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context tool like Community Notes. Now how different would things be if everything had context in it? Like really, really different. And there should be some law that says you can't be for example demonetized based on an accusation which is what's happening to Russell Brand. Russell Brand is being demonetized because of an accusation. The serious ones but unproven, very unproven in the court of l…
← Previous segment →t to keep wearing my outfit. It's like my uniform. Would you be okay if there was a special case for Steve Jobs to wear his turtleneck and jeans? Would you be okay with that? But would you find it disrespectful? Would you find it disrespectful when somebody's brand is that they don't dress up for anything? This is his brand. You would? Okay. All right so that was a good test just to see if you're consistent.
I don't have an opinion on it yet. I'm just making a point. Here's my point. If you generally just dropped the dress code for and everybody was part of that and everybody started showing up in casual clothing that would be suboptimal to me. That would not be a good situation and I would agree with you completely. But there's something about Fetterman that's different from all the rest. Fetterman had made it his brand. It's his political brand to dress like that. Under that unique situation in which it's your long-term political brand I'm actually completely happy with an exception. Because and of course they'd have to make it something everybody could do because you couldn't make it a rule for one person. But I don't think the rest of the politicians are going to be dressing down. I think the one guy who made it his brand will just keep doing his thing. And if this guy had been Steve Jobs and I liked him more than I like Fetterman I'd probably say the same thing and say you know what I'd make an exception for Steve Jobs because that's been his long-term uniform. So that's a different situation than just normal people dressing down. So I see it differently and it doesn't bother me at all actually. It doesn't bother me at all.
And by the way I would like to point out that the best way you can keep your brain healthy and not propagandized and not brainwashed is sometimes you have to say a full-throated support for somebody you don't like. If you can never do that then you're just brainwashed. This isn't team play right now. I don't need you to agree with me on this. It's just not important. I don't really care about the dress code. But you should be able to do what I did, not on this topic necessarily but on some topics. You should be able to say I really don't like that guy but I'm going to support him on this one thing. If you can't do that then you know about your own brain there's a problem. Yeah it's a good practice to just sort of routinely see if you can support the other side. Just try to make your best argument for the opposite of your opinion and see what happens.
The people who can see the gears of the machine do look crazy to the other people. But when they're seeing you that's when they get that waking hypnosis look. Fetterman is lowering the bar for everything. Well I'm all in on Fetterman. Here's what I want. The Democrats have taken let's say a suboptimal situation because some several other members are just mentally incompetent at this point. It's very suboptimal. So if I'm looking at a suboptimal situation I could be annoyed. You know I have a lot of normal feelings. It's like ah suboptimal. Why can't they be better than that? But the Democrats have gone so far into the absurd. Like the fact that they're still pretending that Biden is whole or that Kamala Harris is a backup. None of these things are true. Or that they
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pretend Fetterman's good enough. Oh he's fine, he's fine. None of this is true. So we've reached the point where I don't want them to stop doing it. I don't want them to stop supporting these ridiculous things. I want them to be anti-nuclear because it's stupid. Now there was a time when I think reasonable people could be anti-nuclear but with our current knowledge and the current technology it's…
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