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uld give up and leave the line? That would be a pretty straightforward prediction. If we can just make the lines longer on Election Day that's all we need because people don't have infinite time. They vote during the workday and some of them just need to say I'm going home. So it looks to me without any proof of this right it looks to be like the inefficiency was the feature not the accident and…
← Previous segment →agine imagine the protesters are unarmed in America. Do you think America would not have already taken down the law enforcement? I think Americans would have already taken them down because we're not trained like the elephant. We're trained to think we are in control. Yeah maybe maybe it's one of the things that makes Americans such one of the reasons we're is we grow up thinking we're in control, right? We think we have all kinds of power even if we don't.
So if you have a crowd of Americans who are that pissed off and the number of people who are preventing them from going or doing whatever they were was that small this would be so over. The only thing that's keeping China intact is this psychological thing that keeps these citizens thinking they're weaker than the government and they are not. Not even close. They are the elephant and they're just they don't know they can stomp on the government anytime they want. That's what it looks like.
So what this means is no I did not forget the Chinese military. I did not because I'm calculating here that if China sent in the military and they started killing massive people which they'd have to do that the citizens would rise up to an even higher level. Now in America that's what would happen in America. If there were more force brought against the crowd the crowd would increase their own force and then they would be armed after that point. Now China can't arm itself so that they've got a different situation but they can still take out a small force.
Now my understanding is that the Chinese military is actually smaller than the local community enforcement because they need lots of local community enforcement relative to how many they need in the military. So it is possible that if the psychology of the Chinese people changes and it could you could imagine some small event that just changes their psychology the moment they say we have decided versus we want it's all over. The Chinese people have not decided. They have not. They simply they're expressing a desire. They're just they're expressing a preference a very strong preference but if the Chinese people decide it's a five-minute problem. It's five minutes. They will just destroy the whoever is stopping them and they will just do what they need to do. They'll take care of business.
So there is there's a very big possibility that China is teetering on a full revolution and nothing physical is stopping it from happening. There's no physical thing just that little bit of mental switch and if that switches all bets are off. Now I would bet against that happening. I would bet in favor of the Chinese government suppressing them it goes back to normal and the reason is I think they're so well trained. I think that the conditioning is so deep that they simply will never know their own power and they won't express it.
Now Iran is different than any situation I'm aware of because the women seem to be taking a lead now. Maybe I don't have that right but if there's anybody who has any Iranian connections can you do me a fact check? Does it still look like the women are taking the lead and the men are helping? Does it look like that? See once that happens then we're in unpredictable territory because you know the male female relationship in Iran is something we can't fully understand and we don't really know how much power women have in Iran. If you listen to anybody who was born there they'll tell you some version of this oh yeah the men are totall
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y in control the men have all the power yeah except at home within the house the matriarch has an unusual amount of power but you know outside and if anybody's looking the men have all the power. Now I don't know how much of that's true. That's just sort of a thing you hear. But if they really do control the house who knows? Who knows? Anything's possible. And if Iran goes ahead and does a mass h…
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