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ho said they were just walking down the street and somebody walked up and punched them in the head. And now they've got a big black eye or bump on their head or something. Now I don't know if that's really a trend or a weird little blip statistically. But I will tell you this: if you're having any conversation on the topic of young women being punched in the face randomly because they walked down…

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e got a sniffle or a limp or massive discrimination. You don't stop. You just keep going.

Your terribly destructive worldview that victimization should be the primary motivator of everything — what would be, if you were designing the simulation, how would you wake up people? Well, I would have them being punched in the face on a regular basis. Which by the way I'm not in favor of, so don't want to act happy that anybody's getting punched in the face. That's all bad. We don't want anybody to get punched in the face.

But it's hard to avoid the fact that we live in a simulation and it's telling us, "Hey, hey, I have something to tell you about the quality of your political preferences." "Really, what is it?" Bam. "I'd like to have a second conversation because it looks like you didn't hear me the first time about what your political preferences would you like to talk about them?" "Well, all right." Bam.

Now how many times do you have to get punched in the face before you start saying, "Hey, maybe it's something I'm doing. I wonder if somehow my actions are in any way related to the outcomes."

Number one: get the hell out of any city where you're getting punched in the face walking down the streets. Get the hell out of there. That's number one.

Number two: examine your voting. J

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ust give it a second look. I don't give a lot of advice, but I'm going to make an exception. If your political preferences cause you, a young woman, to be randomly punched in the face because you went outdoors, just take a pause. Just look at the big picture. Just ask yourself, is there anything we're doing that we could do differently that would make fewer people get punched in the face? Just ret…

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