 Did I make 40 here? So it's January 7th here right now, but it's January 6th in the United States and these medias are engaged in a big orgy of introspection and retrospection. Now the true meaning of January 6th riots and our democracies under threat. I mentioned in my earlier video, I don't think the January 6th riots has any threat to our democracy. I mean the riots were quelled and those dealt with and the people who participated in the riots and engaged in illegal behavior by and large being tracked out, arrested and charged. So and it's a any threat to our democracy. But let's let's reconsider some things about the January 6th riots. I was broadcasting after the high point of the riots, so I think I started broadcasting about 1.30 p.m. California time. And I think the riots had just peaked, but I remember from the chat everyone was incredibly enthused. Sturred, was excited, was fired up. Like the action in my chat was this was wonderful and I thought it was a wonderful spectacle. It was like an amazing event that I could never have anticipated. But I didn't think it was a good thing. Like I immediately thought what are gonna be the consequences of this? Like we're gonna have more speech crackdowns than yes we have. Like we're gonna have less freedom as a result of reaction to these riots, yes. And then less freedom are you know people who advocate a right-wing response that they're gonna face increasing marginalization or increasing stress or increasing government investigation. Like when the government investigates you, you're in trouble. Because the government has an awful lot of resources at any one of us. If you poke into our lives that deeply enough, you'd find all sorts of things that would look horrible to an outside perspective. So January 6th riots brought speech crackdown, fundraising crackdowns, tremendous blowback against the right-wing and Republicans and Trump supporters. And I believe I anticipated this January 6th last year when I was broadcasting. I immediately thought this is gonna be horrible. Right? It's what Tom Saul calls first-stage thinking. You don't think about the implications of what you're doing. Like many people just thinking. First-stage thinking. So I'm gonna do X. And there won't be any consequences. But it's childish. Like for every action we do there's a reaction. And so for example Black Lives Matter overall is reduced support for black causes among non-black Americans. And in Tifa. And in Tifa acts out and increases support for law and order and for Republicans. So without Black Lives Matter riots and in Tifa riots of 2020 I think Trump would have been defeated much more handily by Joe Biden, but he was able to make it close. Thanks to reactions, particularly among many non-white voters. You know we want law and order. We're seeing Black Lives Matter and in Tifa and we're frightened. What's going on there? There's the Cricket Beard down the bottom of the street. Some high-quality cricket here in Kudji. Feels great to be back in Sydney. The big smoke. Big city. So in Australia you call the outback whoop-whoop. So I was lost in whoop-whoop for the whole bunch of movies. I think Weak and the Fright about getting lost in the outback. And the latest is a miniseries on stand co-produced by the BBC called The Tourist. And I didn't care for it. I guess some would argue are smart and the TV critics love the show. But there's no one I could root for. I need people to root for. I'm not going to get engaged in a movie or a novel or a film unless there are people I can root for. And so The Tourist just left me completely cold. I notice that with a lot of other critically praised movies. I guess pretty because they see so many movies. They particularly need novelty. But I think for regular people we want an emotional classist. We want to experience something. So I noticed a lot of critically praised movies. TV shows are kind of left me cold. They just don't engage me. They don't involve me. I don't root for anyone. Like if I'm watching a sporting event and doesn't include one of my favorite teams and I don't feel much emotional connection. No. So it just kind of leaves me cold. Now January 6th riots. Now I share some of the right wing Trumpis inclinations to the crowd that committed those criminal acts. But my reaction law enforcement should respond. It's identical to if January 6th rioters were in Black Lives Matter or in Tifa. But it doesn't matter to me if the rioters are right wing or left wing. But if Black Lives Matter trashed the United States Capitol and Tifa trashed the United States Capitol like left wing unions had done it or American Chamber of Communists had done it. My reaction would be the same. So what disappointed me was the overwhelmingly positive reaction by the people in my chat to the January 6th riots. They were like thrilled. I immediately thought we're going to have less speech, less freedom, a few fundraising opportunities. It's going to be used to tire and feather all Trump supporters. I think this is a disaster. Absolute disaster and I don't buy Tucker Carlson's conspiracy theorizing that it was really a left wing agitators who ginned up the January 6th rioters. That's absurd. It's absurd from the get go. That's Coogee Beach. Coogee, it's an Aboriginal word, means smelly. The beach is regarded as smelly because there's lots of seaweed. Generally speaking, if you get big waves like this in Coogee and the other beaches are going to be closed. Generally, Coogee has only very class of gentle waves. When you get big waves in Coogee and there's a cyclone offshore or something like that, then the other beaches are going to get closed down. But they can't force you not to swim. They just withdraw lifeguards and strongly, strongly advise you not to swim. So that's an example of the government intervening against the individual's freedom. Where is the sun? Well, this is the middle of summer and it's been raining all morning. But it's a perfectly nice 80 degrees outside. It's warm. But it generally rains more in the summer than in the winter here. So Sydney gets about four times the amount of annual rainfall as Los Angeles. Look at that. This is the Australian Temple Beach. All right, so I think one thing that united the January 6th rioters was a sense of victimhood. Victimhood is absolutely intoxicating. And a moderate amount of victimhood can serve you. So obviously, a sense of victimhood was too intense that the January 6th rioters drove drunk from. So if they'd had Day 110 of the amount of victimhood that would have given them a sense of purpose. In life it would have bonded them with other people but it would have given them energy. But wouldn't have provided so much high-octane fuel they would have gone out and committed crimes. Great public resources here. Look at this lovely drinking fountain. Absolutely beautiful. So depending on the situation like victimhood serves you to varying degrees if you need a tremendous amount of energy like high-octane fuel like people meeting the French Revolution or the Russian Revolution of 1917 then you need massive amounts of victimhood because that's rock of fuel, that's high-octane to energize you and bond you to others and commit you to the cause. But if you have that high-octane fuel of victimhood and you're living in the United States of America which is by and large a law abiding society that can tip you over the edge. So the Black Lives Matter writers have a very strong sense of victimhood and the Antifa writers have a very strong sense of victimhood. So if they'd been able to dial it back to about 10% of what they had they would have still gotten grip cohesion and they still would have gotten energy and purpose and identity but they wouldn't have been fuel to commit some of the criminal acts and so generally speaking across society there was enormous backlash to Black Lives Matter to less support Black Lives Matter Black causes after the Black BLM riots than before among non-Blacks. So in our daily life more than a small amount of victimhood does not serve us, right? To fuel an in-group identity a small amount of victimhood or nationalism depends upon a sense of victimhood. So a little bit of victimhood a little bit of resentment against our groups that can fuel your in-group identity your in-group cohesion give you a little bit of energy and purpose and clarify lies so you know who your friends are and who your enemies are. But once you start turning up that victimhood dial doesn't really serve you because it distracts you from the things that you can if it looks like family, friends, your career, education, your skills in pursuit of spiritual peace, right? Observed in daily life in an industrialized nation by a high sense of victimhood. So it's all about turning the dial up and down. I love strong in-group identity and I love feeling it like fellow Trump supporters or fellow Republicans or fellow Americans or fellow Dallas Cowboy supporters or fellow Australians or fellow Jews but identity that would be essential be a tremendous source of my energy and enthusiasm but as Jonathan Hyde says identity binds and blinds blinds you so that's why I like doing these streams because it forces me to get outside of my habitual identities and you do a show where I try to understand things from portable points of view. So yeah I'm a Dallas Cowboy supporter sometimes I want to try to shift to more objective perspective yeah I'm a Republican voter but sometimes I want to shift to an objective perspective. Look you're going to miss the Australian Open. I'm vaccinated right? You can't deny me. I was thinking about going to the third day of the fourth test match this is the third test match that was the fourth so between Australia and England it's getting played about three miles from here at the Sydney Cricket Ground but I looked up I looked up the ticket prices and like $53 is the cheapest ticket $53 and I'm going to pitch $53 to watch some test cricket technically I don't really care as much about tennis I cared a bit about tennis when John McEnroe was playing like Jimi Connors and Bjorn Borg and Boris Becker so in the late 70s the 80s cared about tennis so the personalities were not compelling but now I don't really care so I'm going to walk a little bit more let's go on a long walk now think about how many people died as a result of the Ferguson effect in the summer of George thousands and thousands of Americans died because of the huge increase in motor rates due to Black Lives Matter right which led to police backing off and led to more opportunities to get murder so thousands of people died as a result of the huge increase in motor rate following the Ferguson effect in the summer of George Floyd and so to me the Black Lives Matter riots and the Antifa riots to the Ferguson effect all this agitation against cops cops being racist for the last about seven years to me it's a hundred times more serious than the January 6 riots where virtually nobody died maybe one or two but I guess that massive discrepancy just doesn't matter to me you compare the amount of attention given to the January 6 riots to the Black Lives Matter riots now again writing in the US Capitol is more serious right so you had left wing agitators in Wisconsin writing against the public in Governor Scott Walker and they took over the state capitol so taking over a federal capitol yeah it's more serious than state capitol writing in any capitol now it's more serious than writing in a Kmart or Woolworths so I don't think the media attention to the January 6 riots has been a holy foolish now I don't so I think it's probably magnified by and somewhere between gets 10 to 100 times more attention than I think it deserves that's my view but I enjoy reading a lot of reports on January 6 riots and look at some of the documentaries but compared to the Black Lives Matter riots I think I think it's getting disproportionate attention now I don't think we're living in a police state just because of the reaction to January 6 in a more repressive state the law enforcement have opened up with machine guns so I don't think the legal response by and large to the January 6 riots has been disproportionate from what now there may be individual cases where it's disproportionate overall I don't feel much sympathy for January 6 rioters law enforcement response seems to make sense to me but I want that same sort of rigorous response the Black Lives Matter riots that disrupted the lives of tens of millions of Americans what millions of Americans in fear for their life and property damage the livelihoods of thousands of Americans did billions and billions of dollars worth of damage and at the same time this terrorist group Black Lives Matter they got subsidized by Fortune 500 companies they were on the way to Bondi from Kudji I'm walking north from Kudji along Sydney's eastern suburbs so I think many of LA's problems could be solved with less affordable housing because the eastern suburbs rental prices and home prices they say you don't have to so there's no rent control here in Sydney and rents just respond to some plain demand so there was an article in Reason a couple of years ago about how Sydney rents were going down because due to the demand there had been a big surge in building apartments but Los Angeles has extensive rent control, Santa Monica's rent control and so for the affordable housing you have millions of people in Los Angeles in a pre-market could not afford to live here and so Los Angeles and California in general are heavily subsidizing dysfunctional behavior and so your neighborhood is like south-central right that is prime real estate it's next to downtown LA the weather's beautiful your 15-20 minutes drive from the beach by prime real estate you should have a lot of up and coming people moving there we're going to first get Susan W to put down the hand sandwich then then zoom is looking great so I think many of LA's problems are because we have too much affordable housing it subsidizes dysfunction so no rent control that I'm aware of in Sydney and so there's no crime around here because pretty much everyone who lives here is an upstanding citizen who works hard Sydney is like the fourth safest city in the world Australia abroad is really safe but there's so much funding of the dysfunctional in California and I think making housing affordable is really the big problem are there Sheila Mermaids those are secrets that I can't tell you over YouTube so I haven't seen any drunk and disorderly conduct I haven't seen any unpleasant interactions since I've been here siren is calling to look from the waters yeah I think I might walk to Bondi great surf at Bondi beach body surfing there we've had a cyclone offshore for the past week that's given us just ripple waves mate high tides really exciting times out in the ocean I was just reflecting this morning that one question I haven't asked is what does God want me to do does God want me to move to Sydney or does God want me to move to LA so I'll admit I haven't thought about that and I haven't thought about where can I be of more service where can I help more people like that's how my dad would think in LA and Sydney but admit I haven't been thinking in those times need to see a mama Luke's and share found his mama at Santa Monica so remember after 2020 election JF was doing all these shows about release the Kraken what Sydney Powell's release the Kraken and Lynn Wood giving all this credulous support and air time to the fraudulent voter fraud case man it didn't stand up very well did it right so it's about 15 months now from the 2020 elections the evidence comes in it's more and more clear the voter fraud did not play significant role in the 2020 elections so yeah JF just seems to seize on things like he changed his whole mind on vaccines he went from indifferent to opposed to one fraudulent study by a couple of anti-vaxxers and then I haven't heard from people who believe the voter fraud played a big role in the 2020 and the evidence has come in I haven't noticed anyone changing their minds and I haven't noticed anyone changing their minds about the January 6 riots either among my chatters like it was obvious it was a disaster on day one I think that we have fewer freedoms now as a result of January 6 riots that we have more of a situation where the government is hostile to Americans that we have more restrictions on fundraising we have more government investigation of the right way the January 6 riots are an absolute disaster for the Trump list and the right way to call us now on the other hand Democrats have endured even bigger disasters so in the midst of the crime wave and even liberals that huge rates of crime Biden hasn't been able to get anything done so I think shortly after it became clear that Biden was going to be elected I made the case again panicking it did not seem to me that Biden was going to be able to get a lot done so I'm much more of a structuralist than most people who pay attention to politics I think it's the structure that has more to do with how politics works than personalities so whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is in office it only matters mildly moderately so does it violate the terms of service to use the word that rhymes with Hindu I'm not sure where's the guy with dreadlocks for all the skating while playing guitar so we're we're a year into Joe Biden's term and he hasn't been able to get almost anything done so I don't think the Joe Biden presidency has been any great disaster because it's the structure of the situation there's much more than personalities whether it's Tony Blair or Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of England it only matters maybe 5 to 10% it's like this the structure so that's Tom Wolf's analogy about US politics it's a train going down the track does the lack of social attention make life exciting the lack of social attention makes it really easy to connect with people because you don't have to worry so much about putting a foot wrong because you're not going to have people getting all up in your grill right so people are friendly and there's not a sense you have to be constantly on guard so social cohesion and social trust at times hey I think you're supposed to go that way mate hey come on mate you're supposed to go that way come on books come on come on how are you we're a cat we're very excited of course next to dogs come on said this is your master it's just so easy to talk to people here you just walk down the street and say get a leg no worries mate hey Dinkum that's alright but on the downside the news is really boring here what tops the news is the number of like Covid cases and the number of little changes that the government makes in response to Covid cases so we've had like nightlife shutting down here in New South Wales we've got even more restrictions in Victoria oh we've had a big increase in people wearing masks outside oh and in Queensland like I was in Tannam Sands central Queensland where almost nobody wore masks and then because nobody had Covid in Tannam Sands the test of positive as far as I'm aware now it does the test of positive so I know this is my brother who operates a gun centre mask compliance was like above 95% so Australians are larricans and they have a brash image of just watching there's a terrific documentary series on the ashes which is the record competition between Australian and England Australians are more brash more risk-taking than the English the English are nicer and more polite so the Australians are more aggressive so they're more willing to risk getting out for the sake of scoring runs but Australians are still incredibly law-abiding incredibly law-abiding even the seagulls are friendly here my dad loved the ocean it was like the only time that he'd sleep well the swim of the ocean every day the battering of the waves the quality of life was much higher there walking down the street much more of a pleasant experience not in public transport social amenities like you go to public restaurants here they all have toilet paper like greens and reeds with toilet paper like all sorts of public amenities you couldn't have in Los Angeles because they would just get destroyed but here you get all sorts of prompts all of the lies follow the prompts I haven't seen any leaf-flowers in Sydney oh, everyone does their own yard work right? people look after their own kids or they send them to childcare but not many people have nannies I haven't encountered anyone in Sydney you have a nanny now I'm sure they're awesome but I think, unfortunately, much fewer than in Los Angeles people don't do their own yard work than people they cut their grass empty beer bottles liquor bottles people take care of the wildlife they take care of the social amenities they don't rip off the toilet paper public blues destroy rare wildlife I was swimming yesterday and I was able to pet the grouper the blue grouper that's a fish and I was just able to swim along with my snorkel on pattern and so much of the plant life the animal life around here is protected and people abide by it they're not wrecking the place so people are much more willing to invest in public goods if they're not going to be destroyed by angry rampaging youths Australians don't tend to be as patriotic as Americans but they're much more cohesive and they're much more willing to pitch in and to sacrifice for the greater good and to look out for the fellow Aussies oh yeah, Clevelli this is the beach I was at yesterday they would have patted the blue groupers like these big fish that swim along sometimes bull sharks get in here but they don't fight this is Clevelli between Fuji and Bombay I like that every beach there's like a life saver club like life saving being part of the culture here now it's the middle of summer right now it's about 2-3 weeks in the summer they can still get rain it still gets overcast you wouldn't believe the wildlife you guys snorkeling I mean you see these most beautiful birds whoa big donation thank you thank you, thank you yeah I hear from right wing Jews Jews who are interested in the alt-right but they don't want to go off the deep end so I'm like someone they can talk to people who are interested in the wildlife but don't want to get sucked into it it's kind of fun it's one of the positive externalities from doing this I get to meet a lot of interesting people I don't have the huge audience I don't have the big audience that I used to have but a really good quality people to watch this show people who have jobs people who have graduate degrees people who are sucked alone snorkeling and seeing birds but the birds mate just beautiful wildlife youth man I just love it makes me feel young again I've made me this way now we had Cronola riots about 15 years ago there was a bit of a culture clash between Lebanese and the Muslims and regular Australians so probably some of the Lebanese the Lebs and the Muslims they would mark and denigrate the Aussie women who would wear bikinis to the beach so the Aussie men then rose up so what church is for Americans, the beach is for Australians people come here with their computers, their iPhones very happily leave them on the beach go for a swim, come back and they're still there people are so fit there are a few fat people here on the eastern suburbs it's just a really aesthetically pleasing experience to walk along the eastern suburbs of Sydney now in regional Australia you'll find a lot more fat people so in poorer areas you'll find a lot more fat people but you go into a high rise not many fat people Luke, do I think that Ashley Babak got what she deserved I wouldn't I wouldn't phrase it that way I would say that her actions precipitated what happened to her that she acted in a way that brought about that resort so a police officer pulls a gun on you and you charge a police officer with a gun you disobey police officers and I'm not surprised if they shoot you I'm I don't I don't lose sleep about what happened to Ashley Babak she engaged in incredibly self-destructive behaviour January 6 rioters engaged in incredibly socially destructive and self-destructive behaviour so wouldn't it surprise me if the cops had just opened fire on the crowd wouldn't it surprise me if there were hundreds of casualties you try to riot and overtake Capitol Hill and I think cops would be within their rights to open fire and I would say that too for demonstrators to block highways or block other government buildings and the cops have to open fire to protect them JF rode the super chat wave so JF academic age they essentially follow the super chat wave they say what their audience wants to hear the response to Ashley Babak would have been different if she were black yeah I think they would have been 5% 10% that's likelihood of getting shot statistics show that the police are less likely to shoot blacks than other groups because they know how much the response they'll get so yeah less likely to get shot if she were black did you see the antifa plants that broke those windows before she went in those plants they were antifa plants that were ginning up the agitation like once you make the case that voter fraud determined the 2020 election then these kind of riots are inevitable so Trump and his team did pave the way for these riots Donald played a significant role in creating the January 6 riots because once you make the case that the election was fraudulent the bogus case then leaving people off the clock for moral responsibility because you are fueling them with a sense of victimhood such a strong sense of victimhood that the whole country has been stolen from them then there are no moral limits to how people respond so Trump helped create a situation where there are no limits to how people would respond a bunch of lefty articles against Rishi, why action taken so the left has played the January 6 riots much more effectively than the riot it seems like but I don't believe in massive voter fraud in American elections but I recognize that Democrats believe in the absence of the 2016 elections so by and large according to polls Democrats believe the 2016 elections were illegitimate because of Russian interference Republicans believe the 2020 elections were illegitimate so I don't think Republicans are any more deluded it's just kind of a group think mentality typical reaction when your team loses is to blame it on the rest so sense of victimhood that Republicans might develop from this they may well give them more power and influence and propel them to victory so I don't believe in the case for the massive voter fraud but I recognize it can unite people so I'm skeptical of the case that January 6 riots were were primarily engineered and carried out by left-wing anti-Trump educators seems pretty clear to me it's a proudless pro-Trump and wept up by Trump and when you look at the individuals involved they generally kind of attract trajectory such as when you don't have a normal amount of human connection you develop a desperate need for meaning so many of the people who have participated in January 6 riots have this desperate need for meaning and so when you have a desperate need to make really bad choices and so out of their desperation out of the sense that the country was being stolen from them they made really bad choices so there are much more effective things that you can do if you feel like the country is being stolen from you because the riot only encouraged the opposition and discredited the Trumpist cause to people who might otherwise be open to it so the thing is a really bad idea to disobey police instructions I think it's a really bad idea to charge a police who have drawn weapons pointing at you and I think it's a really bad idea to add to the tension levels of the police or anyone so whenever you up the tension levels with anyone people are much more likely to overreact alright so to react in ways that you don't anticipate so yelling at police threatening police, charging police I think it's a really bad idea whether you're on the right or the left so I don't believe the left played a significant role in infiltrating the old riot with regard to Charlottesville I think the old riot made its most of its mistakes on its own and it's always very tempting when you've got a strong group identity to blame the troubles on our groups and I think most of our troubles are within ourselves and within our group so just like Charlottesville it resulted in a huge decrease in social media freedom and ability to fundraise and just destroyed the old riot in terms of polite society so to the January 6 half of the old riot did damage to the cause because of all the democratic mistakes probably overcome the own goal that they suffered on January 6 take back the house take back the senate probably a pretty good position for the 2024 presidential election which I think regular people are just tired of the skyrocketing crime and Joe Biden one of his major election he was going to fix Covid or more people have died of Covid and Biden learned under Trump I don't think that's primarily Biden's trouble but he ran a 2020 campaign large part on false pretenses that he could control Covid obviously he hasn't been able to so he's proven to be highly ineffective president much more ineffective than Trump looks like can't get any legislation passed okay now we're moving towards Bondi George Soros from mess up Australia I don't believe that George Soros has as much power as many people on the right claim so why can't the opposition to George Soros be as effective as George Soros why can't people on my side of the political spectrum be as effective as people on my enemies because Australia very strictly controls immigration is able to keep wages high services high and it's the best country in the world for an average bloke one of the richest countries in the world bring up one of the top 5 luckiest countries for people to perform it now the downside of all this prosperity happiness and goodness is that the news is very boring here so we get huge doses of American news we just don't have enough crime and dysfunction here to keep for an exciting news shot I like the city morning hour I like the Australian in the Melbourne age so those would be my 3 favourite Australian newspapers ok