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iminal organization. How is that legal there? So they've got the teachers in a bind. The teachers feel like they have to be in the teachers union for whatever reason they think they have to. And then they have to pay their dues. I think there are a few states that gave them the freedom to avoid the union, but generally speaking, they have to put their money in and then their money is being used in…

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the Syrian civil war was over 700. Oh my god. But that was spread over a longer period. So for the on a per year basis, Gaza has killed the most journalists. But what have I told you about data? Almost all data is fake. I'm going to go further. All data is fake. How many of the journalists do you think were really Hamas operatives pretending to be journalists? Well, not zero. Probably not zero. And there may have been some who were legitimately journalists but maybe also legitimately Hamas. So there you go. So if 200 journalists get killed in a tiny little battle zone as big as Gaza, if I were a journalist, I would take the hint and I would say it looks to me like they're going to try to kill me if I go here. Now I'm not alleging that that's what's happening. It just looks like it. And if I were a journalist, I would just assume that they were targeting them intentionally. Maybe they are, maybe they're not. I don't know either way. But I do think that Israel's success depends on not having journalists in Gaza, if you know what I mean. So I can't say that they do it intentionally unless they're dual use journalists who are really dealing with Hamas. That might be intentional. But yeah, I would stay away.

Here's my prediction for wartime journalism. It's going to turn into drones. Instead of going in person into Gaza, imagine if they had sent a drone in that was somehow optimized to be a journalist drone. So let's say that people were trained. Th

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at's sort of like the Red Cross. There's some symbols that can operate in the war zone and you're not supposed to shoot at them. So imagine you had a drone that as soon as you saw it, you say ah, that's a journalist drone. I don't need to shoot that one. And then it's got a Zoom camera on it and it just comes down and lands somewhere where it can talk to anybody and it does an interview and says h…

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