"Many think the vaccine hesitant are dumb or just misinformed, but that’s not at all what I’ve seen... independent of education level, the vaccine hesitant I’ve met in the ER are more familiar with vaccine studies and more familiar with their own C0VlD risks than the vaccinated.”
“For example, many of my nurses have refused the vaccine, despite having seen C0VlD-19 cause more death & devastation than most people have.”
“I ask them: why refuse the vaccine?"
"They tell me that while they’ve seen the first hand dangers of C0VlD in the elderly, the obese, diabetics — they think their risk is low. They’re not wrong.”
Krassenstein: "The resistance... of course, higher-ups pay us. Yeah, people pay us. They want us to help sow the division and to take over Trump's Twitter feed... when he makes a post, they want our tweets to be up there. They don't want Trump supporters to be seen in that."
The oligarchs use algorithms, paid trolls, & bots to ensure every "public debate" goes their way.
Most humans are herd animals who take their cues from what other people are thinking. Mimetic desire.
Right now, there seems to be ruling class conflict between Soros (CIA) & BlackRock (Wall Street).
Soros is arguing that BlackRock’s China investments aren’t in line with ESG metrics, especially since Xi has taken a populist stance (“Common Prosperity”)
Soros networks seem to be indistinguishable from our own intelligence services.
My interpretation is that they have more geopolitical goals than BlackRock does, which is more profit focused
Their “personality is suggestible, submissive, has advanced degrees but is actually extremely uneducated. Washington DC — this entire area — we call it the DMV”
Gives example of Thomas Friedman, who married an heiress, hides in his multiple DC mansions while he writes about how the world works, & gets laughed at by normal people.
“These people culturally are not accountable to any real people. They’re in their own little Elysium bubble”
On Thomas Friedman’s “conversations with taxi drivers”
“That’s the joke about him, because it perfectly encapsulates the parachute mentality of these people. The only real people they meet are those who give them rides”
A black lawyer suggests she has empathy for the “white supremacists” that Talia Levin profiles. Floats constructive ways to engage with them.
Talia Levin freaks out over her “sympathy for the devil” & wants antifa violence against them.
"What are you even advocating for!?"
Talia Levin cannot emotionally handle the idea of engaging with the Americans she profiled, & lashes out at the host.
"If I had known this was going to be an extended conversation about the utility of deradicalization vs. antifascism, I absolutely would not have agreed to be on this podcast"
Takes a literal deep breath bc she's so horrified by the idea of "intimacy" over pure violence.