 G'day, May 40 here. So I was just sitting down for my evening repost of You know toasted rye bread with with an avocado on top mashed up with some salt and As I want to do in the evenings. I don't know how you like to spend your dinners But I like to sit down and spend some quality time with the New York Times Just so that I can cut through the misinformation. Did you know that there's like a Misinformation tsunami out there So very concerning like people are often consulting information. There's not been approved by our elites And it's just really mucking everything up Very concerning. So I try to cut through the misinformation by Settling in now is some quality time with the New York Times and Good thing I did this evening got some shocking news. Did you know that president Joe Biden our president? Least of republicans don't say he's not my president I mean our democrats used to do that about George W. Bush. He's not my president God so many democrats were election deniers He's not my president. So Joe Biden is my president and Did you know here's the shocking news Joe Biden is Confronting a polarized America Did you know that and it's absolutely no reason Has absolutely nothing to do with anything he said or done right It's not like there are 109 things that Joe Biden has done to polarize America No, he's confronting a polarized America For no reason of his own for no fault of his own uncle Joe President Joe Biden is confronting a polarized America For no fault of his own Like it's not like democratic party policies have done anything to polarize America it's not like You know just despising middle americans for clinging to their guns and religion has bred any resentment it's not like uh democrats war on homeschooling and private christian schools has Done anything to breed that resentment. It's not like racial preferences Affirmative action has done anything to Encourage that resentment it's not like Giving a priority to you know press people of color for access to covered vaccines right It's not like that's done anything to polarize America right, so You import the world you import the third world You get then give preferential treatment To people from the third world You stack the decks in their favor and then Breaking news Joe Biden confronts a polarized America. Who would have thought That uncle Joe kindly centrist moderate uncle Joe Biden Would be confronting a polarized America right But nothing in there about anything that Joe Biden might have done to polarize America right If 70 000 votes have gone the other way Joe Biden would not have been president He had the opportunity to govern as a centrist instead He listened to a bunch of historians quote-unquote historians who aren't real historians like John Meacham And he thought he wanted to be a transformational president more than Barack Obama. You want to be just like f dr Instead experience failure after failure after failure and polarized America Now I don't think a polarized America is primarily the fault of Joe Biden. It's not primarily the fault of Donald Trump but When I was riding a crowded bus from bondai junction this evening and there was Almost no tension in the air. There's no fear, right? You know what it's like to ride public transport in Large parts of los angeles or new york city or washington dc or chicago You know the fear the people experience or there isn't any of that Here in sydney because they have not had an immigration policy that encouraged the importation of people You're very likely to fear on public transport Hasn't encouraged the importation of people who like to defecate in public Hasn't encouraged the importation of people Who work for drug cartels? So breaking news top story in new york times Joe biden confronts a polarized america But has absolutely nothing to do about democratic party policies that give racial preferences to certain groups who work to make certain groups Immune from criticism, right? You can't say anything critical about jews as a group about homosexuals as a group about transsexuals as a group About black people as a group about brown people as a group about Not sure a little less intense But certainly not encouraged to say anything critical of eijans as a group Right, there are all these groups who are off limits from any kind of public criticism Large part pushed through by a left-wing agenda Right whose political party is the democratic party, right? You might think that that might pulverize people All right You don't have a whole heck of a lot of affirmative action in australia And australia is not polarized In australia in fact in virtually no other country in the world of which i'm aware Do they force banks to extend loans to privileged Groups whose test scores do not qualify them for loans right in america with the community Banking act of 1977 we forced banks to extend loans to all sorts of people in the inner city Who are unlikely to pay back those loans as a result? We got the 2008 global financial crash, right? That was a direct result of the 1977 Community banking community reinvestment act that forced banks to extend loans to people are unlikely to pay them back All right By forcing banks to extend loans to people are unlikely to pay them back I think that might have contributed to a polarized america Where those people then got government subsidies Right Struggling to pay their mortgages right irresponsible people struggling to pay their mortgages Then get government subsidies under barack obama and that kicked off the tea party right tea party was not thrilled with the extension of subsidies to People who'd proved themselves to be irresponsible So canada britain australia france germany they don't force banks to extend loans to people who are not worthy of credit But the by-demonstration is all for that 1977 community reinvestment act legislated that republicans Buying a large gone along with it because they thought it was it was good for America good for business to extend loans to people who are unlikely to pay them back as a result We tipped the entire world into a global Devastating recession well except for australia. Australia didn't go into a recession, but everyone else went into a recession Because we mandated that loans be extended to people who don't qualify for loans if those people have a certain race Right you think that might promote polarization Where you tip the scales in favor of certain groups Which then correspondingly disfavours other groups think they might promote polarization Like harvard harvard university says we never use race to discriminate We just use race as a factor in promoting inclusion and diversity right when you promote the admittance Of certain you know protected groups of color with much lower test scores Than other groups. Yeah, you are racially discriminating right? It's zero sum harvard can only admit about 500 a thousand 1500 new students a year and if you admit students on The basis of race students who would otherwise in a colorblind admittance policy would not be admitted into harvard You're doing that at the price of other people of a less favored race With higher academic qualifications. You think that might promote polarization you think massive amounts of immigration from parts of the world That are not first world That are not european So radically increasing the amount of racial and religious and ethnic and cultural and ethical diversity You think that might promote polarization The new york time presents it as oh, you know, it's just Uncle joe. He's confronting a polarized america poor bloke Not his fault. He's just doing the best he can just like the the Justice department just doing the best they can to you know try to bring a You know dangerous out-of-control Donald j. Trump, you know to some kind of legal accountability And It's that dastardly donald trump Is making things so awkward for the department of justice who simply wants to pursue justice justice justice, shall we pursue? That's all they want to do. It's that nasty donald trump and the nasty republicans who are Throwing up obstacles for the department of justice pursuing justice So sad There's nothing they did, right It's not like democrats did 109 things to increase polarization in this country, right the more diversity you have the more religious ethical cultural tactical psychological racial religious Diversity you have the more polarization you're gonna have No, it's not like all diversity Creates equal amounts of polarization some types of diversity in certain circumstances are far more polarizing than other types of diversity Sydney has tons of diversity It doesn't have a ton of nasty polarization. You feel safe walking the streets here. I'm alone at night in a park Ranting about polarized america. I feel perfectly safe There are people playing with their dogs in the park All right, surely love is all around us All right, it's a beautiful evening here Because sydney's diversity mix it's not combustible into criminal violence Now it does take a toll so residents of sydney volunteer less than residents of other parts of australia because sydney is so diverse people feel less Public public spirited they feel less inclined To volunteer for people who don't look like them or sound like them or worship like them Or have habits like them or values like them or cultures like them people are going to be less likely to pitch in and help out such people Oh, the other story that gets me is that kairi Irving got in so much trouble for one tweet To a documentary that amazon makes money off of right from Hebrews to negros right that documentary self-funded documentary that amazon distributes But kairi Irving is in massive trouble for making one tweet since deleted about that documentary but amazon Amazon has been showing it still showing it profiting from it But if this movie is so horrible why isn't there pressure on amazon to remove it? Well now there is pressure on amazon. There wasn't two weeks ago right this movie was perfectly kosher for amazon to make money from and amazon has very strict policies against hate so amazon has like a kindle direct program where you can self-publish and make money And they also have a similar program for filmmakers Filmmakers, you know upload their movies and they can sell them or rent them through amazon and make some money but amazon has policies against sexually explicit content in these movies and policies against copyright infringement and policies against hate But someone at amazon saw and approved this from Hebrews to Negros documentary Now I give amazon props for generally speaking being quite the free speech company amazon does not like to delete books It's only sad to deleting books of Holocaust denial and some of the more Spicy race realism books like only in the last few years So google and amazon and the big tech in general twitter facebook these all started out as free speech playgrounds And they didn't want to turn into repressive regimes where they had to hire thousands and thousands of moderators And they were forced to do that by primarily democratic politicians And so big tech has reluctantly gone along. They're also forced to do it by advertisers But amazon and google Prior to about 10 years ago had a very enviable free speech record Now amazon is saying that they're going to add disclaimers to this documentary and Disclaimers to the book. So I give amazon props If they don't delete the movie and don't delete the book So it costs 12 dollars to rent the movie like 50 dollars to buy it And so far it's only had like 1200 rentals Even with all this controversy, but the edl you'll be glad to know the edl is on the case pressuring amazon to remove the listing and if they don't remove it to add You know all sorts of important disclaimers about how this is a work that promotes antisemitism and hatred So thank god for the anti defamation league out there, you know fighting against free speech Oh, it's not free speech. It's hate speech right hate speech. It's not recognized in u.s. law. It's an entirely subjective category It's just kind of weird the curry Irving got 100 times the amount of attention and criticism that amazon got Like why did all the powers that be come down a curry Irving but they didn't come down on amazon because amazon has more power They thought they could bully curry Irving. They knew they couldn't bully amazon so people Very quickly sense whether or not you can be bullied And if you allow yourself to be bullied people will bully you. They'll beat you down They'll drag you through the mud. They'll deride you They'll declaim you They'll have contempt for you. They'll pour it on. Like just unbelievably hostile intense response to curry Irving but Respectful careful nuanced responses to amazon Why because amazon has the power curry Irving doesn't have the power And people don't like curry Irving And so this is an opportunity to stick it to him But Why would curry Irving get 100 times the criticism and the pressure That amazon has received when amazon hosted and made money from this supposedly evil anti-semitic documentary