Episode 1404 Scott Adams： A Sip Before I Travel
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Summary
You may have heard that I plan to take a vacation today, but I don t know yet if I m going on the vacation of a lifetime in about an hour and a half, or I m not. In the meantime, let s enjoy a simultaneous sip of coffee.
Transcript
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Well, well, well, what a day today is going to be.
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Let me tell you about my day before we get to the simultaneous sip.
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You may have heard that I plan to take a vacation today.
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I might, but I don't know yet if I'm going to go on the vacation of a lifetime
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So my destination, just so you know, is Santorini, Greece.
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So expensive, I would only do this once in my life.
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Probably would never spend this much money on another vacation.
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So the money's already spent, whether I go or not.
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And the good news about Greece is that they allow you to go in if you've had your second
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You don't need to wait the two weeks after the second vaccination, which is good, because
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it's only about 12 days since my second vaccination.
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So no problem at all flying from the United States into Greece if you're fully vaccinated.
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But yesterday afternoon, I ran into a little wrinkle.
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Turns out that we have a three and a half hour layover in Germany.
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And Germany doesn't let you in until you've got two weeks, two days short.
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Can't even fill out the paperwork to get on the plane.
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So as of right now, I don't know if I'm going to Greece on the trip of a lifetime that I would leave
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So yesterday afternoon, Christina finds the last place in San Francisco that's available to give you a test and a result, a COVID test,
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because the alternative is you've got to get a COVID test.
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So if I could get a COVID test and a result that's negative prior to getting on the flight, I can go.
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I won't be able to know the result of the test for two more hours, which is about when the car service leaves to pick me up.
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So one of two things is going to happen by 9 a.m. this morning, my time.
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I will either unpack all of my bags and watch Christina go on the trip of a lifetime, because she might as well go.
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But I will either unpack my bags or go on the trip of a lifetime that I've already paid for.
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No, I'm not taking a private jet, but it's a hell of a flight.
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So I sped to San Francisco, defying possibly some speeding limits, got my test taken.
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And if it's not a false positive, think about this.
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If it's a false positive, which is probably the only thing it could be, because I'm pretty well vaccinated.
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If they lose it, or they have a typo on it, I don't get to go.
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If they forgot to send it into the lab last night, I don't get to go.
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So I don't know if I'm going on the trip of a lifetime, but I might.
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In the meantime, let's see if we can enjoy ourselves with a simultaneous sip.
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All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice's time, a canteen jug of glass, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hither day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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So I mentioned on my livestream that I have a trip upcoming, but I didn't say anything about it.
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I get a message from Dr. Drew, who I've known for some time through the Internet and interviews on his show, etc.
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Because I have a feeling we're going to the same place.
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What are the odds that out of the entire planet that he and I would be going to the same place at the same time?
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So I told him where I was going, and it turns out we'll be within walking distance.
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So we're probably going to get together and have lunch.
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We're going to the same frickin' place on the other side of the planet, within walking distance.
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How do you guess that with no clues, other than I have a vacation planned?
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Not only that, but if I get on the flight, it's going to be the same flight, I think.
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Or at least the flight from Germany might be the same.
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There was a diver off of Cape Cod who was swallowed by a whale and then spit out.
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You know, I have to tell you that my own religious training went off the rails when I heard about Jonah and the whale.
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When I heard the Bible story about Jonah being swallowed by a big fish and then spit out some days later perfectly fine,
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I said to myself, you know, I'm not sure I can buy into this religion.
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And that was sort of the breaking point for me, was the Jonah story.
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But I think I'm going to have to reassess my entire religious upbringing because there was an actual diver who was swallowed by a whale.
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Now, technically, he wasn't in the whale's stomach, but he was completely within the whale's mouth.
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I guess the whale was doing this lunge feeding, it's called, where they just open their mouth and go through a bunch of stuff
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Anyway, so he had his scuba, not scuba, but diving gear on, so he could still breathe while he was in the whale's mouth for about 30 seconds.
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And the whale breached and spit him out, and he was like, blah, blah, blah.
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And next thing you know, he was a little shaken but not stirred.
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So I don't know if he was praying when he was in there, but maybe a giant fish can eat a person and spit him out fine.
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Why does NASA have anything to do with commercial flight?
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But I guess they do, because they're testing their own electric airplane for use on Earth as part of developing standards for commercial aircraft.
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So this is sort of a big deal, because airplanes are going to be electric.
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And all those airplanes that you hated, that are the same technology for 30 years, maybe, maybe we can get a new kind of air travel that's not horrible.
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I'm going to spend, maybe, 18 hours on a plane today, or unpacking and staying home.
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Well, one of those two things is going to happen.
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But I would sure like to have a better way to fly.
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Maybe these electric planes will be a way to re-energize the fleets.
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So Bill Maher is getting a lot of criticism for being open-minded and not taking a side and just arguing that side, no matter how stupid it is.
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And he's arguing that progressives have something called progressophobia.
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But it's if you think things are worse now, like more racist or more sexist now, than they have been in the past, you probably have a mental problem.
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Because literally everything in that social realm is better.
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And if you think it's getting worse instead of better, you probably have a mental problem.
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Bill Maher also blasts Biden's idea of free college.
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Because he points out rightly, wait a minute, why should people who don't go to college, or can't, pay for people who do?
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Especially when those people may be partying more than studying.
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So Bill Maher is becoming a Republican, whether he likes it or not.
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Now, I think he would be more likely to say that he's just looking at the issues.
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And Brett Weinstein had Dr. Pierre Corian and did a podcast, Dark Horse podcast.
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So YouTube has decided that that conversation between a legitimate medical doctor, who has a legitimate opinion, could be right, could be wrong, but he's a qualified person talking in public, exercising freedom of speech.
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But that was removed from YouTube for allegedly violating their community guidelines against, quote, spam, deceptive practices, and scams.
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Talking about the risk-reward of a particular drug, which everybody agrees has not gone through the gold standard test.
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But everybody also agrees that there's plenty of studies of lower quality, which, by and large, by a great majority, seem to point in one direction.
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Now, you can't talk about that without violating a rule against spam.
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Nobody talking on this podcast had a financial interest in Ivermectin.
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What exactly was the guideline that they violated?
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Well, apparently it's still up on, I think, Spotify and probably Apple's podcast.
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Now, I will tell you that there are also professionals who say Ivermectin, the science proves it doesn't work.
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So just be aware that there are people with equal qualifications who say, no, it's been proven it doesn't work.
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We have everything we need to know it doesn't work.
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At the same time, other professionals, also very qualified, saying, oh, yeah, it's totally proven.
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I mean, effectively proven because the weight of evidence is so strong.
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I keep telling you that if you don't hear anything from it, anything important, there's probably nothing there.
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Because by now they would know if a problem was going to happen.
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Apparently the results are going to come out in less than 10 days.
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They don't have to count every single vote to know that there's a problem.
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They would catch that early on if it's a big problem.
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And so I asked the question about that on Twitter.
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And Josh Barnett, who's I guess he's run for Congress in Arizona.
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So he's connected to the Republicans in Arizona, it sounds like.
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And he seems to have some kind of an inside knowledge of what's going on over there.
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And I asked the question, is it more than a chain of custody problem?
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Because there is some suggestion that some of the mail-in ballots were not documented in their chain of custody.
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So that you wouldn't know if anything happened in between the time that they were received and the time they were counted.
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Even if it turns out that there's a chain of custody problem, it's not going to overthrow the election.
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They're still going to say, well, you should have caught that earlier or something like that.
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Basically, at this point, nothing's going to change.
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But I asked if that was going to be the extent of what they found.
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And he sounds pretty confident that we'll hear something that might surprise us.
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Anyway, I'm going to be a skeptic on this until something changes my mind.
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So I'm going to be skeptical and say, I don't think the Arizona audit is going to come up with a smoking gun.
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Now, if they're unusually professional and they've kept a secret better than anybody's ever kept a secret,
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except maybe the Mueller report, they did a good job of keeping the secret.
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But, of course, they were also attorneys, and it's a different level of risk, right?
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I feel like you could trust professional attorneys and investigators a little bit more not to leak
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than you could trust a bunch of people who volunteered to do an audit.
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It's a different standard, I would think, of risk.
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Lawyers having a bigger risk to their reputation.
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Kim Jong-un is apparently losing weight, quite a bit of weight.
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In his recent photos, like, actually, it looks great.
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Now, it's being treated as they don't know if it's good health or bad health,
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The photos of him looking thinner, he looks really healthy.
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I don't think it's necessarily good or bad news.
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Have you noticed that Fox News is running nonstop videos of usually people of color
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Do you see any of those stories on CNN or MSNBC?
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Has either MSNBC or CNN ever, and maybe the answer is yes,
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so this is actually a question, not a statement,
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have they ever run one of those video clips where there's a concerned parent,
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could be black, could be a person of color, some other color,
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talking in public at, say, a school board meeting or wherever they're meeting, town meeting,
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and talking about critical race theory being a disaster?
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I feel like it only is shown on one side of the world.
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So, no matter how many individual stories you see of there's a black woman railing against
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critical race theory, it doesn't mean that most people are against it or even know what
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So, I wouldn't make too much of anecdote, but I would note that Fox News is making a big
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Now, how important would it be to discredit critical race theory?
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Because the news has this weird responsibility, doesn't it?
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The news is trying not to give you opinion mixed with the news part.
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But other news does try to keep the news and the opinion at least a little bit separate.
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And it just seems to me that maybe Fox News has decided that critical race theory is bad
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for the country and other news entities have not.
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So, one thinks it's news and the other thinks maybe not so much.
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But I heard a way to frame this critical race theory and Marxism so I could understand it.
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And I feel like I understand it now for the first time.
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And I've told you before that I was confused about why it is that conservatives keep saying,
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And then I keep saying, and, and, connect a few more dots.
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Why are they, why does one lead to, or why is it similar?
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So, I did hear a good explanation of this yesterday, which is that Marxism is basically class warfare.
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The idea that the lower class needs to essentially take money, take it, overthrow the power of the existing power structure,
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the elites, the rich people, and basically flip the power structure so that the, the people are on top and nobody's rich.
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Critical race theory is just another name for that.
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Because their focus is on race, but it's still a class.
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Because they've equated a race, black people, with a class, an underclass.
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Now, of course, there are plenty of exceptions, right?
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But it's close enough, at least for a political movement, it's sort of generally close enough that you can get a lot of people to say,
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yeah, yeah, let's, let's change the balance of power.
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And the thing you need to, that you need to work on is understanding, are they parallels?
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I don't think that's the right way to think of it.
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I would say that there are parallels, that Marxism is class warfare, critical race theory is class warfare, with a twist, which is throwing in the race part.
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Marxism is just exactly the same thing, except they leave out the race part, so it's a little, little underpowered.
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As soon as you add the race part in, it's super powered.
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So now you've got this shitty idea, Marxism, which basically ruins everything,
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except that we've got this new brand, that's like improved, it's like turbo powered with racism,
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because you can't argue against racism, can you?
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Maybe you could argue that capitalism is better than socialism.
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You could argue that, and you'd have plenty of evidence for it.
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But can you argue that black people should always be poor?
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So that little extra sauce turned Marxism into a more powerful brand, critical race theory.
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Now, of course, critical race theory is nothing but racism and a power grab,
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especially the teachers' unions ruining the schools
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so that people can't get a good education if they're lower income.
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It's just that the critical race theory on top of it
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isn't really designed to solve those problems so much as to create a power change
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and maybe create a different set of victims and a different set of winners.
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I think what's different about critical race theory
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And suppose you took this frame and somebody says,
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hey, we'd like to teach critical race theory in school.
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And then you say, you know, I hear why you want to do that.
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And critical race theory is clearly, we win so that you lose.
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because the rich people have been winning up until now.
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it's fair for black Americans to win for a change
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because white Americans have been winning for so long.
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you know, getting everybody trained to have a good job
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So if we were serious about fixing race problems,
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we wouldn't be focusing on critical race theory.
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even if they don't perform as well as the United States,