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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
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- Why Experts Hate AI
- Martin E. P. Seligman & Failure to Escape
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- Howard Gardner and the Boy in the Photograph
- Richard Nisbett: The Man Who Measured the Insult
- Katharine Weber: A Life
- Ayalet Waldman
- Steve Stern and the Resurrection of the Pinch
- Diana Spechler – Going Off
- Leora Skolkin-Smith
- Margot Singer
- Andrea Seigel: The Sideways Career
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Robert Anthony Siegel: The Education of a Criminal’s Son
- The Basement and the Birthing Room: A Life of Ilana Stanger-Ross
- Elizabeth Rosner
- ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History’
- Rachel Resnick
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* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
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The Rise & Fall of the Alt Right – A 2023 Analysis (6-18-23)
Understanding The Latest Trump Indictment (6-18-23)
01:00 Epistemics
02:40 Absurd levels of self-confidence
16:30 Daniel Ellsberg dies
17:00 Understanding the Trump indictment
18:40 Stephen J James joins, https://twitter.com/MuskMaximalist
1:05:00 ADHD
1:22:00 Andrew Tate
1:24:30 Millennial Woes
1:28:00 Live streaming from a broken or a healthy place?
1:40:00 Latest Trump indictment
1:54:00 Biden scandals
1:56:00 Trump impeachment paved the way for the Ukraine war
1:57:30 John Edwards scandal as a forerunner of next Biden scandal
2:00:00 Has Tucker undergone a psychotic break?
2:00:40 Tucker as a looksist
2:18:00 How to Tell a Critic From a Troll? With Andrea with Bangs, and Chris Kavanaugh and Pastor Paul VanderKlay, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcuN_fkWkTY
2:23:00 The religious and the woke make claims based upon lived experience
2:25:30 Luther as a proto Jordan Peterson
2:28:00 Broken men invigorated by Jordan Peterson
2:35:00 Sometimes people get better when they leave their religion
2:38:00 Christian numerology
2:40:35 Elliott Blatt joins talks about leaving the city
2:59:00 Symptoms of under-earning, https://www.underearnersanonymous.org/about-ua/symptoms-of-underearning/
3:12:00 Culture war
3:14:00 Moral realism
3:18:00 Democrats and the popular vote compact
3:21:00 Matt: On Mike Enoch’s Weak Knees, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXYUS80cuM
3:24:00 Chris Kavanagh on Aaron Rabinowitz’s Embrace the Void, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-language-of-terrorism-with-chris-kavanagh/id1213974770?i=1000616313220
3:26:00 Aaron Rabinowitz, atheist philosopher, https://convention.atheists.org/speakers/aaron-rabinowitz
4:00:00 Alex Jones’s calls to violence
4:02:00 Where do anti-vaxxers go next?
Why is the right so stupid and gay? II
The Wannabe Dictator In The White House (6-15-23)
01:00 Structure not personality runs the world
02:00 Everybody wants to rule the world
05:00 I’ve got a wanna dictator in my pants
10:45 Tucker Carlson on the wannabe dictator in the White House, https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
19:00 Andrew Sullivan: Nicholas Wade On The Lab Leak Covid Theory
The fearless science writer is one of the few to take the subject seriously. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/nicholas-wade-on-the-lab-leak-covid
20:00 The left’s denial of human nature & the traditional family
23:00 Race vs population clusters
30:00 Ed Dutton: Human Evolution Has Accelerated! Why Are They Hiding This?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id5VStbqa10
35:40 Ed Dutton: What Are The Evolutionary Reasons for Fellatio / Oral Sex?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7cgT-KQqAs
39:45 Nicholas Wade on the Lab Leak Hypothesis
38:00 Where COVID Came From by Nicholas Wade, https://www.amazon.com/Where-COVID-Came-Nicholas-Wade/dp/1641772336
50:00 Why would Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins cover-up the origins of Covid? https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/lab-leak-theory-covid-19s-origins-nicholas-wade
54:00 Gain of function means souping up a virus
News, goodness and great sex don’t pay for themselves (6-14-23)
01:00 Doing the right thing isn’t always cheap and easy
04:00 NYT: A Reporter Investigated Sexual Misconduct. Then the Attacks Began., https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/business/media/eric-spofford-new-hampshire-public-radio.html
12:00 How to connect by saying it with feeling, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Vzr7mnQJ0
24:00 News never pays, https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/06/news-never-pays/
26:00 Elliott Blatt shares a poem
28:00 Elliott’s been raped by car mechanics
30:00 Fatties vs addicts
39:00 Podcasts that are junk food for the soul
44:00 Parafisting relationships
46:00 Parasocial relationships, https://youtu.be/7og2_48D6FQ?t=77
1:07:00 When has a free state invaded a police state? A dozen times, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjK9U-ZVvGo
1:15:30 New Yorker: Daniel Bard Made an Improbable Comeback. Then He Had to Do It Again, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/19/daniel-bard-made-an-improbable-comeback-then-he-had-to-do-it-again
1:36:15 DTG: Interview with Mick West on UFOs and Conspiracy Psychology, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
The Greatest Song In The History Of Humanity By The Greatest Singer In The History Of Humanity – Sarah Brightman – Running (HQ)
I was sad and I was silent
In shadow of my soul
Ever seeking the horizon
For promises untold
I dreamed of silent oceans
And I sang of waters blue
With the crossing of angels
Brought forth to guide me through
To a distant shore so welcoming
Where I was free to roam
In a land of ancient mystery
That I could call my own
This is me and you
And we are running
To change the world
Where hope is shining through
Gaia’s green and blue
And we are running
To save the world
That we’re about to lose
We’ll be running
Watch it coming
Green is shining through
Love is rising
World’s colliding
Green is shining through
Shining, shining, shining
Comment: “When the chorus of voices in the background is singing along with Brightman, it reminds me of ABBA, quite a bit.”
Why is the right so gay & stupid? (6-13-23)
01:00 Trump stokes anger and fury, https://www.ft.com/content/0788c2f6-bfdc-43fa-84ca-86c4e98d211c
07:20 Two members of the Republican presidential field are gay (Tim Scott and who?)
10:30 Marco Rubio’s gay campaign
12:15 Marco Rubio’s foam parties
14:20 Nathan Cofnas on stupid right-wing movements, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XiywNnqhn8
18:00 Perhaps the number one millennial conservative philosopher, Cofnas can’t publish in legacy conservative outlets
48:00 How did Cofnas get a position at Cambridge?
50:00 Matt Walsh documentary What is a Woman?
53:20 Interview with Mick West on UFOs and Conspiracy Psychology, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
Do Free Societies Ever Start Wars With Tyrannies?
Dennis said that if Israel is a greater obstacle to peace than Hamas, it would be the first time in history that a free society wanted war.
In Athens vs Sparta, wasn’t Athens relatively free compared to Sparta and didn’t Athens launch the final war in that conflict?
The United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Iraq was a tyranny. America was a free country. And America started that war while Iraq posed zero threat to America.
The United States invaded Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Wasn’t this a free country invading tyrannies?
The United States intervened countless times in Latin America. Aren’t these more examples disproving Prager’s claim?
England and other European powers invaded countless poorer, less free, countries during the age of colonialism.
Here is Prager’s quote from the video above: “In modern history, every war has been between a free state and a police state or two police states. I can’t think of a 20th Century example of any other. Where in the world other than Israel does anyone ever argue that the free state doesn’t want peace and the police state wants peace? This would be the first free state in history to prefer war to peace.”
The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?
In the 1990s, the United States went to war with Serbia. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?
In the 1960s, the United States went to war against North Vietnam. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?
Are You Holding Out For A Hero? (6-4-23)
01:00 Filling the hole in your soul with heroes and gurus
06:00 Breaking erotic taboos
11:00 Decoding the Gurus: Elon Musk, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
15:00 Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins grievance mongering
18:00 RFK as an idiot detector, https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1665489483024719872
19:00 Elliott Blatt joins
26:00 Academic Agent
28:45 The Bone (SF radio station that plays hard rock), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSAN_(FM)
43:00 Gurus and parasocial relations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
48:00 Scholars vs gurus, Letters from The Rav (Part 12) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZ-1e-pDhg
50:00 Car salesmen quote different prices based on race and sex, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/car_salesmen_different_people_different_prices/
57:20 NYT: She Said Her Professor Sexually Harassed Her. His Wife Won Damages., https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/world/asia/japan-sexual-harassment-women.html
NPR: YouTube will no longer take down false claims about U.S. elections
YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy put in place in the contentious weeks following the 2020 vote.
The Google-owned video platform said in a blog post that it has taken down “tens of thousands” of videos questioning the integrity of past U.S. presidential elections since it created the policy in December 2020.
But two and a half years later, the company said it “will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past U.S. Presidential elections” because things have changed. It said the decision was “carefully deliberated.”
“In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm,” YouTube said.
Since the 2020 election, I’ve made numerous posts and videos debunking voter fraud claims, but I’ve not left these videos up on Youtube because of the clumsy way it enforced its standard. It just wasn’t worth the aggravation.
Now that Youtube has changed its stance, and I’ve found the site has become steadily less censorious over the past 18 months, I just hung up a bunch of voter fraud videos that were previously on Rumble. Youtube has also relaxed its stands on “Covid misinformation.”