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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, ready or not, twenty twenty four is here,

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Speaker 1: and we here at breaking points, are already thinking of

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Speaker 1: ways we can up our game for this critical election.

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Speaker 3: That is possible.

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Speaker 2: If you like what we're all about, it just means

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Speaker 2: the absolute world to have your support. But enough with that,

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Speaker 2: let's get to the show. Some interesting and possibly good news.

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Speaker 2: Let's go and put this up there on the screen.

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Speaker 2: The share of US adults who are identifying with select

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Speaker 2: political affiliations has gone to an all time low for

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Speaker 2: Democrats and Republicans at the very same time that independence

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Speaker 2: has actually increased. So in two thousand and four, thirty

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Speaker 2: five percent of the American people identified as Democrat, thirty

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Speaker 2: three percent as Republican, thirty one percent as independent. Today,

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, forty nine percent of Americans identify

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Speaker 2: as independent. Only twenty five percent respectively identify as Democrat

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Speaker 2: and Republican, So basically half of the entire count tree

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Speaker 2: sees themselves as politically independent. At the moment, that approval

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Speaker 2: for the two of the major parties is all the

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Speaker 2: way at the bottom, and that actually raises a lot

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Speaker 2: of questions around the way that we even run our

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Speaker 2: political electoral system, because we elevate people through primaries and

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Speaker 2: then throw them at independence.

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Speaker 3: But if the vast majority of people don't believe in.

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Speaker 2: Those parties themselves, then why are we allowing like hyperactive

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Speaker 2: in terms of our two options. So I think it's

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Speaker 2: really interesting the more that these parties collapse.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know why the system is the way

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Speaker 3: it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love I would love the sort of

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Speaker 1: reforms that you're referring to to open it up. So

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Speaker 1: there was more more of an opportunity for third party

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Speaker 1: candidates that more accurately reflect perhaps the views of this

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Speaker 1: group of nearly a majority of Americans who view themselves

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Speaker 1: as politically independent. Underneath the data, what they say is

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Speaker 1: driving this phenomenon primarily young people. They quote Apoltter It

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Speaker 1: higher percentages of independence than older adults. What is unusual

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Speaker 1: is that as gen X and millennials get older, they

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Speaker 1: gen Z also is disproportionately politically independent. Now that's different.

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Speaker 1: See like the corporatist centrists types like the no labels

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Speaker 1: they're crying out for moderation. They're crying out for what

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Speaker 1: that way. Many of these people who are politically independent,

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Speaker 1: see the Democratic Party as like, you know, corporate shills,

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Speaker 1: Or they may be to the right of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that they identify as politically independent doesn't

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Speaker 1: than saying, like, oh, everybody's in the Center. It's just

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Speaker 1: they're disgusted with these two political parties and don't feel

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Speaker 3: That's an important point.

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Speaker 2: It's not that people want like lower taxes on corporations.

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Speaker 4: They're not. Like Joe Manchin stands, I.

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Speaker 3: Think the political system is broken.

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Speaker 2: I think things that are all over the place that

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: The vast majority of people still actually do kind of

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Speaker 3: That is actually pretty clear.

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately most that tax onto then Republican and Democrat.

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Speaker 3: So look, I don't know how it works out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the last time that we had a major political

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Speaker 3: Moose Project or the Bull Moose Party.

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Speaker 2: It was really the last time it was I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: But I mean, it can happen.

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Speaker 2: Has happened twice in modern American history since eighteen sixty,

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Speaker 3: I haven't lost all hope just yet.

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Speaker 1: Well, the other thing that has more happened in more

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Speaker 1: Very bad way, in my opinion, the way that Bill

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Speaker 4: You could think of the way the Tea.

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Speaker 4: But I just look at.

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Speaker 1: This data and I see it as basically like an

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Speaker 4: But I do think the fact that there.

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Speaker 1: Is clearly this disenchantment with the two major parties creates

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Speaker 4: So I see it as a good thing in general.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely So, all right, we'll see how it works out.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, got a little Amazon HQ two taxpayer

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Speaker 1: We previously reported that, you know, there was this whole

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Speaker 1: So much like other places around the country, you don't

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Speaker 1: I would say, And you know, Amazon, in spite of

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Speaker 2: I think this is why it's complete BS, is that

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Speaker 2: A lot of businesses were opening and banking on the

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Speaker 2: And now they're pulling out, which is already actually a

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Speaker 3: The local economy. But then they want their tax benefits too.

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Speaker 2: It's like, well, hold on a second, and actually this

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Speaker 1: They made this whole show. I mean, it's really embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: Name my city after you, and I'll you know, like

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Speaker 1: They could revive a place that's struggling, they could go.

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Speaker 4: Somewhere in the heart and like Jera, it would be

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Speaker 1: All like so many, so much possibility for what it

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Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos already had residences, making it clear like this

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Speaker 4: And by the.

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Speaker 1: Way, Virginia, for all of the hundreds of millions that

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Speaker 1: A new opera is coming to the Kennedy Center and boy,

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Speaker 1: A responsible Statecraft for flagging this one along with producer

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Speaker 1: Griffin put this up on the screen. Killer Drone Opera

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by General Dynamics. Let me read you

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Speaker 4: Of drone warfare, and hard to.

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Speaker 8: The most important week thing we can do right now

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Speaker 8: is focus on the things that we can control. None

446
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Speaker 8: of us could have predicted COVID, none of us could

447
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,520
Speaker 8: have predict to supply chain, none of us could have

448
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,720
Speaker 8: predicted bank failures. But what we can do is stay

449
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Speaker 8: in front of our customers, provide the best customer service

450
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Speaker 8: we can, get our orders out our door, treat each

451
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Speaker 8: other well, be kind, be respectful, focus on the future

452
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Speaker 8: because it will be bright. It's not good to be

453
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Speaker 8: in a situation we're in today. But we're not going

454
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Speaker 8: to be here forever. It is going to get better.

455
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Speaker 8: So lead, lead by example. Treat people well, talk to them,

456
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Speaker 8: be kind, and get after it. Don't ask about what

457
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Speaker 8: are we going to do if you don't get a bonus?

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Speaker 4: Get the day on twenty six million dollars.

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Speaker 8: Spend your time and your effort thinking about the twenty

460
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Speaker 8: six million dollars we need and not thinking about what

461
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Speaker 8: are you going to do if we don't get a bonus?

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Speaker 5: All right?

463
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Speaker 4: Can I get some commitment for that?

464
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Speaker 9: I would appreciate that.

465
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,160
Speaker 8: I had an old boss who said to me one time,

466
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Speaker 8: you can visit Pitycity, but you can't live there. So

467
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Speaker 8: people leave PITYCD. Let's get it done. Thank you, have

468
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Speaker 8: a great day.

469
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Speaker 3: Okay. So psychotic really all around one of.

470
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Speaker 4: The reasons we're an energy from this lady.

471
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Speaker 2: This is stone cold crazy, absolute craziness. You could see

472
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 2: it in the eyes. And what do we learn about her?

473
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:18,439
Speaker 2: She herself received a three point nine million dollar bonus

474
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Speaker 2: in executive compensation on top of her one point one

475
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Speaker 2: million dollar fixed salary. Now, what she's referring to the

476
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 2: twenty six million is the overall sales goal of the

477
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Speaker 2: company as to why the employees won't be getting a

478
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Speaker 2: bonus and or a raise.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing.

480
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Speaker 2: If everybody in the company is not getting a bonus,

481
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Speaker 2: that's one of the as a leader you could be like, listen, I'm.

482
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Speaker 3: Not taking any bonus now, I'm taking a bonus.

483
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Speaker 2: That's how it is. You know this, We're going to

484
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,920
Speaker 2: get together. You make money, I make money, period. I

485
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Speaker 2: don't even think people would care. Then if she got

486
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Speaker 2: paid four millions. She's the CEO of a company based

487
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Speaker 2: in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's got eleven thousand employees. Okay, reasonable,

488
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Speaker 2: I guess. But when you are paying yourself and then

489
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Speaker 2: you're lecturing these people who make way less than you.

490
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 2: And if you're assuming here, people work in sales, so

491
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 2: a lot of them live and die by bonus, not

492
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Speaker 2: just about their base salary, yeah, whether you can literally

493
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Speaker 2: feed your kids. Yeah, And you're saying stop the pity

494
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Speaker 2: city thing is perfect. I've watched the video fifteen twenty

495
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Speaker 2: times at this point. I just can't get over the narcissism,

496
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Speaker 2: the way in which she thinks that she's better than

497
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Speaker 2: everybody else.

498
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Speaker 3: And here's the best part. We want her LinkedIn profile.

499
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Speaker 2: She's all about diversity, equity and inclusion and like feminism

500
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Speaker 2: and all that stuff, but not for just being just

501
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Speaker 2: being a decent person to your employees.

502
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Speaker 3: That's the crazy part.

503
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Speaker 1: The thing that gets there's a lot that gets me here.

504
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Speaker 1: But you can tell she's kind of like keeping it

505
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Speaker 1: together at the very beginning, and then it just becomes.

506
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Speaker 4: Increasingly angry it are in hinds.

507
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Speaker 1: She's clearly like personally hurt that people are wondering if

508
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Speaker 1: they're going to be able to get paid and feed

509
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 1: their families or whatever. Miller know, their primary products is

510
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: apparently office chairs and so posts. You know, during the

511
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: pandemic and post pandemic, with people not being in the

512
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: office as much, the demand for office chairs has plummeted.

513
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,360
Speaker 1: So she's you know, still doing okay getting her four

514
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Speaker 1: million dollar bonus.

515
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Speaker 4: Now worries about her.

516
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: But the thing that actually Yegor is a person who

517
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: flagged this clip for me initially, and he made the

518
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 1: point that you know, for the boss class, it's totally

519
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: expected and understood that they'll be out for the money,

520
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: that they'll be looking at their compensation, they'll be maximizing

521
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: their compensation package. They'll be locking in their golden parachute.

522
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: If they screw up the company, they'll still get to

523
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Speaker 1: walk away, okay. But then they try to sell to

524
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Speaker 1: the workers that they should be in it just purely.

525
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 4: For noble reasons, about.

526
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Speaker 1: The family, about the project they're engaged, and how dare

527
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Speaker 1: you even worry about what your compensation is ultimately going

528
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Speaker 1: to be? How could you not be just committed to

529
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: this team of selling office chairs. So it's incredibly psychologically

530
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,199
Speaker 1: manipulative too, And I think revealing of a tactic that

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Speaker 1: is deployed all the time in America, of trying to

532
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: sell people on this like deeper mission or this family

533
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 1: that you're a part of in lieu of expecting actual

534
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: compensation for the labor that you're committing to the profits

535
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Speaker 1: of the business.

536
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Speaker 3: Completely. Yeah, it also bothers me.

537
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Speaker 2: You and I now have people who work with us,

538
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 2: and it's one of those things where I cannot I wouldn't.

539
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: You can never cut somebody's pay and take more money yourself.

540
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,919
Speaker 3: Oh, I would be. I could not live with myself.

541
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 4: I can't imagine talking to someone like that.

542
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 10: Never.

543
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 3: Never.

544
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 4: It's a city city.

545
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 2: But unfortunately, yeah, most people who are But I've worked

546
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 2: for people like that.

547
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Speaker 3: I'm sure you have to. Everybody's had a boss. There's

548
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 3: something about when you beat when we are a boss.

549
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 2: For a lot of people, maybe they just like have

550
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Speaker 2: amnesia about what it was like to be treated like

551
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 2: shit by your boss.

552
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 3: But you know that one, it really struck a nerve,

553
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Speaker 3: and not just.

554
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Speaker 2: Me, I think a lot of people out there, because

555
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 2: I almost have felt it a little bit.

556
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 5: Man.

557
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 3: Well, it's I even feel so small when you have

558
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 3: not when these type of people will just rule your lives.

559
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 8: Yeah.

560
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: Well, and there's this cultural narrative that feeds people like

561
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Speaker 1: this that there they deserve to be in this position

562
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: of power, and that causes them to truly look down

563
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: on the workers that they're in charge of. And so

564
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 1: it treats this disgraceful power trip like psychopathy as you

565
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: see displayed in this video.

566
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 3: Very true. All right, we'll see you guys later.

567
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 9: So don Trump was indicted and arraigned. No one is

568
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 9: above the law depending on the law, because there are

569
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 9: certain laws that the entire US is above, and that

570
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 9: includes Trump. Now, he may or may not see consequences

571
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 9: for this batch of charges, but there are other offenses

572
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 9: that he will definitely not go down for And they're

573
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 9: the kind of offenses that have been committed to varying

574
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 9: degrees under every living president, from Carter to Bush to Obama,

575
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Speaker 9: and today I want to talk about some of them.

576
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 9: Welcome to breaking points. If you've seen this video, you've

577
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 9: heard the story. In nineteen seventy four in East Tmoor,

578
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 9: this new government took over the Fredelen Party, a democratic

579
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 9: socialist pro independent party. They want self determination for East Temor,

580
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 9: so obviously no one was into it. Australia, the UK,

581
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 9: the US and Indonesia all agreed that East tim Or

582
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 9: should probably just become part of Indonesia. Self determination was

583
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 9: off the table. In December nineteen seventy five, Indonesia invaded

584
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Speaker 9: East Temoor. Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger go over to

585
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 9: Indonesia to see the president there and they tell them

586
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Speaker 9: that they're totally cool with this.

587
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 10: Now.

588
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Speaker 9: Indonesia at the time held more political prisoners than anywhere

589
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 9: else in the world. Ford even warned the president there,

590
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 9: if you want Congress to keep approving aid packages for

591
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 9: you, you should probably let some prisoners go. And so, after

592
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,719
Speaker 9: a lot of negotiating, Indonesia announced plans to release thirty

593
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 9: thousand political prisoners over three years, so that quieted Congress enough.

594
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 9: Nineteen seventy seven, Carter's inaugurated. Meanwhile, Indonesia is committing atrocities

595
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 9: in East Team Or, reports coming out alleging fifty thousand

596
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 9: to one hundred thousand civilians dead, but the State Department

597
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 9: basically dismisses this. The goal was to improve relations with Indonesia,

598
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 9: not have them be a pariah state. So the National

599
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 9: Security Council they recommend downplaying East Teamwor. You have people

600
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 9: saying just focus on the thirty thousand political prisoners being

601
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 9: released instead. National Security Advisor Brazinski, father of MSNBC host

602
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 9: Mika Brazinski, is saying that these Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia,

603
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 9: provide a hospitable climate for our investments. Also, the assumption

604
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 9: by the Carter administration and others was that East Tmoor

605
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 9: becoming part of Indonesia, that was an inevitability at this point.

606
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 9: At the same time, the CIA is saying Indonesia is

607
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 9: running out of weapons and they can't really control the

608
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 9: countryside of East Timor. In nineteen seventy eight, Vice President

609
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 9: Walter Mondale goes on this tour of the region. He

610
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 9: goes to Indonesia and offers them sixteen Skyhawks, and now

611
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 9: fast forward to two thousand and six. The East Team

612
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 9: War Truth Commission concluded that nineteen seventy seven to nineteen

613
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 9: seventy nine was the worst humanitarian crisis in East tam

614
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 9: War's history, and the key to Indonesia's assault was aerial

615
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 9: bombardment by OV ten Broncos F five's and Skyhawk A

616
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 9: four airplanes. By nineteen eighty one, between one hundred and

617
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 9: eight thousand and one hundred and eighty thousand people died

618
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 9: out of a population of six hundred thousand, massacring civilian populations.

619
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 9: Wars of aggression, we're talking about war crimes and crimes

620
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 9: against humanity and aiding war crimes, say by supplying fighter

621
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 9: jets can be a violation of the law of armed

622
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 9: conflict and also a war crime. On August twentieth, nineteen

623
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 9: ninety eight, President Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on

624
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 9: a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. The Alshifah Pharmaceutical Plant was

625
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 9: the target. This plant supplied half of Sudan's medicines and

626
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 9: a lot of they're veterinary medicines. Now is there a

627
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 9: good reason to blow up such a place. I mean maybe,

628
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 9: but that would be an extraordinary set of circumstances. By

629
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 9: the way, do you know who owned the factory? Maybe

630
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 9: they were manufacturing chemical weapons. Maybe they're manufacturing the x

631
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 9: nerve gas. As a matter of fact, a soil sample

632
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 9: was taken nearby containing two and a half times the

633
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 9: normal amount of empta, which is a chemical used in

634
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 9: the x nerve gas. This was the main evidence showing

635
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 9: that the factory produced the nerve gas. They also thought

636
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 9: the plant might be linked to Osama bin Laden, but

637
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 9: as George Tennant said, that wasn't ironclad. Also get this.

638
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 9: One piece of evidence was that, unlike the websites of

639
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 9: other known pharmaceutical manufacturers in Sudan, this company's website did

640
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 9: not mention any products. Only terrorists have bad websites. The

641
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 9: State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research put together a

642
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,479
Speaker 9: report for Secretary of State Madelin all Right before the attack.

643
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 9: It basically said, our evidence isn't really enough to justify this,

644
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 9: but it was a foregone conclusion this plant had to go.

645
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 9: Wait who owns the factory? Officials are raising concerns up

646
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 9: to the night before the attack. But August twentieth, they

647
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 9: blow up this pharmaceutical plant that was maybe making the

648
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 9: x nerve gas. No, they weren't, They were just making medicine. Also,

649
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 9: they still don't know who owns the factory. It ends

650
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 9: up being a Sudanese businessman named Salah Idris. Conveniently, though,

651
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 9: he turns out to have an indirect connection to Osama

652
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 9: bin Laden. They freeze his accounts at various Bank of

653
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 9: America branches. They kind of got it right by accident, maybe,

654
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,719
Speaker 9: but at least this wasn't all for nothing. Oh no,

655
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 9: except Idris denied that he had any connection to any

656
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 9: terrorist group. He sues the government and the us unfreezes

657
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 9: his assets. It was all for nothing. Can we at

658
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 9: least learn something from this? Though probably not. Someone from

659
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 9: the State Department wanted to draft a report outlining the

660
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 9: issues with the evidence. Obviously, it got killed by higher ups,

661
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 9: and Albright apparently was not interested in having that debate rehashed.

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00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:06,959
Speaker 10: Case closed.

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Speaker 9: The month after the attack, Human Rights Watch comes out

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Speaker 9: with an open letter to Bill Clinton saying international humanitarian

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Speaker 9: law says that you have to do everything feasible to

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Speaker 9: make sure you're hitting a legitimate military target and it

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Speaker 9: really seems like you didn't, which would mean you're in

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Speaker 9: violation of the law of armed conflict or lowak. But

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Speaker 9: funny enough, blowing up Sudan's primary source of anti malaria

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Speaker 9: drugs is not the scandal Clinton is remembered for. Okay,

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Speaker 9: So Bush is an easy one. For one thing, the

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Speaker 9: Bush administration authorized an international torture program after nine to

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Speaker 9: eleven black sites popped up in places like Afghanistan and

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Speaker 9: Romania and Thailand. The CIA's secret detention program, entailing prolonged

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Speaker 9: incommunicado detention without trial, violated international legal prohibitions against enforced disappearances.

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Speaker 9: Disappearances violate or threatened to violate a range of rules

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Speaker 9: of international human rights and humanitarian law, including arbitrary deprivation

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Speaker 9: of liberty, torture, and the right to life. Waterboarding is torture.

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Speaker 9: Bush endorsed waterboarding and admitted to using it. This covers Bush,

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Speaker 9: Dick Cheney, former CIA director George Tennant, and Condoliza Rice,

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Speaker 9: who apparently gave the first known approval of waterboarding. I

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Speaker 9: haven't watched their master classes, but if they have, sections

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Speaker 9: on running international torture programs and never facing consequences for it.

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Speaker 9: I mean they are the experts in that there were

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Speaker 9: over five hundred drone strikes during Obama's two terms. Let's

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Speaker 9: go over some of the legality.

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Speaker 11: Simply put, these strikes have saved lives. Moreover, America's actions

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Speaker 11: are legal. We were attacked on nine to eleven Within

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Speaker 11: a week, Congress overwhelmingly authorized the use of force. Under

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Speaker 11: domestic law and international law. The United States is at

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Speaker 11: war with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.

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Speaker 9: Okay, so, paraphrasing Yaleen Policy Review, the associated forces Obama's

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Speaker 9: talking about are essentially co belligerents. That's the relationship between

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Speaker 9: third party states and warring parties. This is controversial, and

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Speaker 9: it is far from clear that the groups at issue

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Speaker 9: are sufficiently organized and associated with al Qaeda to render

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Speaker 9: them co belligerents under international law. The claim was essentially

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Speaker 9: that the laws of war enable the US to kill

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Speaker 9: anyone anywhere. That position is highly legally contested, and to

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Speaker 9: accept the idea that anyone anywhere in the world can

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Speaker 9: be killed, even if civilians may be killed two would

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Speaker 9: in effect mean recognition of the concept of a global battlefield.

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Speaker 9: International human rights law is the generally accepted framework for

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Speaker 9: dealing with acts of terror in the international community, and

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Speaker 9: under that there is no right to pre plan intentional

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Speaker 9: killing and there is no tolerance for the death of bystanders.

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Speaker 9: No state has the right to consent to US violation

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Speaker 9: of these rights. Also, drone strikes aren't even necessarily productive

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Speaker 9: in their goal strikes, and Yemen had apparently increased support

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Speaker 9: for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Okay, so on

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Speaker 9: to Trump. Trump did watch Shark Week with a porn

712
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Speaker 9: star in a hotel room, but his sins as president

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Speaker 9: actually get much worse than that. Yemen is the worst

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Speaker 9: humanitarian crisis in the world because since twenty fifteen, Saudi

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Speaker 9: Arabia has been bombing.

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Speaker 3: Them into the Stone Age.

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Speaker 9: There have been about twenty thousand civilian casualties, in part

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Speaker 9: because the bombing raids target infrastructure and schools and hospitals. Now,

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Speaker 9: Obama had asked Saudi Arabia pretty nicely to try a

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Speaker 9: little harder to not kill as many civilians, and Saudi

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Speaker 9: Arabia keeps forgetting that he asked. So the thing is

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Speaker 9: that targeting civilians is a war crime, which makes selling

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Speaker 9: weapons to Saudi Arabia also a possible violation of international

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Speaker 9: humanitarian law. This war started under Oboma, and this fact

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Speaker 9: was not lost on the administration because at a certain

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Speaker 9: point people in the Obama administration said, Hey, we might

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Speaker 9: be doing war crimes over here. We should maybe stop this.

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Speaker 9: State Department officials who shepherd arm sales overseas are worried

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Speaker 9: enough to consider retaining their own legal counsel and have

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Speaker 9: discussed the possibility of being arrested while vacationing abroad.

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Speaker 10: So even though.

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Speaker 9: Obama initially supported Saudi Arabia, he ended up blocking a

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Speaker 9: shipment of bombs he had originally okayed, but then Trump

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Speaker 9: came in and sent the bombs anyway. But it is

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Speaker 9: very unlikely people like this will ever be held accountable

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Speaker 9: for the real crimes they commit where people actually die.

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Speaker 9: In fact, the US has been so hostile toward the

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Speaker 9: idea of international justice and the International Criminal Court that

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Speaker 9: the United States preemptively sanctioned ICC officials for opening an

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Speaker 9: investigation in Afghanistan that might reach US personnel bik Obama

741
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Speaker 9: opting not to investigate anyone from the Bush administration. Every

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Speaker 9: incoming administration offers that professional courtesy to the outgoing administration

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Speaker 9: I mean, if Biden went after Trump for violating the

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Speaker 9: laws of war for giving weapons to Saudi Arabia, how

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Speaker 9: could he under any circumstances justify also selling weapons to

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Speaker 9: Saudi Arabia? And with that That'll do it for me.

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Speaker 9: Thank you to Breaking Points. Thank you so much for watching,

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Speaker 9: and I'll see you in the next one.

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Speaker 10: Hey there, my name is James Lee.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for tuning into another segment of my show

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Speaker 5: fifty one to forty nine on Breaking Points, where I

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Speaker 5: talk about topics related to business, politics and society. Now

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Speaker 5: who here tried to watch The Love Is Blind Season

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Speaker 5: four reunion on Netflix last Sunday and was met with

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Speaker 5: an absolute debacle of a livestream. Netflix was just absolutely

761
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Speaker 5: roasted by every one in the chat, online, Twitter, everywhere.

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Speaker 5: Maybe a few of you guys tried to tune in.

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Speaker 5: I know Crystal and Sager had season two alum Nick

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Speaker 5: Thompson on the show last year, so there's probably at

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Speaker 5: least a little bit of overlap or crossover between fans

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Speaker 5: of Breaking Points and fans of Love is Blind.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 5: It's not lost on me, despite the online roasting that

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Speaker 5: the societal impact of Netflix's technological blunder on its own

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Speaker 5: is probably not consequential. But I do think the decisions

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Speaker 5: that the Netflix executives made leading up to that livestream

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Speaker 5: is a telling microcosm of everything that is wrong with America.

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Speaker 5: If you remember, early in twenty twenty two, Netflix made

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Speaker 5: headlines all over the tech and financial news in a

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Speaker 5: bad way for losing subscribers for the first time in

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Speaker 5: a decade. Let's just say the shareholders were none too pleased.

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Speaker 5: Some even sued the company, alleging Netflix had misled investors

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Speaker 5: about declining subscriber growth. This is a bit of an aside,

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Speaker 5: but does it not seem like shareholders win no matter

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Speaker 5: what you know. When the stock goes up, the market's

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00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 5: working perfectly, but when the stocks go down, they cry

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Speaker 5: foul anyway. Predictably, Netflix very quickly abandoned all of their

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Speaker 5: previously held company values by raising prices and instituting new

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Speaker 5: passwords sharing restrictions that can only be described as convoluted

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Speaker 5: and confusing. So much so that they've had to walk

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Speaker 5: back and amend their policies several times. I suppose at

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Speaker 5: this point we really shouldn't be taking too much stock

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Speaker 5: in a company's purported values. You know, every corporations, big

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Speaker 5: and small, they have one of these. If you go

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Speaker 5: to their website, they have a mission statement and a

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Speaker 5: company's values page. By now we should all know that

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Speaker 5: is all bs Hi.

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Speaker 4: You said it was an emergency. The live stream isn't

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Speaker 4: working like the live stream code based from my intern

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Speaker 4: project four years ago.

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Speaker 3: Are you guys airing another Chris Rock.

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Speaker 4: Special Love Is Blind? You're using that for Love is Blind? No,

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Speaker 4: I can't allocate more resources. It just runs with my laptop.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that is supposed to be funny, but it does

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Speaker 5: get at something very real. This is reporting from the

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Speaker 5: Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 10: Quote.

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Speaker 5: Netflix is hiring more junior employees, from interns to recent

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Speaker 5: college graduates. That's part of an expanded emerging talent recruitment initiative.

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Speaker 5: People familiar with the program said previously the company had

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Speaker 5: generally recruited experience staff, particularly for engineering roles. Wow, emerging

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Speaker 5: talent recruitment initiative.

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Speaker 10: That is a new one.

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Speaker 5: What a euphemism for a directive that I imagine is

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Speaker 5: nothing more than corporate speak for let's hire people who

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Speaker 5: will work for less. Continuing on quote, Netflix is trying

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Speaker 5: to better control rising cloud computing costs with longtime cloud

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Speaker 5: partner Amazon Web Services. According to people familiar with that work,

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Speaker 5: Netflix has long spent heavily on cloud and network infrastructure,

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Speaker 5: viewing the reliability of its service as a key selling point.

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Speaker 10: Yes, that's totally how you get more subscribers.

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Speaker 5: Hey, you want to pay twenty bucks a month for Netflix,

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Speaker 5: But sometimes it won't work because they don't want to

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Speaker 5: invest in the infrastructure it takes to run their platform.

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Speaker 5: Because shareholders are whining and the executives are all turning

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Speaker 5: to their Mackenzie buddies for these genius ideas. Well, with

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Speaker 5: all these tech layoffs, it's good to know that somebody's

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Speaker 5: getting paid.

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Speaker 10: New Netflix co CEO Greg Peters is.

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Speaker 5: Set for a big raise with more than thirty million

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Speaker 5: dollars in potential stock options and bonuses.

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Speaker 10: On top of a three million dollar salary.

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Speaker 5: Like I went to business school and I get the

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Speaker 5: realities and economics of running a business, I do. Sometimes

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Speaker 5: you got to make hard decisions to save the company.

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Speaker 5: But it is interesting, is it not? That time and

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Speaker 5: time again, executive compensation is oftentimes completely divorced from company

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Speaker 5: performance and unimpacted by these restructing plans, and more often

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Speaker 5: than not, executives would rather hollow out their own company

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Speaker 5: to the point of putting the entire company's operational infrastructure

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Speaker 5: at risk than reduce their own pay.

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Speaker 12: I'm not trying to come super hard at ceopay, but

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Speaker 12: you do have to acknowledge this as a conversation that

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Speaker 12: is occurring, and there have been ongoing questions for years

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Speaker 12: because CEO pay has increased many, many times faster than wages,

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Speaker 12: which have been stagnant for forty years. Right, ceopay has

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Speaker 12: increase Yeah, three hundred and twenty two percent. Since nineteen

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Speaker 12: seventy eight, CEOs were paid three hundred and fifty one

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Speaker 12: times as much as a typical worker in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 12: so CEO pays up thirteen hundred percent.

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Speaker 13: That kind of makes sense to me.

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Speaker 12: The average American wages have been flat for forty years.

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Speaker 13: The value these individuals, these elite executives provide is even

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Speaker 13: more valuable than the percentage more they're getting paid. The

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Speaker 13: average employee at Amazon versus Andy. If he gets paid

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Speaker 13: three hundred and fifty times when they get paid, or

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Speaker 13: even a thousand times, M'd say he's ten thousand times

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Speaker 13: more important than the average employee his ability to do that,

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Speaker 13: just like Steph Curry.

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Speaker 10: Yes, just like Steph Curry.

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Speaker 5: Totally the same thing running a business and playing basketball.

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Speaker 5: But in all seriousness, the impact of Netflix gutting their

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Speaker 5: infrastructure and bungling the Love is blind live stream is

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Speaker 5: more or less inconsequential when it comes to society as

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Speaker 5: a whole.

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Speaker 10: Probably some would disagree with that, but my point is

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Speaker 10: Netflix is not unique.

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Speaker 5: That's how all companies operate, and that's why I'm talking

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Speaker 5: about this today. Because for the most part, business executives

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Speaker 5: aren't held accountable for anything. So business strategy one to

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Speaker 5: one would simply be to make as much money as

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Speaker 5: possible while cutting as many expenses as possible Legally. Of course,

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Speaker 5: I'm sure there were a number of Netflix engineers who

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Speaker 5: were like, I think this is a bad idea, but

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Speaker 5: we're told to just push on. And in the case

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Speaker 5: of Netflix, we could all have a few laughs at

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Speaker 5: their expense. But what if we're not talking about a

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Speaker 5: live stream that crashed. What if it was a train

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Speaker 5: that crashed carrying dangerous chemicals and toxic materials. Not a

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Speaker 5: hypothetical obviously, and not a one off occurrence according to

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Speaker 5: publicly available data. You need pausit this video if you

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Speaker 5: want to read these four charts, But the data shows

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Speaker 5: train crashes are commonplace in the US. Accidents, fatalities, derailments,

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Speaker 5: and damages all on the rise over the past decade. Remember,

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Speaker 5: everything is an expense. Safety is an expense. It's all

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Speaker 5: a big ruse. Nothing is coincidental. Just like Netflix engineers

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Speaker 5: were told to sacrifice reliability, there is a clear mandate

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Speaker 5: for rail engineers to skip safety checks because doing those

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Speaker 5: tests would cost the company money. I'm using train crashes

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Speaker 5: as an example here, but industrial accidents of all types

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Speaker 5: are happening at alarming rates all over the country. We

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Speaker 5: talk about conspiracy theories, right here's one. Safety costs money,

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Speaker 5: and if we can downplay safety, that means we can

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Speaker 5: cut costs. And even if it train crashes, people won't care.

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Speaker 5: I don't think it is a coincidence that the media,

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Speaker 5: corporate media specifically, will sometimes downplay these types of stories

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Speaker 5: for as long as possible. If that story will make

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Speaker 5: corporations look bad because if they report what's actually going on,

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Speaker 5: their advertisers will get mad and pay.

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Speaker 10: Them less money.

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Speaker 5: Like a lot of the early coverage I saw of

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Speaker 5: the East Palestine train derailment was reporting not from cable

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Speaker 5: news or any of the legacy outlets. The real information

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Speaker 5: on the ground was coming from TikTok. I don't think

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Speaker 5: it's a coincidence either, that the Transportation Secretary, Pete bootage

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Speaker 5: Edge continuously drags his feet when it comes to taking

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Speaker 5: on these powerful industries. He's supposed to oversee what be

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Speaker 5: trains or planes like this headline suggests, The truth is

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Speaker 5: that there are decades long financial arrangements in place between

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Speaker 5: rail companies, lobbyists, and lawmakers people to just doing his

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Speaker 5: job will necessarily threaten the millions of dollars that flow

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Speaker 5: in all directions. To tell you the truth, at this point,

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Speaker 5: I can't even tell you where the military or corporations

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Speaker 5: end and where the government begins. And when that happens,

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Speaker 5: it becomes very clear to the people, the public how

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Speaker 5: rigged the game is, and naturally people become disillusioned and

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Speaker 5: society will naturally become increasingly more unstable.

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Speaker 10: There was just another mass shooting in Kentucky? Why not?

914
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Speaker 3: Why not? You know what I get it now.

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Speaker 13: It's not about pronouns, it's not about the laft, it's

916
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Speaker 13: not about the right.

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Speaker 10: They're not gonna ban guns. They have set the field.

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Speaker 10: People are fing helpless.

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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they just what's that?

920
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Speaker 4: There's no point. You're giving people no point to live.

921
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Speaker 3: You're giving people nothing to lose.

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Speaker 5: People getting violent on airplanes, mass shootings, riots, insurrections. These

923
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Speaker 5: are all interconnected. Right When the whole of society exists

924
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Speaker 5: on top of an economic structure built upon a failed

925
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Speaker 5: and outdated economic maxim and that is shareholder privacy at

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Speaker 5: all costs. This is the expected result when institutions, whether

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Speaker 5: they be governmental something like the Department of Transportation or

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Speaker 5: private something such as the media, institutions that are supposed

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Speaker 5: to function as advocates for citizens and report on abuses

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Speaker 5: of power, end up as extensions of those corporations.

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Speaker 10: This is the expected results when.

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Speaker 5: Rules have been crafted that allow for the legal exploitation

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Speaker 5: of large swaths of the country's population. This is the

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Speaker 5: expected result. So let's end legalized bribery in this country.

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Speaker 10: There are at.

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Speaker 5: Least three amendments that have been proposed stuck in Congress.

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Speaker 5: House Joint Resolution one, known as the Democracy for All Amendment,

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Speaker 5: House Joint Resolution forty eight, known as the We the

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Speaker 5: People Amendment, and House Joint Resolution twenty one, known as

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Speaker 5: the People's Rights Amendment. Right to your members of Congress

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Speaker 5: prioritize this issue. We are due badly for a constitutional

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Speaker 5: amendment that will return the country to the people. And

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Speaker 5: that is how you get from Netflix's Love Is Blind

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Speaker 5: to corporate malfeasans to trading, derailments, to insurrections.

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Speaker 10: And mass shootings. What do you think? Do you agree? Disagree?

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Speaker 5: Share your thoughts in the common section below, Because I

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Speaker 5: think this is a very important discussion to have you

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Speaker 5: so much for watching Breaking Points, and thank you for

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Speaker 5: your time today.