Miss Understood No. 39 — Recycling Is A Scam
Summary
A new report from Greenpeace USA paints a dire picture for recycling efforts in the U.S. and highlights the dangers of single-use plastic. Plus, we talk about climate change and how the pandemic has changed us all.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for the culturally and politically misunderstood
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lady, gent, non-binary, alien, it, it, they, her, him, shpoobit and poobit, shpoobit and poobit.
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I forget. We are your hosts. I'm Nat. It, it. I am Kat. Her, sure. For sure. For sure.
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Um, and, and this week, this week we're talking about climate, the death of the liberal and
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briefly, possibly briefly, uh, how the pandemic has changed us. Hmm. It's fascinating. And we
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don't have a culture shock yet again. It's going to be shocking enough. You guys, I'm shocked.
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Well, this one is shook. This one shook me to my core, to my apple core. Okay. Um, which
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you should compost, by the way. Yes. Uh, there's a new study out that, uh, okay. Well, the
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article title is plastic recycling is a disaster and a myth. And this was written by vice y'all.
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Yeah, guys. So that's interesting. It's not even like we're like right wing extremists saying
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this. This is vice. Like as left as it gets. And Greenpeace USA are the ones who conducted
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the survey. So crazy times. Or maybe they didn't conduct a survey. I think they did. They did
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a report. They did a report. It was a report. So a new report from Greenpeace USA paints
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a dire picture for recycling efforts in the United States. They've fundamentally failed.
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Yeah. Ouch. I mean, as shocking as it is, I also think it's kind of obvious in a way
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because there are so many limitations to what you can and cannot recycle. And it's unfair
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to expect the everyday average person to know how to separate, like you can't plus, you can't
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recycle black plastic, for example, or your coffee cup with the lining. I've recently learned
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those. Right. And it's exactly, but it's not intuitive at all. So it's like, of course
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we failed. It's also interesting that, that like it changes depending on your jurisdiction.
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I didn't know that. Yeah. So you have to actually look up in your riding what the recycle rules
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are. Oh, that's silly. Yeah. They're setting us up for failure. Yes, they are. They're literally
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setting us up for failure. But according to this report, the U.S. plastic recycling rate was
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estimated to have declined to about five to six percent in 2021, down from a high of 9.5 percent
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in 2014, sorry, 2014 and 8.7 in 2018. But listen to this. When in 2018, when the U.S. exported
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millions of tons of plastic waste to China and counted it as recycled. Oh, sure. That's not a lie
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at all. What? Like I've heard people say that recycling is a scam and I'm like, okay. Tinfoil
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hat. Yeah. I'm like, I'm like, I'm still going to rinse out my yogurt tub and put it in the
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recycling bin. But like. Well, also it could smell if you don't. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So you're
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doing yourself a favor too. Yeah. But like five to six percent. That's crazy. I guess that's better
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than zero. Is it worth still, like, is it, are you going to continue doing this, like recycling after
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this? I probably will not, to be honest. Although there is, I guess maybe it's a force of habit at
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this point. But the article even says that the plastic and product industries have been promoting
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plastic recycling as a solution to plastic waste since the early 1990s. Some 30 years later,
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the vast majority of U.S. plastic waste is still not recyclable. So it's like we know this. But don't
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you find it strange that the government and like the activists aren't trying to maybe come up with a
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new solution? Like, why aren't we, you know, maybe creating different kinds of plastics that are
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all recyclable or incentivizing businesses to use those plastics? Like, why are we changing? Well,
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it's it's why you'll go to like a yogurt shop and get a wooden spoon instead of a plastic one. And
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honestly, I have no problem with that. Oh, me neither. As long as there's no splinters in it. Yeah. Like
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the paper straws, they're they're stinky and horrible. Yeah, those are bad. Those are bad. But
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they're getting the technology is improving with the paper straw. They're making them thicker. It's true.
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It's true. Like that is something that it sucks. But it's like, okay, I can make my piece and the
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new Starbucks lids with the iced coffee. People are kind of cute with carrying them. They always
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look a little chic to me. Yeah, exactly. So I can make my piece with making those changes. But like
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the plastic lid is still plastic. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. Paper straw. It wrapped in plastic. Put
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it in the plastic cup. Yeah. And you're like, wait, this can't be good. No. But I don't know. Like,
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don't you think it's weird that they haven't come up with a way or a solution to recycle either all
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types of plastic or just like ban certain kinds of plastic? Yeah. Well, that's what
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they're different. That's what they're doing in Canada. I think starting in 2023, I believe.
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Yeah. I believe plastic is going to be banned. And we were I think we were talking about that
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on the live stream a couple of weeks ago. But I again by the end of 2021 was the original
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goal. OK, well, we're lagging. Yeah. But I do. I do think like apparently microplastics have
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been found in like human bone marrow or something. Yeah. Something. We're a science man. But
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some some deep some deep part of the human body in postmortem have found that there's
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like microplastics in our bodies that where there weren't before. So every time I'm using
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like a paper plastic spoon or something, I'm like, I try not I try to avoid it because
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it's like, hold on. Oh, yeah. Sorry. It's coming. Bless you. It's gone. OK, that was good. Very
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satisfying. So every time you're using plastic, every time I'm using a plastic spoon or eating
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out of something plastic, I'm like, this is the microplastics they're talking about.
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It's literally like drawing pen on your skin. It's going in. It's literally disgusting. Like
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do not microwave your food in the plastic container that you got your takeout in, guys. Like
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I am guilty of that. Take out. Don't do it now. I'm not going to. Don't do it. I'm going
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to stop. Yeah. Also, like the fact that so much takeout still comes in plastic, it's really
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gross because you're like the food is hot. Like you can store food in plastic as long as it's
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cold. But once it's hot, like it's hot and you put it in the plastic like it's picking
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up little micro particles. It's really, really bad for you. So. Yeah, that's a good point.
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Like Swish LA has changed to like the cardboard. It's still like plastic line, though, I think.
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Right. And so you can't recycle it either. So it's basically all these businesses are just
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virtue signaling. Yeah, I do recycle it because I feel like I should. But like probably it's
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probably going in the garbage. It's in China by now. Yeah. So it would be nice to see or
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even the tin foil ones. Those are. Oh, yeah. Those are better. Right. Yes. Yeah. The aluminum
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foil ones. Exactly. Yeah. So we should be working towards reducing our single use plastics because
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I know I sound like a hippie douche, but. Well, I don't think. OK, I'm sure conservatives will
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get mad at us for talking about it from this point of view. Come at us, bros. But I mean,
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we are called the steward of the earth. I want to take care of the earth. I don't want I don't
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want garbage everywhere. And yes, I do think that a lot of the a lot of the data about all
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of this stuff has been wildly inflated, wildly inflated. And I think the climate change agenda
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is a scam. A hundred percent. But I'm not against recycling. I'm absolutely not. No.
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I think what's interesting, too, is and I saw this somewhere on the Internet once is that
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it seems like we've created more stuff that cannot be recycled as time has progressed.
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Whereas like back in the day, people would like get their milk in glass bottles and stuff
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like that. And yet and I understand glass is not the safest. Like if it breaks, it can be
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harmful. I still buy my glass, my milk in glass. Right. Exactly. It's very thick. I've dropped
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it. It's so thick. Yeah. And you get a two dollar deposit on it. Right. Exactly. Like
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so maybe trying to utilize things like that. And it tastes better. Yeah, of course it tastes
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better because it'd be cooler. Yeah. Like all these things like. So, I mean, there are
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it's interesting how we've gotten worse, even though the hysteria around climate is also increasing
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day by day. You're like, I don't understand. And also like your phone. Hello. Like how much of this
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is recyclable? Oh, yeah. What what metallic components that we got from slave labor in
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Africa are recyclable in that phone? And then the we're like it'll be like Telus or Bell
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or Rogers being like today is like we recycle day. Do you also the next day they're like you
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need a new phone because we made your phone in such a way that it will die in two years
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or you can't plug in your headphones anymore. And you can't recycle it. Right. And it's the same
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with like electric vehicles. Any electronics. Yeah. Electric vehicles, the batteries. They don't
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decompose, you guys. It's a scam. It's a scam. It's unfortunate. It really is. But it is interesting
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that Vice is acknowledging that recycling is a scam, yet they're still like perpetuating
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this climate hysteria narrative. And it's like, well, maybe if we're questioning recycling
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plastics, we should also question what else the government is telling us about, you know,
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climate change and all that. I don't know. Question nothing. Yeah. Trust the government. Right.
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Just wait for Vice to tell you what to do. Yeah, exactly. And then you'll be good. And then
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another article from Vice about those young climate activists who were throwing soup on the Mona
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Lisa and whatnot. Now, my biggest takeaway from this article, which is a big relief, is that all
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of those paintings that have been destroyed were protected by glass. Yeah. Guys. Thank God. Thank
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God. Because I was thinking like, shouldn't they? Priceless. Priceless art. I'm like, they should
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either hack off the arms of the people who are doing that. Yes. Or we should put them behind
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glass. So it's like, okay, they're at least they're making like a theatrical statement. But
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really, the only people they're hurting are themselves because they're super gluing themselves
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to stuff, which I don't understand. It's absurd. And there's so many things to say about this. But
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it's also like, are you actually like, what is this accomplishing? Like, when did raising awareness
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ever actually do anything tangible that benefited the cause? I've never, I can't think of one
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example. Like, cool, you got a bunch of clicks on Twitter and whatever, but what do you actually
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do for the environment? It's raising awareness. Right. Because we don't hear enough about climate
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change. Yeah. It's never talked about. It hasn't been a decade long scam. It hasn't been addressed.
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It's never been addressed. Yeah. There aren't documentaries. It's not something that the Prime Minister of
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Canada literally talks about every single day on Twitter. Ugh. And we've done a sketch about
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Extinction Rebellion, but I didn't know that. So in this article on Vice, they talk about the group
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Extinction Rebellion, whose single demand is that the government commits to ending all licenses and
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permissions for fossil fuel projects. Like, give me a break. Like, what are we going to do in the
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meantime? Like, in the meantime, people will die. Yeah. Because they can't drive anywhere. They can't
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heat their homes. Which is funny because they're so scared about the earth dying and they'll die by
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climate change, yet they're willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause. It's like- And us.
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All of us. Exactly. At our expense as well. And there's a lot of cognitive dissonance here. I think
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it's maybe brainwashed a little bit. A little bit. It's something brain related. Well, and of course,
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it makes sense from, like, a secular perspective because these people are- they've found something
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to put their hope in and they've latched onto it and now it's their entire life and their identity.
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And it's pretty sad, but honestly, it just- these kids are brats? Yeah, they're brats. More-
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They're climate brats. Mostly that's what I take away from it. Yeah. I think also the first article-
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sorry, the first sentence in this article is, for most of us, doing our bit for the climate means
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giving up meat, remembering to take the recycling out, and avoiding shrimp rack cucumbers in the
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supermarket. Okay, so I'll recycle. I will buy cucumbers that aren't shrink-wrapped because
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why does it need to be? It's already in, like, a thick, waxy skin. It's hard to find them. Sure it is.
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But if I could find one, I'd buy it. Sure. But for most of us, doing our bit means giving up meat.
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No. No. No. No. No. And it's very, very arguable that by eating processed, like, soy and canola oil
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products that are, like, mushed into something that looks like meat, it's actually a lot worse for the
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environment. And yourself. And yourself. Meat is 100% meat. Beyond meat is a bunch of other
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crap. It's a bunch of stuff that- It's like 30 ingredients. Apparently, impossible burgers are,
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like, maybe not suitable for eating. Oh. Like, this is, like, new. They're like, oh, it might not
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actually, you probably shouldn't eat that. That's great. Great. That's great. That's great. So,
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please don't eat impossible. They're literally called impossible burgers because they shouldn't exist.
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Yeah. And they're disgusting. I've never had one. Have you had one? No. I refuse. I refuse. I love
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meat. I'm a flaming carny. And I will eat cows till the cows come home. Wow. Ethically, of course.
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Yes. Well, that's the thing, though. My husband and I buy ethically raised, sourced meat from our local
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butchers. So, not only are we- That's so based. We're supporting our local economy. It's all from
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Ontario. That's- It's good. It's- You can't get any better than that. You can't get better than
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that. You literally- Unless you go out and shoot it yourself. Yes. Of course. That is the best you
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can do as a city- As a city slicker like that. Yeah. It's true. But- Not me, though. No. She's-
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She's out hunting. I'm hard. Yeah. I'm- I'm hunting. She's already taught her baby
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out of his arrival. So, she's- Claps. Soon. Claps for cat. Yeah. There's also another thing I wanted to
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talk about. Yes. So, okay. So, in this article, they kind of profile a couple of people who have
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been arrested doing these Extinction Rebellion stuff. Oh, yeah. One of them is super funny.
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Yes. So, this guy, I wrote his name, but then I- I didn't. I thought I did, but I wrote
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XX. So, whatever. That's his name. His name is XX. He's like 21, and he's been in prison
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since March. And so, this is his quote about living in prison. Oh, good. I wake up every
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morning and exercise in the yard and spend an hour or two socializing with my neighbors who
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show me kindness and care. I'm sure they do. I spend most of my days reading and watching
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TV and play pool and snooker with my friends in the wing. The vegan food is pretty good
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Prison sounds great. Yeah. Like, honestly, this person's life is probably better than
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it would be if he wasn't in prison. Yeah. Because he's a 21-year-old.
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21-year-old with probably no skills. Wow. Maybe. Who, like, in the UK- Sign me up.
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This is, like, UK-based. And in the UK, the cost of living is extremely high. Yeah.
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Like, this one girl who's 29 said she came back from living in Thailand with her partner
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to come home and the cost of living was too expensive, so she immediately joins Extinction
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Rebellion and gets arrested. Naturally. That's what you do. Yeah. Like, so, basically,
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you are watching TV, playing pool, socializing, eating vegan food while the taxpayers are funding
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it. Yeah. And you don't have to worry about bills or anything. No.
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All you have to do is pretend to worry about the climate and blame everyone else while you're
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in prison. It's genius. It's yucking it up, basically. It's genius. It's like a male going
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to a female prison. It's genius. It's pretty, like, you know, maybe in America the prisons
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would be rougher. Perhaps. I don't know. But it's, like, maybe they're literally just getting
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arrested so they don't have to deal with the real world. I don't blame them. Sign me up.
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There's this other girl, too, how she was asked if she's concerned about the impact this
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will have on her future, and she's, like, she's 20, by the way. I'm a little bit, yeah.
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Yeah. I'm in my 20s, so I do have a long future career ahead of me.
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Yeah, I know. But it's just, like, 29, girl. You're not in her 20s anymore.
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Oh, yeah. Sorry. Okay, yeah. So, she's in her 20s, she says. So, I don't have a long
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future career. I do have a long future career ahead of me. A lot of the activists that went
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to prison are retired. There's a reason that the older generation gets involved with this
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high-risk kind of stuff. Yeah, so, basically, old, miserable hippies whose lives
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are over. Like, yeah, do it. Do it. Because they want you to be miserable just like them.
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That's what I'm getting from this. And stinky. Yeah, and really stinky. These old farts don't
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care about you. Yeah. Like, and, um, ironically, I was listening to Joe Rogan on the way to work
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today, and he had Bridget Phetasy on, and they were talking about this exact same, not this
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exact article, but they were talking about the brats throwing the soup on the paintings
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and whatnot. And she was like, she was like, just clean up a beach. Yeah. Just go clean up
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a beach. Show me pictures of all the stuff you got off the beach, all the plastics you took
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out of the ocean. It's so true. Do something. That's the thing, though. It's like when
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Jordan Peterson says, like, you got to make your own bed first. Like, why, if you want
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to inspire change, why don't you start with yourself? Like, if you want to be a climate
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activist, I guess so. But, like, I don't know, you start recycling. Set a positive example.
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Maybe people will follow suit if you don't, like, you don't have to have a temper tantrum
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and ruin, try to ruin paintings. Yeah. And then in this article, they talk about how being
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a climate activist is a lot of sitting around, like, on the phone with lawyers, being
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in jail, sitting in front of a bulldozer or whatever. So just wasting time and taxpayer
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dollars. Yeah. So you're basically a climate inactivist. You're just sitting on your butt
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doing nothing, complaining that the world is screwing you over, and then going to prison
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where you're getting fed vegan food and playing pool. That's funny. That should be the title
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of the show. Write that down. Cool. I don't know what I said. But anyways. Climate inactivist.
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Inactivist. There we go. Nailed it. Okay. Anyway. Anyways. And by the way, I agree with
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their right to protest. Sure. And I know you do, too. But, like, vandalization for the sake
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of cliques is way different than protesting for your rights and freedoms or just protesting
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to raise awareness for something. I can live with that if you want to. Yeah. Yeah. But
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protest away. Not at the expense of people's safety and at the expense of priceless paintings.
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No. There's not much to enjoy in 2022. It's nice if we can just look at the beautiful art.
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Yeah. Look at the art that's priceless. The priceless art. It's not bad. Anyways. Great.
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Let's talk about how the old libs are dead. They've died. Shocker. They're gone.
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Shocking. Shocking. I'm shocked. Where did they go? Yes. So, this article's from the Daily
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Wire. It's the anti-war left is dead and gone, if it ever even existed. So, basically, the
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whole point of this is, like, my takeaway was, like, these three things. Like, the left
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is now pro-Big Pharma, anti-free speech, and pro-war. Yeah. And that's, pro-war is specifically
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what they're talking about in this article. Because a couple weeks ago, the Democrat,
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Washington rep? Yeah. Congresswoman Pramila J. Apple. Yeah, J. Apple. She had a letter
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co-signed by 50 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, CPC, asking Biden to proactively
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seek peace talks with Russia and Ukraine. Yeah. Oh, but wait, what happened to the letter?
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Well, she pulled it because the letter was chiefly because calling for peace talks appeared
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to line up with GOP, Republican, talking points. So, basically, they're willing to forego peace
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because they don't want to be in line with the Republicans. Oh, my gersh. Oh, my gersh.
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By the way, there are Republicans who are pro-war in Ukraine. There's a lot of them. Yeah,
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it's sus. It's sus. A little too many, in my opinion. A little too many, yeah. And that's also
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what I took away from this because it's like, we have to be so discerning when it comes to
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politicians just because they slap a nice label of Republican or Democrat or Conservative or Liberal.
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That doesn't mean anything. No. You can't be in a cult like that. Yeah. You have to question
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everything because, like, and that's why I think when Trump refers to the swamp, it's unlikely he was
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just pointing fingers at these Democrats because there are so many politicians, especially in
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Canada. You notice this, too, when you have the same politicians winning over and over again. Like,
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these people are just in it for the paycheck. I would love to know what they've actually
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accomplished and what they've actually, as Conservatives, have conserved in the Conservative
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sense. Like, it's like, I don't know. We just can't get caught up in the words they say. I think we
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need to pay attention to the legislation they pass and all that sort of stuff. And that's what I took
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away from this article, even though it's about the death of the liberal, in a sense. It's kind
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of like, well, actually, it seems like it's the death of politicians with integrity.
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Were there ever. I don't know. Did they ever exist, as per the article? Yeah. But, like,
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we've probably said this before, but, like, you can't just be in a cult where you agree with
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any... In lockstep. Exactly. Like, if maybe a Conservative candidate that you like is like,
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oh, I feel this way on abortion. You're like, I agree with that. But that does not mean that you
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have to co-sign on all of the other things that they agree with just because they're on your side
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on one issue. Like, you have to use, like, Nat was just saying, you have to use critical thinking
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and, like, look at each issue and make these decisions. They're important. An informed decision.
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Exactly. They're important decisions. And I think that's what's interesting about bipartisan...
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Partisan... Part... Bi... That's what's interesting about bipartisanism.
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That's what's interesting about the two parties, the left and the right, is that we hate the
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opposition so much that we're willing... We're blinded by our hatred. So we're willing to vote
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in the Conservative Party or the Democrat Party or the Republican Party just to get someone
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out. And it's like, that is silly in a way because it's like... It's silly.
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You have to vote for your values. Like, you got it. You owe it to yourself.
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And also, like, not just that they're willing to vote in the other guy who's the opposite or
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whatever. They're willing to bring us to the brink of nuclear war with Russia just to not
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be a Republican, not to line up with the Republican values on this. Like...
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What the heck? You guys, like... Talk about putting the people last.
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Yeah. Like, people are worried about the climate. They think that's an imminent threat to them
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when literally we're like 10 seconds to midnight on nuclear war right now.
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Yeah. And it's, like, is there some secret room where all these politicians are going
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Like, I guess we're not invited as regular folk.
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But don't worry. Keep gluing your head to a painting.
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Writing a letter asking Biden to proactively seek peace.
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Like, I'm not an expert on Russia-Ukraine by any means.
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But my understanding of it is Russia big, strong.
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Probably not going to win an arms war with Russia.
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Like, on the weekend, I woke up and went on Twitter and I saw that Justin Trudeau had
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And he said, we're going to train them how to use them.
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And we're going to support Ukraine every step of the way.
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And we're going to give them as much aid as they need.
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It's like, you're signing our death warrant right now.
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You can't just keep, like, sending money and arms to...
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I mean, the cost of living in Canada is insane right now.
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You're bringing us to the brink of nuclear war.
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But Zelensky has literally said, negotiation is not on the table.
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And because they didn't want to be seen as Republican, they pulled it.
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Than literally your face melting from a nuclear blast.
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Even you, if you're a politician and you're watching this.
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You know, the economists talking about the illiberal left.
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But basically, classical liberals are now conservatives.
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And lefties, who once identified with classical liberalism, are now so far left that they're
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Basically, also, one interesting part about this is Milton Friedman once said that society
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that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither.
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And that's, that's something, I mean, because the far left right now is so into equity and
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equality and diversity and shpoobity, shpoobity, shpoob.
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And I think in 2022, even though we don't have vaccine mandates and all that stuff, it
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still doesn't feel like we're really free because we're under the bondage of these social
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It's better than it was a year ago, but you're absolutely right.
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But like, even still, you know, the, the left, the mob gets woker and woker and bigger
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And, and we're, you can get canceled for everything or doxxed or whatever it is.
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That reminds me of another quote from this article, um, which is extremely left leaning.
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This whole article is talking about how like Trumpism ruined the world and whatever, but
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They say they have also, they being the left, they have also brought along tactics to enforce
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illogical purity by not, no platforming their enemies and canceling allies who have transgressed
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with echoes of the confessional state that dominated Europe before classical liberalism took
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And it's like, yeah, like if you've seen the movie Braveheart, like, you know when he's
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getting tortured at the end and spoiler and they're like ripped, they're disemboweling
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It's literally that like, you're not getting disemboweled on a table in front of a crowd,
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but you're getting dehumained on a massive platform and canceled.
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Like you can lose your ability to take part in the public discourse.
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And unless you confess, like, just like we talked about last week with Taylor Swift.
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Like she did nothing wrong, but she had to like confess to her sin of saying sometimes
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she's worried that she's fat, like because she has an eating disorder and they had, and
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These people offer you no grace, no room to grow or change.
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Even if you do actually say something that's truly wrong, like I think, you know, I believe
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And that's the thing with social media being as big as it is.
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You know, I'm going to say something stupid eventually.
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Like that's why we have to be careful with our words.
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Like our politicians are in rooms right now bringing us closer and closer to nuclear war
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But if someone like Nat misgenders someone or I say.
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Like that's the biggest threat going on right now.
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Like that's what we need to cancel each other for.
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So new research provides evidence that the pandemic changed our personalities.
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Suggested the COVID pandemic was indeed triggered.
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Has indeed triggered much greater shifts in personality than we would expect.
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So the researchers found that people were less extroverted, less open, less agreeable,
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So I personally witnessed this in my friends and my family.
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Because it was the most polarizing time, especially if you were someone who was questioning the
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You were automatically deemed a bigot or a right-wing or a conspiracy theorist.
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And then these people who were mostly tended to be on the left in my experience, they were
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You literally spent years on the defense, basically.
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And before the pandemic, you could have, I could have interesting political debates
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Like, climate change was always a touchy issue.
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But there were things you could talk about where you're like, I don't know about that.
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But once the pandemic hit, all of that discourse was completely gone.
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It's like, oh, you don't believe in the science?
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You're not invited to Christmas anymore, Catherine?
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Some people were trapped in their homes listening to various conservative commentators.
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I mean, of course, people were just, they wanted to know what was going on with the world.
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You have, like, if you're one of the people not just mentioned listening to CBC or the
00:28:56.880
opposite or whatever, you are being inundated, is that the word?
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And with, with a message that you are, you should be scared of your fellow man.
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People were yelling at each other in elevators.
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But now people are screaming at each other in their, like, I had a lady, I had a, like,
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So this one time I had to use my cane and in my apartment building, you were, during
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COVID, you had to go downstairs to get your food dropped off, like, from DoorDash.
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So I asked the guy, the DoorDash guy, to bring mine up to me because I was crippled.
00:29:48.820
And there was a lady in the lobby when the guy tried to come in and use the elevator and
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And so the guy calls me, the Uber delivery driver calls me and he was like, oh, there's a,
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I was like, I was like, fine, just leave the food there.
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So I waited five minutes because I was like, I want her to go away.
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So I get my cane, like, hobble down in the elevator.
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Like, I'm literally like, this is crippling pain.
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And this woman in a mask, right up in my face, like, two feet from my mouth is like,
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And I think we've talked about this before, just how that, like, it, like, empowers you
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So you're able to say things that you wouldn't normally say.
00:30:47.980
You're able to say things you wouldn't normally say in the public sphere because you are an
00:30:52.100
But, like, the fact that we've got to get to this point where there's just, you're not
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You're just an anti-masker, anti-vaxxer, or just you're breaking the rules.
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Well, it's like, lady, just leave the freaking lobby.
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Like, you're spitting particles in my mouth right now.
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It's just so insane that they've minimized people to be just these labels.
00:31:13.060
And it's like, man, like, you are human beings.
00:31:16.120
Like, you, like, I can't even fathom how it's come to this.
00:31:25.320
It was like, we're all in this together unless.
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So we're all in this together over here and you guys can just die.
00:31:43.340
And the media, legacy media went right along with it.
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Um, our institutions are once trusted institutions.
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Although I feel liberated knowing that we shouldn't trust them now.
00:31:56.340
And then you see someone like Justin Trudeau who has literally called out Rebel News by name
00:32:01.840
saying that we're, we are the cause of division in Canada.
00:32:11.420
You literally said like, those people, those disgusting unvaccinated people, like, they
00:32:16.400
And then they're like, but Rebel News is causing division in Canada.
00:32:20.800
And we need to shut down their misinformation, even though the things that we said six months
00:32:26.640
And the mainstream media is saying it all loud.
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Like, so many people are coming out being like, hey, by the way, they were maybe right.
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Those tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists.
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