September 19 2025
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Charlie Kirk murder
- How much does covid lockdowns and online subculture ratholing has to do with the ideology here?
- Shot the man down instead of shout the man down
- Kirk was too honest, too effective, too sensible and changed people’s minds through his discourse - became a threat
- Very sad
- The fact that this happened on a college campus seems like an attack on the citadel of the American town square
- What is happening that allows these young men to become so unmoored?
- Increasing view among young people that political violence is OK
- Even when Bernie Sanders, Ezra Klein put out excellent statements, they were shouted down
- Randi Weingarten’s book on Fascism is part of this trend of our school system indoctrinating kids
- J K Rowling tweet is well said here
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Jimmy Kimmel off ABC
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How much govt influence was here vs Disney and the affiliates making a business decision?
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Jon Stewart has also pointed out (in the past) how this is a tough business right now
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Dave Portnoy take on cancel culture vs real time hurtful rhetoric consequences is relevant
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These broadcast networks don’t need public spectrum anymore in the era of the internet/AI
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Larry Ellison et al media potential play
- David Ellison might acquire Warner Bros, etc?
- CBS?
- FreePress?
- Tiktok?
- Lot of potential here if it goes through
- social content like YouTube → Tiktok
- premium produced content like Netflix → CBS/CNN/HBO, etc
- “He who controls the algorithm will control what people think”
- Elon already open sourced the X algorithm
- Tiktok algorithm seems well known (Monolith)
- Trump administration might have played this well
- Radicalization might not be coming from the fringes and an opaque algorithm - but rather its happening in public schools (CA, for example)
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Besties video restricted
- Tulsi Gabbard video flagged - Besties are getting shadow banned
- Public official discussing investigation is being flagged and reduced their reach
- Tucker and Mark Cuban video also got flagged
- Karp video also censored
- Clearly there is a 1 sided censorship here
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AIS 2025 recap
- Tulsi conversation was important
- Western decline
- Birth rates
- Deficit
- Immigration
- Futile wars
- We have a choice
- Logistics
- Parties
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