Ep. 1014 - 'Preferred Pronoun' Nonsense Reaches A Whole New Level Of Insanity
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Time Magazine takes virtue-signaling to a whole new level by using and promoting so-called neo-pronouns. At the same time, they re also promoting a pornographic children s book. Also, the White House declares that half of the country are a dangerous extremist, a threat to democracy, and should be incinerated in a missile strike. Paraphrasing slightly, an important Daily Wire report reveals just who is benefiting from student loan forgiveness. Winnie the Pooh gets the horror movie treatment, and a Duke volleyball player says she was the victim of racist harassment during a game. You ll never guess what happens next.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Time Magazine takes virtue signaling to a whole new level
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At the same time, they're also promoting a pornographic children's book, which is the
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Also, the White House declares that half of the country are a dangerous extremist, a threat
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to democracy, and should be incinerated in a missile strike.
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Paraphrasing slightly, an important Daily Wire report reveals just who is benefiting
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Winnie the Pooh gets the horror movie treatment, and a Duke volleyball player says she was
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You know, when I was a kid, my two younger sisters used to sometimes speak to each other
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They claimed that they had invented a whole new dialect with its own unique words and sentence
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It was pretty clear to me at the time, even more clear to me now, looking back in hindsight,
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that they were just babbling gibberish to each other and primarily doing it to annoy me,
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And I sometimes reflect on those more innocent times, and I think about how my annoyance would
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have turned into crushing despair had I known what sort of world I would find myself in as an adult.
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If only I had known that I would one day live in a society where lots of people have invented
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their own secret gibberish languages and that we would all be expected to listen to this gobbledygook
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and take it seriously and even speak it ourselves.
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I think if someone had told me that or told me like anything else about modern society,
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I would have simply gotten on a boat and set sail into the Pacific and found a remote island
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somewhere far away and isolated and lived out the rest of my days there.
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In fact, this is an option that I'm still actively considering even now, especially after seeing
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Time Magazine, attempting to win the Nobel Prize in virtue signaling, published an interview
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last night with the author of a pornography book called Genderqueer, and we'll have more
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But they tweeted a link to the article with this caption.
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Time spoke to genderqueer author and illustrator Maya Kobay about air work, the efforts to restrict
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access to air writing, and what a make of the current cultural moment.
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Now, those aren't typos, though it would be impossible to tell if they were.
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These are rather the pronouns that the author Maya identifies as.
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This is made clear in the article itself, reading just a small portion of it.
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It says, Maya Kobay felt a wave of relief on Tuesday morning, waking up on the West Coast,
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an early morning peek at emails revealed a Virginia court had dismissed a lawsuit seeking to label
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Kobay's book, Genderqueer, as obscene and restricted sale to minors in Virginia.
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The suit was among the latest in an onslaught of challenges to Kobay's memoir, which was the
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most challenged book of 2021, according to the American Library Association.
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In the 2019 illustrated graphic memoir, Kobay, who uses E-M-air pronouns, explores air process
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Kobay 33 isn't the only author to face serious new challenges to air material.
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According to research by Panamerica, a non-profit organization to advocate for free expression,
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1,145 books by 874 different authors were banned from school libraries and classrooms between
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In the wake of Kobay's win in Virginia, Time spoke with the author and illustrator about air
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work, the efforts to restrict access to air writing and what A makes of the current cultural
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Now, it may sound like A spelled E-Y would be like the Fonz's personal pronoun, but the
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Fonz lived before our society had one big collective stroke and started babbling nonsensically to
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These are rather non-binary pronouns, so-called neo-pronouns, which is to say that they are words
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Maya simply invented in her troubled head and now demands we all use in reference to her.
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The argument often put forward in defense of neo-pronouns is that although they're made
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up, well, so is every other word in the English language.
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This same talking point has been trotted out today by those looking to defend Time magazine.
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As far as you're concerned, you didn't invent the English language, neither did I.
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We don't leave children alone to come up with their own words for everything and then slap
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the label of English onto whatever they come up with.
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We teach them what words are and what they mean.
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Now, it's true, obviously, that every word we speak was, at some point in the past, formulated,
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But this follows a logical process, and the words all mean something, and that meaning is
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understood and shared by everyone who speaks the language.
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It must mean something to be a word, and it must be shared.
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If either two of these rules are not followed, you don't have a language, you have gibberish.
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And by insisting that each person can simply come up with their own words, and that those
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words don't need to really mean anything at all, the left is not proposing changes to the
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English language, neither are they helping it to evolve.
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They are instead destroying it, breaking it down, demolishing it, which is what they do to
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The sentence, please pass the salt, contains four words.
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Now, each of those words came into being at some point in the past.
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They weren't invented by one single identifiable person, okay?
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But rather, they formed and evolved in a logical and understandable way.
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There's a whole field of study called etymology, which examines exactly this process of linguistic
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But if I were to one day simply decide that instead of saying, please pass the salt, I
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am going to say, gabaguda flabba dee, everyone else at the dinner table would look at me confused
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and assume that I'm either demonically possessed or attempting a very bad impression of a 90s
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That's because I cannot just decide on my own to replace existing words with words that have
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logical etymological origins with random sounds that I came up with.
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And yet, even this example at the dinner table does not capture the absurdity of the left's
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pronoun nonsense because at least in the case of the dinner table, I can tell you what my
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But the person with the neo pronoun can't explain what it means because it means nothing.
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It's nonsense on top of nonsense on top of nonsense.
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And when you get to the bottom of the stack of nonsense, you find nothing.
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Nothing that is other than the overwhelming narcissism of the individual who uses it.
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I mean, whatever else the non-binary person, quote-unquote, claimed to be communicating with
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her pronouns, what she's really conveying is that she is pretentious and self-absorbed
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It means I am incredibly, incredibly self-absorbed.
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Now, there may be something else going on here, too, as I was thinking about it.
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It's possible that part of the strategy with the neo pronoun is to make the left's other
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attempts at language manipulation seem less extreme by comparison, right?
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Maybe they're pretending to try to get us to use E-M-A-R or Z-Z-E-B-R or whatever so that
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we'll throw up our hands and agree to call a man she or a woman he so long as they just
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Now, maybe that's the idea because, like, in reality, no one is actually going to use those
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And they must know that no one's going to do it.
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So maybe part of the idea is, all right, well, if you won't do this, then at least
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You know, they'll come up and say, hey, Daddy, can you buy us a grenade launcher?
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Okay, well, then can we just have ice cream at least?
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And this might be part of the idea, though I may be doing the left an undeserved favor
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by assuming that they're as clever as, you know, my nine-year-olds.
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And yet, we've been so hung up on the gibberish that we haven't even discussed the book that
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And that might be another part of the plan here.
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This is the book that Time Magazine is promoting.
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That book, Genderqueer, is a work of outright pornography with content so explicit and outrageous
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that I can't show it to you, and I can't even describe it to you.
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Suffice it to say that there are explicit images of various sex acts along with scenes
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so depraved that you couldn't even anticipate them.
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So if you're imagining, like, what a pornographic book might consist of, yeah, it consists of a
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But then also stuff that you wouldn't even think of.
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Just one example, which, fair warning, this is highly disgusting and disturbing, but this
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There is one scene in which the author depicts a conversation with her sister where the sister
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suggests that she tastes her own vaginal discharge.
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And then we're shown a panel with her finger covered in that discharge.
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But at the same time, as much as we want to cover our ears and say, I don't even want
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to hear about this, these are the books they're putting in schools.
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They're putting these in schools for little kids to read.
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And what I just described to you is one of the less graphic moments of the book.
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It's one of the only moments I can even describe.
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Putting it in schools across the country for kids.
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And when normal, decent people object to this sort of content being used to educate children,
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the left cries out in horror, claiming censorship and fascism.
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If you don't want explicit pornography taught to your kid in school like it's literature,
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Now, all in all, this whole story perfectly encapsulates our cultural moment, the entire
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thing, from the pronouns down to the book, right?
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And then when you look beneath the surface, what you find is vile, hideous, evil filth.
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Now, the good news, if we can call it good news, if there can be any good news, is that
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the nonsense is so nonsensical, and the hideous evil is so hideous and so evil that the left
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Are you going to run around babbling absolute gibberish at the behest of narcissists intoxicated
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Are you actually going, are you willing to do that?
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Even if up until this moment, you were the sort of person who said, I just want to be polite
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And it doesn't hurt me if they want me to use the pronoun.
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Yeah, I mean, it doesn't physically, actually, it would physically pain me to use those
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pronouns in a non-ironic way, but maybe it wouldn't physically hurt you.
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Maybe carry a clipboard around with a spreadsheet, keeping track of all the gibberish words that
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each person that you know, each egomaniacal narcissist you know demands you use.
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And before you refer to them or about them, refer to that clipboard, are you going to do that?
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Are you going to tolerate literal pornography being taught as literature to children in school?
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Or are you going to finally draw the line and say, no more.
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Okay, we begin with everyone's favorite White House Press Secretary, Karen Jean-Pair.
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Daily Wire reports, White House Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pair appeared to admit that President
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Joe Biden counts everyday Americans among those who constitute the extremist threat that
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These are also the people that Joe Biden has threatened to blow up with fighter jets and
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has actually on multiple occasions made this threat.
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During Wednesday's press briefing, Jean-Pair told RealClearPolitics' Philip Wegman that
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Biden was concerned about an extreme portion of the country, and she said that this was
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not limited to only those in positions of leadership within the Republican Party.
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For folks sitting at home when the president is talking about preserving the soul of the
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nation and his threats to democracy, he's not referring to those individuals.
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He is talking about an extreme portion, an extreme part of the party.
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He was just in Maryland, as you all know, and he talked about Governor Larry Hogan and
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talked about how he is a conservative Republican who is not in that bucket, right?
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He was very purposeful in saying that and being respectful to a conservative Republican who
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This is calling out what we have seen for some time since 2017, as the president wrote about
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When you are supporting an authoritarian figure, as we have seen, who is leading, currently leading,
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the former president, you know, and saying that inciting the violence that you are or wanting
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to take away our freedoms, you know, we need to say something.
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Okay, so the MAGA Republicans are extremists, a threat to democracy, taking away people's freedoms
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Now, what we have to understand, of course, is that when she says MAGA Republicans, ultra MAGA,
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you know, radical MAGA, whatever term they decide to use today.
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They're not talking about exclusively fanatical fans of Donald Trump.
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Now, if that was what they're referring to, it would still be wrong to call those individuals
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extremists and threats to democracy, but this would still be a horrible thing for her to
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But it would be a much smaller group than what she's actually referring to, because according
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to Biden and the White House and really any Democrat, any leftist, there are, as she described
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You're that kind of Republican conservative, or you're a MAGA Republican.
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Well, there are, I don't know, 10 or 11 Larry Hogan Republicans in the country.
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And the only reason a guy like Larry Hogan gets elected there is because there are just
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no other options if you are a Republican in that state.
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And given that it's a blue state, he's the only kind of guy that can actually get elected
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And you could be a MAGA Republican, doesn't matter how you feel about Donald Trump.
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All that means is that you are actually, another way of putting it, what she's actually referring
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If you're actually a conservative and you believe the things that you say, then you're
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I certainly would fall into this, I definitely would be included as right as an extremist threat
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I'm a terrorist, I'm a stochastic terrorist.
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If we can't have DeSantis and Donald Trump ends up being the nominee, then I'll vote for
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But I'm openly advocating for somebody else, Ron DeSantis, still a MAGA Republican, fine.
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So this is, she says, it's not a blanket statement.
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It's just a statement that applies to tens of millions of people in the country.
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I'm just, you know, writing off like half of the country, at least, as extremists and threats
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This is a very, to put it mildly, concerning moment in history.
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I used the phrase a few days ago to describe a similar situation as pre-genocidal, and I
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This is, these are, the kinds of language, the kind of language that they're using, the
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It's the kind of thing you say before you start rounding people up.
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And so we have seen this escalation, and it has taken on a new urgency and severity over
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Now we have the White House saying, half the country are extremists, threats to democracy.
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As we talked about on Backstage last night, if you watched that show, if you didn't watch,
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you can go to YouTube or DailyWire.com and watch the episode, which was one of my favorite
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We talked about yesterday that, you know, Ben Shapiro at the Podcast Movement Conference,
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his very presence, your presence is harmful to people, not your opinions, not even that.
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That'd be bad enough to say your opinions are harmful.
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If somebody's, how do you solve somebody's presence?
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And then, of course, we've also been told, especially over the last couple of weeks,
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By simply, not even presenting opinions, but by talking about things they don't want us
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to talk about, presenting facts that they wish were not facts.
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You're an extremist threat by voting for the candidates that you like.
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And there's something else I want you to think about, too, that I also brought up on Backstage
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There is, I think, quite intentionally here, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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They keep calling us radical, dangerous, violent.
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And the thing is, using these words about people, when you label entire groups this way and
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start talking about them like they're dangerous, like they're worthless, like their very presence
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is a problem that needs to be solved, that has a radicalizing effect on people.
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And then you add to that, because the other part of this story here is, while we're all
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being labeled and dismissed and talked about like we're terrorists and criminals, on the
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other end of the spectrum, there is an increasing lack of accountability.
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What we find about people on the other side is they can simply say and do anything they want.
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I know you might say, well, that's been the case for a long time.
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I think it's yes, but it's even more the case now than it was in the past.
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It's worse now than it's ever been, it seems to me.
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If you're on the left, you can just do whatever you want.
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That also has a radicalizing effect on the other side, because people become desperate.
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When you see the powers that be doing whatever they want, acting lawlessly if they want, no
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And then when they're being labeled this way, it makes them angry.
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It leads to a potentially volatile situation, which is exactly what these people want, by the way.
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She tweeted, more people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi.
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The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday.
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Their water system is failing because of years of neglect.
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Now, the situation that she's talking about is true, and it's a terrible situation.
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Jackson, Mississippi is one of the many municipalities in our country that's falling apart at the seams,
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I went and, as other people have done, I went and I wanted to see, like, who are the racist people running this town
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and who are neglecting the water system and people are suffering?
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So I went and I found, well, racist number one is, of course, the mayor.
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And his name, by the way, is Chakwe Antar Lumumba.
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Now, it may surprise you to learn that is not the name of a white person.
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But I went and looked at the city council.
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There are seven people on the city council.
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In fact, if you go down the Jackson, Mississippi government and you look at people in positions of power,
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And so it's a little bit hard to blame racism on this.
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And also, by the way, of course, and this is the most important aspect, they're all Democrats.
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I mean, all these cities are all being run by Democrats.
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Many of them have city governments that are, you know, have a heavy minority presence.
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A lot of these racist police departments have black police chiefs.
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So it would seem that we need an explanation beyond anti-black racism.
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Especially because it's not like the Democrats just took over yesterday.
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And it's not like they just started electing minorities to lead these cities yesterday.
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And yet these problems are worse than they've ever been in many cases.
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There is an issue, and you've pointed to it, in Jackson, Mississippi, the issue with the water.
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It is not racism, but rather a universal disregard for the well-being of human beings.
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The Democrats that are running these cities are quite equitable in their disregard.
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Now, they might talk about different groups differently.
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But they actually have a disregard for the well-being of everyone.
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They don't care because they're corrupt, they're power-hungry, they're not there to help anyone.
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And also, they're beholden to their religion, the religion of leftism.
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Which keeps them firmly implanted in a fantasy world, not in reality.
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And when you live in a fantasy world, you cannot solve practical problems in the real world.
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It is one of the reasons why these cities are falling apart.
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Because they are plagued by practical problems.
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And when I say practical problems, I mean just real problems.
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They're not solutions that you can solve by simply talking about it or writing dissertations, writing a thesis, studying about it at college.
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But they don't, they don't, that requires you to live in reality and they don't.
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Luke Rosiak over at The Daily Wire has, I think, a really important report here about the student loan, so-called student loan forgiveness plan.
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The vast majority of student loans are racked up by people in elite professions, like medicine and law, who spend years in school before being rewarded with high-paying jobs.
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A Daily Wire analysis of Department of Education data shows.
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A smaller component is billions of dollars in loans to people with less marketable degrees who incur debt that amount to a bad investment.
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Such as $100 million a year in loans for gender and ethnic studies.
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I mean, I've been saying this whole time that the student loan forgiveness is like we're taken from plumbers and electricians and car mechanics and given the money to gender studies majors.
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About $100 million a year just in gender and ethnic studies loans.
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This leaves them with salaries that are unable to pay for the loans.
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The data suggests that President Joe Biden's plan to forgive student loans amounts to a subsidy primarily to doctors and lawyers and secondarily to people who acquired knowledge and skills that are not in demand.
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So this is the majority of student loans, vast majority, belong to people who work in professions that reward them with very high salaries.
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So it is in some ways even worse than, yeah, we're taking from the plumbers, electricians, car mechanics, blue collar people and giving to gender studies majors.
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But at least the gender studies majors, most of them are unemployed.
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Not that they deserve to be given anybody's money.
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Even worse is you're also giving to people who have jobs and are doing quite well in those jobs.
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The data suggests that President Joe Biden's plan to forgive student loans amounts to a subsidy primarily to doctors and lawyers.
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Biden has said he will cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for those who had received Pell Grants and as much as $10,000 for borrowers who make up to make under $125,000 per year or $250,000 for married couples.
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This would include many doctors who often spend their early career as low paid residents on the way to earning big bucks.
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And even, by the way, making $125,000, that's the cutoff.
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Now, if they actually were focused only on poor and middle income people, then that's where the cutoff would be.
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They'd put the cutoff at $50,000 a year, $40,000, whatever, $30,000.
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If you're making $125,000 a year as a single individual, meaning you don't have kids or dependents or anything, you're doing very well.
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Now, that's how well you're doing is going to depend on where you live.
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But really, no matter where you live, if it's just you making six figures and we're giving $10,000 to those people?
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I mean, if you're making six figures by yourself with no one else to take care of and you don't have a lot of money in the bank in savings, then that's on you.
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I mean, you are catastrophically irresponsible.
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And you don't deserve a dime from anybody else.
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I would just go and read the report because it lays out the field of study, the total annual federal loans, annual loan per person.
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And you see very clearly that the vast majority of the loans, again, are to people in these kinds of high-paying professions.
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And they're going to get this loan forgiveness.
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This is why it's so important when we talk about this issue.
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You know, we want to talk about the facts and we want to be very logical.
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And we also want to deliver the harsh truth, which I am always very willing to do.
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The harsh truth is that you made a decision, you signed on the dotted line, and you should be the one who has to deal with that.
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I'm sorry you have to carry it, but it is your burden.
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So that's the harsh truth, and we need to deliver that.
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But I also think we cannot neglect the compassionate argument.
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I think this is a mistake that we make on the right.
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It's as if, oh, well, they have a compassion on their side.
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Because our position is the more compassionate position on really every topic, including this one.
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Because my position on student loan forgiveness, so-called, the reason that I'm against it,
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It has to do with the harsh reality and that you have to face it.
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But it's also a moral position that I've taken and that a lot of us have taken.
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I have compassion for the blue-collar workers who didn't go to college, didn't incur that debt,
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but probably have plenty of other debt that they're dealing with, mortgages and car payments and everything else,
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and who now are being given the burden to support people who are way better off than they are.
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It's part of the reason I'm taking this position, that the rest of us have.
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Here's an interesting report from the New York Post.
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Twitter was ready to start selling OnlyFans-style porn subscriptions in a bid to boost its revenue,
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but put the feature on ice earlier this year due to concerns about child porn, according to a new report.
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The social media site allows users to post porn, but gives them no way to monetize it.
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Twitter created and considered launching an OnlyFans-like subscription feature that would let porn stars sell nude photos and videos.
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So they were going to combine basically OnlyFans and Twitter and put it right on your feed if you're on Twitter.
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The decision would have been controversial and risked alienating advertisers,
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but could also have helped Twitter differentiate itself from other social media sites.
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We're going to differentiate ourselves from other social media sites by being even more pornographic than all the other ones.
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This is how we're going to set ourselves apart.
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In April, Twitter assembled an 84-person red team to pressure test the decision to allow adult creators to monetize on the platform.
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By specifically focusing on what it would look like for Twitter to do this safely and responsibly.
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The team, how are we going to profit off of smut?
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How are we going to profit off of hardcore porn safely and responsibly?
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The team reportedly found a slate of disturbing holes in Twitter's plan,
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including that the site is unable to consistently detect and take down non-consensual and child porn.
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Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale.
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Launching a porn subscription service would make the risks worse, the red team reportedly found,
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because smut sellers would be incentivized to flood the platform,
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and much of the porn would be hidden behind a paywall.
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The red team also reportedly warned that adding more porn to the site would lead to scrutiny from lawmakers,
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Now, there's a couple of points here worth making.
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which is that when you open the floodgates to pornography,
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a lot of child pornography and non-consensual pornography,
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Which is one of the arguments I have always made
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that I have articulated and others have articulated,
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And as long as you have this laissez-faire attitude about it,
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you are providing cover to child pornographers.
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You know, it's to take a much stricter approach
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why are they allowing pornography on the site at all
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And the only reason that that stopped you probably
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was just because of the legal implications of that.
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So maybe that's a question we should be asking.
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Yet another argument for restricting this stuff.
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Well, it certainly wasn't nearly as readily available.
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and it'd be in plastic on the back of the rack.
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that if a kid takes the porn magazine off the rack
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what about just requiring that porn sites,
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it would at least put some sort of insulation there.
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that he doesn't want to be inconvenienced by that.
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Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain recently,
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I don't know how all the laws here work exactly,
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so they can at least make a movie with Winnie the Pooh.
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like they couldn't give him his trademark red shirt,
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the trailer for this Winnie the Pooh horror film
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you're the first person I ever shown this place to.