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Sam Harris is an ass. Part of the IDW and all that crap. Weinstein was part of that self important clique, too. Then Bret woke up. Sam is still an ass. That’s my ‘Dick and Jane’ version of things.

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Harris has been coddled by all the high status people while Brett has been through hell standing against the same types.

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Imagine getting your status based on your ability to parrot what you hear from the 'right' people.

Case in point: Gas stoves last week.

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They’re still gunning for gas stoves. They just forgot to keep the quiet part quiet for a hot second. Nothing else has changed.

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I'm an old fogey. Can you tell me what IDW stands for?

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"Intellectual Dark Web," a heterodox community made even "cooler" by the fact that you didn't know what they were.

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Bless you! I should have remembered that. I have heard Bret mention that term on many of his Darkhorse podcasts.

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Hahahaha

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Do you know that for a fact about Weinstein or are you just making things up?

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There is an abundance of information about this on Benjamin Boyce's YouTube channel (it's probably on alternative channels such as Odysee as well): https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminABoyce

Benjamin Boyce was a student at Evergreen College at the time and caught a lot of what happened on video. He has a lot of videos with others discussing it in addition to the videos which constitute a documentary. I don't know if he has produced a finished documentary or not.

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I saw many of those vids. Weinstein seemed ok.

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Weinstein was awake and outspoken on woke from early on, but it took him a while to wake up on Covid. I see him as still wanting to keep his bona fides in tact with the "left" and the academic world, in exactly the terms that Chris Bray has described it, and so still wearing blinders on issues like vaccination in general and probably how dark the agenda really is (unless I'm behind the times since I don't follow him much anymore). He's getting there and I'm more sympathetic at this point than I was in 2020 and 2021, but I was more than a little impatient with him at the beginning. For me, the medical totalitarianism has always been front and center (while realizing that all of woke is connected with it).

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Just making things up and trying to stay relevant. Give a girl a break.

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There's a documentary on YouTube about Weinstein's becoming embroiled in a controversy in 2017 when he said something verboten in an email when he was on the faculty at Evergreen College in Washington State. He garnered enough supporters that the school ended up shutting down for weeks.

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