Episode 1887 Scott Adams： Kanye Says White Lives Matter And Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter. Fun News
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1 hour and 36 minutes
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140.31998
Summary
It's the dopamine hit of the day, and it's the thing that makes everything better, even if it's not for you. Don's on board, don't worry, you're not either. It's another episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, in which Scott tries to figure out why nobody is happy.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another peak experience of human existence.
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There is nothing finer in the entire galaxy and known universe.
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You know that rover that's up there on Mars that's digging for dirt?
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No matter how far it digs, it's not going to find anything better.
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Now, would you like to take your experience up to the highest levels ever known to humanity?
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And all you need is a cuppa, a mug, or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Don over on YouTube says he does not want to take it up to the highest level of awesomeness.
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It's the thing that makes everything better, including for Don.
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All right, I think he's on board. He's on board.
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So this just reminded me of a weird little thing that happened when I was a kid.
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Well, we're going to hang out with Don and Ann.
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They had two names that went together really well.
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Don was, I think he worked construction, but he had been in World War II, and he had been
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stationed on an island in the Pacific, and his job was to load ordnance on bombers.
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And one of the things he once loaded on a bomber was an atomic bomb.
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So he was on the island of Tinian, and he literally loaded the atomic bomb onto the plane that bombed Japan.
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And I always thought, how in the world, like, what are the odds that I would literally, yeah, the Enola Gay.
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And I thought, what are the odds I would actually know him personally?
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Like, you would personally know somebody that loaded the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay.
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Well, in the news, very important news, Tom Brady and Giselle Bunchen.
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It looks like they're living separately and maybe talking to a divorce lawyer.
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Similarly, Brad and Angelina are divorcing and having a bad time in the courts over it.
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And I think that it has something to do with our times.
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I will stipulate that 100% of the people who are married and want to stay that way,
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totally happily married, as far as your spouse knows.
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I have a theory that all happily married people are lying.
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Because I am very much a believer in, I'm going to call it the Jordan Peterson view of marriage.
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I probably mischaracterized him, so I apologize in advance.
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But his view is that it's not about being happy.
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So if you got married to get happy, you probably did it wrong.
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So I think that when people say they're happy, what they mean is they'd rather be married than not married.
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So would you say that you're happily married equates to I'd rather be married than not married?
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Because maybe we just have a miserable world where people are struggling for scraps of happiness no matter what they're doing.
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Because I'm not saying that being single is good.
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But I just don't think that we've developed in society options that work.
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This is based on a conversation I had yesterday.
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So somebody was telling me that they had had over 100 lovers.
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And it wasn't until reaching lover approximately 150 that a great lover was found.
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And finally, you know, the search was, the search showed that you have to go through a lot of people before you find, you know, the one who's an amazing lover.
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So the relationship with number 150 didn't work out for whatever reasons.
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So now what happens when this person goes to number 151?
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When they go to 151, they're going to say, ah, I really like this person.
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I can't really be with number 151 because everything's good, but the sex is just average.
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Except that the sex isn't like it was with 150.
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In the old days, people married whoever was next door and had a cow.
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You know, my entire criteria are, do you have a vagina and a cow?
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I'm looking for somebody who has a vagina and a cow because I need a cow too.
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And then if you got your wife that way, you'd be like, I got everything I wanted.
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Now, you can go on the internet and see, you know, every manner of desirable thing.
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And you can compare it to your own life and it doesn't look so good.
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Your comparison set has expanded to the point where everything sucks.
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If you give me lots of choices, every time I look at one of those choices, I'm going to say, hmm, I kind of wish I didn't know about all those other options that I'm not getting.
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Because I think I may want to hold on a little bit longer until I get one of these.
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And then I age out and I'm too old to get married and that sort of thing.
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So I believe that humans are destroyed by options.
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And that we've reached an option set where we can't handle it.
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And that marriage is simply one of the many things that suffers from it, but maybe not especially.
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Do you know that I spend now 90% of my time looking for something and maybe 10% of my time consuming?
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I mean, if you're a certain age, you had three channels.
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And you would just watch one of them, whichever was the good one.
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So that's your first persuasion trick is that people with too many choices are not happier.
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Did you ever take a date to the Cheesecake Factory?
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The Cheesecake Factory has a menu that's like 700 choices.
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And again, this doesn't matter who I'm going with.
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Now, I'm a vegetarian, pescatarian actually, but, and decisive.
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If I pick up my phone, I'm going to get, I'm just going to look at it.
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No, I've never been with anybody who told me to put my phone down.
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But I've been with people who didn't like it when I picked it up.
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If your date is looking at the menu, can you look at your phone?
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If your date is looking at the menu and you're done, can you look at your phone?
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See, we need a whole set of manners that are constructed for our unique times.
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Because we don't really have phone manners totally worked out.
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So I told you I've been going to Starbucks to do some writing.
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It's just easier to do my writing when I'm there.
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In Starbucks, people started taking video calls.
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They sit at Starbucks and they take video calls for work.
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People taking video calls for extended periods.
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Some of them are on headphones, but others are just talking and listening.
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So I guess Tucker had Tony Bobulinski on again.
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And he's Tucker's, I'm sorry, he's Hunter's ex-business partner.
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Now, here's the most amazing thing about the Hunter-Biden story.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what happened.
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Now, I'm going to make up a different story, not about Hunter.
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You know, he talked to somebody important, you know, in the government.
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You know, he talked to people in the government, and they talked about making a deal.
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And I thought, ooh, huh, that's, my eyebrow goes up a little bit.
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But talking about a deal is, you know, people talk.
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And the deal would have involved, you know, maybe something bad involving our government.
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By the time you hear the whole story, you've been so indoctrinated into it that you've lost
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The Hunter-Biden story, if you had heard the entire story, like in one big bite on day
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Biden would have been driven out of office or never been elected.
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But the way they dribbled it out, we just got used to it.
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When I hear that Hunter-Biden was illegally, presumably, trying to make deals with the Chinese
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government to make money by using his father's name in the worst possible way, I don't even
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If you gave me a choice, I would make it go away.
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I think maybe the Department of Justice should look into it.
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I have no emotional investment in Hunter because of the way they just dribbled it out and I just
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Yeah, they were just boiling that frog and I was like, oh, sure, it's getting warm in
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It's only a little bit worse than what we heard.
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And now we have like his actual business partner confirming the entire illegality of the entire
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We know that the intelligence agencies intentionally got 50 people to lie and that they changed the
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Today when I'm done talking about this, I won't even think about it once.
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I will not think about it once after I'm done talking today.
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My mother always taught me that you can get used to anything if you do it long enough,
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And it was always, you know, a joke around the house.
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We actually got used to Hunter Biden working deals with China while his dad was vice president
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And he basically says that it's ridiculous for these fund managers, people who manage financial
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funds, to be influencing people who make steel.
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Because his, I'm paraphrasing now Bill Gates' criticism.
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But he's saying, do the finance people have another way to make steel?
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Like, what's the other way to make steel without polluting?
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Do you have something in your desk drawer at your finance department that'll tell them
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You either have to not make steel, or you better invent something that makes it that nobody's
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figured out how to make steel, or just do without it.
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Now, why does Bill Gates think that ESG is bullshit?
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He's not criticizing the goals of having a, you know, a good environment, of course.
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And he's speaking, you know, he's at an age where he can just speak freely.
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Because every CEO will tell you, you don't want another layer of management on top of
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There's nobody in the world who thinks extra layers of regulations gives you a better outcome.
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But when you get to some point, they're counterproductive.
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But, so BlackRock is one of, I guess, the biggest voice for the ESG stuff.
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And it's making the socially responsible funds, as the Wall Street Journal says, the centerpiece
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So you've got finance companies who made, who figured out how to get you to churn.
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I don't know if you knew this, but finance companies, they're not in the business of
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That's why you put your money there, to make money.
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Their business model is to get as much of your money away from you and into their pockets
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So they want you to not put your money in one place and have it sit there.
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Although they could make money on just managing it.
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So they want to build some bullshit around that.
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But the other way that, not necessarily BlackRock, but financial companies in general,
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is that they can make fees on moving you in and out of stuff.
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So the fund managers want you to move around, because that's how they make money.
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And they want to go into their fund, because again, that's how they make money.
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So the companies that are the least, what do I say?
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The least ethical companies in America are the big funds, the big financial companies.
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They're the least ethical, because they don't even pretend to sell you what you think you're buying.
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I guess they pretend a little bit, but it's such a thin pretense.
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It's like, okay, you're just moving our money into your pocket, but you're scaring us so that we'll let you do it.
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If you do it yourself, you're going to fuck up.
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If you do it yourself, well, you're going to fuck up.
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That's why you should manage your own money if you can.
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And I guess there's $350 billion of these funds.
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So ESG is being backed by big money people who have tons of money on the line.
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The big money people are not interested in the environment necessarily.
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And they're not interested in the companies doing well necessarily.
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So apparently Apple is making some changes to move its supply chain closer to Cupertino.
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Because of supply chain uncertainty, especially China.
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Now, do you remember in 2018 when people laughed at me and mocked me for saying that China was too risky for business and we would decouple?
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I think I was the only, you know, public person.
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Now, how many times do I have to say something crazy?
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But the ones I got wrong were sort of ordinary ones.
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Like guessing who the vice president pick would be.
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I mean, the ones that I got wrong, the ones that I got right, you should look at these three and just say, okay, that's freaky.
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Decoupling from China, Ukraine winning the war, and Trump getting the presidency in 2016.
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I also said that the project Warp Speed would not create a vaccination that worked.
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I mean, it worked in a therapeutic way, but that's it.
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Have you noticed that everybody who thinks they disagree with me is imagining what I thought?
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Everybody has to add something to make me wrong.
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It's like, it's super important that I be wrong, so you have to just add something.
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So there's this NYU chemistry professor who got sacked after 82 of his 350 students complained that his course was too hard.
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Now, the way this is being reported, at least in right-leaning news, is that students are a bunch of pussies.
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And if they were as tough as they used to be, they would just take that hard class and they'd suck it up.
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I've experienced science being made harder than it needs to be.
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Is it my, you know, I haven't taken organic chemistry, but I've been around enough people who are taking it at the moment.
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Is it my imagination that organic chemistry is intentionally harder than it should be?
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Why is it designed to be 10 times harder than other courses?
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Here's something I'm going to say with no experience in organic chemistry.
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To say things completely out of my area of expertise.
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The problem is the incompetence of the people who make the class.
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There's no, you could not convince me that you can't make that class manageable.
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I feel like you could teach people the concepts and tell them to use the computer to do the hard stuff.
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I'm pretty sure it's just trying to find, you know, maybe it's, you know,
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And I think that that's giving them too much credit to say that, to say that they make it hard to weed out the dumb people.
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So years ago, I thought I would write a book on personal finance.
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Because I have a, you know, background in economics and business and stuff.
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And I thought, I could write a book on personal investing.
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And then the problem was that I could put the entire book on one page.
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It turns out that everything you need to know about personal finance fits on one page with lots of extra space.
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And then you go to the library and you see, like, books and books on personal finance.
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Do you want me to tell you what that's all about?
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The entire field of finance is entirely about people who aren't good at explaining stuff.
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And the first time that somebody who is good at explaining stuff entered the field, me, me, I put it on one page.
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Now, if you're saying to yourself, yeah, but who agreed that you did it right?
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Well, have you ever heard the book A Random Walk Down Wall Street?
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Princeton, one of the most famous economists in the world, wrote the book on personal investing.
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He contacted me and asked me if he could put my one page in his book because he thought I covered it all.
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He's basically considered maybe the number one expert in the field.
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And he says I took the entire field and put it on one page.
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The entire show is me predicting things and then seeing how I do.
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The only reason you're watching me is you think I could do it better than you could.
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Why the fuck would you watch me if you don't think I could do it better than you?
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You should just sit there alone in a chair instead of wasting your time listening to this.
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Because apparently I have nothing to teach you and nothing to say.
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You need to work on your ego if that's where you're at.
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Remember I told you that the press would come after me before the elections?
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Remember I told you there would be a hit piece about me?
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You know you failed in a hit piece when somebody retweets it without much complaint.
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So as a New York Daily News, would you like some context?
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So this is the part that people don't realize when they're just casual consumers of the news.
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So here's a newspaper writing something bad about me.
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Do you think the New York Daily News carries my comic?
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So coincidentally, coincidentally, they're criticizing me without ever mentioning that I'm a primary piece of content for their main competitor in New York City.
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Here's what they say about me in the New York Daily News.
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They call me, they say that I'm a right-wing cartoonist, a right-wing cartoonist, and that I'm the cause of the coming violence.
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And I said that, according to the article, that if Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within a year, and also that Republicans will be hunted.
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But they've decided that they can blame any violence on me.
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So by predicting violence, I'm the cause of it.
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Because I predicted that the Democrats would be violent, which causes the Republicans to react.
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And so therefore, I'm the cause of the Republicans who reacted to the violence.
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Do you think that they mentioned any of the examples that have been used by the right to justify that they are being hunted?
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No mention whatsoever of the prominent public headline examples that the right uses to populate this meme and say, yes, we are being hunted.
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Here's this example, this example, this example, this example.
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The article that mocks me for saying it doesn't mention any of them.
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It simply says that I'm creating a dangerous situation such that if ever there's even one Republican who does anything to any Democrat, guess whose fault that is?
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I mean, the New York Daily News, there's not much left of it anymore.
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You know, if that had maybe caught on a little bit, then other people could say, oh, let's work on this.
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Let's turn the cartoonist into the one who's causing the violence.
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Now, what about the part where they say I'm right-wing?
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Somebody said to me recently that they checked my Twitter feed and it's all right-wing stuff.
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And then I thought to myself, oh, I'll bet it actually is.
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So I could see, I could actually see how somebody would think I'm right-wing based on my Twitter.
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Now, I say that I'm left to Bernie and people laugh at me.
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People might want to bar abortion in many cases.
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Bernie would say that he's in favor of abortion.
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And I'm left to Bernie, because Bernie's in favor of abortion.
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And I'm in favor of Bernie shutting the fuck up with his cock.
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Because his cock has nothing to do with abortion.
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The right-wing would say, Second Amendment, don't restrict my gun ownership.
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Bernie would say, well, you know, I am in favor of gun ownership, because he actually owns a gun, I think.
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So Bernie's actually in favor of the Second Amendment, but with lots of restrictions.
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And I'm left to Bernie, and I think that Democrats should not be allowed to own guns.
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Because Bernie's still, the Second Amendment's good, and I think, I don't think Democrats should be allowed to own guns.
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I mean, they want less guns, and I want them to have what they want.
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And since the right is not terribly dangerous in terms of guns, you know, minus the lone shooters that are definitely dangerous.
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But in general, you know, the baseline, it's a Democrat problem.
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I say, take away that Second Amendment rights for Democrats.
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Bernie would, people on the right would say you should ignore race.
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Ignore race, but that, of course, gives some advantage to the people who already have advantage, right?
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So it's a little, it's a little right, white-leaning and right-leaning.
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Not necessarily by intention, but that's how it, that's how it works out.
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Anybody who thinks that black lives matter only the same amount as everybody else, they're right of me.
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Because there are fewer of them, and they're in great demand.
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If there's fewer of anything that's in great demand, it has more value.
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Why is it that corporate America is trying desperately to increase diversity?
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It's because there's a low supply and a high demand.
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So, yeah, not only do I agree that black lives matter, they matter extra.
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If somebody black were killed, is it more likely to become a news story than if somebody white is killed?
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He did a fashion show for Yeezy and did it in Paris.
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And the big story is that he wore a shirt that said white lives matter.
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Can you confirm, was Candace Owens at the show?
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Now, don't you assume that Candace was behind that?
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Wouldn't you love to have heard that conversation?
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Can you imagine the conversation between Candace Owens and Kanye when Candace, I know she's the one who's...
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Do we all agree she's the one who suggested it?
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But I imagine that conversation went like this.
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I don't think anybody else would have been smart enough to do that.
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Because remember, a fashion show is about getting attention, even negative attention.
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That's part of the tradition of it, is to, like, really shock you.
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So all the people who don't know you shocked just to get attention give you their attention.
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And then they say stuff like, my God, who would wear those clothes?
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Because the public doesn't know that the fashion show is not supposed to be the actual clothing line.
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The last thing Kanye wants is a Black Lives Matter shirt.
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That's the worst thing he could do for business.
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He wants to sell clothes to people who have money.
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He just wants people with money to buy his clothes and like them.
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Because in my opinion, it was done for attention, of course.
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But I think that Kanye also operates on the social level.
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It looks like he has larger ambitions for, you know, a good world.
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So I believe that what Kanye did was simply show respect to a category that he probably thinks I'm in.
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So today I ordered my Black Lives Matter shirt from Amazon.
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So I mean, I'm going to start wearing my Black Lives Matter shirt on my live stream.
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Because I actually do think Black Lives Matter.
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But because he did that, because Kanye wore the White Lives Matter shirt, then I say, whoa, there's a model I would like to copy.
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I'd love to see Republicans wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, just to repay the respect.
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Because respect is the thing that we're all missing, right?
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And I think the internet has mostly to do with that.
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Because you'll respect people in person, because they'll punch you in the face if you don't.
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But you end up getting real disrespectful online.
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And so when I see something that works in the right direction, if it works in the right direction, I like it, too.
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Now that we know that Black Lives Matter, the organization, is a scam, I can wear the shirt.
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Even the Russian reporters are reporting bad news about the Russian involvement.
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Listen to these choices of words from Russian journalists.
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So this war correspondent, Alexander Katz, he said on Telegram.
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But he said that the Russian military was in, quote, operational crisis.
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Would you ever say that about your own military?
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I mean, that does sound like the technical words for a collapse, doesn't it?
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Somewhere publicly he said about the Russian military.
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He says, this doesn't mean that we've collapsed like a house of cards.
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These mistakes aren't gigantic strategic failures.
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Do you know what I hear when somebody says we're not collapsing like a house of cards?
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Nobody picks those words unless they actually believe they're collapsing like cards.
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You would never say we're not collapsing like a house of cards.
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You would never, never say house of cards in any context unless you thought it was on the table.
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So the people closest to it, the Russians themselves, they see the whole thing looking like it's falling apart.
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And I know I hate you that I was the best predictor of the entire Ukraine military.
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And they seem to be pinning their hopes on the special mobilization.
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There isn't one military person who thinks that the special mobilization is going to work.
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But it also puts some urgency on the Ukrainians to get as much as they can before any recruitments come in.
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Anyway, so here's something that you never expected me to hear.
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Because I don't even know if this is left wing or right wing.
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But it looks like Joe Biden's team is very close to taking Russia off the board as a superpower, which looks to be exactly what they're attempting to do and have wanted to do for a long time.
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Now, you could say it's NATO winning, but not really.
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Would you give them credit for it if it happens?
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Because, you know, this is exactly the sort of thing I get mad at Democrats for.
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You know, when Trump would do something that was unambiguously good, they couldn't give him any credit at all.
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You know, the risk of nuclear war, the big risk.
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What if he actually just takes Russia out of the game?
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Yeah, it's a big if, but it looks like it's going to happen.
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And Joel Pollack referred to it in Breitbart as, you know, moving closer to a situation where Russia would be China's northern colony.
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Because if China owned them economically, they would own them in every way.
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I said on Twitter yesterday that you should turn off any movie as soon as there's a scene where somebody's tied to a chair.
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And my thinking was that that's a signal that the writers ran out of ideas.
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And a lot of writers came in to complain, because writers don't like me.
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And they said, Scott, how can you say that they've run out of ideas
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If you don't watch a movie because somebody's tied to a chair, you're not going to see,
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let's see, Reservoir Dogs, Casino, The Matrix, Indiana Jones.
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And they listed like 12 classic movies where somebody was tied to a chair.
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But the fact that you can name 20 movies in which it was done is why you turn it off.
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They're just rewriting the old movie by doing the shitty job of it.
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It's like, to imagine that because there are old movies that did it,
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And then part of it was, are you saying that Reservoir Dogs and Casino were not good movies?
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Those were, those were, no, I'm not going to say they're not good,
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because that would be treating art like it's subjective.
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All right, there's news about this election software firm called Connac.
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But they say that he was storing the database in China,
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and it was a database of all the election volunteers, all the workers.
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It's a database for managing your election volunteers.
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So that was the information that was allegedly, yeah, the poll workers and stuff.
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So that was allegedly what was stored on a Chinese database.
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Is it a huge problem that they've got, that they've got information about the poll workers?
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Is that because then they could, like, influence the poll workers?
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Because I don't see that that would really work.
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But it's not obvious to me how China would use that information?
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But it doesn't seem like the kind that China would want to use,
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unless they knew something about, I don't know.
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Most of the poll workers would have no access to anything, right?
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But I guess you could find some way to weaponize that.
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Anyway, the company's defense is that nothing like that happened,
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Because it feels like the easiest thing in the world to prove or disprove
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is whether you had a database in a certain place at a certain time.
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But they're actually saying, nope, nope, that didn't happen.
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Because that's not exactly the defense you would mount
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Because that would be the easiest thing to prove or disprove.
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There's something that doesn't feel right about the story.
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So Elon Musk is going to go ahead and buy Twitter.
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Two is that it would just take too much time out of his life.
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Maybe he just didn't want to spend the time on it.
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The other possibility is that he knew if he didn't wrap up
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by whatever badness you imagine might be there.
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That it's just part of his meaning of life constellation.
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But I think he thought nobody else was going to do it.