n the car was like a little iffy on it. He's like, okay, I'll put the fist up a little bit. And then they insisted that he wasn't enthusiastic enough. Like he wasn't really putting his fist up. He was just sort of raising it a little bit. So they were on him and it was pretty threatening. It looked pretty dangerous actually. If they had resisted more than they did, it looked like their vehicle would be destroyed. They might be hurt, could get dragged out. Who knows? Just about anything could happen.

So here's my suggestion of how to handle that situation if you find yourself in it. Now you're going to say to yourself, Scott, that won't work because they will immediately know you're joking. No they won't. No they won't. They will not know you're joking if you say the following. If they say, say it, say Black Lives Matter, here's what I would say and I would say it really loudly and I would repeat it as many times as I needed to to make sure everybody heard it. And it would go like this: Black lives matter more than white lives. Heil Hitler. BLM. Heil Antifa. Death to whitey.

So that's how you do it. You want to agree with them but amplify it. Don't just say Black Lives Matter because you know you don't want to be a Tropical Storm Beta if you know what I mean. Just go for it and just say Black lives matter more than white people. Heil BLM. Heil Antifa. Death to whitey.

Now again you think to yourself, Scott, they're going to know you're joking. No they won't. This is the only thing I promise you. No they won't. They will not think you're joking. In fact they might nominate you to be the leader of their group. You could end up, you know, they might give you snacks from the snack van if you wanted free snacks from the Antifa snack van. I think all you have to do is say that and they say, hey would you like a snack? We've got some bottled water here. It's nice and frozen. Would you like it?

So that's my recommendation. By the way, if anybody gets killed using any of my recommendations, what the hell were you thinking? I'm a cartoonist. Don't take my advice on self-defense. If you're getting self-defense tips from a cartoonist, well you kind of deserve what you get. So that's my warning there.

One of my methods for predicting the future, I've talked about this before but there's an actual theory behind it. And the technique is this. If there's a situation in the world in which you can anticipate, well things could go this way or they could go that way or they could go that way but it's fairly well defined, the things are either going to go one of these defined ways, you can usually bet that the way it will go is whichever way makes the most interesting story.

Now you say to me there is no reason that would be true, right? Why would it be that if there are three possibilities and you don't have any way to know which one is more likely, why would it be that the one that's the best story ends up being more likely? Not every time, right? Just a bias toward the good story.

Here's why. I don't think it applies to natural disasters. In other words if there are no human beings making decisions, well that is just news and it was going to happen. You know, the cliff collapsed, the earthquake happened, whatever happened. But when there's a situation in which human beings are involved, humans are very affected by the fact that we live in a world of stories. We learn by stories. We're entertained by stories. We tell stories. We listen to stories. And stories have sort of a form that you recognize. And movies in particular have a three-act form. Books are a little different but we all recognize what a story is. We would know if somebody told a bad story. We would all recognize it was like, oh that was a bad story. There was no conclusion. There was no third act. It just was flat.

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