Back to episode — Episode 1224 Scott Adams - When to Disagree With the Experts Because That is an Essential Skill
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hink lawyers are pretty good at arguing, right? You'd say that maybe artists are not good at it but lawyers are real good at it. And I hear a lawyer, Ross Garber, who is literally an impeachment lawyer and he teaches at Tulane Law School. So a very qualified guy in the law. And he tweeted this to me. He said I have done election investigations mostly on behalf of Republicans. So he's saying that h…
← Previous segment →notes. Oh yes the Space Force. How did I skip that one? The Space Force has decided that the name for their fighters, the name for their military people will be guardians. They'll be called guardians. What do you think of that? I don't like it at all. I wanted to like it but I don't. Number one it reminds you of the movie Guardians of the Galaxy. So automatically it feels silly because you know there's a talking raccoon in that movie and so guardians of the universe makes, that's what I think of. And so it makes it seem less serious. So that's not good.
But here's the other part. The problem for me is that they're in heaven meaning that they're in space. So they're sort of up there like God basically you know in an analogy sense. And there's something about the word guardian that feels religious. Guardian doesn't sound military and maybe that's what they wanted but guardian doesn't really sound like the right word. Guardian feels like a cult I guess. That's what it is. I just realized that that's what it is. The word guardian doesn't sound like a military term. It sounds like a cult. In NXIVM the cult we've been talking about what was the name they had for or at least in the subpart of NXIVM where Keith Raniere had his disciples I don't know lovers disciples. So he was called vanguard. So in the context of an actual alleged cult the name that they used for their leader was a vanguard. Guardian feels like that word doesn't it? It feels just a little bit more like a cult than it does like a military thing. So that's my opinion. I don't think it's important. I think any name you put on it's gonna be fine.
And somebody says vanguard. Yeah yeah I understand that a guardian
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is one who guards and you know it's not that it's not technically accurate enough. I don't have any better ideas so I'm not, I don't think it's a big deal. That's all I got for now and I will talk to you tomorrow. All right all you YouTubers I'm still here for you for a moment. She should have gone with starship troopers. Troopers wouldn't be bad. Orbiteers. The orbiteers that's not bad. Terra ke…
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