Episode 1885 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About All The Racism And Sexism Against White Men
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Alex Blumberg joins me to talk about fake news, climate change disinformation, and why you should be worried about what your kids are being taught in school. Plus, we talk about what's really going on in the world and why it's a good thing.
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Oh, yeah, so good, so good, well, should we start with the fake news or the fake racism
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or the fake war, it seems like nothing's real anymore, it just seems like everything's completely
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unreal. Well, let's talk about hurricane disinformation. So every time we get a hurricane, the funny
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thing is that the climate change side of the world, the ones who want that to be the main
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narrative, they can't help themselves when there's a hurricane, can they? I feel on some
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level they know that blaming climate change for a specific hurricane has no scientific basis
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whatsoever, but they can't help it. Have you noticed that? I feel on some level they all
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know that any one storm or one heat wave or anything, they all know it doesn't mean anything
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by itself. But boy, do they, they insist. Alex says, wrong, Scott, in all caps. Yeah. So as
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Michael Schellenberger points out, the mainstream news is once again claiming that the latest
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hurricane is a sign of climate change, when in fact, it is not. And I love this story about
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the one community that had basically no serious damage and they didn't lose their electric because
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it was built to have its own solar power and to have drainage so it didn't even get flooded
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and it worked. So I think the real, the future is building stuff that doesn't get destroyed in natural
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disasters. That's what I think is the future. It's a, it's a good future because then we can build better
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homes that are more suited to normal life. Um, you know, the old saying, be careful what you wish for
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or, uh, what would happen if the dog actually caught the car? You know, it chases the car, but what if it
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catches it? What's it going to do? You should be careful what you ask for. I think of this when I hear
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Judd Apatow, uh, famous producer of very funny movies who says he can't make a movie anymore because,
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because humor doesn't work. Now Judd, Judd Apatow is notably, you know, very much on the left.
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So his team won. So congratulations, Judd. Your team is completely victorious and now you can't make
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movies. And I don't know if he's made the connection. Do you think he's made the connection
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that it's because his team won that he can't, he can't do his job anymore? He can't make you laugh
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because his team won. Am I the first person to point that out? That when his side got everything
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they wanted, they didn't want it? Yeah. Well, there you go. Uh, here's the other funny story. So
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Rasmussen is reporting, and I'm not too surprised at this, 89% of likely U.S. voters think it's
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important that, uh, public schools inform the parents about what is being taught in the
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classrooms. It makes sense, right? Who are the parents who don't want to be informed about what
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their children are learning? So there were 11% of, 11% of parents are like, I don't care.
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I didn't even know I had children. You can teach them anything you want. I have children?
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Wow, that's a surprise. What are their names? I mean, seriously. What parent answers that? I don't
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care. Teach them whatever you want. You know, you can get somebody to say anything on any poll.
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But here's the funny part. You know, there's a conversation about what books should be allowed
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in schools. Now, you've heard that many of the books that are in the school libraries,
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and maybe even in some cases assigned, have, uh, somewhat explicit sexual scenes in the books.
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And so there are a lot of parents who say, no, we don't want our children to be exposed
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to any, uh, descriptions of sex in the book. Now, is there anybody here who's actually a parent?
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Let, make me a list of all the things you're worried about. Start at the top. Make a, make a long list
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of everything you're worried about, but put the important things at the top. Where, where, where on your
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list of things to worry about would be, my child read a text description of sexual practices? Where, where
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would that be on your full, your full, uh, criteria? Oh, no. He, he read text, some text of some sex. Do, uh,
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do any of your children have one of these? It's called a telephone. And they, you know, it can do more
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than that. It can do more than make, uh, phone calls. You can get pictures on this with just about
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anything you want. Moving pictures, too. Actual video. This thing will do video if you want.
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Do you know that children have access to this, right? They have access to every sexual act in video
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from every angle with every kind of person. You want midgets and animals? You got it. You got it.
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You got it. Horses and people? No problem. We got it right here. But you know what I want to worry about
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is having my children, uh, exposed to text descriptions of sexual practices.
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And I hear somebody say, uh, no, Scott, parental controls. Uh, how are your parental controls working?
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Now, is part of your parental controls, does that include, um, have you found a way that your
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children can't get messages? Did you block them from communicating? Because you know other people
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send them stuff, right? It's not just them going to a website. Their friends will send them anything
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they want. Now, does your parental control include not letting your children have any access to other
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children in person or, or digitally? Because if your children have any access to other children,
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they have access to everything. Full video of every sexual practice. What do you think they're
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looking at on sleepovers? Do you think they do the sleepovers and they're not sharing videos of
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gross, incredible things that they found on the internet? How would you not? Remember yourself in seventh
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grade. Remember yourself in seventh grade, and then somebody hands you a device that can find every
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disgusting, horrible, inappropriate picture in the world. And you're in seventh grade, and you're with
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your friends, and nobody's looking. Now, tell me where on the list is your concern about the text
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descriptions in a book. It's just funny that we even talk about that. Give up. You know, I can't give
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you good advice on what to do if you have kids, because there isn't any way to stop any of it. None of it.
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You just have to sort of accept that your kids have full access to everything, and they will look at it.
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Now, I don't know that that's hurting anybody. I wouldn't choose it, right? You know, short of
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having any kind of scientific information one way or the other, I would definitely not choose to
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expose young people to all kinds of, you know, let's say, things above their grade. I wouldn't do it.
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But there isn't any way to stop it. You know that, right? There's literally no way to stop it. There's
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not even a little bit of a way. Nothing. You know, you could try your little parental controls,
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but that's not going to make any difference. So I don't know what to do. I don't have a good answer
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for that. Amazingly, something I don't have a good answer for. Yeah. Surprising.
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How many people laughed when I said that the Russian military might be on the brink of collapse?
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How many of you said, Scott, Scott, Scott. Oh, Scott. Oh. Cartoonist? Maybe you should listen
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to the military experts and maybe not be spouting off about your cartooning stupidity when you could
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be listening to actual military experts. Retired General H.R. McMasters said yesterday the Russian
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army is on the verge of a moral collapse. Well, now it sounds a lot smarter. Now that it came from
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H.R. McMasters, I mean, first of all, listen to his name. How could he be wrong with a name like
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that? H.R. McMaster. When you get a name like that, everything you say is correct. You know who
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you shouldn't listen to? P.L. McSlave. Don't listen to that guy. I don't know. There's no guy named
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that. But if somebody was named P.L. McSlave, nobody would pay attention. But when H.R. McMaster
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talks to you, stop everything. H.R. McMaster says the Russian army might be on the verge of a moral
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collapse. If there's a moral collapse, the army collapses, right? I don't think the, oh, yeah,
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maybe he said morale collapse. Yeah, maybe morale. But I think it could be moral, too. I think
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it could be both. I feel like both of them work in this context, but he probably meant
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morale. I did copy and paste it. So there was a typo in what I copied and pasted from the
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news. But anyway, what do you think? Do you think the Russian army is on the verge of a
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morale collapse? Because that really means the whole army. Still some no's. Well, here's
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what we know. It's been a while since the Russians did anything that looked like a success. Am I
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wrong? In the beginning, there was like the Russia's, Russia did this, Ukraine did this,
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but there was plenty of stories of both of them having alleged successes. Now there are
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no stories. There are no stories of Russian success, not even from Russia. Even Russia doesn't
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have a story to tell, except, you know, annexation, which is just bullshit. But on the ground, they
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have nothing. 100% of the reporting is pro-Ukrainian now. Now, I warn you all the time that everything
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that comes out of that area is sketchy and can't be relied on. But I think it does mean
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something when 100% of the news flips one way, and one of the sides that makes up fake news
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just gave up making up fake news. There wasn't even anything they could fake anymore.
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I think Russia's done. I think the military is collapsing. I don't even think it's on the
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verge of. I think it's actively collapsing right now. And it's because there's just no positive
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anything anywhere. And Putin's talking about desperate measures, you know, do something political,
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threaten with the nukes and maybe get some negotiating? Do you know what we should not do?
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We meaning everybody but Russia, I guess. Do you know what Ukraine should not do? They should
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definitely not negotiate. You don't negotiate when you're winning, do you? Nobody negotiates
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when they're winning. So the side that's asking for negotiations is usually the one that's not
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confident. The side that says, not yet. I would say that this would not be a good time to negotiate.
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How about no? That's the side that's winning. So we'll keep an eye on that, but it looks like
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If you were to make a list of what American policies China would like America to have
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for China's benefit, what would that list look like? You know, if China could have its way
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and influence America, what would they influence them to do? And would that list that China wants
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look exactly like what the Democrats want? Well, let's check. Here are some things I would think
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that China would want America to be influenced to do. To have a bad energy policy. Correct? All right.
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That Democrats would like us to have a bad energy policy. I'm not even going to pretend that it's
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just a different policy. In something, you know, I think you've noticed that I try to be objective
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and not call one policy bad and one policy good. Just say, you know, some prefer this one. There's
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pluses and minuses. But as far as energy policy, I think we're way beyond there being a difference of
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opinion. We have a bad energy policy. That's just a fact. All right. I don't think you can, you can't
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really shade that in any other way. So of course, China would want us to have a bad energy policy. So we got
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that. Soft on crime. Democrats want that. China would want that for us. They'd want us to have
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uncompetitive schools. The Democrats favor the teachers unions, which is the cause of uncompetitive
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schools. Let's see. What else would the Chinese want that the Democrats would want? Porous borders.
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They would want our borders to not be secure. China would want that. Democrats want it too.
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China would want us to have ineffective fentanyl policies. We do. Now, you could argue that the
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Republicans haven't done better, and I do. They're a little, at least they talk tougher on it.
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China would want the U.S. to have relatively less military spending. That sounds like a Democrat
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policy. China would want to stop Trump, I think. Don't you think? I don't think China wants Trump
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to be president, and Democrats agree. And of course, China would like the U.S. to be super woke,
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because that's the one thing that could destroy the diversity's superpower. And I've said this
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before. I think I'll say it a lot of times, because it's one of those things that's worth
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saying a lot of times. I never used to think that diversity was an advantage, because it just
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gave you reasons to fight with each other. But in the world scenario, where people can leave
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a country and go to another country, I think it is an advantage. Because basically, we've created a
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brand in the United States where everybody has a reasonable shot. So if you're the best of the
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best in some other country, where are you going to go? I mean, there aren't that many places you
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could go where you have a good, you know, good civilization, but also we're more likely to welcome
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you no matter who you are. That's a real superpower. And we don't want to lose that. The one way you
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could lose that is by increasing your wokeness to the point where nobody can talk to each other.
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And then your diversity ends up being a fight. So China would want more wokeness, because that's
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what gets us fighting internally. Am I right that there's a disturbing correlation between the
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Democrat preferences and China? It's very similar. Very similar. Do you think China wants us to be
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super capitalist or more socialist? Well, China would want us to be more socialist, because that
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means our money would be going internally to things that don't bother them, and maybe less of it would
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be focused internationally. So it's pretty startling when you look at it that something like 80% of the
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Democrat platform is the same thing that China would want for us if they could design our system
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to make us less competitive. Now, it is true that people like Schumer are saying directly we should decouple
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All right. So, you know, everybody's on the same page about that. But yet, the Democrats are much
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closer to what China would want for America. Hard to avoid seeing that. So Biden says, I'm being,
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he said the other yesterday, I guess, I'm being banged up by the Republicans, but bring it on.
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We can afford to cancel 10,000 in student debts. And they went on to say that 70% of black college
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students receive a Pell Grant. For many black students, this loan forgiveness will wipe out
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student debt completely. Can somebody answer this question? I thought a Pell Grant was a grant.
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Is that a loan? Isn't a grant already free? So is he actually, does he actually not know the difference
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I'm a little confused. So if he really doesn't know the difference between a grant and a loan,
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we've got more problems than I thought. Although I have to confess, I didn't even notice when I
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first read it. Somebody had to point that out to me. I actually read that and it didn't even
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didn't even register to me that he wants to pay off a grant. That'd be funny to give them a grant
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and then give them some money to pay off the grant. That would be the dumbest thing. All right.
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So I think we should at least think about calling, you know, any direct payments or grants
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part of reparations. Just because it causes a fight.
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that women are three to 15 times more likely to be selected
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as members of the American Academy of Arts and Science and National Academy of Science
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than men with similar publication and citation records.
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If you're a man, you're much, much less likely to be selected for this,
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What is left out is, what are your odds if you're a black man?
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Because that would be interesting too, wouldn't it?
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If you're a black man, do you think you have just as much trouble being
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So really, this is not so much a story about women having, you know,
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Because again, historically, obviously it was different.
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But I think they're leaving out the fact that it's really white males
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who are discriminated directly, I would assume.
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Now, when I said that, did that sound like I was saying that white men are victims?
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Because I'm having a number of black racists are coming after me on Twitter.
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A whole bunch of black racists just saying terrible anti-white male stuff, as usual.
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Anyway, I think I had a point I was going to make.
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My entire Twitter experience, 90% of the negativity comes from writers, artists, and editors.
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Now, I wonder if that's common to other people.
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I'm going to start blocking all the people making Shelley comments,
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YouTube, if there are anybody there who's an NPC,
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what you want to do is, no matter what else I'm talking about,
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Because it's the most common and obvious thing to say.
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It has no use to the world, so it's like perfect NPC stuff.
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So just keep saying that name over and over again.
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So yeah, if I could get, if I could simply not see,
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anybody who has anything political in their profile,
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I don't want to see a Ukraine flag or rainbow BLM.
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You know, I don't want to see that little blue wave thing.
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I just don't want to see any of their comments.
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Now, and I'm not saying I have like something against,
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I just don't want to see their comments on Twitter.
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They signal that I'm not here to find something that works.
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So there's really no point in even having any kind of attempted constructive dialogue
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with somebody who's signaling to you that's not why they're here.
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Have you noticed that Democrats are going to have a tough time selling their accomplishments?
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Because there's something about their accomplishments that maybe you've noticed.
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One, the things that Democrats have, quote, accomplished.
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What is it that they, there's a weird thing that it all has in common.
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For example, Biden passed some legislation for infrastructure.
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Have you driven over any of his infrastructure?
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Either it hasn't started yet, or it's happening somewhere where I don't live,
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I'm saying that his accomplishment, the thing he would call his accomplishment,
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It's like a number right there on your gas, your gas pump.
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There are pictures of people coming across all the time.
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I feel like everything that they're doing wrong, you can see.
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And everything that they would claim as a victory would be something like,
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We released something from the reserves, the oil reserves.
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And the number on the pump went down for a while, but then it went back up.
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Again, I heard some talk, and then something happened in the pump, but it didn't last.
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So the Democrats, I believe, are going to go full negative in their campaigning,
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If they say we added some wokeness to the system, can you see it?
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So the best argument that they have is they're going to try to paint a Trump world as a fascist
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It's actually all they have is to lie about the other side.
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Now, if I were the Republicans, I would make the list of what China's priorities are,
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and then I would match it up to the priorities of the Democrats,
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You could actually say that you're running against China and the Democrats,
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The Democrats are so close to the Chinese preferences that it's like you're running against China.
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Makes you wonder how good China is at influencing things over here.
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Because it's sort of a big coincidence, isn't it?
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That it's sort of a big coincidence that things are going the way China would want them to go.
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So, Kamala Harris said that the hurricane relief in Florida should be based on considerations of equity.
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So, the money, the recovery should be based on considerations of equity.
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The only thing that means is less for white men, right?
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You want white men to get less relative to what other people would get.
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White men have a lot of stuff compared to other people.
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So, we'd like to help the people who are in a bigger hole.
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I think it makes me mad that when you try to take my money and lie to me,
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it's worse than if you just say, look, I'd like to take your money.
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So, we're going to take some of your money and give it to these other people.
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I mean, I could have a conversation about that.
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But if you're trying to fool me into thinking that you're using some other word, equity,
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I don't think she's trying to make everything the same outcome,
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You know, and again, did it sound like I was being a victim?
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So, here's where you're coming from changes your filter on everything.
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When I talk about this, I don't feel like a victim.
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Well, why is it that I don't feel like a victim when I say directly people want to take things from people like me and give it to people less like me?
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The reason I don't feel like a victim, well, part of it is, you know, because I'm rich.
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But even when I wasn't, I didn't feel so much like a victim.
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So I just go from, if I'm somewhere where there's a disadvantage, I just leave there and I go where I have an advantage.
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When I worked at a company that said, you know, for a while, and we can't tell you how long, we're not going to promote white people or white men, only white men, really.
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And I went where I didn't have, you know, that kind of pressure.
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We have a weird situation in the economy right now where anybody qualified can get a job.
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So if you can leave where you are, your cousin was in NXIVM.
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If you can leave where you are and go to someplace great, it's not the biggest problem in the world.
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So I don't feel like a victim because I have mobility and I have an education.
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If I didn't have an education and I didn't have mobility, I would feel like a victim for sure.
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Where there's a young man who just stops people on the street and asks them what they do for a living and what their income is.
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And how long they've done it and, you know, what kind of job.
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First of all, it's fascinating that people would answer the question.
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But I actually learned quite a bit listening to people say what their income was.
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And I think it's because he owns his own company.
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And the real estate guys are like, I made a million dollars.
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It's also interesting to see the composition of the people.
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You know, you see the bedraggled looking people just killing it.
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And so people are really put together, not killing it at all.
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And it just is a real eye opener about how many types of people there are and how many opportunities there are.
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And if you chose a job that doesn't have much of an upside, well, well, there you go.
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We got everybody discriminating against everybody.
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So I guess the Jeffrey Dahmer movie was getting some criticism by the LGBTQ community.
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Is VP Harris protecting herself by trying to be the equities are?
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I mean, I see what you're saying, but that's not much protection.
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Yeah, I wasn't really interested in the Dahmer movie.
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Do you watch movies where just bad things happen to people?
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You should really take my rule that if you watch a movie, as soon as somebody is tied to a chair, you should turn it off.
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If you see a movie and anybody is tied to a chair, as soon as you see it, just turn it off and never go back to it.
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Because if that's the best you can do, is yet another thing about somebody tied to a chair, you do not deserve to be making movies.
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Because you know what a car chase scene looks like?
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How many times do you want to go back and forth between somebody's face and something happening really quickly that's hard to see?
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I started fast forwarding through all group fight scenes.
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If it's one-on-one, I might watch it because there might be something interesting dialogue.
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But if it's the one hero against the 25 people in the bar, fast forward.
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How about the scenes where they're establishing that the two people are very much in love because they're going to kill the woman pretty soon?
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As soon as the movie people start acting fake sexy, I'm like, ugh.
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Is there some kind of acting school where they teach you how not to be attractive to another person?
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Yeah, I can't even do an impression of how bad it is to watch movie people pretend they're in love.
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And if they try to put sex in it to try to turn me on, I'll be like, you're an R-rated movie.
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I still do kind of like the dialogue scenes among bad guys and good guys, and good guys who are rogues and their bosses.
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Like, sometimes the dialogue is good, and everything else is just filler.
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When I watch a Marvel movie, I fast forward through the action scenes.
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These are movies that are made entirely for the action scenes, pretty much.
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Every Spartan-Man is exactly the same as the last Spider-Man.
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I do like Doctor Strange, because I like the actor and some of the dialogue and stuff.
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And then in between, there was like some fight.
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But one of the things that all the magicians have to do is not use their good spells right away.
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And I'll use my little spell where I'll send a little bit of a fireball your way.
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And then the other wizard will be like, stop the fireball.
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And I'm thinking to myself, well, was that like your best magic there?
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And then later they'll be like, bringing down skyscrapers on the other one.
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And I'm thinking to myself, well, start with a skyscraper.
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What's a little ball of fire going to do to another wizard?
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So they have to write the thing where the wizards are all stupid until the end.
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Then the wizards use their magic or something to win.
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It's like, as soon as you've introduced magic, you can't really write a story about it.
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Because you have to take their magic away with stupid magic reasons.
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Right, we should just watch Happy Gilmore and be done with everything else.
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So we can't have any comedies, because everything's woke.
00:41:52.220
And the action movies are literally all just the same movie.
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But the Lord of the Rings is all just the same scene over again.
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It's like, it's just the same scene repeated over and over
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Even the fight scenes in the Matrix were not boring.
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Another one that satisfied me was Crouching Tiger.
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You know, where they could sort of fly a little bit.
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So, for example, there's somebody on YouTube right now
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who just now wants to create new accounts and say,
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So he's spending his time trying to make my live stream
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And I wonder, how many people are actually wired
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I made something a little harder for somebody I don't know.
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who need that friction in their life to feel complete.
00:44:25.020
I feel like I remind people of their abuser or something.
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Because there are definitely people who come after me
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who have some kind of mental problem they're working through.
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and they have to hurt me to feel better somehow.
00:44:39.060
I'm not really following the Brazilian elections.
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But I would love to have an actual conversation
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and see what would happen if I talked to them in person
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can you explain to me what you're trying to accomplish?
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But they'll be pretty sure that I'm on some team
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Let me state it clearly in case somebody doesn't know.
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I do believe the basic science of climate change,
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which is if you add certain stuff to the atmosphere,