Welcome to my 35 new subscribers from Facebook! Bible; government financing; immigration. 2 Aug 2025

2 August 2025, Livestream #40

0:04 Intro

2:29 Welcome to my 35 new subscribers from Facebook!

4:22 [I cut about seven minutes of the original livestream at this point due to audio problems. You can see my Facebook post and hear the music that goes with it here: https://www.facebook.com/dan.norton.1428/posts/10164321952288338.]

7:08 Also need 4,000 hours of watch time in the last 12 months to be monetized

10:36 The Selfishness Project

16:23 Bible reading update: Book of Numbers, Operation Rising Lion

34:45 In a free society, would a lottery to help finance the limited functions of a government be proper or would it interfere with the rights of private casino owners? (Jason)

39:28 Funding the government via bake sales (Jason)

46:04 Immigration (RW and Jason)

Residence vs. citizenship

Tiered list of countries

Gaza vs. Mexico; drug legalization

Patronizing/boycotting businesses based on whether they contribute to the government (aside from previous topic)

Passports necessary?

Waiting generations to vote?

Immigration in the 19th century

Innocent until proven guilty; border monitors; background checks

Arbitrary vs. optional screening (a la age of majority)

Etc.

Harry Binswanger on immigration

1:42:10 Outro

This livestream originally appeared in the “Live” section of my YouTube channel on 2 August 2025. Due to audio problems in the original video, I edited and re-uploaded the video, and it now appears in the “Videos” section and is dated 3 August 2025. The Live Chat Replay is not preserved, but I copied it and pasted it into a comment below the video.

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