Hey everybody, how's it going? I hope

you have a lovely day. Welcome to

today's episode of Do Not Accept the

Premise of [ __ ] I am your host

Louis Rossmann and today I would like to

make a video on a giant mistake that I

believe some people in the Stop Killing

Games movement has made and what I need

you guys to do to fix this. This is

about a post I saw on Reddit that I was

linked to. It says, and I quote, "We

received reports of serious threats

towards individuals. While we're not

pleased with the ESA's behavior,

obviously, we received reports of

serious threats towards individuals.

This behavior does not reflect Stop

Killing Games' values and anyone found

to be doing this will be banned

immediately."

Senator, do you still beat your wife?

No.

Do you see what happened there? When you

respond to do you still beat your wife

with no, you've accepted the premise

that at one point in time you beat your

wife. If you say yes, then well, you

must still beat your wife. It's a

[ __ ] question. When you respond to

the premise of [ __ ] you always

lose. You're not supposed to play this

game. This is a very bad game to play

and it's a game that I've unfortunately

learned because I have been dealing with

this as I've tried to push Right to

Repair forward for the last 12 years.

I've dealt with politicians, I've dealt

with lobbyists. There are ones that I've

dealt with on the other side that have

been scumbags and then some that I've

hired on my own side that have been

scumbags that I learned picking out the

hard way.

This is a difficult lesson to learn. I

remember back in 2015 and 2014 when I

would show up to these legislative

hearings, there was one assembly person

that told me that there was a

lobbyist for either Apple or Samsung

that said that when I replace a fuse or

a chip inside of the motherboard, I'm

replacing it and I'm turning the Mac

into a PC. But then I misrepresent it as

if it's still a Mac to my customer,

which is fraud. That's crazy. That's

insane. And the reason that they were

able to say these things to get Right to

Repair and other bills killed is because

back in the day, you did not have

political YouTubers, you didn't have the

government website allowing you to

stream a committee hearing. They didn't

even have cameras in these committee

hearings. When I was showing up with my

old beat-up Sony NEX-EA50, I was usually

the only person that was actually

showing up to record what it is that the

opposition said. And they would say

insane [ __ ] They would say that a

MacTrometer in a microwave would

explode. They would say stuff like that.

They would say that running a Minecraft

server is illegal. And the reason they

got away with it is because there was no

accountability because they were used to

speaking to a room of three or four old

farts that didn't really know anything

about technology and they were not being

held accountable. What you're seeing now

is a rapid dose of accountability

because these hearings are now

live-streamed and you have people on

YouTube that find them and repost them

to their channels. So, something that

used to be viewed by three or four

people are now getting viewed by

millions of people around the world and

they're scrambling to figure out a way

to deal with this. And the way that they

have learned that they deal with this is

death threat, nasty emails. Hey, can you

tell everybody on your side to stop

sending me these nasty emails? And then

what you do, thinking you're a nice

person, I don't want people to be

harassed. I don't want people to get

nasty emails and death threats, is go,

"Oh, everybody, please don't send death

threats to that person."

What happens when you type that?

You have now accepted, tacitly, that

your side sends death threats to people.

See, here's the thing. If they say that

they believe that everybody on your side

are evil, mean, bad people. These gamers

are bastards, they're serial killers,

they're murderers, they send everybody

nasty messages. They told me to go kill

myself.

That's an accusation. Accusations

require evidence and it sounds like

slander. You You just can't do that. You

can't make unfounded accusations without

presenting any evidence.

But if they can get you to say it, now

Well, you I listen, I didn't say

anything. Look, even they are telling

their own community to be nice to people

because of they're so mean. Even they

know their own community is toxic. The

reason this bothers me so much is

because they're taking advantage of the

fact that they believe that you are good

people. The same way that some of those

Moms Demand Action people have been

tricked into believing this. David Tobin

was mentioning that in the past video

where they were literally told that this

is a gun printing machine, it's just

designed to print guns, that's what it

does. You just hit a button and it

prints a gun. And then they show up

opposed to this. They are taking

advantage of the fact that most of the

people in the Stop Killing Games

movement are actually good people that

don't want people to be harassed. So,

you get put in the situation where you

go, "Oh, no. If I say that they're

making it up, then I sound like Alex

Jones in the Sandy Hook shooting calling

it a false flag. And oh, I'm going to

tell the people in my audience, please

don't please be nice to people. I I want

people to be nice to people.

>> And the problem with that is that when

you do that, you are you are essentially

accepting the fact that there's only a

yes or a no answer to "Senator, do you

still beat your wife?" And you cannot do

that. I see that in the comments of the

thread that I'm reading. Half of the

people in that thread are saying this is

a false flag, they're making it up,

which puts you in the Alex Jones [ __ ]

category of that did not happen. And

then there is the side saying we need to

take accountability and responsibility

and we need to respond to this by

condemning this in our community, which

is accepting that this is real or came

from your community. When I say

accepting the premise of [ __ ] what

I mean is somebody has taken a problem

and put it in your lap that doesn't

belong there, and you turn into the

character I talked about. Oh, no, a

problem in my lap. Instead of doing what

you're supposed to do, which is take

that problem and put it right back where

it belongs. And there's and I would like

to instruct you on how you do that. I've

experienced this many times before and

I'll give you this a few examples of it

that I have here. There was a Senator

C.T. Wilson. He didn't know the

difference between source code and

firmware. And when I pointed out that he

didn't read the bill and that he didn't

know the difference between source code

and firmware, rather than come out and

admit that he made a mistake, he claimed

people were sending him all these nasty

racist emails. Of course, he never

presented any of them. He never showed

any of them. He never made a filed an

official complaint about any of them,

but he he said that they did. There was

a lobbyist that said that right to

repair is a solution in search of a

problem that does not exist. And after

hearing this over and over and over

again, I checked one of the lobbyist's

personal Twitter and I saw them say,

"I'm experiencing phone issues. The

phone is on, but the screen is black.

I've tried everything. It's time for"

and I could be clear, the last time I

clicked this was almost 7 years ago, so

I don't remember exactly what it said.

It's like, "a new phone if I can't find

a place to repair it." So now I can show

that her own statement is not only a

statement that's false, but it's a

statement that she knows is false

because she tried to get a phone repair

and had issues getting a phone repair

and now she's lobbying against right to

repair by saying that there's no

problem.

And it's funny, I'd never heard about

any sort of threats, any sort of

harassment before and all that came out

when I pointed out, "Look, she lied."

Never heard anything about any threats

before. When I point out that they lied

about something, that's when I hear

about it. Next, and one of my personal

favorites. In Colorado, there was a

right to repair bill that was passed

many years ago. It was a great right to

repair bill. A senator introduced a bill

that was mostly sponsored and paid for

by Cisco and IBM to try and gut that

right to repair bill. And when they were

trying to gut that right to repair bill,

the senator made a statement that the

governor said in his signing statement

that he wanted right to repair to have

an exemption for critical

infrastructure. So, I decided to read

the signing statement, and I saw it, no

mention of this. I actually couldn't

find a single mention of Governor Jared

Polis ever saying anything related to

this. So, I made a video saying, "Here's

what the senator said, and then here's

the actual signing statement. He lied."

Do you think that he came out and

apologized or provided a citation for a

statement? Of course not. Death threats.

Death threats. Death threats.

>> Political violence in any form are

unacceptable inside or outside of this

building. And if you are mad about a

piece of legislation,

send us a

>> You know, I did some research into this.

I actually asked around, were there any

official complaints filed?

No.

Were there any police reports filed?

No.

Okay. So, here's what I'm going to do. I

filed a police report many years ago,

almost 10 years ago, when a $200 bike

was stolen. I'm not even talking about

somebody punch me in the face and took

it violently. I'm talking about I locked

it to a telephone pole, I forgot it was

there, I came back a week later, and I

saw that the lock had been cut. I filed

a police report over a $200 bike.

And you're not filing a police report or

any sort of complaint over somebody

threatening your life?

That's crazy. So, here's what I'm going

to do.

It doesn't seem like you took this

seriously. So, because you did not take

it seriously, I'm going to take this

threat as seriously as you did, which is

not at all. And I'm going to continue to

focus on the point. How about this,

senator? I'm going to work with you. I'm

politically ignorant, I barely graduated

high school. I will give you $2,000 to

you personally or a charity of your

choosing, if you're not allowed to

accept my money, if If will simply cite

your claim. You said that the governor

said that this bill needs to be amended

because right to repair is so horrible.

Where did he say that? If I missed it,

then you could give $2,000 to children

that are starving right now.

I'm waiting for that citation, the same

way that I'm waiting for evidence of the

death threats, and evidence of a police

report.

I'm probably going to be waiting for a

long time. Less than a week later, this

happened.

The bill that he was introducing to

destroy right to repair failed, and I

never got my citation. I never got my

source, and I never got my police

report.

I never will. And we both know why

that's the case.

This is their strategy. They're used to

being able to fear monger over

legislators by saying that these parts

that don't actually exist inside of

microwaves will blow up and explode if

right to repair passes, and you can see

Jessa over here right about to bite her

hand because she can't deal with

listening to this complete [ __ ] and

not have anybody call them out on it.

Accountability is a literal shock to

their system, and they don't know how to

deal with it. And the same way that a

rat when cornered is going to start

scratching you,

in my opinion, [clears throat] they're

going to start doing the same thing.

Here's my statement on the matter. Ross

Scott has never conducted himself as

anything but respectful, and neither of

the people that he's worked with,

alongside the people pushing this

petition in the EU. This does not need

to be announced because it's been

already demonstrated by how you all

behaved. But, here's what I would say.

Here's what I think that your statement

should be. Moderators and leaders in the

Stop Killing Games movement are

upstanding citizens of the community

that will always happily and

enthusiastically cooperate with any form

of law enforcement to work to stop any

threats of violence. We always have, and

we always will.

Oh, you're you're you're saying that you

didn't file a police report? You You

mean somebody threatened your life, and

they didn't even file a police report?

I filed a police report when somebody

stole the tip jar from my store. It

doesn't seem like you care very much

about your own personal safety. But,

because I care about you, even though we

disagree on almost everything, because I

care more about your personal safety

than you do yourself, let's go down to

the police station and file this

together. I'll even talk about the

qualms that we had online and all the

people in my movement and everything

else. You can even include that in the

report. I'll talk about it with him.

Oh, you don't want to do that? You don't

want to file a report?

Okay, let's have a conversation about

why that is. Is it because you don't

feel like you're actually being

threatened? And if that is the case,

why?

I'd love to hear.

Oh, you don't want to talk about it

anymore. Now I see. Let's get back to

the discussion that we were having

before. Ma'am, can you explain why it is

you lied to the state senate and said

that playing Minecraft on a server that

was available on their own website is

illegal? Ma'am, can you explain why it

is you said that it is not true that

publishers are just killing games

willy-nilly in spite of the fact that we

have an entire database with sources,

citations, dates, names of everything?

You can bring the conversation back to

where it belongs. You are going to treat

their deflection as seriously as they

have treated the deflection, which is

less seriously than I treated a stolen

tip jar or a stolen used beat-up $200

bicycle in Bed-Stuy.

And you are going to get back to having

the conversation that needs to be had.

And you are not going to make this

[ __ ] mistake again.

Promise me.

These are highly manipulative people.

They know what they're doing. They are

more than happy to get up in front of a

group of senators and look them straight

in the eye and make [ __ ] up. That takes

a very special type of person, a very

manipulative type of person.

That is what you are dealing with.

And if that is what they are used to

doing every single day, imagine what

they're going to be doing to you.

Nah. You guys need a little bit more

training before you start playing this

game. You are dealing with highly

manipulative people. You cannot play

their game. You will never win playing

their game.

You win playing your game. You win by

taking their threats as seriously as

they have.

You win by not accepting the premise of

[ __ ]

Don't do it again.

That's it for today. And as always, I

hope you learned something. I'll see you

in the next video. Bye now.