WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.080 It's amazing the basic lack of intellectual curiosity that almost all statists have 00:07.000 --> 00:12.820 Because if somebody is even if they're like a full-fledged like self-described socialist 00:12.820 --> 00:16.700 I want government to give everybody free stuff. Okay 00:17.480 --> 00:19.660 Do you have any idea why 00:20.240 --> 00:24.200 The Soviet Union turned into a violent authoritarian murderous 00:25.200 --> 00:31.140 Disaster do you have any idea why I read China under Mao to turn into a giant violent 00:32.140 --> 00:33.880 oppressive authoritarian disaster 00:35.000 --> 00:39.320 Because if you like I tried to fix my car and something went horribly wrong 00:39.320 --> 00:43.880 I'm gonna do the exact same thing again, or would you go? Why did something go wrong? What actually happened? 00:44.740 --> 00:46.320 Wouldn't you kind of want to know? 00:47.540 --> 00:53.080 Notice the complete absence especially among people who call themselves communists or socialists 00:53.080 --> 01:01.240 Well, that wasn't real communism. Okay, but why wasn't it not even just let's argue over the term and whether it really was 01:01.860 --> 01:08.420 But they very much said you know Mao said it Stalin and Lenin said it it was based on the work of Karl Marx 01:08.420 --> 01:15.440 They were trying for communism and it turned into giant murderous regimes and you could say well 01:15.440 --> 01:18.380 That's not real communism. Okay, whether or not that's true 01:18.380 --> 01:26.940 Why did it turn into that over and over and over again? Why does it keep turning into that and if you don't have the curiosity to go? 01:27.120 --> 01:34.720 Huh, I heard this cool-sounding idea this philosophy and then some people tried it and then 01:35.800 --> 01:38.880 Nasty ruling class murdered tens of millions of their own people 01:38.880 --> 01:43.540 And then somebody else tried it and then they murdered tens of millions of their own people 01:43.540 --> 01:47.020 And then somebody else tried it and then they murdered tens of millions of their own people 01:47.660 --> 01:52.280 And then somebody else tried it and millions of people died and then somebody else tried it and millions of people died 01:52.280 --> 01:53.640 But it's a great idea 01:56.300 --> 02:03.520 I can't even fathom if you're trying something and every time it doesn't just not work it gets millions of people murdered 02:05.300 --> 02:09.620 How many of them have the honesty to back up and go okay, why did that happen now? 02:09.640 --> 02:12.720 This is true of all statuses not just socialists and communists 02:13.380 --> 02:20.360 So the people like yeah, we support the police we support law enforcement, and we need to deal with those illegal aliens 02:20.360 --> 02:22.560 I mean whatever you want the state to do 02:23.640 --> 02:30.060 Historically if you look whether it's right wing or left-wing or whatever it is if you look at the historical tyrannies 02:30.060 --> 02:34.380 I'm like, oh, that's horrible. We got to watch out for that. How did that happen? 02:35.280 --> 02:38.220 Like do you have any idea how and why that happened? 02:38.800 --> 02:46.300 Because in all those tyrannies it started with lots of excited happy people cheering for a new person to be in power all of them 02:46.300 --> 02:48.260 That's how they all start 02:48.940 --> 02:53.500 So it wasn't that well the people all got together and decided to be evil and then it went badly 02:53.500 --> 02:58.960 And then they decided to be good again. No, they all thought they were cheering for something good and then millions people died 02:59.760 --> 03:04.040 Do you even have enough intellectual curiosity to wonder why that happened? 03:05.000 --> 03:08.040 Or do you advocate something that whether it's 03:08.600 --> 03:10.220 Statism in general or 03:11.400 --> 03:11.880 Republican 03:12.900 --> 03:14.300 constitutional Republican 03:15.120 --> 03:15.840 can't talk 03:16.380 --> 03:17.580 constitutional Republic 03:18.700 --> 03:24.920 Just like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China and 03:25.700 --> 03:30.620 The People's Republic of Democratic People's Republic of North Korea 03:31.220 --> 03:39.000 All of those were constitutional Republics democratically elected constitutional Republics each with a bill of rights saying the things that 03:39.000 --> 03:43.700 Individuals have the right to do and they turned into heinous murderous 03:44.560 --> 03:46.640 Reams, do you wonder why? 03:47.780 --> 03:52.020 Or do you just got no, that's just I was in another place another time it can't happen here 03:52.740 --> 03:58.040 I'm advocating the exact same thing that did exactly that. No, this is different because this is the country 03:58.040 --> 03:59.720 I'm in or something some reason 03:59.720 --> 04:06.560 If you don't even show curiosity to go wow, it'd be nice for that to not happen. So why did that happen? 04:07.800 --> 04:09.120 Okay, then at least you can 04:09.840 --> 04:10.880 Claim honesty 04:11.960 --> 04:14.920 On top of your crappy political beliefs 04:15.580 --> 04:19.880 But almost nobody does that like the beat the people cheering for mango Mussolini 04:19.880 --> 04:26.620 How could you compare him to Hitler because I'm familiar with Hitler speeches and I've read a history book and 04:26.620 --> 04:30.100 I understand what the national socialists 04:30.960 --> 04:38.600 Wanted and what they did and how they scared people and how they divided people and how they used people's righteous anger at certain things 04:38.600 --> 04:44.460 To rile them up for an authoritarian solution, which then turned into a disaster. I can compare 04:45.380 --> 04:47.100 Trump to Mussolini 04:47.900 --> 04:52.040 Because there are a zillion parallels and the only people like that's ridiculous 04:52.040 --> 04:59.620 Are the people who know nothing about history and nothing about politics and nothing about philosophy and nothing about how these things turn out 04:59.620 --> 05:01.580 Or why they turn out that way and 05:02.660 --> 05:09.140 They don't care because they are so much in their stupid little cult of this guy will save us all 05:10.260 --> 05:14.020 If they don't bother to pause and go well, what is it about? 05:15.140 --> 05:21.860 Those regimes that made it turn painlessly violent horrible because we should probably like make sure we don't do that 05:23.180 --> 05:29.560 They don't even do that. No our guy cuz our guy is great. That's the extent of their thought 05:30.620 --> 05:36.340 You know that every single one of those tyrants had million millions of people who thought they were the savior 05:37.080 --> 05:41.600 They were great. They were awesome. They were gonna fix everything. They were gonna write all the wrongs 05:42.360 --> 05:48.040 So if you go rah rah rah for mango Mussolini without going wait, what is the actual fundamental difference? 05:48.040 --> 05:51.960 Is there a philosophical difference between what I'm supporting and 05:53.720 --> 05:57.960 What happened in fascist Italy and Spain and 05:58.480 --> 06:05.800 Nazi Germany and all the nasty right wing right and left don't actually mean anything. They're all authoritarian collectivism 06:07.080 --> 06:11.960 But what is different between this and that and the answer is absolutely fucking nothing 06:11.960 --> 06:15.600 You are cheering for another dictator and too stupid to know it 06:15.600 --> 06:21.180 Just like the supporters of Obama Obama were and too stupid to know it 06:22.100 --> 06:27.560 But the fact that people can know these things went horribly awry and not have the curiosity to go 06:28.120 --> 06:30.120 Okay, let's make sure that doesn't happen 06:30.900 --> 06:33.280 Let's look into it and study it 06:33.280 --> 06:38.280 So so many people, you know, so many people have the cartoon view of Nazi Germany 06:38.800 --> 06:41.860 And they've never bothered to like look up what actually happened 06:41.860 --> 06:45.660 By the way, I highly recommend the movie the final days of Sophie Shull 06:46.780 --> 06:53.460 Which was based heavily on the actual transcripts of her trial and the bureaucratic records back and forth 06:54.260 --> 07:02.160 Because rather than the cartoon version it shows the as Hannah Aaron called it the banality of evil 07:02.160 --> 07:05.120 It was mostly just idiot bureaucrats doing their job 07:05.120 --> 07:12.940 Just like the people who exist under Obama and exist under Trump and exist under any psycho at the top and 07:12.940 --> 07:19.200 Ruin people's lives because they're just following orders and just doing their jobs and lots of you people cheer for it 07:19.200 --> 07:21.760 I support those in law enforcement 07:21.760 --> 07:27.980 Then you're a well-trained idiot because the job of people in law enforcement is to violently make you 07:27.980 --> 07:33.540 Obey and pay tribute to the political ruling class. That is their job 07:33.540 --> 07:39.060 That is what law enforcement means. They don't serve you. They don't answer to you 07:39.060 --> 07:41.700 They answer to the people who give them their paycheck 07:41.700 --> 07:47.440 The fact that the people who give them their paycheck robbed you first and then use some of the stolen money 07:47.440 --> 07:52.700 To pay them to be thugs doesn't mean they give a crap what you want. They don't 07:54.220 --> 08:01.540 But when people have no idea how those things happen and don't even have the curiosity to wonder about it and go 08:01.540 --> 08:09.180 What does make this place special? I'm gonna put a link below to a video. I made years back called it can't happen here 08:09.180 --> 08:12.100 Which is very thorough. It's if you have 08:13.320 --> 08:14.960 Well grown-ups to 08:15.960 --> 08:22.520 Teenage kids. It's it's nothing too gruesome as shown in it even though it talks about the mass murder of various regimes 08:23.360 --> 08:31.040 It explores the idea of the people who say well tyranny can't happen in Merca. Why not and it actually looks at that question 08:32.020 --> 08:34.620 And you'll find out. Yeah, there's no reason to think that 08:35.460 --> 08:40.460 There's obviously no reason to think it it already is happening. It already has happened on many occasions 08:40.460 --> 08:42.260 But I will put the link to that 08:42.860 --> 08:49.600 In the description below because I'm pretty dang proud of how that that huge documentary came out and it goes into lots of 08:49.600 --> 08:52.360 Detail and has lots of fun quotes and stuff like that 08:53.320 --> 09:00.500 But the lack of curiosity and so many people who will cheer for their own enslavement and be completely oblivious of 09:00.500 --> 09:02.580 How could this possibly go badly? 09:05.200 --> 09:13.820 Read a history book and find out or watch my video called it can't happen here linked in the description below yee-haw