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🗓️ 16 January 2025
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The age of the normie has arrived. As Mark Zuckerberg lifts Facebook’s censorial boot off the neck of its users and moves its moderation team from California to Texas, which seems to signal a sincere tech bro realignment, America is at the dawn of a freer era. Elsewhere in the digital world, conservatives on X discuss the job market: there are two paths, bootstraps or victimhood—what will it be, young man? Plus: The hosts comment on Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing and his qualifications, as well as the DoD’s overreliance on experts.
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0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of the Roundtable. |
0:03.1 | Zuckerberg has clearly made a giant shift as have a bunch of others, Elon, etc. |
0:07.3 | So we just kind of have to take it and roll with it. |
0:09.2 | If they weren't true to it, they later turn, okay, we'll deal with it at that time. |
0:14.3 | But look, we are winning. |
0:16.7 | We're gaining energy or getting big time people now on our side who, you know, maybe they're |
0:22.1 | not 100% for us, but they are certainly against the regime that's in power right now. |
0:27.1 | So I think this is part and parcel sometimes of the right being so used to losing so much |
0:33.3 | that they just cannot take wins as wins. |
0:36.2 | It's like, look, you don't have to trust what Zuckerberg says or why he did what he did. |
0:41.5 | As Ryan kind of said, the timing is sort of convenient in certain ways that helps him out. |
0:48.0 | But in another way, he's going to have a much harder time working with regulators. |
0:52.2 | I'm sure, you know, obviously the Trump administration's |
0:54.3 | going to be much more friendly to him, but still, he's probably going to be hauled in front of Senate |
0:57.7 | committees, other places to grilled. You know, his life is just going to be made harder, certainly. |
1:03.3 | But look, this is a win. This is a good thing. The vibe shift is real. You're still seeing |
1:08.7 | effects of things like from COVID that have just taken a long time |
1:12.5 | to matriculate to be seen. |
1:16.0 | And I think this is just the next kind of stage in the realignment that started taking |
1:21.1 | place when Trump entered the race in 2015. |
1:24.4 | And now it's just kind of in the next phase. And now it's just kind of in the next phase. Welcome once again to the Roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors podcast here at The American Mind. |
2:06.2 | I'm your host, Spencer Claven, Associate Editor of the Claremont Review of Books and Florida man, editor of the American Mind. |
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