Based Camp - Social Media Only Hurts Dems Mental Health： Why？

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone. Today is going to be an interesting day because we are going to go over so many

00:00:05.100 graphs today. I don't even think we're going to get to them all. The first and most critical of

00:00:10.300 the graphs is one I am going to put on screen here, and it opens up an explanatory mystery,

00:00:18.920 I guess is what I'd call it. And so what you can see in this first chart is liberal and

00:00:23.740 conservative depression index scores by social media use category, where red is conservative

00:00:30.680 and blue is liberal. And the higher the bar goes, the worse their depression is. And what you see

00:00:37.860 in this chart is that if you are a progressive, the more liberal you are, the more using social

00:00:46.160 media depresses you. But if you are a conservative, that is not the case. In fact, using social media

00:00:53.580 frequently appears to increase your mental health when you're at the high levels of use. Now,

00:01:00.280 what's really fascinating, and marginally, you're still better off not using it at all,

00:01:04.440 but marginally it increases compared to using it some versus using it an absolute ton,

00:01:09.620 at least once a day, specifically here. And then I would point out here that actually the conservatives

00:01:16.720 who use social media at least once a day have significantly better mental health than the

00:01:21.500 liberals who use it only once or twice a month. That is how bad it is for liberals. Just a

00:01:26.600 littlest bit. I mean, have you been on blue sky though? It's, it is depressing. Like that's a big

00:01:32.200 thing that I see on blue sky that I don't see on Twitter. Like I tweet about the, the asteroid that

00:01:36.220 was going to hit us, but then didn't hit us. And I get normal responses on blue sky. I tweet about

00:01:40.100 that. And a bunch of the responses are finally someone to cure the plague of humans upon this earth.

00:01:46.440 Here's where it gets really bad. Liberals and conservatives have almost exactly the same

00:01:52.280 rates of depression and bad mental health. And we'll see this as we go to other charts when they

00:01:57.340 don't use social media at all, which implies that, and we'll, you know, it's broadly known

00:02:05.060 liberals have way more mental health problems than conservatives right now. If you look at white 0.99

00:02:09.600 liberal women, for example, over 50% are dealing with a major mental health issue. But what this appears

00:02:14.820 to be saying is this is not like an innate thing about liberals. It's not, and this article will

00:02:20.720 argue the opposite, but like the evidence shows otherwise, it's not like, oh, if you are more

00:02:26.780 likely to get depressed, then you're more likely to become a liberal. It's something about engaging

00:02:31.820 with liberal culture itself. Makes you sad. Is what makes you sad. Oh my. Oh no. And what's

00:02:42.760 interesting is we're going to be able to break out the exact parts of liberal culture that do this.

00:02:47.700 The amount that it's not being religious, the amount that it's wokeism, the amount that it's

00:02:53.020 DEI stuff, the amount that it's fear of like being attacked or something like that. And we often talk

00:02:58.980 about the urban monoculture as something of a mimetic virus, which, you know, the iterations of

00:03:03.560 it that are better at spreading spread better. And it appears to, as a mimetic virus, first sort of

00:03:10.620 lower your mental immune system by destroying your mental health before it begins to eat away

00:03:16.380 at your brain. And we're going to see this in the data on this piece. Specifically, what she ends up

00:03:21.860 finding out is first the mental health declines, then a person starts identifying as a liberal,

00:03:27.380 not first do they identify as a liberal, then the mental health declines.

00:03:31.060 Oh, really? I would have guessed the opposite. That's really interesting. Okay.

00:03:36.300 So I would have guessed the opposite as well. But what it appears is happening here is that the

00:03:43.080 mental health decline is sort of an erosion of self-identity, self-pride, like self-affirmation

00:03:49.580 ability that is required before people start like rotely accepting woke ideas.

00:03:56.600 Oh, yeah. Like, I guess it's a lot easier to accept super progressive ideology when you have

00:04:02.000 an external locus of control, for example, plus a lot of self-hatred. Yes.

00:04:06.320 Oh, no. Wow. Okay. Wow.

00:04:10.260 So it builds the self-hatred first. And I think that that's really fascinating. And we can also

00:04:16.980 see from this other graph that it's specifically interacting with liberal culture that makes you

00:04:20.940 mentally unhealthy, and that interacting with conservative culture frequently actually appears

00:04:24.800 to make people a little bit more healthy, mentally speaking.

00:04:27.460 Well, that makes sense.

00:04:29.160 This isn't surprising to me at all. Actually, if you look at a lot of the types of conservative

00:04:34.260 culture that progressives complain about, and it's like a meme thing where they're like,

00:04:38.460 how do you know your son is a conservative? Well, he exercises and he takes care of his appearance

00:04:44.720 and he- And he takes personal responsibility for his actions.

00:04:48.740 He's not looking at porn as much. You know, it's like, okay, but I can see why maybe these things

00:04:53.560 are correlating to higher mental health rates. Okay. But anyway, let's get into this. So now

00:04:59.740 we're going to go to the second figure I sent you. And these are all from a study,

00:05:03.440 mental health trends and the great awokening. So we're starting right now with figure 27. I'm

00:05:08.900 skipping around. I'm not showing the figures in order. I'm showing them to sort of painted

00:05:11.800 narrative here.

00:05:12.480 The effects of frequent social media use on internalizing symptoms by ideology.

00:05:17.260 Yes. It illustrates the average score differences on seven item anxiety index and a 20 item depression

00:05:23.260 index between self-identified liberals and conservatives. These individuals reported

00:05:27.240 using social media for over two hours at a time, at least several times a week, 36% of the sample

00:05:33.040 compared to those who rarely do 46% of the sample. Among liberals, those who use social media more

00:05:38.980 frequently score 0.33 standard deviation higher on the anxiety index and 0.22 standard deviations higher

00:05:46.600 on the depression index compared with those who report never using social media for two hours

00:05:51.680 at a time or minimal use. In contrast, these differences among conservatives are negligible.

00:05:57.300 0.05 standard deviations and 0.04 standard deviations respectively.

00:06:02.660 And this is a different study than the above study. So multiple studies are finding this.

00:06:07.460 People just keep going in and finding that social media is, or I guess I should could say conservative

00:06:14.000 online content is not bad for your mental health. It is progressive online content that's bad for your

00:06:19.320 mental health, which means it's not the online content itself. That's bad for your mental health.

00:06:24.000 It's not the fact that you're consuming online content that's bad for your mental health.

00:06:26.760 Thank you.

00:06:27.960 It's the fact that you are conserving this ideological virus that as part of breaking you down and sort of

00:06:35.180 turning you into a slave that will go out like an ant infected, like the Corseps virus go out and try

00:06:39.920 to infect other ants. It needs to break down your immune system first, your mental immune system.

00:06:44.520 What that looks like is hating yourself. Although it uses different and not, keep in mind, this study was

00:06:50.840 showing not just depression, it was also anxiety. So in progressives, engaging with their social media

00:06:56.700 content increases both anxiety and depression. Although it uses different and arguably more ambiguous

00:07:03.520 measures of social media use, the 2022 wave of American national election studies social media study reveals

00:07:11.840 similar results. Among liberals, average depression scores increase with greater social media use. For

00:07:17.580 example, those who reported daily use of at least one platform, 70% of liberals, 64% of conservatives

00:07:23.440 scored significantly higher on a two item depression index compared with those who never used social

00:07:28.920 media, 7% of liberals and 8% of conservatives. Conservatives show much smaller and less consistent

00:07:35.280 increases in depression across usage levels. Specifically, while liberals who reported daily usage

00:07:39.840 score 0.34 standard deviation higher on depression than those who do not use any social media,

00:07:45.580 the difference for conservatives is close to zero and not statistically significant.

00:07:52.000 And this is a red and blue graph here on screen. That is absolutely wild how stark that is.

00:07:59.480 Any thoughts before I go further, by the way, or theories?

00:08:01.860 One thing that stands out to me is I could just keep thinking about both, both super progressive and

00:08:11.660 super conservative online spheres can come across as mean, but the mean is very different. There's

00:08:17.340 locker room mean. And actually, you know what it's mean girl mean versus locker room mean. So the locker

00:08:23.880 room is like calling each other names, pushing each other around, but it's like immediately forgotten and not

00:08:29.520 retained and not toxic. And then progressives have this mean girl mean, which is talking about people

00:08:36.500 behind their backs and being really catty and organizing lists of like blocking. These people

00:08:43.520 have been, yeah, we, we hate these people and these people need to be destroyed and everything is 0.98

00:08:49.260 retained. Everything is held on to the, the resentment grows and festers. Whereas locker room talk is 0.56

00:08:56.560 locker room talk. You're just messing around with each other. You know, and honestly that creates

00:09:00.460 anti-fragility. So I'm just in my head, my intuition is going to be important for like low anxiety,

00:09:06.820 low depression, I think. Yeah. Well, and it's again, building that anti-fragility, you need to be

00:09:10.340 insulted. You need to be pushed. And I think the really great thing about locker room talk and that

00:09:15.620 kind of masculine bullying and making fun is that often it's really like, it's real, you know, 0.52

00:09:23.500 people make fun of you being fat as a dude. Cause you're fat. People make fun of you being 0.97

00:09:27.280 short or bald as a dude. Cause you're short or bald, right? Like, and those things can really hurt,

00:09:32.340 but they force you to find ways to deal with that and make up for it. Whereas the kind of mean girl 1.00

00:09:39.400 talk is very different. It is about systematically destroying and pulling you down as kind of may

00:09:45.860 blocking strategy and dominance hierarchy strategy. Yes. And, and, and you do see that these problems are

00:09:51.400 worse for women than men when they interact in online environments. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, 0.93

00:09:56.560 that's what I'm thinking here. These findings suggest that even if girls and liberals and 1.00

00:10:01.220 boys and conservatives were to spend similar, if not equal amounts of time on social media,

00:10:05.340 the former two groups would be worse off in terms of mental wellbeing. Among these groups of liberals,

00:10:10.400 especially liberal females may suffer the most. Not only are liberals higher in neuroticism of

00:10:15.600 emotional and aesthetic openness, empathetic concern, and justice sensitivity,

00:10:21.100 something I hadn't heard about before, but we'll talk about traits they share with women, 0.99

00:10:25.440 but they also tend to score lower in conscientiousness, which likely puts them at a

00:10:29.400 disadvantage in terms of emotional regulation and focus. This further heightens their susceptibility

00:10:34.100 to negative rumination and doom scrolling. In fact, the very limited data we have on the

00:10:38.500 intersection of ideology and doom scrolling from a small study of online sample 500 of residents of

00:10:44.360 OECD countries indicate that liberal and left-in-line individuals score significantly higher,

00:10:49.320 just under 0.3 standard deviation on measures of doom scrolling compared to the political right.

00:10:55.400 That is fascinating to me. And I think that they are wrong here. What they're seeing is that when

00:11:00.980 people start to engage in these things or have these traits like low conscientiousness,

00:11:05.420 it makes them more susceptible to the mind virus. Because if you have sort of mental discipline,

00:11:10.560 then you're able to, the mind virus hits you and you're like, oh, this is stupid. 1.00

00:11:13.440 The people who believe this stuff, obviously all are constantly tearing each other down and don't 1.00

00:11:19.780 see. I think that this is why consistently, even with progressives, when they're high conscientiousness

00:11:25.240 individuals who have the sort of ability to go out there, found a company, make something work,

00:11:31.280 like a JK Rowling or something like that, they typically don't break and they stay and end up on

00:11:36.480 the conservative side. Whereas if they're the type of person who just got their roles through like DEI or

00:11:41.280 moving up a bureaucratic ladder, they continue to sort of hide in fear of all this. I'd also point out

00:11:47.020 that it shows that our opponents really are not like having a good time. Like if you're a liberal, you are

00:11:52.800 a depressed anxiety at all mess. It is not awesome. He's recently to a reporter describing what it's like

00:12:01.100 being in the pro natalist movement. And I'm like, it's sort of like the Titanic has sunk and we're in a lifeboat

00:12:06.420 and there's somebody in the freezing water. And I say to them, get out of the water or you're going

00:12:13.800 to freeze to death here. You know, let me help you. And they'll say, did you hear what he just said?

00:12:18.940 He said, if I don't get in the boat, he's going to kill me. No, what? No, I can get in the boat

00:12:25.200 or you're going to die. And they're like, ha, he said it again. He said it again. And I'm like, okay,

00:12:30.480 okay. So I talked them through that. And then they're like, wait a second. Didn't Hitler have 0.96

00:12:35.440 a boat? And I'm like, what? That has nothing to do with this situation. Get in the boat. And then

00:12:44.900 they're like, wait, are you sure there's not any racists on the boat with you? And I'm like, I don't

00:12:51.780 know. I haven't asked these people. Like, ha, I knew it. Only a racist wouldn't ask other people if

00:12:58.160 they're not racist. And I'm like, what, what, what does that have to do with anything? They're

00:13:02.460 I'm just saving everyone I see right now. And it's very much like when I tell people your culture

00:13:07.520 won't exist in the future. You can't motivate above your population fertility rate. And they're 0.83

00:13:11.020 like, ah, so you're saying you're going to eradicate us if we can't motivate. I'm like,

00:13:15.060 no, no, I'm not. Oh, good. Look, your friends are here. Hey, you're supposed to want to have

00:13:21.720 children. And this is your ultimate goal in life. It is a very archaic idea and old idea and

00:13:28.100 representation of a woman. You're getting people to sign a pledge, basically saying that

00:13:40.020 they will not have children until the Canadian government takes serious action on climate change.

00:13:46.300 Is that your blood? Well, no, no, it's college kid blood. And how many people have signed on so far?

00:13:51.960 1,381 as of right now. I know what this is. This is a suicide pact. Oh my God, that makes so much

00:14:00.280 sense. We have got to hide all of the sharp objects. Only I was born with a vagina. Solve that problem. 1.00

00:14:05.880 Amen, sister.

00:14:10.120 Holy mother of God. Some kid, he just hooked himself right into the wood chipper. What? Head first,

00:14:17.460 right into the wood chipper. It looked like it might've been one of the college kids. But this

00:14:21.620 sort of constant mindset of like needing to vet everyone, having to constantly worry about fears

00:14:26.680 of contamination is incredibly unhealthy. It's also a very, being someone who has a lot of

00:14:34.400 contamination problems that are not connected to logic. I can tell that there's a mental problem

00:14:39.800 there. Takes one to know one. Takes one to know one. All right. However, people's social media 0.78

00:14:45.880 experiences, particularly the content they encounter, are at least partially influenced by the broader

00:14:51.080 media and political context, as Figure 29 illustrates, using the salience of the New York Times since about

00:14:56.440 2011, news media attention to societal issues. Societal issues. These are signs of the urban monoculture

00:15:03.720 when these words are used often. Like racism, inequality, discrimination, sexism has surged

00:15:08.920 to unprecedented levels. Oh, I wonder if it's because they're associated with a memetic virus.

00:15:12.780 Concurrently, the underlying sentiment reflected in news media has become decidedly more negative

00:15:16.840 and pessimistic. Of course, some of this is attributable to the rise of Trump and his

00:15:22.300 presidency. Okay, I'm sure. Which serves to intensify these trends and consequently, the alarm

00:15:27.640 many liberals felt. So here, if it was because of Trump and his presidency, it would have gone down in the

00:15:33.860 Biden presidency and it didn't. And here, just across the board, you see this sharp spike upwards

00:15:39.280 in terms of racism, sexism, oppression, privilege, trauma, discrimination, vulnerable, bias,

00:15:48.140 patriarchy, injustice, inequality. And what's really interesting is they measured this on Twitter,

00:15:58.020 now X, from 2008 to 2023. And what you see is it's going way up like it was with the New York

00:16:04.420 Times. And then there's the ELOG acquisition in 2022. And it starts to fall off a cliff with all of

00:16:09.940 these same words, which I think is really interesting. And I think a direct relation, I mean, I bet if you

00:16:15.320 looked on Blue Sky, the use of these words is just off the chart. Yeah, I don't even, I wouldn't want to

00:16:21.420 know. As the tenor and content of social media coverage have become more negative and alarmist,

00:16:27.720 so have the perceptions of socio-political issues among young liberal females and males. As shown

00:16:33.040 in figure 31, young liberals, especially liberal females, have become much more socially and politically

00:16:38.800 conscious over the last 10 years. For instance, and I think this is just the amount of their brain

00:16:43.480 that the urban monoculture has eaten. It's like a virus infecting cells, infects more and more nodes of

00:16:49.140 their brain until all they ever think about is the urban monoculture and needing to spread it.

00:16:52.820 And then eventually they just end up like breaking down and screaming. Like when one of those insects

00:16:57.720 is infected by like an insect that controls its mind and like eats it from the inside and they get

00:17:02.580 to the stage where they're just bloated and filled with like worms. That's what they are when they're

00:17:06.860 like at GC, the game conference this last year, all of the like people was dyed-haired, went outside 0.54

00:17:11.880 and screamed at the sky. And it was just like a great, to me, example of just like total mental

00:17:18.340 breakdown. Nothing is left of the host. All right. I'm not talking to that thing in your head.

00:17:24.980 I'm talking to Skara. Nothing of the host survives. Your friend had a feeble mind.

00:17:33.160 It suffered greatly and gave in easily.

00:17:36.540 But nothing of the host survives. And I think that this is true. You know, once you're this eaten

00:17:52.040 is very hard to ever come back. And I think that this is why a lot of lefties in the media that

00:17:58.700 they produce, like we were talking this morning about how good 30 Rock was when compared to

00:18:03.500 Unbreakable to Kimmy Schmidt, even though it had the same team. And I think it was 30 Rock,

00:18:08.640 the brainwatt hadn't eaten as much as them. They were able to have like really cool and aspirational

00:18:13.660 conservative figures like Jack Donaghy in it or like, you know, the team.

00:18:17.040 They made fun of them, but they made fun of everyone. And I think they were still able to

00:18:22.220 acknowledge the existence of and have the presence of conservative figures. Whereas it got to this point

00:18:28.480 where like the mere presence of a conservative figure, even if they were the source of ridicule,

00:18:36.320 was considered untouchable. I mean, you saw the same in Parks and Rec as well, where there was

00:18:41.920 a conservative figure.

00:18:43.020 Yeah, Ron Swanson. You wouldn't have a Ron Swanson in modern progressive media.

00:18:46.440 Yeah. And he was played by a progressive actor.

00:18:49.520 Well, remember that progressives can't, and we did an episode on this recently,

00:18:53.340 they really struggled to mentally model conservatives.

00:18:56.260 Well, and that's, but I feel like there's something that degraded because clearly before

00:19:00.560 that was possible.

00:19:02.360 And yeah, and in addition to being unable to mentally model conservatives, they also,

00:19:06.440 in conservatives show a great deal of empathy for liberals, but liberals show very little

00:19:10.280 empathy for conservatives. And so I think that it's just sort of as the brain rot eats them more

00:19:14.720 and more. I think that this is part of what we're seeing with the Wachowski effect, which I've,

00:19:18.140 I've talked about before where you'll have a, like a great game designer or a great writer,

00:19:21.860 like the people who did like the matrix, they get trans surgery and then everything they do 0.94

00:19:25.860 sucks after that. But I think part of it can just be getting more and more into this culture 0.51

00:19:29.540 that prevents you from mentally modeling others as part of it. The reason why the urban monocultural

00:19:35.280 virus has to prevent you from modeling others is that if you could, you would be much more likely

00:19:39.980 to leave it. You would see how imperialistic it is. And its goal is that the colonizer's flag,

00:19:45.640 this new perverse version of the pride flag is over every country in the world. You know, 1.00

00:19:49.760 they want one day this to be on top of every mosque and every establishment in Africa. They want a true

00:19:56.660 global monoculture as the outcome of this, because that's how the monoculture motivates them to go out

00:20:02.120 and convert people because they're not motivating and reproducing. It's a faster way for a culture

00:20:07.300 to spread, but obviously it'll eventually burn itself out. I almost think of it as like a wildfire

00:20:11.400 that's burning through the human population right now and just extinguishing huge swaths of it.

00:20:15.760 Um, sad, but you know, this is where we are. Yeah. As the tenor of content and media coverage have

00:20:22.100 become more negative and alarmist, so have the perceptions of sociopolitical issues among young

00:20:26.680 liberal females and males as shown in figure 31. Young liberals, especially liberal females, have

00:20:31.420 become much more socially and politically conscious in the past few years. For instance, the share of

00:20:36.700 liberals who say that they frequently think about the, quote, social problems of the nation and the

00:20:41.360 world, end quote. Imagine if somebody said that to you on a date. I think a lot about the social

00:20:45.880 problems of the nation and the world. I feel like that's such a red flag. Has reached record highs,

00:20:50.360 as has the share who say they are working to, quote, correct social and economic inequalities,

00:20:56.600 end quote, is extremely important to them. Concerns about race relations and environment have also surged

00:21:02.320 while changing remarkably little among conservatives of both sexes. So that's really fascinating. So if you're

00:21:08.760 looking at this on, on screen here, the far left category is the female liberal, where you just see 1.00

00:21:13.960 it like shooting up during the first Trump presidency. Interesting. Yeah. During the Biden

00:21:18.720 presidency, they're like, oh, I don't care anymore. And second Trump presidency, like, ah. Trump

00:21:23.580 on a graph. So no, it's just constant, like, freaking out. I bet right now it's off the charts for

00:21:29.580 them. And with the male liberals, it goes up a lot here. But with the conservatives, what's interesting

00:21:35.160 is there are periods where it has gone up, but it seems to actually be going down a lot on average,

00:21:40.860 especially things like I often worry about pollution and climate change. And I've noticed

00:21:45.800 this was in our circles. Like, people don't care about the climate as much as they used to.

00:21:49.520 Well, I think that after so many, I mean, in our case, decades of being told that the end is nigh.

00:21:55.360 And here we are.

00:21:59.980 It's not just that, but it's so clear that like, oh, okay, so we panicked about it. And you had

00:22:05.760 control of the UN and you had control of the US government, you had control of the World Health

00:22:08.760 Organization. And you did the Paris Accords and nothing was achieved, right? Like, apparently,

00:22:15.200 it's still a major issue. We shut down everything during COVID. And we didn't, we only incrementally

00:22:19.820 met the carbon reduction that's expected every year that one year. Like, obviously, it's not doable.

00:22:24.220 And, and, and so I think for a lot of people, they're like, well, what, you just let a large

00:22:29.960 number of species die? And I'm like, yeah, sure. Like, it's happened before. We are not the first

00:22:35.940 species to cause a, many liberals, it's so weird to me when they were like, well, there's been mass

00:22:41.160 extinctions before, but like, no animal has ever caused a mass, I'm like, yes, they have. Like,

00:22:46.700 have you not heard of the great oxidation event? Like, are you just like, you're so proudly uneducated.

00:22:52.180 It's actually happened in two of the major mass extinctions. It was caused by a life form.

00:22:56.460 So yeah, it has happened before. It's the thing that living life does.

00:23:01.880 Yeah. Humans will find a way to survive without nature. Humans won't find a way to survive without

00:23:07.220 humans, you know? So it's, it's one of these things where I'm like, I'd like nature to be around,

00:23:11.780 but it's really more of a aesthetic concern. I'm much more interested in just categorizing its,

00:23:16.720 its DNA. So it can be recreated at a future date, you know, see what these dire wolves are creating

00:23:21.880 now. You, these science downers and they bum me out so much. Like when they made the dire wolves

00:23:26.940 and somebody was like, oh, it's just like putting them in costumes. They only changed like a few of

00:23:31.060 the, it's like, come on, man. Like you, this, this is literally. Specifically what they're complaining

00:23:36.640 about is that they're not genetically identical. Like they don't have the exact DNA of historical dire

00:23:41.540 wolves because instead what they did was they altered them to phenotypically be what we can

00:23:47.360 guess is the same as dire wolf DNA using. Well, yeah, they use dire wolf DNA to see kind of what

00:23:54.120 was going on, but then used different interventions to adjust it to like 20% bigger, to make them all

00:24:00.120 white, to do a bunch of other things. And they were not. So there's something that some people have

00:24:04.980 tried to do in the past, which is make genetic changes to an animal, not using the original animal's

00:24:10.180 DNA just to make it look more like an ancestral phenotype. So, so maybe trying to breed cows

00:24:15.520 larger because of it's a larger form of cow in the past. This has been done with a few species.

00:24:19.700 That is not what the dire wolf thing was. I misspoke here. This was what the dire wolf thing

00:24:24.180 was still incredibly impressive. Nonetheless. Yeah. This is a bit like somebody coming up to Jurassic Park and

00:24:31.340 Oh, that's just a big chicken. It's just been phenotypically changed to look like a brontosaurus.

00:24:50.180 Like, what are you talking about? Why are you guys so impressed with this? It's like some people have a

00:24:55.640 compulsive need to erase all of the wonder from the world in a human achievement. There was a woman who we 0.99

00:25:01.400 had on our show before recently in relation to AI and she had a moment like this where she did an episode

00:25:05.840 saying AI is not conscious and it's never going, we're never going to get AGI. And she used this proof, this

00:25:12.920 study that we might go onto in another episode where it showed that AI didn't know how it came to the

00:25:20.440 decisions that it was coming to. And I was like, I wish you had watched our AI is probably conscious

00:25:25.080 in the same way we are video in that we show that humans work that exact same way. Yeah. Like this is,

00:25:31.640 this is only going to convince us more that AI is human. It's literally not only do humans work in the

00:25:37.460 same way, but if you ask a human, if they work in that way, they'll say, no, I don't work in that way.

00:25:42.320 And they will make up fake memories of how they thought through something, watch our, you know,

00:25:48.040 stop pretending humans are sapient video or LLMs or, or, or, you know, function the same way the

00:25:53.160 human brain does. But anyway, so, so not only that, but like a human, they will make up having how,

00:26:00.680 how they got to their end state. So literally every part of that process is exactly the way that a human

00:26:05.940 brain appears to do it. And then people can be like, well, I remember specific intermediary steps in my

00:26:11.240 thinking. And it's like, well, that's just because we don't have AIs looking at their own ledgers right 0.76

00:26:16.080 now, but it's not that we can't, if you've ever used like a deep search on Grok or on Google,

00:26:20.820 you can see where it will output the various parts of it sought. You could have the AI have access to

00:26:26.800 that. We just choose to not give it access to that. That's about how we're handling its memory.

00:26:32.260 We're basically erasing the point where it was making markers of what it was thinking

00:26:37.460 that we would otherwise have in our own heads. So I just find that to be like, some people are just

00:26:42.660 so determined to not see the wonder in the world. It makes me sad. But anyway, back to the topic at

00:26:49.580 hand. Trends in sociopolitical awareness among 12th graders by ideology and sex. So we just went over

00:26:56.320 that. I didn't notice it was 12th graders. That's sad. All right. So despite the significant

00:27:01.500 educational socioeconomic advancements that women have achieved since the 1950s, figure 32 further

00:27:06.980 shows that liberals now perceive greater discrimination against women in various

00:27:10.720 contexts, including in assessing higher education than ever recorded. We've got over this another

00:27:16.540 episode and it's just insane. They think women are more discriminated against now than they were like 1.00

00:27:22.100 10 years ago, 20 years ago. Concurrently, the share of female liberals who think their sex will prevent 1.00

00:27:28.540 them from obtaining their desired careers, quote unquote, somewhat or quote unquote, a lot shot up by more

00:27:34.720 than 30 points between 2012, 36 percent in 2019. Sixty seven percent.

00:27:44.020 In contrast, if they've changed at all, perceptions of discrimination against women are lower among

00:27:49.700 conservatives of both sexes today than they were in the 1970s, which is accurate. Like the conservatives

00:27:54.760 seem to be broadly accurate here. They think that women are less discriminated against as time goes on,

00:27:58.600 where progressives just have this shoot up out of nowhere in 2020, 2012. That's where this number just

00:28:03.340 like shoots up the female liberal. What's interesting is that the male liberal shoots up and then like

00:28:08.960 goes back down. It's still fairly low. People are conservatives going down every time. But this is...

00:28:14.540 And 2012 was Gamergate, right? Like we sort of...

00:28:17.800 Gamergate was every... Gamergate was...

00:28:19.980 Was it 2014?

00:28:21.940 Yeah. I don't know. 28... I want to say 2014.

00:28:25.400 14? Anyway. But yeah, this is... Oh, interesting. Okay. So this is... Remember how we had that like

00:28:32.240 what happened in like 2012 question or 2014?

00:28:34.680 Yeah, Gamergate was 2014, by the way. You're right. Yeah.

00:28:36.820 We're seeing the same thing here. It's when they interacted with online culture, this new

00:28:41.200 memetic virus. It's when their perception of reality shot to hell.

00:28:45.920 Hmm. All downstream of Tumblr. Tumblr gets attacked and then everything changed. The Tumblrina's 1.00

00:28:55.940 attacked and now everyone thinks they're a dog. I didn't know this, but they're like... I thought

00:29:01.380 like the dog and furry stuff in school was like completely fake, but there was like this great

00:29:05.360 video of kids protesting outside of school because furries were being allowed to like walk around

00:29:10.620 school and like bite the other kids and kids were getting like sent to like detention if

00:29:15.840 they like kicked them away or like they... The kids weren't even allowed to wear costumes on

00:29:20.060 Halloween's, but the furries were allowed to on a daily basis. But it was because the principal's

00:29:23.740 daughter was a furry, apparently. That's why she... Oh, dear. Well, that sounds like one crazy 1.00

00:29:28.800 isolated case. Most of the instances of furry fear that I've heard of have ultimately been

00:29:34.680 discounted somewhat or... Yeah, I'm very much like chill out about furries, people.

00:29:40.360 Like... Yeah, like whatever. Kids are weird. Like... And there, you know, I remember there were the

00:29:45.080 kids, at least in my high school, who like... There was one kid who insisted on wearing a vampire cape

00:29:51.060 to school every day. You know, we didn't make a big deal out of it. We didn't give them a litter box

00:29:55.640 or like some blood to suck. We just let them wear a cape. Did you remember the trend where everyone 0.97

00:30:00.360 thought they were vampires for a while? Like psychic vampires and stuff like this? No one... No one in my

00:30:05.340 school, I think, actually. No one in my school did, but I saw it online. You guys are missing the best

00:30:10.460 trends from internet history. This was like early internet. There were all these like communities

00:30:14.560 for them and everything, and they're like... Oh, yeah, this is big. I had like friends who

00:30:19.720 practiced what they believed to be Wiccan things. I did, too. I did, too. Yeah. Yeah, but not...

00:30:25.440 I remember one, I was like, okay, watch. I'm gonna make the wind blow. And she's like,

00:30:29.620 we've got to say super sill. And then like a gust would come after like a little bit. She'd be like,

00:30:34.060 see, I did it. I was like, okay, okay, okay. I guess I shouldn't be surprised if these people

00:30:41.920 were more susceptible to mimetic viruses. Yeah. Do you want to see the history of Wiccanism that 0.96

00:30:46.380 it was all basically made up in the 1920s? You can go into our video on that. It's pretty

00:30:49.940 interesting, actually. Very entertaining. Other data similarly revealed high degrees of

00:30:55.280 use pessimism about the prospects of success for women and racial minority groups in contemporary

00:31:00.080 American society. For example, a 2023 study released by Skeptic Research Center observed

00:31:05.340 that 49% of female and 34% of male Gen Z correspondents agreed that women in the United

00:31:11.060 States have no hope for success because of sexism. Because of now? 4%? Yeah, in 2023,

00:31:18.940 women make up like the vast... What do they think is happening to women? They make more money than 1.00

00:31:25.400 men do at these age ranges. It's worse than regular discrimination because they are doing

00:31:33.160 it while being ungrateful. Yeah, it's just the worst. That is really bad.

00:31:38.940 Hey, at least they're going extinct and hate themselves. They could be doing this and having

00:31:44.040 a grand time of it, right? You know? While the rates of agreement were comparable among millennials,

00:31:50.740 44.5% and 36.8%, they dropped substantially for Gen X, female, male, 23.9% and Boomer, 25.9%,

00:31:59.260 15.6% correspondents. Further, as in the MTF data, they also show a marked political divide with 51.8%

00:32:08.180 of very liberal correspondents agreeing with the statement and 23.2% of very conservative

00:32:12.420 correspondents. Not. So, even within very conservative correspondents, 23.2% in 2023

00:32:19.160 agreed with the statement that women in the United States have no hope of success because of sexism.

00:32:25.360 Ha ha ha. Oh. Is this just rover stuff? I don't know. I don't know. These people are mentally,

00:32:35.980 as we know now, like this isn't tied to reality. Now we're going to get to where we break this out

00:32:40.880 because this chart I found to be the most interesting. Okay. I can figure 33 here, okay?

00:32:45.460 Okay. If media-driven increases in the adoption of woke bias-centered narratives of inequality have

00:32:52.400 contributed to liberal conservative differences in mental health, such differences can shrink

00:32:56.100 considerably when woke beliefs were held constant. Supporting this hypothesis, figure 33, which uses

00:33:01.860 data from the 2022 cooperative election study, shows that a force item index of racial wokeness

00:33:08.040 alone accounts for more than nearly half, 0.5 SD, conservative liberal difference in self-related

00:33:15.340 mental health. Okay. What am I looking at here? I'll explain after I get to the end of this because

00:33:20.800 it's a little hard to interpret. Okay. Yeah. So, reflective religiosity alone accounts for just under

00:33:24.840 a third of this gap. So, half of the gap is accounted for by wokeness, but a third is accounted for by

00:33:31.760 a lack of religion. So, wokeness is more damaging to an individual than not having religion. Racial 1.00

00:33:38.440 wokeness is more mentally damaging than not having religion, but only by a degree, not like dramatically

00:33:45.120 more damaging. That's interesting because, yeah, I think a lot of people turn, of course, to progressive

00:33:51.900 mainstream urban monoculture culture because they have abandoned their inherited cultures, but you have

00:33:58.540 to fill that void to make do with the complexities of modern society, and yet this is making things

00:34:06.180 worse. Yeah. So, what you see here, which is absolutely fascinating, is if you, and so every

00:34:12.620 line here that you're seeing, like every set of graphs, is how much of a difference this makes with

00:34:18.780 the far on the left one, conservative versus liberal, the middle one being female conservative

00:34:23.700 versus female liberal, and the far right one being male conservative versus male liberal. But you can see

00:34:28.100 there's really not that much of a difference in here. It affects them all about equally. But what

00:34:32.240 you see here is if you adjust for, one, religiosity I find really interesting because it appears that

00:34:39.540 religiosity has more, or not having it, is more damaging to females than it is to males. Which makes 0.88

00:34:47.500 sense because females often go to like crazy other things when they're not religious, like Wiccan and 1.00

00:34:51.960 like crystals and stuff like that. Whereas males typically go to atheism or agnosticism, which is a

00:34:57.200 much more mentally healthy way to deal with reality. Maybe women are more consensus building and like 1.00

00:35:04.300 community oriented, it would seem. So, the lack of community that comes with strong culture

00:35:10.400 would be felt more by someone who is more inclined to community, no?

00:35:16.000 Yeah. So, if you, if you adjust for all covariates though, and this is really interesting. So,

00:35:23.100 specifically here this is adjusting for racial wokeness, religiosity, and self-rated physical

00:35:29.200 health demographic socioeconomic indicators. You get between conservatives and liberals almost the same

00:35:36.160 rate to the mental health. So, it really is entirely explained by racial wokeness and religion.

00:35:44.000 Wow. That's, that's almost all of it. Because that's the pink graph here. It's only a little

00:35:48.320 bit higher than, than putting in everything. That's crazy.

00:35:56.160 The relationship between attitudinal wokeness and poor mental health outcomes has also been found

00:36:01.760 outside the US with a recent Finnish study showing that agreement with the statement, quote, if white

00:36:07.360 people have on average higher income than black people, it's because of racism, has the strongest 0.99

00:36:12.320 correlation with anxiety, depression, and general unhappiness. Oh.

00:36:17.680 One that's like, obviously a wrong statement. Like, there's a bunch of other things that could

00:36:21.360 cause that. But people who are in the urban monoculture, one of the beliefs of the urban

00:36:25.200 monoculture is that people aren't different. No one else believes that people aren't different.

00:36:28.000 Everyone else is like, yeah, there's like cultural differences between people at the very least.

00:36:33.280 And it could be something in black culture that's causing this, this disparity. But they cannot say

00:36:38.000 that within the urban monoculture. In the urban monoculture, everyone is exactly the same,

00:36:41.840 which is ironic because then they're like, diversity has value. And it's like, why does

00:36:44.720 the diversity have value if everyone's exactly the same? Like, we're not having different perspectives

00:36:48.960 and proficiencies to the table in predilections. Why, why do I need an equal number of men and women 1.00

00:36:54.800 in my company? Why not just have all men? Presumably it's exactly the same as having an equal number 0.70

00:36:58.160 of men and women. Presumably it's exactly the same. Like having, having only white people is 0.88

00:37:02.240 presumably exactly the same as having some black people. So there's no benefit to it. Like, why would I do that? 1.00

00:37:06.240 And I found that really interesting. That is really interesting.

00:37:11.040 All right. Now we're going to go back to some other parts of the study. So we're getting out

00:37:15.200 of the area that I found the most interesting in the study. Importantly, as depicted in figure 19 below,

00:37:21.040 sourced from three large and recent studies of US adults, some of the same personality facets that

00:37:26.640 distinguish girls and boys similarly distinguish liberals from conservatives. This is likely why we're

00:37:32.080 seeing them split into two different camps. Yeah. Those deviating political divides.

00:37:36.720 Yeah. Women are more voting progressive and men are more voting conservative. Similar to the pattern

00:37:40.720 observed in sex differences, we see the withdrawal aspect of neuroticism, encompassing depression and

00:37:47.520 anxiety facets, the openness aspect of openness slash intellect, encompassing aesthetic sensitivity and

00:37:53.680 emotionality, and the compassion aspect of agreeableness, encompassing facets like fear,

00:37:58.720 mindedness and empathetic concern are all positively linked with a liberal left wing political orientation.

00:38:04.720 Conversely, the facets of conscientiousness and certain facets of extroversion, such as assertiveness,

00:38:11.280 are associated with conservative right wing political orientation. And you have a graph here showing that

00:38:16.560 because girls and liberals tend to score higher than boys and conservatives on key factors of

00:38:20.560 neuroticism, openness and agreeableness, all of which are positively associated with justice sensitivity.

00:38:24.880 It follows that girls and liberals would also likely score higher on justice sensitivity. Data presented

00:38:31.120 in figure 20, drawn from separate studies of US adults, supports this expectation. Across studies on

00:38:37.440 most, if not all four aspects of justice sensitivity, observer, beneficiary, perpetrator, victim,

00:38:42.960 women score significantly higher than men, and liberals score significantly higher than conservatives.

00:38:48.080 The bottom row of figure 20 additionally shows these ideological differences

00:38:52.400 hold within each sex was female liberals outscoring female conservatives and male liberals outscoring

00:38:58.240 male conservatives. That is really fascinating because this, actually I want to go down and take

00:39:05.680 like what is justice sensitivity. Taken together, the data shows that girls and liberals tend to score

00:39:11.200 significantly higher than boys and conservatives on personality traits associated with mental health

00:39:14.720 challenges and significantly lower on those associated with psychological resilience and stability.

00:39:20.080 Oh really? This is a funny thing. Like I, as a guy can be like, girl, be crazy. And they'll be like,

00:39:26.480 and I'd get canceled for that. I'd be like, no, like biologically girls are like kind of crazy. 1.00

00:39:31.600 Okay. And, and here, this is a research paper saying this data shows that girls tend to score

00:39:37.680 significantly higher than boys on personality traits associated with mental health challenges and

00:39:43.200 significantly lower on those associated with psychological resilience and stability.

00:39:46.720 So unfortunately they are less continuous and more neurotic.

00:39:53.120 In other words, some of the traits that help explain the poor mental health outcomes of girls 1.00

00:39:57.280 relative to boys may also be relevant to explaining the poor mental health outcomes of liberals relative

00:40:02.000 to conservatives. In fact, this vulnerability in girls may be tied at least in part to their 0.50

00:40:05.760 disproportionate alignment with liberal left-wing ideological orientations. And here, what you can see

00:40:11.280 interesting is digital connectivity among adults, 18 to 29, this is for 12th graders, a comparison of

00:40:16.480 internet usage with political orientation and sex. And what you see here is liberals just use this stuff a

00:40:25.200 lot more than conservatives. Here, I'm going to think it's because of lower conscientiousness, they are

00:40:30.240 more susceptible to addiction. So they start using this stuff and they can't turn it off as easy.

00:40:35.760 Yeah. Well, and I mean, I think any sort of approach to addictive stimuli is going to be

00:40:46.720 people are less likely to recover from it if they are progressive because there's this progressive

00:40:51.360 attitude against removing in the moment pain. And the only way that you're going to get through

00:40:56.720 addiction is to remove in the moment pain, or I mean, is to endure in favor of long-term benefit,

00:41:03.520 right? And here, I'll put up two more graphs, which show the same thing. I'm not going to say it

00:41:07.360 again, but it just shows liberals using this much, much more than conservatives. Now, this was really

00:41:13.680 interesting. Differences in emotional responses to social media content and interactions, as well as

00:41:19.280 attention to certain types of content may be equal, if not more relevant to understanding the sex and

00:41:24.240 ideological gaps in mental health. First, higher average levels of neuroticism, empathetic concern,

00:41:29.600 and justice sensitivity among girls and liberals would likely make them more sensitive to negative 0.82

00:41:33.360 social evaluations, aesthetic, moral, intellectual, when interacting with others on social media.

00:41:38.880 While this proposition cannot be directly tested, figure 24 present suggestive evidence drawn from

00:41:45.040 MTF survey on 12th graders. Specifically, girls, irrespective of political orientation and liberals,

00:41:51.360 regardless of sex, reported significantly higher levels of concern about how they were perceived by

00:41:56.160 others. Interestingly, during a 2017 to 2022, the share reporting concern has grown 13 to 17 points

00:42:04.080 among the liberals and 12th graders of both sexes, and 12 points among conservative females. In stark

00:42:10.400 contrast, no net change is observed among conservative males, who, as we've seen, tend to be fair comparatively

00:42:17.040 better on base indicators of mental health and report the lowest rates of frequent social media use.

00:42:22.640 So this is a grade of within 12th graders. I often worry about how other people react to me. And what

00:42:27.680 you're seeing here is liberals just being way more concerned about this and also women being way more

00:42:33.840 concerned about this. But interestingly, that concern has gone up over time. That makes sense. Again, the

00:42:40.720 progressive subculture in general is much more focused on conformity, consensus building, etc. Whereas the

00:42:48.800 renegade sovereignty, libertarian-leaning culture is now the conservative culture.

00:42:54.480 Well, I actually would think it might be something else. It might be even a desire to want to confirm makes it

00:43:00.640 easier to force you to be a liberal. Because liberalism today, being the culture of the urban monoculture, the

00:43:05.280 dominant cultural group, is going to be much more conformist. You're going to be afraid to stand up

00:43:11.280 against that. And so if you have this deep desire to confirm and be approved by other people, that's

00:43:17.680 going to happen to you. It's the core thing that it uses. If you look at the urban monoculture,

00:43:23.760 it gets you to fall in line by screaming racist or something like that, or trans foe,

00:43:30.000 whenever you say something that is dangerous to the urban monoculture's proliferation.

00:43:38.000 To continue here, recall that neuroticism, openness and agreeableness are all predictive

00:43:43.040 and conscientiousness negatively predictive of the reported frequency of encountering social media and

00:43:48.400 content that triggers feelings of depression and loneliness. So all of these negative traits are

00:43:52.640 predictive of how effective the social media things are going to be at hurting you. And liberals go into

00:43:59.120 spaces where the content that hurts them is more frequent, which is really interesting. And we saw

00:44:03.680 like they do scroll more. And we just know this from from liberal spaces. Conservatives actually seem

00:44:08.560 to like in terms of the content, they like content that affirms their pre-existing beliefs a lot more

00:44:13.360 instead of just being more than conservatives. I just feel like that's a human thing.

00:44:16.640 With conservatives, it's affirms their existing beliefs and look at the other side getting their

00:44:21.680 comeuppance. Like videos of leftists crying after an election or leftist women who left guys, you know,

00:44:28.240 ending up sad as adults or, you know, I always tell some progressives like that too. I've been seeing

00:44:34.000 because, you know, I follow both a lot more than you do. I think you're like, like, oh,

00:44:38.240 not my face. Like a leopard wouldn't eat my face or something.

00:44:40.800 Well, no, now they're like MAGA people are now regretting their choice to vote for Trump because

00:44:47.120 of the tariffs. Like they're 100% doing that.

00:44:49.280 What MAGA people is this? Like, I actually, I don't know. I haven't watched the videos,

00:44:52.800 but I've seen the title cards and they're, they're trying to make this argument. And I think

00:44:56.880 maybe the same thing, the same reaction would be had by a progressive when they're like,

00:45:01.200 what single cat lady is crying because she's all alone. She's happy, you know? So

00:45:07.440 I don't know. I don't see that as plausible as I love it. I also see progressives like freaking out,

00:45:14.080 like Trump's putting in tariffs. Trump's firing woke, like, like people who are involved in DEI. I'm

00:45:18.960 like, yeah, he told us he was going to do all of that when he was campaigning out of the blue.

00:45:23.600 This isn't like a surprise. This is, this is what he was running on. If he didn't do it,

00:45:29.120 it would be a sign of a lack of integrity. Anyway, this is the plan. Given these relationships

00:45:34.480 and the sex and ideological differences in personality traits, we would expect women and 1.00

00:45:38.240 liberals to report encountering such content at significantly higher frequency than men and

00:45:43.520 conservatives data graph and figure 25 confirms that they do. So I'll just go straight to

00:45:48.800 the graph here and we can talk through it. Sex and ideological differences in reported frequency

00:45:54.800 encountering social media content that triggers negative internalizing emotions, men versus women

00:46:00.400 and liberals versus conservatives. Again, you just see that they're encountering this stuff at way higher

00:46:04.720 rates. And I think again, they do seem to seek it out a bit more. The, the conservatives are winning

00:46:10.560 and look at how bad they're doing is like a common liberal thing. So, and then here we have a graph.

00:46:18.640 That shows trends in relation between daily screen time and negative mental health outcomes

00:46:24.000 among high school students by sex. And it's looking at unaliving ideation, all three tapes combined,

00:46:31.120 mental depressive episodes, suicide plans. And you see just this stuff going up slightly, but not that

00:46:38.080 much. Um, and so what I would actually take away from this is, and I seem to remember looking at the

00:46:43.520 debt on this and said it was nearly statistically not relevant. So it is not the internet that's causing

00:46:49.200 the rise in unaliving rates. It is progressivism or some, some mean that's in the environment that

00:46:56.800 people who are LGBT are more exposed to and women are more exposed to and progressives are more exposed

00:47:02.880 to. I would guess it's the urban monoculture.

00:47:05.520 You know, if it's everybody who walked in that particular room, like fell out sad, like,

00:47:19.760 no, I will note here, this is where you get the, the, the trends of young adult mental health and

00:47:25.600 smartphone, social media use, and you see it all going up. And so you get this perception of,

00:47:31.040 oh, it's, it's smartphone stuff. But what we're seeing in the other data is no,

00:47:35.440 it's progressive stuff, which is being transmitted through smartphones. If you're a conservative and

00:47:39.440 you have one as this, you're just not getting as big a negative effect or potentially any negative

00:47:42.960 effect at all. Here, I note a graph that says trends in religious importance and attendance among

00:47:50.880 12th graders by political ideology and sex. Now, this is interesting because what we're seeing here is

00:47:59.200 female and male liberals. It's going like way down, but generally speaking, female conservatives are 1.00

00:48:06.720 much more religious than male conservatives. The orange line is female conservatives and the red line

00:48:11.440 is male conservatives. So that's fascinating. Whereas it's actually true with liberals as well. Male

00:48:18.480 liberals are less religious than female liberals. The blue line is male liberals. The purple line is

00:48:23.200 female liberals. That's, that's really interesting. Anyway, Simone, we are going to head off this and

00:48:30.080 oh, I guess I can do the last graph here. And these are the effects of the big five personality domains

00:48:34.400 on the frequency of encountering social media content that triggers negative positive emotions.

00:48:39.440 Oh, wow. Who knew that'd be a correlation? That's interesting. Yeah. So extroversion is like

00:48:44.640 middling. You get a openness and intellect causes seeing negative things more. Neuroticism is very

00:48:52.480 big in terms of seeing negative things. I guess that's not surprising. Agreeableness, slightly big,

00:48:57.040 but not that much. And really negative in seeing these things is conscientiousness. So conscientiousness

00:49:02.400 is just really protective. Neuroticism, really bad. But neuroticism is higher in women. I'm sorry. 0.98

00:49:07.760 I think it's so canceled for that because I've read a graph.

00:49:12.240 I think we all know it. Like, yeah, women's odds of depression, adolescents are higher. It's just,

00:49:18.400 yeah, this is, it's known. I'm not using gamer words anymore on the show, so I can just say bees be

00:49:23.840 crazy. Yes. Because I'm so responsible now. Women have a different constitution. They're inclined to 1.00

00:49:33.600 rotundities. Hysteria. You know, it turned out that that whole needing to like masturbate women 1.00

00:49:40.880 thing to get rid of hysteria turned out to be like a thing that was made up by like one person.

00:49:46.880 You mean it wasn't a widespread treatment? No. It was like one historian lady who was

00:49:54.000 like a feminist wanted to like get one over on her boss and like made it up. Like the eating spiders 1.00

00:49:59.760 meme? That's hilarious. Yes, it was a number of spiders. Wow. Let's, there you go.

00:50:07.360 I can see why it's spread. It's very catchy. It's hilarious. Yeah. But wow, that's, that's

00:50:12.800 incredible. All right. Love you to Desimone. I love you too, Malcolm. Let's not go crazy. Okay.

00:50:19.440 I'm worried about, you're the one who's going to go crazy. We've seen the data.

00:50:22.640 I've already gone crazy. So we don't have to worry about me. Yeah. You can't doubt. Oh,

00:50:26.320 you could go double crazy. I can. Oh, we're going to be talking about a lot of grass. 0.77

00:50:33.600 Yeah. The new, the new Twitter thread I sent you was about a psychologist, a researcher who wanted to

00:50:39.360 test the ability of psychologists to diagnose conditions. It's, it's quite, it's quite interesting

00:50:47.120 because he's a famous case study, Simone. I'm very familiar with it. Okay. So you know about that one

00:50:50.560 where he like sent in normal professionals, like a painter and other stuff too.

00:50:54.240 Yeah. People haven't covered it enough recently. So like, I'm totally okay with 0.58

00:51:00.080 doing it again, but.

00:51:03.680 Thank you for the graphs you're sending. I love me some graphs. Actually, I don't, I think that

00:51:10.160 I'm not really able to read graphs. Well, as you can tell, you may have noticed a pattern

00:51:16.160 where I try to show you a graph and you're like,

00:51:17.840 And I'm like the graph, there are lines trending.

00:51:21.520 And after this point, I'll just maybe describe the graphs to you.

00:51:26.320 Cause I won't understand them anyway. It's because I'm a woman, Malcolm. Why are you trying?

00:51:33.120 Well, I could probably find some graphs about that. 0.98

00:51:37.440 It's like showing statistics to a pig.

00:51:40.480 They're all your favorite car? Yeah. Wow. And look at this, Toasty. When I turn it over, 0.97

00:51:48.000 there's a bunch of blank spaces for more cars. You can keep your car safe in here.

00:51:52.480 Put it up. Put it up, Mom. Okay. Well, open it up. Look. One, two.

00:51:56.160 One, two. Wow. This one's upside down.

00:51:59.840 Oh my goodness.

00:52:01.280 We open it because it was upside down in there. And now they're all cute.

00:52:08.080 This is sweet.

00:52:09.840 Can you say thank you, Grandpa Steve?

00:52:11.840 Thank you, Grandpa Steve.

00:52:13.840 This one's sweet and this one's blue and that one's red. See, this one's red.

00:52:19.840 See, this one's red. Wow. And this one's red. And this one is green.

00:52:26.800 And this one is green. This one, that's like Stacy's gray car.

00:52:31.920 Oh my gosh, yeah. And the yellow one.

00:52:36.080 That is so cool. Whoa, let's put it in that.

00:52:40.880 Yeah, now you have the coolest car container to keep your car safe.

00:52:45.680 Yeah, this is the truck to hold all of the cars. This is the truck to hold all of my cars so they can be safe.

00:52:57.280 Is it your favorite thing ever? Yeah, it is.

Based Camp - May 07, 2025

Social Media Only Hurts Dems Mental Health： Why？

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