Episode 619 Scott Adams: Early Sipping

Date: 2019-08-05 | Duration: 6:02

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Thoughts on recent events

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[Music] hey everybody I'm coming to you early because I gotta hit the road today but I didn't want you to miss the simultaneous sip no you don't want to miss that the news is gonna be just full of the usual bad news aftermath of the big shootings and I feel like talking about that doesn't help us a lot we will anyway but first grab but mugger a classic up starting the chalice but taker could be the thermos or a flask could be a vessel of any type filled with your favorite lip and I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the early simultaneous set that's good stuff yeah I got up early 4:30 this morning I've got to do a little traveling I just didn't want to leave you hanging in case you were sitting

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you hanging in case you were sitting there at the appointed time waiting for your sip and then it didn't come how sad would you be so let's just talk for a moment about assigning blame for these shootings first thing I'd say is that if you see anybody giving you one reason for why there are all these shootings that person has no credibility so if you see somebody say it's because Donald Trump or it's because no fathers or it's because guns or it's because white supremacist whatever it's because if there's only one thing that follows because you're not talking to a credible person you're talking to somebody who has a political agenda and that's it you could just stop listening after that so here's here's my advice if you hear the shooting happened because followed by one reason doesn't matter what the reason is ignore everything that that

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reason is ignore everything that that person says after that because that's not a credible person we have no idea how to stop any of this stuff if we did we would have done it by now and but one of the things that we're going to grapple with in the aftermath is stuff is what is what exactly is the risk from radical white supremacist I'm trying to get my wrap my arms around that and I don't really have an answer to you because the trouble is that other types of risks have the potential to take big numbers quickly whereas the way supremacist as awful as it is they seem to be I hate to say smaller if dozens people are dying but in terms of comparing it to 9/11 for example it's smaller so I don't know how you could add that up because the risk is what happens in the future the risk is not what happened in the past and the future is unknowable so we don't know if

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is unknowable so we don't know if there's going to be more of it or less of it or it'll trickle along like it is and the triple will get stronger until they're 2 per day we don't know but the other thing is they're not all going to be motivated by the same thing now how many of you have had a chance to see the el paso shooters manifesto I'm wondering how widely that's getting out there I know some people are finding it and I've seen it or I think I've seen it meaning that you can't be sure of anything these days so a lot of you have seen it ok now it was sort of hard to figure out what the he was up to because on one hand he had a high IQ you could tell by the writing on the other hand it didn't quite hold together his in his thesis so you don't know exactly what he was up to but what I got out of it and see if you agree is that while he had some like

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agree is that while he had some like racial opinions he seemed to be motivated primarily by having fewer Democrats is that how you read it it didn't look like it was racial in terms of why he was shooting people the reason he was shooting people according to the manifesto remember it's a crazy person so we don't know why any crazy person does anything but according to the manifesto he just wanted to make sure that the Democrats didn't get a voting majority and take over and let's say Texas as as a democratic country and that immigration would do that yeah that doesn't make you less evil for those of you who were pointed that out yeah I wasn't I wasn't defending him I know there's somebody who's gonna say are you defending that guy no just reading his manifesto we have there's no defense but he was weirdly

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there's no defense but he was weirdly non so he had a racial view of the world but he didn't go out he didn't directly say there's something wrong with anybody else it was more like he said that there exists other people and it's hard for them to get along which is you know I think what anybody would say so I think people are gonna jump to judge him as a white supremacist but when I read the manifesto wasn't that obvious maybe he was and maybe we'll find out that you know that the sun'll hints are exactly what we think all right like my car is here so I'm gonna have to bail out early but I will talk to you all tomorrow bye for now