Episode 2148 Scott Adams: Hunter's WhatsApp Message, Impeaching Biden, Imploding Subs, More
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Summary
In this episode of the highlight of human civilization and maybe some robots too, I talk about my recent trip to San Francisco and how I didn't see a single person. Also, I give my opinion on AI and why it's mostly bullshit.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization and maybe some robots, too.
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If you would like your experience today to be one that you'll talk about to your grandchildren,
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well, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or gels, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind,
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But if you'd like to raise up your experience to dopamine faucet,
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all you need is to take this simultaneous sip, and it happens now, go.
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And I would be, I don't know, I feel I would be honored by that.
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So if you don't mind, should I die in any way that looks amusing, like a bear attack?
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Or if some, you know, horrible, strange accident, you know, somebody drives a car into my house,
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something like that, you have my permission to enjoy the hell out of it.
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I mean, if I'm dead, why should I ruin your fun?
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I was not looking forward to going into San Francisco for the first time in three years.
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I live just outside of San Francisco, and I think I've avoided it for three years, which
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If you live near it, you always have some reason to go there.
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But I did want to catch up with a friend, so I went in for lunch.
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And as you've heard, the streets are covered with poop and criminality and drug abuse in
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I did not see, didn't see a homeless person, didn't see a criminal, didn't see a tent,
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And then we took a long walk, pretty long walk from, you know, one place to a place to
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Pretty sure there's, I'm pretty sure there's like a 10 block area that there's nothing going
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The rest of the city is probably a sewer, according to other people.
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But if you go to the rich part, it's all the same.
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I don't think too much goes wrong in the rich part of San Francisco.
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Here's my opinion on AI, having experienced it for a while, having signed up for many AI
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Now, when I say that, don't take that out of context.
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Of course, AI and its contribution to how we work will be gigantic.
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So what I say next is not, is not conflicting with the fact that AI will be gigantic, gigantic
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However, I can make the following assessments right now.
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Not once this week did I want to use an AI tool for anything.
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And I've used them, you know, I've signed up for a bunch.
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But not once have I said to myself, I've got to go back there and use that.
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The exception would be, you know, Googling for just a text answer for something.
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So I have used the ChatGPT to answer some complex questions.
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But, you know, I just saw that MidJourney came out with a new update that you can not
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only do amazing pictures, but now you can zoom into them, like, and get detail in the
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zoom in, like, like new detail that wasn't there before.
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And I said to myself, my God, what an update that is.
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And then I said to myself, when would I ever use that?
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So 90% of everything that AI does is done by people who do things you can't do.
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90% of everything you see on social media is like, hey, look, it can do this.
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In order to do that, you would have to learn a new language.
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You would have to learn this language called Super Prompt.
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Because if you didn't know that language, do you think you could make that cool, cool photo?
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You'd have to learn a whole new language in order to ask the right questions to create good pictures,
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I mean, impressive pictures, the value of an impressive picture just went to zero.
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The market value of a really impressive image is now zero, because anybody can make one.
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So I'm not even sure people will care if you made a good image, because they're all going to be worth a zero in our minds.
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So mostly it's about people who can do things that you can't do, doing demos on social media to make you think that you could do those things,
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but you really can't, because it would be too much to learn, and you've got a real life to live,
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and you're not going to dedicate your entire day to learning an AI prompt.
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They put their whole week into putting together a little package that they could make a thread on Twitter.
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If you've tried to use AI for anything but just asking questions, would you agree that my assessment is on point?
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Apparently, I saw a headline, and I wasn't sure which way this would go.
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Starbucks employees are, let's see, 150 unionized Starbucks, so they're not all unionized.
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But where they are, 150 of them are going on strike over the coffee chain's policy for pride decorations.
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Now, how do you think that story is going to go?
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Are they on strike because they have them, or are they on strike because they don't have enough of them?
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On strike because they have them, or on strike because they don't have enough of it?
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So there's some, let's say, ambiguity in the story because it sounds like the people going on strike don't know that the thing they're asking for they already have.
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Which is, they have the authority to put up pride decorations in their store.
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So I think corporate office says, yeah, go ahead.
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And then the unionized people are going on strike for not being allowed to put on pride decorations, which the corporate office says, yeah, go ahead.
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I don't really understand the story, but that's the way it's presented.
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That the strike has nothing to do with reality.
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As my regular audience knows, I'm very pro-LGBTQ.
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They generally are low-crime people who follow the Constitution.
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But like anything, like anything, things can go too far.
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I have now some advice for my much-beloved LGBTQ community.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but a big part of Pride Month is not just how the people in the community feel about each other or themselves.
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It's also a branding exercise to make sure that the rest of the public has a positive point of view.
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But here's my observation about Pride Month, which seems off-brand for the LGBTQ community.
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Because generally you expect the LGBT community to be sort of a leading edge in fashion and, you know, just sort of what's new.
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You know, sort of the leading edge of what's next.
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That Pride Month made perfect sense for a long time.
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But now it just feels, it feels like unnecessary.
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Because I feel like we're well past the point of, you know, are you a member of America?
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Are you a, you know, a full, fully respected member of the community?
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And it feels like you don't want to do Pride Month until the very last person agrees with you.
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You want to stop when you get the benefits before it starts being a cost.
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And it feels to me like Pride Month did its work.
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But does anybody else feel like it just, the Pride concept feels dated?
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It's like, I like, I feel like we've gone past that.
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I mean, Pride doesn't even seem like the right word, does it?
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Because why should anybody be proud about their sexuality, no matter what it is?
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I'm not proud of anything about anything that I was born.
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I mean, I didn't have a choice about any of it.
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So I'm not really proud about anything I don't have a choice about.
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And I think society is pretty close to my opinion on that.
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You know, if you're not breaking the law, we're all good.
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So Bo Burt, Representative Bo Burt, who is just one of the Burt's, not a Dilbert, not
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a Ratbert, not a Catbert, not a Dogbert, she is a Bo Burt, and she's pushing this impeachment
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It's political theater that even Newt Gingrich says is a bad idea.
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If Newt Gingrich says an impeachment is a bad idea, I'd listen to him.
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Yeah, I would listen to Newt Gingrich when he says it's a bad idea.
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He's still one of the smartest people in the game.
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And he knows a little bit about impeachment because he was behind the Clinton impeachment.
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And the worst thing you could do is bring an impeachment if you don't have the goods.
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They certainly have a complaint that Biden is opening the border too much, but you probably
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I mean, just not doing a good enough job isn't what they do impeachment for.
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That feels like it's more in the political domain than the impeachment domain.
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As you know, the male sperm count, well, I shouldn't say male, should I?
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The male or female sperm count is going down every, seems like, for years it's been going
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down and it's still a bit of a, bit of a mystery, but I'd like to add my own hypothesis here.
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Now the, the primary hypothesis is there's something in the air or the food.
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So we're either drinking something or breathing something or we're exposed to something.
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I don't know, it could be microplastics in the water or something.
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But whatever it is, it seems that the sperm count has been going down for a long time.
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I would like to offer you the following highly speculative hypotheses.
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Number one, I hypothesize that women, well, I hypothesize that if we were in a more dangerous
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In other words, if people were being slain in the streets, you know, more than they are,
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that the natural instinct of human beings would be to increase reproduction.
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Now there's weak evidence, it's very weak evidence, that during wartime women will give
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But I just checked that, and apparently the science for that is not firm.
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There's some indication of a small effect, but it's not always, and so I wouldn't call that science.
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But it does make sense from a biological perspective that if you knew you needed more people, because
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it looked like people were dying too much, and life was hard, you'd probably have more sperm
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So just a hypothesis, something you could test.
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Because in the 70s, when I was working in the cubicle environment, if a woman got dressed
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for work, it looked a lot like getting dressed to go on a date, didn't it?
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Getting dressed for work in the 70s looked a lot like getting dressed for a date.
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You got the high heels and the tight dress, and you might even have a little cleavage at work.
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In my day job, when I worked at the bank, in my 20s, I'd have a heart on half of the day.
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I would just walk down the hall, and there was just so many hot women who were of reproductive
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You were just basically boning out all day long in your 20s.
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Like, all day long, I'd be sitting in my cubicle saying, all right, I can't get up for
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10 minutes, because I just walked past what's-her-name, right?
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And now if you go into a modern workplace, what do the women look like?
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And again, this is not any kind of criticism, because I don't think women should dress like
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You know, you don't want to send your daughter into that situation, right?
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And if you turned on a beer commercial, what did it look like?
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If you turned on a sitcom, was there always a hot woman with cleavage?
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So, if you went to a modern workplace, and you looked at the women who worked here, and
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They would be dressed probably comfortably, wouldn't you say?
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In a modern, let's say, high-tech environment, they would just be dressed comfortably.
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What are the odds that they would be wearing high heels?
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If you go to Google and walk down the hallway, how many of the female employees are wearing heels?
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And you would have a lot more people going full non-binary and everything else.
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So, I feel like, as a male, I'm far less exposed to casual environmental triggers.
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You are less exposed to environmental triggers all day long.
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Now, some of you are going to say, I'm getting just all yeses on that.
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Now, some of you are going to push back and say, but what about porn?
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In today's world, we have unlimited access to porn.
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It triggers you, and then you take care of it, and then you go on with your day.
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But apparently, the science shows that masturbation does not lower your sperm count.
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So, it lowers it for an hour, and you're good to go.
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So, the fact that masturbation exists and porn exists at higher levels than ever before
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doesn't seem to have an impact on sperm levels, scientifically.
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But if you tell me that walking around an environment with no sexual cues
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is going to give me the same sperm count as walking through an environment
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that's only sexual cues, just everywhere, I can't believe that.
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It seems to me my sperm count would go up if I were in a target-rich environment.
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So, I'm going to say probably the biggest reason that sperm count is down
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It's probably what we're breathing, I think, to the water.
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But I think it might be a little bit these other things.
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All right, I have an opinion that will be provocative.
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You know, on social media, it seems like twice a week,
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there'll be some viral video of a group of people,
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Because a group of people beating up one person is equally bad,
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But when it turns out that the people doing the beating are all the same racial group,
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and it's different from the person who's being beaten,
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Because when you watch the videos, it's clear they're doing it for fun.
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They're laughing, and they're enjoying it recreationally.
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Now, the videos I've seen, they're quite clearly also racial,
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meaning that it looks like the person getting beaten up is because they're white,
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But I don't want to make this a racial case per se, not in one direction anyway.
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If I saw a video of 10 white people torturing, basically torturing,
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I would want all of those white people involved in that murdered.
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If I had heard that somebody came up with a high-powered rifle
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torturing somebody recreationally, recreationally, for fun.
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Imagine a bunch of white people torturing a black guy for fun.
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I would want every one of those black people murdered immediately.
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If you see any group of one group enjoying themselves beating up somebody of another group,
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You know, you could have a racial event if it's just one person on one.
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It's an extended period in which they're just trying to hurt somebody as much as possible
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They're clearly not trying to avoid permanent damage.
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You know, a lifetime of crippling, you know, problems.
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when a group of people recreationally tortures somebody of another race,
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But, like I said, if some vigilante wanted to take care of it,
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And it wouldn't matter, again, you can reverse the races.
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If it were white people, they should all be killed.
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I had to ask on social media if this was a prank,
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Now, you're going to have to see this fucking thing yourself.
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It did a commercial with a bunch of redneck white people
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Like, all they needed was one objective opinion
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All right, here's a little statistic I saw online.
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I don't know that there are any problems in France.
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and of course everything has to do with Hunter Biden.
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There's no story that doesn't go back to Hunter Biden.
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The Hunter Biden is always one degree of separation
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and at least the people died quickly, they think.
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at the same time some bad news came out about Hunter,
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And there is allegedly a WhatsApp message from Hunter
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So this is allegedly from a WhatsApp messaging from 2017
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why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.
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Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now
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if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this
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I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me,
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that you will regret not following my direction.
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I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
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he doesn't want to say exactly what the commitments are,
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This is the way real people talk in the real world.