It was a Hollywood movie come true and I was the star.

That's Damon Launer. In 2013, he founded what became known as the most elite sex club in the world.

Sanktum. Join me, Carly Chortino, as we explore how this luxury sex empire was built,

and how it ultimately turned Damon's life upside down.

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Oh boy, welcome to it could happen here and it sure do feel like it's happening, don't it?

Thank you for surviving that last long excruciating episode full of basically just like a bunch of hate speech that we were trying to be like,

Hey, doesn't this look like hate speech? This is bad. Maybe platforms like Spotify, YouTube, other podcast hosting platforms that I am somehow forgetting the name of.

But perhaps they shouldn't be hosting all of the daily wire content that is explicitly calling for genocide.

As we host it anyway. I think it is interesting with the daily wires trying to do here because they obviously saw what is a woman,

the documentary, the quote unquote documentary by Matt Walsh last year get incredible traction online and boost their subscription service.

So now they're doubly dead on this because this is how they're going to try to make content.

And they are trying out as many rhetorical styles and arguments as possible just to see what sticks.

Like it really feels like they're just doing like the shotgun method of like throwing every single possible reason that turns people are icky up against the wall and seeing which one like catches on.

Like they're doing the they're doing a ban and transgenderism entirely. What is a woman groomers. They can't be genocide it because they don't exist attacking transgenderism as a cover for trans people.

Right. So it's all these all these various various tactics, all these different rhetorical strategies calling them demonic.

It's it's it's very much trying to be like if we if we throw up as much stuff as possible attacking and demonizing trans people.

Some of these trends will catch on online right some of these will will catch on will be spread to legislators eventually something will stick and that is that is very much the tactic that they are trying to use.

And I think this is a point I wanted to make last episode. But I think it's still it's it's useful to hear now kind of in retrospect.

Everything all of the like extremism that you heard in in the last episode all of these like very very fascist talking points.

This is what conservatism is now right like this is the mainstream new right sure you can call it fascist because by definition it it is.

But sometimes that term fascist or fascism it carries with it this false sense of foreignness it has like this it has like this displacement in time right most people view fascism as something that happens elsewhere or something that happened in the past.

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