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Hello, welcome. Hello welcome back to the show my name is Matt my name is nole they call me bed

we're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control Decent. Most importantly you are you you

are here that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know coming to you live from

a little thing called the United States.

The history of our country, our modern version of this country, is if anything,

I think it's fair to say, a of protest right it was started as a conspiracy

by European colonist who protested and rebelled against monarchies and the history of this country is largely a

history of disenfranchised minorities protesting even, discrimination and other terrible things.

And you know what got me about this?

In general, in theory, it's so, it's so strange.

If you read a textbook after enough time is passed, these protests are often seen as righteous and noble, but only after they have occurred.

Super common for that to be the case.

And the tragic irony here, I don't think is lost on any of us,

the idea that the United States was formed

as a result of protest in and of itself, but it's almost like only

we are the righteous ones and everyone else that we have to step on to get to our

goals is totally fair game.

And any group that wants to protest the government in general has been in the past viewed as enemies of the state.

Anyone who wants to change the current power structures,

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