Episode 485

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17th Oct 2025

The Most Likely Hated and Controversial Truth, You’ve Ever Heard. EP.42

When Freedom Isn’t Free: The Cost of Forced Equality in America

Hey folks, Earnest Mann here. Today’s episode comes straight from the inbox. A flood of emails rolled in, all echoing a similar question — what the hell happened to personal liberty and individual freedom? So, I packed everything into one giant episode that tackles the uncomfortable truths most people won’t touch.

Are We Still Free to Choose? The Hidden Cost of Equality Laws

I explore how laws meant to ensure equality have evolved into systems that strip people of their personal agency. Whether it's renting out a room in your own home or how neighborhoods are shaped by forced policies, I question the fairness behind these regulations. If someone doesn’t want a Satanist living in their Christian household, should that not be their right? Personal freedom, in many of these situations, takes a backseat to state-imposed mandates.


Cultural Identity or Bigotry? Walking the Line

I talk about cultural self-preservation — a concept now seen as outdated or even hateful. But ask yourself: why is it wrong for people, whether they're Italian, Jewish, Black, Amish, or anything else, to want to live among those who share their values and heritage? I reflect on how we used to have neighborhoods that functioned through mutual respect, and how government-enforced integration didn't always yield harmony.


Real-Life Examples of Hypocrisy in Government Policy

From governors living in exclusive mansions to how Amish communities are allowed to live in peace, I expose the glaring double standards. Meanwhile, regular citizens are told who they can live next to, rent to, and work with — and if you disagree, you're immediately labeled a racist or bigot.


I’m Not Left or Right — I’m Just Looking at What Works

This isn’t a conservative rant or liberal agenda. I’m a rationalist. I don’t care about ideological labels. I care about what works. And what works is allowing people to live freely, to associate by common values when they choose, and to stop criminalizing preference as if it's hatred.


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Transcript

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Greetings. Generally speaking, I don't like to make long episodic episodes. Um,

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I try to wrap up, you know, what I'm saying in about, yeah, 10 minutesish.

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But what happened was was that I've gotten numerous emails, quite a few

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actually, that keep asking me more or less

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um a question about the same subject, which basically amounts to personal

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liberties and freedoms. So, I decided to

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address that and put it all in one big ass gigantic episode for you to um well

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scrutinize. And um that's that's what it is. And so

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having said that um this is a extremely controversial

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subject and uh so yeah so I'm I'm here to do

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that because that's what you wanted and that's what I'm going to do.

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So without further ado, here it is. due to relentless social

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conditioning that we have had in the last 30 40 years against actual thought thinking

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um that I don't know I don't know what else to say. So I I'm totally open um if

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you I don't know send me hate mail or death threats or whatnot.

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But regardless of that that's what this show's about. This is what I do. And I

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talk about the untoable. I talk about things that no one else will. Even

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even if in their heart of hearts, they know it's true,

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but they're afraid to speak it. And and I understand. I I I totally do. I

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totally understand. So bearing all that in mind

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then I can go forward and you know talk about this and what

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this is that I'm talking about is the unthinkable about

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uh concerning things of you know uh issues such as seeducation say for

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instance Now,

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let me ask you this. Does it seem fair to you?

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Is this fair? Because they, you know, we love to kick that idea of fairness

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around. We love to do that. Does it seem fair to you to impose certain rules and

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regulations about how you can, should, or where you live or your attitudes

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towards those who live around you? All of that, just that alone,

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is that fair? because there are many people for you

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know many years for instance we've had HOAs

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which uh for any of you that don't know that's a homeowners association and they

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typically have a whole bunch of rules and regulations of what you cannot and

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cannot can I'm sorry can and cannot do with your property

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uh including the color you paint it and a whole trove of other damn things that

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you can and cannot do. And if you're someone who can laugh at this and you

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happen to have been on the receiving end of HOAs, you know what I'm talking about. Okay?

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But I'm talking about something much larger on a sociological scale. And what

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that is is that when you have

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again and this is totally at the time when these things are created it appears

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on the on the surface it appears is that it's just and good and it's all good and

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just and all that but it is imposed upon you nonetheless

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just like a [ __ ] HOA. Now,

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bear in mind, I told you that this is going to sound very controversial and

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I'll get named a thousand terrible names and whatnot. And whether or not you

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choose to believe those things are true, of course, is entirely up to you. I'm not going to sit here sit here and with

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this kind of idiocy and defend myself. I'm simply going to say what I'm saying,

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but here it is. For instance, if you're in a neighborhood, say it's

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1950s and we know about well the terrible 50s when it came to, you know,

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um racism and all that. And uh if you're in the let's say even

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if you're not a private homeowner in the suburbs, but you're in the a city neighborhood or something. And then

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there was this thing that came around with equal this and equal that. And then there was the turmoil of whether they be

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blacks, Latinos or I don't know Jews or whatever the case may have been of

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moving into your neighborhood under the opaces of freedom and all that other

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[ __ ] And that's that's fine. I get that argument. But here's my point. You see,

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you can't have a huge argument that is not contested. I mean, not

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realistically, it's not contested in any opposite uh point of view at all. You

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can't have that in that situation. Whereas everything has to be for the

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greater good, for the greater sociological good, for all this that it's essentially um well, it's satinct

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and it be it became and it is satinct throughout the land

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and you and you have no choice. Hear me out. Don't crucify me yet. Just

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hear me out. Let's say for instance that you have a

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property and you want to rent a room. Okay, fine.

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And um you're supposed to have some sort of you know process to

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filter to go through uh you know some various an application or various things

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to check out the person. But let's just say you're an a devout

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Christian of some form or denomination and the person despite the fact that

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they may have lived in their previous residence and they're good and they pay their rent on time, they're gainfully

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employed and all these everything that should be on that level. It checks all

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the boxes. This should be good and it's good except for the fact as I said

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you're a very devout Christian and the person who wants to move in is a very

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devout Satanist. Now

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can you understand? Is there anyone left out there that can understand uh let's

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say in your home as the Christian person that owns this home and I'm not I'm

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happily agnostic. I am not endorsing Christianity. Okay. But I'm saying, do

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you think that a devout Satanist with multiple headto toe Satanist tattoos and

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pretty much a bizarre look and whatnot despite all the other elements should have a fair and equal opportunity under

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law to live in that person's home?

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Do you think that that's going to be a good fit? Something tells me it's not.

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And that is my point is is that where law or the ideals of law or whatnot supersede what should be self-evident.

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And if I were such a devout Christian person, I sure as hell not

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would not want such a person living in my home.

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Period. End of story. It ends there. Ah, but that is not law.

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And law states that under equal this and equal that and equal equal, here we go.

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Everything's equal and d you cannot refuse them, you know, uh the

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opportunity to live there with you. And um despite the fact that from any

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metric of common sense or whatnot, these people are not going to get along.

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But according to the law, the law by the state, equal housing, equal opportunity.

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You're a bigot, you're a this, you're a that. And so the person that's renting

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the room, they can't because of that because well essentially they can't.

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And that is my point about the situation with everything

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under the sun being by powers beyond us being declared uh well lawful, legal.

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And if you're not doing that, then you're not following the law.

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However, the people who make these laws, generally speaking,

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overwhelmingly speaking, um, and I'm not even talking about their ethnicity. Uh, they could be, you know,

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whatever race. Generally, many of them are white. But, um, you know, you have a governor,

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for instance. Well, they get to live in a [ __ ] governor's mansion.

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Now, why nobody is, you know, questioned the fact that just because here in the

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21st century, um, that just because they're a governor, they automatically get a

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governor's mansion to live in. Hey, again, that's besides me. And that is

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what I'm talking about. That kind of thing. In other words, the point being is that the powers that be

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that want you to live your life as you see fit, the way that you enjoy your

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life or want to enjoy your life. They don't have to put up with the

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unpleasantries or anything that they are proposing or forcing you to do.

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That alone, just that, just that alone, that one factor. Now,

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you see, way back, and I'm old enough to remember this, way back in New York

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City, we had burrows and well, we had neighborhoods, and we generally got

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along. We got along because we had

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neighborhoods. So, the Jews lived over here and the

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black folks lived over there and Latinos lived over here and whatnot. But generally speaking, I'm not saying it

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was perfect. Not by a long shot. I'm not saying that. But generally speaking, we got along. We

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respected each other's boundaries because

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birds of a feather do flock together. And there's a reason for that. And that's okay. There's nothing. inherently

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evil or bad or wrong about that.

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But that is not the situation we live in

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today. This is all across America. And hell, I I can't speak for other

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countries because I don't know. I don't know. I I haven't lived there. I

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don't know. But the little bit that I do know is that pretty much the same program has

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been forced upon the people in various countries and just what the

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little bit I do know about in particular in in Europe and the UK there is a

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significant uh let's say portion of the French population

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that wants it to be well French. French meaning uh for lack of a better term.

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Let me see. White people. Yeah. They wanted to be French. They want to

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be white and this that and the other. And they're not wanting to bother anybody else,

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but they just want they want that homogeneous um situation. Again,

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this is not something wrong or evil. It is what it is.

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And there is nothing wrong with that. What is wrong

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is when a government quote unquote chooses under their ideas and idealisms

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and whatnot to force certain ideological precedents

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upon you. And that's what pisses people off.

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That is what the people many people in Europe are going through and have been for some time and you know uh one of the

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biggest cases the the data that I do know is of the UK

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and it's bad and it's bad because Britain's

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are no longer Britain because they're not allowed

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they're not allowed to have any cultural identity of their own whatsoever. None.

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It's It's bad. It's evil. You're just evil. Bad white people. It's terrible.

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You're just You're just horrible. So what I'm saying is

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is the hypocrisy of the argument that for instance in the u what I remember in

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the mid early7s and this had to do with the integration of public schools and

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and neighborhoods and whatnot. It was an utter nightmare and catastrophe.

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Totally completely and absolutely. I know because I lived there. I lived

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through it and all of my friends, neighbors, family members, and every damnbody else also lived through it.

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What it is is that you can't impose a situation

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and pretend and then pretend the hypocrisy of this does not exist. You

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can't impose something and say, "Okay, you will do this. you will allow these people, you will you will do this this

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that and the other and not see the hypocrisy that if there are people I

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don't care if you call them racist or you know whatever racist or homophobic

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or bigots or whatever term you choose to use

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but you can't use that against them which they have for 30 40 years. You

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can't do that. But by the same token, ignore the fact that there's absolutely

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nothing wrong with people of their own

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like, whether they be black or Jewish or Chinese or whatever the case may be, that they desire

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to be amongst themselves. Does anyone out there can you see the

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contradiction here? If they want to, generally speaking, be

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amongst themselves, then you need to lay the hell off them

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and allow them to do that. For instance, just one simple example of this, here in

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the US, we have and have had for many

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generations the Amish in Pennsylvania. You don't see things in the news, you

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know, crazily and constantly, you know, banging down the the Amish or for, well,

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you you're not being inclusive. Why won't you let black people try in Jews

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and this that and the other? You don't see that. It's not It's not. It's virtually

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non-existent that kind of protest. And the only purely off the top of my head, the only reason why you're not that

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doesn't happen is for the utter even by even by current standards of

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irrationality. Even by that you're not it's such a proposition is

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beyond utterly and utterly beyond the pale of any reason whatsoever because it

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is self-evident that this is their own homogeneous

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culture they want they the people that are there the Amish

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yeah they want to keep that now besides Besides the fact me personally,

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I think personally people [ __ ] driving horse and buggies

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in the 21st century and all the other [ __ ] that to me is like crazy crazy to

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me, you know, it's crazy crazy. But but

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at least they're to themselves. They're not screwing with anybody and

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they're not trying to push their culture or anything on anyone else.

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They're a homogeneous culture. Simply put, they just want to live their

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again to me somewhat, I don't know, backward and and

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illogical existence, but that's the way they want to. and they're

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not they're not [ __ ] with anyone. They're not bothering anyone. Okay, so boom, let them let them do their Amish

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thing and they sure as hell make a lot of money from building the very high

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quality Amish furniture that's sold nationally. So, I mean, you know, yeah, they're engaging in the capitalist

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system. They haven't, I guess, gotten quite

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around to, I don't know, [ __ ] electricity and cars yet. But hey,

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you know, hey, that's their deal. But when you have a neighborhood, city this that and the other and the other aspects

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of various groups and whatnot is forced upon you,

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that is inherently wrong. And on it's wrong on multiple levels and one of them

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is that the people who have lived there

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forever. Let's say you have a a an acc a um a community of Italian people or say

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Scott Irish and this this thing is forced upon you. So the other the other

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people and their race and culture and what is injected upon you then that is

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again over time whether it's 5 10 20 50 years whatever the [ __ ] it is doesn't

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matter. Yeah there's a lot of resentment that builds

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because birds of a feather flock together and they just want to be left

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to their own devices. That's all. And what all I'm trying to

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say that is not evil despite what woke tells you and whatnot. There's nothing

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wrong with that. As a matter of fact, the greatest most productive years of

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this country came from those very same people who

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were um divided in that sense.

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They were divided but they yet they worked together but they had their own

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cultural their own cultural identity and you know they got

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done work they went back they went back home. So,

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by now, God only knows I will get 10,000 emails or hate mail or

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whatnot and then you're a fascist, you're a bigot, you're a racist, you're a this, you're a that.

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what I am trying to explain what works for societies and

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they point out for instance and I don't know if there's any kind of you know any

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kind of conspiracy about this cuz I generally speaking don't go into conspiracy [ __ ] I really don't but they

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love to talk about Rome all the time American historians and there's 10,000

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things about Rome and said yes and and Rome was one of most culturally diverse

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nations of the world.

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But the fact is in reality it wasn't.

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You know why? because all the way through the history of Rome and well especially since the

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republic era um they all of the city councils all the

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important controlling mechanisms were not only Roman quote unquote

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not only were they Roman but the areas were uh very um

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Oh, damn. What's the term? They were very segregated. Not only, and I'm not talking just about

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economic um, you know, stratification. It wasn't just that. It wasn't just

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that. It was social stratification cuz certainly that existed. Absolutely.

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But yeah, um, they had various again groups of people. Yes. from all over the

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land. But those pe they lived in their what's a

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common term hoods. There you go. They lived in their hoods. And so they

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interacted and some were I don't know the percentage right now. And some were legal, you know, Romans with Roman

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citizenship, but they weren't members of the Senate.

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That's a fact. That is a historical fact. So, um yeah, the point is is that

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if um you know, if you're in in any kind of uh neighborhood that we once had

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and if they didn't want people and I'm again, this is not I'm not talking about

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the justification. I'm simply about what you you are supposed to want. I'm not

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talking about oh I don't see any region. I mean I I have a place to rent. He said

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the police is a he's a mass murderer and and a Satanist but that would be

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judgmental. I don't want to do that because you would make me a bad person. Sure. I I

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rent my uh room and my home personally because I'm I'm not a racist and I'm not

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a this and I'm not a that and [ __ ] on adinium. It's about the dissatisfaction

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that people those and even the people that are property owners or whatnot are

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not given a choice, a real choice.

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And for those of you that have been labeled, I don't know if you're

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listening to this, arch conservatives or right-wingers or whatnot,

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you know, I you know, if if other people are going to look at me and say, "Well, he's yes, he's obviously a

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conservative." No, I'm [ __ ] not. I'm not. I make that perfect. I am not in any way

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by certain well pretty broad metrics. I'm not a conservative.

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So, you see, I said I am not a conservative, but I'm certainly not a

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liberal because it's kind of sort of when you

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analyze it, it's two sides of the same dysfunctional, [ __ ] up coin. I'm a

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rationalist. I'm a realist. I look at what works. I don't care what

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side of the coin coin it's on. I care about what works.

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At least I don't I do not claim to be an absolute historian with letters behind

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my name. I don't claim that. I just, you know, I just know what I happen to know

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from the studies that I've made. And I know what seems to work. But I do

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know also this when you take entire segments of society

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and you start telling them with their property what they can and cannot do

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what they or rather whom they can rent to and whom they can't all these things

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of that nature I don't care if you attach it to race or

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religion or whatnot here. I'm going just say this as as as

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crazily as I can, okay? It's broad. Again, I told you this would be amazing

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and shocking. If you're someone who's anti-semitic and you don't want to rent to a Jew,

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that should be your choice. Your choice as an individal

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agency to tell you, hey, you can't do this. Yeah, [ __ ] you.

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I'm not talking about whether it's right or whether it's wrong. I'm talking about personal liberty.

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Now, I also despite what you may think

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that is, well, he's maybe he's a he's because it has to be pegged. They have to be well, he's obviously a well, he's

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a libertarian. No. No. I think a lot of libertarian um you know ideology is is

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just stupid. It's not that. No,

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it's about what historically is show what works for people how people the

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best way. I'm not saying it's ideal. I'm saying how best they function

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and get along. And I don't know about you,

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but um generally speaking, if possible, I think it's great to have at least a a

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good, you know, surface functional level, you know, of functionality with

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your neighbors. You're It's very ideal if you're not hating your [ __ ]

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neighbors and they in turn don't hate you. I think that's a good thing. I think the more you the or rather the

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less you hate each other that's a good thing and so if you're again kind of sort of

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birds of a feather whatever that may be that's better

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that is what is better in my humble

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opinion. So, assuming

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I'm alive tomorrow,

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I hope you enjoyed this rant or whatever your take may be on it. I certainly

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um tried to put something out there for you to think about.

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Otherwise, until next time,

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this is Earnest and it's all I've got

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for today.

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