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And a warning that today's topic will likely be disturbing to many listeners and should

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There was the I am about the pickup artist community and the kind of cultural of misogyny

around this murder spree in Santa Barbara.

So look, I think Sam yesterday, I just want to point back to it, I think his point was

not in any way to disagree because look, there's misogyny here, this profound misogyny which

I'm going to address.

There's racism, a lot of racism in this kid's statements.

And also clearly, I mean look, anytime somebody does, obviously a lot of variables are coming

together, but clearly, you know, and it should almost go without saying, but obviously

there's serious mental health issues here that are very unique to this person.

In the sense that there are endless numbers of people who write vile things online and

may even engage in real world violence and participate in despicable cultures, they're

not going to do this.

So obviously it's kind of over determined in a certain sense.

And in one area, we can say that's an indisputable public policy response to this is gun control

and getting serious about the public health crisis of guns and continuing to stop cow-towing

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