Episode 1137 Scott Adams - Black Strategy Matters, Antifa Wants Trump to Win, Seattle Solves Racism

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se they're doing three times as many Black ones as white. But the story goes on to say that there's no demographic information on the ballots that are being rejected. And I'm thinking but isn't there at least a name? There's a name on the ballot right? A printed name. Don't you know where the ballot came from? Am I wrong about that? Because that is demographic information. It isn't too hard if you…

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rd somebody who wasn't obviously a Trump supporter say yeah if you test more you're going to find more infection. It seems sort of obvious. And now Nate Silver is saying it and I'm wondering what am I missing? What am I not understanding about this situation that it could ever not be true that more testing wouldn't find more things? Isn't the reason you test to find more stuff? I'm really confused on that.

So I asked by tweet today can someone ask Democratic leaders including BLM if they'll commit to a peaceful continuation of the Trump administration if he wins? Why is nobody asking Democrats if they will commit to a peaceful transfer if Trump wins? Isn't that a pretty obvious question for Democratic leadership of all type?

Here's another one. And why are Democratic leaders not being asked by the press to disavow the domestic terrorist organization that is ironically called Antifa? Now that Antifa has been designated a domestic terror organization isn't the obvious thing to ask Democrat leaders do you disavow them now that they're domestic terrorists? It's a good question. It's the most obvious question you should ask and it's not being asked.

All right so a lot of people have asked me you know what kind of persuasion or linguistic kill shot should you use against the protesters that you think are going too far. And sometimes you have to wait a little bit and see how the public is naturally responding to things and then you find out how people are naturally responding. You can design a linguistic kill shot that plays to the thing they're already thinking. That's much easier than just trying to make up some kind of persuasion out of nothing. It really helps to know how people already think about something. And now that a little time has gone by I have this suggestion for a linguistic kill shot on Antifa. And you just heard me use it and it is that the press should always refer to them when describing Antifa they should be described as the domestic terrorist organization ironically named Antifa. It's the ironically named that takes their power away. Because what Antifa did that was super clever and has served them really well they called themselves anti-fascists even though they weren't you know in a way that you would consider it. And therefore anybody who criticized them was calling themselves a fascist. One of the best things anybody ever did in terms o

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f persuasion. So in order to take the power out of that you could simply refer to them as the ironically named Antifa. Now you could feel it right? If you said that often enough and say the domestic terrorist organization ironically named Antifa it would completely take the power out of Antifa. So that's my suggestion. Somebody found a video from 1991 in which Joe Biden said he was talking about…

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"Sometimes you have to wait a little bit and see how the public is naturally responding to things and then you find out how people are naturally responding. You can design a linguistic kill shot that plays to the thing they're already thinking. That's much easier than just trying to make up some kind of persuasion out of nothing. It really helps to know how people already think about something."

Wait to observe the public's natural reaction to an issue, then craft a linguistic kill shot that aligns with what they're already thinking. This is far easier and more effective than inventing persuasion from scratch.

"What Antifa did that was super clever and has served them really well they called themselves anti-fascists even though they weren't you know in a way that you would consider it. And therefore anybody who criticized them was calling themselves a fascist. One of the best things anybody ever did in terms of persuasion."

By labeling themselves anti-fascist, Antifa created a clever frame where critics automatically appeared pro-fascist. It ranks among the most effective persuasion tactics ever used.

"The press should always refer to them when describing Antifa they should be described as the domestic terrorist organization ironically named Antifa. It's the ironically named that takes their power away."

Counter a group's self-serving name by consistently calling them 'the domestic terrorist organization ironically named Antifa.' The irony disarms their clever framing.