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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 3, 2025

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I had no idea who Ian Carroll was and was going to skip this episode, but the top comment was "Ian Carroll is not suicidal" and I knew I was in for a good time. I think they barely exchanged names before they launched into conspiracies and alternate perspectives on history.

IMHO, Ian Carroll is the definitive consequence of a young man growing up effectively historically illiterate, "having to teach [himself] all this in the last two years", and growing up in the era of mass government censorship and lies (Russiagate, COVID, climate alarmism, etc). The conspiracy theorist have been right about nearly every major event for the last 10 years, so the desire to look into the past and run up the score is overwhelming.

Which is not even to say Ian Carroll is enormously misinformed. He brought up CIA coups to protect US commercial interest (Banana Republics) like that was something shocking Joe might not know about. He focused a lot on the Dulles Brothers and the founding of the CIA. To him, there is a very blurry line between organized crime and the state, and he harps on the Mafia controlling dockyards in WWII a lot. I don't know this to be true, but it wouldn't shock me at all.

For the people complaining that saying Epstein might have been a Mossad honeypot operation is antisemetic, I'm just wondering where they've been the last several years. Literally everyone of any public profile has publicly wondered that, and not without merit. In fact, I think the political winds will only have to change a very little bit before Zionist are bragging about it with the same zeal they brag about the pager bombings, or other famous intelligence operations from their past. Assuming they were actually involved.

That aside, knowing nothing else about Ian Carroll, even listening to him on Joe Rogan I suspected he was hiding his power level a bit. He threw out a few things like "Nasa fakes space footage all the time" that he dropped pretty quickly with Joe asked some pointed questions. I think he is largely a casualty of growing up in an education system that has turned history into proselytizing diversity versus any understanding of the timeline of human development, and the last 10 years of the government and all the intelligence services telling naked, obvious lies that are revealed in near real time. When you grow up being told shameless lies by every authority figure in your life, you'll be left with zero foundation to resist the lure conspiracy theories which, lets face it, are just fucking fun.

I never understood the zeal for the Epstein thing. Even assuming all the conspiracies are true, why should I care more about this one pedophile simply because he's rich and connected? Of course the wealthy and powerful are involved in all sorts of debauchery and perversion, but the vast majority of people involved in child sex trafficking are sex tourists in third world countries + homegrown pedophiles. Epstein could have never existed and child sex trafficking would still be widespread.

It's one thing to know statistically people are doing pedophile shit in other countries or at home without being noticed by police. It's another to know a prominent guy is doing it for years and inviting the famous and powerful to participate. He did it for years before getting caught the first time, then he got a slap on the wrist. Then he did it for more years, got caught, then got killed before he could say who else was involved. That's where the zeal comes from.

I had no idea who Ian Carroll was

Someone with 1,2 M Xitter followers is not exactly nobody.

Here is his Xitter and his Youtube channel

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