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Great show, Josh. I don’t envy what you, Kevin, Christopher, Brent, and others are confronting on a daily basis. It sounds like attending one of these meetings is about as close as one could get to ripping the lid off of hell and looking inside. And you do it day after day. So much respect for you.

It was to share your enjoyment of Feud today as well (my first time attending). The side of you we see on the show is always the Josh ready to fight. It was very cool to see you relaxing with something you like. Keep it up.

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Burlington...a city in 🤡🌎. You've gotta get out of there if you value your sanity. Oh, I know. They've become inescapable. The smug delusion, the ugliness, the raging narcissistic cluster-b of these beings is hideous to witness.

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We've discussed the topic as nauseous (my phone auto corrected ad nauseum to as nauseous and I'm leaving it 🤣) so this is a topic on structure alone.

Your show gets better all the time. It is such a pleasure to watch good work, work done by people who obviously care about doing a good job, and that aspect of the show is quite apparent and very much appreciated. ❤️

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This episode so reminds me of the liberals where I grew up (outside of Portland, Oregon). The pretentiousness and moral preening, the overt physical dressing (tatoos, blue hair, nose rings, etc), the emptiness of thought and inability to reason or empathize with individuals deemed to be "on the wrong side of history". It all just grates on my nerves. Radical progressives have become what they supposedly despised (radical Christian conservatives), only without any of the positive values espoused by Christianity. "If you look into the abyss long enough, the abyss looks back into you".

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43:50 I genuinely did not feel "comfortable" (or indeed "safe", LOL) leaving a comment about this on YouTube. Literally - but I won't bother anyone with the explanation as to why here.

OMG! What unbelievably disingenuous pieces of shit so many of these people are! What rights do histrionic, disgustingly entitled assholes like "Aspen Creepy Overwraught-Ovary fetishiser" lack? None - and they know that. As if any men (or women for that matter) who adopt the currently bulletproof 'identity' that is Trans Teflon™ are in any danger whatsoever of being "marginalized"!

How do these people keep spewing out these lies, these outright reversals every single day? Have they no shame whatsoever, or do you think that they genuinely believe their own lies?!?

The terrifying thing is that the media still seems to swallow and repeat all of this bullshit like a bunch of credulous Kindergarteners. Over the weekend near my neck of the woods, a visiting women's rights campaigner had her public speaking event crashed by violent men from totalitarian groups from both extremes of the political spectrum - Antifa and literal neo-Nazis while the police did f*ck all to move either sets of menacing fash men on. Worse still, the media here all (and I do mean ALL) just went with the TRAntifa narrative that the Nazis were there to "support the women", despite the uncut footage clearly showing that they were not. The reach of their cult is apparently still virtually absolute here. Everything still seems captured by it.

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Hey Josh, good job. I had a recent encounter with a pro-trans person that used a lot of the type of crazy (literally) rhetoric you are critiquing. That person had been part of a dissident group of "IDW" heterodox types (integral postmetaphysics), but claims that trying to transcend "woke" postmodern relativism and nihilism wasn't emotionally comfortable, so she (a transwoman) withdrew back into the echo chamber of toxic "wokeism".

Setting aside the biology and science of sex and gender, which is controversial at best, it just seems like toxic "trans" identity culture is so deeply interwoven with mental dysfunction and trauma that it is impossible for the pro-trans people to think rationally, systematically and objectively about the facts and evidence. They are stuck in an echo chamber of anti-rationalism, and can't get out.

Thanks for fighting the insanity.

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The "woke" hysteria, including the current trans stuff, is part of a historical moral panics, or egregores, which are perceived evil entities that are artifacts of unhealthy collective intelligences. The survival of ancient humans was dependent on intense social cooperation, and collective intelligences are wired into humans by evolution.

Unfortunately the kind of disruption that is going on due to postmodern social conditions now tends to create unhealthy artifacts of CIs, which is what moral panics and egregores are.

When the COVID egregore/panic began to slow down, the egregore jumped to the Ukraine war. And now it is jumping to the trans debate and other aspects of the "woke" stuff, like "racism".

John Mcwhorter wrote a book called WOKE RACISM in which he describes the faux religion (which you call a cult) of wokeism, which is irrational and that the "woke" try to find salvation in.

Woke moral panics (egregores) are intense and driven by emotive-subjective narratives, not rational, evidence-based thinking.

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Dynamite show Josh. Hats off to you, Kevin and Christopher standing up for reality, sanity and decency.

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I am thinking that what you guys need is soomething like the Guardian Angels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels). Or bodyguards. At least when going to a protest. Shows that you have a constituency.

As police love to infiltrate such organizations, it would have to be friend of a friend.

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Oh wow, lol. Yeah, that type of woman is one I’m veeery familiar with.

They act so chronically unhappy, sick, and helpless, but it’s all just borderline pd and/or vulnerable narcissism, as you soon find out. And you are 100% correct re: their histrionics and trying to seem so meek and humble, all while they brag about how selfless they are. Puke. They’re so distracted by their own love affair with pathos and tragedy that they inflict harm on their own kids for attention. Good lord what horrible performances. None of the feelings were genuine at all.

This is what passes for liberal women in Vermont? That’s pathetic. I’m embarrassed, Jesus.

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