This is probably one of the most profound and important podcasts I've ever heard. You can find a transcript here:
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-j...tucker-carlson
Some interesting points: Tucker's journey from hating "conspiracy theorists" to giving credence to some of the most "extreme" conspiracy theories:
Joe Rogan
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And there's a ton of evidence that are under the ocean and under the ground. So like with that fact set, what do you conclude? When did you start having this opinion that they were spiritual and that they've always been here? When did this- Well, I didn't know anything about the topic until 2017. Was that after the New York Times piece?
Tucker Carlson
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No, it was before. It was before, and the things that I saw, I mean, I was, and am still, a very conventional person. I mean, I'm 54, I grew up in this country in California, which was like, every assumption about America I bought completely, just completely. And I thought that everyone who questioned those assumptions was bad. I just bought into the system completely without even thinking about it.
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And I imagined that I was like some kind of free thinker and you know, I'm going against the grain. But like the core, my core assumptions were the, you know, the assumptions fed to me by the culture and the government and I didn't even realize it. But anyway, I'd never really thought about UFOs at all, and I'd been in journalism since I was a kid, so of course I'd run into a lot of people who had crazy views on a lot of different topics.
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UFOs, 9-11, circumcision, you know, like every whack job in the world you run into when you're covering stuff. Fluoride. Fluoride, right? I just brushed with non-fluoride toothpaste this morning. Me too. Right, exactly.
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Exactly, but probably unlike you, I didn't have any opinions like that. I was like, fluoride, come on. 9-11, shut up! UFOs, you're $#@!ing crazy. You know what I mean? I just had this reflexive, I'm ashamed of it, I'm not bragging about it, but um, but it was it was 2017 and really it was the Trump campaign
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It wasn't that I was like so in love with Trump though I've always liked Trump because it was a hilarious and charming and all that but I wasn't like a Trump or anything but it was watching that campaign and Particularly his claim that they were spying on him. And I was like, really? The Intel services and federal law enforcement, FBI, do not spy on presidential campaigns.
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That's so out of the realm. That's so crazy. That could never happen, because of course, there's no democracy in a system like that. And fundamentally, we're a democracy, an imperfect one. It kind of lumbers along, but like it's not fake. And then that turned out to be true,
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and I knew it was true. And that just blew my mind. So I began a process still ongoing of reassessing a lot of other things, like okay, well if that was not true, what else is not true? And what else that they told me was a conspiracy theory might actually have some basis in fact. And then someone from, you know, a DOD employee
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reached out to me and said, actually, there's a ton of evidence that this UFO thing is real. And really? And so I started doing segments on it when I worked at the TV channel. And there was like a lot of mockery, but I was like, I don't care I'm just gonna do this and then of course the second you start as you know better than anybody you start talking about something then People reach out to you and some of them are deranged but some of them aren't at all So I just started getting a lot of information from people and meeting with people mostly in private, you know, come to my house let's talk. And I decided on the basis of what they told me and then I talked to a lot of people about it,
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that actually this is really a very heavy duty question. Actually, it's not just, it's not the little green men question, it's like a much bigger question. And it's really bad, it's really dark. And then I stopped. Then I was like, I don't wanna know anymore because it's not helping me at all as a person.
Later Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson enter into a debate about the morality of allowing an artificial sentient life for to replace humanity to the point of extinction. (People talk replacement theory with regards to immigration? This is replacement of the entire human race!) Note that Tucker Carlson in the course of the debate rejects evolution, not from a "that goes against the Bible" point of view but from a "I think continued existence of humanity is important" point of view and evolution should be rejected to the extent that it justifies the mass extinction of humanity. Tucker also, kind of sort of says the Unibomber was right to the point of (half jokingly?) endorsing nuking data centers.
Joe Rogan
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Well, you know, when we study primates, one of the things that we do, do you ever watch Chimp Nation on Netflix? No, I don't have a TV, but I like the sound of it. It's an amazing documentary on Netflix that details these embedded scientists in the Congo. And what's really fascinating about it is that this group of scientists or related scientists have been there for 20 plus years. So these chimps have become entirely accustomed to having human beings near them. So there's very specific rules. You stay within 20 yards of them. If they come closer, you back up. You never have food, ever. You can't bring any food there because they'll $#@! you up and just steal your food. If they find out you have food, you're in real trouble.
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Oh yeah, they'll tear you apart. And they kill each other, so they'll definitely kill you. And so when they have done this, the chimps have become accustomed to them being there, and the chimps behave completely normally. The chimps see them as just an innocuous part of their environment. They're not food, and they're not enemy. They don't ever intrude. They don't try to challenge them.
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They don't make eye contact. So they don't worry about the people at all. So they behave completely like chimps. And if I was an advanced species and I was studying people and I wanted the human beings to eventually kind of catch up, right, like you're introducing technology that they call donations crash vehicles Figure out what fiber optics are here you go. Check this out figure this out. Try to figure that out Maybe it'll take you decades. Maybe it'll take you more but you are Accelerating the technological evolution of this advanced species on this planet and one way to do that. Tucker Carlsonwould be for what purpose I wonder?
Joe RoganWell, that's a very good question My my belief is that? Biological intelligent life is essentially a caterpillar and it's a caterpillar that's making a cocoon and it doesn't even know why it's doing it It's just doing it and that cocoon is gonna give birth to artificial life Digital life it's gonna give birth to a new life form. I think we're real close to that. I think we're Way closer than that to that than most people would ever want to admit. Tucker CarlsonI agree I agree Joe Roganand I think Tucker Carlson but it can we assign a like a value to that is that good or bad?
Joe Rogan
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That's a good question. It depends, universally, I think it's the path. I think it's what happens. I think, what this thing is, if you extrapolate, if you take the concept of a sentient artificial intelligence the concept of a sentient artificial intelligence that has the ability to utilize all the information that every human being has on Earth at a level of computing that's far beyond the capabilities of the human mind and all of our supercomputers that currently exist because it'll design much better
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computers, it'll use quantum computers. It'll have the ability to recode things and change things. It'll make better versions of itself. So instead of biological evolution, which is very slow, it takes a long time, relatively. It takes, it's pretty quick really when you think about it, like how long, it's not that long to go from being a single-celled organism to being a human being Flying a plane really relatively over the course of a billion years if you think about how long the universe has been around But it's slow compared to technological evolution I mean a hundred years ago
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We didn't have $#@! and now we have we could send videos from your phone and it'll hit New Zealand in a second. It's crazy. The stuff that we have now is beyond imagination. It's essentially magic for people 100 years ago. If that keeps going, it's ultimately gonna lead to a life form. And if that life form has now untethered, it doesn't have any problems with biological
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evolution. Now it's just about information and implementing the technology that's available and then increasing that technology and making it better and better. It essentially becomes a god because if you give it enough time, it has the ability to make better versions of itself, which will in turn make better versions of itself. It has the ability to utilize everything. It has the understanding of everything that exists in the universe. It's black holes, dark matter, everything. And it probably has the ability to harness that or even
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reproduce that. So if you take artificial sentient intelligence and it has this super accelerated path of technological evolution and you give artificial general intelligence, sentient artificial intelligence far beyond human beings, you give it a thousand years alone To make better and better versions of itself. Where does that go that goes to a god? Tucker CarlsonWhat kind of God so like I think of this way so the first stage of the Industrial Revolution Consist of people building machines that were stronger than the human body, right? Joe RoganRight, Tucker Carlsonso the steam powered loom.
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JRSure. TCThe backhoe. JRCombustion engine. TCCombustion engine. They replace muscles. JRRight. TCRight. So that's what the machine does. It becomes stronger than the human body.
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The second stage, which we're in the middle of, consists of creating machines that are more powerful than the human mind. That's what computing is. And I would say AI or super computing is just that exponentially. But that doesn't make it a god in the sense that the machine, however powerful it is, any more than a backhoe is a god because it can dig a trench faster than a hundred men. It's still something that people created.
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So the story hasn't really changed. At the center of the story are people and their creative power may lead to unintended consequences, but the machines that they build did not make the universe and did not make people. People made the machines. But I would say the part I agree with
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is there's a spiritual component here for sure. People will worship AI as a God. AI, Ted Kaczynski was likely right, will get away from us. We will be controlled by the thing that we made. All those are bad. Like that's just bad. And we need to say unequivocally, it's bad.
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It's bad to be controlled by machines. JRRight. TC Machines are helpmates. Like we created them to help us to make our lives better, not to take orders from them. So I don't know why we're not having any of these conversations right now. We're just acting as if this is like some kind of virus,
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like COVID that spreads across the world inexorably. There's nothing we can do about it. Just wait to get it. It's like, no. If we agree that the outcome is bad, and specifically it's bad for people, we should care what's good for people. That's all we should care about, is it good for people or not?
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If it's bad for people, then we should strangle it in its crib right now. JRRight. [b]TC[b] And why don't you just blow up the data centers? Like, why is that hard? If it's actually going to become what you just described, which is a threat to people, humanity, life, then we have a moral obligation to murder it immediately.
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And since it's not alive, we don't need to feel bad about that. JRWell, you could say the same about the atomic bomb, right? TCYes, you could. JRAnd you could say that we have to develop it like Oppenheimer felt before the Nazis. TCI love that how that work Well, I love by the way that people on my side
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I'll just say I'll just admit it on the right, you know I've spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear weapons on civilians, like are you joking? That's just like prima facie evil. If you can't, well, if we hadn't done that, then this, that, the other thing, that was actually a great savings. No, it's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people. And if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing
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to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil. Like it's not a tough one, right? It's not a hard call for me. So with that in mind, like, why would you want nuclear weapons? It's like just a mindless childish sort of intellectual exercise to justify like, oh no, it's really good because someone else,
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how about no? How about like spending all of your effort to prevent this from happening? Would you kill baby Hitler, you know, famously? JRRight. TC So I don't know why we're sitting back and allowing this to happen if we really believe it will extinguish the human race
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or enslave the human race. How can that be good? JRWell, if God creates everything, if God created the universe and God creates people, God probably creates a process. And we think that we are very important because we are very important to us. But are we very important in the universal sense? Not really. Like, if the earth just imploded and disappeared, if the sun went supernova and our whole solar system was blown
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to bits, the universe still exists. And God created- TCIt depends how wide you're, for sure. In the end, as Conan O'Brien, the famous philosopher once said, every grave goes unvisited, which is true. And that's an important perspective. Pull out the lens a little bit. Does it really matter? No, it doesn't.
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JRBut it does matter. It does matter to us. TCHow about this? Do your children matter? JRYes, sure. TC Do their lives matter? JR For sure. TCWould you die for them? JRYes, of course. Everything matters.
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If you're not comfortable, it matters. If you're sitting here, like, you don't wanna wear headphones, like, let's not wear headphones. That matters. Everything matters. The, I mean, at scale. TC But what matters most, like?
JR
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Right, is it, that is the evil, right? The evil is the, it's the same thing as saying the necessary evil of dropping nuclear bombs on civilians is if you don't do that, then there'll be more evil, then more things will happen. It's kind of the same thing as saying the necessary evil of dropping nuclear bombs on civilians is if you don't do that Then there'll be more evil then more things will happen. It's kind of the same thing like it doesn't TCWell it comes from the same place which is hubris. Like imagining your God you have unlimited power and you have omniscience You can imagine what the future is gonna be you can't you're $#@!ing idiot You're a person like you can't even make your wife happy.
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The limits of your power are really obvious. The limits of your wisdom, same. So don't jump into $#@!, big things, whose outcomes you can't predict with certainty. You can't know. Go in with humility. I guess that's what I'm saying. Right?
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And do what you can, knowing that you're probably gonna screw it up and you probably won't achieve your goal, but like you should try. And on the AI question, everyone I've ever talked to, but I'm hardly an expert, I don't own a computer, okay? But everybody I've ever talked to, and there's many people, like, yeah,
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it could get away from us and enslave us. Well, let's say no to slavery, how's that? Is that a tough one? Not for me. JRYeah. TCI mean, and maybe a good use of nuclear weapons would be to hit the data centers. JR LAUGHING TCNo, I'm serious.
And here's the part of the conversation where Tucker Carlson defends a black nationalist socialist who Biden is trying to put in prison for the rest of his natural born life for taking the Russian position in the war in Ukraine and going to the United Nations in 2015 to say there is a genocide in America against black people. (And yet the Democrats pretend to support the slogan "black lives matter.") And @Anti Federalist, this is the point I was trying to make in the thread about the anarcho-communist who burned himself to death protesting Trump and Biden, bad COVID policy and what he sees as a crypto ponzi scheme. Unlike Ted Kaczynski, with whom Tucker agrees with about AI being an existential threat, the anarcho-communist didn't hurt anyone but himself. And if Tucker Carlson can find common ground on a common message with someone like the unibomber, or with a black nationalist socialist, then maybe it's not wrong to hear a message all the way out even if you don't agree with the method (letter bombs or self immolation) or all of the message (is there a genocide against African Americans in the U.S. in particular?) I think @PAF, @CCTelnder and @acptulsa understand what I'm saying. Defensive vote for Trump all you want. Tucker seems pretty keen on voting for Trump. But there are things in this world that are possibly more important and certainly have longer lasting effect than voting.
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And if somebody is not allowed to speak or fired from his job for having an opinion that you disagree with, defend him anyway. I just interviewed a guy who is a black nationalist socialist, okay? So I'm obviously not much of a black nationalist. I don't know if you're aware of that, but I'm not. And I'm not a socialist either.
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But this guy is facing prison time under the Biden DOJ because he said things they don't like about foreign policy. And I just interviewed the guy for an hour and it was like, I'm, because on principle, you should be able to say what you think, period. What is this gentleman's name? He was actually, it turns out I like loved him. Oh, and I'm embarrassed I can't,
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he's a member of a pretty small black nationalist socialist group. It's like the revolutionary black nationalists or something like that. They're out of Southwest Florida. And he's literally facing prison for repeating Russian disinformation. He's not even accused of doing anything.
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He's accused of saying things the Biden DOJ doesn't like. Well, you know. What were these things that he said? Repeating Russian propaganda. About? About the invasion of Ukraine. And his point was, well, there's a backstory here, which is that NATO has been moving eastward since 1991,
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and that's a massive threat to Russia. Missiles on their border from a hostile power is a threat. And the Biden administration accelerated that, and in response, Putin invaded eastern Ukraine. Now, you can disagree with that, but that's hardly a crackpot view, by the way. I think that's actually true, but even if you don't agree that it's true,
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that's not, you don't have to be a paid propagandist from the Kremlin to say that. Right. I have said it, I'm not a paid propagandist. Is this the gentleman? That's him right there. Four Americans from a black-empowerment organization work with Russian intelligence to spread propaganda,
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Fed say. Yes, to spread propaganda. Now propaganda, first of all, you know, there's a lot of propaganda. Scroll up a little on that, Jamie, so I can read what this is saying. It's covered up. Oh, okay. Right?
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So that guy is, that guy right there. Okay, subscribe real quick. Yeah, the People's Democratic Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg. So. So he contacted, he spoke with someone in Russia. They spoke with people in Russia and then he repeated. No, no, no, he is being, he's charged with felonies.
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The FBI raided his house. The first thing they did was cover up the security cameras and they went in there and arrested them, raided by the FBI. Russia's foreign intelligence service allegedly weaponized our first amendment rights, freedoms, Russianized citizens to divide Americans and interfere elections in the US says assistant attorney general Matthew Olson.
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Now, first of all, weaponized our first amendment rights? No, your first amendment rights are never a crime. They're God given, the government did not bestow them, you were born with them as a free person, period, and the First Amendment simply says you can't interfere with their exercise, that's it. And in this they are. And I looked at, I read this and I thought,
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and I reached out to this guy by the way. Matthew Olson? No, I wish, Matthew Olson would never do my show. You mean the guy whose salary I pay as a US citizen? No, he would never speak to me. Listen, look at that quote. Russia's foreign intelligence services allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights,
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freedoms Russia denies its own citizens to divide Americans and interfere in elections in the United States. That, you gotta like, why are you saying that? Say what happened. Well, but nothing happens. So that's the thing. So I'm reading this, someone sent it to me
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and I'm like, okay, clearly there's a crime here. Like they were found with, I don't know, mortar shells or they were, I mean, usually the government makes up, they put kiddie porn on your computer, at least to discredit you. There's no underlying crime other than they said something that the foreign policy establishment
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of the United States disagrees with. Okay, that's not a crime other than they said something that the foreign policy establishment of the United States disagrees with. Okay, that's not a crime by definition. And this guy is facing life in prison. And it looks to me, because Barry Weiss has not defended him, I think this guy is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison. And I'm like, this is crazy. The rest of his life in prison? Yes.
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Okay, hold it. This is the thing. I think he's 83. How do you say his prison? Yes! Okay, hold on, this is the thing. He's, I think he's 83. Ye$#@!, how do you say his name? Yeshitela? Yeshitela and three other U.S. citizens, Penny Joanne Hess, Jesse Neville, and Augustus C. Romaine Jr. are charged with conspiracy to defraud U.S. Hess? Uh, oh, okay, defraud the United States. Hess, Yeshitela, and and Nivelle are also charged
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with impersonating agents of a foreign government. Okay, they say to defraud the United States, so defraud suggests theft of something of value, right? Right. If I defraud you, I steal your money. There's no allegation of that at all. And I actually read the charges. There's no, the only allegation is they said things
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that the US government, the Biden administration doesn't like, that's it. And because they're unpopular, and they have views that are considered quote, fringe, you know, like crazy black nationalists, nobody wants to defend them. And my only point is not that I'm like such a principled person.
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This seems very obvious to me. You can't allow that. You absolutely cannot allow that if you believe in the First Amendment and the freedom of free people to say what they think. So what this implication is, they're saying that they were recruited by the FSB. So it says the prosecutor said, Ianov operated an entity called the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia that was used to carry out its US influence efforts overseen by the Russian intelligence service, known as FSB. They recruited US-based organizations to help sway elections, make it appear there was a strong support in the US for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and backed efforts such
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as the 2015 United Nations petition to decry the genocide of African people in the US according to the indictment. Backed efforts. What does that mean? Look at that. It means that. It's negative to back efforts such as the 2015 United Nations petition to decry the genocide of African people. But just look at that statement. Backed efforts such as a
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thing to decry genocide. The United Nations petition of 2015 to decry the genocide of African people in the US according to the indictment. Okay, so the real misinformation and propaganda is in the charging documents, actually. The real liars here are the Biden DOJ officials who did this, and they're dangerous. They're criminals, in my opinion. But if you read it carefully,
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you will see that the only crime is having opinions that the people in charge didn't like. And were they in contact with people from Russia? Yeah, I think they went over to Russia for some conference. So, by the way, the way this typically works is they say, well, you went to a country against which we've imposed sanctions and you violated the sanctions regime in some way.
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Like that's how they get you. They're not even alleging that. They're not even alleging that. They're not even alleging that. They're just saying, you said things that we don't like, that by the way a foreign government we don't like, agrees with. But that's not- But that they learned those when they went over to Russia?
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They learned these things? No, it's all on the internet. That they learned them? I mean, I guess it doesn't matter where they learned them. I would, because I've talked to the guy and I've seen what they wrote, the opinions that they expressed, I don't, you know, the genocide of African peoples
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in America, I don't even know what that means. I guess I don't agree with that. But their views on Russia, I generally agree with because I think they're true. And so does Jeff Sachs and a lot of other non-crazy, non-black nationalists who probably agree with the basic framework of their position. But whether we agree or not is not relevant.
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Right. All that matters is in a free country, which this was when I grew up, you have the right to any opinion you want. You do not have the right to hurt people, you don't have the right to steal from them, you don't have the right to defraud people, but you certainly foremost have the right to hurt people, you don't have the right to steal from them, you don't have the right to defraud people, but you certainly foremost have the right
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to any opinion you want, no matter what the people in charge think of it. In fact, you have that right as a bulwark against tyranny by the people in charge. Like that's the only thing that keeps this country free is my right to have any opinion I want. And this guy is going to jail for his opinions. And, you know, it's so crazy that I kept thinking,
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like, is there something that I'm missing? Like, it does seem a little fringe, this group. I'd never heard of them. I'm not sending them money, okay? They must have done something. Nope, nothing. And you should see the video of the FBI raid. It's unbelievable.
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They sent, they sent like, it's on the internet. It's on X. I have the video on there. They sent like 40 armed agents with automatic weapons to this guy's office and his house like no exaggeration It was a full-blown like we're arresting El Chapo type thing for this guy's like an 83 year old army veteran It's outrageous. And I really find it baffling that nobody who's like against woke culture, whatever, will touch it. And the reason they won't touch it is because their foreign policy views in general are more important
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to them than their views on speech and the First Amendment. Their views on America. Well, if you step out of line, right, so the ideology is that we must support Ukraine. So this is, Russia has a point. This is what they're saying. So Russia was very upset about the movement of the weapons closer to their borders, the joining NATO, all the stuff that was the hard red lines that Putin had already set, like if Russia would definitely do something if Ukraine joined NATO.
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We all knew that. So if you deviate from that, you're going to be in trouble. So better just ignore it. Because you can't, you clearly, if you look at who these people are, I mean these are people that would be supported by the left, wholeheartedly. Well they are, I mean it's like
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the revolutionary socialism. Yeah, right. They're not at CPAC this year. But the left has to ignore it because then. 100%. It conflicts with this other part of the ideology. Well the categories right and left are just like, now they're actually ridiculous.
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They're ridiculous. They don't mean anything. In fact, we've moved, the categories right and left are just like, now they're actually ridiculous. They're ridiculous. They don't mean anything. In fact, we've moved past the point where they don't mean anything, they do mean something. They are propaganda instruments designed to cloak the truth from the rest of us. Then in fact, there's agreement, not disagreement at the center of power.
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They all agree on the things that matter. And those are the economy and foreign policy because that's where the money is. There's no effort to say rein in the credit card companies, which if you really cared about the country, you'd say but people are really suffering, okay, they don't have enough money to live, kids can't not only not buy houses, they can't afford rent, and why is that? And one of the main reasons is because they're paying like close to 20% interest on their credit cards and
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Okay, we just imagine that in a free market, that's a good thing. Tell me why that's a good thing who benefits from that Why are we for that again? I'm not for that. I think the credit card companies are villains and They send credit cards to kids at school and get them hooked on this. I think it's totally wrong and If you said that in the US Congress people people would look at you like you had three heads, like what? They just don't care because they all agree that our current economic system and our current foreign policy assumptions are good. So that's not a two party system, that's a one party system, and it doesn't serve the interest of the country.
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And my position is super simple. The only country I have an emotional attachment to is the United States, that's it. I like lots of countries. I like almost all countries actually. I've been to a lot of them. I like them all. But the only one I feel emotional about
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is the United States, because I live here. I was born here, my kids are here. It's my country. And most of the people in our foreign policy conversation do not feel that way. So that distorts it really dramatically. And there also, a lot of them are violence worshipers. Like they get off on war.
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They get off on hurting people and on the power that that imbues them with. And I think, you know, the Liz Cheney model, you know what I mean? Like someone like Liz Cheney, who's got like a really sad and barren personal life, a lot of them are this way, weird personal life, failed personal life.
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Like they don't have people who love them. They don't have kids who respect them. And so Adam Kinzinger or whatever, they're all kind of the same. The more broken they are inside, the more focused they are on like war and foreign policy because it gives them a feeling of power and strength and success.
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Like I can't get my wife to respect me. I can't get my kids to listen to me. I can't pass any meaningful domestic agenda. But what I can do is bomb the living $#@! out of a foreign country. And so there is this, it's not true for all of them, but for a lot of them, there is this syndrome that drives their behavior.
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But whatever the reason, it's totally disconnected from what's good for the country. And if you run America, you have one job, one job, and that's improve America, period. They don't see it that way. So I don't think the system can continue because it's too distorted. It's not serving its original purpose at all. So what was it that these guys said that made this raid possible? They said Russia, and I don't wanna speak for them.
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Like I interviewed, anyone who wants to see it can interview. And I just wanna say again, like one of the cool things about this moment that I did not anticipate all this sad stuff happening, I know that you probably experienced this all the time, is like finding not only common ground with people you thought you had nothing in common with at all, but also like liking them.
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You know, like I actually liked the guy. I'm sure we disagree on a million things, probably mad at white people. I am a white person, whatever. But like in my conversation, I was like, I like this guy. You know, he's honest and he's sincere, he's principled. He was a veteran, you know, but whatever. No, I really think what they said was what I have said and a lot of people have said,
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which is there was a reason for this invasion. I personally think the invasion was a bad idea, didn't help anybody. I'm against war, I'm sad, the war's ongoing. But they were pushed to this by a more powerful country, which would be the United States of America With the threat of including Ukraine in NATO. It's really simple and right before the invasion days before the invasion They send poor Kamala Harris who has no idea what day it is to the Munich Security Conference an area She knows nothing about no experience in at. And they send her there for one purpose,
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which is to announce any press briefing with all the cameras rolling, to Zelensky right there, she says, "'We want you to join NATO.'" What? No other NATO members were clamoring for Ukraine. It didn't even qualify for a NATO membership. Why would you say that?
(Note I got a little tired trying to reformat everything. So I'm not going to worry reformatting that last part. I may write a computer program in Python to fix it up. Or....use AI. 
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Originally Posted by Occam's Banana
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