United Nations to Mediate Aussie v. Space X War with Muskets

The Paul Truesdell Podcast

Nanny State Tells The World to Nanny Up - We Suggest Australians Nut Up

Sponsored by: Truesdell Wealth, Inc.
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Summary

I. Introduction
- Elon Musk and X/Twitter refusing to take down photos/videos of knife attacks in Sydney despite Australian court order
- Discussion of censorship, propaganda, and historical context

II. Terrorist attack in Australia
- 16-year-old charged with terrorism for attacking religious facility
- The Australian government wants attacks downplayed and materials removed from internet worldwide
- Criticism of double standards in how different religiously-motivated attacks are treated by media and governments

III. Connecting Australia situation to rapper killed in Nashville
- Chris King, former roommate of Justin Bieber, killed in Nashville
- 19-year-old shooter had prior murder arrest as a juvenile
- Concerns about youth being used by gangs for violent crime
- Broader discussion of societal issues and unwillingness to acknowledge facts

IV. Gender equality in the workplace
- Statistics on low percentage of women in certain jobs like plumbing despite equal pay
- Criticism of excessive focus on getting women into military combat roles
- Questions about fairness of modified standards and special accommodations

V. Information overload and media sensationalism
- Technology has erased regional differences and exposed people to information overload
- Media drumbeat of sensationalized threats (child abductions, shark attacks, etc.) despite actual low probability
- Importance of tuning out irrelevant information and focusing on bettering one's own situation

VI. Conclusion
- Anecdote about changing demographics of workers at local gas station
- Concerns about younger generations' work ethic and economic productivity
- Speculation that reduced labor supply will drive up costs further

In summary, the discussion touched on issues of censorship, terrorism, crime, gender in the workplace, information overload, and generational economic trends - making broad connections between current events in an attempt to identify concerning societal patterns. The overall tone was critical of perceived inconsistencies and double standards in social and political attitudes.

Unedited Transcript

00:00
You might not be aware, but Elon Musk is at war with Australia. Really? Yes, he declared war and they launched ballistic missiles from SpaceX. And they've taken off Sydney

00:15
the Prime Minister of Australia has lashed out at ex and Elon Musk for refusing to take down photos of the knife attacks that took place in Sydney. recently. Yes, I heard about those. So, in Australia, everybody who's on the interwebs and gets on x. They're blocking those photos, those videos and everything. But Australia's Federal Court has ruled in a hastily called hearing that, yeah, the photos and the videos had to be taken down worldwide. Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah. My, my response to that would be You and what army? Thank you very much. No, go away. I found it amazing. I'm going to try to see if I can find it. They basically the audacity of Elon Musk to show these photos. And he's not it's just it's his company. But the point is, there's no media lashing out saying the audacity of the Australian government to impose its will on the world. Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty comical. And these are the it is important to, you know, of all the interesting changes at X slash Twitter or whatever.

01:41
This is one of the things in the prior

01:45
prior ownership, you know, as a public company, they prior executives would have kowtow to the sort of thing.

01:53
And they did, continually, you know, one little country gets mad, and they take things down for the whole world, because whatever. And I do remember, I don't know if this is the case anymore, but I do remember they had, like, regional blocking. So every now and then people would share screenshots around that, you know, look, this tweet is blocked in Germany, because it, you know, made somebody they're mad or had a certain kind of piracy on it. That was only was illegal in that country. So they block it on a country by country basis. I tell Australia, okay, fine, we'll block it. But just in Australia, and then when you complain that it's elsewhere, it's like, and so well, the ruling is so lame. Literally any country can control the entire Internet. And I found it interesting that Australia's E Safety Commission.

02:46
Yeah, so they just it's just sounds childish, honestly. And so we're is in Where are parents monitoring what their children are doing? Just real simple. I mean, we're there. This is because of children is their argument? Well, I, I suspect, if it's a nationwide blog, that guests Australians have become overly pacified, and are unable to handle things, I guess the thing is, how, how do they allow people to go into the military? Well, there's all kinds of very interesting controversies with their military lately as well. People can't handle the things that people have done at war. It's like, well, yes, well, yeah. But I mean, okay, so not all warfare is handing out gummy bears to the children on the side of the road. You know, sometimes people do nasty things. And that's just the reality of, well, censorship and propaganda have been around since the days of founding of our nation. Let's get blunt and real about it.

03:47
Benjamin Franklin was a propagandist with his, his writings, so, so too, are all of those who wrote the Federalist Papers and the anti Federalist Papers. What do you think those things were? They were propaganda? Absolutely. I was reminded. Let's see earlier, yesterday or so something about, you know, the Tea Party and, you know, the revolt over taxes and everything. And I saw how the Tea Party hijacked by Glenn Beck I'm talking about the Boston Tea Party. Oh, sorry, not the

04:25
post financial collapse grift by the now that we have that word to use? Yes. Some popular it's it was nothing. It was something for a short while and then it just very quickly just became a grift by certain political entities that we now know, not Glenn Beck, but others that anyway, aside the point the Tea Party thing reminded me or I was reminded of the Tea Party because of the Boston Tea Party. That is

04:54
because there was a funny tweet I saw from one of the big Libertarian Party X

05:00
accounts okay about basically crying that global gas prices are going up over the Ukraine conflicts and I was like I was like oh, oh yes. Oh no will revolt over some mild taxes and that's kind of the bedrock of you know, libertarianism which is you know if the government basically and no more taxes meanwhile tax for freedom is not worth it these days apparently according to libertarian

05:31
it's just so funny how how these little these groups flip flop on their ideals and their and their principles and stuff and the biggest flip flop and Republicans and Democrats the two parties the two main parties have just completely flip flopped that neither one of them stand for the the origins of what they used to stand for now it's just it's political convenience and other party bad under most circumstances especially on the national politics level was locals a little different yeah locals on a national level. It's it's comical. It's i I honestly don't even know why people pay attention to stuff other than that. It's the greatest show on earth. Basically, apparently, one of the things going back to Australia, I'll just kind of loop this together. The there's a 16 ye...