Ep 4 | COP26’s Carbon Footprint, FDNY ‘Sickout,’ #WhiteWomen Blamed for Democratic Losses, Boston & NYC’s New Mayors, Mask Confusion & Socialism

Lost Debate

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We discuss the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. [0:51] We also discuss the FDNY’s current “sick out” over vaccine mandates and how the stand-off reveals a tension for progressives who fight for union collective bargaining rights. [6;28] We then turn to the aftermath of the Youngkin victory in the Virginia elections and discuss the problems with progressives blaming #WhiteWomen for the loss. [9:45] We unpack the victory of Michelle Wu in Boston and Eric Adams in New York City. [14:36] We then discuss the effectiveness of masks and how to make sense of shifting CDC guidance. [22:56] Finally, we talk about the differences between socialism, communism, and democratic socialism [33:08] Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Like Lost Debate on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0	When people like this take 100 million plus people, which is how many white women we have in this country, and say, because of your skin color, I'm going to ascribe negative characteristics to you. I think we have a word for that, right? I think it's called racism. Welcome to the Lost Debate, unconventional media for the rest of us. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Corey Bradford.
0:21.6	Corey, we've got a lot to talk about today.
0:23.3	I'm really excited about this one. Where are we going to start? We've got some fire stories today, Ravi. Coming up today, the bad takes on blaming white women for white Democrats did it so poorly in the Virginia's governor's race. how new mayors in Boston and New York City are causing a little bit of a stir.
0:38.1	Robbie is going to give us a little bit of a stir.
0:38.1	Ravi is going to give us a detailed breakdown of the debate behind wearing masks.
0:41.9	And we'll talk about socialism, America's most confusing new pastime.
0:46.9	But first things first here in our lost and found section, we're going to talk a little bit
0:50.4	about this COP 26 climate change summit taking place in Scotland. It's actually
0:55.6	getting a whole lot of criticism, Ravi, because there are those who think that it really isn't
0:59.9	leading to any real change when it comes to the climate debate in the world. We've seen some things
1:04.6	on Twitter with people saying things such as, has there ever been a bigger waste of time,
1:09.6	energy, and money than COP 26?
1:11.6	The biggest polluters aren't there.
1:13.7	The pollution caused by thousands of people arriving by playing car and train, etc.
1:18.4	Is a lesson in true hypocrisy.
1:20.1	And if I was a betting person, I bet nothing will be achieved.
1:25.1	Ravi, when you see statements like this, is this a valid critique of these
1:29.0	types of events where the whole world gets together and really nothing comes from it? Or is this
1:33.6	the only way that change is going to come about with an issue as big as climate change?
1:37.2	Well, I think if the argument is we should never do summits, that's one thing. But you would
1:41.9	almost say, if we're going to pollute to get together, we might as well
1:45.2	pollute to talk about the most biggest existential crisis that we have.
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