Why Are Woke People Not Buying Woke Products？ ... Are Woke People Fictional？
Summary
Where is the Woke customer? What is the real problem in the video game industry, and why is it that no Woke people are buying it? This episode explores the root cause of the problem, and how to fix it.
Transcript
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Can we activate a woke user base if we just go pure woke, be creative, go story heavy?
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And so this is genuinely a little perplexing to me because my interpretation of the current
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American electorate or body is about 15 to 20% of America genuinely holds some form of
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Now, I'm going to go over the generic theories that people make, right?
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One is to say, well, the mistakes that these companies are making is that they are listening
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to people who are very loud online, which is predominantly people without anything that's
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Unemployed people who don't have the money to go out and buy games.
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But the problem with that theory is I can just look at the donations from the FANG tech company
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and like 98% of Facebook is going to the Democrats.
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Or I can look at the very fact that Sony even thought to produce this game.
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Clearly, there's a large technocratic faction in America that works in large, well-paying
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bureaucracies that is, or at least signals that they are woke.
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And the reason I am excited to be chatting with you today is something happened in the
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video games industry, which is this last week, which is going to change American culture and
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The consecutive and catastrophic failure of one, a AAA title, and then two, a really big and sort of
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And so in this podcast, I think many people have missed the core mystery of what's happening here.
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What they focus on is the Wokies are trying to be like, oh, you know, horrible right wing
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boycott caused us to lose, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
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And then the right wing is looking at this and saying, oh my God, this is amazing.
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Like things are going to definitely have to change here.
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And I think what's being missed between these two interpretations is where is the woke audience?
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And when I say this, I mean this in a real sense.
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I'm not saying the woke audience is smaller than woke people expect it to be, right?
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I'm saying it appears the woke audience is virtually non-existent.
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And where this was really made clear to me, that I was on a slide schooler's episode right
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And the other guest was a former college professor.
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And he was talking about all the woke stuff that was happening on his campus.
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And I was like, wait, wait, wait, we cannot be here gloating about how no woke people exist
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to buy these products while at the same time talking about this woke oppressive environment
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So first I want to talk about why this is so big.
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So there have been video game crashes in the past, which permanently transformed the industry
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like the E.T. game for people who are familiar with that.
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Actually, I'm going to quickly look up how many copies sold at that.
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Yeah, but very famously, I think what, in the late 80s, that was supposed to be one of the
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I think it maybe had record amounts of investment in its development.
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And it also obviously was associated with extremely successful IP in the form of the E.T. movie.
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And it goes down in video game history as a massive failure.
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Well, so let's give an idea of how much worse than that it is.
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The U.T. video game was developed by a single developer.
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It flopped so hard, it destroyed the video game industry and forced it to remake itself.
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This is when the video game industry was in its infancy.
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Today, the video game industry makes more money than the TV and movie industries combined in
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So anything, even shitty things, should be making a decent amount of sales.
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So remember, 2.3 million is what it had sold, right?
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So Concord, this is a game that was a flagship title for Sony, all right?
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This was a game that had $100 to $200 million in development, a large team working on it,
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and it was in development for over eight years.
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This, consider it like a movie budget or something like that.
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So Sony had so much faith in this game, they acquired the studio that was making it.
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They made controllers that were themed to go as the game.
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They made Sony devices, like what are those called again?
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So this game was released about a week ago at this point.
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It, right now, concurrently on Steam, has 68 players.
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The game peaked at 697 concurrent players on Steam.
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So to compare though, like what's, what's a normal, like a non, maybe we'll say a boutique
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game, you know, made by an independent developer.
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How many concurrent players might they have on Steam?
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Skyrim concurrently right now has over 2,000 people playing it.
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How about that, the Harry Potter game that everyone was like, let's cancel it.
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Let's look for something that recently came out like these because this is-
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Yeah, except, well, why I like the Harry Potter one was because I know it's still on shelves
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And two, it was supposed to be a game that people who were woke would not play for political
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Just like people who were woke would play Concord for political reasons, theoretically.
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And back to Concord, how many concurrent players at its launch?
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Now, see, that has the impact I was looking for.
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Remember the other game I told you, E.T. sold 2.3 million copies, another massive flop?
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Concord sold about 25,000 copies across all platforms.
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So it sold about the same number of copies as there are concurrent players of Hogwarts
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Legacy today, even though Hogwarts Legacy came out forever ago.
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But it wasn't the only instance of something like this happening recently to just, you know,
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Right now, I'm actually listening to the entire story of the game, Dustborn.
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I was like, I want to see how these people think.
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It is a game where essentially you play, oh, sorry, I should note before we go further how
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Because I think there's a few important things to note here, which hide some of the coverage
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People will say, first, I'll just explain the style of the game.
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And people will say, well, we have enough Overwatch clones.
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And it's like, yeah, but the reason you have so many Overwatch clones is because people keep
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And people are like, well, Overwatch clones are, there's free versions of Overwatch clones.
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And it's like the core way that Overwatch clones work is they charge you to interact with additional
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You know, you get the new characters and stuff like that.
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That's how many of the free-to-play Overwatch clones work.
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And a new game launching could just be thought of as new characters that people could try and
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Because the, it already exists on the market is not a good explanation for bombing this
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It would be a good explanation for a mediocre launch.
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It would not be a good explanation for almost nobody buying it.
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And it was so bombed, by the way, that it has been removed from the stores.
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And it's being shut down Saturday the 6th, which is tomorrow on the day of filming this.
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It will certainly be all the servers shut down.
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We literally tried to buy it at Walmart this morning and we got them to unlock a shelf to
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give us the game and they refused to sell it to us.
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The machines wouldn't let them bring it up, even though they didn't know that it was supposed
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And so to understand how woke this game is, if you look at it, it apparently has, of the
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16 playable characters, one of them is a white man.
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And the white man is, from what I can tell, I think when they say a white man, it's a green
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alien character who uses a white person as a...
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That's what they mean when they say it has a white character in it.
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It has a character in it who is based on a black trans woman being one of the leading
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It has no attractive female characters in it, of course.
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It is so woke that when you open up the game to, like, look at your character bios, above
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the bio, right next to the level of this character for you, and under the name.
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That is the way that they introduce characters.
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God forbid you misgender a fictional character.
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You gotta make absolutely sure that people get this.
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Then another game came out recently called Dustborn, which was woker than Concord, but
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it was actually trying to sell specifically to a woke audience in a way that Concord wasn't.
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Concord appeared to be woke policies overlaid on a big budget game development.
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Dustborn is a character where, like, triggering someone is, like, a superpower and, like, the
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main character, a sassy black lady, can, like, manipulate people's emotions and literally
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gaslight them and stuff like that, for example, to gain power over them.
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And she's quite a bad person from what I've seen in terms of watching this so far.
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They have these fantasies where they are going around and manipulating people using their
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Dustborn is an interesting game for a few reasons.
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And if I agreed with the ideology, I would buy it.
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I actually think that the ideology of Dustborn should be selling copies of the game.
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Because it's teaching people how to support the cause by being manipulative?
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Simone, by the way, I'm just going to tap this and tell me to make sure it's still coming
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So it takes place in a near-future alternate reality where the conservatives have basically
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The United States is divided into two factions, both of which this core band that looks like
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just classic DEI trashy, right, is fighting against.
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And one of them is a militaristic post-American government called, like, the, I think, the Patriots
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And then the other, which controls the other half of America, is called the Puritans.
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It's this world where the Puritans, the techno-Puritans are out chasing these people with their clean,
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sleek drone things, which are chasing people around.
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No, but I love that the Wokes are, like, secretly afraid of, like, this evil Puritan techno
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It's like, okay, this is an interesting, like, you're clearly trying to set up a new world
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If I didn't find your politics so repellent, I might be interested in seeing what you're
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In addition to that, the game looks visually pleasant to me.
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But what's interesting about it is the way that they did gameplay, because watching the
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They have combined elements of Guitar Hero and Beat-Em-Ups and sort of word-based choose-the-right-dialogue
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option, use-your-powers-within-dialogue to achieve certain endings that I could see be appealing
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Its current player count was around 8 for the day, in terms of the players for today.
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It sold fewer than 1,000 copies and likely had between 2.25 and $3 million behind it.
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I mean, not as big as the other one in terms of the financial impact, but this one is also
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interesting to me, because this one is like, can we activate a woke user base if we just
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And so this is genuinely a little perplexing to me.
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Why, when the whole message for years has been go woke, go broke, why does this surprise
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Because my interpretation of the current American electorate or body is about 15 to 20% of America
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Now, I'm going to go over the generic theories that people make, right?
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One is to say, well, the mistakes that these companies are making is that they are listening
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to people who are very loud online, which is predominantly people without anything that's
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going on in their lives, i.e., unemployed people who don't have the money to go out
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But the problem with that theory is I can just look at the donations from, like, the FANG
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tech companies, and, like, 98% of, like, Facebook is going to the Democrats.
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Or I can look at the very fact that Sony even thought to produce this game.
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Clearly, there's a large technocratic faction in America that works in large, well-paying
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bureaucracies that is, or at least signals, that they are woke.
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The second thesis could be, well, nobody's actually that into woke ideology.
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Like, a lot of people will signal it, but nobody's really that into it.
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Or it could be that the proportion of America that is into woke ideology has almost no overlap
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with the portion of Americans that play video games.
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I think, no, because it's pretty clear that people play video games in droves.
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I do think that the video games that men and women play are a little bit different and
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So that just certainly has something to do with it.
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And this could be a really good natural experiment or piece of natural evidence that suggests it
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Meaning that being woke or espousing progressive values works really, really well for signaling,
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but it doesn't work really, really well in real life.
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So people signal it to get tactically ahead in conversations and social hierarchies within
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But in their actual life, they don't leverage it because they either intuitively or logically
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understand that it will produce bad results if they adopt it.
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In other words, I will at work use they, them pronouns and ask people for their pronouns
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and express my discomfort with the historical land use of my region or whatever and use all
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that to signal that I belong to the correct group and that I'm doing the right things.
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But then when I go home, I'm not going to consume woke media.
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I'm not going to refer to the correct pronouns.
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I'm not going to live that life behind closed doors because it doesn't produce mental flourishing.
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I'm going to disagree really strongly with you here.
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I think that there is a portion of Americans who go home and their houses are woke prisons
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I just do not think that you are right on this point.
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I think that there really are a lot of genuinely woke families that like to, because the social
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technology, the reason why people lean into it is because they can use it to emotionally
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So they use it to emotionally manipulate their families.
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The kids use it to emotionally manipulate their parents.
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This is, in these families where you have these kids transitioning at like three and like
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eight, do you not think that wokeism is dripping from every single wall of these houses?
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I could see parents being terrified about the state taking away their child, one, if they
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don't support their child in their exploration or teachers ratting on them or high schoolers
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I'm talking about the people transitioning between like three.
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I think a lot of that may also have to do with existing or pending divorces and one parent
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using youth gender transition to get on a kid's side.
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There's tons of examples of it happening outside of divorces.
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I think that you're struggling to model that people can be this petty, but this was actually
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really interesting of me when I was watching the Dustborne game because I got to see in
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the game the social interaction of the characters and to see what they think normal social interaction
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Every single conversation was like, you hurt me by hiding this from me.
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And then the conversation would get shut down by one of them that had emotional manipulation
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That is the general loop of the game that I'm seeing so far.
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They think this is normal for all social interaction.
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And the second thing I want to shut down here is the idea that gamers, there's no woke
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But if you look at things like the GDC for the Gamers Developers Conference, where all
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the game developers went out in your plane of fields and yet screamed at the sky like spazes
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about all of the right wing influences that were ruining their industry, right?
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I think the people who signal woke tactics within an office environment are using similar
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woke tactics within their households and within their relationships.
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However, I think that they are actually the minority of people within these office environments.
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I think most woke people who are signaling to you and everyone else that they are woke,
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they are prisoners of their own mental landscape and prisoners of the world around them.
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So it's like people in the cult who go along with it because they just don't want to get
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They won't be able to support their family anymore.
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If they don't have a strong internal moral compass, they have no reason to dissent.
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And due to the way cognitive dissonance works, they passively begin to believe the woke things,
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but they don't actively believe the woke things.
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They, to your point, aren't actually doing the woke signaling at home in the way other
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They are not the woke police outside of their spouse says something and they're like, hey,
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you shouldn't say that because it could have these effects on our family.
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You shouldn't say that because of wokeism, right?
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You know, but like, don't you know, we live under a totalitarian state that's constantly
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policing and everything that's being heard and said.
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And then I think the other faction, which is not insignificant, right?
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Like if they bought things, they could be a real powerhouse in terms of buyers, right?
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And this is what's getting me when they're like, our game bombed because it was boycotted
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It's like, but if the woke audience existed, a right-wing boycott shouldn't have affected
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Apparently you weren't just boycotted by right-wingers.
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I think that these woke people live in a state of mental internal turmoil that is so high
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that they struggle to do basic day-to-day functions and most of their day is really spent in these
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apology spirals, in these online fights, and in these-
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So you're saying, oh my gosh, you're saying that woke people are so dysfunctional that they
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cannot even make time in their day to play a video game?
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It is not that they don't have money because clearly some of them do.
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They're involved in the manufacturing of these games.
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They're involved in what's coming out of Hollywood these days.
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But I think they live in a state of mental impoverishment and spiritual impoverishment that is
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so great that they probably cry multiple times a day.
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They probably see a therapist like once a week.
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They probably are just barely holding things together.
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I guess if you go through what actually is required of being a true believer within the
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progressive movement now, it does involve so much self-victimization that it could be
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self-victimization to the point of complete dysfunction, to your point.
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Think about, try to model the relationship of people like, when I try to, you may disagree
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with this, but Jen from Fundy Fridays and her husband, because I'm able to see both of them
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and how they interact, these individuals come across in terms of the lack of vitalism that's
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left in them after all the signaling and after all the fighting that's clearly part of their
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day, I was actually recently watching Amanda, a famous antinatalist, right?
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And when I looked at what was left of her as a, as sort of a residue of humanity, she reminded
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me of almost one of those shadows that's left of somebody after a nuclear explosion, like
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a ghoulish reminder of what was once human, but is now nothing but residue.
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Their, their core vitality and an ability to feel any happiness or engagement with the
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And now every moment is dedicated to self-flagellation and a, and a form of self-flagellation.
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So people who don't know this, if you look at something like the Opus Dei, and we're going
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to do an episode on them, this is a Catholic sect that's famous for various forms of self-flagellation
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They're actually pretty happy people because they have a moral mandate to be happy because
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you control your emotions and the self-flagellation and all the other mortification techniques are
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meant to give you more control over your emotional state.
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All of the self-flagellation is to feel and to bring up as much despair as possible.
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They almost have these like despair feedback loops around things like the environment or
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any of the other things they want to feel sad about where the amount that you are wailing
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and despairing increases your status, which creates this environment in miasma of constant
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I have a secondary hypothesis, which I think is further deflating the numbers.
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I mean, of course, this could be several factors.
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And there is no doubt a portion of the population that is so mentally dysfunctional that they can't
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The final factor is in the 90s, if a movie I just liked released a video game, I wouldn't
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You know, I knew that video game movies were bad.
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If somebody makes a movie of a video game, you just don't go watch it.
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There were a few good early video game movies like the Street Fighters original movie and
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Oh, and the first Resident Evil movie was great.
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But then sort of after that era, there was this era of bad video game movies.
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Don't go watch video game movies, even if you like the video games, because they're almost
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And what we might be seeing here is people have come to associate, even woke people, any
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game that signals any degree of wokeness with this is going to be terrible.
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And one of the questions is, I mean, we all know this.
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We know that woke movies are just like worse than non-woke movies.
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When you get to the woke Marvel stuff, when you get to the, you know, the video games,
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when you get to the woke Indiana Jones, when you get to that, you're like, okay, this is
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One of the questions is, well, how do you know that?
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It's not that they get less money or attention.
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And the answer is, is the more woke stuff that is coming through in terms of the advertising
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and the plot and the character design, the more is being implemented in terms of hiring
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Woke hiring is hiring based on social signaling and not ability.
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And so basically we know when I see something that's signaling wokeness, that it wasn't made
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by competent people who were, it was made by idiots, basically.
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It was made by idiotic bureaucrats who knew how to signal.
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And what this all comes down to at the end of the day, like the reason this could change
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culture so much is when we talk about how important the video game industry is to culture,
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if the video game industry does walk back from all of this and begins to see releasing a
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game that's signaling wokeness, like as bad as releasing a game that's signaling blatant
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racism, because I mean, it is signaling blatant racism, but I mean like what they would consider
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racism, but they understand you have to be afraid to look woke is where we're entering
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If that happens, that's going to have a major cultural shift.
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And I think the people who came out ahead of all this are going to end up looking really
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One of the things I mentioned to you recently, and I think Zuck is going to go anti-woke soon.
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He's certainly entering his new era, the Fro and Chain era.
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But he's not getting cred from the anti-woke audience, because I mentioned this on another
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anti-woke influencer, and they were like, yeah, but like, it's not hard to do that now.
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Like everyone knows to go anti-woke now, right?
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And I hope that the people who made the costly signals early, like Elon, really people remember
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that he lost a lot of money trying to fix things.
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Or the people who are like, oh, Elon's such a...
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No, honestly, I think anyone who has this like mindset that, oh, Elon, he didn't really
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You've got to understand there is an entire apparatus out there that is dedicated to try
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Well, and Elon Musk is broadly a very progressive person who also cares deeply about climate change.
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A lot of people don't know that he helped his child transition.
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He sent the child to all the gender reforming stuff.
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He got the child the gender transition hormones.
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He was far in the progressive camp before he made his transition.
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And he made the transition when he had nothing to benefit from it.
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And that requires an incredible amount of moral fortitude.
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And so when you look at all these people who are like, oh, he just wants to be popular
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or he just wants whatever, I would consider it in the context of the sacrifices that you
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cannot ignore that he has made to make this transition early.
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So I hope that, and I hope that people like ourselves who have been positioning ourselves
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against a lot of these woke overreaches are able to, as the winds change, benefit from
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However, and as I've said before, the one thing I can't account for is this isn't a normal
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Wokeism is a memetic virus, which is very good at targeting and entrenching itself within bureaucracies.
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And no matter how hard they try, you might try to remove it from a bureaucracy, it's going
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I mean, if you want to try, like tried to cut out the cancer, you ended up cutting out
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Like that is what happens when you're cutting out the cancer.
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And if you want the host to survive, you have to be willing to make costly decisions, which
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is very difficult for a large company like a Microsoft or a Sony to do.
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You know, Microsoft not long ago doubled down on some of its woke stuff, right?
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You know, in terms of its employee training and everything like that.
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So like, how, how do you, how do you fight against it when these companies no longer care
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And my answer to this is, I think we need to start having this societal frameship that
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wokeism is bigotry and to call it bigotry and to say, I don't like this problem because
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Like, I think we should, every time we use the word woke, say woke and bigoted.
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But people remember, and I love the word bigotry and bigoted because it's one of those words
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So you hit it with that and they're like, yeah, I guess it is definitionally a bigoted
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And if anyone here is like, well, my company is infected by wokeism, what do I do?
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Like if you're a CEO or something like that, if you need somebody to come in and do consulting
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on this, I thought about doing a little bit about this on the time.
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Stanford MBA, background in private equity, company management and venture capital.
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Oh, and I wrote a bestselling book on governance.
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You're just really good at thinking through complex problems.
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And I'd also note to these individuals that this could be a legal risk to your company.
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After the Supreme Court decision, the Harvard decision, it has now become a active legal risk
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to any company that is employing systemically woke policy, i.e.
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any policy that is bigoted against individuals based on their race or sexuality, which wokeism
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Well, how do you score that, though, with all of the existing government policies that obligate
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organizations to favor certain classes like minority owned businesses, women owned businesses,
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I'm knee deep in RFPs still for our business that we run.
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Okay, well, so this stuff is going to be rolled back based on lawyers going forward.
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I was actually in an RFP call this morning and like some of the other businesses, one
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I mean, anyone that was in that call and I made a list of everyone like I always do to
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see what our competition is like, it presumably has a significant portion of their business
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that is dependent on RFP based travel, meaning they work with universities and state agencies
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So what I'm just saying is that it is it is deeply entrenched within our government, which
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makes up a significant portion of the GDP of the United States because we are a large
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socialist country, that you have to discriminate based on race and gender and other forms of
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And that status is not based on reality, by the way.
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It's based on specific certifications that you gain and have to apply for and have to pay
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Like, I couldn't just say, this is a woman owned business, you'd have to be certified
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and have your application and fill out the paperwork.
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So this sorts for not true diversity, but rather, you know, like if I were to, if I were
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to try to correct for systemic bias in society proactively as like empress of the United States,
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like if I had to, because normally I'd be like, let these things kind of correct themselves
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I wouldn't favor things like the government does now where it says, okay, well, you have
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to discount the cost presented by any business that meets this status so that you give them
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I would rather say, okay, we'll invest in extra resources, like extra mentorship, extra startup
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funding, low interest loans for businesses that meet these qualifications, but don't make it
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Like if they should go out of business, they should go out of business.
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Don't artificially change their pricing in the eyes of everyone who works for the government
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or with government funds, because then they're just going to be very inefficient.
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What we, I mean, the only way to fix this is for Trump to win, for us to campaign, to
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get into his administration and then set up a department just looking for, it'd be very
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easy to get, even at the state level, these laws are raised.
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You just do like the government did to ensure like a standardized drinking age.
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What they did to standardize the marijuana laws and what they do is they tie federal funds
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to the state saying that you have to get rid of, and then you just get them all erased.
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And once they're erased, it will be very hard to bring them back because I think that politically
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But the idea that you would have these sorts of policies, especially when you put on how
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And when I say cost the taxpayer, the way I would word this is how much they are preventing
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So you don't focus on how much extra in taxes you pay.
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You focus on how many millions of dollars aren't going to homeless people because these
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With the assumption that instead of that policy staying with the taxpayer, it would all go
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Yeah, I mean, I'm more focused on how much of your tax dollars wasted on paperwork and
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You care about waste because you're a human being.
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Well, no, it sucks if I give a dollar to the government, if like 75 cents of that goes
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toward nonsense paperwork that makes my life more miserable as a taxpayer.
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I don't think normal voters are in the comments.
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I have, we have very normal people in the comments.
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Normal people watch our show, not weird people.
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Our Discord server literally has more intellectual conversations than we have on this podcast.
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We have a really intelligent, weirdly skewed audience of very smart and engaged people.
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I have worked very hard to build a normal audience with normal, not weird people.
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Our audience is normal men, just like they say on side scrollers.
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They are, they are, they are just trying to live a normal life.
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I wish they would just like embrace the weirdness of their thing.
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I love our Revenge of the Nerds episode on this because that's the way I feel about like
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Democrats and the Harris campaign now deploying a new adjective to blast the Republican ticket.
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Some of what he and his running mate are saying, well, it's just plain weird.
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It's not just a, a, a, a, a weird style that he brings.
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And they're like, you guys aren't following the new social norms that we created.
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Oh, and something I'd also note about diversity in these games just before we hop off.
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Because you and I were talking about this recently, is what quote unquote diversity is,
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depends on how the cult is evolving and doesn't represent real diversity.
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So, if you look at modern diversity, and you can look at this in shows, basically Hispanic
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Like, Hispanic people should be, there should be, if you're trying to be like accurate to
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the U.S. population, two Hispanic people for every black person.
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But nope, a huge overrepresentation of black people, almost no Hispanic people.
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But then the other thing that's really interesting is the disabled group, right?
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So, I was watching the Magic School Bus recently, and there's a little kid in a wheelchair, and
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I was like, oh yeah, a little kid in a wheelchair.
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You play basketball and do lots of cool wheelchair tricks.
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I kind of want to make kid in a wheelchair like a new conservative thing.
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Because he could always do the cool b-ball things.
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Well, because progressives aren't really proud of their party.
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It was chosen for them by a secret cabal of party elites.
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It's follow the cult or be taken out back and shot, basically.
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Like, that's where the progressive party has gotten at this point.
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And I love, I, like, still see progressives who, like, say things like,
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but Donald Trump is more fascist than Kamala Harris.
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And I'm like, the level of brainwashed you have to be to believe that is astounding.
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I mean, aesthetically, Trump loves, he's, you know.
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No, no, aesthetically, but, like, in terms of their actual actions and policy.
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Everyone's saying that the United States general election campaign is run on vibes right now.
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And I don't know if people are even aware of anything beyond aesthetics these days,
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I remember I was talking to one progressive about, like, I was like, well, at least with Tim Walsh.
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You know, you must have, like, issues with the fact that he kept everyone in their houses during COVID
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and then had a tip line where you could report your neighbors for leaving their house to have them arrested.
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Like, you don't see that as, like, a little fashy?
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And they're like, no, everybody had COVID policy like that.
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I don't know, I loved, I loved Peru, though, where they were like, girls go out today, boys go out today.
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By the way, I saw what you left with my Love with the Roxine prescription.
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This is a call for our family to do some fun Halloween stuff.
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What, what is this but a terrifying way to lose money?
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I think we need to go on less vacations and do more things at home.
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The only thing that's scary about this is just how hideous everything looks.
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And there's this like random wholesome like corn event where they're like, oh, it'll be
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I have them sit right at bedtime and watch videos of bears killing other animals so that
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And what do they do but wander in two hours later in the pitch dark?
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I love Octavian telling Torsey, a bear will bite you and rip off your skin.
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I guess my concern is if we actually take them to one of these things, they'll think that
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they actually have license to try to kill people.
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You got to make it clear to, you know, not kill the actors.