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Stefan Molyneux reflects on comments and reactions from social media platforms, including being deplatformed and facing accusations of various controversial issues. He addresses criticism about his focus on certain topics, interactions with donors, and fallout from his coverage of COVID-19. Stefan emphasizes his commitment to truth-seeking and philosophical discourse, expressing gratitude to supporters and highlighting the importance of critical thinking in shaping his content.
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Stefan Molyneux reflects on comments and reactions from social media platforms, including being deplatformed and facing accusations of various controversial issues. He addresses criticism about his focus on certain topics, interactions with donors, and fallout from his coverage of COVID-19. Stefan emphasizes his commitment to truth-seeking and philosophical discourse, expressing gratitude to supporters and highlighting the importance of critical thinking in shaping his content.
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Transcript
00:00Hey, everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Freedom Aid. Hope you're doing well. So an interesting
00:06little phenomenon, I guess, kicked up over on Twitter slash X, and it just seems to keep
00:13on cooking. So I thought I would talk about it. This is a fellow, Ryan Harkness, who posted
00:18a pretty small account. He posted something, what is it, a couple of days ago, yesterday,
00:25a couple of days ago. He posted, whatever happened to Stefan Molyneux? I thought he
00:30was pretty innocuous, and they nuked that guy out of the galaxy. And it is now at 3.6 million
00:38views, 12,000 likes, and all of that. So very, very interesting. Very interesting.
00:49And people are posting little bits about here and there. And somebody said,
00:57he has survived on Rumble barely. What they did to him they can do to us all,
01:01and we know it, and that is why so many are silent. And somebody else says, he was not
01:07innocuous. Well, I'd like to humbly agree with that assessment. They say, he's on Rumble getting
01:151,000 views. Now, I do occasionally feel a little twinge and a sting about the low number
01:23of views. I remember back in the day on YouTube, anything less than 100,000 was considered a
01:28massive failure by myself and Mike. But on the other hand, it's the old question, sort of the
01:36way that I, I say reframe it, but I think it's an accurate view, that what I do is I say,
01:42would you rather teach the Intro to Philosophy course with 1,000 students, of whom only,
01:53say, 20 are going to go on to really, really study philosophy over the course of a lifetime,
01:58or would you rather teach a postgraduate course with those 20 people who are really
02:04going to study philosophy for a lifetime, right? So I view my career as I started with the Intro
02:11to Philosophy, and I have graduated to the postgraduate school where I deal with people
02:20who are really, really, really interested in philosophy. So he's just one website over,
02:27homie. Yes, yes, yes. Somebody wrote, yes, this makes me sad. He was obviously soft-hearted,
02:34if you listened enough, just hard-shelled where and when he had to be. I learned a lot from this
02:38gentleman. That's very nice. Thank you. Somebody wrote, he was, and likely still is, an online
02:46cult leader. Ah, yes, the cult of speak your mind, be honest with people in your relationships. You
02:52don't have to deal with relentless abusers, and you should go to therapy, and here's the reason
02:57and evidence and sources behind, and I never tell people what to do and never take anyone's money,
03:04except for donations, and give away my books for free. Yes, absolutely.
03:08But, you know, so people just have these words that they use to ward off thought, right? Thought
03:14is a demon to the false self, right? Because the false self relies on prejudice and programming
03:20masquerading as virtue. It is a kind of demonic possession of language to displace thought,
03:27like language displacing thought creates a false self of aggressive conclusions,
03:31which can't be questioned. And so people are given these words to ward off thought,
03:37like the demon will keep the priest out of the house, right? And so, you know, cults,
03:42racist, misogynistic, whatever it is, right? Phobic, this, that, and the other.
03:47And so people, it's interesting, I see these words, and I'm like, okay, so the demon of hatred,
03:55the demon of propaganda, the demon of pretend virtue has taken this person and is using these
04:07charged words to ward off any potential thought that might unseat the demon. I completely
04:13understand it. You know, squatters move into a house called the soul, they don't want to
04:17get kicked out. And the thing that kicks out these demons is thought. And so when I see these words,
04:24I just see the defenses of a kind of, it's an analogy, right? But the defenses of the demon
04:29of false morality, trying to keep the priest of reason away. All right. Somebody wrote,
04:35he told Taylor Swift to have babies before she got older. They took him in the night.
04:41That is hilarious. I have to say that again. Took him in the night. I mean, it's a chilling
04:48reference to the Gulag Archipelago by Sargent Eaton, but he told Taylor Swift to have babies
04:53before she got older. They took him in the night. That is very funny. That is very funny.
05:04All right. The race realism got him. Also, they were nuking all Trump supporters back then. I
05:09mean, I wasn't exactly a Trump supporter, but I did support the truth, of course.
05:16Let's see here. Deplatformed more than most, but still putting out content. And then there's the
05:21reference to my show, The Truth About the French Revolution, which if you donate at
05:24freedemand.com slash donate, you get a copy of that for free for the next week.
05:29Somebody says, no shit. I used to watch him all the time before the censorship
05:33industrial complex went into overdrive in 2020. Yeah.
05:42And that's interesting, right? What's been a really, really fascinating journey,
05:46which I, overall, I find positive. I enjoy my life more now than I did in the past. And a lot
05:53of that has to do with the fact that I realized, you know, and it's when you're bestriding the
05:58world like a colossus in a sense, and you're, you know, one of the biggest alt media influences,
06:03stars, whatever you want to call it, you feel that you're engaging with an audience that,
06:10you know, cares about you. But then it's like, oh, has he gone from this platform? He's one
06:14website over. I can't be bothered. That's very humbling, which I always enjoy being humbled
06:20because reality is important and vanity is the enemy of progress. And so realizing how little
06:32I meant to people, how little philosophy meant to people that they couldn't go one website over or
06:36wouldn't be bothered to go one website over was, you know, absolutely fantastic.
06:44Humbling, of course, right? But humbling is good. It's good for the soul. It's good for the soul.
06:51And I sort of felt like I was some guy who went to rescue some damsel in distress and, you know,
07:01swam seas and climbed mountains and battled tigers and finally got to the damsel in distress,
07:05who told me to go F myself. She's happy where she is. So that's good.
07:13The Molyneux's playlist on YouTube with all of his IQ related expert interviews
07:16was some of the best insight into the topic available to the public. Oh, yes.
07:23I've been wondering the same thing. I lost him in. He moved to Rumble before it was cool. He's
07:29still there. The most censored person on the planet, possibly exception, possible exception
07:37is Alex Jones, brilliant philosopher and great entertainer also. It's funny, you know, maybe this
07:43is still a bit of vanity, but in some ways I take equal pleasure in both being a brilliant philosopher
07:52and a great entertainer. So. All right. So why isn't that back on X? Well, I am. I have been.
08:01I have been resurrected on X. I have access to my platform. But to me, the analogy would be
08:08that you put a lot of time into a relationship with a woman. You put several years into a
08:14relationship with a woman and you have these rules with her, right? Like we don't yell,
08:18we don't hit, we don't scream, we don't call names, we talk each other out reasonably and
08:22so on. And it's mostly OK for, you know, say five years. And then she goes completely mental,
08:29drains your bank account and sets fire to your car, trashes your house and disappears into the
08:36wind. And then a couple of years later, you get a message from her with no context saying,
08:43fine, I'll take you back. And it's like, I think we're going to need a little bit
08:50more of a conversation than that. Right. Let's see here. He was effective. Interesting.
09:00He was canceled only because he told women over 30 they were unlikely to have children
09:05or more unlikely to mate. I don't remember saying that. Again, I mean, who knows, right? I've said
09:14a lot of things over the last 18 years. I don't think that's certainly not what I believe. What
09:19I believe is that for a woman over 30, I always get that Harry Belafonte, Matilda, Matilda,
09:26Matilda, she take me money and run to Venezuela. Women over 30, women over 40, he does that in
09:32concert, which is kind of funny, but then nobody sings. $500 friends I lost betting it on the
09:41captain's horse. Don't you know that Matilda, she take me money and run to Venezuela. It's a great
09:46song. I mean, that's like, that's the only verses you just keep doing that until you die. But I
09:53think what I would have said here is something because I'm a free will guy. So I wouldn't say
09:58that it's impossible what I would say or unlikely. I would say that a woman who's over 30, who's
10:07single is going to have to change her methodology for choosing mates because she was not able to
10:15secure a husband when she was in her peak attractiveness. And therefore, she's going to
10:22have to adjust her expectations. She's going to have to change her selection metric.
10:28All right.
10:33He started to notice a bit too much. Guy was a bit of a stick in the mud sometimes. Don't
10:37get me wrong. I enjoyed his content, but it almost felt cult-like too. A bit of a stick
10:43in the mud sometimes. I actually think that's a very honest and fair assessment. I'm fine.
10:48I'm fine with that. Well, not that it matters what I'm fine with or not, but
10:53people say the history of your enslavement is actually the story of your enslavement.
10:58He literally moved one website over. He's on Locals Rumble and his own website,
11:04Free Domain. People didn't want to get off YouTube, even though they actually learned
11:08how evil Google is, as if they didn't know already. So that's nice.
11:19Now that song's stuck in my head.
11:21Bring him back. I can't listen to that. Bring it back. Without the battle of nevermore,
11:26battle of nevermore. He still does some stuff. He was threatened and removed himself from
11:31politics for the well-being of his family. Based, but also cringe. Based, but also cringe.
11:39You know what? I would actually agree with that assessment, too. He was awesome. Dropped facts.
11:46I remember he had a meltdown or something. I do think he should be let back on. I support
11:52free speech. So that's interesting, right? There's a couple of responses. He was great.
11:58He was racist. He was a cult leader. And he went crazy is another one that people... He had a
12:05meltdown. He went crazy. He lost it. He went off the deep end. He lost it. He lost it. He lost it.
12:11He had a meltdown. He went crazy. He lost it. He went off the deep end. He lost the plot.
12:16He wandered off into crazy town and so on. And he went mad is another magic word that the demon of
12:24the false self uses to retain its control over the remnants of the personality. He was great.
12:31Good question. Much of my transition to libertarianism and philosophy was due to him.
12:36I miss him. He was in it for the money. Ah, yes. The guy who took a massive pay cut
12:45from a very successful board level software executive career.
12:53Yes, yes. Just all about the money. No question. No question.
12:58Let's see here. Miss that guy. He was a bit over the top sometimes, but overall just great.
13:09That's also very accurate. A bit over the top sometimes. Absolutely. I make up for my lack
13:17of hair by not having much over the top, by being a bit over the top personality-wise.
13:21I think he went to hiding after humiliating himself. Right. So that also he went crazy.
13:31The other one is, you know, he viciously attacked a listener for donating a dollar.
13:35That's another fine one. Again, these are just magic spells to ward off thought and curiosity.
13:40The other one, of course, which I can still see floating around from time to time. Again,
13:44not that I'm Googling myself or anything, but I saw it floating around here is that
13:49he forgot to switch from his alt account before posting as a teenage girl and so on.
13:55And that wasn't true. I mean, I posted a comment on YouTube on Google+, which was an old Google
14:04platform. I think it was there too many years ago, but I think it was there to replace Facebook or
14:08Twitter. And so I reposted a woman's comment from YouTube on Google+, and then it reposted it under
14:14that video under my Google+, account, but you could still see the original comment. So that was
14:20just, you know, that I switched to alt accounts to comment on my own videos as teenage girls. I
14:24mean, it's pretty funny. It never would have crossed my mind. I've certainly never posted
14:28for myself on alt accounts, but that's kind of funny. Right. He decided not to fight back. He
14:33had opportunities on other platforms and he turned it down. I'm not sure what that means. I'm also
14:38not sure what it means to say he decided not to fight back. Let's see here. This man does not
14:47deserve your admiration, pity, or time. It boggles my mind that anyone would defend him today,
14:53but it is a testament to what skillful online BSing can accomplish.
14:57I always wonder, I suppose, why people are so bothered by what I do, because when someone
15:09bothers, like when what someone does, I consider just, you know, false and bad and wrong.
15:16I just don't watch them. I don't think about them. I just disconnect from that kind of thing. So
15:22if you are still hating someone, what is it, been over four years since my de-platforming,
15:28if you're still hating someone to the point where you've got this amount of emotional energy,
15:40that would be a good opportunity for self-knowledge. Like, why do I care?
15:43And telling other people what they should feel is kind of dictatorial, which I guess is why
15:53he's this way, right? He has a free domain community on the Locals app. That's amazing.
15:59He is going from strength to strength with his content and insights. Well, thank you. I
16:02appreciate that. He just put out perhaps his most important book, Peaceful Parenting,
16:07The Morality, Psychology, and Science of Ethical Child Raising. Ah, yes, the RK selection type
16:15theory, right? People act like Steph doesn't exist anymore. He's just on a different website,
16:22and he's still doing, producing incredible work. Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
16:26He was good. What was it? I think Andrew Wilson talked about me on his podcast, like I
16:31dead or been gone to the back rooms or despawned or something like that.
16:35I agree with you, actually, but there was something creepy about that dude. Don't know.
16:41Why isn't he on X, actually? Creepy is another one of these words that is just
16:47ward off the demon, ward off the priest of thought. So the demon of
16:52anti-rationality can retain its dominion. He did an amazing breakdown of Elliot Rogers. I think so.
17:00He was an asshole. One of the original, every problem is women's fault somehow guys,
17:05but his canceling was a portent of something awful now maturing.
17:12Every problem is women's fault somehow.
17:19Again, it's a caricature and so on, right? So some people
17:24cast these ward off the priest of thought on themselves, and some people go into the public
17:36space to give other people the language that they need to keep the priest of reason at bay.
17:42Let's see here.
17:53In 2016, I concluded Molyneux was controlled opposition,
17:57which was a few months after I concluded that Alex Jones was controlled opposition.
18:05Controlled opposition, I think that means that I'm secretly in league with sinister forces,
18:11but I'm presenting myself as an opposer of the powers that be while taking money behind my back
18:20from them or something like that. So, I mean, that which is asserted without evidence can
18:27be dismissed without evidence. All right. Yes, he touched a couple of third rails and he was
18:34digitally assassinated like Milo and so many others who've never recovered like Alex Jones has.
18:39It takes a lot of guts, time, and energy to overcome that kind of attack.
18:43He's still out there, but he's being severely shadow banned.
18:49Stéphane was considered at one time the most popular philosopher online,
18:52but he's exposed some inconvenient truths. It's kind of the job, right? It's kind of the gig, right?
18:57Let's see here.
19:11This is interesting. Stéphane Molyneux's story is representative of the transformation of the
19:15US right over the past 10 to 12 years. Honestly, I've never considered myself right wing or left
19:20wing, conservative or liberal. I'm just after the truth no matter where it leads.
19:26After the 2010 election, dissident right commentators began emerging aided by social
19:31media. There was an enormous variety of ideas being shared. Everything from Mencius mold bug to
19:38NRX, HBD, I think that's human biodiversity, to alt-right and the alt-light of Molyneux.
19:45It was a fertile intellectual atmosphere, especially in a handful of cities like New York
19:49City. All right. I don't know anything about this. I don't know what human biodiversity is. I don't
19:54know mold bug and I don't know who NRX is. Sorry. This culture of a fertile right dissident culture
20:01intensified after the 2012 election and reached its peak with the election of Trump in 16. What
20:06happened after that is tragic. This culture was destroyed by legal, political and economic
20:11pressure by detractors from both left and mainstream quote right. The election of Trump
20:15caught many establishment figures on the quote right by surprise. They couldn't allow him to
20:20succeed and they correctly identified the new right that had sprung up in their midst as one of
20:26his key supports. They did what they could to break it up. Again, I mean, I'm just after the
20:31truth. I'm just very, very interested in the truth. If people lie about Obama, I will talk
20:37about that. If people lie about Trump, I will talk about that and so on, right? I mean, people said,
20:43and I remember defending Obama on this point, that people said that Obama said, well, you didn't build
20:47that and that's not what he said. So, all right. Narcissism is a hard beast to scare. He has one
20:55project, however, I endorse that is about better parenting. However, he likes to claim that before
21:00him, nobody ever did such work or at least of his magnitude, completely ignoring Piaget, for instance,
21:07is off-putting though. Well, what I have talked about is, to my knowledge, and I did look for this,
21:15but it doesn't mean I combed every corner of the galaxy, but I did look for a philosophical analysis
21:28of the ethics of the parent-child relationship by any major philosopher. Piaget was not a philosopher.
21:35Piaget, of course, he used his own children as subjects and did a lot of work in early childhood
21:39and childhood development, which is great and admirable. And I remember when Piaget died,
21:44his kids, who are now, of course, fully grown, came to his funeral and there were a lot of
21:48psychologists there who meeting his children after they'd studied his children so extensively
21:53through Piaget's work when they were little, I found it quite odd to meet the people that he'd
21:58written about so extensively. So, of course, I'm not saying that nobody studied childhood and
22:02nobody's advocated to be nicer to children, but as far as a moral, rational, and particularly
22:09scientific examination of the causes and effects and ethics of child abuse, nope. So, again, I'm
22:15happy to be corrected on that, but he was an obvious social engineer, incredibly boring and
22:22pretentious as hell. Well, boring, I can't agree with. Pretentious? I don't know. I mean, again,
22:30these are just words to ward off. See, the demons of the false self that inhabit most of the
22:38population communicate with each other and are trying to ward other people off from the priests
22:41of reason. So, this isn't a boring and pretentious as hell, right? Why does it bother you what I do?
22:47Just one dollar, please. Let's see here. He was my gateway to inter-libertarianism as a young man,
22:55watched a lot of his YouTube videos and so on. Even I, as a Catholic, loved listening to him.
23:03I remember the attacks, and poof, he was gone. I miss his analysis of stuff. So, that, and this is
23:08from a guy called the Spartan Philosopher. Well, of course, I really do appreciate that, although
23:12we would have different approaches to theology that you listened to my arguments, but it is kind
23:16of funny. Obviously, I'm not putting myself in any elevated categories here, but for somebody whose
23:22religion is founded upon not giving up on someone who was de-platformed on a cross, having me vanish
23:28in your mind is kind of ironic, right? I used to listen to him all the time. His Fall of the Roman
23:35Empire video, I still listen to on Rumble a few times a year. It's a great presentation. Thank you
23:39very much. Too much talk about IQ. He bored people too much. Really, really, really, really, really.
23:54He was pretty much wrong on 100% of what he said, and people just grew up and out of it.
23:59So, I mean, that's interesting as well, because if I was wrong, I mean, this is sort of the Kramer
24:04thing, right? If I was wrong on 100% of stuff, not that he is, it's just the popular meme, right?
24:10Inverse Kramer. But if I was wrong on 100% of stuff, I'd be worth following just so you could
24:14do the opposite and do well, right? But what's interesting is that certainly in my heyday,
24:20like half of what I did was interviews with other people, where I'm letting them talk on both the
24:26left and the right. And so, when I interview people and people say, well, Stef just 100%
24:31wrong on what he says, they sort of forget that half of the content that I was producing at the
24:35time was interviews with other people. He had free domain radio. He was warning about COVID
24:40in November of 2019, and they went after him hard. Facts hurt too many feelings,
24:48and the cancel is working overtime to point out things that weren't there.
24:58He OD'd on the red pills and eventually started taking them as suppositories of life on air.
25:03Boy, that would be a screenshot. That would be a screenshot. Good question. Where did he go?
25:10He's still legend, even though a bit cucked. I can live with that. He touched on the forbidden
25:17topics and that was it. He's still a legend, even though a bit cucked. I can live with that.
25:24He's still a legend, even though a bit cucked. He touched on the forbidden topics and that was it.
25:29He's still a legend, even though a bit cucked. I can live with that. He touched on the forbidden
25:30topics and that was it. Am I delusional to think Stefan Molyneux
25:36apparently has not been here for four years as relatively good looking?
25:42He was just a bit too early, LOL. That and Canada is USSR. Sorry, I mean to laugh,
25:47not funny, but it's a little funny. Let's see here. As far as I know,
25:53he still runs a podcast and has a website, but it's all under his...
25:57a court? Every social media site kicked him out for speaking his mind.
26:01I was just speaking my mind. I'm reasoning in evidence, right? Because that's what should happen,
26:06right? What should happen, of course, is if I'm wrong and I'm popular, then people should debate
26:13me, they should humiliate me, they should prove me wrong and so on, but that's not right.
26:20He was openly racist. I think people just actually listened to him and he got the consequences.
26:26Yeah, again, racist is just one of these words, right, that people use to ward off thought,
26:35because racism against some groups is perfectly acceptable.
26:41All right, I remember him well. Comment section on this one, I guess, right? Yes,
26:46he got cancelled before anyone, it seems. No, I think there were a few people before me.
26:50He is a sociopath. No room in society for those. Now, that's what they call projection.
26:57Oh, wow, yeah, I remember him, just disappeared. Sounds like an intelligent man afflicted with an
27:04obsession. That's right, he was obsessed. He just... all he would talk about, he just, you know,
27:09and it's like, I've got, I mean, I think of any shows, like, literally in the world,
27:14I think of any shows, I have the greatest amount of variety.
27:16Good question, so what's with the picture of Bill Burr? Oof, oof, I say, oof, oof, oof, all right.
27:24I'm Hispanic and I believe his theory is on race and IQ, but I absolutely know that I probably
27:28banked more than many white people. IQ isn't everything. Of course, that's perfectly true.
27:32It's perfectly true, and you should never judge any individual by group averages. It's only useful
27:36when you zoom out to societal level, and they weren't my theories. I was just repeating facts
27:42and interviewing experts and so on. I followed him back before I discovered Jordan Peterson,
27:50wondered about him. Smart and honest is a bad combo, threatens the extinctionists.
27:59It's rather grim. Let's see here. Injustice, he is a normal dude, reasonable and moderate.
28:06They destroyed his life. Why? No, I mean, I think that they toasted a lot of my life's work,
28:12because I considered my life's work to also include the comments on my videos and social media
28:19platforms. In the future, there will be a great sorrow at how much of a philosophical
28:27discourse was nuked with the erasure, particularly of my YouTube channel. That's a lot of data
28:34that was taken away in terms of how people were thinking and what they were arguing at the time.
28:43Let's see here. A woman says, he went off the rails and talked about nothing but women needing
28:48to have babies. So again, if I talk about a wide variety of issues, but you only think I'm talking
28:54about one thing, that's interesting, and that would be a good avenue for you to pursue in terms
28:59of self-knowledge. Why is that all I'm hearing about when he talks about a wide variety of things?
29:04So this woman says, he went off the rails. Again, I went crazy, and I became obsessive,
29:10and I lost the plot. All of this, again, these are just words to ward off the demon of reason.
29:14Sorry, I keep mixing my analogies. My apologies. It's what the demon of the false self calls the
29:22priest of reason, the demon of prejudice. All right. He went off the rails and talked about
29:27nothing but women needing to have babies, and not in a broader need to up the birth rate sense,
29:32but constantly addressing women and instructing them to open their wombs. It was creepy AF. Dude
29:37was obsessed. Yeah, creepy, obsessed, went off the rails, and blah, blah, blah. It's just, don't
29:43listen to his arguments. The guy's just, he's weird. He's weird. He's not a man in fine arts.
29:50Let's see here.
29:54Yes, I used to listen to him a lot. They got him good. He's still around on Rumble and has
29:58a free domain website, I think. They nuked him soon after he started going too deep into the
30:01science behind race and IQ. Let's see here.
30:10He's in Canada, and folks didn't really push back hard enough when he was banned.
30:14So for those two reasons, he doesn't talk about politics much. He sticks to relationships and
30:18philosophy like he did in the old days of YouTube. Yeah, it's kind of, I've gone back to my roots.
30:25He screwed himself when he changed his brand name from Free Domain Radio to just Free Domain.
30:31That change killed his SEO and made it way easier to shadow ban him.
30:36He is also very much a cult of personality.
30:41So a cult of personality is, you should believe me because I'm saying it.
30:47So cults of personality don't tend to lay out syllogistical arguments. Cults of personality
30:51don't tend to include sources. Cults of personality don't tend to interview people who disagree.
30:57Cults of personality don't do debates with people very much opposed to his position.
31:03And cults of personality don't tend to engage with intelligent critics in the public square.
31:09So again, this is just a phrase, it's a cult of personality, not even a great song,
31:13just to ward off the priest of thought, right? Let's see here.
31:19He is very smart and well-spoken. Absolutely irrelevant. But what he's trying to do is say
31:24that I'm a sophist, right? Like I'm smart, I'm well-spoken and therefore I can convince people,
31:28blah, blah, blah. I started listening to him in 2009 when he sat in for Peter Schiff on his
31:32podcast. I moved on in 2018 and haven't listened to him since. The problem with Steph is he is not
31:39humble and he has overstepped his own boundaries on several occasions. His take on Robin Williams
31:46is evidence of him making a judgment call based on little to no information. That looked bad and
31:50it became obvious he was engagement farming. So the Robin Williams, I said that Robin Williams,
31:57I introduced sort of the concept to a very large audience called the me-plus, right?
32:02I can't just be myself. I have to be me-plus making jokes, me-plus having money, me-plus
32:07being really good looking, me-plus a great hairstyle, me-plus whatever it is. I can't
32:11just be myself. I have to be me-plus, right? And that was a factor in Robin Williams life.
32:19Now, the fact that we didn't know at the time of his suicide that he also had Lewy body dementia,
32:23which may have had an influence, does not invalidate that. It just means that there
32:27may have been more than one cause of his suicide. And of course, the fact that somebody
32:33has dementia does not cause them to commit suicide. There is an underlying pathology,
32:37I would assume, that gets uprooted, like in veno veritas, right? It's not that being drunk
32:43doesn't make you a different person. It just takes away your inhibitions. So, yes, I talked
32:49about Robin Williams and the false self while acknowledging that he was a brilliant comedian
32:54and fantastic entertainer and a great actor as well. His turn in Good Will Hunting was remarkable.
33:00So, the fact that there were more layers to something that I was reporting on immediately,
33:05I have no issue with. You can't know before you know. And does it actually invalidate? Like,
33:10did I say there are no other factors? Well, I didn't say that because there are.
33:13There's no way to know that. So, when I say here's a major factor and then it turns out
33:16there were other factors, it doesn't invalidate the main point. But anyway.
33:21Bad philosophy and borderline evil practices made him unimportant.
33:28I mean, again, it's just a phrase. You don't even know there's no argument, right?
33:31All right. He went trumper and was a condescending douche to someone who donated one dollar.
33:47And the funny thing is, too, right? I mean, that's false. I remember very clearly because
33:51it became, I guess, a minor little firestorm in our corner of the internet.
33:55But I remember somebody donated two dollars, which, you know, at the time there was a fair
34:00amount of fees involved. I got to track it and report it and so on. So, it's a pretty much a
34:06negative donation. And I said, I posted a picture of the donation, just, of course, no identifying
34:13information. And I said, I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but, well, that's all I posted.
34:18That's all I posted. And people went mental. People went mental. Because,
34:24and the reason that I said it was that, look, if it's your last two dollars, don't spend it on me.
34:29Please don't spend it on me. If you have more, but you're only sending two dollars,
34:34then that's a kind of a power move. It's downgrading the quality of what it is that I'm
34:39doing, right? And so, I talked about all of this, but, you know, people don't care. He was just
34:45mean to someone who donated a dollar. And what that does for women in particular, and it's funny
34:50because as my show has always had a fairly strong contingent of women, which has a lot of pluses,
34:55as I became more popular, what happened was whenever I could be reframed as being mean to
35:03someone who was of low status, women jump in to attack. A lot of women, not all, of course, right?
35:09Uh, because he is a neo-Nazi like you, blah, blah, blah, boring, boring, boring.
35:15Stephen Molyneux was brainwashing teenagers, so if he finally disappeared, that would be a good
35:20thing. Now, that is, and that's from a woman, Sabrina. So, that's, you know, that's really
35:27tough. It's really tough because, you know, there, I mean, there are genuine brainwashers out there,
35:34like people who, you know, kidnap people and relentlessly program and torture them and so on.
35:42One of the things, and it actually does anger me, like there are genuine cults out there that do
35:47massive harm to people and prey upon them and exploit them and steal their life savings and
35:53isolate them and so on, like really, really dangerous, nasty organizations out there.
35:58And there are genuine brainwashers out there who torture and medicate and brutalize people's minds
36:04and so on. And when you hijack those terms because you dislike someone's arguments on the
36:11internet, you are actually deeply, deeply, deeply insulting the victims of genuinely nasty cults and
36:19genuinely violent and destructive brainwashers. That is a terrible, terrible thing to do. There
36:26are real victims of very dangerous people out there, and then lumping me in with that because
36:31you're emotionally bothered by something I said is a real insult to the genuine victims of some
36:38genuinely bad people. So I heard he's searching for gold in the Arctic. That's very good.
36:47Somebody, Liberty Strike says he got cancer and lost the plot.
36:52Well, I'm not really sure what that means.
36:53Let's see here.
37:02I'll just do one more, I guess. He's on Rumble and other platforms as free domain.
37:05The real reason they took him down in early 2020 after covering SARS-CoV-2 spread and
37:10suppressed news and going in-depth on what was happening around the world and the genetics,
37:15including the polybasic furin cleavage site with a subject expert, I think specifically after he
37:22showed a long research paper trail from lab to lab from a Reddit post that showed the potential
37:28development of the virus over a decade shortly after his account was suspended. The Reddit thread
37:33nuked. The Reddit was deleted. Other people who commented on it with their videos were deleted.
37:39And then numerous papers were paywalled or had their URLs changed and underlying research,
37:47which wasn't fully researched from Wuhan Institute of Virology specifically, were
37:51internally deleted. Not very well-known law from back then.
37:55Oops. Yeah. So yes, I certainly did talk about that as a whole.
38:03Let's see here. He was Lauren Southern. I don't know what that means.
38:08I remember when Heather Haying called him a disgusting human being.
38:12Is that Brett Weinstein's wife? She called me a disgusting human being.
38:17Well, what can I say? Not an argument. Some didn't like how he forced people to think.
38:24So the unthinkable, the unthinkables had to act. Of course, I can't possibly
38:33force people to think. I just can't. He still runs free domain and moved to more tolerant
38:40platforms like locals listen to him almost daily. Thank you very much. And I'll stop at this one
38:46because, you know, this could go on and on. And I find these comments very interesting. And I do
38:49appreciate everyone who's commenting. It's good to get a sort of snapshot of because I don't I'm
38:53not part of this world anymore and I don't really think about it. Somebody said this woman said
38:58he's on Rumble. Years ago, he told me to get my son out of public school and homeschool him
39:03or have him attend Freedom Project of FPE USA. I did and my son attended the Freedom Project Academy
39:13and now he's got a full ride to a Christian university. I owe Stefan an enormous amount
39:18of gratitude. Now again, I don't tell people what to do so she may have misinterpreted what I said.
39:23I may have said in your shoes I would or this might be a good idea and so on but that is really
39:28really nice. That is really nice and wonderful and congratulations very much for all of this.
39:38And I really do appreciate everyone's comments and thoughts. It's nice to see that people
39:46doth remember and I'm getting this sort of, you know, nostalgia and shot through a honey brand
39:51muffin kind of feeling about the good old days, which were, you know, the tough old days in many
39:56ways. I really do thank everyone who has stayed along for the ride. I absolutely love what I'm
40:01doing now and I really do appreciate everyone's time, attention, and thoughts. I've not gone
40:06crazy. I've not lost the plot. I didn't post an alt account. I didn't attack someone who sent
40:10two dollars and so on. So I really do appreciate everyone's time and attention. What's really nice
40:17about what I'm doing is I don't have to, and I never had to I suppose, but I don't have to
40:25see things all the time that are, you know, egregiously and totally false, like the exact
40:33opposite of the truth about me. I don't have to rub my nose in the stink of brain decay from the
40:38average NPC because I'm dealing with this graduate school, people who really think, who criticize,
40:44who oppose in very intelligent ways, which I absolutely love and thank you for. And if you'd
40:49like to help out the show, freedomain.com slash donate, or you can join freedomain.locals.com or
40:54subscribestar.com slash freedomain. Thank you, everybody. I much prefer the jazz club of excellent
41:00musicians to the stadium largely filled with anti-thinking NPCs. So much better life.
41:07Thank you, everyone, so much. Have a wonderful day. I'll talk to you soon. Bye.