In this episode, we discuss the settlement in the case against the city of Minneapolis, the new anti-free speech law in Scotland, and the new M&M boycott. We're joined by James Lindsay, a leading scholar in critical race theory, to discuss all of this and more.
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00:00:50.000We got a bunch of interesting stories and topics to talk about today.
00:00:53.000The big story that's just breaking now is that amid the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial, Minneapolis has agreed to settle with the family of George Floyd for a historic $27 million in a wrongful death suit.
00:01:08.000There's a lot of questions around why they would do this and how this is going to impact the trial of this officer and whether or not he's going to be able to get a fair trial now that the city's basically admitting fault.
00:01:18.000I think ultimately it results in riots. A couple other stories though. Scotland,
00:01:23.000my friends over in Scotland, Count Dankula, man they got it bad. A new anti-free speech law is
00:01:28.000coming into effect. There's some news about Cuomo. They're apparently trying to cancel M&M because
00:01:34.000you know M&M is edgy and I guess racist and homophobic and transphobic and bigoted and
00:01:47.000I don't think the song is that good, but we'll certainly talk about it.
00:01:50.000And to assist us in navigating the world of woke, we have one of the preeminent scholars engaging in criticizing critical race theory, wokeness.
00:02:10.000What am I going to do better than that?
00:02:11.000I like to tell people that I'm one of the best, I'm one of the leading scholars on critical race theory, et cetera, critical theory, among people who don't believe it.
00:02:19.000And so there are probably people who are advocates and adherents who are in the faith who know it more deeply and more thoroughly than I do.
00:03:17.000The blue pill means you want to stay in the Matrix.
00:03:19.000I know about the red pill and that means you think that the media is lying and you want out of the Matrix.
00:03:22.000And then there's a clear pill that's like, I don't care about any of this.
00:03:27.000It's when George Carlin, back in the day, you remember George Carlin had that thing where he was like, I don't care who wins, I think it's all crap.
00:03:34.000You know, I have no stake in the outcome any longer.
00:05:13.000Yeah, yin and yang in Chinese, or as those gringos would say, yin and yang.
00:05:19.000Yin is the black one, everybody, and yang is the white one.
00:05:23.000And it's the creative and the receptive, if you go into the kind of Taoist cosmology.
00:05:28.000Super racist, though, because Asians are like more racist now, I guess.
00:05:31.000Asians are more white than white people, I guess.
00:05:33.000Yeah, they were white-adjacent for a while, and they're also a model minority, and now, though, they're just white, but then they're super white, because they get to claim that they're also a minority, so they get to hide from being white.
00:06:06.000And then there's me in the corner pushing buttons correctly this time.
00:06:10.000And I have no say in this color argument, so I'll turn it back to Tim.
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00:06:21.000And I don't know if y'all are into this stuff, but the other day with Kim Iverson, she was talking about Destiny cards, and apparently I'm the Ace of Spades.
00:06:30.000And as far as I'm concerned, that's like the best card.
00:06:32.000And so naturally, I was like, tell me more, madame.
00:06:35.000And we did like a 40 something minute segment where she broke down what destiny cards are.
00:06:41.000And I'm not, I'm not a big, you know, believer in any of this stuff, but she talked about how she predicted Donald Trump would be defeated, but not feel defeated and didn't understand what it meant until it happened.
00:06:54.000But of course we also have Scott Pressler who was talking about primarying these America's Last Politicians.
00:06:59.000So if that's more your cup of tea, become a member, and don't forget to smash that like button, subscribe to the notification bell.
00:07:05.000Let's check out this first story, and then we'll just get into this stuff, because this is from CBS News.
00:07:10.000Minneapolis approves historic $27 million settlement with George Floyd's family.
00:07:16.000They say the city council voted 13 to 0 to approve the settlement which directs half a million dollars to be used to benefit the George Floyd memorial site at 38th and Chicago.
00:07:35.000This past weekend, the George Floyd Memorial site, which is an autonomous zone, someone was shot and killed.
00:07:41.000The city has just announced they are going to fund this Antifa autonomous zone to the tune of half a million dollars.
00:07:48.000That's the degree to which this insanity... I'm sorry, James, you may say that you're a little pessimistic, but boy, am I getting pessimistic on this one.
00:07:54.000Twenty-seven million dollars in a civil settlement to the family.
00:08:10.000Yeah, they're giving half a million dollars to these people.
00:08:13.000Now the crazy thing too is, Chauvin is still on trial.
00:08:17.000And so you have these jurors who are supposed to be coming in and being asked if they can remain impartial, and now they're gonna be told, you know, in the civil case, they've already won.
00:08:26.000Clearly he must be guilty of something the city's agreed to settle.
00:09:07.000I mean, I guess theoretically, maybe the judge will be like, no, no, no, you've got to separate that.
00:09:11.000And maybe when it comes to the defense, they'll say a settlement is not an admission of guilt.
00:09:18.000The city just simply thought paying out would be less expensive than the damage.
00:09:22.000And he might actually say the fact the city thought $27 million was cheaper Then fighting the suit shows what they really feared was the riots from the extremists who are trying to destroy the city.
00:09:40.000I don't want to like deny the, you know, what was the saying we had to endure?
00:09:45.000It was a quote from Martin Luther King, but I felt like it was taking a bit out of context, which was that a riot is the voice of the unheard or something like that.
00:10:39.000The first was to see the people desperately defending their town, their neighborhood from these violent rioters and looters who are exploiting them, to see the manipulation and fake news and the corruption of the media.
00:10:52.000And I was like, oh, in Ferguson, the kids who lived there, Some young men linked arms around the convenience store and they were trying to defend the businesses from the looters who came from out of town to exploit and steal and burn things down because they thought it was funny and they didn't care.
00:11:10.000And then along comes these ultra-woke white progressives from the suburbs who have no idea what it's like to live in poverty, cheering on the criminals who invaded this neighborhood and attacked the poor, marginalized people who lived there.
00:12:19.000And speaking of Portland, you know, I remember talking to some folks that I'm friends with in Portland and their big concern going into the election.
00:12:26.000These are people who are lifelong Democrats or progressives or leftists or whatever, as Portland would do.
00:12:31.000And their concern was, well, our city isn't protecting us, our state isn't protecting us.
00:12:36.000You look at Ted Wheeler, the mayor, you look at—was it Kim Brown? Is that her name? The governor
00:12:40.000of Oregon? Maybe I've got Kim wrong, but I think that's right. And then the last line of defense,
00:12:46.000it's like Trump. And you know, his hands are tied. He can't even send in like federal troops
00:12:51.000or the National Guard or anything. And then their concern was, you know, if Biden and Harris win,
00:12:59.000now every level of government, whether city, state, or federal,
00:13:03.000is going to do nothing to protect the city of Portland.
00:13:06.000And now, like you said, the federal courthouse was on fire with people inside, right?
00:13:10.000It was set on fire with people inside.
00:13:28.000There's this wing of Black Lives Matter that I think is called Black Lives Matter Revolution, but we can look that up.
00:13:33.000That's the activist wing, the paramilitary wing.
00:13:35.000The way that they work is what's called inducing mid-level violence.
00:13:38.000A lot of people don't understand that there are levels of violence, or how violence works, and what mid-level violence is, is that kid the brothers in the back of the car. I'm not touching you.
00:13:46.000I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. And what they want is you to either back down
00:14:10.000The entire operation of what's happening is a narrative-driven maneuver where you have a collusion between big media and the Democratic Party to seize power, and the narrative is the thing.
00:14:21.000So the game was to put Trump in a lose-lose situation.
00:14:52.000Then he gets put in the same trap now with these other people.
00:14:54.000He has to either force them or back down and look weak.
00:14:58.000And the same narratives are going to be able to get spun out of this.
00:15:01.000And this is what people don't understand.
00:15:02.000And I mean, I don't want to make this like left, right or whatever, but the radical left understands narrative and political warfare, and nobody else does.
00:15:10.000And so that's why they keep catching everybody with their pants down.
00:15:13.000Political warfare is the most important concept you've never heard of.
00:15:17.000And political warfare, our foreign adversaries reported a few decades ago, I think China and Russia both, had remarked that the American ability—because we rely so much on physical warfare, we have such high technology, we have badass jets, you know, the whole thing—we don't even think about political warfare anymore.
00:15:34.000They said it's so degraded that it might as well not exist.
00:15:39.000And this is what we're losing right now, is political warfare.
00:15:41.000And the radical left is trained, they're excellent at it, they think about it constantly, and they put people in these traps, these mid-level violence traps.
00:15:50.000We're particularly susceptible to it because this country is classically liberal.
00:15:55.000People need to understand what that means, classically liberal.
00:15:58.000It doesn't mean conservative or liberal in the colloquial sense.
00:16:01.000It means believing in freedom and government for, of, by the people, things like that.
00:16:06.000So this country is a constitutional republic with philosophically liberal values.
00:16:11.000Liberal as a term seems to have just gradually evolved to mean, I guess, Democrat.
00:16:15.000But it was like John Locke that invented that.
00:16:17.000Classical liberalism is much more similar to, like, center-right libertarianism, if anything.
00:16:23.000And then social liberalism is the civil rights kind of era, people who believed in free speech and respect for, you know, people and things like that.
00:16:31.000But those of us who occupy this, like, moderate libertarian space, kind of left, kind of right, maybe, depending on who you are, Well, we're playing fair and we believe in respecting the rights and speech of our opponents.
00:16:45.000And the problem then is I routinely stand up and defend leftists who get censored.
00:16:51.000They gloat and laugh when it's us getting censored.
00:16:55.000Or I will absolutely, and I did, defend Taylor Lorenz in the wake of this criticism Of her, because this woman from the New York Times put out a tweet saying that, you know, her life was literally destroyed by harassment.
00:17:09.000I saw a tweet, and I thought it was a silly thing to say, but I'm not going to be bothered by yelling at someone on Twitter simply because I thought something they said was silly.
00:17:16.000Otherwise, my whole day would be nothing but that.
00:17:19.000Well, she started getting a lot of criticism, and I just ultimately said, look, I get it.
00:17:22.000If you want to criticize the idea and the institution, please do so.
00:17:25.000But, you know, getting into the weeds and getting into the drama, I think, is a waste of our time.
00:17:30.000I absolutely tweeted in her defense multiple times, made videos in her defense, because I don't like the idea of people piling on and engaging in this culture war drama.
00:17:39.000And then not only, I won't go into details, but now there's literally a harassment campaign being promoted by large, powerful institutions, putting insane and ridiculous lies out about me, talking about where I live and my home, and absolutely engaging in a targeted harassment campaign, and they're all laughing about it.
00:17:58.000So I can stand on principle and say, like, let's not do this, guys.
00:18:01.000And then what happens then is the people on, you know, the anti, you know, woke side, the people who believe in freedom say, it's warfare and we have no choice.
00:18:12.000You know, I believe in a principle, and if my principles are, we don't do these tactics, then I am at an extreme disadvantage, where I can only get, I can sit back and turn the other cheek when they do these things to me, to my family, to my friends.
00:18:25.000But if we dare speak up, you know, Glenn Greenwald points this out, they will come for you and they will use the weight of all of these institutions to destroy you.
00:18:32.000And even when I still defend them, they don't care.
00:18:37.000No, this is why I say that, I mean, I've written an article, I think it had a podcast, both of these things that I actually called wokeness, but it could be radical leftism in general, or even any certain totalitarian strain.
00:18:48.000I called it radical left wokeness in particular, I called it a virus on the liberal body politic.
00:18:55.000It takes advantage of certain liberal, cultural, and ethical mores specifically to do exactly as you just described, to absolutely neuter the host's ability to defend itself.
00:19:10.000I like to actually kind of say, frankly, I've kind of gotten hard about cancel culture, and my belief there is that the asymmetry is the story.
00:19:19.000It's no longer—it's not culture war.
00:19:30.000And so for me, until we adopt an attitude, if someone wants to cancel, you cancel them first, four or five times, because it won't take that many.
00:19:37.000There is a realization that this is a mutually assured destruction.
00:20:36.000I'm in the Philadelphia area previously, and I was like, there's too many riots, and they crossed the bridge, and they're coming into these neighborhoods.
00:20:42.000So, I think it's time to start considering not being in these cities, because it's not about Antifa, it's not about Black Lives Matter, it's just about opportunistic violence when things start, you know, going crazy.
00:20:53.000Well, sure enough, I think it was like a week after we didn't move out officially, we started the process and came down to the new location, riots broke out, mass shootings, there was like a hostage situation, and I'm like...
00:21:35.000You've got the gun crime skyrocketing.
00:21:37.000You've got just theft across the board, even petty theft in these crimes in a lot of these cities, partly due to the demoralization of the police, the defunding of the police.
00:21:57.000Yeah, they're like, you see, in the summer, It's warm, giving more people the opportunity to go out, and more people outside means more crime will happen.
00:22:07.000In the winter it's darker, which means more opportunity to commit crime.
00:22:11.000And then in the springtime, as the weather starts getting nicer, people want to go back outside again, so crime just exponentially increases non-stop.
00:22:18.000So there's nothing to do with defunding the police, nothing to do with, uh, you know, a demoralization of police, just happenstance, just magic.
00:22:25.000Nothing to do with telling them to stand down, nothing to do with DAs letting people off if they get arrested, nothing to do, nothing to do, nothing to do.
00:22:31.000Nothing to do with the city of Minneapolis putting half a million dollars into an anti-photonomist zone.
00:22:35.000Hey, we're at that point now where it's like the autonomous zone has official government sanction, you know, in this place.
00:22:54.000What I'm specifically talking about was when are we going to start seeing right-wing dudes standing in the road, the U.S.
00:23:02.000State Highway or whatever, that leads into a small town of a few thousand people, just doing checkpoints.
00:23:08.000They did this in the Pacific Northwest when the fires kept starting.
00:23:12.000And this is one of the things, you know, Joe Rogan, one of the things I'm disappointed with him about is that he had said on his show, he was wrong, he made a mistake, that Antifa was going around starting these fires.
00:23:23.000He then made an apology where he said, none of it was true, it's not happening.
00:23:27.000The issue was that there was a guy who was like a leftist who was caught starting the fires.
00:23:31.000And there were other people, many, who were not politically affiliated who were just crazy firebug types.
00:23:37.000So you need to explain to people, when these photos came out showing right-wing dudes with signs saying, you know, checkpoint, and then they were explaining people are starting fires, the media made it seem like conspiracy crackpots were tracking, were scared of Antifa.
00:24:21.000When are we going to see, in response to these autonomous zones, Right-wing groups just setting up in their communities.
00:24:27.000There was a viral video where, you know, an Antifa group went into a neighborhood in Colorado, and a bunch of regular guys just chased them out.
00:24:35.000And it did not go well for those guys, because actual working-class, like, union boys, they're not scrawny, suburbanite, privileged white kids.
00:24:44.000No, they're men who went out and were basically like, welcome to my neighborhood.
00:24:51.000So I'm wondering, if the city's gonna give half a million dollars to benefit the George Floyd memorial site at 30th and Chicago, which has become an autonomous zone lockdown where black-clad individuals threaten journalists and refuse to let police in, and the police haven't been in in months apparently, when do we see conservatives have a peaceful autonomous zone where they set up checkpoints?
00:25:10.000I mean, you know the answer to that question.
00:25:26.000It could be literally doing nothing but growing flowers, feeding the hungry, you know, bringing out whatever the most pro-social thing you can possibly imagine is.
00:25:34.000And it's going to be a crazy right-wing militia group of KKK, blah, blah, blah, is what they're going to say about it.
00:25:40.000It's going to be white supremacists, white supremacists, white supremacists.
00:25:42.000And because those words, those ideas, it's not just that they have power, because that's one thing.
00:25:50.000Like, the word conservative, as somebody who, like, is never identified as one, has been tainted almost to the point of, like, absolute, I guess, taint.
00:26:51.000An AR-15 that you can't fire because you know it's going to get turned against you in the narrative war, and you're going to lose that political war over it.
00:26:58.000That meme is more powerful than the gun.
00:27:38.000And, you know, these days it's all changed quite a bit, but the one thing that I think defines the actual war, the culture war, is those who read beyond the headlines and those who don't.
00:27:54.000There's really good examples of this if you go online, and you can actually see it.
00:27:59.000So I'm actually interested in maybe hiring a researcher to start tracking this as a data point, to go to the subreddits of prominent progressive YouTube personalities, and read the comments, and then actually mark them for, like, Who read Beyond the Headline and who didn't?
00:28:18.000And then go to conservative ones and do it.
00:28:20.000Because what I've noticed recently is that as I've been browsing the subreddits of several prominent progressive YouTubers, they don't actually read the articles.
00:28:30.000And while it's true for most people, when I go to conservative, you know, sites, not so much.
00:28:37.000And this is also exemplified in left-wing memes about conservatives.
00:28:40.000So there was one that I saw On Reddit, where they were mocking the conservative subreddit because the conservative subreddit made a point about not allowing billionaires the ability to manipulate and control our elections and big tech and things like that.
00:28:53.000And they were mocking conservatives as if the conservatives were the ones who did it to themselves.
00:29:32.000The people who go and turn on CNN and hear Wolf Blitzer say, a bunch of white, you know, white supremacists stormed the Capitol, they go, wow, and they walk away.
00:29:42.000And then you have the headline that appears on Twitter and it says, far-right white supremacists storm, you know, you know, let's do a better example.
00:29:48.000You'll turn on CNN and they'll say, the white supremacist group, the Proud Boys, you know, their leader was arrested and they'll go, wow.
00:29:56.000And you'll see the headline, White Supremacist Leader of Proud Boys Arrested.
00:30:00.000And people will see the headline and go, wow.
00:30:02.000And then people who are more inclined to watch shows like this will say, okay, click it and see a picture of a black man as the leader of the Proud Boys and go, wait, what?
00:30:17.000That's where you see the news, the headline especially, is lying to you.
00:30:22.000And then you start finding the buried leads, and you start finding the inconsistencies in the stories, you start noticing that the reporting doesn't match reality, and then all of a sudden you're like, wait a minute.
00:30:33.000And what it's all been framed up to be is, like, now you're a conservative.
00:30:51.000Those who are algorithmically fed red-pilled type information countering the narrative, and those who are actually engaged with the content in general.
00:31:02.000What happens is, there are a lot of people, so I was talking to some guy I know today, and he said, he's like, listen man, you used to be really good at everything, and now all you do is just basically, you're like a hardcore Trump supporter, and it's all you do is just always, always, always protecting Trump, And I was like, do you watch my show?
00:31:19.000And I was like, because we do defend him, we do criticize him.
00:31:22.000He's like, I only ever see from you defending Trump.
00:31:25.000And I said, have you considered that Facebook and YouTube are only giving you the videos I produce out of the, you know, three and a half hours per day that I produce?
00:31:35.000They're only showing you the Trump article, you know, the Trump defense ones, and they're ignoring The times we've talked about him when we were critical of him on war and John Bolton and things like that.
00:31:45.000I think we said John Bolton 5,000 times and criticized Trump for hiring a bunch of dumb people.
00:31:50.000Certainly we defended him and I did vote for him.
00:31:53.000But there's a lot of people who were Trump supporters who only ever got from YouTube the videos that were like, Trump isn't that bad.
00:32:01.000And then the times when I was like, here's what I don't like about Trump and here's what I'm mad about, it doesn't go to them because they're less likely to click it.
00:32:07.000So YouTube isn't incentivized to share those videos.
00:32:10.000Then you'll get people on the left who are only fed that content because it's more likely to be watched by Trump supporters.
00:32:15.000And then they're like, this is all he produces.
00:32:17.000But then the people who actually engage with the content, who would watch every episode, I see them commenting online and they're like, what are you talking about?
00:32:23.000He criticizes them all the time, especially Ian.
00:32:26.000And he's like, when Luke and Dave Smith were on the show, it was like two hours of just nothing but ragging on Trump.
00:32:31.000But people don't get that because the algorithm doesn't give it to them.
00:32:35.000Trump has a lot to be ragged, not to take it too far away from what you're saying, but all these people have enough to be critical about, I think.
00:32:42.000And this was actually one of the points that I raised as one of the main reasons I voted for Trump was because the media is like relentlessly, like totally, actually unfairly critical of Trump constantly.
00:32:54.000And they were at the time covering up the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:32:58.000It's like, There's no evidence they're going to be critical of Biden.
00:33:02.000They're actually covering up a story that's critical of Biden right now.
00:33:05.000And I was like, if the media, I mean, the media's function, the point of a free press is to be able to criticize power in a free country.
00:33:13.000And if that's not happening by whatever set of, you know, for whatever set of reasons, then you have to become skeptical of the side that benefits from that.
00:33:22.000reason that I wanted to vote for Trump.
00:33:23.000Seems like a symbiotic reason, like the clicks, like you were saying, it's a
00:33:27.000clickbait thing, so they're making money off of it, and it's also politically
00:33:31.000infusive for this liberal economic order, basically.
00:33:43.000So it gets better and better and better at predicting what kinds of things you will click on and therefore play the first five seconds of an ad of, that they make some fraction of a penny off of, unless you accidentally click on the ad and then they make some slightly more fraction of a penny.
00:34:40.000But no, the truth is, though, that the whole point is that the algorithm is supposed to learn what you'll click on because it drives their ad revenues.
00:34:49.000There doesn't have to be a nefarious plot.
00:34:50.000You don't have to have whoever the directors of YouTube in these shadowy rooms saying, oh, we're going to turn this all left, all left, all left.
00:34:59.000These algorithms are going to feed people echo chambers.
00:35:01.000And that's how you end up getting like conspiracy theories, like whether it's QAnon or BlueAnon or whatever Anon or WhaleAnon I made up on Twitter.
00:35:09.000Oh, that was when Twitter, you know, they made that was a bird bird watcher thing, you know, and they put that they put a fake tweet.
00:35:15.000I don't know if it still exists, but they made that like fake news is everywhere on Twitter and they put, you know, a sample fake tweet and it said whales.
00:35:54.000So what happens is Pepsi and Coke and Oreo and whatever big brands, Nabisco, their ad campaigns live in the same universe as anti-Trump Democrats.
00:36:05.000So their advertisings are crafted around this core group of individuals, which means if they see a video where someone's sitting there like with their eyes half closed and they go, I like Donald Trump, they go, get our ad!
00:36:45.000And he's like, yeah, I don't know if you know that they're actually, you know, you have machine learning or whatever, the algorithms and how they work.
00:36:52.000They actually, the people who are behind that, this, you know, you have to, with a machine learning algorithm, it's like the machine makes a guess and then humans are training it by saying, yeah, it was a good guess or a bad guess, right?
00:37:02.000In many, not always, but in a lot of cases.
00:37:06.000They're literally using intersectionality as the guide to decide what the right and wrong answers are.
00:37:12.000And so it's like, you know, oh, was this white supremacy?
00:37:14.000You know, it's intersectionality is how they're using to decide that kind of stuff.
00:37:18.000And that's what's getting baked into those algorithms.
00:37:22.000Meanwhile, they publish articles with the Iron Law of Quote Projection saying white supremacy is on all of the algorithms.
00:37:28.000We have to put more intersectionality into the algorithms.
00:37:30.000A few years ago, I was hanging out with you and Helen Pluck Rose and Peter Boghossian.
00:37:34.000And I got into an argument with Peter.
00:38:11.000When Facebook started rising in prominence in attention and generating ad revenue, they started to notice that police brutality videos were skyrocketing in viewership.
00:38:21.000Something about it was just getting more shares and more attention, and there's like a viral song, this is what happens when you call the cops.
00:38:28.000There were websites dedicated to nothing but police brutality videos in the Alexa Top 500.
00:38:34.000All they would do is just aggregate police brutality videos.
00:38:37.000Now, sidetrack, I'm sure a lot of young people who are swimming in that are now activists saying defund the police because their whole brains were mashed by it.
00:39:11.000Racism skyrocketing, police brutality skyrocketing, and then all of a sudden someone made racist police brutality.
00:39:17.000And then if a racism video would get X views and a police brutality video would get Y views, a police brutality and racism segment would get XY views.
00:39:28.000Well, I should say x plus y, because I don't want to assume it's exponential.
00:39:30.000Or xy minus 20%, or some algorithm of increase.
00:40:10.000So this is what I read, and I could be wrong.
00:40:12.000But my understanding is that they started Putting out articles on social justice and then creating formulas where it was like, you know, X has a Y problem and then all of a sudden combining these different things was getting more and more views and traffic because if you had a community of people who watched police brutality and a community of people who watched social justice, you mixed those communities together and you maximized your viewership.
00:40:39.000This pushed intersectionality as the perfect ideology.
00:40:43.000All of a sudden, there's this one article from Vice, I can't remember the exact title, but it was like, trans women of color being beaten by police proves why we need Black Lives Matter.
00:40:54.000And it was just like every possible keyword mashed into a headline to get as much traffic as possible to maximize revenue.
00:41:01.000And so long as advertisers don't mind being on these psychotic, I mean, this is like, When you read these articles, like there was a joke meme where a guy is like sitting in a room and he's trying to write a name for a Vice article.
00:41:17.000He's trying to come up with a Vice article.
00:41:18.000So he pulls an adult toy out of a box and throws it at the wall and it just sticks.
00:41:22.000And then he's like transgender ketamine dealers of Columbia or something, just random.
00:42:37.000You'd have, like, a sexist article, a racist article, an anti-gay article, and then you'd make the sexist, racist, anti-gay article, and then those writers would go to other companies and write an anti-gay article over there that would enable them to, you know, reference it.
00:42:53.000Because people were so hungry, and they desperately want this confirmation bias, and they love tribalism, but what happened is You'd get one article, you know, where this outlet would write some nonsensical drama about completely not just total BS.
00:43:06.000Video gamer accused of, you know, oh, they're stealing $100 from their ex.
00:43:50.000We engage in culture war stuff too, and nobody is perfect.
00:43:54.000But I think we try to have legitimate conversations, really break down these ideas to the best of our abilities.
00:43:59.000What they do is they just leech and parasite.
00:44:02.000So recently we had this journalist from Axios got a job at Teen Vogue as the editor-in-chief.
00:44:08.000Well, the people who work there wrote a letter trying to get that editor-in-chief cancelled for 10-year-old tweets.
00:44:14.000In response, a seven-figure ad deal was pulled, frozen.
00:44:20.000The article said they lost it, and then it said it was frozen because of the controversy.
00:44:25.000So this company Teen Vogue, which is supposed to be a fashion magazine, and now it's like writing about Marx and social justice and critical theory, hires on people who are good at writing about intersectionality because it gets a lot of clicks, and then those people attack their own company, costing their own company seven figures.
00:44:42.000So, perhaps there's some optimism in all of this, in that these people are just consuming themselves and will eventually just be a withered husk in the corner of nothing.
00:44:50.000Yeah, I mean, that is actually the hope, and that's sort of the mentality behind the people that are so-called accelerationists.
00:44:58.000They want to kind of encourage this to happen faster or to get people to see it.
00:45:02.000I'll just take the story that you told just to kind of complete, since we mentioned scholarship and that's what I do, I can plug the scholarship into your story, because the majority of those people, you know, you said they work for a video game magazine or whatever.
00:45:25.000The joke was, you know, you get a degree in something like gender studies or media studies or something and you're going to be a barista.
00:45:32.000No, well, probably you might be, but you're also going to be a freelancer because you think you're a great writer and you have great insights.
00:45:38.000So what are they going to start writing these sexist, racist, homophobic, blah, blah, blah, you know, keyword articles about?
00:45:44.000Well, they're going to start infusing that theory.
00:45:46.000And then various touch points happen in society that then mainstream it.
00:45:50.000But what's happening is these bloggers or freelance journalists, I should say, are essentially starting to infuse that theory into pop culture.
00:45:59.000And that theory has been cranking for 50 years saying, you know, by the way, guys, Society actually is secretly fascist, it's secretly racist, it's secretly sexist.
00:46:09.000Critical race theory's kind of central thesis could be boiled down to racism never gets better, it just hides itself better.
00:46:15.000And then you have these little cutesy, you know, graduates in these stupid degrees become freelance writers and then it's keyword city, right?
00:46:23.000It's buzzword city, racist video game, racist movie, racist Dr. Seuss, racist your mom, whatever it happens to be.
00:46:31.000And one thing after another, and then these are the people who are poised to write these little fluff piece.
00:46:36.000Well, they're like, it's like the hit version of a fluff piece, right?
00:46:40.000It's like, it's like a, it's like a bundle of thorns or something instead of a fluff.
00:46:44.000But these are the people who are going to write these things and they start injecting the ideas of systemic racism and systemic sexism and all of these kind of critical theory
00:46:52.000ideas into the pop culture through those mediums. And that if you go way back, I mean, that was
00:46:58.000actually Gramsci's plan, not to get heavy in theory, but Antonio Gramsci, the I'm supposed to
00:47:03.000always say Albanian Italian, I said that he was Italian, which is true. And these Italian
00:47:07.000people who wrote me these emails are like, call him Albanian Italian, please don't stick him. Don't
00:47:16.000The guy was probably one of the sharpest minds of the 20th century.
00:47:19.000Unfortunately, he was also a communist, and he was the one who realized that you have to undermine the pillars of culture in order to take over a society, and he identified those as being in religion, family, media, education, and law.
00:47:35.000So that media pillar That's what the goal was he said what you have to do is you have to get inside if you want to take a pillar of culture down you get inside of it and you create a counter hegemony within the existing hegemony and start making it grow and basically when you say parasite that's what you're talking about it's get latch on and then grow the strength of that thing like like a Sith or something I don't know I'm not a Star Wars you're the one with the torches but
00:48:00.000But I mean, that's the idea, right, is to get in there and to start infusing these critical ideas.
00:48:07.000This is a plan that's been like cooking up scholarly for 100 years that had actually no real way to work until all of a sudden we cooked up this.
00:48:15.000I've been thinking about this a lot lately, the last, I don't know, three months.
00:48:18.000Social media and then, I don't know what to call it, but like, just kind of like grubby media.
00:48:23.000You know, like, you know, little grubby articles like these different... Gawker was like just a propaganda place or whatever.
00:49:33.000I'll feel like I'm being twisted and destroyed into some dark tunnel and I'll have to stop and put it away and leave.
00:49:41.000I mean, it's a formal term that comes out of Jacques Derrida on Postmodern Philosophy, but I used to call Twitter a deconstruction machine.
00:50:13.000But no, anything you put on the internet is going, on Twitter, on social media I should say, not the internet, is going to get, I'm so stuck on the German now, it's going to get Alf Gehoven almost immediately.
00:50:27.000It's going to get turned into this dialectical soup, where it gets chewed up and spit back at you into broken pieces, like you said, that eventually become the grist that goes into that closed circle of garbage media.
00:51:16.000I've only had a Wikipedia entry for a few months, and right off the bat, somebody said, like on my Wikipedia, it said, you know, James Lindsay portrays himself as a serious commentator.
00:51:26.000He wrote a book, How to Have Impossible Conversations, and yet he goes on Twitter and makes your mom jokes.
00:51:33.000And then somebody else, I don't know who put it, I'm assuming a fan of mine, went on and put that James Lindsay has gigantic balls of brass.
00:51:53.000For like seven years, my Wikipedia claimed that I invented a Zeppelin.
00:52:00.000at some kind of autonomous flying camera on a Zeppelin and It was because I guess there was some writer who overheard
00:52:09.000just like We were having like a hackerspace kind of conversation
00:52:12.000about crazy ideas And then somehow they wrote that I actually invented a Zeppelin
00:52:17.000and then it that's it It's fact and no matter how many times I was like, bro, I
00:52:21.000didn't invent a Zeppelin man It's like we're talking about I bought a consumer drone and
00:52:26.000me and my buddy hacked the drone to broadcast live footage footage during Occupy Wall Street.
00:52:31.000It was like one of the first times, I think maybe the first time, there was a live news broadcast via drone.
00:52:36.000We weren't looking for a big corporation, so it was just online, but it was amazing.
00:52:39.000I was like flying a drone over this Occupy protest, and then it couldn't fly that long.
00:52:43.000We talked about a bunch of crazy ideas and apparently an article came out that was total BS that wouldn't correct it and didn't want to correct it because it was a fun story.
00:52:51.000And then Wikipedia was like, Tim Pool invented a drone.
00:54:18.000On Wikipedia, they're actually arguing over whether or not it should be included.
00:54:22.000And for a while, somebody put it in, and they tried to take, like, Tim Poole has called, you know, in 2021, Tim Poole called for the impeachment of Queen Elizabeth, and then people are like, we have to put it in, and people are like, you can't put it in, and then someone actually linked the video where I was laughing, saying, I made the whole thing up!
00:54:36.000I know how this system works, and I can make a joke, and then Wikipedia must treat it as fact.
00:54:43.000So you have one faction saying, we know he's basically screwing around, and it was a joke tweet.
00:56:13.000Which one of those, if any, are my actual opinions?
00:56:16.000I also tweeted, you know, there was a study saying that, you know, Fauci says something like COVID lockdowns, or they said something like, we don't know if there's ever going to be an end to the pandemic.
00:56:28.000And so then I said, okay, then release all the restrictions.
00:56:44.000Go ahead and figure it out, journalists.
00:56:46.000You won't be able to, which means any tweet ever used by any publication from me will be them publishing complete bunk BS because you will not be able to determine which one of my tweets is real.
00:56:58.000Yeah, I do this, only I change my name when I do it.
00:57:00.000You know, I often change my name on Twitter.
00:57:02.000So, this doesn't inspire me, by the way.
00:57:04.000I gotta change my name on Twitter back to King of Your Mom, so that some journalist puts that in my Wikipedia.
00:57:08.000But he really does think he's the king of your mom.
00:57:13.000But no, I changed my name, though, to Lames Ginzy.
00:57:15.000Lames Ginzy is my troublemaking, like, if I'm gonna say, you know, very smart opinions, if I'm a very, let's see, James Lindsay is a deplorable or something now.
00:57:24.000And so Lames Ginzy is my very smart person persona.
00:58:14.000I mean, it does help, even to win a war, if you love the enemy, you'll be better served at destroying them, you know, if you were fighting them.
00:58:22.000I look at it this way, you know, I was approaching everything wrong.
00:58:25.000For the longest time, I knew that my word was meaningless for Wikipedia and for these journalists.
00:58:31.000There was, you know, like the Zeppelin thing should have been a really strong wake-up call for me.
00:58:35.000No matter how many times I kept screaming I didn't make a Zeppelin, people were like, the guardian, I think it was the guardian that wrote it.
00:58:42.000And so it's like, okay, why don't I just give ridiculous quotes to journalists and let them write things and then have that be... Could you imagine the historical record?
00:58:50.000I did that to Zach Beauchamp whenever he interviewed me about the Grievance Studies Affair.
00:58:53.000He called me and it was like the most leading conversation ever.
00:58:56.000He was like, wow, that's very interesting.
00:59:26.000And then the interesting thing was watching people on Wikipedia who are like, they have legitimate accounts and they're longstanding editors arguing over the philosophy and merits and the rules of Wikipedia.
00:59:36.000And it just becomes absolute, it's bedlam.
00:59:39.000Like, you can't use original research, but Tim Poole admitted it, I don't care if he admitted it, and they're just fighting.
00:59:46.000Because, I mean, it reduces Wikipedia to absurdum.
00:59:48.000Like, it's not even like it's an unreliable source, like all your college professors might have told you, or your high school teachers, or whoever.
00:59:54.000It's like, it's actually, it's actually just reduced to absurdity.
01:00:14.000I mean, it's not like... That's what I used to say.
01:00:16.000It just sends information out, which is in the form of whatever you want to send through it.
01:00:19.000You said it was a sewer that followed you back in the day, but my other buddy said, no, it's more like a dumpster fire you pack up in a backpack and take with you.
01:00:25.000And I thought that was the best way to ever pocket.
01:00:28.000Accelerationism, I think, is the wrong idea.
01:00:31.000Typically, people use it to refer to physical chaos and violent stuff.
01:00:35.000But I think screwing with the press to prove the failures and the paradox of these systems, I wouldn't call that accelerationism.
01:02:05.000And simultaneously, you know, when you're talking about something like a cultural revolution, which is frankly what we're in the midst of, accelerationism can push people like you're talking about a dam breaking and millions of people dying.
01:03:17.000But the train was blowing up anyway because that crazy chemist put those pink logs in there that were blowing its gaskets and stuff, right?
01:03:27.000We're all in the woke train and if we don't get it to the right speed, The DeLorean won't make it to the future where the bridge is complete and we can all live peacefully, but the woke train is gonna go off no matter what.
01:04:52.000The infiltration of the institutions and the establishment of a counter-hegemony and a counter-state, which the peeps on the right call a deep state, is certainly something that's been an objective, that's been explicit by the radical left intelligentsia.
01:05:08.000It was definitely adopted by big players like Herbert Marcuse in the 1960s.
01:05:16.000You're talking 1960s and he could, like, he could pack a house at 300,000, you know, sales of his book in the first, like, couple years it came out or something in the 60s.
01:05:25.000So this is a, he was a rock star on the left.
01:05:55.000He didn't, of course, mean racial minorities.
01:05:56.000What he meant was the radicalizable black liberationists who are operating within his
01:06:01.000paradigm, which was the paradigm that was identified by the Communist Party in the 20s
01:06:04.000and 30s as the wedge issue that would open America.
01:06:07.000So there is an element to where it's very deliberate.
01:06:10.000Now, your typical woke person has never heard of any of this, has no idea.
01:06:13.000They're just trying to be a good person.
01:06:14.000They put their black square on their Instagram.
01:06:17.000They're like, but I do care about racism, and they have no idea about any of it.
01:06:20.000Your typical professor of gender studies probably has a dim idea at best, maybe hasn't even ever heard of Gramsci.
01:06:28.000So, probably has no idea that this actually was a communist plot, although they're going to still say, you know, down with capitalism, down with capitalism.
01:06:35.000On my flight in here, I was actually reading Herbert Marcuse's essay on liberation, which was written in 1969.
01:06:42.000And he's just like, all through it, he's like, You know, what we have to do is abolish capitalism in order to make room for socialism.
01:06:50.000So this was certainly something that was in that line of thought all the way back, you know, in the 60s, and was deliberately implanted into the scholarly literature in the universities very intentionally then.
01:07:02.000So there is an intentional aspect to it.
01:07:05.000It's also modeled after what we are experiencing as a cultural revolution.
01:07:10.000The Chinese had a cultural revolution in the 60s, through 76, or 65, through 75, or something like that.
01:07:18.000The wave for that was paved—I know Mao is his own special kind of character—but the wave for that was paved with the same rhetoric as we see in critical race theory applied to the Han race instead of the white race.
01:07:28.000We talked about Han supremacy starting in the 1920s in China.
01:07:31.000We started talking about how some people were good Hans and some people were Han supremacists.
01:07:36.000Like separating all the rhetoric mirrors really closely exactly what's going on, and they started to create basically racial disharmony throughout China, and then that was kind of part of the grounds upon which that instability that Mao was able to step in.
01:07:53.000Who, when you say, though, is your typical critical race theorist a Marxist?
01:08:24.000So there's something very deliberate there.
01:08:26.000But again, your average critical race theorist may not know very much of this, because they're just caught up in the theory, just going along with the theory.
01:08:33.000So there's like this lack of intentionality.
01:09:22.000I mean, the Oregon Ethnic Studies Ethnic Math Program that just made headlines everywhere, where they were, like, focusing on the right answers, white supremacy culture.
01:09:32.000Well, that one's not in there, but it's in the wheelhouse.
01:09:35.000Yeah, but Ethnomathematics for the state of Oregon, which just got pushed through by law, I think, into their schools, that's funded by Bill and Melinda Gates.
01:09:43.000The whole program was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
01:09:46.000And so it's like, are they communists?
01:10:29.000And so this is written by George Bernard Shaw.
01:10:31.000It was actually originally titled Pygmalion and modeled after the Pygmalion myth, but we don't have to go into Pygmalion.
01:10:37.000So Eliza Doolittle is this tramp, basically.
01:10:42.000And these two rich guys find her and they're like, I have a bet, you know, and they're gonna bring her in and teach her her manners well enough to fake it and if she can get to the end of this, you know, fancy dinner at the end of a certain amount of time and convince everybody that she's not basically a flower girl, which I think is what it actually is.
01:11:01.000she's selling flowers or something, and that's of course a symbol for something.
01:11:05.000Then, you know, one or the other wins the bet and it's all this gentleman's bet or
01:11:08.000whatever. And so that's what My Fair Lady is about. So that was written though by
01:11:12.000George Bernard Shaw, who was a leader of the Fabian socialists, which had the
01:11:16.000crest of a wolf in sheep's clothing, and it had the explicit agenda. If you can
01:11:23.000look up there, they have a stained glass window that's very famous called the
01:11:25.000Fabian glass or the Fabian window, and it actually says something like, it shows
01:11:29.000the world heated up on a forge, set on an anvil, and they're hitting it with
01:11:33.000hammers. And one of the people hitting it is George Bernard Shaw, and it's like
01:11:36.000heated up and remolded to the heart's desire or something like that.
01:11:42.000So they're trying to reshape the world, and they were socialists, and the goal was incremental sneaking in of socialism, wolf in sheep's clothing, so that people don't realize what you're doing.
01:11:49.000It says, remold it nearer to the heart's desire.
01:11:52.000Yeah, that's what it says, that's right.
01:12:01.000It spun off the Labour Party in the UK and probably the other Labour parties.
01:12:05.000It also spun off the London School of Economics, which is probably its main operating base of think tanks now.
01:12:12.000And the reference, like, at the very beginning of Kingsman, you know, you have, again, this kind of, like, roughneck Essex Cockney kid, right?
01:12:22.000And he's just, like, all kinds of in trouble because he grew up without his dad.
01:12:39.000And then he ends up getting in trouble and he calls and it's like these gentlemen appear and now they're gonna make him into a gentleman warrior.
01:13:00.000Yeah, but like it kind of it plays into the silliness of the gentleman spy.
01:13:03.000Right, and so the theme of the first, there's two of the two films, and the theme of the first film though, you have, is it Samuel L. Jackson?
01:13:11.000Is playing this megalomaniac, cell phone company, big tech mogul, Vincent Valentine or something, something Valentine, I forgot his first name.
01:13:22.000And he basically has decided that we are the virus and the planet is going to die from global warming.
01:13:27.000And so he devises this technology that can make people go insane and kill each other if they hear a noise.
01:13:37.000And so what he offers is everybody in the world gets free cell phones, free SIM cards, free internet forever or whatever.
01:13:42.000So everybody goes to get their free SIM cards and then he plays the sound when everybody has them.
01:13:46.000And everybody starts killing each other everywhere they are to bring down the global population.
01:13:53.000But the tramp in this movie stops him and saves all the people.
01:14:29.000And the good guy is the regular person who didn't want to be involved and got dragged in and found an opportunity and then says, I'm going to stop these people and save the ones that I love.
01:15:31.000The Amazon remake apparently got cancelled because it was Two on the Nose.
01:15:34.000Let me explain that, but, you know, let me explain.
01:15:39.000There's a comic book, and in the comic there's clues to what's really going on.
01:15:44.000To put it simply, a piece of visual entertainment gives a group of people foreknowledge as to what's really going on and what's really going to happen.
01:15:53.000As it turns out, this tech mogul guy who thinks that we're overpopulated and the planet is destroying itself stages a pandemic and then offers up everybody a vaccine which sterilizes them.
01:16:08.000And they canceled it because they were like, yeah, no.
01:16:15.000And so the point was conspiracy theorists were saying a piece of visual entertainment that we can watch is talking about a virus that's being staged, you know, that's where a tech mogul is pushing a vaccine.
01:16:29.000Little on the nose with what's going on right now.
01:16:31.000And so, you have a show, they're reading a comic, learning the future, or what the plan is, the code names, Tech Mogul.
01:16:40.000Well, we got a Bill Gates, we got a COVID-19, we got a vaccine program, and we got it free for everybody.
01:16:46.000And so they were like, you know, stop the show.
01:17:39.000It's by Michael Karger and Buran Fahs.
01:17:41.000And they actually argue that the virus makes the ideal metaphor for feminist and women's studies and gender studies pedagogy.
01:17:48.000And they say that what it should be is that people are being infected in their disciplines and by maybe minoring in the subject or whatever, then going off into graduate school to infect other disciplines.
01:19:08.000It also makes life very dangerous, if you look into certain things, like State Street, BlackRock, and, uh, what's that other big investment firm?
01:19:16.000There's like three investment firms that run the earth, basically.
01:19:55.000Well, now they're effectively doing that in Congress.
01:19:57.000You'd see, for the longest time, these politicians yelling, like, you know, my colleague over there across the aisle just hates everybody and I am sick of it!
01:20:04.000And then once it's over, like, you see the cameras, like, you know, the actual news network would pull away, but actually in the The C-SPAN never turns off, but nobody's watching it.
01:20:18.000You'd watch them shake hands and grab a drink together and be hanging out and laughing, and it was like all a performance.
01:20:24.000Because they keep the people in this country divided to a certain degree.
01:20:28.000Maybe it's on purpose, maybe it's not, but it's actually what the machine does.
01:20:33.000Whether these politicians intentionally do it, I'm sure a lot of people would say they would, the machine does it regardless.
01:22:16.000Basically, like, we're facing a potential war with China based on historical precedent.
01:22:20.000I'm wondering if we're already... Well, actually, we're already in it.
01:22:23.000You know, a lot of people might not want to acknowledge this, but cyber war between the US and China has been pretty intense for a long time.
01:22:29.000Let me just draw back to that word, political war.
01:24:43.000By the way, in that essay, not to dive into this, but in that essay on liberation I was reading, you repeatedly have Marcuse refer to the need to raise the red and the black flag.
01:24:54.000That's what he's always referring to throughout that, in case you wonder who he's connected to.
01:25:50.000So I was reading Bella Dodd's testimony again.
01:25:53.000I read it in December or November last year, and I was reading it again a little bit today and a little bit last week.
01:26:01.000And Bella Dodd was a member of the Communist Party USA who confessed and she actually left the party defected.
01:26:09.000And in 1953, she confessed everything basically about the Communist Party's ideas to the House Committee on American Activities, now known as the House Judiciary Committee.
01:26:20.000It assumed all of that former committee's roles and duties, which are technically not dissolved.
01:26:25.000But she's confessing, and she says, you will always find—I put this on Twitter just yesterday, or the day before—you will always find that the communist plan is to dress up its activities in high-minded terms.
01:26:37.000So you'll find the communists saying that we are the anti-fascists.
01:27:21.000But I mean, Marcuse put that, his essay, Repressive Tolerance from 1965.
01:27:24.000The thesis statement is literally almost word for word.
01:27:28.000Movements from the left must be tolerated under all circumstances and movements from the right must not be tolerated.
01:27:33.000What terrifies me is when I find myself saying people on the left, I feel like I've been indoctrinated and subconsciously being used as a pawn to segregate this culture war.
01:28:54.000There's a very powerful, simple statement that also has the concept of, or Robert Lifton would have called, thought-stopping technique, which is what they use on you all the time.
01:29:04.000When they call you a racist, they're using thought-stopping techniques.
01:29:07.000Lifton was, by the way, describing how Mao was able to use the Red Guard to take over when he talked about cults being built, and he was specifically analyzing the Maoist one.
01:29:17.000They're going to put half a million dollars into this autonomous zone, apparently.
01:30:17.000A hundred people dressing clowns just dancing and playing music and like banging drums and like, you know, just because there's there's no aggression.
01:30:47.000They should have, like, you know, like, the feminist power fist, like, in the circle with the plus, on their, like, emblazoned on their chest or whatever.
01:30:55.000And they should go in singing, like, John Lennon's Imagine.
01:30:58.000And then just see what happens, because that puts them in a decision dilemma.
01:31:01.000But sure, but the story would then be, Yeah, maybe.
01:31:04.000far right white supremacists troll black protesters? Maybe.
01:31:07.000What happens if a bunch of unnamed, unidentifiable clowns show up playing music and banging
01:31:12.000drums and giving out funnel cake and cotton candy? Four hundred articles about the Joker.
01:31:16.000They'll just say a bunch of clowns showed up and are occupying the space and playing music and
01:31:21.000when they're asked about what they're doing they just go, and then who are the clowns?
01:31:26.000The people that occupy the Autonomous Zone, of course.
01:33:24.000That's the other thing, because, like, I was talking to a guy who wants a, like, I can't build technologies, and maybe you guys can.
01:33:30.000He was saying it would be really helpful if you had, like, this app where, even if it's just anonymous, that you know, you know, you could type in your school board or whatever, like, Brown School Board or whatever.
01:33:38.000and you could find it or school district and you could find out like parents can go in and opt in anonymously or whatever maybe there's a community function maybe it's not but you could actually just know there's like 90 other parents in the school's school district who oppose critical race theory yeah so you feel more emboldened to be able to speak up and if you could connect with one another even if it's anonymous at first or whatever but i was like it's just going to get like activists are just going to make fake accounts and descend on that like crazy right um maybe if it's like you know just the yes there are people here You can make it anonymous, like, you know.
01:34:17.000I think the only reason there's trouble is because there's 100 people, 10 of them are pointing, you know, the baseball bat, and the other 90 are like, but no one will have my back.
01:34:26.000Yeah, well, the odds aren't that good for them, actually.
01:34:30.000I've heard so many stories now, because I get preferential stories of this sort sent to me.
01:34:36.000I've heard so many stories where you have a school district, for example, that serves maybe 5-10,000 families total in a community.
01:34:43.000And the people do some digging and find out that it's a dozen activists.
01:34:49.000And I've had cases where there's been small cities in the U.S.
01:34:53.000where people on either like the city council or whatever have contacted me and said, you know, we did some digging, you know, we're getting constant relentless harassment and tons of comments on all the message boards, blah, blah, blah, from different accounts.
01:35:34.000And then, I'm having, like, cartoon characters with, like, 60 followers reply tweet to my tweet, getting 300, 400 likes within an hour or two.
01:35:43.000Like, you can't tell me that's organic.
01:36:11.000That's a military tactic where you'll you'll make it seem like there's more of you surrounding
01:36:15.000the enemy to confuse them, set off explosives over there and noise over there.
01:36:19.000Yeah, I think these people feel like they're insurgents They are insurgents then they know they're insurgents the ones who are not just like your average like dopey foot soldier wokey They know what they're doing.
01:36:30.000They're very informed They know that they're just trying to claim power.
01:37:11.000Yeah, you hear this with parents and children who bite a lot, is that they finally just, you know, bite the kid back, and it's like, that's what it feels like.
01:37:39.000The goal of repressive tolerance from 1965 was to create this asymmetry—left good, right bad.
01:37:46.000Marcuse, in that essay, by the way, if you want to see how close to what is happening now it is, he says that the problem isn't even that right-wing movements exist and do things and that they would be violent.
01:37:57.000They have to be stopped at the point where the thought enters their head.
01:38:00.000Therefore, it requires not even just censorship, but pre-censorship of movements from the right.
01:38:05.000And that asymmetry is what's being attempted.
01:38:07.000That's what cancel culture is meant to do.
01:38:09.000Cancel culture is meant to create pre-censorship.
01:38:12.000In other words, the idea is not even out there anymore.
01:38:15.000People are afraid, even if they hold the idea to say it, because if they say it, they're going to get cancelled.
01:38:19.000They're going to get shot down off of their platform.
01:38:21.000They're going to lose whatever it is that's their living, or whatever it happens to be.
01:38:23.000The kids are going to get harassed at school.
01:38:25.000So pre-censorship, to prevent people from even feeling like they can say the thing, is really their objective.
01:38:31.000Until the symmetry is restored, it's just going to be L after L after L after L stacking up.
01:38:37.000Until people grow spines and just say, shut up, I don't care.
01:38:40.000Well, I mean, historically speaking, from what I've been told, but I'm not a scholar of this, I can't talk about it deeply, is until the children of the actual elites start having an impact, or the parents, I should say, of the children see an impact in their children's lives.
01:39:00.000I mean, that's the problem, is a lot of people at that level have bought into the ideology.
01:39:05.000I hear from parents all the time that say, like, the one thing I wish more desperately than any is that I could talk to other parents at my kid's school and say, don't you just think this is all bogus?
01:39:15.000Don't you think it's a terrible idea that they're bringing in trans strippers to dance?
01:39:18.000Those people need to have someone throw a large ice-cold water balloon in their face.
01:39:26.000Well, they said what's happening is they know that if, especially, and this is true in private schools, elite private schools, that if they say that to the wrong parent, their kid's going to get pushed out of the school.
01:40:21.000They've lived in comfort for too long, and they're scared of losing that luxury because they don't understand what it's like to actually have to survive on the streets.
01:40:43.000This is the truth, is that the thing that you said, that we live in trying times now, and people have to start living as though... I mean, this is something I get mad about at the very smart people a lot, is, you know, my opinion is, I would agree with you if the world was the same way it was five years ago.
01:40:58.000I got asked a question, I gave a talk recently at a major university, a very famous major university, and I got asked a question that was very much to that, you know, they were like, well, don't you think you turn people off by some of the way that you behave on Twitter and the way that you behave?
01:41:14.000And I was like, first of all, I don't care at all.
01:41:19.000But second of all, most importantly, is like, I can't first, why bye?
01:41:23.000Because I can't put a chain around my neck and constrain the way that I need to feel like I need to talk to say what I need to say, because it might upset somebody who follows me on Twitter.
01:41:32.000But secondly, and much more importantly, if the world was the way it was five years ago, or the way we thought it was five years ago, I probably would believe you or agree with you.
01:41:47.000And if you don't act like we're in a bad situation right now and start living like what time it actually is, then this just keeps getting worse.
01:42:01.000We're all in a boat, and that boat is taking on water.
01:42:05.000And you've got people like me and James Lindsay and Ian and other people we have on the show who are looking you in the face right now and say, start bailing.
01:42:13.000And they're going, but, you know, I I don't know if I should because I mean, you know, that
01:42:36.000people are gonna get they're gonna find out that I know the ship is sinking and then I'd rather look if I climb to the
01:42:36.000top of the Titanic and go to the back, it's not sinking over there. It's actually going up. I think that'll be fine.
01:42:36.000It's like bro. The whole thing's gonna split in half. It's gonna go under and I'll tell you this. We're all making our
01:42:36.000ways toward the lifeboats. We tried bailing water.
01:42:37.000Now we're at the point where those of us who have been paying attention, and many of you who are watching, have already started getting ready for what those lifeboats figuratively are.
01:42:44.000And a lot of people who think they can sit back and shut up and keep their head down are going to be in for a very, very rude awakening.
01:42:49.000I will tell you, there's a meme where death goes knocking on every door.
01:42:53.000And every door has like a trail of blood coming out.
01:42:56.000And the meme will show like video game companies or movies or whatever.
01:42:59.000And then he's knocking on the next door.
01:43:01.000People seem to think, I will sit in my house and as these psychopaths go door-to-door threatening people, if I put up the flag, they'll walk past me and then, oh no, one day they don't.
01:43:12.000They knock on your door and they say, well, are you going to give us money now?
01:43:15.000Like they did to the businesses in Louisville.
01:43:43.000But don't come crawling to me when you keep saying, but I'm scared to talk to the other parents.
01:43:49.000Okay, well then you reap what you've sown.
01:43:51.000You are the one watering the flowers of destruction, and then you're gonna come and complain about it later?
01:43:56.000Dude, the rest of us are getting into the weeds and pulling out the trash and getting rid of the grubs, while you're sitting back saying, I don't want to get my hands dirty.
01:44:36.000You want them to show their true colors when they have the tribalist panic attack.
01:44:41.000And this is why I always try to be very nice on Twitter.
01:44:46.000Because I want people to look at the interactions between these lunatics and see someone saying, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you, and them saying, F you, you slimeball, I hate your guts.
01:44:55.000And then when a regular person who's uninitiated sees that, they go, I don't want to hang out with the mean person.
01:45:03.000You can't let the lie come through you.
01:45:04.000I said earlier the Soviet Union lasted 70 years of pretty crap, to put it mildly.
01:45:12.000Do you know what led the Soviet Union, when it started to actually collapse?
01:45:16.000I mean, there's lots of economic factors and some other stuff and whatever, but it's when the people, the citizens, actually started to laugh at it.
01:45:24.000It's like everybody knew for a long time it was a lie and they just kind of did it.
01:45:27.000At some point they started to laugh at it.
01:45:30.000And so when Tim said, you know, it's one parent talking to another and saying, that's ridiculous.
01:45:36.000Like, I mean, it's stupid, I guess, but think about Harry Potter, right?
01:45:40.000So you had your, your literature reference.
01:45:42.000I can have my dorky literature reference.
01:46:28.000Get your friends, if you're a parent, and your anti-woke, And then invite an unsuspecting woke person to a barbecue.
01:46:36.000And then when they're sitting there, start chanting, gooble gobble, one of us, gooble gobble, one of us, and that will absolutely convince them to change their minds.
01:46:44.000Or runaway screaming, you know, like in the movie.
01:47:33.000Acme says, it's been incredible reading your new discourses essays and then seeing the same ideas months later in articles written by serious journalists.
01:47:47.000What are some of the essays that have sparked Well, I mean, you know, I might have did a four-part podcast series explaining Herbert Marcuse's repressive tolerance, and Matt Taibbi might have written an article right after that that got a ton of attention.
01:48:36.000And then people who hear that and say it's a good idea come to believe that idea and come to share it in the same way you did when you came up with it.
01:49:28.000I do understand that I write dork stuff that's hard to read.
01:49:32.000I need to figure out if more people are talking about the psychopathy aspect.
01:49:35.000I actually think the most important article I've written in a long time I published it on Christmas in case because COVID because like we didn't have a Christmas this year because my mom had a COVID scare at work.
01:49:44.000My brother is absolutely not hanging out like he's totally COVIDed out.
01:49:49.000And then my kids are scattered to the winds for the moment, and COVID makes everything weird.
01:49:57.000I had just gone on a trip, and so it was like, eh, let's just all do Christmas at home this year.
01:50:02.000So I was like, well, there are a lot of people who are doing Christmas at home alone, so I'll put an article out that I was going to save until a little bit after, and it's called something like, Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism.
01:50:12.000And it's super important to understand that a lot of the origins of what's going on here are people who are failing to cope with the world as it is and create what I called in there, borrowing from, what's his name?
01:50:25.000It's terrible to forget a guy's name right in the middle of something important, but Joseph Piper.
01:50:31.000They create false realities and then they push those through with a false morality and a false logical form called a parology and a paramorality.
01:50:39.000And I lay out this whole article that basically they're coping with the inability to cope with the world by trying to force everybody else to live in their delusions.
01:51:35.000Deplorable Pirate Captain Gunbeard says, my advice to everyone left of Marx, quit being a consumer, embrace self-reliance, making, and right to repair.
01:51:44.000Corporate cop sellouts will hate and fear a culture built around that.
01:52:48.000The last game I ever played, I actually, it's not quite true it's the last game I ever played, but I was playing World of Warcraft in like 2005 or something.
01:53:53.000Well, I feel similar to what happened to me.
01:53:56.000I kind of seeded back into Warcraft 3 in that 2009, but between 2006 and 2009, I just had, I took my Warcraft disc, smashed it, threw it into the sewer.
01:54:24.000I actually like- Like chickens are hilarious, dude.
01:54:25.000I started turning the circle and training my martial art and meditating in place of video games.
01:54:30.000And it was like, wow, I turned off World of Warcraft and I have like so many extra hours a day that I don't even know how to fill them all.
01:54:36.000All right, we got, um, McChewy says, Diamond hands, my fellow apes.
01:54:45.000My friends, you may notice that we have some merchandise pinned to the chat.
01:54:48.000If you go to timcast.com and click shop or click the pinned merchandise above the chat, You can get your very own Diamond Hands gorilla t-shirt.
01:54:59.000It is the traditional I am a gorilla shirt, except now he's wearing a suit, holding wads of cash, smoking, got sunglasses on, and he's particularly happy because, you see, he had diamond hands.
01:55:10.000He held his stonks until he maxed out his tendies, and now he is reaping the reward, so he's having a good day.
01:55:15.000There were a lot of people that were... I can't believe it.
01:56:14.000It's like a reference to like... The more absurd stories come out, I can just like... I wonder at what point there will be a crisis of historical record on me when they don't know which stories are real stories.
01:56:29.000So like, there's a bunch of stories about me.
01:56:35.000Oh yeah, you talked about that in Rogren, you said you published like ten, how many papers?
01:56:40.000Seven of them got in, there were twenty that we wrote.
01:56:43.000Turning Mein Kampf into feminist literature and getting it accepted.
01:56:46.000I almost, you know, so Tim's like a journalist or whatever and he was actually at Peter Bogosian's house while we were writing them.
01:56:51.000And we had a couple of events in Portland and so we got together in Portland and we were working together and at one point, I mean the famous video when we put out where we're all celebrating and laughing in what appears to be a nice house and Pete's wearing like a suit jacket or whatever.
01:57:05.000Like Tim's downstairs and we're like completely forgot he was there and we're celebrating.
01:57:08.000But at one point, and I bet you don't remember this, but you might remember this.
01:57:14.000and I had an idea for a paper hit me and that's like I completely forgot that you weren't in on it and I just turned to everybody and like it's like the whole room went weird and I was like oh my god guys gentrified cornbread you were like what and everybody was like You know, stop, stop, stop.
01:57:34.000Well, you know, I, I take, uh, sources seriously though.
01:57:37.000So I wouldn't just like publish private details of somebody.
02:00:41.000I don't know what George Alexopoulos was thinking when he made the one of Joe Biden just eating the little girl and everyone cheering and giving thumbs up as he does it, but it is one of the greatest pieces of modern art I have ever seen.
02:00:52.000Have you seen the meme where they took pictures of him, like, creeping on people's hair and stuff?
02:01:43.000I have to be proud of myself, I suppose.
02:01:45.000You know what would be cool is if we had a Minecraft world of this house.
02:01:49.000It might be a security Funk breach type thing where we don't want people knowing the layout of the house necessarily But if people could like walk around your house and they'd be like, oh I get to see what it sees What we'll do is we'll put an iPad on one of those like a big Segway or something and then you can log in and control it.
02:02:06.000Mm-hmm There used to be they still probably still have these but there was this thing that my brother's friends had where it was a little robot and That could be remote controlled by anyone you give access
02:02:34.000Woody says, lived in SF and worked for a huge tech company.
02:02:38.000Quit after seeing the Critical Race Theory stuff.
02:02:41.000JL had been warning about, and now thanks to him and Timcat's crew, I finally moved out of crazy California and never voting Dem or lazy Republican again.
02:02:52.000Pablo Martina says, look at the post-millennial article of Sarah Silverman.
02:02:56.000She's now claiming to be politically homeless, and that's a former Hollywood elite to respect.
02:03:00.000Never been a big fan of Sarah Silverman's kind of humor, shock humor, where she has like really offensive things, but I love the ability that she, I love she has the ability to do it.
02:03:09.000And so I absolutely welcome Sarah Silverman in with open arms to whatever group we are in terms of not like politically tribed, but still anti-censorship.
02:03:21.000Believing in truth and weird stuff like that.
02:03:24.000Look, Sarah should be allowed to say all the stupid, crazy jokes that she wants.
02:06:38.000Infohole says Richard Dawkins developed the concept of a meme out of his contempt for Christianity, but the idea of a meme as a virus that spreads rapidly between minds is oddly useful for leftism.
02:06:50.000Yeah, memes, I mean, the evolution of conceptual or symbolic conceptual things totally makes sense.
02:06:56.000And what happens with what we call memes, like taking Joe Biden being a creeper and sticking Pepe Le Pew's face on it?
02:07:03.000It really fixes like that's genetic material mimetic material combining with one another D Mills says haven't watched the show yet, but just wanted to say Lindsay is an absolute boss I've shared the new discourses podcast on Antonio Gramsci with everyone I know so good a lot of people like that one.
02:07:21.000You should check it out Yeah, I laid out Gramsci.
02:07:23.000We talked about Gramsci laid out Gramsci And where he came from what he was thinking what his plan was and how it's relevant to today.
02:07:30.000It's on new discourses You can check it out All right.
02:07:34.000Corey Steinfield says, I really love the show and I appreciate the center center left viewpoint.
02:08:04.000Basically, if you go to any one of these crypto distributors or whatever, and you buy Bitcoin on their website, and just have an account with them, they have the Bitcoin.
02:09:02.000It is extremely easy to make an ERC20 token.
02:09:05.000Ted 2 says the military is implementing a mandatory extremism in the ranks stand down per Secretary of Defense to address extremism in the wake of January 6.
02:09:14.000We are being required to watch a two-plus hour speech about white supremacy and its influence.
02:09:26.000The military has been woke-ifying pretty steadily for a while.
02:09:29.000I hear from people at a lot of levels you know from officer to brass to to enlisted and it's like people are they're wokefying the damn thing it's not good it is not good so if that's you you know you got to know the facts for yourself and don't lose your head when you're getting you're not gonna like reject this you're not gonna reject the structure of the military if you're in it so you have to keep your head
02:10:12.000Worst comes to worst, we expose the normies to 40k.
02:10:14.000The Emperor wills it, and you shall obey.
02:10:17.000Honestly, I bet there's a lot of metaphor between the... There's the Empire, the Imperials, and the Psychic Emperor, who's basically, they have him, like, in a... His body's, like, wasted away after thousands of years, but his psychic energy persists.
02:10:34.000Then there's Space Marines, which are, like, genetically altered humans.
02:11:06.000all right uh siri uh siren uh mcgowan probably pronouncing it wrong says i'm a 37 year old skateboarder we look at life from a different perspective than the rest of the world we need little my wife and i pulled our young kids out of school march 2020 we've seen this coming Yes, and if you would like to watch me skateboard, you can search on YouTube for Tim Pool, Nollie Hardflip Rewind, and Hang 10 Hardflip, and my good friend Brett Novak filmed and produced those videos, and they're like some of the best tricks ever on flat ground, trust me.
02:11:39.000If you want to see me skateboard, you can download the same video and get one of those deepfake apps and put my face on Tim.
02:11:48.000Aurora Diaz says, any thoughts on unrestricted warfare written by CCP members that calls for the weaponization of everything to destroy the West?
02:11:56.000Is there a chance this is just a new kind of warfare utilizing useful idiots in another country to destroy it from within?
02:12:02.000It's an old kind of warfare using new tools.
02:12:06.000We just forgot what it is in the West.
02:12:08.000Like I said, the communists assessed this 40 years ago and said that literally the Americans' ability to detect political warfare is so degraded as it may as well not exist.
02:12:48.000I think that that was an important event though.
02:12:50.000I didn't want to buy those because as like covering the story I didn't want to be a contributor to any like rise or gains and then have a stake in it.
02:12:58.000But I do have Nokia because I actually like Nokia.
02:13:01.000I used to do a lot of tech work with and I have I would have like every single cell phone and we did some mobile apps and I was doing mobile live streaming.
02:13:07.000So when I heard there was a report that came out that Nokia was doing well it is one of the meme stocks but I guess it's not doing well like nobody really cared.
02:13:13.000I just like the idea of, you know, having some stock in a tech company and then like reports are saying that Nokia is going to do well, so I own some, but I'm not giving anyone advice.
02:13:21.000That was just my opinion on why I did.
02:13:22.000Yeah, I don't have any advice at all, except that I think that it's like you, it's like, you know, I comment on this.
02:13:28.000I think the GameStop thing was super, super actually symbolically important.
02:13:33.000Sonny James says they probably can't fund the police in those areas anyway.
02:13:37.000Half of the cost I would charge to risk my life for those coward politicians.
02:13:43.000CDC issued warning about zombie virus.
02:13:45.000When all of them peeps pour out of those starved cities, me thinks.
02:13:50.000Did you guys hear about the zombie, the CDC zombie virus?
02:13:53.000That's like a joke thing they've always had.
02:13:54.000Yeah, but I was thinking today, we were talking about earlier, me and Adam were on his show, about how Hitler framed the Jewish population as rats.
02:14:02.000And if we get to a situation where people are so homeless and destitute that they start to roam the streets in desperation and start eating other humans' dead bodies, like cannibalizing.
02:14:11.000Dude, this is like some of the best left-wing crud that I still have.
02:15:23.000And I've already talked to Fox about it.
02:15:25.000I told him on Twitter that if he doesn't make one the size of those beanbags, like huge beanbags that you can use as a bed, and call it the Hogzilla, that it's not real.
02:15:35.000Like he's not committed until that happens.
02:15:37.000Alright, Luminescent says, Hi Tim, good podcast.
02:15:40.000Any news when Laowai and Serpentsa will appear here?
02:16:11.000I don't have, I mean, like, it matters a lot on if I'm black billed at the moment you ask me that question.
02:16:19.000If people will actually do, like we've just said on the show repeatedly, which is start saying it's ridiculous, start speaking plainly and truthfully about it, start showing up and using what's left of the institutional mechanisms, because a lot of the institutions are not dead.
02:16:35.000A lot of the institutions are filled with people, and I know because I just spoke with some in the last two days, that just don't know what it is.
02:16:47.000They have no idea that this is what's actually happening.
02:16:50.000If you start informing these people, this is like the Hail Mary, then there's a way out of this where, in fact, it all can almost evaporate, as I think Helen put in Cynical Theories, as like a puff of its own contradictions or something like that.
02:17:05.000But if it continues to take over more and more and more institutions, the ways out are very slim, and I don't advocate bullets.
02:17:21.000When I say that, what I'm actually thinking is that the United States is not a country that is likely to go the route of peasant societies like China was in the 60s, or like Russia was in 1917.
02:17:34.000They're not likely to just kind of go along with this and fall into it, or Germany was in the 1930s.
02:17:40.000it's likely that there will be fighting back, and that's a worst-case scenario short of just
02:17:46.000outright losing, in my opinion. So start speaking up and speaking honestly, and the way out of this
02:17:51.000works out by just speaking the truth and pointing out this is not what it purports to be. It is
02:17:56.000reinventing racism. Nobody wants this. And start telling other people that in plain, easy language,
02:18:03.000and you can actually convert people into understanding this.
02:18:06.000And then it's like, we're not beholden to just sleepwalk off a cliff here. That's
02:19:15.000Now the Chicken City is built, but it's an issue of whether or not we can actually get the chickens because a lot of places are saying it's not quite chicken time yet.
02:19:23.000But if you want younger chickens, you can have them, and I think maybe we'll just get some, you know, we'll figure it out.
02:19:28.000I want to make sure we do it properly for the sake of the chickens and their well-being, and I want to be able to film it when we do, so we might, I'm hoping that we'll be able to actually procure some chickens tomorrow and film the process and show you our little chicken village.
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02:19:51.000So if you're a member, there will eventually start being more stuff.
02:19:54.000There will be, you know, training videos on the range.
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02:20:01.000And we could just have some experts talk about some fun stuff.
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02:20:07.000James, you want to shout out anything?
02:20:08.000I mean, you can follow me on pretty much all social media at ConceptualJames, or you can follow my outlet, New Discourses, at New Discourses.
02:20:18.000It's on most, if not all, of the platforms.
02:20:25.000That's the main thing I'm kind of doing.
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02:21:07.000I was on Adam Krigler's show earlier, AdamCast, so if you want to go to youtube.com slash AdamCastIRL and check out that episode, I would highly recommend.