5895 Death to HOPE!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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In this episode, I explore the implications of government welfare programs on personal health choices, highlighting how a substantial portion of Coca-Cola's revenue comes from assistance. I critique the ethical concerns of promoting unhealthy foods, questioning the freedom versus responsibility dynamic within welfare systems.
The discussion also examines anger as a form of hope in human relationships, using a listener's experience to illustrate how unresolved issues can perpetuate dysfunction. I critique cultural narratives that oversimplify emotional breakthroughs and urge listeners to confront painful realities instead of pursuing unrealistic hopes. The episode concludes with a call for deeper exploration of these themes through listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everybody, Steve Mullenu from Free Domain. I hope you're doing well on this fine, |
| 0:08.7 | glorious, beautiful morning, March 23rd, 20, 25. And I should go with your questions. Yes, I should go with your questions. I certainly do have, |
| 0:28.5 | I don't have the hats for sales, I'm afraid. Steph, did you see all the influences on X that's |
| 0:34.7 | sold out to the junk food industry for $1,000? |
| 0:40.9 | Well, I don't know. |
| 0:42.2 | I've heard about that, right? |
| 0:49.2 | So the surprise, I suppose, that people are having is that the supplemental nutritional assistance programs or SNAP programs allow people to buy apparently a lot of pop, soda, bubbly, whatever |
| 0:57.7 | you want to call it, soft drinks, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and things like that. |
| 1:01.0 | And if I read the statistic right, and I think I did, about 25% of Coca-Cola's income comes from |
| 1:08.0 | government welfare money being spent on pop. |
| 1:11.9 | Blah. |
| 1:15.7 | Unbelievably wretched. |
| 1:18.7 | It has, I mean, pop is the devil's brew. |
| 1:19.8 | It's Satan bull sweat. |
| 1:21.4 | It has no nutritional value. |
| 1:26.9 | Tons of sugar and is just terrible all round. |
| 1:32.2 | And I, gosh, I mean, it was forever 15 years ago that I swore off Pop. |
| 1:35.5 | I will, maybe once a month, have a Diet Coke, but that's about it. |
| 1:39.5 | But I don't think that the, I don't think it's quite that way. |
| 1:42.6 | I don't think they cut you a check and tell you what to say, like an ad. |
| 1:46.4 | I think that there's just a donation and a suggestion. And if you're part of a think tank, the donation probably is to the think tank itself. |
| 1:53.6 | And then the suggestion is, you know, well, maybe you could help us out with this messaging issue |
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