We don't only have to worry about corporations exposing our purchasing and other online activity, the government already has the access, and apparently the willingness to "leak" such data to their media partners.
I love how the needs of the poor are placed on a pedestal when they align with economic interests. The second they deviate they are ignored as lesser problems in favor of greater good... When it comes to individualism people deserve to be poor. It's also hilarious to have the hoover institute modern champions of free speech. How much freedom were the black revolutionaries given by Hoover. Or the Communists. Lastly, McMasters face at 44.56, clip it clip it clip it. I've seen that look before from my father, pure dissapointment.
It always frustrates me how long academics take to cotton on to the real damage and did not demand/do a cost benefit analysis from the beginning - and how readily, as Americans, they justified the removal of Liberal Democracy
"The Free Speech Archipelago." You heard it here first folks. McMaster laying down the coinage gauntlet. Great talk btw. Much more engaging when you're all together. Goodfellows on the blockchain coming soon!
You five were having a rollicking good time. It was fun to be a "fly on the wall". (And I've never before wished so much to be younger than I am so that I could apply to UATX forbidden courses and learn from Bari and Niall in person, but alas, I'm about a decade too late... But I'm passing on word to my baby sister and hoping she'll go for it.)
I live in Alabama and have a friend who wanted to donate to some cause and could not get it done. I took her to the bank to see why. The bank told her the cause she wanted to donate too was a scam and cancelled her card. That scared me to think that a bank could tell her what she could not do with her money. Thank God I do not deal with her bank but with the powers to be holding so much power over every aspect of our private lives I wonder if I will have to worry about my bank.
Re “safetism” in the military, it is institutionalized under the label “force protection”, all the time and everywhere, not just in the Balkans. It was reasonably introduced to reduce service accidents and casualties in deployed units with very low op tempo. Then w the increasing service mindset of US empire the idea of any major threat from enemies is dismissed and force protection became top priority. The US military might well be in a French 1940s mindset, where a serious large competent threat might get it to fold.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. Perhaps it should also include political identity and include the right to use the internet and the right to privacy in financial transaction both business and personally.
One of if not the best conversations yet on good fellows. Many points by all contributors skewered the pustules affecting our dead cultural institutions. Great Joy and hope here that a cure is evolving now that the sickness has been diagnosed. Many thanks 😊
18:40 excellent points about pettiness and safety... "safety" is a word very often used by government to control sheep which become proxies for government control amongst the rest of the population.
How did we get so afraid of covid? I'm flabbergasted (perhaps naive), and deeply disturbed. Suppose we had a scale from 1-10 to measure personal fear or alarm. Where would we rate our own personal levels, and why? Most, if not all of us, are 5-10x more likely to die of something other than covid. Suppose someone rates their fear of covid at 7 (any number works here). Let's also suppose this person is 5x more likely to die of heart disease. History demonstrates this statistic conceptually, even if it isn't precisely 5x. IMO it follows that this person should rate their fear of heart disease at 35; difficult to do on a scale that ends at 10. Yet heart disease, being much more lethal, has never generated this level of alarm; a breathtaking (even dangerous, as we've seen) inconsistency. Death has always been our most universal, profound fear; an unassailable metric for determining risk. Or perhaps not. Maybe our lizard brains simply aren't that rational or concrete. Woe is us, in that case. Then again, we've survived til now, despite ourselves. For too large a demographic (no idea how large, but even 30% of the North American population would seem dangerously large to me), logic, and simple death arithmetic aren't at play here. Why not? Are they at play in our fears of cancer and heart disease? Why or why not? Some extremely bizarre, and very troubling, psychological phenomenon is going on.
👍 the emperor always had no clothes if he had ,there wouldn't have been a 2020. Christmas party 💁 since they had access to the best expertise. People who get Bamboozled must take responsibility for excessive fear and anxiety 💁 maybe then we would have learnt a lesson 💁. The IFR was so conveniently ignored . Totally against bodily violation and mandates
The answer to Bari’s question about having all these platforms going woke and censoring publishers, resulting in the “blue stack” and “red stack”, is the so-called Web3.0 revolution, which is the development of decentralized applications, which are difficult (impossible) to censor. There could very likely be a decentralized version of SubStack in the near future, which could not be disrupted by a company going woke, nor shut down by AWS.
As a subscriber, not a creator, I'd like to buy a 'newspaper' containing articles written by people writing things I want to read. This would be the base needed. Could I pay eg $40 a month and get a certain number of articles to read for that? That way, the creators who get read can get paid, and I get a range to select from. You could have different levels ($30, $40, $50) for subscribers to choose from. The 'publisher' gets a cut - and like Bari said, have an editor to write overviews. If the editor is good, they'd get readers too. Guest editors? I used to subscribe to The Australian but now in the main their selection has gone wrong - climate change and covid alarmists, celebrity rubbish, parroting of other corporate media narratives - and I haven't subscribed for a couple of years now.
Rogan is great because he intelligently discusses anything with anyone at anytime. Verticalizing Steyn, Rogan, Ben Stein, QTR Finance, Andy Gno: uncategorizable. This conversation is pretzel logic. Let everyone write, read, act whatever on any platform. People that wish to see, hear, view is a private matter. #IChoose
Four ‘elites’ railing on ‘elites.’ Funny stuff, especially comparing covid to France 1940. This from a guy who’s been a high level part of numerous military ‘adventure’ failures:
***The gentleman who made the blanket statement that now only the unvaccinated are in hospital, is absolutely the opposite here in British Columbia. For the last 5-6 weeks our hospitalized numbers have been mostly fully vaccinated people. In fact double the amount of unvaccinated hospitalized. Be careful what you put out there without being specific.****
I remember my late father admonishing me, “Grown up lie to you” and my mother whispering me that “Ladies flatter you”. Speaking of Ladies I find BW quite enchanting. I think she is on sub stack.
Learning loss, social development stunted, obesity skyrocking. National debt now well above annual GDP. And all the 007 villains of the world have a new, unstable Frankenvirus to re-engineer.
Bari Weiss thinks Rogan saying the N-word doesn't merit an apology because powerful people won't accept it or may ask for some more. Rogan's black fans deserved the apology and many of them appreciated it. I hope he doesn't listen to Bari's self-centered advice.
"Free-Speech Archipelago" could be another form of search engine for free speech platforms... I'm just twisting my thoughts what to make out of that wonderful phrase... please come forward with better ideas what to make out of it... perhaps the title of a book not yet written?...
I love the USA, and Americans. However, I also remember the Federal Government warnings labels that one is warned not to remove, under threat of US Government sanction. So there is some confusion when Brits and North Americans speak to each other about freedom. Long live the Land of Lincoln, and others.
Barrie commented on a problem every successful person with a team must deal with. Once you have a team, you are the face of the team. Your mistakes and failures impact the team and, ultimately, possibly the fate of the team. Hence, your fate may very well become their fate. Any good leader must bear this in mind when confronting adversity or attack on themselves and the team, especially malicious attack from adversaries with power. I give Joe Rogan the benefit of a doubt here. He got in the ring with the Woke Whimp, let his guard down, and got hit with a Left hook. His knees buckled. He did not go down and won the battle but his knees did buckle. I think he took one for the team. Sometimes leaders must do this. Those who have not led but aspire to lead should take note. However glorious their demise, the dead are still dead,.
Joe Rogan never called anybody the N word on his show (which is funny that such a euphemism is fine when we all know it's really the same expression). Being proud to have never said it suggests you either are a prude or a liar. It's a norm in black culture, which is why it's so odd that same group will pretend to be outraged that others say what they say routinely, showing a lack of critical reasoning among that griping group.
I live right across the street from an elementary school in Paris, France. The kids don't look sad, they do not wear masks, they are screaming with exuberance as they always have, and school and life continue here...policy or no policy.
This mom wants her kids to attend a conservative university like Hillsdale. Unfortunately, after some research, many of the complaints from graduates are they are not competitive and employers frown after seeing their alma mater and dismisses them. It’s disheartening that I have to compromise integrity for a sustainable future. My family are not well off. So going to college is an investment and we are looking for a good ROI. Please please please create a path so that it’s not necessary to self censure for the sake of livelihood.
Heading cats here today. 3 Goodfellows is usually more conversation than fits in an episode - adding a guest is an embarrassment of riches I find that the Sunday News “round table discussions” seem more hallow since I started listening to this show. I think the Hoover Institute’s work here is more interesting that the podcasts this show was dedicated to discussing
I roared, Generation T...took me 4 seconds. All 5 sons...Generation T, so done with the craziness, irrational fear and the Covid Malingerers, done, so done.
In meant the mattress labels btw. For those who haven't turned a mattress in the USA, these are the, I guess labels sewn on the underneath of mattresses in the US warning that they should not be removed under Federal Law. Makes me remember happy days in Southern California
You asked about the super bowl and bitcoin and you missed an important tell. A key tell for a market peak and crash is advertising to the normies to get them to jump in. The pump and dump.
I wrote to Glenn Loury suggesting he should seek out others to team up. This subscription fatigue is killing me. There's gotta be enough entrepreneurs out there who can work out how to do it....
I love a good woman who has a history of promoting censorship of others and then cries victimhood when the censors came for her. Didn’t quite learn from Nana’s history did she
Why is the fact that the people most supportive of the lockdowns got to work from home or got paid not to work at all never mentioned as an explanation for their enthusiasm for lockdowns?
Network news works because it works. No one wants to work too hard for news. I grew up getting it for free. What would it take to get me to pay? Make a product that I want to pay to use.
