Ep. 1215 -Â We Have To Stop Letting The Porn Industry Hide Behind 'Free Speech'
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Summary
The left is normally very opposed to free speech in this country, but they do make one exception. While attacking free speech everywhere else, suddenly they ve decided that even the most basic regulations in the porn industry are an untenable assault on the First Amendment. Also, BLM has come out of hibernation just in time for the election. We ll take a look at the police shooting that spurred their re-emergence, plus disaster strikes at a drug-fueled sex fest in Nevada, and Fauci is confronted about a new study showing that masks are effectively useless. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is normally very opposed to free speech in this country,
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but they do make one exception, pornography. While attacking free speech everywhere else,
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suddenly they've decided that even the most basic regulations in the porn industry are an
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untenable assault on the First Amendment. Also, BLM has come out of hibernation just in time for the
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election. We'll take a look at the police shooting that spurred their re-emergence, plus disaster
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strikes at a drug-fueled hippie sex fest in Nevada, and Fauci is confronted about a new study
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showing that masks are effectively useless. Interestingly enough, this confrontation happened
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on CNN, of all places. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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employees working for MindGeek, which is the company that runs some of the biggest porn sites
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in the world, including RedTube and PornHub, began exchanging frantic text messages. One of the messages
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read, quote, yo, sorry, man, can you make sure you're not CCing the manager of the site on the CSAM
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reports. CSAM, C-S-A-A-M, stands for Child Sexual Abuse Material, and for some reason,
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this employee wanted his colleague to stop alerting a manager to the presence of this content on MindGeek's
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porn sites. That request, understandably, shocked the MindGeek employee who received it,
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and this was the reply that came back. Quote, he doesn't want to know how much CP we've ignored
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for the past five years? And that message, in case it's not obvious, CP stands for Child Pornography.
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Now, these texts and many more incriminating documents surfaced last week in an ongoing
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lawsuit against MindGeek by the alleged victims of child sex trafficking in California. It's one
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of several lawsuits filed against MindGeek across the United States and Canada that accused the
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company of willful and malicious conduct involving minors. According to one of the lawsuits, for
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example, PornHub took a large cut of the profits from videos of a 12-year-old boy being raped.
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Now, amid all this litigation, payment processors like Visa and MasterCard have dropped PornHub,
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though not before a judge ruled that Visa had facilitated the dissemination of child pornography.
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In other documents that have been unearthed in discovery, MasterCard confronts MindGeek over
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apparent child pornography on their platform, prompting officials at MindGeek to brainstorm
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a crisis response to all of this. And at one point, both the CEO and the owner of MindGeek admit
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that they had only one staff member reviewing videos that are flagged for containing child sex
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abuse content. At the same time, they acknowledge that there's a backlog of nearly 700,000 potentially
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illegal videos that hadn't been reviewed at all. And by the way, from what I could find online,
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it appears that MindGeek has well over 1,000 employees. So of those more than 1,000 employees,
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they had just one dedicated to removing child rape from their platform. That tells you how much
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they prioritized the issue, which is basically not at all. In the meantime, as usual, conservative
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politicians in this country are taking half measures in response to all this. These politicians are
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currently attempting to keep pornography websites out of the reach of children instead of shutting them
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down entirely. You know, PornHub is a hub for hundreds of thousands of videos and images of child
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rape. It should simply be shut down completely. And that's it. But that isn't happening. Instead, we have
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these efforts to put age restrictions into place on the user end. And to be fair, that is something,
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at least. You know, even if it clearly doesn't go far enough, it's better than nothing. To that end,
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Texas, like several other states, recently passed a law requiring that users of PornHub provide proof
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that they're 18 years or older. Visitors to PornHub and several websites like it have to upload some kind
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of identification proving their age. The law also requires PornHub to inform users that, quote,
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pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography, which is
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all obviously true. Now, to be clear, the law in Texas would not prohibit any adult from accessing
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pornography. The law also would not stop any adult from producing pornography. But even this timid attempt
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to keep children away from some of the most debased sexual content known to man, something that
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everyone in the country should easily agree on, was too much for MindGeek and PornHub. So they filed
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PornHub and several adult entertainment workers are suing the state of Texas to block its impending age
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verification law. Under the law, porn sites would be required to display a Texas Health and Human Services
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warning on their website in 14-point font or larger. They're saying it violates both the Constitution and the
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Federal Communications Decency Act. The law will take effect on September 1st unless the court blocks it.
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The law against showing pornographic content to kids, we're told, violates the Communications Decency
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Act. So any measure preventing a minor from viewing content on a website that hosts child sex abuse
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content is indecent. That's what they're saying, without a shred of irony. Not that we should be
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surprised by that total lack of self-awareness. After all, MindGeek is owned by a Canadian private
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equity group called Ethical Capital Partners. So doublespeak is all the rage among pornographers,
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as you might expect. And predictably, these same pornographers are also saying that somehow
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the right to free speech grants all Americans the inalienable right to watch other people have sex.
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And what's more, they say, the First Amendment also grants other people the right to have sex
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in front of strangers. Now, it doesn't take a lot of sleuthing around in arcane legal textbooks to
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figure out how nonsensical that position is. Pornography, as we all know, is cyber prostitution,
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and most states already ban prostitution. But that's all academic. Again, Texas did not ban
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pornography, and there's no serious effort to ban it anywhere, unfortunately, nor is there a strong
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support for those kinds of measures on the right. So that just isn't happening. What's the actual
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argument then? Well, here's another news segment to flesh this out a bit more. This segment features a
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representative from the porn industry, which runs a front group with an innocuous sounding name
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called the Free Speech Coalition. And this is the case that they're making against these laws. Watch.
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Members of the pornography industry are suing the state of Texas over a new law set to take effect
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September the 1st. That law requires users of adult websites to send their government-issued
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identification to those websites to verify the user is of age. The Free Speech Coalition,
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which represents businesses and people in the adult content industry, says the law violates free speech
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and is too broad. Consumers are very worried about uploading their ID or letting the government
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know that they're visiting these types of sites, right? People can lose their jobs. They can, you know,
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harm their marriages. There's all sorts of reasons why people want to keep this information private
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and requiring that people go on and submit an ID or submit to a background check in order to protect
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to access legal content is, you know, un-American and unconstitutional.
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The lawsuit filed in federal court aims to block the attorney general from enforcing the new law.
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The guy just, he just looks like a representative for the porn industry, doesn't he? But he says people
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could lose their jobs and harm their marriages if they're caught browsing a website that allegedly hosts
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child pornography. Imagine that. And so these privacy concerns that they talk about, which by the way,
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just so you know, if you go to porn sites, if you frequent porn sites, no matter what the law says,
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even if there's no identification requirement, these websites already know everything about you.
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That's the way the internet works. Okay. All these companies, they know everything about you
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already. You are, you are giving up that information just by going to the site. So if you say to yourself,
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you know, I don't really think that I want to give personal information to these websites. Well,
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then here's a solution. Don't go to the websites. There's an idea.
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Now the porn industry says that it's un-American and unconstitutional to require ID to watch porn.
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Now for that logic to make any sense whatsoever, it's very important that you don't live in the
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United States or have even a passing familiarity with what life is like in this country. It's
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important that you don't realize that adult oriented products in every other context are age
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restricted with IDs required to obtain them. And there's no concern about privacy being violated.
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Okay. If you go to the gas station to buy tobacco products or alcohol or scratch off tickets,
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you have to provide an identification and it would be useless to say, well, then my privacy,
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well, I don't want this person to know this information. Well, then I guess you're not buying
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the alcohol. Tough luck. In fact, even physical porn, physical porn like DVDs and magazines require
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identification to purchase. Okay. Anything that you might buy at some skeevy sex shop on the side of the
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highway requires an ID to purchase. Nobody ever complains about any of this or claims that their
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first amendment rights are being destroyed because they have to show their license to buy any of these
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things. And indeed, if that skeevy sex shop looked the other way while hundreds of 10 year olds came in
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and browsed around, everyone would agree that the shop should be shut down and the owner's employee should
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be thrown in prison. And yet with online porn and only online porn, suddenly the imposition of any age
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requirement, any ID requirement is an untenable attack on free speech. It doesn't apply to any
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other adult oriented product. Every other adult oriented product in every other context, including
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online. If you want to gamble online, you have to show ID. So again, in every other context where there is
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adult oriented products online or offline, everybody agrees that you should have to show ID.
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It is only with pornography that suddenly it becomes, you're abolishing the first amendment by
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simply requiring it. It is a ridiculous argument. Can it hold any water whatsoever in court is the
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question. Well, remarkably enough, a Reagan appointed federal judge in Texas appears to think that it does.
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The judge, David A. Ezra, just struck down the Texas law saying that it chills the speech of
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plaintiffs and adults who wish to access sexual materials. The judge added, quote,
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the court agrees that the state has a legitimate goal in protecting children from sexually explicit
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material online. But that goal, however crucial, does not negate this court's burden to ensure that
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the laws passed in its pursuit comport with established first amendment doctrine. Now, to be clear,
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this judge's ruling is not the final word. It's already being appealed and it has no weight in the
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several other states that have already passed similar ID requirements on pornography websites.
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So it's important not to blow this out of proportion. We've seen, you know, a lot of
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insane rulings from individual federal judges that are quickly overturned, including judges appointed
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by Republicans. Just happened in Tennessee when Judge Eli Richardson, the guy who keeps hiring left-wing
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clerks, tried to strike down the state's ban on child genital mutilation, and he was quickly overturned.
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At the same time, it's important to read the Pornhub judge's decision carefully,
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because the truth is that, as insane as his ruling is, the conservative politicians bear some
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of the blame for it. If these politicians want to make any headway in stopping the depravity and
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cultural rot that these pornography sites are responsible for, then they have to start crafting
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better laws. And this decision makes that clear. There's no way around it. The free speech argument
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from the judge is blatant nonsense, but he does raise another point that is not so nonsensical.
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One of the problems that Judge David Ezra identified with the law is that it didn't
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really accomplish the goal that the legislation said it would. So I'm going to quote a long
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paragraph from this decision because it's important to highlight the exact reasoning behind the decision
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if conservatives want to have any hope of getting decisions to go their way in the future. So here's
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The law will do little to prevent children from accessing pornography. Search engines, for example,
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do not need to implement age verification, even when they're aware that someone is using
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their service to view pornography. The law, the same is true for blogs posted to Tumblr,
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including subdomains that only display sexually explicit content. Likewise, Instagram and Facebook
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pages can show material which is sexually explicit for minors without compelled age verification.
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In some, the law is severely under-inclusive. It nominally attempts to prevent minors' access to
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pornography, but contains substantial exemptions, including material most likely to serve as a
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gateway to pornography use. The judge continues, quote,
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In addition, social media companies are de facto exempted. This means that certain social media
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sites, such as Reddit, can maintain entire communities and forums dedicated to posting
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online pornography with no regulation. In other words, the law in Texas doesn't really stop minors
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from accessing pornography. It's not much of a roadblock at all because minors could just go on
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Reddit or use Twitter or use search engines like Bing and watch porn there. So this is a very
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important distinction. As arbitrary and frustrating as it is, it's a distinction that conservative
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politicians need to grasp if they want to have any chance of protecting children from the never-ending
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fountains of filth like Pornhub. Voters in several states, including Virginia, Mississippi, and Utah,
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have passed age verification laws that apply to porn sites. There's not a lot of dissent on this issue
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among sane people. And yet conservative politicians have found a way to bungle this issue. They've passed
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flimsy laws that can't stand up in court. Of course, even if the Texas law had loopholes that
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will allow children to access pornography, still you would think that a flimsy attempt to protect
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kids is better than no attempt at all. But the flimsiness of the law provides a pretense for striking
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it down entirely, and that's the issue. So the solution is obvious. First, these politicians should
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come out and say what everyone knows, which is that the left's concerns about free speech are a
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smokescreen. Sites like Pornhub protest age restrictions because they stand to lose
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millions if minors aren't granted access to their platforms. They are knowingly profiting off of the
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sexualization and trauma of children. The average porn user, on the other hand, protests these age
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restrictions because he doesn't want to be hassled or inconvenienced in his pursuit of masturbatory
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material. That's the only reason he cares about it. Both groups cry about free speech, but they
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couldn't give less of a damn about it. Right now in the United States, actual free speech is
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infringed every day. Pro-life activists are hunted down by the FBI. Right-wingers are jailed for posting
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memes. And yet suddenly the courts and the left have decided to become free speech absolutists when it
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comes to porn and sexual depravity. That's the only area where they care about free speech.
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To give another recent example, after a lawsuit from the ACLU, a federal judge in Tennessee
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just blocked a local DA from enforcing the state's law protecting kids from sexually explicit
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performances at so-called pride events or so-called family-friendly drag shows and all the rest of it.
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That's banned in Tennessee. There's a law passed that bans it. And all this DA did was send word to
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organizers of this pride thing, telling them that they cannot involve kids in any of these performances.
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Which is a reasonable thing to say, especially if you've seen any of the millions of videos of
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naked adults twerking in front of children from the past few months at these pride parades.
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But the left pretended that it wasn't reasonable and they shut the DA down.
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And this is, among other things, hypocritical. The same people who believe that basic political
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speech should be outlawed and prosecuted as hate crimes are suddenly starting to care about free
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speech the moment the right makes any effort to protect children from degenerate sexual content.
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But the right can't simply scream hypocrisy and call it a day. That doesn't accomplish anything.
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Leftists know they're being hypocritical. They know they're using the court system to overturn the
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will of the well-adjusted, sane majority. They don't care. The correct response from the right,
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as the Texas Pornhub case shows, albeit in a roundabout way, is to one-up these degenerates.
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Stop passing half measures into law. Stop with the flimsy thrown together legislation that doesn't
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remotely accomplish what you say you want to accomplish. Start instead with a total ban on
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pornography for children across all platforms. Search engines, websites, social media, everything.
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And it should be a ban that extends not just to websites, but to the devices that are used to
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access the website. There should be laws in all 50 states mandating that cell phones used by children
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have filters and blocks on them that prevent the user from accessing this material.
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Cell phone companies should be required by law to sell devices that are safe for kids as long as kids
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are going to be using them. And really, kids shouldn't be using phones at all, but millions do,
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and so we should have a law that takes that into account. Ironically, that kind of law is more likely
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to withstand scrutiny from federal judges. It's also more likely to bring about what every responsible
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adult should want, which is the safeguarding of our kids. You know, our kids didn't choose to be born
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into a depraved society filled with degenerate filth, but they were. And the least we can do is make even
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Well, we're getting into election season now, which means that it's time for two things to
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make a comeback, and that would be COVID and BLM. And right on cue, you know, we have this
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resurgence, this supposed resurgence of COVID and the new COVID variant. They're talking about
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masking again and everything else. And also, BLM is marching in the streets again. The interesting
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thing, of course, is that BLM basically took a break for the entirety of Biden's tenure up until
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right now, I guess because racism had been solved. You know, it's a fascinating thing.
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Democrat gets elected and racism is solved. There's no more racism until now. Racism is back
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just in time for the election. So here was BLM marching in Columbus, Ohio this weekend. Let's watch.
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It's good that they're walking in the streets chanting that because, you know, we weren't sure.
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Because there aren't any, there's no one, you know, if no one is chanting it, then how are we supposed to know?
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Now, the ostensible reason for this demonstration is the police shooting of a woman named Takiyah Young in Columbus, Ohio.
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And we're told by the BLM and the media, and, you know, this is their approved narrative, that Takiyah Young was executed, that she was shot dead by racist cops nearly for trying to shoplift.
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The way that they frame it, you're imagining the way what they want you to imagine is that she was shoplifting.
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And so some cop just walked in and shot her dead, said, you're being executed for the crime of shoplifting.
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And the media, actually, it's been interesting, the media has been using the phrase unborn child to describe Takiyah Young's child in the womb.
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So that they have also just now discovered the humanity of the unborn, at least for as long as this story is in the news.
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So good news for all the unborn children of the world right now, that for right now, you get to be human beings for the sake of this Takiyah Young story.
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And once it's out of the news, then, of course, unborn children will go back to being inanimate clumps of worthless matter.
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But for right now, they are unborn babies somehow.
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Now, is it true that Takiyah Young was killed for shoplifting?
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She was killed because what began, what's the reason why she was having an interaction with the police in the first place is because she was allegedly shoplifting.
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And by the way, another point about that that I think is relevant is that she was allegedly shoplifting alcohol.
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She was six months pregnant, allegedly shoplifting alcohol.
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Really for two reasons, because number one, we're told that the reason people go and shoplift is because they're desperate and they're hungry and they're starving and they got to feed their kids.
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And Takiyah Young is 21 years old, had two other kids as well.
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So this is what we would normally be told is why she was shoplifting because she's that.
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Well, except that she was shoplifting, apparently, according to the reports, alcohol.
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Well, she was going to feed it to her unborn child, apparently, if she was planning on consuming it herself.
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But she stole the alcohol, allegedly, got into her car.
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Cops tried to stop her from leaving because she had potentially committed a crime.
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If you're committing a crime, they're going to come up and stop you.
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And if you say, I don't want to be stopped, I'm just going to leave, they can't just let you leave because then there's no point in having law enforcement at all.
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And if there's no point, if we don't have law enforcement, there's no point of having law in the first place.
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And then we can just have chaos, which, of course, is what many on the left want.
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But if you want to live in any kind of civilized, functional society, you have law.
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And enforcing the law means that when the law enforcement shows up, you can't just decline to be, you can't just say, well, you know what, I'd prefer not to be arrested today, officer.
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And one of the problems with driving away is, well, number one, you're under arrest because you're trying to steal something, so you can't just leave.
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But number two, there was a cop standing in front of the car when she started to drive.
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Now, was the cop in the wrong in this shooting?
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Well, as far as I can tell, if he violated any protocols, it was that he stepped in front of the car of the suspect.
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Now, he stepped in front of it before it was moving.
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And there was one cop to the side trying to get her out of the car, another cop in front of the car.
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Now, you know, I'm not an expert in police procedures.
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I'm pretty sure it's not proper procedure for an officer to physically step in front of the car of a suspect.
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Cops aren't supposed to use their own bodies as barricades, as far as I know.
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However, the fact that he's standing there doesn't give the suspect the right to drive into him.
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And once she is driving into him, which she was, even if he shouldn't have been standing there, he has every right to use force to protect himself.
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A car is a lethal weapon being used against him.
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And he responds with lethal force and was entirely justified in doing so.
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So Takiyah Young is not a victim here, except of her own poor choices.
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And that's the thing that, as always, is missing from this discussion.
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That if black lives matter, and of course they do, then the people who really need to hear that message are people like Takiyah Young.
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She did not treat her own life or her unborn child's life like they had any value at all.
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It's the BLM martyrs themselves that act like black lives don't matter.
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Make these recklessly self-destructive decisions with no upside, with no possible chance of it working out in their favor.
00:27:41.680
And yet they do it anyway, and they die in the process.
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Like, you're shoplifting alcohol to begin with, so you're not starving and desperate.
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Already that's a decision that has zero chance of making your life any better at all.
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Nobody goes to prison anymore for a little thing like stealing.
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Maybe you have to do some community service at most.
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So it's a relatively minor, low-stake situation.
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Now, I think that shoplifting should be dealt with much more severely than it is.
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I don't think it should be just a slap on the wrist.
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But that's not what the situation in our society today.
00:28:32.120
So you can just take your slap on the wrist and move on with your life and live to steal another day.
00:28:38.760
Or you can try to run away, which in the best case scenario will mean that when they do catch you, you're going to have additional charges.
00:28:48.020
And now you really will do prison time, whereas before you wouldn't have.
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Best case is that now you're going to spend more time in prison than you would have otherwise.
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There is no scenario, no scenario where you drive away and things work out better for you because of it.
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And that's the case for all of the BLM martyrs.
00:29:29.640
They're in a situation where the cops, they're having an interaction with the police officers because of the things that they were doing,
00:29:35.980
because of crimes they were allegedly committing.
00:29:38.180
And rather than just accept the fact that you're committing a crime and now the police are here and that's it,
00:29:48.160
they do everything in their power to make the situation as bad as it can possibly be for them.
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And then we're supposed to turn around and cry tears like they're the victims.
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When the cops stop you because you're committing a crime, just don't be suicidally stupid.
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Value your own life enough to fight it out in court.
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Okay, if you really were being, if you really are innocent of stealing the alcohol, then fight it out in court.
00:30:29.380
You decide to fight it out in the parking lot and now you're dead.
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And, you know, all of the people who go around chanting Black Lives Matter, none of them will say this.
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All of these situations are extremely avoidable.
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The reason why I am not currently dead right now in a parking lot in Columbus, Ohio,
00:30:52.320
is because number one, I would not steal alcohol to begin with.
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And number two, if I was suspected of a crime, I would not try to drive away.
00:31:07.100
Because I would recognize that that is going to make all of my problems so much worse.
00:31:15.760
So is it because I'm a genius or I'm some great saint?
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I don't want to make a situation worse for myself.
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But that's why I'm not dead in the parking lot.
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People who make suicidally stupid decisions oftentimes end up dead.
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Just have a little bit of common sense, a little bit of personal responsibility, and
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And the problem is in these communities, this is the thing that plagues these communities.
00:32:10.480
Total lack of common sense, total lack of personal responsibility, and a total lack of valuing
00:32:19.020
And anyone who actually cares, this is what they would be saying.
00:32:26.760
Well, it had been a couple of years as we move on since the last festival-related disaster.
00:32:34.660
And Burning Man has stepped up to the plate to deliver.
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Burning Man is the festival out in the Nevada desert where a bunch of hippies and tech bros
00:32:41.440
gather together to do drugs and have sex and not shower and smell each other's body odor
00:32:47.360
A lot of pagan symbolism and various rituals, and it's all very satanic and bad and gross.
00:32:52.360
But this time, the satanic rituals went awry because it rained, and there was a lot of mud,
00:32:59.580
They couldn't get out because the roads weren't usable.
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So they were stranded for several days without proper facilities, without bathrooms.
00:33:08.400
Which meant that the very gross event was even grosser than usual.
00:33:13.460
But this is the internet age, which means that every event has to spawn eight or nine different
00:33:19.280
conspiracy theories because everyone feels like everyone thinks they're living in a movie
00:33:22.620
all the time because they despair of their own lives, and they find their own lives so dull
00:33:29.220
So they want to pretend that they're living in a movie.
00:33:30.940
And that's what happened this time, as this is all unfolding over the weekend with Burning Man.
00:33:37.100
You have all of these people posting on social media, on Twitter, on TikTok, saying,
00:33:48.540
This is a citizen journalist, I suppose, on TikTok, revealing some of the sinister secrets
00:33:59.260
Most of y'all have probably heard that Burning Man was declared a national emergency, but
00:34:06.380
So it was announced earlier that Burning Man was declared a national emergency because it
00:34:11.780
And so they sent in FEMA, which already seemed kind of like a weird reason to send in FEMA
00:34:19.500
73,000 people they're keeping locked in there for flooding.
00:34:23.740
Now there's some new terrifying information coming out that there's a virus on the loose
00:34:28.840
in the festival and that people are getting really sick with boils, vomiting, hemorrhaging.
00:34:33.940
To me, this makes way more sense than flooding in terms of what their response was to the
00:34:39.820
This is a text from one of the festival goers, and he said, yo, just figured you should hear
00:34:45.560
Daryl is crazy sick with something that has him coughing up really coagulated blood.
00:34:55.460
And he goes on to say that an outside agency is putting up a fence.
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This is a different festival goer that said, you're never gonna believe it.
00:35:11.400
I just hope that everyone ends up being okay and that they make it out.
00:35:19.240
So that's my favorite TikTok video, which is a bunch of nonsense.
00:35:30.800
You're telling me they couldn't leave because of flooding?
00:35:44.420
A bunch of hippies and tech bros with no survival skills went to the middle of the desert to have
00:35:50.260
And they gathered together on a dried up lake bed.
00:35:56.120
And the ground didn't absorb the moisture very well because it's the desert.
00:36:05.380
So the water pools and it creates a lot of mud and then you can't drive your vehicles
00:36:15.840
That's, that's all, that's all you need for people getting sick.
00:36:19.000
Yeah, probably 95% of the attendees already had chlamydia before they showed up.
00:36:24.580
So they're all bringing, it's like a potluck of viruses at Burning Man.
00:36:30.620
They're all bringing their own viruses with them to begin with.
00:36:34.300
They're all a bunch of disease infested, disgusting people.
00:36:39.520
If you pardon the expression and they're there and all the diseases are being spread around.
00:36:45.300
So again, we don't need any kind of, it's a Petri dish of disease.
00:36:53.020
I want to vomit just thinking about Burning Man.
00:37:01.180
And by the way, the latest update is that everyone's going home now.
00:37:03.520
So they, the mud dried up enough and now they're all leaving and they're not, okay.
00:37:07.940
The government's not there rounding them all up and, and sending them off to FEMA camps,
00:37:12.860
which I, you know, you can make an argument that maybe we should do that anyway.
00:37:20.100
You know, I mean, if we were to round up everybody at, at, at Burning Man and send them to FEMA camps,
00:37:24.660
like, I mean, there's already, as I said, there's a lot of probably contagious disease
00:37:32.920
So I think an important lesson here, uh, and the first one is don't go to Burning Man.
00:37:38.760
In general, like don't go out into the wilderness unless you're well-prepared and have survival
00:37:44.280
skills and certainly don't go out into the wilderness with a bunch of sex crazed druggies.
00:37:54.800
Um, and the second lesson is that, you know, you shouldn't hatch conspiracy theories unless
00:38:02.220
a conspiracy is needed in order to explain something.
00:38:07.880
So sometimes you have something going on and it doesn't make sense and they're telling us
00:38:12.220
And so, and, and then you need to, you need to introduce speculatively an element of conspiracy,
00:38:18.980
um, in order to make sense of what you're seeing.
00:38:22.200
Um, and that's where, and that's where conspiracy theories can be legitimate.
00:38:27.500
Um, but then you have the other kind, which is like what came up with the Burning Man, which
00:38:32.160
we don't need any, you don't need any kind of conspiracy theory to explain this.
00:38:41.160
And yet we introduce it anyway, because, you know, we want to make a, we want to make
00:38:47.880
Although look, it would be an interesting film plot, like a, a zombie virus, uh, breakout
00:39:05.160
Briefly, one other thing before we, uh, move on this from a daily wire, uh, Dr. Anthony Fauci
00:39:09.980
was asked to respond to a study that raised doubts about face masks being able to curb the
00:39:15.180
spread of COVID, the exchange happened, uh, on CNN over the weekend when host Michael Smirconish
00:39:21.240
brought up the analysis released in January, uh, about masks and their lack of efficacy.
00:39:29.820
I would hope that if in fact we get to the point where the volume of cases as such, and
00:39:36.020
organizations like the CDC recommend, CDC doesn't mandate anything, I mean, recommends that people
00:39:43.900
wear masks, I would hope that they abide by the recommendation and take into account the
00:39:51.900
And again, we're not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.
00:39:57.760
There is a perception out there by many, how many, I don't know.
00:40:02.980
Uh, that's, of course, that's nonsense from Fauci.
00:40:06.060
This is what they, this is, this has been the, the, uh, the false narrative the whole time.
00:40:10.760
Well, uh, if, if CDC says something, it's only, it's a record, we're recommending it.
00:40:17.320
So all throughout the COVID panic, this is what we always heard.
00:40:23.340
And of course, what he, what he knows and what we all know now, and he still lies about
00:40:28.400
because he has no respect for our intelligence, uh, I think for all a bunch of cattle, a bunch
00:40:32.900
of sheep, and I guess in his defense, uh, many people did in fact act like cattle and
00:40:38.380
But anyway, uh, yes, the, the recommendation, this is the process, the COVID, when we're talking
00:40:45.220
about conspiracies, here's one, uh, you have, you have, uh, these, the CDC, these other
00:40:51.600
organizations that make recommendations and then the governmental agencies come along and
00:40:57.300
translate those recommendations into the mandates.
00:41:00.340
That's just, that's how, that's how the sausage is made.
00:41:02.800
And he of course knows that, but, uh, doesn't want to admit that let's keep going.
00:41:06.620
That they don't work and that the data concludes that they didn't work in the first go round.
00:41:17.200
I mean, when you're talking about at the population level, that the data are less strong than knowing
00:41:22.520
that if you look on a situation as an individual protecting themselves or protecting them from
00:41:28.960
spreading it, there's no doubt that masks work.
00:41:32.080
Different studies give different percentages of advantage of wearing it, but there's no doubt that
00:41:38.000
the weight of the studies, and there have been many studies indicate the benefit of wearing masks.
00:41:48.080
I heard about it from a number of radio callers.
00:41:50.760
Uh, Brett Stevens in the times talked about Cochran, put that on the screen.
00:41:54.600
The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy
00:41:58.780
of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illness, including COVID-19, was published last
00:42:04.940
Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist, who is the lead author, were
00:42:11.140
There is just no evidence that they, masks, make any difference, he told the journalist
00:42:19.820
What about the N95 masks as opposed to the lower quality surgical or cloth masks?
00:42:27.100
Well, what about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates?
00:42:32.460
They were convinced by non-randomized studies, flawed observational studies.
00:42:37.300
How do we get beyond that finding of that particular review?
00:42:42.560
Yeah, but there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level for individual,
00:42:47.860
when you're talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data
00:42:55.660
But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting
00:43:01.260
themselves from spreading it to others, there's no doubt that there are many studies that show
00:43:07.580
When you took it, the broad population level, like the Cochran study, the data are less firm
00:43:15.920
So this is, first of all, there were some people giving CNN some credit.
00:43:23.660
I mean, they're actually challenging masks like that on CNN.
00:43:31.660
This exact segment three years ago, I give them some credit for that.
00:43:35.680
If this is like the summer of 2020 or the spring of 2020, and they're holding Fauci's feet to the fire
00:43:44.160
about masking, saying, where's the data on this?
00:43:53.040
And so they waited three years until everyone had already figured it out.
00:43:59.220
And now they come around and say, yeah, you know, that whole masking thing was, there's probably,
00:44:09.640
In fact, I'd rather you just keep it, if anything, it's less annoying if you just keep up the lie
00:44:16.380
or just drop it and move on, pretend it never happened.
00:44:18.920
But to admit it years later, after you just spent three years, or certainly at least a
00:44:27.840
year and a half to two years of those three years, calling people who question masks, you
00:44:33.100
know, genocidal, grandma-killing psychopaths, you know, to do that, that is what's the most
00:44:41.100
frustrating of all, especially when there's no, there is no accountability.
00:44:47.120
There's no one saying, yeah, you know, we got this one really wrong.
00:44:49.820
And the people that were raising questions about masks, they were very valid questions.
00:44:55.780
You know, pointing out things like, hey, the COVID virus, it's like we can actually see,
00:45:01.100
well, we can't see it with the naked eye, but you can see it.
00:45:12.880
And then it's just a question of that virus, can that, is that actually blocked by the fibers
00:45:19.120
of the mask or can it just travel right through?
00:45:22.580
So it's actually, it's actually a very simple question.
00:45:24.300
Now there are other contaminants and bacteria and viruses and things that might be bigger.
00:45:32.120
I mean, there's a reason why it makes sense for a surgeon in a hospital is performing surgery
00:45:37.980
to wear the mask because there's all kinds of different things that that could potentially
00:45:43.420
But when it comes to COVID in particular, you got to look at the virus, a little, the little
00:45:47.440
microscopic virus, can that fit through these masks?
00:45:53.360
And according to the studies we're seeing now, it's like, well, yeah, it can.
00:45:59.320
But that's a point people were making years ago.
00:46:03.520
Now Fauci, for one, he can't even bring himself even now to admit that it was all, that it was
00:46:08.460
And so instead he has this equivocation that makes no sense at all.
00:46:12.780
Say, well, he works on the individual level, but on the societal level, it's, it's,
00:46:17.440
the data are less strong, which is another way of saying there's no data.
00:46:21.480
It's the, this, the, or the data in fact works against his hypothesis entirely.
00:46:28.320
So it works on the individual level, but not on the, so when one individual wears the
00:46:32.880
mask, it protects them from COVID, but a bunch of people together are not protected.
00:46:40.120
So an individual like by himself on a mountainside, there's no one else around wearing a mask probably
00:46:47.460
Well, yeah, true, but without the mask, he also wouldn't be getting COVID.
00:46:51.760
If you're telling me that when you add everyone together, it doesn't, the data are less strong
00:46:58.320
Well, that's just another way of saying the masks are useless, which even now CNN is saying
00:47:04.200
All right, now let's move on to a new segment on the show today.
00:47:14.000
If you want some positive news in the culture war, since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the left
00:47:17.760
has lost their minds, making abortion their official sacrament.
00:47:20.940
The pro-life efforts, which are now more important than ever, are booming.
00:47:24.980
Despite the narrative, pro-lifers didn't go away.
00:47:28.220
As one of the largest pro-life organizations in the world, no one's in a better position than
00:47:31.300
40 Days for Life to end abortion in each state in a post-Roe America.
00:47:34.840
40 Days for Life is changing hearts and minds in the most blue pro-abortion states.
00:47:38.160
They've had a record number of locations since Roe was overturned, and they grew in both
00:47:43.560
With about a million volunteers in 1,500 cities, they hold peaceful vigils outside abortion
00:47:48.400
You can help them fight the ongoing legal battles by protecting free speech for their volunteers
00:47:52.280
by giving a tax-deductible gift of any amount at 40daysforlife.com.
00:48:03.440
The old comment section is still alive and well.
00:48:06.820
That'll be a special extended segment that we do on Fridays now.
00:48:09.780
But the other days of the week we're doing, Was Walsh Wrong?
00:48:14.200
Because, for one thing, who doesn't love a good alliteration?
00:48:17.160
And also, this is a chance to highlight the people who are challenging the things that
00:48:21.460
I said on the show, presenting counter-arguments.
00:48:24.340
And this is where we'll find out if I was wrong.
00:48:26.160
It's a chance to highlight people who actually disagree.
00:48:28.560
So, for this first segment, I'll read comments relating to the cancellation we did on our
00:48:32.800
last show, which at this point was like a week ago.
00:48:35.600
And in the cancellation, we talked about, if you can remember it back to ancient history,
00:48:38.700
we talked about the child-free movement and people who promote childlessness as a superior
00:48:46.600
And I disagree with that idea, to put it mildly.
00:48:51.040
Here are people who disagree with me, though, in the arguments that I made.
00:48:54.220
First comment says, I think some people are happier with children and some people are
00:48:58.820
Just because you're happy with having children does not mean that I would be happy if I had
00:49:04.840
Well, it's true that, and I've said this many times, it's true that not every single person
00:49:18.760
You know, that's not a blanket statement that can apply to every single person on earth,
00:49:22.880
And there's going to be a minority of people who are called to a different path in life.
00:49:39.000
And what I always say is that, in effect, not everyone is called to have children.
00:49:46.740
But every man is called to fatherhood, and every woman is called to motherhood.
00:49:53.020
It's just that in a minority of cases, that may take on a different form.
00:49:57.920
So just as one example, let's say, and this is something someone raised to me also.
00:50:03.340
They said, well, you know, you think everyone should have kids.
00:50:06.960
Well, what about someone who decides that they want to, you know, go out to a third world
00:50:11.040
country, and they want to be, you know, they want to be a minister to the poor.
00:50:16.960
They want to, you know, live a life like that, a missionary, you know, something like that.
00:50:22.940
You know, and maybe they've decided that if they have kids, it'd be harder for them to
00:50:30.000
Well, that's a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
00:50:31.700
There are people that are called to a life like that.
00:50:34.460
It's a perfectly, obviously, noble and beautiful vocation, and there's a lot of joy and happiness
00:50:53.820
Nobody is called to a life of self-centeredness.
00:51:02.360
Nobody is called to a life that revolves entirely around their own amusement.
00:51:08.880
And that's one of the biggest issues with the child-free movement and this move away from having
00:51:17.300
There are a lot of problems with people not having kids.
00:51:19.440
But one of the biggest issues is what it's being replaced with.
00:51:23.980
And what it's being replaced with, because these are not, you know, when you see these
00:51:26.560
TikTok videos of people saying, oh, I don't have kids, they're not saying, you shouldn't
00:51:31.040
have kids so you have more time to do charity work.
00:51:33.280
Okay, you shouldn't have kids so you have more time to go to Africa and be a missionary.
00:51:37.460
They're saying, don't have kids so you have more time to go on vacations.
00:51:50.180
And that's not a life that can make anyone actually happy.
00:51:53.380
A life of total, a life that centers around yourself and your own amusement cannot make
00:51:59.240
It cannot fulfill you at the deepest levels of your being.
00:52:05.280
Another comment says, dear Matt, people are individuals.
00:52:07.500
There's a tremendous variety of human personalities.
00:52:10.060
Don't assume that what's been right for you is right for everyone.
00:52:12.980
Some people simply don't have parenting skills.
00:52:14.760
They know that and they accept it without regrets.
00:52:17.240
They follow other life trajectories that are enriching and fulfilling for them.
00:52:20.660
It's presumptuous to insist that only your way is right because it's been delightful and
00:52:25.800
In a long life, I've met happy, contented people and also very frustrated, discontented people.
00:52:29.540
I've seen no evidence of any correlation with whether or not they've produced offspring.
00:52:33.380
A lot of this, just what I just said, can apply to a lot of your comment here.
00:52:40.280
But I would note that you say that there are people who don't have parenting skills.
00:52:46.320
Well, very few people have tangible, noticeable parenting skills before they have kids.
00:52:55.640
When you're not a parent, you probably don't have a lot of parenting skills.
00:52:58.320
Before I was a parent, I think back to when I was 23 years old and I didn't have kids and
00:53:03.620
kids at the time didn't even seem to be on the horizon for me, what parenting skills did
00:53:13.360
And if anyone had looked at me then, they would not have said, oh, there's a guy with a
00:53:18.120
Because here's the thing, it's very difficult to develop skills without doing the thing.
00:53:26.420
So you can read about it, you can talk about it, you can hear other people talk about it,
00:53:32.320
people can give you advice, they can give you pointers, and all that is fine.
00:53:36.360
But to really develop the skills, you have to do it.
00:53:43.340
Everyone knows that any job you've ever worked, 95% of it, there might be training that goes
00:53:49.760
into it ahead of time, maybe you go to school and you major in something that ostensibly
00:53:54.080
relates to your job, but 95% of the skills are going to be learned on the job.
00:54:01.860
So people who don't have kids saying, well, I'm not going to have kids because I don't
00:54:06.880
Well, by that logic, you're never going to do anything.
00:54:08.780
You'll just never ever do anything of substance in your life because you won't have the skills
00:54:23.420
Final comment says, this shouldn't even be an issue.
00:54:28.060
Matt is such a bully to people who live their lives differently from the way he does.
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If I went up to some random person, say there's a random woman sitting at a cafe somewhere,
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and I went up to her and I said, do you have kids?
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When people go to the internet and speak publicly about their life choices, and they promote
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those life choices as a path to happiness, well, then you have submitted that to the
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You have said, hey, public, here's something I want to tell you about.
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And members of the public, of which I am one, will then respond to that.
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And they might say, I think that's a terrible, I think what you're saying is a terrible.
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Okay, that's called just having a conversation.
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Today, our daily cancellation brings us around full circle.
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We began the show talking about the efforts to place age restrictions on pornography,
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efforts that have been furiously protested and denounced by smut peddlers and smut consumers alike,
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both groups having placed their own satisfaction far above our basic responsibility as human beings
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Now, I make no secret of the fact that, as I mentioned in the opening,
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that I oppose pornography across the board as a general principle.
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Yes, I want to see age restrictions put in place, but if I had my way,
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the entire industry would be dismantled, torn apart, set on fire, and burned to ash
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while we all gather together and dance around its smoldering corpse.
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If I could do this by banning pornography entirely, then I would.
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As I said earlier, porn is nothing but cyber prostitution and can be prohibited under the same pretense
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and for the same reason that prostitution is prohibited already in most parts of the country.
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But a general porn ban is not going to happen anytime soon, much to my chagrin,
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which means that we can only chip away at this demonic behemoth piece by piece
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by individual people deciding to liberate themselves from its clutches.
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If we're going to land a blow, it will have to be landed by porn consumers
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deciding to respect themselves and value their own souls enough to do something else with their time
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It's at this point that I'm often told that, well, it's not that simple.
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It's an addiction, just like being hooked on drugs.
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I heard a lot of this same rationalizing on Twitter this weekend when the subject came up,
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do you think it's easy for those who are hooked on porn to just simply stop watching porn?
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It's an addiction, maybe worse than alcohol and drugs.
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Another agreed and said, Matt, I think you're amazing,
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but you must not have experience with a loved one's addiction.
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You're right that an addict can just stop if you incentivize them to do so,
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the dopamine release from porn is worse than most drugs.
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Addictions, many more where those came from, you get the idea.
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These are the kinds of things you'll hear anytime this topic is discussed.
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Now, typically critics of the porn industry will say that porn addiction is real
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and they recognize that porn is a negative thing,
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Defenders of the porn industry will deny that porn addiction is real
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and they refuse to recognize that porn is a negative thing.
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So I find myself on a lonely island because I am certainly not a porn defender,
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I think that they, the porn defenders, have arrived at the correct conclusion,
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Meanwhile, the porn critics have the best intentions,
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but when it comes to this issue, they're not only wrong,
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but they are inadvertently making the problem worse.
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The important point about addiction, as it's understood today,
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The American Psychiatric Association calls addiction,
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quote, a complex but treatable disease that affects brain function and behavior.
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It goes on to explain that addiction is a brain disorder.
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As for the nature of this disease, the NHS on its website says this, quote,
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addiction is defined as not having control over doing, taking, or using something
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So addiction, then, is a disease that takes away your ability to control your own actions.
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Now, I think talking about any addiction this way can be potentially dangerous
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as you're entirely removing free will from the equation.
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But when it comes to something like heroin addiction, you can see where it might apply.
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Heroin takes over an addict's brain to such an extent
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that if they simply just stop taking it one day, they might actually die.
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If you lose your internet connection for three days and you can't watch porn,
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You won't collapse on the ground in convulsions.
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You're not going to have a high fever and seizures.
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You aren't going to have a heart attack and die.
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You might be a little bored, a little bit restless, but you will be fine.
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In fact, you could stop watching porn today without much trouble if I incentivized you enough, right?
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So if I were, just to take an absurd hypothetical,
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if I were to offer you a million dollars not to watch porn for a week, you could do it.
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Now, a million dollars might be enough to help you break a heroin or alcohol addiction,
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And besides, you'd still suffer the potentially fatal ramifications of going cold turkey off of those substances,
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even if there was a million dollars on the table.
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In other words, a fat check could not instantly release you of a true substance addiction,
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but it could release you of your porn addiction.
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In that, like, you would be, you would, with a million dollars on the table,
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you would stop watching porn easily without any struggle because the incentives are that high.
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What that means is that these addictions are not the same because one is an addiction and one is not.
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Unless, of course, we've decided that literally everything is an addiction,
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It's possible to define the term addiction broadly enough that you can include pornography.
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Somebody sent me an article from a site called Medical News Today that defines porn addiction this way.
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So, porn addiction refers to an emotional dependence on pornography that interferes with daily life relationships and the ability to function.
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So, sure, if that's how we define the term, then porn addiction is a real phenomenon.
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But then, you know, an emotional dependence that interferes with daily life describes literally anything that you enjoy doing too much.
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And in our modern age of materialism and overindulgence, that means we all have 50 different addictions, which means, again, that the term is effectively meaningless and functionally useless.
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We're using the same term to describe the meth addict lying on a cardboard box out on the street and the woman who spends too much on Amazon packages or the man scrolling porn up.
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The latter two cases are obviously not in the same ballpark as the first.
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The only thing we achieve by calling everything an addiction, by using clinical terminology to describe all sin, all temptation, all vice, is that we let everybody off the hook.
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Nobody has any control over anything they're doing, which, as we recall, is the definition that the NHS provides for addiction.
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When everything is an addiction, we all become pre-programmed robots, right, victims of our own behavior.
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They are an affliction, a disease, something we cannot control and therefore cannot be blamed for.
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That's exactly how the ashamed porn user has been conditioned to see his situation.
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He can't control it, he can't stop, so he doesn't.
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This is how everybody has been conditioned to view all of their personal flaws and sins and vices.
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And so we have become a society of pathetic weaklings swept along helplessly by the current.
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Doing things, making choices, while telling ourselves that we have no control over the things that we are willfully doing right now.
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This is why we need to bring back a concept called simple but not easy.
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He said, do you think it's easy for those who are hooked to porn to just simply stop watching porn?
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Oftentimes they're very simple and straightforward.
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And when it comes to pornography, the task is as simple as it can get.
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It's harming you psychologically, spiritually, emotionally.
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You're sitting there and watching someone else have sex on camera.
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Someone who's almost certainly on drugs was probably abused as a child.
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This is a desperate, self-loathing person whose dehumanization and objectification and despair you are consuming.
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Now, you don't feel good about that, and you shouldn't.
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If you could go back and reclaim all of the many hours you've wasted on porn and retroactively dedicate it to something productive and beautiful instead, you would.
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You'd like to be free of it because porn is dirty and disgusting and unmanly and undignified and embarrassing and shameful.
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You want to be done with it, which brings us to the good news.
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You can decide not to watch it and then not watch it, and that's it.
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You don't need any drug or any treatment plan or any special facility.
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Now, this may sound like the least helpful advice of all time, but in many cases, it's the only kind of advice that means anything.
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If you want to do something positive with your life, the best advice, really only advice anyone can give you, is to simply go and do that thing.
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You can sit around saying, I really wish I would do this.
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And if you want to stop doing something negative, again, the best advice and only advice anyone can give you is to simply stop doing that thing.
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And that's advice that you can follow with porn because it's not an addiction.
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And that is why porn addiction, as a concept, is today canceled.