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re damage than a terrorist for any given six-month period or a year whatever. But there's no way these are the same level of risk. You know whatever happens from individuals is going to be one terrible act that probably had multiple deaths. But if you're being attacked with waves of attacks, you know maybe a thousand or 1,500 terrorists who were in the country who are going to die trying, that's a…

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t of their way to debunk fake news on the other side but also to teach you the tools for doing it yourself, which is what I do. I try to teach you all. Right, for example I say if the news only has one source and it's an anonymous source you should treat that as zero credibility. Now that's not what people would have done automatically. Most people would have said well it's not proven but they got that one source and of course they want to be anonymous why wouldn't they so yeah that's pretty credible. No the answer is nothing there has no credibility. It's almost impossible that that's going to be true. So that's the sort of thing that you have to learn because it's opposite of common sense. Your common sense says well they wouldn't report it if it wasn't at least possibly true. So you have to get past they wouldn't say it if it were fake and you have to get past well I think some of the news is real. No, no not any of the political news. It's all framed. It might be true facts but it's usually framed in a way that's misleading.

So in my opinion the Democrats were the hoax and fake news creating entity and in response because there's always a response the conservatives built up a resource that the left doesn't have. And that resource is a bunch of people that you can immediately go to to find out what's true. All right let me ask you this. How many of you have seen a headline story and one of the first questions you asked about it was what does Adams say about this? But not just me. You probably said okay what does Cernovich say about this? If it's a legal thing I say what does Dershowitz say about it? What does Turley say about it? I know exactly where to go to find the fake news. If it's a technology thing like I'll look for the smartest technology people. I'll look for Marc Andreessen if it's a technology thing to find out if it's true. I'll look for Balaji Srinivasan. I'll look for Naval Ravikant. And of course Elon Musk.

So we've collectively developed on the right this BS sniping system which is quite wild. I don't think it's ever existed before as far as I know. And that's different and they can't match it. If they matched it they would disintegrate because then their base would realize that the main things they're being told are fake. So if they teach their base how to spot fakes the entire operation falls apart because it's mostly built on fake news. So that's funny.

So again Sean Ono Lennon, good follow. I recommend it highly. And I like that he noticed that people are less easily fooled but I think that's because he follows both sides. See if you follow both sides then you learn how to spot the fakes. So he's probably picked it up just from people he follows on the right.

This is John Nolte who's reporting that the 2024 domestic box office is down 24% since five years ago. Now there's a comparison thing. I'm not sure how the pandemic works in there but it's even down this year a little bit, just a few percent from what it was last year. And I just want to weigh in on this. Now a lot of the smart people said it's not the pandemic, it's not anything, it's just the movies are bad. That's what I think. I think just the movies are b

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ad. But on top of that I don't even think of movies as something that people watch anymore. There are very few movies that you're going to want to spend two hours on. Very rarely. So when I think of things I would want to spend time on I just don't even think of a movie anymore because I know I'm not going to like it. And my attention span like yours is so shortened now that I can go through a tho…

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