The Libertarian Party has endorsed Black Lives Matter and says we must be anti-racist, and we're here to talk about it. Also, the Urban Dictionary has gone woke, and the internet has gone wokeness.
00:00:50.000I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna get one of these buttons say how dare you but I'm gonna have it's gonna be you saying smash the like button so I can press it.
00:01:07.000Oh man, the Libertarian Party has endorsed Black Lives Matter, and part of me wants to laugh, and I have, and the other part of me is kind of sad.
00:01:19.000Not that the Libertarian Party has done much, but this is actually pretty significant.
00:01:22.000The Libertarian Party is the third biggest political party.
00:01:24.000They got four and a half million votes in 2016.
00:01:28.000And I believe with this tweet, they just freed... So Joe Jorgensen, who's the candidate, just tweeted out support for Black Lives Matter, like a direct call to action, which is... I would say it steps of the line into authoritarianism, which is hilarious for the Libertarian Party.
00:01:44.000But this probably freed up a large swath of their votes.
00:01:47.000And I have to wonder, does the Libertarian Party want Trump to win?
00:02:02.000It wasn't just about endorsing Black Lives Matter.
00:02:03.000It was the overt Call to action which border like it's literally a call to take action, right?
00:02:11.000So the heart of libertarianism is well, it's essentially leave me alone.
00:02:15.000Don't tread on me Yeah, and she put out a call saying we must be anti-racist Anti-racism is a specific ideology.
00:02:21.000Maybe she just didn't realize what she was tweeting but man Got some other weird wokeness emerging urban dictionary has gone woke and is now denouncing their Past existence, I guess?
00:02:40.000They can't say urban things anymore for the fear of offending people.
00:02:44.000Yeah, they basically were like, we're not gonna be a platform for hate speech.
00:02:48.000Oh man, these are trying times, but you know, maybe this is all going to push us to critical mass, where regular people are being squeezed so hard they just burst.
00:03:02.000Like, how much pressure can this country take, you know what I mean?
00:03:05.000And I have to imagine when you see that the dictionary, so it's not just Urban Dictionary, like the regular old dictionary is now saying the word homosexuality.
00:04:09.000But we're also going to talk about, I guess, punk rock and just roll with it, because we're in a social justice, taken over the world kind of day, I suppose.
00:04:16.000But, uh, other than that, you know, it's a tropical storm outside.
00:04:34.000So that's, I figured I'd try it right now because, well not right now, but later on.
00:04:41.000Thank you for whoever sent that this way.
00:04:43.000There is also a really massive breaking news story that Trump has commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, but The reason we're not really going to get into it is because we don't have all the context pulled up, and to go through his case and Trump's position, the prison sentence and all that stuff, I thought that would be probably too much, because it literally happened like five minutes ago.
00:05:04.000So I'm like, there's no way we're going to be able to pull up all the sources to verify everything we would need to verify, so we're going to roll with what we got.
00:05:11.000The Libertarian Party has decided to get woke, and of course, they're backpedaling.
00:05:16.000Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you now to Jo Jorgensen.
00:05:20.000She tweeted, Well, following this tweet, there was a major backlash from basically everyone.
00:05:34.000Of course, a bunch of internet social justice warriors were on board with this, but Telling the Libertarian Party that you must actively do something is kind of the opposite of what the Libertarian Party is supposed to do.
00:06:03.000So I want to make sure it's clear as we start this segment, when I criticize the Libertarian candidates, it's not unique to Joe Jorgensen or the current party leaders, because this meme, for those that are listening, shows a beautiful, majestic fox Taxidermied.
00:06:21.000for which it says underneath libertarian ideas.
00:06:24.000And then the next image is this weird, scraggly Muppet looking thing.
00:07:03.000So the second tweet Joe Jorgensen sent out after the massive backlash Was, Black Lives Matter means standing in solidarity with a mourning black community as we fight together to end qualified immunity, police brutality, sentencing disparities, and the war on drugs.
00:07:19.000Not support any organization by that name.
00:07:22.000This is an overt and outright backpedal for one reason.
00:07:27.000Calling for people to be anti-racist, saying, we must.
00:07:32.000Look, man, part of the criticism they're getting is legit.
00:07:35.000The Libertarian Party saying, they're going from don't tread on me to we must tread.
00:07:41.000So naturally people are going to be like, yo, don't tell me what to do.
00:07:44.000But anti-racism has an overt philosophy.
00:07:47.000More importantly, They've actually tweeted this out, which contradicts what their actual goals are.
00:07:58.000He's a 2020 Oklahoma Corporation Commission candidate, libertarian activist, chairman of the Northeast Oklahoma Region LP, successful businessman, he says.
00:08:06.000And in this 3.5 rights and discrimination from the party platform, they straight up say, That we reject the idea that a natural right can ever impose an obligation upon others to fulfill that right.
00:08:22.000The Libertarian Party has just asserted you must take action to fulfill positive rights.
00:08:30.000Positive rights specifically mean that you must do a thing to fulfill it, versus negative rights where you can't do a thing.
00:08:37.000Libertarians typically believe, for the most part, in negative rights.
00:08:40.000Like, if you have a negative civil right, it means no one can infringe upon your civil rights.
00:08:45.000A positive civil right means you must take action to fulfill and guarantee.
00:08:50.000So this is where the big problem comes in when anti-racism is quite literally an ideology that says you must be actively conscious about racism, ending racism, taking actions to end inequities in daily lives.
00:09:05.000And it specifically refers to actions white people must take that everyone else mustn't.
00:09:11.000Just like they're doing in Seattle right now.
00:09:12.000All white people need to go take this anti-racism training.
00:09:53.000I personally land on the side of, I think businesses should accommodate the public and should not be able to discriminate for a variety of reasons, because I am not a libertarian.
00:10:04.000I'm a liberal, meaning I typically believe for the most part in liberty, but there are some things where I agree we have to figure out how to work together, and sometimes you gotta say, listen, you know, to give you this specific example, and I'll try and make it simple because it'll probably go on for too long.
00:10:18.000If you're in a public place, funded by public funds and public taxes, I understand some people don't agree with taxes, but for the time being, if I'm putting in my money for the roads, the electrical, for the plumbing, the infrastructure, the police, the fire department, the national security, Then I don't think it's fair that you get to benefit from my contributions but then deny me services when you're using infrastructure.
00:10:42.000So I do think there's an argument there if you're in a more rural place, unincorporated or something, or you have a private business, or you have like a consultancy or something.
00:10:52.000My position mostly falls upon brick and mortar and like the use of public places.
00:10:57.000But for the Libertarian Party, they don't think businesses should be allowed, should have to adhere to any of this stuff.
00:11:04.000So that brings me to, I believe this is, yes, Michael Malice.
00:11:08.000I tweeted, I think Michael Malice just shattered the brain of the Libertarian presidential candidate because he asked, as the Libertarian candidate for president, do you support the repeal of anti-discrimination laws?
00:13:18.000Yeah, because the way I think about it is, for the libertarian party, it's like libertarianism acknowledges that other people believe other things.
00:13:27.000To tell someone what they must do or believe is the antithesis of libertarianism.
00:13:33.000Yeah, I don't like anyone telling me what to think or believe.
00:13:59.000What do they think was going to happen?
00:14:00.000That like Antifa is going to be like, oh, hey, yeah, that settles it.
00:14:03.000I guess I'll vote for the Libertarian Party now because they believe in like, I guess because they agree with them on police brutality stuff.
00:14:11.000Antifa's like the attack dog of the Democratic Party.
00:14:18.000Maybe that's not a fact, but that's just what I believe.
00:14:46.000It's actually really funny that, you know, Brett Weinstein did the Unity Party thing, and then Joe Biden and Bernie announced their Unity Platform to unify the progressives and the corporate dems.
00:14:57.000Well, basically what happens is they're not advocating directly for Medicare for All.
00:15:03.000They're advocating for a path to Medicare for All.
00:15:06.000But they're advocating for a strong public option that would automatically enroll low-income people into a deductible-free, government-paid healthcare program, which I'm like, sounds like Medicare for All!
00:15:20.000So it's basically like saying, if you're poor, free healthcare.
00:15:22.000If you're not poor, suck it up and pay for it.
00:19:35.000So for those that don't know, Terry Crews said, like, I don't care about the color of your skin, basically, you know, good people of all kinds, we got to come together.
00:19:42.000He said we can't have Black Lives Matter become Black Lives Better, and he got attacked for it.
00:19:47.000And then Don Lemon even was like, you walked into this, you should have known.
00:19:51.000And he's like, you should have thick skin.
00:19:53.000I've got thick skin, look what I've got.
00:19:55.000And it's like, okay, well you were saying the exact same things that Terry Crews is advocating for seven years ago.
00:20:40.000Now you can argue, when it came to Don Lemon, that Don Lemon was talking specifically about his community.
00:20:48.000But if you stripped, if you just took the words and put them on any other platform, you'd get banned outright.
00:20:56.000I suppose you can say Don Lemon is speaking from experience.
00:20:59.000That's why it was acceptable back then.
00:21:01.000But he was saying Bill O'Reilly doesn't go far enough.
00:21:03.000Yeah, Bill O'Reilly, actually, if we're going to get into the details, he was the one who was talking about what Terry was talking about.
00:21:09.000How the family The family unit is really important and we need to really glorify the family unit because people are falling out and then they don't have that structure they don't have that that solid rock of what a family can give to people and Then then he was like, oh that's not far enough.
00:21:27.000Yeah, then he was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna Well, so here's what I want to bring this up, because there's a meme.
00:21:31.000It's a photo, I guess it's a kind of meme.
00:21:48.000This is amazing to me, because You know, when I showed this to my friends who are pro-Black Lives Matter lefties, they said, that doesn't mean they're authoritarians.
00:21:59.000And I said, what do you think it means?
00:22:00.000And they said, the Gadsden flag is used by racists.
00:22:04.000So they're just pointing out that, you know, they're going to stop racism.
00:22:11.000It's them being like, let me try and figure out how to justify this.
00:22:14.000Based on what we saw from Joe Jorgensen, you can really start to understand the differences between, like, the core of what it means for libertarianism versus authoritarianism.
00:23:03.000So the thing about fascism is that there's a kind of traditionalism associated with it, but the core of fascism and the Black Lives Matter fist is the exact same thing.
00:23:12.000So for those that are not familiar, the fascist is a symbol of fascism and it is a bundle of sticks with like an axe.
00:23:20.000And the idea was that all of those sticks tied together made a more powerful weapon.
00:23:25.000The Black Lives Matter fist originated, I could be wrong about this, but it's from the Spanish Civil War where we saw the rise of communism and fascism.
00:23:33.000The whole idea between the two groups was that we were stronger with unity.
00:23:38.000And so the revolution fist was each individual finger coming together to be strong.
00:23:43.000That's why they would hold up their fist.
00:23:47.000Fascism specifically fell among certain groups that were considered to be more... It was like tradition versus progress.
00:23:53.000That was like really the difference, I think, if you look at it now.
00:23:56.000Of course, asking a historian will give you way more nuance in this conversation.
00:24:00.000But if you look at the current understanding of fascism versus authoritarian communism, or the far left, The people who are, you know, as they describe far right authoritarian, believe in traditional family structures.
00:24:11.000They believe in a wife, you know, being home to raise the kids.
00:24:26.000Down with the patriarchy, is like one of the top on the list of the movement.
00:24:31.000That's actually a really good, easy way to explain it.
00:24:34.000The far left says no patriarchy and fascism says patriarchy.
00:24:37.000But they're both authoritarian structures.
00:24:40.000That's why I think people often say they're fascists.
00:24:43.000Because they do so much of the same thing.
00:24:45.000In fact, there's a famous anthropologist associated with Occupy Wall Street who said a certain sect of the left gaining prominence has adopted fascistic philosophies to gain power.
00:24:57.000And one of those philosophies is, quote, there is no truth but power.
00:25:35.000I gotta tell you, man, I'm obsessed with the fact that they tweeted this out because I politically fall on the libertarian side of things, though I'm not overtly, realistically when it comes to policy, I wouldn't consider myself to be a libertarian liberal.
00:25:50.000But telling someone that their ideas are wrong is moral authoritarianism.
00:26:43.000The libertarian, so... That's not going to change anything.
00:26:46.000That's going to make people want to go out and, I don't know, most people don't even hunt themselves, you know, more respect to obviously the people that do hunt for themselves, but...
00:26:54.000You know, it's like, you can't expect the world to just change.
00:27:23.000There was, uh, I see this Facebook post from basically every single lefty friend I have where they're like, why are we trying to reopen businesses?
00:28:04.000have always existed. Absolutely. Everybody is ignorant to a certain degree. It's true that
00:28:09.000some people are more knowledgeable than others. And in fact, some people are more intelligent
00:28:14.000in terms of like their ability to understand and, and, and, uh, you know, break things down
00:28:18.000and rebuild today because of social media, we have leveled the playing field, which is good
00:28:25.000in many, many ways because it upsets the power structure.
00:28:28.000It was a problem when our media was controlled by people just because they were wealthy.
00:28:34.000And it was like, we had a better system in America than we've had in a long time, because class used to be based on your birth.
00:28:40.000Now we literally had upward mobility with the rise of this new world.
00:28:45.000But you still had people born into wealth, so class still existed, and it was still mostly about, you know, if you wanted a job... And this is still true for the big news outlets.
00:28:53.000I would say the overwhelming majority of the people who work for mainstream media come from very wealthy families, or relatively wealthy families.
00:28:59.000Yeah, they gotta try to maintain that control.
00:29:01.000Well, so here's how it works in New York.
00:30:58.000It's exactly like this conversation we've had several times where we mentioned, you know, some dude on Twitter, it was a Yang supporter, when I was talking about if the economy grinds to a halt and no products are being made, then what do you do with the money anyway?
00:31:17.000Like, when you were a little kid, and your parents just came with stuff, as far as you could tell, they could just have anything they wanted.
00:31:24.000And I think it's funny, because, like, little kids really do this mentality that, when I'm an adult, I'm gonna have, like, three Playstations, and I'm gonna eat nothing but cookie dough.
00:31:34.000Like, all the things they wish they could have and they want, they think parents can just get.
00:31:39.000And then they get older and they realize, like, what's all this other stuff I gotta deal with?
00:32:12.000I just don't want to lose this thought.
00:32:15.000It's people, what really annoys me is that if you disagree in one thing, it's like suddenly they put you in this bracket that you disagree with every single thing that they believe.
00:32:29.000It's the disallowance of not letting anybody, if they disagree with one thing, you suddenly now, you don't agree with me at all, so you're just the enemy.
00:32:41.000And you know, it's more of this division.
00:34:33.000So why is it that I'm all about helping, you know, trying to inform people, let them make the right choices and live freely, and you're all about, you know, destroying the system?
00:34:41.000And this person told me, I take sort of this nihilistic understanding of the universe in a positive direction.
00:34:49.000The only meaning that exists is the meaning we give our existence.
00:34:54.000That means I can't tell you the meaning of life, but I do know that I will do my best to help you fulfill your existence.
00:35:02.000So it's like I've chosen what my meaning is.
00:35:50.000It's like people, when someone says all lives matter, suddenly it's like they think, well, you don't believe that there's bad people out there then?
00:36:26.000And the ones who actually know, they create stupid, like, it's sophistry, man.
00:36:33.000There's people who are smart enough to argue in favor of their fractured ideology to give stupid people what they think is a rebuttal, which isn't.
00:36:41.000That comic I often reference, yet you live in society, ooh.
00:36:45.000You know, the peasant saying we should improve society somewhere.
00:36:47.000It's like, if you're talking about improving society while actively whipping someone, that's a better version of that comic.
00:36:55.000It's like, no dude, you want to improve society?
00:38:40.000We begin to see the complete and total degradation of, you know, the Libertarian Party, which many of you may be familiar with these memes.
00:40:24.000I mean, it's, it's when you hear a word that some youngins using some savvy, you know, person that is using the new slang and you have no idea what it means.
00:40:35.000You can check out Urban Dictionary and it'll explain it to you.
00:42:46.000And Urban Dictionary ended up getting an entry for it.
00:42:49.000And many people started using the word.
00:42:50.000The general idea is if you don't know what someone identifies as, instead of getting into a position where they say, actually, my pronouns are, you say Florbo.
00:43:00.000And if they say my pronouns are whatever, that's fine.
00:43:03.000Florbo is a word that's not part of any whatever.
00:43:07.000And we can have a non- It was supposed to be like, there's no way to win an argument when there's no fence to sit on, so I made that fence.
00:43:40.000It was intended to subvert the authority of the traditional dictionary,
00:43:44.000and to document our messy, weird, and unpredictable language as it evolved.
00:43:47.000Every day, regular people add thousands of definitions, making it a living cultural document.
00:43:53.000Since 1999, our community has written over 12 million definitions.
00:43:57.000We're proud that Urban Dictionary has become a source of laughter and an irreplaceable reference made by and for the people.
00:44:04.000But over the years, online discourse has changed, and so have the words we're receiving.
00:44:09.000Like other online platforms, we've been inundated by hate speech and abusive content targeting women, BIPOC, And LGBTQIA+, and other vulnerable groups.
00:44:24.000Hate speech and abusive content online can cause real harm offline.
00:44:29.000It can also make people feel unsafe to speak up and share their language, silencing entire groups of people.
00:44:35.000This is not what we want for our platform to be for.
00:44:38.000I'm going to pause right there and say, therefore, we're going to be silencing large groups of people!
00:46:41.000People are just going to make up new words, man.
00:46:42.000You know, there was a period where, uh, I don't know exactly the full details, but there were certain groups of people that started using, uh, they replaced racial slurs with words like Facebook, Skype, and Twitter.
00:46:54.000And so they would say things like, you know, those Facebooks were doing this or whatever.
00:46:59.000And the gag was that if they use the word to represent a racial slur, eventually, like, they can't do anything about it.
00:47:04.000Because the platforms can't ban their own name.
00:47:07.000even if they decided to ban certain... Sneaky. So it's a guaranteed win, that was the idea,
00:47:13.000because a bunch of articles got written about it, saying like racists are using the names of
00:47:18.000major brands as racial slurs. What's Facebook going to do?
00:47:21.000In certain contexts, our name is a bannable offense.
00:47:43.000Right, and there was no big movement because nobody... I think the issue with that idea is a lot of these people probably thought it would become a trend until you realize most people aren't racist and didn't want to use that language.
00:47:54.000Yeah, most people just don't like people who suck.
00:47:59.000Stop being mean to my friends, you know what I mean?
00:48:02.000You can make jokes and stuff, but this is it.
00:48:04.000Urban Dictionary is supposed to be about jokes.
00:49:20.000And once these ideas enter... So, it's the Trojan horse.
00:49:25.000The Libertarian Party says, yeah, opposing racism is a good thing, endorses it outright, then everyone sees it as normal, and then the people who run these organizations say, here's what it means, here's what you gotta do now.
00:49:35.000So for those that aren't familiar, the definition of racism has changed in the actual dictionary.
00:49:44.000Racism is one, a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities, and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
00:49:53.000Two, A doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles.
00:50:00.000To be a political or social system founded on racism.
00:50:06.000Now the problem with this, and many of you may have heard this already but I'm just giving you context because I got another definition to show you.
00:50:12.000Basically what they did, because of political pressure, is they included systemic racism in the definition of racism under the word racism.
00:50:21.000What they're describing in these definitions is systemic racism, not the word racism.
00:50:27.000This creates a circular definition because they use the word in the definition of itself, which means you create a recursive loop.
00:50:36.000So the dictionary would read, a political or social system founded on, a political or social system founded on, a political or, and it would never end.
00:50:44.000It would just be an endless recursion.
00:50:46.000Because they define the word by itself.
00:50:48.000Now you could argue, you can use the first definition to define the second definition, but that makes literally no sense.
00:50:53.000And now, I bring you the best part about the change to our dictionary.
00:53:23.000Well, there is now because of Trump's executive order, but it's, you know, to They have video footage of the person, you know, peeling out over the the Rainbow Street, and it's a hate crime.
00:53:36.000It's like... They weren't peeling out.
00:55:04.000About them painting in front of the... Yeah, no, he doesn't.
00:55:06.000He tweeted about it, saying it was a hate message, but I think the full context of the tweet was that you've got crime skyrocketing in New York and this is what they do.
00:55:13.000Right, this is where they're putting their money, basically.
00:56:10.000But Trump probably tweets out and then an hour later sees his phone blowing up and then he sees the typo and he laughs and leaves it because it's distracting everybody.
00:56:22.000The famous story was that he tweeted about the squad going back to their home countries and at the same time he was ending like refugee and asylum rules that were like pretty, like it was a bold move.
00:57:55.000Right now, the biggest platforms and their partners in media control all cultural institutions, which means politics cannot exist unless the cultural gatekeepers allow it to.
00:58:11.000If you want to say something like this, I believe we should have a flat tax.
00:59:14.000So, you gotta cross your fingers that come November, not only will you win, let's say the silent majority does exist and they're going to go out in November in massive numbers and prove it, but you also are hoping that the Republicans who get elected will actually do this.
01:01:42.000If we specifically state in the Reform 230 That a good faith effort to remove illegal content, there will still be some mistakes, but that wouldn't be one of them.
01:01:53.000Because there's no reason to believe, and there's no good faith belief, that he posted anything illegal.
01:02:17.000We need more than this, though, because right now another problem is that we have follow-up accounts overtly breaking the law with their posts.
01:02:35.000So kind of like, people are upset that Parler, you have to put in a number and it's like, I kind of, I'm down with that because you can't, you're going to go get like five different numbers so that you can, cause you have to actually.
01:02:47.000They're trying to prevent bots from manipulating.
01:03:44.000There was a big controversy because some people use pseudonyms and some people are activists
01:03:49.000who face persecution in their home countries and they fled and they're like, if I use my real name.
01:03:54.000So, and some people on Facebook don't use real photos of themselves.
01:03:58.000But the idea is, if everyone has to stand up for what they're saying, then people would be a lot less inclined to be awful and nasty people.
01:04:06.000And it wasn't illegal to just speak your mind.
01:04:36.000It would favor the center and reinvigorate the center to come back for a debate.
01:04:40.000It would force the left back to the center because the bigger conversation would be happening among more people.
01:04:46.000However, this could result in a massive flood of Annoying, really annoying, racist, tirades, brigading, sock puppetry, which can result in the platform becoming just a cesspool of chaos.
01:05:03.000This is one of the things that Twitter was concerned about.
01:05:06.000That the reason they decided to just take sides and ban one is that if they really did mass free speech, you end up with bots just spamming everybody all the time.
01:05:18.000And so they had to figure out how to deal with that.
01:05:20.000So if you have Section 230, reformed, protecting all legal speech, and you create a platform where you can't be anonymous, problem solved.
01:05:30.000There's still some problems you can argue, but then individuals can't run multiple accounts, and they have to stand behind every word they say.
01:05:38.000So will you get angry racist tirades that are really annoying?
01:05:42.000Yes you will, but a lot of people do this to be contrarian.
01:05:46.000They do it because it's funny, it's fun, they want to troll.
01:05:48.000You will get rid of a lot of the trolls.
01:05:50.000I think online trolls is like what started the Karen movement because people were thinking that they were it was real and then they ran with it and then people started The trolls were like, oh, it's working.
01:06:06.000And then more people were getting offended.
01:06:08.000And then it snowballed into this, you know, speaking of the snowplow parents, the kids grew up and were offended and the trolls were eating them alive.
01:06:18.000And now we're now where look where we're at, you know.
01:06:21.000I've seen these feminists retweet trolls on purpose.
01:08:11.000I mean, I know the funny answers that people have given, so... Well, band names, I'll just give it to you, I think the winner, the winner of the funny band names is Rage on Behalf of the Machine, and this is from Based in PA.
01:08:25.000Comedy Gold says, uh, Free Sheeple, well done.
01:08:58.000So this is act- I actually thought of this because I saw, um, for those of you familiar with Paramore, Hayley Williams, who is like the frontwoman of the band, put up a poster That was called Say Their Names.
01:09:13.000I could be getting it wrong because I just saw this passively.
01:09:15.000I'm not going to pretend like Paramore is the epitome of real punk rock.
01:09:30.000So she had posted this poster of, I guess it was a bunch of names of people who, like, you know, unarmed black people or people have been killed by police.
01:10:06.000So it was, it was like, The point I'm making is, I saw that and I thought about it.
01:10:13.000Like, if you're supposed to be a rebel challenging the system, but here you are saying, so sorry everybody, you know, I understand this is a big mainstream, high-profile cause that everyone loves and supports and the government supports it.
01:10:25.000So a better example would be Bad Religion, which we talked about before.
01:10:28.000Writing their attempt at an anti-alt-right song, which is actually, I guess, inadvertently pro-alt-right.
01:10:36.000But regardless of whether or not you have all these modern iterations of, you know, of punk bands or anti-establishment music and art, what happens now to even the historic music?
01:10:47.000Rage Against the Machine from the 90s.
01:10:49.000Or 2000, you know, as was the 90s, I guess.
01:10:51.000Now it's quite literally like, congratulations, you've lived long enough to see yourself become the machine.
01:10:57.000I actually had a question about this, even in high school, and you and I have talked about this a little bit, because in 2002, I think it was, Bad Religion came out with Kyoto Now, which was their song in favor of the Kyoto Protocol, which is great, I know, if you're an environmentalist, and you also apparently really like Big government?
01:11:58.000It kind of is, but this is a different kind of conservatism.
01:12:02.000The idea was that, like, I guess what he is saying is that if you go back in time, the idea of wearing a suit and going to church is, like, counterculture because the establishment is, like, super far left.
01:12:53.000The idea was that Trump is really part of the global elite billionaires and he is playing this role of the outsider challenging the deep state so that it can bring people back into the machine.
01:13:45.000It was like, now you've got people who used to be very anti-government libertarian being in support of the federal government, calling for them to take action, bring out law and order.
01:13:57.000These were the more small-government, right-leaning people now saying, we need law and order, we need Trump to come in and enforce the law.
01:14:04.000And then you get the punk rock bands, rage against the machine, now literally putting on rock concerts Sanctioned by the government where they paint their political messages in the street.
01:14:14.000Yeah legally with protection from the police You actually have the cops.
01:14:17.000This is the best part Seeing these videos of these young kids dancing with cops.
01:14:23.000Yeah, there was one I can't remember what it was but it was like a street and the cop was doing some shuffle dance with everybody and they're all laughing and cheering and I'm like It's so weird to see young people not rebelling.
01:14:45.000Because I've always been ignorant, right?
01:14:47.000I mean, everyone is ignorant until they, you know, like, on any subject they're not, like, privy to, and then you climb out of that ignorance when you research whatever subject it is.
01:15:01.000So I'm ignorant of many political things, still.
01:15:05.000You know, I'm slowly, you know, learning my place and understanding the whole realm of And, you know, you just see that there's more and more.
01:15:13.000The problem is everyone thinks that they know everything.
01:15:16.000So a lot of these people, these young people, think that they know everything.
01:15:20.000They don't realize that they are ignorant.
01:15:23.000They think that they've just... I mean, everyone, you know, think back when you're 20.
01:15:59.000It's not so much, in my opinion, about rebelling against parents, which is how we view it, but I think it's about asserting your individuality.
01:16:21.000Because it allows life to challenge and find better ways of solving problems.
01:16:27.000If you have a bunch of people trying a bunch of different things, out of 100, 99 fail, but one person improves, then that improvement can trickle to the masses and then lift everybody up.
01:16:37.000So that asserting your individuality was a net benefit to our society and our culture, and now it's gone.
01:16:43.000Now you have these young kids totally in favor.
01:20:40.000They don't know how to deal with mixed race people.
01:20:44.000And I was having a conversation with a friend of mine, and I told, I was telling her why I thought this was bad.
01:20:49.000And I said, I want you to imagine for a second what it must feel like To not have the luxury of living in a community where everyone is the same race, right?
01:21:00.000Because it's something she brought up to me.
01:21:01.000She was like, minorities have to think about race all the time and white people don't, which is not true.
01:21:06.000But there are communities that is true.
01:21:08.000I said, OK, so now I want you to imagine something.
01:21:11.000Imagine you're a minority, and you wake up one day to see that many people you know who are white are now calling for white collective action, and they're calling for the formation of white racial identity groups.
01:21:23.000Do you think that would make them more or less comfortable?
01:22:18.000And I met some... I have some friends who are 100% Korean, born in America, who have been there.
01:22:25.000And I met some people who are 100% Korean, born in Korea.
01:22:28.000And boy, was it an interesting conversation.
01:22:30.000As young people, they were very nice to me.
01:22:33.000But they explained to me that in Southeast Asia, I would not be, for the most part, acceptable.
01:22:39.000I'd probably get by just fine, but I would come across many roadblocks based on racism that I would never experience in America.
01:22:46.000And you look at, somebody brought this up in the chat, I think the other day, that in Japan, you can't even open a bank account unless you are from Japan and you are Japanese.
01:22:54.000Because a lot, it's like, dude, America's laws are rare.
01:23:05.000This is what I was saying the other day about how can they deny that America is not on the forefront of showing what it's like to be free, to be civil, to show what equality is.
01:23:19.000They're actually trying to disassemble that And we have that.
01:24:57.000So this was the culmination of the conversation I had with my friend.
01:25:00.000When they were basically saying, you know, white people have the luxury of never experiencing race.
01:25:05.000And then when I said, imagine waking up where you come from a mixed-race family, you've dealt with issues of racism, and you see all of these white people now forming a white racial identity group.
01:25:18.000You know, they're going like, uh, I thought we were... So I asked her, you know, I basically said, When you propose segregation based on race, you have to understand that it was you, your ideology, and progressives in 1967 that got a ruling which created mixed-race relationships in this country.
01:25:39.000made it so that it was legally protected, they could not discriminate, people of different races could have mixed-race children.
01:25:45.000You have now created, I believe, two or three generations now of mixed-race families, and with your identitarianism and segregation, you are basically telling them, F you, and you want to go back in time?
01:26:00.000You're basically just chopping off a group of people that your side fought for, right?
01:26:49.000We have civil rights law, and they're seeking to undo it.
01:26:52.000And unfortunately, there's a lot of them.
01:26:56.000When I heard that California was doing that, I expected some sort of hiccup in the Black Lives Matter movement to be like a screeching halt on the brakes.
01:27:11.000What are you trying to do, California?
01:28:38.000These are people that are ethnically ambiguous.
01:28:42.000When you have this idea of white privilege, one of the things I encounter is, and this is a story that my family has many experiences, When you get into arguments with with different groups who view you as either white or not white and they can't tell yeah So like during Occupy Wall Street, it was non-stop all the time because they try so hard to make everything about race Yep, they're like looking at me like They mostly called me Puerto Rican
01:30:48.000I'll give you the people don't people see one person who's being rude and equate their skin color to that rudeness instead of the the like this is kind of what um this uh shelby steel was talking about it bringing back individual accountability and that's huge we need to be accountable for our own actions And that's not what people are doing.
01:31:08.000They're going, Oh, you were, you know, I'm going to stereotype you across the board and fill my checkbook of what skin color are you?
01:33:37.000When he asked the NBA to make like a, he said, if you're going to do, you know, political jerseys, why don't you do a back the blue, you know, support the troops or free Hong Kong.
01:36:28.000That's how we've taken over the planet.
01:36:30.000So now, you know, we're deconstructing the family home.
01:36:34.000So where are people getting that connection?
01:36:37.000it's you know you're taught like oh it's it's so bad to live at your parents home you don't live on your own anymore and it's like yeah there's nothing wrong with that i don't care i mean i i live on my own i've lived on my own since i was 17 and you know it's like i don't see anything wrong with it because it's community now they're finding it online Now online, when you take that away from them, now, I mean, that is their community.
01:37:01.000That's where they get that feeling, you know, that they're not getting in real life.
01:37:09.000I'm gonna be very careful in how I describe this, but let me just tell you how easy it is for some of these companies to trick kids into getting on their platform.
01:37:20.000You create a social media app, you buy a handful of Facebook ads and Instagram ads, promoting the app, showing young people dancing and having a good time.
01:37:31.000When a young person signs up, you then give them fake followers slowly over time so they get the dopamine trigger.
01:37:37.000Wow, when I do a post, I get a bunch of likes.
01:38:43.000You get a 17-year-old kid and he thinks he's talking to his fans and it's one guy in China pressing buttons going like, you know, there he goes, now he believes, you know, there's 50 more likes, he thinks it's working.
01:38:55.000Just go ahead finish your they're addicted and when you go to take it away they go, but I have so many followers Here's the funny thing about the Taylor Lorenz story is why I brought it up Some people were saying I have got all of my followers on tik-tok.
01:39:06.000It doesn't translate You know, I've got X followers on tik-tok, but barely any actually follow me on Twitter instagram So the reason I brought this up, we were talking about the deep web China conspiracy, right?
01:39:23.000So now I'm seeing these weird TikTok videos of like how awesome China is and who has TikTok accounts?
01:39:33.000Who's the most susceptible to being converted to Whatever ideology you you shove down their throat when they have your attention when they're getting their dopamine from From them instead of their parents, you know It used to be like your parents would be like we're proud of you and it'd be like wow
01:43:13.000So if Trump needs to counter the propaganda with his message, and they say we're banning all ads, and then the media continues to spam anti-Trump propaganda, people are going to vote for or against Trump.
01:44:03.000I think it's hilarious it's come to this point, but if the Republicans don't take everything, and that's a big ask, and 230 reform doesn't happen, welcome to the resistance.
01:44:14.000You will be, as far as anyone's concerned, in the gross minority in terms of culture.
01:44:20.000Your ideas will be oppressed, shut down, and you'll be told to sit down and shut up because the machine is against you.
01:44:47.000The Supreme Court just gave half the jurisdiction of Oklahoma back to the Native Americans, which I'm sure, you know, a lot of people are happy with, but is very detrimental precedent to the rest of the United States.
01:44:57.000A lot of people are hitting me up about that, and I haven't looked fully into it, but from what I'm hearing from many different people, it's all about just the specifics of... Land ownership doesn't change.
01:45:10.000It's just the specifics of Native Americans that live in that area that have been arrested for crimes.
01:45:18.000So it's a narrow ruling, meaning they've asserted several positions and then said, This is about federal crimes committed on this land.
01:45:28.000The state will not have jurisdiction over Native Americans.
01:45:31.000But within their opinion, they said this is a reservation.
01:45:35.000Which means precedent has been set to open the door for a wave of more lawsuits.
01:45:40.000So that's why I say you're going to get two narratives on this one.
01:45:44.000There's a lot of people who are like, no, no, no, no, don't worry about it.
01:45:46.000But the problem with that is I don't trust it because there are quite literally people in Seattle, for instance, in the government saying they want to tear down the system.
01:45:53.000Ilhan Omar saying tear down the system.
01:47:11.000I believe that the Asians crossed the Bering Strait at some point, and there's a lot of really interesting theories about cultural development based on proximity and space, but yes, that's my general understanding.
01:47:24.000I could be wrong, but, you know, interesting stuff nonetheless.
01:47:26.000But the comparison to the Kulaks is actually pretty on point.
01:47:31.000I tell my activist friends, who started the revolution?
01:51:59.000And I actually really thought hard about, like, what is the most apt outcome.
01:52:03.000And I decided for me personally, based on my view of things, this is a city with a brick-and-mortar building, which has provided infrastructure, which has police, which has fire department, all of these wonderful services that are paid for not just by them, but by everybody.
01:52:17.000So if somebody lives there and comes in, I don't think it's fair that a business can reap the benefits of the taxes I pay and then deny me a service because they're occupying a space that someone else could occupy.
01:52:46.000Reconcile that left, that I'm like, well, cops are especially deserving of service because they are actually being paid by the community and by your taxes.
01:53:34.000It's, it's, it's a, there's a whole lot of ethical arguments emerging with the, the, the expansion of, I mean, the fact that basically every bit of land on this planet is owned by somebody.
01:55:25.000So I literally bought a bus ticket to New York and just walked around an empty park in New York.
01:55:29.000And then from there, just kept doing things.
01:55:32.000And starting that little tiny snowball down the hill, for a long time it's a tiny snowball, but eventually it's a boulder and it's going full speed.
01:55:39.000But you gotta start by just literally doing it.
01:55:41.000So my advice, I can only really give you advice to people who want to work in media, But whenever someone asks me about journalism, it's simple.
01:55:48.000Work a crummy job, save as much as you can, sleep on couches, save your money, and then go somewhere and film it.
01:55:56.000It just makes me think of the, I don't remember who says it, but we're not going to get to Mars until we beat the Xbox, something like that?
01:56:03.000Oh, it was, if we ever shake hands with aliens, it will be not because we overcame the Xbox, I'm sorry, not because we overcame nuclear weapons, but because we overcame the Xbox.
01:58:19.000I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.
01:58:32.000Turtleburger says, I love the Goya thing.
01:58:34.000Anti-racist fight racism and white supremacy by boycotting a minority-run business because he thanked the racist president who was signing in an executive order supporting a minority community.
01:59:04.000The CEO of Goya said thank you to Donald Trump.
01:59:07.000And then all of a sudden, all of these lefties were like, you know, Google, I think AOC said, time to Google search how to make your own adobo.
01:59:38.000Goya employs our essential workers during a pandemic who are risking their safety directly to make sure there is enough food for people in this country.
01:59:47.000Therefore, I believe I should have a right to march in support of Goya in a large gathering of hundreds of thousands of people in New York City.
01:59:55.000And who is Bill de Blasio to argue that my cause is less important than his cause?
02:00:48.000You're gonna throw away food right now instead of okay If you truly believe that you could take your Goya products and go give it to a food shelter Go give it to some homeless people that might need it Go give it to a church that will you know, bring it to the right place.
02:01:01.000It's like you are just you're losing my respect and If you even had any to begin with.
02:01:09.000But it's crazy, I'm seeing it all over the place.
02:02:25.000My personal ideology falls on the left libertarian spectrum, of which there are few people because it is probably the most difficult political spectrum which you could exist on.
02:02:35.000It requires Reasoned cooperation to create a functioning system.
02:03:19.000There's a really famous commune of like a hundred people, and you can sign up to live there, and everyone works, and they share in the bounty of all the work they do.
02:04:41.000And so we actually hang out for about another half an hour and we're going to play some music and I guess I'm going to play a song if my throat works because this is like hour six of me talking today.
02:05:09.000Yeah, tomorrow at 8 p.m., go to YouTube.
02:05:14.000And, uh, Adam Kast's IRL is going live for the first time from my new channel, and you can, uh, we're gonna do me and Ian Crossland's back.
02:05:24.000Tweet, tweet out the link to your channel.
02:13:00.000I'm gonna play a song that was not written to be performed on an acoustic guitar, but everybody really liked that I was playing it before, when we were jamming, so... I'm gonna play it.
02:13:09.000Everything look good on your guys' end?
02:34:03.000I gotta admit, there's a certain weird feeling where I'm just, we're just sitting in the house and we're like cameras on, we're talking about our feelings and playing music and it's like people are hanging out with us.
02:34:47.000We're going to have like a members only site with live access.
02:34:50.000So when we're skating the mini ramp, because we do like almost every day when it's not, well, with an indoor park, we're skating every day.
02:34:55.000We're going to be skating all the time.
02:35:07.000Reddit's become less effective, but for the most part, I immediately start looking at my various news websites, news sources, and Twitter feed.
02:35:14.000As soon as I wake up, I grab my phone and I'm sourcing news, grabbing links and storing them, being like, these are interesting things.
02:35:19.000I'm reading about what's going on at 7 a.m.
02:35:23.000I usually get done with all of my recording around like 3.30 or so.
02:36:31.000Yeah, and for those that don't know, I mean, there's probably an overlap where people don't know that I actually have two other channels, because I'm sure, but I actually have two other channels that are just me doing, like, news commentary.
02:36:40.000It's very different from what we do here.
02:36:42.000And then Adam actually has his own channel he launched, AdamCastIRL.
02:36:56.000You couldn't actually see it until I had a video, so what I did was I took my favorite video of AdamCast when they were doing Joe Rogan a couple months ago.
02:37:10.000If you don't know anything about him, you want to know more about him, you could You can check it out on my channel, AdamCastIRL, but more importantly, it's going to be a live show, probably like a Saturday thing.
02:37:19.000Me and Ian are just going to rap about stuff, deep dive into really interesting people in life.
02:37:36.000So we're going to have a vlog of this new massive space.
02:37:40.000There's going to be so much happening, man.
02:37:44.000We're going to have exclusive content.
02:37:46.000We're actually going to create a members thing for people who want to watch the mini-ramp and hang out, and we're going to do special releases.
02:37:52.000But I'm also going to be setting up some actual journalists to do fact-checking on a ton of news to actually start solving these problems.
02:38:48.000I mean... Tony Hawk, if you're listening, because of course he watches the show, if you're listening, we would love to have you come out to Cast Castle when, you know, we officially get it going.
02:38:58.000The good news is we're gonna have a ton of space for having guests.
02:39:01.000The bad news is we're gonna be in the middle of nowhere, so getting them there will be a certain, well...