Latest / Black Box Theory Podcast / What We Watch vs. What Actually Matters
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- Thomas: Something about arguments and people going back and forth. Somebody's a boxer and the what's her name was in Tuvie movies. Malcolm: MT. Yeah, I I I don't know, bro. I gotta lie. I'm I'm still on episode twelve, bro. I haven't watched in like a week or two. so I'm super behind. But I'll just be like what following the discourse on Twitter. And to me, it's like I don't know, bro. I feel like bro, like these producers, bro, they know what they're doing, bro. Like they don't even care about these people finding love. They are all for like the discourse, the arguments, the division of community and culture on an online spaces, all for the sake of amping up their ratings and how many people watch their show nightly. Like Thomas: Excellent. Malcolm: It is very sick, but when you think about it, I mean that's pretty much how every reality T V show is is you know, structured and I you know, it's it's definitely unfortunate to see like it at the expense of, you know, one of these people's feelings, you know, their their real feelings about another person and kinda like, you know, being the the the butt end of a joke. But I don't know, man. I think it's I mean it's my first time watching it. It's a very I mean, it's a it's an interesting show. It can be a little much for me at times personally. But I mean, yeah, I mean people people follow it like it like it's for it's religio like a religion though, man. Like I don't know, bro. I I I hope that people are also kind of like, you know, like disinvested when it's time to vote and stuff. But yeah, that's that's kind of where I I don't know, bro. Cause it's it's low key, like it's crazy, like people I haven't even seen nobody talk about this, bro, but there's been like a bunch of like I know there's like a a bunch of like Supreme Court Thomas: Yeah. Malcolm: decisions that happened this past week. And it's like it's so crazy because like, bro, like, it's like nobody's even like talking about it because it's all just been Love Island, bro. So like quickly, I'll just say like, so as of June 20th, this happened a couple days ago, the Supreme Court has handed down major rulings focusing on immigration, gun rights, and corporate liability. they've allowed the termination of TPS for Haitian and Syrian nationals, restricting asylum seeker entry. Strengthening gun rights on private property and then limiting liability for the Roundup weed killer manufacturer. it's a whole bunch of stuff. So the first one, the court allowed the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians and ruled that asylum seekers cannot be considered as having arrived while still in Mexico. another one, a gun rights law struck down Hawaii, struck down a Hawaii law restricting carrying firearms on private property. Strengthening the ability to carry on property open to the public. and then also, international law limited the scope of the alien tort statute, restricting lawsuits in US courts for international law violations, bro. I don't know why, bro, but every it's like every time I hear about the Supreme Court, it sounds like somebody's rights are being stripped away. Some minority, some marginalized communities' rights are being like like like stripped away, bro. And it's kind of It's kinda nasty, man. Like, it's kinda nasty, bro. So it's like that so what this means, like this happened on third last Thursday morning. So this means around 350,000 Haitians and several thousand Syrians in the US on temporary protected status, they can immediately find themselves targeted by immigration and customs enforcement, which is ICE, unfortunately, for those that may not know the the acronym, are can be deported, right? So this is just like it's like they look for any reason. Mind you, these people that have been living in the country for years, you know, want to protect the status now, can be legally, you know. sniffed out by ice and and and arrested or deported or or worse. I really hope people vote, man. I really do.