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Welcome to the show! I appreciate you tuning in. You're listening to Vote Your Conscience

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greatly appreciate that what you thought about the show. Now that we got that out of the

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way, on the last episode we went over my beliefs about basically both of the two main political

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parties the democrats and the republicans being authoritarian in my opinion so you

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know both sides keep calling each other authoritarian and I believe that both side is right in

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certain ways and that's why I'm promoting for us to try to get away from those two

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parties and start voting for different parties you know third parties and independence and

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trying to get some of those types of people into political power. On this episode I'm

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planning on going over some of the reasons that I think about that we're actually just

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going to cover one main issue which will be freedom of speech and basically what I keep

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hearing in the media lately is that you know democrats are against freedom of speech and

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then from the other side I hear that republicans are against freedom of speech so I kind of

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agree on both points and I'm going to go over a little bit about both of that I believe

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that there's just hypocrites on both sides of these issues here and you know I'm trying

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to make my opinion unhippocritical and be able to actually analyze what's going on why

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you know people think freedom of speech is under attack from the democrats and why the

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democrats think that republicans are attacking freedom of speech so I'm just going to cover

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a few issues about that today. What I'm hoping that this turns into over time I mean it won't

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be you know a series in a row as I do change topics based on what I'm feeling that week

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but I do want it to be kind of a series going over my disagreements on certain issues with

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both parties so with both the democrats and the republicans and you know over time get

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a broader view of why I think both parties push us towards authoritarianism or at least

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larger governments more power for the government and less power to the average citizen so you

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know this will be the first of hopefully many different episodes that are covering different

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topics about republicans and democrats and this one like I said is just going to be over

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the issue of freedom of speech today because this has been you know a huge issue the past

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few years but specifically in congress very recently with the twitter files with Matt

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Taiibie and Michael Schellenberger you know testifying in front of congress of what has

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been released from twitter basically since Elon Musk has taken over and you know what's

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going on with that a little bit you know that's not going to be the entire topic because I

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want to go over both parties and a whole lot of different attacks that I see on freedom

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of speech but so we'll get started with you know basically my point of there being hypocrites

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on both sides so there has been many democrats that have been you know calling for censorship

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especially during covid but even beforehand you know democratic politicians but especially

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like I said during covid about different you know medical information and everything and

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there's now evidence you know through the twitter files that there was politicians democrats

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and it looks like republicans possibly as well directly talking to people at twitter

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trying to get different you know views censored and even specific tweets so according to our

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constitution that would be you know completely illegal for our government officials to do

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that they have no right to infringe on our freedom of speech so you know the issue of

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twitter censoring some things on their platform is completely different than a government

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official or you know government agency which in the twitter files it's claimed that there

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are FBI agents that are discussing censorship and censoring specific tweets and that would

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be the federal government directly censoring you know our freedom of speech so you know

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it is an important issue and I do see that this is kind of happening on both sides though

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so like I said you know I think both of these sides are hypocritical not just the politicians

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but people who follow the views and maybe they're not being hypocrites because maybe

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they don't you know if they don't see the media channels that are coming from both sides

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so if they don't see a democrat leaning media personality and a republican leaning media

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personality or a left or right or conservative or liberal they might not even know what their

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side that they claim to be on is doing you know towards going against freedom of speech

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so you know one of the things maybe they're not hypocritical but they're just not informed

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about it then you know everyone knows if you're someone who follows politics you know that

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on the republican side the democrats are saying that the republicans are trying to ban CRT

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critical race theory you know and different you know things like that promote trans or

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drag queens or something which some of the videos that I've seen for drag queens dancing

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in front of children is very strange and I don't think most parents or adults would

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appreciate that but the parents in the videos seem completely fine I'm not going to specifically

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go into that today but so on the freedom of speech with the critical race theory you know

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the republicans trying to stop something like that in classrooms being discussed or taught

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I have a lot of views about that as well and we're going to cover that a little bit so

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we'll just get started with you know the republicans trying to ban CRT from classrooms so I don't

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agree that any information should be censored from classrooms I do believe that there is

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age appropriate material to be taught at different grades but mostly my opinion is that if kids

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are able to ask questions about topics we should be giving them you know relatively honest

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answers maybe not the most in depth you know answers to different questions if it has to

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do with sexuality or whatever depending on how old they are but we should be able to

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be honest with the children and if there's the opinion of the critical race theorists

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and that there is a huge debate whether critical race theory is being taught or whatever and

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you know the New York Times 1619 project and all these different basically views on what

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happened in history and different perspectives of what should be done about it now I believe

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that all of these sides should be taught in our schools and I believe that parents have

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the right to decide what's being taught to their kids and what schools they can put them

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in so you know in the public school system it's pretty touchy because it's a free education

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system basically I mean we all pay into it you know I pay property taxes in my area but

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you do have options of homeschooling or you know going to a charter school or private school

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and a lot of states do have vouchers to help people who don't have as much money to get

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their kids into a school outside of the public school system as well but I do usually lean

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towards you know more information and debate is better you know even in one of my recent

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podcast I just discussed how we need to have more debates in classrooms so you know I don't

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think that people are so stupid and kids are so stupid that they won't be able to decipher

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these different things if these are topics that adults of all ages argue about then they

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should be open to discussion for children to make up their own opinions on them as well

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I mean they're not going to be any worse off or better off based on their opinion than any

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adult who takes one side or the other on any of these topics so like with critical race

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theory if they teach that opinion in a classroom I mean that doesn't bother me as long as they're

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teaching other information as well so if that's one philosophy of you know what has happened

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in the United States since you know the 1600s when slavery started and what has been going

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on between the races since then and racism and you know what happened throughout history

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we should be viewing it from all sides so you know I don't have a problem with that being

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in classrooms and I do think that that is a hypocritical thing for a republican or a

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conservative to be claiming to try to ban you know so I do think that that kind of goes

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towards the freedom of speech issue and another one on the conservative side I always hear

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them talking about I mean Ben Shapiro at the Daily Warrior and basically everyone on the

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Daily Warrior you know agrees that pornography should be banned and you know that's a giant

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freedom of speech issue right there you know that's that's just like an authoritarian encroachment

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on our rights of what we get to do as adults so I know there's issues of children getting

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access to pornography through the internet and everything like that but these are issues

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that you know adults need to resolve themselves not the government trying to censor the entire

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internet from any pornography and you know different dissenting views about it so I do

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see you know hypocrites on both sides of this but like I was saying I'll discuss a little

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bit about on the democratic side too I saw many democrats you know throughout the pandemic

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they're calling for censorship of all sorts of views basically medical views and the craziest

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thing about this is that they don't have medical degrees so these people don't actually know

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what's right and they're cheering for you know the fact checkers on social media platforms

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and just trying to basically push one specific view which if you've followed you know the

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science on COVID for the past three years you know that it's changed a million times

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and that new studies come out all the time about how effective masks are how effective

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the vaccines are how effective social distancing lockdown protocols you know all the things

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that were implemented throughout all of this time at the beginning you know a year later

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two years later three years later they're still you know not letting unvaccinated people

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come into our country and you know based on all of the information that we have what we

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should have been doing is completely different than what we did based on new information

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so whether or not people know this at the time that's why I'm against censoring different

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views though because the main thing is we need to be able to have discussions about

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these things so on the left I saw people pushing this information you know extremely hard the

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same thing you know with all the disinformation misinformation so anti disinformation anti

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misinformation campaigns trying to shut it down everywhere and politicians calling for

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this politicians shouldn't be calling for this they should say you know well check with

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the medical experts and make your own decisions about what you're going to be doing with your

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body and what we should be doing and they can make decisions based on what they think

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is best for their constituents because we put them in power you know here in Michigan

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governor Whitmer was here so she was in power she made all these different mandates and localities

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made tons of mandates to I live in Oakland County and they had mandates on what you were

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allowed to do how you know if you had to wear a mask or not or whatever and I disagree with

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mandates I think adults in America should have freedom and be allowed to make their own

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choices about what establishments they want to go to if they're going to wear masks or

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not if they're going to take vaccines or not but either way we had you know politicians

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making decisions now they can make decisions based on their own understanding of the information

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if they look at the medical criteria you know or the medical information that's coming out

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from the CDC the WHO the NIH you know whatever medical organizations if they follow some

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other doctors that have different opinions who you know and they're looking at medical

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journals and they have experts on their team telling them what to do well yeah they can

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follow their own opinion we put them there so that they can make these types of decisions

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for us quickly and you know especially in emergency situations like that but my main

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problem is them blocking other views and calling for blocking other views so that there's only

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one specific narrative that is acceptable that's my main issue with the whole freedom

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of speech problem our government is not supposed to be able to infringe on our freedom of speech

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and this is so that we can have debates and discussions and come to better conclusions

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because the main belief that I have is that the truth will only be found through discussions

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debates arguments delving into the topic not blocking someone's opinion that you oppose

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the only thing that happens if you block someone's opinion is that no other idea can possibly

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get in so if any new information is ever discovered and you were incorrect well it doesn't matter

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because there's no information there that opinion was blocked the information was blocked no

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one gets to see that so now people will be operating on incorrect information and you

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know when they're saying the science I mean the the science is always changing in reality

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if you look over scientific history people have been incorrect even the most brilliant

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scientists most of them have been incorrect about all sorts of different theories and

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our theories and understandings of all sorts of different sciences including virology and

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physics and at basically any topic in science our opinions have been changed many times

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over the past couple centuries and new information comes out all the time I mean the science on

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our nutrition is is so crazy it changes like on a weekly basis you know with bananas being

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good for you and then bananas being bad for you and you should eat you know one apple

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maybe you should eat two apples you should eat butter or you should eat margarine or

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trans fats and saturated fats they change that kind of stuff all the time because there's

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so many different studies and what we found with nutrition mostly I only know this because

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I'm interested in nutrition and fitness as well but there's so much difference you know

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in variation between our bodies individual humans bodies that these foods they react

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completely differently to depending on you know the person that you are your activities

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that you do throughout your day even some things for you know race and gender have impacts

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on what we should be eating so you know even basic things like that we don't have any like

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100% conclusive evidence that won't change ever and we know 100% there should always

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be debate open and allowed especially in science science science is one of the main issues

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where we are supposed to have debate there's not supposed to be any moral judgments there

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it's all supposed to be based off of objective data so that's one of my things where I think

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that you know the Democrats are hypocrites because they're yelling about the Republicans

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I'm trying to censor different things for you know LGBTQ rights and like I said critical

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race theory type stuff and you know I mean pornography whatever you know the conservatives

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are always trying to push against something like that as well and the Democrats are doing

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the same thing in a completely different direction trying to you know block everyone

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else's views and there's a lot of Democrats that push towards you know getting religion

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out of education and everything like that it's the same thing you're just blocking a

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different viewpoint that's why I believe we should have all of the viewpoints open for

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discussion in front of our children and be able to discuss them like adults so I believe

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that would have led to a much better you know education environment and less confusion because

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you're giving children the ability to choose what side they're going to choose on one topic

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what their beliefs are going to be I mean it takes a long time to develop what one person's

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beliefs are and even into adulthood we're all having debates and discussions about what

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our beliefs are what we believe the accurate information or what the truth is and if we

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can't even come to conclusions to you know agree 100% on these issues how are we supposed

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to present this data to children as absolute fact so that's one of my main problems is

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that people think that they're so completely right that they're willing to ban the other

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sides ideas because they think they're wrong so that means it's bad to have that idea out

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there but you know this will lead me into my next topic basically here which is you know

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the fact checkers they just lead to laziness so if you believe that the people on Facebook

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whatever organization they use to fact check people and then the same goes for Instagram

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Twitter you know any platform that has fact checkers verifying information and opinions

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whether it's on COVID or whether it's on this politician said this or whatever I mean

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they're getting you know even parody accounts that they have fact checks all over them I

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mean just just leave it alone it's a joke account who cares these you know this like

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this entire thing where everyone's trying to get their view through 100% so that the

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other view can be blocked this just makes people lazy because they don't have to decipher

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the information if they trust the fact checkers then that's it you look at a post it says

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fact check misinformation fact check misleading information you don't even have to go read

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the article if you already believe that you know Politico or whatever fact checking organization

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any of the platforms that you're on are using if you're already gonna believe them that's

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it your thinking is done you don't need to think about that topic that information is

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misleading no reason to analyze it or look into that for myself so this just makes people

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lazy and we already know that the fact checks aren't all correct and most of them aren't

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even based on something that can be 100% correct or not they're based on all sorts of arbitrary

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views so my main thing on that I don't believe that these organizations censoring or blocking

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accounts kicking people off banning people putting fact checks up is an infringement on

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our freedom of speech these organizations aren't the government with like the Twitter

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files out the government asking any of these organizations to censor any data information

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that's completely illegal and against our Constitution that's obvious and I don't understand

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how those those hearings have been pretty wild if you watch them because you would think

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that people who are obliged to follow the US Constitution you know when they get elected

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you think that there would be a big consensus in the Congress here on that's that's just

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incorrect we're not allowed to go and ban disinformation or misinformation or any types

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of political views or even scientific perspectives that's not their job to do and it is illegal

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it's an infringement on our rights as American citizens to do so so when Twitter does it

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if Twitter wants to ban all conservative viewpoints I don't care that doesn't matter they're

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a they're their own company they're a private organization they can do that if they want

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people should you know be basing their decisions on what platforms to use based on what they

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do and I believe an open you know a more free less censored you know Twitter or Instagram

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or you know if there was a new platform or whatever you know truth social apparently

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they do the same thing you know that's Trump's different social media platform that they have

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there and they have all sorts of other ones that came out you know since Twitter and Instagram

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have been censoring but so on those platforms I don't care if they ban different people

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you're not obligated to be on there but I do I do think that it makes people more lazy

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and when it is very one-sided you know it does cause a problem in our society but just

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because it causes a problem doesn't mean it's an infringement on your rights so everything

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that causes a problem isn't an infringement and isn't illegal okay so there's a big difference

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between things that cause problems and things that are illegal or against your rights because

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the point of our Constitution wasn't just to make us safe and happy and live in a perfect

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peaceful world the point was for individuals to have the freedom to make their own decisions

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in their lives to speak their minds to discuss ideas how they want to carry weapons you know

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for the Second Amendment to not get searched by you know any random government official

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the government doesn't just get authority over your body over your home over your family

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over your education over your speech over what weapons you own and these things were

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put in place to protect our rights not to make society peaceful happy easy to live in

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or anything like that so this is a thing that's been completely forgotten because we do live

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in a time where resources are so much more abundant than they were when the Constitution

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was created and you know this goes into completely different area here into you know what human

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rights actually are but what people are pushing for you know the human rights to medical treatment

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and housing and clothes food whatever I mean these did not used to be rights because there

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was no way everyone could have access to them there was famines that we didn't know how

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to deal with you know even into the 1900s so no one was able to provide this so of course

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it wasn't a right to receive food so back when the Constitution was created there would have

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been no right to health care or food there wasn't enough doctors that they could just

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come treat you there wasn't hospitals everywhere so we live in a way different more abundant

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world where the the actual idea of rights has completely changed but that's the same

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thing these people who are pushing to censor everything and censor views that oppose theirs

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they're not trying to you know have a have an actual discussion about these things they

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just think something's bad and they want to get rid of it so we don't have to talk about

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it and they think that will make the world a better place I completely disagree because

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then most people don't understand how to even argue against the other point and when they

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do encounter a person with a different viewpoint in real life it turns very frustrating and

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you know not violent but you know conflicting immediately very quickly because they don't

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understand why the other person has a different view when Twitter blocked all of the persons

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you know other viewpoints so they didn't even know these people out here had these viewpoints

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they've never encountered it before they've never thought about it they just have their

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viewpoint in their group's viewpoint that they follow and hear and then when they encounter

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it in real life you know it's a huge issue people don't know how to discuss and debate

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these ideas because they've just tried to censor them so the censoring like I said from

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these media organizations that's their right to do so I mean they're a private business

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if Twitter you know doesn't want conservative viewpoints or liberal viewpoints on their

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platform that's up to them I mean you can make a completely conservative Twitter if

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you want and not allow any you know type of liberal viewpoints on there and that's that's

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fine if that's your platform and that's your rules that's completely fine I mean Twitter

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allows hardcore porn on their website I mean you can just be scrolling through and there's

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just people fucking right there you know in the feed so you're looking through politics

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that doesn't happen on Facebook Facebook doesn't allow pornography they don't allow hardcore

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pornography and they don't allow nudity at all on Facebook Instagram allows like partial

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nudity so they have all these different rules and that's their right as that organization

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they can make it whatever they want they can make it kid friendly they can make it a completely

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you know adult website if they want to and I'm completely fine with that I'm not fine

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with the government trying to get involved in blocking everything and I also disagree

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with you know the platform's ideologies about why they're doing it and banning you know

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different dissenting medical opinions during COVID and then you know different viewpoints

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about the LGBTQ community because we should be having these discussions we should be having

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discussions about race about you know sexuality about different medical information and not

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having lay people at Twitter Facebook Instagram they're blocking the viewpoints based on their

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own politics you know and ideologies so that's mostly what I wanted to cover today you know

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the social media platforms censorship you know blocking accounts and then it's just this

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whole idea that you know both sides are pushing towards authoritarianism so in my opinion

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both sides are trying to block certain portions of freedom of speech what I want is more freedom

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I want more you know rights for the individuals in this country so this is why even on the

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last episode I had to I discussed that both parties are authoritarian in my opinion and

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they keep doing this they they constantly push these little bills here and there block CRT

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here censor medical disinformation here and it all sounds good for their constituents

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whenever they get these laws through they never pull back and we've been slowly heading

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into an authoritarian state where the government has more and more power the government has

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the power to tell you to stay in your home and cover your face and you know they didn't

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get to this point but they tried to with forcing you to inject something into your body so

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you know 200 years ago that would have been absurd for people in our country to think that

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they would have been able to do anything like that and people can use the guise of an emergency

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or you know some you know heart wrenching issue that some people they feel you know about

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the LGBTQ community they feel about you know critical race theory so they think you need

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to just smash your opponents and you know get legislation to block these people but those

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are laws those are laws on the books they are unlikely to be repealed so that's my main

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issue is that any little power that you give the government someone else is going to be

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in that position one day do you want them to have that power over you to ban certain things

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from classrooms to ban certain things from social media platforms to tell you what you

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can think what you can put in your body you know anything like that so you don't have

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to be hypocritical you can be against people's opinions and viewpoints and you can even fight

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against them and you can teach your own kids and you can try and push in your community

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what you believe is right that's what I think you should do but the government shouldn't

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be doing that the government doesn't need to enforce all these policies about what

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you should say what you should wear what you can do what what are your medical choices

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for you that's not the government's job that's our job to figure out and we can figure it

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out the government's job is to organize things so that our society can function more smoothly

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their job is organization and then one more step above that would be protections with

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the military other than that you know we as communities can deal with these issues ourselves

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we shouldn't be getting our orders from some top down system from the federal government

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so that's my opinion on you know basically freedom of speech I mean I guess I'm pretty

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close to what you would call like a freedom of speech absolutist the only thing that I

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would say that you shouldn't be able to say you know without getting into legal issues

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would be literally calling for violence or specifically targeting someone with violence

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you know there is harassment issues obviously if you you know mail a letter to someone's

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house every single day you know just to bother them and yeah there should be legal action

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someone can take to get that to stop but other than situations like that these are things

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that everyone has the right to their own opinion and to make their own decisions and the government

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doesn't get to just tell us what to do on these types of things so this is going to

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be a you know huge issue over the next few years we'll see what happens with the Twitter

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files and you know we'll see what happens with the social media platforms because I think

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you know most of the people that I've talked to at least they think that the fact checkers

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are a joke I mean it's just completely ridiculous that every other post you got a fact check

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on it about something I mean just let me read the post and make a decision it's it's a literal

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it's a tweet you know it's a post on Instagram who cares leave us alone let us make up our

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own decisions you know these people they don't think we can be trusted with our own opinions

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you know and have our own volition so I'm completely against that I think that the people in America

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are smart enough to make their own decisions and that we need the freedom to do so in order

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to move forward that's all the time I really have for today I did have a couple other things

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I wanted to go over which I'm sure we'll you know discuss in later episodes but like I always

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say you know these are just my opinions and everyone else is going to have an opinion on

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all these different topics as well and one of the things that we need to keep in mind

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is just like me I mean I want my community to be thriving I want my community to be healthy

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I want my neighbors to be happy I don't want them to you know be like broke poor unhealthy

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not having access to you know resources that they need I want them to be doing well too

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so whether or not my views align with theirs that's not really the most important part

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the most important part is do I care about them do they care about me and when we're

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having these discussions with each other most of the time you're not talking to a politician

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you're talking to your friend or your neighbor or your cousin or something you know someone

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in your family and your group around you they don't even have the power to change these

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things they're one tiny vote you know they get one tiny vote and most of them probably

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don't even vote most people don't even vote in their local elections and only half of

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the people vote in the presidential election so you know they're probably barely having

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any effect about this and people are getting so upset you know that they're yelling at

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their cousin their uncle their friend over these different issues when they're not really

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making this entire issue how it is it's the politicians so when we're discussing these

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with our friends and family you know just keep in mind most of these people have your best

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interests at heart they have their own interests at heart their family their friends their community

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they don't want their neighborhood to go up in flames they want it to be a beautiful neighborhood

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everyone wants to live in a beautiful neighborhood not a third world country that's broken down

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or something so you know I just try to tell people to keep that in mind when we're having

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political discussions because I want to quash the division in this country and point us

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towards the the actual threat which are the people that are in power they're in power

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in the you know highest political positions and they're in power in the largest corporations

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with the most power they have the most you know monetary influence but instead I see

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people that are arguing with each other and they're blaming all of the other citizens

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that really don't even have that much of a say in it we're just voting for the leaders

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so instead of aiming you know our dissent towards the actual people that have the power

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you know we're we're creating division amongst ourselves amongst the people that live right

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next to us and that probably care about our community way more than any politician so

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I'll leave you guys like I always do with the message of unity and us trying to come

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together to do something to change this country so that we can get to a better place you know

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my belief is that we can start voting for third parties and start voting with our dollars

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you know to get some better corporations and better politicians in power so you know that's

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just my opinion we all have an opinion on how to get there and I'm hoping that we can

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all work together for a better future so just remember when you're having a political conversation

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try and treat the other person with as much respect as possible and have some compassion

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and just remember to always vote your conscience.