Michael Malice is Worried About the Response to the Virus

Chromebooks are actually pretty logical because mostly what people do is scroll. You just go online and scroll. Well, I don't leave the house, so what do I need a laptop for? Are you completely locked down in New York City? Oh, I just meant because I love my house. It wasn't because of Corona. This has been the case for many years. So you haven't altered your behavior much at all because of Corona because this is what you've always done? Well, I've altered it in that I want to travel more, but everyone's closed. There's nowhere to go. Are you worried about the virus at all? No, I'm worried about the response to the virus. And this has given some very, very bad people some very useful information about how much crap people put up with. Yes. And that we're at a point where it's just like, oh, yeah, you know, we're just going to open up, even though the metrics are worse than when we were closed. But now double masks. Why not? And there was an Onion article from 99 that said drinking dog pee lessens risks of cancer, snickering researchers say. And I'm telling you, if they told people to start drinking dog pee, people would be on Twitter wondering what the best breed. If Fauci said it, they would do it. Yeah, there would be a large percentage of the population that would be sucking some dog pee pee. And would be yelling at you that you're not doing it. Yes. Because how dare you not drink the Golden Retriever pee, which is the golden standard of pee, to keep grandma from dying? Well, I think that's one of the things that's really fascinating about this pandemic is that it's happening during the time of social media, where we've never had anything like this before, where groupthink is encouraged and enforced. And people, also, because of the pandemic, so many people are just online all day. Sure. Because they're unemployed, or they're just they're at work from home, and they're not really working. They're just on Twitter all day. And you're seeing these really crazy behavior patterns. It's like people ganging up on people. I don't think they're crazy at all. I think I had this tweet where it was a huge backlash, and I said, if you replace the term coronavirus with Jews, all of a sudden the behavior of 1930s Germany makes a lot more sense. Because one of the big questions back in the day is, how did Hitler pull this off? How do you convince a population of educated people to behave in just the most inhuman ways? And what we're seeing is when low status people are given an excuse to assert dominance over other people for whatever reason, illegitimate in that case, somewhat legitimate in this case, they will champ at the bit to tell you to sit down and shut up and obey. That is true. It decentralizes the enforcement mechanism. I was on the subway in New York. I've been in New York all my life. I've never seen anything like this, where an older man, his 50s, was yelling at an Asian dude who wasn't like a rickshaw. He was just like a regular Asian dude standing over him screaming, where's your mask? Go back where you came from. And it's like if you're this concerned about the virus, why are you coming close to him? You don't care about the virus. This is your excuse to be dominant and aggressive or someone in the most despicable way possible. That's a lot of what you see in social media, right? A lot of the really shitty behavior is an excuse to be shitty, you know, like they found an inn in order to exert their shitty behavior. Being violently anti-racist is the only way lowest status whites have an excuse to be dominant and better than somebody else. This is the one leg up they have. So this becomes their identity. You don't see it that much from people who are minorities or people who are immigrants, certainly people who are gay, unless they went to college. But you see it all the time with these lowest status whites, especially white women. They can't they're tripping over themselves. Now they have a chance to yell at someone and feel empowered. It's really reprehensible behavior. And if you want to stop this behavior, that's not the way to do it. If you want to stop ignorant behavior, educate people, be friendly with them, say, hey, you know what? I come from this background. You probably don't realize what you're saying. But when you're saying this, this you're talking about my grandma. And when someone comes at you like that, you're like, oh, crap, I'm sorry. You know, I didn't mean a thing about it. And you've educated that person very quickly. I don't care about that. It's all about dominance always. And what do I need to say to get you to do what I want? Yeah. And because of social media, they have this weird little outlet now where a person isn't just talking to someone on a subway. Now they're talking to everyone on the right feed. They're talking to and a lot of people chime in that also want to reinforce this kind of shitty behavior. A lot of other low status people that are finally getting their voice heard on something. And it's all it's like it's irrefutable, like wear a fucking mask. That's one of those irrefutable things. No one's going to argue with you. It's like if you're wearing a mask, why do you need to wear a mask? It's like you don't need a condom and a diaphragm. Right. When we were kids, it would have been unimaginable for someone to say, I yelled at my grandparents at Thanksgiving dinner for X, Y and Z reason. Everyone would be like jock nerd, whatever. Like what do what is wrong with you? And now they get applause. Now they'll go on Facebook. I told off my grandma. I told off my so-called racist dad, homophobic mom. And everyone's like good for you for standing up for yourself. No, you're an ass. Yeah. Did you see that tick tock of the white kid talking about how all white people are racist? Oh, yeah. It's amazing because it's a perfect example that it's illogical what he's saying, like that he's saying that he's racist, right? Just by virtue of being white. And it's it's so bizarre to watch because he's a caricature. He literally is like a parody. He's he's he's like one of those YouTube comedian parodies of the social justice warriors. It it harkens. I made the point that corporate America has done a much better job of importing Maoist communism than the Chinese Party ever did. But this was what Mao invented. North Korea still has it. They had these struggle sessions where you get up with their colleagues and you have to denounce yourself and say what you did that was horrible. And they all berate you. And then you point out, oh, I saw Joe doing this, Joe. I saw Mike doing this. And this was their kind of community because it keeps everyone watching each other all the time. And it keeps everyone so-called honest. And by honest, they mean subservient to the regime. And there was a phone call conference call from Northwestern University, I believe, when all the law students had to get in the call and say, I'm white and I'm racist. What? Yes. This happens increasingly where you are ordered to say you're at the very least racially insensitive. And it's like, let me tell you something as an immigrant, like this crap does not sit well with me. It's just totally foreign to my thinking. And it's such this relic of American puritanism, you know, this kind of like we're all such sinners and we have to denounce ourselves. It's this weird mix of Woodrow Wilson and Chairman Mao. Wow, that's an interesting way of putting it. But I think you're onto something. I'm going to start with Spotify. You can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. 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