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d not do drugs. There are people who do it. You could not get arrested. It's possible, right? You could do as good as well as you could do in that poor school but because you come from you know minority disadvantaged situation you might be able to get a little lift, a little maybe a college scholarship, a little extra consideration and then from there you're on your own. Get yourself a useful majo…

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r in terms of the censorship. They're actually preparing a full report that will be on Twitter. So and this is fun too. Twitter will be the publisher. So that this is something you would normally expect to be published in some other place and Twitter would just point to it but because it's Elon he's doing it the smart way. It will be published on Twitter so you have to go to Twitter and you have to stay there to read it.

Anybody who says that Musk isn't going to make this a better product you're really not paying attention. He's already made it a better product. There's no question about it. Like everything he's doing even the mistakes are all heading in the right direction. Okay that didn't work. All right that didn't work either but we'll try this. I mean it's all working.

But I would say it is also true that the worst racists have returned to the platform. Would you agree? Is there anybody seen an increase in anti-Semitism and racism? I have seen it but only recently. Only the last few days. I didn't see it until the last few days. Now maybe because of his amnesty or something. Yeah I've seen some super ugly anti-Semitic kind of stuff lately. Could be the Ye effect because people are using that as their topic for which to spew. Yeah it's probably the Ye effect. But we'll see if that's a lasting thing or not.

Now what's interesting about this is we're going to find out if Twitter suppressed the laptop story. I hope, I don't know if this will happen but imagine this. I don't think this is going to happen but imagine if Musk can tell you how individuals were censored. Can you imagine that? Could you imagine if I could find out exactly how I was censored? Just imagine that that would the head would explode everywhere.

And then let me ask you this. What will the left do when this becomes public if it's as bad as we think? Now I don't want to get ahead of the Kraken like I have an unfortunate history of imagining the Kraken will be released and then no Kraken happens. I'm definitely a Kraken non-denier and that's on me. Yeah I did expect a Kraken not because I thought there was a problem because I believe the people who said it was coming and I didn't know that they were completely non-credible as it turns out. So that's on me. I should have seen that coming honestly.

But if it happens how is the left going to handle the fact that all of their badness has been revealed? Here's how I think and it's already happening and it goes like this. All of that badness was really goodness. That's what it'll be. Of course we were suppressing Trump because he called neo-Nazis fine people. Of course we suppressed him. Obviously of course. Yeah it won't even be embarrassing. It won't be embarrassing because they'll say yeah we want more of that.

People are actually calling for Twitter to return to the rules before Musk. They're asking to go back to what they have to know by now was total censorship but they believed they were censoring the right people. Now do you think that Musk has changed the rules on who's censored? I haven't heard of it. Have you? Because I hear people saying I need Twitter to go back to the old rules. The rules never changed have they? Did I miss a story? I believe that Twitter has always been anti-hate speech, anti-hate speech and if there's misinformation they'll put a tag on it so you've got some context. It's the same rules but people are going to imagine a different experience, right?

The left is going to imagine that Twitter turned into a hellhole even if it doesn't and the right is going to imagine that the controls were taken off even if the only thing happening is more conservatives are joining Twitter so your traffic is going up and you'll think oh it's because the censorship came off. So we're deeply in confirmation bias territory which is affecting me, right? You're going to see it in real time if you want to see a rational person who is completely under the spell of confirmation bias I offer myself because Twitter is such a confirmation bias generator that I'm pretty sure I'm going to imagine my experiences changing on Twitter even if it doesn't. I'm pretty sure I'll imagine it does. Don't you agree?

So you're going to get to watch me falling victim to confirmation bias even when I know it, even when I know it's going to happen it's still going to happen. I don't think I have any defense against it because you feel the way you feel, right? And then you report it. But I'm at least aware that I'll be wrong.

All right so what do we think about this Ye Fuentes business now besides the fact that it'll take Trump out of the race for good just because the left will make us never forget anything else I mean they'll make us think about it forever. Whose Fuentes? Yeah I know. I mean the fact that these folks all showed up and by the way somebody says Kanye is legitimately anti-Semite. It seems like it that you know Kanye's had plenty of time to soften his opinion or whatever but at this point I feel like we can just say he wants us to believe that he is anti-Semitic. Wouldn't you say? He's not telling you he's not. I mean he does that thing I can't be anti-Semitic because I'm a Jew but nobody takes that seriously. It looks like he just he's putting it out there as that's who he is.

I don't know. We'll keep an eye on this. It's fun to watch. But do you think that Kanye is operating, by the way if you watched any of the Tim Pool interview with Ye or especially the aftermath because it continued after Ye left in that sort of a conversation around the table about what they'd experienced, the funniest part about it is watching every member of the table refer to him as Kanye and then have to correct it. And I thought that is why Ye is Ye and that's why the performer formerly known as Prince was the performer formerly known as Prince.

One of the things that you can do if you're smart enough and you're famous enough is you can make your name really inconvenient for other people and then you have to spend a whole bunch of time talking about them like extra time because you got to correct the name. So I'm watching this the Tim Pool group around the table and every one of them made a point. They're like well Kanye I'm sorry I mean Ye I'm sorry I apologize I didn't mean to do that. If you're watching I meant Ye. And every one of them had to do it on every comment to the point where it was just ridiculous and they were noticing it themselves of course. But that's one of the ways he draws energy. He gets energy because you have to talk about it more even to refer to him. Just the simplest thing you have to put extra energy into it. So he's definitely an energy monster and he knows how to attract it and he knows how to use it.

But what's going on now? Does anybody think that what we're seeing with Ye is some form of genius or do you think it's mental illness? What would you say? Genius or mental illness or attention? Like I guess that would be genius performance art if you say his performance art is a genius because let's say he intended it to be performance art. You'd have to be insane to think this was going to work. Do you think the divorce broke him? It looks like the divorce broke him actually. That's what I think. Yeah I think the divorce actually broke him. I think that everything he cared about in life was his family and he lost it and I think he lost everything and I think that when he gave up his billions of dollars it's because it didn't mean a thing to him and he kind of says that now, right?

He had he was the richest Black guy is that what he was saying? The richest Black guy or something. Everybody lost his family. He had nothing like that. I think that's the story of Ye is that it looks like he had everything because he had riches and multiple companies and fame and he was beloved. The other family he loved him and kids and then the only part he lost was the family and kids and what did he have left? Nothing. After his family and kids were taken from him or you know you could say it was his own fault whatever I don't know the difference but once he lost that he actually didn't have anything. So he tried God you know it looked like he moved his emphasis to religion and it looks like it wasn't enough. He's trying politics and it looks like that's not enough.

So to me this all looks like mental illness but caused by a specific PTSD. You know I'm speaking in my layman terms. I'm using all the wrong words for mental illness but you know what I mean, right? I believe he was maybe as all geniuses are you know a little bit crazy. Artistic geniuses anyway the artistic geniuses tend t

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o be a little bit crazy and a little bit genius at the same time. And I think that the divorce broke him and it just pushed him into the wrong side. That's what it looks like because I don't see anything here that looks like a good strategy. Do you? If I did I'd call it out like I'd love to tell you oh you're all missing the clever play. You know if you knew as much as I do about persuasion you'd…

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