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probably all you people watching Fox News, you should probably just vote for Biden now because, you know, at least he's not convicted of anything. Is that going to happen? Or is it more likely that the pundits and supporters of Trump will say, you know what? That was a bogus charge with a crime and a conviction in a totally biased court. I'm going to vote for him twice. Which is more likely? It's…

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lways bothers me, right? Because obviously a lot of people contributed to building it. The Chinese slaves on the railroad and the black slaves. So a lot of people built America. But you know what else made America? It wasn't the building. That's the part we focus on. You know, the part where the country is founded and then from the founding there's all these great things that great people did to make it the country it is. And that's a good story. It's all true. But here's another way to tell the same story. America wasn't about the building. It was about the leaving. It was about white men, mostly, I mean they took women, but it was about white men saying I'm going to get the hell out of this place because it's not for me and coming to America. Because it wasn't the place they were leaving. That's what we do, right?

So if you want the white straight men to leave, just create a system that guarantees it, which is what we have now. So when I say I'm looking for an alternative to living in America, it's not my first choice. My first choice is to stay right where I am and fix stuff. But I'm not an idiot, right? The pilgrims probably wanted to stay and fix things too. I'll bet the pilgrims gave at least a little thought to try to fix it where they were. They probably complained, right? Didn't work. So in the end, being the straight white men that they probably mostly were, they packed up their women and their children and they said, you know what? Let's just go where we don't have to be bothered by this stuff. So they went to America. But it looks like America is getting spoiled in a similar fashion to the places they originally left. So we should think seriously about leaving America. Not right away. I mean, it's not, we're not at that point. It's definitely worth saving and it looks like corrective forces are in play. I think we'll be fine in the long run. Actually, I have an optimistic view of America. But as advice, I always say diversify your portfolio and always have a backup plan. So I think it's really time for a backup plan for white straight men and the people who like them to find another country. And it turns out that's completely practical or almost through seasteading. So I think seasteading is going to be where straight white men escape, essentially, because they can't go where the majority vote controls their lives because they won't be the majority.

And by the way, I would advise that to anybody. You know, if you're abused and you're in a place where you don't have enough people to vote any improvement, leave. Because if people are voting against you and there's just more of them and it's not going to change, leave. Go somewhere where you can have some control over your life. So I think seasteading will be a thing. Seasteading is where you build a big artificial boat island that's so big a bunch of people live on it.

Now here's what's new. I don't know if you saw it. The big electronic trade show. There's a device it's about the size of an outside air conditioner that can create water out of air. And that's what you need if you're going to be on the ocean because you can't just desalinate very easily. Desalinization is expensive. You could do it but it's expensive. But this thing just picks the water out of the air. There's no salt in it. It can do it all day long. We can also make power using temperature differentials which is perfect for the ocean. It's not great if you're on a moving ship because you'd have to have something that's below the water. That's not good if you're moving. But if you're a city, you can go out there and drop something into the cold deep, put something else above where it's warmer, and it's the temperature differential called a Stirling engine basically that creates electricity. And it's a well-known, very very old technology and very powerful, way more powerful than people imagine it is.

So that device makes 110 gallons of water a day, enough for your family. Just put one next to your place. So now we have, between solar and Stirling engines, you have all the power you need for you

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r seasteading. You got all the fresh water you need with that new technology. I imagine waste could be handled in a good way or a bad way because you're in the ocean. It looks like your food would mostly be right there in the ocean, wouldn't it? Don't you think you'd be able to fish yourself up plenty of protein? And you could probably do some vegetables and stuff that you could grow on there. I t…

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