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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's the magic and sloganeering of catchy phrases, of memorable lines, of call and response? |
0:08.5 | What do we want? |
0:09.5 | Dead cops? |
0:10.5 | What do we want them now? |
0:11.3 | What's the magic in phrases like, Black Lives Matter? Well, the magic is it |
0:16.7 | appeals to people who otherwise don't have great capacity to express themselves. |
0:24.0 | Dr. Jordan Peterson once did a study on this |
0:27.0 | about how people with low verbal acuity, |
0:31.0 | one of the indicators of people who fall into wanting authoritarianism is they have |
0:37.8 | low verbal acuity, meaning they don't speak well. |
0:46.0 | So when they hear something said or watch someone say something in a way that appears to be really, well, smart or memorable, it lands. |
0:52.0 | It's frustrating, but true. Our side's really bad at this. The Mockingbird |
0:58.2 | media, I think they understand this. They also are failing. They're failing at their job, not being |
1:06.6 | journalists, we know that that's not the design of many of them. They're failing at |
1:10.0 | their job to make Putin the big bad guy. There's no reason on earth for this article to have run |
1:16.4 | about what Putin said about the United States because remember this. This media will not allow Putin to come and speak about his view of the war. |
1:27.0 | When Tucker Carlson went to Russia to interview Putin, the media, |
1:31.0 | mockingbird media, soundly, roundly, completely criticized Carlson, |
1:37.0 | not soundly, but roundly. |
1:38.0 | How dare he go interview our enemy? |
1:41.0 | They're running an article and pushing an article, Reuters and others, about |
1:47.8 | something Putin said about America. Is it sloganeering? We'll talk about this and how this is a failing trap of the media. |
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