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ere's the big story. He doesn't know why. Doesn't know why. He's guessing it's some kind of a mean tweet he did about dropping his nuts on somebody's head. But I feel like I've said much worse than that. Have you ever seen my Twitter feed? I don't think I'm always polite. But it could be that as soo
← Previous segment →n as you add a kinetic element to it maybe that's the line. Because dropping your nuts on somebody's head would be a violent attack, right? I mean it would be at the very least a sexually abusive attack. So even though it's obvious that it wasn't meant as an actual physical threat, maybe that's just a line that Twitter says if it's kinetic. In other words if you say something is going to move like your nuts being on a head. It doesn't matter if it's a weapon. Putting your nuts on somebody's head is kinetic. Maybe that's the difference versus just saying somebody is ugly or dumb or something that doesn't seem to get you banned.
So we're kind of reading the tea leaves here and trying to figure out what gets people banned. And that's my latest guess. There's a kinetic portion of that. Or again because we're guessing it could be scrotum related. Remember I was surprised to find out that YouTube specifically calling out and hydroxychloroquine as two things you can't mention in a positive sense. I was surprised that their terms of service are specific about those two things. Don't do that. But it could be, I haven't read Twitter's terms of service. They might have something in there about scrotums. It's like well you can talk about a scrotum. You can say you have one. You can say you shave it. But you can't get it anywhere near somebody's head. If you suggest that a scrotum should be in the same general neighborhood of a head. And I don't know what the right distance is because that matters, right?
Like, oh let me take, let's imagine that these earbuds or whatever these are called, imagine this was a scrotum. All right, so work with me here and see if we can come up with a reasonable standard. Acceptable or not acceptable? I would say not acceptable, right? If somebody's scrotum was inside your forehead you'd be like that's not cool. Could you please move your scrotum away from my forehead? So I think everybody would agree on this one, right? This one, uncool. Totally uncool. There's already, scrotum is anywhere in your nose, your mouth area, that's not cool, right? So you should get banned for that.
But what about this? What about, you know, let's say there's like a foot of distance between a scrotum and your head. Now is that an assault? Well suppose you quickly turned and walked in that direction. That doesn't save you. You're right back to the bad situation because people do that. They'll just turn and quickly, oh next thing you know you've got a scrotum right near like muzzle situation and that's not good. So I would think the minimum scrotum to skull distance would be somewhere in at least a yard, maybe a yard or two be minimum. But I think this is exactly the sort of thing that should be written specifically in the terms of service because I make a lot of scrotum comments. I mean if you did a search for all the times I've mentioned a scrotum on Twitter, 20, 30 times, I don't know. It's just scrotum this, scrotum that. So we need a little more clarity on that situation. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.
A big surprise in Iran. They had an election for president and I know you didn't see this coming but looks like they elected an ultra conservative. Did not see that coming. Now it turns out that only ultra conservatives were
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allowed to run so that probably increased the chances that one of them would win. But good work Iran in pretending to have something like a democracy. Did you hear about Bill Maher ripping into Lin-Manuel Miranda? Now you know him from stage plays, from Hamilton in specifically, but he's got some other new kind of play now called In the Heights. And apparently he didn't add enough diversity. So L…
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