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Let's Talk Protests · Stuff Keeps Happening

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Heads up, before anything else, there will be
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exactly no April Fool's jokes in this episode.
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Anyone who says otherwise is a charlatan. Do not believe them.
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Hello
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I guessed the number of beans in the jar
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but Stuff still Happened
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So what's up?
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Protests. A lot of them.
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We're gonna talk protests for a little bit.
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First we're gonna talk about the Tesla protest,
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and then we're gonna talk about upcoming protests,
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and then we're gonna talk about how to do protests.
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And then we're gonna talk about a lot more stuff.
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There's a lot in this one. Let's keep moving.
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So over the past week and weekend, there were a whole
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bunch of protests at Tesla showrooms around the
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country and beyond.
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People gathered at the showrooms
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to peacefully protest with signs and yelling and... protestin'
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Specifically, they're protesting Elon
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Musk, and specifically, specifically, they're
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protesting the whole "he's a Nazi" thing.
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Remember that time that he went on stage in front of
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the entire world and did a Nazi salute twice,
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and then some fucking chuds tried to say that's
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a Roman salute, and then that whole meme started?
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Well, the man still definitely did Nazi salutes,
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and then definitely supported the Nazi party in Germany
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And has definitely been a complete
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fucking knob for years.
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So people aren't particularly
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thrilled that this fucking tool, who is
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insultingly bad at Path of Exile, is basically in charge of
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the federal government.
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Now while a lot of the
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protests have been peaceful, I do want to acknowledge
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that there have been a few instances of violent
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vandalism at these Tesla facilities.
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Chargers on fire, cars on fire, Tesla and fire usually go hand in hand
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I don't see what the problem is.
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But this has made Musk and Trump very big mad, and
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they're using the Justice Department to specifically
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go after these people who are doing things to
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Tesla facilities and treating them as domestic
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terrorists, and threatening to send them to the
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same prison that they're sending the deportees to
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out of the country.
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Classic punishment for
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arson in the US is deporting them to a prison in El Salvador
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Now, should you set things on fire?
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The law says no.
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But morally, should you be setting
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things on fire, especially at Tesla dealerships?
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The law says no.
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But moving on
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There are large
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scale protests planned for April 5th. They are
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called the hands-off protests. I will link to
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some information about them in the description
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slash newsletter slash whatever.
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These protests are planned for basically everywhere, like every
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single state in a bunch of countries across the
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world to protest Trump and Musk as they continue
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to sit in the White House and fondle each other
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while whispering about tariffs and I don't know,
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staff reductions and stuff
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Like an authoritarian oroborous
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But moreover, I want to
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talk to you about protest safety and things you
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should be doing if you're planning to go to a protest
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These are things to maximize your impact
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by way of keeping yourself safe and not ruining for everyone else
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So quickly, I'm going to
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go through five little tippies. Tippie tippies.
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Tip tip tip tips for you. That was a normal thing
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that I just did with my mouth.
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1. Leave your tech at home
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Phone, smartwatch, anything with a
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screen, anything with a radio, leave it at home.
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If you absolutely, absolutely need to have a phone
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of some kind, purchase a burner phone with cash
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and ditch it as soon as you can.
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Do not use your credit card that creates a paper trail.
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Leave all your crap at home.
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Two, turn your body into an info sheet
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If you're going to a protest, you don't
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know what's going to happen to you. And that's just,
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that's just part of the deal. I'm not saying
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that to scare you, but it's true. You're most likely
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going to be perfectly fine. But in the event that
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the piggies decide to arrest you, take your stuff,
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strip you or whatever, you need to make sure
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that you've got the information that you need
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on your person, quite literally. You can write
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it down on a piece of paper as well, but if you've
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got that in your bag and they take your bag,
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you're screwed. So take a, like a permanent marker and
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write a few things on yourself. Here's some
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examples. Jot down an emergency contact, the
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phone number and just the first name of someone
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that should be called in the event of an emergency.
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Write down the name and number of a lawyer who
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can come and represent you. There are usually
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lawyers that are doing pro bono work to help
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protesters and protest organizers usually have
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a few that they know of So chat with them, try to get a number
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Also any medical information,
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like allergies to medications or conditions that
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a doctor should be aware of in the event that you
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are unfortunately knocked out and brought to a hospital
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If they can pull up your sleeve and see
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like, Oh, this person's allergic to penicillin.
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That can quite literally save your life.
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3. Don't talk to cops.
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Don't do it. Don't talk to the cops.
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Not even if they're being nice and not even if
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they're just making small talk.
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They are not your
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friend. They are allowed to lie to you and they
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are trying to get you to incriminate yourself.
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Remember you have the right to remain silent.
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Anything you say can and will be used against
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you in a court of law.
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The only things you
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should say to a cop are, "I am not answering
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questions without my lawyer present," or
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"I would like a phone call"
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...with which to get lawyer.
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Seriously, if nothing else, if you do
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nothing else, don't talk to cops.
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4. Wear something practical and comfortable. Don't listen to
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people who tell you to get like tactical shit or wear
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like higher shoes so that you change your height
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so that the cops won't be able to recognize you.
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Like, no, just wear what's comfortable
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because you might be in it for like 48 hours.
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Again, you don't know what's going to happen to you.
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You might be in a jail cell overnight. You might go
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home totally fine. You don't know.
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Plan accordingly.
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Wear something that you're comfortable in.
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Bring a change of an outer layer in a bag if you've
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got it, but just don't wear big flowy stuff. Don't
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don't wear stupid shoes. Like wear a practical thing.
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5. look out for each other
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Bring water. Bring maybe some first aid stuff. Use
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water to wash out any pepper spray and tear gas.
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Don't use anything else but water. Please, please.
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And remember, this is not about you. This is about
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the protest and the message.
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Do not make it about yourself. Do not make it about making yourself
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into a martyr. Don't start shit and don't get up
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in cops' faces. It doesn't seem straightforward,
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but now is not the time to fight like that
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because doing that imperils a lot of people around you,
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especially in the US where altercations with
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cops can quickly turn deadly. And dying is not as
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effective as making a statement and then
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continuing to go on and help other people.
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Heroics don't
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happen because they're sought out. They happen
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because someone acted in a time of necessity.
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Don't seek it out.
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I'm not saying that you got
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to drop your fantasy about being the big hero,
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although you should do that,
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but I'm saying be
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thoughtful and remember, it's not about you.
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You are one of a collective. This is about the
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collective and their impact.
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So there's that. Go forth, protest, have fun, do all that good
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stuff. Mostly, meet some amazing people.
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You're going to find some really awesome people if
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you go to a protest. So make some friends.
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Okay, moving on.
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Patreon, patreon.com slash endeavorants. You should
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check it out if you want to support me. Also
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That's the end. We're moving on
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I can't with the, with the self promo. I can't do it.
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Policy!
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A Tufts University doctoral student
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and Fulbright scholar was abducted by federal
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agents in plain clothes as she was walking to dinner.
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Rümeysa Öztürk got abducted. As I said,
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plain clothes officers walked up to her wearing
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a mask saying where the cops come with us.
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She's a student here on a visa from Turkey in the
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Fulbright program, which is a program where we
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exchange students to bring in different perspectives
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and cultures and intelligence from around the
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world to help academia be better.
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This student, who again is a doctoral student, she's in her
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thirties. She wrote an op-ed for her school paper
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a year ago, requesting for the school to
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acknowledge the Palestinian genocide.
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That is all she did. And
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apparently that was enough for ICE to take her and
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the state has revoked her visa.
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They're now trying
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to deport her, but a judge has recently halted that.
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This is insane.
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I'm so incredibly tired
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of people trying to make the argument that folks
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who are here on a green card or a visa straight up
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deserve to be kicked out if they remotely
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criticize the state. Like what a bullshit take.
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You don't get to be a person who's like, "ah, don't
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tread on me. And also the government is allowed to
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determine who can say what."
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The executive branch does not get to just
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put limitations on freedom of speech just because
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it makes them sad.
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This foreign exchange student
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who's doing research was critical of Israel.
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Now we're going to deport her!
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It's gross and dumb.
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And in the United States, freedom of speech is supposed
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to be the bedrock of our society. You know, the
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whole first amendment thing.
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And you can argue till you're blue in the face about whether or
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not people with visas or green cards should be just
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overtly patriotic and never criticize the
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country. Otherwise they're not grateful for being here.
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That's still just gross and weirdly exceptionalist
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And it also is an endorsement of whoever is in
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power at that time, having the ability to say
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this is acceptable. This is not. And last I checked,
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the United States is not governed by philosopher kings
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America is currently governed by a half-wit
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moron who bankrupted a casino. And prior to
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that, a barely alive husk of a human who spent his
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earlier years pushing back against integration in schools.
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So maybe don't pick an authority figure
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to determine what is and is not okay to say,
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regardless of country of origin.
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Because if the U.S. State Department needs to deport a 31 year
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old researcher who wrote an op-ed in a college
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newspaper because that is a threat to
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national security, then we have failed as a country.
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Oh, speaking of national security!
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As I was uploading last week's episode of stuff keeps
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happening, it broke that a bunch of top
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ranking government officials had a signal group chat
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where they were discussing plans to bomb Yemen.
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And they added the editor in chief of the Atlantic
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magazine to said group chat.
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That is a real thing
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that happened like a week ago.
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And we're already over it!
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It's just crazy. Like we should not be over it.
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Here's the thing: If they did this for
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this one group chat, they absolutely have many more.
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Signal is not approved for this use case.
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And it's not like they all just coordinated. Hey,
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let's all install signal to have this one conversation here.
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This is a problem.
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This was us getting a
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look into just how little this administration
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actually cares about national security, which
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we knew we knew they never actually cared. And we
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knew they never actually cared when it came to
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Hillary with her email server that they screeched
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about for years.
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That is not a defense of Hillary.
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She shouldn't have had that email server. And also
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they shouldn't be doing this.
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But for reason, I don't think that anything is going to really
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come of this because one, who is going to do
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anything about it? And two, Pete Hegseth apparently
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has been bringing his wife to meetings with
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defense ministers from foreign countries.
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But honest to god, despite that being not okay, she's
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probably more qualified than Pete Hegseth.
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Maybe it's just for the best.
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The administration's take on all of this with the whole signal chat
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thing is, is no big deal. Mistakes happen. We need to move on.
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Which like, I'm not going to sit here
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and point out the hypocrisy. It's not worth it.
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Let's go around the world.
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Let's go around the world!
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Dizzy.
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We're good.
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Oh, hey, the Greenland thing. Greenland, Greenland.
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JD Vance went there
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because the US is still talking about wanting
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to take it over.
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He was there for like
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literally a handful of hours and nobody there wanted him
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there. They were pretty upset about it. But
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during his time there, he addressed some people at a
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military base, he insulted Denmark and then
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implied that Greenland should separate from Denmark and
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then join the United States.
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Now you should know that most political
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parties in that very Greenland have decided to
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form a coalition to say fuck you to the US.
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They're not about it. They're really, really, really
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not about it. At all.
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Turkey, there's unrest.
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That's putting it mildly.
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There's a lot of protests in Turkey.
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So Turkey's
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leader, Erdogan, has been in power for like over
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20 years and is essentially a dictator. He's
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most recently been doing everything he can to stop a
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potential opposition party from unseating him.
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This time it was by arresting the mayor of Istanbul,
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who is the leader of said opposition party
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and most likely person to be able to actually
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unseat Erdogan.
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So amidst ongoing protests,
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this arrest happens and that cranks it up to 11.
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It goes from like, hey, we're not happy with the
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state of things and our government isn't really
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doing anything to fix stuff to our government is
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actively trying to make it so that we have no voice.
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And of course, these protests are then
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met with the government clamping down saying that
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you can't do gatherings. You can't hold
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demonstrations. And they're saying, fuck you, we're
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going to hold demonstrations. And the
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government's like, well, we're going to arrest all of you.
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And it's, it's, it's escalating pretty quick.
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In Canada, there's going to be an election in a month.
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God, imagine election season lasting a month.
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So Justin, "I only did blackface that one time" Trudeau
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stepped down and was replaced by Mark Carney
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Both of them are in the Liberal Party
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and Carney recently called a snap election, which
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is essentially going to just be the Liberal Party
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versus the Conservative Party to boil it down to the basics.
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Now, pre-Trump, the Conservative Party
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in Canada was surging in the polls and it was
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really looking likely that the Liberals were just
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going to crash out.
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And then Trump came into
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power and started talking about Canada being
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the 51st state and saying Governor Trudeau
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and then slapping all those tariffs on Canada.
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And Canadians are fucking pissed.
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And so they're kind of looking at the Conservatives and being
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like, Hey, actually, we don't want that. Like
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they're looking at what's going on in America.
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And they're like, this is insane. We don't
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want any of that.
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And so the graphs of the polling
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between these parties is hysterical. It is just
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a complete inversion.
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So the vote is on April 28.
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We'll see just how much Canadians are pissed off.
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In Myanmar, there was a massive 7.7
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magnitude earthquake.
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It's been more than a
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century since they've seen an earthquake of this scale.
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And unfortunately, the devastation is widespread
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and massive. At time of recording, the death toll
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has surpassed 1700 people with thousands more missing and injured.
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Myanmar is not in a great
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way right now. There's been ongoing civil war and
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some parties of the civil war have offered to do a
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ceasefire to help with the aid efforts, but
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it's tenuous at best.
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Meanwhile, Israel is bombing
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Lebanon again. They've broken their ceasefire.
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They signed in November and dropped a bomb on a
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residential building in a suburb of Beirut.
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The Israeli government issued an evacuation warning
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beforehand by posting a picture of the building
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that they were going to bomb
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So the people who live in this building were
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scrambling to flee and inform the other folks who
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lived there who didn't see the X over their house
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and then boom, plume of smoke. Israel used their
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favorite excuse of there's terrorists here. So
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we're going to bomb it, which is not an excuse.
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"There are terrorists there. So we're going to
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bomb it" is not an argument.
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One, "terrorist" is
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subjective. Two, that's not how anything works.
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You don't have the authority to bomb other countries.
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It is just war. All you're doing is war,
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especially when you're saying, well, we believe there to be
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some terrorists somewhere in this building
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that otherwise is populated entirely by civilians.
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That's not using civilians as a shield. That's
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just logistics.
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There are plenty of buildings
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in every country that have governmental operations
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as well as other shit going on.
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And in this case,
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like it or not, Hezbollah is government operation.
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So that's that's fun. Yep.
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Lightning Round
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Elon Musk has sold Twitter to himself.
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he is lumping Twitter into his AI company.
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So that means Twitter is now owned by X AI and is like entirely
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just an AI bullshit thing now.
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So hey, this is your reminder:
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Get the fuck off of Twitter.
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DNA testing app 23 and me might
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possibly be transferring users DNA data to a
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new owner as they're facing bankruptcy.
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Stop giving your biological data to tech companies.
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Over 1.5 million photos of users from
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dating apps, particularly queer and kink based
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dating apps have been leaked online.
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Sorry, not leaked. They were just not protected by
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the developers of the apps.
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They were just publicly available.
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The apps include SM people,
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Chica, Trans Love, pink and British anything that's
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developed by mad mobile apps. So look into that.
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And finally, for today, rumor has it that you'll
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be able to preorder a Nintendo switch to as soon as April.
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I'm gonna switch to uh,
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I didn't have a second part of this joke.
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I'm gonna switch to my outro.
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Thank you so much
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for listening to today's episode of stuff
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keeps happening head to skh.news for sources, bonus
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content and my secret as to how I guessed about
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the beans. My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back
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on Monday. Take care and be well.