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Lex Fridman and Greta Thunberg - Solution to the Israel-Palestine Conflict! (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_606)


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Greta Thunberg and Lex Friedman's views on the Israel-Palestine conflict and why they are the only ones who have a chance to make a dent in the problem. Also, why is it that the only person who is willing to have a conversation with me about it is a moron who preaches nonsense?

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00:00:00.120 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad for the Saad Truth.
00:00:03.820 Whenever I'm confused about an important geopolitical issue
00:00:09.360 that's complex and that would appear intractable,
00:00:13.360 my two go-to people that I like to right away
00:00:18.140 explore their positions on the matter because they're enlightened.
00:00:23.380 Number one is Lex Friedman and number two is Greta Thunberg.
00:00:27.660 And I wasn't incorrect in placing a lot of importance on their very enlightened views
00:00:35.220 because I'd like to spend a couple of minutes here
00:00:38.640 discussing their input into the Israel-Palestine conflict that is taking place.
00:00:47.480 So some of you may know that I had previously critiqued Lex Friedman's full positivity.
00:00:57.660 But I stand corrected because I now see that he really does have actionable,
00:01:04.240 concrete, implementable solutions to this problem.
00:01:08.740 Because you see, Lex Friedman, now I realize,
00:01:11.980 unlike the rest of us who kind of operate here,
00:01:15.660 he's enlightened, he's at a higher plane.
00:01:18.840 So he could look down upon the Israelis and the Palestinians.
00:01:22.360 And because he's enlightened, because he's a guru of positivity and love,
00:01:28.660 he can kind of pontificate about these very earthly mortal beings.
00:01:36.500 So Lex put out a tweet which he has since deleted.
00:01:39.720 He seems to do that a lot.
00:01:41.100 He puts out a tweet demonstrating how enlightened he is.
00:01:44.900 And then when he gets huge blowback, he then deletes it.
00:01:48.980 Which to me is strange because when you believe in something,
00:01:53.120 you never have to worry about even a tsunami of people who may disagree with you
00:01:58.960 because you stand on those principles.
00:02:00.760 You'd never have to delete anything.
00:02:03.180 So here's what Lex wrote.
00:02:06.440 Every religion teaches love.
00:02:08.900 Let's focus on that.
00:02:12.120 Oh, that's beautiful.
00:02:13.320 I mean, think about it.
00:02:14.720 There are 1,400 people who no longer exist,
00:02:17.740 some of whom were decapitated,
00:02:19.600 some of whom were raped, burned, shot.
00:02:22.680 1,400 Israelis that tomorrow will be two weeks,
00:02:26.040 that they no longer exist.
00:02:28.720 Their bodies aren't yet completely,
00:02:30.680 they're still a bit warm.
00:02:32.540 And Lex decides from his, you know,
00:02:35.320 home in Austin to pontificate on really a better vision.
00:02:40.780 And the better vision is all religions teach love.
00:02:44.800 You know, let's give that a shot.
00:02:47.260 Okay.
00:02:47.760 Now, when I critiqued his position yesterday,
00:02:52.700 I got the usual response back,
00:02:55.320 which is, I mean, he's young.
00:02:58.520 Why are you going after him, Professor Saad?
00:03:02.060 He's young.
00:03:03.060 I agree.
00:03:04.000 In retrospect, I realize that Lex is a 40-year-old child.
00:03:11.060 What kind of monster, right here, myself,
00:03:14.420 what kind of monster would pick on a 40-year-old child?
00:03:18.980 Let's kind of put it in context.
00:03:21.400 Alexander the Great conquered Asia when he was 20.
00:03:26.120 But now you have Lex, who's very enlightened,
00:03:30.200 very positive, very loving, right?
00:03:33.140 1,400 people slaughtered.
00:03:36.260 So there is an expression,
00:03:38.240 I won't get into Arabic for my non-Arabic speakers.
00:03:41.380 When you don't have anything worthy to say, 1.00
00:03:46.080 shut the F up. 1.00
00:03:48.460 You have a large platform. 1.00
00:03:50.500 It's unimaginable to me who would listen to this buffoon.
00:03:58.300 But I go after Lex not because I have posters of Lex. 1.00
00:04:04.380 Again, all of the idiots always do. 1.00
00:04:06.600 If I say something about Donald Trump, 1.00
00:04:08.780 it's because I'm obsessed with Donald Trump.
00:04:10.180 If I criticize Sam Harris,
00:04:11.480 it's because I'm envious of the size of his podcast. 1.00
00:04:16.020 If I go after the idiot Bassem Yusuf, 0.99
00:04:18.640 who was on Pierce Morgan, 1.00
00:04:19.800 doing this very poisonous satire,
00:04:23.460 it's because he's got a bigger show than me. 1.00
00:04:27.480 I mean, what kind of moron thinks that? 1.00
00:04:29.640 You think I sit there and I'm doing a calculus, 1.00
00:04:32.660 an envy calculus.
00:04:33.880 I go after Lex because he represents
00:04:37.100 a parasitized mind.
00:04:39.160 Now, if he only had three followers,
00:04:41.480 who would, who cares?
00:04:43.440 But when he has,
00:04:44.740 I don't know how many followers he has,
00:04:45.780 he has a lot of followers.
00:04:46.780 And therefore, his voice can influence people.
00:04:51.560 And people say, yes, yes.
00:04:53.340 You know, we have to implement his love.
00:04:56.540 Let's play a game theoretic episode.
00:05:00.480 Suppose we now populated all of the IDF commandos
00:05:05.540 with a mindset of Lex.
00:05:09.320 Lex, would that increase Israel's security
00:05:13.360 or decrease it?
00:05:15.140 If it's decrease it, 1.00
00:05:16.780 then shut the fuck up, Lex. 1.00
00:05:19.380 Because your inane bullshit influences people. 1.00
00:05:24.480 So that's number one. 1.00
00:05:25.280 That's my views on Lex.
00:05:26.320 By the way, Lex,
00:05:27.380 who only wants to have conversations,
00:05:30.700 he's open,
00:05:31.660 he's willing to speak to some really
00:05:33.380 execrable people,
00:05:35.860 blocked me.
00:05:36.600 You know why he blocked me?
00:05:38.400 Because this gad tongue, 1.00
00:05:41.060 this gad mind,
00:05:43.100 is too much to handle 1.00
00:05:45.180 for someone who preaches bullshit. 1.00
00:05:48.680 Charlatans are able to pick out 1.00
00:05:51.040 who is a danger to their nonsense. 0.85
00:05:54.460 And therefore, they stay clear.
00:05:56.380 So therefore, Mr. All-Inclusive blocks gad. 0.93
00:06:00.980 I have nothing that would be worthwhile 0.99
00:06:03.280 to discuss with this imbecile. 1.00
00:06:05.280 But again, it shows you the hypocrisy. 1.00
00:06:08.440 Okay, so that's Lex.
00:06:09.600 That's not...
00:06:10.060 Now, why am I...
00:06:11.020 Why do I seem salty?
00:06:12.920 Because even though I may not know
00:06:15.680 many of the people
00:06:16.920 who have been killed
00:06:18.220 a couple of weeks ago,
00:06:19.840 I come from that world.
00:06:22.380 And it bothers me 0.99
00:06:23.680 that hypocrites 1.00
00:06:25.060 sitting in their homes in Austin 1.00
00:06:26.880 can spew this kind of garbage. 1.00
00:06:29.320 If you have any dignity, 1.00
00:06:31.240 then shut the F up. 0.99
00:06:32.840 If you have nothing worthwhile to say. 0.99
00:06:34.540 But now here comes
00:06:35.980 the more powerful,
00:06:38.320 even someone smarter than Lex.
00:06:42.400 We've got Greta Thunberg.
00:06:44.220 Week 270.
00:06:45.780 This is a tweet I'm reading.
00:06:47.120 Today we strike in solidarity
00:06:48.880 with Palestine and Gaza.
00:06:50.560 The world needs to speak up
00:06:51.940 and call for an immediate ceasefire.
00:06:54.080 Justice and freedom
00:06:55.020 for Palestinians
00:06:55.860 and all civilians affected.
00:06:57.660 Hashtag Free Palestine.
00:06:59.280 Hashtag I Stand With Palestine.
00:07:01.120 Hashtag Stand With Gaza.
00:07:02.340 Hashtag Fridays For Future Thread.
00:07:05.560 And then there are four women 0.95
00:07:06.600 that look like they're
00:07:07.260 in a struggle session.
00:07:08.640 They're void of joy.
00:07:10.420 Void of any sense of,
00:07:12.440 you know,
00:07:12.680 they're absent.
00:07:13.720 Their eyes are absent.
00:07:14.940 Stand With Whatever.
00:07:16.240 This Jew with Palestine 0.87
00:07:17.660 stands with Palestine.
00:07:18.680 Exactly.
00:07:19.460 This Jew stands with Palestine
00:07:20.860 is exactly like
00:07:21.880 queers for Palestine.
00:07:23.280 It's exactly like 0.90
00:07:24.220 chickens for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
00:07:25.880 Or as I said yesterday,
00:07:27.460 I said ducks for foie gras
00:07:29.160 and someone corrected me.
00:07:31.040 Geese for foie gras.
00:07:33.000 So those are all
00:07:34.240 exactly equivalent groups.
00:07:35.600 Because if you're queer, 0.72
00:07:36.900 you definitely want to be
00:07:38.220 siding on the Palestinian side
00:07:39.800 if your key identity
00:07:41.420 is to be queer. 0.90
00:07:42.680 They have this really
00:07:43.580 liberating conversion program
00:07:45.400 that's gravity-based.
00:07:47.800 So you can look into that.
00:07:48.900 It's a very, very innovative program.
00:07:51.900 They take you up
00:07:53.240 to the top of the roof
00:07:54.220 and then they kind of
00:07:55.440 introduce you to gravity.
00:07:58.400 So it's a way
00:07:59.060 to really celebrate
00:08:00.400 your queer identity. 0.74
00:08:02.820 And so Jews for Palestine,
00:08:05.020 this person is more,
00:08:06.900 she's enlightened
00:08:07.660 just like Lex, right?
00:08:10.820 She's enlightened.
00:08:11.800 She doesn't get bogged down
00:08:13.840 with, you know,
00:08:14.520 survival concerns
00:08:15.860 and, oh, you know, 0.98
00:08:16.880 they want to kill us 0.99
00:08:17.860 and, you know, 0.96
00:08:18.680 it's an existential threat
00:08:20.260 on the Jewish people.
00:08:21.180 She's higher.
00:08:22.260 She's elevated.
00:08:23.060 So she's Jews for Palestine, right? 0.58
00:08:25.340 So I went after Greta
00:08:27.640 and I said,
00:08:28.160 hey, Greta,
00:08:28.880 you're someone
00:08:30.260 who's souped
00:08:31.440 into saving Mother Earth.
00:08:33.580 I have found
00:08:35.380 the cleanest,
00:08:37.540 most renewable source of energy
00:08:40.020 that fuels
00:08:40.860 certainly the entire Middle East,
00:08:42.740 if not, regrettably,
00:08:44.120 much of the West right now. 0.98
00:08:46.020 It's Jew hatred. 0.98
00:08:47.140 Jew hatred fuels the trucks. 0.98
00:08:49.480 It fuels the society. 0.97
00:08:50.640 It fuels the shows
00:08:51.660 that are on TV.
00:08:53.520 If you get diabetes, 0.91
00:08:55.380 it's the Jew who did it. 0.99
00:08:56.560 If your wife cheats on you, 1.00
00:08:57.740 it's the Jew who did it. 0.99
00:08:58.800 If it's sunny outside,
00:08:59.840 it's the Jew who did it. 0.99
00:09:00.860 If it's cold outside, 0.95
00:09:02.020 it's the Jew who did it. 0.99
00:09:03.600 And so she can use 0.97
00:09:05.220 this very noble Jew hatred 1.00
00:09:07.780 as the ultimate source
00:09:09.520 of renewable energy.
00:09:11.520 Guess what?
00:09:12.100 She deleted that tweet.
00:09:14.120 Again,
00:09:14.640 why would this noble eco-warrior,
00:09:17.420 who truly is so enlightened,
00:09:19.340 why would she not stand
00:09:21.140 by her principle?
00:09:22.540 Hashtag Jews for Palestine.
00:09:24.360 Why would she not stand for it?
00:09:25.860 Why would she be
00:09:27.240 open to,
00:09:30.100 you know,
00:09:30.220 oh, I better delete this.
00:09:31.280 It's not a good one.
00:09:32.700 So the reason why
00:09:33.700 I go after Lex
00:09:34.800 and after Greta,
00:09:36.440 they're completely inconsequential.
00:09:38.220 You see these glasses
00:09:40.160 that I wear?
00:09:41.380 These glasses of mine
00:09:42.800 are substantially smarter
00:09:44.620 than Lex and Greta combined.
00:09:49.260 I don't go after them
00:09:50.560 because, you know,
00:09:52.140 I have a personal animus to them.
00:09:54.300 They are vile.
00:09:56.660 That's absolutely the case.
00:09:59.000 But it's because 1.00
00:10:00.740 their stupidity 1.00
00:10:03.720 influences people, right? 1.00
00:10:07.180 The 17-year-old person
00:10:10.420 who's navigating
00:10:11.160 through these cars
00:10:11.740 says,
00:10:12.040 oh, but Greta, 1.00
00:10:12.660 she's lovely
00:10:13.260 and she wants to save the earth.
00:10:15.000 So yes,
00:10:16.220 free Palestine.
00:10:17.820 And then people listen to Lex
00:10:18.980 and say,
00:10:19.360 it's so heartwarming
00:10:20.820 how he's so much into love.
00:10:22.480 He loves the idea of love.
00:10:24.120 He's in love with people
00:10:25.240 who love to love.
00:10:26.600 And again,
00:10:27.040 he's higher than those
00:10:28.300 Israeli and Palestinian people
00:10:30.120 fighting
00:10:30.520 because he knows
00:10:31.660 that all religions
00:10:32.520 preach love.
00:10:33.680 Which, by the way,
00:10:34.360 is not true.
00:10:34.960 Religions have 1.00
00:10:37.660 specific content.
00:10:39.780 That content
00:10:40.540 is then acted upon
00:10:42.040 in the world.
00:10:43.260 For example,
00:10:44.040 Jains,
00:10:44.980 right,
00:10:45.360 Jainism,
00:10:46.200 they walk
00:10:46.960 and they sweep 0.64
00:10:47.960 the floor
00:10:48.740 when they're walking
00:10:50.060 because their religion
00:10:51.640 is so pacifist
00:10:53.140 that they don't even want
00:10:54.800 to inadvertently
00:10:55.840 step on an ant.
00:10:58.420 That's pacifism.
00:11:00.500 Now,
00:11:01.120 the dynamics
00:11:01.860 in the Middle East
00:11:02.820 have certain religions
00:11:04.000 fighting each other
00:11:04.900 where at least,
00:11:05.920 as far as I know,
00:11:07.120 you could read
00:11:07.740 maybe this book,
00:11:08.500 The Parasitic Mind,
00:11:09.380 chapter 1, 6, and 7,
00:11:11.620 they don't preach
00:11:13.680 the same kind of love
00:11:15.640 as Jains.
00:11:17.780 So, Lex, 0.99
00:11:19.100 shut the F up. 1.00
00:11:20.800 Take care, everybody. 0.99
00:11:21.620 Take care.