Episode 2240 Scott Adams: Word-Thinking Brought Us Antifa, Marriage, And More. Bring Coffee
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 9 minutes
Words per Minute
141.06184
Summary
On this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about fake news, and why the ADL is a tool of the Democratic Party. Plus, why Apple continues to carry the X platform even as a Jewish rights organization raises concerns about hate speech.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of your day and human civilization
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If you are not aware, and you should be, there is an excellent podcast featuring me as a guest
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and his partner, Chris, and we'll talk about hypnosis.
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So it's my first podcast with no politics, I think.
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But no politics on that one, just talking about hypnosis.
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I think you're going to like that one a lot, actually.
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So there's an article in Wall Street Journal by Tim Higgins, and he's talking about how
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Tim Cook was in an awkward position because the iPhone maker continues to carry the X platform
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And people are saying, hey, why are you doing that?
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But here's, I don't care about that part of the story so much, as the introduction says
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that, let me read it, let's say, the chief executive, Apple's chief executive, was asked on CBS News
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Sunday morning, why the iPhone maker continues to advertise on Musk's Twitter-turned-X, even
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as, listen to this, Jewish civil rights organization raises concern about hateful speech on the social
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So if you saw in the Wall Street Journal that the X platform was, let's see, even as a Jewish
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civil rights organization raised concern about hateful speech, you'd be pretty worried about
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How would you like the Wall Street Journal to write that your product is something that
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a Jewish rights organization has raised concern about all the hate?
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They start without mentioning the name of the organization.
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Now, don't you think that a story like this should also include that the ADL is being sued for
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being a tool of the Democrat Party that they use as an attack dog?
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Don't you think that's the biggest part of the story?
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The biggest part of the story is that the ADL is a Democrat attack dog organization that's
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No, the first paragraph is that there's a Jewish rights organization that's raising concerns.
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I'm pretty sure that if it were the KKK, they would have mentioned that right away.
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Oh, we'll mention that later, but we just need you to know that there's a group that's
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If you don't mention that the ADL is a thoroughly disgraced organization that has a political
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motive first and secondarily probably trying to help some people too, that's complete fake
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Here's another story that I was worried I might be in, but I'm not.
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Sometimes I have to read stories to find out if I'm in them.
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It's like, oh shit, oh shit, I might be in this one.
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But anyway, there's a story by David Runciman in some publication that I didn't care about.
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I didn't care enough about it to write it down.
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And what David Runciman did was he followed the same people that Elon Musk follows.
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So he wanted to find out who's influencing Elon Musk, what is Elon Musk, what is he interested
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in, what's he tweeting and stuff, because that would be like a way to get into his head.
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Now apparently you can do this with Elon Musk in a way you can't do it with some other people
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because he only follows 400 some people, which is a manageable number.
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But one of the statements in here is that David found out by looking at all the people
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that Elon Musk follows, that Elon Musk is not following anyone who, and I'll put this
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in quotes, makes a serious case for liberalism.
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There's not a single person on that list of 400 or more people who, quote, makes a serious
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Do you know what other list also does not include anybody who makes a serious case for liberalism?
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Name one person who has an argument for liberalism.
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I don't believe I've ever heard it, because do you think Soros makes a case for liberalism?
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He says what he's trying to do, but does he make an argument for it?
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He says what's wrong with the current system, and then he says what he wants.
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I've never even seen an argument for liberalism, because in my view, an argument for liberalism
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would be an argument against a system that had human incentives as a key variable.
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It gets you away from any kind of competitive free market situation,
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So if you ever hear of anybody who has a serious case of defending liberalism,
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I will follow them right away, because that would be quite a feat to pull that off.
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And by the way, liberalism is different from, you know, wanting everybody to have a good life.
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So Apple is removing the Andrew Tate app called the Real World Portal,
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and they're removing it because somebody complained,
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I think some people who consider themselves victims of him in the past complained,
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and there's evidence to suggest it is an illegal pyramid scheme.
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They pulled it because someone else thinks it encourages misogyny.
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Can you name a platform that doesn't encourage both misogyny,
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misendry, misendry, you know, discrimination against men,
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hatred against men, and also the opposite of those,
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because somebody complained that it might be a problem.
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It's business in the sense that they don't want to anger their,
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you know, Apple doesn't want to anger their customers.
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But I can't imagine that they would have made this decision
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Andy Ngo was trying to do some speaking engagements
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and got canceled first at the Commonwealth Club
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To cancel the speaking event because Antifa complained.
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Antifa complained, not because of what he said,
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because people are afraid of what they might say.
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which is pretty fascinating if you haven't heard it,
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and was forced to eject due to an aircraft failure.
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So we have more questions than we have answers.
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see if there's anything I can do to correct it.