Ralph Schoellhammer
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
But then again, if the government uses authority to Give you a stern talking to. That is in a democracy, in a republic, if we actually want to use that term as it's supposed to be meant, that's a very disturbing development.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Well, that's a horrible story. I have to tell it real quick. I have to change this. When I started Twitter, I never expected to have any follower at all. And my grandfather was born in 1913. He was not familiar with the Ralph, with the PH. So he always used to write my name like this, like the PH and then the F. And I thought it was very funny. I was very fond of my late grandfather.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So I used it as my Twitter handle. And now I have the problem that I have an absolutely unmemorabilizable Twitter handle. So I have to change this at some point.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Yeah, I think that's true. And it's also when we talk about censorship, right, there's always the argument that people sometimes say, well, so do you think that you should be able to show pornography to small children? And you would say, of course not. But what you see increasingly, again, that's more true in Europe than in the United States, it's the censorship of jokes.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And that's what I meant also originally. That's the most dangerous thing. Because a government that tries to control what people find funny is the most totalitarian thing you can think about. Because laughter and a good joke is an involuntary reaction, right? Somebody tells a joke, it's really funny, you're going to start laughing even if you don't want to. And that is a kind of...
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
a very strong emotion that governments want to control this because they're afraid that people will laugh at them if you point out their idiocies. So what are they going to do? They try to prevent jokes. And by the way, I'm not kidding. In Germany, right, the former green minister now of the economy, Robert Habeck, He had 700 lawsuits against people that were telling jokes about him.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
There was an entire division of the party dedicated just to canvass the internet if anybody said anything mildly critical or funny about him so they could drag those people into court. Now, you might say, yeah, but had these court cases any chance? But that's not the point because the process is the punishment. Like one of these guys who was dragged into court- That's exactly the point.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
One of these guys had a daughter with Down syndrome. He was a single parent. This is life-changing for them. Even if after a year, the court says, you know what? Actually, you had the permission to say that. It cost them energy. It cost them friends. It gave them public exposure in a way they didn't like. And this is, again, you intimidate people away from speaking freely and telling jokes.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And that's not the kind of society in which anybody would want to live.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
I mean, I think yes. I think the answer is yes. Although I would always be very careful with comparisons with Germany in the 1930s, primarily also for demographic reasons, right? The Germany and Europeans in the 1930s were so much younger than they are today. And let's put it this way.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
The movements in the 1930s, whether it was fascism or Bolshevism or national socialism, like very often we don't distinguish between fascism and national socialism, which I think if we actually want to be precise, we should do that because they were different in some aspects. These were self-proclaimed revolutionary movements, right?
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
They looked at the world and say, we have to do things entirely different. But if you look at the so-called far right in Europe today, they are basically saying, can't we go back to the 1980s? So they're not talking about some sort of hypothetical past that never existed. They say, can't we go back to the 1970s and the 1980s?
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
It's a little bit exaggerated, but for example, you could form a family and have a house on a single income. And I say this in all carefulness, but I think it did matter. When you went out the front door, you knew your neighbors. In schools, 60%, 70%, 80% spoke the language of the country. For example, in Vienna, we have now schools where 90% of the pupils speak Arabic.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So if you're in Austria and you send your kid to school, the kid is not going to learn anything because the teachers cannot communicate with 90% of the kids in class. So these are the problems that these parties are appealing to. It's not like what the Nazis did or what the fascists did when they said, right, we have to reestablish a massive, you know, world power, great power or something.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Look at Germany right now. They are so reluctant to spend anything on the military because they are terrified that every cent should go to the welfare state because otherwise the people are going to revolt. That is not a fascist ideology. I would say in many ways that's the opposite.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Let me, can I play devil's advocate for a second? I mean, I said at the beginning, and I still am, that I'm very much sympathetic to Donald Trump. But if you really kind of want to also intellectually, in an intellectually honest way, kind of make the, and again, I'm just steelmanning the argument, that you want to make the fascist argument.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
You could, if you go back in European intellectual history, you have people like George Sorrell, right? And even a little bit further back to Friedrich Nietzsche, of course, who didn't live to see fascism and Nazism.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
But of course, their argument was that one of the main distinctions between, let's say, liberal democracy and the alternative, and again, in Europe, that it might have been fascism, is that it's a philosophy of action. So the fascism was characterized by the idea it's not so much negotiating, it's not so much finding compromise, it's doing things.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Again, you even had parties in France, for example, that were called, I don't know, Action Francaise. I don't speak French. So this was very much at the core also of this ideology. So if you, and I'm not making the argument, I'm just saying if the Democrats would be smart and they actually want to make that argument, you could say, okay, this is
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
This Trumpian idea of it's time to get things done or the Muskian idea, even if it means breaking things and rebuilding them, you could make. Again, I'm not making it. I don't want you to misunderstand me. But you could theoretically make the argument that that has a little bit of a fascist quality because it's such a strong focus on action and the other thing and focus on willpower.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
The only obstacle to change things is we don't want it enough. I'm just saying. So you could make that argument. And that would be an interesting debate. No, I get that.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
What I find sad, I mean, I'm so glad that we're having this right now, there would be very interesting conversations to be had, because one thing is clear that the 90s and the 80s are over, right? The world has entered a new stage due to technological progress, right, to what's happening in China. So to have a conversation, whether or not the ways of governing
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
of 20, 30, 50 years ago is still the most, let's say, appropriate way to do things. That's a conversation we should have. And problematic is we always shy away from it or immediately resort to name calling. Like you say, I want to do something different. And you just point out, oh, then you must be a Nazi. You must be a fascist. But one of the beautiful things about democracy, and this is again,
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
and why I'm so frustrated with very often the shallow conversation, so I'm so glad that we have a non-shallow conversation here, is the beauty about democracy is not that it's a morally superior system. It might be that as well. The great thing about democracy is that you can vote new ideas into office without overthrowing the entire system. I mean, that's really the great thing about it, right?
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So you can do things in a certain way, And then if that no longer works, you vote in new parties that want to do things differently, but you still maintain the democratic system.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
The true threat to democracy, and this is true in the US and in Europe, is if people feel that no matter for whom they vote, they never get the change they desire, at some point, they will not just turn against the established party, they will turn against the established system. And then we are really looking at the potential for a new fascism to arise.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
No, I think it's more than that. I think you're absolutely right. And let me compare it to Europe. In the United States, if you're a conservative, you can move to Florida. If you are a liberal, you can move to California, right? I mean, crazy politics and reasonable politics, but both have great weather. So, you know, you can at least get some of the benefits in both of those places.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
In Europe, there is this idea from Brussels, right? They want to implement a worldview. And I can give a good example for this. Now, the Germans might be very open to the whole LGBTQ, QWERTY, divided by sign, you know, dash, whatever it is nowadays thing. The Hungarians are not. And the Hungarians are basically sanctioned by the authorities in Brussels.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So, you know, certain funds, student exchange programs, they cannot participate in this. So, in a certain way, within the European Union, member states... have less of an ideological freedom to chart their own path than they have in the United States. And I completely agree with you. I think the very fact that centralization is also, I would call it imperialization.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And what saved the United States is right today at these independent states. And I think that was a wonder. It's still the United States and not the United States of America. And people should be aware of that.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
It was great. I mean, we would definitely need a couple of hours more, but that's the German in me. We can never answer a question in 20 minutes.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Well, there's something to it, but the Germans tried it two times, it ended in catastrophe, so we might want to be a little bit more careful with the third time, because I have a sense it's just going to be as bad as the first two times.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Anytime. Thanks so much for having me.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Thank you so much for having me.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Well, it's a good question. Let me put it this way. It depends whether or not Germany will find back to sanity in the near future. I mean, overall, I think your viewers probably see it the same way. Overall, it's better for the world if Europe and the United States cooperate and have good relations. But I understand that Donald Trump is upset.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
I mean, he probably is not forgetting that, you know, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, sent 100 labor people to the U.S. to campaign for For Kamala Harris, he will not have forgotten that the German president called him a hate preacher.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
He will not have forgotten that basically the entire European Commission said don't vote for Trump, so that there are some hurt feelings for good reasons, I understand. But on the long run, I still hope that these are quarrels among siblings, that as a broader Western civilization, we are still on the same side.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Well, you know, platitudes are easy. Action is actually much more difficult. And just a reminder for your viewers who are probably not so familiar with French politics. A couple of years ago, Emmanuel Macron tried to increase the retirement age by two years. I think it was from 61 to 63 or something thereabouts. And the streets were aflame.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So the idea that you can then raise the French people to take cuts to the welfare state in the name of defense spending, that is simply not going to work. By the way, that's not going to work anywhere in Europe. And this is not just that the Europeans got used to their social systems.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
I always afraid to tell this to your American viewers, but just to give you a feeling of what we are talking about. I think the average American takes 14 vacation days. The average European takes 24 vacation days. That is not including public holidays, which are in Austria an additional 13. And now comes the greatest of all things. We don't get 12 yearly salaries. We get 14 yearly salaries by law.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So I always make fun when, you know, some of my European friends say, Europe is a vassal of the United States. We're a colony of the United States. I'm telling you, if that is true, it was very comfortable to be a colony of the United States because you guys did all the working and we took all the vacation days. So that was very nice. And I think that Donald Trump wants to put a name to it.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
But on a more serious note, what is a bigger problem? And I'm sure that we're going to talk about this also in greater detail. There is a sense in Western Europe that especially due to mass migration, and this is, of course, was also correct, that security, a sense of safety, crime rates have gone up, a sense of safety has gone down.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So the sense is, if we cannot protect our own borders, if we cannot protect life in our own cities, why are we supposed to protect the borders of Ukraine and the security of Ukrainians? Again, I'm not against it, but of course, it makes complete sense that most people say, shouldn't the government primarily take care of its own people before they take care of people somewhere else?
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And I think that is an understandable reaction.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Well, the pushback is something we've seen, and I'm sure that many of you have followed. Why did more and more people shift their votes to, not everywhere, Denmark is a small country, it's an exception, but in some of the major countries, they shift their votes to the right. We saw it in France, we saw it in Germany, we saw it particularly in Austria.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
The case in the United Kingdom is a little bit different. I think that Mr. Marshall, who is your next guest, can talk about this in greater detail, because I would argue that there is also a desire for more conservative politics, but people were so upset
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
with the Conservative Party that did not govern in a conservative way, that then they gave the votes to Labour, or that many Conservatives stayed at home and the votes of Labour ultimately then caused the shift that happened. But people want change.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And the big issue we see, that's the same, to make this more interesting for your American audience, what we see in Germany, in France, in the UK, in the United States, is people want change. But the entrenched elites, for understandable reasons, don't want change. So if they can no longer win at the voting booth, they have to find other ways.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
So what we see, for example, in Germany, I think we're going to talk about this, is that they weaponize NGOs. In France, they're going to use the legal system. In the UK, it's very often now the states that clamps down. In the United States, it's the media. And what we saw, I don't know how many people followed this, but we currently had a presidential election in Romania annulled.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And the leading candidate, who is with 44 percent leading in the polls, has now been banned from running because he's supposedly too far to the right. And these are all kind of steps where an existing governing elite tries to cling to power and prevent anybody who could challenge them from actually coming to power.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Oh, it already is. I mean, one of the things, and I have full disclosure to my viewers, I'm very sympathetic to Donald Trump. And one of the reasons is because of what the things that people tend to complain about. He is a bulldozer. He is indeed the proverbial elephant in the China shop.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And he has done one thing that nobody dared over the last couple of decades, which is let's take a look at all these NGOs. And I give you one example.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
One of the major NGOs in Germany that has introduced all these observatory institutions that collect information on whether people say something anti-feminist or racist or something we also talked before the show, right, Eva, do you have a relative that might have fallen victim to conspiracy theories? Now, if you take a closer look at the main NGO behind this,
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
They have a yearly budget of 6 million and they get 5.9 million from the German government. So they are like 99% of the government comes from the state, but in public, they still count as an NGO. And this has been going on for decades, but nobody looked at it.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And with the United States doing the whole thing with USAID, now even in Germany, in Austria, I think also in the UK, in France, everybody starts to look at these NGOs, and now it becomes clearer and clearer that these non-governmental organizations are actually nothing but governmental organizations.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And what they have become, and this is upsetting many people in Europe, they want to learn about it, this has become a form of a shadow state. Because the idea is, even if the right wins elections, There is a parallel institutional structure that is always left of center. And what that potentially means is that the right might get into office, but they never get into power.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And I think this is now gradually starting to change. And we see it again with Donald Trump, because what's interesting about the new administration in Washington is They have no interest just to be in office, which some could say was the case with Donald Trump in 2016. They actually want to be in power, right? They actually want to do things differently.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
We'll see how it's going to work out, but I think that's a huge difference, and that is at least partially spilling over into Europe as well.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Everything is larger in America.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Well, I think there are two things, or maybe even three things that are crucial here. When we look at what you just mentioned, the conspiracy theory part, that is interesting if you look at the timing, because many of the major conspiracy theories from five years ago, at least in parts, have been vindicated.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
Whether it was the labric theory when it came to COVID, whether it was the energy transition in Germany, or whether it was the consequences of mass migration in Western Europe. All of these things were vindicated. very often people on the right, but not exclusively, said that energy transition is not going to work, right?
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Mass migration will have huge social and cultural consequences, and that COVID might actually came from a lab. Five years ago, you were a conspiracy theorist, and now all of a sudden, you're actually closer to the truth than those who claim the opposite.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And that precisely at that time, you create an institution that says, if people spread or believe in conspiracy theories, report them to us, and we're going to advise you how to treat them.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
that is a little bit odd and so the timing is one thing the second part that is crucial i'm still working on a name for it that i can then finally trademark is if i have what i call the the humorous dictator theory and what the theory is is that censorship is always the tool of governments who are insecure
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
If you look back again, historically, in Prussia under Frederick the Great, you could say almost everything you wanted. There were some limitations, you had to be careful to insult the king, but otherwise you could speak your mind quite openly. Because the government felt so secure and confident in their position that they didn't really feel the need to clamp down on the population.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
The less safe and secure governments feel in their position, the more they try to control and clamp down on the people. And if you look at Poles in Germany, if you look at Poles in Austria, in France, I think it's also true in the UK,
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
They are so much underwater with the people that they are desperately trying to limit their ability to speak freely because they know that 80, 70, 65%, whatever, 90% don't really have anything good to say about the government. It's not so bad, I would say, in Austria. It's a little bit worse in Germany.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
But, and again, your next guest will speak in greater detail about this, but what's happening in the UK is truly troublesome. I mean, getting a visit by the police because of a social media post is absurd.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
And if you allow me to make one more point on this, because that's also something you see in Germany, there's a completely new category now being developed that is called, you know, I think that the term in the UK is non-criminal hate incidents. And in Germany, it's called incidents... below the threshold of legal viability or legal liability. Sorry, my bad.
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New Hotline To Report “Conspiracy Theorist” Family & Friends w/ Ralph Schoellhammer & Winston Marshall – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 466
What that means is that now the police can investigate you even though you haven't committed a crime. So they're not calling it thought crimes, but that is basically what it is because the police can knock at your door. And in most countries, if the police knocks on your door, that's a form of intimidation. So they don't arrest you. They will just talk to you.