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This is Undaunted Life Man's Podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
1:22
Let's get into it.
1:23
Hi guys.
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Thanks so much for all the well wishes I know in the last podcast I talked about the fact
1:27
that I got the Rona, but I'm on the mend.
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If you hear me clear in my throat a little bit more than normal in this podcast, I might
1:33
be taking some extra breaks.
1:34
Don't worry.
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I'm not going to edit them out.
1:36
But I still got some junk in my throat that I can't quite get to clear out.
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So I guess that's some remnants of the Rona, but yeah, my wife and I basically had fairly
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mild symptoms and so did our son.
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And so we're very happy and thankful and feeling blessed to be on them for the most part done
1:53
with all that.
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But let's go into the podcast episode for today.
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On the last episode, we talked not only about the Rona, but we also talked about the incredibly
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incredibly bad 24 hours the Republican party had.
2:04
So basically they lose both Senate runoff races in the state of Georgia, which is still shocking.
2:10
But that was capped off by what was considerably more shocking, which was what Trump supporters
2:14
did at the United States Capitol, and I go into that in grave detail and literally anywhere
2:19
you turned to for news for the last week has been talking about that in grave detail.
2:23
So I don't feel the need to keep on going on about that.
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But that was on the sixth Wednesday, the sixth of January.
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But on Friday, the eighth of January, the United States in the first amendment fundamentally
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changed potentially forever.
2:40
So on that day, on last Friday, January, the eighth, as you know by now, Twitter announced
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that they were permanently banning Donald Trump from their platform.
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So previously, Twitter had temporarily banned Donald Trump after the riot at the Capitol.
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They said they were going to ban on my believers for 12 hours in that he would be reinstated
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if he deleted the tweet, said he tweeted during that time that got him banned, but then they
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just made the ban permanent on Friday.
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Now what's interesting about that is I remember seeing earlier on Friday that hundreds of Twitter
3:10
employees had signed an open letter inside of Twitter saying that they demanded that
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the CEO Jack Dorsey banned Donald Trump for forever.
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And I just remember giggling thinking like, ah, here we go.
3:21
These woke staffers basically demanding change or we're going to get mad and leave, even
3:26
though they're not because they like getting paid six figures to code all day.
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But I just remember kind of scoffing at that.
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And just a few hours later, it was real life.
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I don't know if the letter had anything to do with it, but I just remember that being
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kind of interesting.
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But here's the reason that was given for the permanent ban of Donald Trump.
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And this was tweeted by at Twitter safety and, uh, yeah, I'll just read the whole thing
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to you.
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So it's just a couple of sentences.
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After a closer view of recent tweets from at real Donald Trump account and the context
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around them, we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement
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of violence.
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Okay.
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So there was, there was more stuff if you click the link, but again, they did it because
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of risk of the further incitement of violence and we'll talk more about that later.
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So president Donald Trump, again, the sitting president and his 80 plus million followers,
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poof, just gone, like a fart in the wind, just disappear, right?
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All gone.
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All the tweets, the entirety of it, it's gone.
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And then Facebook announced that they were banning Trump Instagram, which is owned by
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Facebook, obviously banned Trump permanently, TikTok, Reddit, they had the subreddit for
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Donald Trump, that was gone.
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Credit card processors of Donald Trump gear and memorabilia, they, they all followed suit
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permanently banning the sitting president of the United States.
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Now, just to be honest with you, and a lot of you would disagree with me on this, but
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you know, this is my opinion.
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I think the Trump brand might be irrevocably damaged, which shouldn't be a ridiculous
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thing to say.
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But to some of you, it's like, no, no, it's Trump or bus is Trump forever, you know, it's
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Trump ride or die until he dies and then basically it will be Donald Trump Jr. and then it'll
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be Eric and then it'll be Ivanka, like whatever.
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But I believe that this damage that he did do his own personal brand and that he did to
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the country, that's going to extend to his children.
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So they're going to be inextricably linked with their father for obvious reasons, but
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then also for political reasons.
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And really anyone that's directly affiliated with this administration, I mean, Mike Pence
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he's damaged goods potentially for forever.
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Josh Holly of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, both of them to the more well-known outspoken
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senators that we're going to be challenging the results on the sixth.
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Those two are maybe permanently damaged.
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There are several House of Representatives members that are very tightly linked to Donald
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Trump and kind of the MAGA doctrine and all those different things.
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It's going to have some longstanding ramifications and people obviously in big tech.
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They have, you know, long memories when it comes to these types of things.
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Now when Donald Trump was banned initially from Twitter and then from basically everywhere
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else, there's been kind of equal amounts of praise and outrage.
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So there are a lot of celebrities and a lot of Twitter type people that are just absolutely,
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you know, they're so over the moon that this is finally happening.
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But even people that hate Trump were like, so wait a minute, you could have done that
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the whole time and you chose not to.
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I thought that was an interesting take and an honest take from these people because there
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were people that for four years thought he was an existential threat to the constitutional
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republic.
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That he was a Russian stooge and a plant in a Manchurian candidate, all these horribly
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horrific things like his words literally bring about death, you know, all those things.
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And so they were just, they were mad at Twitter for a different reason, not forgetting rid
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of them for, but for waiting so long.
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And then there were obviously the conservative voices that were coming out saying that this
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is crazy.
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People that care about the First Amendment, people that care about the Constitution, they care
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about free speech, they care about not living under tyranny, that all those people were
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very, very outraged at this.
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Because the thing is, is you can separate him being banned on a site that says that they're
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for free speech and the actions that that he did that kind of led to the horrible outcome
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that we saw at the Capitol last week and led to five people dying.
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But perhaps the most surprising take that I saw online was from the ACLU, the American
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Civil Liberties Union, and this shouldn't be a surprise because of what the ACLU used
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to stand for.
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But now they've just kind of been this leftist movement and, you know, substantiation crew.
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And this was something that they, they took, I'll just give you a little bit of a snippet,
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but they said this, quote, it should concern everyone.
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When companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people
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from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions, especially when
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political realities make those decisions easier.
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I think they're obviously alluding to the political realities and the fact that all three branches
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have got, well, basically the, the legislature and the executive branch both are completely
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controlled by Democrats and will be as we go into the White House next week with Joe Biden
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going to the White House rather.
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But when you look at this situation, it's almost too easy to point out the hypocrisy
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of this move by Twitter, but let's go ahead and do that already because I think it's still
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worth it to point that out because there are legitimately people on Twitter every day calling
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for literal violence, literal violence.
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Now, true, they don't have the same impact as President Trump and his 80 plus million
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followers did, but you either have that line that is uncrossable or you don't.
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And so for Twitter, it's like, okay, so Trump passed some sort of line that you just can't
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be down with for forever.
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But the person that in the comments or responses to someone's tweet, whether they disagree
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with the political party they support or the football team they support or their favorite
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color and wishes death upon that person.
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Those people aren't banned forever.
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They may not even be banned temporarily.
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And obviously this is a one way street, okay?
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This is obviously Democrats and leftists silencing Republicans and conservatives.
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That's the ultimate thing that we're seeing here with with all of this.
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And the thing that should really be terrifying to all of us is how easily this was done.
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And we'll certainly spend some some more time talking about that in a little bit.
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But how easy was it for these Democrats and leftists to silence Republicans and conservatives?
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But also the thing that it brings up for me is how far can the violence blame game reach?
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And you've heard a lot of people talk about these examples.
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I'm certainly not the first person to point them out.
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But is Barack Obama responsible for the police officers that were killed in Dallas?
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There were six police officers that were killed by a Black Lives Matter supporter and individual.
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And a lot of the things that they believed were a lot of things that Barack Obama had
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been saying publicly.
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So is he responsible for those deaths in some way?
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How about Bernie Sanders?
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Is he responsible for the Republican congressman that were shot during their baseball practice
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a few years ago?
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Because he his rhetoric towards a Republican party saying they're literally killing people
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with with their rhetoric and with their policy decisions that led a Bernie Sanders supporter
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to go and shoot these people up.
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Is he responsible?
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And here's another one.
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Is the Democratic Party writ large responsible for the death of David Dolan?
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The retired police chief from Missouri that was killed during these Black Lives Matter
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riots protecting one of his friends' stores?
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Because the Democratic Party just looked the other way for the entire summer as most of
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these major cities across the country burned.
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Are they responsible for his death?
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And the many other deaths that happened because of BLM and Antifa?
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Because you see how this goes?
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People want to play these stupid games and obviously if you play stupid games you win
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stupid prizes.
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But this is an interesting thing to talk about blame because I think Donald Trump was putting
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out very incendiary language that a bunch of morons thought was their actionable intel
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for what they should do next.
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But if you go back to what Donald Trump said, literally in Washington, D.C., the morning
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of that rally right before those people went and stormed the Capitol, he told them to go
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to the Capitol and be peaceful.
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He literally wanted them to be peaceful.
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So you can't say that Trump incited these people directly when he did not say, "Hey,
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go to the Capitol.
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Push your way in and make sure that your voice is heard no matter what you have to do."
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He didn't say that.
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Are his hands completely clean in the situation?
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Absolutely not.
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I think his rhetoric and the things that he was saying leading up to that day were reprehensible
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in a lot of ways.
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But again, how far can the violence blame game go?
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I could play that all day.
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And then also, people that are still allowed to tweet, even though Twitter is so full of
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it.
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I mean, when I think about this, it absolutely like short circuits my brain because of the
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hypocrisy of this move.
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And it's because of the people that are still allowed to have a Twitter that have tweets
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that are violent, that are not being asked to take down.
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The obvious and most egregious example of this is Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah
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Ali Khomeini.
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This guy as recently as July of 2020, he tweeted this, quote, "The Islamic Republic
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of Iran will never forget the modernum of Hajj Qasim Salmani and will definitely strike
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a reciprocal blow to the United States."
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So what could a reciprocal blow be?
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Well, the United States killed Qasim Salmani, right?
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So you would think a reciprocal blow would also involve violence and potentially death.
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That's that tweet.
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As far as I know, it's still up.
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And the Ayatollah Ali Khomeini is still able to tweet on a daily basis.
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He doesn't have a verified checkmark account, but he's still allowed to tweet.
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And back in 2018, there's this tweet that still exists.
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He took aim at Israel and all the Jews inside of it by saying this, quote, "Our stance against
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Israel is the same stance we have always taken.
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People is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed
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and eradicated.
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It is possible and it will happen."
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Unquote.
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Now, they're not meaning eradicated like we're going to ask them nicely to leave and give
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them a sandwich on the way out the door.
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They want the complete destruction of the Jewish state and all the Jews in it, okay?
13:43
But but let's keep going with these people that are still allowed to tweet just about
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anyone that fervently supports Black Lives Matter and Antifa has called for violence
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at some point on Twitter.
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Colin Kaepernick, a favorite about Black Lives Matter in May of 2020, tweeted this, quote,
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"When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction.
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The cries for peace will rain down and when they do, they will land on deaf ears because
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your violence has brought this resistance.
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We have the right to fight back."
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Rest in power, George Floyd, unquote.
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Here's another one.
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Planned Parenthood can still tweet.
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Planned Parenthood is responsible for the slaughter and murder of several hundred thousand
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babies every single year.
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They can tweet.
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There's a plethora of Chinese propaganda accounts, Nicholas Maduro, the dictator of
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Venezuela.
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He can tweet.
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Louis Farrakhan still has his account.
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How about O.J. Simpson?
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He's got an account.
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Richard Spencer, the famed white supremacist, he has an account.
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And here's the other thing about Twitter.
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It took them a very long time, very long time before they were getting rid of Islamic
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fundamentalist terrorist accounts on their platform that they really started to feel
14:54
pressure to delete them.
14:55
And then finally they did.
14:56
But for months and for some, in some cases, years, there were these terrorist accounts
15:01
that were basically coordinating terrorist attacks and the recruitment of new people
15:05
to join different caliphates on Twitter.
15:08
But Donald Trump saying that the election was rigged, which there's seemingly no evidence
15:14
for at this point, no direct evidence of that.
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That was a bridge too far.
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A bridge too far.
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Interesting.
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So there's obviously an aftermath to all of this because that was the big news on Friday,
15:25
which interesting that it would be done on Friday because that's kind of a light news
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day.
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If you're wanting to hide anything in the news cycle, you make sure you release it on Friday
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afternoon, but it is obviously dominated all the way through this week.
15:35
But then the interesting thing that we started seeing Friday night is that conservatives,
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prominent conservatives on Twitter, their accounts were being purged of followers.
15:43
So in an statement to the Washington Examiner, a Twitter spokesperson said that the purge
15:47
was just routine, quote, as part of our work to protect the integrity of the conversation
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on Twitter, we regularly challenge accounts to confirm account details, such as email
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and phone number until the accounts confirm additional account information.
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They are in a locked state and do not count towards follower accounts, unquote.
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But it wasn't happening to any other type of an account except for conservatives.
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I mean, what conservatives started posting online is, oop, just lost another thousand
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followers, oop, lost 50,000 followers today, and it was all kind of commensurate with their
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level of followership, but we weren't seeing the same thing from blue checkmark people,
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that typical blue checkmark people that are on the Democrat side of the aisle or leftists.
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We started seeing that right after this announcement.
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It's more than interesting.
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Okay.
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But then we kind of had the big move and this is the big move from big tech and that was
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shutting down parlor.
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Okay.
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So you've not heard me talk a whole lot about parlor on this podcast at the end of the show.
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You know, say, Hey, follow us on parlor.
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We do have a parlor account with undaunted life.
16:47
I do have a personal parlor account.
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Basically I have those as fail safes or as, you know, last ditch things like, Hey, you
16:52
know, Twitter and Instagram and all these other things disappear and parlor is the only thing
16:56
left.
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I don't want to be the guy left without the account.
16:58
So that's basically why I have it, but I don't use the application.
17:02
But for forever, people were told, conservatives were told, Hey, if you don't like our rules,
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if you know, if you think we're tyrannical and all that, go build your own social media.
17:10
And so people that love free speech, which happened to be conservatives, they did build
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their own social media account or their own platform and they built parlor, but that got
17:19
shut down too.
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And that's the interesting thing that these people aren't thinking about is how parlor
17:24
was shut down because it was so egregious, but it started with Google.
17:29
Google deleted the parlor app from their app store.
17:32
So you could not go into the Google app store.
17:35
If you have an Android phone and download the parlor app and not long after that, Apple
17:39
did the exact same thing with their app store, but then Amazon Web services deleted parlors
17:45
hosting and cloud services.
17:48
So basically three companies got together and made parlor worthless because a lot of
17:53
people were like, I'm getting off Twitter.
17:54
You know, after Donald Trump was, was told that he could no longer be on there.
17:57
They're like, I'm getting off Twitter for forever, follow me over to parlor.
18:01
And then three companies dominated by leftist people and Democrats shut down that rival
18:08
place where these people go and talk.
18:09
Now what they've said is that people that stormed the Capitol, they use parlor to get
18:15
together to kind of figure out how they were going to get in and the violence that they
18:18
were going to do and all those different things that they use the parlor app.
18:21
But again, I want to take you back to that long list of people that have propagated violence,
18:26
almost all of them on the actual platform that still have the ability to tweet.
18:31
There's, there's no consistency with how they apply this because Google and Apple didn't
18:38
turn around and say, yeah, you know what, a lot of these attacks this summer on these
18:43
innocent business owners and their businesses were started on Facebook groups on private
18:47
Facebook groups and all that.
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So we just need to, you know, get rid of Facebook.
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We need to get rid of that app, but we don't see that.
18:54
To a certain degree, they're taking away potential competitors and, and they're also
18:58
just taking away their own, their own clients, right?
19:03
But that's maybe the scariest thing that we've seen as opposed to an individual that got
19:07
banned banning an entire place for people to go and talk because parlor was called conservative
19:12
Twitter.
19:13
That was the kind of thing that I didn't really enjoy about it because it was just conservatives
19:16
on there all kind of saying the same thing as kind of an echo chamber.
19:19
But supposedly there was no way to, to be on par or to, to be blocked if you were a leftist
19:26
or a Democrat and be on parlor, you, you totally could have gone and done that.
19:30
It was a platform that was meant to be respectful of free speech and respectful of the first
19:36
amendment and to take people in that direction and they were shut down so easily.
19:41
So easily rather.
19:42
And the thing that this made me think about is three companies got together and they basically
19:49
did away with this entity that handles a lot of conservative voices.
19:54
And I started to think about how easy it would be for someone to be completely wiped off
20:00
the face of the digital planet.
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Okay.
20:03
And so I started thinking through that.
20:05
And so I'm going to use an example of a person that most of you would know and that's Ben
20:08
Shapiro.
20:09
So let's talk about how we could wipe Ben Shapiro off the face of the digital planet.
20:14
One of the most prominent conservative voices certainly for young conservatives.
20:17
So the first thing you would do is you would suspend all of his social media accounts.
20:21
So he has 6.1 million followers or likes on Facebook rather, 3.3 million followers on
20:26
Twitter, 2.5 million followers on Instagram.
20:29
And then you got all the large numbers with the daily wire, but you could just basically
20:32
suspend those accounts.
20:34
Then you would delete his YouTube channel.
20:36
So he's got 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube.
20:40
Then you would remove the Ben Shapiro show from Apple podcast, Google podcast and Spotify.
20:45
So if I'm not mistaken, those are the three biggest places where podcasts are listened
20:49
to, you would discontinue the sale of his books on Amazon, which is where a large majority
20:54
of his books are purchased, then well, there's a couple other things you could do, but let's
20:59
just stop there.
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Okay.
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The number of companies that would have to act in unison to essentially delete Ben Shapiro
21:08
and delete the impact of one of the most influential voices on the internet is about
21:13
six companies.
21:15
Google, which owns YouTube and Google podcast, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, which also owns Instagram,
21:22
Twitter and Spotify, six companies.
21:25
And all of a sudden Ben Shapiro doesn't really exist, but then if you wanted to go whole hog
21:31
with it, you remove all fan accounts for Ben Shapiro on social media.
21:36
You remove all videos on YouTube with Ben Shapiro in them or Ben Shapiro clips.
21:41
You remove the internet hosting, which would disallow people from going to, you know, dailywire.com.
21:47
Perhaps if your credit card companies is don't allow subscriptions to the daily wire or any
21:53
Ben Shapiro affiliated websites for credit card companies to not allow for the purchase
21:59
of his books from any vendor, not just Amazon.
22:02
And I could keep going, but you see kind of where I'm going with this.
22:06
The point is, is that it wouldn't take very many companies to collude to basically make
22:11
someone's reach useless.
22:13
I mean, the worst ones are probably the credit card companies because you might think, well,
22:17
yeah, you know, he can still sell his books and still get his name out there.
22:20
But what if these credit card companies start having a list of books that can't be purchased
22:27
and his books are on that list that your credit card literally won't work if you go to pay
22:30
for it?
22:31
Because now you're going to have to go to these bookstores and pay with cash if you're
22:36
going to be able to access a Ben Shapiro book or his thoughts.
22:39
Do you see how relatively easy it was to get rid of someone whose opinion you did test?
22:47
And so that just, I kept thinking through that and I thought through myself and I thought
22:50
through this podcast and I thought about before, you know, if you spend all this time and effort
22:54
building these entities based on these web, these web services that they don't like your
22:58
opinion.
23:00
But I do have a few thoughts for people that are cheering the censorship.
23:04
They love it.
23:05
Right?
23:06
You know, this is, you know, not a bridge too far to them.
23:07
This is like, well, why didn't this happen sooner?
23:09
This is so great.
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The first thing is that the first amendment is not randomly applicable.
23:15
So the first amendment, obviously, if you know your constitution, it goes into a lot
23:19
of different areas and one of those areas is free speech.
23:23
But you don't want it to be randomly applicable in the situations where you find it appropriate.
23:29
You don't want that.
23:31
Because the next thought is this and you, and you just got to think through this, especially
23:35
if you're listening to this and you agree with the censorship, you never know when your
23:40
own opinion will be the one that is considered heterodox by the elites in power.
23:47
You never know when it's going to be you in the crosshairs.
23:51
If you think that this can't happen to you, you are a fool.
23:55
You have all these people cheering, oh, he's gone, you know, the bad orange man, he's gone
23:59
and all that.
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So what about when you break away from leftist ideologies?
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Are you going to be banned next?
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You've got to assume that it can happen to you.
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And the last thing, I guess, for the people that are cheering on the censorship is that
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there are no limiting principles to this.
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Here Representative Dan Crenshaw talked a lot about limiting principles and he talks about
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how Democrats basically have none.
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He doesn't know when your outrage will be taken care of.
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He doesn't know when your thirst will be quenched.
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It's like, okay, you're screaming in the street, you want justice, you want equality,
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you want all these things?
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What do you want specifically?
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Or is it that you just want to scream in the streets and break things?
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Because most people have limiting principles.
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There's only so far that we would go, okay?
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So a limiting principle for me might be the fact that I absolutely detest that there's
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such a thing as an abortion doctor, but I'm not going to go hunt down and murder abortion
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doctors.
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There's a limiting principle there because I can't say that I'm for the human's right
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to life and for people the Amaga Day to not be destroyed while at the same time going
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and destroying the Amaga Day.
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There's a consistency there, but also there's limiting principles.
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But most of leftist ideology doesn't limit at a certain point unless you consider that
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point to be utopia, which is unattainable, obviously.
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But then I also have thoughts for everyone that is with me over here on the wrong side
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of history as some people might call it, and this guys might be the biggest point of this
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entire podcast.
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And it's that people that work at these big tech companies, they have a worldview that
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dictates that speech is violence, because violence is violence, but speech is violence
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too.
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It's categorically the same in their mind, okay, because I want you to remember why did
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they shut Donald Trump down?
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They shut down Trump because the risk of further incitement of violence.
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Now the incitement that they're discussing led to real violence, real pushing and shoving,
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real bloodshed, real death.
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But how often have you seen it from these people, especially in the last couple of years when
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the Overton window has shifted in this area?
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That saying certain things is just like hurting someone with your fist, because these entities,
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they will start shutting down Republicans and conservatives and Christians.
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They're going to start shutting these people down because of what they believe.
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Because according to these people, if I tell a man, a male, a biological male that now wears
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makeup, dresses, and wants to be called Cheryl, they're going to tell me that if I tell this
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person or just say in general, that Cheryl is not a woman.
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Cheryl is a biological male that probably has gender dysphoria and needs to be institutionalized
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or helped in some way, that that is me doing violence to Cheryl.
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Because again, like I've got a pretty clear standard on this and this isn't about the
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Q side of the LGBTQ or the T side, I guess, the transgender side is that if you want to
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be called by a different name, that's fine, I'll call you by your name, but I'm not going
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to pretend as if your biological thoughts align with reality, if you're a male and you
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think that you're female.
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But these people would think that I would be doing violence in that moment.
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If I were to say that a woman doesn't have the right to choose whether or not the baby
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inside of her gets to live, they don't get to choose that.
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That could be considered a violence towards that person.
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If I tell someone that just because they're black does not mean that they have less of
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a chance to succeed in the United States of America, some people consider that to be violence.
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If I say that the United States was founded in 1776 and not 1619, that is considered violence
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to people.
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So can I be shut down so that they don't risk the further incitement of violence?
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Do you see how this goes?
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Again, I really think this is the biggest point here.
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It's what is violence and who gets to decide whether or not you're being cited toward
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that.
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That's the big takeaway to think about on this podcast.
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Think about the things that you believe that are Republican things, conservative things,
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Christian things, you know, any of those types of things.
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Those are considered violent to some people.
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And so this kind of leads to the last thing, which really affects what we do here, which
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is if you're building your income and your life based on access to these platforms, beware.
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Because I've thought about a lot kind of moving to more of a YouTube channel type thing to
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get more access to the things that we do here for you all.
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But then I just think about the people that I know of that have been silenced on YouTube
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because they say some of the things that I say on this podcast.
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Like they talk about homosexuality and about transgenderism and they talk about abortion
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and they talk about all these things and they don't agree with the typical leftist ideology
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on all of these things.
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And so you spend all this time, all this effort and all this money getting things going on
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these platforms.
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And then with one decision, all that goes away.
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Your account can be shut down.
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They can change the standards by which they allow you to access their platform.
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And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, well, you agree that you would never mention abortion
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in a negative light.
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And then you went out and did it.
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So obviously we had to we had to go by our guidelines.
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We had to keep you from being able to do that and propagating violence against women, right?
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So for me, I guess my ask for you is I want your feedback on how to best interact with
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you and allow you to support this ministry financially and with your attention and to
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share us around.
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Because right now all we do is produce free content.
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I haven't asked you guys for a dime, but the day's coming, the day's coming when I'm
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going to want to get into the fight a little bit more than I am now and I'm talking with
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some entities right now to make that a reality to where we can really enter the fight.
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The cultural fight, the fight for the souls of all of us, the fight to protect human lives.
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And the thing about it is, is if the best way to do that is utilizing some of these platforms
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that I've described earlier, then perhaps that's what we'll do.
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But if you would, I want your feedback.
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If you would email me info at undaunted.life, that's I N F O at undaunted.life and kind of
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tell me some of the different ways that you think that we could best align with you.
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But also the types of content that you would pay for, that you would support the things
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that you want to see us do that are bigger than just the, the devotional that you read
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on you version or the stuff we put on Instagram or the stuff that we put here on the airwaves.
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So that would be a nice huge favor.
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I appreciate it in advance.
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All right guys, before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost as you
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know by now.
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We are a men's ministry and our mission is cultivating mainly resilience and specifically
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we do that by providing you content that helps you forge spiritual mental and physical toughness
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over today.
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Got a slight deviation, but Jordan Peterson is back.
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He is back doing his podcast live.
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He seems to be in good health.
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He's got a new book coming out here in about six or seven weeks or so, but he just released
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episode one of season four of the Jordan B Peterson podcast and it was an interview that
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he did with Matthew McConaughey.
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It was a very interesting interview, obviously with one of the most renowned clinical psychologists
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on the planet and one of the most renowned actors on the planet.
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So I wanted to go ahead and give you a YouTube link so you can watch that because I think
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you would enjoy it.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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