Ep. 1634 - Leftists Come Up With INSANE Solution To Migrant Crime
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Length
1 hour and 6 minutes
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181.0062
Summary
Peter Hitchener has been one of the most influential men in Australian journalism for the past two months, and he s been doing so because of his relentless coverage of a particular issue: Machete attacks by foreigners in Australia.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Australia imported the third world en masse, and now the country
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is plagued by machete-wielding gangs. They come up with a bold way to deal with these problems
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by asking the gang members to please turn in their machetes. Also, new footage from that
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mob attack in Cincinnati supposedly reveals that one of the white victims may have possibly said
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the N-word. Does that change anything about this case? Of course it doesn't. We'll talk about that.
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Also, feminists on the internet are very mad at me today because I dare to suggest that women
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have an obligation to have children. You can't say that. It's an extremely offensive idea.
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Apparently, it's also obviously true. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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company. It's your talk. In the history of the news business, only a handful of anchors have
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managed to transcend their craft and become true legends in the industry. I'm talking about the
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kinds of anchors that people went out of their way to watch or listen to. Edward Murrow was known for
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his reporting from London during the Blitz in World War II. Walter Cronkite moved people to tears with
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his coverage of the JFK assassination and the moon landing. Brian Williams made his name by surviving a
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direct hit from an invisible rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, which blew his helicopter into a million
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invisible pieces. Today, I'm going to predict the next name that will be added to this extremely
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prestigious list of news anchors, and that name is Peter Hitchener. Now, you've maybe never heard of
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Peter Hitchener, especially if you don't live in Australia, but if there's any justice in the world,
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that's all about the change. Yes, 79-year-old Peter Hitchener has something like 60 years of news
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broadcasting experience, but in just the last two months, he's managed to carve out his own unique
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area of expertise, as all great news anchors do. He's become must-see TV because of his relentless
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coverage of a particular issue. You see, in the 1960s, when Americans wanted to hear the latest
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news from the Apollo program, they couldn't wait to tune in to Walter Cronkite's broadcast.
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And today, in exactly the same way, when Australians want to hear about the latest brutal machete attack
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by foreigners in their country, they know there's one man they can turn to, Peter Hitchener.
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That's right. Machete attacks are now so common in Australia that machete attacks now qualify as a
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distinct beat in Australian journalism. And it's a very competitive beat, one that Hitchener is
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frankly dominating, if we're being honest. No one else even comes remotely close. So here's just a
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sampling of Hitchener's coverage in the past few weeks. Keep in mind, as you watch, that all these
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clips are indeed completely separate reports about completely separate incidents in Australia. Watch.
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Shoppers have run for their lives as a wild brawl erupted between gangs with machetes inside
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Northland. The incident sent the shopping centre into lockdown. Terrified customers hiding inside
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stores until given the all clear. Olly Haig begins our coverage.
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Machete terror inside one of Melbourne's busiest shopping centres. A man with a huge blade facing
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off with two others inside Northland. The Sunday afternoon shoppers, some carrying their children,
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run for their lives. A shopper whose trip to the pharmacy ended in a shocking machete attack
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has told of his terrifying ordeal. Doctors have been battling to save his hand after it is almost
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severed outside an Altona Meadows shopping centre. He's told Jack Ward his life will never be the same
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again. Sarubanad is a broken man. My hand and my arm was literally hanging by a thread. He was attacked
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by a gang armed with a machete and thought he would die. There was a lot of blood around me. My
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clothes were completely trenched off blood. Good evening. A Caroline Springs shopping centre has
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been forced into lockdown after a brawl broke out between machete-wielding teens. As Julia Passarelli
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reports, it comes after the Victorian government banned the sale of the weapons. Inside a suburban
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shopping centre, violence erupts. Machete-wielding teens clash in Caroline Springs as workers scramble
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to shut their doors to protect themselves from harm. As the search continues for the people who killed a
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young man in Lyndhurst, the government is being asked why the machete ban will take six months to
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enforce. The opposition says the ousted chief commissioner recommended the change a year ago.
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Crime reporter Gillian Lantouris. Bouquets of flowers marking another victim of Victoria's
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machete crisis. A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death in a Lyndhurst car park on Friday night.
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The offenders are believed to be linked to a violent armed robbery in Baronia an hour earlier.
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There are a lot of news outlets that will auto-generate articles about earthquakes just a few seconds
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after they're detected. They automatically plug the magnitude and location information into a
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pre-written template and then publish it. At this rate, we're probably going to see the same thing
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with machete attacks in Australia. Hitchener won't even have to go to work. Australians would just get
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the latest machete attack information along with their daily weather report. And in any event, before
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we take a closer look at some of these incidents, it needs to be said that Peter Hitchener, as talented as
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he is, isn't capable of covering every single machete attack in Australia. There are simply too many of
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them. So here's an Australian machete attack that he missed. This one took place in a McDonald's
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back in May. Watch. A shocking vision out of Melbourne of another alleged machete attack just
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days after a landmark ban of the weapon. Yeah, these pictures taken from inside a bathroom at
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McDonald's in Trugger Niner. One child appearing to have a weapon pressed against his throat. Police have
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since arrested and charged one of the accused teenagers, but this morning he is out on bail. Footage has
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emerged of a 15 year old boy being threatened with a machete in a McDonald's toilet. At one point,
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the knife is held to his throat as he's ordered to get down. The vision shows another victim being
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punched while on the ground. The offenders appear to be in school uniforms. One of the fathers of the
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alleged perpetrators has spoken out saying he doesn't think his son will face any real consequences
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over this, facing the labelling the juvenile justice system as ineffective. And for good measure,
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here's another machete attack from a patrol station, as they call it in that part of the
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world, back in June. A teenager has been ambushed in a terrifying machete attack in Melbourne's
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northeast. He arrived at a service station to fill up but was set upon within seconds of getting out
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of his vehicle. A late night fuel stop that turned violent in a matter of seconds.
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A passenger inside this Holden ambushed by two armed thugs at Doreen's United petrol station just
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before 10 last night. The victim was slashed on the arm with a machete almost two weeks after the
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sale of the weapon was outlawed in Victoria. The victim fled to this McDonald's, which is just 100
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metres from the service station. Shocked witnesses called paramedics who took him to the northern
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hospital in a serious condition. The offenders fled within minutes of the attack.
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Seeing all these reports, a reasonable person might ask, what exactly is the root cause of the
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problem here? Who are these teens and males who are wielding machetes? What are their ethnicities?
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Where are the fathers? No one else in Australia's mainstream media, including even the great Peter
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Hitchener, is allowed to ask any of these questions. Instead, they're compelled to report endlessly,
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day after day, about yet another brutal machete attack that's been committed by
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nondescript wayward youths and rowdy teens. Even after the government banned the act of attacking
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someone with a machete and then banned the act of possessing a machete at all, somehow the attacks have
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continued. So they're hopelessly confused about how to proceed here. But Australia's government has not
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remained completely passive in the face of this onslaught of machete violence. They have formulated a
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plan, I'm happy to report. Now, granted, it's the worst plan they could have possibly conceived, but it
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is a plan nonetheless. Specifically, Australia's government has decided to politely ask machete
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attackers to hand over their weapons. And they can do that by dropping machetes in the nearest machete
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collection box. Watch. Outside the Victoria Police headquarters on Spencer Street, a purpose-built
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bin for a weapon wreaking havoc. This is very important. Those knives, those machetes create
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enormous damage. Come September 1, it will be illegal to own a machete. And this is where Victorians are
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being asked to drop them off during an amnesty period that will run until November 30. We've done this
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because we want to get these knives off the streets because these knives destroy life. On the 1st of
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September, when the ban on machetes takes place, we are rolling out through Victoria Police at 24-7
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police stations, the safe disposal bins. These will be at locations right across the state.
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They'll be locations where people can come and lawfully dispose of any machete that they may already
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have. So this is the solution that they've arrived upon after a series of machete attacks that have
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terrorized tens of thousands of people. They're just going to ask the criminals to surrender their
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machetes in a giant machete box, as if the only thing causing them to kill people with machetes is
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the fact that getting rid of the machete hasn't been convenient enough. The machete attackers have
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all said to themselves, gee, you know, I'd really like to stop butchering people with machetes, but
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unfortunately, there's no convenient disposal location for my murder weapon. I guess I'll have
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to keep macheteing people. Now, the obvious parallel here is with gun buybacks, which don't work either,
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by the way. In 2008, more than a decade after Australia banned most firearms, researchers at the
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University of Melbourne looked into the country's gun buyback program, and they found, quote,
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the evidence so far suggests that in the Australian context, the high expenditure incurred to fund the
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1996 gun buyback has not translated into any tangible reductions in terms of firearm deaths.
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It turns out that only law-abiding gun owners were handing in their guns. Who could have possibly
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predicted that? And of course, we see the same thing at gun buybacks in the United States. As of 2020,
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in the U.S., the firearm homicide rate for young black males was more than 20 times higher than it
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was for white males of the same age, but young black males are not handing in their guns. As the
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research organization RAND has reported, citing dozens of surveys and studies, quote, the majority of
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participants in gun buybacks were older white men. Seventy-five percent of the gun buybacks were
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a small caliber compared with 24 percent of guns used in homicides and 32 percent of those used in
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suicides. Additionally, quote, the number of guns turned into buybacks represent a tiny fraction of
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firearms in any community. Significant proportions of firearms turned into buyback programs were not in
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working condition or were older than guns typically used in crimes. Nearly one quarter of survey
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respondents in Sacramento, California, reported that the firearm they turned in during a gun buyback
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event was not in working order, with an additional 24 percent reporting that they were unsure whether
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the firearm was operational. Now, most of these people handed in their guns, which many of them
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were broken anyway, so they could receive a gift card or some other form of compensation from the state.
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But in Australia, they're not even offering any incentive for these machetes.
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Not even a coupon to McDonald's or anything. They're just asking the criminals to hand over their
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weapons. And that's raising concern that if anyone does actually drop off a machete for some reason,
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well, criminals will just take the machetes from the giant machete bin that they're now leaving in
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Dozens of police stations in prominent crime hotspots will soon be home to new machete amnesty bins.
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It's part of a plan to get the deadly blades off our streets, but critics say it's unlikely to work
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We need to give them some kind of carrot rather than just focusing on the stick.
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Having them out the front, you're not actually sending any message that it's okay to drop them off.
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The Les Twentyman Foundation ran its own successful knife buyback program in 2006.
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We did that through having an engagement with a young person and they exchanged a knife with for
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some kind of incentive, so a movie ticket or a ticket to the footy.
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The state government is hoping its program will be as successful as Australia's gun amnesty in 1996.
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There are also concerns that the bins themselves will be targeted by criminals,
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but youth foundations say it's more likely they'll sit empty for the full three months.
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Well, if the program remains the same at the moment, then I don't think they're going to have
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Notice in that report that they said Australia's gun amnesty had been successful, but that's
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Banning guns has not solved Australia's violent crime problem, as we can clearly see.
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In fact, it didn't even solve the problem with firearms.
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Quoting again from the University of Melbourne, the 1996-97 National Firearms Agreement in
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Australia introduced strict gun laws, but using a battery of structural brake tests, there
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is little evidence to suggest that it had any significant effects on firearm homicides and suicides.
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To the extent that the rate of firearm use has declined in Australia, the researchers found
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that it was already declining well before the gun ban went into effect.
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And on top of that, as we can see clearly, criminals have not stopped committing violent
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crimes in Australia because of the firearms ban.
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They're happy to use machetes instead of guns, and now, thanks to the firearm ban, the victims
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I guess they'd have to have their own machete, get into like a swashbuckling sword fight with
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the attacker in the middle of the shopping mall.
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But they don't do that, so they have to wait for the police, who take roughly 30 minutes to
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Yes, people spend a full half hour in panic as gangs attack people with machetes.
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Of course, even if you somehow manage to ban machetes, which is practically impossible,
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just like a gun ban, then they'll move on to some other instrument of violence.
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I mean, you can't stop violence by reactively banning the objects people use to commit it.
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Primitive societies, despite what you may have been told, were far more violent, far more
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What's left unsaid in all these news reports is that Australians have had legal access to
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machetes for centuries without any issue whatsoever.
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It was only when Australia began importing the third world en masse that machetes suddenly
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So let's go back to one of those 500 news reports that I had played at the beginning of
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this segment and see if you notice anything about the coverage of mall attack number two.
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I feel so scared, like my heartbeat go, because I just quickly go and shut the cafe and tell
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They just pulled out from their back, their backpack, and then a long knife, like musty,
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Shoppers also caught up in the chaos just after 6.30 last night.
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We're going into lockdown because someone has a machete.
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They were in and they were out very, very promptly.
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They all were like with the same attire, black, and covering the face.
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This comes less than two weeks after rival gangs fought inside Northland Shopping Centre.
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Seven people have been charged over that incident.
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As jaded as I am, you think I can't be shocked by this anymore.
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But when you watch it, if not for the accent of the news reporter, you would never know that it's a news report from Australia.
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Almost every person interviewed or even just seen on camera is an immigrant.
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Even the voiceover, the intercom, telling the store owners to go into lockdown is clearly foreign.
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If you had to guess without any context, if I showed you that video, it would give you no context.
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And I were to ask you to guess what country is this from?
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You would think it was from India or some other South Asian country.
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Now, this is a transformation that's been underway for a very long time, but it's accelerated recently.
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Jordan Knight with the Claremont Institute has outlined the deliberate process that's led to the breakdown of law and order in Australia.
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In September 2022, some of the most prominent academics and political leaders in Australia, including the prime minister and the immigration minister,
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gathered for a meeting to address what they called a skills crisis in the country post-COVID.
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The agenda for the meeting was to assess, quote,
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the role of skilled migration in resolving the current skills and labor shortage crisis.
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And ultimately, the group concluded that the migration ceiling should be increased to nearly 200,000 and visa and work restrictions should be relaxed across the board.
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And very quickly, a visa backlog of more than 3 million had been reduced by nearly 500,000 applicants.
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The number of foreign nationals on student visas exploded.
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You can see the surge there in terms of net student visa arrivals.
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Those are levels that Australia hasn't seen in decades.
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Meanwhile, as hundreds of thousands of foreigners streamed in, look what happened to housing costs.
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Predictably, rents are increasingly at historic levels.
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Millions of Australians can't afford a place to live.
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And of course, along with rent, the cost of basic essentials like groceries increased as well.
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That's generally what happens when there's a sudden surge of demand.
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In Australia, a country of around 27 million people, net overseas migration for 23 to 24 was estimated at roughly 550,000, far exceeding the government's own estimates by more than 100,000 people.
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Again, nothing like this has happened in generations.
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You can see the massive swing right at the end of this chart.
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One that the government in Australia deliberately enacted.
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Instead of getting skilled labor, they've lowered the quality of life for everyone living in the country.
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For Australians, in practical terms, that means a lot more news coverage of teens and youths terrorizing the local mall.
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That's from last month when thousands of Muslims surrounded St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne.
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And when this footage went viral, the response was, well, it was peaceful and part of some Islamic tradition.
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Any intimidation was purely accidental, in other words.
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Well, the big deal is that as controversial as this apparently is to say, Australia should not look like Pakistan.
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Okay, it was once a functioning Western nation.
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And in a very short period of time, Australia's leaders have effectively erased its national sovereignty.
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Just the other day, there was yet another rally that, if you didn't know any better, looks like a scene out of the Middle East.
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Now, only a nation in complete denial would look at these images, these news reports, these statistics,
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and conclude that the machetes are the problem.
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Australia is refusing to acknowledge what everyone can clearly see.
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Like Canada and the UK, Australia has deliberately transformed into a colony of the third world,
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to the point that the next time someone tries to make the case that we don't really need to enforce immigration laws as rigorously as possible here,
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or that the Second Amendment isn't vital for our country's survival,
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you don't really need to say anything in response.
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You just tell them to tune in to Australia's nightly newscasts for a couple of weeks.
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See if they can count the number of machete attacks.
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We've been following this story in Cincinnati very closely, the story of the anti-white mob attack.
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There's been a number of attempts to find some way to blame this on the white victims.
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Over the weekend, there were some videos going viral of what happened leading up to the vicious assaults that we all saw.
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The people sharing the videos claimed that they proved that the one white guy hit first, and really this was all his fault.
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But if you watch the video with your eyes actually open, you see the opposite.
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And we don't need to play very much of this because you see in the first—just—we'll play it.
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What do you see in the first three seconds of this video?
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Okay, so we gave you the first 10 seconds of the video, which is more than enough because in the first three seconds, you see the black guy swing on the white guy.
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And yet race hustlers on social media are just flat-out lying.
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These people lie like they—like they, you know, they don't even know they're lying anymore.
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They lie like they breathe, trying to convince us somehow the video I just played proves that the white guy started it.
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Now, there's obviously stuff that happened before even that video started, but all the videos that we see, you know, it all stacks up a certain way.
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Which, by the way, even if he did start it, that would not just—and this should not need to be said, but apparently it does need to be said—that that would not justify jumping multiple—like multiple people jumping one person and attacking him and pummeling him while he was on the ground.
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Not to mention inflicting severe brain damage on the woman who was also assaulted and didn't hit anybody.
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You know, there is such a thing as fighting honorably.
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There's such a thing as honor in general, like to be an honorable person that matters.
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And we've moved away from that in society to a large extent.
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And now you have a lot of people that the concept is like foreign to them.
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But you can't have a functioning society when there's no concept of honor, being an honorable person.
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This is not some, right, academic concept or some just sentimental nonsense.
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You cannot have a functioning society without honor, without a sense of honor.
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And even—and that used to be widely understood, even in a fight.
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You know, because I'm not one of these people that says, oh, well, violence is never the answer.
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Unless you're, you know, a radical peacenik and you think that war is always wrong and there's never—self-defense even is wrong.
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Unless you're one of those people, then you know that, you know, sometimes violence is the answer.
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Or it's maybe not an ideal answer, but it's the only answer available.
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And I wouldn't even say that, you know, violence can only be justified morally if someone hits you first.
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If you're walking down the street with your wife or something and someone comes up and accosts your wife in some way,
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then as a man you're perfectly morally justified in responding in a violent way to that, I believe.
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But, you know, in terms of self-preservation these days, it probably will come back to bite you.
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So, but in a fight, when a fight happens—and this whole thing is being called a fight.
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You know, local officials have called it a fight.
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If somebody smacks you in the face and you feel the need to respond physically,
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the honorable thing is to face him man-to-man, one-on-one.
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And when he's on the ground, you've won the fight.
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Stomping on his head is not only attempted murder, but also it's dishonorable, cowardly behavior.
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Stomping a guy when he's on the ground is despicable, dishonorable, cowardly behavior.
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Ganging up on someone should be like an embarrassing thing to do.
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Well, then square—if you feel like you need to, square up with him and settle it like men.
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That's dishonorable, savage, despicable, cowardly behavior.
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But really, all that is academic anyway, because this guy did not start it.
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He was not the first to throw a punch, as you can see.
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And then came an even more desperate attempt to justify this assault.
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Claims began circulating, which, you know, I predicted this, and I'm not the only one.
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A lot of people predicted this, that what's going to happen is they're going to start telling you,
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There are still people who just make that claim flat out, as if it's a fact on social media.
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And so the claims began circulating that someone shouted the N-word during this whole incident.
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And the defense attorneys for one of the assailants has made this claim, as if it's a defense.
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This is the defense they're going to go with, very predictably.
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The N-word was shouted during the violent Cincinnati beatdown.
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It's unclear who said it and to whom it was directed.
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Now, I'm not going to bother playing the video because the word is bleeped.
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And the person who says it, whoever says it, is not clearly visible on camera.
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It's not clear if the person who said it is even white or who it was said to.
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And also, it was said by whoever said it after the assault had already taken place.
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So, using it as a justification for the assault is clearly nonsensical.
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They skipped ahead in time and knew that they would be called the N-word.
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But, of course, the reason they were called the N-word, if they were called it, is because they attacked.
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So, this becomes sort of a self-fulfilling process.
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The N-word paradox of time travel, as maybe we'll call it.
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But, let's leave the timeline entirely aside for the moment.
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Just for the sake of argument, let's pretend that we knew one of the white people said the word.
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And let's pretend that it happened before the assault.
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You are not justified or excused in physically assaulting someone just because they said a word you don't like.
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Like, this is, and I say that as someone who just said a few minutes ago that I, it's not my view that there could never be a thing someone could say to you or say in your presence that would justify a violent response.
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Someone to cost your wife, your children, is harassing them or something.
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Then, I think, again, perfectly morally justified.
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Not that I'm recommending it on illegal grounds, but morally justified.
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But, someone just saying a word you don't like, no, that doesn't justify it.
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And, but we've let this idea, especially when it's a word that we hear 10 million times a day.
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Especially when it's a word that's been utterly, totally normalized.
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So, we've let this idea fester for decades that this one particular word, this magical word, belongs in some kind of category unto itself.
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And, if the word is uttered, uttered by somebody with the wrong skin tone, specifically, then all the laws of human decency and basic common sense, the actual laws also against assault and murder, should all be suspended.
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This is the dynamic that's existed in our culture for a very long time.
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And, it's rooted in a broader idea, which we find all throughout the culture, which is that a person's subjective emotional experience is more true, is more real than reality itself.
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What matters is not what actually happened, but what a person, a person in a protected group, rather, feels happens.
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Or, or how they, or how they feel about, about what happened.
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And, with this word, the idea is that a black person's subjective emotional experience of hearing the word is so distressing and so painful that the word itself is effectively no longer just a word.
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But, it's morally equivalent to physically assaulting somebody or trying to kill them.
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And, and so, so, there could be a violent response to the word and it's sort of like effectively self-defense because he's defending himself against the emotional annihilation that the word might cause.
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Um, but, it, and it's, you know, it's, uh, completely ridiculous.
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Your emotional reaction to something does not get to define what the thing is.
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It doesn't matter if you feel that it's more than a word.
00:33:38.460
You know, Democratic Socialists of America recently published a panel discussion from its annual Socialism Conference that featured open calls for the abolition of the nuclear family and traditional family structure in the U.S.
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The panel titled The Left and the Family, a roundtable, took place on July 4th and was part of the Socialism Conference in Chicago.
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The video was uploaded to YouTube on Friday and DSA wrote in the caption that the nuclear family is an inherently repressive, racist, and heterosexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism.
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Um, well, rather than reading about it, I'll play some of the, uh, highlights that Post Millennial provided in their article.
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So, here are some of the highlights from this, uh, socialism event.
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And, uh, on that revolutionary horizon, want to perform abortions in a church, you know, before it's all said and done.
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The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and the duration of the contract.
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We can imagine family abolition because we have seen black women do it.
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Because we have seen these, like, indigenous communities do it.
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But, you know, it is, to me, it is the, the institution of marriage can only exist alongside the criminalization of sex workers.
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Children whose parents are unable to provide either housing, food, or safety are treated as if they have committed a crime.
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So, kids themselves are treated as if they have committed a crime if they're not born into a family that can support them.
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In addition to abolition of family policing, you argue for abolition of the family in general, uh, and say that the institution of the family acts as part of the carceral system in the way that it reinforces children as property.
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I think the left is constantly surprised at how few people are, um, you know, ready for revolt, despite, you know, the extremely dire conditions that we're in that keep becoming more and more dire every day.
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Women and children are the most harmed by capitalism, but also women and children are the architects of their fate.
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So, when we talk about family abolition, that's what we're talking about.
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We're talking about the abolition of that economic unit.
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When we, for me, that liberatory horizon is to say it is a horizon in which kinship and care are, um, like, in which all of our material needs are taken care of by the collective.
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Um, the, uh, sex work, the criminalization of sex work is like the dark underbelly of the, um, of the sanctified, reified, and, and, and legally, like, like, like enforced, um, institution of exchanging your bodily autonomy and, and, and your sexuality for economic security.
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I don't think they, one can exist without the other.
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Okay, so that's a whole lot of insane nonsense, but, um, this is what so-called democratic socialists are all about.
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And remember, the guy who's about to be the next mayor of our largest city in New York, Zoran Mamdani, is a democratic socialist.
00:36:39.900
So, we can't just write it off as this fringe, radical thing, some sort of aberration.
00:36:46.200
And it really highlights a point that, um, I want to make, which is that, you know, what are all these socialists railing against?
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The family, the nuclear family, mom, dad, children.
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Um, that's the thing that they have been working to destroy.
00:37:17.980
The centerpiece of, of everything is the family.
00:37:22.020
And the dividing line in our culture war, our, our political battles and our cultural battles, the dividing line is the family.
00:37:30.840
On one side, you have those who defend the family and seek to preserve it and promote it and celebrate it.
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And on the other, you have those who want to destroy it or abandon it or subvert it or give up on it or surrender it.
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And if you're on the side of subversion and abandonment, then you are the enemy.
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But if you are not a defender of the family, then we're not on the same side.
00:38:13.780
And I want to make that point because the fact is, you know, there are some people on the right, supposedly on the right, who are, and this is an increasing problem, I think, these people who are basically anti-family.
00:38:29.420
They have nothing but negative things to say about it.
00:38:35.280
They think that getting married is like selling out, simping, or whatever.
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And, and those people are just like the people we saw in the video.
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Either you stand with the family, you defend it, or you don't.
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And if you don't, then you're an agent of despair and moral chaos.
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I want your whole worldview and everything you stand for to be destroyed if you stand against the family.
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Like, you cannot possibly be an agent for good in the culture if you stand against the family.
00:39:20.380
That's all that, that, that's what matters to me.
00:39:23.220
Now, if we can agree that we're pro-family, then we could go on and we could talk about a lot of other really important issues.
00:39:31.340
But the first litmus test for me is pro-family or anti-family.
00:39:37.280
And if you're anti-family, I don't care how you arrived at that conclusion.
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I don't care what kind of language you use when, when describing it.
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You're, uh, you're, you're an enemy of this country.
00:39:50.020
There is no version of conservatism that is anti-family or apathetic to the family or not actively promoting the family.
00:39:58.220
Because if we're not trying to conserve the family, then there is nothing else worth conserving.
00:40:05.060
If we are not conserving the family, there is not a single other possible thing that could be worth, everything else is destroyed.
00:40:13.180
Everything you care about is destroyed if we are not conserving and promoting and defending the family.
00:40:18.840
If we don't have the family, nothing else matters.
00:40:23.860
Well, that doesn't matter because of this issue.
00:40:32.120
You can't be, you can't be America first if you're not rabidly pro-family and promoting the family, encouraging people to start families.
00:40:56.240
Well, I'll tell you what America with no families looks like.
00:41:02.740
It looks like total dysfunction and destruction is what it looks like.
00:41:08.220
And if that's what you want for America, then there's no, there's no America first.
00:41:16.180
The family is the bedrock of human civilization.
00:41:19.140
Everything, everything, everything is grounded in the family.
00:41:28.180
Why do I refuse to give in to this black pill, you know, despairing, cowardly nonsense?
00:41:41.700
Well, because if I do that, then there's nothing else worth talking about.
00:41:47.780
If you've given up on the family, just give up in general.
00:42:06.120
So just give up, you know, stay at your house, play on your phone and, and, and bide
00:42:13.160
I mean, that's, that's, that's, you might as well just do that.
00:42:17.480
So I defended fight for the family because, because I, because.
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Nothing else matters if I don't, if we all don't.
00:42:27.420
Um, and this is the, it's, it's so fundamental and so basic that, uh, you know, for, for a
00:42:36.120
long time, for, for most of human history, really, there was no reason, you know, to
00:42:41.140
identify yourself as like a defender of the family or your pro family for, for much of
00:42:46.660
human history, particularly much of Western civilization.
00:42:49.180
That was a stance that did not ever need to be said.
00:42:52.520
It would be, you'd be looked at as strange if you went around saying, you know, go around
00:43:01.580
People look at you like you got five heads, not because they're against the family, but
00:43:10.160
Of course, you're, what are you going to be against the family?
00:43:14.440
Well, now we actually have that, that stance exists now.
00:43:18.260
That's a, that's a, that's a, not just real, but that is a, um, a position that people have
00:43:31.020
You find this, um, and there's, um, you know, we just, we have no use for it, which doesn't
00:43:41.180
mean that, look, everyone, I'll be the first to say this, that when it comes to conservatives
00:43:46.460
who are sort of in the movement, whether they're, you know, talking heads or activists
00:43:55.020
or whatever, people have different issues that they focus on.
00:43:57.820
They have different aptitudes, different things that they, you know, that they have special
00:44:04.300
And so it's not that every conservative needs to only ever talk about defending the family.
00:44:08.880
But if you're out there, um, actively degrading it, demonizing it, um, mocking it, belittling
00:44:17.800
it, all that sort of thing, then yeah, you're just, you're, you're like those socialists.
00:44:24.500
There's no, there's no meaningful distinction anymore.
00:44:31.960
Some, um, entertainment news, always important.
00:44:40.980
Marvel's first family might not save the day after all.
00:44:44.180
The fantastic four is a quickly losing steam in the second weekend.
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Signaling the comic book adventure isn't connecting the box office after a healthy 117.6 million
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I give you, I don't need to give you all the numbers.
00:45:03.800
It dropped 80% from Friday to Friday, which is pretty devastating.
00:45:07.900
If you work for Disney, I mean, not devastating for me, but, um, and now a lot of people are
00:45:13.780
They're trying to figure out why the fantastic four is Phil is sort of losing steam so quickly
00:45:18.100
trying to figure out why superhero films in general for the past five years or so are
00:45:22.960
Haven't been the surefire massive successes that they've been in the past.
00:45:28.820
They still make hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:45:33.160
You know, I think fantastic four at this point is going to is, is, has made a hundred, whatever,
00:45:38.860
Not impressive because you've got, first of all, you've got like double that in marketing
00:45:44.160
These are, these are big name IPs, you know, spending tens and hundreds of millions of dollars
00:45:53.800
Um, so when you're spending that kind of money, it's like, it's not impressive to make a hundred
00:46:11.280
Well, it's because it's because these movies are bad.
00:46:18.540
I think there's more people coming around to it.
00:46:24.180
Superhero films for the most part, they're just bad films.
00:46:30.640
Like if, if you, if you say, Oh, the superhero films don't do well anymore.
00:46:33.300
Cause they, they're so, you know, it's they're, they're bad now.
00:46:36.860
No, they're, they're kind of what they've always been.
00:46:40.380
You go back and watch a superhero film from 2005.
00:46:53.200
I can't remember why, but I do recall talking about fantastic four one other time.
00:46:56.920
I have no idea why now is my second time revisiting it, but I think I made this point, which is that fantastic four is particularly lame.
00:47:07.740
The whole squad is run by a guy who's only superpowers that he's really stretchy.
00:47:19.060
I said, was there a fantastic four show back in the nineties I've seen, I've, I've, I've been around it a little bit.
00:47:23.660
So, but I don't remember the, uh, the origin story.
00:47:27.860
Did he, was he in some sort of like thing where his, his DNA was accidentally melded with a pair of Spanx?
00:47:39.480
It's only made worse by the fact that Marvel wants all these characters to exist in the same cinematic universe, but that just makes them even more redundant and useless.
00:47:48.140
Like there's no reason why you would ever call the stretchy guy to come help you in a world where, you know, Thor exists or Iron Man or Captain America.
00:47:59.060
And why do you need the big rock guy when you have the Hulk?
00:48:09.300
I mean, the Hulk could be here in five seconds.
00:48:13.840
Like what, and the Avengers have this problem on their own squad because they've got the, uh, the, uh, who's the guy with the arrows?
00:48:25.140
I was just talking to my son about this the other day.
00:48:28.860
I'd always thought, well, this guy's pretty useless, isn't he?
00:48:36.980
And, but I assume that, well, they must be special arrows, magical arrows.
00:48:40.140
He must be some kind of magical, you know, archer guy.
00:48:43.100
And, but my son was telling me he's not, he has no superpowers at all.
00:48:51.060
Now, why in God's name would you ever need him?
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Practically speaking, you have a superhuman alien God, right?
00:49:00.300
And then you've got a strong guy who could throw a tank across the stratosphere.
00:49:10.600
In what scenario would you ever have those dudes, but, and they're facing something where they go, we don't, we need an air.
00:49:21.080
We need a guy who can shoot an arrow 150 yards.
00:49:23.660
We need a guy that was really, that got a, you know, got a, got a, was in Boy Scouts and got the archery badge.
00:49:39.000
And superhero movies in general are just not good films.
00:49:41.640
And that's why the genre, genre is dying because these movies are shallow, they're repetitive, they're dull.
00:49:46.600
It's, you know, it's the same thing over and over again.
00:49:53.660
If there was anything beneath the surface, if the genre, uh, had, if there was anything really there, you know, if there was any real art to it, then the genre would last more than 15 or 20 years, but it hasn't.
00:50:04.600
Think about, you know, think about Westerns, right?
00:50:08.480
Westerns were a really popular genre for like 40 or 50 years and they fell off only because Hollywood stopped making them.
00:50:14.400
Not because people lost interest, not because the genre ran out of gas.
00:50:17.880
It's just because Hollywood decided they want to make them anymore.
00:50:19.880
Um, or they decided that if they do make them, they have to make them super politically correct.
00:50:24.400
And you need to have a boss, babe, hero, and you need the Indians to all be good guys.
00:50:30.680
So Hollywood gave up on it, but, um, these are, this is a genre that has stood the test of time.
00:50:37.440
And, and it's interesting because the superhero movies are very redundant.
00:50:42.760
It's the same thing over and over and over again.
00:50:44.480
It's the same plot beats over and over and over again.
00:50:49.180
How many times are they going to show the origin story of these guys?
00:50:53.420
How many times, how many versions of that do you need?
00:50:59.300
Um, but then you think about something like Westerns and you could point out that, well,
00:51:03.200
I'm a big Western fan and Westerns can be, can be, they follow a formula too.
00:51:08.100
They're pretty formulaic or they can be very similar beats.
00:51:13.460
Um, a lot of Westerns feature the brooding loner guy, right?
00:51:17.800
A lot of them end with the big shootout at the end.
00:51:20.400
Often you've got a bad guy who's trying to kick somebody off of their land.
00:51:23.600
I mean, this was the formula way back with Shane in the, in the, in the 1950s.
00:51:29.720
And, um, now here we are 70 years later, 70 plus years later.
00:51:34.640
And, uh, and if, when a Western is made, it's the same basic formula.
00:51:42.200
I've seen 50, I've seen a hundred Westerns that all have that same formula.
00:51:48.940
It's because there's these, they have, they have heart.
00:51:59.140
It's something, it feels like something real, right?
00:52:05.340
And, uh, these superhero movies are just not, you know, it's like Scorsese said, their theme
00:52:12.620
Scorsese, who I think knows a thing or two about making great films, uh, one of the greatest
00:52:18.080
And it doesn't mean he's right about everything, but he was right about this.
00:52:21.080
And when you've got a guy like that, who's, you know, and, and that should, the filmmakers
00:52:24.740
aren't, it's not often that you'll hear them just writing off entire genres.
00:52:31.720
Um, but one thing you'll hear from the really great film, and he's not the only one, but
00:52:35.960
the really great directors, you'll, you'll often, if you, if there's candid moments when
00:52:40.120
you kind of reveal like they're not really into this and why it's just because it's not
00:52:45.740
a film, it's, it's a theme park ride, it's an amusement park ride, basically.
00:52:52.500
They're not, they're not even made to be films.
00:53:03.500
And yes, every movie exists ultimately to make money.
00:53:06.260
Somebody wants to make money off of it, but with the superhero movies, it's purely that
00:53:13.180
They sat around and said, okay, here's this IP, how are we going to cash in on it this
00:53:20.560
And you can never have a good film that starts that way.
00:53:23.340
If it's going to be a great, if any chance of a great film, it has to start with an artist
00:53:28.560
And they have a story that they want to tell them.
00:53:30.160
And yeah, they got to bring in the money people.
00:53:37.240
Sometimes it's ruined in that process, but it's got to start with someone saying this story
00:53:42.980
And if it doesn't start with that, you're going to end up with a movie.
00:53:46.140
And, uh, and that's why most of these franchise films are terrible.
00:53:49.240
It's why they're crap, because they don't start in the heart and soul of an artist.
00:53:53.980
Um, they start with a, with a, with a, you know, with a freaking chart and a, and a, and
00:53:58.640
a whiteboard in their, in their, uh, and bar graphs.
00:54:06.000
And AI now that too, really now they start with AI.
00:54:08.920
Um, and, uh, and that's what they're going to be made with also.
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This will come as a shock to you, but people are mad at me on the internet again.
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This is a fascinating change of pace from yesterday and the day before and the day before that
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and every day for the past 10 years when people have also been mad at me on the internet.
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This latest outrage began with a post from some random account on X who shared a screenshot
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that contained a disturbing fact, which said this.
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By 2030, an estimated 45% of women aged 25 to 44 will be single and child free.
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And the account comments correctly that this is, quote, the real pandemic.
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Now, a woman by the name of Rudaparna Chatterjee, who is the deputy Asia director at The Independent,
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responded saying, women don't owe children to a world that hates them and is actively curbing
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Now, I responded to Ms. Rudaparna Chatterjee with my own take.
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I posted, quote, women do, in fact, owe children to the world.
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Your ancestors suffered and sacrificed and died to bring you into existence and build
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You stand on the shoulders of thousands of years of untold hardship, giving up, throwing
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it all away, extinguishing your own bloodline, all so that you can live a pathetic and pointless
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life dedicated solely to your own material gain is an act of generational betrayal and suicide.
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You know, in my typical understated way, well, as you probably imagine, the feminists did
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Thousands of very outraged comments followed, some of them like this one, threatening to
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extinguish their own bloodline in an act of revenge against me, quote, I would never
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bring children into a world of Matt Walsh and his fellow right-wing media internet grifters.
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Some of them like this one were wishing death on me, predictably, quote, please do us all
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Some of them like this one very hilariously accused me of being a hypocrite because I
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have no children of my own, quote, says the guy with zero kids and two failed marriages,
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When she screenshots an AI search result that says Matt Walsh does not have any children,
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according to Wikipedia, he's been married twice, but those marriages did not produce
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Now, of course, as you know, I actually have six kids and I've been married for 14 years
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I'm not sure which Matt Walsh, if any, this answer refers to, but I do know that this other
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Matt Walsh didn't deserve to get caught in the crossfire, poor guy.
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But most of the responses simply accused me of being an oppressive, patriarchal, sexist,
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misogynistic tyrant who hates women and wants to control them.
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Hundreds of feminists declared that they don't owe the world or anyone in it anything at all.
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There are also a number of comments saying that the world is too populated as it is, so the
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best thing we can do for the world is embrace our own extinction.
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It was a pretty grim array of responses, all told.
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And if ratios tell us anything, which they probably don't, I must admit that the original
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post claiming that women don't owe children to the world because the world hates them
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Mine has just over 30,000, which isn't too shabby, but hers would seem to be the more popular
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At least in the social media fever swamps, it is, which is why I think it's worth fleshing
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The vast majority of women, with the exception of those who are called to a celibate religious
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vocation, I'm not including them, are meant to have children.
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It is their vocation, their responsibility to God, to civilization, to their families,
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Now, I'm sure that some of you right now are boiling with rage and screaming into the air,
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Well, as it turns out, I do say this about men.
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I have made this exact point about men probably hundreds of times.
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I've said it in every forum available to me for 10 years, if not longer, that the vast
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Now, the point about our duty to our ancestors and our bloodline is one that I have made about
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I have applied it to men repeatedly ad nauseum for over a decade.
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Every child has and therefore also should have a mother and a father, a point that I have
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also made literally thousands of times in my career.
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It is the worst kind of selfishness to stand at the end of millennia of hardship and sacrifice
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and declare that it was all for nothing, that the story is coming to an end because you'd
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rather have more time to sit on your couch and scroll TikTok, which is how almost everyone
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uses the extra time they gain from not having kids.
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These people are not out creating beautiful works of art or making scientific discoveries
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Almost all of them are just sitting around staring at their phones.
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They're blowing up their family lineage and sending their bloodline careening off a cliff
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so they can do literally nothing of consequence whatsoever.
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It is all being sacrificed for the sake of ease and comfort and greater luxury, even though
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you could have kids and still have immense ease, comfort, and luxury in comparison to
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what your ancestors enjoyed and what most people on earth today enjoy.
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It is pure despair and not nihilism and despair bred from some kind of tragic experience.
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It's nihilism and despair bred from a life of intense, single-minded self-interest.
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It is the kind of nihilism and despair that comes from never looking or thinking about anything
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except your reflection in the mirror and whatever slop you stare at on your phone.
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So, yes, again, I apply this to men and women equally, obviously.
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And yet, when I do focus this message on men, which I do all the time, nobody ever responds
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On none of those occasions has there even been a fraction of the blowback.
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The red pill and man is fear side of the internet might get annoyed, but that's about it.
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And that's because it has long been verboten in our culture to tell women that they have
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And now we have generations of women who have never heard it suggested that they might have
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any responsibilities to anyone or anything outside of themselves.
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Now, that's not to say that there are no women who acknowledge responsibilities.
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I know plenty of good conservative Christian women who are aware that they have obligations
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and who work every day to meet those obligations.
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But the point is that this is not a message they will hear from the culture.
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If you grow up in modern America, you go to public school, consume mainstream media and
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entertainment, and you're a female, you will rarely hear anyone even hint at the idea that
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The sentence, the phrase, as a woman, you have the responsibility to blank is almost never said
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And if you think I'm making that up or exaggerating, just think in your own mind, when's the last
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time you ever heard anyone say that besides me, when's the last time you ever heard anyone
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say in any context, anywhere at church, on TV, politicians, anyone, when have you ever
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heard anyone say as a woman, you have a responsibility to blank.
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Now, when have you heard it, this said about men all the time as a man, you have a responsibility
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to blank as a man, you have an obligation to do this as a man, you should do this as a
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Instead, if you're a woman, you will be told everywhere by everyone that a woman is meant
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to be an autonomous creature, free and unburdened by any expectation.
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Her only vocation in life is to do exactly what she wants to do for no greater purpose
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than fulfilling her desires, whatever those desires may be.
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Anything that stands in the way of that pursuit, she is told, can and should be disregarded and,
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if necessary, violently and bloodily killed, even and especially if that obstacle is her
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This is the kind of conditioning that women receive.
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And it's why a tweet like mine, talking about a woman's obligations, is so shocking.
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Not because there's anything outrageous about it, but because it suggests the forbidden word
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And yet, in spite of this relentless campaign to drive responsibility away and pretend it
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As a woman, as a woman, you are not a self-created deity who spawned out of the ether.
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You are a human person who is the product of thousands of years of sacrifice and toil.
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You are a member of a family and a community and a country, and you are dependent on that
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If you were truly left to your autonomous self out alone in the wilderness somewhere,
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unencumbered by association or obligation, you'd be dead in three days.
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You want and do enjoy the benefits of civilization, of your ancestor's sacrifice, of being a part
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of your family, a citizen of a country, a product of Western society.
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Those are all privileges that you did not earn and did nothing to contribute to, and they
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You can choose to reject those responsibilities.
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You can stomp your feet like a child, but the responsibilities remain.
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And the most basic responsibility of all, though certainly not the only one, is to continue on,
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to continue the great project that your forebears began, to pass on the baton that they have
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If this sort of talk seems offensive to you or alien or strange, that's only because you
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are an incredibly shallow and ridiculous person who has never paused to contemplate where you
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stand in life and how you got there and what it all means and what sort of legacy you want
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Now, I can't save you from being shallow and ridiculous.
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That will probably never change, though it could if you wanted it to, but you probably
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Your life was not given to you so that you could live it only for yourself.
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You have obligations, whether you want to admit it or not.
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And that's why those who don't or won't admit it are today canceled.
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BuzzFeed reveals Sidney Sweeney's political party, the New York Times wants to harvest
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your organs, and a black half-lesbian plays the Messiah in Jesus Christ Superstar.