Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about foreign influence campaigns. Getting beyond confirmation bias is a real stumbling block when it comes to this topic.

Topics include: Revolve, esoteric side to transhumanism, old days of Truth Movement, conspiracy and fringe topics exploited by establishment, early days of podcasting, alternative media scene infiltration, politicized narratives, JFK research, video project, non linear editing, hippies to yuppies, T Snyder, Lauren Southern This Is Not Real Life book, White Noise documentary, right wing commentary and influencers, signal boosting, Tenet Media, Russian influence operations, money sources obscured to creators, just another job, pushed by algorithms, destruction of America, dark alchemical side of conspiracy culture, confluence of interests, divide and conquer schemes, multiple goals, other foreign influence operations, other media outlets that fell at the same time as Tenet, Falun Gong, Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler, Epoch Times, possible Chinese intelligence connection, glomming onto MAGA narratives, organ harvesting story, cults, controlled opposition, Shen Yun dance show, James Jesus Angleton, counter intelligence, pigeon holed partisan views on influence ops

The new mainstream media is social media, but the new propaganda is starting to look similar to the old War on Terror propaganda.

Topics include: digital media, Truth Movement shifted into the influencer economy, emerging technologies, TikTok divestment going through, Larry Ellison Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, TikTok ban story was a farce, social media being bought up by tech oligarchs, truth is in the details, reactionary social media distractions, new mainstream media and propaganda network is social media, billionaires in control, government controlled by Big Tech, JD Vance is a plant, transhumanism, Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture protest, common misconceptions of California, Huntington Beach, Network State ideology, destroying US Constitution, Vance guest host Charlie Kirk podcast, Stephen Miller, new War on Terror, branding the Left as violent extremist group, fractures in MAGA media world, Charlie Kirk honest in his convictions, Turning Point USA, Epstein

Trying to find some meaning with the insanity of this digital simulacrum. Also, just another take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Topics include: Patreon posts, small audience, hermit tendencies, This is Not Real Life Book, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, Unite the Right rally, White Noise documentary, honest behind the scenes stories, Tenet Media, Charlie Kirk assassination, video all over social media, rushing to judgement, conspiratorial takes, karma, nature of digital medium overriding our free agency, labeling political enemies as demons, timeline, AI slop books, distortion of existential truths, divide and conquer, faux debates, users in TRON, civil war, mankind’s crime against itself, threats, free speech