Episode 1791 Scott Adams: How To Gaslight Yourself Using The Democrat Method
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1 hour and 1 minute
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147.0424
Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Scott Adams talks about the future of real estate, and why you should own nothing in the future, because if you do, you will own nothing and be happier. He also talks about a new development that could revolutionize the way you live.
Transcript
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Somebody on Locals says that they drink only freshly melted mountain snow, to which I say, now that's something I aspire to.
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Well, remember, I had this great idea, according to me and nobody else, that one of the biggest trends in America would be these little homes that are actually kind of awesome and you can build them in a factory.
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They're part of the ADU movement where you can put a little one for your in-laws in the backyard or whatever.
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But I said that the real big gain is going to be not that you can put these in your backyard, because that's a limited market, but that they would build, they would design communities where there are only these little homes.
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And then the whole community would be designed so, even though the inside of your home might not be palatial, the way the community is laid out is so well designed that you just love living there.
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And have I ever told you that all of my ideas have two qualities?
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There's no way that idea is ever going to work.
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The second quality is somebody's already doing it.
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There's a place called, and this is not a joke, southparkcottages.com.
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The cost of living in what I'd call a legacy house, a house that was built for the lifestyle of the 80s, just doesn't work.
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It's like an insane amount of expense to maintain it and everything.
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And it doesn't even have basic stuff that you would need for today's lifestyle.
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Modern houses, like the living room, is sort of built around watching TV.
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But people walk around with their headphones, and their phones now are not sitting around the screen.
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So the basic lifestyle has so changed since 1980, you have to start over.
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And since you couldn't possibly afford a $2 million house that would have cost $200,000 not too long ago,
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you're going to end up getting these tiny little homes but living in awesome communities,
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You want to hear something that will really make you mad?
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Let's say people build a community, and investors each get to own a little house that they rent.
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If you did that, the people who live there would, and let's say they're even furnished,
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because I think they might even come furnished.
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But if you did that, and you were renting, you would own nothing, and you would be happy.
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It's that World Forum New World Order thing, right?
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He said, in the future, you will own nothing and be happier.
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Now, the way you interpreted that is we're all going to be communists, right?
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But here's the other thing it could have meant.
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It could have meant that personal ownership of property is impractical.
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And walking from my home office, where I am right now, to the kitchen, do you know how
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many distractions and unnecessary things I have to think of to walk from here to the
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And the adventure is there's something broken, leaking, or spilled every time I make that
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And I can't even get there without a whole bunch of problems that are caused by, what are
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But if somebody else owned it, it would sort of be their problem.
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Um, I had silenced an alert for somebody a while ago, and I was trying to undo it.
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Do you know how many ways you can silence an alert on your phone now?
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So you try to just undo it, and you can't fucking figure it out.
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There's like one way on the line, you know, you can do it on the line where they show up
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There's like a focus thing that turns off your alarm sometimes.
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There's also a way you can block them individually.
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Oh, but you can also turn off the physical alarm on the phone.
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Oh, and I also have my phone set so that only people in my contacts call me.
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So simply using my phone, just when it's just too hard.
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The other day, uh, yeah, I've reached a certain age, so now I have to, I had to look into this
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Now, do you have any idea how complicated it is to sign up for Medicare?
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And I had to actually hire somebody, I paid somebody, to go figure it out for me, because
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Let me say it again, I have two college degrees, and I don't think that I'm slowing down that
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I couldn't even come close to penetrating how you sign up for Medicare, or even what it was.
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I actually couldn't even barely figure out what it was, or why you need it, or who gets
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And so I actually had my, my bookkeeper, who is awesome and does lots of things for me,
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And so she, she came back with a lot of details, and just to sign up for it, there's like, it's
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I need, for example, information from my first marriage, like the beginning and end dates
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of my first marriage, like not even my current one.
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Um, beginning and end dates of corporate, you know, of my employment, which is complicated
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because at one point I set up a corporate account, but it was really the same job.
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Because it's really two entities, but the same job.
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I'm like searching through records and, you know, finding things.
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And so far, all I've gotten to is collecting the information.
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I haven't even got to the point where I have to go online and try to fill it out.
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All right, let me, let me, let me describe to you a future city and see if you'd want to
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The government has one job besides defense, right?
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So it's going to be your physical security and your police, but it has basically one job.
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So you'd get everything from your car insurance to your life insurance to your, um, even your
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You would insure even your appliances in your home with the government.
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But you'd only pay once and you'd never have to shop because everybody would get the same
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You would never have to look at your insurance.
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Have you ever tried to form a partnership or a corporation because you have a small business?
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It's really, really complicated and unnecessary.
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In the city of the future, everybody will have the same protection as any corporation.
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There's no reason that somebody who hired a lawyer and then turns himself into, like,
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an LLC, a limited liability corporation, or a corporation, S-Corp, there's no reason that
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And the person who didn't have a lawyer to do that is not.
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Just make the law that says everybody has that same protection.
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So you could imagine starting from scratch and just say, what if we got rid of all the
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You know, all insurance and laws and all that stuff.
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Now, you might like it, and you would still have that option.
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But if I could get rid of all of the complications of ownership of property and my car.
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Do you know how many problems I have with my car right now?
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But getting it to the dealer, getting the right time, getting a ride back, because Uber
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You know, organizing it with somebody else's schedule.
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And then there's going to be parts and, you know.
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I have almost no time to work, because I'm just taking care of my broken shit all the
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And I don't, you know, it's not like I own that much.
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I just had to take my, you know, I thought I was all happy getting an e-bike until that
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In today's comic, well, this week, Dilbert's company decided to go into the business of
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So the setup is that Dilbert's company decides to get into the business of making voting machines.
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Now, of course, you're all going to read into it that I'm really making fun of an existing
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I'm simply showing what Dilbert's company would do if they were in that business.
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So if you read into it anything else, that would be on you.
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But let me tell you what today's comic was, just so you know what kind of trouble I'm getting
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He says, Elbonian hackers got into our voting machine software.
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They deleted our secret backdoor access for rigging elections and fixed several critical
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And then the boss yells, our homeland is under attack.
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And Dilbert looks at him and says, which side am I on?
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Now, people are wondering if I will get canceled for this.
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Have you noticed how close I skate to cancellation?
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Now, I maintain that it's actually easy to not get canceled.
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I could prove myself wrong, but I maintain that it's very obvious what is over the line.
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And therefore, you can walk right up to it because it's so obvious what it would take
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You have to actually write something that's pretty bad.
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So I feel like I'm frustrating the people who must be looking at me to try to cancel me
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Don't you believe that there's a constituency, if you would call it that, of people who are
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really, really looking at me hard and saying, oh, you are so close.
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If you go one more step, one more step, we gotcha.
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I mean, if I had to bet on it, I'd bet against myself, I think.
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These are three things that you need to remind yourself, because if you didn't remind yourself
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of these on a regular basis, you would fall out of the gaslighting, let's say, zone.
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So if you want to stay gaslit and keep up with everybody else, because that's the state
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of the country, there are three things that you must accept.
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Number one, you can conquer a superpower with bear spray and clubs.
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Number two, you can know something doesn't exist by not looking for it.
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You must hold that as true in order to stay in your gaslight zone here.
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And then the most important one, every government system in the United States is corrupt and
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non-credible, except for all 50 individual and different state voting systems.
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Now, those three things, you have to keep in your head as true, or else nothing else you
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Because they're sort of the tent poles of the gaslight operation.
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So if you don't accept those three tent poles, which are, frankly, ridiculous, you can't
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Speaking of gaslighting, so there was a Biden aide on CNN who was asked, what do you say to
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those families who say, listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for a gas for months,
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And the Biden advisor said, and his name is Brian Deese, Deese, D-E-E-S-E, as in Deese
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Anyway, Brian Deese responded to that question by saying, quote, this is about the future
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of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.
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And I actually had to play it back again, because I thought, well, no, he didn't actually say
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I don't know how far back, but Biden's actually used the term, something called a liberal new
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world order, or liberal world order, the LWO, I guess.
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And so basically, he was saying that this change toward a liberal-centric world with, I guess,
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climate change being addressed more aggressively, et cetera, that that's where we're going,
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and that's where we want to go, and that is more important than your family eating and
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He's basically saying, you know, tough it out, you know, tough it out, people, because
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When I hear that, it sounds like somebody cares about winning more than they care about
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people, because why did you have to put a liberal in the description of where it needs
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I feel like he described a team competition where he said, yeah, you know, some people are
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Because when you say it's about the future of the liberal world order, that's not even
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That sounds like it's about the New York Yankees winning the World Series.
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Like, can you give me any meat about what are the good things that we will have?
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Because you just mentioned the name of the team.
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Mentioning the name of the team feels like you just see this as a competition, like a
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Like, you're not even taking seriously that the people that CNN, to their credit, to their
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credit, and this is always worth mentioning, because CNN's trying to transition to more
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But to their credit, they were asking a tough question, which is, what the hell are you going
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to do about gas prices, because there's no good answer?
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And their answer is, what's more important is that our team wins.
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You know, and a lot of people were doing the tweet, you know, they said the silent part out
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This really is the silent part out loud, that the team element here is the important part.
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Well, Biden said he might support changing the senator's filibuster rule, specifically
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Isn't that what Mitch McConnell did for getting justices through?
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So, don't we already have a one exception to the filibuster?
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But can you fact check the question, was that carved out as an exception to the filibuster
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I mean, forget about whether you want it to happen.
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Do we want a system where you could change it for a specific legislation?
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Because wouldn't you then change it for every legislation that you wanted to get through?
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Everything they want to do is probably important, right?
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So, why would you say this is the one place where we'll make that exception?
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I hate to say slippery slope, because there's no slope at all.
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The moment you say this exception can be made, and maybe Harry Reid already did it,
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the moment you say there could be an exception, then there's no point in the filibuster anymore,
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Because you'll just make an exception whenever you want one.
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I mean, if the majority can make an exception, why wouldn't they do it all the time?
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So, there's something here I don't quite understand.
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Yeah, maybe they need it just to pass a budget.
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You could argue that changing the filibuster rule would destroy the system.
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But it seems that, continuously, Republicans favor supporting the system,
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even if some people get a bad shake because of it.
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There's always somebody who's worse off for pretty much everything.
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Whereas the Democrats would rather destroy the system to handle an individual or a specific case.
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And when is destroying the system ever the right choice?
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Is the filibuster part of a bad system or a good one?
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And it seems like it could be a feature as often as it's a flaw.
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And I guess it depends if the things you like are getting stopped or not.
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So, it's not even whether you think it's a good system.
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It's whether it's getting the result you like, I think.
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This is the single biggest difference between Democrats and Republicans, in my opinion.
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That the Republicans consistently back the system, if it's been working.
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But if it has been working, they say, yeah, don't break it if it's working.
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And the Democrats would break any system to get a specific result
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without maybe seeing that that's going to be worse off in the long run.
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How much do you think is the difference between whether you can see the long run?
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Like, it makes you wonder if you're arguing against systems.
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It makes you wonder if really the political differences are how far in advance you can see.
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I think the Apple Watch is such a clean example of how it will take over.
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People's habits are already being changed by the watch, right?
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How many people wear the watch will get up and take extra steps
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because the watch says you haven't been active enough today?
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let's say it can monitor more of your bodily functions and stuff,
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You know, at some point, you can just turn your watch toward your plate.
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And you don't even have to tell it to do anything
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because it'll just be watching everything all the time.
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And then later, it'll tell you you're overeating
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or you didn't get enough vitamin A or something.
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So in the long run, the AI will rule us by giving us good advice.
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If the watch gives you good advice and you follow it
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And you'll start thinking, oh, it'll almost be superstitious.
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The watch is telling me I need to take another bunch of steps.
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If I don't do it, I feel like something bad is going to happen
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because when I do do it, everything good is happening.
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It needs us to keep the electricity on in the short run.
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The AI will just control us by having good advice
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Well, we have crossed the parody crossover point.
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Now, the parody crossover is where you read a story or a tweet,
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and you actually legitimately can't tell if it's a joke.
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Because reality became so absurd that the joke and the reality,
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if you don't know the backstory, you really can't tell.
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And the level beyond it is that we can't tell the difference
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We can look at one thing, like even an object or an action,
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and some people will think they're looking at the opposite of the thing.
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Otherwise, I'm not going to be able to sell this.
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I had a discussion with a pro-abortion citizen.
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but a pro-abortion citizen of the United States
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who was quite furious that these nine old people on a court
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well, then would you favor that maybe the people should vote
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This should be the people deciding, not the courts.
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And I said, wouldn't it be better if instead of federally,
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then some people might have different decisions,
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You want the states to be the ones who decide on these laws.
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Well, you don't want, you don't want the Supreme Court
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Like, how is this right that nine people can make a decision
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We literally can't tell the difference between a thing
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for the exact thing that the Supreme Court ruled,
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that the Supreme Court should not be making the decision.
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She thought she got the opposite of what she was really mad about
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to, like, really start yelling and talking to other people
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between the thing and the opposite of the thing.
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Now you're saying, well, that's a weird, special case, right?
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between the thing and the opposite of the thing.
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Like, you can't come up with another one of those.
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that the election was good because no one checked.
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That's the opposite of proving the election is good.
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Therefore, we've proven that there's no problems.
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the experts, said that the tools that were used
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and even the types of things that were attacked
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it was the Russian foreign intelligence agencies
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and not the United States foreign intelligence agencies,