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ter was very good. Again we're separating whether you like the politics of it from just the persuasion element of it if we could, right? So what could the LGBTQ and extra letters do to be more like friendlier sounding so they immediately get a positive vibe before people think about the politics? And here's what I would suggest: non-binary. Now correct me if I'm wrong but non-binary the way it's…

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mation bias is a hundred percent on the mainstream media side who has now brainwashed the rest of you into believing that something like a Russian victory is unfolding when the news they actually report, I just watched General Petraeus explain the situation and the withdrawal from Kiev, if you just look at what he's reporting it really looks like Russia already lost. But you tell me. Let's take a vote. Tell me am I experiencing confirmation bias and Russia will just roll on to victory? Yes or no? The correct, there's only one correct answer. The correct answer I just saw only one person said it. The correct answer is unknown.

All right. You just separated yourselves into the higher level of awareness and lower level. Here's what I'm not going to tell you, that I'm right about this. I can't tell you that I'm right. I can only tell you what it feels like because if you're experiencing cognitive dissonance or confirmation bias you're the one who doesn't know. You're the one who doesn't know. So if it's me I don't know. And even if you tell me, even if every one of you told me I'm experiencing it I'd still say and I don't think so. I don't think so. I got reasons. I got good reasons. One person said unknown when I asked the question who has cognitive dissonance. The person who said unknown has the best level of awareness probably in the conversation. The moment you realize that cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias can just as easily affect you that's when you see the machinery. That's when you see reality just, it opens its cover. But you have to accept that it's happening to you. If you believe it only happens to the dumb people on the other side you'll never see the machinery and then you will be the scenery. So you can be the scenery or you can see the machinery. And if you think that you know who has cognitive dissonance in this situation you're scenery. If you can accept that you don't know as I do, I really don't know if I'm right. I only know what it looks like and I accept that and that allows me to see the machinery. Don't be the scenery.

All right. And we heard more about this Ukrainian volunteer drone unit. Bunch of nerds. I say that with love because I love technical people. They've modified these little hobby-sized drones and apparently they got credit for stopping the convoy. I feel like they might be getting a little more attention than maybe their actual contribution is but do you wonder if maybe there isn't still some kind of secret drones over there that we don't exactly know about? Maybe something that America or NATO has that's a little bit stealthier or a little bit faster or I don't know maybe a little more autonomous, a little more something. I don't know. And do you think that when this is over we'll learn that there was some technology in play that made a big difference that we hadn't heard of during the conflict? Maybe. I don't know. It could be just that the weaponization of drones in general is the whole story or most of it.

What do you think of the idea of calling Putin a war criminal? Let me explain how war crimes are tried. It's very complicated so try to follow along. This is how you handle the war crimes. So you've got the International Criminal Court located in The Hague and it's created by the Rome Statute but some people are members some aren't. We've got the United Nations. They could do something and then the members could all agree they would give it a patina of credibility but of course Russia wouldn't go along with it so it doesn't really matter. So you've got a whole bunch of legal remedies and legal approaches that all have the same characteristic. We don't fully understand them and they're not going to make any difference whatsoever because Putin isn't going to go to trial right and we're not going to capture him if he leaves the country are we really? I mean I don't think so. Would we if somebody could take him into custody? I don't think so. But here's what's interesting. Can Putin ever travel again except to the few places where they're friendly? I feel like that Russia no longer has a leader in any realistic way meaning that if the whole world decides you just can't even come here, you can't even touch our territory, do you really have a leader? Because you kind of want a leader who can go to the G8, the G20, you know whatever is appropriate. You feel like your leader needs to show up right? Ninety percent of success is attendance and he can't attend. Attendance is very

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important. And now they have an alleged leader who can't attend in a practical way because he won't be invited or it might be too risky to leave the country. So in a real sense they've already lost their leader. I mean it's like he's a military commander now but the country doesn't have a political leader because the other countries that would need to treat him like a political leader are just not…

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