00:06:48.940he's got the new the new toy right but hopefully we can use this on the right to unbrainwash some0.98
00:06:59.940black people and bring them over to our side which means stop being performatively racist0.87
00:07:03.940to be edgy guys that's not it's not useful okay it it it really only hurts us there are obviously0.98
00:07:11.820some black immigrant communities that need to that that have externalities associated with them like0.98
00:07:17.200the Somalian refugees and stuff like that but don't you know the one thing to be like these1.00
00:07:23.240black immigrant populations have negative externalities and we need to find a way to deal1.00
00:07:27.400with it than to just be like performatively racist or something like that which is really0.99
00:07:32.200only to masturbate your own ego not to help the party because it hurts. Anyway Asmongold describes0.92
00:07:38.380the mid-2000s as basically this time when most people of different races got along and pop
00:07:43.280culture just normalized multiracial friendship and cooperation and he yeah he's just rush hour
00:07:48.400three with you know jackie chan and it was chris rock right being like oh everyone's like excited
00:07:53.220to see that and like people joke about people being of different cultural and and ethnic
00:07:59.360backgrounds but like they were comfortable with it it wasn't this tension it was rush hour three
00:08:03.800wasn't a story about multiculturalism it was like funny and there would you know people enjoyed that
00:08:09.940And also society was just getting more progressive each year on race and sexuality. There was growing acceptance of gay people. We elected Barack Obama. Like, it was a thing. And he emphasized that everyday social life did feel edgy, but unserious. That people would say offensive things, like they would use racial slurs in video games, but everyone knew it wasn't real. Like, it was just teasing and trolling and basically locker room talk.
00:08:35.520and the overall vibe was that people just joked harshly but got along and there's not meaningful
00:08:41.840ethnic tension outside of ghettos and i really mean this in my school for example like we had
00:08:46.360kids of different you had kids of different ethnicities in your school did anyone care yeah
00:08:50.000nobody cared we would talk about stereotypes but that's because they were real so the we had we had
00:08:57.480a group that we called the korean mafia because there were a bunch of korean kids at our school
00:09:00.980or a scholarship that let them come and then there was a bunch of Chinese kids who hung out
00:09:05.880together but other than those two groups and those two groups you know literally came from other
00:09:10.280countries I literally remember the first time I heard someone say something racist that like
00:09:14.660surprised me because I just never heard anything racist before and it was I was a friend in school
00:09:19.440I can't remember what level of school I was in but her name was Yesenia and she came from like
00:09:22.980a Spanish-speaking household and she was telling me how like her parents were really concerned about
00:09:28.000brown people and I was just so like I was like what do you mean what is this about but like
00:09:32.640that I have a memory of someone talking with me about that and like being surprised must show that
00:09:38.040like we really didn't care at that era you know just didn't matter but yes when you check in on
00:09:43.260hate crime in 2005 in the U.S. it was one of the lowest points for racism in U.S. history relative
00:09:49.860to prior eras and lethal racial violence had plummeted from its peak in the late 19th early
00:09:57.28020th century. Yeah, we had gotten to a point where blacks were mostly just killing other blacks.0.98
00:10:02.500Yeah, sorry, I know that's horrible. There is a difference in homicide rates, but0.98
00:10:06.640that is true, that blacks mostly kill other blacks while they do have an increased homicide rate.1.00
00:10:11.880Yeah. So studies of discrimination trends, which, you know, have been active since we've been,0.98
00:10:17.800like, for decades and decades, show persistence. Like, there's still discrimination,
00:10:22.200but they were overall reductions post 1960s things had only gotten better and in 2005 there
00:10:28.920were 7163 hate crime offenses and this was noted by the fbi as the lowest total in more than a
00:10:38.760decade racial bias motivated about 54.7 percent of single bias incidents so this by the way
00:10:46.060yeah continue continue i'll i want to get to the end of your thought
00:10:49.740importantly and this is really interesting right so we're looking at at all of this crime i started
00:10:56.540wondering if perhaps part of what made hate crime levels seem to go up had to do with police training
00:11:03.660and okay before you get into that i wanted to go into a funny i saw this on asthma gold or
00:11:09.720and this it looked like official data i'm going to double check because this sounds
00:11:13.760so crazy if this is actually official data but it was tracking interracial grapes god you mentioned
00:11:21.740this to me yes and it was black on white was something like 12 000 which i mean if you're
00:11:28.640considering the whole country isn't a ton but it's still like a lot right like i'm sure that we get
00:11:33.400way more from immigrants but i i know that that's the particularly prejudiced statement against
00:11:38.000immigrants but i mean i'm pretty sure i would expect more than 12 000 but the funny number was
00:11:42.500was white on blacks which was literally over the official data set's entire recording period for
00:11:48.360that year zero which actually tracks that but like oh that's our video on perceived attractiveness
00:11:57.860between groups white people uniquely see black people as unattractive and this is actually
00:12:02.520really hard for oh that's even more insult you're just saying like well they wouldn't0.96
00:12:06.180because they don't want to that's well i mean it's when we point out how bad it is for blacks
00:12:13.980in the united states we have this episode on like it being so hard for black women that if you look
00:12:17.920at the old okcupid dating stuff that you know how bad it is for white men in online dating
00:12:24.420it is literally harder for black women and online dating than it is for white men that is how nerfed0.91
00:12:33.140the black community is within dating pools in like black pill communities not named for the0.99
00:12:38.120black but like they go full like like incel whatever people are like bro like be white be0.96
00:12:44.720tall like if you're not those two things you're nerfed right like so do keep in mind that there0.52
00:12:51.320are some areas where white men still have privilege when it comes to being thirsted over
00:12:55.620yeah if you're in the top one percent anyway so things hit this nadir in terms of hate crime and
00:13:03.620everything in in 2005 and i started to wonder like okay if if this is this conspiracy is real
00:13:09.540and if interests you know with with deep pockets and we didn't want corporations to be scrutinized
00:13:16.240wanted to begin to foment this feeling that racism was real and that racial tensions were a big thing
00:13:24.620in the United States, it had to be addressed and that we have to obsess over that and not look at
00:13:28.420corporations and rich people that one thing you might do is just train or encourage training in
00:13:34.900police departments that will lead to a higher rate of reported hate crimes. So then you with
00:13:39.860some other nonprofit, you could point them to look at the data and report a spike in it. And
00:13:46.440they'd be like, this is a big problem. Very clever. And it actually does turn out that
00:13:52.160multiple times after 2012, the FBI crime data collection guidelines and training manual were
00:13:58.920updated. Starting in December 2012, the tail end of Occupy Wall Street, they merged major guidelines
00:14:05.120and training guides to include learning modules on bias-motivated crime definitions. There was this
00:14:10.560two-tier review process, so you respond to officer flags that have, like, for suspected bias, and then
00:14:16.560who have expert review of whether it actually is biased. The training included case study exercises
00:14:22.360and model procedures for agencies to build their own training. And it was explicitly intended to
00:14:28.320help departments establish and refresh hate crime training programs right at the end of Occupy Wall
00:14:33.460Street. And then in 2015, there were new bias categories. So they added anti-Arab, they expanded
00:14:39.880religious biases, and they added more training scenarios for those. And then they also updated
00:14:47.420in 2021-2022 for this full transition to the national incident-based reporting system that
00:14:54.460removed... I'm not going to get into it, but basically, yeah, they did train differently
00:14:59.900after Occupy Wall Street in a way that would have led to probably more reporting, even if things
00:15:04.820remain unchanged otherwise. And then they could utilize the higher reporting to create movements
00:15:09.800like BLM. Yes. And then also this is, this is just, this is just the FBI. Then there's the,
00:15:15.100the, the NIBRS, basically the department adjustment, sorry, department of justice
00:15:21.720and the BJS. What's the BJS? I didn't look that up. Sorry. And the FBI, they provided targeted
00:15:27.540grants and technical assistance and training to thousands of agencies to properly code
00:15:33.000and report hate crimes in this database. So they're also like, we'll give you money to make
00:15:39.400sure that you do this correctly which is notable I don't know where the grants came from but I could
00:15:45.700totally see like this is a very subtle and hidden way for someone who like for example made a lot
00:15:50.240of political donations or made sure that an appointee is leading a certain agency to put
00:15:55.720something like this in without anything like this policy I'm looking you're not going to look bad
00:15:59.780for doing it you know we need to hate crimes are a big serious issue you know we just need more
00:16:03.460accurate reporting but you know how measurement works you know like if you encourage and incentivize
00:16:08.160and give people grant money to measure something,
00:16:10.320they're going to measure it more, you know?
00:16:12.240And then there were also very specific targeted grants.
00:16:36.140And it's very interesting that there's a flurry of this right at the end of Occupy Wall Street, because there was not a flurry of attention on interracial violence right at the end of Occupy Wall Street.
00:16:47.400No, no, no, no, no, no. I think the wheels started turning. The donations started. The training shifted. And also, just to be clear, this is in addition to state level changes.0.57
00:16:57.840So, for example, in 2017 onward, so this is a bit after Occupy Wall Street, there was the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training releasing a new video called Hate Crimes Identification and Investigation.
00:17:11.000And then also AB57 required its inclusion in basic academy training, made it available online, mandated periodic in-service training. Other states passed similar mandates. So basically now it's just like propaganda videos. That is another way to put it.
00:17:27.840being like, here's how to report bias. And then also, I just wanted to check in on polling,
00:17:32.780right? So because polling is another way for us to see how Americans felt about bias. So when you
00:17:38.880look at a Gallup satisfaction with race relations question for like, are you very satisfied? Are you
00:17:45.420somewhat satisfied? In the early 2000s to 2014, people were very satisfied, high, basically 60%
00:17:53.340plus marked good. And this peaked near 70% to 80% post the Obama election. Then 2015 onward,
00:18:01.600you know, after the gears had started turning, there was this sharp drop to 30%, marking it as
00:18:07.560good. Sharp drop. This is the lowest in decades. And this was amid the Ferguson era protests.
00:18:14.320And then ever since it's hovered from like 22% to 36%, from its high at 60%. So Asbogold is
00:18:21.060totally right that like people in 2005 were feeling pretty fine about race relations um and
00:18:27.880now as a well last year as of 2025 50 64 say racism against black people is widespread and
00:18:36.200this is tied for the highest since 2008 tracking up from 51 in 2009 and civil rights progress views
00:18:43.720are also down from 89 in 2011 so pre-occupy wall street to lower levels post 2020 then
00:18:50.960also Pew Research as well. In 2019, 58% called race relations bad and 53% worsening. Post-2020
00:18:59.880BLM support peaked and then fell and discrimination perceptions peaked around that time too.
00:19:05.780It's bad. Basically, Pew Research reports now that people also see racism as a very,
00:19:10.320very bad issue in the United States. So let's go back to what Asmongold observed about the
00:19:15.6402011 to 2012 Occupy Wall Street conflict. He said the real break came with OWS when people started
00:19:24.400focusing on economic power rather than identity. And they were wondering whether their problems
00:19:29.460came from the ultra rich and this corporate leadership class. Because I think a lot of the
00:19:34.580sentiment back then, I'm very like, it seems like a lifetime ago. It seems so long ago. But people
00:19:40.120felt like after the 2008 crash, when a lot of really wealthy people got bailed out, wages never
00:19:46.740really seemed to recover from that. Yeah. Yeah. Like the rich just kept getting richer, but no
00:19:53.480one else like really saw the same level of steady improvement that they were used to. And he argued
00:19:59.380that Asmongold argues that this is, this is the point at which the elite get terrified. So what
00:20:04.620i wanted to know is how american sentiment changed about wealth disparity and class conflict
00:20:10.240when the occupy wall street movement gained momentum in the usa and this one pew survey of
00:20:17.9202048 adults done in 20 end of 2011 so occupy wall street was like this is picking up now
00:20:25.56066 percent of americans said they were very strong or strong conflicts between rich and poor people
00:20:31.880an increase of 19 percentage points from 47% in a 2009 survey, right after the 2008 financial
00:20:40.220crisis. The shares saying very strong conflicts doubled from 15 to 30%, the highest level since
00:20:47.260Pew first asked the question in 1987. So this was a definitely this flashpoint peak. He's absolutely
00:20:54.480right that people saw it. Class conflict was now seen as a bigger source of tension
00:20:58.160than conflicts between immigrants and the native born blacks and whites or young and old for pew0.98
00:21:04.220polling so he's spot on with this also views on economic fairness and power were were totally
00:21:11.420also off in a separate 20 2011 poll 77 percent argued there was too much power in the hands of
00:21:19.020the a few rich people and large corporations 77 percent of people i mean i i could see large
00:21:25.920corporations and really wealthy people kind of being like hey guys we should probably divert
00:21:30.400their attention yeah we need to get people pissed at something else and this is you know i'm gonna
00:21:36.460be honest like on the ground when i learned about the that the 2008 financial crisis like
00:21:43.020poverty law center had been funding the kkk and the neo-nazis yeah and that nick fuentes was
00:21:48.020heavily astroturfed i sort of had this moment of like pulling back and i think a lot of influencers
00:21:53.420on the right have been trying to cater to both sides to some extent to try to be like yeah well
00:21:59.340i don't want to isolate that audience by being like yes unmitigatedly obviously this war is a
00:22:05.540good thing for america's line-term interests and stuff like that and i've sort of come to this
00:22:10.180realization of oh the people who i thought i was arguing with may just not even really exist in
00:22:18.620meaningful numbers they're just sort of shell accounts online and a heavy sort of force that
00:22:25.960have been converted for by those shell accounts but they're not like a meaningful contingent of
00:22:31.240the conservative movement um and it's changed the way that i address them where i just don't
00:22:37.860one i don't care about them as much as as like players to like ideologically take seriously
00:22:43.720but two i see them as more of a threat than i did historically as well it's to say that a lot of
00:22:50.220this stuff could just be funded by bad actors right and and like the pro-russia part of the
00:22:55.520right which is just comical because we pointed out that russia is what was behind blm if you
00:23:00.460go to our episode on that we go with plenty receipts showing that if you were ever worried
00:23:05.080about russia interfering with the election on behalf of trump at a nine to one level so they
00:23:10.380literally nine times more than that they spent on trying to make blm a thing they are the source of
00:23:16.860blm in america it's clearly it wasn't only plausibly conspiratorially allegedly corporations
00:23:25.620and wealthy americans you know it was russian well i mean i think these groups work together
00:23:28.980well i don't think they coordinated i just think that when you get you know enough people with
00:23:32.620aligned incentives doing the same thing it's going to be more effective no no i think they
00:23:36.780literally work together so by this what i mean is if you this was the period where a portion of
00:23:41.980the american right began to act like russia was our friend oh my god that's right yeah like well
00:23:47.380russia is actually you know a worthy very good right wing country and i remember when i first
00:23:53.420started seeing this and i was like i'm sorry i'm sorry the right wing hates russia like we have0.85
00:23:58.860always hated russia they are a communist country who transformed into a kleptocracy like this is
00:24:04.360antagonistic oh god this was yeah this was even like when on the left people had a lot of memes0.74
00:24:09.300about like putin being sexy yes less putin yes i think i think oh what was that song i mean
00:24:17.940obviously it was a rasputin song but like yeah that's when the rasputin song got popular and
00:24:22.060everything like that there was a push during a certain time period on both the left and the right
00:24:27.060to make the extreme and captured parts of them the parts that seemed disingenuous
00:24:32.040more pro-Russia. Well, look, okay, I just want to emphasize that the wealthy corpos had a reason
00:24:39.240why. Like another stat, 61% of Americans said the economic system unfairly favors the wealthy.
00:24:45.700And this was up from earlier baselines in related polling. And only 36% called it generally fair.
00:24:52.600And it should also be noted, though, that Occupy Wall Street presented this threat. And there was
00:24:58.700also this actual increase in disparity at play i think we have moved into the united states it's
00:25:06.360having a system we talk about this in our video of economically who is actually more communist
00:25:11.920the united states or the ccp in china and the answer is the united states by three folds
00:25:18.000significantly more communist yeah and if you look at the structure of the government of the united
00:25:25.540States, which you might even go so far as to argue, is this is as much to distract us from
00:25:32.720the communist capitalist battle as it is, because what has functionally happened is
00:25:37.980the communists of Russia had a plan to take over the American governing system, and potentially
00:25:43.380they have. They took over our academic institutions. They just called themselves something else. They0.86
00:25:49.060called themselves socialists, and wokes, and SJWs, and then they used that to take over our
00:25:54.520companies and they use that to create an alliance with these and if somebody's like oh malcolm how0.88
00:26:01.460can you think that like sjwism is aligned with russia when you know the putin hates like the0.91
00:26:07.460gays or whatever it's like anybody who understands sjwism really is understands it's a disease that0.88
00:26:13.400you unleash on your enemy it's the infected it's the zombies for sure yeah like do you think0.99
00:26:18.680putinism agrees with black lives matter no then why is he funding it so much because he understands0.98
00:26:24.020how to promote the disease. And people who are infected with the disease don't really care where1.00
00:26:28.440they get money. Yeah, well, few people care where they get money. But so back to Asmongold's core
00:26:34.260claim, it's that in response to these growing concerns, big institutions cultivated a new wave
00:26:41.500of identity politics as a wedge issue to keep people fighting each other instead of looking up
00:26:46.300the class ladder. And then in MS Paint or whatever it is he uses, and he's such a fast drawer, what
00:26:51.140is up with that it's inhuman this this is the phase he sort of was describing where the rich0.78
00:26:55.940guy takes nine slices of a 10 piece pie and then cuts the last slice in half and says that black
00:27:01.780guy got your half redirecting resentment toward the other ordinary people instead of the elite
00:27:06.060and he he does agree with some and i want to point out that these people like we need to
00:27:11.360like be clear about who the bad actors are in this right yeah corporals are not industrialists and
00:27:18.380they're not capitalists. Industrialists and capitalists is what make America a wealthy and
00:27:22.980successful country. These are people like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg. These are
00:27:30.340people who build things that make money. Corpos are very different. These are people who use
00:27:36.540institutional bureaucracies and legal structures to make money in ways that the average person
00:27:42.520can't. These are the people who run Enron. These are the people who run ExxonMobil. These are the
00:27:48.600people who run the major weapons manufacturers. These are the people who run Lockheed Boeing.
00:27:55.040These are the people who run the types of institutions that do not succeed. And these
00:27:59.880make up a huge chunk of the American economy because they're draining a huge chunk of the
00:28:03.560American economy. They are in an endless cycle to siphon tax dollars from the average citizen in
00:28:10.260America and the industrialists in America. And I think that what we need to do is build a better
00:28:15.840system for a shared class identity for true Americans, which is the industrialists and the0.51
00:28:24.200middle class against the parasites, who is the corpos and the people who live off of the system.0.76
00:28:32.500Well, and I think we need to recognize the wedge effectiveness for Asmongold's point of identity0.98
00:28:39.100politics which absolutely did spike after around 2016 and certainly after occupy wall street so i
00:28:45.780just sent you google trends and google ngram viewer screenshots and i'm going to link to all this in
00:28:51.260the show notes if you look for example at my god terms like identity politics intersectionality
00:28:56.740black feminism non-binary lived experience from 2000 to present in google ngram viewer it's like
00:29:03.440it's like exact it's a little uncanny it's a little weird and also if you look at okay
00:29:08.940a plausible. I know. I'm getting more. No, there's more. There's more. Don't, you know,
00:29:14.540let me keep going. Also, New York Times word frequency analysis of woke adjacent terminology,
00:29:20.060including identity focused language showed also rapid rises, but not starting in 2016. We're
00:29:26.000talking starting in 2013, 2014. So, you know, this it's, yeah, it's, it's real. And then,
00:29:32.760And so keep in mind that next in his argument, Asmongold layers in.
00:29:37.920Don't forget to send me that graph that way, the New York Times one.
00:29:41.120Oh, I don't have a graph for that one.
00:40:21.640Until yesterday I saw the world in monochrome
00:40:24.360Shrouded in a black vow of despair and hopelessness
00:40:27.220blue skies green trees bright red blood i've been zoned out for so long i've forgotten the
00:40:36.960world was so beautiful full of so many beautiful colors who cares if there's zombies chasing me
00:40:44.000like now trump's in power and look at all the crazy stuff that's happening in politics and
00:40:49.340look at all the and i'm like bro it has just been a blast for me yeah i that that one song
00:40:55.460that we kept listening to during the pandemic with the like i'm just gonna be the gamer song
00:41:00.260like yeah that just like captured everything that i felt i do want to point out though and i'm going
00:41:05.560to bring back the same graph that i showed for my argument about male female speciation i don't
00:41:11.260know that episode may not have run yet but that the the male female political divide which is
00:41:17.760very much associated with this identity politics insanity really does that it all started with
00:41:24.160tinder it started with tinder but it accelerated after covid and i think that really feeds it plays
00:41:30.960into asmund gold's argument that covid was an accelerant for extremism by forcing all these
00:41:36.340people online there plus covid is what but okay like i i've presented all of this right so we had
00:41:44.340differences and like changes in the way that police were trained there was a very clear and
00:41:49.240measured nadir in hate crime and in perceptions of racism before occupy wall street and then
00:41:57.140suddenly somehow inexplicably and for no apparent reason it started to get bad and and i really
00:42:04.660can't understand a side like i don't have any alternate here's here's my three theories as to
00:42:11.200what this could have been if it wasn't the corpus saying oh my gosh we have to engineer
00:42:16.080provision that's not concerned about us one is it could just be the urban monoculture reaching
00:42:23.120critical mass and the urban monoculture is more predisposed toward identity politics so this was
00:42:28.860just a separate cultural mimetic virus running out of control and of course all these things
00:42:34.660could be happening at the same time two it could be just trump derangement syndrome because funding
00:42:41.000for many of these identity politics orgs and some of the environmental non-profits as well
00:42:45.300spiked after Trump's election. It was 2016 that was one of the periods. Now, this doesn't explain,
00:42:51.800for example, the shift in the New York Times language toward woke stuff well before Trump
00:42:58.380was elected. But the Southern Poverty Law Center's funding did skyrocket with Trump's election.
00:43:04.860Now, that could just be when their team really got product market fit and found out how to tap
00:43:09.720into really good veins because of that. And they had already picked up momentum before, but still.
00:43:14.020i have another thesis is that you're looking at it wrong okay it was explicitly the death
00:43:23.040of occupy wall street that caused the explosion in identity politics let me explain okay in our
00:43:30.120book the pragmatist guide to crafting religion i actually explicitly go over this i say0.85
00:43:33.420that the urban monoculture is not a parasite it's this parasitoid it has to kill it most
00:43:39.280The way that it spreads is that it takes control of a company or a movement, and it then begins to look for any node within the movement or company that is uninfected, and it attempts to flip them or infect them.
00:43:54.920And if they appear to be uninfectable or immune to it, it then expels them so that it's easy to affect the nodes that are affectable, just harder to affect, right?
00:44:03.780and so it goes throughout an organizational movement until it can capture as many nodes
00:44:08.800as possible the problem with this and how does it do this it does this with hr training it does
00:44:15.160this with you know group struggle sessions it does this with you know the few woke people they
00:44:19.900they use words that they know that you don't know and then you've got to learn more and more of
00:44:24.080their lingo to not accidentally offend them and then you get kicked out right like that's how
00:44:27.700they maintain the purity but once an organization is fully infected there's a problem from the
00:44:32.820perspective of the memetic evolution of the urban monoculture. All of the infected nodes are stuck
00:44:38.920inside the infected organization. And they have to disperse. And it has to disperse. That is part of
00:44:45.320its life cycle. And so it has to kill the host through angry infighting is what it typically0.92
00:44:51.440looks like for the captured nodes to be released into the atmosphere and begin to infect new
00:44:59.200companies what we might have seen with occupy wall street is the first large infected entity dying
00:45:06.780and spreading all of the infected nodes to the wind where they infected tons of bureaucratic
00:45:12.740positions within companies oh because they they were extremely woke like i remember i remember
00:45:21.220thinking of them as being pretty freaking intolerable and it's not because like i i don't
00:45:26.880think that there are really serious things to question about like the bailouts that took place
00:45:31.740after well and especially the lack of justice after the 2008 financial crisis a belief that
00:45:38.140this is what's happening if you look at a lot of your graphs the funding to this stuff started about
00:45:43.340two and a half years after occupy wall street that's true there was a pause things were cool
00:45:47.880for a while just enough time for them to begin to build influence within other companies but this
00:45:53.080is also just enough time for theoretically you know wealthy people's donations to start kicking
00:45:59.040in to for the change to start enacting for the trainings to start leading to different numbers
00:46:03.480for the reporting to come through all of this stuff takes time to build true and again all
00:46:08.520these things can be true at the same time like absolutely it could be that you know the occupy
00:46:13.800wall street movement then exploded into these other things so my question is to the comments
00:46:17.940whose theory is right malcolm seary or asmogold theory who's the more clever cultural commentator
00:46:24.700on this particular issue i like asmogold theory i like it because the narrative that it paints
00:46:31.120is occupy wall street was actually noticing a real problem and attempting to solve it in a
00:46:35.980meaningful way and that that makes it seem like oh and then they crushed it and then turned us
00:46:41.400against each other my theory is more just like a cultural evolution theory like well you had
00:46:46.280occupied wall street died and then you have all these infected nodes that had you know come out
00:46:50.200of college recently because that's who a lot of occupied wall street was filtering into major
00:46:54.860companies in college campuses but taking over the hr departments once you take over the hr department
00:47:01.020it's very easy to decide who gets hired next and this was the problem that a lot of these companies1.00
00:47:04.440had that we've talked about before is they were like oh god we've got to hire like minorities0.99
00:47:09.160like trans gay black people okay well we don't want to risk that on like our engineering team0.98
00:47:16.080right because we need them to actually be competent so i guess put them in hr right like1.00
00:47:20.780no that's not going to hurt anything but now they're in control of who's hired yeah for real
00:47:26.600oh mr woke up yeah i mean i think maybe the other issue is that the growing class divide and all
00:47:33.800these just like the the lack of accountability that that various people who caused the 2008 crash
00:47:39.800had and on the bailout and everything like this is just stuff that like individual people maybe
00:47:45.700just couldn't feel like they could do anything about whereas there were many different there
00:47:51.040were many easier ways to virtue signal identity politics related things like putting your
00:47:57.580pronouns in your bio and all these also could be here's the final hypothesis yeah is a lot of this
00:48:05.660is in opposition to the new right beginning to gain more power and the left not knowing how to
00:48:15.280react hmm really didn't come until after yeah i suppose you're right yeah they came later
00:48:22.080all right could it could it all be downstream of tumblr did tumblr destroy society i think
00:48:26.720that could be a fun video i mean kind of society anyway i love you simone um for tonight i want
00:48:37.080something easy okay so what's easy mac and cheese i guess
00:48:41.040probably pizza if you're doing pizza yeah okay i'll do either pizza or mac and cheese or
00:48:50.020grilled cheeses i guess any one of those works for you yeah the grilled cheeses you make are
00:48:54.520fantastic i'll see what the kids support but the mac and cheese is really good too and i learned
00:48:59.920about black pepper and mac and cheese but the pieces you make allow me to put indian spice on
00:49:04.320top which has a little put put some razzle dazzle some razzle dazzle that's what i'm all about
00:49:13.340simone the razzle dazzle yeah honestly this week's videos are just like a string of absolute bangers
00:49:20.500in terms of like unique research i cannot believe that you took this theory that asthma gold had
00:49:29.260that all of the sort of anger that we're seeing over increased racial anxiety in the United States
00:49:35.780I just didn't know like I wanted to gaslight myself like oh no like racism was it can't have0.68
00:49:41.600been like everything was fine then right like and then Occupy Wall Street happened the corpos freaked
00:49:46.900out and advocate posts this theory and then Simone here the theorist comes in with like a hundred
00:49:53.240graphs and funding charts and being like no no no no no you don't understand like every one of
00:50:00.500these orgs funding increased like 13 fold near the end of occupy wall street and we know who the
00:50:07.380donors were and it was all the corpos and we can also see how they change training and police
00:50:12.680stations of the result that caused a spike in the number of and i was like whoa simone too much
00:50:19.220too much cook in there a lot interesting stuff going on but yeah i love i love getting a good
00:50:25.080conspiracy theory that i haven't heard before may we get many more in the days to come i mean
00:50:30.820mine with the crash out that the assassin had about this i cannot that that is so hilarious
00:50:37.520it's i just i love that we live in a timeline where like you know assassins after they manifest
00:50:42.900just have like p.s oh my god the security this is terrible here it's just like it's like a comic
00:50:49.020book joke you know like of like also kind of it's like the thing that they put in to like lampshade
00:50:54.820the fact that like clearly no president would have such bad you know so we'll just we'll just
00:51:00.560lampshade by having the villain talk about how ridiculously bad it is and then that will kind
00:51:04.760of hand wave you might as well edit a p.s you should really probably go ahead with that new
00:51:09.260ballroom i know you really should have yeah people gotta get better with their their manifesto
00:51:15.340trolling but right right good stuff i love it anyway i love you too simone have a spectacular
00:51:22.060day by the way the website's getting better and better i've added vibe coding features to it right
00:51:27.440now what i've really been focused on is reducing the cost of the agent feature and improving the
00:51:32.420card game you guys check out rfab.ai for really magic gathering but like played by ai so like
00:51:40.580the the effects like fire doesn't do like five points of damage it like modifies a card by being
00:51:46.140lit on fire it's fun it's fun and any just ai adventures ai companions ai agents that can make
00:51:51.880phone calls all the cool stuff definitely check it out feature is hard to do and it confuses people
00:51:56.200so i was i don't know i found it like you know how i just always find you found it easy to use
00:52:01.260have you used it yeah and it called me and i was like oh that's really crazy whitelist the phone
00:52:07.260number by the way you have to go you have to click have it call you while you're looking at
00:52:10.940your phone whitelisted i did long government reason as to why this is the case that i can't
00:52:15.660do anything about without having you pay like a hundred dollars for a phone number i love you
00:52:19.960simone you are amazing i think that you are beautiful and i am really glad we're gonna be
00:52:26.700dc for most of this week doing meetings so we're but we have a good backlog so don't worry about