Episode 2604 CWSA 09⧸21⧸24
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1 hour and 21 minutes
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142.68915
Summary
If you could buy a laugh for cash, what would you pay for one good laugh? And how many cats would you get in a prison that was full of cats? And Amazon is looking to hire a nuclear engineer, because they are going to build nuclear power plants.
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One, if you could buy a laugh for cash, what would you pay for it?
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Suppose you knew that you'd have one good, ah, that's pretty good, one good laugh.
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And I ask because the people who subscribe to the Dilber Reborn comic, and especially if
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they're on the local site, they get several comics a day.
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Because you get my classic calendar, you get my new comic, Dilber Reborn, and you get
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Robots Renews, which might have three to five jokes in it.
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So if you would pay five cents for a laugh every day, well, you might get like seven laughs
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All right, there's a prison, and for some reason I didn't see the city or the place this prison
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is, but there's a prison in America that has cats.
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So instead of taking the cats for euthanization or whatever, if you have too many of them,
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they let prisoners adopt them so prisoners can have their own cat.
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Now, you have to be a good prisoner, not a dangerous one, and show that you're worthy
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Now, my first impression is that's pretty awesome for the cats, because if you're a cat,
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you've got a lot of people to pet you that don't have much else going on.
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So it could be a win-win, and I do think that people who are in prison probably could get
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I think that if you have something that you need to care for, it just changes everything.
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And if you had a reason to live, you know, even in jail, it's like, oh, I can make a cat
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Well, do you take an omega-3 supplement, according to SIPOS?
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Maybe you should, because it makes mice less stressful, less anxiety.
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Now, you may say to yourself, why do I need my mice to have less anxiety?
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Well, one example would be if your mice lived in that prison that now is full of cats.
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You used to be thinking, hmm, I got a good thing going here.
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There's always food on the ground and a bunch of prisoners who leave me alone.
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Well, the way to compensate for that would be to take more omega-3 fatty acids.
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But if you're a mouse and you're feeling bad, try omega-3, especially if there are too
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Amazon is looking to hire a principal nuclear engineer.
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Because all the cool companies that are really big have their own data centers, and they're
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going to need so much electricity that the traditional companies that are not in the business of making
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nuclear energy are going to have to build their own nuclear power plants.
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And, of course, Bill Gates separately has big investments in a Gen 4 nuclear.
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So I think if you're a billionaire, you've got to build a nuclear power plant.
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Is there anybody notable who is missing from the, hey, I think I'll build a nuclear power plant?
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There's somebody obvious who should be building a nuclear power plant, but we haven't heard
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How can Elon Musk be going hard at AI when we know AI is going to give monstrous amounts of
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How could he be doing that without considering building his own nuclear power plant?
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I feel like maybe there's something brewing that we might learn about later, because it
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seems to me that you can't do an AI data center without a nuclear power plant of your own.
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So, yeah, he's invested in solar, and I get that, but he wouldn't be anti-nuclear.
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He would be pro-nuclear, I assume, because I don't know if he could ever get enough solar.
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According to The Economist, soon, maybe in 10 years, we could be getting most of our electric
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car battery parts from recycling old ones, because you know you're worried.
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It's like, hey, these electric cars are good, but what do you do with all these old batteries?
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Well, some large portion of them is recyclable, and that's because they're experimenting with
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all kinds of new techniques to do it, and some of them look good, look promising.
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Meanwhile, I remind you that Great Britain is arresting people for posting offensive tweets
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or offensive posts, but did you know that you could also be arrested just for reposting them?
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I'm not sure I really thought about that, but apparently it's not just the creator of the
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Now, I did understand that if you created a fake post, that you could be in trouble, but
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apparently just reposting something that's fake could get you in jail in Great Britain.
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Let me reiterate, there's no chance I would ever go to Great Britain again.
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I've been there, but I would never go there again for any reason, not for business, not for
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pleasure, as long as you can go to jail for reposting something.
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Like, I would never allow myself to be in their jurisdiction.
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It's like whatever is pre-civilization, basically.
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There was a little story that got more attention than I thought it would.
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There's a lighting expert, Miguel Quiles, hard to say his name, Q-U-I-L-E-S.
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But he did a video on X in which he explained how you can light somebody in public to make
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And then you look at examples, and it does look like maybe the Trump team, both Vance
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Now, I'm not quite sure I'm going to buy this 100%.
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But he showed his work, and there are other people agreeing with it.
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And I can tell you that even before I saw this, that they were being lighted, lit wrong,
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But I did notice recently there was a J.D. Vance interview, and his eyes were black with
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Now, here's a little secret I learned from the restaurant business.
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This is a deep inside restaurant business fact that is so non-obvious, if I didn't tell
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One of the most important factors to make a restaurant successful, it's right at the
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You would think it would be like the fifth or sixth down.
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The lighting actually has such an effect on people that it's more important than the
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But when I built my second restaurant, we did not do the lighting right because there
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was too much external light, which made it hard to see anybody inside the restaurant
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So there's too much like glary light coming in from every direction.
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So just seeing the person on the other side of the table was sometimes actually difficult.
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It was the worst lighting ever and the restaurant failed.
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But definitely getting the writing wrong makes a difference.
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If you want somebody to look unattractive, you do top lighting only.
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So if the only lights you have on or the dominant lights are your top lights, it makes your eyebrows
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shade your eyes and it gives you an older, just less healthy look.
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If you want somebody to look good, you would light them from the sides or the, you know,
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The last thing you want to do is bright white lights from the ceiling, like in an office.
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But in a restaurant, if you give them orange light and you do it from the side, your date
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Do you know what happens when your date looks more attractive?
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Let me say that again, because this is very true and you've all noticed it.
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You go on a date with somebody that you're really attracted to, the food tastes better.
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If you're on a date with somebody who's looking great and you're attracted to them, do you want
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So when I tell you that the lighting is more important than the service, your first reaction
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But ask yourself, if the person on the other side of the table looks extra good, you kind
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You actually care about the lighting more than the service and more than the taste of the
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food, because the other person, if they look good, will make your food taste better.
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I know, it's the most non-obvious effect you could ever imagine.
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But if you get the light right, the service and the food increase so much better, it's
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So does it make a difference when they light, allegedly, when they intentionally light Vance
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So, yes, yes, if you think it's a small difference, you haven't run in a restaurant, or at least
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you haven't been that deep into the weeds of it.
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The light can absolutely change what you think about these humans.
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So if the claims are correct, and this is coming from a lighting expert who says it's obvious,
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Trump and Vance are both being incorrectly lit intentionally.
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By both, ABC would be the, this would be the allegation in CNN.
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Now, when I looked at the Trump ones at the ABC debate, I'm not sure I saw the wrong lighting.
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So I'm not going to go so far as to say I saw it on that one.
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But in the CNN interview with Vance, I mean, I spotted it before I even knew it was an issue.
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I was like, whoa, they've lit him completely wrong.
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If you have not gone down the P. Diddy rabbit hole on social media, where people who are not
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allowed on regular news get to say whatever they want, oh, my God.
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Is there anybody here who hasn't had any, any look at what the claims are?
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Horrible beyond anything you, actually so horrible that it's hard to hold them in your head.
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Meaning that your brain wants to tell you that they're not real.
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Because if they are real, you're living in a much worse world than you imagined, no matter how bad you thought it was.
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So my brain's not letting me think any of it's true.
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Well, my brain is letting me think some percentage of it is true.
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But I'm rejecting at least half of it, maybe, as too far beyond the pale.
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So it'd be everything from emotional and physical abuse and trafficking and underage people and every kind of illegal drug.
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So, you know, beatings, blackmailing, threats, basically everything.
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And what we don't know is if there's any connection to any intelligence entities in the United States or foreign or anything else.
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But the implication, which I'm not yet ready to accept, is that it would be almost impossible to succeed in the music business unless somebody had fucked you in the ass in front of other people.
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But that's sort of the narrative that's emerging.
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I think there's probably people who succeeded without doing that.
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But the suggestion that a number of people succeeded because they did do that, I have to say it's kind of convincing just because there are so many of them, you know.
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But remember, you've got the laundry list persuasion working.
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If you see a laundry list of celebrities and then a laundry list of claims, your brain says, well, maybe some of it's wrong.
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But if it's that big old laundry list, it's probably mostly true.
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But that doesn't mean it's mostly true because confirmation bias gets you to exactly the same place.
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I saw somebody else, I don't want to call them an apologist for these celebrities, but there's probably not a better word.
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He explained that the way the parties would work is that the really famous people, which were going to Diddy's party, they might go there for three hours, but they'd be gone before midnight.
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And midnight is when, you know, all the sketchy stuff happened and that everybody knew, don't be here after midnight unless you want to be part of the sketchy stuff.
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So it could be that 95% of the celebrity names you hear literally didn't see or participate in anything.
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So I would like to, I'd like to first say, it's really, really bad when specific names are attached to this until you actually know.
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Because it's the worst thing you could ever be attached to.
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And believe me, I've been attached to some bad things, but nothing this bad.
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So I feel extra, extra sketchy, you know, naming any names, but they're all in public now.
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But anyway, it looks like every single crime that you could possibly be accused of, Diddy will be accused of.
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And then there's a claim by 50 Cent, rapper 50 Cent, that maybe J-Lo and Ben Affleck's relationship may have suffered because of something that Ben found out about her association with Diddy parties because she used to be with Diddy.
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In other words, the person who would carry the firearm so that Diddy would not be, you know, having a firearm.
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And there's some alleged incident where somebody thinks maybe she was involved in some kind of a shooting as the carrier of the gun, not as a shooter.
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And whatever Ben Affleck and J-Lo are going through, I would think that they probably have a pretty long list of things to worry about relationship-wise.
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Because I can't imagine the two of them ever being in a successful relationship.
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How do you find somebody who will, you know, go along with what those two people would both want to go along with all the time?
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I mean, there's no accusations about Ben Affleck.
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It'd be, it's just hard to be with a strong personality.
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According to the Daily Caller, there's some new documents that are shedding light on the Air Force trying to reduce the number of white males in the officer ranks.
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They got PowerPoints showing how much they want to reduce the number of white people in the military, specifically the Air Force officer ranks.
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Now, let me say as clearly as I can, I do not respect the military.
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So the individual members of the military, of course, maximum, maximum respect.
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But if you're talking about it as an organization, and you're talking about the leadership, I've lost all respect for it.
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The, when Trump used to call his generals stupid, I thought, well, that's too far.
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And then I thought, oh, oh, yeah, they sound stupid.
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And it's not even just the ones who were, you know, working for Trump.
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You know, the retired ones that worked for Obama.
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And they'll come on and I'll listen to him and I'll think, but why do you sound so stupid?
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When pundits come on, they'll sound smart, but very biased.
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Or they'll sound smart, but maybe they have some TDS.
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But honestly, I've seen a lot of generals who just seem fucking stupid.
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Like, I'll listen to him and I'll think, how did you ever become a general?
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Like, you just don't even sound a little bit smart.
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So, yeah, I don't have any respect for the military leadership,
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but maximum respect for the members who served in the military, of course.
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But I would advise if you're white, I wouldn't join the military.
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Unless you really, really don't have any other options.
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Because don't join any organization that has a PowerPoint
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that says they're going to discriminate against you.
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Now, I would also advise that if you had a suspicion or there were rumors
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that somebody was going to discriminate against you,
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But if they have a PowerPoint presentation that says
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they're going to discriminate against you for the top jobs,
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Don't go anywhere near somebody who has PowerPoint presentations
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of how they're going to discriminate against you.
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And by the way, the correct amount of white people
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joining the military under these conditions is zero.
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It should go to zero, because otherwise they'll just keep doing it.
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If they can run the military with zero white people, go ahead.
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But if you're white and you're joining the military
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and presenting it proudly that they're going to discriminate against you,
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It would be stupid to join an organization that says explicitly
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Now, if white enrollment in the military drops to zero,
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But anything short of that is not going to change anything.
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The people voting for Kamala Harris are the same people
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who believe everything they see in the legacy media.
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in the largest act of election interference in history.
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that is the biggest act of election interference