Elijah Schaffer
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218 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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I don't think they can be woke. I don't think that's possible. What I think that the confusion is here, to summarize it, is that because that portion of the right wing is offering some pretty severe and extreme solutions to some of the problems in the West, because the framework and the leveling of reasoning is similar to that on the far left, they're categorizing them as the same people. However,
I think they're being intellectually dishonest. For instance, like what this one individual did, James Lindsay, is at first I thought he did something really funny. I thought he republished Karl Marx's manifesto in a, quote, woke right publication. Then I found out that he changed about 90% of the document and just changed the wording.
And I go, that's not really the same thing because if I were to show an Israeli pro Hamas propaganda, but then change Hamas to Israel, and then they agreed with it, that doesn't make them hypocrites. They're very clear on what they want. And if the solution for Hamas is for Hamas to win and be totally victorious, and the solution for Israel is to be totally victorious, then
I don't think Israel is hypocritical for taking that propaganda and making Israel the victors and approving of it. And so I think because they're trying to say that the framing of the arguments are similar, but the methods and the solution are different, that they're the same thing. And I don't find it to be as convincing as I feel like they're sort of Does that make sense?
No, I mean, I think what it was is that democracy is important to get who they want in power, and then they can instill that through the institutions. And then once they're in power, democracy is actually a bad thing because it threatens their power struggle. It's pretty genius.
The Macron's government is sort of in collapse at the moment.
Yes, no faith, no confidence.
Yeah, it's like when they say, what do you need AR-15 for? You know, people just have handguns.
Yeah.
Well, the shows made today aren't very good. I mean, you know.
Oh, I'm just going to say that I think the system that's set up, people forget. They always ask, what do you need an AR-15 for? What do you need this for? And they go, who has an AR-15? And I go, the government does. And they go, oh, so what do you want to have, a nuclear-powered submarine? I go, if it was available, I would be fine with that.
But at least an AR-15 is easily had, and I think people forget that the government is not your friend. And then what always happens is – I just want to point this out. While they're in power, these people, they go, oh, you don't need a gun. You don't need this. Then Trump gets in and they go, only the police should have guns. Only the government should have power.
And then they tell you that Trump is worse than Hitler. And you go, so then why would you want them to have all the powers? You know?
You need your rights, right? No matter who you are, left or right, you need your individual rights.
Yeah, I would say to that agreement, you know, a lot of people think it's bad that the Republican Party is made up of a lot of ex-Democrats. But, you know, it's the Republican Party is mostly made up of Republicans. But I think it's significant that it's made up of a lot of ex-Democrats because it's basically common sense individuals who want to come together and saying left or right, put aside.
It's about doing what's good for us collectively. Governing. Governing the people.
Yeah, I think that eradicating a lot of these departments will do nothing but good.
Yeah, I think ultimately speaking, the fact that most young people know how to twerk, but couldn't tell you two amendments in our rights there. I think we're in a very deeply sad position. And I'll just say this, I think our founding fathers, we need to really go back and look at what they were saying, because I don't even think they were for public education in general.
They were for self-education, self-governance. And a lot of what we're doing now is depending on the state- And we should ask ourselves, if we are the state and it's a state by the people and of the people, then the people need to fix up and clean up.
Thank you as well. It was wonderful listening to you. Thanks, Janine.
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