Ep. 356 - The Democrat Clown Show
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Summary
On today's show, we're talking about the case of 8-year-old James Younger, who was sexually abused by his mother when he was a child, and how the media is finally starting to take notice. Plus, we talk about a hearing where Democrats treated him like a suspect, and why it's time to ban chemical castration of children.
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So we've been discussing the case of James Younger over the week, and after raising awareness of the
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case this week and getting this hashtag campaign, hashtag protect James Younger going, it looks like
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some crucial people are taking notice. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has said that his attorney
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general is going to look into it. He's also going to have the social services look into the case as
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well. Some state legislators have said they're going to propose a bill that would ban giving
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puberty blockers to gender-confused children. Ted Cruz issued a statement last night. Dan
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Crenshaw has spoken out. The mainstream media is actually taking notice, finally. They're reporting
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on it. The Washington Post did a report. Their report obviously was unfair and biased in favor
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of the mom, but still, they are at least taking notice, which they would prefer not to do,
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but I think we forced them to. So I think that it would be fair to say that our efforts,
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our speaking out about this situation really has a lot to do with these developments.
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Turns out that hashtag campaigns actually can accomplish something. What do you know? Who
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would have thought? And maybe this will leave an impression on Republican politicians, not just in
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Texas, but on the federal level as well. I've been saying this for years, that this issue is a
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winner for Republicans. The Senate should get together. They should pass legislation immediately
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that bans the chemical castration of children. Let the House Democrats, if they want to, if they feel
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comfortable with it, let them come out explicitly in favor of chemically castrating gender-confused
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children, but force them to take a stand on it one way or another. You pass the bill and then let the
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Democrats, let them make their case for why it's actually okay to chemically castrate eight-year-olds.
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Let them do that. Either way, no matter how they do, if they come out in defense of it,
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then everyone sees what a bunch of barbaric lunatics these people are, or they pass the bill,
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in which case children are protected. Whichever way they go, it will benefit society and it will
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benefit children. So there's no reason not to do this. This is a winning issue for Republicans.
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And more important than that, than the fact that it's a winner politically, which it definitely is,
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is just that it's the right thing to do. Okay, so, but what I really want to start with today,
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I want to talk about this hearing on the Hill yesterday with Mark Zuckerberg, where the Democrats
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transparently went fishing for viral moments by taking turns interrogating him with random and
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irrelevant questions, basically treating him like a murder suspect. It was easily the most embarrassing
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So the, uh, the Zuck man, as I call him as of just now, and I'm going to stop calling him that
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I'm going to retire that already was on a Capitol Hill yesterday, testifying before the house financial
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services committee about Libra, which is Facebook's new cryptocurrency concept. Actually,
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it's not just Facebook that would be involved in this. It would be a network of other corporations
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as well. So he was summoned to Washington to talk about it. And the Democrat people on the,
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on the committee figured that, Hey, we've got this, the head dude over at Facebook in front of us.
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Uh, we might as well take advantage and go fishing for some sweet, sweet, sweet viral moments.
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And that's what they did. So each Democrat on the committee took turns grilling Zuckerberg
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as if it was an episode of law and order. And most of their, most of their questions were
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at best only tangentially connected to the subject. But in fact, the majority of the questions really
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had nothing to do with the subject at all, which again, the subject is supposed to be
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this cryptocurrency thing that Facebook is getting going.
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But let's see what direction the Democrats decide to go with this questioning. First,
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here is a representative Al green of the 21. How many are headed by women?
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Congressman, I do not know the answer to that off the top of my head, but I can get it for you.
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Well, I believe you can get it, Mr. Zuckerberg, but I, one would assume that you would know
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who heads these corporations that are going to be running this global company.
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Um, how many of them are minorities, Mr. Zuckerberg?
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Congressman, I do not know off the top of my head.
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Are there any members of the LGBTQ plus community associated with this association, Mr. Zuckerberg?
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Who can, who acknowledge that many people who acknowledge that they are a part of the community?
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Mr. Zuckerberg, is it true that the overwhelming majority of persons associated with this endeavor
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Congressman, I, I don't know off the top of my head, the list of the people who are running
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Mr. Zuckerberg, how many women are working on the project?
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Mr. Zuckerberg, how many members of the LGBTQI P plus community work for it?
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Mr. Zuckerberg, are there any disabled Koreans working for Facebook?
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Mr. Zuckerberg, please tell me the precise number of dyslexic indigenous Australians employed by the
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Mr. Zuckerberg, can you tell me how many bisexual polytheistic one-armed Nigerian drag queens work
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You know, here's the thing, uh, by the way, it's illegal for companies to ask employees about their
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And it would be extremely creepy if Zuckerberg could provide a precise tally.
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I mean, what if he was actually able to say, well, let's see here.
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So let me take a look, pulls the pen out of the ear.
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Now, Zuckerberg could probably actually provide a precise tally of every demographic group and
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sexual orientation in the country because Facebook knows everything.
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And of course, this has nothing to do with the subject that he was ostensibly there to talk about.
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Now, let's see what Representative Joyce Beattie has in store for all of us.
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The other was around setting up a civil rights task force.
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Sheryl Sandberg is the person who, who's, she's-
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Okay, we know Sheryl's not really civil rights, so I'm trying to help you here.
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She's your COO, and I don't think there's anything, and I know Sheryl well, about civil
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So come better than that for me, if we're going to talk civil rights.
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Do you know who the, do you know who the firm that you employ for civil rights is?
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How could you not know when you have employed the most historical, the largest civil rights
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When you have ruined the lives of many people, discriminated against them.
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Do you know what percentage of African Americans are on Facebook?
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In comparison to majority folks, do you know what the percentages are?
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Do you know what the percentages are for African Americans?
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I don't, because we don't collect the races of people.
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Well, it, it, it, it came out in a report and in the Pew Research Center that was sent to
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So maybe you just don't read a lot of things that deal with civil rights or African Americans.
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I have a lot of questions I'm going to send to you that I'm not going to be able to get
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And I would like an answer because this is appalling and disgusting to me.
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I, what, what the hell is this woman babbling about?
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Now I'm no, I'm no Zuckerberg fan personally, but how has he destroyed the lives of African
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What does he, and the thing is, he's got to keep a straight face.
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And no matter how you feel about Zuckerberg, he's got his, his, his IQ is certainly probably
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three times higher than everyone that's questioning him.
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But he's got to keep a straight face and try, and I'm impressed with that at least, keeping
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a straight face, trying his best to calmly answer these idiotic questions from morons.
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There was a Pew poll done about how many African Americans use Facebook.
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So you don't like reading about African Americans, huh?
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So in other words, what you're saying, Mr. Zuckerberg, is that the KKK is good.
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I mean, she really implied that he was racist because he hadn't read a poll about the internet
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It is, how would you, if you wanted to make a parody of the two lines of, of the two clips
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You couldn't, because you couldn't make it any more ridiculous than it already is.
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Okay, let's see what Ayanna Pressley, otherwise known as Ringo, has to say about all of this.
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The same World Bank report cited in your Libra white paper finds that almost two-thirds of
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1.7 billion people who don't have bank accounts say it's because they lack enough money to open
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This is about a tsunami of hurt that millions are experiencing because of a $1.6 trillion student
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debt crisis, because of rising health care costs and people having to use GoFundMe pages to
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This is because of the racial and gender wealth gap.
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So again, you represent the power, but I don't think you understand the pain.
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There is underbanking because people are broke.
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Yes or no, is it free to use the Calibra wallet?
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Congresswoman, the Calibra wallet isn't a service that is available today.
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Assuming we are able to launch it, it will be free.
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Congresswoman, that's the goal, is to make it so that...
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You saw the pride where she said, you represent the power, but you don't understand the pain.
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The rest of that line of questioning was, well, I don't know what it was.
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Apparently, it's wrong for Zuckerberg to be involved in cryptocurrency because people are poor and okay.
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It's like if he said he was going to open a lemonade stand and they brought him in for a questioning and they said, Mr. Zuckerberg, do you know how many people are dying of thirst in Ethiopia right now?
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But of course, to call this questioning would be doing them a favor.
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This was a speech that Ringo wanted to give for the benefit of cable news.
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And she forged ahead with it, even though he rendered it moot by saying the service is free.
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Well, since it costs money, then what about poor people?
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Honestly, I thought the Joker movie was going to be the most disturbing clown show this year, but the Democrats really are giving it a run for its money.
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And we haven't even gotten to the star of the circus just yet, AOC.
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First, let's take a minute and watch her pretend to be Jack McCoy.
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Mr. Zuckerberg, what year and month did you personally first become aware of Cambridge Analytica?
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I'm not sure of the exact time, but it was probably around the time when it became public.
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When did Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg become aware of Cambridge Analytica?
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Did anyone on your leadership team know about Cambridge Analytica prior to the initial report by The Guardian on December 11, 2015?
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Congresswoman, I believe so, in that some folks were tracking it internally.
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I'm actually, as you're asking this, I do think I was aware of Cambridge Analytica as an entity earlier.
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I don't know if I was tracking how they were using Facebook specifically.
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When was the issue discussed with your board member, Peter Thiel?
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This was the largest data scandal with respect to your company that had catastrophic impacts on the 2016 election.
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Well, Congresswoman, I'm sure we discussed it after we were aware of what happened.
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You think, oh, she thinks she's pretending that this is law and order.
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Asking for the precise day and time when he found out.
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What does that have to do with cryptocurrency and how could he possibly know the answer to that question?
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Now, let's fast forward a bit and get to AOC's irrelevant speech about the dangers of conservative websites.
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In your ongoing dinner parties with far-right figures, some of who advanced the conspiracy theory that white supremacy is a hoax,
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did you discuss so-called social media bias against conservatives and do you believe there is a bias?
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Congresswoman, I don't remember everything that was in the question.
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Can you explain why you've named the Daily Caller a publication well-documented with ties to white supremacists as an official fact-checker for Facebook?
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We actually don't appoint the independent fact-checkers.
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They go through an independent organization called the Independent Fact-Checking Network that has a rigorous standard for who they allow to serve as a fact-checker.
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So, you would say that white supremacist-tied publications meet a rigorous standard for fact-checking?
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Congresswoman, I would say that we're not the one assessing that standard.
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The International Fact-Checking Network is the one who is setting that standard.
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Once again, nothing at all to do with the subject.
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And her smear of Daily Caller is absurd, dishonest, despicable, white supremacist-tied website.
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And they don't—you've got to remember, these people are such liars, and this woman in particular is such a ridiculous, incompetent liar that there is no attempt made to justify any of the lies being told.
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None of them are worried about the fact that they're telling obvious lies.
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They'll just—at this point—now, even 10 years ago, it would have been kind of unthinkable for—to have Democrats just directly calling all of their political opponents white supremacists and racists and everything.
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Don't get me wrong, they would have implied it very strongly.
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But this is kind of a new thing, where you've got these prominent Democrats that have no problem going out and calling everyone—straight up calling them white supremacists.
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No evidence, no reason at all to be saying that, but you're a white supremacist.
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And if the Daily Caller was a white supremacist website, what bearing would that have on the cryptocurrency thing we're talking about?
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It's not a huge deal, but yesterday you may have caught wind of some outrage at LeBron James because he allegedly disrespected the anthem.
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Some people on social media were passing around this video of LeBron screaming during the anthem, and apparently this is offensive and unpatriotic, and it's a sign that he's a communist and so on.
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According to the outraged masses that I saw online.
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And, well, let's play the video first, and you tell me if this is offensive and unpatriotic.
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Now, look, I think LeBron's antics with respect to China were shameful and wrong and cowardly, and I said so.
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I disagree with a lot of the political and social stans that he takes, but this line of attack against him about the anthem is pretty silly.
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I have to assume that all these people, and there were, this was not an invented outrage.
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Now, it may be invented in the sense that the people who are acting outraged aren't really and are just pretending.
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I think that's probably the case because that's 90% of the outrages that happen online.
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People are just pretending because they've got nothing better to do.
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But there were at least a lot of people acting as if LeBron had done something wrong here.
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And I have to assume that all those people have never been to a ball game before, any ball game, baseball, basketball, football, hockey.
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At the end of the anthem, as it's finishing, which was the case here, the anthem was finishing, people start cheering, and the athletes will often do exactly what LeBron did there.
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They start pumping up the crowd, let's go, doing all that.
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Nothing, it's not an unpatriotic statement, nothing like that.
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This is just what people do at stadiums, where the last few lines of the anthem are kind of drowned out by applause.
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You'd have to really be kind of a stick in the mud to go to a ball game, and people are cheering, and you're going,
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No, it's just people, it's not a statement against the anthem.
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People are feeding off with a patriotic vibe, and they're saying, yeah, let's go, come on.
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Now, if you're not allowed to respond to the anthem that way, if the anthem is such a sacred, solemn thing that it's a communist to cheer during it,
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Maybe we should be singing the anthem at stadiums before ballgames in the first place, because people are there to watch a sport.
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It's like if you ever go to a game in Baltimore, whether baseball or a football game,
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this is also a common tradition where at the very end of the anthem, where it says,
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oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, people will shout O on the O line,
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and then because of O's, Baltimore Orioles, and then everyone cheers through the last few lines of the anthem.
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I don't think this is worth getting upset about.
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Okay, one other thing here before we get to emails.
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Bob Eger, CEO of Disney, was asked about the criticisms by Scorsese and Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola,
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Scorsese correctly said that Marvel movies are not real cinema.
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And Francis Ford Coppola correctly pointed out that Marvel movies are also despicable.
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And Bob Eger is the guy who runs Disney and thus Marvel.
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He was not a fan of these comments, not surprisingly.
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And he was asked about it during some kind of thing, some kind of panel that he was on yesterday.
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And I thought that his answer was, as I said, pretty revealing.
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If they want to bitch about movies, it's certainly they're right.
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It seems so disrespectful to all the people that work on those films who are working just as hard as the people who work on their films
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and are putting their creative souls on the line just like they are.
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You tell me Ryan Coogler making Black Panther is doing something that is somehow or another less than what Marty Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola,
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Francis Ford Coppola have ever done on any one of their movies?
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So he says, to answer his question, his question is,
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can Black Panther be considered anything less than what Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola have ever done?
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I think anyone with the slightest knowledge of movies would agree.
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I can't imagine that Black Panther was actually anywhere near as good as people pretend that it was.
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But regardless, there is just, having not seen it, I feel that I can still very confidently say
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that it is less than, say, The Godfather or Goodfellas, which are cinematic masters.
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The Godfather, The Godfather is the best movie ever made, in my opinion.
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I think anyone would put it at least in the top five.
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But the fact that the guy who runs this movie studio, the guy who's in charge of everything,
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the fact that he thinks these two are the same, that he can't see a difference between them
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in terms of cinematic quality, should really tell you something.
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And I think that this only further vindicates what Scorsese and Coppola are saying.
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That these people, they literally don't know what good cinema is.
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They can't tell the difference between a movie about people in spandex running around fighting
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bad guys, a movie that's made for 12-year-old boys.
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They can't tell the difference between that and a cinematic masterpiece.
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It says, is it me or does anyone else find it weird that the left endorses a stigma-free society?
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However, it seems that they only endorse it for socially acceptable mental health issues.
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Meaning the right says transgenderism is a mental health condition.
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Or Michael Knoll says it is immorality to use a mentally ill child as a spokesperson for
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Then the left gets irate with these statements because they feel we aren't accepting.
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Wouldn't they then be stigmatizing if they are the ones, when we say mental illness, they
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I feel that by them being accepting of transgenderism, that makes them stigmatize mental illness when
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Maybe I will take, I think maybe I'll just plagiarize your point.
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That, and this was, there's a hashtag thing going on Twitter right now.
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And it's all about ending the stigma of mental illness.
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As you point out, this is something that the left talks about a lot.
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They're always trying to tear down stigmas, whether real or imagined.
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And this is one of the stigmas that they focus on.
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And I agree that mental health conditions, mental illnesses should not be stigmatized
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in the sense that we shouldn't alienate or discriminate against people who suffer from
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On the other end of the spectrum, though, that doesn't mean that we should glamorize mental
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illness or make it seem like something desirable or turn it into social capital that you can
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And the problem is, and I know this wasn't your point, but the problem is that very often
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when someone talks about ending the stigma of such and such thing, what they're really
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They're not trying to just make it neutral, where we all have a neutral, objective view
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And that has happened with respect to mental illness in this country, which is why everybody
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in the country claims to have some kind of mental illness.
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And if you argue, you know, someone says, I have this, whatever, and it's a mental illness.
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And if you say, well, you know, I don't know if that really is a mental illness.
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They get very offended that you're trying to take their mental illness from them.
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So I've gotten into trouble before when we've talked about, for example, anxiety.
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And I've made the argument that anxiety, I have a lot of anxiety, okay?
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So if it is a mental illness, then I guess I have it.
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I think it's a normal thing that human beings deal with.
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And sometimes your anxiety can be rather crippling.
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That doesn't mean it's a mental illness, though.
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And there are all kinds of things that are part of the human condition that people are
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Now I'm going way off of what you talked about, but I'll circle back around.
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And it's a problem, I think, when you take something that is a normal part of the human
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condition and you say that, yeah, this is normal, but if you have it too much, then all
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Now you're drawing some arbitrary line based on nothing.
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It's just based on a totally subjective arbitrary line where beyond that line is a disorder and
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And so we do this with ADHD, we do this with depression, we do this with all these things.
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Now, but the interesting thing is anytime I have this discussion, whether it's anxiety,
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depression, ADD, people get offended when you suggest that maybe it's not a mental disorder.
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But why are you clinging to it as if it's this thing that you really want?
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That that's what gives me the hint that mental disorders now have become a glamorized thing
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that people some for some reason actually want, because otherwise I can't make sense of that.
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And by the way, to say that, again, using the example of anxiety, to say that that's not a mental disorder,
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I would argue it trivializes it to call it a mental disorder, because now you're just slapping a label on it,
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you're medicalizing it, you're treating it like some simple thing that can be medicated.
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And my point is, I think it's deeper than that.
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And so I'm doing the opposite of trivializing it.
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Anyway, in terms of your point, I agree that if we are destigmatizing mental disorders,
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then why is it an insult to suggest, as you said, if someone says transgenderism is a mental health issue?
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Michael Knoll said, pointed out accurately, that Greta Thunberg suffers from various mental illnesses,
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which is what the media has been telling us about her.
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If you treat that as an insult, then as you say, aren't you the one that is now stigmatizing mental illness?
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From Kayla says, my husband and I are huge fans of the show.
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The past few days, we've been fuming alongside you and whatever sane people are still left in this country over this whole James Younger case in Texas.
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I wanted to share an analogy with you that I think applies well and you should use with regards to the whole transgender child abuse going on around in our country.
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I wonder how many people would agree that parents should not take their young children to get tattoos.
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If a five-year-old wants a dragon tattooed onto their face, should the parents oblige?
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I think most people would agree that they shouldn't.
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Because children will make dumb decisions that they'll regret later in life, and it's the parents' job in some sense to protect them from this,
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and yet tattoos are much less of a catastrophic and irreversible long-term bodily alteration than puberty blockers slash hormones slash chemical castration.
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Where they're all, look, tattoos, all kinds of things.
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We don't let, if we're talking about five-year-old kids, six-year-old kids, seven-year-old kids, eight-year-old kids,
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we don't let them make really any decisions for themselves.
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There's really no aspect of a young child's life that we allow them to exercise complete control over.
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They are not autonomous in any sense, and they can't be because they don't have the psychological maturity for it.
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Our goal as parents, when our kids are young, is to get them to a point where, when they're 18, 19, 20,
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now they can actually be basically self-sufficient adults who make choices for themselves.
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We are, as children, though, we are equipping them for that moment to send them out into the wild, wild world and say,
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okay, now it's up to you to run your own life for the most part.
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So, yeah, you could bring up tattoos, anything.
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There are literally a million examples of things we don't let our eight-year-old kids do, five-year-old kids do,
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anyone that age, decisions we don't let them make.
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We don't let them vote, we don't let them get tattoos, we don't let them drive,
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we don't let them sign, put their names on mortgages, we don't let them vote,
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we don't let them buy, I think I said vote already, we don't let them buy guns,
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we don't let them drink alcohol, we don't let them do anything.
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it is a we it is a crime obviously if someone has has uh sexually abuses you know they are too
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young children at at that age are far too young for sexual activity we all agree
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why is that and that's another thing that really concerns me i'm not the only one to bring this up
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that's the other thing that really concerns me about saying that a child a prepubescent child
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is old enough to make these kinds of decisions about their so-called gender identity
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i think that this is ultimately all wrapped up in an effort to sexualize children
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which will contribute to the normal the normalization of pedophilia
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our whole point about why children prepubescent children are too young for sexual activity
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the whole reason we say that is because they don't have the mental capacity
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so it makes no sense at all to agree that they don't have the mental capacity to do any of those
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things or to consent to any of that stuff or to make any of those choices yet they do have the mental
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capacity to choose their own gender that makes no sense so what really concerns me is that the people
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are saying oh they do have the mental capacity to choose their own gender but yeah all these other
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things they don't i think what we're going to find is that over time gradually those people start
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saying that oh well no maybe kids can do that and that and that and that and we see where that leads
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okay this is from mark says matt you're very critical of superhero films i don't necessarily
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disagree but do you like any of them have you ever seen one that was worthwhile in your judgment
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yeah i i've seen a few superhero movies that i think are would qualify as good films everyone points
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to the christopher nolan uh batman trilogy i yeah i think those were pretty high quality i do think the
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dark knight is an overrated movie because it's all really on the strength of heath ledger's performance
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which obviously was phenomenal but i think if you take that performance out of the movie it's a
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pretty standard by the numbers superhero film other than that maybe even kind of subpar in a way
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because some of the other performances that two-face erin eckhart as two-face was actually
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that was a pretty terrible performance and a horrible iteration of that villain i think
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not to mention he was two-faced for about five seconds and then they killed him
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so there are a lot of other things going on with that movie that were kind of clunky and clumsy and
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dumb but we don't remember any of that and we're not bothered by it just because that performance was
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so breathtaking and memorable and iconic so you take that out but okay but still i would say that
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trilogy is an example um maybe there have been a few others i logan the you know marvel has made at
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least one superhero film that was an actual real movie and i think the movie logan which which
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i actually did watch last year i thought that was a pretty good one and i'll tell you another one
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um well it's like the the cartoon spider-man film that came out last year maybe it was this year
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and did really well at the box into the spider-verse i took my son to go see that
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and it was about 30 minutes too long as these movies always are but i thought it was an enjoyable
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entertaining movie and the thing i liked about it it was i think it was rated pg you know it's a
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kid's movie and that's what i liked about it because i think there should be you know okay
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you've got you've got the superhero films that like the movie logan that's rated r that's supposed to be
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more mature and and for adults okay that's fine um and then you've got superhero movies that are really
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made for 13 year olds but a bunch of adults watch them anyway okay there should be superhero movies
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that are made for six and seven year old boys i should be able to take my son to a superhero movie
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and i think that's an underserved audience so that's what i liked about into into the spider-verse i
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thought that was a it was a solid film appropriate for kids and uh but that won't make an adult want to
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rip his hair out so that's an achievement i would say finally uh this is from i didn't put the name
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down so i'm not sure who this is from says hello future supreme malevolent dictator what are your
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thoughts about women posting pictures of themselves breastfeeding online some women seem to think it
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will help desexualize and normalize the practice but i think it's inappropriate and actually sexualizes
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it even more uh i recently wrote a blog post about it and received a lot of pushback by people who seem
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to think a lot of my points were horrifyingly offensive what are your thoughts on the subject
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this is a subject that if i knew it was good for me if i had if i had any prudence and wisdom i would
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avoid this subject uh because no matter where i go with it especially as a man it'll get me into
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trouble there's really no advantage to me chiming in on a subject like this but that's if i had prudence
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and wisdom i have neither of those things so i will just forge ahead and i'll say that um
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i basically agree with you i think that yes i i think that breastfeeding should should not be
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stigmatized some women say that it is i i haven't really noticed that i don't and it's not just
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because i'm a man either this is something i've talked to my wife about my wife we have four kids
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she's breastfed all the kids and uh she has often kind of wondered this because some of the women that
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she hangs out with will talk about the stigma of breastfeeding and my wife will say what's stigma
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no one's saying you can't breastfeed i don't think there's a stigma so i i'm kind of i'm with my wife
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on that one it's probably a good subject for me to defer to my wife too i suppose so if there is a
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stigma on breastfeeding if it exists anywhere it shouldn't be stigmatized it is a natural healthy
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good thing for a mother to do however um does that mean that
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we shouldn't practice any kind of modesty when when breastfeeding i i don't see that
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and to make a point of it to to make breastfeeding into uh you know you say that when they post the
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pictures that it sexualizes it i don't know if i would go that far but it does just strike me as
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bizarre you're feeding your kid you're saying it's a normal natural thing so just do it why do you need
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to make a point of it why do you need to make it into a political statement because either breastfeeding
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is no big deal and a natural thing or it's a big deal but if it's a no big deal and a natural thing
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then then do what you got to do you're at home you don't need to put it all on social media
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i just find that to be totally weird and and and yeah inappropriate you don't even if it's not a
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big deal don't make a big deal out of it um and yeah i if you're out in public i don't see what's
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wrong with maybe use a nursing cover or something i i don't i don't see why that is a problem
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and you know one one argument you hear is well it's a it's a natural human function okay it is but
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there are a lot of natural human functions that we don't necessarily do out in the open calling
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attention to it there are a lot of things in that category and then the other argument as well the
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breasts are not a sexual organ and breastfeeding is not a sexual thing yeah breastfeeding is not a
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but again that doesn't necessarily mean you know if you go to a restaurant most restaurants in the
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country they're they're going to tell you you can't come into the restaurant without shoes on
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now does that mean that is that because bare feet are a sexual thing are they telling you to cover your
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feet in shame because there might be some weird foot fetishist in the in the in the restaurant who
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just can't handle seeing your feet no it's just we you don't go into a restaurant with bare feet
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you're supposed to cover your feet it's a it's what we do in a civilized society
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uh doesn't mean we're ashamed of feet doesn't mean we're stigmatizing them nothing wrong with
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having feet we all have them but usually when you're out in public you cover them at least a
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little bit so i would put it in that camp and i think i'll just stop talking about that now
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