22 June 2026, TikTok Livestream #5

My TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@dannorton11

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0:00 Intro

Engaging with chat

Philosophy of mind

Israel

Am I a moderate?

Trump vs. capitalism

17:20 Call with Corey

Kalam argument for God

The universe, time, Big Bang, infinite

Moral subjectivism, pleasure and pain

Moral realism

35:46 End of call

Senses of "subjective" and "objective"

43:38 Call with stevengaters

Capitalism

Israel, moral support, trade restrictions

Is Gaza/Hamas a threat to Israel?

1:00:17 End of call and closing thoughts

1:06:19 Hat & Mustache gift

1:06:30 Call with Dr. Galt

Rand and Nietzsche

1:12:09 End of call

1:12:58 Call with Corny on the bob

Abortion, entity, Hensel twins

Religious background?

"Organism"

Philosophic vs. scientific issue

Umbilical cord

1:36:12 End of call

1:45:14 Call with DACAmericano

Redemption, Erika Kirk, Christian morality

1:53:54 End of call

Ayn Rand and Social Security

TikTok euphemisms

Divinityy and abortion

2:03:00 Call with Badger

The role of government, anarchy

Ethics/morals

Non-aggression principle and self-interest/altruism

2:21:06 End of call

Finding a mod

Why is Israel good?

Self-sacrifice (choice of major in college)

"Open Objectivism"

"Post-labor" and AI

What is your profession?

Pursuing philosophy in grad school

Facebook, X posts

3:04:25 Call with Mach on Israel

Nakba

PLO and forcing freedom on people

Democracy and freedom

Ayn Rand

Rights and objectivity

Island cases and rights

Lifeboat case

(3:51:42 Stream is interrupted due to technical difficulties)

3:53:04 Call with PressedKeys

Faith

Are you religious?

Do you believe in miracles? God?

4:24:11 End of call and closing thoughts

Why I support Israel

International law

Troll call

Introspection

Successful libertarian countries

Norway

Bootlicker

Netanyahu

Voting

Mic adjustment

Abortion

5:09:10 Call with Lossey on abortion

5:18:03 End of call

Changing background color

5:35:32 Call with Mort about reason, faith, God, and miracles

Why should I believe in miracles?

Flying pigs

Ethical egoism

5:52:31 End of call

5:53:32 Call with Vintex

Question about egoism

Deontology vs. consequentialism

Correspondence theory of truth

Foundationalism, coherentism

Are miracles possible?

Can there be an effect without a cause?

Hume, causality, and definitions

6:22:41 End of call

Outro

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19 June 2026, TikTok Livestream #4

My TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@dannorton11

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0:00 Intro

Engaging with chat

Finding more mods

Guests on past/future lives

19:20 Call with "Dragon" on Israel

Why is Israel good?

Egypt

"Genocide"

Civilian casualties

Interruptions, condescension, end of call

Finding my next guest

38:12 Call with _ _ _

Determinism, free will, and fatalism

42:55 End of call

Keeping track of mods

Engaging with chat

51:58 Call with Jaydon

Jaydon's view on various issues

Faith and the Trinity

Miracles and God's omnipotence

Self-causation and free will

Do miracles involve contradictions? Induction

Naturalism and moral realism

1:33:00 End of call

1:33:34 Call with Moxie

Possible future call

1:36:07 End of call

Outro

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17 June 2026, TikTok Livestream #3

My TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@dannorton11

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0:00 Intro

Engaging with chat

Adding mods

12:08 Call with Yh

Describing Ayn Rand's views

Collectivism

Self-interest

41:17 End of call

44:00 Call with K

Nebulous/abstract values

Definitions

Is valuing admiration from others actionable?

Self-interest and society

"Happiness consists in the behavior of an entity"

1:43:36 End of call

1:45:48 Call with USA Champ

Israel and collectivism

Funding government, military

WW2, the draft, and freedom

Childrens' rights and regulation/laws

Inequality

Regulations in health cases

2:39:12 End of call and closing thoughts

Nazis vs. communists

Adjusting background/camera

Outro

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15 June 2026, TikTok Livestream #2

My TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@dannorton11

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0:00 Intro

Why is faith bad?

What is the argument for egoism?

My live is flagged for hate speech and hateful behavior

Deciding which call to take

Why did my live get flagged?

Moderating chat

35:06 Call with offbeatkoti

Max Stirner

Individualism

Hedonism

41:12 End of call

Interaction with Libertuga in chat

I get my first moderator: Bree

Restarting livestream

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51:15 Restarted livestream

Engaging with chat

58:54 Call with Libertuga

How do you know if someone is being an egoist?

1:05:17 End of call

Closing thoughts: pleasure and pain, induction from experience

PayPal

Checking out Average Avarice in chat

1:20:22 Call with Mike

Advice on livestream

Subjectivism: metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical

Abortion (“AB”)

Entities, conjoined twins, kangaroos, motor/car, body parts (appendix, etc.)

1:47:26 End of call

1:51:53 Call with Average Avarice

Why do I think leftism is bad?

Poisoning a well

Private vs. personal property

Benefiting yourself and others

Why not live in the woods?

Capitalism

2:03:31 End of call

2:06:45 Call with Rancho

Why do I think abortion is good?

Entities

Mereology

Ethics as downstream from metaphysics/epistemology

Enumerating, defining entities

Finding a new mod: Rad.Cap

2:39:50 Principles and concepts

Absolute vs. conditional

Inducing principles from experience

Heuristics/principles

Contextual absolutes (blood-type example)

Formulating the principle of honesty correctly

3:08:03 End of call

Meta-ethical vs. normative ethical principles

3:15:34 Break until 3:18:41

Anti-free will (on my background)

Number of viewers on my last stream

3:26:04 Call with Monkey D Luffy, a syndicalist

Unions

Freedom and rights

Anarchy

3:48:49 End of call

3:49:12 Call with Islam Ali

Where do rights come from?

Can you give up your rights? What contracts are legitimate?

4:01:55 End of call

4:03:52 Call on abortion and self-interest with "Sweenie" [I don't recall the exact name]

Animals/rocks/fetuses and rights/entities

Crowning and abortion

Hitler, self-interest, and happiness

Hypotheticals

Rand and Aristotle

Biting a bullet?

Objectivity

5:02:34 End of call

Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 18 June 2026, Livestream #106

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0:02 Intro

TikTok

Ukraine/Russia

Schubert

27:23 Call with Dan about Israel

Palestinians and rights

Libertarians and war

Civilian casualties

Genocide

Individualism vs. collectivism

Indians

Bombing Japan in WW2

Uyghurs

Genocide

1:27:16 My evaluation of the Iran war, and Yaron Brook's

1:34:53 Did I ever support Trump?

Order of reading chats

TikTok vs. YouTube

Movies

My favorite movies

Movies more generally

Movies of Ayn Rand's books

The King of Kings; footage of Ayn Rand from 1926

2:04:02 Free will and causation

2:06:57 Effective altruism

Why are taxes bad?

2:15:11 Histories of philosophy: W.T. Jones, Windelband

2:18:51 Call with Michael Hamilton

Effective altruism

Game theory

Mathematizing philosophy, economics, concepts

George R. Price

Does Objectivism talk self-interest too far?

Limited resources

Environmentalism, catastrophic climate change, and freedom

Water, rights, and courts

Emergency cases in which rights don't apply

Fracking, private utilities

Self-interest and harm to others; Adam Smith

Golden rule, Silver rule

3:37:00 End of call

My debate style

Asking for subscribers, likes

Charles Tew

Will Durant

Etc.

TikTok/YouTube streaming

Outro

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On June 10, 2026, I hosted a livestream on TikTok. It was the first time I got a lot of engagement on that platform. I had four guests on for discussion/debate, including a communist and a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy. Topics included capitalism, Marxism, and Israel. More details (along with timestamps) below.

My TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@dannorton11

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0:00 Preliminaries

10:28 Trombone man joins

Capitalism and the role of government

Speech and violence

Public spaces and homesteading

(Technical aside: Finding my caller queue)

29:32 Public property/space (continued)

Majority rules?

Home Owners’ Association

Zoning laws

Today’s society isn’t capitalist

Equality

54:30 Engaging with chat

My PayPal and YouTube

TikTok vs. YouTube audience

Trombone man leaves the call

I got kicked from a livestream

Roses and diamonds

Finding my next caller

"Bro" and "bruh"

Link to video Amanda Informed video

1:35:22 Break until 1:37:43

1:39:41 Call with Comrade Ash

What is capitalism?

“Means of production”

Mixed economy

U.S. History

Breaking up

1:58:22 Call ends and closing thoughts

Most viewers I’ve ever had on a livestream

2:10:25 Call with Rey, a PhD candidate in philosophy

My dissertation

Libertarianism and privatizing airlines

A distraction in the chat

Self-interest and profit-seeking

The relation of morality and politics

Island cases vs. more complex cases

Marxism: dialectical materialism, contradictions, and freedom

Exploitation, coercion, and job options

3:15:33 End of call

3:19:17 Call with Funny D Valentine

Why I think Israel is good

Why people oppose Israel

Civilian casualties and human shields

International law and rules of engagement

Egoistic vs. altruistic war and WW2

The purpose of government and majority rule

Is Israel targeting innocents?

Bad faith citing of article

4:04:34 End of call

Engaging with chat

Blocking a troll

My next livestream

Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 11 June 2026, Livestream #105

I did two earlier streams on the same day, but I ended them due to technical difficulties. The first of the two earlier streams was only about ten minutes and was mostly without any audio; I deleted it. The second of the two earlier streams can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ofqeff01mNg.

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0:00 Troubleshooting technical difficulties

29:20 Theraveda Buddhism and Objectivism

43:09 Call with Mellow Mau

(His audio is lost for the first three minutes.)

My technical setup: OBS, Zoom, etc.

The universe as eternal

Physical vs. metaphysical universe

1:06:08 Dealing with trolls

1:16:42 The universe, causality, and the Big Bang

1:27:33 Productivity

Michael Leibowitz and James Valliant

Productiveness and education

Productiveness, art, and intellectual products

Productiveness, bodybuilding (Mike Mentzer), and aesthetics

Productiveness, the Buddha, and happiness

Meditation

Atlas Shrugged passage

2:49:25 End of call

Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 6 June 2026, Livestream #104

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0:03 Intro

Thumbnail/background changes

9:04 I turned off ads for this livestream

12:45 Reading update: Industrial Revolution, especially, textiles

Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

Screening a call

25:25 Call with Dillon on grounding "good" and "bad" (and grounding more generally)

Existence exists

Conditional ethics

Rights, egoism, and emergencies

46:51 Pleasure and pain

50:29 End of call and my closing thoughts

Tony's (ghastmn5438's) chats about Israel

International court and the U.N.

1:03:28 Call with Audrey on various questions

Anarchism, statism, and individualism

Compromise between good and evil

How is property demarcated?

1:26:05 The theory/practice dichotomy and its roots

1:48:58 Does violating the rights of one man violate the rights of all?

Are only producers the only consumers?

2:06:22 End of call

My recent discussion on TikTok

How I get paid by YouTube Premium members

I experiment with toggling ads on and off

Super Chats/Stickers

2:51:17 Was Plato's theory of forms a rationalization?

Plato/Greeks vs. Kant

How did Plato argue for his theory?

3:00:34 What did you write you PhD thesis on?

Super Thanks, PayPal, Patreon

Miscellaneous

3:16:46 Metrics for assessing the state of the world

3:30:47 Statism and individualism

3:38:06 Break until 3:51:05

3:58:25 Call with Jasmine on education vouchers and school choice

Property taxes, Social Security, and restitution

5:09:45 End of call and my closing thoughts

5:16:47 Parking lot question

Strange characters in chat

5:30:39 The morality of aborting a fetus with Down syndrome

5:34:02 Longtermism and egoism

5:40:36 China's one-child policy

5:46:54 Should trade with China be allowed?

Ayn Rand and Soviet Russia

Super Thanks

Currency in the Soviet Union

My dissertation

Materialism, idealism, and dualism

Currency

Would you rather have gold or a skill in a collapsed society?

Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 1 June 2026, Livestream #103

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0:00 Intro

0:22 Ads on my videos

8:03 Call with Simon

Hierarchies in philosophy

Knowledge for its own sake

Mathematics and art

The universe, time, space & Big Bang

1:44:05 End of call and my closing thoughts

1:56:54 Call with Tony on Israel and genocide

(The first ~13 minutes of Tony's audio is lost--sorry.)

Netanyahu and Hamas

Greater Israel plan

Quotes in support of genocide?

Nazi language

Interpreting a quote "we will eliminate everything"

(The final ~7.5 minutes of Tony's audio was lost--sorry again)

3:02:40 End of call and my closing thoughts

Reviewing poll results on how many people have seen ads

Returning a missed call

3:18:39 Call with Jordan on egoism

Should an egoist support taxes?

Funding government

3:38:02 End of call

Reviewing poll results

Engaging with chat

3:47:23 Break until 3:59:05

4:02:13 Call with Mellow Mau

Considering a response to a thought experiment: What if a collective orders me to press A?

4:28:41 Hypotheticals

Turning potential followers on or off

4:47:45 What about a members-only event for my channel?

Channel memberships and ads

5:05:11 Mau's project to reconcile Objectivism and Buddhism

5:15:04 The essence of Buddhism

Objectivism through Induction, Understanding Objectivism

The spiral theory of knowledge

History example

Definition of "man" example

Ad revenue, YouTube Premium

"Man is a being of self-made soul"

The practicality of philosophy

Engaging with chat about ads, etc.

6:42:34 Philosophy PhD in Objectivism or in general?

Attitudes toward Ayn Rand in academia

Dark Buddhism, versions of Buddhism

7:11:01 Is Buddhism similar to Stoicism?

How Mau got interested in Buddhism

7:22:04 Schisms, Objectivism, and the "Ayn Rand Fan Club"

7:51:03 Prospects for Objectivism's future

Democrats and Republicans

Engaging with people who disagree

8:21:54 End of call

Engaging with chat

8:34:37 Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 27 May 2026, Livestream #102

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0:00 Intro

4:51 My TikTok debate last night with a Communist (Vegan Bolshevik)

Airlines and covid

Emergency case

Is Ayn Rand good?

Reading update: oil & railroad industries, steam engines

Ayn Rand and Social Security

31:41 Call with Ricky re: taxes, funding police/military

38:09 End of call

Chatting with a minor

Troll(?) calls (which I don't answer)

Is it a good idea to study philosophy?

My thoughts on milton friedman, hayek, hoppe, paleolibs and ancaps

Abortion

"Analytic knowledge"

Paleolibertarianism, anarchism, and "minarchism"

Israel

Fascism

Bitcoin, free banking

1:52:13 Threats to humanity

Altruism and natural/artificial selection

Age/ID verification, Canadian truckers

2:15:37 "Do you believe there is a place for government to protect minors from exposure to graphic, disturbing, violent of other content? And should sale of products (drugs, alcohol) be similarly controlled?"

My opinion on cannabis

Troubleshooting frozen screen

2:41:36 Call with Robin tricking people into being good, etc.

(Lost caller's audio for a few seconds)

Christianity, faith and self-sacrifice

Is volunteering an act of sacrifice?

Egoism and caring about others

Tricking people into being good

Storytelling

Defining "the good"

3:21:45 End of call

3:28:41 Break until 3:37:48

3:39:13 Call with Conrad re: abortion, fetuses & humans

Rights

Conjoined humans

Entities

4:34:23 End of call

Babies, extraterrestrials, and rights

What is an "entity"? (including comments by Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff)

Perception and light

5:31:49 "Abortion rights are pro-life" by Leonard Peikoff

5:42:29 Call with Greg

Newton, light, & perception

Greg's background with Ayn Rand

6:02:18 End of call

Reading chats

Leaving a baby at a firehouse

Outro

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