YouTube Censorship, and the Logic of Empire
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Summary
YouTube is censoring right-wing content creators and it s getting worse and worse. Here s what s going on and why it s so bad. The problem with censorship is that it s done more than just punish content creators. It s also a form of political censorship.
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So here we are again. YouTube is, again, censoring content creators, acting punitively towards anybody on the right.
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And now here's the challenge, is how do I make this video again and make it remotely engaging?
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Well, I think what I'm going to do is first we need to cover what's happening right now, because there's probably a little bit more than you've heard about going on.
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But then I want to talk about the bigger picture, because this is actually nothing new, and Google's been doing this since back when they still had the motto, don't be evil.
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Well, the big thing is that there has been a wave of demonetizations of videos of various content creators.
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I've posted a few of the ones that I've had demonetized.
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There have been more since then, and I got sick of posting it.
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And the funny thing is, these are all ancient videos.
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Okay, these are videos a year old, three years old.
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Many of them, again, they're non-controversial.
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You know, I had a problem with this a year ago.
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And back then, Google's problem is that I was discussing the Bible.
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They actually completely pulled some of those videos down.
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The video where I pointed out that the current paradigm is corporate boyfriend and daddy government for women,
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just sucking the life out of them until they're 40, useless, single, infertile, and then they get spat out into the street.
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And this is what's happening to a lot of other people.
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It's anybody and everybody who's on the right is having this nonsense being played with them.
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At the same time as they're demonetizing all these videos, what they've done is they've now given advertisers the choice to select which channels, which videos their ads play on.
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We're not talking about being able to target the advertisements.
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You know, you want to target men 25 to 35 or women, you know, 18 to 28.
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Targeting your advertisements allows you to get the correct demographic.
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But now that you can opt out of channels, now all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the corporation, the advertisers, they have to have an opinion on where their ads are playing.
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If you just leave it wide open and anybody of any political stripe is allowed to, you know, have advertisements and they're targeted towards the demographic, that is what the advertisers actually want.
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They can say, sorry, we just don't have the tools to do that.
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But they developed this tool knowing that the voices on the right would be the ones getting silenced.
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And so that's the second level of control that we have.
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The third level, and this is the most significant in my opinion.
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But the thing about content creators, about artists, writers, etc., is that they're still going to be writing and creating content whether or not they're getting paid.
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What they're doing in addition to all of this...
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Oh, and on top of that, they've been unsubscribing people as well.
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If you leave a comment and then you log out or if you check in a different browser, the comment might not be there.
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You know, you might have 4,000 comments when you look at it, at your own video, but then you log out and look at your video and there's only 2,000 comments showing.
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And on top of this, not all of your comments are going to be censored.
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And they're going to be censored in different places.
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So, for instance, if you comment a lot on my videos or Aaron Clary or Roosh V or whomever, Alex Jones, you will see your comments.
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But then if you go and comment on maybe a Fox News video, people won't see your comment there.
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Because you've been labeled as a dangerous element.
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You've been labeled as somebody that's thinking outside of the box that isn't buying into the mainstream.
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So, as long as you're inside your alt-right ghetto, you are allowed to have an opinion, you are allowed to converse.
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But then you go and leave a comment somewhere else, and that comment disappears into the memory hole.
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You know, very similar thing with Twitter holding back tweets.
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And the interesting thing is it seems to be – I mean, it's very hard to tell what's going on, okay?
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Because we don't get to know what the algorithm is.
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They're not even admitting that they're doing this.
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The interesting thing is that it's the moderate.
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It's the people that aren't just screaming angry rhetoric and racial slurs.
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It's the people that actually have something to say who are being targeted.
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Whereas the crazy voices, you know, the bullies, the harassers, whatever stupid label you want to give them,
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And once in a while, there's one of them that gets shot down.
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They're still allowed to communicate so that the only voices you hear are those extremist and ridiculous voices.
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You know, one of the things they want in America is they want the blacks to hate the whites and the whites to hate the blacks.
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So that both the whites and the blacks are voting for bigger government to protect them from the other race.
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As opposed to anybody that's saying that, you know, there are real issues, but there's ways we can deal with this.
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There are a lot of historical issues, the issues with the black family, you name it.
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Any sort of subtle conversation, that's not going to be heard.
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And part of the reason they do this is that they don't want you influencing other people.
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But another part of the reason they do this is they want you to feel like you're isolated.
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Even within the alt-right, I've been noticing certain things going off the rails with the alt-right.
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Some very worrying, some very foolish extremism.
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You know, the guire is getting wider, it's coming off its hinges.
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But when I actually talk to anybody I know, and when they talk to other people, and so on and so forth,
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there are actually a lot of reasonable people out there.
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They're being slightly muted, slowed down, so that we think we're all alone.
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And so you've got the really crazy faction, which is, it's essentially the manufactured opposition.
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Whereas the people actually trying to come up with solutions that are not the mainstream solution,
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the globalist solution, these ones are being silenced.
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And in fact, this goes all the way back to Web 2.0,
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which I honestly wonder how much of you, my audience, how many of you still remember that term.
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And the thing is that Web 2.0 has become so ubiquitous, it's become so assumed that there's no longer a word for it.
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Prior to Web 2.0, to the present-day internet, they called it surfing the web,
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because there weren't these things like Google.
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Okay, like Google was around, but it wasn't what it is today.
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You had to form communities online, and somebody would drop a link,
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and then it would get shared somewhere else, and so on and so forth.
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There's no way to look up, for instance, how do I pick up girls,
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and you run into Return of Kings, and then Roosh V Forum,
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and then you get introduced to all these other topics through the Roosh V Forum.
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And you'd run across something wonderful and awesome, and so on and so forth.
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The internet's fundamentally changed in that it's being personalized for you.
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Nowadays, the internet has boiled you down to a demographic.
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It has a very, very specific lifestyle of who you are,
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and so it's very, very good at finding relevant results.
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And, you know, a lot of this started, you know, as I commented,
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They've been doing this for a while, and it started back, I remember 2008, 2009, I think it was,
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You know, it used to be, when it first started out, that YouTube had a subscription button right up there.
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So you could watch a YouTube video, then you could click that,
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and you would go to your feed of all the people that you're following.
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My link to it is actually to my subscription feed.
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But the reason they made it harder to find your subscriptions,
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I think it might still be on the front page, but it's not as obvious.
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You have to scroll down for it, as opposed to it being the number one button.
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It's because they want to decide what you're going to be seeing.
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You know, they would say, oh, well, you like this video, and you like this video.
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Well, people that like those videos like this video.
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And it's become so ubiquitous now that we forget about it.
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You know, you've got that list of videos over there, you know, to my left, your right.
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And, yeah, there's probably a lot of stuff in there that you might find interesting.
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And I've been paying attention to the feed that I get along here.
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There's, you know, I'm not seeing Alex Jones over there.
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I'm seeing analysis of old movies and video games.
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I'm seeing stuff that I might actually enjoy, but has no deeper content to any of it.
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That they are going to control the information that you consume.
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Unlike the old days of the web surfing where you had to, you didn't know what you were finding.
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Okay, you would just find some obscure blog and you would start reading it.
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Now they're going to tell you what you're going to watch.
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They are going to help you amuse yourself to death.
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And a lot of this has to do with the mainstream media needs dominance to survive.
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It's built into the very system of mainstream media.
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You know, there's a great post by Delicious Tacos about why Hollywood is absolutely terrible.
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And what it boils down to is that a movie costs $100 million to make.
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So you are going to watch that damn Hollywood movie.
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Because that's the only way you get Hollywood movies.
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They are going to tell you what is good for you.
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It's built into the methodology of the whole thing.
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They know that millions of migrants from the Middle East.
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Because otherwise Europeans might become Nazis again.
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But if they can get all of these brown people to come in.
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Then people will be too distracted to actually become Nazis.
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It is just as insane as Hollywood making another stupid, low quality, paint by numbers, derivative Marvel comic book movie.
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Well, as long as YouTube remains the primary platform.
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There's not too much we can do to switch over to alternative sources like Dailymotion, etc.
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So this is where we, the content creators, all need to come.
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You know, I can certainly post my videos to Dailymotion.
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And unfortunately, as soon as another platform becomes big, it will fall into the exact same logic.
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Okay, there's some major shifts occurring all around us very, very rapidly.
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And so during this gale, every single one of us just needs to keep our ship right.
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But now that said, there are some smaller things.
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But there's some smaller things that we can do right now to resist the current desubscribing, silencing, muting, and demonetization of all these people.
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And that's to, and that's to throw, throw this back into YouTube's face.
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And you might think it's odd for a Catholic to be recommending a pagan.
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But he kind of reminds me of Merlin in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis.
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I worry about the guy, he plays some dark forces, but he's not, he's not a terrible human being.
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He is promoting people so that you can find out about them and go subscribe to them.
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Go subscribe to other people that are creating new and interesting content.
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Get people more subscribers to say that, listen, YouTube, even if you're not going to tell me about these people,
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because I'm not supposed to learn about them, because I'm supposed to be watching your damn Hollywood movies,
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or CNN, or going with whatever Fox News is telling me the world is,
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the hell with that, I'm going to go find somebody that's going to challenge my preconceptions.
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It's not somebody that tells me the way the world is, but somebody that challenges the way I think,
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gives me new heuristics, new ideas, and I can weigh those for myself.
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So, yeah, go start subscribing to some of these.
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He is currently recommending people on his YouTube channel,
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and he has an article listing all of his favorite YouTubers.
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because if they're getting bombarded with all of that,
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Consider helping them create the content that they create.
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I am going to be disabling advertisements on these videos,
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I am no longer going to be making a deal with the devil.
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If YouTube wants to say that me discussing the Bible,
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saying that pedophiles were bad, got demonetized.
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If they, okay, they're saying they don't want to monetize that,
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So that's about $100 a month, maybe a bit more.
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I don't want that money if this is going to be their attitude.
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So there's me putting my money where my mouth is.
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he's trying to do some reporting on what's going on over there in Eastern Europe.
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If you like the content, see if you can back them.
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Don't, quite frankly, if you spent the same that you spend on a cable package,
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or other content creators, Return of Kings, Roosh V, whomever,
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And really, folks, the last thing to take away from all of this,
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the reason that they are fighting so hard to have such perfect dominance
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The porn industry, I'm pretty sure that's being supported by somebody else.
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I can't believe for one second that they're still making any money.
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They need 99% of the population thinking the same way,
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And then the 1%, you can write them off as crazies,
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The reason that they are being so oppressive and totalitarian about this
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It's just that all the other voices are being silenced.
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Look at the reproductive rate in Western countries.
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They can try and distract you from hearing the signal.