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eople will do to survive. So I suppose they would just start raping the Ukrainian countryside but even that would be the army falling apart because even to rape and pillage they'd probably disperse. So what do you think? If you had to guess is any significant part of the Russian military force near a culmination point? Well I'm guessing now if near means in the next month I'd say no. And if it ta…
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And here's some Disney fake news. I've been ignoring this whole Florida don't say gay bill because it's not really don't say gay. So I guess the bill in Florida that schools will not be allowed to teach anything about sexuality to kids below a certain age. Is that true? Did I summarize that correctly? Because I'm not really following the story but that's basically it. Okay people saying yes to that. So and that seems fairly reasonable right? I can see how most parents would say no leave that to us you know at least up to a certain age. You know if you're teaching a 14 year old about birth control then you have my attention right? That maybe you can make the argument and I'm not going to make an argument pro or con here. I don't want to get into it but you can make the argument that the school would be a good way to capture that because parents don't do a good job at it. You can make an argument but it's hard to make an argument that the parents shouldn't be solely in control of the earliest impressions for something of that importance.
But here's what I'd like to say. The opponents of that have turned it into a don't say gay meme basically. So they're characterizing the don't teach our kids anything about sexuality, they're characterizing that as oh you're not allowed to say gay which of course is total misrepresentation. But as a misrepresentation it's really good. So persuasion wise really good. Well I mean let's just look at this. First of all it's got to say and get in. When you put a rhyme in something. If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit. We've talked about this many times. If it's fast and sticky and it rhymes. In California they had a thing about putting on your seatbelt and it was a click it or ticket. Click it or ticket. These are all good. So yes don't say gay looks like professional work to me. It could be accidental and then it caught on could be but it looks professional because it's got technique built into it a little bit more than you normally see from something that occurs naturally. So I'd say somebody who's got some skills came up with that and I'd say that it probably works.
Now there was a video I saw on Twitter in which a Disney official of some kind was saying that they're striving to make 50% of the characters in Disney content to be either LGBTQIA and I don't even know what the IA is anymore and racial minorities. So that between the two categories they make like 50% of their characters. And of course people were outraged. People were outraged because they said you were so woke. Why Disney? Why must you force 50% of your people in your movies to be racial minorities and LGBTQ? Why? Well I'll offer a reason. It could be that that's exactly what the country is. Could it be that what Disney said is yeah we want our movies to reflect roughly what the country is which is that that's what the country is. Here are the actual numbers. 58% of the country is white. So remember she said 50% would be minorities but 58% are white. So you'd say oh that's a little high. No because she said minorities and LGBTQ. What percentage of the population of any population let's say the white population is also LGBTQIA and it's about 6%. So if you start with your 58% are white in America and then you're not counting 6% of them as being LGBTQIA you get about 52% are white and straight if that's ev
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en the word anymore. And Disney just said that's what we're going to make our content. Just like the people. Now how many of you were offended when you heard they were going to make their content just like the public? Probably some of you am I right? Just because nobody did the math and when you first hear it you're like whoa what are they doing that seems like too high. And I think there's a kno…
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