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ed them or jailed them or something. Somebody says no, he would probably hire them, etc. Possibly. But you know, I'm not saying that I could confirm, obviously, that that's what happened. But it does look like the most likely because I can't see an argument for why we would have lifted sanctions, especially when it happened. And if Putin had shut down these hackers himself, I don't know that we'd…
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What is a good mattress? I'm being asked. I wish I knew. Tara Power, did I ever get involved? No, I did not. There's a unanimous Supreme Court verdict on confiscation of guns. I didn't see that. Must be in a limited situation.
All right. Do we miss Kanye? Yeah, what happened to Kanye? Kanye just disappeared for a while. I'll be looking forward to getting him back. Oh, ego in resisting arrest. Yeah, I was saying that the people getting killed resisting an arrest have an ego problem, not a police problem. And that anybody who can control their ego during arrest is almost certainly going to be safe because the police need to assert dominance in that situation. And if you don't let them, they're not going to stop trying, and they're going to assert their domination all the way to killing you if you keep asserting your independence.
Now one of the things I've been wondering is if there are entire groups that could get a personality disorder or a mental problem. And I started developing that concept and did some research, and I don't think quite I can pull it off. But do you think that, let's take the one example of narcissists. So narcissists actually really have low self-esteem, and so they act out with big egos to really cover up the fact that they have low self-esteem.
Now if you were Black in America, what are your odds of having low self-esteem because of the weight of racism and the history of things and the way you are treated and the way you imagine people think of you, etc.? Do you think that you would be in a situation in which low self-esteem pretty much would be impressed upon you? I mean, even if you weren't born that way, I think you'd have it pressed on you just by the situation.
Now the predictable outcome of that would be acting out ego-wise to protect the value of you when your self-esteem is under assault. So let's say the police stop you. If you're feeling perfectly, let's say, confident about your ego, and I usually am, let's use me as an example. I don't spend really any time worrying about my low self-esteem. So if a police officer stops me, I would immediately be able to switch into, okay, whatever you want, no resistance, whatever you want, please officer, let's stay safe.
But what if you felt like you were a part of a group who had been abused for centuries and had been, could you let your ego go down in the face of, let's say, a police acting like they're superior to you in this moment? Well, I could because it's temporary and I don't have any low self-esteem. And yeah, if the police officers want to be in charge, sure, you want me handcuffed, you got it, no problem.
But if you put me in the same situation, let's say the magic genie comes in with magic and says boom, Scott, you're born a Black American and you grew up in the inner city. Now what do you think when the police stop you? Would I feel the same if the police stopped me and I feel like I had been nothing but abused and my self-esteem was under assault? Would I act exactly the same if an authority figure that I thought was abusing me started to do what felt a little like being abused? I don't know. I don't know.
Somebody says if you had parents who taught you better. I just don't know if that's it. I'm wondering if it has more to do with the ego of the group because the group is under assault. I feel like that has something to do with it, and maybe that has most to do with it.
Yes, somebody was asking in the comments there if I could get a real UFO expert to come on and do a deep dive. It wouldn't help. So it's the same reason I don't have a climate expert on to do a deep dive. I don't have experts on to do a deep dive. If you think that that
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would help, you're really wrong. I mean, you're as wrong as the wrongest thing could ever be wrong. There is nothing less useful than one expert talking to somebody who doesn't know how to check them. And I wouldn't know what's true and what's not. So all you would know is that some expert jabbered for a while, and you wouldn't know anything. So I could get you one expert who says there are defin…
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