Nick Freitas

15 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 5, 2025 by Nick Freitas · across every show →

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Jun 5, 2025 positive
Insight
Freitas: Capitalism enables positive conquest through voluntary cooperation
“Really what free markets and capitalism and all this does is it allows you to con, it allows you to conquer through voluntary cooperation and through the benefit of the people that choose to do business with you. And that's an incredibly positive form of conqu…”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 54:36 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025
Insight
Freitas: Resting on past achievements means you are no longer that capable man
“If I am living off the reputation of those stories, well then I'm not that man anymore. And I still want to be that man. And so that is a quest of constant improvement.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 46:52 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 negative
What-if
Freitas: Would Reject Public School Even with an Ideal Curriculum
“What I tell people is if the public school overnight taught everything that I loved, I still wouldn't send my kids. And the reason why is because of the str the structure that it's been set up to achieve.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 1:00:33 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025
Insight
Freitas: Being a man means overcoming pain and danger to uphold duty
“When somebody says man up, be a man, your mindset automatically goes to overcome difficulties, problems, pain, and danger in order to accomplish your mission and uphold your word. That's what it is.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 11:19 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025
Insight
Freitas: Society maintains order when good people are willing to use violence
“The barbarians are kept in check by the good people that are willing to use physical violence in order to maintain order.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 41:21 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025
Insight
Freitas: Purpose and Meaning Come from Responsibility, Not More Freedom
“Most of the things in your life that give you purpose and meaning don't give you more freedom. They give you more responsibilities.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 8:08 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025
Insight
Freitas: Most people fail in military and business by defeating themselves mentally
“The vast majority of people I saw fail throughout the military, and you could argue throughout business or whatever. They beat themselves far before anybody else did.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 9:27 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Insight
Freitas: Raising good sons is easy if parents ignore modern culture
“And not to be flippant, I don't think it's all that difficult as long as you just ignore everything modern culture is telling you with respect to masculinity and boys.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 5:09 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Insight
Freitas: Raising kids on strict authority leaves them vulnerable to future bosses
“What you realize is you didn't teach your kids values. You taught your kids an authority structure and the authority structure was you're in charge and what you say is go and what you say, go. And you know what? Maybe that's fine as long as you're in charge be…”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 22:32 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Insight
Freitas: Elite combat veterans commonly battle imposter syndrome due to peer comparisons
“I kind of disagree with Alex and the idea that there's no such thing as imposter syndrome because I know one in, I think this is really common among combat vets. I think it's really common among military personnel. ... Well, because somebody else did something…”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 45:31 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Insight
Freitas: Internet access gives the world unfiltered access to vulnerable kids
“You're not giving them access to the internet. You're giving the world access to them through the internet. And they're not, they are not capable of understanding certain concepts or being exposed to certain ideas at these tender young ages where they have not…”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 23:59 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Insight
Freitas: Learning to fight enables measured and effective violence
“You need to learn how to fight. And you need to go through what it looks like to really come up against that concept of fight or flight and to choose fight. And when you can do it and when you come in more competent at it, you are far more likely to utilize it…”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 38:36 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Insight
Freitas: Fathers must be dangerous on behalf of their families
“And so you absolutely have to be dangerous, never toward your family, but on behalf of them.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 35:28 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Freitas: Online trolls proliferate due to lack of physical consequences
“That's why you have so many trolls is because they believe they can operate in this world where they can say whatever they want and get away with it without any sort of physical consequence.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 39:12 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Insight
Freitas: Young men primarily desire a noble purpose and someone to protect
“And I think young men more than anything want a noble purpose and they want not just something to fight for, they want someone to fight for.”
Nick Freitas Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 5:51 What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
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