All right, cyber traders, welcome on back here this Monday, March 22nd, shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern time, welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting. Sound should be good to go across both ends across our live trading room. Great to see Ken, Mario, who was cleaning up just earlier, Leda, Philip, Bonnie, all of our students joining us live in our trading room. And alongside them, all of our members joining us in social media, Facebook live and YouTube, welcome on back. Let's hop right into the thick of things folks. We have class right on ahead, so I wanna make sure we have enough time just to prep and get ready for class, so I wanna go from top to bottom across the gainers and losers list here right now. So, great to see everybody, let's hop to it. We have the mavestrade up like 10 plus percent, just about 11 percent almost heading into the afternoon. You know, just recently broke above resistance off of 19, looks like it was holding pretty well in the chart just a moment ago, and then off the initial breakout, we ended up seeing, let's just take a look. Yeah, by far the biggest spike of volume across the whole day on this mavestrade.  So, it wouldn't shock me if it ends up kind of pulling back down before it ends up making the better move later on today, but easy enough, we're just gonna put this on our main list. I don't know what the news is folks, I normally would have time just to check it out, but just I wanna make sure all of our students inside the phase two course are ready. I wanna make sure I'm ready. So, we're gonna go from top to bottom. Now we have the SPRT though, and I should have just said, I thought I said this but mavest, we're gonna put on our main list here of course, right? It also is shortable if it does crap out the other way by any means. Even if it breaks under 19 here at first, I wouldn't be that bearish on it. I wouldn't try and short it off the first break, wait for the second break if it makes a lower high. But anyway, going back from top to bottom here, the SPRT trade up over 200% right now. It was up a lot more than this at least in pre-market. It was holding off nine resistance pretty well heading into the market open, but you know, although we would expect this stock to make a pullback after the market opens, we're still hopeful to see it make a higher low, push up to break a higher high later on. So we ended up seeing that, but man, the volume crapped out on this thing rather quick off that pop. So really quickly here, we'll just go to this pretty quickly here. You can see the break from eight, the pop then break, but then it ended up making this huge slingshot type move off of what appears to be like 650-ish then right through seven. But after this fail to make a clean break over the pre-market high, I mean just, I guess I think it even closed above resistance off of nine. I mean, I just say this for any of our students live inside our trading room and for all of us in social media that tend to focus more on the open and closes of prices on the charts. That's not all there is to it. There's a lot more to that. And it's just to say, if this fails to hold over nine and make a bigger pop right away after, there's only one other way the stock's going to go. So that's not worth it for you to try and hold on for hope to see it make a new move back up because obviously that is yet to happen. I guess it kind of tried to happen here, that second wind type of move, but we know what happens on something like this after the initial pop drop. And then just the stock's trading almost a quarter of a billion shares today trades 151,000 shares on average, the 50 days prior to today. So I think that speaks for itself. But then you got some stocks that are holding pretty strong at the highs like this JFIN trade here. This is normally, I think let me just make sure, but pretty certain this is a very low float type of stock. 25 million, we've traded much lower, it's still pretty low, but nonetheless though, either way we ended up seeing this stock make like an explosion shortly after 10 o'clock Eastern time from eight, got halted on the way up, ended up making a few shakes. I want to zoom in just to see, did the stock ever get halted on the way down? You folks know my stance on like stocks getting halted on the way down, that's usually a wrap. This stock did not get halted on the way down, it ended up obviously making the pop up later on, pushing up to break higher now. So yeah, I mean, we'll see where this takes us. It still wouldn't shock me to see this make like higher lows and still build a trend heading into the afternoon. It's making a hell of a move right now on the way up to 13, you have a 32,000 share order on the S currently sitting there roughly. I would expect that to hold the first time, so to say, so the stock back on Thursday of last week ended up making a big pop from five all the way up to whatever price this is, was like 1360 topped off at. Well, ended up dropping right back down below 10 and then got crushed the following day. So we didn't necessarily expect this stock to land up 55 plus percent again this morning, but we'll see where it takes us right now heading into the afternoon. Again, I would expect the false breakout the first time this would test 13. All right, we got the TCAT trade. This thing just keeps on flying up as well. The spread on this is just so ugly, so I would just be very blunt and say this, I would hope that most of our students joining us live inside our room right now are gonna be joining me in class later on today. But for those of us not, no problem, but if you're not a level four or five trader, it's your gamble because this thing's up so much over the last three, four days. So again, we weren't necessarily expecting this to make the type of move that you're seeing here. You know, it wouldn't have shocked us if it ended up making like a nice little pop or run like it did from the mid to late morning. But at this point, this stocks up 53% just from Friday's close and just dating back to, this time last week, it was a $5 stock. So be careful, trade this at your own risk. If you're a level four or five trader, you have a much better idea as far as what levels to watch on a trade like this. But yeah, either way, we're gonna put this on our watch list, the TCAT. If you don't wanna trade the TCAT, then there are stocks that move with this that probably have much better liquidity. I know that Rich L in our trading room has been going over that with you folks, the YVR pushing up pretty nicely another NFT type of stock, OCG if not mistaken. This one is starting to get a bit of a wacky spread, but a little bit better than the TCAT trade there. And of course, at the same time too, they're much less expensive. So put the TCAT, the YVR, the OCG, and if there's any others out there, I'm sure Rich will type it in there. But we'll keep going from top to bottom. I know the ZKIN trades another like blockchain affiliated stock. We'll just check that out in a moment. I got Arkon still pushing up nicely. I don't know if this is joining those as well, but holding a really strong trend heading into the afternoon. I mean, trend off the lows here and then it's just right back to the highs of the day. So easy enough to just put this on our list here, the Arkon stock. I want to have a quick idea here. Yeah, the float, let's see. Yeah, now we're starting to get pretty low with the float. Arkon, a 4.76 mil. We have one here, SUMR. I'm probably not going to put on our watch list. Just want to check it out for fun. Just super spotty chart looking very flat. So we're not going to put this on our list, but this is even less of a float, 1.65 mil. So it's just to say it's going to be much more difficult to try and get out of a stock that has a lower float, especially if it has a fluctuating widespread and order book. You're not going to get the price that you want to get filled at. All right, so there's a whole of famed stock. Pretty interesting, you see a trend line actually sticking up there on the one minute. That was dating back to Friday's charts. So you know what? I forgot about that, believe it or not. Let's take a quick look. If you look at that, huh? So if you guys recall, as you can see here on the hall of famed stock from Friday morning, heading into really the whole day, ended up building this trend off these highs perfectly. And then just now, I totally forgot about this. That's crazy. I didn't have this up on my other monitor, my main trading platform that I trade off of. I didn't have that up on that one. So pretty interesting to see that for what it's worth. This ended up continuing to push up and get today. Practically held the trend line, a false breakout you might call it, but ended up coming right back down. Pretty interesting to see. Yeah, I mean, for right now hall of famed remains a great sideless stock. I think just trading 200 plus million shares pretty tired for today. If you do well on this stock and have done well from today and Friday, then it wouldn't hurt you to watch it. I just think that there's gonna be better moves to take than that so far for this afternoon.  I don't mind slow pokes, but this is just like a jigsaw up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down. It's tough to read. So unless if you're looking for a breakout over said top here, we're more focused on the resistance, the whole number of level off of three, at least from pre-market, and give us a tough time from there. So I'll put it on our side list. If it ends up making the pop, I'm sure Rich will call it out for you folks, but I think that we'll find better. Hopefully we'll find better. Got the Dow pushing up nicely here, heading into this afternoon. So I've wanted to talk about that actually at the top of the meeting, but with class ahead, I just figured just to get to it at some point. We have the Dow that's pretty much right at like consolidation resistance, I should say, from Friday's trading. So hopefully that makes a nice squeeze up higher. The ORMP trade from earlier, nice steady trend, but pretty thin order book. Damn, upstart, are you kidding me? From Thursday's trading, we saw this at this time in the afternoon, we're saying, well, you know, for a pretty expensive stock, that's like a pretty impressive jump up. It was like a 95% gain that time, Thursday afternoon and holy crap, you take your eyes off a stock for a couple of days and keeps going like this. An extra like 40% jump up basically from where we left off with it on Thursday at least, but yeah, I mean, hey, if you're holding this as a swing, congratulations first and foremost there, but otherwise we're not gonna day trade $149 stock on like a 60 cent spread. Oh, the W key trade, this is the other one that I think is, I don't know it's NFT related, but blockchain related, I believe. This ended up making a huge pop at the time and with a huge pop came a lot of volume getting filled off the first two bars there as a pop from like 10, 50-ish up towards just about 12, 50, ended up making a high of the day off 13, 58, and I guess you could say building support roughly off of 12, 12, 20-ish, just whatever those lows are on the chart there right here. And for the meantime, you know, it's still kind of holding near 13, so I don't mind putting this on our main watch list just given what we saw from the stock late last week on Thursday, I guess this is another one affiliated with Bitcoin or blockchain perhaps, but you know, for right now looking pretty strong at least still building up nicely off the lows. Let's see what else we got. The watch trade was popped and then halted earlier. Just kind of dud it back down there for now. Not really too impressed by that. The HIMX semiconductor stock, if not mistaken, ended up making a nice choppy move, but steady trend off the lows from earlier today and still kind of holding nicely near the high, so I'll put this on our side list perhaps. It's like kind of slow for a $14, $15 stock, but I'll reconsider it just about five or so minutes. All right, current time 241, making pretty good on time actually, so let's just keep going down here. The LIVX I called out earlier off the morning pop, not a whole lot going on there now. All right, let's hop over to the losers list folks. I wanna jump to one other stock in just a moment, but we'll get to that once we're done with this.  I would say that just trading 21.9 million shares on this stock normally trades on average, like before today, 338,000 shares on average, so very heavily traded similar to the SPRT trade. I believe this is all time lows and the stock is still shortable from trade stations. So should this begin to break lower here, this could be a pretty interesting opportunity. That said, so I'll let you folks know, I'm currently long on the stock right now from four bucks. I have a stop set underneath me here at 393, if I'm not mistaken, let's double check here. Down a few cents, yeah, 393 I have a nice stop set at. So I was hopeful from earlier with this kind of breaking my downtrend line that I had, for this to begin to make a nice dead cap bounce, you know, it's down like 79% still at this point in the day. So I was hopeful for that and it obviously hasn't happened yet. So my stop has said, if this probably breaks below 395 and this 36,000 share order, I'll probably get stopped out. But I don't mind putting this on our watch list just in case if this decides to wake up a lot more with it down as much as it is. So either way it provides good opportunity. The worst thing for this to do is just make like a sideways type of move where it just doesn't break higher or lower. Either way, should it even do that, I'll be really interested in following this stock tomorrow and, you know, Wednesday this week. So for the majority of this week, I'll likely be watching this and trading with it. And alongside this, man, the RLX stock, I did pretty well on this trade from earlier. I missed like the perfect short opportunity at the market open. I ended up making some money on it later on on this short, then on the long a little bit. But hey, this stock ended up making a huge drop in pre-market news came out. I think it was a China government regulation on e-cigarette type products. And that obviously affected this trade. So we ended up seeing them just move up after the market opened a small little squeak up towards 1350-ish and then pulled back down. So yeah, same thing with this, as I had said before in the other, this one's a new IPO also. That's the difference between that and the ODT perhaps there. But otherwise trading almost 100 million shares on the day, very heavily traded. Otherwise I just, it's near the lowest. I'll put it on our watch list. Doesn't mean that we're going to trade it. But if this decides to wake up heading into the final 30 minutes or 45 minutes of the day, then we'll look to call it out from there. So let's keep it going folks. I might get stopped out actually in just a moment on the ODT trade, we'll see. Keep it folks opposed on that as I continue to go through. That's BTX, the low of the day, shortable. Big spread. Lizzie for as much as this popped last week and the week before perhaps even, I don't know if bad news came out or a downgrade or whatever the case, but maybe we'll just attribute it to profit taking. I normally would have the chance to check Benzinga Pro but not right now, it's with class ahead here. So either way, it just goes to show we don't need to follow the news in order to follow the stock. This ended up providing little snow buying opportunity as it held a steady downtrend. Ended up just dropping off perfectly throughout the mid morning into the afternoon. So maybe at this point now it's down like 15 plus percent, 17 percent even. Maybe you can make a squeeze up. It's tradable in that sense, but I just, we'll see if there's anything looking like even more opportunistic. Can down 11 plus percent at the lowest of the day right now. I don't have my Bitcoin chart up even. Let me just check for my phone. Give you a from the iPhone update on Bitcoin. I'll be back tomorrow with my normal Bitcoin shenanigans perhaps, but yeah, the last 15 to 30 minutes, Bitcoin's dropped about like 500 points. I mean, that's not tremendous, but over the last hour or so prior to that it wasn't doing a whole lot. At least for right now, cans at the low of the day perhaps that will move lower now at this point, but yeah, I'll put this on our watch list. We're familiar with this stock and if it doesn't break lower then perhaps it'll provide a dead cat bounce type of opportunity. Mara, that one's very volatile in terms of a day trade. Spreads are a little wide on that and right even more. So those two I'm not too keen to put on our watch list, but the can trade definitely keep a good eye on. That's pretty strong on the way down in terms of its downtrends. EBO and other side list stock that I personally love. Not a whole lot's right home about perhaps. I'll stay there. Good side list stock like I just said, so probably tomorrow check back in on it. All right, folks, I think that just about does it for myself here. And it's funny because every time I say that and should I find something on my own it usually ends up making the list. So AMC, let's see what this thing is doing. It's not really doing that much right now. It was a great short from earlier on today as you can see, ended up breaking down instantly after the market opened. Ended up pulling back up and then dropping back down. So that's where I said, really good short opportunity from earlier today on AMC but not a whole lot there. Squeak back up in the late morning, early afternoon but not a whole lot going on. So I saw a jet blue. This was the stock I wanted to talk about here. I don't know what the news is on this stock right now. Again, I don't have the time to check you have class coming up very shortly from right now but this stock was at the low of the day. It was down E plus percent heading into this meeting and I was like looking at the Dow and the S&P and markets are moving up, airlines are or at least going into two o'clock they were kind of flat and now starting to drop off a little bit the airlines ETF. So it looks like jet blue came out with company specific news. I don't know what it is maybe a downgrade perhaps but Michael says they're short on pilots. Ooh, all right. So I guess that's the news there but with that in mind, near the lows right now heading into the afternoon it is shortable. It's like kind of slower moving. So, if the markets really want to crap out later on then that could provide a better opportunity on the short for this trade. Just want to watch heading into the afternoon near it's lows on a month slipping this on here at the end. All right, folks. So for all of us on YouTube, Facebook live, let me know if there's anything that you would want me to look at here if you didn't have a chance to see any of the stocks that you wanted to look or look at. If you didn't see anything that I reviewed that you want to look at then type in the chat board. Mike says SPWR a double top at 35 bucks. It's up nine plus percent. Wow, this one kind of flew under the radar. No pun intended but yeah, I guess it wasn't like near the top 50 and it's probably like 51 Mike. This SPWR trade looking pretty good. I like this. I'll add this to our main list. Now, at the same time as I say that though I don't want to put every stock that might be moving with the market higher heading into the afternoon. So that SPWR looks awesome. The fuel cell trade made a nice pop heading into the early afternoon. I'm not going to put this on our main list now. It just looks a little bit weaker. But yeah, for now that SPWR looking pretty good. Plug just slow, choppy. I think SPWR is better set up at least. Check out the HIMX trade. So I said I would come back to this at the end. I don't mind slipping this on our list as well. Maybe I knocked JetBlue off our list here at this point because we have a pretty big list. We have two, four, six, eight, 10, 11 and then 12 making or 12 with the JetBlue trade. JetBlue is kind of choppy there. It seemed pretty slow at least. This is really choppy. If this ends up breaking above high of the day or at least off the consolidation from 305, 310-ish there, then we'll look to call it out. I think for right now we'll add the HIMX to our main watch list. We'll actually scratch off the JetBlue. I don't like to put too many stocks in our watch list. So out of this entire list folks, I mean personally, if I wasn't teaching this class coming up and if I was really trading I would just focus on maybe two or three stocks from this list just to begin. That'll set you up for a really good opportunity at least on one of those three to give you a better chance to follow one of those three at least capitalize on those. But outside of that, if there's nothing of those two or three that you would look to watch from this list then check to see what's in the chat board. Then check to see what's out there on your scanners, your radar screens and everything else heading into the final hour, heading into the afternoon. 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If we're talking about a trans woman has all of the male physical characteristics, so would that not be a male then? Couldn't we plainly say this person is a male? Well, I guess it's like, why are you asking the question? I think I wanna understand sort of why that's so important. So if someone tells you- Just to sort of understand reality, you know? Well, I mean, I think when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them. So if a person says that they're a woman or they're a man, then that's them telling you their gender is. I'm not so sure what social interactions would have to do with maleness or femaleness that we have. Well, I mean, I could think of a few.   Those are two social interactions that where it would be relevant, what the genitalia that the person has are. At least for most of us, I think they are relevant. But notice how he's trying to completely evade and ignore the biological aspect. It's as if biology doesn't matter. They're telling you they're a female, that's enough. Most people don't lie. What's enough is what they tell you. What's enough is what they feel. What's enough of what they, they emote. Facts, reality, biology seems at least here to this guy completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter. I'm not even talking about social context. I'm just trying to start by getting to the truth, you know.  Why is that uncomfortable? He's uncomfortable with getting to the truth. Now, again, I don't know what happened before if he got the sense that Matt is trying to push him. I mean, hopefully he did some research on Matt before he did the interview, but it doesn't look like he did any given the interaction, but truth, facts, reality, biology don't seem to interest him. Comfortable. Because that, it sounds actually deeply transphobic to me. Any truth? Transphobic. I mean, notice, what does phobia mean? What does phobia mean? Right? Phobia means afraid of. So is somebody asking for the truth mean that they're afraid of homosexuals?  Homophobia, they're afraid of homosexuals, are they? I mean, they might, they might be a lot of people who unjustly, you know, I don't know, demean homosexuals, unjustly treat homosexuality, but does that make them afraid of it? The whole lashing out with phobias, transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, all these things as if there's nothing to talk about on these issues, there's nothing to discuss. It's immediately, well, you're a bad person because you're expressing this fear, which is a weird, the whole thing is a weird way of analyzing the problem, but I'm not sure this professor would say if somebody else, if they were talking about a different topic and somebody said, I want to get to the truth of this, he'd say, oh, well, truth is homophobic. It's the context. And again, I don't know what the context was before. We started showing this view, but it is kind of, this is spooky. This is spooky stuff. When the response to, I'm just trying to get to the truth about gender, about what gender means is what you're homophobic. Doesn't seem very intellectual, does it? I mean, the sky is a... And if you keep probing, we're going to stop the interview. If I probe about what the truth is? You keep invoking the word truth, which is condescending and rude. How is truth condescending and rude? How is asking somebody what they think the truth is about something condescending and rude? It's a complete rejection of reality. It's a rejection of the idea of fact. It's a rejection of reason. It's at the end of the day, what matters are the emotions of people. What matters are how people feel. And that's what I think this whole trans movement is about. It's about the elevation of emotions above all things, and it's about the destruction of reason, fact, biology, truth, reality. And again, this is not to say every trans person is this way, not at all.  Certainly, for example, I don't think Deirdre does, but this is what the intellectuals behind it are pushing. This is what the movement is pushing. And it's a nihilistic movement because the goal is not the elevation of no sex. The goal is the destruction of sex, the destruction of male and female, the destruction of sex. It's the negation. And it's, you know, you see the nihilism in the open hostility to the truth, to the concept of truth, not to the truth. I'm saying to you. How is the word truth condescending a root? Why don't you tell me what your truth is and you're walking on 30 seconds more of the nights before I get up? What my truth is? Well, I don't think I really have a truth. I think that there's just the truth, like the reality. And so we should begin by trying to figure out what the reality is. Uh-huh. And why are you concerned with when someone else tells you that they're a man or even if they use the word male, why are you concerned with not believing them? Well, you keep bringing it back. Well, this is why I think Matt is weak, right? He could say, well, I'm a doctor and I wanna know or I wanna have sex.  You know, I wanna know what league and sports to put them in. There were a lot of reasons why you would wanna know and he could give some of those, right? And I'd be curious what the professor would have said in those circumstances. So, you know, how do you respond in a social situation? That's what I do on the social scientist. Well, right, but we're in a university. This is a place of understanding truth, isn't it? Absolutely. We pursue truth and I'm a social scientist and that's what I do. You just said the truth is transphobic. That you would say, if you're saying the truth is that I get to say, you're not a man, show me your genitalia, that's transphobic. No, no, I don't wanna see anybody's genitalia. I just mean, someone can make a statement about themselves that could be untrue. Like for example, if I were to say that I'm a black man, could you, would you accept that or would you be skeptical? Are you black? Are you African-American or are you bray racial? I don't think so. Well, you don't look that and I don't think that's a, it doesn't sound like that's a genuine statement of who you are. Okay, so that's my point. I could make a statement about who I am that's incorrect. Of course, I think it's well-established that human beings can lie, yes.  Yeah. I guess this all comes back, this all comes down to really one question. Especially women, gender and sexuality studies. So what is a woman? Why do you ask that question? I just really like to know. What do you think the answer to that question is? Well, I'm asking, that's why I came to a college professor who's, this is what you do. He doesn't wanna answer this question. What other kinds of answers have you gotten? A lot of like this where you're not answering and I've gotten a lot of that, so. I think it's interesting that you say that some of the people you've interviewed have been reluctant to answer it and I think that has a lot to do with the way, the questions that preceded it and the way that you've conducted yourself in the interview. How have I conducted myself? How do you think you've conducted yourself? Yeah. Well, this is partially ambiguous what happened before the interview that we've seen. You just really don't wanna answer the questions, do you? I came today very willing and enthusiastic about answering questions about women's and gender and sexuality studies, which is what I do. So you wanted to answer questions about women's studies and so shouldn't the first answer, you should be able to provide, is what exactly is a woman? Well, for me, it's actually a really simple answer and that's a person who identifies as a woman. But what are they identifying as? As a woman. So what is that? As a woman. Do you know what a circular definition is? I do. It's sort of like what you're doing right now where a woman is a woman. Well, because you're seeking what we would call in my field of work an essentialist definition of gender. I think it sounds like you would like me to give you a set of biological or cultural characteristics that are associated with one gender or the other. I'm not seeking any type of definition, I'm just seeking a definition. Yeah, and I gave you one.  That's a definition, right? That's what constitutes a definition.  And now there are other reviews that are even worse in some sense, there's some really horrible people that he's interviewed. But that's a college professor, college professor.  And it all falls down to this circular, it almost always becomes this circular definition because one of the things they don't want to do, one of the things they clearly don't want to do is they don't want to provide a biological definition because that's problematic for them. But then they also don't want to define a psychological. So I feel like a woman. Well, what is feeling like a woman? What is that like?  You're associating all kinds of psychological attributes to women that we don't like. Well, but then tell me, what does it feel to feel like a woman that is not that way? And I keep reading the stuff and they won't actually say it. They won't actually say it. This is why, by the way, there's quite a bit of feminists who are anti this trans movement because feminists have spent a lot of time trying to say women are not that different from men. The better feminists don't say that completely the same, but intellectually we're not different. In many ways, we're not different from men. We can do much of what men can do. And we're focused on, we've been focused on getting rid of all the stereotypes that are associated with being a woman. And now you're telling us, and we've been saying these differences are not significant. Now you're saying they are significant. They're huge, they're big, psychological, because they're not physiological, they're psychological. How you feel, like your identity as, which is your feeling, and this is the conflict. So then there's somebody on the chat, Lo said, people based their evaluation of somebody as a woman or man based on their appearance. So Lo says here in the super chat, he says, a woman is a social category associated with, but not essentially caused by having female anatomy. But it clearly is not. Because a woman is somebody with female anatomy. It's not a social category. I don't know what a social category even means. A woman is a concept. It's a word that stands for a particular category in reality. It's not a social creation. It's not a myth that is just subjectively associated with something. It is dependent on and has real evolutionary importance because of reproduction. Women can have babies, men cannot. That's huge. That's a big, big difference. And I think a big difference manifests itself psychologically as well. But that's a big difference. That's not a social category. That's not a made up thing. It's not an arbitrary thing. Now, so a woman is a social category associated with, but not essentially caused by having female genitalia. But that's not a definition because even there, what is it? A social category of what?  What is it? What is the thing that the category is associated with? Outward appearance, that's it. That's all that they care about? No, it can't be just outward appearance. Because again, there's this idea of gender identity. I'm identifying with a particular gender. That's not associated with just my outward appearance. That's associated with something deep in my psyche. So even your definition low is not a definition because it's leaving out the characteristic that make one that define the social category. And you see, this is the thing. They don't want to define. It scares them to define it. Because by defining, what are you doing when you define something? You delimit it. And modern epistemology refuses to do that. Low says categories don't exist in the world. We define them based on utility. We define them based on utility, but based on actual existence, actual reality, actual features that exist in reality. And that's why they have utility. The reason they have utility is because they exist in reality. And utility means our ability to deal with reality.  It's medical treatment. I have to have a category of women and men to be able to deal with those. I mean, there are many other reasons one has to have this category, but that's one.  No, but that's completely random and arbitrary. Who defines what social categories are? They are, I mean, when you put two things next to each other, and if they're the same in fundamental ways, then they belong in the same category for a particular purpose. Let's say the purpose is to identify different types of human beings.  Fundamental biological ways that shape how they interact with reality, how they interact with other people. Trans women and cis women are different in fundamental, not in non-essential ways, but in fundamental ways. That affect how people will interact with them, rationally interact with them for the utility, whether it's reproduction or whether it's just sex. But this whole idea of a social category, concepts are not social. They're not arbitrary. They're not whatever you feel like they should be. They relate to specific characteristics, specific facts in reality. And the relationship to those facts to what you're trying to achieve. But so it's fascinating to me that people can think that trans women and cis women are in somehow the same category of women. They're fundamentally different and they're fundamentally different perceptual. This is not hard. And the utility of it, it does not apply for everything, for some things, it doesn't matter. I don't care. If for some things, I do care, right? For some things, I do care. For other things, I don't care. For the intellectual output, I don't care. Trans cis, it doesn't matter for sex. It very much matters, very much matters. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support.  Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


The U.S. and Ukraine have every reason to lie about the war. The Washington Post, as a new article out titled, Intelligence Points to Heightened Risk of Russian Chemical Attack in Ukraine, officials say. And I challenge you to find me any Russian state media with two opening paragraphs that are more brazenly propagandistic and bereft of journalistic ethics than these. Quote. The United States and its allies have intelligence that Russia may be preparing to use chemical weapons against Ukraine. U.S. and European officials said Friday, as Moscow sought to invigorate its faltering military offensive through increasingly brutal assaults across multiple Ukrainian cities. Security officials and diplomats said the intelligence, which they declined to detail, pointed to possible preparations by Russia for deploying chemical munitions, and warned the Kremlin may seek to carry out a false flag attack that attempts to pin the blame on Ukrainians or perhaps Western governments. The officials, like others quoted in this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the matter. So Russia is preparing to stage a chemical attack, and also the Russian chemical attack might look like Ukrainians or Western governments committing a chemical attack. And also the evidence for this is secret. And also the details are secret. And also the government officials advancing this claim are secret. And also Russia's military offensive is faltering. Gotcha. The third paragraph is even better, quote. The accusations surfaced as Russia repeated claims that the United States and Ukraine were operating secret biological weapons labs in Eastern Europe, an allegation that the Biden administration dismissed as total nonsense and outright lies, end quote. This paragraph is awesome in two different ways. First, it's awesome because the Washington Post goes out of its way to inform readers that Russia's claims have been dismissed as total nonsense and outright lies after having literally just reported completely unevidenced claims by anonymous government officials with no criticism or scrutiny of any kind. Secondly, it's awesome because at no point during the rest of the article is any mention made of Victoria Nuland's incendiary admission before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Ukraine has biological research facilities that the U.S. is quite concerned might end up falling into the hands of Russian forces. Over and over again throughout the article, the Washington Post takes great care to inform readers that Russian claims about biological weapons are not to be trusted, with allegations from Moscow described as unproven accusations made with no verifiable evidence, absurd and laughable, outrageous claims, utter nonsense, sinking to new depths, and baseless. This again after uncritically reporting completely unsubstantiated allegations by government officials and sheltering them from any accountability by granting them the cover of anonymity. Unproven claims by the Russian government are laughable absurdities presented without evidence. Unproven claims by the U.S. government are just the news. The Washington Post also refers to past Russian dismissals of alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria as false flags used to frame Damascus, while of course making no mention of the mountains of evidence that this has indeed occurred. It also says the U.N. human rights office has received credible reports of Russia using cluster bombs, which could constitute war crimes, making no mention of the USA's abundant use and sale of these same munitions. Democracy dies in darkness. The fact that this Russian false flag narrative is being shoved forward with so much propagandistic fervor, not just by the Washington Post, but also by government officials and CIA media pundits, makes it all the more concerning that we're seeing things like YouTube banning the denial of well documented violent events involving Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We could soon see a chemical weapons incident occur in Ukraine after which Silicon Valley platforms ban all accounts who express skepticism of the official Western narrative about what happened. The U.S. centralized empire is censoring and propagandizing as though it is in a hot war with Russia currently. Officially, the U.S. and its allies are not at war, but the imperial narrative management machine is behaving as though we are. This makes sense because when two nuclear armed powers are fighting for dominance and know a direct military confrontation can kill them both, other types of warfare are used instead, including propaganda campaigns and psychological warfare. There is a widespread general understanding in the West that Russia stands everything to gain by lying about what happens on the ground in Ukraine and cannot be taken at its word about occurrences during this war. There is a much less widespread understanding of the fact that both Ukraine and the United States stand everything to gain by lying about this war as well and cannot be trusted either. The Washington Post's own reporting says that behind the scenes Western governments see Russian victory in this war as a forgotten conclusion. Ukraine's only chance at stopping Russia in the near term would be if it could persuade NATO powers to take a more direct role in combat, like setting up a no-fly zone as President Zelensky has persistently pleaded with them to do. One way to get around NATO's rational resistance to directly attacking the military forces of a nuclear superpower would be to appeal to a motion via atrocity propaganda by circulating a narrative that Russia has done something heinous which cries out to the heavens for vengeance regardless of the risks entailed. The United States would also benefit from circulating atrocity propaganda about Russia and that it would further consolidate international support behind the agenda to economically strangle the nation to death in facilitation of the empire's struggle for unipolar planetary hegemony. Even before the invasion, the US was already pushing the narrative that Russia has a list of dissidents, journalists, and quote, vulnerable populations such as religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQI plus persons who it plans on rounding up and torturing. To be clear, it is not conjecture that the US and its proxies make use of atrocity propaganda. The infamous Naira testimony, for example, helped manufacture consent for the Gulf War when a 15-year-old girl who turned out to be a coached plant falsely told the US Congressional Human Rights Caucus that she'd witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators in Kuwait and leaving them on the floor to die. Unipolarity propaganda has been in use for as long as war and media have co-existed and it would be incredibly naive to believe it won't continue to be, especially by power structures with a known history of doing so. For this reason it is necessary to take everything claimed about what happens in Ukraine with a planet-sized grain of salt, whether it's by Russia, Ukraine, or the US and its allies. Be very skeptical of everything you hear about chemical attacks or any other narrative that can be used to get military firepower moving in a way that it otherwise would not. All parties involved in this conflict have every reason in the world to lie about such things.