Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

This is what you get when you elect someone based on criteria that has nothing to do with their qualifications to do the job they are applying for. Think of it like like this, a really hot looking 25 year old young lady comes in to apply for a job but she has zero qualifications. But oh man, it sure beats looking at the qualified guy with the gut and coke-bottle glasses. Don't feel alone Canada. We did it here in 2008 when McCain was voted off the island. The country went with a guy because they liked the IDEA of who he was as opposed to who he was in reality. Now we are stuck with his demented buddy because orange-man-bad. But what's our alternative? That Harris chick? If I was 30 years younger and had a boat me and Wilson would head off to parts unknown. For me to do it in the sunset of my life, well that's just suicide. So, I guess I'll stick around and do my best to help my country get through all of this nonsense. As a child of Canada, I feel for you, and all my relatives north of the border. Maybe now you'll stop taking your elections so lightly and pay attention to who you are putting in office. And speaking of Nazi's, I could see that jack-booted chief of police in Ottawa letting loose with a few zeig-hieis.
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I was born on Canada. I still have relatives and friends who live in Canada. I spent seven years living in Canada as an adult, some of it as member of the U.S. military, some as a civilian training Canadian military service members. For the most part I enjoyed my time in Canada. But when I left Canada and returned to my American home the only thing that kept me from getting down on my knees and kissing the ground was fear of the border guards mistaking me for someone bowing to Mecca. I promised myself even then, before the boy emperor trudeau came to power, that I was never leaving the U.S. again. My heart breaks for my family and friends who still live there but it honestly does not surprise me in the least that they not only elected castro's illegitimate son but that most of them are willing to go along with whatever imperial edicts he may decree. Years of living on the government cheese will do that. I used to visit Canada on a regular basis as a kid, but those days are so far in the rear view mirror it is literally like another time. The last time I was there was for my Father's funeral and I say last because I will never set foot in that country again. I am losing aunts, uncles and cousins as time goes by and it makes me sad when I don't attend their funerals, but Canada is nowhere near what it once was. I'll keep my memories. RIP Canada. Sorry you took the hemlock.
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I spent most of my adult life in the spiritual but not religious camp. Then I realized that was a position for people trying to hedge their bets. It's like being a little bit pregnant. There is a line from a movie where the character asks: "If you were accused of being a Christian would there be enough evidence to convict you?" I thought about that and had to admit the evidence in my case would be pretty thin. I'm trying to fix that. That is step one because I can't fix anything if my personal relationship with God is lukewarm at best. I enjoy Mass a great deal because it gets me closer to that desired end-state. It's not some life altering experience every time out and that's okay. For me, there are no bad moments in God's house and at His banquet table. He sent everyone an invite before we even came into being. I wish more people would take Him up on it. I feel for those who deny themselves God's grace.
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That's a great point about the importance of play in a balanced social setting and its relationship with power. The people I have worked with over the years who were the most difficult to get along with all shared the trait of being humorless and most of them had this enormous chip on their shoulder, a you can't treat me like that sort of attitude. And they also shared another trait, they were all terrible leaders. I have found that most people who try to dominate are compensating for a time, be it past or present, where they were dominated. They were never taught how to lead so they mimic the style that was used with them. Power for power's sake never ends well.
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I like Jordan and admire the way he works through a problem but sometimes he over thinks a thing. In this case, perhaps it's cultural on his part. Mr. McWhorter hit upon a fundamental truth and it's nowhere near as complicated as Jordan makes it out to be. There is a certain class of leaders within the black community who don't want to move on because their livelihood is tied into keeping the struggle alive. When race pimps like Jesse Jackson scream "it's another Selma," he doesn't believe that. But it pays well. And kids who perform poorly are, in many instances, living down to the expectations set for them. Single parent homes have been the norm rather than the exception in the black community for decades and that more than any other variable has stifled their growth. But you can't speak out against the single black mother because in the matriarchy that has been imposed on the culture they hold a special status. It is to the point now where men are no longer expected to play a role. But if you point this out you are called a bigot or worse. And a lot of black kids who excel in school are bullied and teased. I know because I went to mostly black schools and saw it first hand. It's especially true for boys. Girls are given a pass but there is a war on boys in this culture unlike anything that has occurred in the past and boys in the black community are under assault from the people who claim to be on their side. The same is true for white boys. The old messages of Jim Crowe are alive and well because they serve a purpose for those who don't want the food fight to end. They misuse terms like systemic and institutional racism and convince young people that the game is rigged against them. I had a conversation with a bright young friend of mine about systemic racism and she told me it is everywhere. I asked her to define systemic racism and after she fumbled around for a bit she basically described racism at an individual level, saying that as long as people have racist views the system will always be racist since people make up the system. I tried to point out the fallacy of her circular logic and told her the actual definition of systemic racism but she insisted her version, the one fed her by her lefty friends, was correct. I could never break that wall. The hijacking of language and the brainwashing of the young is what is at work here. It has nothing to do with notions of virtue. It is simply a case of a lie being told long enough that it gets accepted as truth. Until that changes, until people wake up and see that they are being lied to, nothing will change. It's a story as old as the Allegory of the Cave. Bottom line, there are people who profit a great deal from keeping these racial divisions alive and as long as they have the megaphone, it will never change. That's not complicated Jordan, it's simple human nature. But that's me.
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More than 100 million people died during the 20th Century as a result of that failed ideology yet there are still people in academia who spout its virtues. They do so because for them it is their only path to power. Unfortunately, we have a generation coming of age who have no memory of the wickedness of the USSR. Instead, they hear college professors and politicians spout a new brand of marxism under the guise of social justice and listen to Hollywood types like Sean Penn, Roger Stone, and Michael Moore sing the praises of hell-holes like Cuba and Venezuela. In the meantime, American corporations and politicians get cuddly with the Chi-Coms who continue to engage in genocide on a massive scale. And people erect statues to Lenin while they tear down statues of Jefferson. May God have mercy on us all.
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I think it started with reality-TV. People saw that and thought they too could become famous if they only had the chance. Twitter, Tick Tock, and I suppose to a lesser extant, Facebook, gives people that opportunity. Twitter seems to be especially toxic. It's like the world's biggest reflective pool where the collective id goes to burp whatever inane thought happens to pop into someone's head at any given moment in time. I don't have a Twitter account so I am speaking from second-hand knowledge but it seems like Andy Warhol was right about that 15 minute thing. The problem is, most people would be better served if they stopped letting all those perfectly good opportunities to keep their mouth shut pass them by.
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I'm an American. I was born in Canada, I worked and lived there for a seven-year stretch not terribly long ago, but I don't know what the pulse of the population is today. I can say that one of the key differences between Americans and Canadians is Canadians have this belief in government as a positive power where Americans, at least until 2008, saw government in less generous terms. Now, at least here in the U.S. it's all about the show, reality-TV as politics. I hear all this talk about how the majority of the population leans conservative. I've heard that for decades. But the movement...well, there isn't one. And it goes deeper than being afraid being called names and getting the online mob on their cowardly asses. At least here in the U.S., there hasn't been a genuine opposition party since Ronald Reagan was at the helm. And even then the conservative movement was running out of steam by the end of his second term. Bush stuck the knife in, the Tea Party twisted it and put the movement on life support, Trump said F-it and pulled the plug. There is no unified platform, no plan on the right. Trump said he was going to close the border but what happened? Some judge in Hawaii said he couldn't and Trump tucked his tail. He said he was going to cut spending then signed off on trillion dollar budgets. He said he was going to lock Hillary up and then let her off the hook. Why? Because he didn't know how to govern. That is the problem with "The Show." Once the show-types get in power they don't really have a plan and the people they turn to for a plan are democrats in disguise so we end up supporting whatever the left wants done. It's systemic. It's not that they are afraid of being called names, they don't believe in the stuff they are peddling. Look how many of these jokers win their primaries by 30, 40 points. Why? Republican voters like the show. Why? Because outlets like fox news and so-called right-wing media do their job and sell it to them. Why? Because they make money. Where is the money going these days? To the left. Why? Because they all come from lefty universities. The dots aren't hard to connect. Like the demon Azazel tells Denzel in the movie Fallen: "Open your eyes Hobbs. Look around some time."
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I can't speak for what is going on Britain but the attempt at separating people from their culture has been going on for decades here in the U.S. and the sad part is, the number of crazies wanting to tear down statues and burn books is really a very small percentage. The problem here isn't so much politeness as it is indifference on the part of too many people for too many years. Our tradition is based on individualism and sadly a lot of people felt like if something wasn't directly affecting them, why should they care? But that is starting to change now that the crazies have kicked it into overdrive. Erick Erickson is credited with coining the phrase, you will be made to care. That is the stage we are entering here. Of course, one of the largest problems the hard core leftists have is explaining with any kind of detail what exactly the system they have in mind to replace the patriarchy will look like and how it will function. Most of their young zealots haven't thought the matter through but when you are a cultist that doesn't really matter anyway. A lot of them are just Nihilists raging against the machine. They have this pent up rage and angst and since most of them come from dysfunctional homes they were taught to respond to everything on an emotional level. Like I say, it's a small number but because they lash out they make a lot of noise and get a lot of attention. The powers that be who are using them are okay with that because as long as the spotlight is on the crazies they get to do what they do best, acquire more power. And that is the key to it all, the acquisition and application of raw power. More damage has been done to this country over the past 60 years than in the 200 that preceded it. I know because I had a front row seat for most of it. My generation inflicted a lot of that damage, hedonistic bunch that we were. May God have mercy on our souls. But that's me.
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Dr. Peterson makes some good points and the vision he outlines does have the potential to provide a more stable state of affairs at the macro-level. Three are however two points I think he should have elaborated on or incorporated. The first is the acknowledgment of God. He danced around it with references to objective truth, natural law, and Abrahamic traditions but the vision is largely secular in nature. Perhaps that is by design. As C.S. Lewis put it, "Aim at Heaven, and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth, and you will get neither.” I know the arguments for against because I spent a considerable amount of time in both camps and the conclusion I came away with is we are better off when we have a relationship with our Creator. I'm not talking about religion and dogma, I'm talking about an active relationship with the living God. “For although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give Him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools…And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.” ―Romans 1 Look around and consider the validity of those words. Put your views on religion aside for one moment and consider what Paul is describing in relation to what is happening today. The second point I'd like to make is that Dr. Petersen left two attributes off his list which I believe lie at the core of much of the problems we face today. The first is virtue. Our Founding Fathers put great stock in the importance of virtue. Did they fall short themselves? Of course. I'm not here to debate that. But they understood the need for virtue in a self-governing society. We take self-government as a given but in the 18th Century it was truly a revolutionary idea. Democracy was seen as too messy and unwieldly and the assumption was at some point people would look for a strong hand to maintain order. That didn't happen because great men like Washington gave up power voluntarily. Civic duty meant something once. Now it is an arcane notion. I was in a university classroom when I heard a professor say that anyone who joined the military or some other low-paying profession out of some misguided sense of altruism was a fool. And that was decades ago. Things have only gotten worse. The other attribute is courage. The advent of social media and cancel culture have made cowards of too many people. This is not some unique phenomena. Alexander Solzhenitsyn tried to warn us about this tactic in an address he made at Harvard University in 1978: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country…Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life.” Want to know why people who ought to know better can't define what a woman is? It's not that they believe it, that's not the point. It's not that they are trying to make you believe anything that is patently incorrect, that's not the point. The point is to get you to participate in the lie when you know it's not true or to remain silent out of fear. That is power. That is the lifeblood of tyranny. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn Anyway, that was a rant. I doubt anyone will read this but I felt like saying it all the same. We are at a crossroad as a society. I believe nothing short of Divine intervention will get us through but that's me. I'm not saying you have to believe that. All I ask is that you consider the points I made and judge them against the way things are, not the way some say things are. When all else fails, fall back on Nancy Reagan's old rule: "Just say no." Imagine what would happen if one day everyone who sees the world for what it is did that. What an amazing day that would be. God Bless and stay safe out there.
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"The goal of the religious striver is to establish paradise on Earth"? Continuous injunctions to bring about Heaven on Earth" and how that is central to the Gospels? You're confusing Christianity with Marxism Jordan. Kinda like when you make statements about Nietzsche being the best friend Christianity ever had. You know what, I'm not an apologetics expert and I don't play one on You Tube but you don't get it my friend. That's okay, it's your show, but Greg Laurie should have done a better job correcting you instead of all the "yeah's" as Jordan rambled on with his stream of consciousness.
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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents is a must-read for everyone who loves liberty and is concerned about the current direction of all western democracies. It doesn't matter what religion you practice or if you don't even believe in God. The book is a warning from people who lived through the tyranny we are opening ourselves up to. Rod doesn't get preachy, he just lays out the truth and offers a path for freedom loving patriots to follow. One of the best books out there for those of us who know what time it is.
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"We can and must write in a language which sews among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us." ― Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” ― Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin) The American left didn't just wake up one day and have a meeting about how to package lies as truth. They learned from their political idols. The more things stay the same the more they stay the same. And the beat goes on...the beat goes on.
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My personal favorite is the multi-verse. People wedded to scientism will jump through just as many hoops and twist themselves around just as much pretzel logic as the hardcore apologist who needs the world to be 6,000 years old and for people to have walked with dinosaurs like Fred Flintstone. When you adopt a hardened position and something comes along to seriously challenge your belief system the natural inclination is to resist and create a new paradigm if you have to, but never surrender. I'm a person of faith and I get called superstitious yet these same jokers want me to believe in hyper-inflation, multi-verses, or whatever the theory de-jure is to explain a random universe that requires such a precise level of fine-tuning and synchronicity among a wide variety of cosmologic constants it stretches the boundaries of mathematics to the breaking point. Oh yeah, and that elegant universe they spend all their life studying serves no purpose because it is just a random collection of atoms and cosmic debris that every now and again bump into one another. There's no point, it just is. But we're the kooks.
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The problem isn't the prison-industrial-complex, it's the recidivism rate. Once someone does time, regardless of race, their chances of returning to that cell are high because they wear a scarlet letter. People in fashionable places don't like to talk about that aspect but the truth of the matter is they wouldn't let an ex-con within 50 yards of their home or business. I have a bit of experience with his because I grew up with guys who went away. The coach of my little league team did 30 + years and I went on a few trips with him to halfway houses and meetings of ex-offenders. It's not that prisons exist, it's that we don't let most people leave them, even after they are free. How did they get there? That always starts in the home. I didn't know one kid from good stable home who got wrapped up in the life. My home life wasn't Ozzie and Harriet but I had a bit of sense. I had my opportunities but I never crossed that line. Single mother homes are a leading contributor but above all you have to have parents who give a damn. That is the starting point. Sadly, a lot of these kids don't have that. As Denzel Washington put it, they get raised by the court and educated in the juvenile halls. You would be hard pressed to find a six year old who will say, I wanna be a felon, a junkie, or a prostitute when I grow up. It's not a racial problem, it's a spiritual one.
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Marx and his ilk aren't really atheists. They hate God. I don't believe in Santa so I don't spend a lot of time on him one way or another and I certainly don't care if others choose to believe in a jolly old guy living at the North Pole. A true atheist, as Jordan points out, is neutral on the matter. Because they don't believe they don't get riled up one way or another. Communists see religion as their main competition for the hearts and minds of the masses but more than that they know deep down there is a God and they hate Him. I have a friend who, while he's not a communist, falls into the same camp. He claims to be a bit of an agnostic but when the subject of Christianity comes up he is usually hostile or incredulous in an eye-rolling way. Wanna know where you are at on the spectrum? Get honest for a moment and ask yourself what your initial reaction is when God or Crist are mentioned? The heart always reveals and if Satan has taken up residence in your heart, or even if he just stops by because he knows you're okay with him hanging out now and again, he will generate a natural revulsion at the mere mention of God's name. I know because when I swam in the devil's lake a negative reaction at the thought or mention of God or His Son was my default setting. The Marxists are running amok in the West because we told God we didn't need Him and God responded; "Your will be done." Where you have Marxists Satan is always along for the ride. They are like peanut-butter and jelly. People die, morality gets thrown out the window, and souls get corrupted because that is Satan's agenda. Marxism is just the vehicle he uses to create separation between God and us. People go along with it because they believe in secular humanism. Make no mistake, it's every inch a religion as Christianity, it just has an evil deity. Follow him at your own peril.
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Tyranny of the minority is all the rage, especially in Canada. It fits in quite nicely with the great reset. I agree with Jordan on a lot of issues but every now and again he will say something that is off the mark and he did so here. Jesus did not have an androgynous nature and that is not a feature of his personality that appeals to practicing Christians. That sounds like some heresy you might hear from the pulpit of a spirit of the age/progressive church based on some form of deconstructionist theology. I can say with 100% certainty that claim he made is not backed by scripture.
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Meanwhile, here in the U.S., thousands of muslims too radical for the bunch running all the former stans of the ussr are flooding in, legally and illegally and they are on the record as far how they feel about the great satan. When you're too f-d in the head for the Central Asian crowd, you're probably not a good candidate for future model-citizen of the year. It's really not a matter of if, just a matter of when that black swan event people are predicting comes to pass here in the land of the free and the home of...🤔well, it used to be home of the brave. Now we have men who want tampon dispensers in the men's room so they are covered when it's time for their imaginary monthly. God help us.
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They are algebra liars. Two lies make a truth.
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Unless they repent these doctor's bragging about butchering those young people will feel the torment of their victims for eternity. No rest, nothing to ease their pain, no compassion, just wailing and gnashing of teeth. The documents and guidelines referenced here may have been penned by man but they were conceived in the pit of Hell by Satan. Anyone following such doctrine should reconsider their actions before the time for reconsideration passes them by. "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” ―John 8:44 “But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” ― Revelation: 21:8
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I'm not a big fan of dreams for several reasons, but I do know a lot of my dreams center around some sort of unresolved problem/trauma/hang-up I haven't dealt with. I know this because they are either recurring in form or theme and they are left unresolved in my dream state until I resolve/get past whatever it is that's driving the dream in my waking state. As for the creative stuff, for me, writing is cathartic. I have written fiction and every character is imbued with one or more of my traits, kind of like spending hours on the couch without having to pay a shrink. I just thought was my style but then I saw an interview with Steven King where he said basically the same thing, that he is a part of all his characters. And the cool thing is, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, your characters will never hate you. That was an interesting talk. I like when Dr. Peterson gets on a role like that, almost a stream-of-conscience-connect-the-dots exercise in real-time.
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"We can point our fingers at the idiot professors...but then, what the hell's up with the evil capitalist overlords? Are they so clueless that they can't even want to take responsibility for the fruits of their own success?" I agree guilt may play a small role but it's really about conditioning. They were taught by those idiot professors Jordan; why would you think they wouldn't behave the way those ideologues conditioned them to behave? There is a line in the movie Seabiscuit where David McCollough talks about the horse initially doing what it was trained to do. It was trained to lose to other horses. The horse had great breeding and a natural instinct to win but it had to unlearn the bad habits it acquired as a result of it's prior training before it could reach its potential and act within its true nature which was to be a race horse. These woke CEO's were taught that the system is rigged against the marginalized classes so they are following their half-ass training just like that horse did. They see no dichotomy between being successful and being woke. If the policies cause the corporation to fail it is because that corporation was meant to fail. We are entering a phase of crony capitalism where the state picks the winners and the losers in business and the corporations pick the winners and the losers in politics. They are one in the same. The woke CEO knows he will always have an out, just like his idiot professors know they will never have to pay the price for the failure of their ridiculous theories. The movement and the CEO are one in the same Jordon. The days of the evil capitalist overlord is over. The days of the evil woke corporation has begun. Personally, I'll take the robber barons because they understood their success was tied to the success of the system but that's me.
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Angela Davis got a teaching gig at a university, so I have a hard time understanding why Dr. Peterson has a hard time understanding how that woman was allowed to keep her job. This stuff has been going on for a long time. Back in the olden days, when I was an undergrad, there was a young woman who showed up maybe three times for class. The school was big on enforcing it's policies, especially where attendance was concerned, but this young lady was able to pass the course. One of my classmates, another young lady, brought this up on the final day of the class, and the professor told her straight up that since the young lady in question was a black single mother, the deck was already stacked against her and he wasn't going to pile on. This other young lady went berserk. She was a young white single mother and let this guy have it with four barrels. Truth be told I was ashamed I didn't join in. That's just how things go in the world of affirmative action. It's been that way for a long time Dr. Peterson, and as the old saying goes, the more things stay the same the more they stay the same.
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The Proud Boys? Really? Are they still the boogeymen for lefties like this woman? How many buildings have been torched over the years by the Proud Boys? How many highways have the Proud Boys shut down? How many parts of major American cities have they taken over and declared them independent free-zones, no longer property of the United States? Wanna talk about an insurrection? Forget some guy dressed up like the Minnesota Vikings mascot sitting in the speakers chair. When you take a part of the country and claim it as your own that is the textbook definition of an insurrection. I had to cut out at the 5:28 mark. This woman is a classic example of what Lenin called useful idiots. But when she tried to spin it to people on the right being more susceptible to batsh*t crazy rabble rousers because they are the ones looking for strong leaders? She is what you get when 60s radicals grow old, a stubborn old woman who was wrong-headed then and is wrong-headed now because her ideology has always come first. She is the kind warping the minds of young people. I'll listen when someone sounds like they are a critical thinker but this moonbat? There is a video of old breakfast cereal commercials from the 60s in my feed. I think I'll go watch that because relics like this old hippie radical bore the hell out of me. They did back then, and they still do today.
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