Episode 1038 Scott Adams: I Reclaim my Freedom of Speech Today. Sorry About You Losing Yours

Date: 2020-06-25 | Duration: 1:09:27

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• Biden suggested BS Logan Act against General Flynn
• What did Obama mean by put “right people” on it?
• “White Privilege” is a racist term
• Hawk Newsome’s skillful phrasing
• Coronavirus and President Trump rallies

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[Music] hey everybody guess what a lot of people asked me Scott won will you do the best periscope you will ever do when does that happen today it's today yeah the best periscope I'll ever do it's today and before we start is there something we do before we get to the good part yeah yeah there is it's called the simultaneous sip and look at me I'm back I've got my notes I can do it right all you need is a copper of our glass a tankard chelators died in a canteen trigger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoy me now for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better

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including racism including the pandemic pretty much everything it's called the simultaneous effort that happens to help go well allow me to make your day a little bit better it goes like this
many of you have contacted me privately in many cases and said some version of this Scott I'm afraid the world is or at least the United States is coming apart a revolution is coming the Marxists are gaining power there is a racial strife and everything's bad and we're all going to die some version of that and I would like to give you some active based on the fact that I am old yeah you would think there would be not that many benefits of being old why would you be wrong yeah I gotta tell you

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would you be wrong yeah I gotta tell you the most surprising thing about becoming my age I'm 63 now the most surprising thing is that while there are obvious disadvantages and everybody would know what those are physical etc there are way more advantages than you would ever imagine ahead of time alright you just couldn't imagine and one of them is that I've been through this before a lot of times this this thing that looks like it's the end of the world I've seen this a lot but if you're younger you haven't or if you just hadn't been paying attention to the news until now you haven't now why does it seem worse this time and why does it seem so much worse it's because the media changed its business model from telling you the facts to getting you worked up and getting you worried so you are part of a system

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worried so you are part of a system social media plus the news business which absolutely and there's no exaggeration here nothing I say should even be slightly hyperbolic these are facts that are established the left agree is the right agrees every researcher everything I'm going to say is 100% agreed by everybody right there will be no facts which you say well Scott I'm questioning that part of your assumption you won't the next thing I say you'll agree with completely the business model of social media and of the news is different than it used to be and it's different in the sense that they are intentionally they're intentionally promoting content that gets you worked up so here's the first thing you need to know if you can just for a moment do this exercise this is a real thing you imagine yourself in your body right wherever you are you are yourself right

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wherever you are you are yourself right you are yourself and how you feel and just feel that like look around and say alright this is me I'm in my body in the world now do this take your imagination and rise out of your body and and and literally float above it and just in your mind's eye see yourself getting smaller and smaller as you get higher and higher and away from the earth and now that you've got some distance in your mind's eye you're like a satellite looking down on the earth and it's just this big ball of nonsense and now with a little bit of distance ask yourself this do you think that your opinions about the news are objective or do you think that you have been manipulated by the highest level of science we've ever applied to manipulating the human mind that's what social media is and it's what the news business becomes by testing and then retesting until they

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testing and then retesting until they know what works and what doesn't from the perspective of space you can look down and you can see yourself and now you can see yourself as part of that system and as you see yourself from above objectively now looking at yourself you can see all the the forces attacking you every time you turn on Twitter and look at Facebook turn on the news and you can see all those forces now they're almost physical you can almost see a line from those entities to you and these lines are affecting you they have to you're affected by everything you're affected by bad news good news events successes failures you know you're affected by all of it and now the most effective scientifically honed precise technology is being directed right at your brain and you can see the lines these lines of influence now in your imagination they're physical

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now in your imagination they're physical now it's not just a thought is not invisible now now you can see it you see yourself you're small you see the lines coming in from all the forces they're the ones that are programming you there's something I've been saying for a while then you've heard and you understood but you didn't really understand it until I took you to space and you got to look down and you can actually see the lines of influence now and here's the thing that you didn't understand before your opinions are assigned to you your opinions are not your own thoughts your opinions on the big stuff that the political stuff your opinions are assigned to you that wasn't always the case before when the forces of manipulation were weak we did not have the science to know how to do it so

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have the science to know how to do it so perfectly and so strongly you had a little bit of freedom because you were not being controlled by external forces as so much of course you always had illegitimate media throughout history but it wasn't that big of force maybe you didn't even think about these things too much so here's what you need to know there there are real problems in the world but have always been there real problems in the world now as enormous as you think they are are actually quite small by historical perspective as big as this as protests across the country coronavirus the economy these are real problems absolutely 100% real problems that are really just this big there were some of the smallest problems in the history of humankind you are experiencing the best of times that the media has told you are

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of times that the media has told you are the worst now when I say the best times I don't mean the the current few months which are difficult by any standards the other there was a real problems but they're not real problems that are real big compared to what the civilization has handled in the past imagine if you will the sixties and young people you know who were a gigantic part of the population said revolution I grew up in a time of revolution when I was young we wanted to not we not me so much but young people wanted to overthrow the government and you had Nixon who was a criminal you've had Kennedy who was assassinated maybe by the Mafia you don't really know there's never been a time in our history you know if you include the civil rights marches all the violence that came with that these are way bigger problems way bigger problems and the way you can test

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bigger problems and the way you can test this for yourself is is look at the way people are talking about them they're not talking about solutions so much no they're talking about it in political terms that's how you know if these are not real problems in the way that they're being presented their real problems in the sense that there are problems and then they should be solved you know police brutality etc real problems do need to be solved but they're not nearly as big as you think they are and by historical perspectives kind of easy kind of easy if I were to let's say go to another planet meet another civilization and they would say hey tell us about your problems there on earth but give us sort of a historical context and say well you know you got your you got your mass starvation throughout history and the wars and the the the nuclear bombs falling on people

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the the nuclear bombs falling on people world war one world war two and then the alien would say all right all right you're scaring me those those are really some big problems you say are you kidding I haven't gotten started we got the Korean War then we went to Vietnam for no good reason we went to Iraq killed a million people for reasons we don't know and the alien says man you're getting me depressed fast forward to the future like is it still that bad this is still that bad and now of course you've been hypnotized back on earth so here's how you answer is it that bad are you kidding me in 2020 is so bad people are destroying statues and the alien says I'm a little confused now because you were telling me about world wars and nuclear bombs and and now you're talking about a statue of being two-faced not really the same now I know that some of you are saying Scott Scott Scott how naive are you do you not know that this

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naive are you do you not know that this is a clever plan by the Marxist the Marxists are controlling black lives matter the Marxists are controlling antiphon and what they're doing you think it's just some statue stuff oh god Scott Scott what you don't realize is this is step one a necessary plan it's all been scripted and planned and it goes like this first we will suppress your free speech then we will get rid of all your symbols that make you what you think you were and once we've dismantled all of your symbolism and your hope and your free speech then we move to the next level of control maybe maybe when was the last time something that sounded like that really happened when was the last time anything that sounded even vaguely like that you know I'm talking about right just sort of vaguely sort of like that when does that ever really play though

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when does that ever really play though how about never how about never are you worried about gun confiscation we just sold the most guns that have ever been sold in the history of humankind in the last three months do you know what the biggest conversation among civilians who don't have guns is when they're gonna get their gun I don't know anybody who doesn't have a gun who in the last three months didn't say I'm gonna get a gun nobody I haven't heard a single person who was gun less who didn't say I'm gonna get me a gun now no I'm getting a gun all right so we are very bad at predicting where things are going to go but the the big point is things are not nearly as bad as you think here's a little red pill for you I tweeted the only reason we don't treat social media as a national mental health

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social media as a national mental health crisis you would agree right social media has created a national mental health crisis is that statement even a little bit controversial it's not is it wouldn't you say that science pretty much backed set up a hundred percent I don't even think there's any dissent I doubt anybody on the left or anybody on the right anybody educated anybody an uneducated would disagree with this statement social media is a national mental health crisis but why don't we treat it that way do you know why we don't treat it that way because the things we think are important and the way we think about them is controlled by social media social media tells you not to worry about social media destroying your mental health now I don't say that that they don't tell you that what they do is either consciously or

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do is either consciously or unconsciously it's the effect of the system is that it's not the biggest issue we're talking about somebody says German in 1930s Germany 1930s had so many differences that that analogy is rejected and by the way if you have to go to the if you have to go to the Hitler analogy to debunk my point you've already lost that rule that rule is a hundred percent solid if your only argument is a Nazi analogy you have self-immolated you've lost your argument before you started all right I was asked on Twitter today to comment on Joe Biden's decency theme so I guess Joe Biden is sort of branding

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so I guess Joe Biden is sort of branding his campaign as one based on decency in words of that type and here's my take on that nobody wants decency decency is the sort of thing you say in public it's not anything you care about if you poke me you put a microphone in my face and you put a camera on me and say Scott you could be on national television tell us some things you think are important I'll look right in the camera and I'll say I think we need to restore decency in America and then you turn the camera off and I go home and Christina says you know I've never heard you talk about decency before is that is that like one of your top priorities and I'll say no I haven't thought about that once in my entire life not once if I woke it up and say you know decency would be

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up and say you know decency would be good somebody's using Hong Kong as an example of you know the slippery slope nope Hong Kong was doomed on the day that they signed their original agreement with Great Britain to be Hong Kong because the the agreement itself said that it would return to China Hong Kong never had a chance there's nothing like Hong Kong Hong Kong had no chance of permanently being independent because of the geography and power there wasn't anything that could have stopped that from happening and while we can we can not like it we also can't stop it so I'd say that Joe Biden's decency angle doesn't hit any emotional lever and so it's it's just sort of dead on arrival it's the sort of thing you'd say if you just don't want to cause any trouble Joe say something that just it's easy to

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Joe say something that just it's easy to understand and and people will not mock you for it too much because it's just sort of basic but it won't get anybody excited in any way whatsoever what would that be well Americans could return to decency Yeah right that that's as close to nothing as as a an opinion could be and if Joe Biden is serious about returning to decency you would think he would be speaking out a little bit more about destruction of public property looting and violence in general but I don't hear that I don't hear I don't hear him being against decency unless it's directed of course as political rival speaking of Joe Biden there's a there was a little news item did you catch it this little small news item yesterday that apparently the smoking gun has been found that he is one of the key

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found that he is one of the key architects of a coup against the legally elected president of the United States President Trump oh yeah that's a little bit of news now any news like this is subject to re-evaluation and find again it's all wrong 48 hours later so I remind you of that but at the moment it seems that a Peters Rock memo
suggests that Biden was the first one to float the idea of using the Logan act against wrongly accused general Flynn now it's in the note now does that mean it's true well you can't know that the note accurately accurately represented the actual meeting so there's always that uncertainty but you're gonna believe it I mean if it's on the note you're gonna treat it like it was true

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you're gonna treat it like it was true and given that we all understand the Logan Act is spirit by the way I would like to introduce a term today there there are lots of excuses for things and rationales for things that you might call but the Logan act as a means of getting at general Flynn might be the iasts thing that anybody ever came up with in the world there's and then there's and then there's whatever would be the eeeh sting anybody could ever think of or do and it would be using the thoroughly unconstitutional has it been tested but it's clearly unconstitutional Logan Act the idea that an American citizen especially one who's who's in the incoming administration can't have a

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the incoming administration can't have a conversation with a member of another country so whoever came up with the idea of the Logan act as their that as their way out to Flynn is clearly the the person who kicked off the coup when you say I would say that Biden has been identified now as the co-conspirator with Obama of the coop now will that ever be American history let me ask you this who writes history well you think history is written by the winners then that's true in a in a national sense you know if a country beats another country in war then the winning country gets to write the history but what about a history that's disputed within the country it's the it has nothing to do with another country do you think history will show that based on stocks note that we could determine that Obama

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note that we could determine that Obama and Biden conspired to use a transparently bogus bullshit' deist excuse the Logan Act which by the way there's nobody who thinks that's real thing in terms of something that you should be or could be you know something that somebody would go to jail for and if it's true and this is also in the handwritten Oh from struck that Obama said make sure you use the right people what's that mean what's it mean when the president says to a subordinate make sure you use the right people because if he meant use your best people seems like you would have said that can't read his mind I you know were were deeply involved in mind reading here because it's necessarily important because the intentions of the people are the whole story if you don't understand their

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story if you don't understand their intentions then you don't understand what happened because things either accidentally happened or it was a coup against the United States elected president those are big differences but I can't my brain cannot conceive of why you would use the phrase use the right people when what you meant was use your best people do you have to say right people if you mean you should use your a team use your best people doesn't really seem like a phrase you'd use does it now again can't read his mind can't read his mind but the way this will be received is that we have the smoking gun it seems now completely clear that Obama and Biden used the power of the government to try to take out a political rival and in this context of taking him out would be literally a coup against the United States now based on what we know today and again this could change tomorrow

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and again this could change tomorrow right could change tomorrow tomorrow we might find out Oh he writes notes and he makes stuff up you know maybe we find another Strock note that is so clearly fake that it makes this one look less credible anything can happen right so every conclusion is preliminary in today's world and then it's also revealed that Comey thought the call with his lyac Flynn's call with his lyac was fine so given these three data points by then suggesting the Logan Act Comey saying that the phone call was fine in other words no no obviously no crime and Obama saying use the right people instead of use highly qualified people or the 18 were the best team I would say that if you wrote the history of the United States it should say that the obama-biden administration committed is essentially an act of treason under the under the cover of law so I would call

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under the cover of law so I would call it an act of treason but under the cover of loss of not technically not technically or as treason the right word whatever it is when you overthrow the country your own country but let me ask you this do you think the history books will record that because I think that's the truth and let's say it gets confirmed that everything we've heard is actually what happened the history books will never write that that will never be your history and you can watch it you can watch it in real time because you're alive now how long will it take for the history of this period to be written it's sort of being written as you're alive so you get to watch the history books being written now just to be clear there will certainly be published books that make the same statements that I just made but there will be books that don't make that statement or say it's BS

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don't make that statement or say it's BS or hyperbole but what will we teach in schools yeah what will what will high school kids learn what will college students learn will they learn what I just told you nope not even a slight chance in my opinion that they will learn it alright let's talk about Bubba Wallace who in my opinion it gets cooler every day so I have a very positive opinion about Bubba Wallace only limited to the few things I know about him so I don't I don't like to endorse anybody's complete anything because you know god knows what he'll be you know what else he's ever done in his life who knows if I like that or not but we know he's very successful athlete we know he's very charismatic and we know that he was fooled essentially because somebody very credible told him this noose was hanging there and he believed it believing people who are

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believed it believing people who are credible is not really a big mistake it was a big impact but as mistakes go uh-huh I mean that's such a small mistake I'm not even sure you'd call it a mistake really but here's his statement and I told you before he issued his statement about this I told you what form it should take to be perfect and I think he hid it so his actual statement is about as perfect as you can as you can play this and it's it's almost identical to what I said should be the form now I don't think that anybody listened to me and therefore that's why they did it this is a fairly standard thing that a good PR a good PR agency would guide you to this but it's especially well done so here's the statement let me tell you what's good about it so he starts off by saying it's been an emotional a few days now so first of all he's pacing you because it was sort of an emotional few days you've

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was sort of an emotional few days you've been feeling it right when you heard it maybe you got a little emotional so he's pacing you yeah he's emotional too you're emotional good form so he's pacing the audience then he says first off first off first off all right he says first off so he's signaling here's the important part I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that this wasn't what we feared it was he wrote I want to thank my team NASCAR danny FBI for active and swiftly and treating this as a real threat so see what he did he emphasized that the important thing is how people responded because it was so well intentioned and really perfect it you know I'd have to compliment NASCAR so even though NASCAR you know you could say made a mistake and you'd be right because it's obviously a mistake but they kind of still came out

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mistake but they kind of still came out looking pretty good meaning that NASCAR I thought presented themselves to the world in a very positive way but by backing one of their people now you know you could argue that they're you know it's they're being politically correct etc but it didn't really play that way it it played more like sincere people who actually care about this and they care about their teammates they care about their sport and actually felt what they did so I think it was all sincere alright so here so then he goes on and here's the magic part of this Wallace says I think we'll gladly take a little embarrassment see how he framed it he framed his role in it perfectly perfectly he did not he did not say I mean basically he's just saying here's how to frame me frame me

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saying here's how to frame me frame me as you know silly basically he said I think I will gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been ah that's so good that's so good because because he frames that as these two choices a little embarrassment or it could have been this bad thing now there is a third choice right a third choice is he made some kind of a boneheaded mistake but the way he framed it was a little embarrassment that's really good really good communication really good persuasion whoever whoever advised him and this is obviously the work of professionals that you know as smart as wallace appears to be because he looks it looks like a smart guy just based on his interviews he can't come up with this all right the this is not something that an athlete comes up with unless they

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unless they you know really had some background in this this is professional work and it's done well and then he says make no mistake though some will try this should not detract from the show of unity we had in Monday and the progress we've made as a sport to be more welcoming environment for all yes perfectly done congratulations to Bubba Wallace my guesses say his despite this I think that his reputation and brand will come out ahead just because the way he handled it all right apparently general Flynn can flute can sue the Department of Justice because his property if his prosecution is continuing to be shown in bad faith and it looks like the recent ruling by the appeals court demonstrates that the prosecution was in bad faith like there there's enough objective evidence they can actually sue the Department of Justice to get his six

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Department of Justice to get his six plus million dollars back how much do you want him to do that a lot some of you do all right
let's talk about kung flu so the the latest little anti Trump media is to try to make come flu sound like a super racist thing and of course to make it sound racist you would have to leave out the following obvious fact which I feel I can speak to as a white person so as your as your let's say a spokesperson for all white people I just appointed myself you don't have to like it but here's what you need to know I have never met a white person who thought come from foo the actual sport of Kung Fu was anything but kind of Awesome have you is ready is there any

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Awesome have you is ready is there any white person who thinks that the actual practice of kungfu is anything but kind of Awesome that's it
it it's just a positive thing like karate right does anybody have a bad opinion of karate no how about judo jujitsu do you have any negative feelings about them no not at all so what I hear kung fu' I just have a positive thought about it and the fact that it's associated with its you know its origins and its creation is in Asian countries does that make me think less of a country in fact I don't know where it came from to China and then kung-fu or do I even have the wrong country probably that would be typical of me I'm not informed on my kung-fu but given that kung-fu is considered nothing by positive literally you couldn't find a negative opinion about comfo and this associated with a certain part of the world its origin doesn't that also make

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world its origin doesn't that also make that kind of a positive thing for where I come from came from so you can try to turn that into a racist thing but at the very least kung fu would have to be a bad thing to be racist otherwise it's just a it's a provocative way to call attention as the President does to the origin of it so as I pinned my tweet today I've decided to reclaim free speech now as you've noticed freedom of speech has been narrowed and narrowed by what other people are telling you is polite or appropriate to say and there have always been words that you wanted to stay away from for example the n-word I personally find that word offensive and so I don't even like I don't even know how I could get it out of my mouth it's like it's it's the the worst of all words in the entire English language I think I could say this safely it's

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think I could say this safely it's literally the worst word in the English language so if you look if you let's say roll back the tape to a few years ago and you say Scott do you find yourself oppressed because white people can't use the n-word and I would say no no is that a big ask is that is that like really inconveniencing you that you can't use the worst word in the whole freaking language the most insulting demeaning worst word ever no it's no big deal now does that reduce my freedom of speech yes yes you know in a practical sense not in a government legal sense but in a practical sense that word and your freedom to use it in polite society is effectively removed but you don't really miss it right you don't really miss it so who doesn't bother you but then more and more things get added and

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then more and more things get added and and the realm of things you can talk about shrinks and shrinks and shrinks and at some point you have to say to yourself okay that's far enough you know because remember I always tell you that the slippery slope isn't real because eventually there will be a counter force that pops up here it is so I'm one small example of the counter force so here's something I tweeted today which I'm not allowed to say and that's why I pinned it because I'm gonna reclaim that space now I'm not gonna push all the way back to I need to say the n-word there's no other word that can work for me now I'm not going to be a jerk I haven't I've no interest of defending people whatsoever I there's nothing I don't get anybody advantage from that why would I do it so without wanting to offend anybody and wanting to be helpful which I always am I tweeted this white privilege is a

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I tweeted this white privilege is a racist term in my opinion anyone who uses it as either a racist an idiot or an but rich privilege is the thing you know obviously rich people have privilege so so that's my statement now I would say that maybe a week ago I would have been canceled for saying this and I think only one troll has come after me so far i swatted him down but to me personally the term white privilege and I think a lot of you would have the same effect is nothing but racist because what it does is that basically a throw is poor white people under the boss now I'm not a poor white person not anymore I used to be I used to be a poor white person but I also had an education so you know I wasn't disadvantaged I had a way I had a way to get money so just being clear about that

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get money so just being clear about that so certainly being educated as an advantage being tall as an advantage good looking healthy healthy is an advantage where you're born who your parents are not being a drug addict not having mental health problems we have a world full of advantages if you're going to pull out my if you're going to pull out one of them and say oh this is the special one that's the bad one you know you can't have that special advantage even if you imagine exists so let me let me be as clear as possible white privilege is not imaginary but everybody has a little bit of privilege for different things there is also black privilege what would be an example of black privilege well freedom of speech black people have freedom of speech in a way that white people simply don't nobody even you know there's I don't think there's even a black person who would disagree with that statement it is objectively clear that black people have more for you to a

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that black people have more for you to a speech so every you know and I don't find myself complaining about it too much like it's it's just something you notice but it doesn't really affect your life too much they go yeah there are a few things you could say that I couldn't say how much does that affect my life not at all no no it's no big deal so do I care that told people get paid more because that's established beyond any doubt do I care yeah yeah I care because that's an advantage I don't have I wish I did how about handsome people strong people healthy people people whose parents were awesome you know there's a million kinds of advantages picking out this one privilege or one advantage that your being white doesn't matter if it's true or false it is just racist right it is racist to to talk about white privilege in exactly the way it's racist to talk

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in exactly the way it's racist to talk about a high crime rate in the black community why do white people cross the road if they say if they see let's say ten black youths let's say twenty something's coming the other direction and you don't know what their deal is does that raises every group has their own privilege and let's just acknowledge it why not just say there's lots of privileges find your find your advantage and talk about that so I no longer acknowledge the category of black problems they're just problems and by the way Ed Latimer I think he he pushed me over the edge on this do you all do you all know add ed Latimer on Twitter so he's african-american but he he doesn't buy into that let's say he's not drinking all the kool-aid so when you

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drinking all the kool-aid so when you see his advice and that's mostly what is his Twitter feed is about sort of blunt truth advice from his perspective first of all his advice is typically brilliant some of the best most most usable functional way to frame your reality that you'll ever say so it's really important and and he he tweeted the other day I don't have the exact tweet but the essence of it was that you're perfect your problems aren't special so this is ad saying your problems aren't special and I wish I had the exact quote but he said something like no matter what your problem with no matter what your problem is there's somebody in the world who has that same up problem and and and fixed it no matter what your problem is somebody's had that problem and fixed it now that's just the most useful way to see the world that you'll

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useful way to see the world that you'll ever know alright and and it's almost that's almost a recording that runs in my head all the time and always has since I was a kid which is yeah you've got problems they're not special and somebody has had your problem before and they solved it so how about that how about maybe you figure out how to solve your problem so that's my new frame on this I've no longer going to have a conversation about fixing black problems but I'll have lots of conversations about fixing poor people's problems just people are poor yes if anybody wants to have a conversation and actually I'm deeply involved in this whole this category because I think where this needs to go is lowering the cost of a good life from housing to you know energy to your phone bill just making all that stuff affordable so that

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making all that stuff affordable so that somebody who didn't get a great start in life can still get into a good life and then build from there in other words if you handle all your basic living requirements at low income well then maybe you can take some classes maybe you can you know work on building your skills and get to the next level so if you want to work on the problem of how do poor people of any type you know right rise up I'm all over that acknowledging of course that as a percentage that would be far more helpful for black people than other groups just because of the way the percentages work but I don't want to talk about brought black problems any more right now could I have said that a week ago no a week ago that would be considered racist and I believe that it will be considered racist today so I expect I'll get some blowback but what I'm doing is what some of you can't do you couldn't have pin that quote gives you with your fired so

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that quote gives you with your fired so the things that I'm gonna be saying in the next few weeks are almost entirely things that would get everyone if you fired you don't need to retweet me okay you don't even need to follow me in fact it's gonna be dangerous to follow me you might want to unfollow me and just check my Twitter feed if you're interested so I wouldn't necessarily think it's a good idea to follow me in the coming weeks but here's the here's what you need to know here's the larger picture I do not have any negative intentions not trying to hurt anybody alright I'm not trying to hurt anybody I'm not even taking sides all I'm saying is I'm done with white privilege as being something I will accept as polite conversation it's just not polite conversation the day has no place in public discourse if you want to say there is a rich person privilege I will

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there is a rich person privilege I will agree and I'll say yeah you're talking about me now do I have privilege hell yes are you freaking kidding me do you know how much extra privilege you get when you're rich it's amazing you should try to you should try it you should do whatever you can to get it because it's so good you only won't believe it so yeah there's rich privilege and I will do whatever I can that makes sense for my skill set at cetera to help poor people whatever they look like to get what I got I would like poor people to get what I got extra freedom you want some extra freedom I think I can help you know that's why I wrote the book had it failed almost everything and still win big you will see on Twitter literally every day people refer to that book and say how it changed their life how they learned how to stack skills how to use systems instead of goals pretty simple stuff but just those simple reframing

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just those simple reframing allowed them to build their life substantially and usually a year or two you know fairly quick results so I would love those sorts of useful tools to be more widely available to people who need a hand whoever they may be but talking about black problems is just being a sucker to the manipulation of social media and people who are you know jockeying for power and the political process I declare myself a free person I declare myself a free person I'm free I don't have to I don't have to frame it the way you tell me to frame it I don't care that ignoring I'm not ignoring it because statistically there's something there and there are you know real ripples from slavery it's all real it's just not as special that's the difference the problem is real it's just not special so is my imagination

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just not special so is my imagination whereas Facebook just turned into a digital photo album run by bigots why does Facebook stay in business you ever ask yourself that because it's sort of weird at this point isn't it the Facebook is this gigantically successful profitable business and it's nothing but a digital photo album run by bigots that doesn't even make any sense does it and you have to ask yourself why is this happening and the answer is kind of dark I use that word intentionally there there's something very dark happening then that allows Facebook even to be a business and here are a few of the things number one it is a psychological manipulation app the point of set of Facebook in terms of what it's doing to you the user is it's almost like farming you know it's almost

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almost like farming you know it's almost like you know you the public who uses Facebook or like the livestock you know and they're giving you a little little shot of this little you know growth hormones and stuff so basically you know you're just this mental livestock and Facebook feeds you all this psychological manipulation and then they can measure how worked up you get about it oh this one got somebody really angry this is making them really angry let's promote that one you know now that we know this makes people angry we'll put that in the front of the algorithm so the first thing that's pure evil about Facebook is that it is a cycle psychological manipulation business model and by the way I don't think anybody would argue with that characterization there are people within the company who would agree with that that's objectively observably true that psychological manipulation is the

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psychological manipulation is the primary thing they do but then there's that the business model of selling advertising you've probably heard that advertising doesn't work there are dozens some special cases but for most people it just sort of doesn't work now I know that because I've advertised lots of stuff different things from from books to restaurants to you know everything and so I've seen you know Facebook ads being used a lot I've never seen them work not once now do you think that the people who buy the ads no it doesn't work well the people who buy the ads at least the the biggest ones the ones that have the most money the ones that matter the most or not the people like me who would buy an ad and test it out that sort of thing we're talking about a big corporation who would make a big corporate by the way that's done is that there'd be an ad agency and the ad agency makes money by

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agency and the ad agency makes money by getting a company to buy the biggest amount of advertising because the more advertising they buy the more the agency can charge because they're involved in a bigger deal alright so the ad agency has an incentive to lie and manipulate the corporate leaders who do the buys do they have the power and the technique the persuasive ability these are ad agencies literally trained to psychologically manipulate people that is their skill they've learned that they only get to work at a top ad agency because they have the skills to manipulate Minds and those people with those skills come in and sell their service to some facebook person who's in charge of buying ads and they say this is the greatest stuff in the world it'll make you a star and by the way you probably don't need to be told this but Facebook employee if you were in charge

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Facebook employee if you were in charge of a really big budget you'd probably get paid for you might get promoted for being somebody who was in charge of a big budget people would think that's important so Facebook employee that I'm selling the service do you know that your career will be better the more you buy because that's the bigger your budget so I'm gonna give you some
that's not true and you don't believe it about how well advertisement will work you're gonna take that that that you don't believe but you're gonna sell it to your boss because if he buys the that's now good it went through two filters and he thinks this advertisements gonna work or she thinks this advertisement is going to work notice how inclusive I am then your career will be better so what's happening is you're seeing the advertisement which basically doesn't work except in some specific cases but a specific case would be for example a new

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specific case would be for example a new product that somebody didn't know existed and they needed it it's like oh I didn't know that existence so in those limited cases it can be useful so that's that's their business model it's basically people selling to people who want to believe it's true because that will be good for their career if they act like it's true so there you go that's Facebook and now we know from the there was another undercover video this time my James O'Keefe and Project Veritas and once again we're seeing that the the people who manage the Facebook algorithms and others are literally racists they're literally racists and you hear it in their their own words they they're not hiding it pretty much just hate white Trump supporters alright

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just hate white Trump supporters alright so that's the business that just doesn't need to exist Robert Johnson the Black Entertainment Television founder I think he's must be a billionaire he said in an interview with Fox News this just made me laugh if you want to know what kind of mental model makes you a billionaire this is it all right so don't think of it just in terms of the cut the comment is kind of funny think of it in terms of oh that's why he is a billionaire this is why he's a billionaire it's this type of thinking and he says yeah Johnson said that those who are destroying statues across the country quote have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying oh my god look at these white people they're doing something so important to us they're taking down the

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important to us they're taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the south now I could not love that better because really do you think that there are black people sitting around saying thank you white people for taking down those statues we thought we had some problems to solve but man you've I think you've taken a bite out of it we thought we wanted to you know make more money and have more freedom and less discrimination but we didn't know that what we needed was for white people to knock down statues the whole thing is ridiculous and to watch the way Robert Johnson just so succinctly just took the piss out of the whole thing and and summarizes so clearly you can see in just this little quote you can see why is a billionaire you take this mindset to anywhere you're gonna you're gonna have some kind of success BuzzFeed is reporting that the cities that had

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is reporting that the cities that had the big black lives matter protests are not seeing any coronavirus spikes oh we're so surprised are you surprised that when people March for what BuzzFeed would would support as a good cause and of course less racism is a good cause and less police brutality is a good cause that when you March for a good cause the corona virus doesn't touch you now they've got reasons of course maybe it's cuz it's outdoors maybe and this is the funny part they're saying maybe it's because the the protesters were wearing masks and they showed a picture of a bunch of protesters wearing masks and I said to myself I've seen a lot of pictures of protesters I didn't see a lot of masks they were definitely masks maybe 40 percent what would be your estimate of how many had masks thirty forty percent I don't I guess it depends which one you're looking at there were some more they had a lot of masks and of

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some more they had a lot of masks and of course now we're if you want to see the future let me predict the future
black lives matter protesters do not spread coronavirus but wait wait there's some new information coming in about the future yes Trump rallies do create coronavirus hotspots yep I think we're gonna find that out now it could be it's also true the thing you can't rule out is it's also true because when you pack people tightly together inside a building and they don't have any masks which would be a trump rally and they're yelling we should be like a choir if the Trump rallies do not cause a spike in coronavirus I'm gonna be amazed but the truth is even if it didn't I think it would still be the news so let me say that again clearly I've no

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so let me say that again clearly I've no no medical doctor but everything we've heard so far especially that like a choir singing together is guaranteed to spread the coronavirus if any of them have it because it's the you know that being closed for a long time and exhaling a lot and singing so the Trump rallies are almost designed to create hot spots I mean you couldn't come up with a better way to do it and let me say is as bluntly as possible because I every whenever I get painted into the corner of saying it looks like I'm agreeing with everything Trump does I don't agree with everything Trump does indeed having now watched the the rallies I would have to say they're a bad idea very bad in fact it makes Trump supporters look stupid honestly it just makes them look stupid now I don't think Trump supporters are stupid don't that's not what I'm saying I'm saying that the

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not what I'm saying I'm saying that the look of it is a really bad look you know I honestly when I watched the rallies I had a different feeling than I'd ever had before I used to watch them as just entertainment it's like I was pretty entertaining and look at the size that crowd it's a lot of energy that's all I would think the last two I thought of I thought that looks stupid I'm not saying the people are stupid I'm saying that the idea of packing people in in together without masks and then running continuous footage of those people is the worst possible look really now some people are saying yes but freedom absolutely yeah if you want it to look like it's a bunch of people who really we're very concerned about freedom even more than health that's what you got all right so if your priority was freedom it probably looked terrific to you but if you're trying to convince somebody who is not already on

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convince somebody who is not already on your team probably a bad way to do it and and you didn't see that much energy in the rallies so it's not getting the benefit thought so in my opinion the rally if if the president held more rallies I think it would just be a mistake I think it would work against his interests frankly that's just me all right Hawk newsome's making some news you know I know Hawk and he's a leader of black lives matter in New York and when I was talking to him I was trying to see if we could find some solutions like specific things that we could recommend we got a little bit of a little bit of progress on making a list of things that you could actually do and I think some of those are being were considered in the tim scott bill when the Camilla Camilla Harris bill etc so some of them have bubbled up not necessarily because of us but but they were just good ideas and I I broke my contact with hawk because he he needed

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contact with hawk because he he needed for his purposes to be more provocative than I was willing to be associated with in other words you know he was more willing to call a white people racist and suggest indirectly or directly that maybe violence could be productive and those are thoughts that I didn't want to be associated with so I broke contact with him but he's making news again and I want to break out something he said because I think it needs some interpretation so he said quote if this country doesn't give us what we want in terms of fixing systemic racism etc if this country doesn't give us what we want then we will burn down the system and replace it Newsom responded all right and I could be speaking figuratively I could be speaking literally it's a matter of interpretation like let's be very real

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interpretation like let's be very real and observe the history of the 60s Baba anyway he makes good points the violence has been productive and a part of American fabric and including gun ownership you know and why are we so afraid if black people have guns etc so those are actually some good and interesting content points but here's the part I wanted to point out he says that will burn down the system and replace it and then he says all right and I could be speaking figuratively and I could be speaking literally it's a matter of interpretation now who says something and then in the very next sentence they tell you that you can you could interpret it in two different ways who does that because normally when you communicate don't you tell people or you mean here's how I do it well there are two ways to interpret this I want to be clear that this is the way I'm saying it isn't that what the way you would communicate if you wanted people to actually really understand what you're

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actually really understand what you're thinking you know I know there's two ways to see it but I'm telling you this is the way I see it and I'm communicating it this way I'm not talking about that other way to see it but hawk did a completely unexpected thing oh no you're not if you if you think this is going to be a criticism you're on the wrong page this is going to be a compliment to skill now I've told you I'm gonna be consistent about this regardless of whether somebody has the political opinions that I do if they employ skill I'm gonna call it out all right because I think you need to learn the skill part and then you can apply it to your own moral and ethical world but this was very skillful it looks like just a weird sentence but it's really skillful and here's why hawky is talking to two separate audiences and he found a way to talk to them simultaneously which I've never seen before he needs to talk

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I've never seen before he needs to talk to his radical base in a way that suggests he's on board with actual violence like burning stuff down because they need to hear that now am i reading his mind no he told me that he told me that directly he told me that he needs to be more radical or he would lose his base direct language I'm not there's no interpretation here coming up so was this language in which he says burned down the system does that speak to his face yes very well and how did they interpret it they say looks like burning down and stuff is on the table looks like a little bit of violence Hawk is in favor of so that's how they would interpret it later if he's challenged and he will be by white people he'll say hey you could take this as figurative and I said that when I said it I said you could take this as figurative so take it as

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this as figurative so take it as figurative and then white people who don't like his message won't and they'll just have their own opinion but they were going to anyway but the white people who were sort of supporting black lives matter but don't want to think they're part of anything violent do have the option of interpreting it as figurative in other words he found a way to talk to the let's say Anti Fog and the white protestors who were siding with black lives matter he found a way to talk to them at the same time he was saying essentially the opposite thing to black lives matter and he and he pulled it off he actually pulled it off because everybody who reads this is just gonna see what they want to see and I've never seen anybody say it directly he goes it's a matter of interpretation he actually put that right into the original statement you've never seen that before and and if if you and imagined that this was a good idea and you were not trained

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was a good idea and you were not trained in this you would say that's not a good idea and how is that a good idea to say two things that are opposite and say you can interpret it any way you want how is that not the worst idea in the world here's what you're missing hawk is good at this he's really good at this you don't know how smart he is I do I spent enough time talking to him that he's really smart and he does understand this stuff and this is not an accident the fact that he found a way to square a circle that I would have thought wasn't even a thing he pulled it off all right now I'm not supporting this message or anything like that so don't take it like that I'm just saying skill wise pretty good skill all right if you thought there was going to be a fair election I don't think there's any chance of that now you could see that Twitter is starting to kick off it's the

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Twitter is starting to kick off it's the voices that are pro Trump so Rahim kasam his account got locked yesterday to be that was the last straw you know carpet öktem and you also got permanently blocked but between those two I think that that's now kind of transparent to what's going on before I would have said well you know maybe this is confirmation bias because they always had a reason for anybody who got you know filtered or blocked or whatever the words are there was always a reason and you know they've they've got guidelines so if it fits the guidelines there's a reason you can't necessarily think that's any kind of a larger political act but as we see the specific examples they start to form a pattern that's pretty clear so the the standards are seem to be enforced in one way but not another and it does look like these standards are being used as an excuse a convenient way to kick off

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an excuse a convenient way to kick off the voices that are effective so watch for people who are effective to be kicked off we'll see how that goes and I think I've covered most of my most of my important points just let me check my notes here talk among yourselves yes I think you did all right so that's all for now I did go over I do have an account on parler parlor is the tiny competitor or to Twitter the problem with parlor is I think it's just going to be conservatives go there if it turned out to be the conservative Twitter then you're just going to have a you know left-leaning Twitter and a right-leaning Twitter but have a different name and all it does is divide us so I have very mixed opinions about parlor I don't think it makes sense unless you also keep your Twitter account but you all get to make your own

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account but you all get to make your own decisions so I would do it in addition to Twitter but I wouldn't do it instead of Twitter unless you're really trying to make a statement of some sort because Twitter unfortunately whether you like it or not is too important to your your business life for most of you all right if it's not important to your business life then do what you will all right that's it for today I hope you enjoyed it and I will talk to you tomorrow Oh somebody's telling me that parlor is is pronounced parlay is that true I hope it's not true but it might be talk to you later