Digital Social Hour
Dimitry Toukhcher: How Truth Gets Erased Before Power Takes Over | DSH #1754
14 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What demographic changes are destabilizing Western societies?
If you know what's happening in Europe right now, demographically and politically, there is such a cultural shift that is coming along with a significant cultural decline.
And when I say Europe, I'm going to include England into this too, because England is seeing significant negative ramifications of what the crowd that tends to be pro-Palestine, anti-Israel has brought with it into Europe, along with the demographic changes and the
actual erosion of society as a father i guess that's kind of the angle i'm coming from as a civilian as a father seeing what has been happening in england and in europe where i live and understanding what the next wave that will be happening in the us i think is very important to discuss
All right, guys, we got Dimitri back on the show. Much different topic we're going to discuss today. But thanks for coming back, man.
Chapter 2: How does disinformation impact public perception?
F1 week in Vegas.
Thank you for inviting me out last time I was in Vegas.
We had some cool interactions. Yeah, we did a lot of stuff off camera.
Chapter 3: What role do welfare systems play in societal collapse?
Thanks for introducing me to Hormozy. That was awesome.
Yeah, he's cool.
You got him a really cool suit. We'll throw up a photo.
And I actually heard now that he's been wearing it around the office, which is shocking because who the heck would have ever expected Hormozy to put a suit on on his own will?
Yeah, the suit with some shorts, right? That's his combo. Well, this one had long pants.
Oh, okay.
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Chapter 4: How is capital flight affecting public services?
It came with the pants? Yeah, and the stripe says 100 million. Yeah, I love them.
You ready for F1, though?
I'm excited. I've never been. Me neither.
Yeah, it's going to be exciting. Yeah. I'm sure a lot of your clients go to events like that.
Oh, every year. And actually, this is a client thing for us, too. Oh, yeah? So I was in Cannes Film Festival, and Monaco was happening. I was supposed to go, and then I had a schedule change. I'm like, I'm not going to go to Monaco. So this will be the first.
Nice. Let's do it, man. Well, onto more serious topics now. I know we kind of discussed we wanted to talk about Israel and the truth and what's going on. So where's your head out right now with everything?
I thought it was really interesting. I mean, you were just sitting in the car. And I think you were giving a ride to the airport or something.
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Chapter 5: What differences exist between war and genocide?
And we started talking about stuff. And I don't have any personal vest into Israel. So it's an interesting topic to get into because I'm observing it more as a civilian person. I live in Europe. I live in Eastern Europe, where if you know what's happening in Europe right now demographically and politically,
Chapter 6: How are cultural conflicts used to divide populations?
there is such a cultural shift that is coming along with a significant cultural decline. And when I say Europe, I'm going to include England into this too, because England is seeing significant negative ramifications of what the crowd that tends to be pro-Palestine, anti-Israel has brought with it into Europe, along with the demographic changes and the actual erosion of society as a father,
I guess that's kind of the angle I'm coming from as a civilian, as a father, seeing what has been happening in England and in Europe where I live and understanding what the next wave that will be happening in the U.S. I think is very important to discuss. And you're seeing it now with Mamdani in New York and the incredible –
um des desolution the incredible um undermining of western values that that's going to bring and partly partly fueled by this sort of a very leftist crowd which has a set of values which are juxtaposed to that which built the great country of the united states i'm not american but i respect and admire what america has stood and represented as an ex-soviet immigrant to north america myself
It's a crazy time and it's worth discussing.
Yeah, it's good to get on it now because Europe's, I mean, not the same and America is going to be next, right?
Well, look what happened in England. So this year in England alone, over 16,000 millionaires have left England. Now, why is that an impact? Now keep in mind that the leftist crowd is like down with billionaires. We don't need millionaires. You know, it's all like the socialist message. Understand that the top 1% of taxpayers pay something like 50% of all the taxes. Like that's how that is, right?
So when you lose your wealthiest people, You're not losing evil capitalists. You're losing people that create payroll tax, that create sales tax, that create income tax, corporate income tax. You need people to create companies, and you need people to run companies that grow in order to maintain the economy and to have people have jobs. The government's not going to create meaningful jobs.
Name one entity that has ever been created by any government as a private corporation that's still around today and thriving. And they don't exist. I grew up in Soviet Ukraine. And in the Soviet Union, there are no companies from the Soviet Union that are around today.
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Chapter 7: Why are universities central to ideological subversion?
Now, in the States, I can think of a lot of companies in the States right now that are coming to mind that have been around for hundreds of years. Ford, Manulife, these companies are still around because they're built on consumeristic values. When the government gets involved, that doesn't happen because their ultimate goal is not to create value for society.
It's the administrative class in government. It's a very populist thing to say, but it's the administrative class within government, the politicians and the bureaucrats, that just suck up the money out of the system. That's why everything in government takes longer and costs much more. Right.
Okay?
So England has lost 16,500 millionaires. They've lost over 270,000 people that have exited. Now, there have been a lot of people that have entered England. We'll talk about that. But over 275,000 people have left England this year. They've emigrated. They've left. They're not coming back. And who are those people? And on the flip side, who are the people coming in?
And when you look at the people coming in, and you can look at the demographics of those people, something like 80% of them are on social benefits.
Wow.
And it doesn't drop from generation to generation, right? Again, you can look at what those demographics are, where they come from. But when you have an immigrant class that's 80% on social benefits, whereas your millionaires that create tax revenue for the country are leaving, you're headed towards disaster.
And when London had Khan as mayor, who came in on a platform very similar to Mamdani, like, I don't want to go to London anymore. I don't like going to London anymore.
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Chapter 8: What happens when authority replaces objective truth?
It's dangerous. It's now become the phone theft capital of the world. You now have signs on the streets, not take your cell phone out, like a third world country.
And you can't wear a watch or jewelry.
100%. There's many areas you cannot. And so watching what's been happening and watching how the crowd that is the socialist leftist crowd, which is completely using communist propaganda that anybody that's lived in the Soviet Union has been very acclimated to. We've seen that before.
And how they've picked up on this message, which is a pro-Palestine message, which actually has nothing to do with the land of Palestine whatsoever. It has to do with dividing the American political class, and we'll talk about that too, in order to achieve a completely different goal, which is not just the subversion of Israel. Israel is a proxy for America. It always has been.
It's America's proxy in the Middle East. But the actual subversion of America. And what you're seeing right now with the MAGA and America First people is, look at it from a political perspective like this. The Democrats in the States have absolutely no path to winning the next election. They don't have a viable candidate.
You don't think Newsom?
Well, so Camelot was the last one. She became hugely unpopular, massively unpopular. Newsom is as corrupt as they come. I mean, if you want to talk about Gavin Newsom just on a character basis, think about it like this. This is a guy, while he was running for governor of California, had his best friend as his campaign manager. So his campaign manager was his best friend.
And you trust your best friend, I hope. Yeah. Yeah, so he was banging his best friend's wife. During that run to the election, and it's like you want to talk about a character issue of a person you can or shouldn't trust. This is a psychopathic person, right? A person who shut down California during the pandemic while keeping his own wineries open, interestingly.
A person who said he would end homelessness and put billions of dollars into homelessness only to double or triple the problem. Where's that money going? So the Democrats don't have a particularly useful candidate to present in the next election. And you've seen this in the Soviet times as well. When you can't win... When you can't win with merit, you win with lawfare.
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