The Battle of the Libs： Libertarians vs Jamie Raines
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Summary
Brad and Hannah argue that arranged marriages are better than our current system of family courtships, which is a system where couples are assigned to one another and don't even have a choice in the matter. They also argue that women should be assigned to me as my wife.
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Here we are once again, fighting a sea of tears for me to wade through.
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This time, I thought we should change it up a bit, and instead of reviewing just the smug,
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self-satisfied liberals who hate me, I thought we should see a pair of smug,
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This is Brad and Hannah, as they're known to the five people who follow them and watch them.
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Now, on the complete opposite end of this spectrum are arranged marriages.
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Instead of a boundless, never-ending buffet of options, a young person in a culture that
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practices arranged marriages will be assigned just one, and they don't even make the choice.
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Their families just pair them up and say, here you go.
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There's far less freedom and far less autonomy in a system of that sort, but it is without
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Every person in the dating scene right now would be happier if they were just matched up
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Like, be matched to somebody against your will.
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How is it conservative to be like, yeah, it would have a lot less freedom and individual
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That's like, that's not what conservatism in America has ever been about.
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That you think people should just be like, assign people like a lottery system, like, here
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you go, and that would be just as good as whatever you found.
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The vibes of like, yeah, women should be assigned to me as my wife.
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This seems like it comes from a very incel kind of mindset of like, I can't get women
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Just a quick tip for any future libertarians react videos.
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I would dial down the music, but also the shrillness and smugness by about eight or nine
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Because right now you're at a full 10 on the smarmy dork scale.
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As mentioned, libertarians in general have a serious problem with smugness, but here I
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think we've met like the libertarian smug super spreaders.
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These are our patient zeros of, of libertarian smugness.
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They also have zero in the way of arguments, rebuttals, or clever comebacks.
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They are of course being wildly dishonest about my argument.
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I never said that arranged marriages are ideal.
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I also never said that women should be assigned to me to be married.
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I also never mentioned that women should be the only ones subjected to it.
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I said that arranged marriages are better than our current approach to dating.
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That's simply because our current approach couldn't possibly be any worse.
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But is there at least some wisdom to the arranged marriage model?
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And before you continue scoffing and gasping at the very idea that there could be anything
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redeeming in it, consider that many cultures around the world, especially non-Western cultures,
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Are they all just a bunch of idiot troglodytes, Brad and Hannah?
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If that's the broad brush you want to use to paint billions of people and dozens of culture,
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cultures across the world and throughout history, go for it, I guess.
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As for me, my preferred system is essentially the one we had in this country before the modern
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dating scene began to form, and certainly before hookup culture and dating apps took hold.
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I favor courtship, where the dating phase is understood by all parties concerned to be
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Typically, in a courtship culture, families may not choose your spouse, but they are heavily
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This is far superior to our current arrangement, where a legion of confused, lethargic, hapless
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single people scroll endlessly through avatars on their phones, randomly selecting one after
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another for fleeting temporary flings, where emotion, infatuation, and physical attraction
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are the only driving forces, the only litmus test.
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One time my dad tried to set me up with somebody, and I was aghast at who he thought I would like.
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Like, you know I don't have a problem pulling men, right?
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It was a suggestion that he would like me to be with, which was this super Christian
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guy who was in his church, and who was slightly balding, but he thought it was a good option
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And I was like, yeah, I'm going to need a really good guy who's not balding.
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And also who doesn't live in Anderson, South Carolina, because I'm pretty sure as hell not.
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I love my parents dearly, but I would never want them to pick my mate.
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They would have no clue how to begin to pick who I would actually want.
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No, it's just creepy, and it's really crazy, and I just can't relate to that one at all.
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Can someone make a video attacking me that, like, puts some effort into it?
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So your dad set you up with someone who you admit is a really good guy, but he's losing
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And you say that you're too attractive to be wasting your time with men who have the
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Now, look, I wouldn't usually say what I'm about to say, but speaking to the girl now,
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you earlier felt comfortable commenting on my marriage, inaccurately, of course, so you've
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You seem to have erroneously given yourself a couple of extra points on the 1 to 10 physical
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And even if you hadn't, if you're single and making your decisions based on hairlines,
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you're either going to be lonely and miserable, as you are right now, for the rest of your
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life, or eventually you're going to be frivolously marrying some scumbag who isn't a good guy,
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And a short time later, you're going to file for divorce and try to make yourself into
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the victim of your failed marriage when it's your own vanity and stupidity that put you
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One of those two results are your destiny, unless you learn to look a little deeper in
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The fact that you can't look deeper right now and that your father seems to have a better
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view of who would be a good match for you than you do only proves my point.
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You yourself specifically would be better off with an arranged marriage.
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Now, I'm not sure I could say the same for the poor sap who ends up with you on the altar,
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but you would actually be better off with that.
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Yeah, usually I like to give credit to libertarians for having a little bit of intellect.
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I mean, just really a little, little bit, but a little bit, not a lot.
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You can often find a crumb of wisdom in there babbling every once in a while.
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Unfortunately, Brad and Hannah disproved that point.
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Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and this battle is now finally leaving D.C. and going to the
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No group in America is better positioned than 40 Days for Life to fight this battle.
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There are one million volunteers hold peaceful vigils outside of abortion facilities in a thousand
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different cities, and in fact, most of their volunteers are located in Blue Stage, which
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is good because that's where they're going to be most needed.
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Now, of course, many former abortion facility directors say that these vigils can cause the
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abortion no-show rate to increase to as high as 75%, which is a major blow to the abortion
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business and also means that you're saving lives.
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These peaceful vigils have even led to many closures of abortion facilities in America, nearly
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half of which were in cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle, hardly pro-life areas.
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40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts and minds in the grassroots to end abortion.
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Check out their locations, their podcasts, and their free magazine at 40daysforlife.com.
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Again, for more information on 40 Days for Life, simply head to 40daysforlife.com.
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So let's move on to Jamie Raines, who's a trans YouTuber who, let's just say, she has a whole
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From the Daily Wire, which I think I've heard of, made by somebody or involving heavily somebody
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Immediately, is he wearing a sandwich board that says, what is a woman?
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Well, you're at the Women's March, you must have some idea.
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Please, if one person could tell me what a woman is.
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So a dude going to a woman's march and going up to women and asking them to define what
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a woman is and probably acting like it's some big gotcha moment.
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One based off of genitals and reproductive organs?
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That's a little bit very narrow and not exactly great to boil people down to their parts.
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Okay, well, first of all, Jamie, how do you know I'm a dude?
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In fact, if people are marching in a women's march and holding signs and chanting slogans,
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claiming that women are under attack and being oppressed, and yet they have absolutely no
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idea what a woman is and can't begin to define the term, then yes, that's a gotcha moment
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as it reveals the inherent absurdity and incoherence of their worldview.
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All I did was walk up to them and ask them what the words they're using mean.
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In fact, that's the fairest question you can ever ask anyone is when they're using words
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If it becomes a gotcha moment for you that only shows just how totally vapid and ridiculous
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As for what kind of definition I'm looking for, well, to start with, I'd like a definition,
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Let's just get a definition on the table first, and then we can debate whether it's the right
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But you guys won't put any definition at all on the table.
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You act like the word has no meaning at all, like it's just a bunch of arbitrary gibberish,
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and yet you continue to use the word, and you expect us all to know what it means, or
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That medically transitioned to appear like a male.
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99.99999999% of trans men will very strongly disagree with that statement.
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I don't know if that person actually identifies as a trans man.
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By the sounds of it, they are assigned female at birth and transitioned in the sense of taking
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testosterone and living within society as a man.
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But yes, sure, for the purposes of your seemingly transphobic documentary, go and find one of
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the very, very few trans people who holds these kind of gender-critical, transphobic-y views on
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trans people, and include them, ignore the many thousands and the vast, vast majority of trans
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people who will very strongly disagree with this very, very small number of trans people who will
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But who cares if Scott Nugent's views are in the minority among trans people?
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Trans people are in the minority among the general population.
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If you can dismiss Scott for being in the minority, then can't I dismiss you for being
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We talked to lots of trans people in the film, some of whom you've already seen in the
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trailer, despite claiming that we ignored them.
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We tried to speak to many more trans people, but they refused to speak to us.
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Trans activists claim that nobody will talk to us.
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And yet, when I try to talk to them, they literally run away.
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I mean, literally get up and run away in some cases.
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I think I know why Jamie is really mad and it has nothing to do with my opinions.
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Some of us were born with this magnificent ability and others make YouTube videos about