Replatform A Conference Fighting the Virus with David Ragsdale

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We chat with Replatform conference organizer David Ragsdale about the emerging parallel/freedom economy arising due to woke cancel culture and government overreach. Topics include the diverse mix of disaffected groups converging (social conservatives, libertarians, ex-Dem health freedom advocates), false historical view of corporations as right-wing, mechanics of cancellation methodologies and triggers, looming systemic collapse irrespective of politics, intergenerational investment in ideological camps, and why clusters of hucksters signal the shape of the future.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] I keep wondering is when are we going to be able to talk about, like, what the science has actually said about Special K's post Special K?

David Ragsdale: Good news. Good news. There is, there's always a lag, right? And so the Google gods who, who control a lot of what we can talk about on your show on this channel, there's probably going to be a lag, but today in the journal of medical ethics, there was this peer reviewed paper and I'll send it to you. By these six Dutch researchers that looked into the scapegoating did not take the interventions and their conclusions were it was misinformation to scapegoat them because the pandemic risks were overstated and the efficacy of the intervention was also overstated.

Number two, the media. created this misinformation. Three, the disinformation is incredibly [00:01:00] harmful. And the fourth thing they looked at who was doing the scapegoating and by and large, it was liberals. And they looked at it by ideology and that people on the right were not scapegoating, even if they had had the intervention, they refused to scapegoat.

Liberals were the ones who were doing that. So I, you know, we have a lot of liberals in our movement and it's been very difficult I think for them and I feel for them, but there's something about this. Like all encompassing liberalism that we are told we live under and it doesn't really appear to be the thing itself.

Well, it's

Malcolm Collins: interesting that you say that. I'm actually interested to see if this video gets flagged in a way or something like that. Because I don't know if we're allowed to say this yet. Like, I, I genuinely don't know. That's not the only study that shows that we were, there's actually been a number of, of pretty good studies that just do not [00:02:00] agree with the mainstream narrative.

David Ragsdale: Always follow the advice of the medical experts as acknowledged by the Alphabet Corporation and their subsidiaries.

Would you like to know more?

Simone Collins: Hello everyone. We're super excited to be joined today by David Ragsdale. He is the CEO of Replatform, and he's also the Chief Operating Officer of Defeat the Mandate.

Operations Director. Operations Director, basically. Basically. But yeah, you do. So you do ops and to be the mandates. And we, we met you as you were organizing the replatform conference, which is going to be happening in Vegas in April. Well, no, in March, March of next year of 2024. We're super excited for that because we're, we're intrigued.

Like we, We have been through all these different angles approaching different, like sort of alternative economies, alternative cultures, like ways around the mainstream, because of course the pandemic had sort of been like a crisis of [00:03:00] faith moment that, that was like the death knell on top of, I think the crisis of faith that happened in 2016.

So like when Trump was first elected, I think a lot of people were like. Wait a second. Like I was prompt, like it was, it was, it was very clear that like Hillary Clinton was going to win and that things were going to be a certain way. And then like that completely went off the rails. And then, and then also like there was just this crisis of faith in the media after that.

And then of course, with the pandemic that happened again, it's like, wait, you told us that masks weren't important. And then he told us that they were important and that it turned out that they didn't do anything at all, unless they were fitted and 95s. So anyway, We feel like this has been a growing movement, but also it's so fragmented.

It's so confusing. I don't like people don't know where to go. So we really want to talk about that. I mean, among other things, though,

Malcolm Collins: before we go further, I do want to, I mean, I think the history of the conference is also really useful to our audience in understanding what it's about. So it was originally.

The when you research us about us, the alternative economies are parallel economies. With the idea being that as this sort of [00:04:00] mimetic virus that we talk about, it's much more than woke ism. It's like this broad thing that's in almost every major company right now becomes wider. If you are immune to it, the system spits you out and makes it very hard to work.

And so the primary way to compete with the system is through parallel economies or parallel information networks or parallel all sorts of things like this. And then as the conference evolved, sort of the way that I describe it to people when I pitch it to people is I'm like, it's trying to become like a what's the name?

I'm looking here like comic con, except instead of launching marvel movies, it's where they launched the movies that the mainstream media is going to freak out about.

David Ragsdale: Yeah, that's so originally, so when we were making defeat the mandates our first rally at the Lincoln Memorial in January of 2021, we were debunked Right.

And that was sort of a shocker debate. So we, we [00:05:00] actually had good relations with the Biden administration. They approved our, our permit to be on the Lincoln Memorial. Within hours, and then I think they were probably bending over backwards because the mandates were really heavy and hot at that time, obviously.

So they were probably trying to create a space. You know what I mean? Yeah. And so we had no problem with the federal government. They were, you know, like, here, take the link memorial and we'll give you this and we'll give you that. So it was pretty easy to physically organize defeat the mandates. And remember, we did it a year.

Yeah. After that January 2021 incident, we were nervous because we were aiming for January 2022 and we're like, Oh, is this going to be a problem? And it turned out not to be, but it was apparently a problem and I won't go into details or name names with our bank. And so we were debunked and we were obviously doing nothing illegal, nothing.

[00:06:00] Faithful, nothing violent. We had Democrats, Republicans, independents, but we lost our banking. We also lost a bunch of B2B services, our mass email, you know, so we were always screaming.

Simone Collins: Okay. Wait, did someone try to cancel you? Was this like someone just spamming? We were,

David Ragsdale: we were de platformed and it wasn't just.

Like a social media thing, a lot of different b2b services that, you know, my background, I worked at live nation on the festivals team. And you, you use, when you're making an event, you use a lot of these. Services, especially now, and

Malcolm Collins: this is something that I've increasingly noticed when I talk to people where they've genuinely been removed from all the platforms, they're removed from like major platforms.

One of the core reasons is they're talking about, I guess what I'll call for this podcast. So we don't get in trouble. It was during the special case here. The, the, the big