JamesWebbSlinger
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- Aug 10, 2022
Tim had Scott Horton, the director of the Libertarian Institute, & Will Chamberlain, senior council of the Internet Accountability Project, as the sides on The Culture War. Will shall defend Israel, & its actions, where he agrees with them. Scott shall be taking a more critical position.
Scott came to the debate with a 16 minute opening statement, which Tim was unprepared for. Though both Scott & Will argued past each other at the extreme positions of each side, rather than each other's arguments.
Also, Will either suffers from a spinal issue, or is really tired, for throughout this debate he is slumping further & further down, non-stop:
Clip Collection:
-Will makes an early disclaimer that he no longer works with the DeSantis campaign, ensuring Tim knows this:
-Scott opens by saying he has no vendetta against Will, & shows it by offering Will two books, Reclaiming the American Right by Justin Raimondo which he says details how Neo-Conservatives took over the Right, & his own book, Enough Already on his analysis of U.S. foreign policy from President Jimmy Carter to the present:
-I presume Will was not expecting such a lengthy opening statement, as there is an audible sigh picked up:
-Scott clarifies his comparison of Gaza to Indian reservations in the United States, by saying Israel has the ability to pick off Hamas leadership at will, rather than use air strikes to "bomb the whole place to the ground":
-Scott, also, expounds upon his comparison to Waco, & what he would recommend Israel to do in the wake of 7 October. Scott compares it to a "prison uprising", or "ghetto". It boils down to chase Hamas back into Gaza, & then negotiate with the political leadership:
-Scott brings up "the Hellfire missile...that shoots swords out", aka the Hellfire R9X missile:
I recall seeing discourse on pro-Palestine "X" accounts about this strike which boiled down to no one really understanding how it functions. Here is one of the more widely shared ones:
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-Will & Scott throw polls at each other:
Here are the polls cited, & I have attached the methodologies for both to this post:
Scott's poll question results Will's poll results
Both have issues, as Scott's was taken in July, prior to the attacks on 7 October, & Will's uses a sample size of only 668 respondents.
-Scott explains his world view as "government employees" & "everybody else":
-Tim talks about how the Gaza Strip is not as bleak as activists claim, citing the existence of farms & photos of resorts:
-Scott pushes back upon Tim's favourite question, saying that if the border controls/siege of Gaza was lifted, the IDF would not be disarmed. I appreciated this, as Tim has been using this as a "gotcha" for those arguing for some level of Palestinian freedom of movement. Unfortunately, Scott brings up post-Yugoslav War Bosnia, & Germans in "minarchist" France as examples of peoples living together despite a long history of slaughter, & how few ethno-states exist anymore:
Tim had Clint Russell back as the guest for the IRL episode.
Ian & Phil were co-hosting.
*Clint notes the wobbling of Elon Musk's "Awful, but lawful" statement. Tim & Phil says it is not contradictory to ban "decolonisation" &"From the River to the Sea", as it implies calls for violence: 38:44-51:15
Clip Collection:
-Ian praises the show Clint & Luke are now running, though he makes the mistake of plugging Luke's supplements. Please, avoid any legal liability, Ian...:
-Clint crushes the greatest challenge, speaking for all libertarians:
-Tim fails to note the "early life" of Michael Rappaport, which may motivate him to vote Donald Trump, over the Left's pro-Palestine stance:
-Ian calls out Tim being hyperbolic saying activists always lie, but claims to be a "journalist". Tim retorts this is just a conversation. Clint says Tim fails to call out the IDF lying, as much as the Leftists/Palestine supporters. Tim gets heated, saying it is just about "domestic policy", not what the IDF, or Hamas, says. Tim goes on to make this about journalists claiming he is a "super-spreader" of misinformation:
-Ian hates when people self-censor, online. He wants to go back to the good old days, when you could say "fuck", or "kill", without worrying about the algorithm:
-Tim wants everyone to know that Jonathan Lewis, the white teen that was beaten to death, challenged one of the people that beat him to death to a fight over him stealing headphones from one of Jonathan's friends, threw the first punch & not all the people beating him were black:
-One of the IRL viewers is in the hospital, having had his first son born. Clint & Phil tell him to pay attention to his wife, & close the phone:
