What starts as a discussion sparked by the news that a Facebook whistleblower exposed the ways the company "controls the narrative" quickly turns into a surprisingly heated debate between Daniel and Alex on the right of businesses to impose a vaccine mandate for their customers. My body, my choice? Or viewing the unvaxxed as a danger to the community and society at large.
...oh, and do the vaccines work anyway, cause the data on that is starting to look a bit disappointing.
We start discussing the recent trend of tearing down statues in America and Europe without any consideration for historical context or the positive impact on humanity also brought by these folks. As usual, as the whiskey begins to flow the conversation goes significantly off on several other courses, including free-associating what the psychopaths must have been like who would sign up on a mission to discover the new world. This one is anything but boring folks.
And why are there Egyptian hieroglyphics of helicopters and planes? Is this evidence of interdimensional aliens or perhaps even the multiverse?
We take the Political Compass test https://www.politicalcompass.org/ to see where we fall on the left/right scale with authoritarian/libertarian intersection. What do we learn? You'll have to listen to find out, but perhaps the greatest learning of all is that there is little representation for most of our feelings in today's ruling governments. Additionally, there's little difference between so-called 'left' and 'right' anymore.
Basically, we're screwed.
Join us on a journey through our Twitter follower profiles as Daniel learns American political "terms." Together we try to understand why our Twitter base seems like they might be "wanted" for storming the capitol. We explore what drives the way we all self-identify online and how this might be representative of our countries and social climate as a whole today.
