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Jennifer Lawrence is the first woman in Hollywood to play a female lead in a Hollywood action film, but is it really so groundbreaking? Or is it just the latest in a long line of attempts to break down glass ceilings in Hollywood?
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We spent a lot of time focusing on the fact that Hollywood constantly churns out woke propaganda
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pieces disguised as cinema, and that's of course true, and a large part of the reason why audiences
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are losing interest in movies. This past Thanksgiving box office tally, a time when
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theaters typically rake in massive amounts of money, saw the weakest performance in over 25
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years. This in spite of the fact that there, or maybe because of the fact, there were multiple
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sequels to blockbuster franchise films showing. There was a new Steven Spielberg movie. There was
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a Disney cartoon about a gay teenage boy and a disabled dog. You know, all these things were
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in theater, and nobody went. Like I said, wokeness is certainly part of the problem here, but not the
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whole problem, because the other issue is that so many movies are boring and dull and simply not
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anything to get excited about, and it seems that the people involved in making these cinematic versions
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of bland, stale graham crackers are aware at some level of how boring and uninteresting it all is,
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and that's why they have to go to increasingly desperate lengths to pretend that their films are
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somehow revolutionary and provocative, even as they serve up the same under-seasoned dish that
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we've had a million times before. And I think that's part of what was happening this week when
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Jennifer Lawrence, now somewhat infamously, sat down for an interview with Variety and ended up
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claiming a title for herself that people older than 10 years old might find surprising, as it doesn't
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quite gel with our memories. Lawrence declared that she is the first actress to have ever starred in a
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Hollywood action film. Now, Jennifer Lawrence is 32, okay? She's not in her 70s or 80s, which she would
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have to be in order for that claim to have any chance of legitimacy, but let's watch the clip first.
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I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie,
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because it wouldn't work, we were told. Girls and boys can both identify with a male lead,
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but boys cannot identify with a female lead. And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a
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movie come out that just blows through every single one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a
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a lie to keep certain people out of the movies, to keep certain people in the same positions that
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they've always been in. And it's just amazing to watch it happen and watch you at the helm.
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Yes, the Hunger Games, released in 2012, that was the first action film with a female lead.
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Lawrence then noted that it was also a great honor to co-star in the Silver Linings playbook so that
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she could get a front row seat to Robert De Niro's first film role. And she's especially humbled to
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realize that when she played Mystique in X-Men First Class, she was starring in the first
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superhero movie ever made. Truly a historic career in her own mind, if not in reality. Because in
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reality, of course, Sigourney Weaver exists, Linda Hamilton exists, Angelina Jolie exists. There have
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been many female action stars over the decades. Going back to Carrie Fisher and Star Wars, even before
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her, there were others. Jennifer Lawrence is not the first to do anything, nor the best. She didn't even
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come up with a new way of doing something. She just followed a script that had long since been
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written, trying to pretend that she's breaking glass ceilings that have been laying in shards on
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the ground for decades. Glass ceilings that, in this case, we should note, never mattered much to
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begin with. The fact that there are more men starring in action films than women, who cares? It makes sense
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that most action stars are men, as men typically make more compelling and believable action stars.
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Typically. Okay, it's a lot harder to make a female actioner into anything but a silly cartoon. Sigourney
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Weaver pulled it off, which is why her performance is still remembered by everyone except Jennifer
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Lawrence, apparently. And yet more often it ends up being a kind of goofy girl power routine.
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Men can also see, a man, it's easier for a male actor to elevate goofy action plots and lend them
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a certain gravitas. Batman is an absolutely ridiculous concept, okay? It is just absurd. You
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got a guy who dresses up in a rubber costume as a bat running around. It's ridiculous. And yet every
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man in the role, except maybe George Clooney, has pulled it off with varying degrees of success.
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Meanwhile, there's never been a bat girl that was anything but cringe on steroids.
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Because men are more natural for these roles, and generally speaking, they're just better at them.
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All that to say, there was never a problem of too many men acting in action films. There were more men
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than women acting in them, up until recently now, because now you can't have a white male lead for
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anything. But that's not a problem. It wasn't a problem. Any more than there was ever a problem
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of there being too many men who are roofers. You notice that the feminists are always very selective
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about the professions where they demand representation. I think I've seen maybe one female in my life
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riding on the back of a trash truck through the neighborhood. Somehow, though, there's no national
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discourse about the representation problem in the waste disposal industry. So it's okay for gender
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disparities to exist in certain contexts for feminists. But in reality, yeah, it's okay in
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general. Gender disparities are natural. Because men and women are different. And they gravitate
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towards different things. And they have aptitudes in different areas. Women are better in certain
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areas generally. Men are better in certain areas generally. That's just, that's just, that's the
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nature of, that's human nature. It's the attempts to artificially even everything out that tends to
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always cause more problems than it solves. But this is somewhat immaterial. Because the point here is
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that Jennifer Lawrence came along after females had already made their entrance into the action film
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genre. She's trying to recycle progressive victories from a generation before her. And we've seen this
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similar charade with, we see this all the time with the left, but we've seen it in Hollywood. We've seen
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it with other movies. Such as when Black Panther was celebrated as some kind of breakthrough because it
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was a film with a mostly black cast. Even though such films have been made by Hollywood for years,
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for decades. There have been black superheroes before as well. We had them in the 90s.
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So Black Panther didn't pioneer anything. Ross Douthat made this point in his book,
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Decadent Society, which he quoted in response to Jennifer Lawrence's flub. And reading from the
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passage is what he says, the reality of recurrence may be slightly harder for progressives to
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acknowledge than conservatives because progressivism is more invested in its supposed position at the
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vanguard of cultural change, pressing boldly on to new frontiers. This makes it difficult for the
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left to recognize the generational recycling of its ambitions and anxieties. The fact that many
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progressive breakthroughs are just the cultural cycling, the culture cycling back to something that
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we did not that long ago, up to and including kick-ass female action heroes such as Wonder Woman, who
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followed a path blazed by Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in the Alien movies, or the robot wrangling
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Sarah Connor in the Terminator movies, or even the blaster-wielding Princess Leia in the Star Wars 40 years
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before that, or the African-American heroes in Black Panther. In truth, black stars were arguably
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more important in the years of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor in The Cosby Show and the
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young Denzel Washington than in our officially representation-obsessed age. Now, his book,
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Decadent Society, is about, as you may have guessed, decadence. We are a decadent society in the sense
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that we, as Doubt It Has It, are locked in this kind of cultural stalemate, treading water, adrift,
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bored, recycling the same ideas and themes. Now, I don't agree with all of his thesis, but when it comes to
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our artistic output, there is no question about it. A decadent society with decadent celebrities
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clamoring to be cultural revolutionaries in a culture that they have already won, they already
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your best sleep tonight. For our daily cancellation today, we take into consideration a recent viral
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video from a woman who insists that although she's morbidly obese, you must still find her
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physically attractive. You're not entitled to your own opinions or preferences. You must fall madly in
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love with her. This is not a suggestion, but rather a requirement, as she clearly explains. Listen.
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Hey, bestie. You're wrong. I think it's time for another adult pre-K lesson. What do you think?
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All right. Turn your listening ears on as you catch a bubble in your mouth. Good job. Okay. Here's the
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thing. Having a preference is something like, I'm looking for a partner who likes kayaking or wakes
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up early in the morning or loves pizza. But when your preferences exclude an entire group of
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marginalized people, that's problematic. Okay. That's not nice. That's not a preference. If you
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lump all fat people in one group together as though they are not very different individuals,
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that's fat phobic. Just like lumping all black people in one group and saying, I don't like black
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people is racist. And lumping all disabled people in one group and saying, I don't think people in
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wheelchairs are hot is ableist. Do you understand what I'm saying? No, I don't. Okay. So you are
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allowed to prefer a partner who likes kayaking, which thankfully I think lets us off the hook
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because something tells me she's not exactly an avid kayaker. But those loopholes aside,
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it seems that our friend here has stumbled on a rather unique pickup line. Part of me wishes that
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I had thought of this when I was single. Like, ma'am, you are morally obligated to find me attractive.
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Now come and date me at once, lest you be guilty of problematic and exclusionary behavior.
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But something tells me I would have struck out as badly with that line as I'm sure she does.
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The only difference is that I would have been arrested for harassment and stalking on top of
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it. Now, a few points to make here. First of all, this woman and my 12 seconds of research tells me
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that her name is Lexi. And the research was just looking at the bottom of the video there where it
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says her name. She has a problem that goes beyond her weight. If Lexi finds that most people don't
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want to be around her, it probably is because of her god-awful personality. I, for one, would rather
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take a bath in battery acid than be stuck in a room with her for any length of time. And that's
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got nothing to do with her appearance. It has everything to do with her demeanor, her attitude,
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tone of voice, and just way of being. This is something that anyone who struggles to find a
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partner should take into consideration. Before wondering whether you're being discriminated
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against based on your physical features, please reflect on the possibility that you might be a
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nagging, miserable shrew. Now, it can be hard even for the most attractive person to find or at least
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maintain relationships if they have a repulsive personality. But if you're not a top-notch physical
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specimen, and most of us aren't, and you also have the character and general disposition of the Wicked
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Witch of the West, then you really have put yourself in a hole with only yourself to blame for it.
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Second point, she says that you aren't allowed to exclude entire groups of people from your sexual
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preference. But that, of course, is exactly what a sexual preference is. That's what any kind of
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preference is, actually. Preferences exclude by definition. All preferences do. Any preference is
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exclusionary and discriminatory. That's the whole point. You're preferring one thing over another or one
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person over another. As for sexual preference specifically, gay men exclude her because she's a
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woman. Is she going to berate them for that? Well, she might, I guess. As we've seen for years,
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the left insisted that sexuality is innate and immutable. It can't be changed, and it's not the
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result of choice. But more recently, they decided that their own arguments no longer hold. Your
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sexuality can become problematic if it excludes so-called marginalized groups. A gay man who
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isn't attracted to a woman who identifies as a man is now a transphobe. A straight man who isn't
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attracted to a man who identifies as a woman is also a transphobe. Anybody who isn't attracted to an
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obese person is fatphobic. Anyone who isn't attracted to shrill, hectoring, condescending
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scolds like Lexi is whatever kind of phobic that applies to. Your sexuality is not your own business.
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It is not a private matter anymore, as the left had previously insisted. They will decide who you
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should be attracted to. And quite often, coincidentally enough, the person putting themselves in the
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position to make this choice for you will decide that you should be attracted to them personally.
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Funny how that works. You know, it's like, well, I've run the numbers and I've done the
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calculations, and it turns out that in order to not be a bigot, you're supposed to be turned on by,
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uh, what does it say here? Oh, me. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Well, I guess I do, actually.
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Third point, briefly, referring back to the first. Um, this seems to be something that a lot of people
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do, even if they aren't on the left. When people have trouble forming and maintaining relationships,
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both sexual and platonic, they develop a victim complex, deciding that the problem in their
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personal and romantic lives is that everyone else is being mean to them. And this only exacerbates
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the problem because nobody wants to be around someone with a victim complex. Even people with
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victim complexes don't want to be around other people with victim complexes. In fact, people with
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victim complexes especially don't want to be around other people with victim complexes because then
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it becomes a zero-sum game, a sort of victimhood competition. The self-determined victim becomes
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all the more isolated as a result, and their victim mentality only hardens and spreads and
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metastasizes over time. So if you're looking around and finding that most people don't want to be around
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you, don't find you appealing or attractive on any level, you could start pointing fingers and making
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demands, or you can begin the difficult work of changing yourself. And this process should be one that
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includes both the exterior and the interior, both physical and spiritual. Although this is hard and
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painful and it requires the kind of honest self-assessment that most people don't have the
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wherewithal to conduct, the good thing is that you actually have control over yourself. Yourself is a
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thing you can change by the grace of God. You can't really force anyone else to change. All you can do is
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scream at them as they back ever farther away until you're all alone, yelling into the void.
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It's up to you which strategy you choose. We know which one Lexi has chosen, and for that reason today,
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Today, we're going to be canceling Samantha Lux, who is a YouTuber and a, quote, trans woman that is a
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biological male with a YouTube channel, actually a quite popular channel with well over 600,000
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subscribers somehow. Sam has many videos promoting transgenderism and quite often responding to
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perceived instances of transphobia. One of the most recent videos on the channel targets, if you can
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believe it, none other than the leading LGBT children's author on the planet, yours truly.
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Sam stumbled across my children's book, Johnny the Walrus, which is still available for pre-order over
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at johnnythewalrus.com, by the way, and does not approve. Specifically, my video where I read the
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book to a group of children has provoked Sam's ire in a video titled, Transphobes are writing
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children's books. Trans girl reacts. This is good. You know, I am sincerely interested to hear how a
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trans girl, quote, unquote, reacts to Johnny the Walrus. Perhaps this will be a point-by-point rebuttal.
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Perhaps evidence and science and logic and bulletproof moral arguments will all be marshaled,
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and by the end of the video, I will have completely changed my mind, realized the error in my ways,
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repented of my anti-trans beliefs. Maybe even because of this video that we'll watch together,
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I will become trans myself. It's possible. So let's watch some of this and see what our friend
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Samantha Lux brings to the table. Now, if you're familiar with the content that I create here on my
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channel, if you're familiar with the arguments that conservatives love to make about trans people,
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you would be familiar with transphobes' claim that we are indoctrinating their children,
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that we're making their children gay, that we're forcing their young tomboy daughter to become a
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boy. That's not me. Who, me? Who, me? I would never. I love you trans girl. I love your tomboy
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daughter. She is great. What I don't love is a hypocrite. Matt Walsh, if you are not familiar with,
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is like an infamous transphobe on YouTube. This ho-
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posted a video one week ago, reading his book, Johnny the Welfrist, to a bunch of little kids.
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Okay, so we're off to a rough start here already. A few points. First, I do not believe, Sam,
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that you are forcing any child to do anything, or making any child, or making any child do anything.
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I am accusing you and your fellow propagandists of trying to heavily influence children with
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falsehoods, distortion, lies, and other forms of insanity that they, the children, do not have the
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mental capacity to sort through. So indoctrination does not often involve physical force because you
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cannot physically force someone to believe something. Belief requires mental assent, not
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physical assent. But you can coerce and trick people into believing things. And when they're
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children, that's very easy to do, as you know from experience. Also, by the way, I appreciate being
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called infamous, and I won't take any issue with that label. But I am not an infamous transphobe
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because I'm not a transphobe at all. And when I say I'm not a transphobe, I'm not saying it to gain
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your approval or to convince you that I'm not bigoted. You know, I couldn't give a less of a damn if you
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think that I'm bigoted or not. I mean, it doesn't matter to me. I am instead concerned with definitions.
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And the definition of phobia is irrational fear. I'm not afraid of trans people. If I was, I wouldn't
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spend so much of my time saying things that I know will make you angry. My fear, and it is not
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irrational, is of the effect that trans propaganda has on society, and especially on kids. Okay? So we
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have that clarified. Let's continue. We're gonna have to skip around a little bit because Sam's video is
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long, and it seems like a little too self-involved even for me to spend too much time reacting to
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somebody else reacting to one of my videos. But we'll watch enough to get the gist and to discover
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whether Sam will be able to make any arguments that will disprove or undermine my central points.
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Let's keep going. All right. Do you understand the comparison that's going to be happening here?
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He's like, this book is about a little boy who thinks he's a walrus, and his mom, you know,
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also is convinced that he's a real walrus. Do you get the correlation? It's going to be about a
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little boy that thinks he's a girl or something, and the mom is convinced that he's a real girl.
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How creative. How did you ever come up with such a creative, powerful analogy for children
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who don't understand what you're talking about? Yeah, well, you're right. It's not creative.
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It's not creative at all. I mean, the comparison between somebody identifying as a different sex
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and someone identifying as an animal has been done a million times. I'm not the first to do it.
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South Park did it a decade ago. But the problem is that nobody on your side has ever come up
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with anything approaching an effective response to the analogy. You've never been able to explain
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why it's wrong. All you can do, all you ever do is just scoff that you've heard the point before.
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Well, we know you've heard it, and you're going to keep hearing it over and over again until you
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answer it. All right, let's continue. What is this thing doing at the home?
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We don't have to worry about that. We're going to read the book now.
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This man has never met a kid in his whole life, never interacted with one child. He's like,
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I don't give a shit. Sit down. We're going to read the book. I'm here for the half an hour,
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and then I got to go. So sit down so I can film. Okay. Thank you, Brad.
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No, I think the problem is that you've never been around a dad before, which maybe I would
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have already guessed. I'm around kids all the time because I have four of them. But I have by now
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developed a critical case of dad syndrome. And that means that I'm just snapping my fingers and I'm
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keeping people on task. That's what I do. I'm dad. You should see me during chore time every night in my
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house. You get over there, pick up those shoes. You come over, vacuum the rug. I don't even
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remember anybody's names anymore. That's another symptom of dad syndrome. Okay. Skipping ahead.
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But Johnny's mom's phone said it's not just pretend. So she went on her phone and there were people
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telling her that this isn't pretend. He's really a walrus. Only a bigot would say that. How dare you
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offend? What's a bigot? Anybody know? I don't even, I don't know how old these kids are. I'm not good at
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estimating age, but they don't know what you're talking about. You don't see their face. Did he
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run this past like an actual children's author and be like read it to a kid and see what they
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thought before he published it? I think he just went for it. Of course they don't know what a bigot is.
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They're four. I mean, it does make sense that he would go for children because, you know,
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they have the same capacity for intellectual thought as him. Like babe, if you're going to write a
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children's book, write it for children. Write it using words that they understand and that they know and
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that you don't have to explain for them to understand what you're trying to say through
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your book. First of all, don't call me babe. Second, did I run it by an actual children's
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author? Yes. I ran it by myself. And when myself came to myself and said, self, what do you think
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of this children's book idea? Myself responded, self, that's an exceptional idea. So I did get the
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go-ahead from an expert in the field of children's literature, if that matters to you. Now, Sam also
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says that some of these concepts are above a child's head. Yeah, Sam, that's the point.
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Now you're getting it. If a silly story about a kid transitioning into a walrus is inevitably too
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weird and abstract for children, then what happens if we mix sex and gender into it?
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Does it suddenly become more appropriate for children? If a child, as you say, isn't even
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old enough to understand what a bigot is or to hear the word, then is he old enough to be introduced
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to a concept like transgenderism? If he can't understand bigots, can he understand what it means
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for a boy to have a girl mystically trapped inside him? If my book is above his head, what
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about a choice that will fundamentally change his life and alter him physically and biologically
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forever? Is that above his head too? What do you think? Connect the dots, Sam. You can
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do it. You'll need to eat worms and to put on gray makeup. The worms give you whiskers. The
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gray blends you in, the doctor says. And a simple procedure cuts feet into fins. The doctor
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wants to cut into Johnny and make him into a walrus. It's gross eating worms, mom. They're
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all so dang twitchy. He doesn't want to eat worms. Our children, you see what he's doing
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here? With the analogies that he's drawing, he's arguing that parents are forcing their
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young children to take medications that they don't want to take or to have surgeries that
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they don't want to take or to transition when they don't want to transition. That's not what
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happens. You know, children have a say in the process. Children are allowed to make their
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own decision. Of course, with the help of medical professionals, of course, of course. But like
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this whole part that Johnny's like, I don't want to eat worms. That would be the end of
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it. That's the end of it. Johnny doesn't want to eat worms. No worms for Johnny. No worms.
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I will say we got exactly the reaction to the doctor page with the bone saw that I had in
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mind when we included that page. And I fought for that page. Now, there was, I will tell you
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a little bit behind the scenes. There was some discussion over here about that particular
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page with the doctor with the bone saw chasing the child. And I fought for that. I said,
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that's got to be in there. And it was. No, Sam, but see, you say children make their own
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decisions, but children can't make their own decisions. If I'm arguing that a certain course
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of action is harmful for a child, bad for them, damaging to them, it does no good to retort
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that the child wants to do it. Children who want to do harmful things should still be prevented
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from doing those things. Why? Because they're children. They don't understand what they're
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saying. They don't know what they want. And often they don't actually want what they think
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they want. At Red Robin the other day, my five-year-old told me he wanted to order salmon
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for his dinner. Now, I knew damn well that that kid did not want salmon. He wanted chicken tenders
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and fries because that's what he always wants. And it's the only thing he'll ever actually eat
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at a restaurant. So I didn't let him have the meal that he wanted because I knew that he didn't
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really want it because he's a kid. And that's just for something as frivolous as a meal at Red
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Robin. What if your son says he wants to become a girl or a salmon for that matter? Not only can
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you be sure that he doesn't really want that because he doesn't understand what he's saying
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or what it means or what the implications are because he can't because he's just a kid. But also
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in this case, whereas it's at least possible to actually order salmon, it's not possible for him to
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actually become a girl, which is reason enough to not give him what he says he wants.
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All right, let's skip ahead again and see if Sam saves the best rebuttals for the very end.
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What's the moral of the story? What's the lesson here? Aren't children's books supposed to have
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like a lesson that's, you know, clear? Because I don't know what this is trying to say. I don't
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know what this lesson here is. The other lesson is don't listen to the creepy people in your phone.
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Don't trust medical professionals. Well, is this our mean? Like, oh my goodness. Maybe it's
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like a writing class or something. Ask a kid, like, do you know what this book is about?
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Because none of them did. Like, you could argue that this book is made for adults.
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Write a book for adults. Write a book for adults. Or is it that you have to dumb down these analogies
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and these arguments for children brain because they don't hold any weight in actual adult language?
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But yeah, that is it for this video. What do you guys think? You're going to go get Johnny
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the walrus the book? Hmm? Well, since you asked, what do I think? I think you should probably in the future
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have some kind of rebuttal if you're going to make a rebuttal video. You rebutted my points in the same
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way that my dog rebuts the deer that he sees running through the backyard by just barking incoherently
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at them. Yeah, you're right that I did dumb down the arguments and analogies, but apparently I wasn't
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able to make them dumb enough for you to understand. My story about a kid pretending to be a walrus was,
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it would seem, slightly above your reading level. And that's a shame because it's a message that you
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might've really benefited from. And instead, I'm forced to say finally, Samantha Lux,
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that you are sadly, tragically canceled. But everybody else can buy my book, Johnny the Walrus
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at johnnythewalrus.com. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.