In this episode of the podcast, I read off of a gigantic computer screen that creates more light than the sun. I talk about systemic racism and how it affects the lives of millions of people across the U.S. and around the world.
00:02:29.920I got lots of examples that would apply to anybody poor.
00:02:35.180So let me ask you if you would call this systemic racism.
00:02:38.580So if there's somebody who lives in a poor neighborhood, because historically there are conditions that caused it to be a poor neighborhood,
00:02:49.540they have probably a school system that has less funding because of a smaller tax base, and therefore a worse education.
00:02:59.720And that bad education will basically ripple into the future forever.
00:03:04.040So that would be one given example of systemic racism, to which I say, wait a minute.
00:03:11.900I was born in a town with a low tax base.
00:03:15.480I went to a bad school relative to, you know, better funded schools.
00:03:23.280So how can you have systemic racism if it applies, at least in this specific example of underfunded school?
00:04:07.800Do we have enough science to know that that's the one reason for the different outcomes?
00:04:12.200I don't think we have that kind of science.
00:04:14.240Now, I'm not saying that, you know, that I know what's going on, because I don't.
00:04:20.900But I would say that different outcomes is not even close to getting you a reason why you have the different outcomes.
00:04:30.600There's a lot of work you'd have to do to get to the why.
00:04:35.040Some people told me that a non-racist system, let's say a system that doesn't have any rules that are different by race, let's say the legal system.
00:04:47.820So on paper, the legal system is colorblind, but only on paper.
00:04:54.360In reality, it produces disparate outcomes.
00:04:58.300And I think most people would agree that that is true.
00:05:01.040But is that proof of systemic racism if you don't know why you have different outcomes?
00:05:17.480Before I blocked Tim Poole, I had to block him because he did some bad mind reading in public.
00:05:26.020So I have a rule that I block anybody who attributes an opinion to me and then criticizes the opinion that they hallucinated as if it was my opinion.
00:05:37.120And I'm not even involved in this at all.
00:05:39.100It's like, okay, that wasn't my opinion.
00:05:41.480And I can't really speak to the criticism of your hallucination of it.
00:05:45.180So whenever I encounter such individuals, I block them because it's just been my experience that interacting with them just causes more of that.
00:05:55.980Like anybody who does that once, they're not going to stop doing that.
00:06:02.160They will just come up with a new hallucination for what you're thinking.
00:06:05.400If you disprove that one, they'll come up with another hallucination of what you're thinking.
00:06:09.520Now, I'm not saying that that would apply to Tim Poole specifically.
00:06:13.540I'm saying that as a pattern I've noticed in life, my experience of life is better if I just immediately get rid of people who are like that.
00:06:24.400I'm seeing in the comments, free Tim Poole.
00:06:27.760But let me say clearly, it's nothing personal.
00:06:33.140I think I saw a tweet from Tim that thought, I don't know, he just mind, his reaction to being blocked was to do more of what got him blocked, which is to imagine he knows what I'm thinking or why I do anything, and then saying it in public.
00:06:53.240By the way, somebody says, somebody's bringing Cernovich into it.
00:06:59.300Here's something that Mike Cernovich has never done.
00:07:03.140He has never assigned a motive or a thought to me in public and then criticized it in public.
00:07:12.280And I don't think he ever will because it's a fucked up thing to do.
00:10:19.820But as I've said before, you have to walk right up to the line of cancellation to be honest enough to say anything useful.
00:10:29.100So if you're not right on the edge of getting canceled, you're also, you're just not useful.
00:10:35.360You're just not part of the conversation.
00:10:37.200You're just way over there lying about stuff so that nobody will be mad at you.
00:10:40.960So if you can't walk up to that line, maybe just don't be part of the conversation because you can't possibly help if you're too afraid of saying the wrong thing.
00:10:51.820So let me say something that I think is so inappropriate that I'll get canceled.
00:11:00.060So you and I and most people have been watching lots of coverage of the protests.
00:11:05.540OK, so when I watch the protests and I'm watching people get into physical alteration, altercations, I'm saying to myself, OK, what if I were in that position?
00:11:32.220You read yourself into the story exactly the way when the George Floyd video came out.
00:11:38.480What was so powerful about that is that no matter who you were, you know, no matter your ethnicity, your age, anything, you put yourself into George Floyd's world there just for nine minutes.
00:11:52.080You know, I at least for me, it was just automatic.
00:12:38.560If you looked at the two primary groups that were in the protest among the protesters themselves, you had the Black Lives Matter people and you had a lot of Antifa looking people, right?
00:12:53.140When I watched any of the Antifa looking people getting into some kind of a scuffle, here's what I said to myself.
00:25:59.780So the John Bolton one, which is hilarious, is he says that the president said to President Xi of China that Trump allegedly told him Xi that building concentration camps for Uyghurs was fine, and he should do more of it.
00:26:19.300Now, do you think there's any chance that that happened?
00:26:45.440Now, I think you'd remember something like that.
00:26:49.040And, of course, the story had translators involved, so there's a pretty obvious place where things could have gone wrong if there were translators involved.
00:27:00.000Now, the other thing you don't know is what Trump's inner strategy was.
00:27:06.840So you don't know, anytime you see a story of Trump dealing with Putin, Trump dealing with President Xi, Trump dealing with Kim Jong-un, the stories, the criticism stories will typically be of the form, Trump gave them too much.
00:27:34.520And it'll be a specific point of something he gave them.
00:27:40.480In North Korea, the point was that he let Kim do some short-range rocket testing that technically, you know, that he said was okay and it probably wasn't.
00:27:51.880With Xi, I guess it was something about the tariffs being reduced if Xi would buy more products, which he never did, more foreign products, which he didn't do.
00:28:02.160And then, of course, you all know the Putin stories.
00:28:05.200Now, all of these stories are the out-of-context type.
00:28:09.820If you're looking at a negotiation, which is, first of all, a long-term affair, if you're talking country to country, and has lots of elements, some of those elements may not have anything to do with the thing you're talking about.
00:28:23.460So, in other words, you could be talking about a trade deal, but what you really want is a nuclear missile deal.
00:28:31.360And everything's sort of connected, right?
00:28:33.260So, maybe you can give something away on a trade deal, but you get something back in some other way, et cetera.
00:28:41.180So, all of these are out-of-context stories.
00:28:43.040The other thing you don't know is if Trump gave up something with the hope that that would soften them up, maybe set the stage, so that later when you ask for something, you could say,
00:28:56.160look, we gave you this, show of goodwill, you got it, now we're asking you for this, like a similar show of goodwill.
00:29:05.080Well, because reciprocity, if I've taught you nothing, is very powerful.
00:29:12.860Now, does reciprocity work in international deals?
00:29:19.280Well, I think that's a real question, because if you're dealing with somebody who sees themselves as your enemy, doing something nice for them with nothing in return might be just free money.
00:29:30.240Hey, thanks for the free money, we're going to kill you anyway.
00:29:32.420Okay. But, if you were dealing with, let's say, Great Britain, if you're dealing with France, and let's say there was a situation in which the United States could do something that would benefit them,
00:29:45.560and we didn't have any immediate thing that we would give back.
00:29:49.000You know, it wasn't a tip for tat, it's just something we could do for France.
00:29:52.840We had the ability, we had the opportunity, we could do it, they couldn't do it for themselves, so we just do it.
00:29:59.680Because we're allies. Is that a good play?
00:30:03.760Yeah, yeah, it's totally a good play with an ally.
00:30:08.480So, because you assume that allies are often going to be in a situation where you need to ask a small favor, sometimes even a big favor.
00:30:17.460But if you've primed the situation with reciprocity, France someday will say, you know, it's sort of like Lafayette, we are here, you know, sort of situation,
00:30:31.280that even military alliances, the reciprocity of a military alliance can last generations.
00:30:37.940So the fact that we fought on the same side as Great Britain, same side as France, in their area, not in their country, in the case of Great Britain,
00:30:48.780but those feelings can last generations.
00:34:03.520One, he may have asked if they're bluffing.
00:34:07.340In other words, he may have been asking, yeah, technically Great Britain can make a bomb, but can they really launch one?
00:34:17.480I mean, do they really have as much as they would like you to believe, or are they using the belief that they're a nuclear power, which is a little more hyperbole than truth, because they obviously have some kind of nuclear capability.
00:34:34.520But, is it more like North Korea, where we're not sure if it works, because it hasn't been quite tested?
00:34:41.860Or, is it the kind where, oh yeah, it's solid.
00:34:44.740The Great Britain nuclear defense, just like the best countries in the world.
00:35:46.360How many times in your life have you found yourself being, you know, the educated, smart person that you are, not knowing a fact that was just embarrassing?
00:36:00.500That it was so embarrassing that for some reason you just have a little skip in your brain and there was a fact that everybody knows?
00:36:08.700And just for whatever reason, you didn't.