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ediately adjust because we're real good at that. We adjust. Probably the single thing that makes humans the dominant species over the planet, although fungi are doing pretty well but you know humans we're having a good run, is because we adjust so well. You know is it Bret Weinstein who says this? It's our ability to adjust that makes us special I think his new book says that. So I think we'll ad…
← Previous segment →universe because you happen to be the right gender at the right time in history that probably would raise your testosterone wouldn't it? Because you would just walk around feeling like oh yeah I'm in charge.
Now what would happen if instead you were born in the more current era and you were told that boys are the cause of all problems which isn't too far off from what's happening right now right? No I'm not going to say that men don't cause a lot of problems. Oh we do. We do our share of crime and whatnot but we're also most of the police force most of the emergency stuff you know so I mean we contribute as well.
So some say divorce. Some say divorce yeah that might be a factor. I'm not sure. It's one factor. I think it's everything from and I'm gonna say allegedly on this one so I don't get sued. Allegedly our soy intake. Have you seen how much the soy is in every freaking product? Like the only thing that doesn't have soy in it is like a stalk of broccoli I swear to god. They're going to figure out how to make soy broccoli just so you can't get away with it. Every packaged food seems to have soy in it as some kind of filler or maybe the source of protein or something I don't know. But why does soy have to be in everything? Everything. All right.
So I do think that this testosterone thing is real.
All right now I've got a question just for the men. Just for the men all right? Women you have to ride this one out. Okay just for the men and I'm gonna further segment it. Okay just for the men watching who would consider themselves masculine compared to the average. I know you're all going to say that's you right? You're all going to say that you but just the ones who consider themselves masculine. Have you seen that the demand for what you're selling is the highest it's ever been? Go.
Just because you just happened to be masculine I believe the answers you should on YouTube you should see the answers. On Locals the comments go by the quickness of the comments is based on how many there are. So the faster they answer the faster they sit by. It was just like this wall of yes it just went yes all right. So I'm not imagining it right? I'm not imagining it.
All right here's my next question and maybe my last for today. Do you remember Black Lives Matter and do you remember Antifa and do you remember Occupy Wall Street? And one thing they all had in common is that they were really really big and then they just sort of went away. Were any of them natural? Were they all scams? They were just funded by somebody right?
I think they were all scams based on today's look backwards. Just the fact that they made such a big impact and then went away just as suddenly that does suggest that it was never real. Now what's going to happen when the next one pops up? Are you going to have a Gell-Mann amnesia? Do you know what that would be? So Gell-Mann amnesia I won't give you the whole background of what that means. What it means is when there's another totally group that starts protesting are you going to say oh this one's real? Are you gonna believe the next group after three in a row that are obviously in my just my opinion in my opinion they're obviously. And I thought they were at the time. I wasn't really following Occupy Wall Street but I didn't really understand that one. I mean when it was happening I kept looking at it thinking well that's kind of weird that this suddenly pops up when nothing is much that different. But now I would say it's somewhat clear that these were scams of some sort.
Now when I say they were scams I don't mean that the people who are individually protesting were insincere. I do think that most of the people on the street were sincere in whatever that means for Antifa. I'm not sure what it means to be a sincere Antifa person but I'm talking about the leadership of the funding and the organization though that apparently that was all a scam.
Now here's some news from the Washington Examiner I think. Report yeah the Washington Examiner. So they were looking into who's in charge of Black Lives Matter at the moment. This is just the best story. Now I don't know if it's because I'm the author of the Dilbert comic that I love this story so much because if you could come up with a more Dilbertian scenario than what I'm going to just describe. Now again this is the Washington Examiner's reporting.
So they were looking into who's in charge now that the person who was in charge the co-founder Patrice Cullors so she moved on and she said that she appointed two of the activists to serve as the group's senior directors. So far so good. So we knew who was in charge. She was a co-founder and I guess when she left she was the last of the co-founders and she appointed two activists and we know their names. So good.
So the Washington Examiner went and talked to the two people who were appointed and they said we didn't accept the appointment. What? They said yeah yeah we were appointed but we didn't accept the appointment. Wait what? Well who's got the 60 million dollars allegedly that they have? I don't know. What? Like this is one of those stories that you can't even read to the end because you just keep going what? What?
Now typically let me give you a warning here. Typically a story like this is so on the nose it's probably wrong. It's probably not true right? When you see something that's just too perfectly stereotypically the worst thing that could possibly happen right? What would be the m
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ost stereotypically racist let's put that out there. What would be the most stereotypically racist thing you could imagine would be that you know a Black organization stole a bunch of money right? That's what the racist brain would go there immediately. And then the story comes out that looks like that's exactly what happened. Your first instinct shouldn't be well I told you so. If your first ins…
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