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come up with a number that represents the discrimination part right? So then you do the same calculation with white men who were prevented from employment or didn't get the raise over a 30-year period. But here's the problem. The white guy who didn't get the 20% raise with a promotion, 20% of a modern salary is a lot of money even if you account for inflation. Whereas when nobody had much of anyt…

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o attack the United States homeland. We will nuke you absolutely.

So yeah I think, so I agree with Mike Cernovich that the real play is to exhaust Trump and his supporters because I think they know one day in jail is a whole different game. All the rules are gone at that point. Every rule will be suspended if he spends one day in jail. But I don't recommend any violence.

Here's a priming story. All right you ready for this? It's a priming story. Did you know, I saw this in a post by Scott Linnen, that American history textbooks they give causes for the big Great Depression. So if you read a history textbook you're in school you'll read about the Great Depression and there will be reasons listed for why it happened and there are a variety of them. Did you know that those do not match what economics academics say is the reason? And I'm not going to get into the details. I'm just going to tell you that what the current day experts in economics say does not match what your children are learning in school. Does that surprise you? And I'm talking about Democrats in both cases. You know most of your teachers are going to be Democrats. Most of your academics are Democrats. But even the people who know the most the economic academics you know not just somebody working at a bank but the ones who are studying the whole field of economics all the time they have a completely different opinion of why the Great Depression happened. It's not even close to what is being taught in the textbooks.

Now I have no interest in discussing that topic further. This is a priming story. I'm using persuasion on you so I want you to see how it feels. The priming story created a framework in your mind that I'm going to populate with a different story and I'm doing it so you can see it and feel it and recognize it in the wild. Look for priming stories. You have now been primed. The priming is there. Something as basic in history as the Great Depression could be fake history. That's the prime.

Now may I go on? Tucker Carlson is doing a video talking about Derek Chauvin being unfairly convicted for the alleged murder of George Floyd and that it's obvious that it was not murder and that he was railroaded. Now here's my question. What will the history books write about George Floyd? Will they say he was killed by a police officer who did the wrong things? Yes they probably will. But you're live to watch it. So you're watching history being created and a fiction. You're watching it live and then you're going to watch it harden into the textbook and that will be the history. That will be the history.

Now I should point out that when Tucker said this and Marjorie Taylor Greene reposted it on the X platform community notes weighed in and said that the ER did in fact say the cause of death was the police action and then it pointed to NPR as its source. So community notes for the win right? Community notes solved the problem right? Worked really good right? No. NPR is not a reliable source. NPR is a narrative. They exist as a Democrat narrative. They're not even close to a reliable source. Not only that but the basic news of what the coroner said and how the FBI pushed them etc that's not in the NPR story.

So one of the things you can do with community notes is you can rate the note itself. So I rated the note as pointing to a non-credible source. If enough people do that then presumably community notes might adjust and stop pointing to NPR as a credible source. That was my hope. So community notes is always going to be an active work in progress. So it's still the best thing we have honestly. It's literally the best thing we have for knowing the truth in the modern world but it's not perfect. It's more like science. You know you keep experimenting and trying to crawl forward until you get closer to the truth. So community notes is more about trying to crawl toward the truth. It's not necessarily going to be the truth every time. So just keep that in mind.

So how about this? So we're having this big discussion about the cause of slavery. Cause of slavery? Oh not the cause of slavery. The reason that slavery ended in the United States in the Civil War because Nikki Haley said some things about that. So if you'd like to know what really was going on you've got Tom Cotton who's reminding us that slavery was a big part of that and Ted Cruz also reminding us that ending slavery was the big part of the

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Civil War. So that's our history. So do you believe that the history of why the Civil War was fought and why slavery was ended, given that you're observing in real time that the real modern things you can see with your own eyes are being reported as completely fictional stories while you watch, do you believe that the story of the Civil War and slavery are accurately told even in a directional se…

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