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Is China Behind the Woke Right? | Interview with James Lindsay

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    woke woke woke
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    how much of this is backed by China
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    and what is China's ultimate goal
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    welcome to China uncensored I'm Chris Chapel
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    in the 20th century the Soviet Union directed its agents
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    to subvert America by dumbing down education
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    by turning peaceful protests violent
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    and adding fuel to already divisive issues like the Vietnam war
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    in the 21st century the Chinese Communist party
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    has taken up the mantle
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    on one hand they're supporting things
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    we in America might call a progressive agenda or woke
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    on the other hand they pretend to be based
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    like when they released the popular video game black myth Wukong
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    and demanded that content creators don't promote feminism
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    it might seem like that makes no sense
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    why support both sides
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    well it's because their purpose is something else entirely
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    Matt Shelly and I sat down
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    to talk about this with Dr James Lindsay
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    he's an author political commentator and
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    founder of the website and podcast new discourses
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    and he joined us on the latest episode of our China unscripted podcast
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    I think you guys saw the other day on Twitter
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    that for whatever reason
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    a Chinese bot troll whatever it is
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    definitely a a pro-china account
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    started putting out Pro woke right stuff
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    and then I called the account out on putting out Pro
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    like oh my God this you know
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    blatantly pro-china account is putting out Pro wok right
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    so the the account is
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    like saying all this Pro white woke right stuff
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    and so what I do is I go over and look at its bio
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    and it's like I am friend to China with a Chinese flag
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    like China is great and then I'm like
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    why is this woke right account pushing China
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    uh or sorry why is this pro-china
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    account pushing woke right so I say that
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    and he's like five reasons Number One
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    China is pro- family number two
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    China doesn't do cuck leftwing stuff you know
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    and it's like written like a Chinese to
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    English so the Chinese why do I bring that up
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    because that's one dude on Twitter
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    one one troll account on Twitter right
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    one propaganda account I really
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    shouldn't call it a troll it's a propaganda account
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    from the Chinese government
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    why why would what is that
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    what is that signal that signals that
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    the Chinese have an interest in running these influence operations
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    and have had this interest
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    now you can combine that with the fact so that's one guy on Twitter
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    or one bot account or whatever it is
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    one troll account probably some dude in prison trying to work off a sentence
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    in China actually
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    um so what because that's how cool the CCP is so
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    and that's OB obviously uh sarcasm on the word cool
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    um they're evil so what
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    what does that signal well the Chinese
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    have a $16 billion a year military
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    budget to do influence campaigns on
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    Western speak and Western countries and
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    English-speaking countries $
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    16 billion dollars a year primarily the United States of America
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    so if you think that there's just one of those accounts
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    you're out of your mind they're all over the place
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    so the Chinese basically have figured out
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    the CCP has figured out how to pour gasoline on all of this
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    now the question is how much of this is maoism
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    well some um these are maist techniques
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    that they're using that kind of divide the population
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    you know there's the right side of the issue wrong side of the issue
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    and the only valid people are on the right side of the issue and everybody else
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    it's like they are trash they don't have a soul
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    that was actually a Mal quote
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    to have the wrong political orientations like
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    not having a soul we do the whole um
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    politics of compliance divide
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    and conquer game that the maoists did
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    so these are maist techniques but the fact
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    of the matter is that there is an
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    overarching goal as well
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    and this is going to ENT play on both sides
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    that overarching goal is that the system you see in China
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    which I will refer to henceforth as the China model
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    which is derived from not maai dong thought
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    but dong sha ping Theory
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    so dung shaing wasn't the immediate successor
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    but the ultimate successor to mauo after he died in the 70s
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    and um he had a completely different model which
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    literally hybridized communism and fascism
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    in order to have productivity in China be Unleashed
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    and that's the model
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    that he helped get built out with Henry Kissinger
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    as it turns out and David Rockefeller
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    and lots of bad Americans um
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    but this model has become the it was beta tested in China
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    following Mao's death
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    with the intention of making it the model for the whole world
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    now we copy this with our ESG proposals
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    so what you'll find is that these Fellas on the woke righ
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    t are always talking about
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    stupid cultural issues and wanting to
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    clamp down on power
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    to have stupid cultural agendas
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    but they don't talk about ESG
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    they don't actually talk about the real problems
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    that are actually causing this
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    ESG was developed at the United Nations
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    was picked up in conjunction with the world economic forum
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    and obviously Black Rock
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    has become the point runner on that
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    with the with also Vanguard State Street
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    and the other huge uh passive investment firms
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    and what they are doing is forcing
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    the Chinese economic model onto the west
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    but they're doing so in a way that
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    actually hamstrings the West in its
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    ability to compete with China
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    while uh advantaging China and actually pouring money into CH
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    so we have these woke right guys running around blathering
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    about cultural issues that mostly would go away
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    if we just turn the propaganda machine off
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    in other words repeal the Smith month modernization act
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    they're running around blathering about these cultural issues
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    as though that's the you know the root of the problem
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    when the root of the problem is actually that
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    there's a CCP un World economic Forum
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    Alliance to try to destroy our freaking country
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    it's a completely different problem
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    and the goal is to install the
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    Chinese system throughout the world and
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    also to crash the Western model and
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    who's going to rise to through that
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    bricks and which trolls are the ones
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    that are out on the internet defending the woke right stuff
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    bricks trolls it's almost all bricks stuff
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    it's almost all pro bricks
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    well bricks is funny because the Chinese aren't stupid
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    they're the most conniving people on the planet the CCP people
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    are awfully strategic
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    they're cunning like Mar what like ma was cunning
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    do you think Russia is going to be allowed to come out on top in bricks
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    no bricks breaks the west and then once
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    once the west through breaking the US dollar
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    and once the West is broken china
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    betrays every one of them and becomes the global hedgemon
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    this is actually a very very simple model to see how it's going to work
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    it won't be Brazil yeah right yeah
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    South Africa maybe maybe South Africa is gonna like Run the World
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    um or India yeah right um
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    I wonder which country is actually
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    I mean there's there would be a showdown
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    between China and Russia but
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    Chinese are more numerous the Chinese are more advanced
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    chinesee have a far far bigger economy
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    uh that's not really that tricky
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    to see how that goes unless it just goes
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    to nuclear war um
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    in which case you know game over um
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    so not a pretty picture here right and those are the trolls
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    supporting the woke right
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    and the goal is to install this Chinese system
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    that the woke right don't even oppose and
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    they distract us from dealing with
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    by blathering on about whether or not people have like
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    strong enough eschatological views about Christianity
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    in the right way
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    it's like holy crap what are you doing what are we doing
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    why is this such a huge issue
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    and it's it's not just uh like these these troll accounts on Twitter
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    I think a great example of this is uh black myth Wukong
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    the the video game made in China by
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    funded by tens Cent lots of State connections there
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    and they pushed that
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    and you had so many people online
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    saying this message that oh this game isn't woke
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    this game like they put out messages saying
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    don't talk about feminism when you're playing this game
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    and it just feeds into this anti-woke left messaging and people suddenly
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    people are like hey you know at least
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    China isn't uh you know drag queen Story Hour
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    oh I see those arguments all the time
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    I see them Pro Russia and I see in Pro China
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    and then we come back to the to the Crux of that bricks
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    right so I'm watching like right-wing accounts on Instagram
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    like big influencers on Instagram
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    with hundreds of thousands
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    which is a lot on Instagram hundreds of thousands of followers post in videos
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    of like Russian women talking about how the state pays
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    all of their bills the state pays
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    you know they three years or five years or three years
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    I think of full maternity leave and how the state pays
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    for it the state pays you to have
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    children the state does this the state does that the state does this
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    I'm like that's friend family-friendly socialism
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    why are you sharing pro-russian socialist propaganda
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    to an American based conservative audience that's
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    appealing to this like pro-natalist view
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    that goes against the anti-natalist view
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    like holy crap what is going on right so
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    that's blatant Russian propaganda that
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    I'm seeing almost every day if I open my freaking Instagram
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    they don't see as much of that specifically on Twitter
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    but I see tons of pro Putin stuff
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    I see tons of pro- Russia stuff um
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    people are not as eager to be pro-china explicitly
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    but they will jump in and say things like
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    what you said you know
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    that at least they are you know against the woke left
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    at least they understand that the woke left is the problem
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    and it's like gentlemen
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    they are playing you they are playing you
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    that is called playing both ends against the middle
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    that is an old tactic
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    and um they are playing you hard
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    and so yeah this is I mean I don't know
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    how much of this is propped up by China influ Chinese influence money
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    but I would best bet it's a a fair amount
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    I know that there are American funders
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    I am virtually certain there were Russian funders
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    given how much of it's anti-jew
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    I would be shocked if they're not qari funders
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    and other Middle Eastern funders
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    this stinks of gigantic foreign influence off
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    to split the right at an extremely important
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    and also very vulnerable moment given we all know
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    they're going to make the Trump Administration as hard for Trump as possible
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    with if they can't create domestic crises they're going to create World crises
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    so he's constantly busy can't deliver on his domestic agenda
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    and meanwhile we have this problem going on
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    that was just one piece of our almost 2hour long interview with Dr James Lindsay
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    we've made the whole thing available to our premium subscribers on China censored.tv
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    so click the link below to check it out
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    I'm Chris Chapel see you next time
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