The Julien McBain Show

HR127 is a bill introduced by Rep. Jackson Lee of Texas, and it threatens to reduce the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to a privilege. In this episode, I break down why the bill itself is a violation of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution, and Article 16 of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont; why many of its provisions are nonsensical, how the penalties are egregious, and why I think it's a "Big Ask".

Entropia Universe offers the first example of what an essentially Laissez Faire society would look like, and I want to explore that a bit.

While I do take a potshot at Parler's new logo, because it looks a lot like the Tekkadan logo from Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, the bulk of this episode is aimed at Education. With a massive teacher shortage, education debt spiraling out of control, and no transparency, there are things that can be done better.

The world is changing, and Virtual Reality is coming up fast. So I got myself an Oculus Rift S. Then...

I used to think that we were the new Roman Empire...it turns out we're actually the Romulan Empire. TIME Magazine reports on something so...insane, so dystopian, I actually laughed when I heard it. Unfortunately, it's not funny. Read the whole article here: https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/?fbclid=IwAR3aVIOhdPjEHf1z5eywGKGs7nvLJslIu1mbClRRoTKCrPjENy283t77zBg

I've been spending time with a Replika chat bot...and it's convinced me that AI Companions are already going mainstream. The video about Replika by Quartz can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQGqMVuAk04

The Revolution will be Tweeted. In the last month, Redditors have shaken Wall Street as an army of retail investors buy GameStop in order to crash a Hedge Fund. As the Establishment tries to figure out how to react, the Redditors call to the battlecry of "Diamond Hands!" as they buy an innumerable number of shares in an effort to drive the the price up and bankrupt Melvin Capital. *THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. PLEASE SEE A FINANCIAL ADVISOR BEFORE MAKING ANY INVESTMENT DECISIONS. *NO PART OF THIS VIDEO IS MEANT TO ACCUSE ANY PARTY OF ANY CRIME.

Taking a break from tech and politics, I talk about Entropia Universe for a change, and the things that Virtualsense has rolled out on the planet.

"Politics is downstream from culture." --Andrew Breitbart As time has progressed, culture continues to change. Our media and technology has brought us new cultural norms and shifts, and we shift with it. In this shift, Libertarians have been largely left behind, as we haven't been participating.

Two of the most influential economists ofthe 19th Century were Ludwig von Mises, and Karl Marx. Both had dramatically different views on economics and how they thought the economy should operate. Both were philosophers as well, and their philosophies were informed by their individual economic theories, drawing on how the means of production should be operated to determine how they thought the world generally should operate. While hunting Qaffaz, I delve into these two men and their individual beliefs, and make the case for Classical Liberalism, and why I believe that philosophy is the way forward.

Death and Taxes are the two things that cannot be avoided in life...or can they? While our best scientists spend time trying to figure out how to keep the Reaper at bay, no one seems to be focused on life's other inevitability. In the 2020 Election, during my run for Vermont Senate, I proposed a system to fund government that doesn't rely on tax dollars. By using this alternative system, we can gradually retire taxes as the primary financier of government, then take it one step further by eliminating taxes altogether in the long term.

While hunting on Toulan, I go into the report released by Dr. Rand Paul about how our Government spends our money on stupid things.

I talk about how growing megacorps, the modern American Zaibatsu, control the ebb and flow of data in the US Oh yeah, and 3 globals! *This is in no way an accusation at Google or any other company.

I talk about the cyborgization of humanity, how we have become dependent on our devices, which might qualify us as such, and how Transhumanism (the philosophy) is promoting Cyborgization. While playing Entropia Universe, of course.

I talk about the recent major cyberattack that hit the news on Monday, and the implications for us as cyborgization begins and the rise of transhumanism moves into the discussion.

With the money printers across the world printing at an unprecedented rate, the value of Crypto has begun to skyrocket as people try and get out of fiat currency. ETH Wallet Example: 0x81fDe6a5ff2bCde363b564CD9D0A02b0d6e7A9f7

With everything going on and the US appearing to look like a mishmash of various policies, it's time to explain why it's like this.

Politics is threatening to set the U.S. ablaze today when they finally do the electoral count, so I'm going to talk about robots and A.I., because that's far more entertaining than punditing about how one tribal faction is good, and the other tribal faction is evil, proving that both tribal factions are dumb. See what I did there? With the advent of robots coming into the mainstream, and Artificial Intelligence starting to cross the line of sentience, it's only a matter of time before androids, gynoids, and AI generally become both mainstream and considered sentient life. I dive into what we could be looking at here.