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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the show. Today we're going to be talking about basically political opportunism. You see there's this saying in |
0:15.2 | politics never waste a crisis. Basically during tragedies people get panicked. They're upset and they want to feel |
0:22.0 | like the problem, the crisis in question, whatever it is, is being solved. They want action. |
0:28.0 | And what that means is that they're probably going to be willing to accept changes to accept policies that they might not otherwise as long as they feel like the |
0:36.7 | crisis is going to get fixed. Great examples of this might be passing gun control legislation |
0:41.9 | after mass shootings or increased surveillance measures |
0:44.8 | after terrorist attacks. And you might be thinking, whoa, hang on a second there, that kind of sounds |
0:50.4 | Machiavellian, and it's true. It is but that doesn't mean it's not effective because |
0:57.0 | it's actually it's very effective. So it shouldn't be a surprise that seeing us how we are in the middle of a crisis, a certain Asian inspired |
1:07.0 | respiratory crisis right now that there are people trying to use this panic to further their agendas. |
1:12.8 | And you know what? For some topics, it kind of does make sense to have those conversations right now. |
1:18.1 | Things like public health policies in general, |
1:20.8 | pharmaceutical regulations, social safety nets, border control. |
1:24.6 | I completely understand why some people believe that right now, as all of this is happening, |
1:29.6 | is the time to address those issues. |
1:31.6 | I see that connection. However, some of the other |
1:35.3 | policies people keep trying to push in light of the state of emergency a lot of |
1:40.0 | countries now find themselves in just don't really make sense to me and I am talking |
1:45.8 | about climate change and social justice so that's what we're going to be covering today but first I have a |
1:51.3 | quick message from our lovely sponsor parlor as if there was enough reason to dump Twitter and switch to parlor |
1:57.7 | Here's another right now Twitter is removing content they deem a denial of global or local health authority |
2:04.0 | recommendations. Things like descriptions of ineffective treatment or |
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