In this episode of the TimCast, we talk about the Seattle protests, Magic the Gathering's new ban on racist cards, and the crazy things going on in the Capitol Hill Free Zone. We also talk about how the culture revolution is spreading like wildfire.
00:01:36.000But some of these cards, it's like shocking how insane it is to ban.
00:01:40.000So anyway, the point is, man, I don't care if you play or don't play Magic the Gathering, what we're gonna be talking about is the culture revolution.
00:01:59.000There was some dude who made a video where he was like, why is my nine-year-old kid getting prompted on EA to like confirm that they're not racist?
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00:03:14.000For the most part, like on the surface, I'm actually cool with it.
00:03:18.000If you're talking about an Occupy Wall Street style, people banging drums and singing songs in the street, and the community is totally cool with it, I got no issue.
00:03:28.000But now you've got people showing up with guns, you've got lawlessness.
00:03:33.000Some dude apparently was tagging, so he got confronted, then someone pulled a gun, and then somebody was like, dude, we're the police now!
00:05:49.000The Democrats, they wore these claws, they're called kente claws.
00:05:53.000And it turns out the ones they wore specifically came from the Ashanti Empire, which made a fortune dealing in slavery with the British Empire.
00:07:34.000Yeah, so it says, the demands of the collective black voices at Free Capitol Hill to the government of Seattle, Washington.
00:07:40.000I don't want to read too much, but I want to highlight one specific thing where they say, the first demand, the number one demand, the Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform.
00:07:54.000We demand the Seattle City Council and the mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached criminal justice apparatus.
00:08:02.000This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle police.
00:08:06.000At an equal level of priority, we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.
00:08:53.000Presumably some person just down in Seattle.
00:08:56.000He said, Seattle rapper and alleged sex trafficker Raz assaulted graffiti artists with a huge group of goons just for tagging, forced them out of the zone, followed them 10 blocks, and then one of them pulled a gun on them when they tried to defend themselves.
00:09:24.000Like we have to take care of this place.
00:09:26.000So apparently though, uh, the dude Raz, they were mad because the tagger was tagging up a building that people lived in and they were like, we got to keep this clean and safe.
00:10:55.000Look, look, if you own property, people don't have a right to destroy it, okay?
00:11:01.000There are certain, I'm probably, I don't want to be absolute on this, like depending on what the property is, if you're like, you know, infringing on someone else's rights in some capacity.
00:11:09.000But the point is, this dude is just trying to gain the power of the police.
00:11:14.000And that's why his goons were like, we're the police now!
00:11:19.000It's like I was saying, dude, during Occupy Wall Street, when they told me about flipping the pyramid, They're like, we want to flip the pyramid over.
00:11:25.000And a dumb person goes, then all of the poor people will be on top.
00:12:07.000Jake has actually covered and gone on the ground and dealt with real extremists and real revolutionaries.
00:12:13.000That's why I think his threat is particularly hilarious, because what do you think his opinion is going to be, having actually covered real far-right groups with guns doing military training in Eastern Europe, and actually dealing with revolutionary anarchists and things like that?
00:13:00.000It'd be very cool if it was the beginning of one, though, and good luck to you, I hope it is.
00:13:05.000Okay, this is beginning to look more like it.
00:13:07.000Left libertarian movement John Brown Gun Club turned up armed to do patrols.
00:13:14.000Now, I don't know much about the John Brown Gun Club in terms of what their goals are, but I really don't like when people confuse Antifa and Antifa-affiliated groups with Left Libertarian.
00:13:27.000So, this may be Left Libertarian, perhaps.
00:13:31.000Like, just because these guys are armed and walking around, I'm not going to assume they're violent authoritarians who want to impose their will on others.
00:13:37.000I know a lot of these guys, I've seen, I'm not sure which group it was, There was a, it's a, it's a far left communist armed patrol, like armed militia.
00:13:45.000But if you watch the videos, they're very disciplined.
00:13:48.000They're very calm and they try to keep the peace.
00:13:50.000They don't, they don't sit there and allow people to go nuts.
00:13:53.000A lot of people don't like it, but look, man, if they're legally allowed to do it, they're nonviolent and they're trying to keep tensions down.
00:14:08.000So if the John Brown Gun Club shows up, they're armed, they're doing their thing, and they're peacefully, you know, walking around and making sure people don't act a fool, that's cool.
00:14:59.000I think it's valuable to see that they actually have organized training.
00:15:03.000However, the act in and of itself of doing firearms training and survival training and self-defense training, I got no problem with.
00:15:10.000Just because they're doing it, I'm like, no.
00:15:12.000The issue is, if they use that training, here's what I see.
00:15:15.000If these people, like the John Brown Gun Club, go and engage in some kind of act of terror, then you need to consider what their group is, what they do, how they train, and then maybe there's some trumped-up charges or something.
00:15:26.000So there was apparently like a live stream of this.
00:17:03.000Seattle is a wealthy, you know, it's a wealthy enough place and this young white woman has probably gotten, you know, her parents, she goes, I don't want to eat meat because I believe in fighting for justice.
00:17:13.000So her parents were like, whatever you say, dear, and then went to the store and bought her the expensive vegan options.
00:17:18.000And now she wants them, and now she's occupying, and she's like, bring me the expensive options from the health food store, nothing from Walmart, please.
00:17:26.000Well, Walmart actually has some pretty good vegan options, mind you.
00:19:12.000Just saw some stuff about the Capitol Hill autonomous zone.
00:19:15.000To summarize, woke scolders are drunk on power, policing people's language, radical liberals told the armed leftists to leave, and now a local rapper is acting as a one-day warlord beating up activists.
00:20:18.000Hold on, he says, uh, this is what happens when you allow the professionally offended to overrun the left and destroy it with extreme identity politics.
00:20:26.000It's not nice or popular to say, but the reality is you can't run an autonomous zone if you let absolute cowards constantly have their say.
00:20:44.000He says, not to get too political, but I actually think genuine autonomous zones are exciting and worthwhile alternative to hyper-capitalist wage-slave hell world.
00:20:51.000I just don't think the people who took part in this one knew what they were doing at all.
00:20:56.000He says, getting manhandled for spraying graffiti.
00:20:58.000They went from anarcho-syndicalist commune to the USSR in two days.
00:21:04.000We'll be doing some kind of report about that side of it for Popular Front Co.
00:21:08.000There's a there's a lot of good stuff going on in the Chazz too from what I understand
00:21:12.000We'll be doing some kind of report about that side of side of it for popular front co
00:21:16.000I just wish someone had told them to calm down at the start So if you're not familiar with Jake check him out. He
00:22:20.000Right-wing anarchy is literally like, you're in the middle of the woods, you're on your own.
00:22:24.000Left-wing anarchy is utopianist, we all hold hands and sing songs together and build a happy farm where everyone gets, you know, equal shares of things.
00:22:32.000With replicators that produce everything for everyone without work.
00:22:35.000Left-wing, left-wing anarchy, like the far left, is possible in a tiny, tiny group.
00:22:42.000Right-wing anarchy is possible with a very, very, very large group, but it can devolve into monopolistic empire and oppressive, you know, black operations type security.
00:22:53.000So, you know, the way I usually describe it to people about, like, the best government you could ever want is probably in the right libertarian spectrum, because within that you can have your left libertarian society.
00:23:05.000You know, it doesn't operate in the inverse, in the utopianist ideals.
00:23:11.000But so anyway, when you see this, I often, I try to explain to my anarchist friends, like the lefty anarchist ones, why they'll never have a large civilization, a large country or anything, be anarchist.
00:23:22.000And they like to reference, like, Catalonia, and it's like the brief anarchist period, or whatever they had.
00:23:32.000And so, they had a brief period where it was anarchist, there was no formal government, it kind of just operated, and they're like, that proves it!
00:23:39.000And I'm like, and what happened to it?
00:24:16.000The easiest way to explain it though, if I went back to like, historical times, or not historical times, but like ancient, think of it this way.
00:24:25.000And they form their anarcho-hippie commune, or whatever.
00:24:28.000And they're all sitting around, trying to decide what is the right way.
00:24:31.000I've seen these things, like on Occupy Wall Street, where one person will raise their hand, and then someone will be like, what do you have to say?
00:24:37.000And they'll say, I say we propose this.
00:24:39.000And then everybody will wiggle their fingers, if they agree, or they'll do an X with their hands if they disagree.
00:24:45.000And it's like, three, four hours go by, and no decision has been made on anything.
00:24:49.000Let me tell you a story, man, this is hilarious.
00:24:51.000During Occupy Wall Street, which is very similar to what we're seeing here, We needed, or the occupation needed, bins to keep clothes dry.
00:25:00.000Yeah, so when it rains, people get wet, you get sick, and so they were like, people who have backpacks and extra clothes, we should get plastic bins and keep them dry in the rain.
00:26:41.000But then all of a sudden, someone comes running full speed.
00:26:43.000They're sweating, they're out of breath, and they go, The evil warlord, Zorlan, is heading this way with a thousand men and fifty horses and bow and arrows.
00:27:00.000Four hours go by and they're arguing and then the dude runs in on his horse and just starts beheading everybody and then he steals all the women and the food and then your civilization is gone.
00:27:07.000To put it simply, while you're bickering about how to handle things, the warlord comes in and just takes it.
00:27:16.000In the Seattle Autonomous, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, they've already got a warlord going around threatening people, defending the building owners.
00:28:30.000But the president can pull the trigger, right?
00:28:32.000And that's why they, you know, it's really, really brilliant when I think about the American system.
00:28:37.000They must have been sitting there and they were like, what kind of government should we have?
00:28:40.000And one dude's like, how about, like, you know, a very hippie-ish democratic thing where everyone sits around and, like, you know, they have representatives.
00:30:39.000It means that, first of all, we have a massive country with many different cultures, from the East Coast to the Southeast to the South to the West to Southwest, Pacific Northwest.
00:30:48.000So you have different cultures that emerged.
00:31:11.000But I've been to a lot of other countries, and some of them are really nice, but people don't realize, especially in Europe, where they're like, if America's so great, why has Denmark got better education?
00:31:20.000Because Denmark has, what, like eight million people in it?
00:31:50.000With a barge, you know, you have to take a boat to- But that would be like saying I drove from Ohio to, you know, Boston or whatever in a day.
00:31:58.000Right, but they're comparing it to America.
00:32:01.000So it's like, why don't you compare New York State to France or Texas to this one country, and then you'll see that things are very, very different.
00:32:08.000So you look at the European Union as a disaster, complete disaster.
00:32:13.000You've got states that are indebted and angry and want to leave, and Brexit just happened.
00:33:02.000One of the one of the problems I think we're facing now and we'll see if we can stand the test of time is the cultural imbalance that's happening.
00:33:09.000Which is like the purge of, you know, movies and books.
00:34:23.000If politicians are using Twitter as the main vehicle for discourse, and Jack Dorsey himself is overtly biased, Well, we can't function properly in that regard, so we need some guarantees.
00:34:36.000Well, you don't get guarantees with the private platform.
00:35:15.000My argument is, if there's a billboard for Coke on the side of the road on Sunset Boulevard, and a crazy homeless guy holds up a sign saying, you know, QAnon or whatever, or, you know, Hail Trump or something, you can't get rid of him.
00:35:28.000Your billboard is now next to this guy.
00:35:53.000But I'm telling you, how do you, you know, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and these companies just want to make sure the advertisers are happy.
00:35:59.000The advertisers themselves are biased and don't want to be associated with negative politics.
00:36:03.000But negative politics is not necessarily bad politics.
00:36:06.000It's just some things we got to talk about and they're hard to talk about.
00:36:09.000So how do we guarantee everyone has free speech?
00:36:17.000I'm not even saying that's gonna work.
00:36:19.000I'm just saying, I think about all the problems we've seen so far, none of them work.
00:36:23.000Like Trump has talked about Section 230, which is basically No one really understands, and I'm not going to pretend like I have the best understanding either.
00:36:31.000The general idea is it protects companies from liability.
00:36:35.000They can't be sued for what other people post, but it gives them the ability to remove things that they find lewd, objectionable, or violations of law.
00:36:45.000So is there a way that we can reform Section 230 so that it's a balance between the two?
00:36:50.000You know, so they can't be sued for what people say because it's an open platform.
00:37:30.000Right now, the protection they have says they can remove anything that's lewd, lascivious, objectionable, violation of law, or something like that.
00:38:16.000Like, they'll be like, well, that's harassment.
00:38:17.000Well, okay, we'll take out with law enforcement.
00:38:20.000So there will be some challenges there in that there will still be a private first step within the company to take down things they feel are unlawful.
00:38:29.000But that would absolutely protect Learn to Code.
00:38:31.000It'll protect nasty opinions and political parties.
00:38:58.000So there's a possibility there, though, that because Twitter is the dominant platform, that advertisers will be grudgingly saying, well, I got nowhere else to go, so I'll do it.
00:42:17.000So anyway, it's, look man, when I play Magic, it is a fun game where we sit down, and I got this little dude and he's a bird, and when you cast a spell, then he makes spirits, and then the spirits fight the other guy, and then you can, you know, draw cards.
00:42:42.000It's interesting because they actually went through something like this before.
00:42:45.000In 94, there was this, I think it was like a Christian group that went crazy because one of their, one of the, I don't know, it was like a black enchantment or something.
00:45:17.000I think they released a set where they gave words that represented each color, and black was ambition.
00:45:23.000It was your willingness to sacrifice everything to gain more power, whereas white was more like white magic, like healing and protecting and clerics.
00:45:32.000Literally, regular old fantasy, like white magic and black magic, and then they have green, blue, and red.
00:45:38.000Okay, one of these cards, Cleanze, I think, I don't know if I have the... I think it's Cleanze, yeah.
00:47:13.000It's a reference to Egyptians and the roving bands.
00:47:16.000So in modern Europe, it kind of makes sense because gypsies actually is like a slur and it's something that you call someone who steals a bunch of stuff because that's very much part of their culture.
00:47:25.000Actually, measurably part of their culture.
00:47:27.000Let me show you how absurd all of this is, right?
00:47:29.000I just showed you the card called Cleanse.
00:47:31.000All black creatures in play are destroyed.
00:47:34.000While I was explaining this to a friend of mine, they were like, yeah, but I mean, like, are there other cards that destroy other colors?
00:47:39.000And I'm like, yes, the game is like 30 years old.
00:48:31.000Anyway, Magic the Gathering is a game where dragons fight vampires and giant golems, you know, punch warriors with shields and you give magic powers to your gremlin.
00:48:57.000They've tried to claim that orcs were racist, even though I was reading someone and they were talking about, because I'm not a big, you know, it's not like I've read everything.
00:49:23.000It was just a little flag in like a flower pot up on a shelf somewhere that someone must have put there without anyone really paying attention.
00:51:01.000Imagine if you were playing Call of Duty and then all of a sudden you got a prompt that was like, this guy can't be played anymore because he's white.
00:51:12.000Overwatch is a team shoot-em-up with like a ton of different characters.
00:51:15.000Imagine if they came out one day and they were like, this character is being removed from the game because he's a white man and people deemed him racist.
00:51:21.000And all of a sudden you're like, but that was, I liked playing that character.
00:52:45.000I think they'd be fine, because they do something in Magic called errata, where they'll change the language of the card to update gameplay in the future, and you can have an older version with different writing on it, and then check the database and see they've changed it.
00:52:58.000I think they could just change the names of all of these cards and still keep them.
00:53:03.000Instead, they're banning them outright, which brings me to the actual horrifying card that I have no idea how to actually, like, what were they thinking?
00:59:05.000You're going to get to the scene where they're talking about slavery, and there's going to be big white flashing letters saying, this is racist and is bad.
00:59:11.000or they're gonna do a really awful dub with like modern recording equipment so where someone's gonna be like honey the people in the back the nice people who work for us where are they like they're gonna just layer in like they're gonna replace the word slave with like good people who have jobs I don't know what they're actually going to do with that.
00:59:29.000I don't know how you contextualize an old movie.
00:59:33.000I think everyone knows the movie's old.
00:59:44.000No, no, the problem with that is how are you supposed to manipulate them into enacting a communist system if you teach them what causes communism?
00:59:53.000If you want to create a horrific authoritarian nightmare and people know the steps involved in creating it because they can read history, you can't teach them history.
01:00:36.000But seeing this, I'm like, you're literally going to ban a card called Cleanse because you think that one's bad, but you don't think the other one is bad either?
01:00:44.000Makes me want to just make a deck of all of the racist cards.
01:01:34.000Protection from white, circle of protection black.
01:01:37.000I mean, I could probably go for a little while about random, you know, I had a knight deck that had all my knights had protection from white.
01:02:55.000There was actually a big complaint, I guess, in the magic community a while ago because they like started drawing women really frumpy and fat.
01:04:50.000A bunch of angry, doughy, different races fighting each other, and then China comes to invade, and it's just a big field of fat people going like, and China's like, look how pathetic and weak they are.
01:05:58.000In the United States, we got civil liberties.
01:06:00.000Well, you know, it didn't work out too well for the most part for us, but you can see how the government tried to suppress, to hold us back, because it is an advantage of authoritarian dictatorship to lock everyone in their homes and let the sick die, whereas here the individual is paramount.
01:09:28.000And they're like, but we're the good guys.
01:09:30.000I'm like, no, you are the mindless masses providing cover for the insanity.
01:09:34.000Because what happens is when you all band together and start demanding that a company bends the knee, then the extremists come in and say, see that mob?
01:10:09.000So you're going to create parallel systems.
01:10:12.000You know, and then you're going to end up with people finding resources through other means, and then you have no ties and nothing holding anyone back.
01:10:18.000The funny thing about all the social media bannings and the firing, like Roseanne getting fired and these staffers getting fired, is that if they really wanted to, they could use that to say, give an apology and we'll make it a PSA and then we're good to go.
01:10:31.000Instead, it's like, no, we're going to get rid of you.
01:10:39.000So these people who are apologizing, a lot of people are saying it's a struggle session.
01:10:42.000It's like what they used to do in the Chinese communist revolution.
01:10:46.000They would make the people confess to sins they didn't commit and then humiliate them in public.
01:10:52.000Oh, that's weird, because I actually read an article about that today, or I saw a headline about, um, that's exactly what they do in the Chinese prison camps still.
01:10:59.000They give you a list of crimes to pick off of, and then you commit, or you commit to, like, pleading guilty, and that's that.
01:12:02.000Cassandra Fairbanks posted on Twitter the audio of the 9-1-1 call where she said, where she's crying with her daughter saying, there's people shooting guns at my house and fireworks.
01:13:15.000So if we're going to assume the dominoes keep falling over, what happens next?
01:13:19.000We're getting dangerously close to a point where an angry mob shows up to your house and the cops say, it's easier to arrest you than to deal with a mob.
01:13:28.000So let's say you live in a small town.
01:14:39.000It could be that a lot of people are just not paying attention and don't care.
01:14:43.000And then the Democrats win and take over and these things get steamrolled through at such rapid speed.
01:14:49.000If the Democrats in New York are willing to give immunity, if Fort Worth is willing to drop riding charges, They are granting ideological, they're giving privilege to their ideological group.
01:15:02.000Well, if you're not part of that, they will come to you and they will drag you on the street, put you on your knees and say, convert.
01:15:19.000It was the same day- I mean, I watched her tweets, I follow her, and I- I was- I was- even- I was like, okay, whoa, you're- you're kinda goading them out right now.
01:16:29.000Because these people are so convinced that they're the majority and they're right and the polls reflect it, that certainly if Trump wins, he must have cheated.
01:16:38.000And so then what do you think they're going to do?
01:17:48.000I was reading tweets from somebody saying that George Orwell had spent time in the Spanish Civil War, I guess.
01:17:55.000I don't know if that's true, but it was a response to Majid Nawaz, who tweeted the quote from 1984, that the streets had been renamed, the statues had been renamed, history has been stopped.
01:22:48.000Yeah, so then you say, my second choice would be Trump.
01:22:52.000Then when Gary Johnson inevitably loses, Trump gets your vote.
01:22:57.000So the idea is then, people who are scared now to vote third party because it means the bad candidate wins, won't be scared, and the third party might actually win.
01:23:11.000I'm sure there are a lot of pitfalls and negatives that we haven't talked about, but I think first past the post, what we do now is, is, is broken.
01:23:19.000They say like one person, one vote is the right way to do it.
01:23:21.000And I'm like, I don't know about that because then you get minority rule and you end up with a two party system that most people are begrudgingly accepting.
01:23:31.000And maybe there's a better way we can do it, but I don't know for sure, man.
01:25:10.000Falls Russ says, once Starlink is open to the public, I think I'll get a bug out van or motor home and just head into the West Virginia mountains.
01:25:18.000Matter of time before protests happen here in Fairfax County, Virginia.
01:27:39.000The Rising Refugee says, with all these people boycotting racist things, when are they going to boycott the internet because of all the racist things on it?
01:27:45.000No, they're just going to boycott all the racist things and anything they say is racist, which is basically anything they don't like.
01:33:00.000If protesters continue to deface monuments like Winston Churchill's statue and burn British flags on the Cenotaph, you will see groups forming to defend them.
01:33:10.000These groups will be composed primarily of young, angry white men and led by people with links to groups like the EDL and Tommy Robinson.
01:33:44.000The media will do the opposite of what they did with Black Lives Matter.
01:33:48.000Instead of talking about how, quote, 27 police officers were injured in largely peaceful protests, they will run major front page headlines like, 27 police officers injured by far-right violence.
01:33:59.000At this point, the majority of the public will lose the ability to be nuanced.
01:34:03.000The double standards will be too obvious to ignore.
01:34:06.000Fueled by a constant stream of images of white people kneeling, washing POC feet, and publicly apologizing as they already are, they will conclude that their very identity is under attack.
01:34:17.000At this point, all their sensible aversion to supporting thuggish far-right groups will evaporate.
01:34:22.000They will believe they are in a war for their survival and extreme measures are justified.
01:34:27.000At the next election, which will likely be brought forward for one reason or another, fueled by mass unemployment resulting from the economic depression, far-right parties will make significant inroads.
01:34:37.000When I say far-right, I am not talking about what the far-left call far-right, such as anyone who talks about controlling immigration.
01:34:44.000I'm talking about genuine far-right parties that talk about reversing immigration and deportations.
01:34:50.000These parties will not win seats or get anywhere near government, but they will put a UKIP-like pressure on the conservatives.
01:34:57.000Boris Johnson will likely be ousted as too soft and liberal, and replaced by a law-and-order hardliner.
01:35:03.000From here, I'm afraid, the journey is all too obvious.
01:35:06.000The only way to prevent this is to reverse the re-racialization of our society.
01:35:10.000Either we learn to live together, or the very idea of a multi-ethnic society is over.
01:35:18.000And there's another article that talks about this that says, quote, far-right groups are already showing up in the UK to defend and to fight back.
01:35:28.000And you already have the sentiment in the U.S.
01:35:32.000that you have clearly one ideology that is favored by the police, Fort Worth, New York, and the racetrack in North Carolina that claimed to be a protest got shut down.
01:35:42.000So what is anyone going to conclude in this?
01:35:44.000It was an imminent threat, the governor said.
01:35:46.000Did you hear about the Naval Academy alumni or whatever?
01:35:50.000Who had his Facebook conversation leaked or something?
01:35:53.000So apparently the story is, this guy was sitting with his wife, and he somehow accidentally started a livestream on his phone through Facebook.
01:36:01.000And they started talking about Black Lives Matter, and he basically said exactly what this dude said.
01:36:06.000That white people can't speak up anymore, they're under attack, they're losing their jobs.
01:36:10.000Then some racial slurs got dropped, he was forced to apologize.
01:36:14.000But this is a very important story because it shows you that... I mean, this guy... I didn't listen to the conversation.
01:36:20.000It didn't sound like he was overtly racist, but it did sound like he was angry that he, as a white man, was being attacked simply for being white.
01:36:27.000There are memes about this where it's like...
01:37:09.000And when they finally do seize a few blocks, they're like, please bring us vegan meat substitutes!
01:37:15.000As a sign of their privilege and their expectation of what they're owed.
01:37:19.000So here's what I think is a likely potential for what we'll see, you know, coming off of this statement from this guy Constantine.
01:37:25.000The far left and their constant rioting and their attacks are creating a secret base of Trump voters.
01:37:32.000Trump and the Republicans will win, the left will freak out, they'll get even more aggressive, and regular people will say, please just make it stop.
01:37:39.000And Trump will, by sending in the military, invoking the Insurrection Act, and shutting it all down.
01:37:45.000The people will beg for the authoritarian police state, and they will get it.
01:37:50.000And then you will have this constant fear in people's minds, which will result in, like what Konstantin was saying, a bunch of far-right groups start emerging.
01:37:57.000Then you end up with, you know, I don't know, more white identitarian politics, and people just start reverting to the rules of the past, you know, 40 or 50 years because they're scared.
01:38:12.000This actually kind of worries me because I think the far left pushes so hard to the left because they only ever think that they will win.
01:38:19.000And I don't think they recognize that their action is going to cause a very strong opposite reaction because it turns out that people don't really like the far left all that much.
01:38:31.000It's not just that, it's that you're right, but it's also what we're seeing from these leftists goes against the grain.
01:38:39.000So when you have somebody who grew up in this country and they're like a dude and they're like, I like playing football and I like attractive women.
01:38:53.000It's about being told that everything you do is toxic all the time and no matter what you do you're wrong and you're bad and they get angry and they hate it and they want to find somebody who they can relate to.
01:39:38.000Rowling came out and said, I respect and love all of my trans friends and I will fight for you, but I have the lived experience of a female and believe that she'd be protected.
01:40:13.000Or the dude who walks up with, you know, he's got the haircut where the sides are shaved and it's flipped over to the side and he's wearing a suit and he says, I just want you to be happy.
01:40:21.000I want you to have faith in God and I want you to be a good wife and we're gonna make sure you're safe.
01:40:26.000And there's going to be a bunch of goons with guns standing behind them saying, and we'll make sure you're safe.
01:40:31.000They'll pick it every step of the way because it's safety and security.
01:40:33.000And the people running through the streets, smashing windows and threatening people and talking about there being no genders or infinite genders freak people out.
01:40:42.000I think a lot of the stuff we're seeing has a very good possibility that results in fascism.
01:40:46.000And I think, you know, I wonder if that's how it happened in Europe, because in Germany and Spain and other countries, the communists and the fascists were fighting each other all the time.
01:40:54.000And the regular liberals got attacked by them, too, and just kind of stood back and did nothing.
01:40:58.000And that's kind of how the bad stuff happens.
01:41:00.000So I wonder if, in the end, when given the choice between what they call progress, but is actually just a mishmash of weird ideas, and authoritarian traditionalism, people choose what's familiar and what they think will be, you know, safe and fine.
01:41:18.000But they also banned Baby, It's Cold Outside.
01:41:21.000There's going to be a ton of people who are in their 40s and 50s who are going to think back to that suburban life where it was Christmas time and they woke up early in the morning and there was mom making a batch of chocolate chip cookies and she turned on the song Baby It's Cold Outside and then they remember mom dancing with dad and having a good time and they're going to say that was home, that was family, that was safe.
01:41:41.000And now they're being told you're wrong, you're evil, you're racist.
01:43:02.000People are just like, you know, my girlfriend went to some feminist class and all of a sudden she's like, I have to break up with you because you're, you're the patriarchy.
01:43:08.000It made me so, so mad because it was my friend.
01:46:12.000I think a lot of these people that we see, like high-profile Black Lives Matter people, like Ice Cube, for instance, are probably followers of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
01:46:22.000So, when Farrakhan got banned, Snoop Dogg made an Instagram video where he was flipping out, saying, how dare you ban the minister, you know?
01:46:31.000And then he ordered all of his, or he told all his fans, post videos of, you know, Minister Farrakhan onto Instagram so they can't do this.
01:48:48.000I can prove that Adam is scared of giraffes because one time he was walking down the stairs and I jumped out screaming at the top of my lungs while holding a picture of a giraffe and he jumped from it.
01:48:56.000I can only assume it was because of the giraffe.
01:50:19.000So I guess I would arguably say I do have a fear in skateboarding of trying certain tricks, and that's about as close as I can get to being scared.
01:50:28.000But the thing about skateboarding is like, today we're skating and I'm like, man, I'll try a trick and then I'll bail on it and be like, I'm just scared to do it.
01:51:10.000Because in my nightmare, I always come in partway through, it's way late, and I haven't done what I'm supposed to do.
01:51:15.000So what I'm saying is that how that would translate into your weakness is that if you start doubting yourself and believing you're gonna fail...
01:51:22.000And then suddenly you'll have a bunch of people like in Yu-Gi-Oh!, how all the dudes would always stand behind him like, you can do it, Yu-Gi!
01:52:08.000I'm imagining this really funny scenario.
01:52:10.000It's like, I know you mentioned your powers, but I'm just, for the sake of the analogy, like Lydia's flying and she's got like big energy blasts about to come out of her hands and like her hair is on fire.
01:52:19.000And then she like throws a plasma blast and then Adam's sitting there and you're like vaping like, she can't do it.
01:54:45.000Uriel says, You ask what will happen when they show up at our door with rocks and pitchforks, but what will happen when the one that answers the door is armed with a gun?
01:57:07.000I just, yeah, I haven't got around to it, I guess.
01:57:09.000The spot says, the sad reality is that when we have a segment of the country that are 100% incapable of free thought and common sense, have also been brainwashed and indoctrinated by adults around them.
01:59:13.000Jackson Wang says, during Cultural Revolution, Grandma was paraded around, people spit through food and feces in rocks, then buried her neck deep, forced her to watch a neighbor dump buckets of feces on my mom, only 10 at the time.
02:00:40.000Um, well, I think that when you have a group of people who come from, like, look, slavery ended.
02:00:49.000And then you have the people who just left slavery, have no education, limited, or limited access, they have no money, what do they do?
02:00:58.000And they slowly start building up from there, but they're in a society that already has families with generational wealth, not every single person.
02:01:04.000When immigrants come, they do have the family tradition and culture from their previous country that didn't, in the past few generations, come from absolutely nothing.
02:01:14.000Ultimately, I think, there is an argument to be made about helping to repair generational damage.
02:01:20.000The only problem is the solutions they're offering are surface level that won't actually address anything.
02:01:23.000They also target people based on race, which ultimately I think will not work, because how do you actually track back who deserves what and who has to pay it?
02:01:30.000So if the argument is you think that, you know, the people who are slaves should get paid reparations, I would say here, here, yes.
02:01:36.000Go find all of those Confederates and make them pay for it, because we're the country, you know, we won.
02:01:57.000If you look at how civil rights ended, and it's only been, it's not even been 100 years, it's been decades, you have places in Seattle that still have remnants of it.
02:02:06.000We've certainly passed laws and said you can't do this anymore, but there are still remnants of, you know, like, the easiest example, I guess, is how St.
02:02:15.000Louis is made up of, like, 90 different cities.
02:02:33.000When these people go to work and they decide to eat instead of, you know, renewing their plates, they drive through three or four jurisdictions where they get pulled over in each one, get a ticket for the same thing in each one, and then when they get arrested because they can't pay the ticket either, they go to jail.
02:02:48.000It's usually a couple days in jail because it's a small fine.
02:02:51.000When they get released, the next jurisdiction is waiting to pick them up and bring them to the next police department.
02:02:56.000So if you have a group of people that have been, you know, starting from very little and lack the resources to actually deal with these normal institutions, and then you have all of these jurisdictions, it creates problems.
02:03:12.000There are certainly racial aspects to it.
02:03:14.000If we can solve the class problems, everyone's happy.
02:03:17.000There are more poor white people in this country than poor black people and poor Latinos.
02:03:22.000But there are bad things in our past that we should figure out how to fix, and you don't do it by telling people it had nothing to do with one thing, to pay for people, and that won't solve anything.
02:03:32.000You do it through education and I guess proper appropriation of tax revenue towards certain areas and it takes a long time.
02:03:43.000It's not going to be a simple solution.
02:03:44.000What they're doing now, in my opinion, isn't the answer because they're doing the opposite.
02:03:47.000They're telling universities that you can ban people based on their race.
02:03:51.000You're creating more of this problem and it's not going to solve anything.
02:03:54.000And when you try to point out class as the issue, they call you a racist and they say you're blind.
02:04:44.000There's also something called blockbusting.
02:04:46.000Let me tell you about systemic racism.
02:04:48.000First of all, You need to understand institutional racism.
02:04:52.000The problem with both of these concepts is that the left, when they explain it, they give you wacky nonsensical answers and call you a bigot.
02:04:58.000They also don't like talking about it.
02:05:00.000Institutional racism, the best example, is how the housing market is racist.
02:05:05.000Yeah, so I don't know if it still persists to this day, but I do know that for the longest time
02:05:39.000Right now, they are telling you that everything is about race.
02:05:43.000So now, because of the assumption that white people are racist, people are going to be scared that if a black or brown person moves into their neighborhood, well, if white people are racist, then white people won't want to buy my house, so I can't sell it, so the price will go down, so people panic.
02:05:57.000That fake, insane view creates the institutional problem.
02:06:02.000So I explain this to this very lefty friend of mine.
02:07:10.000There is no legislative solution other than banning the practice.
02:07:12.000But if people still have this in their minds, what do you do?
02:07:15.000Well, I'll tell you what you don't do.
02:07:16.000You make them sit in Bethesda, Maryland, in a park, raising their hands, worshiping the sky while they chant mindlessly, because that makes everything worse.
02:07:23.000Or including it in a video game that a 90-year-old plays.
02:09:32.000But I asked a friend of mine, who was very adamantly pro-Black Lives Matter, I said, can you name how many unarmed black people were killed by cops last year?