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ers. Yep. I think that's getting interesting. And whatever Musk does to Media Matters and probably Soros by extension is going to get really interesting. It's going to get really interesting. All right. So according to Musk, who agreed with a post that said this, there were 50 impressions on X served against the content in the article. In other words bad stuff that was on X paired with somebody's…

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merican history by far. In my opinion, by far. Yeah, follow the money.

Wall Street Journal has a story about how bad it is that we have smartphones and porn and that a lot of kids in particular are using their smartphones to look at porn. And the article was written by a woman, Mary Harrington. And I just want to call out how an article gets written by a woman. And I want you to just imagine if it would have been different if a man had written the same article, right? I'll just give you some examples. One of the things in the article that is evidence that porn is bad for women is that 58% of the women report getting choked during sex. 58% of women report getting choked during sex. So Mary Harrington kind of includes this up the theme of porn is bad for women. 58%. Yeah. Did she leave anything out of the story? Is there any important context that should be included? I'm going to suggest some context that could have been included. There wasn't. What's the number one sexual act that women ask men to do that they don't do automatically? What's the number one sexual act that women request specifically? Pull my hair, choke me, spank me. It's the number one. It's the single most requested thing. How many of the men who did the choking enjoyed it? How many of the men who did the choking were getting off on the choking? 10% maybe. 10%. It's not a guy thing. This is written like it's the guys want to choke and the poor women victims are like well I saw it on porn. I definitely don't want to do it but I saw it on porn and maybe you'll like it so yeah go ahead and choke me. That happened never. That's like never.

All right. Men. Let's see the men. So let's say this is true. 58% of women report getting choked. Men only. Men only. How many of you get off sexually on choking a woman? How many of you get off on that? Zero. There's like a stream of no's going on locals. There's not a single yes. I don't see a single yes. Yeah, none. So here's the way this story should have been written. 58% of women have asked to be choked or at least responded to it. Now I'm not saying that there's not a case where a guy tried it just to see what would happen and he tried it with the wrong woman and she had to correct him. Oh that happens all the time. That's just normal. That would be. And by the way I don't recommend it, just trying to choke somebody because you think it might work like that. That's sort of the line where you got to start asking some questions before you get active there, you know what I mean? Now I get it sometimes it's better just to take the move and see what happens. I get that. But I would recommend that that be one that you've at least mentioned offline so that by the time you get there you know the answer, right? You want to know the answer before you try if you can possibly do that. And if you're going to try it without knowing the answer, you know do they want it, you better do it in a kind of a non-dangerous way and to see if you get something that looks like a do more kind of reaction to it. I mean so be careful about that one. But this story is written as if this is a thing that men got from porn and women are just suffering it. It's totally opposite. This is something that women want more than just about anything in the kink category. Now I'm not saying that you want it. It's only this would leave for 40% who think it's the worst idea in the world. That's how kinks work.

Here's another one. Well yeah I guess here's just my point I'd make about this. The biggest problem with porn is that it decreases the power of women in society. That's the biggest problem for women. Because men have an option. Because the porn is so good they can get exactly what they want in porn. No expense, no bother. Everything's good. They feel better when it's done. But women might be a little troubled right now.

Here's the other thing that nobody ever says about porn. So that's why I'm here to say it. They'll say something like 10 or 20% of men are addicted to porn. To which I say what were they doing if they didn't have porn? Were those 20% like slaying it in the sexual marketplace? Were these the guys who could get as much sex as they wanted but the porn was better so they watched some porn? Probably not. The unfortunately we just need to get comfortable with the fact that a fairly big percentage of the entire adult public has no access to sex. And if they did it wouldn't be good sex, right? You know it's sort of is something that the top 20% are just killing it. The middle are satisfying themselves a little bit. And then there's something like 20% at the bottom that were never going to have sex. So why can't they have all the porn they want? That's their best choice.

So no woman who writes an article is going to tell you the truth because they don't know it. Because porn to women, I don't even know what that is. But porn to men is something women don't underst

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and. In fact no woman should ever write an article about porn because they don't get it. Only men understand what the whole thing is about because it's a male thing. You know I get that women like porn too sometimes but it's 95% a man thing. All right. Meanwhile so with all this ugliness happening and the architecture of deceit, and by the way do you like that framing, the architecture of deceit?…

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