Back to episode — Episode 1147 Scott Adams - I Tell You How Fear Persuasion and Fake News Will Determine the Election
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rdose. Fentanyl of course comes from China and they do it intentionally to hurt the United States. At that time I declared that China was my mortal enemy and I was going to take them down or certainly try as hard as I could. So exactly the time that I publicly announced I was going to take down China and destroy their reputation, first their reputation just fell off a cliff and all over the world…
← Previous segment →cal claims and we can't really fact-check all that and people will just put it in context. It's just a political claim. Is it? I would say no. Here's a political claim. President Trump will cut your Social Security. It's not true. It's the opposite of what he says he'll do. And he's been pretty good about doing what he says he'll do and not doing what he says he won't do. He's been pretty good at that. So it's not true. Is that okay? Is it okay to have something that's clearly not true that's a political claim? I would say probably that's okay because as soon as you get into the business of determining what's true and not, it's just a forever rabbit hole. You can't get out of that hole, right? Because there's lots of things that are gray area. Some people could say it's true, some people would say it's not true. You could never really use that standard of that it's true or not true. You'd have to use the standard that it's not true and on top of that it's dangerous. I think that's what put QAnon over the top. Not that it's untrue but that it's untrue and has a fairly obvious potential for danger. That's what the fine people hoax is. The fine people hoax isn't just something that's untrue. It's not like saying I'll raise your taxes. It's not like saying I'll cut your Social Security. It's not like saying, you know, although you can keep your doctor. Yeah, it's not like any of those things. Those are just untrue. They're not dangerous. The fine people hoax could get me killed, me personally. I could get killed because of that hoax and all that it supports because it supports a whole structure of beliefs that I think that's the strongest pillar and it's not real. So that's the world you live in.
All right, so I think Facebook just needs to be consistent. I wouldn't mind them banning QAnon if they also banned the fine people hoax. I would say those are equivalents.
Interestingly, a fellow named Glenn Loury, who's a scholar, he's got together with a bunch of other scholars and they're calling for the Pulitzer board to revoke the Pulitzer Prize awarded earlier this year to Nicole Hannah-Jones for her 1619 Project. And they're asking for the Pulitzer Prize to be revoked because the scholarship in that piece of work is lacking, meaning that there's a claim in there that's ridiculously untrue. Specifically the claim that the American Revolution was fought in large part to preserve slavery. Apparently there's no historical evidence that that was the case. But that
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's part of the 1619 Project. And somebody got a Pulitzer Prize for that completely false claim. Of course you're all going to watch the VP debates tonight. I think the VP debate is going to be more interesting than you think. Might be more interesting than you think. Of course the big drama is that Kamala Harris is going to ask for a Plexiglas wall and Pence wants to have no wall. Now if it turns…
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