Ian Crossland
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You were going to ask Orn a badass question?
You know what else I learned about pirates, the reason they wore eye patches?
Not because they were blind, it's because above deck, it was so bright that when they would go under deck, they'd move the patch over and they could see.
yeah like these these uh it was like funny it's funny to be like racist in a in like a colloquial genial way with your friends in the 80s and the night before the internet after the internet not only are people getting bombarded with influxes of migration it's it's the the shaming coming from whatever the machine itself or people denying you you know revenue because you said the bad words so now all of a sudden it's it's not
you can't just get away with like it was kind of normal like you'd invite your friend over you'd make fun of each other and then you move on and now it's like you get humiliated for doing it i think feel like it's an op like it's a foreign to disrupt the american way ian those those cultural differences used to be an ocean away and now it's like next door to you so that's why it became like suddenly like oh this is actually like an existential threat
I like that he talked about the slack jaw Indian dude in Bombay, probably on opium.
And he's like, what are you trying to tempt me with opium?
He's lying in a den.
Because I got money?
And he, you know, Colin referred to it as xenophobic.
It's not xenophobic to want closed borders.
It has nothing to do with fear of others.
It's about overwhelming your system.
Xeno meaning other?