WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.920 Hey, Larkin Rose here, and I have 10 quick questions for anyone watching this. 00:04.380 --> 00:13.300 Question number one, do you think the actual purpose of the war on drugs and the DEA is to protect good people from bad things happening? 00:13.780 --> 00:20.240 Or do you think the actual purpose is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 00:21.120 --> 00:28.400 Question number two, do you think the actual purpose of gun control is to protect good people from bad things happening? 00:28.400 --> 00:34.760 Or do you think the actual purpose is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 00:35.720 --> 00:45.440 Number three, do you think the actual purpose of all the military actions done around the world by the US government is to protect good people from bad things happening? 00:45.880 --> 00:51.160 Or do you think the actual purpose is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 00:52.080 --> 00:58.560 Number four, do you think the actual purpose of government welfare is to protect good people from bad things happening? 00:58.980 --> 01:04.400 Or do you think the actual purpose is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 01:05.160 --> 01:13.740 Number five, do you think the actual purpose of the war on terror and the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA and all that? 01:14.120 --> 01:18.280 Do you think the actual purpose is to protect good people from bad things happening? 01:18.280 --> 01:24.700 Or do you think the actual purpose of all that is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 01:25.400 --> 01:32.780 Number six, do you think the actual purpose of the COVID shutdowns and mandates was to protect good people from bad things happening? 01:33.240 --> 01:39.060 Or do you think the actual purpose was to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 01:39.880 --> 01:48.000 Number seven, do you think the actual purpose of all the surveillance state spying powers that the feds have created over time? 01:48.440 --> 01:52.460 Do you think the purpose of all that is to protect good people from bad things happening? 01:52.620 --> 01:58.600 Or do you think the actual purpose is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 01:59.600 --> 02:09.440 Number eight, do you think the purpose of government regulating so many aspects of industry and trade is to protect good people from bad things happening? 02:09.660 --> 02:16.520 Or do you think the actual purpose of all that is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 02:17.460 --> 02:26.660 Number nine, do you think the actual purpose of border controls and all the things being done by ICE is to protect good people from bad things happening? 02:26.660 --> 02:33.620 Or do you think the actual purpose of all that is to increase government power at the expense of everyone else's freedom? 02:34.460 --> 02:42.620 And question number ten is just for people who, in response to the previous questions, answered some of them by saying that, 02:42.880 --> 02:48.500 oh yes, some of them were intended to protect innocent people from bad things happening, 02:48.860 --> 02:53.180 but others were just manipulations to increase government power. 02:53.180 --> 03:01.180 So this tenth question is just for the people who answered one way on some of them and the other way on the other questions. 03:01.980 --> 03:09.600 And that tenth question is this, why are you so dense that you can see through this trick some of the time, 03:10.440 --> 03:15.960 but then you fall for the same damn trick at other times? 03:16.840 --> 03:20.420 It's not like you haven't been warned about this sort of thing. 03:26.070 --> 03:27.650 Repeatedly warned. 03:32.670 --> 03:49.540 Warned for years and decades and centuries and millennia by so many different people in so many different ways. 03:53.780 --> 04:10.250 In different places at different times under different regimes, the pattern has been described and explained for centuries, 04:15.600 --> 04:18.500 over and over and over again. 04:26.220 --> 04:31.600 So if you're still falling for it at this point, still cheering for some authoritarian power, 04:31.600 --> 04:37.220 because you idiotically imagine that this time it's being done from good intentions, 04:37.600 --> 04:43.660 then you're just a useful idiot for the worst people in the world.