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The ISIS Santa Costume and Trigger Culture

from It's A Small World After All · #79

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Tim recounts dressing as an ISIS Santa Claus outside Comedy Central as a risky bit, then transitions into mocking "triggering" culture and the idea that disagreement itself constitutes harm, referencing his friend Alex's SJW comment about Ray.

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  • 35:51Tim wore a Santa costume to a Comedy Central corporate retreat and someone ran an ISIS graphic behind him.
  • 36:11He claims he has integrity and didn't want to meet the Comedy Central people who blew him off.
  • 36:22The real problem is being trapped in conversation with people where anything you say starts an argument you can't win.
  • 36:50Alex Steinberg described Ray Kump as a syphilitic inbred megalomaniacal boy king with SJW tendencies.
  • 37:14Tim argues the concept of being triggered by disagreement contradicts Western philosophy and the entire tradition of logic.
  • 37:50He believes these people are totalitarians and he's been searching for someone open to the idea they don't possess absolute truth.
  • 38:20Tim recommends reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom as a map of why socialism inevitably leads to totalitarianism.
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The Road to SerfdomComedy CentralFriedrich HayekAlex SteinbergNick MullenViacom

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