating movements like so let's go on here

00:07:09.740 so senate select committee on intelligence ssci report volume two russia's use of social media

00:07:17.640 released in 2019 as part of a multi-volume investigation into russian active measures

00:07:22.740 youtube channel uploaded hundreds of videos of police brutality and blm related topics the ssci

00:07:32.360 report reveals that the ira operated 17 youtube channels uploading approximately 1100 videos

00:07:39.180 totaling 43 hours of content 96 of this was targeted at blm type issues like police brutality

00:07:52.320 often mimicking blm narratives to build credibility a complementary finding of new knowledge report

00:07:59.940 specifics that 571 of these videos directly related police violence against african americans

00:08:06.600 and youtube citations post-election and this is really important the majority of the ira's work

00:08:13.220 happened after the election cycle not during the campaign they were not going to win the campaign

00:08:18.760 they were trying to build distrust in the election cycle

00:08:21.860 but anyway the mentions and links to ira content increased 84 percent now what's really interesting

00:08:33.840 about this initial report which remember i was just going here yeah you read it in the initial language

00:08:39.580 they'll say something like of this 96 percent were tied to racial issues to try to make it seem like

00:08:46.440 it's racial issues on both sides equally okay actually look at the breakdown it's like 95 of that or

00:08:53.160 100 of that is blm related issues oh wow it's not on both sides so if we're going for the facebook ad

00:09:01.700 campaigns remember i'm sure you would think that this was if you read the media the vast majority of

00:09:06.480 it must have been pro-trump stuff right or at least fighting battle of like normal stuff no

00:09:13.300 66 percent of it the ira facebook content was on trying to create racial division specifically

00:09:22.360 targeted at blacks the ssc wait so this it was was it anti black lives matter content like it was pro

00:09:32.480 black lives matter content it was about police brutality it was the sorry the report intentionally

00:09:37.320 words it in a way that's meant to mislead you we'll get to i'm trying to reword parts of the

00:09:41.820 report so that you can understand because they keep trying to make it sound like race related content so

00:09:46.320 they'll say something like it's going to stoke racism in the united states against black americans

00:09:51.380 no so they'll say something like quote over 66 percent of ira facebook advertising content contained

00:09:58.720 a term related to race now they will say something like that right and because we know that a

00:10:05.860 some of the ira content was tried to drive up anti-white racism so white racism against black people

00:10:13.520 they expect you the reader to not have read the whole report and not know that actually when they're

00:10:20.300 talking about racially divisive content almost all of it like it seems over 90 percent of it was 0.90

00:10:26.760 specifically targeted at black people trying to make them hate america and hate white people 0.94

00:10:31.600 oh and and and and specifically the biggest target they did was trying to get black people to hate the 0.97

00:10:37.220 police okay wow okay okay okay so this is based on an analysis of approximately 3,393 paid

00:10:47.700 adverts purchased by the ira across facebook and instagram a separate analysis of the ira ads

00:10:53.880 released by the house intelligence committee found that 55 55 specifically targeted race

00:10:59.980 often citing crime or policing themes again they are

00:11:04.420 race was the dominant theme overall was the ira creating at least 30 facebook pages specifically

00:11:12.280 targeting african american audiences out of 81 ira accounts analyzed so out of 81 ira accounts in total

00:11:20.820 31 were only targeted at african americans oh which amassed about 1.2 million followers and generated

00:11:29.660 tens of millions in engagement one standout includes the blacktivist page which alone produced 11.2 million

00:11:38.140 user engagements oh my gosh and keep in mind this is in 2016 right so this is in the years leading up to

00:11:46.620 blm right like this is the seedbed that led to the explosion of the the large blm movement now i know

00:11:54.820 blm as a concept did arise organically but it was not growing organically until the ira stepped in

00:12:01.800 so again if you hate black lives matter you hate russia all right they're the ones who gave us this 0.97

00:12:14.160 infection all right there this is a partner you slept with that gave you chlamydia okay 0.99

00:12:19.960 you gotta learn that is bad news guys

00:12:24.280 all right instagram activity exploded post-election up 238 in some cases so again this was not about

00:12:34.440 election interference this is about showing civil discord have exploded the spin post-election

00:12:41.400 the ssci report documents that ira activity increased across platform after election day

00:12:48.900 2016 with instagram seeing 20 238 surgeon activity this is measured by metrics like post volume and

00:12:58.640 engagements for context the ira operated 133 instagram accounts posting 116 000 times and generating 187

00:13:08.660 million engagements likes comments and shares five of the top 10 ira instagram accounts focused on

00:13:15.000 african-american issues and audiences underscoring the racial emphasis so of their top 10 accounts

00:13:22.120 five only targeted at black people that is insane that is not at all like the impression i was i was

00:13:31.000 given that like in general right this is not the narrative that we are told yeah so they were they 0.94

00:13:37.720 were they were specifically trying to solve so racial fears among black people they were not targeting

00:13:43.680 political things overwhelmingly and by the way we talked about this in another video but it is

00:13:47.860 worth it if you're just on this video you haven't seen the other one russia gate like i.e that russia

00:13:52.240 was trying to help trump get elected it's just baloney basically obama really pressured a number of

00:13:59.980 departments to push this out they said in no uncertain terms the guy came back from vacation like literally

00:14:06.800 he was on vacation the guy who was like running one of the departments he came back or it might have

00:14:11.040 like an away assignment and he was like you guys can't release this and he sent a letter to one of

00:14:16.220 the key guys at the obama administration he goes i've talked with my team and i am not you know in

00:14:20.680 like professional terms this isn't accurate information the way he said it is we don't have

00:14:25.700 access to the information we need to put this out and we do not have you know high enough quality

00:14:30.740 information to put this out and the other guy said well you're going to need to bend normal

00:14:35.200 procedures basically you know in summary obama said so deal with it you're putting out false

00:14:41.080 information so if you are familiar with that whole narrative that was a that was phony baloney

00:14:48.360 that was phony baloney put out by a very obama was a really dishonest guy and i think a lot of people

00:14:55.800 don't realize that like they think that he you know they believe the public narrative that he

00:15:00.320 wasn't the type of person who would make something up like this to smear an opponent now i'd like to

00:15:06.340 point out in obama's defense right think about it from obama's perspective his side just lost an

00:15:12.400 election because that's when he did this he really wants to to smear trump which ironically was what the

00:15:18.080 russians were trying to do was all of this anyway so he's really helping russians in their initial

00:15:24.080 effort he knows that some of the russian accounts were pushing out trump i mean yes more of them were

00:15:31.220 pushing black racial fears but that doesn't really help him to focus on and he may not have a full

00:15:37.400 statistical breakout at this point yet and so why doesn't he just really focus on getting everyone

00:15:42.920 to know that russia was putting out bots that were attempting to help trump everybody needs to know this

00:15:48.360 because he knows this and he's not really concerned with the whole truth does he does he need it

00:15:53.580 explain to him that this is also he'd probably be like and they're also showing anti you know bernie

00:15:59.080 stuff and he goes oh they just hate hillary well they're also mostly doing black racial stuff and

00:16:03.720 he's like oh well we probably need that you know i i i could really see that being the reasoning of

00:16:10.380 anyone seeing this not necessarily barack obama or anyone in his administration or on his team or on

00:16:16.440 hillary's team or anyone else's seeing it and being like haha i'm going to mislead people but being like

00:16:21.680 okay so these accounts are also spreading information about police brutality and racism

00:16:27.700 and we know these to be major issues i'm not even going to worry about because we're only going to

00:16:32.680 worry about that which is going to stop us from being getting elected and that which is actively not

00:16:38.600 true and if they see it as true and if they also see it as favorable to their re-election or

00:16:44.080 entrenchment in power it doesn't deserve a second thought yeah why would you give it a second thought

00:16:49.540 you know that's inconvenient right to him it's not even inconvenient it doesn't it doesn't warrant a

00:16:55.300 second of consideration yeah what russia is doing to help black people from his perspective is just

00:17:01.860 not something the public needs to know about it's just noise it's like a control set yeah and the only

00:17:08.040 the only fit to consider is the amount that may be promoting trump exactly and by the way if you're

00:17:13.960 like progressive leaning and you're just now learning about this understand just how much of the media

00:17:17.780 narrative has been completely manufactured and i think that that a lot of people can go through

00:17:23.680 and and just be like okay i'm broadly figuring things out now and then you have me going through

00:17:30.040 this i'm like wait this is all in like senate committee reports and stuff like that like that

00:17:35.280 russia was behind black lives matter like what so crazy and you could be like well russia wasn't 0.85

00:17:42.560 everything behind black lives matter and i'd say okay maybe they weren't but they were more behind 1.00

00:17:48.900 black lives matter than they ever were behind trump and that's really important to the narrative that's

00:17:55.680 out there right now oh yeah that's incredibly important so did the mainstream black lives matter 1.00

00:18:02.980 movement ever directly interface with the ira yes but always accidentally so let's go through these

00:18:11.320 okay they're not exactly the smartest of individuals we'll also go over how they scammed a bunch of people

00:18:17.000 but the self-defense training via blackfist the ira-run blackfist group a fake self-defense initiative

00:18:22.720 targeting black communities contacted and paid at least five u.s trained to conduct classes

00:18:28.200 classes for instance mma fighter and activist um wally adale in brooklyn new york was hired on

00:18:35.560 january 2017 to teach self-defense classes promoted as black power matters he received 320 via paypal

00:18:43.500 for four sessions but stopped and contact ceased in may 2017 wally was an unwitting and believed it was a

00:18:50.820 legitimate community effort similar payments were made to trainers across the u.s rally organization

00:18:56.840 via black matters u.s this ira operated site and social media page which mimicked blm narratives

00:19:03.540 on racial and police brutality reached out to activists to organize protests in september 2016

00:19:08.860 north carolina activist connor james was contacted via facebook to speak at and help coordinate rallies

00:19:16.160 in charlotte following the police killing of tess lamont scott he organized two events one drawing over

00:19:21.980 600 people and collaborated with legitimate groups like the aclu in aacp unaware of its russia ties

00:19:29.060 wow this what the charlotte rallies the charlotte rallies this is the one where the woman got 1.00

00:19:37.900 killed like run over yeah the good people on both sides yes this is the people on both sides one

00:19:45.520 trump was praising russian operatives on that one when he was praising the democrats because that's

00:19:51.960 who the russian operatives helped on that one 600 people is not a small amount of people to get at a

00:19:56.880 rally it's a lot of people wow okay okay similarly los angeles activist nolan hack was reimbursed for

00:20:06.920 travel to assist with civil rights rallies so like when people are like

00:20:10.680 who's behind this latest disruption who's behind the protesters who are throwing things at police

00:20:18.040 who's behind bet your bottom dollar in a few years you're going to find out it wasn't george soros

00:20:23.860 it was poop okay stop take it out of your mouth for five seconds and understand he wants to destroy 0.77

00:20:33.680 western civilization that's his end game because he wants to replace it with the kleptocratic 1.00

00:20:39.280 civilization that he is building out and if you understand how russia has ever operated even

00:20:45.460 during this client state period they always say because they've done this before by the way

00:20:50.680 if you don't know much about how the communist the the the the communist union actually operated

00:20:57.480 you and you look at it from an outsider you look at it like a brainwashed lefty they look at it and

00:21:02.600 they're like oh it was a land of equality where everyone was one under the wider communist empire if

00:21:09.180 you actually look at the way people lived in it people in saint petersburg and moscow were living

00:21:14.280 it up people in the colonized regions the the you know i forget the technical name for them the

00:21:21.020 subjugated regions lived in immense poverty and were systematically exploited when russia says hey we

00:21:29.200 want you when they come to the american right and they're like we want to create a worldwide you know

00:21:34.240 right-leaning empire right it's an empire like the communist empire where they sell you it's an

00:21:40.940 empire where we're all going to be equals but they plan to strip every right and everything you have

00:21:46.460 so you can live in permanent subjugation to them and you can be a fodder for their endless expansion

00:21:51.500 so far as they want to expand anyway it's the way they still operate today it's the way the russian

00:21:57.680 empire has always thought about things it looks like you wanted to say something no no no keep going

00:22:04.060 but this this very much reminds me of like when somebody acts like that they remind me of what's

00:22:09.520 his face from red alert to acting like yuri is his friend allies will give up their foolish resistance

00:22:15.120 and join our glorious soviet cause then together we take care of traitor yuri it's like yuri is not your

00:22:25.220 friend like you might technically be wearing the same uniforms but yuri cares about you not a lick

00:22:32.700 and one day you're going to be serving him if his plans come to fruition anyway to continue here in

00:22:39.920 content creation black matters u.s contacted st louis hip-hop artist ronnie houston aka rough the ruler

00:22:46.280 in march 2016 via instagram to produce a music video on social issues with lyrics framing police as

00:22:52.900 assassins and protesters as quote-unquote avengers in atlanta a blogging duo william and kavin

00:22:59.840 created anti-hilary clinton videos and posts including statements like hillary clinton is not

00:23:05.500 our candidate so they also tried to get the black community to hate the mainstream democrats at times

00:23:09.540 occupy wall street co-founder mika white was approached in may 2016 by a fake freelance reporter

00:23:16.480 yon big davis tied to black matters u.s leading to unwitting involvement with their activities the ira also

00:23:23.380 organized simultaneous pro anti-blm protests is in place like new york city but they were doing much

00:23:29.920 more as you can see because everyone's trying to be like well they did some stuff on the other side

00:23:33.680 they did way more on the black side right so let's go over some of these organizations that were

00:23:39.180 operating so you can get an idea so you got blacktivist here right the one that we talked about 0.93

00:23:44.460 was 11.2 million engagement right so what sort of things were they posting cops raid wrong home and

00:23:51.280 assaulted pregnant woman all caps insane cops pulverized handcuffs man all caps and memes urging

00:23:59.240 stand together and in depression with our race is under attack but remember we are strong in numbers

00:24:06.660 ads promoted things like baltimore police brutality marches video shared footage of white police holding

00:24:13.900 down black men one was shared over half a million times all right so let's go to the next one here

00:24:20.200 woke blacks this account had over or sorry around half a million likes half a million shares and around

00:24:28.100 50 000 followers so what's crazy about this is one of the really big controversies that hit facebook was

00:24:35.580 when they basically allowed a bunch of news or i guess like largely fake news about buddhist people

00:24:47.860 i think in myanmar like oh like this buddhist man graped a girl and you got away with it it led to

00:24:55.820 just huge amounts of violence and people being brutally killed and incredible social dissent and and in

00:25:03.520 death in myanmar and facebook got in a lot of trouble because it didn't properly moderate these

00:25:09.420 things and stop it from happening what it looks like russia was trying to do here was just replicate

00:25:17.020 what happened in myanmar in the united states like oh so you can so dissent in a country and cause

00:25:25.900 political violence by making up outrageous stories or by merely promoting real stories that are outrageous

00:25:33.360 and just sharing the footage and sharing photos in a way that gets people really riled up and keen to

00:25:39.960 just start like revenge killing people it it just looks like they were actively trying to replicate

00:25:46.840 it and it's kind of amazing that it didn't get worse than it was maybe because facebook was already wise

00:25:53.300 to this issue and moderating more carefully or maybe just because the narrative wasn't as compelling as

00:25:59.400 it was for whatever reason in myanmar so that's really fascinating in in the context because democrats

00:26:05.260 don't want it known that black lives matter was astroturfed by russian bots yeah oh but facebook

00:26:11.120 also like successfully in the past sorry buddy like successfully in the past was was used to

00:26:18.920 perpetuate like huge amounts of political violence right i guess what we could do is on the right have

00:26:24.840 like a freak out about this and be like all you know leftist radical stuff needs to be more watched

00:26:30.360 because it could be russian bots russian bots russian bots oh my goodness anyway black matters

00:26:36.360 us who had 1.3 million likes and 1.8 million shares and that's just on facebook their posts included

00:26:42.980 things like cops kill black kids are you sure your son won't be the next and memes like the i can't

00:26:50.300 breeze slogan and then we've got don't shoot us e.g don't shoot us dot us website that was so here 0.96

00:26:59.740 we're going to go to the growth of the black lives matter movement just in case you want to get like

00:27:03.100 a year by year play by play so you can see just how much the ira stuff mattered yeah in terms of seeding

00:27:08.420 it okay so hashtag black lives matter was started in 2013 coined by yeah it really goes back much

00:27:18.380 further than i thought because yeah i remember well it was kind of the the the george zimmerman thing

00:27:24.760 that that that time when a guy killed a black guy and everyone pretended he was white yeah which was 0.73

00:27:30.720 very weird to go through yeah that was the first time when i was like wait are we just like not in

00:27:36.500 reality anymore whatever but i remember what it was i keep wanting to say wall street but the anti

00:27:43.640 wall street protests you referred to it earlier so it was much bigger what was it called oh my gosh

00:27:50.780 occupy wall street occupy wall street yeah it was bigger than and i didn't realize that

00:27:54.660 black lives matter predated that apparently but it wasn't big until russia got involved

00:28:01.480 like okay russia made it a thing like it wasn't really a thing and they're like hey look at this

00:28:06.860 we could do something with this we could do something yeah they made it cool and i'm just i'm just going

00:28:11.840 through the timeline here okay so in 2014 this is when you have the michael brown killing and the

00:28:18.300 ferguson unrest now this is when the ira started to get involved this was their early operations were

00:28:24.800 involved in in stuff like this then you go up to 2015 where you have the growing protests over freddie

00:28:31.300 gray and baltimore and sandra etc however ira activity really explodes this year this is 2015

00:28:39.080 with 96 focused on police brutality against black americans this was in the year 2015 96 of the ira

00:28:46.740 youtube videos were focused on police brutality against black americans again and this is on like

00:28:52.260 don't shoot black lives matter etc etc etc yeah this is when the movement's really catching steam

00:28:57.420 right and then the next year you get the height of ira interference okay this was this was 2016 but it

00:29:04.060 was also when the black lives matter movement really took off was the 2015 2016 period and so this is

00:29:12.860 when you have the peak twitter usage of hashtag black lives matter so i want to be clear here peak

00:29:18.740 twitter usage of hashtag black lives matter coincided with peak ira interference in hashtag black

00:29:24.700 lives matter wow and this is assuming we cut all their accounts yeah right and this is supposedly the year

00:29:34.560 that they were out there helping trump win the election right like

00:29:38.380 with a distant afterthought to them then in 2017 you have ira operations are ongoing but they they

00:29:49.200 scale back to some extent or sort of plateau then 2018 to 2019 you have sporadic protests so keep in

00:29:55.760 mind from like 2016 to 2019 you did not have like the black lives matter movement went into a significant

00:30:01.940 lull if everyone remembers right and in part because this is because in 2018 ira was largely disrupted

00:30:10.340 after the 2018 indictment and facebook purchase okay so but then in 2020 with the george floyd situation

00:30:20.540 black lives matter picked back up do you know what else happened in 2020 ira activity picked back up

00:30:27.360 oh no so the ira activity and we're going to go over the ira activity that was happening in 2020 right

00:30:33.900 now yeah perfectly precedes every explosion in the black lives matter movement

00:30:39.100 so you can be like this is basically an astroturfed movement you're saying an astroturfed movement by

00:30:46.580 russian bots yeah gosh and the democrats basically realized that by ignoring or hiding this fact they

00:30:54.580 could use it to their advantage and i guess the mainstream republican establishment was too

00:30:58.760 witless to mention this fact 0.55

00:31:00.520 witless sir well it's not just witless this is it the republican party genuinely has a lot of

00:31:09.880 infiltrated bad actors and so if i was a republican during that period and i went out and i was like

00:31:16.700 hey these are russian bots guys i can prove it to you two things would happen first they'd be

00:31:23.960 everyone would be desensitized to not pay attention because they're like oh i remember when they tried

00:31:27.560 to pull that on trump and then two a lot of right-wing influencers large right-wing influencers are

00:31:33.400 genuinely in russia's pocket like i i mean this very sincerely yeah like even tim pool either knowingly

00:31:41.720 or unknowingly received yeah all that money i mean we we know i know you haven't said we talk more

00:31:47.840 about this but it appears very likely that tucker carlson is being paid by somebody in russia and

00:31:53.020 somebody in qatar so i mean that that's the only reason i can think that he's been glazing iran given

00:31:57.460 the history of his political beliefs um you know and and the the way he talks about russia who is our

00:32:04.400 enemy if i go up there during that period and i start saying hey all of this black lives matter 0.93

00:32:10.380 stuff it's because of russian interference russia is the bad guy behind this you know your tucker 0.93

00:32:15.800 carlson's your nick fuentes even for like the people off the grid are gonna come at me like a monkey on

00:32:22.200 okay right like you can't i i mean if i was an influencer who had more reach than we do now

00:32:27.920 enough that i could shape the narrative they would freak the f out because they do not want russia

00:32:32.720 implicated right um and there's a lot of people on the right who unfortunately believe this like they

00:32:40.040 believe russia is their friend and it's just so disheartening to me and it's so disheartening and 0.99

00:32:47.420 then they'll they'll go and they'll follow accounts and they'll listen to influencers who anyone who is 0.98

00:32:52.720 looking at it objectively would know they're on the russian doll or they're just stupid and following 0.95

00:32:58.040 accounts that are on the russian doll because nobody who is pro-america would glaze russia 0.95

00:33:03.700 are one of our primary geopolitical enemies but anyway to continue here this is anyway well this reminds me

00:33:13.000 a lot actually is i don't know if you remember just how much of the effective altruist landscape

00:33:22.880 just caved in when sam bankman freed went to jail no i remember that it was like it turned out that the

00:33:31.020 entire movement was astroturfed yeah it was just astroturfed by his money and this is making it just

00:33:36.580 feels so similar to that where both a bunch of conservative influencers but also a bunch of

00:33:42.980 crazy leftist causes really know what no one else wants to pay attention to them or pay for them

00:33:51.740 but they're just these mysterious forces that keep making them happen and were those to disappear these

00:33:58.840 things just wouldn't exist and and that's just so the case with so many of these effective altruist

00:34:04.020 efforts that had been funded no one asked for them no one wanted them they were like screaming loudly on

00:34:10.640 the internet only because they were being insanely well funded by sam bankman freed essentially yeah

00:34:20.860 and this it's i wonder how many facets of our culture and our experience online or with the media in

00:34:30.980 general is really a result of a country or a wealthy benefactor largely funding something that that just

00:34:40.460 they personally want to see screamed online i know for example like i saw a recent headline talking about

00:34:46.740 how because two really prolific philanthropists in the art world were like probably gonna die soon or had

00:34:54.500 just died that this huge facet of the fine art world was basically just gonna stop existing because

00:35:01.640 these people basically solely funded everyone's lifestyles and so now like all this art that a lot

00:35:08.900 of people thought was like really important art and you'd see it at like the met and you'd see it everywhere

00:35:13.280 else no it turns out no one actually liked that art it was just paid for by like two guys like two guys

00:35:20.440 yeah two guys who are now dead who like really liked it but it turns out no one else liked it and i just i mean i

00:35:26.340 i do wonder these like things you know when you and i were dragged on to like modern art museums and forced to

00:35:32.780 look at this art we're like who buys this who wants this who pays for this well people who are gonna die and 0.76

00:35:38.780 then it's just gonna disappear and i think this is really similar that these are facets of the online world that

00:35:45.580 felt so big and were so big and were actually impactful and did manage to fool a lot of people

00:35:51.380 but in the end they would not exist were it not for the actions of some extremely wealthy people i think

00:35:59.480 a lot of ai doomerism is very similar i think that there wouldn't be a whole lot of ai doomerism messages

00:36:05.140 if it weren't for a couple very very wealthy people recognizing that ai could be an issue and being like

00:36:12.680 sure like i'll throw like you know 20 million dollars at this and that leading to a bunch of

00:36:20.900 people devoting all their time to just screaming on the internet about ai doomerism because their

00:36:26.220 lifestyle was being paid for by these people and they wanted that attention but like it actually

00:36:31.540 you know isn't a message that i mean you can see that in the data right when it comes to google trends

00:36:38.640 ai doomerism despite receiving so much more funding for example than pronatalism and demographic collapse

00:36:46.180 has only just recently kind of surpassed it and i think that yeah anyway i just you're making me

00:36:53.700 realize just how many big elements of our cultural experience in the united states and globally may just be

00:37:01.360 just a government running a campaign on us yeah puppeteered that's really something i guess

00:37:08.540 maybe it's always been that way i mean keep in mind like the medicis like funded huge amounts of

00:37:13.140 of the arts and there's there have always been patrons who've basically dictated what we as common

00:37:19.600 people experience culturally and artistically so maybe this isn't anything new i guess maybe we just

00:37:26.680 we're under more of a false impression due to the way that social media is sold to us and media in

00:37:31.940 general is sold to us that it's more meritocratic now and it really just isn't no it is meritocratic

00:37:39.020 i think this is what you're missing timpool became famous not because russians were paying for him

00:37:46.400 but because timpool became famous right like timpool won through meritocracy and then he wanted more

00:37:52.000 money and the russians bought his opinion tucker carlson genuinely had some really interesting takes

00:37:57.840 he pulled off some really interesting stuff you know and then he realized he could make even more

00:38:04.340 money with russia and we know that he never really had any internal value system given that when he was

00:38:09.960 glazing trump we have private texts for him saying that like he hates trump so much he can't even talk

00:38:14.720 to another one of his friends because his friend doesn't hate trump right like that was his level of

00:38:21.360 existential hatred of trump yet he's able to go on air and say trump's the best ever right like if he's

00:38:27.420 doing this of course he's willing to glaze iran even if he doesn't agree with it he did his personal

00:38:34.320 opinions have nothing to do with his rise to fame because these people and i think this really

00:38:41.440 differentiates us from them and it shows you know oh because we haven't yet received no no

00:38:47.760 i would take money from an outside power but i would never compromise on my long-term mission

00:38:55.320 right like my life i'm here for a purpose right like a a functional purpose part of that is having

00:39:02.720 a lot of kids addressing this but helping our civilization the one that you and i represent

00:39:07.820 survive thrive and humanity make it into the stars as a result of that right and i'm willing to play

00:39:14.980 whatever moves i have to play on the chessboard to see that outcome realized um when you're talking

00:39:21.160 about somebody like nick fuentes who doesn't have kids who isn't married who's pushing a movement that

00:39:25.400 couldn't even win in elections like as i pointed this out he's not playing a wider game he's playing

00:39:30.740 the in the moment vibes game right and because of that he doesn't care if his uh activism is damaging

00:39:39.400 the mainstream right wing movement right like uh he's happy going out and saying mainstream right

00:39:45.960 wing individuals are my enemy charlie kirk as he said charlie kirk is his enemy like he wanted to 0.99

00:39:50.500 take down charlie kirk charlie kirk and your focus group fuck you now of course he's moved to 0.99

00:39:55.880 just insulting his wife now uh which he does repeatedly to the extent look erica kirk is a spook 0.99

00:40:02.900 i've seen enough erica kirk is a plant we all know that that is a fact that is basically established

00:40:10.660 she was shopping around for political husband god knows where she comes from she found one in charlie 0.99

00:40:18.920 kirk do you think charlie kirk is the riz master he's not a good looking guy really i i didn't realize

00:40:26.540 how distasteful he was until i saw him do stuff like that i would want my wife he's

00:40:32.460 mad that his wife is fundraising for conservative causes around like his death if i died do you not

00:40:40.320 think i would want simone to use the news cycle that generated to fundraise around pro natalist 0.99

00:40:45.740 causes and conservative causes do you for a second think i wouldn't want my entire funeral to be

00:40:52.220 freaking gun salutes and be the parades and and and and fireworks and pyrotechnics of course i would

00:41:01.060 well you're not allowed to die for the record what i'm saying is you have to actually not have a

00:41:05.360 long-term goal or a purpose in life to not know that's exactly what charlie kirk would have wanted

00:41:10.420 because you for you this is all about you it's not about the mission right charlie kirk's life was

00:41:16.040 about the mission it was about something other than himself and with somebody like tucker carlson

00:41:21.080 his life exists for himself right so he can easily be bought off because for always and ever he's been

00:41:28.580 trying to gain attention for himself like we know that from the trump text right like he didn't care

00:41:33.460 he just wanted whatever would get the most views whereas if you look at the new generation of right

00:41:37.200 wing influencers one of the things that separates them from the past is they are genuinely incapable

00:41:43.580 of being bought off let me give you an example asthma gold you could not buy off asthma gold

00:41:50.080 period this is a guy who still lives in the house he was born in obviously must be worth what now

00:41:56.440 i i assume at least 50 to 100 million dollars literally eats at 7 11 every day i don't even

00:42:02.140 think he gets food he still gets the like token cheap steak that he grills on a pan without oil

00:42:08.220 or butter or anything he just puts the steak in a pan and cooks it oh my god i think using plastic

00:42:15.660 utensils too using plastic utensils he has a video of him well hassan piker the leftist guy is out there

00:42:22.160 shocking dogs we have admiral picking gingerly a cockroach and a palmetto cockroach the ones we 0.95

00:42:28.880 have in texas which are giant they're like this big off his shirt and then carefully taking it

00:42:33.100 downstairs and my favorite part about that is he goes we're like oh in the comments when i was watching

00:42:38.900 on this they're like oh you know two people accidentally told on themselves you've got the

00:42:42.440 hassan piker one admiral goes okay guys i'm gonna take this downstairs and let it loose in the living

00:42:47.160 room and then he looks at the camera and he goes i mean outside outside i'm letting it loose outside

00:42:51.900 and everyone was like he just let that loose in his living room

00:42:55.580 what are you doing bro get out of my get go in the garbage can i'm gonna take them downstairs 0.96

00:43:03.420 i got i got him i got him i got him i got him i got him he right i can't 0.54

00:43:07.700 don't show this one to izzy beautiful but the point being is like he won't even hurt a cockroach

00:43:19.120 right but it's it's it's it's interesting that we've seen this rise of the the less corruptible

00:43:25.060 and i and i'm also genuinely not seeing as much bias in the rising right-wing figures right of of the

00:43:32.800 internet era which has been very interesting to me like they seem to be less corruptible and less

00:43:37.460 viable than the era of influencers that the tim cooks and nick fuentes has come from

00:43:44.040 tim pools now i will know is tim pool i don't know has he done i i think he has done pro-russia

00:43:50.520 stuff so i'd buy that he was butt off but i but my sort of my take with simple is he would have done

00:43:56.080 that stuff anyway like he sort of buys into the russia is our friend narrative so i don't think he

00:44:01.140 would have like seen taking money as like a negative thing yeah i mean i don't i don't think

00:44:09.140 it was terribly discordant but i think there were like i think like just legal issues but also it

00:44:15.080 wasn't super clear if memory serves the issue with him being funded by an entity that was russian

00:44:23.520 was it like russia was trying to hide the fact that it was russia giving the money but the people

00:44:30.160 receiving it including tim kind of knew that and like in internal messaging were like oh the guy

00:44:37.360 who's totally not a russian plant you know like it was all sufficiently suspicious and they all got that

00:44:44.720 it was sufficiently suspicious they took the money anyway because it's money people come on like get

00:44:50.420 real yeah we wouldn't do it come on the again i'm i'm being totally honest here if it's something

00:44:57.740 that i was probably going to promote anyway i'd be like sure yeah i'll take the money if i can use it to

00:45:01.480 to you know solve my wider agenda and that's i think that's where we stand with things like

00:45:07.420 receiving money if our incentives are aligned with the person who is giving the money 100 absolutely

00:45:15.640 i think why we don't see many scenarios like that is because no one's going to give us money to

00:45:22.160 promote something we're already promoting or at least very few people are you know they're like why

00:45:26.360 would i pay when they're already going to do it for free so we're kind of screwed milcom right like

00:45:32.880 our whole thing with sponsorship like sort of where things stand now is like we would consider maybe doing

00:45:37.460 something sponsored on this channel but only if we'd already chosen to buy the product before we heard

00:45:43.180 about it and really liked it and wanted to promote it anyway and there aren't very many like why would

00:45:52.240 coars light reach out to you when you already promote it for free why i'll go trans if it'll get me the

00:46:00.240 sponsorship well that was a joke right okay no yeah of course light would never would never even in back

00:46:11.440 in the day it's the same company right the same like a super company they're owned by the same

00:46:17.060 really yeah almost all beer is so boy but yeah like british yeah i this for me i think helped me

00:46:27.820 like seeing this and maybe somebody could be like oh no like this has been talked about a lot by tim

00:46:32.480 pool he said that russia completely bankrolled the black lives matter movement right like did he

00:46:37.720 i doubt he did but maybe he did and maybe everybody knows about this and i'm just the odd one out right

00:46:42.800 or maybe what it is is it was it was useful for a lot of people and this was actually the thing

00:46:49.880 of the period before this generation of conservative influencers when i say this generation i don't mean

00:46:55.960 people my age i mean people in our sort of upstream funnel of conservative influencers okay this this last

00:47:03.680 election cycle than the election cycle before the election cycle before that they seem a lot less

00:47:08.280 bought by groups like russian groups but it seemed like in the first like the ones who gained traction

00:47:14.260 was the first trump election they were really open to working with russia but i think it's because

00:47:20.280 the narrative caught on unfortunately because the left-wing media spread it that trump was genuinely

00:47:24.900 working with russia oh they thought oh well i'm just working with with trump's guys right you know

00:47:33.380 it's fine even though that was never really the case but russia would never have a reason to

00:47:40.140 dissuade people from believing that oh how desperately depressing that is i do not like it at all

00:47:47.360 no oh dear and so i'm interested to see if this continues if if as this crop of influencers rises

00:47:56.520 and hopefully they do continue to rise with us among them we see them stay significantly less

00:48:02.580 corruptible than previous generations of influencers or are they going to be bought off just as fast as

00:48:09.100 everyone else yeah i wonder and i also wonder how memetic landscapes are going to work in the

00:48:17.340 future as we see more concentration of wealth will wealthy people just stop paying for things and

00:48:26.240 patronizing certain memetic clusters or types of art the same way as they did before because they

00:48:33.080 sort of declare bankruptcy or completely separate themselves from the common people it's interesting

00:48:40.780 that you say this when like that's what our youtube career is actually gated towards so you as a fan

00:48:47.200 may not realize this but the point of all of the content is one of the points we have a lot one is ai

00:48:54.240 training data one is you know being able to replicate our personalities with ais another is just reaching a

00:48:59.240 public audience but a huge thing that i often think about from a financial perspective is our first

00:49:04.540 billionaire fan right you know you get that billionaire fan this is literally what started like the

00:49:10.100 effective altruist movement is like one billionaire guy it had had been to like a will mccaskill speech

00:49:16.440 when he was younger and then decided like oh i'm a big fan of will mccaskill i'll fund this effective

00:49:22.180 altruist thing right so we're trying to build all the ideological and civic infrastructure so that

00:49:30.560 a billionaire decides to become our patron yeah yeah so that they can be like oh i want to make this like a movement movement

00:49:37.860 like the ea movement was oh you know so we have all the infrastructure there all the non-profits all the

00:49:43.940 religious structures all the all of it's ready to go for when we get the billionaire who's like yeah i really like

00:49:48.880 malcolm and simone i want to make their thing global you know that's really what happens with people like say charlie kirk or

00:49:54.980 something like that you know yes they have organic grows but they also i mean it was pretty clear

00:49:59.340 have massive donors and they make it work yeah yeah that's fair that is fair i just i i do wonder

00:50:08.320 somewhat whether super hyper wealthy people are going to continue to care about that and engage with

00:50:19.100 normal people or if they're just gonna what does elon musk do like

00:50:23.880 to half of the day or more yeah but i mean musk isn't gonna live forever and also as you point out

00:50:31.740 ai is gonna just create this this group of super wealthy people who are unmoored from

00:50:38.420 any need to depend upon normal people now they may still feel connected to normal people and and want

00:50:46.640 their attention and praise but maybe they won't you know maybe they'll just disappear and and stop

00:50:53.620 patronizing the arts and influencing media and caring at all i don't know i i just i wonder

00:51:01.460 maybe they they will continue to because they've they've done that basically forever so why not

00:51:06.880 continue to that also makes sense i just i don't know i'm curious well i love you oh yeah one final

00:51:16.400 thing we should probably mention because we're going to go into this but everybody knows about this

00:51:19.360 oh yeah the the founders of the black lives matter movement bought a 5.8 to 6 million dollar

00:51:26.920 6 500 square foot property in studio city california that they were going to use for an art fellowship

00:51:33.460 program but then just decided to live in didn't someone go to jail over this so i think someone was

00:51:41.120 recently jailed like for clarification here no there has been no repercussions for the people who stole

00:51:48.680 the black lives matter money to buy mansions so they weren't no one was imprisoned over this

00:51:53.800 yeah my understanding is no one was misused the funds whatever oh my goodness gracious as they said

00:52:00.380 well it is going to a historically oppressed family ours yeah sure that's oh goodness gracious i mean i i in

00:52:12.320 the end people gave the money to you know i guess sort of out of collective guilt or desire to contribute to

00:52:20.580 black lives and if the people who are seen by some as misusing funds are black and living

00:52:29.120 then i guess mission accomplished yeah i mean i don't know what people thought they were donating

00:52:35.740 to and they donated to black lives matter anyway so i guess it's fine my goodness gracious i just i

00:52:44.980 had no idea that russia contributed at all to that movement and now basically you're saying it would not

00:52:52.000 be the thing it would not be the thing it was yeah and and not only would it not be the thing it was

00:52:57.280 but it significantly russia gate was significantly more about black lives matter than trump

00:53:02.120 oh that's that is crazy wow thanks for enlightening me that is it sobering but fascinating

00:53:10.740 exactly love you so much saman i love you too by the way i realized that we actually do have some

00:53:19.180 bok choy left and now we have all those chives so if you i'd wait a day i want i want something 0.98

00:53:26.420 easier on my stomach today so just possible space so okay perfect yeah that's that's very easy to do

00:53:32.640 so i appreciate it and you still love me that's okay more than ever more than ever my friend

00:53:41.040 you are everything to me so thanks for existing so excited for the weekend

00:53:46.680 spendable ish i think no so no i can test it now yeah okay so that's my weekend mornings but i'll go

00:53:57.420 check what's happening on the discord just to make sure okay yeah please do all right love you gorgeous

00:54:04.060 love you too

00:54:04.580 wow that was interesting good episode right finding out interesting facts people love that about us

00:54:12.300 they're like wow you guys actually did you actually end up getting the holly

00:54:15.720 boughs i didn't see them around the house no the kids got too chaotic for it so i'm either gonna do

00:54:21.940 it this weekend or tonight or whenever basically i can sneak outside that's when i'm looking at the

00:54:27.820 tree just out my window and it has so many berries on it so pretty i know it's it's it's gorgeous we

00:54:32.560 we have the perfect holiday decorating tree outside we just need to bring in the pieces

00:54:40.880 we can do it we gotta do it then go

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Based Camp - December 19, 2025

Russia Astroturfed BLM & We Have Proof

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