Episode 505 Scott Adams: TDS, Dopamine, Climate Crazies, Russian Interference, Bernie

Date: 2019-04-24 | Duration: 48:43

Topics

President Trump’s criticism of Chris Cuomo and his reply Cuomo acknowledged a lot of the really good stuff happening Then he implied 50% approval rating is Trump’s fault Without all the fake news, President Trump’s approval would be 75% Today, the news industry creates the news Crazy Bernie has become the voice of reason
Bernie’s more concerned about issues than impeachment He says impeachment efforts would STRENGTHEN Trump Glen Greenwald’s tweets on Mueller report continue to impress Glen is correcting deceptively reported fake news by the press Glen is a liberal that sees his side ignoring, spinning the truth Really DUMB things I hear on social media CO2 is plant food…and studies show the world is “greening” Plants are responding to increased food supply availability The concept of “too much” seems lost on many people A little warming may not an issue, unlimited warming…issue “More CO2 in the past” is the most debunked claim in climate change “Smoking gun” climategate emails, there’s simply no intent 12,000 Boy Scouts were VICTIMS of sexual abuse Those are the known victims, how many don’t we know about? Transgenders in sports and fairness concerns Sports by design and intention, creates mostly losers Chairman Kim visits Putin in Russia I have a feeling this could be a good, important peace step If US, China, Russia pledge to protect NK, they don’t need nukes People sometimes believe I’m trolling when they disagree I’m not, I believe the opinions I express Weird explanations for things is a tell for Cognitive Dissonance Cog-Dis is how our human brains reject things we can’t accept

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hey everybody I'm a little bit late this morning for no particular reason I just wasn't paying attention which happens often to me but now you're here now we're all happy it's all coming together looks like your morning is gonna start out well thanks to a little thing I call the simultaneous it and it's coming at you soon you got your cup your mug your glass your dying your tankard your chalice your flask your thermos fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the same thing you sip
well so the news continues to serve up nothing interesting and when it's interesting it's stuff I don't talk about too much so I don't talk too much about the mass killings there's not much to say about them unfortunately they're just tragedies but the fun political stuff has sort of slowed down have you noticed so I'll just hit some of the that

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so I'll just hit some of the that nuggets that fell out from today's news so apparently president Trump criticized Chris Cuomo and his show in a tweet and Chris Cuomo replied and he said he first of all accepted the criticism I think the criticism might have been about ratings or something so he accepted him and then Chris Cuomo went on to criticize the president the following way Chris Cuomo noted all the things that are going really really well under this president now of course he had to throw in that it was probably Obama that got things going and maybe it's just all luck but he did note that this president has one of the most successful first two and a half years of any president those are my words I guess but he noted that the economy was screaming and you know unemployment is good terrorism is down so he noted all the intensely good stuff happening and then

[2:20]

intensely good stuff happening and then he said the President must be incompetent here again I'm paraphrasing because his approval is below 50% and Cuomo said how could you have a president with so many things going right all the big stuff the economy in terrorism etc and it can't get his approval level over 50% the implication being that that's the president's fault do you see what's wrong with that the president's approval rating is not being driven entirely by the president's actions is being driven by how CNN covers him if they simply covered the actual events instead of acting like he was he was some kind of demon who had come to the the world to it to destroy all man mankind or humankind if CNN and the other news covered him in the end even the the least objective fashion his

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even the the least objective fashion his approval rate would be seventy five percent and by the way also I'll stand by that I'm gonna say that again if the news covered this president objectively and just said the facts and they could include saying that he doesn't pass the fact-checking so they could certainly criticize him for mean tweets those are facts but if you just covered what actually happened and you didn't make up stuff like the Charlottesville hoax you didn't make up stuff like mocking the guy with a bad arm that didn't happen if he didn't actually make up news he probably would have an approval of 75% and I'm not exaggerating I think that's how high it would be now of course we've never had a president who had a press that only reported the news there's always criticism of the president no matter what so you know probably Obama would have had a higher higher approval also you know if nobody ever criticized

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also you know if nobody ever criticized him and just just reported the straight news so it works both ways anyway it's hilarious to see that one of the biggest changes from you know earlier US history is that it used to be there was the news and then there was the stuff they reported on and that you can imagine those two things as separate things there are the things that are actually happening in the world and then there are news organizations which talk about those things but they're different things today they're the same thing today the news is what the news organizations are creating so they're not looking at it and talking about it they're actually making it the news is the news the news industry manufactures the news now it's no longer reporting it gets creation its art its persuasion so that's very different all right in no particular order some other things

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in no particular order some other things have you noticed that Bernie Bernie Sanders has become the voice of reason
maybe on both sides but certainly for the Democrat side it seems to me that crazy Bernie was always the one who was you know way off on his socialist fantasies and he couldn't pay for stuff and it was all very pie in the sky but because they oversee and the other the other lefties have gone so far left that when he talks you say to yourself okay here comes the crazy stuff and then he talks and he go why doesn't that sound crazy anymore I was pretty sure he was crazy a few years ago did he become less crazy now I'm still not saying he knows how to pay for any of his plans that part didn't change but they asked him about impeachment and unlike many of the Democrats who were jumping on that impeachment bandwagon Bernie says now

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impeachment bandwagon Bernie says now I'm more concerned about the issues let's not get distracted and by the way if we do get distracted by that probably is going to be good for Trump and you end up getting more of Trump not less so the strategy won't work and I listened to that and I thought to myself okay every part of that made sense what's going on here why am i agreeing with Bernie so aggressively strategy-wise I think he he found the exact right lane he found the nuance and so it's interesting to watch Bernie become the voice of reason that's that's how much our mental model has moved that he just stands out as a beacon of reason on the left which is probably bad news for the left because if you're most reasonable person has gigantic plans that can't possibly be practical in terms of how

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possibly be practical in terms of how you pay for them under the current way he suggests them that's that's problem for the Dems all right one of the I'm going to talk about some of the dumbest things I hear on social media now it's mostly on social media I suppose here in the month of news a little bit from the pundits but these are the dumbest things that I hear on social media what is Trump doing I guess this is on the news as well the critics of the president say what is Trump doing to stop Russian interference in the next election that might be the dumbest political comment in the world because what exactly is he supposed to do Hey what exactly are you supposed to do wouldn't you assume that the people working on cybersecurity are doing everything they can to make sure it's

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everything they can to make sure it's hard to hack us hard to get into the voting machines don't you believe that all of the states are now being have now been alerted to the dangers and are doing everything that they can individually to make sure that they have secure voting processes isn't aren't all of the social media platforms who were part of Russia's interference last time are they not all complete li aware and working with this administration to know what the risks are and figured I had to deal with it of course of course they are that's obvious you don't have to do you don't have to get a report on it of course they are why wouldn't they everything suggests that that's happening now what what exactly could you do beyond protecting yourself which I assume is done what is it the people here let me get rid of this troll goodbye troll why is it that people imagine he should be doing that we could

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imagine he should be doing that we could also observe and we would know he is doing it which is a big thing right because well if we sanctioned them we'd be sanctioning the sanctioning them for what they already did the question is what are we doing to stop them from doing it again so how do you stop them from doing it again in the context when they're gonna do it again there isn't really any question that they're gonna try to do it again is there they might just try to be a little more clever about it but it seems to me that all the big countries interfere with each other or whatever it makes sense and so I hear the here are the things I would add to this if our CIA is making sure that the Russia is paying a price for what they've already done would you and I know about it would you and I know that the CIA just stuck a pole so far up

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the CIA just stuck a pole so far up Putin's ass that you know it's sticking down to the top of his head what do we know that we shouldn't know that and shouldn't we expect that our CIA our cyber people are putting the screws on Russia don't you think that we have crawled so crawled into their systems so extensively that we can make the lights blink when we want to now how would we the public know about any of that because that's where all the action should be happening right you should be happening under the hood everything that the president should do or could do I'd say 75% of it should be and of our view and the president should not be bragging about it so if you're going in public and saying our president is not doing anything about Russia interference I say that might be true that's possible but how the hell would you know that if he is doing it you're

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you know that if he is doing it you're supposed to not know it that's how it works now what about the credible threat that if Russia interferes again that this president will make them pay a price do we have a credible threat I think so the the most the most common criticism of this president is that he's unpredictable which happens to be one of his strengths do you think that Putin is sitting over there saying that he could mess with the United States be detected which probably would happen it probably would be detected do you think Putin thinks he has a free pass does that even make a little bit sense maybe maybe you can't say he I can't read his mind but does this seem likely to you that Putin is thinking ah they didn't do much to me last time a little bit of sanctions nothing I'm just gonna interfere again

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nothing I'm just gonna interfere again because this president will never do anything to me I don't think there's any chance that's true I would say that the most the president can do is already happening which is he's created a a persona a brand in which the one thing you can be sure of is that just because he said you were a nice guy yesterday doesn't mean he won't kill you tomorrow don't you know that's true if there's anything you could depend on with this president is that it doesn't matter how much he complimented you on Tuesday if he needs to kill you on Wednesday he's gonna kill you on Wednesday that's one of the things we like about him right I'm not wrong about that he could love you on Tuesday and kill you on Wednesday I'm pretty sure Putin knows that because we know it how would he not know it so that's the dumbest comment is that Trump isn't doing anything it seems to me that the most he

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anything it seems to me that the most he could do the very most he could do is to say something in public and maybe he will be between now in the election it's kind of early to do it maybe it's not too early any time now he could say publicly look here's the deal Russia if you mess with our elections again there's gonna be a specific response and it's gonna be economic and you are not gonna like it at all now that might help but I also think Putin already knows that so even that message would be primarily aimed for domestic consumption it might make a little difference I might be happy if he did that but I don't know if it makes a big difference all right I continue to be fascinated changed in the topic by Glenn Greenwald's tweets about the old Russian collusion and Muller investigation as many of you know Glenn Greenwald who was

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many of you know Glenn Greenwald who was associated with the intercept has been saying since the beginning that this Muller investigation was going to be a big night and then when it became a big nothing and he was doing his victory laps which were also very interesting to watch and he's in the now he's criticizing the press and the Democrats for acting as though the model report said the opposite of what is said so I think glad is puzzled and maybe puzzled is the wrong word frustrated sounds like a better word with the fact that the we all waited for the facts the facts came up came out and nobody changed their opinion people just saw whatever they wanted to see independent of whatever was on the page of the of the Muller report so the Democrats are continuing to report as that was had completely opposite of what it says and now of

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opposite of what it says and now of course to be fair it could be that I'm the one who's hallucinating but we can tell for sure that nobody changed their mind because the report at least I've never heard of a single person that you have you seen even one person who said you know man I got all that wrong turns out there was just nothing there have you heard even what I mean literally one person a friend a co-worker a punted on TV even one person I have not who predicted that nobody would change their opinion me me somebody said Woodward I believe Woodward said from the beginning that when he wrote his book he found nothing nothing to worry about yeah I'll have to look up Bob Woodward but I think he never believed there was anything there and the Muller report would have would have confirmed what he already did so I predicted the most

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already did so I predicted the most unlikely think about how unlikely that was before I predicted it imagine if you will Oh Matt Taibbi could be could be yeah I'd have to look more about what he said in the beginning but I think he might be the one stand out there think he'll how unlikely my prediction was so thinking about first of all I predicted that Trump would win in 2015 very unlikely but to be fair to be fair a lot of people also predicted Trump would win so I wasn't alone I was sort of alone in describing it the way I did and and there weren't too many people who wanted to say it in public but there were other people so I wasn't alone in that but it was a it was a hard prediction but how much harder was it for me to predict that the Muller report would not change any opinions except maybe Matt Taibbi

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it that one that one was harder to predict wasn't it yeah yeah and I committed to it both all of my predictions I committed to so it's funny watching Glenn deal with this because you can see his I would say that even though I'm no fan of Glenn Greenwald like as a person I think he's kind of he can be kind of a and he and I have mixed it up on Twitter a little bit so when I complimented his work you should know that that's genuine because I don't like the person so much you know I just I don't have a positive feeling about the person but his work is really good can't take that away from secondly watching him as a free thinker you know and you can spot them the people who were actually seem to be following the the data watching him learned that the entire world completely ignored information that was critical

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ignored information that was critical information and watching him come to understand that that's the world he lives in it's kind of fascinating all right Jordan Peterson tweeted around and i retweeted it an article about how the world is greening so apparently the earth is substantially greener more trees more plants more bushes than it was ten years ago and it's being the attribution is that there's more land for agriculture and that the Chinese and and India especially were planting trees and they were actually doing this for the result they got they were trying to plant more stuff to work on pollution and climate change I guess - and all that so you can check my Twitter feed and you can see the details I just just tweeted it so it'd be near the top and

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oh I love this somebody said co2 is plant food because I was just going to talk about that all right so interestingly the report I just had about how the world is greening I read it quickly but I didn't see anywhere where they said co2 is contributing to the greening which seemed conspicuously missing isn't that the most obvious thing co2 good for plants the big story is there's too much co2 according to the scientists but even they would agree the plants should be growing more because of the co2 so it's weird that that was not in the story unless I just missed it it was just one sentence or something all right let me tell you the worst opinions about climate change and I'm going to say this because every time I mention climate change my Twitter feed is filled with the worst opinions now when I say the worst opinions I don't mean that they're on one side or the other so I'm not what I'm gonna say next has nothing

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not what I'm gonna say next has nothing to do about which side you're on or which side is right what I'm going to talk about as the worst opinions are the opinions that don't make make sense on any side they're just by themselves they don't make any sense all right one of them is warming is good and that whenever through history we've seen warming periods those warming periods were associated with great gains and civilization people ate better there was more wealth so warming is good how many of you have that opinion how many of you have the opinion about climate change specifically that warming is good and the warming that we will experience from climate change is also good because in the past it was good so look at them looking at the comments you see lots of disagrees but plenty of people saying yes now for those of you who are saying

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yes now for those of you who are saying yes does it bother you that you're seeing so many people saying that doesn't make any sense all right let me yeah lots of you saying warming is good let me tell you why and I don't know how to I don't know how to be polite about this those of you who are saying warming is good do you not have a concept of too much you know there's there are civilizations I don't know if this is true but you've heard that there were early civilizations who didn't have a concept of zero but it seems that there are lots of people in today's world who don't have a concept of too much later they don't know what that means or they can't they can't maybe they can't hold it in their mind let me explain this to you the more co2 you have the warmer it gets according to the scientists now if you're arguing

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the scientists now if you're arguing that co2 doesn't cause warming that's a separate argument but the the debate is that more co2 creates more warming do you actually believe there's no limit to how warm it could get and we'd still be happier let me put it in these words how many people believe there's no such thing as a limit to how warm it could get in other words all warming is better forever at any rate how many of you will commit to that I want you to see please give it to me in this in the statement that you believe that there's no amount of warming that will ever be bad and it will always be good to infinity anybody anybody you got really quiet there suddenly didn't you we because as soon as I say that all the people who said all warming is good you realized that there was a gigantic gaping hole in your thinking which is we're not talking about it going up a little bit and

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about it going up a little bit and stopping the whole point is that it won't stop that's the whole fricking point is that it's not gonna stop getting warmer until we're all dead all right now you could argue that the science isn't complete that we'll figure out ways to get those are all different arguments but if your entire argument about climate changes warmer is better you're not really part of the you're not part of the reasons conversation you should never say that again so all of you are hearing me now never say in public again warming is better it makes you look like an idiot to other people right I'm not saying that's my opinion other people reasonable people will look at you and say oh right what is wrong with you nobody's arguing that a little warming isn't good that's not even the conversation the argument is that if it

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conversation the argument is that if it keeps getting warmer there'll be a point when it's not good anymore you all agree with that stop saying warming is good all right here's the other one here's the other worst argument about climate change and again I'm not taking sides on what is true and not true about the science I'm just saying that no matter what side side you're on the following thing is the worst argument it goes like this co2 is plant food it's the same problem right yeah more co2 should be good for the plants we all agree with that scientists agree with that but more co2 if the theory holds creates more warming and the warming will kill you so if your entire argument about climate change is co2 is plant food co2 is plant food you're not part of the conversation you're saying something that other people smart people are looking at and

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people smart people are looking at and saying oh my god oh my god nobody's arguing the co2 isn't plant food you're simply stating a fact of no importance to the argument somebody's saying warming is better so
right some warming may in fact be better but that's not the debate so if you're saying co2 is plant food or warming has been good in the past you're saying things that smart people think are stupid because you're not even on the right topic but you could certainly argue that the science has issues you could certainly argue that we'll figure a way to take care of it there are lots of arguments to be had but please never say to me again on Twitter the warming is good forever at any level and the co2 is good no matter how much you have

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is good no matter how much you have because those are like not having a concept of zero or not having a concept of too much there are people signing off because they're so mad that that they realize their thinking doesn't work all right here's here's the other one that you should stop saying because it's just the worst argument stop saying there used to be more co2 in the past the reason you should stop saying that is B in the argument is well there was way more co2 in the past than there is even now so clearly co2 can hurt you that is just an uninformed argument there was more co2 in the past but scientists have a very good understanding of why the other variables were different in the past such as the Sun was not as bright or there was a different amount of ozone there was a different amount of other chemicals in the atmosphere which we

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chemicals in the atmosphere which we know or there was more volcanic activity depending on what you're looking at so it is true that you could have lots of co2 in the past without any getting too warm because the other variables were different so stop saying there was more co2 in the past if you're trying to argue climate change because everybody who understands a little bit about climate change labels you a when you say that because that is the most debunked sceptical argument all right here's another one you shouldn't say yeah now I'll just say I disagree with this one if you believe that you saw in the Climategate emails a smoking gun you have to explain why I've looked at the same emails and it's obvious there is no smoking gun so if you can't explain that and by the way I'm not I'm right on the fence on climate change because I can't I can't really evaluate science

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I can't really evaluate science especially a science I'm not involved with so I'm not trying to sell you my side because I don't have a side just keep that in mind so why is it that the guy who doesn't have a side and is a professional writer and literally an expert and knowing what words mean in context why is it that when I look at those Climategate emails I see absolutely nothing because the words to me are just casual talk among people who know what they're mean they're saying now obvio intent intended to be consistent with the thing they think is true which is the climate is warming there is intent to explain away things that they can't explain but there's no intent to a great conspiracy to hide the facts that's just not there all right let's change the topic Daily Beast is reporting that some twelve thousand Boy Scouts were victims of sexual abuse

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Scouts were victims of sexual abuse twelve thousand twelve thousand Boy Scouts victims of sexual abuse that's the ones we know of what is the multiplier of ones we know of two ones we don't know of four is it fifty thousand fifty thousand people kids who have been sexually abused let me tell you my experience when I was a kid I was a scout for a little while there was a guy in my town who always volunteered to work with young boys on sports teams you know Little League and stuff and I always thought to myself that's weird he's not he's not a parent he's just a guy who volunteers to work with kids all time he loves kids he also was a Boy Scout leader again didn't have a kid in Boy Scouts he just

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didn't have a kid in Boy Scouts he just liked to join all these organizations to help out wherever there were young boys now I'm not gonna make any accusation about this particular guy but I will make the following claim any time you've got a situation where you have collections of young people and the people leading them or volunteers or at least they can volunteer for the job and try to get that job you're always going to have massive sexual abuse because who in the world wants those jobs more than a pedophile the pedophile is going to be the most motivated the one who will take the lowest paid to do the job the one who will suffer the worst conditions to do the job you should expect that over time and I hope this isn't too much of an exaggeration if you were to fast forward and nothing changed about the Boy Scouts I'm not saying this is the case at the moment but if you simple if you simply extend out the current forces

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you simply extend out the current forces and variables you should get to a point where a hundred percent of the Boy Scout leaders are pedophiles right because the pedophile will put up with more trouble will go to greater lengths will work for less money because they're getting paid off a different way unfortunately so if you wait long enough the entire Catholic Church should be pedophiles and the entire scouting organization should be penalized in the same way that I assume that most shoe sales people who work with women are probably guys with foot fetishes because they would work for less and they would try harder and they were more effort into getting those jobs over time incentives are always predictive incentives are always predictive you've created a situation with with the scouts and with the Catholic Church that pretty

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and with the Catholic Church that pretty much guarantees it attracts a certain type of person because they would have the greatest incentive and nothing stops that it's hard to find any example where incentives that are that strong and that clear don't drive behavior I mean that would you should expect it alright that is pretty much what's going on I'm going to get one other topic that everybody hates me for because I thought of a better way to explain it I've been arguing about transgenders being allowed to play sports in the in the gender that they they have ended up in and I note there pretty much everybody who argues against me first assigned to me an incorrect opinion and then get really mad about the incorrect

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then get really mad about the incorrect opinion so I thought it must be the way I'm explaining it that is making people hear it differently than I'm thinking it so I'm going to try to give you the the best explanation I can that would make me the most immune from somebody misidentifying my point here's my point all sports currently are a giant pile of crap and by that I mean their sports they work to deify the people who are good at sports who were just born lucky with a good genetic combination and maybe the right you family situation so that they can excel sports and deify people who just by luck were born with the right stuff that is all of the other people don't get to be good athletes and they get to learn that they are inferior to those few people who

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are inferior to those few people who were born with these special skills I'm somewhere you know in the middle of that heap I was not born with special athletic skills but I'm way above average in terms of athletic ability still most of what I experience is losing if I if I run it in a tournament with lots of teams my team probably won't win if I join a team I'm probably not going to be the best one on it I might not even get to play am I sitting on the bench if you've been experienced watching sports especially school sports it's mostly about humiliating people who are bad at sports there's nothing fair about sports they're designed to be unfair by their design by their intention they're mostly about creating big categories of losers where there would have been none before I'll say

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would have been none before I'll say that again sports creates losers where there would not have been any losers and and far and away mostly losers we we tend to deify and celebrate the winners but is is winning a sports important it's not sports are are really just some weird thing we play out because it feels good but sports alright so here's my point sports are this big unfair cruel pile of that's the current situation if you were to add on top of that a little extra unfairness it is like adding on top of so if you tell me that adding to makes the original worse I say you can't really make worse by on it so when you say to me that adding transgenders

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say to me that adding transgenders ruined sports I say well it does it does introduce a new set of unfairness but it's a new unfairness on top of a completely unfair thing this designed to be completely unfair some people just have advantages it's probably not you so my only argument is that adding - doesn't change the original if you're starting with the point of view that sports are clean and fair and wonderful and you're adding a little taint to them by this little bit of unfairness that you perceive in transgenders well then I would say you're welcome to that argument but my argument is not that we're starting out with a good situation and adding an imperfection I say we're starting with a huge pile of unfair humiliating and we're adding a little more humiliating on top of it it's still just a pile of when you're done so I

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pile of when you're done so I say that the social benefit of treating everybody equally there's a greater gain than adding some to some that which is irrelevant all right
Seinfeld did it better once you're wet you're wet well by that analogy and somebody says but it's only unfair to women again it's already completely unfair and adding a little more doesn't change the original so so your argument is that sports don't matter so who cares I didn't say they don't matter have you noticed one of the ways you can tell that an argument is solid is that the people arguing against you have to create an imaginary argument - to be

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create an imaginary argument - to be angry about and you're going to see that in the comments I'll pick one out here or somebody pick somebody said who hurt me
buh-buh-buh poem you are hypocritical about what you are unfairly talented at creating comic strips that's correct totally unfair oh let's talk about Kim traveling to Russia this could be a good thing could be a bad thing there's no way to know but chairman Kim is visiting with Putin I guess that's happening today or something like that and I've got a feeling this could be good because the thing that Kim wants more than anything else is security and if Kim gets a guarantee of security from three

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guarantee of security from three countries Russia China and the US he might be able to to convert his nuclear program into you know just an energy program so this is probably an important step now the the cynic would say he's just trying to get Putin on his side so he doesn't have to give up any nukes and maybe could be but I would think that Russia China and the United States would all agree on the following point that if those three countries can guarantee the let's say the safety of North Korea that that's a pretty good argument for you don't need your nukes anymore but you need all three to be on the same side and to keep each other keep each other in line you know maybe there's some way that we the three can guarantee it with some kind of sanctions against each other if they don't or something I don't know there may be some way to guarantee

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know there may be some way to guarantee all right watch the recording you literally just said the sports don't matter well let me clarify that sports are not what's the best way I said they they matter to people because people say they matter so that's just a observable fact people act as those sports matter so in their minds they do matter so it is also true that if if you don't play sports you can still have a good life right there are plenty of people who don't participate in any sports and they don't really miss it they don't so I think you could say that if you could snap your fingers and nobody couldn't remember this sports even existed it wouldn't matter you just wouldn't care you wouldn't even notice it was gone so in the sense of what does a human being need in life etc probably doesn't matter but we do treat it as though it matters

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but we do treat it as though it matters so that's that's the clarification
losing also motivates people to be better sure and that's a good reason to add transgender athletes because if you have a transgender athlete then everybody gets the character-building experience of losing instead of just a few people you get a few more people losing so they get even better character right right because that's our that's our clever workaround for the fact that sports are a giant humiliation engine it's really about humiliating the people who are not going to sports that's mostly what happens for every few people who it definitely helps their life it definitely does help their life there are some people who are absolutely better off from sports and a lot more people who are just humiliated by learning how unqualified they are for sports all right oh let me ask this

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sports all right oh let me ask this question directly one of the things I get all the time on a number of topics is that when people don't agree with me they say they imagine I have motives that are not obvious meaning they imagine that what I'm really doing is just trolling and that it's not right real opinion I just want to get the clicks up etc I don't know I don't know if I've ever done that it's not something I'm doing now and certainly you know that no time in my periscope life have I ever claimed to hold a position that I didn't really claim I just sort of don't do that I mean it wouldn't be interesting I don't know why I'd do it feels like it'd be a bad risk reward so just don't think about that if I tell you my real opinion it's my real opinion I've got the fu money I don't need to mess around I couldn't gain enough you know attention or I don't know how I would

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attention or I don't know how I would gain enough by pretending to have an opinion I didn't have so I don't do it and then other people are saying well he's he's just gonna say this crazy thing and then he's gonna you know he's gonna twist it around at the end he's got some agenda not really my agenda is the the same theme I always have which is that we are irrational creatures and most of our perceptions and our opinions and our decisions are irrational and so when I point out points of irrationality sometimes it's about other people sometimes it's about you and when it's about you you think well that can't be true you must be just saying this for a fact but what I say about other people he's saying oh yeah he's nailing it Scott is so on this talking about that other person but when he talks about me I'm sure he's just kidding he can't

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I'm sure he's just kidding he can't really mean that could he so he says guests lighting is beautiful gas lighting is not a thing it's not a thing if you think somebody's gas lighting you it means you're experiencing cognitive distance maybe not every time but that's the most likely explanation if you think that somebody is intentionally trying to make you insane to doubt your doubt your belief in reality well maybe there's somebody who has done that somewhere but no that's not a thing there are just people who are lying there are people persuading they're people who are wrong you know there are all kinds of things but there is no gas lighting if you imagine that there is you were experience a cognitive problem yeah the the reason that people let me be as clear as possible cognitive dissonance

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clear as possible cognitive dissonance can be identified by people coming up with weird explanations of things so if I say here's my here's my reason why I think something's true and it doesn't ring true you say no no you got it wrong here's my reasons why it's wrong so there's no cognitive dissonance in that you just hear some information you have a different opinion you disagree but if I nail it or somebody else does and they say something that it just looks true but you don't want it to be what do you do what does your brain do when you're presented with a truth that you really really don't want to be true because it would ruin your entire worldview you come up with a strange explanation for how this incongruity could exist and the one you see the most is well they must be gaslighting me so anybody who says that gas lighting is happening almost

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that gas lighting is happening almost certainly is experiencing cognitive dissonance about something and they're and they're presenting it because they have this weird opinion that doesn't make any sense doesn't doesn't shed any facts isn't gas lighting just a negative term for persuasion no it's more than that because gas lighting is comes from a Hitchcock movie and the idea of it was that you would make somebody think they were actually crazy make them actually doubt their ability to understand the world it's not just persuading them of something new persuasion is you know down here and gas lighting would be like this persuasion first of all could be completely ethical ordinary persuasion is ethical if you you know if you're an ethical person gas lighting is by definition and

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person gas lighting is by definition and unethical horrible thing and nobody's doing it alright that's all for now gonna talk to you later bye for now