Back to episode — Episode 1200 Scott Adams - Don't Miss My Impression of Reporters Looking at the #Kraken, Section 230
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ed with it and retracted it, that's, you know, he may have some scheme going on there in terms of communication style, but there's no way he thinks that's a good idea. Trump said that he would leave office if he loses the electoral college. Of course, that's a big if, I suppose, but I think at this point we should review our predictions. If you predicted that Trump would lose in the electoral col…
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So every part of this statement just reeks of not even trying to be something like news. Not even trying. I think we need a high school class in spotting propaganda. And I tweeted that and a few people said they actually have taken that course. So apparently at least in one private school that I heard of, they do actually have a class or at least section of a class where they're asked to read headlines in the news and pick out the propaganda from the news. Wouldn't that be a great class? Wouldn't you want your own kid to have a class that taught them to look at headlines and then do a report on how it was really propaganda? That's a good class. All right, let's have some more of those.
There's some fake news on net deaths which will fool many of you. Probably has. Allegedly there was some Johns Hopkins study showing that the rate of deaths is similar to previous years which is what you want to believe right if you want to be a coronavirus I don't know denier or whatever. Don't you kind of want to believe that it's all just a hoax? Don't you want to believe that it's not really that bad and maybe it's just over if we just realize it's not that bad?
Well it took about two seconds for people to call on that. I called on it without research and I did it on the basis. If this were true that Johns Hopkins had done a study and shown that there were no excess deaths, it would be the biggest headline in the country. And even if the mainstream media ignored it, it would at least be on the places that sometimes will give you real news. It wouldn't be invisible and it wouldn't be only in this tweet.
So one of the things I would teach my class, my high school class on spotting propaganda if it existed was that news that comes from one source and doesn't seem to spread to the other sources at the same time it would be the biggest story in the whole country. That is a really good indicator. So sure enough, the page that had that claim was deleted within hours. It was deleted as being B
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S and denied. So there is no such thing as some evidence that the coronavirus is not killing people at a higher level than if we had a regular economy. Here's another dog that isn't barking. So now for it's been over a day that the Sidney Powell accusations have been out, the Kraken if you will. Lots and lots of claims in I guess two different lawsuits and plenty of claims. Now I've seen lots of…
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