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Speaker 1: Russia has learned from its mistakes unfortunately from the start

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Speaker 1: where they completely fucked up. But now you know, things

423
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Speaker 1: are getting a little bit hairy. Um, Ukrainians are doing

424
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Speaker 1: like an incredible effort. But again it's like, yeah, you're

425
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Speaker 1: talking about decades and decades of armor and you know,

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Speaker 1: um weapons that Russia has and it's all very well,

427
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Speaker 1: us being like oh their armories blah blah. I doubt it,

428
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Speaker 1: you know, I very much doubt that. Um, it doesn't

429
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Speaker 1: look like that, certainly from when people I'm talking to

430
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Speaker 1: in the East, you know, so I think again, when

431
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,239
Speaker 1: when you know Ukrainians are like, well we do need

432
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Speaker 1: more weapons, it's because they need more weapons, you know

433
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Speaker 1: what I mean, they really do. Well, this is like

434
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Speaker 1: one of the this is uh one of the things

435
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Speaker 1: that's that's difficult to I think get across to people, um,

436
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 1: because there is such a you know that we are

437
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Speaker 1: dealing with the legacy of decades of shipping weapons places, um,

438
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Speaker 1: and not having that helped the conflict in a lot

439
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 1: of in a lot of ways, um, and decades of

440
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Speaker 1: stories like you know, all the weapons that got sent

441
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Speaker 1: to the Iraqi government and then wound up in isis

442
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,439
Speaker 1: is armory and ship um. Which creates kind of an

443
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Speaker 1: easy narrative for folks who are like, well, you know,

444
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Speaker 1: you're just trying to prolong the conflict in making it

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Speaker 1: worse by shipping and weapons. But the reality is one

446
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: side of this war has a substantial percentage of all

447
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Speaker 1: of the artillery that exists on the planet and the

448
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Speaker 1: other side does not. Yeah, I do understand the argument,

449
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,919
Speaker 1: or like, I totally get it, but it's it's I

450
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 1: lived through the early two thousand's as well. I understand it. Yeah,

451
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: It's like war isn't a template. It's not like does

452
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Speaker 1: this happened there, this will happened there or whatever, And

453
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Speaker 1: it's like you have to weigh it up no matter

454
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Speaker 1: what bad is going to come from this. Do you

455
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Speaker 1: want the bad to be Okay, there's a problem with

456
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Speaker 1: arms in Eastern Ukraine, which the Eastern Europe, which there

457
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: already is and it gets worse, or do you want

458
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Speaker 1: the bad problem to be Russia has taken over the

459
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Speaker 1: whole country, massacred everybody and is unlike undoubtly going to

460
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Speaker 1: try and move into other countries. So do you want

461
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Speaker 1: aids or do you want cancer? I don't know, you

462
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Do you want the Do you

463
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Speaker 1: want the lesson from this to be that if you're

464
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Speaker 1: just willing to burn a couple of hundred thousand human

465
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Speaker 1: lives as a state like Russia or any other state,

466
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Speaker 1: you can easily gain access to, you know, a pile

467
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Speaker 1: of wealth right in the shape of a country, um,

468
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Speaker 1: which is into positive It's not like a good lesson

469
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Speaker 1: for anyone to take out of this, but like if

470
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Speaker 1: if that's a lesson, right, yeah, yeah, no, that's the reality.

471
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Speaker 1: Like it's all very nice having a fifty tweet Twitter

472
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Speaker 1: threat about why this that and aferred should or shouldn't happen.

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Speaker 1: But that's just completely removed from real life. I mean

474
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Speaker 1: a real life is it's going to be very bad,

475
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Speaker 1: very nasty no matter what happens, and you just have

476
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Speaker 1: to weigh it. Oh, I don't like natal. Oh I

477
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Speaker 1: don't like this. Yeah, I mean either, but I care

478
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Speaker 1: about people that die for no reason, you know, Like

479
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 1: I think that's the real issue. Um. I think people

480
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Speaker 1: need to stand with the people, you know, and if

481
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Speaker 1: that means okay, use the tools that you have, Okay, Like,

482
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Speaker 1: oh I don't like natal. We Yeah, but they're going

483
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Speaker 1: to give them weapons. Do you think that Ukrainians like

484
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: having Russian firearms? Probably not. But they also don't give

485
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Speaker 1: a ship because they shoot. It's it's that simple, you know.

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Speaker 1: End up coming back to the subject of your dak menorate. Um,

487
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Speaker 1: if weapons are going to be going over there, and

488
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Speaker 1: by God they are, um, I would hope that as

489
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Speaker 1: many of them as possible are going into the hands

490
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: of people like the Hood's Hood's client, right, yeah, um, yeah,

491
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Speaker 1: I mean that is that is a yeah, a lot.

492
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Speaker 1: There's definitely this isn't from them telling me, but it's

493
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Speaker 1: just from research I've done. There's definitely a discrepancy in

494
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Speaker 1: terms of which groups get what weapons. And it's not

495
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Speaker 1: based on ideology, but it's definitely based on some serious

496
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Speaker 1: buoxy that needs to be sorted out. You know. I

497
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Speaker 1: have some some Western volunteers that I know that are

498
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Speaker 1: on the front right now, and they're saying, like, for

499
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Speaker 1: some reason, you know, one unit that is not an

500
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Speaker 1: RPG unit, for example, will have more rockets than the

501
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Speaker 1: RPG unit, you know, And it's like, what like, And

502
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Speaker 1: that's not because they've used them all. It's it's it's

503
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Speaker 1: supply lines are again. It's it's not even corruption often

504
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 1: it's just supply lines are wrecked or whatever. But it

505
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Speaker 1: has to be addressed as to be looked at. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm no tactician. I don't know anything of all that

507
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Speaker 1: side of things. I'm just based on what you know,

508
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: people are telling me, because you know, I like to

509
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Speaker 1: talk to them and hear what's happening. Yeah, um, I

510
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: think we should move into you know, when I when

511
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Speaker 1: I pull up your documentary on YouTube, which is again

512
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Speaker 1: for folks at home titled Ukraine's anti fascist football hooligans

513
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Speaker 1: fighting the Russian Invasion. The first thing that I see

514
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Speaker 1: is this video maybe inappropriate for some users. Um yeah, flash, yeah, well,

515
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 1: and it's we've talked a lot on our various shows

516
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Speaker 1: on this network about all of the fascist propaganda that

517
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Speaker 1: you can find and not even find on YouTube that

518
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Speaker 1: will be like spoon fed. Do you if you wind

519
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Speaker 1: up like watching a video game review or something. Um, yeah,

520
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: this is something that you've been dealing with. Unpopular front

521
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: somebody seems to have like an ax to grind with

522
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Speaker 1: you guys. I don't know. Maybe it's just the algorithm,

523
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, I felt like it was just

524
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Speaker 1: the algorithm until this recent one. Right, So so yeah,

525
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:54,919
Speaker 1: like you said, if people want to fight, I mean

526
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Speaker 1: the docs called front Line Huligan, but yeah the for

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Speaker 1: s c O. Um yeah, it's it's Ukraine's anti fascists

528
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Speaker 1: fighting Russian invasion. But yeah, the second it was uploaded,

529
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Speaker 1: it got age restricted. Now that to me is very odd.

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Speaker 1: I don't get why there's no gore in it. Um Okay, yeah,

531
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 1: there's violence, but there's a guideline where you can show

532
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: violence in if it's relative to report in which obviously

533
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: it is because it's an anti fascist football looking firm

534
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 1: fighting Russia. So of course we're going to show what

535
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: that looks like. But there's there's no there's no gore. Um,

536
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: there's no there's there's just it's just lads hanging out

537
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: talking about their lives now they've been tipped upside down

538
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: and how they really dislike the far right. Now, to

539
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: give you an idea of how messed up this is, um,

540
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Speaker 1: there's a real, a real parasite YouTuber is called Danny

541
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: Mullen and he has a video on YouTube where him

542
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: and his his friend both for them scoundrels, go to

543
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: the Mexican border and the whole video is trying to

544
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 1: get with quote like hot Ukrainian refugees. Now, it's the

545
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: most disgusting thing you've ever seen. They're praying on young girls,

546
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: some of them are very clearly underage. Um. And that

547
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 1: is monetized. That is monetized, and it is even on

548
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: the algorithm. I found it because I was watching Ukraine

549
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: war stuff and it was put onto my recommended Now,

550
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: these are the biggest parasites you've ever seen in your life, um,

551
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: And they have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of subscribers

552
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: and they're making money from content like that that is

553
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: not age restricted. There is no censorship thing. There is

554
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 1: no message saying this might be offensive. But a documentary

555
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: which is one journalistic covering anti fascists fighting one of

556
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: the worst invasions we've seen in Europe, is suddenly deemed

557
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: inappropriate and his age restricted on YouTube. Tell me what's

558
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: going on there that doesn't seem right to me. So

559
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 1: basically YouTube by doing that as saying we're actually happy

560
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: to make money off of people that exploit underage Ukrainian refugees,

561
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: but we're not happy for people showing the world a

562
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: different side to the war. That to me is madness,

563
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: Like it doesn't make any sense to me, you know,

564
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: And it's nothing but soft censorship. Some people are tell

565
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: me it's not it's not censorship. Of course, it is censorship.

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00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: This is the way the world works now, Yeah, Because

567
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: I mean a huge chunk of the success or the

568
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: visibility of anything that you're putting on YouTube is whether

569
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: or not the algorithm is going to like suggest it

570
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: to people, even people who have watched you or other

571
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: like that, not even talking about like suggesting it to

572
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: somebody who's never heard of popular front, but like people

573
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: who have watched multiple things that you've done and are

574
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: just on YouTube. The thing that would make sense is

575
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: for when you put out a new thing, them to

576
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: get like YouTube and be like, hey, we know you've

577
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: watched the ship, check out this. But that's not going

578
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 1: to happen for a lot of folks because of this

579
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: kind of thing, which is yeah fucked up, yeah yeah right.

580
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: And it's like it's not just me that like, I mean,

581
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: it's other people it's happening as well. And basically what

582
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: it is is if we wanted somebody the doc somehow

583
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: be allowed to be monetized or not even monetored. I

584
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: don't even want the monetization. The whole channel is demonetized.

585
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: I just want it to not be a restricted because

586
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: that is an algorithm torpedo. And you know, it's like

587
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Speaker 1: I would have to red the whole documentary. I say, actually,

588
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: sense of myself, my own journalism, make you excuse me,

589
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: make the integrity of the doc weaker just to be

590
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: able people to see it like this is war, this

591
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: is real life. I just it's just really depressing, you know,

592
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: and this is something I mean, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook have

593
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: all been guilty of degrees of this, but there's this

594
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: of all of the things that don't that that are

595
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: allowed to spread unchecked on those platforms, they have this

596
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: consistent maybe because it's it's easier to algorithmically go after,

597
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: but this, this consistent pattern of going after war journalism. Um.

598
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: And like your you know what's happening to your documentary

599
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: is a piece of this, but like the much scarier pieces,

600
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of documentation of war crimes in places

601
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: like Syria have been deleted um kind of automatically over

602
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: the years, which means that like again, evidence of crimes

603
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: against humanity has been lost forever because of these kind

604
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: of like purges of of war content that um, I

605
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: don't think are actually protecting anybody from anything, but are

606
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: are perhaps even making things worse. Yeah, of course, and

607
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: it and it allows um look Russian propaganda or whatever like,

608
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,239
Speaker 1: people are going to seek that out and they're going

609
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: to digest it whatever way they can. So then surely

610
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: you should say, okay, take the breaks off. Let's you know,

611
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Speaker 1: if you care, which I mean YouTube is a media platform,

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00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: you would think that they would say, Okay, well, this

613
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: is kind of our duty to balance it out, to

614
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: allow all the free information. And I'm not even saying,

615
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: oh yeah, throttle Russian propaganda. I think people have a

616
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 1: choice to see whatever they want to see, even if

617
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: it is completely ridiculous. But the fact that they're they're

618
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: censoring the stuff that you you would think is okay

619
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Speaker 1: to see because for for for I know, you know

620
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Speaker 1: our content that you won't find a lie in that documentary.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're very honest, very frank with the situation.

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Speaker 1: We're not white washing fascism in Ukraine. Um, and we're

623
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: certainly not putting out Russian propaganda. We're just telling an

624
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: interesting journalistic story. So you would think as a media

625
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: platform that would be like yeah, right up their street.

626
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: But it's not really a media I mean some money

627
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: making platform and you know, they just they just survived

628
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: for adverts yep, um. And I think that is kind

629
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Speaker 1: of where we're gonna. We're gonna leave off for the

630
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Speaker 1: day unless you have do you have anything else you

631
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: wanted to get into on your documentary, Jake, no, man,

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Speaker 1: I just I guess the last thing I would say

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Speaker 1: so many, you know, and not just like oh anti fascists. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we this is what we believe, like people forming units.

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Speaker 1: There's a whole pipeline of um anti authoritarian activists there,

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Speaker 1: there's loads and generally like Ukrainians um happy. You know,

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Speaker 1: they'll they'll take that out they can get. It's not

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Speaker 1: like Ukrainians are like god damn those anti fascists. Not

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Speaker 1: they love them. They love them the same way they

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Speaker 1: just normal and I think people should really, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they want to watch our doc as well, like

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Speaker 1: if they can share it, that would be great because

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Speaker 1: it's just very it's a struggle to get people to

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Speaker 1: watch it now because of because if it's been torpedo

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Speaker 1: on the algorithm, so if they go to YouTube dot

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Speaker 1: But yeah, if people can share it. I'll be great,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well check it out again. The title is

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Speaker 1: Ukraine's anti fascist football Julians fighting the Russian Invasion on

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Speaker 1: the Popular Front YouTube channel. We're also going to have

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Speaker 1: a link in the bio if you are someone who

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Speaker 1: doesn't like the type things. Yeah, thank you, Jake. All right, everybody,

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