Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

"A bill to remove abortion restrictions in Virginia was always going to be controversial. But a contentious committee hearing, and some confusing comments by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, have turned debate over the bill into a nationwide furor.

Virginia House Bill 2491 would roll back a number of requirements, including a 24-hour waiting period and a mandate that second-trimester abortions take place in a hospital. Always something of a long shot in the Republican-controlled state legislature, the bill may now be doomed by the national firestorm surrounding it.

The controversy has centered on a provision concerning third-trimester abortions. Under current Virginia law, in order for a patient to terminate a pregnancy in the third trimester, three doctors must certify that continuing the pregnancy would likely cause the patient’s death or “substantially and irremediably impair” her mental or physical health. The new bill would reduce the number of doctors to one, and remove the “substantially and irremediably” qualifier — abortions would be allowed in cases where a mother’s mental or physical health is threatened, even if the damage might not be irreversible.

The bill began inspiring outcry among abortion opponents nationwide after its sponsor, Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran, said in a committee hearing on Monday that it would technically allow abortion until the point of birth, if a doctor agreed it was necessary."

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Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain, discusses a series of philosophical questions from listeners.

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Stefan Molyneux speaks at the EU Parliament 31 Jan 2019.

- Tommy Robinson banned by Twitter and PayPal
- Laura Loomer banned by Twitter
- Republican consultant R.C. Maxwell banned by Twitter
- Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”) banned by Patreon
- Robert Spencer banned by Patreon following pressure by credit card companies.
- Candace Owens suspended by Twitter
- James Woods suspended for 30 days by Twitter
- I, Hypocrite, focused on far-left hate speech banned by Facebook
- Avi Yemini, a Jewish-Australian IDF veteran and conservative activist was banned by Facebook
- Mohammed Tawhidi, an anti-extremist imam: banned by Facebook
- The Babylon Bee, a conservative humor site: threatened with suspension by Facebook
- Terrence K. Williams: suspended by Facebook
- Gavin McInnes: banned by Twitter and Facebook
- Alex Jones/Infowars: banned by Facebook, Twitter, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Pinterest, and YouTube
- Over 800 alternative news accounts were banned by Facebook shortly before the US midterms

- Tech companies have invested hundreds of millions in “news” media.
- Facebook and Apple, YouTube have all announced that they will directly fund handpicked “authoritative news sources.”
- These sources will then be promoted to their users without ads.
- Google, YouTube’s parent company, has committed a budget of $300 million to pay for “quality journalism.”
- YouTube has committed $25 million to paying for “news.”
- YouTube has also reported that it will “prominently surface authoritative sources” for users. (again, promotion with no ads)
- Jan 2018, Facebook code changes pushed “establishment” news sources to the top of engagement – CNN at the top.
- Mark Zuckerberg’s stated goal was to promote “high-quality news” that “helps build a sense of common ground.”
- The “trusted sources” ranking – any conservative outlets?
- Zuckerberg’s example of “good trustworthy journalism”: The New York Times.
- Facebook announced it would partner with 80 unnamed publications to create “exclusive news content” ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections.
- Facebook said it planned to directly fund news programming, such as shows from CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Mic.com.
- These outlets often parrot the “Russia Collusion” conspiracy.
- Fact: Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Congress that his company could only find $4,700 in ad spending from Russia-linked accounts in 2016, the Trump election year.
- National Review: “Private interests that closed deals with Vladimir Putin and his agents — thanks to then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s public favors — gave the Clinton Foundation between $152 million and $173 million.”
- 36,809 times the spending.
- Tech workers overwhelmingly support Democrats. In 2018, just over 1% of the $15 million sent to candidates went to Republicans. Where is the diversity?
- 23% went to Democrats – are tech people above bias?
- “Saudi money is already behind many of the biggest tech startups in the US, including Lyft, Uber and Magic Leap. Saudi Arabia’s massive $45 billion check to SoftBank’s Vision Fund, the largest venture fund of all time, means Saudi money will likely be part of the biggest pool of venture money for years to come. The Vision Fund has made at least 26 investments including into Slack, WeWork, GM Cruise, and other brand names.
- “Over the last five years, Quid estimates Saudi investors have directly participated in investment rounds totaling at least $6.2 billion.

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Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio - the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world - responds to David Gordon's critique of his book "Universally Preferable Behaviour."

"Stefan Molyneux is a popular libertarian broadcaster who has in recent years acquired a considerable following. In Universally Preferable Behavior, he takes on an ambitious task. He endeavors to provide a rational basis for morality. Should he succeed, he would not only have achieved something of monumental importance; he would also have rendered a great service to libertarianism. Molyneux's system of morality has resolutely libertarian implications. If he is right, surely a time for rejoicing is at hand.

"It would be cruel to arouse false expectations, so I had better say at once that Molyneux does not succeed in his noble goal. He fails, and fails miserably. His arguments are often preposterously bad.

David Gordon is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in intellectual history. He is the author of Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom, and Justice, The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics,An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, and Critics of Marx. He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and co-editor of H.B. Acton'sMorals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of The Mises Review, and a contributor to such journals as analysis, The International Philosophic Quarterly, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, and The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

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The Host of Freedomain Radio answers a series of rapid-fire questions on a livestream! 26 Jan 2019

2:31 (((??Stefan??))) No he isn’t.

3:25 Do you think Alberta will secede?

12:44 Can we get a review YouTube series on Cobra Kai?

14:44 Was Eisenhower right about the military industrial complex?

15:25 Do you have an opinion on what’s happening with Owen Benjamin?

15:40 Where do you see yourself in ten years?

15:49 How would your opinion change on immigration if welfare was abolished?

16:33 How many years until the US government collapses? Which states will split off?

17:14 Would you talk about race and IQ with Jordan Peterson? Is he aware of that subject?

20:50 Is Poland left-wing?

20:56 Do you think profiteering from a platform like Twitter is acceptable?

21:07 Should we repeal the 19th amendment?

23:18 Will there be a violent backlash to massive amounts of 3rd world immigration?

25:15 What are your thoughts on space exploration?

26:18 What do you think of what happened to Roger Stone?

28:07 What advice do you have for single fathers living separate from their child?

30:14 What do you think of Trump opening the government back up w/o wall funding?

33:26 When it comes to toilet paper do you ball or fold?

33:49 Do you find AMAs frustrating? No he doesn’t.

34:02 Do you think Joe Rogan is retarded?

34:51 What are your thoughts on Robert Mueller?

35:06 What do you think of the Myers-Briggs personality test?

35:15 What’s your favorite album?

36:07 In marriage who gets the deciding vote?

37:52 Why won’t you debate Mike Enoch or JF on the JQ?

43:21 Do gated communities provide a false sense of security for economic calamities?

43:39 What do you think of Alice Miller and her work?

43:54 Are the Zionists paying you to keep quiet? No.

45:50 How will the liberals cope with racial conflict, will it change their minds?

49:42 As a young woman I am tired of all the degeneracy around me.

50:55 Is politics a battle between people who either want patriarchy or matriarchy?

57:30 JF has said you two were in contact, will there be a debate?

58:55 I’m having difficulty speaking the truth while earning income. (deep answer)

1:05:39 Whenever I discuss race & IQ people say my sources were declared racist by the SPLC. (long great answer)

1:14:13 I’m scared of whites being the new Jews with all the hate going around. (another long great answer)

1:20:41 What are your thoughts on potential US military intervention in Venezuela? Venezuelans and boomers BTFO’d.

1:27:03 When will you talk to Patrick Casey from Identity Europa? Naggers BTFO’d.

1:28:43 About the saying “those who can’t do teach”, are there areas where this isn’t true?

1:30:05 Should I compromise on no early sex in a relationship?

1:31:29 Any thoughts on the rise of breast ironing in the UK?

1:31:45 How would you regulate 3rd world migration to the west?

1:37:05 More elaboration upon the precarious situation that whites find ourselves in.

1:38:37 Do you believe white American males alienated by leftyism should vote with their feet and move elsewhere?

1:39:04 Would you support the creation of a white ethnostate somewhere in South Africa?

1:41:24 What do you think of Bitcoin?

1:41:44 Stefan NOTICES something about the Jerusalem Post.

1:44:00 Did the US fake the moon landing?

1:44:05 What are your thoughts on western Canadian independence?

1:44:30 Brexit is in tatters, should Stef make a video on it?

1:49:47 I fear I am low IQ and often feel unimportant, how to overcome these feelings?

2:00:24 When are you going to make 1 million subscribers?

2:01:03 Question about suffrage and the America’s Selective Service.

2:02:09 Have you changed your mind on the JQ yet?

2:02:25 Does size matter, if so is it girth or length?

2:02:35 Are there aliens?

2:04:46 A trans-“woman” virtue signals.

2:05:09 Final thoughts on the Covington School Grin-gate?

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The future of Ireland hangs by a thread - what is causing these threats, and how can they be averted?

Join Stefan Molyneux and author John Waters on a fascinating and chilling journey into the heart of darkness that threatens the future of the Emerald Isle...

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Viral videos of white Catholic students engaged in a confrontation with a Native American man after the March for Life rally on Friday swept across the internet over the long weekend.

The first take: young boys were mocking a peaceful Native American elder. The uncut video footage emerged showing a fuller picture of the confrontation — turning the passing incident into a politically-charged controversy, complete with death threats, racial epithets, and a group of boys who can never ever go home again...

Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio, breaks down what actually happened.

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Stefan Molyneux interviews Scooter Downey and Jon du Toit about the new Mike Cernovich production "Hoaxed"


We all know the feeling of logging onto the Internet and reading fake news stories. The latest fake news story is that Joy Reid’s computer was hacked by time travelers. Fake news is a simulation, that is, an artificial construct of reality. What we know as “the news” simply isn’t true.

Hoaxed will break through the media Simulation.
Hoaxed is a crowd-funded documentary produced by Cerno Films. Cernovich’s last film about free speech included icons like Alan Dershowitz, Candace Owens, and Scott Adams. Hoaxed, if you can believe it, has an even greater cast. (Adams is in Hoaxed, too.)

Hoaxed has two directors hard at work editing 100+ hours of interviews with 25 luminaries.

Including:

Anthony Scaramucci
Cassie Jaye
Alex Jones
Gavin McInnes
Jordan Peterson
Lauren Southern
Stefan Molyneux
Scott Adams
Mike Cernovich
Tim Pool
James O'Keefe
Hawk Newsome
Luke Rudowski

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Full doc: http://cdn.freedomainradio.com/FDR_4287_UPB_destroyed_debate.txt

Denouncing UPB

I always start off any serious and fruitful debates with this question:
“I accept that all ideas I propose could be incorrect, and the reverse, that everything I think to be incorrect could be correct. I seek truth, so if I am proven incorrect I will gladly change. I do not take any stake in the outcome of this debate. I ask you to do the same. Do you accept?”

P= Premise
C= Conclusion

P1: “Preferences” are required for life, thought and debating.
P2: Debating requires that both parties hold truth to be both objective and universally preferable.
C: Thus, the very act of debating contains an acceptance of universally preferable behaviour (aka UPB)

UPB 5 PROOFS REFUTED

Proof 1

P1: The concept UPB must be true.
P2: Arguing against the truth of UPB demonstrates UPB.
C: Thus, no argument against UPB can be true.

P2 is false; If I state a preference for truth over falsehood when debating UPB, that does not mean that I have preference for truth over falsehood in all things. For example, if I were in a situation where I needed to choose between knowing the truth and permanently decreasing the well-being of all life, or to not know the truth but to permanently increase the well-being of all life, I would choose falsehood over truth because I value well-being over truth. Even if I did have a preference for truth over falsehood, it would not be a universal preference, because all other people do not share my preference for truth over falsehood. While I may value truth over falsehood, when it comes to the question of being reunited with dead loved-ones when we die, another person might value falsehood over truth as a result of valuing comfort over truth. What we value personally is not universal.
UPB has asserted that “moral values exist because we hold the belief that moral values exist” which is not the same as demonstrating that moral values actually exist. For example, if all people believe that the moon is made of cheese, that wouldn’t make it so.

Proof 2

P1: All organisms require UPB to live.
P2: man is a living organism.
C1: Therefore all men are alive due to the practice of UPB
C2: Thus any argument made against UPB requires an acceptance and practice of UPB.
C3: So, no argument against UPB can be true.

P1 is circular reasoning since it is also implicitly included within C1. This is stating, “that because all living organisms require UPB to live, all living organisms cannot argue against UPB because they are alive.”
Here is a comparison to show this error: Risos asks, “How do you know the bible is divinely inspired?”, William reponds, “because it says in the 3rd chapter of 2 timothy, that ‘all scripture is given by divine inspiration of God”.
Or
Risos asks, “How do you know all organisms require UPB to live?”, Stefen responds, “ organisms are alive because they practice UPB.”
Since P1 is circular with C1, all other points are unsupported. Also, notice that C1 states “practice” of UPB, while C2 states “acceptance and practice”, which is also unsupported even if the argument were sound, it still wouldn’t be valid. Thus, it is a formal fallacy; a non sequitur, since it does not follow from the premises.

Proof 3

P1: For a scientific theory to be true, it must be supported by empirical observation.
P2: If UPB is true, humans should believe in UPB.
P3: All men believe in UPB
C: Therefore evidence exists to oppose the idea that UPB is not true.

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