Russell Brand, Ana Kasparian & Getting Liberalism Wrong | Carl Benjamin | POLITICS | Rubin Report
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 8 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Carl Benjamin (also known as Sargon of Akkad) about his political awakening and the flaws built into liberalism; why he started making YouTube videos in response to feminist critiques of the video game industry; why liberalism, while valuable in recognizing state oppression, lacks a normative doctrine for daily life; the challenge of ideological awakening and changing one's beliefs; TYT's Ana Kasparian's recent waking up to the flaws in leftist ideology; why it's so hard for people deeply embedded in left-wing ideology to break free from it; the escalating challenges to free expression online; his experience of being removed from Patreon; the government's involvement in pressuring tech companies to attack Russell Brand; how a global network of power with left-wing ideologies is attempting to control various aspects of society; if platforms like Rumble can succeed in preserving free expression on the internet; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Do I call you Carl? Or do I call you Sargon of a Cod now that we are officially sitting |
| 0:13.6 | down once again after many years? I think Carl will do. Carl will do? All right, there |
| 0:21.3 | is a lot I want to talk about with you and I said to you right before we started of all |
| 0:25.8 | weeks for you to be in America because you live across the pond. You came the very |
| 0:31.1 | week that we're opening up this studio in-person guests and for people who do not |
| 0:35.0 | know, who haven't been with me since the beginning of the beginning, when I was |
| 0:39.3 | waking up to the left, what's going on with the left? Why are we calling everybody |
| 0:43.7 | racist? No one's actually acting liberally. The Sargon of a Cod story. Everybody |
| 0:49.6 | online, all the commenters said Dave you got to watch this guy Sargon of a |
| 0:53.9 | Cod. I don't know that your face was even in the videos at that time. Yeah, but |
| 0:58.0 | everybody said you got to watch Sargon of a Cod you got. I started watching your |
| 1:01.8 | videos and I'm going wow this guy is a liberal and he makes sense and then |
| 1:05.4 | eventually we started talking. You had me on your show and in some ways the rest |
| 1:09.9 | is history so I think I've done it once or twice over the years but I give you |
| 1:13.7 | serious cred forgetting me here today because you were one of the first in that |
| 1:18.6 | way so tell give the people like the two-minute bio about you first and then |
| 1:24.6 | we'll get into the politics and the fighting and the craziness and the state of |
| 1:27.6 | the world and the rest. Yeah, and welcome to the free state of Florida. It's |
| 1:31.0 | beautiful. It's so much nicer than California. It's greenery around, right? I'm |
| 1:35.0 | from England so if I'm not surrounded by greenery, I get a bit weird and edgy and |
| 1:39.0 | California is just this brown blasted hellscape of dirt whereas Florida it's |
| 1:43.5 | luscious genuinely luscious. Speak in my language. It's crazy because I was the |
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